Here, San Diego is where the NASCAR race took place. The big twist is that it’s not a typical racetrack—it’s on an active naval base, which makes the event feel very different.
A street course is a race track made from regular public roads. It’s usually temporary and can feel different than a normal race track because the road surface and layout aren’t designed specifically for racing.
This race was held on a working naval base instead of a normal track. That kind of venue can change things like traction and how forgiving the track feels when you push hard.
The garage area is where NASCAR teams park their cars between sessions for repairs, adjustments, and servicing. When the speaker says it was a “graveyard,” they’re describing how many trucks were damaged or wrecked during practice.
“Sim time” means practicing in a racing video game/simulator. The point here is that the simulator made the track seem grippier than it actually was on race day.
Grip is how well the tires can stick to the road. If there’s a lot of grip, the car turns and accelerates confidently; if there’s little grip, it’s easy to lose control.
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parts of the racetrack
This means different sections of the track can feel different. Some corners might have more traction than others, so the car can handle differently depending on where you are.
Surface difference means the track isn’t all the same. If parts are asphalt, concrete, new, or old, the tires grip differently and the car can feel unpredictable.
As cars drive around, their tires leave rubber on the track. That rubber usually makes the surface stickier, so drivers can go faster and turn more confidently.
In-car video is footage recorded from inside the race car. It helps you see exactly how the driver is steering and controlling the car through each corner.
iRacing is a realistic racing video game/simulator. Drivers practice in it to learn tracks, but the tire grip in the game may not match what they feel in real cars.
Even if you know a track, if the tires don’t have the same grip as expected, you have to change how you drive. That means relearning when to brake and how much gas to use through corners.
“Victory lane” is the spot at the track where the winner goes right after the race to celebrate. It’s basically NASCAR’s version of the winner’s podium area.
A “restart violation” means a driver broke the rules when the race restarted after a caution. NASCAR can penalize them by changing their position, which can hurt their chances to finish up front.
That phrase means the officials penalized the driver by moving them to a worse starting spot for the restart. If it happens near the end, it’s hard to make up the lost positions.
“Washed up” is racing slang for a car drifting toward the outside of the track (often due to loss of grip or steering angle). It commonly happens when tires aren’t loaded correctly or when a driver gets too much speed/angle entering a corner.
“Turn one and two” refers to the first and second corners of the circuit layout. In NASCAR, those early turns are often where restarts and early-race traffic create contact risk and position changes.
A “run” is a strong acceleration/closing push that lets a driver gain on the car ahead, usually coming out of a corner and carrying speed into the next section. A “really big run” implies the speaker had a major speed advantage at that moment.
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walked away with the win
“Walked away with the win” is a common racing idiom meaning the driver finished first. It emphasizes that the win was secured by the end of the race, not just briefly leading.
The Dodge Ram is a pickup truck, usually used for carrying things and general driving. Some versions have an automatic transmission, so you don’t have to use a clutch pedal. In the podcast, it’s mentioned as a vehicle that can still move quickly and be driven effectively.
A “paint scheme” is the specific livery—colors, graphics, and sponsor placement—applied to a NASCAR car or truck. Fans and drivers often talk about them because they’re part of the car’s identity and can be tied to events, sponsors, or themes.
The Volkswagen Bus is a type of van with a very recognizable, boxy shape. It’s often compared to a school bus because of its size and appearance. In the podcast, it’s mentioned mainly for how it looks.
“Super speedways” are the biggest NASCAR tracks where cars go very fast. Racing there often involves drafting—staying close to other cars to go faster with less effort.
Place
Limerak
“Limerak” sounds like a short track where NASCAR races. Short tracks usually mean tighter turns and more cars racing close together.
Place
Wilksboro
“Wilksboro” is a famous NASCAR short track. It’s known for tight racing where drivers have to stay smooth and manage cars around them.
“Richmond” is a NASCAR race track. It’s the kind of track where drivers often have to work hard to pass and keep control while other cars are close by.
“Short tracks” are smaller race tracks. Cars have to turn more often and drivers deal with other cars more frequently, so it’s more about control than top speed.
An “intermediate track” is a middle-sized NASCAR track. It’s not as tight as a short track and not as huge as a superspeedway, so the driving style is a mix of both.
“Charlotte” is a big NASCAR track. Even though it’s longer than a short track, drivers still have to deal with traffic and choose when to push the car.
A road course is a race track with lots of turns, more like driving on real roads than a simple oval. It usually means you have to brake and turn more often, so the driving style is different.
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spec me out of racing
“Spec me out” here sounds like being put into a more standardized racing setup where the cars are closer to the same. That usually makes it easier to tell how much is driver skill versus the equipment.
Watkins Glen is a well-known race track in New York that’s famous for having lots of challenging turns. Drivers often say it takes time to learn because the corners are tricky.
AJ Elmendinger is a NASCAR driver. The guest is saying their lap times started to look like his near the end, which is a way of showing they were improving on that road course.
Lime Rock Park is a race track with lots of tight turns and quick changes from one corner to the next. It can feel like it matches some drivers’ styles better than others.
In racing, “carnage” is just a dramatic way to say there were a lot of crashes and wrecks. It means the race got really chaotic.
Person
Collie Grayson
Collie Grayson is someone the driver credits for the team’s effort. The point is that the team worked hard to get the trucks ready and keep things going through a tough season.
A “rookie” is a newcomer—someone in their first season in that racing series. The guest is saying they’re still learning, which makes their progress feel more impressive.
A road course is a race track with lots of turns, not just long straightaways. Driving well there usually means you have to brake and turn precisely and choose the best path through corners. The speaker is saying their strong finishes came on these twistier tracks.
“Momentum based” means the car performs best when you keep it moving fast through the turns. Instead of relying on a lot of power to recover, you have to drive smoothly and keep your speed up. That’s why the speaker says you must learn the right way to take corners.
The “line” is the exact path you choose through a corner—when you slow down, when you turn in, and when you start accelerating again. Taking the best line helps you keep more speed and avoid losing traction. The speaker is saying you have to learn these paths to drive well on road courses.
Horsepower is a way to describe how much power the engine makes. More horsepower usually helps a car accelerate harder, especially when you’re exiting turns. The speaker is saying that in this situation, driving technique matters more than raw power.
The Mazda Miata is a small two-seat car made for fun driving. Some versions have a manual transmission, which means you use three pedals to control the car. People talk about it a lot because it’s easy to steer and can handle turns well.
A “three-pedal car” means it has a clutch pedal plus the brake and gas pedals. That’s the kind of setup where you have to actively shift gears yourself.
The clutch is what you press when you want to change gears in a manual car. It temporarily disconnects the engine from the gearbox so the shift can happen smoothly.
Heel-toe is a manual-driving trick for slowing down and shifting into a lower gear smoothly. While you’re braking, you also “blip” the gas so the engine speed matches the new gear, which helps the car stay stable and not jerk.
The Cup Series is the biggest, top-level NASCAR competition. They’re saying they want to reach that level and need more experience on those tracks first.
In NASCAR, “practice” is when teams run laps before the race to try different settings. “Truck practice” means practice for the NASCAR Truck Series, and it helps teams learn how risky the track is if you make a mistake.
“The S’s” is shorthand for a sequence of alternating left-right (or right-left) corners that form an S-shaped path through the track. These sections test car balance and driver precision because the car must transition direction repeatedly at speed.
A red flag is racing’s “stop right now” signal. It usually happens when there’s a crash or danger on the track, and drivers have to slow down and wait for the race to restart safely.
“Right front” means the front corner on the passenger side of the car. If that corner gets hit, it can throw off how the car steers and handles until it’s repaired.
The Xfinity Series is NASCAR’s main support racing series. It’s like the step below the top NASCAR series, and many drivers use it to prove themselves.
O’Reilly is a sponsor name that NASCAR used for the Xfinity Series. It’s still the same kind of NASCAR race series—just branded differently for that period.
Bristol is a famous NASCAR track known for close, intense racing. People use it as a comparison when a track feels chaotic or forces you to drive carefully.
Rockingham is another well-known NASCAR oval track. The comparison suggests the road course had a similar feel—challenging and unforgiving if you don’t get it right.
“Risk first reward” describes a track design where taking chances—like pushing entry speed or hitting tricky bumps—pays off more than playing it safe. It’s a way of saying the fastest line demands commitment and has a bigger consequence if you’re off.
“Carrying speed” means you don’t slow down as much in the turn. The goal is to stay fast through the corner so you can accelerate sooner and faster out of it.
“Sonoma” is a NASCAR road course in California. Unlike oval tracks, it has lots of different turns and braking, so the car setup and driving style are different.
An “oval car” is the version of a NASCAR stock car set up for oval tracks. Oval tracks are mostly high-speed turns, so the car is tuned to stay stable and manage tires over long runs.
They’re joking about using “duct tape” as a quick fix. In real racing, you might do temporary repairs to keep the car running, but duct tape isn’t a real permanent fix.
“Body panels” are the outer parts of the car’s body, like the metal pieces you can see. If they get bent or damaged, it can change how air flows around the car and can affect how the car fits and cools.
Term
shakedown rig
A “shakedown rig” is a place or setup used to test a race car before it goes to the track. The goal is to catch problems early so the car is ready for racing.
A “simulator” is a racing computer setup that lets drivers practice tracks. It helps them learn lines and driving habits without needing the real car every time.
A “top 10 streak” means finishing in the top 10 positions repeatedly across multiple races. In NASCAR, that’s a strong indicator of consistent speed and good race setup, especially on specific track types like road courses.
“Coda” refers to Circuit of the Americas in Austin, which is a road-course track. If someone won there, it suggests they’re good at the kind of driving road courses require.
“Chicago” here means the NASCAR race on a street course in the city. Street tracks are tight and unforgiving, so driver precision and car control matter a lot.
“Atlanta” is a NASCAR oval track where tires can get worn quickly. The way cars line up—whether they spread out or run single file—can change how the race plays out.
Chase Elliott is a NASCAR driver. In this segment, the hosts are debating whether he’s the right pick for Atlanta based on how the race looked last year.
“Drafting” means driving close behind another car so the air resistance is lower. On certain tracks, that makes it easier to catch and pass, so strategy matters a lot.
Martinsville is a short NASCAR track. Because it’s twisty and slower, drivers have to manage tires and braking well—so wins there are a good sign of short-track skill.
A “short track package” is the car setup NASCAR teams use for short tracks. It’s adjusted so the car handles better for tight turns and different speeds than you’d see on bigger tracks.
Pocono is a NASCAR track that’s bigger and faster than many short tracks. The hosts mention it to compare how different manufacturers/drivers do on larger tracks.
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Reven up your engine, listen to the next enrore The wall's under tension, she met her
log is torn, highway to San Diego, I take you right into Coronado They never said a naval base
could never be turned into a road, now it's hosting a NASCAR race, now sit back and listen to those
stars explode, drivers on the edge just like it's supposed to be Had a guy who jumped the fence,
right into Coronado.
Welcome on in ladies and gentlemen to another edition of the Frontred chapter program presented by
Billy's tequila I'm your host Mr. Brian no one got a great program on tap for you got two huge
guests so without further ado let's dive on into my co-host with me at first and foremost I'm
bringing the guy that was with me in San Diego's got a great looking shirt on that he probably got
for like $800 there but you know that that's all right Mr. Dalton Hopkins I'm glad to see you made
it back to Orlando buddy how are you I'm great I'm I took I had about a whole day of recovery
yesterday because I took the red eye flight right after Brian you know we booked it hauled some
serious spot to the airport afterward because we got up relatively late but I'm good uh I am uh I
don't know if I'll ever financially recover from all the merch that I I purchased while I was there
but yeah I had the San Diego hats were a hundred dollars oh there was one that was like
and they were only selling like 250 of them or something and those were a hundred and I got
this close to buying one and then I saw the price go up on the uh on the counter the little iPad
thing they had there and I'm like whoa hold on yeah my head ended up uh being
a victim to one of those they didn't realize there's a hundred dollar hat until after we made
oh yeah because it was just like all the other ones it's just it's just green
so yeah no we got a different one we got a white one played it safe
with that being said um and dive on into my other co-host the guy that wasn't in San Diego we missed
your buddy Mr. Michael Massey um but you got to see all of our content um so from the comfort of
your own house how do you think we did hey you guys did phenomenal I mean nobody else got the
Noah Gregson Kevin Magnuson uh screaming match so uh good job out there guys and uh many good job
down there yourself as well thank you I can't believe we'll get it that second but that your
second best career best finish is at a street course but uh yeah it was awesome it
looked great on tv and I am extremely jealous of you three that uh they got to go I'm gonna bring
in our our guest one of our guests he is the driver the number 14 truck for the uh or strategy for
Dodd in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series uh Mr. Mini Tyrell Mini um first and foremost thanks for
having you on thanks for coming on the program man um second off from your point of view just how
was San Diego behind the wheel yeah no uh thank you guys for having me on number one but uh San
Diego was definitely a uh unforgettable experience for sure uh it was nothing like I had ever imagined
I mean we did this the St. Petersburg Florida Street course which was really awesome and that
event went great I thought the racetrack was great um but this this was nothing like I've
ever done in a racing world um racing on an active you know naval base so uh just huge thank you to all
the all the men and women and in our armed forces to keep this country safe and continue to keep it
the greatest country in the world but um yeah it's such an honor number one to race there and number two
to get to kind of experience that and the racetrack was something else it was a long course but it I
thought it made for some really good racing across all three series and um I mean obviously a lot of
racks a lot of torn up stuff which we don't love but I know that the fans probably really love that
and uh it I thought it made for a really good show I mean many I went through the garage area
after practice and I mean there was like 10 trucks already torn up the the truck series uh garage was
a graveyard um after practice I was like I was more safe from not tearing anything up thank god uh
yeah that was crazy I knew that I think everybody got the wrong idea with with like the sim time
I think the sim that everybody was on was had a lot more grip than what was you know to be expected
and we kind of I kind of knew like after walking the racetrack I'm like this place is not gonna
have grip and me and Justin Haley were talking he's like it's either gonna be a ton of grip or it's
gonna be none and there are parts of the racetrack and that's why I made it so difficult and so
technical was like it had fresh paved corners and then old asphalt corners and then a concrete
section that was fresh concrete that was like ice at first until we started putting rubber down so
our practice being the the first cars to ever touch the course was kind of like a test experiment
I think it was probably the most watched practice I'd say all year um but I knew like going in there
I was like I'm gonna take it really easy I'm gonna back every braking zone up at least 300 feet
and just literally just motor around just feel this place out and it showed like I was
running two minute 22 second lap times in practice which was way far off of what was really fast so
even in qualifying like I didn't push the issue I think my best lap was like a two minute 20 second
lap so um yeah just totally kind of knew that was coming especially after being out there for the
first three laps and already seeing two trucks with the whole right side um worn off so I was like
yeah we need to take this one a little easier good I was gonna say Mini I mean this is like
one of the things I kept wondering about you truck guys this weekend was y'all just did Saint P
and everybody kind of expected Saint P to be well for lack of better words a crap show everyone
kind of thought that it was going to be uh pretty chaotic and it didn't really turn out to be that
way and I thought that was really impressive by you guys and uh and then we get here and understandably
it was way more challenging um and there was there was a lot more chaos in practice a lot
more chaos in the race too why was that like why was this track so much more challenging than Saint
Pete yeah I think the biggest difference is just the the the surface difference um Saint Pete was
a very consistent surface across the whole course the only real like challenges we had to face was
the paint on you know like the front stretch and um all different types the the track there was paint
in different areas and that paint was slicker than the asphalt so you kind of had to really be careful
when you were on that uh at Saint Pete but San Diego there was so many different surfaces like it
was you know like I said new asphalt old asphalt fresh concrete old concrete um it was just a whole
different variety of stuff and you know not not saying that this had much to do but when we first
got on the track it was super dirty um and it's it's hard to build a street course especially on a
naval base an active one at that and make sure it's perfect for race cars to get on so I not
throwing shade at any anybody that had a bit in peace and setting it up but it was very dirty and
and it took a while and it took a lot of laps especially with the the length of the track
being over three miles to really actually get the surface worked into a racing condition and I
think that's why the cup race was so yeah it's so much really good racing because they actually
really were able to get the maximum amount of rubber on the track from all weekend with between
both divisions as well as by the end of it seemed like they were really could just fly through those
corners and especially in the the last bit of the big concrete section where that was the slickest
part for us and I think that really kind of worked in and you can even see it like on the
in-car videos where they were able to just throttle up and be much much more controlled
through turn you know 14 and 15 so that was I think the biggest challenge compared to st
pete was just trying to overcome the surface and something that I wish I kind of would have
prepared a little more for I would say I think I you know definitely I tried to do as much
sim as I could as much i-racing as I could to get used to the track and it was just hard I didn't
want to base myself off of one or the other and we we've kind of just got our sim together and going
and it's still in our early stages of getting to where it needs to be so it wasn't spot on but I
don't think that anybody else's was much different you know so I was trying to work more on our sim
and and work on that instead of basing on i-racing but I think a lot of the drivers kind of agreed
that the i-racing grip level compared to what we were actually preparing on I think was more
realistic than what we were doing so and I wasn't just the one that said that I mean multiple other
OEM drivers had said that so yeah I think that was just the hardest challenge was like having to
relearn everything kind of again based on the different grip levels so and that's not much
different than what I've had to do all year to be honest I mean I've had to learn uh so many
different things because I'm brand new to almost you know 98% of these places that we go to
what how how long were you out there for I mean did you guys like get there Thursday night come
straight back Friday night or red eye or something or did you have like a little more time than yeah
we didn't have a little bit of time we we actually flew in Wednesday um and got there you know
later in the afternoon and was able to kind of enjoy a night out in San Diego I'd never been so
that was fun and then you know Thursday was kind of figuring out how to get in we went through tech
and then you know obviously Friday was practice qualifying race and we we ended up flying back
right after the race so that was a long night for sure I think everybody kind of got a bit of like
a piece of some kind of military aspect of the weekend I mean there was aircraft all over the
place you saw an offspring in the middle of the fan zone area F-35 flew over us before the cup
what was the coolest thing you saw the coolest thing I saw I don't it was probably just all the
I mean they had so many different aircrafts in like the fan zone which was really cool
and I mean I I got to go when I was car racing full-time last year to uh the I think we did the
Air Force Base one year in Langley and that was really cool getting to see all the jets up close
and stuff like that so seeing that's been really cool um and I don't know probably seeing them like
all the all the men and women that are actually active on that base you know really get into the
racing and you could tell they they really loved it loved watching it were really pumped up I mean
you saw in the uh behind on the prime desk where a teammate Corilla Joy was on there's they were
all riled up on the boat there so uh and probably the big giant I forget the name but that big
giant ship that was parked right uh you can see it coming through into turn three oh yeah it was
really cool to kind of have that as as your view out on the racetrack
if you're just joining us we're joined by Colleague Racing's uh Mini Tyrell now um and one of our
comments um Michael Finley 6804 um says it's Mr. Dominion Raceway on the podcast I I I don't
really watch a lot of cars tour but my my my good friend Michael Maske was like hey turn on cars
tour it's the uh Mini Tyrell 125 so I turned it on and what do you know you won Mini's mission
Mini Tyrell Raceway yeah listen you never know I mean you become a guy that wins as much um I mean
Jimmy Johnson won seven championships and he's getting stuff named left and right so hey all you
gotta do is win but but back to the cars tour stuff just what what was that that night like and then
uh um just uh dive on in to uh to just that um just uh Mini's mission just in general
yeah no that night was was huge uh I was able to win that race again uh the year prior and that was
you could not have written a better storybook weekend of how that went last year I got the
I think I let all but like two laps and uh ended up winning the race and you know had to
you have to celebrate with all the families that we hosted there last year in victory lane and then
this year it wasn't looking that way I'd qualify third and ran second and third kind of all race and
um Connor Jones had a really fast car and he ended up taking the lead late in the race and uh
from Carson Brown so I was just kind of a sitting duck back there and and we were I thought we were
just as good as they were I just couldn't get to them and get by them um we were kind of just
keeping the pace on them and uh I was like man I need something like something to happen
a mistake to get by them and then we had they the car story issue Carson Brown the restart
violation they're late in the race and it sent him back a row which that's been new to me because
I haven't been car racing I didn't know that that changed until recently um where they send you back
a row instead of sending you to the back which I do like that concept instead of sending you to the
back and kind of ruining your night but um so yeah that's sending him back in with it was Butterbean
and then Connor Jones was starting the race Butterbean on the outside of me and third and
Connor kind of washed up into Brendan in turn one and two on the on a restart there I think it was
like eight laps to go and um I saw my opportunity got a really big run off in turn two and I look
at either win the race or settle for 30 years though um I picked that I passed them both and
ended up walking away with the win that night and it was huge I think it meant more to me it was more
exciting I think that was probably more pumped up than Mikael Aiden in last year uh just because
I had to work for that one uh pretty hard so uh that that always feels better than just
leaving the whole thing and winning I mean winning feels great in general when you're
on it's something that we all want to do uh but definitely that one felt really good and
the minis mission side of it was a hit as it always been for the fourth straight year we
were able to host 25 families from Walter Reed Medical and all the children national
that are all either battling childhood cancer recovering from it or on any other underlying
conditions so uh we did on Thursday we my parents live about 25 minutes on Lake Anna there with my
aunt my grandmother so we had I think we had nine families total that were able to come out and get
to spend like a late day with us on the water so I gave endless jet ski rides and food and
go rides and two rides um so we do a whole kind of day of fun there on Thursday and then Friday is
the course for practice day and we have you know all the teams and drivers are at the racetracks
then we do a dinner Friday night at the at the racetrack in the groove music hall room which
if anybody wants to visit Dominion and they're in the area go check it out it's probably the
nicest short track you'll ever go to a beautiful facility a lot going on lots of fun events and
but yeah we got to do that and I pair each team and driver with a family that comes to the
racetrack so we had 25 total that showed up to the race and dinner is I kind of talk about
many's mission how it started what we do and get to have a couple of guest speakers join us which was
which was awesome and a lot of that stuff was covered on flow racing you know which you can check
out and then Saturday we did a church service in the morning we took them all into the pits
in pit tours and we actually end up putting them in the right side of the race cars and
getting to ride them around the track which was cool and oh man I was paired with Scout Hughes
which is a girl that has been to three of the out of the four many's mission events
and she missed last year because she had some sort of vacations planned or she was traveling and
so she missed the win last year but she was able to come this year and we talked about it and I was
like yeah I want Scout because she's she's awesome she's a phenomenal girl she battled childhood
cancer and she's doing better but she she just turned 18 and she's a hoop she loves to go fast
she kept on telling me to go faster in the ride along and I was like I don't we can't go much
faster than this because we're not wearing the helmet yeah that was really cool and and getting
to win the race for her too and I end up giving her a big tall trophy that I got so she got to
take on the winners trophy which is cool and yeah just a weekend that I try to do to
give those kids those memories that they'll have forever and pleasure you know to win it is is huge
and be able to do it for the past two years has been awesome back to back winner it's it's a pretty
cool thing and just like I said I'm just thankful that all those kids got to come down and celebrate
with me and victory lane and take some pictures and hopefully have those memories for as long as
around yeah I got I got a lot of great memories on Lake Anna there that's cool you got to take
up yeah man we thought that that was my first job was work at the newspaper there oh yeah right
mineral yeah um but where were you on the hot side people in virginia know this there are you
in the hot side or the cold side of the lake I was on I'm on the cold side yeah okay the cold
down past the the cobra restaurant there is where my parents are yeah yeah the reason I bring
that up there's that lake has like a nuclear facility yeah so the uh the part of the lake that's
near that has warm water like it'd be the dead of winter it'll be warm water which we
fluid now the technical growing out of your chest
yeah I haven't been swimming in the nuclear warm side
far away cold side so I think I'm doing okay I haven't checked but
uh well you're I'm gonna see you this weekend because you're on the entry list for uh south
boston all right yes sir yeah so myself a luke and gulliver would be covering it for front stretch
and uh I gotta say that that lake model with the is it gonna have the ram paint scheme again
yeah so actually I'm I'm entered with uh just thank you to chris rice and collard racing and
Matt collard and ram for giving me the opportunity to go race this weekend they uh got me in uh with
rns race cars and Marcus richman so I'll be in the number 16 uh ram car this weekend at south
boston so uh excited to go there me and Marcus have had worked together in the past and I've
raced his race cars for a long time so um excited to go there and see what we can do
we're yeah but I bring that up because Brian and I were talking about it what we're watching the
the dominion race and we're not just trying to suck up to you here that's the best looking car
there's there's people that love it like there's a majority of people that love it and there's
some people that hate it like I don't know if you guys know uh and maybe nascar tyler watches
you know nascar tyler is searching him now hold on stand by nascar tyler is he on the
twitter yeah I think he's on twitter and in tiktok I see him all the time but he was rating the
truck ski the truck series paint schemes and he said mine in uh the 25 which was at michigan
as Parker clickerman and my scheme look like a school bus so I can see it he just doesn't like
yellow yeah no I see it I see what he's talking about but I thought the yellow and black looks
awesome and uh I plan here he is okay I'm I'm seeing him now I plan to keep that paint scheme
uh going to to wilksboro for the late mouth stock car race there with uh with my two tower racing
guys so the car will look like that again oh my god mini this guy has like a full like template
like I don't have like standout approaches why these things matter
cool he's got good production quality he's probably spells the names of the drivers right
two
what's the two r's and mini's name maybe I don't know maybe everybody nobody can get that right
yeah including us apparently thank you great appreciate that yeah I don't even get mad anymore
when it happens oh I do trust me trust me I remember when it started when like the first
race that they tone on the truck series like just to make you guys feel better and shout out to all
the fox their production team is great but they had spelled my name wrong for like I think it was
practice qualifying and I know that the PR team at college was on them but it was it was funny
because I was like well I guess I should just legally change it because it's everybody spells it one
hour they all just put mini they got you know they're putting cletus like cletus yeah
and world now just put mini cletus has two different names and they can't see to figure that out
they just decided to combine the two mini's got one name man like just just what that went on
yeah it's either mini or it's timothy mini tyrell hey my man yeah my middle name so there you go
yeah now so it it doesn't matter whatever you want to call me it works yeah I was when I saw the
Daytona entry list and it said timothy tyrell I was like who the heck is that oh that's that's mini oh
this is me yeah oh I get you one more serious question in there before before we let you go
so like entering the season like you mentioned like they basically just with the way the schedule is
they just threw you in the deep end right with street courses super speedways but now
we're finally getting to some some short tracks I know limerak is first but um you know we're
getting to wilksboro and Richmond and what else is in there there's a bunch of tracks kind of of
that build they're more of what yeah IRP yeah more of what you grew up doing so do you feel like
now that you've gotten through the channel part like it's it's all uphill from here yeah I think that
definitely like going from doing Daytona Atlanta st pete from like hey welcome to the truck series
that was definitely eyes blowing out of your head for sure because that's I've never had any sort of
starts and arca or anything that was big tracks like that super speedway wise so that was definitely
an eye opener going to those tracks I was glad that I was able to finish um and you know just
learn all I could doing that and I've learned so much throughout the year going to all these
different tracks and excuse me the uh I think one of the favorite tracks are one that drove
kind of like a short track to me was like national in a way even though it's almost a mile and a half
but not really it's kind of an intermediate track that was that drove almost like a short track to me
and I really enjoyed the way that track raced and honestly the way Charlotte was like this year
Charlotte unfortunately I didn't get any laughs before I got you know taken out but um even though
Charlotte's a mile and a half like that kind of you had to get out of the gas and traffic and
kind of drive it similar to a short track I mean obviously it's way different it's a totally
different world and air is a big you know involvement there but once I kind of got the taste of that a
little bit I and I was like man I like this is more like I'm at home so definitely very excited
to go to Wilkesboro obviously I've had a lot of success there I've run inside the top three many
times uh in car races so just very happy to get there go to some of these short tracks go check
out IRP and excited for Lime Rocks too I think road courses although I don't have a lot of road
course experience um yeah I did a lot of like spec me out of racing not a lot of it but select
spec me out of races in the past and as well as a couple this year so I'm trying to improve my
road course ability and go into Walkins Glen was my best race of the year and it took me a while
because I was still trying to learn the track and figure that out because I never turned any laps
there but once I like halfway through the race I really started figuring it out and almost
mirroring uh AJ Elmendinger's times towards the end of the race so I was really confident and
pleased with how much I had progressed there and and ended up walking away with an eighth place
finish so I think I can do that again at Lime Rock and and just continue to try to build on those
and I'm getting better and better I think Lime Rock is gonna suit me a little better than San Diego
because that was totally different I was street course uh of doom is what I call it just uh just
so much carnage and um hopefully the respect level will get a little better because man it was
only at San Diego man there was nobody was playing any favor so I'm hoping that we kind of
as a series get to clean that up a little bit because I had one goal of keeping that truck
clean and you know I got ran into more times than I could count started being like a ping-pong ball
there at the end but um it is what it is like I said I'm just proud of uh all of Collie Grayson
and and how hard they work and how much they've had to overcome this year bringing five trucks
to the track and that's not easy for any team to do and uh the fact that this kind of happened fast
and and they had to get this going I think we've had a ton of success for the tools that we've had
and and the resources that we've had and me being a rookie to this and not having any prior
experience I gotta give myself some props I think I'm doing pretty good and uh just trying to work
each and every day at figuring these trucks out and getting better just taking what I can
learning all I can and just applying that to the next race and then
yeah mini you mentioned speck meata racing I mean those guys like whatever doesn't matter I mean
those speck meata dudes you know they're just they're just they are what they are I don't they
don't do a whole lot I mean it doesn't really translate to stock I'm just small
talking so much smack as Preston just joined in the background so I know he's listening to this
um but no mini before we let you go last question I promise but you you talk about
road course racing it's all working with A. J. Almond Dinger but like your two best finishes
are on road courses two of arguably the hardest road courses on the schedule do you feel like
you're becoming an all-around like I look at Lane Briggs as an example and everyone thought he was
the short track extraordinaire but he's won everything now do you feel like you're becoming
an all-around better racer 100 percent I think what's so great about like the the the national
series in general is it puts all of us drivers in so many different things and I know a lot of
people are like oh get away from the road courses get away from this focus on owls and
which is great but they do have to understand and a lot of people kind of shoot on sg about
you know all we can only want on road your road courses but he's doing so many different types
and tracks and styles of racing that he you can see it like he's doing so well on owls now
and he will win on the oval here soon like I I can almost guarantee it like there's
so many different like types of race tracks in different road courses whether it's street
course or a place like Walkins Glen where kind of like a super speedway of road course racing it's
there's all kinds of different places that we go that really test your abilities and you've got to
be able to adapt to that so for sure going to all those tracks and trying to learn and figure
those places out like 100 has made me all around a better race car driver and anything that I do
get in it has some sort of translation to what I've felt or what I've experienced in a truck
even though it's a truck and it's a stock car basically like that's something that I learned
going to all these race tracks I can translate and I know we were talking about the speck me out of
stuff like that that is actually a really good tool because those cars you have to be able to
drive because they're so momentum based they don't have any horsepower and you have to really study
and learn the lines of a road course and how to drive a road course and that that applies to going
into the trucks and making speed up on a straightaway and shaping a corner better so and also with
the Miata's that's a three-pedal car which the trucks you don't have to use the clutch but
the Miata it's it's very good to learn that and learn how to heel toe and get the footwork right
and learn all that stuff to just it makes you that much better as a driver so anything that I can
kind of get my hands on to or drive I'm really trying to take advantage of this year like from
the last month and a half I think every single weekend I've been in something so
I'm thankful that I'm doing something this weekend I wasn't supposed to and it kind of
happened last minute but I'm jumping in a late model like it's just the more you can get in a
race car doing your race at these higher levels the better you're going to be the more you sell
on the couch the less you're going to be so that's that's for me like any sort of
time I can spend jumping in something whether I finish well or no like I just
that is all valuable and I've learned that kind of this year for sure that there's so much
different things that we do in the truck series and in all three series when cup series races more
than we do and they do so many different race tracks it's I want to become a cup series driver
and that's my goal and I need to learn how to do those things and experience these race tracks so
I'm prepared for if I get that opportunity one day you can follow Mini on Twitter at Mini Tyrell
that is Mini and then TYRR2RELL Mini thank you so much for coming on man we wish you the best and
hopefully we'll see you at a racetrack soon buddy yeah of course guys thanks for having me really
appreciate it Mini Tyrell driver of the number 14 truck joining the program when we come back
we're going to be talking with the driver the number 50 car for the NASCAR O'Reilly series Mr
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Brian Oh and I am with my compadres Mr. Dolan Hopkins and Michael Massey and now joined by
the driver of the number 50 car looks like he was just working on that number 50 car please welcome
to the program our good friend Mr. Preston Partis Preston how are you bud?
uh can you hear us uh oh I don't know uh oh can we hear him uh oh no you may have to
to talk you may have to text him Dolan oh no maybe you quit quit and rejoin maybe yeah
oh I can't hear Massey either Dolan but I can hear you you can't hear me
oh I can hear press and talk buddy
oh no yeah he just actually said he can't hear us
yeah I just I told him to quit and rejoin so maybe that'll work out
you know what we won't take another break this is live folks this is we'll do it live this is
can you hear me um but no I can't hear Massey either
good lord I can hear you everybody that's a you probably everybody and I can
you know what I love I love seeing Massey like he's really yelling me there he is I hear you
how are you buddy there you guys are I'm good it's like I just seen you guys like
I know like three days ago like four days ago I didn't see Michael but on the other side
you don't you don't see Michael they wouldn't allow me on navy base yeah no they wouldn't really you
wouldn't pass the background check I think it's got the process of moon shining no the thing is but
like when Dolan got there pressing on Thursday he had to go through like the d-bits thing I got
there Thursday night and I got my creds on Friday I didn't have to go through the d-bits thing
like you say in Dalton the guy in the military right I don't I don't get it either man I don't
I just use my military ID to get on yeah you know what it is they knew they knew about them
yeah they probably did they saw I was an o3 and they were like we're gonna teach this captain
a lesson hey but not the navy exactly that's right um let's let's chat though Preston
um your San Diego run I was talking with you before I think it was it qualified or was it
practiced I was like don't wreck it you didn't wreck it and you got a good finish
out of it yeah no it was actually it was a really good weekend um like you said our biggest problem
is we only have one car when we show up to the race track with our single-car trailer so we can't
wreck the car and then bring the backup out and go send it so yeah you kind of have to really pace
yourself um for a weekend like that just with practicing qualifying as much as you want to go
you know 90 100% you can't even go that far um you got to make sure you're in the race to be in
so um yeah I mean we accomplished the goal in practicing qualifying and then
might have tore it up though in the race a little bit but it was still it was really cool weekend
I mean which which cars didn't get torn out though that's a big thing I know I know that that was a
big thing I just I wish we kept the clean a little bit longer we might have had a shot there at the
end but uh no it was still it was a really cool weekend um that was my first time ever on a military
base especially one like that um it was just kind of breathtaking uh with how massive that island is
and some of the resources the US military has um and just getting to be able to see that in person
um and just really kind of celebrate America um in a race like that
Preston like I asked many this the same thing and I get Brian has abandoned the struggle so he's
no he's bad well Barney's okay I can I can hear everybody now oh that's good okay unfortunately I
can hear you messy oh no okay well anyway no but Preston like we everywhere you go
uh Preston gave everything Chris Graham we miss you uh it's like you can only hear us
what just happened well in the stream yard I think it's stream your problem
well we used to be Preston Preston left okay all right here we go are we good again I'm good
okay I can hear everybody can everybody hear okay Preston my friend you can hear me right
I can hear you buddy it's like it's like you're 20 miles from me but I can hear you
yeah I mean because you want me to go to your house and join the stream maybe you should
dude maybe you should just start driving you'll be here by the end of the episode
is this thing still live or did you guys have to pause this is still live
still live
I mean people are wanting to see want to hear what you have to say but the core
now maybe listen here's this okay here you go here's a hard hitting journalistic question
all right here we go Preston you've raced a lot of road courses in your day you've
raced speck meata so I respect I respect the speck meata drivers doesn't matter what I said
20 minutes ago about 10 minutes ago yeah about 10 minutes ago no buddy like you've raced a lot of
stuff where does that course rank in terms of difficulty um for me it's the hardest track I've
been on I kind of been as far east coast west coast and north and south in the U.S. that you
can be in and I think that was the most challenging course I've ever driven by far actually just
with the different types of surfaces the risk versus reward was probably the hardest part
there was speed out there but you had a risk so much just because there was no bailout
I think we've seen that in truck practice like through the s's you could carry a lot of speed but
if you get in trouble you you're just going to nail the wall because there's really nowhere you
can go so that was like that was definitely the hardest part of it just because you wanted to
test the limits but you really couldn't because if you did you're you know you're risking your car
so that really made it challenging and then obviously as you guys seen the surface
it was really cool because it was very natural kind of like Chicago's surface was just super bumpy
you had the jump coming off a turn one which I don't think we have anything else like that in
America I mean you got Norch life where you're getting the car airborne a little bit but
yeah it was just it was a really cool race track and I really hope they go back there
it was it was definitely a driver's track so I gotta know what was it like sitting in your car
through that long red flag where they were on the wall and could you see from where you were
the fan jump the fence and go say hi to Sheldon Cree um crap you guys are breaking up on me a
I didn't see the fan jump the wall um I just got in that wreck so as you can see we got the car
behind us um we just unloaded it actually just it's got some scrapes I think we got we got every
corner of that car just minus the roof so that was a good thing we didn't get that part of it but
yeah no actually under that red flag I parked next to Brad Perez because I blew the right front
tire out when I got hit and um I started driving around the track obviously from turn one and we
made it to turn what is that 14 or 15 there in the back stretch and I was kind of lumping around
trying to make it back to pit road and they threw the red flag I seen Brad up there and um our closest
spotter was still two corners away so no one on pit road really knew how much damage we had
so I pulled up to Brad and sat there for a minute and I mean I knew it was going to be a little bit
for wall repair or actually at the time I didn't even know it was going to be a little bit I just
thought they just red flagged it just to clear the track up a little bit um before we rolled through
there and pulled up next to him shut the engine off he had his engine off and I screamed down like
hey Brad you know what's what's the damage look like and it's so hard to hear each other with you
helmets on and all that so he kind of we were doing hand signals that looked like rock paper
scissor for a little bit while he was pointing at the front fender and a few minutes went by and
obviously we both knew that it was going to be a while when they said wall repair and fence repair
so it took the helmet so often we just had a long chat he looked at my car told me what he
thought was wrong with it and then we just we're good buddies away from the race track so we we
had probably a good 510 minute chat so I didn't get to see the fan jump over the fence we were
in the process of just yapping now it was uh it was good it was a good time we got to catch up a
little bit you guess I know don't no like buddy like this is uh I really I'm really glad that you
think that this is like one of the more fun tracks to do because it was just
sort of challenging but like I really wonder you also went to Chicago too um what is do you think
you had more fun you had a decent decent finish at Chicago also the was Chicago fun than that or
was Chicago less fun than this no I'd say they're both their own um course which is crazy to think
I mean because they're both obviously street courses more or less but they were both so unique
in their own ways um after first practice I heard many talking about it too we just no one expected
the grip level to be that um much lacking at San Diego so it was Chicago I mean you had the brace
of surface but we kind of all do that going into it being pure street course um you have the normal
roadway you know with oil tour buses and all that just drip and diesel and stuff all over
the place there so you kind of knew that track was going to be low grip but when we did the track
walk on uh Friday for the uh or Thursday night I guess for the Xfinity series or O'Reilly series um
we did the we walked the airstrip and that concrete was so not tacky but just not even
course it was so fine that you kind of expect I expected that circuit that be like really gripped
up um just it was going to take rubber good I thought and it did the opposite so um with that
being said just the surfaces were different tire fall off was different but honestly Chicago was
cool um just with how that layout was it was kind of more less 90 degree corners a lot slower
then you go to San Diego and I mean turn one was you're ripping I mean you're going
probably 100 through there and it's just it was one of those tracks where you took Chicago's
riskiest corner and you made 16 of them you know they made it fun it felt like turns one and turn
16 were so just so wild I think Austin Hill said turn one was basically like a blind corner and
turn 16 had like all the all the wrecks because apparently according to like Justin Marks there
was like a big bump right before 16 what I mean did you like those corners if we do come back do
you think they should do something with those two turns just your overall thoughts on those two
turns specifically no I just I wish all race tracks had character like that um it made it
it made it really challenging um more or less you had to really know where the bumps were
and how to drive around it um I mean everyone else had to do the same thing as you did so
it wasn't like you know you were the only one dealing with that challenge which made it really
cool um no matter how your car was handling you had to hit it a certain way if not you're gonna
get in the wall um so yeah I really I wish more race tracks were like that it was
probably like a old school Bristol or Rockingham I'm never gonna drive those tracks obviously but
it was like the road course version of that and like I said earlier with the risk first reward
was so high um I know in the sim leading up to it I didn't get any manufacturer sometime
just because obviously they were so slammed um but I got I got iRacing um seat time the last
week or so and I ran probably 100 plus lops um just driving and you had the delts up and you'd
go through turn one good you would think early in the early on and then you'd hit it better
through the session and you'd gain three or four tenths by just carrying a little bit of speed but
it was one of those corners where in real life to put the car on the edge it was just way too risky
you don't really want to have to do that unless you had to um so that was cool it's just like I
make time there was a favorite memory outside of the race car that you had
this past weekend some cool experience you had or anything like that um outside of the car
kind of like I alluded to earlier just getting to see you know the the naval base and what
the men and women um of the us four you know united forces had to do or do um and just kind of
support them and kind of honor them this weekend um was really cool I've never been on naval base
so getting to see an aircraft carrier like that is kind of breathtaking the first time you see it
especially being in the San Diego sky skyline like that you you see a ship and that thing's
massive compared to the skyscrapers um coming from Florida you don't your lando I mean that
thing's almost the size of some skyscrapers we'd have down here so um that was really cool and just
going on the island was sweet and like I said getting to meet the um men and women
of the US military was really cool especially on Friday we had an autograph session
I think early morning and on Friday it was really for um military friends and family to attend so
getting to see all those guys was really cool and is your there's I think this
this weekend's the last true course on or the O'Reilly schedule this you're not entered for it so
is your O'Reilly schedule for the year wrapped up already um are you gonna I hope not I hope
not we got the whole car so you want to break the news I don't got any news to break right now I
don't know I don't know what you want to do like you want to do more or something or I mean we tried
last year we ran it before um ended up missing the show last year just
error my part locking up the break so I'd love to redeem myself again this year there
president my friend just do Daytona just I know need you we need you to run Daytona
before that so we're gonna do another oval before that oval but yeah no I'd love to
have Atlanta do Atlanta yeah yeah I don't know if they'll let me do a super
speedway like that I'd love to I mean I'd love to run them all but with the program we got here
I mean it's a family operation as you guys know so it's just really me and my dad don't work on
the cars after we get done with our day job so it's four or five races a year is kind of
enough for us unless it was in someone else's equipment and obviously we'd jump at it but
I don't know the schedule like you guys said is kind of already wrapped up for us not being a Sonoma
this weekend it kind of puts the end of the road course season but we do have the oval car I'd
love to bring it out I'm at a smaller track and then run maybe Martin's run at the end of the year
too would be pretty cool so I don't know we'll see we'll see how the year progresses and I mean
I'm running spent me out of stuff again I believe coming up I haven't really got my car back yet
it's up in Tennessee at one of the guys that um that build them so maybe we'll run that and hopefully
run some more NASCAR stuff if you need me to run down there with like uh like a bosa or something
and get a hammer to it you know I'll help you guys out bust some sheet metal out and we'll put
some duct tape on I mean on the oval car there of course I mean either or whichever one you want
man like whatever one yeah hopefully we don't down to do anything
he will we mean anything whatever you need Dalton will do
yeah I mean the good news is the oval car's got all the body panels on it so he's doing something
wrong if he's needing the hammer on that so see see that's the thing I only I only hit
things so maybe I don't know maybe you shouldn't let me come near it I need to come by her I mean
we got we got her I don't know if you can see in the corner I guess it's backwards yeah the the pinball
machine back there and so yeah our shakedown rig our simulator yeah so yeah you can play on that
yeah yeah it's I it's a few minutes away come out there man I'm serious yeah now why don't you
yeah don't he's too busy man he's a big time reporter
I don't know I've seen him this weekend yeah apparently someone's going on a very
special podcast coming up soon so hey the good news though is Dalton wasn't the story
he was reporting the story this past weekend that's right what we all
should strive to be yep I mean it's nothing against I love you guys but I mean I did see Dalton
you know being the one out there listen I did I did follow up with Noah and everything and it was
mainly just I don't know what content you I'm talking about I'm just saying I just I
sure sure I've seen CPT and of course you did but you don't follow me on the Twitter that's why
are you serious I think exactly to be honest Preston you don't need to follow much with you
you're all good okay I just re-tweeted you so now you can know what my account
is Preston hey I love to follow you look okay I mean I'm sorry about that but the problem is
with Twitter now or X I guess yeah you know the for you pages page is really just
the thing you look at and you guys that got billions of followers already right yeah I mean
I just look on the for you page so and I see your name on there so I don't know if I'm following
you're not I'm sorry I see okay oh well okay well I appreciate that thank you don't need to
good stuff good stuff it's good I just think thank you next next race that you and Brad Perez
are at both then since you're both tight can you two have like a fake screaming match at each other
like no one and Magnuson had so we can just film that and you know get the content out of it I mean
good why do we do a good job at that I don't know
Brad can Brad can just do as normal he can do a skid and he'd he'd knock it out of the park
probably thing is I don't think I probably can do it and make it believable but it's definitely
into all the talking and though we'll have you give me the physical one the biggest problem
yeah but the biggest problem is we both don't get mad physically I don't think you know like
well I mean I I definitely give my fair share of middle fingers on the racetrack who the hell
gives you middle fingers I mean I you got to give in I mean if you receive you got to give
fingers too so I mean oh you're giving out middle fingers yeah I mean the the problem is you really
can't see these little things though it's kind of they don't know what finger it is so you're just
I usually give them a full hand but um yeah I mean I'm not gonna fight no buddy I'm not gonna
fight anybody afterwards like there was one time I thought about it in Xfinity and I mean it was
Xfinity back then so I can get away saying that but um I was gonna maybe go down there and talk to
the guy and then I'm like you know what it was a far walk I'm a short guy so it's didn't even
farther walk and I'm like by the time I get down there I it's just gonna be a while I'm gonna
think about it and then I'm like I'm there been a fight so I like it beat up you know you don't
want to be beat up so you don't want to find out you know a lot more patience than a lot of other
drivers a lot more patience than us as well I mean you can get mad but the fact that you're like
I'm just gonna cool down by the time I get there yeah thank you yeah I mean there's no need to fight
you know yeah well I mean it's not for you guys I know I know Dalton's really upset about that one but
I don't think we've ever come to blows have we yeah have we done uh you and I know yeah I don't
mean masking maybe
you're gonna have pissed me off one time in Las Vegas one time in Las Vegas there was there was
an incident media center because he missed his lunch he didn't go down your lunch when everybody
else was eating I was a little hangry and well it did not go well um so you know but we're gonna
move on um last but not least Preston do you want to if you don't want to stay on for this you don't
have to but uh what we're doing at frontiers we're doing something a little bit different
Massey do you want to explain what we are doing well so the NASCAR cup series is starting the
in season challenge this week and so we're gonna fill out a bracket uh as a team here and uh Preston
you're more than welcome to help us fill out this bracket if I'd love to okay let's do it that's the
attitude all right here we go look at that look at Caleb man he's got it shout out Caleb looks like
he already made a pick for us with Tyler right thank you Caleb I mean thank you Caleb appreciate
that I mean is anyone gonna disagree with that no I think that's pretty good I mean it's Sonoma
too remember Sonoma round one erratic is pretty good on road courses um so we're good with that
yeah we're good with that we gotta do Cedric and keselowski now both have been just I mean
keselowski's falling off a cliff though so well I'm leaving Cedric I look back at the last few
Sonoma races and I gotta be honest I think I think keselowski man I know Cedric is the
road course extraordinaire I don't know Preston do you want to put in your two cents what do you
think um Austin Cedric's a really good road racer thank you that's all good answer that was
a really good driver too but he's a really good road racer top of that I thought President Trump
was coming out there for a little bit Mr. Hawkins but you know uh very nice great racer all right
little Borat too very nice all right well Suarez and Gilliland Suarez is once Sonoma before
mm-hmm suck I don't know like Suarez is doing really good yes but I do feel like Gillie Gillie's good
yeah Preston what do you think I'd go with the Chevrolet
there you go man I can't man okay sure I can't go wrong company man
company man I like it okay Chevrolet let's get this man a hundred motorsports ride
well Carson hosts of art currently hosted the Dale jr download and is openly flirting with
k-adams on twitter oh yeah versus how do you feel about that yeah actually I think you'd have her
but uh no I mean the girl had she's got NFL players flirting with her all the time so oh my god um
and uh move on move on most of our in Zane Smith I think is the best match up of the first round
like this is a pretty tough one because Zane Smith got top five on sunday he's really he's looking
very strong right now I don't know I think I like Zane what do you guys think
I'd say Carson hosevar but I mean the guy was running second yeah he was
both these jevros are gonna have a top 10 this year this weekend I do too yeah I'll go host of
our then I I just think it's like seventh or something I think host of ours a bit of a wildcard
I think he's gonna do what it takes to get up further up front and uh if he's successful then
that'll definitely be that would be the pick now this next one I feel like this is a really tough
choice this will be my first upset of the of the bracket I'm going almond dinger it has
500 cup series start 500 will be this year or this uh weekend in sonoma so congrats
yeah I'm sure how can you not go with almond dinger at sonoma I feel like I just he just had
top five as well um I don't know but I mean brist goes good but I just I just like almond dinger a
yeah I think uh I have to go with almond dinger too I know briscoe finished
second at sonoma last year but I think almond dinger all around he did really well this past
weekend and uh at at Coronado he's got he's strong 500 starts just uh basically announced that
not really an announcement but everyone else pretty much already knew like he's going to
yeah I think he's going to look pretty good this weekend great I agree all right last year's winner
last year's uh in season challenge winner ty gibbs ty gibbs jr the third
bresson what do you think man I don't know I'd like to pick a shabby
I don't I don't care right now are we just gonna you know what all right we'll just go
Austin doing mcdowell I can't do that to be honest
the Chevrolet picks after I feel like they're like the best ones these next two like oh I think
I don't even want to disagree with that you got I mean I get it right yeah I gotta go with that
you got to yeah I mean I I think Ty had such a strong weekend last week compared to Austin that
I'll probably transfer over pretty well yeah I think mcdowell is pretty pretty obvious choice
here uh Bubba ran really well but I know he ran well but I'm thinking mcdowell still just because
I do like Michael mcdowell's here I'm gonna go with the Chevrolet all right let's do this
Bubba traditionally is not the best road racer and I know again but there was a high attrition
rate a lot the C's kind of had the part for him this past weekend and chase Elliott I I'm sorry
I know they're sorry another show you know fans but you know kind of it's kind of obvious here
Noah just I don't feel like he has the speed to compete with chase and plus chase is just
has been historically very good on the road courses all right we won't look at the other side
yes we do come on Caleb let's let's do this there we go there you go
this one's interesting because Denny Hamlin is not good at Sonoma
he's very bad at Sonoma very bad I have to look back but I'm pretty sure
his best finish um at Sonoma specifically in the next gen car I gotta look you guys
he finished 20th year last year so yeah he did finish that might have been his best finish
in the next gen car so this is uh this is not an easy choice and Ty Dillon I mean he he made it
all the way yeah so we run it back with Ty Dillon I I just like I know this is kind of an upset
and people are gonna be like what are you talking about but man I just I don't yeah if it was any
of those other tracks it'd be so easy I'm right that his best finish was last year in 20th and
before that it was 38 36 31st in the next gen car so I don't know I think I'm I think I gotta go
with Ty Dillon here Preston I'd like to hear your thought I while you're gonna pick the Chevrolet
um yeah yeah those analysis right well how about this the next one there's no
Chevrolet's in the next one we'll go with Ty for this one Caleb and then the next one uh there's
no Chevrolet so Preston this is on you you got it you gotta go Aaron Jones gotta go
oh really okay that is a good pick good yeah well Rodgers my man will
Eric finished 29th and Joseph Logano finished 9th I'm still thinking Eric Jones I like that Eric
has been very strong he's Betty Betty last year now any finishes Jones had last
year you can't compare to you pretty much yeah now here's another interesting one you got another
legacy motor club car but I think that four is just a little bit faster than what Joe Logano's been
so Preston no Chevrolet this one is on you Chris Busher Chris Busher dude was running good at
San Diego I don't know if his top 10 streak at road course is still going on but uh
he's had that yeah he did yeah now I won't I won't pressure Preston in this one but I got
to be honest with you I got to go with Christopher Bell no no is he I don't think so is he driving the
whole race oh I don't know that's a good point well he said he's probably
gonna have his cast off this weekend so it's gonna that's gonna allow him to handle the car a little
bit better that was the main problem according to him was that he wasn't feeling pain it was just
that his hand was in a cast um so I think this weekend they're gonna supposed to have his cast
off he should be able to control the car a little bit better so I and not to mention
Frostchastain on the road course he got that's out 10 this past week and he won a Coda before
yeah hey what Coda I don't know all right well all right yeah I know I'm gonna get out voting here
really you just don't like warm up you don't like warm up farmers apparently whatever
all right Frostchastain dude yeah all right you got two shabbies there you go
oh crap um
I guess uh will he be yeah he's got a nightmare he's in he's got a drone
he's got a drone again again I don't know if he's got the drone again I mean he had this past weekend
did you see that the fan exhibit for them yeah oh yeah yeah that was sick yeah yeah yeah he does not
he's not saying yeah but that was sick he's got yeah they had the submarine there the torpedo there I
think dude that way was popping they should just put the 24 the William Byron
colors on like various warheads that we have like the subjects but like that fan zone compared to
normal ones I thought that was like that was awesome like time a lot of course I mean we don't walk
through them as much anymore just because with how the garage lay on is but like I thought that thing was
awesome the stage I guess it was that night was really cool they had all the flashing lights and
everything and they still had all the logos dollin honey though dollin those were police officers
what I was talking about well I don't know more more victory lanes in the fan zone oh hey everybody
so let's let's move on so yeah sorry sorry that was on me no
not at all bad press I'll go back to texting
don't go back to texting
such a bad press and I think it's a little tougher than it is a little bit tough because Riley's
been pretty strong recently I still gotta go with Kyle Larson though yeah he's had a string of top
fives yeah and historically he's got a couple wins at Sonoma also it's like those seven 10
matchups in basketball where like you'll be like I'm gonna pick the seven but I won't be surprised
if the 10 wins all right everybody agrees SVG here yeah moving on uh so sorry sorry Ryan
Phraseman even he knows man in here as well like yeah yeah all right Preston we need you for this one
yeah because there's no Chevrolet's here okay let's just make it the choice for us come on it that
was easy that guy last week he looked like a road racer yeah he looked really good he did
hell yeah brother they're not wrong all right all right moving on we gotta get
did you put Barry on okay okay I thought I saw the wrong one for a second all right we got the
round of uh kind of 16 here what's the next track can you scroll up just a tad yep she kind of land
okay close of our uh oh I'm sorry I'm looking at the wrong one yeah oh you gotta go with Braddock
yeah you got to Ford's have no food is it gonna look so strong no Chevrolets they're pressing
you agree with reddick
man uh oh oh is that it's reddick versus cindrick versus cindrick just keep him on the Ford's have
been wild in the house I mean yeah you got to yeah cindrick's cool dude did the track
all right so I kind of got to show a little favoritism it's not him it's the blue ovals right
now yeah they're there yeah I don't think it's that's his fault but
you got two Chevrolet's here 45 45 you got two Chevrolet's here as far as the host of our
in chicago land I don't know man that is tough I think you got to go with host of our I think you
I'm gonna pick Carson yeah but who I'm lost all for Chevy one yeah but yeah man but that was on
the rain that was in a rain shorten yeah but he held him off he did his thing I think Carson could
get a top five or wreck out Suarez will get a top 10 so it's like just that gamble of if Suarez
well or if you're winning me over yeah Carson's a bit of a wild card yeah I mean
a wild card six you kind of want to keep him in though you know the next round yeah you almost
just got to get him ready for the entertainment yeah let's keep him yeah take Carson all right then
all right this one here we go I'm sorry AJ yeah god bless you brother sorry hi rome
sorry for us and we won't even ask you sorry buddy
let's say all right here you got two Chevrolet's like you had a good run now yeah it's kind of
that's for Chicago yeah and then this one over here and then
I think you're gonna go Eric Jones EJ yeah give me Eric yeah okay busher and Chastain now this one
you don't want the Cinderella story to keep going I mean Jones is kind of already a Cinderella story
Jones might win Chicago like he almost won Michigan um Boucher but uh or Boucher or Chastain
I don't like Trackhouse's speed on my own then give me Boucher yeah let's get what's good yeah
although I mean obviously I think that's a better pick but you gotta remember you got
hour long practice again too so I don't know if Trackhouse can find something a little more
in that it is interesting they've been better with practice I think I think we'll stick with
Boucher but he's he's got now here's a here's a good one Hendrik showdown I think he's done
I think you gotta go with Larson I think so too without Larson he's gonna be in Chicago
he's yeah he's just in it's he's just been a little bit like a tick faster on the mile and a
half this year I feel like and Byron's had horrible luck this year yeah he has I think you
gotta go with Blaney here yeah give me Ryan Blaney yeah yeah SG's gotten a lot better on the ovals
but I just hope not that good yeah all right we're getting closer we got the round
debate now next track is Atlanta Atlanta oh god it's hell here's where he could upset you
gotta put Osmar in there I gotta go with Osmar let's do it put him in there
I love I mean reddit did win the last race there that's true with I mean clearly the best part
most of our could have won Larson's been running up front like every race there I feel he won Talladega
this is Chevrolet pick Preston I don't know I chase Elliott guy that won my race last year
Chase is on Atlanta a couple times Chase is one Atlanta but Ty Gibbs is also one in O'Reilly
race there too yeah I think it's a different style of racing though um yeah as much as
I mean I know when Gibbs won the Xfinity race there it kind of mimicked more of the cup racing we
have now out of Atlanta now I mean now it's pretty spread out or not spread out but single file
so I don't know Chase Elliott that was so good there last year in that race this yeah this is the
this is the point of the bracket where the choices get really tough yeah I think I think I'm gonna go
with Chase I like Chase too Ryan what do you think yeah give me chase yeah let's do chase okay where
we at Eric Jones give me the Cinderella story continues give me a why not why not let's do it
okay where we at oh this is tough this is really tough you know what no it's not let's go with Ryan
Blaney Ryan Blaney has not been good at the drafting tracks yeah although didn't he almost
win last year too against Elliott or was it the year before or this year just makes things so much
more difficult I'm just trying to make you think about it a little bit you know try to get that Chevy in there
I don't know guys I hit your power pretty good we got Chester Chevrolets how'd that happen yeah
we got more Shelby's than anyone else in the final okay true oh uh he's not wrong but I I think
I'm still gonna go with Blaine North Wilkesboro now we got 54 North Wilkesboro I think
you gotta go with Chase Elliott here yeah he won Martinsville won Martinsville Blaney I'm sorry
short track short track guy I'm sorry man so the scooter buddies you know what let's go back down
real fast let's go back down real fast before we move on Preston these are two choices that you
can make here what what do you got on most of our in Elliott oh I chase I picked chase and
I think you got it right I think you got it right I will say legacies you know for what they've done
the last few weeks on the ovals they've gotten better and if they keep on going at the rate they are
um they're like it's kind of hard not to see a Toyota without Fasera in the final
that is true dang yeah I but Blaney with that short track package Blaney that's where really
Blaney's still good it's short tracks I think it's just it just feels more obvious
I'm like doing it wrong I know we want to like put on the entertainment of like picking the underdog
here but right I just like hey I mean if if it comes down to the 9 and 12 in the finale that's
that's good TV you know what's so funny is that I did my own bracket I did my own bracket earlier
today and it came down to Elliott and Blaney for me too yeah same here it's the way the matchups are
it I feel like they have favorable matchups the whole way through yeah um all right let's just go
with here all right guys this last one so it's unfortunate the Chevy versus Indianapolis Indian
apolis I don't like the Ford track I look back at the last two Indianapolis races and I saw that
I felt like Blaney had the better results before give me a YRB yeah I don't know I think
the the Fords haven't really been that good though on the bigger tracks this year this year they just
haven't it's been it was really close too you look at Pocono I mean Pocono is probably one of the
closer tracks to to Indy yeah true how did they do there Larson was pretty good wasn't he at Pocono
or am I thinking on pull up some Pocono result I thought it was Elliott and Larson were pretty
good I think Elliott I think it was Elliott well Elliott can get over here
yeah Larson was fast Byron was third at Pocono uh Elliott was 11th where was Blaney
where was Blaney right did he have an issue did he or did he he said faced one spot better
than Elliott oh okay oh that Blaney feels like the only Ford that's really had speed so I feel
like he's kind of like the X I'm saying it guys Ryan Blaney I'm picking him I think I gotta go with
Blaney too I'm sorry I just don't let my my you know buy it buy us nice buy it close
you're feeling that time I would like press tomorrow there's also a little bit of that
Pinsky factor to it just because this is Pinsky anapolis yeah I just I feel like we got to go
with Ryan Blaney give me Ryan Blaney and he's kind of been the star of NASCAR lately like
there you go the undercover show and yeah the move the Navy movie yeah he's got that Hollywood
speed behind yeah yeah I don't know were you in that movie he should be I should
have been you weren't though huh I was he's already famous they should make crazy they need to
sequel they need to sequel NASCAR versus the army they could have you know they could have like
Coast Guard in there too had us race against an Abrams or something had NASCAR race against an Abrams
Bill and Caleb is wondering are we gonna make a lap prediction
oh boy okay so my I actually also picked Blaney as my bracket winner I put 380
what do you want to change it here I looked it up like so at these five tracks I don't feel like Blaney's
gonna lead 367 how about we do 370 420 okay you pothead fucker
you know what just put 420 in there it's not gonna matter anyway we're gonna smoke a blunt
in honor of Ryan Blaney guys Blaney's about to get drug tested this weekend well shit
all right all right good job guys there it is well that was fun we will we'll let everyone know our
bracket predictions um and keep we'll we'll update the tallies throughout the throughout the uh the
weeks leading up um and then bringing the trailer out we'll have one him and Caleb uh you got through
the gears Michael and Chris will have one of them Eric from stock car scoop will have one as well I
think he's doing his with Neff Mike Neff our crazy old man so um stay tuned to all the
front stretch podcast networks Preston it's been a pleasure buddy um we don't know when you're
gonna run next so um whenever you do and you want to make an announcement please feel free to come
on this program and I can I can't I know you guys wanted to break some news but I don't even know
when my next one is honestly fair honestly fair well president thank you guys for having
me buddy um and uh we'll talk we'll talk with you later buddy all right sounds good thank you
guys you all have a good night you too likewise brother mr Preston part we're gonna take one final
break when we come back we're gonna be pouring one out this this is the front stretch happy hour program
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mr Dalton Hopkins uh what are you pouring one out for bro man there there is a lot there there is a
lot to go over to be honest this past weekend but you know what I'm yeah she's I can't believe I'm
doing this you know what yeah let's do it I'm gonna pour one out to the navy how about that man
that works that's like honestly this was like an event that I don't think anybody would could have
possibly expected was gonna happen like if you had told me five years five years ago I mean keep
mine five years ago was 2021 we were racing at the Daytona road course back then if you had told me
five years ago that we were gonna be racing on a military base I had to call you crazy so and the
navy was so welcoming they all really embraced the NASCAR culture um I know this was uh I know this
was a lot to take in this was a very it high tall order um but they still did it anyway
and they they were very welcoming uh the personnel there were were great um so I got a pour one out to
those folks all the the men and women uh in the white donning the white and the dove boys this
weekend the navy did a fantastic job but keep in mind garmy beat navy
that's when they did say that um on or the other way around when they did say that in the
driver's meeting I looked at Dalton and Dalton was like they can only say that once and I'll be okay
with it and he left it at that and I was like all right fair enough fair enough Michael Massey
what are you gonna be pouring one out for well a guy that we surprisingly hasn't mentioned this
whole podcast but he was the star of the weekend um let's rewind to the years 2018 2018 somewhere
there I was at South Boston Speedway watching a twin 100 race there and uh this kid named
Corey Hine went out there I'd never heard of him before he went out there and he beat
Peyton Sellers and Philip Morris just the the guys that were dominating that track there at the time
and like wow that that kid looks good later that year he got robbed out of a Martinsville
win in the late mile race there and uh ever since then I've been following his career and
it's just been wild to see that he's finally now a NASCAR Cup series winner I have i raced against
the guy too he actually intentionally wrecked me once but that's a whole other story uh but
to Corey Hine he the the scene just from a kid that had no idea who was impressing me to he's
gonna be a cup superstar dare I say one day a cup series champion I think that win will be the first
of many um so here's to you Corey I'm gonna give I'm gonna pour one out for just NASCAR in general
from from saturday to sunday saturday we heard nightmare stories of big long lines the tram
was at work and they ran out of food blah blah blah well been Kennedy in action they took initiatives
they brought more food trucks in they brought some more trams in and you know what um sure there was
there's still some complaints but everybody's gonna bitch these days it's 2026 that's what
everyone does we bitch and moan and complain wha wha wha so we can just shut the hell up um yeah
I'm telling everybody shut shut the hell up because um I it's never gonna be perfect and
they did what they could and sunday was way better than saturday so you know what shout out to you
guys um awesome job you know what else is an awesome job is the content that Dalton hopkins
and I from front church calm did on friday saturday and sunday Dalton and a plus weekend
from the both of us buddy um are you gonna be writing anything um and then plug where our
content can be found uh from this past weekend yeah uh you can check out all the interviews
including uh some of the uh post post altercation stuff on uh kevin magnuson and noah grexon um
on our youtube page front stretch uh it's just front stretch on youtube um check out a lot of
the articles that I wrote actually wrote one on bubble wallace after the race you can check that
out on front stretch dot com here what he had to say about having to fight from the back to the
front and then um yes I will be writing this week I'll be writing our fire on fridays uh this
week as well so you can check out what I have to say and uh yeah that's about it um just go check
out our website because we got a lot of stuff coming out about coronado a lot of opinion
pieces not all of them I personally agree with but we are we they are coming out that's what we do
so definitely one piece that I definitely don't agree with but you know that that is okay that is
the power of opinion okay I'll still read it um because that is um that I want to see both sides
of the angle so definitely stay tuned to front stretch dot com um like you said don't uh kevin
magnuson confronting noah grexon confronting kevin magnuson what the what is your effing
problem uh kevin magnuson um we talked with kevin magnuson we also talked with noah grexon
after the fact um so stay tuned for all of that on our youtube youtube.com slash front stretch
massy anything you are writing this week I will be writing anything but I will be at south
boss's speedway for the oh harley davison thunder 200 it's their big race the biggest race of the
year for them first race of the virginia triple crown uh all kinds of drivers are going to be
in it like mini tyrell butter bean uh lee poliam um connor hall so yeah I'll get tons of interviews
there some videos on the front stretch grass roots page it's been a pleasure we went way
long than we intended but uh big shout out to our producer kaleb barnes chris graham will be back
next week bringing the heat trail out coming up on thursday you got stock our scoop my man
eric and then threw the gears on friday as well big shout out to everybody that supports the
program for dalton hopkins michael massie i am bryne oland this was another edition of the
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About this episode
San Diego’s NASCAR weekend comes to life through Mini Tyrrell and Preston Pardus, with the conversation centered on why the racing felt so different on a military base. Drivers break down the grip puzzle—mixed asphalt/concrete, slick paint, and a dirty surface that needed rubber to come in—plus how sim practice can mislead. The show also covers weekend logistics, charity pit tours, and late-race moments like restart penalties and “no bailout” risk on road courses.
