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Term
on the pole
Starting “on the pole” means you earned the very first spot at the start line. It’s usually an advantage because you’re in front of everyone else.
Term
new engine
A “new engine” can be penalized in racing because rules limit how often you can replace major parts. If you replace it too late or too many times, you may have to start from the back.
Term
unapproved changes
“Unapproved changes” means the team made a car change that didn’t follow the rules for getting permission first. The penalty is usually a tough starting position, like starting at the back.
Term
back of the field
“Back of the field” means starting near the rear of the race grid rather than near the front. Starting from the back usually makes it harder to avoid traffic and can increase the risk of getting caught in early incidents.
Term
cautions
“Cautions” are when the race slows down because something happened on the track. Cars bunch up, and it can change how the rest of the race plays out.
Place
Daytona
Daytona is a well-known high-speed oval track. The cars run close together, so you see and feel a lot more speed because they’re moving as a group.
Place
Talladega
Talladega is a famous oval race track. It’s known for cars racing in tight packs where the air and drafting matter a lot.
Term
banking
Banking means the track corner is tilted. That tilt helps race cars go faster through the turn without sliding as much.
Place
homestead
“Homestead” likely refers to Homestead-Miami Speedway, another NASCAR venue with different geometry than Daytona or Michigan. The hosts contrast it as “going fast” but “not that fast,” implying lower top speeds or less intense speed-through-cornering compared with the superspeedways they’re discussing.
Term
pack
A “pack” is when several cars run very close together. They can go faster because the cars behind them can benefit from the airflow created by the car in front.
Place
Michigan
They’re talking about a NASCAR track in Michigan that’s famous for going really fast. Because of the track layout, cars can hit very high speeds there.
Term
sell out
“Sell out” just means the event tickets were all gone and the stands were full.
Place
Irish Hills
“Irish Hills” is a Michigan area name the hosts are using while talking about NASCAR tracks. It’s connected to the Michigan racing scene they just mentioned.
Topic
NASCAR moves on to Pocono
They’re saying NASCAR is heading to Pocono next. It’s basically the next stop on the racing calendar.
Place
Pocono Raceway
Pocono Raceway is a famous NASCAR race track in Pennsylvania. It’s the kind of place where teams set up their cars specifically for that track’s turns and straightaways.
Brand
Chevrolet
Chevrolet is a car brand that competes in NASCAR. When they say Chevrolet is there, they mean the manufacturer is involved in the event or support around the teams.
Term
make a chase
“Make a chase” means a driver is trying to qualify for the NASCAR playoff run that decides the champion. It’s basically the step that gets you into the final championship fight.
Person
Kimi Antonelli
Kimi Antonelli is a Formula 1 race driver. The hosts are saying he’s been winning a lot of races in a row, which is a big deal in F1.
Topic
Grand Prix of Monaco
The Grand Prix of Monaco is a Formula 1 race in Monaco. It’s famous because the track is very tight and hard to pass on, so small mistakes can decide the race.
Term
red flag
A red flag means the race is stopped right away because something unsafe happened on the track. Everyone has to slow down and wait, and that can change how the race is played.
Term
sprint
A sprint is a shorter race during an F1 weekend. Drivers race hard for position because it affects where they start the main race.
Person
Hamilton
Hamilton is Lewis Hamilton, one of the most successful drivers in Formula 1 history. The hosts are mentioning him to say the result was his second of something.
Person
Lewis
Lewis is a Formula 1 race driver. The host is saying he was extremely fast during practice and was running up front.
Person
Leclerc
Leclerc is another Formula 1 driver. The host is describing him running just behind Lewis and swapping positions during practice.
Person
Max
Max is a Formula 1 driver. The host is saying he qualified right behind the pole sitter, so he’ll start near the front.
Place
New England Dragway
New England Dragway is a race track built specifically for drag racing—cars make straight-line runs to see who’s fastest. Friday and Saturday are usually busy event days with teams preparing and cars getting ready to race. So “walking around” suggests they were checking out what people brought and how things were going.
Brand
Red Bulls
“Red Bulls” is shorthand for the Red Bull Racing team’s race cars. The point being made is that one of their cars did great, but the other one didn’t show up near the front.
Term
podium
The “podium” is where the top three finishers stand after the race. If someone “came on the podium,” they finished 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.
Person
Russell
“Russell” is George Russell, a Formula 1 driver. The host is basically saying he’s usually good, so it’s odd that his car isn’t performing as expected.
Brand
Ferrari
Ferrari is a top Formula 1 team. The host is saying Ferrari’s cars finished in the top group, around third and fourth.
Term
practices
“Practices” are the sessions before the race where teams try different settings and learn how the car feels. The host is saying Ferrari looked quick early, but the race outcome was different.
Term
speeding penalties
A speeding penalty is a penalty for going faster than the rules allow in a certain part of the race. It usually costs time or positions, which can change how the race plays out.
Term
timing was done
“Timing” here means how race officials track laps and apply rules during the event. If they do it wrong, drivers can end up with penalties that don’t match what actually happened on track.
Term
10 second penalty
A “10 second penalty” means the driver gets 10 seconds added because of a rules mistake. That extra time can drop them down the order even if they drove well on track.
Term
drive through
A “drive-through” penalty means you have to go through the pit lane without stopping, following the speed limit. It costs time and can make you lose positions.
Brand
Mercedes
They’re saying Mercedes had the quickest car in the race. That means Mercedes was generally faster than the others, not just in one specific moment.
Term
downforce
Downforce is what “sucks” the car down toward the track using aerodynamics. More downforce usually helps the car grip better in corners, but it can make the car less efficient at high speed.
Brand
Total Seal
Total Seal is a company that makes performance engine parts, especially piston rings. The host mentions it as part of the show’s sponsor lineup.
Brand
Hidden Horsepower
Hidden Horsepower is a company the host is talking about as a sponsor. The details of what they sell aren’t explained in this snippet.
Person
Senna
Senna refers to Ayrton Senna, one of the most famous Formula 1 drivers ever. The host is saying Hamilton matched Senna’s Monaco podium record.
Person
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian is a well-known celebrity. The hosts are talking about her being on the F1 grid and what she did during the anthem moment.
Person
Martin Brundle
Martin Brundle is a former F1 driver turned TV commentator. The hosts mention him because he apparently had an awkward moment with Kim Kardashian.
Person
Wade Newby
Wade Newby is the race driver in this story. He’s the person credited with setting a new Australian record in the car they’re talking about.
Company
Rappasata Autosports international
Rappasata Autosports international is the racing team behind the record run. They’re the group that prepares the car and supports the driver.
Person
Santino tuning
Santino is the person adjusting the car’s settings. Tuning helps the car run its best—especially when you’re trying to go as fast as possible.
Term
333 miles an hour
They’re saying the car hit about 333 mph on the run. That’s the peak speed it reached during the drag strip pass.
Term
over the thousand feet
They’re saying the car was still going past 1,000 feet down the track. That matters because drag racing records often reference where along the track the speed/time was measured.
Term
ET record
“ET” means elapsed time—how many seconds it takes to run the strip. An “ET record” means they set the quickest time for that distance.
Term
pro stock
Pro Stock is a category in drag racing where cars are built and tuned to race against each other in a very controlled way. The rules limit what you can change, so the competition comes down to engine tuning and driving consistency.
Term
400 cubic inch
“400 cubic inch” is the engine’s size, measured by how much space the cylinders can move. In racing, engine size matters because it affects how much power the engine can produce.
Term
200 mile an hour
“200 mile an hour” is how fast the car is going at the end of the drag strip run. It’s a key number because it shows how strong the car is at high speed, not just off the line.
Term
unleaded fuel regulations
This means the rules changed so race cars have to use unleaded gasoline. Since unleaded fuel burns differently than older leaded fuel, teams have to retune the engine to keep it running strong and not knock.
Term
258 mile an hour
“258 mile an hour” is the speed the car hits at the end of the drag run. Getting that high usually means the engine and gearing keep working well right up to the finish line.
Term
top door slammer
“Top Door Slammer” is a drag-racing category for the quickest door-style cars. People use it when talking about record runs and top speeds on a drag strip.
Term
top alcohol funny car
“Top Alcohol Funny Car” is a drag-racing class for very fast cars that run on alcohol fuel. They look like production cars from the outside, but they’re built specifically to go extremely fast in a straight line.
Person
Shane Phillips
Shane Phillips is the person the hosts are talking about in connection with a drag-racing record attempt. He’s linked to the Phillips family mentioned right after.
Person
Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips is the father of Shane Phillips and a well-known Australian drag racer. The hosts say he’s a multiple-time champion and that his team set a world record.
Term
world record
A “world record” here means the best official time/speed ever recorded for that drag-racing class. The hosts are saying they set that top mark during their run.
Term
534 at 273 mile an hour
They’re quoting a record run with two key numbers: how fast the car ran and how fast it got at the end. It’s basically “how quick” plus “how fast at top speed.”
Term
blown methanol burner
It’s a drag car that runs on methanol (a special racing fuel) and uses a blower to force more air into the engine. That combination helps it make huge power for short races.
Term
screw charge
This is a type of supercharger (a forced-air device) that uses rotating screws to push more air into the engine. More air usually means more power—especially for drag racing.
Company
Jesse Converters
Jesse Converters is a company the host recommends for replacement exhaust/emissions parts. They’re presented as a place to contact directly for those repairs.
Term
catalytic converter
A catalytic converter is a part in the exhaust that helps clean up engine fumes. Over time it can get worn out, so it may need replacing.
Term
particulate filters
Particulate filters catch tiny soot particles from the exhaust. If they get too clogged, the vehicle may need service or even a replacement.
Company
Larissa Motor Sports Insurance
Larissa Motor Sports Insurance is an insurance company sponsor. The host is saying it makes sense if you have a race car.
Term
piston rings
Piston rings are small rings on the engine’s pistons that help seal combustion pressure and control oil. If they wear out, the engine can start using more oil or lose power.
Company
FTI performance
FTI Performance is a company the host brings up related to transmissions. It’s mentioned as part of a previous episode you might have heard.
Term
torque converters
A torque converter is the part in an automatic transmission that uses fluid to connect the engine to the gearbox. It helps the car launch smoothly and can multiply torque when you’re starting off.
Company
Summit Racing Equipment
Summit Racing is a parts store that sells aftermarket performance upgrades. They’re mentioned here as a place to buy certain torque converters.
Term
synthetic motor oil
Synthetic motor oil is a higher-tech type of engine oil. It’s designed to handle heat better and stay effective longer, especially if you drive hard.
Brand
Red Line
Red Line makes performance motor oil. The host is saying you can use their synthetic oil for your car.
Brand
Water Wetter
Water Wetter is an additive you put into your cooling system. It’s meant to help the coolant move heat better so the engine runs cooler.
Company
Hussey performance.net
Hussey Performance is mentioned as a website you can check out. It’s part of the host’s list of places to get performance-related products.
Topic
NHRA
NHRA is the big U.S. organization that runs and organizes drag racing events. Saying “NHRA’s 75th season” means it’s been around for a long time and is celebrating many years of drag races.
Topic
drag racing
Drag racing is racing in a straight line where two cars line up and try to get to the finish first. It’s all about quick acceleration over a short distance.
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And this is, this is going to be one of those shows, right?
Because of the, you know, the nature of the things that are happening and around the show.
Let's bring on Giovanni in Miami.
What's up, Gio?
How are you?
How are you?
All right.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah, I can hear you.
All right.
We did an audio check in the pre-show meeting and we got it all dialed in and then it.
Well, it was frozen.
I tried to click on the screen and my computer wasn't moving at all.
So I wasn't sure if you could actually hear me.
Well, that's what that turbulence was on my side of the deal.
It's a little different too.
You don't sound like if your voice is actually coming through the system or something almost like
that, that is something I can maybe fix.
That that is something that let me know if this, this face.
Yeah.
See that's coming through the camera every once in a while.
This thing just reset.
Yeah.
Watch this.
It's about to change.
Boom.
There you go.
No, totally different.
Almost like you're in stereo now.
Stereo.
Stereo.
Exactly.
And some more.
We're going to join us too.
All this great fun here on a fun evening.
What shirt is, what do you got there on your shirt?
Yeah, what is that?
Bulls.
The greatest basketball player of all time.
Oh, that's right.
MJ.
Jordan after he won the third championship.
What?
What?
What is this?
Why are you wearing this?
Well, because the finals are going on and, you know, just, uh,
I'm aghast since when are you a big MJ guy?
Like what's going on?
When is this?
When does this happen?
I've, you know, I've been around for like a while.
I don't really recall any, uh, Michael Jordan, uh, Bulls T-shirt.
Level.
But I definitely am a Jordan fan in the sense that, you know,
that I do believe that Jordan is arguably the best player we've ever seen play.
Da, that's a definite fact.
And you know, that's it.
Actually, I got this shirt too.
I've had this a while when that, when that, um,
Where was this shirt acquired?
What?
Yeah, really?
When did you break this out?
Is this the first breakout of this shirt?
No, I've had this shirt for you.
Actually it's quite snug right now.
You know, I, I believe I got it sometime after that, uh,
the documentary came out of Jordan and, uh, and all of that.
It just seems ill timed with the Knicks and Jordan and, you know,
like the Knicks fans hate Jordan.
Yeah.
Oh well.
It could be a little something to the Knicks themselves too.
You know,
Interesting.
All right.
Well, listen, so NBA finals tonight, the garden is going to be
rocking.
Everybody's talking about it.
I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said on the
show, but they're up to, oh, they, now what's the stat geo?
Some sort of like it's never.
History is going to be made one way or another because in the
NBA, unlike in some other sports, unlike only in baseball,
no, that's not true.
It's happened in hockey too.
But, uh, no team has ever come down, uh, back from being down
three, nothing to win a championship in the NBA.
The Knicks are currently up to nothing, but they won both of
their games in San Antonio on the road.
And so another stat out there is no team has ever lost the first
two games at home and won the NBA finals either.
So, uh, you have that.
Now mind you, it's not a big sample size because not a lot of
teams have lost the first two games and won the championship
to begin with.
But no team has lost the first two games at home and won the
championship.
So either way, if they, if San Antonio comes back, it's going
to be historic for them and it'll be an epic fail for the
Knicks who are, you know, two wins away from the first
championship since 1973.
The, you know, New York is going bonkers.
The crowd tonight at the Mecca is going to be wild.
The, you know, the second, um, uh, dairy market getting
priced is about six to $10,000 a ticket.
That's for the nosebleeds up there in the three or 400 section.
And, uh, it's just wild.
What's going on there?
But, um, yeah.
NBA finals.
And so I guess as a tribute to all that, I decided to wear my
Jordan shirt.
Yes.
All of that.
He's wearing Michael Jordan shirt.
I love it.
I love the logic.
It's also a partnership with Denny Hamlin and Denny Hamlin
winning back to back races.
It's what I always can see.
There's multiple.
63rd.
Bring it.
Here we go.
Not only that, back to back races where he was on the pole,
goes to the back race.
In this race, he actually started in the back for, uh, he was on
the pole because of the, I guess it was rained out, right?
Is that why he was on the pole?
No, no, no, no.
Uh, that was last week.
This week he was actually on the pole that he earned a pole,
but he went to the back for unapproved changes or a new engine
or whatever he did.
I had to start at the back of the field.
It wasn't the end, but yeah.
Once again, come back and win the race.
Amazing.
Amazing.
We have an exciting race.
There are a lot of carnage, a wreckage.
Oh yeah.
Record cautions.
The normal, it was not a normal Michigan snooze fest.
Like I was expecting to take a nap.
Didn't happen.
And then watch to the very end.
Good to see.
I have seen, uh, you know, nothing other than a highlight here or there.
I heard audio.
I was, I was working and traveling, but, um,
and, you know, Indy car was that worldwide technology raceway.
Joseph Newgarden wins that.
Monaco, the grand prix of Monaco.
I was able to watch much of that, um, from Apple TV.
Like that's the thing about Apple.
Now I got for every formula one race, like right there on my phone,
very easily to connect in it.
And so I was able to watch a fair amount of that, not completely,
but Kimi Antonelli, like, oh my gosh, we're going to get into all that.
We can get into it at a very fast pace.
We've got Bobby Graham down there, Bobby, Bobby Graham.
Good evening to you, Bobby Graham.
Good evening.
Yo, how are you?
Good evening.
Y'all are good.
We're good.
We're good.
We've got some chats in the chat section.
Monica is out there saying hello to everyone.
Megan says howdy.
Monica says she was happy to hear that I was a Barclay fan on Monday
motivation.
Yeah.
That's true.
I was, when you said that, not only Barclay,
but you were a 76ers fan.
Oh yeah.
Dr. Jay, 76ers.
I loved watching basketball.
Remember back then there wasn't a lot on TV.
You know, sitting in front of the big wooden furniture Magnavox.
You wear the remote control.
I was the remote control.
I had a pair of needle nose pliers.
Change the channel.
Okay.
And I remember watching, I love the sixers because of all that,
the doctor loved the doctor.
And the whole deal.
So I mapped out my basketball fandom for these fine folks to,
so they would understand where I'm coming from with the Knicks.
Like I'm not, I'm not a Knicks fan, but I'm a heat fan and the heat
and the Knicks have a bit of a rivalry,
but I don't want to see them lose.
I want to see my friends happy.
I want to see them happy.
I want to see the city happy.
I want to see the positivity that comes from a Nick victory and
also avoid the negativity associated with a failure because
that would be the worst thing ever.
Well, at this point,
especially since they're up two games, one, both games on the road,
and it would be a historic collapse if they don't,
nobody deserves that.
And this bronze,
I like history mark.
Yeah. No, I don't want to see that.
Get there 50 year, you know,
50 year losing streak, you know, or non championship streak.
We'll call it.
They do have the vibe of a team on a mission and we'll leave it
there until sports collision.
But we do have that vibe of a team on a mission,
a team of destiny.
Oh, there's Timothy Chalamet is there and Ben Stiller is there and
everybody is there.
It's out of control.
Oh, my John Stewart is there.
The celebrities have got it on in the background, of course,
and they're just showing everybody.
John Stewart, Tracy Organs, Mike Lee,
all the former Nick players.
Can you just smell the money?
The money.
No.
The money is for Lewin.
You know, the president of the United States is going.
He goes to all the big sporting events and he's going as well,
kind of changing the dynamic and ruin it for all the spectators
to have to deal with all the extra security.
But I digress.
Yeah.
You read that too.
It's what happened at the champion at the national championship
game for here for football too.
Whatever, I'm just going to skip over it.
I'm sure every other president wanted to go to these games too.
It makes it a pain in the ass for people attending for the
president to show up no matter who it is.
And that's typically why they don't show up at these places.
Are you sure though?
Maybe it's not because they, maybe because they just, you know,
they don't want to go.
Maybe that's why the past presidents haven't gone to any of
these things.
I don't know.
It could be either, but I do, I do think that he's a genuine.
He seems like he's more of a fan.
So he enjoys it, but hey, there we are.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Let's see.
He's got to go forward and you got to get two hours before,
which you should probably be getting to the finals.
Besides, if you're going to that game, you're getting there early
anyway.
This is not a, this is not a Miami show up at halftime kind of
game.
Well, we would show up for the finals ahead of time.
Our guys don't show up.
Not late.
I don't, I don't know.
Now we might leave at halftime if we're losing.
That could happen.
I don't know.
That's so flow fandom.
I've, I've heard.
It all depends where else that's it.
What else?
All right.
Speaking of winning results, Denny Hamlin wins the race back to
back.
Big tribute to Kyle Bush with victory.
That is a tremendous, still very sad about the Kyle Bush thing.
Hearing people discuss it though.
Like listening to NASCAR radio was kind of like, I don't know.
It struck a chord with me.
Eric Jones.
Second bubble Wallace.
A nice third.
If there was a podium, he'd be on it.
Kyle Larson.
Carson Hosevar.
Daniel Suarez.
Joy.
Joey Logano.
Ryan Blaney.
Chris Buscher.
And Chase Briscoe.
Rounding out the top 10.
Any additional notes on Michigan.
First DNF.
For Reddick.
So.
They're red again.
Rex at the front of the field at the back of the field in the
middle of the field.
It really was partly, I don't want to say it was a wreck fest,
but there was a lot of wrecks.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
123 miles an hour.
123.935.
The crash with.
Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell.
That was, that was.
Serious.
Created the red flag.
You saw.
You saw those safer barriers.
Really at work.
Though they did have to pull that back out.
Chase.
Chase Elliott just said he was, he had fresh tires.
And he was trying to go after it and get as much as he could.
Cause fresh tires made a difference.
The Henry cars were showing a little bit of, you know,
little peak of, of performance.
But, uh, he was going in, going down in there.
He was next.
He was right next to C bell.
And.
Got loose.
Got away from him.
Up against the wall.
It was brutal.
It was rough.
So C bell is under observation.
They're worried about a wrist.
His wrist.
Actually. Yeah.
Yeah.
He's okay, but he might have actually had, you know,
I think I heard something about.
Hand and possibly ankle or something.
Ankle. Yeah.
Yeah.
Something like that.
So, so who knows.
Um, if he, I'll just give a little tip for the league.
If you have C bell on your team, you might want to take them off.
Take them off now.
Cause I'm not really sure he's going to be driving, but.
That'd be rumor. So we're not going to spread that,
but he is being evaluated. Um, so, uh,
coach Gibbs and, and the team actually confirmed that.
So, so, but yeah, it was, was not a snooze fest.
Like Gio, you didn't get your nap in, right?
Like normally do Michigan.
You normally like ready to fade off, you know,
and, and, oh, fun little note.
Denny hand them had a 11 point.
He had a 11 point 11 point 11.
It was an 11, 11 lead.
Yeah. Yeah.
11 11.
11, 11 seconds was his lead at the end.
So, um, he got the front and he just took off at the end.
It was, uh,
Gio, correct me if I'm wrong.
Was it 35 laps to go after that?
Yeah. Yeah.
And he just took off.
Gone.
Gone. Maybe gone.
Maybe this, uh, you know,
I don't know everything that has happened.
This has been a very emotional year for Denny Hamlin.
Hey, my goodness.
And maybe he's a man on a mission.
We'll see. Then again, last year, he might have been Bobby Graham.
Let's delve into our fantasy league results and see what you got in
our WFO league.
All right. Let's see.
All right.
Yes.
Yes.
Nope. Nope.
I didn't get that one.
For a segment's code.
And I'll pull it up to the winners.
First place.
So far.
Wait, hold on.
What is your shirt saying?
What is that shirt saying?
What is that shirt saying?
I'm sexy and
and what?
And
and I know it.
Oh, that's awesome.
What a reveal.
That was dramatic.
I want to know what we were getting.
I kind of liked the way the camera only catches half what we told you.
It catches the top.
I said like, what could it be?
That's why you should be a Patreon folks.
That moment was even better.
That was even better.
That was pretty good.
Here's your shirt for this afternoon.
I love it.
He's sexy and he mows it.
Keep going.
All right. Let's see.
I had that page out on what happened to it.
Anyway, the league standings.
So far first place.
There was no movement in the first five places.
It's still bulls wool.
Number one party girl.
Number two.
There you go. Party girl.
Party girl.
Bulls wool from down under by the way.
Bulls wool been with us for a long time.
Bulls wool from Oz.
Third place.
Team 12.
Fourth place.
Previous winner.
PT 14.
Fifth place.
Be like Bill.
Sixth place.
Royal Flush Racing.
Seventh place.
Mr. Fantasy Nascar.
Oh.
Eighth place.
Olsen's Dad's
Trailblazers.
Tied
in eighth place
with him is Zamboni John.
Zamboni John.
And tenth place is
Intimidator Harley.
Very nice.
11th place is Southern
racer X.
He's moved up.
No.
I'm sorry.
But he appreciates them.
That's our
league standings
for the season so far.
Excellent. Good job.
Love the league standings.
And we'll do Drag Race Brack
Bonanza later also.
How about that?
Not done.
I got Jim right here.
No, you didn't finish.
We didn't finish the race.
Oh, okay.
There's two classes that are
kind of key in the Drag Race Brack
Bonanza.
Top Fuel.
Oh, yeah, I get it.
What does it give a score or something?
We've only got two rounds remaining.
No.
So it doesn't give us anything.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
So...
Well, I've got Sean Langdon
and Jack Beckman picked as
the winners.
This could be my best week ever in Drag Race Brack
Bonanza, guys.
I had Dallas Glen over Matt Hartford.
Now, I got to race winners
on the NASCAR up now.
What happened to my page?
All right, there it is. I was telling you. Let's hear it.
Good deal.
First place.
Royal Flush Racing.
Wow.
Good job.
Second place.
JJ Huskerfan is in second.
Third place.
Zamboni John come up in third.
Pt 14 was fourth.
Fifth place.
Fantasy Clueless.
Monica.
Sixth place.
And I don't know how you lost five places
being in sixth, Tupo.
What you do?
You know,
I'm good at dropping here.
Seventh place.
Highline Real Fine.
Tied with Intimidator Harley.
And in ninth place,
Ford has a better idea.
In tenth place, be like Biff.
Honorable mention,
Gio in Miami.
Whoo!
That's right.
And that was our race winners.
Ford has a better idea.
Good job, Bobby Graham.
Good job.
All right, in effort to keep the show moving along.
Did we lose Matt in Australia?
We didn't. We had him and now he's gone.
He went away.
He disappeared.
Monica says I do better when I forget to pick.
Yeah, been a minute since I set my team.
I got to get back in there.
I don't know what happened.
I crashed hard the week before.
So.
One thing I want to mention about Michigan
is that that's one of the tracks I've been to.
I went there when I was at XM satellite radio,
two mile race track.
Worth going to in person.
It's one of those tracks
where you really,
at least for me, you know,
at Daytona and Talladega,
Daytona, I haven't been to Talladega,
but I went to Daytona and, you know,
they come by fast in a pack.
Michigan, man, they are
freaking flying.
Like you see these cars up on that
banking and you're like, wow,
they are fast.
Very different than say, like homestead,
which, you know, they're going fast,
but it's, it's not,
it's not that fast. And Daytona,
when they came by us in a pack to you, like it was fast.
It was like, it's fast.
But Michigan,
my goodness, because they're over 200
miles an hour. And,
yeah.
Well, Michigan was
a sell out also.
They said they sold out. They packed the house
quote unquote. So
beautiful, beautiful track.
Yes. The Auburn, what is it?
Auburn Hills? Irish Hills?
Irish Hills. Yes.
Yeah, Irish Hills were calling.
So this week,
NASCAR moves on
to Pocono, the Triangle Track
Pocono Raceway.
Other news, you know,
apparently, Sue
Richard Childress was going to renew
Kyle Busch.
Yeah. Yeah. Richard Childress
was planning on, they were doing, going to do
a joint announcement
at Michigan because
the manufacturers are there.
So with, with Chevrolet being
there, they were going to officially announce
that Kyle Busch was coming back next
year, re-signing.
And he mentioned in his
interview that he was
talking to Kyle Busch on Tuesday
right before everything happened and
and Kyle Busch said to him, he goes
you give me, you keep giving me cars
like you did the last three races, he goes
I'm going to make a chase.
And yeah. So, you know,
another bittersweet,
you know, kind of heavy
moment, but
the fact that he even brought it up was just like, wow.
Yeah.
Speaking of heavy,
Kurt Busch has weighed in
and posted a
comment that appears to be
from earlier today.
The Jaysky story
was posted at 3.38pm and the post is from
10 hours ago.
And I guess this is Kurt's first public comment.
Thank you from the bottom
of my heart. Thank you everyone
for the well wishes, support
and love for my brother and our family.
Finding a silver lining
I reflect back on the
days Kyle and I raced anything we could
get our hands on from big wheels
to competing on the biggest
stages in motorsports.
We were more than just fierce competitors.
We pushed each other, challenged
each other and learned from each other.
Kyle, your passion and determination
and love for your family inspired everyone
who knew you. No trophy
championship or accomplishment could ever
measure the impact you had on my life
and on so many others.
I will forever be grateful
for the memories we've made
and the lessons you taught me
and the brotherhood we shared.
My heart is broken
but I know your spirit will always
ride with me.
Rest easy little brother.
And that
is Kurt Busch.
Yeah.
Yeah, wow.
Braxton was back out at the
up at Charlotte this past week.
I think he's back out there again.
So hey, give him credit.
This is the hard part.
Trying to get back to
whatever the new normal is.
Samantha Busch
also put out a post
thanking everybody
for all the love, the prayers
and just
overall well wishes.
It was hard reading those two posts.
It was just
but yeah,
so move it on.
That's it. Here we go.
It's time to move on.
That was what life is.
Did we lose Gio?
I know he's gone all of a sudden.
First we lose Matt.
Now we lose Gio.
What's happening?
What's happening with the universe?
Bobby, what did you do?
No, it wasn't Bobby.
It was too much.
He was offended by the shirt.
Gio did not know how to handle it.
I love it.
He did not know how to handle it.
I definitely want Gio to be involved
in the Formula One talk.
Kimi Antonelli
has now won five consecutive races.
His first win
to his fifth win in five races,
which is stunning.
He has also won the most
significant race
on the tour
with the Grand Prix of Monaco.
What was an interesting race
that took it on the start.
Charlotte Clair
crashed, brought out a red flag
and then he wins the sprint
to the finish.
It was Hamilton's second.
It was fine
not having it on the
engine.
Right at the start.
It was a big issue.
Looking at the results from the year,
George Russell wins the first race
and then that's K-A-K-A
K-A-K-A
five consecutive
wins for Kimi Antonelli
and that is just wild.
It's just wild
for anybody,
regardless to do that.
It kind of shows you the nature of Formula One a little bit
because
it was Max and it was
Vettel and it was Lewis
and it was Alonzo,
but five consecutive races
is ridiculous.
Antonelli, Hamilton
and Isaac Ajar
gets a point in the
podium in the Red Bull
third.
A couple other interesting notes.
I thought
I guess I'm wrong.
Practice was exciting.
Watching the practice
we don't have Apple TV
but they had practice on
Prime
and so we were watching that
and man Lewis
was flying.
All of a sudden he's laying down 113 laps
and
he was coming out number one
and Leclerc was a couple positions
behind but they were swapping back
and forth so we were excited to see
that.
I didn't see qualifying but I did see
that Kimi had
the pole followed by Max
and then Lewis.
So
Gio is rebooting
by the way.
Yeah, I got the text.
He's rebooting.
He got like this,
whatever that is.
I have no idea what that is.
Oh, restarting.
Humans like spinning wheels.
You know what?
Notice he didn't bother to call
NHRA customer service for that advice.
You just restart your computer man
and chances are it'll come back.
Megan says Max literally
went home after he DNF'd.
I'm excited to go back and watch some of the results
but in the end this Kimi Antonelli
wow, just
what an amazing start
for this young man, George Russell.
It's not even like last year
with Lando
and Oscar.
It's a blow out.
Lando had problems too.
Kimi is just
he's a golden child
and
but I also
read that the
race was shortened
so they ended up
shortened the race because
the track was coming apart
one of the turns.
And I don't
but again I was only reading the
Clifnos version. I was expecting our
F1
We need Megan on here.
Megan, solid. Come on Megan.
Turn on your camera.
She says fun while it lasted.
RIP McLaren.
They look like crap out there too.
Bottom line
Kimi Antonelli wins.
Ferrari is gaining some speed.
They really should have been second and third
with Charles second
and Lewis third, something like that.
Charles crashed out, brought out the red flag
and that was that. He has been re-signed
by Ferrari
and so
their team is set now for the foreseeable future
and they are better. They're just not
as good as that one Mercedes
and nobody is.
So I don't know, kind of hard to say
if Gio were on
he would make some sort of snide comment.
I know he would.
Ferrari's failures.
Ferrari's failures.
The hot wife is
distracting him.
Something
something
along those lines.
We bring it all back.
Now I do see race guitar is out there.
Let's bring him on.
He's hanging out with us out there
and so I know we got him for a limited amount of time
to get his observations
on New England Dragway. He was out there
walking around for Friday and Saturday.
We can talk drag racing for a little bit as we come up
on the bottom of the hour. Race guitar, what do you got?
You got me? Can you hear me?
Excellent.
Excellent.
So what can I say about the race?
Paulin.
Paulin.
That was
crazy.
It really was. The Paulin Nationals.
Oh look, Giovanni I think
has made it back. Let's bring him back
and see while his connection
is stabilized. Good job with the restart there Gio.
Is there anything you want to add
about Formula One before we move on to a little
New England Nationals?
Yes, give us your take.
One moment, race guitar.
Let's get the Giovanni in there.
Maybe he can't hear us.
Or maybe he's still muted.
Can you hear us?
We're going to give him sign languages.
He can't hear us.
Alright, race guitar.
Go ahead, race guitar.
Give us your take. Come on.
What do you got?
I'm pretty sure that Charles Leclerc crashed out
because of what Sue was talking about
with the corner coming up.
Oh, okay.
He crashed his corner.
And then the tires would get covered with the gravel
that was coming apart.
And then they were sliding into that wall.
Ah, okay.
I'm pretty sure that that was related to what
Sue was talking about with the track coming apart.
Okay.
I was only reading the headlines
race guitar. I don't have Apple TV
so you know, relying on
and I'm relying on this.
Give me the update.
Yeah, that's what I heard.
That's what I had heard was that everyone
that crashed at that corner
was because of the asphalt coming up.
Doesn't it make sense
that that, you know, that
is not really, it's a street course
and these cars
pulling at it for 70 years
or whatever it's been.
Whatever's underneath.
They're going to have to redo it from time to time.
Yeah, exactly.
Anyway, this event, it was a great race weekend.
I mean, it sucks that the Nitro Finals
got rained out, but you'll catch them up in Bristol.
You know, it was good to see everyone
and see everything and
yeah, it was awesome.
It was awesome.
Yeah, we didn't get the Nitro Finals
in that.
When you get to that moment, everybody who works
in the business
starts thinking about every minute that went by
that we missed and
the blocks that went down
first round, possibly due to the pollen
that
potentially cost us.
Potentially cost us.
How about now, Giovanni, can you hear us?
I can hear you, yes, can you hear me?
Oh, right, right.
Woo!
There he is.
RaceGuitar says, what's up? Got any
Formula One commentary before we move forward
to drag racing?
Oh, yeah, man.
Formula One.
What can you say? Mercedes
still the team to beat.
Kimi, just unreal.
Five consecutive victories.
You know,
poor George, what's going to happen to him?
This kid keeps winning.
He looks like he's the real deal.
The car is faster and he's faster
than George. He's willing to put the car
in places that maybe he's not.
I don't know what the whole situation is,
but Antonelli, the new king
of Formula One.
It is strange,
it's like they're not even on the same level.
Not even close.
It's almost like the red bulls
that Max is in, you know,
coming on the podium and the second car
is nowhere to be found.
And it's weird because we know
Russell is not a garbage driver
by any means.
But yeah, it's weird.
I wonder if there's some sort of internal
sabotage going on there.
I mean, if you want to start
rumors. But yeah,
Antonelli, man, what can you say about him?
Kicking ass, taking names.
Lewis, a great run.
Pretty much what the Ferrari
were third and fourth.
They looked fast in the first practices,
but of course, once Kuali came,
the Mercedes took the lead
and even Max snuck in there.
It was faster than them, but fortunately
Max, what breaks down as soon as the
green, I don't want to say the green flag
because it's not really a green flag, but as soon as the lights
go out and it's time to get
going. Max goes nowhere.
The field flies
by him. The
Ferraris takes second and third and they were
able to hold it. Lewis
another great run.
What can we say? Lewis helping
bring Paul Ferrari along
and it's not just
the championships and all that.
It's that winning mentality of
bringing that kind of attitude and
the need to improve to the team that
clearly needed it and
Leclerc, not quite there.
I'm not sure what's going on with him. Maybe he's
feeling a little bit of that pressure from
having Lewis there too, but he ends up
wrecking at the end
and clearly something was wrong. There was
like 67 maybe eight speeding penalties
and it's all in the first
quadrant of Pitt Road. So
clearly there was an issue with the way that
the timing was done
and a lot of speeding penalties
it made up Pierre Gassey cry because
he in theory would have finished
third, but he had a 10 second penalty and he
ended up seventh and a lot
of penalties everywhere. George got a penalty
and then they didn't serve the penalty and
so he got another 10 drive through
penalty for not serving the penalty when they
came in and just
overall, you know, it was
a little bit interesting considering that
Monaco is usually very boring
and this race was definitely not, I would say
a lot of stuff going on
up and down the field, but
in the end, just
another example of Mercedes being the fastest car
Ferrari's there because
they're good in the slow corners
and the cars at the downforce there
they just don't have overall speed.
And how insanely lucky
was Max Verstappen by the way
that could have went so bad
we've seen it go bad. Yeah, he could have
got it run over. He could have got run over
he could have, that could have taken out
seven cars.
Yep.
And what was the deal with George
with Russell
after coming back from
the red flag
where they started and he was going so slow
but holding up the whole field behind him.
Yeah, I'm not sure what
they were trying to do there as if they were
maybe trying to do it on purpose or something.
There was a couple of... Yeah, that's what it seemed like.
Yeah, and
I think the Williams were trying to do that earlier too
and
but that kind of
strategy didn't work out and I know
at this track they typically do that to try
and get a gap in the
fields for the lead car to pit
and not lose his position
or what have you because it's such a short track
and the laps are so quick but
I don't know, overall I think it was
a very good monocle race even though
Antonelli led from
wire to wire every single lap
and was the fastest car in qualifying
and Jesus
I suggest that for me
and Gio next year we should
rent a yacht and go there and be one of the boat people
and we'll just watch
from the boat.
I'm joining. I signed up
for that. Let's go. I agree.
It's making happen. I've decided to be
a part of this paper you've created.
Come on.
I'm going to start saving my pennies now.
Let's go to Monaco.
Come on.
Come on.
We'll just take along
with Taska and Hartford to go next year.
Right.
Or we could just, you know, get a room
at the Fairmont there and
we're looking at the track.
Real quick.
Real quick, Dragster Jeff
is on there without his camera
and he's in the chat section.
I just want to shout out to Dragster Jeff
who is, you know, he's got
multiple family members
and kind of in a bad way
in hospice and tough stuff
going on.
Chris did real well at Lake Elsinore
top speed in the meet.
This isn't sand drags in the dirt
but he's going to run.
I just wanted to shout out to Dragster Jeff
before he busts out.
We're thinking about you too, Jeff.
We're always thinking about you.
Jeff is one of those
overall great people. Always great advice
always donating blood, helping others
and which is, you know,
great thing. Helping others, man.
That's really it.
Jeff, if you need anything.
Yes.
Send him prayers, Jeff, for your inner thoughts
and prayers.
Thank you.
But back to the yachts.
Oh!
Girls in bikinis!
They have to tell you
that your yacht is too big
to dock at the marina
and to keep it out in the bay.
You're not worried about
you know, anything.
It's just not.
Sorry, you can't park your yacht here.
It's too big.
You don't want that though.
You don't want one of those yachts that are too big.
You want to be just the right size
so you can park there.
And watch from your yacht.
Right.
Where it was like two years ago
that Taska and Hartford were there.
As related to Ford,
it wasn't, you know, just
it was related to Ford
going to be on board with
the Red Bulls and whatnot.
And you know, Hartford and Total Seal,
wonderful WFO sponsor,
Hidden Horsepower
cannot say yes or no
as to whether or whether or not
they have clients in the field.
But I think the answer is yes.
They might.
They might.
They might be a big part of that.
Oh, here I got my, I found my
F1 notes.
Lewis ties Senna for most
podium finishes at a Monaco.
That was big. He mentioned that.
Yeah, he mentioned that
that he was very happy for that.
Another Lewis stat.
Lewis was older
than the first and third
place finishers combined.
He's 19
and Isaac Hadjard is 21.
Lewis was older
than both of them combined.
It's crazy.
They discussed that in the
debrief room.
And the other thing you got that the Mercedes, man, they're just flying.
They're almost a second
lap faster.
Kimi had a 29 second lead
on Lewis who was in second place
when the safety car came out that
you know, that got the field back together again.
And then they had a red flag
and
for the last what, I guess it was the last
15 or so laps
he ended up with another six second lead
after the
safety car and the red flag
when they had another standing start
at the end of the race.
Kimi had to go through another standing start
and still busted out and just took off
and built a six second lead
in those last 10 laps. He's just
way faster than everybody.
I find it hard to believe
like I'm really excited that the Ferraris are
better and that Lewis is racing
well and that he's going to contend for some stuff
and you know, one of these things Antonelli is going
to fall out and he'll have a shot at a win.
But I really find it hard to believe
that some updates
are going to close that gap.
You know, it's like it's just too
significant to gap
for Ferrari to get up there.
I know there's a long way to go, but I am pessimistic
that they're going to be able to contend
for the driver's championship. That having been said
and the constructors
is potential
because you know, George has been
meh.
So far.
He and Lewis are the only two
drivers to complete every lap
of every race and every sprint race also.
Charles was there
prior to Monaco, but since
he didn't finish the race, he wrecked.
Look, I know
Ferrari is what it is, but you got to give
Lewis credit back because he looks good.
If he had just
a little more speed in the car,
he could be competing
for almost every raceway.
I got excited watching practice.
No, the last week
he clearly found something.
Yeah, he's back
because last year he was lost.
This year he looks
like to be the lead car at Ferrari.
Get off that simulator, Charles.
That's the deal, man. It's the sim. The sim was busted
this whole time for decades. Something wrong with
the sim.
Oh, my goodness.
We keep saying that.
There's going to be an
internal investigation one day and they're going to find out
that yes, that they had calibrated
the sim wrong.
They came back from the late afternoon nap
and, you know, the guy
had had a little too much prosciutto and he keyed
in the wrong formula and things were off
by like point two and everything was off
by point two.
And that made all the difference.
He had too much prosciutto?
Yeah.
Why would he...
They're having tacos.
We know.
Why would Italians want to have prosciutto with Italy?
They have that all the time.
They got a taco truck out back, man.
No, they do not.
They do not.
Only the authentic.
All right, let's move on.
Talking a little drag racing. No Matt in Australia return.
That's kind of interesting. Getting ready for sports collision.
We're going to try to keep the show to approximately an hour.
Last week we went two hours because we had
to talk about this show. Yes, go.
Let's talk drag racing.
Come on.
So listen, I'll let you...
I'll wrap this up because I do have to get the truck rolling.
Okay.
Great weekend of racing, like I said before.
The guy's name is Quad Boilojo.
Boilo.
The Carlisle Tools Top Dragster.
Oh, okay.
Boilo.
He lives in Wolf River.
So there you go.
Thank you.
That's really good.
That helps me a lot now.
Well, you don't respond to text when we're out there.
Where were you?
Yeah, but I got to tell you,
that was just...
I don't know what it is about the 75th season, Matt,
but it just seems like every race
is the race to be at.
True.
Well, they are. They are.
And the fans in the sold-out crowd on Saturday,
and the negative people
are starting to fall by the wayside,
beaten down by the facts.
Well, I saw a seat on the left-hand side
that didn't have a person in it.
Yeah, like there's 20 deep on the rail, man.
Exactly. The people that weren't in that seat
were down at the rail.
Like you just said, 10 deep.
10 deep, at least.
And we're having a lot of fun.
I miss Jason Logan.
It's a definitely vibe out there.
Yeah.
Maybe a little more serious, maybe too serious.
We're going to find our way to loosen it up a little bit,
Jason, with comic relief.
I sensed a couple of times,
you guys trying to, well,
line it up a little bit,
and it'll get there. It'll be fine.
Yeah.
You need to put Galvin, though, in the penalty box.
Don't have him doing the,
thank you for the sell-out
with the SmackDown comment.
It doesn't come across well.
What do you mean? I don't even know what you're talking about.
Oh, it was on Saturday.
Hey, fans, it's a sell-out.
Well, some of you missed it
and just get into your seat so well.
They'll be back in two.
It was like, dude,
not the way to say thank you.
Stop it.
Don't be that guy.
Like, make it appreciative.
That was an awesome thing.
And those fans just
poured into that place.
And
you don't turn around and smack them
like you didn't leave soon enough and you were
like it was their own fault
for, you know, being stuck back in there in time.
It was the largest single day crowd
according to Drag Illustrated
who connected.
I hadn't heard anybody say this,
but I heard loans
questioning on Saturday morning
that this could be the record and Drag Illustrated
said they connected with the team,
the track, and that it was
the single day largest crowd
in the history
of New England Dragway.
That's fantastic.
And that says so much about
the fans there.
Go ahead.
That was probably the only shadow on the weekend
was people didn't seem
to have gotten the message that we were starting an hour
early on Saturday.
Because that lineup was forever.
We're running Q3
of Thought Fuel and they were just
stacked up out on the road.
But, you know,
you had to, right? You had to change the
time.
I don't think there's anything wrong with changing
the time. And again, those
people came flooding in
and the other cool thing was
they didn't go running away when
Thought Fuel was done and ProStock was coming
up like they were there
and it was awesome to see.
We had NHRA TV
just watching the whole thing.
It was it was fantastic.
In their seats from jump from first thing
they were sitting there in their seats.
Really great stuff. You know the moving
up.
I do have this like
feeling this thread of
of slight
I don't know what it is like the words that are coming
to my mind are too extreme. So I'm not going to
say them right but like people
go to the website man
like check on what you're doing.
Follow a social feed
like let's check in with the sport like
these are fine folks
like
once a year that
they could only get out of the certain time
on Saturday
look you don't
they had their job from 6am to 11am
other people have things that they
have to do and sometimes a commitment of
time or maybe they were
working late till Friday night
and didn't see the announcement
so hey come on
give the fans a little bit of a break
yeah they came
to get to the track at 7am always
yeah Monica you are
spot on try to go get to the track at
7am you are a hundred percent correct
on that but we're not
giving the fans a hard time because
hey people got flies and other
things but they came out and they showed up
and they stayed.
Yes and they did they stayed at the very end
we had a lot of fans
they are coming up and I was like hey man
if it rains again
then we're probably done and that's
ended up what happened
I do want to shout out to our own
Sacramento racing fan Kevin
who has been
available on the show did you guys understand
because I didn't
how did you not understand that
I didn't fully get that
I'm getting in a car
I'm driving out
to Maryland from Maryland
I'm driving to
and then I'm getting back in my car
I'm driving and then I'll go to Bristol
and then I'll drive to Bristol
Gio did you understand that this guy was going
to drive to Maryland
from Sacramento
yeah that's what he said
that didn't penetrate
I didn't get that one
he did not say he was getting on a plane
he said he was getting on a car
registered like what
I think that's how he did it
he was crazy
we were like wow good job
this guy is crazy he's going all around
he's got to get in his RV
and just chase him
yo no
no I'll leave it in a minute
oh no it's okay
he's getting arrested
I prefer the Quebecois or the world
I prefer the Tamo La Croche
just go there
just go there
just go there
there's the vet
oh oh
oh oh
wait a minute
did you just call him a cunez
yes he's
you were
what happened
what did he call you
Bobbi Graham
I think he called him a cunez
I understood that French word
I heard something about lemon
sorry did you hear all that
we heard all of it
we heard all of it
so here hang on
we don't need to hear that guy
you just tell us what he said
he just said because
he has a really nice rig
oh it is very pretty
if you're a patron you can see
he's got a real nice camera
and he parked back a little bit
so he was making sure that he wasn't blocking me in
because he doesn't want to pull forward
because if someone else leaves
they can hit the front of his truck
so I was just saying oh don't worry
about it man you're fine we're fine
what about lemon
he said something about lemon
he wanted to keep it up
I don't know dude
sometimes when you speak French like that
you just grow I don't know
alright well good job
race guitar it was good hanging out with you
I'll just say this before I leave
because like I said I do have to roll GEO
thank you so much for the shout out last week
you're exactly right
we are starting to ramp up getting ready for the ride
plans are being made
everything's getting settled
so we are going this year
we have some really great looking milestones
we're going to be able to reach
watch my social media
watch my posts, watch my comments
we're going after it this year
we got some good looking numbers
we can get to so I'm pretty excited
excellent
WFO everyone
have a good one and I'll talk to you guys
on the other side
be safe out there race guitar
yeah so Sacramento racing fan
he was at the track he's been at Maryland
he's now been at New England
this is going to be an 8,000 mile round trip
give me an 8,000 mile round trip
how cool is that
back and forth
and then up to New England
back down to Bristol like this guy is
loving his life
people are cheering him on man
and he looks so happy
the pictures I see him
he's just beaming
Megan says if I had the money
I don't know man this guy
I asked him about the situation
he's very bohemian
yeah
but whatever
he's loving it
like across the US
he's itch
right
can you imagine
he's like
he was the leader
of the track walk
he was right behind me
and he was trying to catch up to me on the track walk
and I didn't see him
he was like forest gump out there
he was everywhere
he's getting this cult like status
people are seeing him everywhere because you know guys
he is a memorable character
yes he is
I don't know if you have noticed
but he does
he has the attributes of a memorable character
and so
yeah he's kind of Santa looking
yes
my friend Hanora she went up there as well
she put her car on the auto train
which is something I didn't even know existed
I've heard about that
you've not known about the auto train
I don't know about the auto train
you're not going to take the auto train
I just didn't
didn't make sense to me
but now it does
it goes back and forth from Sanford to Virginia
every day
and back and forth the auto train
and she put her car on the auto train
she went up there and she's driving her own car
from Virginia to New England and then back
and then back on the auto train
the best way to get there
wild
what an interesting idea
but what are you going to do
we would love to go but
no
the only way I've got up there
is flying in and visiting
yeah well it was the fight to Boston
wasn't bad
let's do sports collision
alright
sports collision
well the big news
we discussed a little earlier
the NBA finals are going on
and the big game three is tonight
the New York Knicks are up two games to nothing
on San Antonio
trying to bring home the first championship
for the Knicks since 1973
and the first championship to New York
wow I guess since the Yankees
in 0-9 so it's been
a long championship drought
all over New York because they haven't won a
oh no you know what I'm wrong
the New York football giants won
that 2012 championship also
but as is it's been well over
a decade since any championships come to the city
and we all know that
New York is a basketball town as
that's one of the few places that when
the team did suck they were still pretty much always
sold out
and I guess part of it is also
the fact that there's only one team
where baseball you know you got your Mets
you got your Yankees football you got your giants
you got your Jets and in basketball really
it's always been the Knicks or bust
but yeah right now
in tonight's game three I believe the Spurs
have an early lead but that really
hasn't much in this series as
both teams have had a pretty big lead
in the game and gone on and lost the lead
and the Knicks won two games
in San Antonio and as I mentioned
earlier no team has ever lost
the first two games at home and gone on
to win an NBA final series
so either way
some kind of history is going to be made in this
in this series whether it's
a tragic
defeat and choke job
by the Knicks or whether they bring
it through and bring home that first championship
since Willis Reed in 1973
back in the day
of those guys
winning and so
that's what's going on in the NBA
the NHL over there
has had also a great finals
which can't complain at all
that's been going on we discussed last week
Vegas Golden Knights
against the Carolina Hurricanes
Carolina was
the better teams
throughout the regular season
there was talk that Vegas has been arguably
one of the worst teams to get in the playoffs
and definitely make it to the finals
but indeed they have
and being down 2-0 in the first game
it looked like
Carolina was going to just go on
they had Carolina at the moment was
12-1 in the playoffs
they had two sweeps
and won the third series
four games to one
but somehow the Golden Knights
after being down 2-0 came back
and get two goals and end up winning the first game
and then in the second game
they had been dominating the game
up 2-0 with 10 minutes to go in the third
Carolina stores back
scores three goals
to take a 3-2 lead
Golden Knights somehow tie it
it ends up a 3-3 overtime game
but Carolina pulls out the win
in overtime and goes back
to Vegas tied at one
and then game three was on Saturday
I believe
and Vegas probably takes a 4-0 lead
with
a Marner scoring
three goals in the fourth quarter
sorry in the second period
had a hat trick like
in the second period like we discussed
but somehow Carolina
storms back and scores
four goals of their own to tie it
we go to overtime
it stays tied throughout the overtime
we're going to double overtime
and the Golden Knights pull out the victory
and double overtime and they're up two games to one
game four is going to be tomorrow night
in that series in Vegas
so they're trying to take the 3-1 lead
and Carolina tries to
tie it up and go back home
tied at two with a new series
and so that's what's going on there
in NHL and NBA finals as both of those seasons
should be coming to
an end sometime this week
the French Open was
finals were Saturday and Sunday
like we had discussed all the big
top seeds and favorites
pretty much all lost early
and we had
two new winners
on the men's side finally gets
his grand slam championship
after being I believe it was
0-3 in grand slam finals
and so now without Rafa
and without Sinner he finally gets his win
but eventually
nobody will remember that Rafa or Sinner
didn't play he'll just have his one grand slam
win and who knows
maybe he backs into another one at some point
but he's definitely not good enough to be either one
of those two top guys
but you know he managed to get
his win and on the ladies side
and driven out of the teenage
not the teenage but the young Russian
also gets the win over
I don't want to
I don't even know how to pronounce his girl's name
her name was Maya something with a C
WC
whatever it was like an alphabet soup of a last name
she was 19 years old
had to go through the qualifying
she wasn't even she was a qualifier
which means she has to win three matches
before she even gets into the tournament
and she got all the way to the finals
and basically one more
money in this tournament than she had
in her entire career combined
oh my goodness
it was a great story
she wasn't even she went with
plans of you know she's never
was a qualifier so wasn't
even in the tournament
had plans to be there for only a few days
maybe a week and as
she kept winning
didn't even have a sponsor to pay for her hotel
or anything but a couple of somebody
stepped up a sponsor and
paid her hotel bill and
she's probably not going to have any problems getting
sponsorships from now on
as she finally made it to a final and it was
you know it was a little too much
she lost a straight sense and really
had nothing in the final but it was a great run
in the end
and so the
French Open is done
we've got a little bit of football
news that goes on but really nothing
now as
they're having those organized team
activities and
the preseason four plate doesn't start till
August and baseball
is going on you know the Yanks in their
same same old story
judges hurt
first they say he's got a bruise
and then you know a week later
he's going to all kinds of specialists
and as it turns out apparently he's got a broken
top rib on on the right hand side
of his rib cage the first
rib number one and he's going to be out
at least six to eight weeks
and you know
unfortunately the Yankees tend to go as
judge goes and so as far as I'm concerned
the season's probably just going to go down the toilet
although they are trying to
you know hang in there they're you know
they're built to make it through the regular season
but without judging the lineup
they just even now they're not scoring
as many runs once he's out of the lineup
it's it's tragic it's tragic
for the Yankees
I mean not really but it is
as a Yankee fan it's terrible
yeah man your guy is
is out didn't he have
he had the potential
to get a
what was it like like five consecutive seasons
over 40 homeruns or something
what um yeah
I mean well he also had the potential
to be the first player ever with five 50
homerun seasons that I think that's the one
that I'm hearing and I mean you know
look yeah no that that's probably
out the window if he misses two months because two months
is a third of the season so you know it's going to be
really hard to to get you know
regular numbers in a hundred games
he had played you know all 59 games
up until that point apparently he got hurt sometime
in April and either he
didn't want to say anything or they didn't want to say
anything which appears to have made the situation
maybe worse yikes
but uh he
says he got hurt diving for a ball in early
April and that you know he had been feeling
discomfort ever since and
you can see it there's
a straight line where his numbers all of a sudden
took a giant crap and
um and I would say it's probably that
at that point I mean with a broken rib it's hard
to swing
well exactly with a broken
rib it's hard to swing
just that simple
all right good job to you
oh yeah
for those of you so inclined as most
of the world really is uh June
11th that's uh this Thursday the World Cup
is starting right here on our side
of the world between Mexico Canada
and the US uh there will be a
game here in south Florida
I believe it's on the 12th
uh US plays on the 12th which is
Friday either way the
US national team the men's
World Cup team plays on Friday
and the World Cup is
starting finally this week that's it
and it's making a trek
yeah let's see
if I have any more official
schedule here to I'm hearing the tickets
for the World Cup aren't doing as well as everybody
expected them to do
well you know when you start off
with the price really high from the from the get
go it can only go down right
once there's that
the demand
kind of peaks
but but yeah
you know again a lot of look much
like the Knicks that we just discussed that there
was tickets going for six to 8000 dollars
that's all secondary market
you know people that have
season tickets are always
have the ability to buy these playoff tickets
at at face value
which is obviously not the same price
you play you pay during the regular
season because I can tell you from experience
here when the Hurricanes were in the national championship
game this year
Hurricanes season ticket holders had the opportunity
to buy into the game before you ever
knew who was in it but you had
to agree to buy the tickets
back in October I think it was or November
and
the face value of the tickets was about 300
and fifty dollars and you could get
your your you know you
can order if you have season tickets
you can order two or four tickets
at that price which is not the same price
as your season tickets but it also wasn't
that 3000 dollar price that they
were going for on the secondary market
so while I will say yes
the ticket prices for the
cheapest get-in price was 6000 dollars
now on the secondary market
that doesn't mean that everybody is sitting there
paid at least 6000 dollars
right I got you and the same thing
for the World Cup those tickets that you saw
on sale for 10000 dollars and a 100000
dollars that's obviously that
somebody just puts that out there hoping
to get a bite and when they don't
get a bite at those prices they have no choice
but to you know start bringing the prices down
but I believe FIFA
it you know was a bit
you know overpriced
from the beginning and
the way you know as the
weeks have gone on it's turned out that
that FIFA had a whole bunch of scam going
on where they were
holding the tickets not releasing tickets
trying to get more demand and trying to
get higher prices and I think eventually
people just got tired of it and said
I'll stay home and watch on TV
scandal
scandal oh my goodness
FIFA you know
they haven't been corrupt
ever you know like everything's always
on the up and up with them
but here officially
the first games there's two games
on Thursday June 11 which will be
Mexico versus South Africa and that's going to be
in Mexico City and that's at three
p.m. on Thursday and then there's
a 10 p.m. South Korea
and Chech Chechia
and that's also in Mexico
and then the U.S. will play
Paraguay Friday night and that's
going to be at SoFi Stadium in California
where the Rams play
and on Friday afternoon it's Canada
versus Bosnia or Herzegovina
and that will be at 3 p.m.
from Toronto Canada
and so that'll be the first
there's games Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
pretty much every day
for the next week
while they go through that
first round where everybody
where you have a group of four
and each team plays
every other team in the group and the top two
teams advance and so forth
to the to the eliminations
and this is this year there's
48 total teams in the tournament
and 32 will advance to the elimination
rounds which will be the
following week but
starts on Thursday
first game Mexico and South Africa
and the U.S. plays Friday night against Paraguay
at 9 p.m.
U.S.
this is it man we got to get the positive energy going
for the USA man America
looks who's got a flag over her shoulder she's ready
I'm ready
here the first game that's going to affect
you Joe I guess it won't really affect you too much
will be Monday Monday night
June 15
Saudi Arabia versus Uruguay
that'll be at 6 p.m. there at the stadium
right down the street from your house
okay maybe I'll walk down there
and get into it
you can't get even on the property anymore after that
crazy thing that happened a few last year
was it last year
whenever it was with the Columbia game I think it was
yeah they called through the air conditioning system
and they were in the vents coming out of the vents
it was terrible
it wasn't exactly the vents but yes
that's right
they were in the AC vents
they weren't it just appeared to be
that way they were going like behind
that there was a you know
but they weren't actually crawling
in the vents even though that's what it looked like
well
not good shame right that was not
a good look
it was a die hard moment
that completely changed
because even for the championship for the national football
for the football national championship game
they already have now the main gate
is like out on the street
and if you don't have tickets you can't even get
to that closer state
part of the stadium so there's no tailgating
at the stadium if you don't have a ticket
pretty much right yeah thanks
guys good job
all right way to go
there's no rules until the idiots
ruin it for everybody
see Steve Brenwald is down there what's up Steve
Steve is going to come out to Norwalk that's exciting
we're going to see Steve out there in Norwalk
Brenwald media which is good stuff
all right
let's land the plane here
Bobby Graham anything that
you want to throw out there you want to talk about
words of wisdom Bobby Graham
well I got words of wisdom
today
first lesson
is how not
to try to sell to a grumpy old man
or anything
ever
argue with me for 20 minutes
that
I'm not going to buy today
or nor am I interested
right now and he won't leave
no way
yes yes way
and we're down to
I'm showing him the driveway and I've already
got to get off my lawn speech
now the second
one is whether or not you want to
be able to sell anything later
in life or
you'll never talk to me again
period is
holler at me
while I'm walking away from you
after I've told you to go down the road
do you know Jesus
now most places
that's
a hostile
expression so
don't tell me that when I'm walking away
and that's my words of wisdom
do you know Jesus what do you mean
like you're not treating him with
a blind person
if you know what he means
would you get him in the car
you don't go down the road because I'm tired of
you
Bobby I'm surprised you didn't turn around and say
give me a minute
do you want to meet Jesus
well that's what my wife told me
I should have told him
give me a minute I gotta go grab something
I'll help you meet him
I didn't have to go grab it
okay well let me reach in
anyway
wow
that's terrible
he went through all kind of excuses
I have
my hay barns over there which is about
120 foot long
about 60 foot wide
we used to and we had somebody come by
before dad passed away and said
I would like to paint
your roof so it won't rust away on you
and protect it
now this roof was about
15 years old it had
a little rust on it in the spotter too
but after they painted it in two years
it almost completely
rusted off the barn
so I told him he's looking at the roof on my house
he said I want
to paint your roof and all this I said no
I said
I showed him across the pasture
I said you see the barn had the same thing done
oh my paint is better than that and all that
I said well that's exactly what
that guy said about your stuff when he painted it
right so
no I don't want my house
painted do you like that color
I said well apparently
I did because that's what I put on my house
right so
anyway
I finally got him to go down the road
well listen honestly
so Monica says don't call us we'll call you
that's it
now I would consider it
had he went ahead and left I told him give me a car
I'll consider it
but when all that went there's no use to even give it
well people are a little
desperate at the moment
you know things are tight
and they're going to get a little aggressive in situations
like that which is unfortunate
and it clearly worked
the opposite it worked the opposite with Bobby Graham
now
forever banned forever
banned you know I had a weird thing today
on my social media which I
you know I never really clap it back
but in this case I don't know why but I did
and I think maybe the guy deleted
the comment I think it's gone but you know
sometimes after a race I'll post like pictures
like nice pictures on my Facebook like my personal
right on Instagram WFO Joe
which I do invite people to check out
and it goes to my personal Facebook page
and so it's pictures of a lighthouse
it's a picture of you know me
Nikki and Ali it's you know like my
co-workers like friends friends stuff
and some drag racing and so one of
the top comments was a
person who I don't really know him but he's
a friend of mine I guess on the Facebook and so he's like
he's like tell Galvin
that he needs to stop
etc and so on right and he gave me
this long like screen of
what I need to do is to tell Galvin
and I'm like
it just rubbed me the wrong way like hey man
this is my personal page I'm not customer
service I'm not NHR customer service
where I tell oh I'm gonna tell like I
thought of Ingrid van der Bosch that time to me
when she said not on command after the
fact right like not on command like you tell
me to tell you don't go tell Galvin something
you go tell Galvin something
when you tell me to tell Galvin I look
I've got these pictures of a lighthouse
look at that
Galvin wasn't even a picture
I mean come on
what are you doing Galvin wasn't one of the pictures
when he was screening in Galvin
it doesn't matter
that's not your that's not the board
tell Galvin something you
well he told Galvin you know tell Galvin he's rude
and impolite and that's what really
triggered me because I found his comment
to be rude and impolite
and it's like hey pot meet kettle
and so I kind of like hey
don't you think it's impolite to ask me this
and he's like no I don't think it's impolite
I think that you need to tell him that
you're missing a point
and the comment is now gone so I think maybe he got
the point
not for this man
don't mess with me now
you go tell Galvin you go find Galvin
come on Galvin anything
a job to chase down Galvin and tell him
something for you
Galvin already knows
come on
and he don't care
he knows you don't care
I dare you
boom
show him you're an idiot
not a problem
it's wild
look who's back he wants to get his Australia report
in you know he gets very upset if he doesn't need
the Australia report he boycotts
the whole show and jumps on for the Australia
report Matt and Australia the final
thing we'll be doing today
good day guys good day Matt
good day Matt
hang on I'll just start the car studio
up
if you can bear with me
for a couple of seconds
the heater going
no no it's a nice day today
we don't advocate driving
while doing Australia report
I'm not I'm just
I'm just moving to a sunnier location
Joe it's okay
I'm in a workshop
so I think if they want to bring something in
and I'm just sitting in my car
talking to you fine people
they'll probably get a little bit upset
we already heard one foreign language today on the show
yeah we did we did
we heard a little French
at least we think that's what it was
yes
Parle Voulou is dead
he's dead
sounded like name calling to me
he was
cunas
cunas
you know how I started up there anyway right
yes
yes you know it absolutely
did you guys are relatives Bobby
hey I'm guessing
you already talked formula one
yes we did
but which
it's totally understandable
you can tag a note
just tag a note
Lewis Hamilton
you know I'm not a fan
the national anthems
getting played of Monaco
and he's standing there with an umbrella
like have some
god damn respect
why didn't you tell us about that Gio during your report
you miss that Gio
no other driver
all the other drivers took their hats off
did all the bit he's standing there
with a Ferrari umbrella
above his head
was he holding it or was someone holding it for him
he was holding it no that was he
that was Kimmy that had the security detail
holding the umbrellas over her head
Kim Kardashian that is
oh no she wouldn't
be out with the drivers while they're playing
national anthem so
no but she was on the grid
and Martin Brundle got
got snubbed by her
it's made the news
everywhere about
her having her head
in some exit port of her body
wow Matt coming in
hey how are you
now she's in the greatest
national export
well she's there with pompous Lewis
anyway right so what do you expect
I guess is she
I don't know
oh there's a thing now
okay
well we don't know if she's
definitely there to be
as part of his entourage
apparently
they were really good friends before
but now they're closer friends
as that was described
okay yeah I don't get involved in that
kind of gossip that's why
you know I didn't mention
in my report you know
I'm not petty like some people that are
that you know that obviously
eight Ferrari and Lewis so much
no I like Ferrari
I just
doesn't like Lewis
I can only imagine how you guys
would be
blowing up the locks if he was at
an American Grand Prix somewhere
and they were playing
and
yeah but he would never disrespect the great
United States like that
I can't
offend me because I've been to many
many sporting events
and I'll be the first to tell you
the world does not stop at a sporting event
when the national anthem is playing
as great as everybody wants it to pretend
that everybody's standing there
with their hand at their heart
I've never once seen concessions
stop selling food
I've never seen people get out of the line
stop all their nonsense
at NHRA we do
at NHRA everything stops
that's why I don't go to every NHRA event
and I have to do
drag races dude
basketball games
basketball games
all kinds of sporting events
and I just wanted to point out
that the entire event does not stop
when the national anthem is playing
Gio
I totally and utterly agree
with you however
he's
he's an icon
a
sporting representative
of Ferrari
and all these other sponsors and
should be setting a fine example
in my opinion
we're gonna have to agree to pause to go back
and watch
at the one I should see
did he have a hat and an umbrella
or just an umbrella
just
these locks
and his brides and his earrings
and an umbrella
so I'm gonna pause
this conversation
we're gonna have to
so I can go take it in
and while Matt is right
about that you deserve to respect
everyone's national anthem
there was something just recently
at the last San Antonio
Knicks game where a bunch of fans
were attacking Wemby who is French
because he was standing with his arms
crossed during the national anthem
and you know I guess enough
idiots online thought that that was
disrespectful and you know again
it goes down to yes
while he you know I didn't
see that he did anything wrong
I can understand how some people get offended
but those are the same people that
don't get out of the beer line when the national
anthem is playing and they're in line
at whatever event it is
you know and so I made
a big protocol mistake this past weekend
myself and I got caught in the middle of it
and I made a protocol mistake and it was a mistake
was made and I could be potentially beaten up online
about it we had Todd
Angeli there very
famous anthem singer for the Boston
Bruins and Todd is a great guy and a friend
he's extremely talented and he's
gonna sing both anthems
and when I handed him the mic you know perform
the national anthems he started
the anthem and my natural
indication the thing I did was
to put my hand over my heart
and now my hand is over my heart except
it is the Canadian national anthem
and then said
my hand should not be over my heart this is a mistake
I should not be showing Canada that level
of respect because
then how will I
show my great respect to the United States
so I started to move my hand down then I thought
no I can't take my hand down
because that would be even more
of an insult so I just kind
of like loosened up and had it there
like not rigid like I would for the
American anthem and I just kept it
there and knowing that you know feeling
feeling the shame
of the mistake I was making
but realizing that I didn't want to draw attention
to myself because most people wouldn't know
about the breach and so then
when he got to the
Star Spangled Banner I did
my normal got rigid
and popped up and
and there it is but look hey
do you know what that means?
I throw myself in the mercy of the anthem police
I did break
the protocol
you know what that gesture actually
means love and respect
so you can love and respect Canada
man that's okay
I don't feel like the rest
Asian neighbor
but anyway thank you
did Sue mention
that the Aussies are killing it in
motocross?
No we haven't gotten to Sue's motocross
I'll leave that for Sue then
No go ahead
no no go go
come on Australia report
you do it
no
two wins in a row
two weekends
two wins
we're back
back strong
I will say back strong
you may notice
I feel refreshed
vibrant we had another gazetted
public holiday yesterday
you're shavin too
Kings yet
Julie look at that
you should see me on Friday
look at that
put Santa Claus last week
yeah I had
I had an Afro
a blonde Afro and a beard
Julie said we got to fix that up
she's hairdresser
shaved my head it's all good
shaved a beard
so we had gazetted holiday Monday
so we all relaxed after watching
the winter nationals down here in Australia
Kings birthday weekend
so that was
lovely for Charlie
it's not his actual birthday but we just
have a birthday for him anyway
this weekend in Australia
most of all we had
the 50th running
of the Fink desert race
now the best way I could probably describe
that to you is like a Baja
sort of off-road race
that goes from
your favourite place
Joe Alice Springs
out to the Fink
desert
Fink Aboriginal community
have a tail ship
at Fink
which is a couple hundred kilometres away
the races
race out there bikes and cars
buggies
and they stay overnight
service the vehicles
and then they race back to Alice Springs
the next day so
that was the 50th running on that so I just sort of
mentioned that pretty significant
a lot of the V8 supercar drivers
get factory drives
in some of the production
class 4x4s
and
Craig Lowens who's an ex
V8 supercar champion won
his class in that
but moving on probably to the most important thing
the biggest event
which was the winner nationals
I'm not going to go through
all the race winners but
it was very significant
event
Ryan Hart was back out
commentating
I think him and Wade
Ornger who owns
Methanol moonshine
who's also
one of Australia's best commentators
they've really got a click going
together and complimenting each other
a lot of people
are
mentioning that I think Alan's
just Alan's experience with drag racing
and bringing that to Australia
and a lot of his technical knowledge
is probably far
surpasses a lot of
the Aussie commentators that's no disrespect
to them but he has got a really good
mechanical understanding
or anybody yeah like not just them
it's anybody Alan Ryan Hart
extremely technical
and knowledgeable and
it's really coming through in the show
I think it's
not just because I know AR
and you used to work with him Joe
but I really think
I think it's
it's working
as a sound
on the show you know
a vibe
if I'll say it as my kids do
a vibe I like it
a vibe
so anyway some interesting
results over the weekend
Wade Newby
driving for the Rappasata
Autosports international team with
Santino tuning
set a new
Australian record
with a 368
with a 1
at 333 miles an hour
so that's
over the
over the thousand feet that's a new
speed
and ET record
368 is the new ET record
for Australia
listen you're in the 60s we're
you've run 62
so
the conditions were absolutely
fantastic at
Willow Bank the numbers
the weather station numbers were incredible
also pro stock
car
Rob
Durek
now we've got 400 cubic inch
for those that don't know 400 cubic inch pro stock
cars he ran
the first person
around 200 mile an hour
in Australian pro stock
under the new unleaded
fuel regulations
so he ran
200.5 mile an hour
the other
two notable ones was
Russell Taylor
in top door slammer broke the top door
slammer record he ran a 5
57
at 258 mile an hour
then in first
round of eliminations ran a
55
258 miles an hour in top door slammer
to
secure the record there
and probably the biggest news
Shane Phillips
in top alcohol
funny car
who's Gary Phillips' son
some Americans may know him from the 80s and 90s
coming out to the states
Gary
is a multiple
multiple time Australian champion
they ran a new world record
for top alcohol funny car
they ran 534
at
273 mile an hour
so our rules are identical to the US
rules
534
534 at
273
wow
that's fast
so that's the fastest
alcohol funny car in the whole world
Joe
blown methanol burner
correct
screw charge
and
the other one is a big shout out to
Brodie Davies who
talk calibration services help out
he licensed
before the last event in Sydney
and went really well
with some 5 second passes
he made it
there was 13 cars
entered
they had an 8 car field
for top door slammer
and Brodie
qualified 8th
with a 599
and in first round of eliminations
he was up against Russell Taylor
who's the gentleman who broke the record
he absolutely treat him
and was out in front
he ran a new personal best
of 582
but Russell Taylor
just so happened to rewrite
the record again with a 555
and come around him in the top end
but a big shout out to Brodie
and the Davies team for
their achievement this is only their second meeting
in a brand new car
and they've made the field and they're making
great leaps forward
and I'm proud to say we're associated with them
and you had sent me a little
couple clips of him
and he seems great
he seems like a great kid
good speaker
he's only 24
he's a mechanic
by trade
he then went and did fabrication
and learned fabrication for a couple of years
his father
is a fitter and machinist by trade
like young Bobby down there
and the pair of them essentially
built
their new car
that they're racing now
on top of that
since he's been about 16 or 17
he has been learning to tune the car
and been taught
by Billy Stocklin
and also
by Paul Mahayat
who's becoming one of the best
better tuners in Australia as well
Paul oversees what he does
but he makes all the tuning calls
he does a lot of the service work
and mechanical work on the car
and
good kid
and good family
and I've known him since he was about 10 years old
run in junior dragsters
and it's
I can only imagine how proud his parents are
because he's just doing a fantastic job
and other than that
I saw on X this morning
I touched base with
Alan
he has
had an extended stay there Joe
as you mentioned
and he is currently
at surface paradise
on the Gold Coast
on a balcony overlooking the beach
so he's
you have a look on his X account
anyone who knows
yeah I was soaking up
the winter sun
in Queensland
that is great
that is great
I sent him a message
and said good day
obviously I wasn't there
I'm 10 hours away
10 hour drive away but
yeah
it's a win-win
it's a win-win
for everybody
and there is talk
that he will be back
he may be back
he's not 100%
but there's talk of him coming back in September
for the East Coast Nationals
which is at my home track
Sydney Dragway
excellent
good looking track, good event, record set
excellent work, Matt great job, thank you very much
pleasure
yes yes and I will go back
and I will evaluate Lewis's behavior
I'm not going to give this painting a lip service
I will do it
yeah that will TV
there it is I do
I can find it real easy
and John I want to talk to you about the message I sent you about
yes
I will
sounds good
not a lot of review man it was good
but I will follow up with you
I thought you were ignoring me
well both things can be true
all at once
Sue Morris
final thought
oh my goodness
well
final thought
it is graduation season
AJ congratulations
Monica I know you're a proud mama
very excited for AJ what brings on his next chapter
we had
the fun of
watching our niece our youngest
niece graduate this evening
before ignition
she's in Pennsylvania
so we watched that stream
streamed live
fun and exciting what you can do now
compared to what happened
in the past
congrats to all the graduates out there
moving on to bigger and better things
that's a maker and fixer out there
upcoming
this week Bristol baby
sad to say we won't be there
but we will be
watching on NHRA TV
and
don't listen to all those weather
naysayers there
just let that go come on it's Bristol baby
it's gonna be great
glad to hear you say that
my friend Rick McDonough is going
and he's leaving tomorrow morning
and I guess they extended the deadline
but bottom line is he's gonna go
hey
and if he hasn't been
it's Bristol
it does break my heart that we're not going this year
but
life
things happen
but
hey get out there
do things have fun
lots of racing going on
all over the country
and give out a shout out
the Troy because it wasn't his race
this past weekend
we did
we had Stephanie Nass
I did an interview
with last year's winner the back to back winner
I posted on Thursday night
didn't get as many views
just goes to show you that about like posting out of nowhere
can
be a problem but I recommend everybody
go check out Stephanie because she did a great job
it's a 10 minute interview go give it a like
give it a click go give it a share
nice definitely a lot of it is about Troy
well then you definitely
want to tune in
but no
and tune in the rest of the week
I mean you got Angie on
coming on tomorrow
along with Jason Galvin
recapping and previewing
Angie is back on track
and try to go back to back
and then life's a drag
like Elon is about to drop
the most amazing
special thing that's coming
special collectible that our patreons
can have first shot at if they want
give away to you
I wanted everybody to see
oh there it is
this was given away
earlier today Keith Kaufman one of our patreons
congratulations Keith
I figured out who the last signature was
is it a Jack
it's not really
yeah who is it
Austin proc
oh that's even better so this
we don't disrespect the Jack but no
but this hat
like this is
here I say a real
collectible
a real collectible
isn't drag racing there's all kinds of collectibles right
Austin, Brittany and John
Austin, Brittany and John
this has been sitting in our studio
for a while it has been utilized
to do drawings out of
and we got all these paper names you know what I mean
and
I came in today and I realized
we gotta move some of this stuff out of here
we gotta move some of these collectibles out of here man
like this one
someone should be having this and holding it
loving it, covering it
Austin proc
and Keith Kaufman
our patreon
guy supporting the show for a long time
man he's sent me cool posters he's done cool stuff
I drew his name out of there and I was like
oh man that's a deserving guy and so he's gonna get
the super collectible we're gonna be doing more
giveaways for people who are
patreons
there we go
I love it
so
well everybody on that note
have a WFO kind of week
get out there do things have fun
and in your downtime
you know turn on NHRA TV
and as Bobby says
I'm sexy and I'm
mowing
that's it
alright great job so
thank you very much Sue Morris
excellent work appreciate you
thank you and Matt great job
Matt excellent work
and Bobby great job excellent thank you
very much Giovanni any final thought
for you you got anything you want to say
no everyone have a great week WFO
and appreciate what you have
before time makes you appreciate what you have
yeah that's true did you see
Eli and Jeter sitting side by side
uh no
yeah they showed it a moment ago
Eli Manning and Jeter are just
I'm not watching the game
because I'm sitting here doing this
so let's go there he goes
there goes Gio
there goes Matt in Australia
and there goes Sue Morris thank you Sue
and that leaves us guy Bobby Graham
thank you very much appreciate you this has been a fun
show and this is going to
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apparently the get biofuel
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final comments
what's that what
Suga was like what
everyone have fun and don't aggravate
grumpy old men it's truth
it's truth
we had such a great time in New England
back to back I gotta tell you though the truth
is that the third race of three in a row
is always tough
excited to speak with Dallas tomorrow
and Angie Galvin
then we're gonna head to Bristol
it's not ditch digging by any means
but three in a row
where's everybody out
and you know the NHRA
in the 75th season
thinking about all that has happened
all that just transpired
all the
you know the different chirpings on social media
about this and about that
they are delivering
the NHRA is delivering
in the 75th season
I don't know who it was
earlier I think it was race guitar
and Sue agreed
that every race so far has felt like
a consequential race
that you had to be at
the new venues
is a big part of it
new people new venues
we have the governor
of the state of New Hampshire
at the race Kelly Iot
was at the race
the governor she's wearing a t-shirt
she mentioned the sport of drag racing a bunch of times
she knows what drag racing is this is drag racing
she watched nitro cars
that is a big deal
and
quietly
head down
working hard
trying to deliver for the fans
it will continue this weekend at Bristol with Monnature
allows us remember new track surface
we'll talk about it all on
NHRA nitro one o'clock eastern time
also life's a drag
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About this episode
WFO Radio’s “Ignition” swings between motorsports recaps and big-picture fandom talk. NHRA coverage leads off with postponed New England Nationals final rounds and “top fuel and funny car,” plus a later drag-racing bracket tease. NASCAR discussion includes Denny Hamlin’s back-to-back win, a red-flag crash involving Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell, and how fresh tires and record cautions shaped outcomes. The show also dives into F1 streaks and Monaco chaos, then closes with NHRA TV reminders and sponsor/gear talk.
Original notes
Joe Castello and the Patreon Crew are firing on all cylinders on this week's Ignition. Denny Hamlin wins the NASCAR FireKeepers Casino 400 from Michigan, that's back-to-back wins for Hamlin as he ties Kyle Busch on the all-time wins list. Kimi Antonelli makes it five straight wins as he dominates the F1 Monaco Grand Prix. Josef Newgarden gets the win in IndyCar. Matt's Australia Report and Gio in Miami recaps the NBA and NHA Finals on SportsCollision.
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