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three stop strategy
A three stop strategy means the race car pits three times instead of fewer. More pit stops can be faster overall if the tires work well, but it’s also more complicated and higher risk.
Concept
conserving and waiting
This is a racing style where you don’t go all-out right away. You hold back to save tires or keep the car under control, then speed up later—opposite of the aggressive approach mentioned.
Term
pit
A pit stop is when the race car pulls into the pit lane to get service—usually tire changes. When you pit can make or break your race because it affects both tire freshness and where you rejoin the track.
Term
virtual safety car
Instead of a real safety car driving out on track, race officials make everyone slow down using rules on the cars. This bunches the cars closer together, which can change when teams decide to pit.
Term
conserve tires
Conserving tires means driving in a way that makes them wear more slowly. If you drive too aggressively, the tires get worse faster and you have to pit sooner.
Term
soft tire
A soft tire grips the road better, so the car can go faster. But it usually wears out faster, so you may need to stop sooner to change tires.
Person
Tyler Reddick
Tyler Reddick is a NASCAR race driver. The hosts are talking about how he’s behind another driver in the season points and needs to push for extra points to catch up.
Term
bonus points
Bonus points are extra points you can earn during a NASCAR race for doing certain things well. The hosts are saying Reddick needs to focus on those extra points to improve his position in the standings.
Person
Hamlin
Hamlin is Denny Hamlin, a top NASCAR driver. The discussion is about how quickly he’s adding wins and moving up the all-time win rankings.
Concept
all time list
The “all time list” is the long-term ranking of NASCAR drivers based on career results. They’re talking about how Hamlin is climbing it faster than expected because he’s winning a lot lately.
Person
Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick is a well-known NASCAR driver from the past who won a lot of races. The hosts use his name to explain where Hamlin stands on the all-time wins ranking.
Person
Earnhardt
Earnhardt is a legendary NASCAR driver. The hosts are saying Hamlin is now close to Earnhardt’s win total, which used to seem impossible.
Topic
NHRA
NHRA is the big organization that runs drag racing events in the U.S. Teams compete by making timed runs down the track.
Concept
race engine
A “race engine” is an engine set up for racing, not normal daily driving. Teams may swap different race engines in and out depending on how they’re performing at each event.
Term
dyno
A dyno is a special machine that tests an engine. It lets teams measure how much power the engine makes under controlled conditions, so they can tell if it’s performing the way they want.
Place
Norwalk
Norwalk is a racing track location in Ohio. The hosts are talking about drag-racing there and comparing how their cars did on past runs.
Term
ET
ET means “elapsed time.” It’s the time it takes the car to run the track from start to finish, and racers use it to see who’s faster.
Term
speed
Here “speed” means how fast the car is going during the race, usually measured near the end of the run. Racers look at it along with the time (ET) to judge who performed better.
Term
parts changes
“Parts changes” means the team can swap or adjust parts on the car during the race strategy. The goal is to fix what isn’t working and make the car faster or easier to drive.
Term
engineer
In Formula 1, the engineer is the team member communicating with the driver via radio to guide strategy and car setup decisions. They translate telemetry and race conditions into actionable instructions for the driver.
Term
kill switch
A kill switch is an emergency button that turns the race car off fast after an accident. Race officials use it so the car isn’t still running or powered when they need to get close.
Term
Marshalls
Marshals are the safety workers around the track. When something goes wrong, they help manage the situation and make sure the car is safe before people get near it.
Person
Hulkenberg
Hülkenberg is a Formula 1 race driver. In this part of the show, he’s mentioned in connection with a crash/incident involving debris.
Person
Alonzo
Fernando Alonso is a famous Formula 1 driver and multiple-time champion. Here, the host is saying the race played out similarly to one of Alonso’s wins.
Person
Lewis
Lewis here means Lewis Hamilton, a leading Formula 1 driver. The point is that his car was fast enough to overtake even without race-control changes helping him.
Person
Russell
Russell is George Russell, another Formula 1 driver. The host is talking about an overtake battle involving Russell and Hamilton.
Term
race pace
Race pace means how fast the car stays over the whole race, not just one quick lap. It includes how the car performs as tires wear down.
Term
Grand Prix wins
Grand Prix wins are how many Formula 1 races a driver has won. It’s a common way to compare how successful drivers have been over their careers.
Term
FIA
FIA is the organization that makes and enforces the rules for major car racing. When they say something like “according to the FIA,” it usually means it’s based on official measurements or rule-based comparisons.
Term
electrical crap
This refers to the hybrid power unit’s electrical energy systems in modern F1, such as energy recovery and deployment. In F1, the car’s performance depends on how effectively the team manages that electrical energy alongside the combustion engine, and rule-based comparisons can change how “engine” advantage is counted.
Term
power
Here “power” is the car’s usable output for acceleration and speed, not just a generic “engine power” number. In hybrid F1, the key is how the team turns available power into lap time through energy management and throttle response.
Place
Barcelona
Barcelona is the host city for the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, a track used frequently in F1. The layout is often discussed in terms of corner types—high-speed, intermediate, and low-speed—because those characteristics strongly influence which car concept looks strongest.
Term
intermediate corners
“Intermediate corners” are bends taken at moderate speed where both aerodynamic grip and mechanical grip matter. They’re often where car balance (front vs rear traction) and suspension behavior show up clearly.
Term
test track
A test track is a race circuit teams use to see how a car behaves. If a car is fast there, teams often expect it to be fast at other tracks too because the lessons about setup and balance can transfer.
Term
upgrade
In racing, an upgrade is a change to the car meant to make it faster or more reliable. When teams say “the next upgrade or two,” they mean more improvements will arrive in later races.
Place
Silverstone
Silverstone is a famous UK race track used in Formula 1. Saying it’s “a Lewis track” means Lewis Hamilton has often done especially well there, so people expect strong results when the car is capable.
Term
podium
A podium means you finish in the top three of the race. An “all British podium” means the top three drivers were all British, which doesn’t happen often.
Person
Michael Heiner
Michael Heiner is the guest/expert on this show who’s described as a crew chief. A crew chief is the person who helps lead the team’s technical and race-day decisions.
Term
top alcohol funny car
This is a category in drag racing. The cars use alcohol fuel and a funny-car body style, and they’re built to accelerate extremely fast in a straight line.
Term
supercharger overdrive
A supercharger forces extra air into the engine. “Overdrive” is how much faster the supercharger spins than the engine, which can make more power but also makes things harder on the engine.
Place
Willow Bank
Willow Bank is a race track in Australia. The hosts are saying a record run happened there.
Topic
VH Supercars up north
They’re talking about a Supercars event coming up in northern Australia. It’s basically a preview of what they’ll discuss next.
Car
Opel Astra
The Opel Astra is a regular everyday car made by Opel. It’s meant for daily driving and usually comes as a small hatchback or sedan. People might mention it because the model name is easy to confuse with other similar-sounding names.
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This is Joe Castello's WFR radio ignition covering everything that has wheels, an engine and a driver.
The reason I race is to get the chicks. You know what I mean?
NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula One, sports cars and NHRA drag racing.
Hey guys, just want to let you know WFR Rock.
WFR radio is total motorsports.
It's just so cool.
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Now, here's your host, Joe Castello.
Oh, that's right, race fans. We are back. WFR radio ignition is back.
Back after three NHRA national events in a row.
Just flew in this morning and boy are my arms tired.
My goodness, we had some great racing. It was great stuff.
It was tremendous, but never, never too tired.
Well, that's not necessarily true.
I was going to say for WFR ignition.
Now this one is a little later though.
It is a little later and I want to say thank you to all of our great sponsors like Jesse Converter's Global Emissions Systems Incorporated.
Matt Latino had himself a pretty good win this weekend or a good race.
He raced his dad in the round first round.
He won Larisse Motorsports Insurance total seal piston rings.
We got Matt Hartford winning again three wins for Hartford.
He's going to be on the show tomorrow along with Matt Hagan and Gage Herrera.
We've got so much going on.
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And wow, what can I say?
What a great weekend.
Let's bring on Giovanni in Miami.
Giovanni, welcome, welcome.
And Sue Morris, welcome, welcome.
And there's just one thing to say.
That's right.
The red sled is back in the winter circle.
We did it.
Lewis Hamilton, his first win for Ferrari, his first win since 2024.
The 106th win of his career.
The first all British podium since like 1968.
I don't really care about that.
It's just another fun fact.
So cool.
But seeing Lewis celebrate seeing how important it was, how much he cared about driving that red car.
The tears were flowing and the people were crying and sobbing and it was just tremendous.
And finally, and not only that, but it was done in a kind of a cool way, man.
A three stop strategy old school Schumacher like under pressure.
None of this like conserving and waiting and it was an aggressive win.
We did it.
Yeah.
There it is.
So great.
I don't know if it was lack of conservation or what, but the fact that the tires, they realized that the tires were going off.
And, you know, they, I don't know what happened there.
The rest of the field lost their mind when they saw Lewis pit in lap 12 or 13 or whatever that was, because it totally blew everybody else's strategy.
And then they came in within the next three laps, everyone else on the field.
But then when he came for that second stop, they all decided to stick back to their original strategy and now they were going to go long.
And then we caught a virtual safety car, which was a little bit lucky when it happened.
Guess what?
Thank goodness.
No, I had, you know what?
You don't get a 20 second lead because with the help of a, you know, you wouldn't win by 20 seconds because of the safety car.
That was hammer time, baby.
They were fast.
The car was fast for the first time in a long time.
And they were fast on track and they were, they were keeping up.
They were only two seconds behind for the first stint.
And, you know, the gap wasn't getting any bigger.
It turns out that George claims that he wasn't going all out, but because, you know, they were trying to conserve tires.
And then they, which doesn't make sense because then why did everybody come and pit right away?
Short pit, essentially that first stop.
Lewis was on a different, on the soft tire.
So he had to pit early.
He wasn't going to be able to go long too, too long.
But dude, overall speed, that race was not one because of the luck of the virtual safety car.
That race was one on race pit speed.
And God forbid they got the strategy right for once.
Wow.
I mean, they started listening to Lewis.
Me, come on.
I start off with town on their sim was off.
Yes, let me tell you, man, like nobody's talking about the simulator.
I'm, I'm all over the simulator because I know it's a big deal.
The guy makes, he's like, I'm not going to use that anymore.
Something's weird about it.
And the second that he stopped using it, you know, is it just coincidence?
Well, and they started listening to him.
They're not going to just come out and say that there was something wrong with the sim
even if there was.
So I know, I know.
But anyhow, man, it was a great, great win for Lewis, for Ferrari, for everything.
You know, he was like he said, a childhood dream.
And it's true.
Every, every driver, no matter who he drives for at some point, dreams of winning a race for Ferrari.
It's just, it's just the way it is.
It's just the way it is.
It's just the way it is.
Kind of like the New York Yankees.
But it made.
I don't know that.
New York, a lot of them that, that don't.
They hate, they, they, they, they feel the hatred.
Yeah.
Well, Ferrari, look, we, we, we saw it.
We all saw it.
Everyone knows they've been down.
Everyone knows it's been a tough period.
That was like a religious like explosion that was wild, you know, and we'll talk in sports
collision, speaking of religious like explosions, the New York Knicks are NBA champions.
That was really wild.
A lot has happened in the last week.
And I saw them doing all the morning shows this morning.
They look, they look correct.
They look like they haven't slept since Saturday night yet.
That was big, man.
That was big.
Paul, the white guy was in the city.
I watched it live.
I happened to get back to the hotel and put it on and just locked in.
And that's tenacity.
That really is.
That's a tenacity.
That's tenacity.
That team, I think really exemplifies the so-called character of New York.
Like you may or may not believe it, but down by 29, come back and win down by 16, come back and win on the road.
And they, they, they just got it done.
They just amazing.
They carried the whole city on their back.
Great job, Knicks.
Although I'm, I'm a heat man and you only care just for my friends.
Yeah, no, I'm 26 or so, you know.
New York.
Oh yeah.
New York, man.
That guy automatically becomes the greatest Nick ever already.
That's a him and what is he.
That's it.
Yeah.
And maybe they can stop showing some of those losers like starbury and.
Hello.
They got a real guy.
And, and you know what?
He probably is the most standout athlete in all of New York because the Met fans didn't like Jeter and the giant fans didn't like Joe Willie.
This guy, everybody loves him.
That's the thing about the Knicks.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
So we're going to get all of that.
Denny Hamlin one again, again.
He is on a heater on a heater.
I mean, yeah, that's four for the season and you know, we're, we're barely halfway through.
So he's got, he's got a good chance to get 67 or eight this year.
He's 19 points back now from Tyler Reddick.
So Tyler Reddick needs to start going after those bonus points.
So actually, you know, he's got not only has well, yeah.
He's been running at the front pretty much every week with the exception of a couple of weeks ago when he wrecked.
And that was, that was, he was caught up in the, in the wreck.
I mean, that was, you know, now.
Yeah, man.
And Hamlin just quickly, just like that.
He went started the season tied with, what was it?
He was tied with, with Kevin Harvick for 10 from the all time list.
And just like that in three weeks, he's passed, you know, ties cow bush passes cow bush.
And now he's all alone in ninth, just what he's got 64 now.
So he's just 12 behind Earnhardt, which seemed like he might never get there.
But now, you know, wins another couple of races this year.
And then what two or three, what did he, I think he won six last year, if I'm not mistaken.
And just like that.
That's something that might keep him around for an additional season too.
That's something like, oh man, I'm four wins away.
Well, right.
He was another two this year.
That puts him at, at a 10 behind.
And, and at the rate he's been winning races, what six last year, if you win six this year, who knows for next year.
Next thing you know, he's only a couple behind just like you said.
Yep.
I think as long as he's competitive, he's going to, and has that like, you know, carrots dangling out there.
I think he's going to go after it.
So we'll see.
But yeah, he's had all these, you know, I don't want to overstate it, but all these personal tragedies and different things going on.
Like, what else are you going to do?
You know, just go be, you know, in the dark alone.
You happen to be very talented racer.
You're still winning.
Like you said, Sue, you're winning.
You keep winning until you stop winning.
But then, and then stick around a little longer, just in case like, yeah.
Maybe you can get a couple of, you know, career garbage time wins at the very end.
And then, and then.
But the other thing that we failed to mention though, he started from the pole.
And one again.
Another week.
Another week.
I get a pole too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
But this week he didn't mess around with.
He didn't go to the back.
He just stayed at or near the front of the whole race.
That's wild.
Well,
second William Lord Byron.
Third John Hunter, Nima check Kyle Larson, Eric Jones, Chris Busher,
Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs and Ryan Blaney,
rounding out the top 10 for the remainder of the results.
You can check online.
I was going to say,
I believed anyone is first two races at Pocono that, that,
not his rookie year, but the second year that he won two races.
He won both Pocono races.
I thought Pocono has been good to Hamlin for sure.
Interesting.
But on that note, Bobby Graham.
Hello, Bobby Graham.
How are you?
I'm doing good.
Pretty good.
What's that shirt say today?
Please be patient.
Please be patient with me.
I'm here from 1900s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks, Bobby.
I had somebody said to me.
I too.
I'm from the 1900s.
Oh, you were from the 1900s?
Yeah.
And I'm like, whoa, wait a minute.
I'm like, yeah, you're right, man.
You know.
Yeah.
You make it sound like,
it was like,
to the point where there's a lot of people not from the 1900s.
Matt in Australia is down there as well.
He is driving though.
I see him driving.
So I've got you muted matches because we heard a lot of,
you know, auto noise.
But when the time comes,
when the time comes, mate,
we'll bring you on here.
Right?
Bobby, I thought about you this weekend.
I heard the I'm sexy and I mow it song.
That made the NHRA feed.
Did it?
It did.
Well, you know, in between when they're not showing anything
and they're just playing music.
Yep.
Well, I think they're showing the track all rained out.
We're all getting rained on.
We got rained on.
We battled back, but we got it in, baby.
We got it in another one.
Three races.
We fought a little weather at each and we got it.
I'm all in tremendous.
I am exhausted, but we did it.
It was good stuff.
Antron Brown gets the win.
Matt.
Matt.
Yeah.
And then, of course, Hartford, Hartford getting it done.
Yeah.
Three wins.
He's matched his greatest diamond Wally's.
Yes.
But the thing is where in the season it's happening is there's a
lot more winning to do.
Matt Hartford could end the season with.
Well, you know, he needs to end the season with six or more.
Yeah.
Because the countdown, you know, you got to get,
win, get a win in the countdown.
You got to have a, you got to start like this.
Now it's a different, different vibe, right?
Like, yeah.
Yes.
It's like, okay, this is a team that can win any race they show
up at and there's a certain expectation.
That's all with that comes a certain expectation now, like
finish the job, contend for a championship.
Last year they finished third was good.
But really it was the Dallas Greg show and Hartford beat everybody
else this year.
It's kind of exciting.
Yeah.
This year, I think that Hartford, if they race like they're racing
right now, if this is the new level that they've achieved, they
figured out how to be like this, you know, four finals, three
wins, driving, driving great.
Yeah.
That's the kind of stuff that wins championships.
But Greg Anderson is not going away.
Dallas Glenn is not going away.
And I know their red car is not going away.
He's just getting better and better.
Red cars are not going away.
No way.
So we'll just have to wait and see.
But if you're a fan, you have to love the mix right now of what's
going on.
I mean, it's just other than the 14 cars or whatever it was, 15
cars.
Well, come on.
Yeah.
They'll be back.
Michael Heiner will be back.
I hope so.
I hope so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see what Matt will get ready to do the fantasy results.
Let's see what's going on with Australia.
He's commuting.
He's going from place to place.
What's up, Matt?
Hey, guys.
G'day.
G'day, mate.
Come on.
Good.
I'll be in the cast studio for probably the whole show, I
reckon.
OK.
Wow, man.
Heading to our capital.
Oh, that's great.
Canberra.
Is that what it is?
Sorry, mate.
The capital is called what?
You broke up.
Canberra.
Canberra.
Canberra.
Canberra.
Canberra.
Canberra.
Got it.
Nice.
All right.
Yes.
Hey, Matt.
Are you digging all the Ferrari going on over here?
More than happy for the team and for the great driver that he
is.
Absolutely.
There you go.
Listen.
For those of you that are audio only, I forgot to mention.
Yeah, Joe and Gio are both wearing our Ferrari gear.
I can finally break it back out again.
It's been two years since Ferrari gets a win.
So, you know, I had to bust off all the, you know, it had got
all dusty in the back of the closet there.
Me too.
Well, I got excited to go back to Vegas because they've always
got gear, right?
We can go back to Dix now.
We can get our Ferrari gear available at Dix.
I don't know about you guys, but we've got Ferrari gear.
Dix, really?
Yep.
Maybe because we're forming the one city here in Miami.
Could be.
Could be.
Well, it's overrun with the World Cup crap this week.
Because I was there.
In the USA, by the way, speaking of sports stuff, that's
another thing.
We scored four goals.
My goodness.
I hope we score another one in the tournament.
That's our previous tournament totals.
But we'll get into that in Sports Colleges.
Good to see you, Matt.
And you know who else is here?
Who's back home?
Who's made it back home from his journey?
Look at this guy.
Have you heard me?
Yes, I'm normal.
I'm not home.
Oh, thanks.
I haven't even started my trip back yet.
Where are you?
I am.
Oh, what's the name of this?
It's near King's Court.
No.
It begins with V, I think.
You're in the state of Virginia.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No, yes.
He's in the state of Virginia.
I'm in this place.
Hang on, hang on, hang on.
No wonder he goes to all races.
He can't find his way home.
This guy.
I'm in Abington.
Oh, Abington.
I know Abington.
I have an appointment in the morning to have my car serviced.
Oh, that's good plan.
He's put 10,000 miles on it, driving from Sacramento.
I had it done just before I left.
I mean, like days before I left.
And it's at 5,200 miles.
He's driven 5,200 miles and he's not even back.
He got 3,000 more to go.
Well, no, it's not 3,000.
It's like 22, I think it is.
All right.
But what an adventure.
He is, he's on an adventure.
I looked for you on the trackwalk, man.
I didn't see you.
So they announced Saturday plenty of times that they were starting early.
Yes.
And for some reason I got it in my head 10 o'clock because that was a start time.
Yes.
But a rookie mistake was I didn't subtract an hour for pre-race.
Right.
So I'm in my room.
I didn't have the greatest night's sleep.
I'm going, I'll get there.
I start, I get out.
I don't even know it until I get to the, getting out of the car in a parking lot.
And I hear Pastor Eddie giving the invocation.
I'm like, what the hell?
I look at my watch.
Oh, I was pissed.
Pissed.
Well, at least you saw.
You saw.
You were there though.
You were there.
Oh, no, no, no.
It was, it was very good.
I love the track, man.
Take care of you there, man.
I'll tell you that.
Well, we'll get into that a little bit later now that everyone is signed on.
And I see Monica and Megan in the chat and everybody's here.
Megan says forza Ferrari baby.
Great job.
Megan says Hartford's killing it.
Monica says, says 7 a.m. at the track always won't miss anything.
Get there at 7 a.m. and just sleep there.
You shouldn't just let there.
We weren't opening the parking lot early enough.
Ah, all right.
Well, we'll forward that information.
But right now Bobby Graham is going to get ultimately, but anyway, it happens.
The dieted show tonight, guys.
If for a real reason, Bobby's going to get fantasy league results.
But the Giovanni studio, it has other functions at certain times
and will be needed for functioning.
So this show is what's how long we got there.
Giovanni timekeeper.
About 30 man.
So, so I'm choking over here.
No, Bobby, do your thing.
Let's do fantasy.
All right, y'all hang on.
We'll see.
The races.
Here's the winners of the race.
Lowes.
Number one.
Losing cones is still out there.
Low way out there.
Be like Biff.
Number two.
Mr. fantasy NASCAR third.
Oh, royal flesh racing was tied in third place with it.
Oh, since dad's trailblazer was fifth.
Tied with him was team 12.
Seventh place.
Bug bar.
Good job, Bob.
Finally.
Anyway.
And 11th place was Willie.
Eighth place with Willie be racing.
Ninth place.
Stubo.
Intimidator Harley.
Now for what everybody wants.
The season results.
The NASCAR.
First place still in first bulls wool.
Sorry, Megan.
You dropped number three.
Team 12 took over position.
Number two.
Megan.
Bring it back.
He's up one.
Fifth place.
Royal flesh racing.
Sixth place.
Down to PT 14.
Seventh place.
No move.
Mr. fantasy NASCAR.
Eighth place.
Olson's trailblazer.
Ninth place.
Intimidator Harley.
And in 10th place, Southern racer X.
And that's where we had on our NASCAR.
Oh, look out.
Now, if you want to drag race, I can give you that.
Yeah, you give me drag race bracket.
And I really, really what I need you to do is give me the new
drag race bracket bonanza.
Post new England nationals.
I got that.
That's very important.
I knew that was important.
So I feel like that one is important.
I don't know why.
I wonder.
I don't know why.
For the new England nationals.
Yes.
Here we go.
And I'm only going to give it a top three.
First place.
Is Kelly D 44.
Second place is dirty K.
And then third place.
And this is the D RBB league.
Is WFO Joe.
Oh, baby.
Overall, he was third place in the WFO league.
Oh,
so, so that was that KD 44 was the WFO league.
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, no, that was the,
that was the drag race.
Right.
It was first in the WFO league.
First in the WFO league.
Yes, sir.
Was I know I was third.
Well, Kelly O 44 was first.
Okay.
In the WFO league.
Let me get the W for the new England nationals.
No, you know what?
I did not get the post race in the WFO league.
Okay.
All right.
Well, whatever.
There was just one that I wanted to make and also so the other
podcast knows I'm paying attention.
I'm listening.
So that was so they know also.
Excellent.
I did keep up.
That's why I look for it.
And what about after the Thunder Valley Nationals?
After the Thunder Valley Nationals.
I can tell you I did not finish in the top three.
I had Billy Torrance going a long way.
I had.
Yeah.
I had more red on this one.
I'm not even.
But in first place this time.
We have.
Big dog, which is.
Matt's mate from down under in first place.
All right.
There we go.
Second place.
Fletch.
Third place.
Mrs. T Matt.
Fourth place is pokey.
In fifth place is BK NHRA one.
Matt's WFO league.
That's WFO league.
That's for the race for the WFO league for the season.
Here we go.
Super street.
5345.
Let me get some more.
Second place.
BK NHRA one.
Third place.
State fair guy.
Fourth place.
O2 plumb.
In fifth place.
Skeeter.
Skeeter.
Skeeter.
That's WFO league.
Overall.
Oh, over.
That was overall.
Yeah.
Now for the drag race bonanza bracket.
Yes.
The big league.
Thing we can see the belt.
First place for the race was Hollywood.
Second place.
Big dog coal.
Matt's mate down there out down under made it again.
Third place.
Magician Z 28.
Fourth place.
Black widow 1320.
In fifth place.
My same size.
And that was a race results winner.
What a weird name.
Yeah.
I'm not going to.
My same size.
What are we talking about?
So now the d d rbb league for the season.
First place.
Super street.
5345.
Second place.
Black widow 1320.
Third place.
BK NHRA one.
Fourth place.
Cupcake.
In fifth place.
Is sans gallbladder.
And that's for the season.
In the d rbb league.
Gallbladder.
Matt Smith.
Matt Smith.
I don't know.
This was from the start.
They've had this name.
That's a recent thing.
Yeah, that's a recent.
Well, good job.
Bobby Graham.
Good job.
Thank you for that.
Excellent.
Excellent work.
Excellent work.
So before we, you know, I guess, you know, we do anything else.
We want to talk about formula one or NASCAR related.
Gio or Sue or anybody out there with any takes.
That we need to address big stories.
I will be very honest.
I did watch formula one.
I've watched pretty much all formula one right before the show.
So I'm like on that.
NASCAR.
I'm going to have to go back and check out the highlights.
I have not seen that, but I can tell you Danny Hamlin.
That's really impressive.
What is going on right now?
Is there any other topics that we need to.
Address.
I think Hendricks starting to come around.
They're starting to find some speed.
They're not there yet.
Toyotas are still dominating.
It was impressive watching Eric Jones and John Hunter.
Neema check.
They're really.
That team is starting to.
Joe and.
They're coming into their own is what I will say.
So.
But for Pocono.
The other thing that they did for Pocono is they actually moved
the start time up because they had the threat of rain as well,
which was a very smart thing for them to do.
So they went to a one o'clock start,
which prime gives them that flexibility.
Having it on prime definitely gives it that flexibility,
but that worked out great because after the race ended,
the storm came not long after.
So they, they would not have finished that race.
It is a record eighth Pocono victory for Danny Hamlin.
That's pretty impressive.
And the next race is the, the 250 at the.
The new San Diego.
It's going to be a rough track.
Hang on.
Yeah.
Race the base Coronado.
I think that's interesting kind of a, you know,
a different kind of look.
It's a live includes the military.
Yep.
They're doing a lot to bring in the military for that race.
So to have them, to have them there.
They're putting a lot of emphasis on that.
But, but hey,
they give you an idea on how that tracks going to be go watch a
NASCAR versus the Navy on prime.
Well, it was well done, but, but.
Man.
I don't know that tracks rough.
It's going to be, it's, it's going to be a rough one.
So we'll see how it should be exciting.
We'll see.
I think there's going to be some carnage is what I was,
is what I'll put my money on.
There's going to be carnage and.
And I think SVG is going to be leading the pack.
So, because, you know, you, you put them on a,
on a different track and who's going to come ahead.
I think it's going to be SVG for sure.
Every dollar you've got in every dollar I've gotten.
Let's take it and put it all together and bet it all on SVG.
Yeah, we're going to make two bucks.
We'll make two dollars. Hey, we'll double our money.
You know, what could, what could happen?
He's got it. It's in the bag.
In the bag.
I think he's going to, but.
It's, it's going to be, that's going to, I'm excited to see that.
Yeah. All right. So let's, let's talk a little bit.
Kevin, you did three consecutive races. I think.
You know, we, we'd like to spend a moment or two before we get to
sports collision and, and ultimately to Matt for
and abbreviated from the road Australia report to hear about
this incredible adventure you've been on. You really have.
Like this is in the end, when you run, you end up around,
you know, 7,500 miles or whatever it turns out to be for
NHRA drag racing and some other personal stuff.
But, but, but wow.
So the journey from New England to Bristol, you got down there your
first time at Bristol. What did you think?
Impressive. You know, and frisky warned me about the hills,
but they, they were, it's not a problem because there was golf
carts everywhere, man. I mean, they, they would take you pretty
much anywhere you wanted to go.
Okay. So you get, they, they had people moving you around,
ferrying you around from, from two.
The only real complaint I have is sun, man.
Why don't these racetracks put some kind of sunshade?
Right. Block the sun out.
Don't know why.
Because it was horrible, man.
It was hot. The humidity was up there.
I mean, the temperature wasn't bad.
It was like low 80s. I think maybe seven or 70s.
84.
It was probably about the same amount, you know?
Yeah. I mean, you couldn't sit out there for very long.
Bobby, you got something?
Yeah, I was, what just happened with Bobby?
I don't, it happens sometimes when I do that.
Why did that happen?
I think Kevin's right on that.
I think it wouldn't cost that much to put up a few little
circus tents, you know, like fireworks stand tents and put
up to just put a little shade or ever so ever little bit.
There was a little shade to get out of.
I'm talking about in the grandstands, man.
Well, there were, did you have seats that are under the shade?
I think you maybe noticed up there.
Yeah. Oh, no, that's where I'm going next year, man.
When they make that call back.
Yeah. Check out my seat.
Yeah. In the shade, baby.
You know?
Because yeah, I'm not doing that.
You had a reserved seat. I saw your seat.
You had a reserved seat.
I saw you up there once. I forget what I like.
I saw you and I said, hey, there he is.
And then I lost you.
Like I couldn't find you again. It was bizarre.
Well, because I wasn't sitting for very long, Joe.
I'd come out, watch what I need to watch and find the shape somewhere.
D-Rail says, D-Rail says what you need to do is get an umbrella hat.
Right. That's what D-Rail has.
He's got one of those old school umbrella hats and it works.
It does look a little on.
I have one of the floppy hats,
boony hats or whatever they call fucking hats,
N-H-R-E logo on it.
How does it feel to have become a, you know,
like an N-H-R-A, you know, I don't know what the right word is,
mascot or, you know, I don't want to,
I'm staying away from the word icon because that's extreme.
Oh, no, that's not even close.
But people were following you.
Yeah.
There were people that you became, people became aware of you.
People are aware of you now. You did this.
Right.
It's all it takes.
Right.
Three in a row.
I went there and met Ray.
Yeah. You were in the shirt.
Yeah. Got the T-Nash shirt on.
He's a great guy.
Both almost crashed.
Yes. Holy moly.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought for sure he was going to win and all of a sudden he's
going right.
And I was like, oh, I didn't think those cars could do that.
Yeah.
I didn't get with that kind of control, but apparently they are.
They are Ray.
So listen,
Johnathan Allagrucci and Ray and I don't root for anyone except in
situations like that, like Ray, they've been so close,
knocking at the door.
He's a really good guy.
We talk a lot.
He's very friendly. He texts, you know, messages me information
about the team.
They're super excited.
I got all that vibe when I went down there.
I went down there.
He showed me all the car, told me his whole story, told me, you know,
I was about to class.
He was, you know, he was a number one person and I wanted to get back
there at the end of the race yesterday, but I just said, no,
I got to get back to the room and get and go to sleep.
Well, exactly.
It is exhausting.
My room was a literally less than, you know,
where that pit stop place gas station diner places.
Yep.
Huh?
Oh, yeah.
I sent that far.
It's just.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah. Okay. Well, my, I could walk from where I would,
my Airbnb room was to that pits, to that.
Yeah.
You weren't, you weren't barred off on the track.
No, you were close.
What was it?
When I pulled up, it's a commercial building.
Okay.
The guy that owns it.
The guy that owns it has a Jiu-Jitsu studio on underneath.
Okay.
And on the top floor, he's put in eight rooms.
Two restrooms.
Two complete restrooms and one, just the toilet.
And he's got a full kitchen in there.
Nice living area.
But that's it.
There's some dishes, but it's bare bones, man.
And you go into the room and it's, there's a bed,
a couple of end tables for lights.
And that's it.
Oh, there's a one chair.
No TV.
Yes.
There's a TV with all kinds of stuff.
Well, what else do you want?
What do you want?
Yeah.
Well, that's, that's, it was perfect for me.
All right.
Cause that's all you need a place to sleep.
It's built for you.
Exactly.
Now communal shower, communal shower.
No, it's private, but everybody uses the same too.
Yeah.
Camille.
Yeah.
You got like the race.
Yeah, man.
They were very fast out there.
It's no, it's no different than a hotel restroom that you're
sharing, sharing with a friend.
Right.
And you know, whatever.
Right.
Right.
You lock the door and.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I respect full of people and there was one, I assume it was a
guy, but I don't know.
He came in after I did and left before I did and never saw him.
But not a race fan though.
Huh?
Not a race fan though.
I don't know if he was or not.
I'd never saw him talk to him.
So I don't know.
I just heard him coming and going.
I really love getting back to getting into the epping.
That's a nice track.
Old school, Maryland, of course, was nice.
Yeah.
People, that's why I was so mad about the track walk.
Cause I knew you were going to be looking for me.
I was.
I know.
And I was so pissed.
That's the first one I've missed and I don't know how many
races I've been to now, but this year I've been to five.
I'm half.
I'm over half of what they've ran already.
Dude, I think that's the same as me.
I think I've been to five.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, um, and then, um, then I got four more plan.
Wow.
Sonoma for Sonoma, uh, the big go Dallas.
Okay.
But you're having fun though.
Like so real quick.
And then we'll move on to the next thing, but last man talking
to people.
I met people from all over, all over everywhere.
You're talking to people.
Yeah.
Of course I am.
It's sociable out there.
Drivers are starting to recognize me.
A couple of crew guys are starting to recognize me.
They're going.
You know,
It's cool.
You're a memorable character.
Well, yeah.
But I'm getting less memorable.
March 1st, the Gator Nationals.
I was 350.
And what are you now?
Last Wednesday, I was 324.8.
Hey, there you go.
There you go.
Good job.
There you go.
Two weeks into the trip and I've been able to maintain.
You know, I haven't.
I haven't.
Good job.
Well, the walking.
The walking.
Well, I've radically changed my diet.
There's still changes to make there.
But the main thing is as I'm picking set pounds and that's
helping a lot, but that's given me the.
Encouragement, so to speak, because now that I've seen real.
Real change.
You know, appreciable change.
It's, it's helping a lot, but I'm having a blast out there.
I'm just going to do a little different.
I've learned a lot this time.
I just kind of.
The one thing is that I will do on the way back that I didn't do on
the way here.
Cause I left two days late.
And my advice to anybody that's on a road trip.
Leave as early as you can.
Cause you just never know what's going to happen on the road.
I was very fortunate.
I didn't run into any problems.
That way.
Be careful. Hey, hey, hey, you're not.
Hey, you're not home yet.
Let's not say anything like that.
Hold on.
Right.
The problem I'm going to try to make is I was rushed because I
left two days later than I wanted to.
Right.
And now I've got no commitment other than I need to be at home.
Right.
So I'm going to take my time.
You could always go to Norwalk, Ohio for the double divisional
coming up this year.
You were not the first person to tell me to do that.
It was the national.
I did it.
And I was like, okay.
It's two weeks away. No, I can't do it.
Can't do it.
It's two weeks away.
And then,
son of a gun,
I'm hearing on the speaker.
Oh, they got a divisional there.
Yeah.
Double divisional, double divisional.
Double divisional.
So that will the fun.
Megan says protein and electrolytes and a ton of water.
and you will survive. I went through two gallons Friday and Saturday and a gallon and a half Saturday
Sunday. That's great. Oh my gosh, look at this guy. Hey, everybody's in the corner. My clienter is
there. What's up, my clienter? I was just coming in to listen. I wasn't really... All right, so you know him.
I just wanted to bring him in. I got my co-pilot going over here. Oh my god. I believe you're
my pilot. I guess I'm the co-pilot. I was going to say, you're the co-pilot.
He's testing for his license tomorrow, so we'll see what happens. Oh, good job. Good job. You'll
be good. All right, so we're wrapping up with Sacramento Racing. Man, he just did three consecutive
races, Michael. Yeah, I saw Kevin. It was great. Amazing stuff. Any final thoughts on that, Kevin?
Before we get to Michael. You know, you got to get out. When I'm at home, I'm doing nothing.
I am literally a vegetable. I'm getting out. I'm meeting people.
Life long friends through the NHRA. Good job. Good job. Before Heiner gets his location,
Heiner, you noticed we're wearing Ferrari racing red. Yeah, so I'm fat. My Ferrari shirt
doesn't fit anymore, so I'm going to have to acquire a new one. Well, it's a good time to buy one.
Yeah, Vegas, you can get them. Dix, you can get them.
We missed you out there this weekend. We don't fat shake people.
But my engine won the race, so. That was your engine.
I know now I'm in an argument with Hartford over whether I'm getting a back or not.
You want to illuminate that to everybody? You're not getting it back with Michael.
What number is that engine? So that's 67. That's been my race engine since we
went to KB in 2018. It's always been mine. But we heard it, and then we were running 58,
which was a slug. We took it out 54 and 54 ran fast and I broke it, but it was an easy fix.
We put 54 back in. 67 was having some issues. They couldn't get it up to snuff on the dyno.
It's not really my place to say what they found. I happen to know this actual thing, but
they got it back. And then when we were in
Bud's Creek, first we put 54 in and blind shot their first round. We were third fastest, so we
didn't really want to change it. Epping was what it was, but we made a good run on Sunday.
And we took it out and Hartford
and hurt his race engine first round and Epping. And then he put 67 in. And obviously they went
to the final and lost. And then so they ran it. They left it in because it ran so well.
And they left it in Bristol and won. I think they had put in another engine and they didn't
like it. And then they went back to it is what I kind of feel like happened, but I could have lost
track. Yeah, I'm not really sure. I know I got a phone call from Hartford Saturday night telling me
that he hoped that I enjoyed my time with 67, but it was done. So I'm now loving to run 69,
which is his engine. So when they have his engine done, I'm going to put his engine in.
And hopefully I get to say magic that he got out of mine. How funny is that? I like it. Yeah.
Yeah. And then I love that he called you. Yeah. What's that? Amber's a dirt bag. I text her.
Actually, I text a group. We have a chat group chat and told them I wanted 67 back and
Amber replied that there was this number was no longer available. And please try your call again.
That was the message I got back. I love Amber. Yeah, that's it. Thank you.
We'll get into that more on our whenever we do our next show.
Yes. Thank you for your service, Michael. Thanks for the engine.
Yeah, pretty much that's how that was. They'll never speak to me again as long as they're running
67. I also pointed out 67 outran them at Norwalk when we tied on speed and I got
or tied on ET and I got them on speed. That was 67 back then too. So
they're not going to let me have it for Norwalk. So it'll be a fight.
Yeah. You are back for Norwalk though. Little momentary breaking news. You guys are back.
Yeah. We'll be in Norwalk and then I believe we're good for the rest of the year.
Still waiting on finalize some more sponsorship stuff. But yeah, as long as everybody does what
they say they're going to do, we should be good to run the rest of the year.
How the hell is Michael Heiner so crystal clear while driving in a car, guys?
I don't hear him. He's amazing. It's incredible.
Sounds better than we do. What are you using, Michael? Are you on your laptop or something?
No, I'm on my iPhone with my AirPods. We're riding in Logan's car. Well, it's not Logan's car. So
it's our car that he's driving until he pays half and since he ain't got a job, that's going to be a
long time off.
Y'all have a goal. Gotta Just get good grades, kid. You'll be good. You'll be all right.
They'll forgive the debt. Eventually. Eventually. His mother's an accountant.
I don't believe any debts get forgotten or forgiven.
Time is on your side, Logan. Time is on your side, buddy.
He's never getting out of the ledger if mom's a bean counter.
She is the head bean counter. She's a CFO, so yeah.
That's well. So we talked formula one yet?
Well, we did, but we're about to double back. We're always ready to talk formula one.
Yes, especially from your side. Your takes are welcome.
Did you talk about Hulkenberg?
No. Anybody other than Lewis and like a little touch on the podium.
So, I mean, first off, Lewis winning that race phenomenal. The fact that he requested the engineer
change, he requested parts changes on his car. I know Leclerc is the default leader of the team
because he's been there, but Talania sure looks like Hamilton's run on that program or should be
run on that program. Agreed. All of it. I mean, I just like, you know, when you've got a guy that's
won that many races and that many championships and now look, I'm not a big Lewis fan, but I'm a huge
Ferrari fan to do what he's done and to have that kind of asset on a guy that's been fast in a
Ferrari. Like, I mean, when you have that kind of resource available to you, it'd be like for
me if Greg Anderson come over and said something to me, Hey, I think you need to do this and I
don't do it. Who's false that? Right. Like, I mean, when you have that guy accessible to you,
how do you not use that information? So, but the Hulkenberg thing was kind of crazy. I don't know
if you guys saw, but Hulkenberg's car just went dead to shut off. Absolutely just shut off.
And he had a piece of gravel thrown up and it punctured the nose, but it also another piece
of gravel hit the kill switch that you have to push in perfectly to get it to distance to shut
the car off. It's in case there's an accident, the Marshalls can come up and it's right next to,
you guys all see the giant E on the side of every car. Well, there's a button right next to that and
you push that in to shut the car off. It kills the battery, kills the engine, everything goes
dead. And Hulkenberg, I think he was falling Linvatter Lawson and the button, a rock hit the
thing while he was following him, car went dead. Wow. 20 billion shot. Like, I mean,
how does a piece of gravel come off? Yeah, I saw they later on, they showed the whole
Yeah, there was a hole in the nose cone, but the to push the button, there was no damage
next to the button. So a piece of gravel literally had to push and hit it just right with enough
force to shove it straight in and that's what happened. Insane. That's crazy. And Ferrari again,
this kind of reminds me of when Alonzo won that race on the three stop deal. Like, you know,
if we could just, as Ferrari fans, if we could just race in Barcelona all the time,
that would be phenomenal. I mean, I'm the first one to hammer on Ferrari for pit strategy and stuff,
but they pretty much had that three stop strategy down. And again, I don't know why people don't
look at history because history repeats itself. And this was just like Alonzo's race. And I think
regardless whether that virtual safety car came out or not, I think Lewis had enough
pace to easily pass Russell. So let's ask this question then because I'm looking at the point
standings and Kami's got 156, Lewis has got 115, George has got 106, Charles is 75, Lando 73.
Is this a one time deal or is this a race for the championship from here on out? You think
Ferrari is now fast or is this just a one race anomaly? I think Ferrari's definitely,
for as bad as Ferrari missed the upgrade package they had a couple years ago
when they brought it to Barcelona and they were just terribly slow.
They hit a home run with this one. I don't know that they're not straight up pace faster than
Mercedes. Mercedes is still the class of the field, but I definitely think they have
for two thirds as a gap to Mercedes. Now they won that one on strategy. I mean,
had they all been running the same tire at the same time, I don't know that Ferrari is faster
than Mercedes, but I will definitely say race pace. They've definitely closed the gap well up.
The other crazy stat I saw over the weekend and I didn't really realize it till I saw it.
If Kimmy Anthony wins the next race, he will have the same number of Grand Prix wins as George Russell.
What? Yeah, he's one. He's got five. Yeah, he's right behind. He's right behind Russell. Russell
has six, so he'll tie Russell. That's wild. Yeah. And he's quickly looking like he's the faster
driver and the golden child over there at Mercedes. Well, it goes back to, I mean, we talked about it
back when I worked in the cup in the 90s, like you got to give a driver a car that they want.
We've seen it with Max. We've seen it with Jeff Gordon back in the day. Jimmy Johnson,
like if you give these guys a car that they're comfortable with getting super aggressive with,
they're good. Well, I don't know that this car fits Russell like it does Kimmy. I think the last
era of car was probably better for Russell. And you look at what Lewis has been able to adapt
everything, like Lewis has been fast no matter what he's in. But it's kind of like Sebastian
Vettel when he left Red Bull and went to Ferrari. Ferrari's car was not a front dominant car,
and he struggled when he first got there. They had to make a very pointy car for him to be successful.
And just like Max has taken a step back. Well, his is really his had jar that good,
or if they just made a car more capable of driving for everybody. And Max doesn't have that pointy
nose that he likes to drive. So yeah, I don't know. That's kind of interesting.
The Red Bull has shown some speed these last few weeks. They were pretty fast in the speed
traps that overall speed, they just don't have the the race pace, I guess is what you would call.
Yeah, well, I mean, they technically, according to the FIA have the best engine. I mean, Mercedes
is getting a upgrade. Right. Is that what it is that Mercedes is engine is actually better,
but that they're using more of the electrical crap. And so it doesn't count towards the
measure. Technically, technically, it's a 50 50 split. So if that's the case, they have,
it just means that Mercedes is doing a better job with with the power they have. I mean,
I don't know. I think it's going to be interesting as they move forward.
Barcelona's got a lot of different race tracks are different similarities to a lot of different
tracks. There's high speed corners. There's intermediate corners. There's there's not
really the low speed corners that you have at some tracks like Monaco. So yeah, I'm very interested
to see what happens when they move beyond beyond Barcelona, but think about over the years. I
mean, Barcelona has always been the test track, right? So if you're fast there, that typically
carries over. So I really hope that this shows that Ferrari could be competitive with
Mercedes moving forward. Maybe the next upgrade or two could get us get us in the hunt on a
regular basis. Man, that would be great. Michael, thank you for signing on. That's good. But after
that is Silverstone and we know that that's a definitely a Lewis track. So that is definitely
a Lewis track. Well, and how about how about that? And I didn't realize it until they said it on the
show that that was the first all British podium since 1968. That's crazy. I mean, that was even
before the next one, the previous championship. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Logan, he did a good job. You
didn't have to yell at him once driving. You did a good job. I didn't have to yell at you once
about your driving. Very stable. Very stable. All right. I'm going to say goodbye to everybody.
There you go. Michael Heiner with us here, our resident crew chief. How about that? We learned
a couple of nuggets. Hartford's going to be on tomorrow. I'll definitely talk about that.
It's a kinder. That's going to be fun. It's a kinder's engine. What are you doing? It's a
kinder's engine. Now, you know what that what's he going to do? Speaking of the Knicks,
sports collision, Giovanni. All right. Sports collision. And last week, we're discussing the
NHL and NBA finals. And this week, that's it. Both series are over. I guess kind of quick there.
You know, I was hoping to get a seven game, at least in the hockey that was such a great series
back and forth. But we'll quickly touch base with them as the Carolina Hurricanes bring home the cup,
their first cup in 20 years. And, you know, they were down two games to one in the series,
but they were the better team. They were the overall number one seed all season long. And so
congratulations to them. It's just further evidence that the South has taken over hockey
and the warm states as I believe that's what five champions in a row. Carolina,
two Florida, Vegas, Tampa Bay before that. So yeah, sorry, Toronto. I know you guys haven't won
since I believe it's 1993. And the rest of you Northern teams, I don't know what's going on,
but hockey is a Southern sport now. And so yeah, so congratulations to Carolina Hurricanes,
which are typically the Panthers are their daddy. So we'll see what happens next year when they get
their team back. And everyone is healthy again. But congratulations to them. And of course,
congratulations to the dirty stinking Knicks fans who I'm very happy for you as someone who was
born in the geographically located there. But man, you guys, you guys are a bunch of assholes,
throwing eggs, beating up the guy, anybody wearing a spurs jersey, all that crap is totally
uncalled for, you know. And my guess is that the idiots that do that stuff aren't real fans.
Those are just idiots that are out there looking for a reason to be able to get into a fight.
But unfortunately, that puts every real fan that goes to an away game at risk. You don't
realize that. But then some idiot that's in some other town is just as dumb as you are is going
to think that it's okay for them to do that to your team and your fans. And it's not. It's just
not. It's incredible to me how no one remembers the first thing we learn as children. And when we
go to school, shut up and keep your hands to yourself. It's not that complicated, people.
Yeah, wait a second, old man, but my team won and I get to do whatever I want.
You get to celebrate, but you don't get to act like an asshole. Sorry.
Celebrating and beating people up was before they even won the championship, throwing
you saw that one, that post first guy, maybe chase him. It was terrible.
They chased him. They knocked him down. They ripped his jersey off. They were kicked. You know,
they kicked him. He kicked me when I was down, man. It's totally uncalled for. All right.
Well, you gave the rest of the real fans a bad name. And those folks can't be trusted. Like
that's a life and death scenario to me. That's what I'm trying to say.
And then the whole mentality takes, takes a hole. They're not going to just let them go there.
And then everybody starts, yeah, put dog piling on the guy. So totally unnecessary.
And I am that you finally won a championship, you know, for my friends and for, you know,
probably the white guy and Vlad is still crying. I could hear him on the radio this morning. He
was still crying tears of joy. Their whole life has been validated. No, it's a big deal. It's a
big deal. I'm happy for the city. Look, it's a city of 10 million people, the people who are
misbehaving compared to the number of people who are fans. It's a micro fraction, but unfortunately
in the days of cameras and videos and TVs and social, we all see everything.
And it's, it is terrible. It's unfortunate. And many of those people, I got to tell you,
they're all young. You know, that's another thing. They're all young. I don't see any middle-aged
men out there climbing on poles. But, and I hate to be prisoner of the moment here,
but I think combined, those were the two best finals I have ever seen in my life.
Just both, both NHL and NBA. Maybe there was a better NBA finals at some point and a better
hockey finals, but combined to going head to head, one game, you know, every other night,
one of the, one of the games going on, we had, you know, in, in the hockey, the first five games
were all 11 goal games and we had two overtime games. We even had a double overtime game.
And, and in the NBA, what are you going to say? The Spurs just, you know, a little coaching
malpractice here and there, and maybe a team that's just too young and it's got to learn how to,
how to win because they had the lead, not only in every game, they had a double digit lead in
every single game at the start of the game and in the fourth quarter of every single game. And
they, you'd think that they won the series if I gave you that crazy stat, but no, they lost four
games to one. It's, it's pretty unreal. And I think I saw somewhere the Spurs led over 70% of the
actual game time, like almost 75%. And what is, what is that storyline about? What's his name?
Wemby throwing a 60 point Brunson ball into the stands. You know about that?
No idea. Earlier this year, they played and Brunson like put up 60 or something, but lost.
And Wemby took the ball and launched it into the stands or something as like an FU.
And yeah, you know, just stuff that pops up on social. I figured.
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't heard that one. I don't know if it's even true. You know,
unfortunately we live in an era where everything I see online, I don't really necessarily believe
if it's true. Right. Not every single thing. It's terrible. But what are you going to do?
And that was it. You know, we got some conclusion there, NBA, NHL, and two great series. It was
very entertaining. And then we've got the whole world is over here on our side of the world now,
watching this soccer, football, and the team USA on Friday night, we had discussed a big opening
match against the Paraguay. And I believe that we will win. And we were fine.
I don't like that. I'm so against that. I believe we will win.
They got a quick auto goal, the self goal, own goal, about 67 minutes into the into the
game. And in miracle fashion, something that the US team never does, instead of just taking that
lead and trying to play defense, they actually kept playing and continue to score. It was a
amazing to watch. I don't know how good this team actually is. Paraguay is not just the doormat.
I mean, I've seen that they've beat Brazil before and other viable teams. But I guess we're really
going to find out over the next couple of weeks. So we play Australia on Friday. And so Matt, I'm
sure is ready for that. Are we ready for that? I'm telling you here. I want to see what you're
doing. Oh, oh, yes. Go ahead, Matt. No, he froze. No, he's good. Go ahead, Matt.
Coming to get you. Little brother coming to get you. You guys should win.
You guys have been playing for 100 years. I believe they're playing Seattle
is where that game I believe is in. I will let me come from Friday. Right. It is in Seattle.
It's five a.m. Saturday morning. Oh, that's perfect. You guys just got to get up a little bit
early. Yes. Yeah, it's at 3 p.m. to drown your sorrows.
But I really don't know. I really doubt the U.S. has any chance to go past the round of 16.
But I do know that this is the best individual talented team they've ever had where they've
never had more players that play, you know, in the European leagues and they're individually
better, you know, very talented. We're historically we've had like one or two guys
that were good enough to play in Europe. But they don't they haven't been playing as a team
very long and they got a new coach just last year. So we'll see. It's exciting. I think the
fact that they won and won in such convincing fashion has gotten people very interested now here
to watch the tournament a little bit more. But I've been watching games here and there. Today
was a little bit of a snooze fest with all the games. I'm against ties. I understand that this
is the qualifying round and so forth. But I'm really the ties. How on earth are we going to
play 90 plus minutes of a game at end 00 And I know you guys call it the beautiful game
or whatever you do, whatever it's called out there in the rest of the world. But there's nothing
beautiful about playing 90, 95, 100 minutes of anything and not scoring. Nothing right to say.
Hey, Geo, the biggest the biggest win is that they're only going to have hydration breaks in
Mexico halfway through each half for three minutes. And they've called it that the USA and Canada are
getting it as well. But what's that what that's actually done is allow 33 minutes of
advertising toward half way through every game. Well, yes, of course, we had to Americanize the
we had to Americanize. Yes, hydration break actually in every single all 104 of the matches
in this tournament, there will be a hydration break and they've been coming about what halfway
through each quarter, I guess you could call them now. Yeah, about 22, 23 minutes in. I have also
noticed though, I think that that helps the favor team because you know, they haven't been playing
so well, they take that little break, the coach gets a few minutes to strategize and they come
out and they seem to be playing a little bit better after the hydration break, which look,
I'm all for hydration break. If the rule whatever the rule was when it's above 100 degrees or 90 to
90 percent humidity, whatever it was. But I constantly been watching games are being played
indoors in the air conditioning. And they're still giving us a hydration break. So that's
totally unnecessary. I'm sure Matt 100% agrees with that. We got to go back to the top the
board. The traditionalists of soccer or football as the Europeans call it are up in arms over it.
Like it's making the media everywhere that they're ruining the beautiful game. You should play
45 minutes a half, no breaks. The other criticism is that the coaches are out on the field at that
hydration break. Yeah, no, they're definitely strategizing. I saw Henri Tharris was throwing
a fit on the broadcast. Every time he's on, he's completely against it. And I get it. All of these
guys are former players and they didn't get the benefit of any of that. And so we've essentially,
instead of playing two halves, we're playing about four quarters. And they figured out how
monetize it because they're going to commercial break. I will say the Telemundo has stayed with
the broadcast. They have not gone to commercials in the hydration break. And while I don't fully
understand everything they're saying, because they're talking, they talk way too fast in Spanish,
it just sounds so much better with Andres Contor and in Spanish. So I've been watching the Telemundo
broadcast for disclosure. McDonald's are all over it down here. They're
born up every hydration break. There you go. I just want to get out of the group face. Otherwise,
it's a failure. Hopefully, you could come back after your loss on Saturday on Friday.
We'll see. A better one. You should win.
Well, Australia wasn't supposed to win. I'm not making this stuff up, man. It's Turkey and there's
an E after the Y now. It's Turkey. But nonetheless, I actually, Matt, the odds are that the U.S. and
Australia are going to play to a draw. I agree. And you guys got a big victory there.
Yeah, 2-0 and Australia was paying $5.50. Yeah, no, you guys were underdog.
I had a couple of mates that had 100 on it and they were very happy boys, let me just say,
on Sunday afternoon. And they did happen to be at the pub when they did pay. So
And we won our game. We won our game and you guys won your game. And so if we draw, then we both advance.
Well, it's okay. It's okay. That's for sure. A draw is better than a loss. That's for sure.
Well, what I'm saying is, you know, these two big brother, little brother, maybe we'll just kind
of collude and take it easy and draw. You know, like, oh, there's your no-mil tie, Gio.
An hour. And we both advance. Thank you.
Okay. Anything else, Gio? Sports collision?
U.S. golf open is this weekend?
Yeah, that's coming up. And there's some, you know, the other stuff going on,
a little baseball. There's a little college football news. We hadn't discussed it much around here,
but Brendan Sorosby has declared that he's going to enter the supplemental draft. This is the kid that
got caught gambling on his own team. He only made like a thousand different bets.
And among them, about 10% was on his own team. He was originally at Indiana, then at Cincinnati,
and he had transferred over to Texas Tech, and he's the one that some genius judge in Texas
decided that he was going to allow him, put an injunction and allow him to play until his case
was resolved. But today, the NCAA and the conference had filed another grievance trying
to get it resolved before the season started. And it looks like he realizes that he's probably
not going to win. I mean, the cardinal sin in all sports is gambling, much less gambling on your
own team. And I hadn't discussed as much on the show, but I had a talk with someone who was asking
me about this. And I told them that if they let this kid play, this is going to be the beginning
of the end of college sports or of college football in particular, because at that point,
it becomes WWE. If the quarterback is allowed to gamble and even on his own team, then like,
what are we doing here? What are we doing here? Yeah. I mean, really, this isn't a question of,
of, you know, he didn't go to class or he's trying to get another year of eligibility
because he was injured. No, this kid admitted to gambling, placing over a thousand bets
over the last three years. By the way, that's a lot of action. And, and you know, they, they
decided that, you know, what we're going to do is we're going to sue to gain, get his eligibility
back. And I was shocked that a judge had actually sided with him and given him,
they had basically decided, said that he was allowed to play until the trial.
And, and the trial wasn't, isn't slated to after the season ends. So essentially he would have
been able to play all season. But it looks like cooler heads are prevailing. And the kid decided
to enter the supplemental draft. The odds, you know, I don't know if any NFL team is
going to be taken because once again, betting on sports when you're an athlete is, is cardinal
sin. We've all known this since the White Sox scandal of the 1900s, Pete Rose, and, and we've
seen it. So. All right. Good job. Is there a big gambling scandal going on the NBA? Yes.
Yeah. That's, that's also,
most of those guys were, were like bench warmers also, but, but nonetheless, look, I, I don't
doubt for one second that this kid is the first football player out of the thousands of football
players that has that gambles. But my guess is that some of them are doing it a little smarter.
They tell their friends to, to, to play, to put some money. They don't, they don't have the app and
are gambling themselves. But, but, um, you know, what are you going to do? It is what it is, but
you cannot have the quarterback gambling because it really puts calls into question whether the
game is on the up and up. It's bad enough that all, all, you know, all of these young people that
have not watched sports their entire lives say everything is fixed every time they lose a bet
that, that, that you're actually going to let a guy that has admitted that he has a gambling
problem and admitted to gambling on his sport and on his own team to still play. It's just,
it goes beyond any rational thought, but we'll see. Anyhow, that's it. That's all I got.
Ford collision. All right. Good job, Geo. As we wind down, we have time for an abbreviated
and intense Australia report.
Unless Matt frozen, unless Matt's frozen and then that means the audio gods don't want to hear it.
Yeah. Ignoring you. All that trash talk. Not Team Australia.
Right. He's frozen. completely frozen. So we'll do final thoughts. We will do
final thoughts. We'll run through the final thoughts and maybe he'll cool off. He'll file.
Yeah. It is exciting that USA and Australia are going to battle each other and we got this
little fun deal going on. All right. Sacramento racing fan. Final thought.
Reach again, folks. We need to reach out to people. I've been reaching out to this one person
back home for several weeks now and it's making a difference. And you sometimes don't know how much
it means on the other end. If you just send a text or a phone call or whatever,
you know, Father's Day, Mother's Day, you know, those can be every day. So check on your neighbors
and then go have fun, man. It's what, you know, it's what I'm doing. Spending my kids inheritance.
That's great. You're doing the right thing. Now, everybody loves you, Matt. Everybody loves you.
You got people watching you and you're an inspiration. You're an inspiration to people
like that guy. Look at that guy. People text me all the time. People I know that are not
NHRA people. People are my friends. Who is this guy? What's he doing? This guy's
crazy. That's the deal. No, you know, you are, you're an inspiration. Good job, Kevin. Excellent.
Thank you. Thank you. Bobby Graham. What's going on down on the bug mark?
Oh, same old thing. A little bit of action this afternoon. I got a pet that tried to jump the
fence thought he was super dog and got his foot caught in a fence gate. So I had to get him out.
I was having to be inside and the poor dog weighs about 70 pounds. So
and no vets going to open up in time for an emergency visit. So and that's all that's my deal
for today. Oh, what happened? He's just laying there. He's he's doing semi fine. I don't know if
he broke it or not. I don't think it might be broke. So we're gonna wait and see how tomorrow
have to take him first thing in the morning. Okay, you go. But as far as words of wisdom,
I'm hitching my train. Geo there about the young folks. Don't be that guy because you don't know
if you're going to destroy that other person's life. Not only his but his family. He may have no
tell how many people in his family you're going to destroy and your own. Hopefully you still have
your own. And and but don't be that guy. And that that's going to be my words of wisdom. I think
Geo is spot on. Yeah. Now, well, listen, we're watching it and you could you wish you could
just grab those kids and shake them and just say like, Hey, guys, what come on? Come on. It's not
that big a deal you want. Let's go have a beer with the guy with the spurs jersey and spend an hour
telling him how he inferior he is. And then it'll be fun. And he'll probably buy us a beer at the
end of it. Instead, grab the wrong guy. He's gonna end it for him. You know, that's the reality, Bobby,
that one day they're going to run run into the wrong guy. And you know, that's all folks can't
lose all those are going to be. I mean, I don't want to lengthen the question. But you know, when
they run into that wrong guy, whose fault is it going to be? Yeah, it's going to be screaming,
right? It's still destroyed both lives. There you go. Yeah. I'm a bad behavior, bad behavior.
It's just like it's very obviously bad behavior depends on how the court comes out, Kevin.
Children going to get put, you know, but we shouldn't be clogging up our courts with that
BS. You know, that's the thing. Can you imagine if we freed up our courts to actually focus on
things that were worthwhile? Can you imagine instead of all this incessant, just nonsense?
Because people don't know how to act. And that's like you said. And like you said, Joe, there's
cameras everywhere. If you've got proof, let's forget the court, just charge him and let's go.
You've got proof on the camera. Yeah. Yeah, just that simple. Thank you. Thank you. All right,
Matt's back, Matt. Sorry. You're unfrozen. Go ahead. Make a while the sun is shining, sir.
No, but right now, I actually literally just drove past the military base as you started
and everything shut down. So I'll pass there now. Okay. Anyway, so quick retraction for starters.
NHRA commentator who I know informed me that the world record that was achieved at Willow Bank
in top alcohol funny car, the supercharger overdrive in Australia is higher than what it is in NHRA.
So technically it's the fastest run in the world. However, it's not the fastest run
in the world under NHRA rules. Still impressive. Still very impressive. That's good.
But it needs to be pointed out. So we'll just... The interest of fair and honest reporting.
Yes. Oh, now I've had a police car just go past. Oh, man. Like I was nailed to the fence.
You're the night rider. They're looking for you. No, he's gone past me. It's all right. And it's
undercover too. At least it's gone past. Well, it's always better when they go past and not get behind
you. Don't wave. Just keep driving. I did what he wrote the show. That's for sure. Maybe his
name is Max. Max. Yeah. I texted Bellamere about it and I was like, Hey, man, what do you think
of this? And, you know, we talked about it and the 125 overdrive thing came up and so... Yes,
correct. So that is true.
Lost my train of thought there, Joe. Sorry. This weekend, we've got VH Supercars up north
in Darwin, which is our furthest point north in the middle of the country there. Three races.
It's called the Triple Crown. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. There's a race on the track. It's a huge event.
Darwin is a fairly isolated part of Australia, and it draws a huge crowd from that whole territory
up there. It's going to be a big, big one. An announcement this week from the NDRC, which is
the promotional company that runs Drag Racing. A professional drag racing in Australia. They've
announced Nitro up north, which is in Darwin as well. It was supposed to be in Darwin, and a few
install it has been cancelled. Unlike America, most of our... Well, all of our teams aren't
professional. Some of the teams are happy to be having one or two of our staff.
It's about a... From the east coast, it would be a good 7,000... 6,000 to 7,000 kilometer trip.
Sorry. A mile trip to get to Darwin. And due to the fuel prices and everything that's happening
at the expense, I thought I had something else I was going to tell you all, but it's alluding me.
That's okay. That's okay. So I don't know what I think about that cancelling the race because of
expense kind of thing. Well, they weren't going to have any show, Joe. They weren't going to have a
show like the... Figure out how to get those competitors there, man. You've got to figure
out how to get them there. I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze. I don't think they were going
to get the crowd or enough crowded. And just the cost of diesel has gone, was still crazy.
And just for the journey... All coming down very quickly. Maybe where you live, not where we live.
Remember, I told you we've only got two refineries in all of Australia now,
due to a certain government that decided... Well, the world needs more refineries. I think that's
something that we're learning. Well, man, we get our fuel out of Singapore. So,
yeah, we'll go down a rabbit hole there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No rabbit holes. Time stopped.
Final thought was Lewis. I'm with Michael. I like Ferrari. I rate him as a driver, but
as a person... Well, I don't know the man, so I shouldn't really judge, but I don't get good
feels from him. Comet of the round from Formula One. He made the comment that he struggles every
day with the disparity of the wealth between the rich and the poor. That was his comment from Marcelo.
Yeah, don't, don't we all? Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, he's had a worth
$500 million. So, yeah. Well, so, you know, and I saw that, some people commenting
about that. And I think that's great. I don't know what he does, though. Does he do things? Maybe
he's doing things. Maybe he's doing all kinds of things, and I just don't know what they are. I
really don't know. My thing with Lewis, I watched him, and I felt like his... Forget everything
else that happened. Just the post-victory moments. I thought he was extremely gracious to the team.
I think that he deferred credit. I think that he was thankful. He referenced his childhood
dreams and watching Schumacher. I felt like all that was pure and good and genuinely honest.
Absolutely. Yeah. So, there we go. Good job, Matt. Good job. There you go. All right.
Sue Morris, what about you, Sue? Oh, man. And the towel was returned. Yeah, it was gifted and
monogrammed. Yeah, she actually monogrammed at the towel. See, you didn't bring up the towel. You
brought up the umbrella incident, right? The umbrella. Yeah. You didn't bring up the towel. The towel
was actually the jet scandal. The umbrella was not so much. So, listen, the magic was in the towel.
Antonelli won the first five races with that towel, and Kim steals it, and then Lewis wins the next
race. It's clear that she gifts him the next towel. There's a dozen other athletes who don't
need an umbrella above the national anthem. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe the dark.
But Lewis is a little more dark-complected than the rest of those guys. Perhaps he doesn't want to
burn. You ever put your hand on a black car versus a hand on a white car? It's like a lot hotter.
I think that's part of the same thing. The dark complexion. I think that's what the reason is.
I really believe that's the reason. You guys are off your chops. You did sit your off your chops.
Now listen, my wife proved it to me. We've got a little black and white poodle. He can go out, so I
sit by the pool. And when he comes in, his black hair is hot as always to me. And the white one
I really believe that. I pointed that out the other day. Obviously, with a real life example,
right there in his house. Thank you. So you think gray hair doesn't have its advantages?
I haven't had a good laugh in a little while. Matt is not accepting our wisdom, guys. He does not
believe that. But I applaud you, Heba. Dr. O's absorb the heat. The lighter colors reflect it. It's a
scientific fact.
How about Bobby Graham coming in with the
to the fact?
Bobby said the cowboy heroes were rode white horses. And they wore white hats. They didn't
want to get their brains. Wasn't a scramble is the ones that don't wear black. Right. They didn't
want to get that. That was the other thing I was going to tell you quickly, Joe. My my
mate son, uh, world, uh, cruiserweight champion, Jaya Patea. Yes. Uh, at the White House yesterday.
Oh, for the, for the U. S.
Did he did he pocket some of our, uh, did he make some money?
No, no. Well, he was just there as a guest because he's a boxer and he boxes for data white
and, uh, the Sheik's, uh, company, which is a zoo for boxing. Uh, but he was up front and, uh,
he sent us through some photos. I think I sent more to send you his Insta stuff. Uh, he met the
dog. He met Uncle Don. He put on his thing and, uh, nice. Yeah, apparently. Happy birthday.
Uh, he's joy is, well, he's a boxer. He's as crazy as a, as a cut snake. And, uh, there is
another photo that a mate has got. Who's his manager? Uh, one of my best friends is his manager.
And, uh, he actually got the dawn in a headlock for the photo. Wow. Oh, that's rare.
And my mate sent back to, he was telling us last night we had a phone call and, uh,
he doesn't know how he did get shot. But anyway, um, yeah, he got to meet the dawn yesterday. He
was there as a guest at Dana White's at the White House. And he said it was absolutely unbelievable.
Oh, I'm sure it's definitely a historic happening. It was a spectacle on the TV. So it was, uh,
you know, that's an unusual precedent that could go in different directions in the future. I don't
know if we want that. It's been held at the White House, but it is like by far, you know.
Hey, and then there's going to be the IndyCar race too.
Yeah, all around DC. It's going all around DC. So,
and Joe, to throw, uh, some weight to your argument and as a North American, I can see that that
it's a bit of sacred ground a little bit and putting that there.
Yeah. So our friend, a friend, I won't say which friend. Um, you know, whatever,
like we don't talk politics on the show, but he, he brought up the weirdest thing that I didn't
really think about. It was the weirdest thing in a group check. He goes that they were using the
Oval Office, uh, as a walkout room and that there's a fighter that's walking barefoot through the
Oval Office. That it was this, that was disrespectful to the Oval Office. And I was like, man, I never
would have really kind of made that connection. I didn't, I didn't watch that. Um, but the, the
using the Oval Office as a walkout, like a locker room kind of felt, but listen, that's not for me.
You know, like I'm sure someone really watched it and they thought this is what it's all about.
But well, and the parts of the White House were used as the locker room, you know,
for all these guys. So it is what it is, man. You know, what, it happened. It happened.
Just, um, you know, when something similar happens in the future, we got to be okay with it
because this is the new normal. Don't worry, Joe. They'll call it out. But I mean, everything else
about it was patriotic. So I mean, you saw the red, white and blue. They had the eagle flying in.
They had the flyovers.
Okay. All right. Since you guys brought this up, let's spend two minutes.
I was pretty cool.
The whole beautiful listen, I saw some of those things, eagle flying in beautiful, like it's,
I don't want to say it's easy to be patriotic, but it is easy to be patriotic and watching in DC.
That is the capital. Like that is that that's, it doesn't get more patriotic. You don't need an eagle
to make the White House patriotic. It is the seat of power on planet earth. It is the most amazing
We don't need a digital screen to make it patriotic or a digital flag.
What about the profiting though? You know, that is a for-profit enterprise.
That's the thing that people are a little concerned about. Like you're,
Dana White made, I don't know, hundreds of millions of dollars off of that. How about the taxpayer?
You know, I guess that with the cost incurred to actually put on that event,
it's probably not as profitable as we think. It's not as profitable as going and renting the
Miami arena or whatever, you know, wherever they normally do their shows. Yeah. Right.
Well, I don't know. I just, it's not going to make Dana White a rich man, right?
That's no, definitely not now. He's already there, right?
Well, if that's the bar though, that if you're already rich, you know, there isn't
There's a lot of hard costs of putting on an event like this because it's not a typical place.
Like it's not an arena that normally hosts. Oh, no, they were very worried about the
outdoor stuff and the rain and the weather. They didn't think they had these fights outdoors
because they had to have a one or two hour delay at the beginning because it was raining.
Anyway, well, I wouldn't like to see that come to norm.
Yes. There was a very influential TV commentator was on last night on his, on his nightly show.
Uh, just does like a current affair thing and it did get brought up about the UFC and everything
else. He had his 20 year old son and all his mates over. They watched it from start to finish.
And the one comment he took away from all these young guys was their comment they made was
America really does love its country. Don't they?
So I guess that's what was projected to the outside world and uh, to a bunch of young
guys. Okay, well, I guess you're gonna say you're gonna take that as a positive because
I'm gonna tell you down here and yet again without getting political, we've gone down
a pathway that we're continually made to feel sorry for and bad about what we've achieved here in
Australia in the last 200 odd years. And we don't have that level of patriotism unfortunately.
Sporting events bring it out, but just uh, yeah, I thought that was very, very, very sticky.
I did not enough time to have this discussion. Absolutely. I believe what you say, but also
the success that you have had as a nation like you shouldn't be so easily dissuade from your
success by some people pointing out some negativity. No country like America has never
not been great. The success that this country has had since its inception. If we have 250 years,
the fact that anyone would suggest that there was any point that we weren't great,
even during the worst of times, we were still the shining beacon for the earth and clearly
everybody wanted to come here and look at all the great things that have happened because of
America. It's how seriously do you want to take the people who are saying that? Yeah, maybe they
have an opinion and maybe they're right about their opinion in certain areas, but it doesn't change
that. And see, that's where I come down. It's like, man, I'm not listening to that. I think that's
legit. I do know that there is something called like core reasonable respect to a situation.
I really believe that whether I agree or disagree. And one of those fighters on TV,
got up and said something to the world that I'm sure you know about no one here has bothered to
mention in the grandiose loving of that event that I felt was well below core acceptable
respect to the situation that it was. And correct. Well, what about that? How was that allowed to
happen? How Joe Rogan hold into my I've been in that situation where someone in the political game
says just does something that's flat out easily wrong. Like if someone here, please,
I'll give you the time. If you want to make the argument that what that guy did was good,
or right, or that you would teach your child to do that, or you would want that argument, dude,
no one is well, why aren't we talking about it? Oh, well, that was horrible. That was horrible.
That was horrible. I don't know. I've seen the news coverage. I didn't watch it.
It stains the whole thing. It's stained the whole thing. It was that was it. Sorry. It was
a disgusting thing that happened during that that stains the whole thing. And no, there's
a lot of disgusting things staying in a whole lot of stuff, Joe. That's why you shouldn't have that
at the White House. And that's all I said that that's it. I don't need to go anymore. But come on.
Like, what was that right thing to do? I didn't hear the comment, Joe. So I don't
I'll have you didn't hear you. Okay, well, I understand. There's a lot of people that didn't
hear the comment. I didn't hear the comment until I heard the comment. And then it really kind of
soured me on the deal. I just thought it was really some things. And that one there's there's
always one idiot and Geo brought it up right. Look at the next fans look at the idiots that were
beaten up. Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. You're always gonna have you're
one idiot. But but you're gonna let them go. But you're gonna just condemn this other you're
gonna condemn the entire event. But you're gonna say it's okay what they did. I don't know venue is
a little different. I think the venue is a little different. One is just random citizens going around
doing their own thing. And the other being videoed randomly. The other is a show that has been
broadcast to the world from the White House.
A great sportsman have a responsibility to be neutral. I believe you just have to be at least
like respectful to you didn't see it. Obviously you don't know about I didn't see it. I don't even
so I'm you gotta be I don't want to repeat what was said out of respect research
it every president look like here's the thing. Every president I wish them great well and success
like they are driving the car that I'm in. They're driving the car that I'm in and my family's in
for the next 50 years. And they deserve respect for taking the responsibility. And what is starting
to happen we're seeing what we're like just like Matt said what's starting to happen it is a it is
a decline of what is the most basic of respects to fellow man. And this particular thing people
know people are hearing and know I'm sure I'll get an email Joe yeah it was the best thing ever
and I'm sure someone will say Joe is right everybody do your own thing on this deal
but I didn't like it I thought it was bad. I gotta go check it out now.
Look if there's a level of patriotism that you can achieve I feel like I'm in the highest level
of patriotism that you can achieve without like you know going to war and fighting for your
country or getting the getting a purple heart you know what I mean like I really want the best
program. I respect what you're saying but I think you're going way too deep into the fact
that you don't realize that the person that said this is somebody who gets paid to get hit in the
head for a living. Maybe you know yeah still was still you know still responsibility lies with
someone. You can't expect responsibility and respect from you know everyone you just can't
not everybody you know not everybody knows just put your hands to themselves. I think what
water and it's way above their their statue in real life. Well whatever I don't think
that's nothing maybe like ours is Joe although hundreds of thousands of people adore them and
I'll go as far as I almost worship some of these these athletes and actors and actresses as well
and they're nothing special other than being good at what at their chosen sport or career.
And we can leave it at that certainly this was a this was an example of that like yikes
but whatever again and I'm sure I know that there's someone out there that thinks it's
the best thing that as it was ever said I don't like that but anyway there you go.
Sue you have a final thought. I got homework well yeah I got a final thought so on that note so
come on now I'm gonna I'm gonna bring this home hard all right we got racing going on this weekend
you know we got the the triple crown IHRA triple crowns starting off to ron and that's going on
this weekend so that should be interesting to watch at least I hope it looks like it's gonna
be an exciting race we'll see. Next thing we have we're gonna take and sorry I had some noise coming
in on the background but but hey as we're going into the weekend happy father's day everybody
happy father's day to all of our fathers out there appreciate y'all I got you have to be sitting
around the room right here so our virtual room and but but hey take the day and don't forget
don't forget the dads out there you know cook them a big steak do something for them buy them a
beer whatever it makes them that makes them happy and it is father's day weekend so so yeah get out
there do things don't forget to check on on your family and friends make sure they're all doing well
and you know hey have a WFO week and one thing you get out of ignition if this don't fire you up
I don't know what will so get out there go do things and have fun y'all WFO be like Kevin yes
jobs too Gio final thought WFO everyone have a great week be safe out there and like Sue said
happy father's day to all that it applies I know a lot of our patreon crew and WFO listeners our
dads and uh so very happy father's day to all it's not australia day to day
is that what it is australia day i'll show you that it's not astra it's not father's day to day
oh okay what we're going to have father's day why do you guys pay fathers what's wrong with you guys
have a different day for fathers it's a different day you know like thanksgiving and you know some of
the other holidays i think it's in september ah well that's closer to your you know i don't know if uh
i don't know if you mentioned it while i was off here but uh christa drags to jeff's daughter had a
big win on the weekend as well oh i didn't see that yeah so i did some did some winning and then
part of the crew there drags to jeff so uh now christa did well and fast eddie is in the chat he says
he got down to three in new media i believe um and jave tarry is there he says he's going to be in
norwalk this weekend running in super street at the double divisional there's a lot going on nice
good luck to all the racers troi was at mission somewhere very for future risk yeah mission uh
british columbia for the river valley works national or something we had up there actually
fast daddy says he won in sportsman and got down to three in the pros before the rain out just two
let's you know let's give him an hour man there you go good job eddie good job man
getting her done bobby says he's the one he's gonna be doing the grilling well that way you get it right
bobby that way it's just the way you want it hey exactly wouldn't have it any other way all right
good job matt thank you very much there goes matt in australia well you don't want the non-professionals
on the grill ruining the father they won't there's right too so yeah exactly there you go bobby good
job i'll be thrilling too bobby unless yes happy father's day bobby there he goes bobby graham
sue morris good job good job happy father's day to uh everybody out there everybody happy father's day
whatever jio's got to go he's got to surrender the studio now he's got to surrender the studio now
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is an awful weekend i will be staying home my friend rick mcdonough is out there going to
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louis hamilton thing i'm happy i gotta get a new shirt now to represent the season of victory
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About this episode
WFO Radio Ignition swings from NHRA and drag-racing recaps into Formula 1 racecraft and strategy talk, then back to NASCAR points and weekend plans. The hosts revisit how a virtual safety car and an early pit on soft tires reshaped the F1 field, while also debating simulator influence and pit speed. Later, they track Hamlin’s climb, discuss Pocono timing and Hamlin’s record win, and wrap with drag-racing bracket results, engine-testing notes, and upcoming triple-crown weekend updates.
Original notes
The crew celebrates Lewis Hamilton's first win at Ferrari; Denny Hamlin wins at Pocono; NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals; Matt's Australia Report; SportsCollision; and more.
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