The Ford F-150 Lightning is an electric pickup truck. Instead of using gasoline, it runs on a battery and electric motor. It’s designed to do the same kinds of truck jobs people expect, like carrying things and towing, but with electricity.
Sometimes rain forces NASCAR to stop the race for a while. When they restart, the track is different—often with more grip—so the cars handle differently and the race can play out in a new way.
NASCAR races are divided into stages (like stage one and stage two) to create multiple competitive segments. Points are awarded at the end of each stage, so drivers often balance aggression with saving tires and car setup for later.
Victory lane is where the winner of the race goes to celebrate right after finishing. When someone says a brand hasn’t been in victory lane, it means they haven’t been winning much.
On NASCAR tracks there are painted lines that you’re not allowed to cross. If you cross the double yellow line, you can get a penalty, so drivers have to keep their car in the legal lane.
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dropped him a little bit further down in the points
NASCAR keeps track of standings using points across the season. If you get a penalty and your finish changes, you lose points and fall lower in the championship race.
Ryan Blaney is a NASCAR race driver. Here, the hosts are talking about an argument he made about a track rule (the yellow-line rule) and whether crossing it helped him or others gain an advantage.
Person
Carson Josefah
Carson Josefah is a NASCAR driver mentioned in the story. The hosts are basically asking whether he didn’t get help from other cars (like pushing) and whether that affected his results.
Christopher Bell is another NASCAR driver. The hosts are saying he had to decide which car to help (push) and that choice affected the outcome for the cars around him.
Super speedway racing means the biggest, fastest NASCAR tracks. At those tracks, cars often run in groups and help each other by pushing, so who you can work with can matter a lot.
The “top lane” means the higher line up the track. Drivers use it to try to carry speed and get better traction, but it can also make it harder for other cars to follow closely.
Ty Gibbs is a NASCAR driver. They’re describing where he is on the track relative to other cars as the race situation unfolds.
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time out
A “time out” is when the race gets paused or slowed down. It’s a moment where officials and teams can regroup and deal with what happened before the cars go back to racing.
A hauler is the big truck NASCAR teams use to move their race cars and equipment to each track. It’s basically the team’s mobile base during the race weekend.
The “chase” is NASCAR’s playoff-style stretch at the end of the season. If you’re not high enough in points, you may not get a shot at the championship.
A caution is when the race slows down because there’s a problem on the track. Drivers have to follow the pace car, and teams often use the timing to adjust strategy.
It means how long the race was slowed down for cautions. If there’s a lot of time under yellow, the race has more slow periods and strategy changes compared to racing at full speed.
They’re talking about the Atlanta race track. Because it’s a shorter oval than some other NASCAR tracks, the cars stay close together and things can happen faster.
Because NASCAR turns left all the time, the right rear tire does a lot of the work. It can wear out or lose grip first, which affects how well the car handles.
The “aero package” is the car’s aerodynamic setup—things like wings and spoilers. It affects how much grip the car has in corners and how much air resistance it creates on the straights.
It means the car slides toward the outside of the track instead of staying where the driver wants. That can make drivers hit each other because everyone’s lines get messed up.
An Indy car is a type of open-wheel race car used in IndyCar racing. The hosts think Atlanta’s track bumps would make those cars behave in a way that could create a great race.
Lime Rock Park is a road course track (not an oval) with lots of tight turns. The hosts are saying the NASCAR Truck race there had many crashes and stoppages, which made it exciting.
A “red flag” means the race is stopped because it’s too dangerous to keep going. Drivers slow down and the race pauses until officials clear the situation.
The Truck series is NASCAR racing using pickup-truck-style race cars. It’s one of the main “levels” drivers move through on the way to bigger NASCAR stages.
ARCA is a racing series that acts like a training ground for drivers. It helps them learn how to race on different tracks before they move to bigger NASCAR-style events.
The TA2 car is a particular type of race car used in a feeder series. Think of it as one of the “same kind of car” steps drivers use to learn and prove themselves.
Gen 4 is the next generation of Formula E race car design. It’s basically the newer version of the electric race car that will be used for competition going forward.
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competitive times
At hill climbs, some runs are about setting the quickest time. The speaker is saying you don’t have to be trying to win every single run.
This sounds like a specific Ford race car that Romain Dumas drove, but the exact model name isn’t fully clear from the transcript. The key point is that it’s a Ford entry in a racing event.
“Assault on Le Mans” means the team is gearing up to seriously compete at Le Mans, a huge long-distance race. It’s basically the program they’re building for that specific event.
The Ford GT40 is a legendary endurance race car built by Ford to beat Ferrari at Le Mans in the 1960s. Here, the Andretti family is recreating a famous 1966 Le Mans finish photo featuring three Ford GT40s in a specific order.
“Stock cars” in NASCAR means race cars that start from regular production cars, but are modified to race. The idea is that they’re not completely custom one-off race machines.
These are the stone walls made from flint that sit close to the track. The speaker is basically saying you have to drive carefully so you don’t scrape the car against them.
Valentino Rossi is one of the most famous motorcycle racers ever. Mentioning him here highlights that this event attracts big-name racers from different types of motorsport.
Sterling Moss was a famous race driver from the UK. He was known for being extremely fast and skilled, and he’s remembered as one of the best ever—even though he didn’t win the Formula 1 championship.
Damon Hill is a well-known British Formula 1 driver. He won the Formula 1 championship in the mid-1990s and is remembered as one of the top drivers of that time.
Donuts are a controlled maneuver where a vehicle spins in a circle, typically by applying throttle and steering while maintaining traction. In motorsport events, they’re usually done for show rather than as a race tactic.
Rally cars are race cars built for rally events on rough, mixed surfaces. They’re designed to handle bumps and grip changes better than a typical road car.
Formula One is the top class of car racing with open-wheel race cars. It’s usually very strict and focused on racing, so the speaker is joking about not getting to do fun exhibition stuff like donuts.
MotoGP is the top level of professional motorcycle racing. Riders race on tracks around the world, and the races are usually very intense and technical.
A broken collarbone means the bone near your shoulder is cracked or snapped. For a racer, it can be very painful and makes it hard to control the bike and handle the forces of riding.
Marc Marquez is one of the most famous motorcycle racers in MotoGP. They’re saying he’s been winning a lot, including a big number of German Grand Prix races.
The Premier class is the top level of MotoGP racing. It’s where the best riders and the most advanced bikes compete for the biggest championship points.
Ross Chastain is a NASCAR driver. In this discussion, his contract and future plans matter because they affect how confident the team can be and how well it can perform.
Connor Zillich is a NASCAR driver mentioned in the context of rumors about where he might go next. The hosts are saying that when driver futures are uncertain, it can make teams less stable.
Marquee sponsorships are high-visibility, top-tier sponsorship deals that put a major brand front-and-center on a race car. In NASCAR, these deals can improve team finances and resources, but they also raise expectations—fans and competitors still judge the team on results.
Red Bull is a company that sponsors race teams. When a team has a big sponsor like Red Bull, it usually means more money for the team and better resources.
Brand
Bush beer
This is a beer company sponsoring a NASCAR car. Sponsors like this help pay for the team and get their brand seen during races.
A snowball effect means one issue grows into bigger problems. In this case, if the team isn’t getting results, it can become harder to attract good people, which then makes performance even worse.
The Indy 500 is a huge open-wheel race in the U.S. It’s referenced here because the hosts are talking about dream matchups and who would be exciting to see racing there.
IMSA is the main organization that runs sports-car racing in North America. It’s the series context for the endurance race being discussed, including the LMP2 class.
LMP2 is a category of race cars used in long-distance endurance events. It’s for prototype cars, but it’s not the very top fastest class—think of it as the “privateer” prototype level.
Formula 2 is a major junior racing series that helps drivers get ready for Formula 1. Because the cars are similar, it’s a good place to see who’s really strong at racing.
GP2 was a stepping-stone racing series for drivers trying to reach Formula 1. It was later renamed Formula 2, but it served the same purpose: training future F1 talent.
“Turn three” just means a particular corner on the track. If someone passes there, it usually means they were able to set up the car well and get the move done in a tricky spot.
Fernando Alonso is a famous Formula 1 driver who has won world championships. Here, he’s mentioned as watching another race and deciding to try a similar bold move.
The Townsville 500 is a big racing weekend in Australia. It’s a Supercars event with multiple races, not just one, so the championship can swing quickly.
Cam Waters is a pro race driver in Australia’s Supercars series. Here, he wins the first race of the Townsville weekend, affecting who leads the championship.
Matt Payne is a pro driver in the Supercars series. In this weekend recap, he bounces back and wins the sprint, moving him back into the championship lead.
Brody Kostecki is a Supercars driver. He wins the last race of the Townsville weekend, and the only real problem mentioned is that he clips the wall during a burnout.
A burnout is when the driver revs and spins the tires to heat them up and make smoke. It’s also something that can go wrong if the car gets too close to the wall or barrier.
The World Endurance Championship is a racing series where cars race for a long time instead of just a short sprint. Drivers usually take turns driving the same car during the race.
Pole position means starting the race from the very front. It’s usually earned by being the fastest in qualifying, and it helps you get control of the race early.
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What the hell happened in Atlanta?
Ryan Blaney wound up winning the race in a pretty dominating performance.
I pushed that too far and tested those boundaries and been suspended and fined.
You can be a fan of everything, and when I say everything, I mean everything.
Lightning McQueen.
Time freaking out.
You raced carts?
I've never raced anything before.
My first practice session, I was 17 seconds off the pace.
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Let's talk racing, Will.
I think we should do that and I would like you to fill me in on what the hell happened
in Atlanta, because I'm going to be honest with you, I didn't stay up to watch the end.
It was very, very late in the end of the UK.
So I hope you will forgive me for getting some sleep.
No, you're perfectly fine.
I did the exact same thing.
I woke up this morning and had to watch it because in my old age, I like to go to sleep too.
So we wound up having a journey and Ryan Blaney wound up winning the race and what turned out
to be a pretty dominating performance, but it came down to the very end right here.
Carson Hosebar had the lead and Ryan Blaney, as he did all night, was able to generate a run and
all of Carson's friends showed up nowhere on his rear bumper and they wound up pushing
Ryan Blaney to the win here at the very end of the race.
But what a finish.
We had a three hour rain delay and I think that that really turned the complexion of the race
over because it kind of took some handling out of the race cars.
The first stage was a lot of handling cars got strung out, but as the nighttime comes
at Atlanta, the handling of the race cars just gets better and better.
And with that three hour rain delay, it really put the cars in the racetrack a lot better than
they were at the beginning.
But Ryan Blaney dominated from stage one to stage two all the way to the very end.
And that's what they needed to do.
They needed to capitalize on this weekend.
And I think, you know, for Ryan Blaney to be able to go out and perform when the pressure
was on like that was much needed.
So he put it together for Ford's 750th win.
So that's quite the moment for Ford because they've not really had the greatest year to be able to
put their cars in victory lane.
Also makes me feel old because I remember getting 700 at Dover not too long ago.
So they've obviously done something in between when I retired compared to where they are now.
You saw there at the very end actually Bubba Wallace actually crossed the line in second place,
but got a penalty at the super speedway races.
You can't go below the double yellow line.
You saw him make that big move down the back straightaway to get that penalty.
Unfortunate scenario for him kind of dropped him a little bit further down in the points,
but was able to put together a really solid day for his weekend.
But in the end Ryan Blaney led 65% of the laps.
Explain this to me because I think he was arguing that you're not allowed to cross the line and
gain an advantage, but he didn't gain an advantage or he didn't make up positions or something.
What was his argument and do you see both sides of it or is it just black and white?
This is a pretty easy rule to regulate.
I mean when you see him go from behind those cars to beside those cars,
it's pretty hard to argue that you don't have an advantage in advancing your position.
You can't advance your position when you go below that yellow line, double yellow line,
or put yourself in a better position than you were when you started to go across the yellow line.
I think overall I think it's just a kind of lost his train of thought and focus of where
he needed to be on the racetrack right there. And in all honesty, I don't know that we really
need the double yellow line rule at Atlanta. It doesn't change this scenario,
but I think that when you look at the racing and the way that the racetrack banking and
everything is, I don't think it's really like Daytona and Talladega in a certain sense down
the front straightaway. It's really rough and you could kind of cut those sections.
So I can see it both ways, but to enforce this rule is very simple, right? Like when
you look at him advancing his position, getting beside those cars, pretty easy call.
You mentioned it right off the top. Blaney had people to help him get across the line.
Josefah did not. Is this Josefah's shall we say polarizing personality coming back to bite him,
or is it just the fact that the right people were in the right place to make Ryan's day a little
bit easier? Well, when you look back at the scenario and you see Christopher Bell back there,
he has to make a decision on which car he's going to push. And it was very evident that he was
making the choice to not push Carson Josefah. And that's the part that you fight. I've been in
this scenario before where you just don't have any friends on the racetrack. And when you're
super speedway racing in these scenarios, you have to have some sort of friends that are going
to be able to push you to help keep you in contention in those moments. And in that moment,
I mean, you see Bubba Wallace try to pass him. You see Christopher Bell push Ryan Blaney out there
on the top lane. So nobody's lined up behind Carson at this point. You see Ty Gibbs coming
to the start finish line. He's behind Bubba Wallace and Josefah is out on an island. And
those are the scenarios that unfortunately for him in the driver's head, it's like, hey,
I don't want to see this guy win and I'm not helping him.
Because there were comments over the weekend again, where, you know,
Carson wasn't necessarily other driver's favorite people, but we also had
Shane van Gisburgen and Austin Hill, they got called to the hauler after what went down last
time out. Actually, I think we can hear from SVG because I think it was his first time being called
to the hauler. So let's hear what he had to say. Was it just kind of slap on the wrist?
No, I guess it was a serious talk. I don't know how much I meant to talk about it, but
I'm still, you know, I've been here long enough to know how it works, I guess, but also still
learning as well. That's my first time in the hauler. One person seemed more remorseful and
he got to move on than the other. Yeah, it's hard. I don't know how much to say, but yeah,
like I'm happy, but obviously I got the most to lose and he doesn't. So who knows?
Well, look, I used to have, be a very regular attendee to the NASCAR hauler,
so I can tell you exactly how it works. And when NASCAR... You've got cool to see the school
principal a lot. Yeah, I used to take a lot of trips to what was the big red trailer at the time,
and then they became black trailers and whatever color they were, I spent some time in there.
And I think when it gets to that point, NASCAR's final warning to the drivers is, hey,
we've let this go to this point, but when we get any further forward, we're not going to let any of
these moments go. This is the end. You guys need to figure it out. You're affecting other people's
races. You're affecting your own races. You're putting us in a bad position to have to make calls
on the racetrack that we don't want to make. Whether it's intentional or not intentional,
when you see cars that are consistently running into each other and putting other people in
positions to tear up their cars because of your feud, NASCAR finally gets to a point where it's
like, hey, we see what's happening and you guys need to figure it out. So usually it's the team
owners, the drivers that go into the hauler and sit down with the NASCAR brass, and they tell you
how they want to see it. So that's a new experience, I'm sure, for SVG to have to figure out how to
navigate all that and how far you can take it from here, right? Because you don't want to race
any different and let your guard down to think somebody and the rest of your competitors think
that you're weak. You want them to think that you're in charge of the situation. So that's always
the hard part to navigate. And I've pushed that too far and tested those boundaries and
been suspended and fined and all those things that come with pushing those moments too far.
But for us, it is exciting. I love the rivalries and I think NASCAR knows that they need these
rivalries to be able to carry on, but not in a way that is intentionally wrecking guys or
doing something that is putting everybody else in jeopardy. I think for SVG, he said it. He's
got a lot more to lose in this situation, being 14th into points and 14th, 15th into points where
he's at right now, trying to make the chase. He had a great run and finish at Atlanta and
Austin Hill has nothing to lose. So he can just be a thorn in the side of SVG. And there's a lot
of other ways that you can put somebody in a bad position to just aggravate them. And I think
Austin Hill can do that if he chooses to do so. A lot of times, I think in these situations,
you want to just drop it. You want to say, okay, we had a good feud until next time
and try to reset to be able to do the things that you need to do for your team. Because what happens
now, you're having to answer all the questions in the media as a driver and then your crew chiefs
having to answer questions. And then they're talking about it in the shop instead of working on
trying to make your car better on a week to week basis. So at this point, I think for Shane, it's
better to just drop it. But I think for Austin, he can, he's kind of open game. He's not racing to
get in the chase. He's racing to get the best finishes that he can. And we'll see where it goes.
SVG is becoming the complete NASCAR driver, isn't he? He's having the complete NASCAR experience.
Already incredible on road and street courses, as we know. Top six on an oval this weekend.
Brilliant drive. Also now has the rival and is called into the principal's office and told not
to be a naughty boy. So he's becoming the full package. Zane Smith and Carson Hosevar also called
to the Haaland. This one was spicy, man. It is. And I think that neither one of these guys are
backing down. We saw Hosevar have a little, a little fun with it this weekend. He said that
any fan who brought the first 77 fans, I believe it was, that brought a t-shirt of a competitor's
driver that wasn't his t-shirt, he would give them a free t-shirt. So it sounded like he got
a few Zane Smith t-shirts at the NASCAR hauler. Cinema. So I think for both of them, they probably
sold more souvenirs this week. But Hosevar, he's doing a great job leaning into all this and playing
the games and building this fan base and doing all the things that it takes to energize the
fan base. And Zane Smith did not back down. He was like, Hey, I hate this guy. I love it. I don't
want to be his friend. I don't like him. And you know, for Zane, he's been running well with
Front Row and the performance has been where they need it to be and getting better and being
in contention on weeks. So man, I mean, right now in NASCAR land, it is spicy on several different
fronts. It is open season. Open season. Talk to me about O'Reilly. Well, this one was interesting.
This was a messy race. And when you go back and watch this race, a lot of cars strung out, a lot
carnage all over the racetrack, but Justin Allgaier survived all that carnage to win his sixth race
of the season. And I think when you step back and you look at the performance of the seven car
and the way that Allgaier has gone about it this season, and we heard so many talk so much talk about
him wanting to retire and didn't know if he wanted to be in the car, but they just keep winning.
And this is one of those races where it's just about experience. He wound up beating his teammate
Carson Quaple at the end of this race. We saw all the JRM cars really run up front like they do
every week. We saw Brent Cruz and a lot of these guys that are trying to make their way into the
chase get caught up in some accidents and not capitalize on their day. And then you saw William
Swalich, a guy that's right on that chase bubble on the outside looking in, able to not get in this
carnage and wind up with a fourth place finish. So we got a lot of movement right near that
bubble that is going to come right down to the wire. Brilliant, man. Brilliant. A record 13
cautions, I believe, in this race. So another one that went pretty long. Wasn't there more
time under yellow than there was under green in this? I think I saw the graphic of all the
the period under yellow. It was quite a lot, quite a lot. It was quite a lot. Great weekend,
great fun. What is it about Atlanta that makes such great racing? Because Carpath had a great
race, O'Reilly was really exciting. Is there just something about this circuit that makes it
super competitive, great racing? Well, they redid the racetrack a few years ago. They added more
banking to the corners and that surface used to be really worn out. And it was very line-specific
on where you had to run on the bottom of the racetrack to be able to be successful at Atlanta.
The cars would get really strung out. And there was a lot of fans and racetrack owners that
didn't like the style of racing that Atlanta was producing. So SMI and Marcus Smith, they decided
that they were going to just kind of take a totally different approach to it. And NASCAR
put the super speedway rules on these cars. So it's turned into this super speedway race
that you have to handle. And because of the size of the racetrack. So our super speedways are
two and a half miles at Daytona, 2.6 miles at Talladega. And that's a traditional super
speedway race. But things happen so fast at Atlanta because it's a mile and a half racetrack.
You've got all these cars that stay bunched together. You have the tendencies of the cars to
lose the nose. And the cup cars in general drive off of the right rear tire. By far,
by far the most uncomfortable race that they will drive all year from the driver's seat.
And it puts the team in a really unique box that they're not used to being in with this
Aero package to be able to try to make the car handle and also have as little drag as possible
to get the speed in the car. Which is something that the Fords have been really good at over the
past several years on the super speedways. But it happens fast at Atlanta. We see cars spin out.
We see cars get tight, wash up the racetrack and cause wrecks. And so it's just this unique
balance of how to make the car handle run fast. And from the driver's point, you're aggravated
the whole time because it is very, very, very uncomfortable to drive.
Could we do an Indy car, NASCAR weekend, same weekend like we did in Phoenix with that work at
Atlanta? Oh my gosh. The Indy cars would be phenomenal there. And you know I love the old
intermediate style racing with the Indy cars that they used to have in the IRL days.
And I know that it would be really fast. And the unique part about Atlanta,
it's got the bumps in all the wrong spots. You go into turn three, the bumps are right as you enter
the corner, go into one and two. It's got these swells that go into the corner. So it's like
they built the bumps into the racetrack to be in the worst possible spot that they could be.
But it would be just an absolutely phenomenal Indy car race as well, in my opinion.
Well, let's get that, let's get that booked in.
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NASCAR Truck Series was not racing in Atlanta. NASCAR Truck Series was at Lime Rock Park.
That's right. Yeah. And Grant Enfinger ended his 40 race winless streak and got his first
road course series win. This one had a lot of carnage in it as well. They had several incidents
and red flags and all kinds of yellow flags. Same kind of the way of the weekend, just really
long races. And this one was because of carnage, not because of rain or anything else. But good to
see Grant back in Victory Lane, Caden Honeycutt and Lane Riggs had some contact in the race,
which is also great for us to watch because they're the two guys at the top of the point
standings and to have them, you know, battling up front and doing the things that they did this
weekend was fun to watch. But Lime Rock always produces some excitement and this year produced
more excitement than normal. So it was fun to see all these guys going at it and on the road
course. So good weekend in Lime Rock. And Nunziata, more excitement for him than he was expecting
as his car decided to set itself on fire. It did. And you know, we talk about, we talk about just
the cruelty of racing you'll see right here with the Truck Series race. Thomas actually won the
day before in the in the ARCA race. And then you turn around and come to the Truck Series race
and in good position to have a chance to race for the win in this one. And all of a sudden the
truck just bursts into flames and he was actually taken to the hospital and transported out of the
racetrack to the hospital, I'm sure, from all the flames and smoke and fire and fire extinguishers
and everything. Yeah, smoke inhalation, wasn't it? That was happening. But you see the tweet right
here from from Thomas saying that he's okay, just needed to to get all the things that he inhaled
during that fire out of his system. And he's going to be good to go as we go forward,
hopefully. Only his second start in the Truck Series. My boy Louis Foster jumped over from
Indycar and made his first Truck Series start, had an up and down day by that being from the back
to the front from the back to the front a number of times I think getting schooled on how you race
trucks was running in the top six when he got wrecked right at the end or was involved in a wreck
right at the end. He did, however, come up with what I hold to be the best name that I've heard
for the Craftsman Truck Series. Inadvertently, he called it Truck Car, which I think is great.
So I'm going to call it Truck Car from now on. Yeah, well, I had the pleasure of interviewing
Louis Foster with you at the beginning of the year. I had no idea who he was. Yeah. And I learned
really quickly that he's fun to be around there. There is not anybody that's having more fun than
Louis. And so it was it was great to see him in the race. And I think to get that experience and
just be able to, you know, compete on the racetrack and something that he's more comfortable than
doing on the ovals, for sure. But to be able to get that experience and be competitive,
really happy to see him make that debut and have a good time with it, hopefully.
We've got some, we've had some great one offs in Truck Car this year. And every single driver
who's leapt in has really, really enjoyed it. You know, you look at Dario and Hinch at round one
in St. Pete and all the way through the season, every single weekend, we've had more and more
people, colleagues, jumping in and having a lot of fun. And I love that. I love how open it is.
And I love how much fun the guys are having, you know, by going in and taking that opportunity.
It's been, it's been brilliant. But as you say, not just Truck Car at Lime Rock, also
Arca at Lime Rock. Yeah. And Thomas Annouziata captured his first win of the season and his
second of his career. So the tale of two tapes, right? Like you have this great win on, on the,
on the Arca series in the day before. And then you back that up with the reality
of racing in the Truck series on Saturday. So they did a great job. You know, he just continues
to get better and better and better. And that's really, that's what the Arca series is for, to
get these guys the experience on the racetrack. Thomas has had great success in the TA2 car
with those nitro, the nitro guys up there running the TA2 car. Same team, same group of people on,
on the Arca side to, to be able to go over and, and have that success on, on Arca. So Thomas is,
is really using the, the ladder of the system. I've seen him in go-karts. I've seen him in the
TA2 car and the road racing is, is really strong for him. He continues to get better on the ovals,
but he's capitalizing on, on the weekends with, with the Arca series on the road courses, doing
the things that he needs to do. And you know how this is. Confidence just continues to keep
that success rolling. And I think that'll carry over to the ovals for him to be able to, to get
that last little bit out of the race car just because he's getting more and more comfortable
in these cars. That's it, isn't it? Confidence breeds success. Success breeds confidence.
Confidence breeds more success. More success breeds more confidence. It's that ever ascending
sort of swirl. Great stuff. Right. Now for something less racy, but also, you know, a big part of our
motor racing calendar, which is Goodwood and the Festival of Speed. Before we get to what was actually
on track, a brilliant announcement during the week that Goodwood is moving to the States.
There's going to be an American Goodwood that has just launched. You can email them to sort of
signal your intention to join the GRRC for when they come out to America. And I think the intention
is to have a Festival of Speed out in, out in the States shortly, which will be absolutely
fantastic. It's such a brilliant event. It was the first, one of the first motorsport events that
I went to as a kid. I went with my dad, have very, very happy memories of doing the Festival of
Speed. And just before my dad passed, I got to do commentary at the Festival of Speed and he came
along with me and it was this really lovely kind of full circle moment of the thing that we'd first
attended when I was really young. And then I was doing commentary on it. So it holds a very, very
special place in my heart. I love it. Have you ever driven up the hill at Goodwood?
I have never been to Goodwood, but every time I see somebody go over there, I think to myself,
why in the world have I never been to Goodwood? Because it looks like everybody has a great
time. So it's always fun to see all the clips of the cool cars and all the different people that
are there. I can't believe Kevin Harvick has never been invited to drive up the hill at Goodwood.
We need to rectify that for next year. For those who aren't aware, there was a racing circuit at
Goodwood back in the day, 1950s. It is the early of March. He has this beautiful house,
Goodwood house. And there was a racing circuit next to it, but also there is a wonderful sort of road
that runs up the hill by the house. And this is the Goodwood hill climb. The Festival of Speed is
a hill climb. So I think Pike's Peak, but not nearly as long. And that's essentially what it is.
It's a great British tradition of hill climbs. And there are cars from throughout the history of
the automobile and the history of auto racing, bikes right from the very start all the way through.
So you can be a fan of everything. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Lightning McQueen
went up the hill. So it's great. I mean, it's great fun for the kids as well as for the proper
gearheads. But it's a wonderful, wonderful day out. So I think that's the first time Lightning
McQueen has taken to the hill. And just wonderful stuff for the kids. Dan Tictum took out the brand
new Formula E car. This is the new car that will race, the Gen 4 car that will race in the near
future. He very nearly got the fastest run of the day up the hill because you don't have to go for
the competitive times. There's a couple of cars that go for the overall speed up the hill.
Dan Tictum missed out to Romain Dumas who was back in the Ford Mac E, the Mustang Mac E.
This was great. Lando Norris took the brand new McLaren hypercar for a run up the hill.
This was a more leisurely drive just to show the fans what McLaren have been working on for
their assault on Le Mans. Again, in the very near future, that's not a current race car that will
be racing in the future at Le Mans. And this was wonderful. Mario Andretti and Michael Andretti
and Marco Andretti recreating the 1966 Le Mans finish photo shoot of the three cars, the three
Ford GT40s in order and Granddad, Dad, Son, the three of them in the Ford GT40s. Absolutely,
absolutely beautiful. And finally, Enzo Fittipaldi in World Trips Mountain Dew Lego car.
I love it. Lego car? I think it's just why do I say Lego car? There's the Lego car. Yeah,
the Mountain Dew car is the old stock car. Yeah, look at that Lego car. We've seen what
those F1 guys can do to Lego cars, so you've got to be pretty careful with that. You definitely
don't want to hit the hay bells or that one might blow apart. We might not know how to put it back
together. I was looking at it thinking that doesn't look like a Lego car. That looks like the
real deal. Great fun, always fun at Goodwoods. And yes, to the GRRC, we need to get Mr. Harvick
an invite to go and which car would you take? Which was your which was your favorite? Oh,
that's a great question. And you know, I think when I haven't seen my cars in so long, they're all
in storage. But you know, I think when I look back, you mean one of my cars? Is that what
you're asking? Yeah, one of your cars. Yeah, which one would you like to take and show out in front
of the fans and just give it a blast up the hill? Yeah, I think if I had my choice, I would
probably go back with with one of the first stock cars that that I drove in NASCAR, probably
probably get out the first Atlanta wind car and take that thing up the hill. I know Richard
Childress still has that in his museum, but it'd be fun to drag it out and make sure it still runs.
Yeah, bro. This is this is a really tricky part. You go past the flint walls, you got to kind of
brush it and not hit the flint as you go through. It's so much fun. As I said, loads of bikes.
Valentino Rossi was on hand. It's it's lovely and it's super kind of open. It feels very
American in that sense. You know, the paddock is open, you can just walk through and meet your
heroes. I remember going as a kid. And you know, the first person I bumped into there was Sterling
Moss and I got his autograph, you know, and then and then I met Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert.
And as a, you know, 12 year old, it was just like the coolest thing in the whole world.
It's mega. It's just a mega mega event. And as I say, they're bringing it to the States. So
great times. Yeah, well, this looks more my style right here. I believe that's Kurt Busch's car
that's doing donuts right there. I saw the rally car right before it doing donuts. So I think that
would be more in line with probably, I probably would not want to chase the speed because I'm
not going to crash any of the restored cars that I have. I would definitely not treat it like this
either, but maybe 11 soft donut would not be the worst idea. I think this might have been
land. I can't remember. Lando tried to pull some donuts and got them totally wrong and then decried
Formula One by saying we never get to have any fun and practice donuts in F1 cars. But yeah,
rally cars, bikes, Formula One cars from the entire history of the sport. It's just, it's a great,
great weekend and the sun shone down and glorious goodwood in all its splendor. Right,
time to get back to racing chat and we move to MotoGP, the German Grand Prix.
Off the top, we should probably talk about Marco Bizecki, a crash, an injury and out. So the one
time championship leader, we've interviewed him on the show. Obviously the season was starting to
sort of unravel for him, but now the injury has taken him out of action until we understand the
British Grand Prix later this season. Another horrible, horrible impact for him. A broken collarbone
during that crash in qualifying will see him out for a number of weeks. Just horrible, horrible,
horrible. But Marc Marquez continues his incredible assault on the championship. His 10th German
Grand Prix victory in the Premier class. He'd won the sprint the day before. He's just 18 points
behind championship leader Jorge Martín who finished in fifth. So great weekend for Marc Marquez.
He is one of the driver slash rider of the week nominees, but a horrible weekend for Marco Bizecki.
Yeah, and I've gotten to the point where when I'm home on the weekends, this comes on at a great
time in the morning for me to watch. So I watched Marquez be able to kind of put a whooping on him
this weekend. But the one thing that is really starting to be consistent are the trackhouse guys,
Will. What do you make of the trackhouse MotoGP team and their success? We talk about them over
here and kind of being up and down on the performance, but they have really put themselves
in a position to be contenders over in the MotoGP world. They're just getting it all right,
aren't they? And taking on the big boys. I think the more interesting question for me is what are
getting wrong in NASCAR because they're proving in MotoGP that you put the right people in place.
You give the riders the faith in their machinery. You execute effectively every weekend. You can
bring home the results. So why is that mentality not transferring? Or what is the what's the hurdle?
What's the sticking point for them in NASCAR that's meaning it's, you know, you said it. It's people
and you got to put the people in the right spots. And when it's not clicking like it is for them on
the MotoGP side, at some point you got to start moving those people around and putting them in a
position to try to start mixing it up in the team to be able to find out what's going to make it tick.
And, you know, I think that when you look at SVG and the success that he is having in my opinion,
the leader of that organization right now, winning on the road courses, he's got the
oval results that are starting to come with that. You have to wonder where is where is
Ross Chastain fitting into all that because he's really the guy that has the most experience that
should be leading the team to get the performance where where they need it to be. So that would be
my question. If I was inside of Trackhouse is what do we have to do to this one car to get
him to the point where he can help lead us to where we need to be on the ovals. But
right now it's SVG. Conor has had, Zillich has had just a tremendous amount of trouble
just finishing races. And that's really what he needs. He needs the experience to be able to
go out, finish all the laps during the races. And he has not done that consistently all year.
And we go back to that confidence thing. When you get to the road courses,
we're not seeing the full effect of Conor Zillich on the road courses because that confidence is low.
And this is the thing that actually I was discussing with Mamber when he was on the show
a couple of weeks ago. Actually, we discussed this was, you know, you talk about you need the right
people in the team to be able to get the most out of the drivers, given the right package,
given the confidence to go in and compete at the front every single weekend, street roads,
you know, oval. What happens if someone comes in and grabs SVG or grabs Zillich or takes Chastain
out of the team? What happens if, you know, people come knocking for the drivers because
they recognize three incredible drivers who are not going to get the results across the spectrum
unless Trackhouse changed something fundamentally within that team, you know, which bit comes
first? Do Trackhouse manage to get the people to give the confidence to the drivers? Or do the
drivers say, actually, that opportunity gives me a more rounded chance of success and leave?
Yeah, well, that's a great question. And I think that as, you know, the Chastain contract, you
know, gets to the end of it. Where does that, where does that put Ross? You know, we've already
heard the rumors about, you know, Hendrick being interested in Connor Zillich and everything that
that is happening with with the possibility of his career and, you know, the road and the path
that he could possibly take. So those things are already out there. And the hard part about being
in that scenario is your employees when there's uncertainty about your drivers. And the one thing
that Trackhouse has done really, really good at is is the marketing side and the sponsorship,
marquee sponsorships with Red Bull and, you know, the Bush beer sponsorship on the one car of Ross
Chastain. And when you have those marquee sponsors, that puts everybody in a great position financially,
but you can't hide the results. And if you don't have the results, it becomes harder to get the
great people. And then it becomes hard to get the great drivers. And so it's this it's this snowball
effect. And we saw it. And I love Danica Patrick to death. But at some point, it comes down to
performance. And if you want the performance to be sky high, like your marketing program, you've
got to have the right group of people. And if there's uncertainty, the people start to get nervous.
And then the good people start to say, Well, I'm not really sure where we're going to be. So that
that would be my biggest fear if I was on the Trackhouse side is how do I keep the good people
that I have and make sure that they're still here when we get things corrected. And it's going to
be easier to correct those things with good people. What's the scenario when it comes to Red Bull
with Trackhouse? Because I don't know the details of this in NASCAR. Is Red Bull a team sponsor
for Trackhouse? Or is Red Bull actually aligned to SVG and Conozillage? So if they left, they'd
take Red Bull with them, which yeah, and that's that's where it gets interesting. But I, you know,
I believe that Red Bull is a team sponsorship. But SVG, SVG, you know, came with a Red Bull
sponsorship. So I'm sure that that's how those conversations started. And usually that's how
it goes, right? So, you know, I think that there's a lot of interesting scenarios that could shake
out of out of this whole situation on the NASCAR side of the world for Trackhouse.
Because every time we start to, you know, debate in the ideal scenario of who do we want to see
contest the Indy 500 over an Indy car, the idea of having an SVG and a Conozillage team,
Red Bull backed because they're Red Bull drivers, you know, that becomes this, you know, this unicorn
that everybody kind of dreams of having over in the 500. Anyway, time will tell for now it is time
to move our attentions to Canada and to IMSA, which was racing at the Chevrolet Grand Prix and a
beautiful redemption story for Tom Dilman and Jeremy Clark, who secured a commanding LMP2 win
for Inter-Europe poll a year after Dilman suffered a horrible crash while leading, wasn't his fault
there was a car issue injured his back in the process. Clark had already kicked off the weekend,
an impeccable style by shattering a seven-year-old LMP2 track lap record to capture the poll. The
teammates led 93 of the 127 laps with Clark controlling the opening stint from the poll.
Dilman, though, executed the race-winning pass, cruised home nearly 10 seconds ahead of second
place and that has vaulted the team into second place in the standing. So brilliant weekend for
them, LMP2 being the top class for IMSA this weekend in Canada because the World Endurance
Championship, which we'll talk about in a bit, was racing over in Brazil. So the top top cars that
you normally see on IMSA weekends, they kind of double the duty with WEC, so LMP2 was the top one
there. It's interesting to me when you see the LMP2 race there and you see the top class not there,
the car counts vary. It's very interesting to see how the car counts vary in the different styles of
events or the different alignment of the events on the particular weekends.
Yeah, it's great. It's great. I'm very, very happy for Tom. I remember
knew Tom very, very well in Europe during his early years. Was so good in the junior formula. I
remember he did an amazing race in Barcelona in GP2 or Formula 2 back in the day and passed so many
people around the outside of turn three and Fernando Alonso was watching the race from his
motor home and decided that if the F2 guy could do it, then he was going to try it and ultimately
overtook everybody in the race using the Tom Dilman line and Dilman was like, you know, you're
welcome, giving him the inspiration. Great, great race of Tom Dilman. Very, very happy for him.
Moving from Canada to Down Under and Supercars, the Townsville 500, three races for the weekend
and has kicked off with Cam Waters winning the first race of the weekend in Townsville
to totally shake up the championship standings. Pretty close win actually for Cam.
In the sprint, Matt Payne bounced back, crushed the field to claim the sprint win, reclaimed control
of the championship and then we finished off with the last race of the weekend and it was Brody
Kostecki who capped off a brilliant weekend for him by storming through the field to win the
finale by nearly 10 seconds. Cracking track, great weekend. Kostecki's only real issue was
clipping the wall during his burnout as we're about to see. There you go. Payne leads the
championship by 98 points from Brock Feeney. Well, it's interesting on this side of the
world because I've seen so many of these guys come up in the NASCAR world now with their brief
appearances in and out of the road races so it's fun to watch these guys battling out over there
and also be able to kind of see who they are when they come to the States and have had their
opportunities on the cup side thanks to SVG. Yeah, totally and we had the chat earlier this year
in the news about Matt Payne wanting to come and race for RCR and I know that he still dreams of a
future in NASCAR. He is now leading the championship in supercars by, as we said, almost 100 points
so having a stellar season down under. We will stay outside of the States for our next look at
the racing world and that is the world endurance championship. I promised you we'd talk about it
and Kevin, when we talk about drivers jumping into cup and having a go,
what about Kevin Magnuson? Shook, shook up NASCAR when he jumped in and he races for BMW
in the world endurance championship and along with his teammate, Raffaele Marcello, Andries Vantor
secured their first ever win in the world endurance championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Cracking race actually really, really enjoyable. It was the Jotas who took the pole but the BMW
moved up into the lead pretty early on, great fight with the Alpine and Vantor himself who took the
final stint of the day was actually running the race pretty ill, was feeling dizzy and not himself
but held it together, pulled off the victory at the six hour race in Sao Paulo so great stuff for
and team boss basically said that without Kevin Magnuson's opening stint, putting them in a position
where they could fight for the win, they wouldn't have had a chance so he put it all
at Magnuson's door and said, you know, Kev was the one who really, really did the business
so great job from the entire team, happy for Lello, he's a lovely kid as well and obviously
for Vantor to drive through that illness and take the win, absolutely mega.
Yeah and I think Kev though back in his natural surroundings.
Yeah Kevin is fast in pretty much everything that he gets in and as we saw he's not scared of
anybody either when he came over to run San Diego on the Cup Series side so happy for Kevin to be
able to go back over there and get to Victory Lane and I love those supercars. Those things
are so cool to see race and just to look at that they're just they're good looking cars.
It's they're kind of like closed wheel open wheelers if that makes any sense because you've
got that kind of the you know the cockpit and the way they handle the drivers just love them
and when you see them up close they're such beautiful creations we're really lucky we do
a lot of IndyCar weekends with the IMSA teams as well and IMSA races on IndyCar weekends
when you see those things close up they're just incredible but World Endurance Championship is
in such a strong place at the moment you look back 10 years and the level of interest from the
major auto manufacturers wasn't there the introduction of the hypercar class what it's
done for the number of cars in the top class at Le Mans in the World Endurance Championship it's
so so fantastic and as we just said earlier we just saw the McLaren making its debut at the
Goodwood Festival of Speed you know they're going to be entering and going for Le Mans and the
World Endurance Championship as well so great days really really superb and very happy for the
World Endurance Championship because it just provides top-line drivers with another outlet
another opportunity to go and race and be competitive and great racing always always great racing
it also goes back to what we talked about earlier in the year cool fast race cars people like them
yep that's it man that's it keep it simple on now to the world of outlaws
who were at Wilmot Raceway and Sheldon Howden's child completed a weekend sweep after coming out
on top of a spectacular battle with Garrett Williamson in the closing laps hard fought victory
marks Howden Child's 52nd career world of outlaws win while Williamson was forced to settle for a
career best second place after leading most of the feature sprint car racing doesn't really get
much better than what went down at Wilmot it earned the race of the year tag because those
two spent the final five laps trading fierce you know like proper edge of your seat slide jobs
crossover maneuvers had the lot just brilliant stuff Howden's child locking down the winning
pass with just two laps to go I love when they put these sprint cars on on shorter race tracks
where they have to be where they can use the top and the bottom groove like that you just never
know what you're going to get at a sprint car race but when they when they go to these shorter
tracks and they're able to you know have two grooves like that and and be able to put on a
race like that it is so much fun to watch you know every series we cover on this show NASCAR
IndyCar F1 MotoGP different cars different tracks different rules but the winning team
all runs on the same principle nothing's left to guesswork the setups dialed in the pit crews
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time now for the social speedway two things to look at this week the first one blind drifting oh
and i've only i've only seen the headline for this in the uh in the running order so i'm not
entirely sure what's going on can he drift the track no. I mean the hood the hood is all the way
over the windshield and he is not missing a beat. Oh i thought i thought he was actually
blind you know what you mean is like he can't see where he's going because the because the hood's
over the cup yeah and that is that's like uh that is that is next level and and being in that
position before where i've had the hood over my windshield and had to race you wind up looking
underneath in in any little piece of vision that you might be able to have or out the out the side
windows because you just i mean you can't stop at that point you've already started and you forgot
to put the hood pins in so you gotta you can't you've already made one dumb move so you gotta
keep going and try to figure it out but look pretty badass to me to be able to make it happen like
that and and still uh still compete it's like the scene in uh in star wars when
luke skywalk has got the blast shield down on the helmet and he's learning to use his lightsaber
and that little floaty thing is jabbing him with the the little shots and he feels the force flowing
through him and manages to defend against the attack well this this i felt it in real culture
reference for all the nerds out there talking about all the nerds out there indy cars finally
getting a racing game uh it's going to be released in 2020 what's next year seven is it 27 or is it
28 you've lost track of time thank goodness i've lost track of time mate i don't know what year it is
2027 it's coming next year there's been a big wait for this um and finally it is coming so uh that
is great news i guess so there was a lot of talk about one being released this year and it's been
delayed a little bit into next year i guess the reason for that though is we now have all this
spate of uh driver changes so they're going to have to wait to figure out who's ending up where
before they before they finalize the game are you the voice of the indy car are you the voice of
the who's the voice of the indy car game i've got no idea mate i've got no idea what i'm allowed to
say well i i think that that that's a big miss if our guy is not the voice he's the voice of indy
car why in the world are you not the voice of the indy car game well well saying i'm not sure what
i'm allowed to say probably gives away too much um but um but should we say possibly possibly might
might be well there a bit i don't i don't know what i'm allowed to say okay well i
either way indy cars got a video game that's coming out which is always great for the series
i'm very excited about it um and towns and bell keeps telling me that i need to install um you
know like a sim in my new studio that i'm i'm building at home so um i think that is an extra
reason to do that i can drive the tracks before every weekend i i think you're a lot like me you
but you travel around the world i travel a lot all these guys that talk about hey man you should get
on on sim racing and you should do this i'm like when do i have time to do that when do i have time
two kids and i have one that races all over the over the country and i have a job so i'm not sure
when i have time to sit down i want to lay on the couch because my ass is old yeah same and and
also like every spare penny at the moment is going into renovating the house because it's like
i just moved into a house it's literally older than america they could have signed the declaration
of independence in my kitchen it's literally this is this if this happens if you do get a simulator
what i want you to do is film the moment that you tell your wife that you're going to go in the
garage yes and drive on the simulator i just want to see how that goes well well if i i'll put blocks
on the pedals and i'll put my three-year-old in it and we'll get her trained up you can get away
with it that way we'll get away with it that way we'll get her on the roads on the road to indy
that's what that's what we'll do as if as if the house wasn't going to bleed me dry we'll get my
daughter interested in going racing and then i really will be bled dry right that's enough of
our stupid ideas how about how about a voicemail slash mailbag we have a question in from bill
in albin hey this is bill anderson from avern alabama uh questions for wil buxton um in 2014
i think it was you did the florida winter series down there at holmstead motor speedway how did
i come about okay uh cool time out okay so time out time freaking out i i had no idea that you
raced carts no no this was this was open wheel mate um i raced fill us in open wheel back in
2014 i was invited down by ferrari to take part in the florida winter series which was like a
one-off championship they ran over the winter for kids straight out of go-karts to prep them for
for open wheels so i was competing with lance stroll and raffaello marcello who just won
the wet race at the weekend um and uh antonio foco and a certain kid by the name of max for
stappen um so it was it was really eye-opening i'd never raced anything before my first practice
session i was 17 seconds off the pace um because i just didn't know what i was doing after i didn't
understand how aerodynamics worked you know and i was it was actually at um uh palm palm uh palm
springs um which which isn't there anymore great little track really tough uh and by the end of
the weekend i think my fastest race lap was about two and a half seconds off for stappen so i'll take
that i would i would take it so what is this like an ambition that you had or they just did it for a
pr's kind of just to get you in there they they literally did it they did it because they knew
that for my whole life i've been talking about racing and i knew and i understood the theory but
they wanted to give me the experience of knowing what it was to be in in the driver's seat and it
was meant as a preparatory series and a you know an education um for the drivers there was lots of
kind of sim time and then after every session you had loads of data overlays so you could see what
all the drivers were doing um and it was a really great way of kind of learning and understanding
and and training and um it was wonderful it was it was an incredible experience and but even from
those days and you're talking about teenage max for stappen just out of go karts all the other
kids were just looking at him like we can't do what he does he was a step above everybody right
right from the outside the things i learned about will buxton on this show that's just great
i had no idea there you go the the only feather in my cap is that in my third ever race i was able
to beat nicolas latifi that's it and that's the only thing i actually finished
ahead of marcello in that race as well but he had damage so yeah we'll um hey take the small wins
just just run with it mate they are i always tell people when they ask me about it they say oh didn't
you race max for stappen i was like i can say i i i shared a racetrack with him i was in the same
race that yeah that i yeah i was in the same race as but i can't say that i raced because um those
who can do those who can't talk about it yeah um yeah but it was uh an an amazing experience
and one that uh i mean it feels like it was yesterday and it's already 12 years ago so um but
yeah just well you just wait those days will come faster with those kids
time to vote for the driver slash rider of the week you already know that mark marquez
is in there having won his 10th moto gp german grand prix uh ryan blaney is in there i'm guessing
he's your pick mate yeah that's my pick you know that there you go that's pretty easy uh kevin
magneson was in there for his first world endurance championship win uh and jeremy clark for the lmp
to win and track record for the poll uh and the winner is of course like as if we do you know what
that's closer than i thought it was going to be 40 for k mag yeah 47 for blaney who was your pick uh
my my pick was k mag okay good well i like when we get picks
that are that are close so that means people are watching so we're doing okay that was close
that was close uh brilliant okay folks time now for the final lap uh the nas car cup series and trucks
truck car uh that's the new name for it will be in north wilksburgh uh formula one is at the
belgian grand prix indy car at the music city grand prix at nashville straight after the world cup
final so you can watch england being crowned world champions and then uh slide straight in
to watching uh the indy car race in nashville you don't have to change the channel stays on fox
stay with us for that uh and the world rally championship is in estonia this weekend well
that looks like a fun week fun week in a racing it it's going to be a great weekend of racing
and if you tune in to nashville you will see scott dixon winning that race he is our guest
on wednesday uh cannot wait to sit down and talk to him about that big move announced last week
to mclaren that has got the entire motorsport world excited uh cannot cannot wait uh that is
all we've got time for on this episode folks but there's still so we're saying plenty to come this
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About this episode
Atlanta’s race gets dissected from the chaos to the rulebook: a three-hour rain delay reshaped handling, and Ryan Blaney’s control carried him from stage dominance to the finish. The hosts dig into why the double yellow line matters and how drafting “friends” and pushing decisions swing super-speedway position. NASCAR’s enforcement escalates after repeated incidents, including drivers being called to the hauler. The Atlanta debate is tied to track changes—more banking, repaving, and even bump placement—making the racing feel uniquely intense.
Join Will Buxton and Kevin Harvick as they recap a weekend of global motorsport action! We are diving into a weekend defined by total attrition, dramatic multi-car crashes, and massive championship shifts.
First up, the NASCAR Cup Series took on Atlanta where Ryan Blaney overcame a massive rain delay and wall contact to take his 19th career victory, securing a historic 750th win for Ford. Meanwhile, the O’Reilly Series saw an unforgettable finish as Justin Allgaier dragged his sparking, damaged car across the line to win a race featuring 13 cautions and 4 red flags!
We also head to Lime Rock for a fiery Truck Series battle and an ARCA beatdown, check out the legendary highlights from the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and recap Marc Marquez's historic 10th premier-class win at the Sachsenring in MotoGP. Plus, WEC Hypercar drama from São Paulo, an absolute "Race of the Year" candidate in the World of Outlaws, and your fan mailbag questions!
0:00 - Welcome to SPEED!
0:30 - NASCAR Cup Series: Blaney's Masterclass in Atlanta Chaos
6:00 - SVG & Austin Hill called to the NASCAR Hauler
10:35 - Carson Hocevar & Zane Smith called to the NASCAR Hauler
11:55 - Carnage in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series
14:00 - Why Atlanta has such great racing
16:35 - NASCAR Truck Series & ARCA Series at Lime Rock
23:30 - Goodwood Festival of Speed
29:10 - MotoGP: Marc Marquez’s Historic 10th Sachsenring Victory
30:30 - Trackhouse MotoGP finding success compared to NASCAR
37:00 - IMSA: Inter Europol's Sweet Redemption at CTMP
39:00 - Supercars: Waters, Payne & Kostecki Shake Up Townsville
40:37 - Maiden Hypercar Win for BMW in the 6 Hours of São Paulo
43:50 - World of Outlaws: A Wild "Race of the Year" Candidate
47:04 - Social Speedway: Blind Drifting & INDYCAR The Game
51:30 - Voicemail: Bill in Auburn, AL
55:00 - Driver of the Week
56:00 - Final Lap
57:50 - Wrecks of the Week
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