A dial-in is the time you plan to run in bracket racing. The closer you are to your planned time (and the better you react), the better your chances to win.
They’re talking about using AI to help adjust engine settings for performance. It can make experimenting faster, but you still have to be careful because wrong settings can hurt the engine.
Timing is when the engine fires the spark during the engine cycle. If it’s set right, the engine makes more power; if it’s too far off, it can run poorly or even damage itself.
An open circuit means the electrical path is broken, so current can’t flow. A closed circuit means the path is complete, allowing current to flow—this is foundational for diagnosing wiring and switch problems in car electronics.
A trans brake is a racing switch that keeps the car from moving while you build power. When you hit the release, it lets the car launch quickly for drag racing.
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top bulb
“Top bulb” is one of the lights on the drag-race starting system. They’re talking about choosing which button to use depending on which light sequence they’re running.
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pro tree
A “pro tree” is the set of lights used at drag races to start the run. People wire racing controls so the car launches at the right moment when those lights come down.
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Brack Racing Elite group
This sounds like a local racing group where people help each other learn how to do things for events. They’re talking about getting advice from someone experienced in the group.
A battery charger is a device that tops up your car’s battery so it doesn’t go dead. People sometimes add switches or special wiring so they can connect it more easily without crawling around the car.
The Dodge Charger is a performance car made for fast acceleration. People often talk about it in racing because it can be set up to run well on a drag strip. If someone says they couldn’t “drag” it to the lanes, they’re talking about getting the car ready to race.
A master switch is one big on/off switch that controls power for a whole setup. Here, they’re talking about making it easier to control the charger without reaching around the back.
They’re talking about seatbelts that aren’t tight. If the belt isn’t snug, you can move around more in the seat, which is less safe and can feel sketchy when driving fast.
They’re talking about how race weekends get rearranged when there are too many cars. If there isn’t enough time, they cut down the number of timed runs so everyone can get on track.
They’re saying the weather changes can make the track harder to drive. Wind and cooler temps can reduce grip and make the car feel less stable, so it gets more stressful.
Eliminations are the actual race rounds where you go head-to-head. If you lose, you’re out, and the earlier practice runs help you prepare for these rounds.
NHRA is a big organization that puts on drag races in the U.S. At these events, you usually do timed runs first, then the cars race each other in head-to-head elimination rounds.
Bracket racing is drag racing where the goal is to run close to a chosen target time, not necessarily the fastest time. It helps different cars compete more fairly because the winner is based on who gets closest to their target.
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one time run vs multiple time runs
They’re talking about how the event only gave racers one practice/timed pass before racing started. They’re debating whether that’s enough for drivers to get comfortable and set up their cars.
In drag racing, the “eighth mile” is just a shorter race distance—half of a quarter-mile. It’s common at some events, and the shorter distance changes how quickly cars reach the finish.
Bracket racing is a style of drag racing where the important thing is being consistent. Instead of just trying to go fastest, you try to hit your planned time so you’re competitive even if the track or weather changes.
They’re talking about the people who help run the event behind the scenes. For drag racing, that includes the crew that prepares the track and keeps everything safe and on schedule.
The track crew is the team that gets the drag strip ready for racing. They make sure the surface is in good shape so cars can launch and accelerate consistently.
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Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster is being credited as part of the team that helps make the race happen. Track crews do a lot of work to prep the surface and keep the event running smoothly.
Drag racing is when cars race in a straight line to see which one accelerates fastest. It’s all about getting off the line well and using traction to keep the car from slipping.
NHRA is the main organization that runs and regulates drag racing in the U.S. They help make sure races are run by consistent rules so drivers can compete fairly.
Junior racing refers to motorsport competition for younger drivers, often organized through age-based series or development programs. It’s a pathway that helps drivers build skills, racecraft, and team experience before moving into higher-level categories.
A “funny car” is a drag-racing car made to go as fast as possible in a straight line. It looks kind of like a regular car from a distance, but it’s built specifically for racing. The goal is maximum acceleration over a short distance.
The crew chief is basically the team’s lead boss for racing. They help set up the car and make key decisions so the driver has the best chance to perform. They also coordinate the mechanics and adjustments.
They’re talking about a weekly tradition of spending Saturday working on their race cars. In racing, keeping the car in good shape matters a lot, so they treat it like a dedicated day for preparation.
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top field deal
“Top field deal” sounds like a situation where someone gets into the most competitive group or gets a better starting position. The speaker implies it’s a big step up in competition, even if it’s emotionally hard at first.
Top dragsters are high-level drag racing cars built to go as fast as possible in a straight line. They’re purpose-built race machines, not normal street cars.
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super comps
Super Comp is a category in drag racing. It groups cars by rules so different cars can race each other without it being totally unfair.
Boise is being discussed as a future race destination, tying the conversation to the motorsports calendar. While not a car or part, it’s a location that helps listeners understand the racing circuit being planned.
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national open
A “national open” is a race that counts for bigger, wider rankings. Your finish can help you in more than one points race, not just the local event.
The Pontiac Firebird is a muscle car, meaning it’s built to be fast and fun to drive. The podcast connects it to a race track called Firebird Raceway, which suggests people in that area were into cars like this. That’s why the Firebird shows up in a story about local racing.
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Emmett
Emmett is mentioned as the speaker’s hometown near the track in Boise. It provides local context for why the track noise was familiar, reinforcing the “home track” feel.
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Mission 2
“Mission 2” appears to be a specific racing location or event stop referenced by the hosts. Without additional context, it’s best treated as a named stop on their racing schedule rather than a technical automotive term.
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Sports Nats
“Sports Nats” sounds like a big drag-racing event. In this segment, they’re talking about going there to race and watch other competitors.
Super Pro is a drag-racing class name. It usually means you’re racing in a faster, more competitive group than the beginner brackets, but the exact rules depend on the track.
“Stage lanes” are the two starting areas on a drag strip where cars line up and wait to be staged before the run. Fans often study the cars in these lanes because staging position and setup can hint at how the teams are planning to run. In the transcript, it’s where the speaker and their dad would watch and learn.
A “driver’s race” means the driver matters a lot—not just the car’s power. It usually comes down to how well the driver launches and controls the car so it can use the power effectively.
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610 / 670 car
The “610” and “670” numbers sound like drag-racing performance targets or class numbers. The speaker is basically saying the top dragster setup is a bigger jump in performance than Super Comp.
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wheel race
“Wheel race” here means the driver is really involved—using skill to control the car and make it work. It’s the opposite of feeling like the car just does everything for you.
In drag racing, the “water box” is a marked area where teams apply water to the track surface before the run. The goal is to improve traction by cooling and conditioning the surface so the tires can hook up harder at launch.
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supercharged dragster sound (big blowers loping)
When people talk about “big blowers” and that “loping” sound, they mean the engine sounds like it’s chugging or pulsing. It happens because the supercharger is feeding air in a very aggressive way.
A blower is a supercharger. “Surge” is when it doesn’t keep boost smoothly and instead briefly bucks or oscillates, often making a really cool sound. In drag racing, it can happen during hard throttle changes.
This is the simple “whoever crosses first wins” style of racing. It’s different from formats where you try to hit a target time, because the strategy can change a lot.
A clutch is the pedal/lever that lets you smoothly connect the engine to the gearbox. In racing, how you use it can make a big difference in how well the car launches. If you’re not confident with it, it can feel harder to control the car at the start.
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wheel racing with the junior dragsters
“Junior dragsters” are smaller drag-racing cars for younger drivers. Racing them helps you learn how to control a drag car and handle the start. The speaker is saying that their experience there shaped what they feel comfortable with now.
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math behind it
In drag racing, “the math” often refers to the calculations and data used to optimize performance—like gearing, timing, and launch parameters. Teams use measurements and models to predict how changes will affect acceleration and consistency. The speaker’s emphasis suggests they enjoy the analytical side of race setup, not just the driving.
Top Fuel is a type of drag racing. The cars are built to go as fast as possible from a standing start, usually over a very short race distance, and it’s all about quick acceleration.
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Supercop car
“Supercop car” sounds like a particular drag-racing car setup or class name the driver moved into. Different race cars can feel very different to drive, especially at launch and under acceleration.
Elapsed time (ET) is how long it takes the car to run the drag strip from start to finish. In bracket racing, ET is what you’re trying to match to your target.
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spot drop
“Spot drop” sounds like a launch/timing trick used in some racing styles. The point here is that bracket racing doesn’t reward the same kind of timing moves, so you can’t drive it the same way as a door car.
In a bracket race, you’re not only trying to go fast—you’re trying to hit a specific target time. The goal is to be as close as possible without running quicker than your number.
A “door car” is basically a more normal car body style with doors, compared to a dragster. The speaker is saying the driving tricks don’t translate the same way between those styles.
“Driving the stripe” means you keep pushing all the way to the finish line. Since the clock stops at the stripe, you can’t just ease off early and expect a good result.
In drag racing, “dialed” is the time a driver expects to run, written as a handicap number. It’s used so two different cars can race fairly, and it changes how each driver times their run.
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hang a wheel
“Hang a wheel” means you stay right next to the other car while you’re racing. It’s basically trying to match their speed and position so they can’t pull away.
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top end sound
“Top end” is the high-RPM part of the engine. People use it to describe how the car sounds and feels when it’s revving higher.
A “scoop” is an opening on the hood that helps bring air into the engine. On performance cars, it’s often connected to making the engine breathe better.
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turn on a single win light
A “win light” is the indicator that tells you who won the race. The speaker is saying that even getting that win signal again the next year is really hard.
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six lanes in Vegas
Some drag strips have multiple lanes so more cars can race in the same session. The speaker is describing how busy and intense the event is in Vegas.
A national event is a bigger race than a local or regional one. It usually means tougher competition and more opportunities to move up in the standings.
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divisional Wally
“Wally” sounds like a trophy or award. “Divisional” likely means a smaller, regional level version of that award.
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superstition about cleaning before the final
The segment references a superstition: cleaning the car before the “final” round because it “worked the last time.” In motorsport culture, rituals like this are common even though they don’t directly change mechanical performance; they’re more about mindset and routine.
Some races are scored by points. You get points for where you finish each event, and the season standings add those up. So you can feel excited when you see you moved up in the rankings.
They’re talking about looking up the standings for their local track. Even if you don’t win every race, the points table shows how you’re doing overall.
On a drag strip, there are lights that tell you who won the race right after the cars cross the finish line. “Win lights” means the team’s car came out on top.
Top Alcohol is a category in drag racing where the cars use alcohol fuel. Because of the rules for that class, teams build and tune the car differently than other drag classes.
In bracket drag racing, a “dial” is the time you expect to run. The goal is to get as close as possible to that number so you can win on the matchup.
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drive the stripe at two hundred
“Drive the stripe” means keep pushing hard until you cross the finish line. “Two hundred” here is basically the kind of speed they’re aiming for at the end of the run.
Top Sportsman is a type of drag racing category. It’s basically how the event groups cars so people race against others with similar rules and performance.
Top Comp is a drag racing class name. It means the car is competing under a particular set of rules for that category.
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top jackster
“Top jackster” appears to be a class or car-build nickname in this drag racing context. The key takeaway is that it’s being compared in cost and build complexity to a “Top Sportsman car,” suggesting it’s a specific type of race car setup.
In drag racing, “the tree” is the set of lights that starts the race. If you miss it, your timing is off and you can lose even before you really get going.
A dead battery means the car doesn’t have enough power to start. In racing, that’s a big deal because you have to be ready to run when your turn comes.
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VP man
“VP man” sounds like a nickname or shorthand for a person involved in the races. The speaker is talking about how that competitor almost won, but the exact meaning isn’t clear from this excerpt.
“Comp eliminator” is a drag racing category. Cars race head-to-head under class rules, and the winner is usually the one that reacts well and runs consistently.
“Stock eliminator” is a drag race class where cars have to stay closer to stock. That means the win often comes from driving well and having a healthy, properly set-up car.
“Super stock” is a drag racing class for cars that are more modified than “stock,” but not as extreme as the wildest classes. Teams still have to follow rules, so preparation and consistency matter.
Staging lanes are where drag racers get lined up before the race. Everyone has a routine to make sure they’re ready to launch the car the same way every time.
Super Gas is another drag racing class mentioned in the segment. The speaker discusses lane position and how being too far forward (e.g., “seventy seven up front”) can hurt performance, which is consistent with how bracket racing and class competition are managed.
They’re debating a race-rules question: should officials tweak the target times at Las Vegas, or should they keep things the same? The point is whether the tweak helps or just complicates things when cars can already perform well enough.
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990 at Denver
They’re referencing a specific target number at the Denver track that they believe most super gas cars can hit. The argument is that if almost everyone can do it, the rules shouldn’t be changed just because one person can’t.
“Big block” means a bigger V8 engine than a “small block.” Bigger engines can make more power, which is why racers often upgrade to them for faster acceleration.
“Small block” is a nickname for a smaller V8 engine. It usually means less displacement than a “big block,” which is why people talk about it when discussing engine upgrades.
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Vegas Super Cup
“Vegas Super Cup” appears to be a specific racing event or series at/around Las Vegas. The hosts treat it like a bracket-style competition where drivers can earn prizes and bragging rights.
A “roller” is basically a car frame that can move, but it doesn’t have the engine installed yet. Racers use rollers because they can build the car exactly how they want.
They’re talking about a Chevrolet Camaro they want to race. For drag racing, the engine and setup matter a lot because they affect how the car accelerates.
The Chevrolet Nova is a smaller American car that many people modify for racing. In the podcast, it sounds like they’re talking about different Nova builds that were used for performance driving. That’s why the Nova comes up when discussing drag racing and car setups.
“Dialed in” means the car and driver have tuned the setup and driving to hit the expected performance consistently. In bracket racing, that often translates to better reaction times, traction, and repeatable acceleration so the car stays on the chosen dial-in time.
The Plymouth Barracuda is a muscle car from the 1970s, and a 1972 model is a very popular version. The podcast is praising a bright orange one and connecting it to drag racing. “Super Gas” usually refers to a racing category, meaning the car is set up for the track.
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drag stars
“Drag stars” sounds like a specific wheel style used on drag cars. The point here is that the car looks like it belongs in that era, and the wheels help sell the period-correct vibe.
“Period correct” means the car looks like it belongs in the time period it’s from. People care because it’s more authentic than having a bunch of modern parts.
Super Street is a drag racing class with a rulebook. People argue about what modifications are allowed, like whether a fuel-injected setup (EFI) is legal.
Nitrous is a system that adds extra power by injecting a special gas into the engine. Drag racers use it because it can make the car accelerate harder for the run, but it has to be set up and tuned correctly.
To “qualify” in drag racing, you have to make fast timed runs during the qualifying rounds. If your times aren’t good enough, you don’t get to race in the main event.
“Six sixties” is shorthand for running in the 6.60-second range for ET. In drag racing, those ET bands are used to quickly communicate how competitive a car is relative to the class and qualifying cutoff.
“Sportsman motorcycle” is a racing category for non-top-tier riders. Think of it like a competitive league where people race regularly, even if they’re not the biggest-name pros.
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redeem himself
“Redeem himself” means someone wants to do better after not getting the result they wanted. In racing, that usually means performing more consistently next time.
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Reading
They’re talking about a race event happening in Reading. It’s basically the “where” for the bracket-racing schedule they’re discussing.
They mention a YouTube channel called “motor mania” that will have the coverage starting tomorrow. If you want to watch the races, that’s where to look.
They say the track’s name changed to Dorana Dunn Benson, but it’s still the same location as Galat. That helps you find the event info online.
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Hey, what's going on?
Bro, the AI is heavy on that banner this week, but it's fun.
We're looking more and more professional every week, but yeah, you could definitely tell
we used the AI.
Heavily, heavily dependent.
I was just talking about AI with Costello and the gang on the WFO show, and we were
kind of talking about the merits and demerits of AI.
He was telling me, gosh, I can't believe I forget.
He was telling me about somebody who used it for tuning, like a brand new combination.
They didn't really know anything about it or something like that, and they put all the
parameters into AI, and AI was like, yo, put two more degrees of timing in that thing.
So he did, and it went faster.
Oh my God.
So it's getting crazy, man.
Well, if you wanted to know how many times we've asked AI about wiring questions
on the Trans Am, you'd be shocked that it's running.
Dude, I'm right there with you.
Once electricity is involved, I'm the dumbest person, and I'm scared of electricity,
and I just don't have never quite grasped open and closed circuits unless they're
really, really simple, right?
Like the simplest ones.
But I'm trying to wire in another trans break.
So I have two buttons, and I could pick which one.
I want a long throw button for bottom bulb, and I want my wheel button
for if I'm going to do like a pro tree or a top bulb or something.
And like just the idea of having two buttons in there, like fried my brain.
So I had to go to the, this is a Brack Racing Elite group.
I had to pop in there one night and ask Justin Lamb.
I'm like, dude, how do you do this?
And he was like, bro, like because it's really simple.
But fries my brain, man.
I'm really good with electricity.
If it's just picking up the battery charger, anything past that, I have
to phone a friend, are you good at unhooking the battery charger?
Cause that's the most important part in all my years.
And I'm going to jinx myself and you're not ever going to believe this story.
My, my battery charger plugs in through my hood, like I somehow managed
to get in my car and start backing up as I'm looking at it plugged
in, but it only happened once.
So I never have a pull through spot.
So like if I could never drag my charger to the lanes, because I would
have had to like crunch that thing back and over it that like that.
I don't think there's any way I could ever be that guy, but it's crazy
because you'll see it five, six times on double O every year.
Like that people do it.
I don't know how it happens so often, but it does.
I've gotten in my car a couple of times and been like, I forgot.
Oh dude, I don't flip the power switch so often that I'm going
to wire in a master switch inside the car and just leave the back one
on all the time so that I can do it in the car.
Because I get in and like, I'm not a loose belts guy.
I'm like, I'm like in there, like we're about to go 300.
And I mean, I'm tight in there.
I get them. I mean, I get them.
And as soon as I sense you're tight, I go to hit the button every time.
And it's like, oh, and there's usually nobody around, you know,
and I'm like, hey, hey, you know, and everyone's like, what, you know,
and I got to get out and it's a mess, man.
It happens to me all the time.
Absolutely.
One of the worst things I we started putting them all the switches
inside the car a long time ago, just because the first car we ever had
just had it on the back and it happened too many times.
Yeah, man. No good. No good.
Good weekend to race in though this weekend.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Vegas was was awesome.
The car count was very heavy.
We had to shorten some days by cutting a couple of time runs
and and just getting first round in on the first day, which
when you have that many cars and the wind's blowing and if the sun goes
down and the wind's blowing in Vegas, it's going to get cold.
It's going to get sketchy.
And I think the whole team did a good job at getting everybody in.
There was a lot of controversy on going one time run
and into eliminations the second day.
But I wondered what because I heard him say it over the P.A.
The day before, right?
And they were like, yo, tomorrow, you know, one and done and we're rolling.
And I was like, ooh, I wonder what people are going to think about that.
Well, here's my two cents.
A lot of these people just go super super class racing, NHRA racing.
But there's also a lot of people that race bracket racing.
And like the fling, we got time runs on Wednesday.
We didn't get another time run the rest of the week.
Like we just went right into first round. Not a big deal.
But everything was fine. Everything was fine.
But yeah, people were losing their minds that we only got one time run.
I'm like, are we here to make time runs?
Are we here to race car?
I don't know.
Like you had three runs at least the race before.
And now you're going to get a fourth.
And how many more runs are you going to do that?
That's one thing about West Coasters, I think, is I mean,
I think there's lots of people that appreciate time runs,
but people out here, I've noticed, man, like just hang on to them real, real tight.
If you don't give somebody their five time runs,
I go to a race at Coos Bay sometimes down south.
And the car counts are usually small enough
that like you're wrapped up by three thirty four o'clock.
Time runs don't even start till like 10 and you get three
for eighth mile, you know, eighth mile, like Saturday club race.
And you know, bracket points racing, you get three time runs at that joint, man.
And it's like it's pretty cool.
But like by the time you get when you're pulling up for the third one,
you're like, I don't know if I really need to do this or not.
Just wearing your stuff out of a lot of people skip the first one
and just do the second two.
So then it's like, you should just do two.
And they keep doing that, right?
Whether it's car count, whether it's weather,
whether it's stuff that happens on the track,
we've had multiple occasions now with the NHRA,
where they've either cut the number of time runs or cut them all together.
And it's worked out every time we were talking to Mike Rice last week.
It's like, I think you guys are on to something, you know,
let's just get to it.
Let's get busy.
I think, like I said, I think they did a good job.
The first day we were done at six thirty seven o'clock,
which heck, yeah, go eat your dinner and hang out with your friends.
And then yesterday, Sunday, they finished around five o'clock.
That's plenty of time for people to get home, get their stuff put away
and and still be able to make it to work on Monday.
We're all I like racers and most of us have to go to work.
So good job to the whole NHRA staff.
The track crew, Jeff Foster and everybody involved in making it happen.
Are they paying you?
It's a second week in a row and you've been giving them their flowers like this.
You know what?
They've been doing a good job lately, in my opinion.
And I don't think they get enough applause.
So here's to them.
I'm with it, man. I'm with it. Cheers.
Cheers to the National Hot Rod Association.
We got a young lady coming on the show, man.
Real impressive run coming from a strong pedigree,
you know, of racers and really, really stoked
to to have Macy Gordon on tonight.
So I think she's out in the green room.
What do you say? We just get her in the mix.
Hello. Thank you guys for having me.
Thanks for coming on, Macy.
How's Macy doing tonight?
I'm doing good.
I was just telling you guys earlier, I'm like still seeing this
wally like in my room.
I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's just so crazy to think I've actually got a
wally level of a diamond wally.
Let's see it. Let's see it.
We need you to bring it a little closer.
Let me bring it over.
It is so beautiful.
Look at that thing shining.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Congrats. Thank you.
We did. Did Doug get one yet?
He did. He got one in Pomona.
Yeah. So you guys.
So you two got one first.
Yeah. Yeah, I like it.
Yeah.
Joy, you should ask the question about the rivalry, huh?
Oh, yeah. Well, I shot a little text to Alan Reinhardt today.
And I was like, OK, but we're having Macy on,
you know, what do I what do I got to make sure
that I ask her and and he chuckled because he's like he's like,
well, there was quite the rivalry between the parents back when
when Macy and Maddie had to compete against each other.
And that your mom is particularly competitive.
So just want to maybe give us a little insight
on the on the parental rivalry back when you guys had to race each other.
Oh, yeah. So my mom out of our whole family,
she is like die hard competitive.
It doesn't matter what we're playing, if we're playing card games,
if whatever the case is, she is die hard met up.
We all are, but she's like another level.
So when it came to the juniors and we had, you know,
both car or me and Maddie in the same classes,
dad's like, hey, you've got to run one of them.
Like we got we got to make this work, you know, we got with four cars total.
And so we're like, we got, you know, mom needed to step in and run a car.
And she's like, OK, yeah.
So she was totally down for it.
And and yeah, she she was not she's very competitive.
So when it came to me and Maddie racing, she's like,
oh, I I whoever is running my car, like that's who I want to win.
There's there's no oh, I'm playing fair.
I'm sitting in the middle of, you know, the two lanes.
No, she was like, oh, I'm voting for my car.
And if that car doesn't win, I'm mad.
I remember one time we were in Vegas for the E.T.
Finals and, you know, like if you know, if we lose or whatever,
like we never have to worry about mom and dad like being mad at us.
And, you know, it's we're just it's not like that.
But one time I forget who was near Maddie.
We went red and I wasn't that red.
But like, you know, we were obviously upset.
And and, you know, when you're when you show you're upset,
typically it's like, all right, I don't need to give them, you know, more.
Hey, what the heck are you going red?
So we were very upset.
So dad's like, you know, it's OK.
It's OK. You know, and mom was not happy.
She's like, you know, what what the heck?
You know, why we come here and we just go red.
And I'm like, mom, like we're not trying to go red.
Going for it, right?
And so, no, she's she's very competitive and we all are.
But it was pretty cool in the junior ranks just to have the that
competitiveness and us racing against each other was pretty cool,
having both parents run our cars.
So that's pretty awesome.
And it segues into another question pretty nicely that I that I was wondering,
you know, I think family family operations, whether it's family business,
family racing operations, family dynamics can be tricky.
And I think if if you or your sister were ever to say that you were trying
to, you know, forge your own path or get out of your dad's shadow or something
like that, I think it would it would make sense to a lot of people.
But your family seems to have really navigated that dynamic so well.
And you all kind of have your own lane.
So maybe give us a little insight on on how you guys manage that
as a family being so competitive and to be so competitive, you have to be
so focused, you're trying to support each other.
You're also trying to do your own things like talk a little bit about that
family dynamic that you guys have and how you keep that all in balance.
Yeah, no, totally.
I mean, honestly, we've been doing everything I've honestly done is
through a family aspect.
And I know that we might have, you know, we're very lucky.
We are able to, you know, grow up drag racing with our whole family,
not only are, you know, our parents and me and Maddie,
but having our grandparents there for, you know, half of it when we go
to the funny car races and stuff.
And I mean, we grew up, we grew up racing since we were born.
You know, we went to the funny car races every now and then.
Maddie was at the funny car races when she was eight days old.
And so it's just all we've ever known is with family, you know,
doing that every weekend with family.
And then we started junior racing when we were both eight
and, you know, just still traveling with family.
And I think for a lot of people that might not be like the best thing to them
is like, oh, I've got to travel my parents, move my parents, my grandparents every weekend.
But for us, like, we're all just best friends, you know.
And it's like, obviously we have, you know, a lot of respect for our parents or our parents.
And, you know, we follow, you know, everything that they say.
But at the same time, like, we're all just best friends.
And it's such a cool dynamic and to be able to want to do, you know,
a sport like racing every weekend with our family is, you know, rare in a lot of cases.
And especially, too, with the funny car to have, you know, the success that we have had as a family,
you know, it's like we were able to keep with, you know, Bartones and, you know, paid crew chief, paid driver,
you know, all the crew handpicked out of the country.
And it's like for us to be able to compete with a team like that as a family unit is
really, really cool.
And, you know, me and Maggie talk about it a lot.
But every single Saturday, no matter if we're out the race track or we're home,
it's dedicated to racing.
So when we're at home, it's race car shop all day, Saturday, no matter what.
It's like birthday party.
Sorry, it's going to have to wait.
We've got race car shop Saturday.
So, no, it's just, it's pretty cool.
And we're very, very fortunate to be able to do it, you know, as we are with a family.
And yeah, so it's a lot of fun.
It's pretty awesome.
Well, and you guys not only compete, right?
But like win championships and that, like that's pretty, that's pretty incredible.
Thank you. Yeah.
No, it's, it's, it's a lot of fun.
And, you know, when Maddie, when we heard she was going to go with, you know,
wrong caps and do the top field deal.
And obviously that was, you know, sad at first because it's like, what?
Like my body is not going to be with me all the time.
And, you know, it was hard for our family, but at the same time,
like we see her all the time.
And, you know, she still lives at home and most races we go to, she's at.
And, you know, the, the team over there is totally welcoming of us.
And we go over there all the time and make up, they make us feel involved
somewhat. So it's pretty cool.
So, yeah, that's right.
With as many weekends and every Saturdays that you dedicate to racing.
Is there stuff that Macy Gordon likes to do besides track race?
Um, well, I, I am going to college.
It's definitely not my favorite thing to do, but I am going to college
because I want to be a CPA.
So I've been, honestly, all my free time other than racing
and race car shop is pretty much college and that work, which I love.
I love what, you know, I work at an accounting firm here locally.
And, you know, and I luckily have an amazing boss who lets me take off
all the time and go racing and, and luckily I'm able to adjust my school
schedule to kind of, you know, adjust for the races.
And so it's kind of all worked out that way.
But I mean, honestly, like between racing, work and school,
like that pretty much takes up most all my time.
And but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I love it.
Well, so I remember when I was in college,
like just I was committed, right?
And I was just like, you know, waist deep and trying to learn everything
and be a good student and, and had a job also.
And it was tough to juggle.
Like, has that been difficult for you so far to juggle the focus you need
to be a good student, to learn the things you want to learn
and build that expertise in a completely different field,
as well as like stay focused and, and, you know, do your race.
And like, what's that balance been like for you so far?
Yeah, I know it's definitely not easy.
But I mean, I, you know, I've luckily been able to figure out a way.
And like I said, my boss is extremely, you know,
accommodating with our schedule and he's so interested in it, too.
He actually was going to fly out on Saturday and watch us on Saturday.
But he had, you know, a last minute thing he had to do.
But he's came out to a few different races and watched us.
And so he loves it.
So he's totally in support of it.
So that helps a ton.
And then, you know, with my school schedule, luckily, I'm able to make it to where
I'm like, well, if I do Mondays, Wednesdays, I have like a half day.
So they start like at 12 o'clock on Monday.
So that'll be that allows me to fly in on Mondays, go straight to school.
And then I have school all day and then I work Tuesdays.
And then Wednesdays, I've got all day school because it's like
typically we're always here on a Wednesday.
Normally we're not traveling.
And then Thursdays, typically we're either traveling in the afternoon
or we fly out Thursday mornings for the funny car races.
So luckily I've kind of mapped everything out.
But it does get difficult if I have like a hard load at school
and it's like I have no time to do homework or stuff like that.
So but I mean, other than that, like I, you know, in like my family,
I've said they're just like so supportive in everything I do.
And whether it's like, hey, it's a load up night and I'm trying to study
for an exam, it's like, I feel so bad.
And they're like, no, you stay in your room, you study, like we'll,
you know, we'll do the load up.
And, you know, so just we all work really well together.
And, you know, just always accommodating with, you know, whoever schedule it is.
So. Yeah. Parker, we've got top dragsters, super comps
and top alcohol funny cars on one side.
We got someone going to a counting school on the other side.
That seems like a dangerous combination at some point.
How many years in before Macy realizes it doesn't pencil out very good?
Yeah, it's like that's that's not the that's not the the career.
Like that's going to be makes it for some tough decisions.
You're going to pull out the balance sheet and be like, pops.
Help me make this big sense.
Well, at the rate that Macy's going, she's got two semifinals this year
and a win. I think her racing is paying for itself.
It's a pretty good ROI right there, man. You know, yeah.
She's she's been on fire this year.
I think she went to the semis in both super comp and top dragster
in Pomona and then followed it up with a win here in Las Vegas.
What else do you have on the schedule this year, Maddie?
For or excuse me, Maddie, Macy, I messed up.
He's fired. I am kicked me off.
See you later.
What else do you have on the schedule this year?
For so we actually have been trying to figure that out
along kind of going on the last question.
I had a final exam scheduled for we're debating on going to mission.
So I had a final exam scheduled for mission.
I'm like, ah, I really want to get that.
I really want to get that one, you know, adjusted or whatever and moved.
And so I actually emailed my teacher yesterday and I was like, hey,
you know, said what I needed to say.
And he was like, yeah, actually, you can take it on Monday.
So I'm like, I think that that mission we can go to mission.
And so right now on the schedule, I have actually right next to me,
my dad's sheet of we were debating on going to Boise or Dallas.
And this is like all the details that we were going to figure out tonight.
So I think we decided Dallas was too, too far of a track for us.
It was that double. So we were like, oh, that would be a good one.
But but it's just it's too far for us right now.
Just, you know, with work and stuff.
So I think we're going to do Boise next, which I'm super excited.
I've never been to Boise.
So I'm really happy for that.
And then after that, I think is that mission race
we're thinking about going to, which that'll be nice because that one,
it's a national open.
So it'll be national points and then also divisional points.
I think the next race.
But anyway, so I think that's our plan for right now.
And then I think in September, I think there's a double in Bakersfield.
I think we're going to do.
So yeah, there's a few more things down the road,
but that's kind of what we're looking at right now.
Then there's some funny car stuff mixed in there, too.
But you'll love Firebird Raceway.
I grew up like five miles from from the track in Boise
in a little town called Emmett, and you could hear it from my house.
You can when they were running fuel all through your funny cars or something.
It's an amazing facility.
You'll really enjoy it.
I don't often get to give the inside track to racers of your stature.
But if you're looking for good eats in Emmett,
there's an old fifties driving called Rowan driving.
You pull up and you pick up the phone and they bring it out to you.
Yes, I heard about that one.
OK, it's the best.
Tell me about that.
Yep, you got to go hit you some Rowan's, get your chicken club,
no tomato and a vanilla Dr. Pepper in your own business.
It's where it's where it's at.
So they actually like mix the Dr.
Pepper, you know what I'm talking about?
Oh, yeah, like it's it's legit stuff, man.
They used to roller skate back in the day,
but they I don't know, too many falls and workman's comp or something.
You know, I don't know, but a great, a great place.
And, you know, summer nights out there in in Boise.
It's not actually in Boise.
It's like 20 miles from Boise.
It's an Emmett.
We claim it. We claim it in my hometown.
The Boise folks like to claim it, but it's not theirs.
It's ours, but it's actually
closer to Eagle than I don't know.
I think it's closer to Emmett.
That's that's close, though.
Eagle's gotten so big.
Bottom line is it's an amazing facility.
The staging lanes are incredible.
You'll love driving up the staging lanes
right in front of the bleachers.
It's it's a ton of fun.
So have fun with that one.
And we'll see you up at Mission 2.
I'll be up there at the Sports Nats in the divisional.
So that'll be fun to see you racing up there, too.
Awesome. I know I'm super excited.
You have two tracks I've never been to.
It'll be good.
Shout out to the chat bleachers, man.
We got people coming in off the WFO show.
We got people on Facebook, my man, Walt Walker out there,
the most reliable fan of the bracket breakdown.
You got yourself an audience, Macy.
Whoa.
There he is right there.
You mentioned, you know, a couple of different kinds of racing.
I know you've raced a lot of Super Pro.
You've done a lot of Super Comp.
You're doing top dragster.
So bracket racing on the stop or top dragster.
What's your favorite?
That's actually funny.
My mom asked me that literally in the lanes
when I had my helmet on and everything, she wins.
And she goes, which one do you like better?
Which car?
And I'm like, I love them both.
She's like, yeah, but like, which one?
And I'm like, I don't even know.
I mean, I've always I've always dreamed of top dragster.
Like top dragsters always been my dream.
Like I admired that class, like literally since 2020.
When I started going to the funny car races
and we'd be watching the lanes and dad's like, all right,
now what's that car?
And we'd have like, we didn't really know much
about the combinations.
We we'd literally sit in the stage lanes
and study all the top dragster combinations
and tell we nailed them.
And I'm like, that is the that's the class
I want to race in.
Dad's like, oh, good luck.
That's expensive.
And so, you know, I was dreamed of that.
But I was like, you know, I don't know
if I'll ever be able to.
And so when we were able to
and, you know, started riding the top dragster,
I just love it.
But I also love Super Comp because Super Comp, you know,
is to me, I've always, you know, said Super Comp,
that's, you know, a driver's race.
And, you know, it's obviously a lot easier
we'll race in Super Comp than top dragster
when it's 610, it gets a 670 car.
And, you know, so I've always said Super Comp,
that's a driver's race.
And when we actually heard the top dragster motor last year,
dad let me jump into the Super Comp
because he had been racing the Super Comp.
And I was like, dad, like this was like junior days.
Like, I actually can wheel race.
Like, it feels like junior days.
You know, it just slows everything down
compared to the top dragster.
And so I love them both for, you know,
totally different reasons.
But I will say, I think top dragster,
I do like a little more just because, you know,
it's faster and, you know, I do.
And they're cool.
Top and top have become two of my favorites.
And like, like if anyone's on the fence with top dragster,
all you got to do is watch Shane Molinari
pull up into the water box.
He's got the timing, the surge,
the blower surge on that thing so gnarly
that like, if you see Shane Molinari
pull into the water box and you're not hooked
on top dragster, then there's something wrong with you.
That is my favorite car.
I will say, I actually have a funny story.
So we were in Woodburn, I think it was last year,
two years ago, and I love when, you know,
the dragster have the big blowers
and they're loping like that.
I love it.
And it's like some people are like, oh, that sounds horrible.
And some people are like, that sounds cool.
I love it.
And so I was in Woodburn and I was like, man,
I just love that sound.
So I was pulling up to the staging lanes.
And my dad like looks at me and he's like,
and I'm literally just like pulling up
and I'm like, room, room, room.
I was trying to get him to do it on his own.
He's like, what?
And I'm like, it's just, it's so cool.
Yeah.
There's not many things better than some blower surge.
And yeah, I don't know what Shane does,
but that thing barely runs, but it sure is fun.
You see him on the NHRA feed and that whole thing just.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
It's gnarly.
It's so fun.
Yeah.
So Macy, your grandpa raised alcohol-funny car,
your dad raised alcohol-funny car,
your sister raised alcohol-funny car.
And I've heard through the grapevine
that you have no interest in running alcohol-funny car.
And that's just fine.
But what makes you like top dragster and super comp
more than the first to the finish line racing, I guess?
Or is it just two different things?
Yeah, no.
I mean, honestly, since going on the funny car
and working on the funny car since 2020,
full-time with Maddie and stuff,
I've found as much of a passion in working on the car
as I have driving.
Honestly, to me, it would honestly be really tough
to decide what I would rather do if I had to pick one.
I love working on the funny car.
I've learned so much about working on the funny car
and I honestly, like I said before,
top dragster just always has been my dream.
I think to an extent the alcohol-funny car
is a little much for me.
I've never been super confident in using a clutch
on a lot of things.
And I just grew up wheel racing with the junior dragsters
and so I was kind of,
I think it would be a little much for me.
And I think it's so cool that Maddie
did so amazing in it.
And my dad's had a lot of success over the years.
But my passion with the funny car
is strictly working on it.
I've had no desire to jump in it.
And I think a lot of that too
is just my passion for wheel racing.
And I just, I really enjoy that.
I really enjoy the math behind it
and just how much goes into it.
I think that that's so cool.
And so I think keeping those separate
between dragging with the dragsters
and working on the funny car is like perfect for me.
So when it came to Maddie,
going to top fuel,
they had asked, my dad had asked,
is that something you'd want to do?
And I'm like, no, I'm good.
Number one, because I'm not like dying to do it.
And I feel like I shouldn't jump in the car
if I'm not dying to do it.
And I'm like also number two,
like my dad has had so much success in it.
He's already established in that car.
So I'm like, you're good.
You take it back over.
Like I'm good right where I'm not.
So yeah, it worked out.
I love that perspective,
just like not feeling pressured to be something, right?
Or to do something like you just find in your own path,
find in the things that you love
and charging after it.
And I think probably feeds into that,
that family dynamic you guys talked about, right?
Keeping that balance.
And that's a great way to keep it when everyone knows
and has a clear picture of what they want to do,
what they're into, where your passion lies, right?
It allows you to put your strengths
and put your energy into those things
that mean the most to you.
You talked a little bit about
when you went from the top dragster to the Supercop car
and you're like feels like junior racing.
Take us back inside the top dragster car though
for a minute.
Like I think driving the Stripe at 135 is super intense.
Driving the Stripe at 200 is like a whole,
a whole nother thing.
Like talk about like the decisions I make
in 10.23 seconds.
Like you have to make all those in six seconds
in a car.
Like you can't spot drop like a door car
in a bracket race, right?
But you're still driving the Stripe.
Talk a little bit about what that's like
inside the helmet.
Driving the Stripe at close to 200 miles an hour.
Yeah, I mean, in Vegas, like I said,
we qualified 47th out of 48th.
So we were in, we were one thou from the 48th spot.
So everybody was fashioning.
I was pretty much the slowest top dragster.
So that one was obviously really hard to judge a Stripe
when you've got a 610 car flying past you,
going 230 or whatever.
And so, but we've kind of figured out
some calculations and stuff.
And we were able to kind of have our strategy
for those cars.
But when I raced a crew, he was dialed a 659.
And so that was, I was dialed 669 at that point.
So that was a pretty close race.
And so I was able to kind of, we were raced that one.
And that was fun.
So like, oh my gosh, I kind of saw him the whole way.
Like that was rare, but that was really cool.
But typically, you know, other than last weekend,
most of the time it's, it seems to be pretty, you know,
a lot of the times I am racing a slower car.
So, you know, that's a lot easier to, you know,
wheel racing stuff and know you're coming up on them.
But when it comes to those cars, those 610 cars,
it's, you know, a lot of trust in my dad.
Yeah, yeah.
Trust in the tune, trust in the car.
I love, you just keep talking about wheel racing,
like someone who come up through juniors.
It's like, y'all better watch out,
cause Macy gonna hang a wheel on you
and just wamp you all the way through that thing.
I love your approach.
And you just keep going to that.
She makes the top end,
she makes the top end sound like Shane Maul
and Nori's Blower Car.
The scoop's rocking.
You say, we've been talking a lot about her junior days.
Another thing that I've heard is she put down
one of the highest points totals that ever was
in junior racing.
Tell us a little bit about that, Macy.
Yeah, so that, that's so crazy to believe.
So that was actually my first year of racing.
I was eight years old.
And I actually don't know what the total is.
I can't remember.
But I believe we went to seven races.
And I think, I don't quote me on this,
but I believe I won five and run it up in like one or two.
And so I still can't believe that.
I'm like, I went from that year to the next year.
I was like, okay, like, you know, I got this.
And I think I had moved up.
At one point I moved up to 890 and I had a different car.
And I was like, you know, it'll be fine.
You know, like I'm, you know, I felt, you know,
obviously very confident coming off of that.
And so I think I had won or won a couple rounds
that next year.
And I was like, oh my gosh, like this is not easy.
And so I definitely got a reality check.
But no, that first year was like, was pretty awesome.
I remember I was in Fontana for my first race,
won my first race out.
And I, in the final, I had Dylan Hegwood,
which he's still a good friend of ours.
And so I was eight and I was just this, you know,
tiny short little thing.
And I'm like, mom, like I have to race that guy.
And my mom's like, yeah, like it's gonna be okay.
Like, you know, just race, you know,
you're to do what you've been doing, you'll be fine.
You know, and I'm like, mom, like I have to race him.
And she's like, you're not wrestling the guy.
And I was like, it's gonna be fine.
And I'm like, it's just pretty crazy to think
like eight year old me, like, you know,
winning all the time.
And it's like, it's not that easy anymore.
Winners nowadays are extremely hard to come by.
So yeah.
This sport has, this sport has a way of humbling.
And I feel like whoever, and it may not be everybody,
but whoever wins a championship,
the next year just seems so dang difficult
to turn on a single win light.
It's like all the pressures on you,
everybody's got a target on your back.
And even if you're racing the same way,
it doesn't seem like the wins are all quite
as easy in your lane.
No, it's so true.
Yeah, I know it is not easy.
I know when you pull up in Supercomp
and there's 120 cars and it's like, oh my gosh.
Yeah, like six lanes in Vegas.
And it's like, oh man, I got to get down to one,
one of the 220.
It's crazy and, you know, for anybody to win, you know,
and we talked about, we talked about this earlier
in the show, a different episode,
but like we were trying to pick who, you know,
who we were gonna, who was gonna win
the championship this year.
Like I think before the season even started,
maybe one race was in and, you know,
immediately you want to pick the guy or gal
that finished like second or third.
But it's like, man, can they do that again?
You know, it's like it's it's so hard.
And that's what gives me so much respect to the racers
who are perennially in the top five.
It's like, you might not win every year,
but if you're able to put yourself, you know,
in the top two, three, four, every single season,
like so difficult, so difficult to do.
Yeah, so that is pretty true.
We've, we've, there we go,
the biggest wheel racer Macy fan in Texas.
Well, now it's not, now it's not racer Macy,
it's wheel racer Macy.
Oh, there we go.
We've kind of, we've kind of, you know,
we've went all the way back to junior days.
Obviously we talked about the win this past weekend,
accomplished so much, a DI 30 under 30 member
when you were probably barely,
you probably weren't even 20 yet at that time.
You could have been in the 20 under 20.
You've had a ton of success, right?
And a ton of fun and all these great experiences.
Maybe tell us what's your favorite moment so far
and what's that thing that you're still chasing
that you haven't got yet?
Like what's the, what's sitting at the top of the mountain
that you're trying to climb?
Yeah, no, yeah, no.
I mean, ever since racing eight years old till now,
you know, we've had, you know, a lot of seasons
and, you know, a lot of success
and a lot of not as great seasons.
But I mean, honestly, like I will say,
I think I really do think this last weekend in Vegas
was like my high of racing.
I mean, from last year, you know,
my dad and I at the end of the season
kind of came together and, you know,
we just, you know, weren't happy
with the results from last season.
And I did, I do think that a lot of that was me
in my lights and I just, I wasn't consistent.
And, you know, obviously that's 50% of the battle right there.
And so, you know, my dad, you know, has a great tuner,
you know, he knows his stuff
and I kind of was not holding up my end of the bargain.
And so at the end of last season,
we both were like, all right, like if we want to be serious,
like we really need to work on this.
And so actually, I think it was, yeah,
at the end of last season,
I set an alarm on my phone.
Actually, my dad did.
We set an alarm on my phone for 7.29 every single night.
I'm in the living room, practicing on the tree,
you know, trying to, we do like, you know, 10,
we figure out what our spread is.
And so I've been doing that since end of last season,
every single night.
And so coming into this year,
like seeing the results we've seen is like so cool,
you know, just seeing results after so much hard work
and just working on the program is just, it's pretty cool.
So.
And what's the big thing that's still out there?
You're chasing the championship.
You're just trying to get more seat time and log wins.
What's the thing you're chasing after?
Yeah, I mean, I think if I were to say championship
right now, I mean, seems like way far,
like way far in the future for me,
but you know, I think like getting a national event,
Wally, you know, and I think before Vegas,
I would have said a divisional Wally,
but you know, I think now just getting like
a national event Wally is probably, you know,
my next dream, you know, my next thing I'd work towards.
And honestly, this morning, this morning I was,
oh, actually the night after I won.
So it was a Saturday or no, Friday.
So yeah, the night after I won Friday, I was in bed
and I was just looking at points and stuff.
And I was like, okay, I was calculating, I'm like,
wait a minute, I should, cause I think Damon or Tom
was in first place.
And I was looking at theirs, I'm like, wait a minute,
I should be number one right now, like no way.
And so I was like, dad, dad, like I should be
number one right now.
I'm like, I mean, we'll have to see you know,
Damon and Tom do tomorrow, but like,
I think we're looking good.
And so I've been checking the points
every single morning.
And then finally this morning, I was on my way to work
and I'm like, oh my gosh, points.
So I pulled it up and I'm like, oh my gosh,
we're number, you know, number one in the division right now.
And so I screen shot it, I sent it to my family group chat
and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm freaking out, like this is so cool.
And so yeah, everyone was just like, oh my gosh,
so exciting.
And so I mean, for me, like seeing little things like that
is like a win for me.
Like I just, it's so cool to see like, you know,
Tom Bayer and all, you know, all these people up there.
And it's like, I'm number one right now,
like that just doesn't even seem real.
It reminds me, I'll go ahead, Park.
I was going to say a lot of people
are a lot of racers anywhere.
Like I don't want to look at the points.
It's going to scare me or it's going to this or that.
And that's a superstition.
Do you have any superstitions that you have
or maybe you don't want to share them, it's top secret?
No, that's actually funny because, you know,
growing up it is so true.
Everyone's, you know, like with points,
like, oh I want to look at the points
because, you know, that'll, you know,
get with my, get in my head or whatever.
And I don't look at points.
And we grew up in the junior days,
dad's over there calculating the points for,
you know, the next couple races
or what each person can do for each round.
And it's, he's got it mapped out.
If we're anywhere near points,
he's got a whole calculation.
So we are the exact opposite of, you know,
not looking at points.
We are like studying the points.
So, and then when it comes to superstitions,
like I am not superstitious at all.
Like when it comes to anything,
I actually am like opposite of that.
I'm like, let's switch it up.
Like if I clean my car with this rag,
like let's clean it with the other rag this time.
Like let's switch it up.
Danger.
And so we were going into the final round this last weekend
and Jonathan Flores, our friend, yeah,
he was, he was like, yeah, he was like,
oh, you know, your car's looking dirty.
He always gives me crap about, you know,
oh, you didn't clean your car this round.
And so I was like, hey, John, you want to clean my car?
And he's like, no, we can't clean your car right now.
Like we're going to the final round.
You clearly haven't cleaned it since, you know, whatever.
And I'm like, okay.
And I'm like, no, like whatever.
Like if you want to clean it,
you can or I'll clean it, whatever.
He's like, no, you actually can't clean your car.
Like we're going to the final round.
That's such bad luck.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
Like, you know, with my luck, you got to switch it up.
Remember, and he's like, this feels so wrong, but okay.
So did you clean it?
Yeah, so he cleaned it.
He was cleaning my car and he was just like,
man, this does not seem right, but okay.
Well, but see now the next time there's going to be a
superstition that you got to clean it before the final.
Because it worked the last time.
So you got to have a clean car in the final round.
It's funny you talk about the points thing.
Because like, even when I've raced to like
points races at my local track,
I never make enough races to like be anywhere in the top 20.
Right.
But I still pull up the points and I'm like,
oh, I moved up to 50 first this weekend.
You know, and like I get super pumped.
And Bogac tells the story all the time when it comes to points
that the great Anthony Bertosi told a young Luke Bogackey
one time, who was like, just nerden on the points.
He says, you know what, Luke?
They'll let you know.
And Luke says, well, he's like, if you win the championship,
they'll let you know.
And that one always stuck with me because every time I pull up
the points for anything, I'm like, you know what?
Like if I just wait, I'll know.
Like they'll call you.
If you win the championship, they're going to call you.
That's so funny.
I just thought it's funny.
That is funny.
And I mean, honestly, like for me, I've always been someone
who does typically better under pressure.
Like I like having that kind of pressure.
And for me, like knowing like, OK, well, I have to do this
in order to get this or like that.
I like that.
You know, I've always, you know, done better under that pressure,
like in the junior days and stuff.
So, yeah, no, me and me and Dad are the same that way.
We're like all about the points.
But Maddie, actually, she's not like when it was in,
I think in the funny car, one of the last years, 24, 25,
she was like, didn't want to know the points.
Like she was like, don't tell me the points.
Like I don't want to know.
I'm like, why don't you want to know the points?
Like, but I mean, it just it's it's funny.
Different people think different ways about that.
But yeah, we're definitely all about points.
I like it. I like it.
I'm more I'm more on your guys's team
than than the no looking at the at the points team.
So I'm with you.
I'm a I'm a no points looker, but at the same time,
you know, when you're having a good year and like, yeah.
At some point, you should be like,
I'm probably up there in the points.
And then you're like, maybe I'll just look or maybe I'll just
like scroll down to like number 50th and see who's down there.
And if I'm not there, you might be up a little bit higher.
Maybe I know this guy's looking every other day now
because when we did the Pickham show,
Parker picked himself to win the world in stock.
So I know this guy's looking at the points
like every Monday morning.
Guaranteed.
That's so cool.
No, you see, he knows.
He knows, he's picked.
I think for me, if I wasn't looking at the points
and I assumed like, why should be this?
And if I looked and I wasn't, I'd be even more devastated.
Like I would like, I don't think I think I get let down
if I did it that way.
Well, and it's it's crazy
because we're still so early in the season. Oh, yeah.
But like there's people with over 300 points, you know,
and it's like, if you got to have 650 to win or more,
you're halfway there.
Some of these people are halfway there already.
And yeah.
And so it's crazy how long the season is.
But we've had a few racers kind of across the board in each class
that are really putting up some some numbers.
So it's been kind of fun to watch early on already.
Ed and out of the the more serious topics,
we have some fun questions that we want to dive into and ask you.
The first question that I want to ask is
how did you get the nickname Barbara? Oh, my gosh.
That's actually a good one.
Honestly, there is no good story about how I got Barbara.
But that is like my name.
Like when like, I don't think dads call me called me Macy or Mace.
I don't remember the last time he did.
And if you if he did call me Mace or Mace, like it's serious.
You're in trouble. Yeah. Yeah.
Which it's like, you know, that's just, you know,
Mace is like my nickname for most everybody.
But it's like, if he called me that, like we'd be in trouble.
No, like he he calls me Barbara or Barb like
all the time, like, oh, Barb, dinner's ready.
And it just stuck when I was in volleyball.
I think it's I think is when it started, which was like eighth grade.
I don't even know.
It was very random.
Like there's no really good story.
But my mom calls me Barbara every now and then.
But my dad, it's like 100 percent of the time I'm Barbara.
Like, yeah, so I'm never going to not call you Barbara now.
If I'm calling the race, when you're pulling up to the lights,
I'm going to I'm going to call you Barbara Gordon.
There we go.
They'll be like three people at the whole track to get it.
But yeah, actually, we have a we have a family, friend,
her name's Barbara and she's, you know, like older.
And so we went there for a family, like get together.
And in my dad's like, well, we call her Barb, you know, because like
Barbara would be like, oh, someone's in trouble.
So my dad, but he calls me Barbara if he's trying to get my
attention. So he's like, Barbara.
And so I look and then Barb, our friend looks and she's like,
am I in trouble?
And then he's like, oh, no, I'm talking to Macy.
And she's like, why'd you call her Barbara?
We'll just start calling her Macy.
Yeah. Yeah.
I can see it now.
You're walking through the staging lanes and your dad's
like, Hey, Barbara.
And people are like, who the heck is he talking to?
Yeah, it happens a lot, too.
Oh, yeah, like, like, it's no problem.
And they're like, huh?
I love that he was Macy.
Well, Barbara, what is your favorite track meal?
Oh, my favorite track meal.
I would say my favorite is when we had when we're
pitted with the Flora's family and we do taco night.
That's probably my favorite.
Like my family is chicken, everything.
So like when we have dinner at home,
like my dad is a great cook.
He cooks all of our meals and but we have chicken,
like 90% of our meals because it is healthy, right?
But like kind of boring.
And so we've had chicken for years at every meal we eat.
And I'm like, I got to a point where my dad,
I think the sound of chicken, like it really grosses me out.
Like I don't think I can do it anymore.
And so he's been trying to switch it up.
So we've been having some different meals.
But I will say when we do taco night with the Flora's family,
that's probably my favorite because they bring like this certain
carne asada. My dad brings chicken, of course,
but they bring carne asada and it's amazing.
So it's like, you know, a night without chicken.
So it's like it's a reward.
I thought we were going straight ground beef tacos.
He's excited for them.
Um, so along the same line, we're going to do some rapid fire.
But along those same lines, a favorite concession,
you've been to a million tracks.
Who's got the best? Who's got the best track food?
Honestly, I don't eat track food very often, but can go wrong with some.
If I go for track food, it's like ice cream, dip and dots, like snow cones.
It's not like real food.
So I'd say probably like some sort of ice cream.
I had DQ in Vegas.
Me and Maddie are like big DQ fans.
Yeah, I can do that.
Yeah, I love a track burger.
I think they taste different at the track.
So like, I always just get a track burger wherever I go.
Yeah, I got some rapid fires for you.
And you got to answer Macy, Maddie or mom and dad.
OK, I think we know the answer to the first one.
Who's the best cook?
Dad, for sure.
Biggest prankster.
Dad or Maddie?
OK. Yeah.
Who's the practice tree champ?
Um, it's probably dad.
Yeah, probably me or dad.
We practice the most probably.
So probably your dad.
Who's the best singer?
Oh, none of us.
No, no, no road trip car singing in the hauler.
Well, me and Maddie will, but we both suck.
And who is the most extra?
Oh, it depends who you ask.
I'd say I would say Maddie, but she would say me.
That's funny.
Well, you were definitely solid on the tree this past this past weekend.
Had a little bit of a miss against Brian,
but I don't remember if he went red or what happened there.
But, you know, 23, 31, 22, 14, and then 21 in the final.
You put it dead nine.
Just heck of a job.
Stayed loose and drove drove lights out all weekend
and just really stoked to to see, you know, what you were able to do.
So. Awesome job.
I appreciate it. Thank you.
Yeah. And I remember or Maddie, actually,
Maddie and Jake weren't there for for the win.
So I was like, oh, no, when they kind of
have to turn on some wind lights.
Yeah, no, we're from zero to zero real quick.
Yeah, funny how that works.
Yeah, double one to Taylor means double nine.
And we were 3,000 wonders like, oh, that'll do it.
That'll do it.
It's a good lap just on the wrong side.
It's yeah, old champ, right?
I know it's like the wind lights just way harder to come after.
Well, Barbara, we really appreciate you joining us tonight.
We're we're grateful that you took the time out of your day
to hang out and talk about your win.
And get to know you a little bit better.
Yeah, thank you guys for having me.
I really appreciate it. This is a lot of fun.
Who who out there do you want to thank?
Macy, we got you still got a little bit of an audience out there.
And this will live on the internet forever.
So anybody out there you want to thank in particular?
You know, I mean, my family for sure.
I mean, obviously, I couldn't do this without my family.
You know, my mom and dad putting in so much effort.
And, you know, my dad figuring out every detail for our next trip.
And, you know, if we go to mission, how is this going to play out
and find me back for school on Monday?
And, you know, there's all the little details
that go into everything that my parents do for this is,
is, you know, huge, obviously.
And, you know, just support from everyone in my family.
And, you know, especially Stephen and Igas Pirelli.
They've been they run alcohol funny car with us.
And they've been giving us a lot of support recently.
And they came out to watch in Pomona.
And so they got to see some wind lights.
So, yeah, they're big, big supporters of us.
So, yeah, I appreciate.
I appreciate everybody, though.
That's the right answer.
It's got to throw that in.
Yeah. Well, again, Macy, congratulations
on the beautiful Diamond Wally.
I know you've got quite a few more of those in your future.
Hopefully some more diamond ones, but certainly some more Wally's.
And again, thanks for the time.
Really appreciate you making some today.
We were happy to have you on welcome any time
and just wish you the best of luck down the stretch this year.
Thank you. Yeah, thank you guys so much
and best of luck to you guys, too.
Thanks. Talk to you soon.
Bye, Macy.
There it is, man.
Barbara on tonight.
Barb's in the house.
Dude, that was solid.
Absolutely.
I love the the someone commented in the chat, too.
Like, just the enthusiasm and a clarity, right?
Of like someone who's found their way, you know, already,
at least as much as you can at this stage in your in your racing career.
And she knows she knows what she's into.
She knows what she's good at and and she chases those things.
So I still don't know about being an accountant
and a drag racer at the same time.
It just seems like a conflict of interest to me, but, you know,
to each their own.
And no, that was really cool.
Happy that we were able to make some time with her tonight.
I think Macy's probably my favorite Gordon now,
just because you can tell she's a hardcore bracket racer,
wheel racer at heart.
And I can relate to that.
I'm scared to ever see her in the other lane.
I don't know when that would ever be.
But it's like, I know what she's doing.
She's holding five and putting a wheel on me the whole way down.
Five seconds, maybe.
Yeah, I don't want any of that business because I know whatever's
on her dialboards, a bunch of BS and she's just going to put a wheel on me
the whole way. Yeah, I I love that.
It's just I can relate to her.
I think that heads up racing is cool.
Don't get me wrong, but just the numbers behind everything
and the strategy and obviously their strategy in both.
But being being a driver is is cool to me.
So yeah, man.
And top dragster, like someone asked me, I don't know,
it's like one of the clickbait posts on drag coverage or something.
And it's like, you know, no budget.
What car would you build?
And like, I'm such a diehard, like door car guy.
But without hesitation, I was like top dragster.
Like I was like, oh, and I was like surprised myself, right?
And it was like that was what they're the coolest man.
They're badass and, you know, people that people that strapping
and and, you know, because there we were joking with Mike Rice, right?
Some of these things are getting so fast.
It's like, why don't you just go raise top alcohol with that thing?
But like they're like, no, I want to put a dial on this thing.
And I want to drive the stripe at two hundred.
Like that's just super bad ass.
Wait, we were joking with Mike Rice last week.
No, we weren't, actually.
Bybacks are coming to the national event at the next national.
Well, you could have picked top sportsman car and still race in top com.
I could have.
I can't believe I didn't pick top.
So like I told you, like as I typed it, I'm like, what am I?
I don't know what my fingers are doing.
I was like, I answered so fast, the top jackster.
That's what I'd build. Oh, yeah.
I could probably build two top jacksters for what it costs to build
one top sportsman car, though. No kidding.
They're they're pretty pricey and a lot of them out there are real nice.
Yeah, man.
Should we rapid fire through through some results?
Sure. You want to take the first and I will take the second.
Yeah, well, we'll start where we will start where we left off.
Obviously, Macy Gordon getting it done over Philip Durr in the final round.
Philip missed the tree big time and went way under.
Didn't matter because Macy was Macy was on top of things
and got it done for the Wally and top dragster on the first day.
Yeah, one thing I want to mention, another thing about the Gordons,
Philip Durr could not get his car started for, I don't know,
20 or 30 minutes.
I think I'm not 100 percent sure.
I think he had a dead battery, but they waited and waited and waited and waited.
And they were going to wait all day and all night until he got that car started.
So hats off to the whole Gordon family for doing that, too.
So good sportsmanship there.
It ain't racing if there ain't somebody in the other lane, man.
So I can really appreciate that.
Comp eliminator field was a little short, but our VP man almost got it done.
It's funny. He's he was kind of a long shot in round one and then worked his way through.
But ultimately, Don Baver is getting it done over Ralph in the final.
So good job to Don took out Callie Neff
right before that in the semis and she'd pay that back later and you'll get to that.
Stock eliminator Ray Vickers over Alex Arminino.
Alex to to something on the tree.
So it was over before it started and Vickers got the win
in stock, super stock Dave Kelly and Justin Lamb.
Justin looked like he was going to do it again, man.
He was solid all day, but David Kelly gave him more than he wanted
and pushed him out at the top end in a double breakout.
So congratulations to David Kelly.
Logging to win, David Kelly from Walla Walla, Washington.
You just have to say where he's from just because of how fun it is.
Yeah, man. Walla Walla onions, baby.
If you go to the carnival and you get one of those bloomin' onions,
most of the time those came right out of Walla Walla, Washington.
So it's a cool little town, too, man.
They got like shops and glass blowing and like it's a cool little spot.
Top sportsman, Sean Herbst over Richard Oakerman.
Oakman turned it red.
Herbst was trip, zip, dead six in the final.
Super sporty, man. Triple zero, seven oh nine with a six at one hundred ninety four
on the seven oh nine, Sean was dialed in.
His worst light was 28.
He was tripped, zipping round one.
He was double one in round three.
He was 10, 18 and then tripped zip again.
Just nasty up front all day for Sean.
That'll usually turn on all the wind lights.
That'll get her done, man.
That's for sure. Mike Boner over Brian McGinnis.
We were talking to Macy about routines and superstition.
If you ever get to see Brian, it looks like he's going to maybe
start doing some more divisionals.
Had the old shoebox in Super Street.
Watch that guy in the staging lanes, the most complex
pre race routine of anybody I've ever seen.
I've raced with him a few different times.
He comes down to Woodburn sometimes.
He has a routine, how he puts on his gloves.
He touches the dash.
He does this thing with his helmet and without fail, it don't matter
how mad the guy is at the front of the staging lanes,
telling him to get in the water box
like they're not even there.
And he does his routine.
It's it's the most superstitious thing I've ever seen.
Had a heck of a day, but ran into a buzz saw and Michael Boner
who was double oh nine up front to McGinnis is 25.
And and that was all that Mike needed to put it on
at the stripe. So Mike Wibbler, Shouser, but this guy.
Huh, getting him some wallies, man.
Yeah. And in Super Gas, if you're Greg Venturi,
you do not want to be seventy seven up front,
especially against Mike, who was ten up front
and then was able to put it way above for the easy win.
So congrats to Mike and the final class of the first day
Super Comp, Mike Miller over Toby Payne.
Miller was better up front and drove it all the way down
and just kind of wheeled him all the way down there,
put a date on six on the nine oh five.
Before we get into your day,
do we really need to pump the indexes at Vegas anymore?
Like let them be slower.
Yeah. Why? Why are we still doing that?
Every one of those cars can run the real index.
Yeah, I think it's more of a stock, super stock deal.
We'll do it for you guys.
But we don't need to be slowing super gas down to tens.
You're right.
I that's not a bridge I want to die on right now.
I think I think the NHL is more focused on the top dragster
top sportsman indexes.
We should have brought this up with Mike.
I'm lobbying it next time when we bring Mike on.
No more pumping the indexes on the super classes.
Totally unnecessary.
I get it in places like Denver where it's freaking slow.
Even there.
Tell me one super gas car that can't run 990 at Denver.
I'm sure there's a guy out there, but one guy.
Pete both just because Pete can't do it.
We can't change the rules just for Pete.
Pete could do it.
He's got a big block now.
Does he? I think so.
No more small block.
Oh, we got to talk to Pete about that.
Maybe maybe it's just a big small block.
I could be wrong.
But Pete also on fire still.
I think he got down to the semis on that first race.
So he sure did.
One thing I want to touch on and Jeff Foster brought it up to
trip zip coins now at Las Vegas.
They actually not a coin.
It's a poker chip.
Pretty fitting for the strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Thanks, Jeff, for putting those out there.
It's pretty cool.
I got to get me one of them.
He said I need to come back down in June, I believe,
for a bracket race so I can earn one.
So all right, Jacob Collins.
Jacob Collins agrees.
Vegas Super Cup should be eight ninety.
Jacob Collins can go fast.
That's why he don't care.
Is he going four fifties at the fling?
OK, moving on to my my race, second race.
Callie Neff before mentioned gets the win over Taylor Chimisky.
Taylor Chimisky was also trip zip one of those rounds.
Fun fact, I have a spare bullet for Callie's car
sitting in my garage under my workbench.
I have a trailblazer motor sitting there ready to go.
All I need is a roller and I could be racing comp eliminator.
Let's put in the in the Camaro dog.
All too heavy, bro, she'd be slow.
But I got the I got the block, baby.
I'm ready to go.
We need to strap a Hong Kong hurricane on that thing
and I could race some comp eliminator.
Maybe a half scale. That's all I need.
Someone's got a junior for sale.
Let's go.
Stock Eliminator CW not in the butternap
this weekend breaks out old Yeller gets it done over.
Tony Marconi, Tony's a big bracket racer.
Hey, guys, big bracket racer.
Those are two of those.
Nobody's on that West Coast team.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I weird kind of odd that those guys would be in in the finals.
Who would have known?
Congrats to both of those guys.
Super stock Rick McKinney over our Daryl Stobie,
one of our first episodes, podcast bump to Mr.
Daryl first guest ever.
First guest ever.
Dude, I was rude.
I was so pumped for Stobeman.
I was like, my man's going to get it done.
I was so I was bummed.
I mean, good job to McKinney, but like I was pulling for Daryl.
Boy, he was going through the rounds, so pumped for him.
Just got a little bit early on the tree, but congrats, Rick.
I think my pick to win the Super Comp
National Championship, I don't know if I picked him
for Super Comp or Super stock.
But Trey Vetter gets the win over Kevin Wright.
Trey lays down eight total in the semifinals.
Pretty nasty lap.
He took out my brother.
It was a great race.
He was eight dead zero.
My brother's seven takes six in the way of Trey.
Pretty nasty lap for sure.
You look at the run sheets so far this season
across all the races that Trey's been in any class he's been racing.
Trey is on a heater this year.
He's nasty.
There's nothing that that Trey can't wheel.
I've seen him wheel.
Everything from his Super Street Nova all the way to the cobalt of lambs
and and everything in between.
So just dialed in dialed in super gas.
We had another trip zip dead on nine for Mr.
Chris Nafziger, Chris in Vegas.
I think this is one of the guys who is extremely underrated.
He is money anytime he shows up and and it's not very often,
but I like to see Chris race.
He's a great guy over Roger Sotter.
Man, I love that car.
It's a 72 Barracuda bright orange.
It's one of the cleanest super gas rides out there.
And it's been around a long time, but it's still turning on lots of wind lines.
Super Street, Andrew Olson been doing a lot of bracket racing, too.
Dabbles in some Super Street action, got it done over Art Hoover.
Man, that car is fast.
Andrew's car is one of the coolest cars.
I love the way that thing sits.
I mean, it's it's just a second gen Camaro.
You know, it's not some car that nobody has.
But the paint job, the way it sits, it's got the drag stars on it, right?
Like period correct, but he keeps them clean.
And I think that's an EFI car.
Super, super sharp car.
It might have a car brainer, but I think it's an EFI car, isn't it?
I'm not. I'm not.
Are you allowed to run EFI in Super Street?
You can run EFI in anything, I think, except I'm pretty sure that's a fuel injected car.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
Andrew also, we talked about him earlier.
He he got that wind in that Volvo station wagon.
He's also another wheel man.
You can wheel anything.
So that's Andrew on the wind.
Top of sportsman, Jeremy Waterman.
I'm not too familiar with Jeremy, but he got it done over Brian War.
Always tough.
Anytime you have a war to come out on top is is pretty impressive.
Top dragster, Rick Milozz, Mil, excuse me, Milanzo.
That's a tough one to say.
There's too many double syllables in there for me.
But he got the win over former world champ, Cody Weber.
Man, Rick, I think he sprays the nitrous.
I love nitrous.
I think it's not so you got to like do this.
There you go.
No, super fast car.
Yeah, and on the jug, too, like got to love that.
And especially for top dragster this weekend, I think the
the field the second day took a six 60 something to qualify.
Maybe it's a six 70, but still pretty dang quick field for 48 cars.
Don't you think?
Well, it was and I didn't exactly see what happened.
I meant to reach out to him because my pick to win the world
didn't even qualify the first race.
And I don't know if something happened or if they just weren't
able to get that thing to go fast enough.
But Dylan didn't even make the field the first day.
Yeah, the field was they had 61 cars, I believe, for the first race.
They're trying to qualify for the 48 car field.
Dylan, I watched, I think he missed the field by a couple
hundreds of a second is all pretty crazy.
If he did claim that, he might have no claimed it, seeing how many
cars were there and maybe just couldn't quite sneak into to get the race in.
Well, and it's interesting, too, right, especially with the recent
conversations about, you know, should these slow cars be allowed in?
You know, West Coast kind of has a reputation of having slower fields
in in top and top, but it didn't show this weekend.
You know, I mean, you had to be quick.
You know, in the six sixties is the line.
Everyone's working within, you know, five tenths.
That's a pretty that's a pretty tight field when it's that big.
So, you know, a lot of fast cars coming out in top
Jags are on the West Coast right now.
Then the last we missed it on the last one.
But Mike Pinkston over Tom, Tom Medlin in sportsman motorcycle
Tom Medlin also he run it up the second race.
He won the first race over Jeremy Bates.
So heck of a weekend for Mr.
Medlin made it to every possible round there was, but didn't quite
still it up on the second one.
So motorcycle guys are going to kill me now.
Weekend left them out.
I got you.
I called Nacey Maddie.
You've skipped sportsmen.
I wondered which one of us was going to do it first.
I'm glad it was you and not me.
But pretty, pretty good weekend down in Las Vegas.
I personally don't have a greatest of all time this week.
Everybody did pretty well.
Nobody stood out real thick to me.
But you got anybody in mind that you just literally talked
about a sportsman motorcycle racer who went to every single route.
Now he's just trying to redeem himself.
Well, no, but I mean, you're the one who dropped
that little dime and then followed it up with, you don't think anybody stood out.
Pick him.
Thomas Medlin, greatest of all time of this week.
You earned it.
Oh, you know, I'm going to I'm going to do a little bit of recency bias,
man, prisoner of the moment.
We just had Macy on.
She had a hell of a weekend.
You know, maybe things didn't work out the second race, but but made a big run.
You heard it from her, her biggest moment of her career.
You saw the enthusiasm, the drive, the focus.
And so I'm just going to give it to Macy, man.
She's my MVP of the week.
Congratulations to her.
And it wouldn't surprise me if we gave that same award to her
here in a couple of weeks when she runs Boise or when she runs mission.
So yes, sir, Macer.
Wheel racer, Macer.
You're going to make stickers.
Absolutely.
I think Walt, Walt's going to take care of that for us.
Yeah, thanks, Walt.
Good looking out, bud.
I think that wraps us up, bro.
Oh, yeah, we don't have much coming up.
I guess there is a bracket race coming up in Reading.
Big money thing.
I think we're going to try and expert on to come and talk about it.
But if it's not on your schedule, it should be
coming up the first week of May.
Check it out.
Followed Chad Oxford on Facebook and he's got the flyer posted there.
We also got a big money race in Western Colorado coming up.
They only take a limited amount of cars.
So go to the Western Colorado drag dragway Facebook page.
And if you're interested, get in on that.
Is there a fling this weekend in Galat?
Or is it next weekend?
I'm not too positive.
There's it's it's about to be big money bracket racing every weekend
from here until October, November.
Anywhere you look, motor mania is going to be on YouTube.
So it starts tomorrow.
It starts tomorrow at Galat, now called Dorana Dunn Benson,
which doesn't roll off the tongue nearly as nice as Galat.
It's the same place.
I got Ronnie Court, who was a guest a couple of weeks ago.
Him and Steve Riggins on the mic out there for Peter and the fling team.
That's always a big one.
I think that's the one that's been around the longest.
I don't know that it started there and maybe it moved to there.
But I think that's one of the ones that has been around
the longest out of the whole fling brand.
So Bristol is where it started.
Yeah. But a lot's been around a while.
That's for sure. Yep.
So yeah, a lot of lot of we're in full swing, man.
I mean, they are everyone else's.
I'm not. I saw the car with no engine.
It has no brake lines.
But you know, Troy, you need to get working on that.
How am I supposed to drive it up at the summer showdown here in a couple of months?
I was just thinking like, I don't know if it'll be ready.
I'm going to really try.
But I'm way behind, man, and run out of time.
I did get my pool.
The swimming pool is ready to go, though.
So I got the pool filled back up and shocked and sanitized.
It's looking crystal clear.
Baby, it's ready for cold.
So we might not have a race car, but the swimming pool is open for business in mid April.
Well, I will. I will surely have to take a splash.
Yeah, if the car's not running.
Sounds good to me, man.
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About this episode
Bracket Breakdown leans into both tech and family drama: hosts swap wiring/Trans Am electrical stories, debate how much AI can help with tuning, and praise Vegas’s efficient schedule after controversy over cutting time runs. The big guest is Macy “Barbara” Gordon, fresh off a Diamond Wally in top dragster. She talks wheel-racing instincts, junior success, and a competitive family dynamic (including a parent rivalry and balancing school/work with racing). The show closes with Vegas results, class talk, and upcoming big-money events.
