The Chevrolet Nova is a muscle car designed for strong acceleration. In drag racing, cars are judged by how quickly they can cover a short distance, and the podcast is describing a Nova that performed very well when the track conditions were good. That’s why it’s brought up in the racing story.
A wheelie is when the car’s front wheels come up off the ground while accelerating. Drag racers sometimes do it on purpose, but if it happens too much it can make the run less consistent.
Term
100 footers
“100 footers” are quick practice runs that focus on how the car launches in the first part of the track. Racers use them to tune the car so it gets off the line the way they want.
The ET triple crown is a special award for racers who do well across multiple days. It’s focused on elapsed time (ET), meaning how fast the car runs, and it rewards consistency.
“No box” refers to a class/ruleset in bracket drag racing where the car is not using an electronic timing “box” to control the launch timing. Without that device, racers rely more on driver skill and mechanical consistency to hit their target ET.
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top bulb
“Top bulb” is about how well you time the start lights. It rewards getting off the line at the right moment, not just running a fast time.
A bracket racer is someone racing in a format where you try to hit a target time. It’s less about being the absolute fastest and more about being consistent.
Jet cars are drag cars that use jet engines instead of a normal engine. Because they accelerate differently, they can behave very differently at the start and down the track.
Funny cars are specialized drag race cars with a very wide, aerodynamic body. They’re built to go extremely fast in a straight line and handle hard launches.
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fuel altered
“Fuel altered” describes a drag racing class of heavily modified cars that run on high-energy fuels. The fuel choice affects how the car makes power and how it needs to be tuned.
A front engine dragster is a drag car where the engine is in front of the driver. That changes how the weight sits on the car, which can affect traction and acceleration.
Drag racers are people who race cars in a straight line to see who accelerates fastest. The host is saying Troy’s problems are common during the build-up to races.
Cross-threading is when a bolt goes in crooked and cuts up the threads instead of following them. Once that happens, the bolt may not tighten securely, so you usually have to fix the threads before continuing.
Intake bolts are the screws that hold the engine’s air-intake parts together. If you damage the threads, the parts won’t sit right and can leak or be hard to reinstall.
Silicone here is a sealing material used to stop leaks where two engine parts connect. If they had to redo it many times, the seal wasn’t holding or the parts weren’t lining up right.
Locktite is a sticky chemical you put on bolt threads so they don’t loosen over time. It helps with vibration, but if the threads are already damaged, you still have to repair them.
A helicoil is a metal insert that fixes stripped or damaged screw threads. If the helicoil itself gets damaged, you have to remove it and get the threads working again before tightening the bolt.
“Tap out” refers to using a cutting tool (a tap) to remove damaged material and re-cut threads to the correct shape. In this context, they removed the helicoils and restored usable threads so the intake bolts could go in properly.
“Timing” is about when the engine does things at the right moment. Rolling it back means the spark/ignition happens a bit later, which can change how the engine runs and how hard it pulls.
“Dizzy” is short for the distributor, which helps the engine send spark to the right spark plug. If it’s installed correctly, the engine can start and run the way it should.
The starter is what “turns over” the engine when you try to start it. If it fails, the engine might not crank, so you can’t get it running when you need it.
Term
power master 9500
“Power Master 9500” sounds like a portable jump starter/charger. It’s used to give the car enough battery power to start again when the battery isn’t up to the task.
Term
rings were seating in
When someone says the “rings are seating in,” they mean the piston rings are breaking in so they seal better inside the engine. As that seal improves, the engine can run stronger and more consistently.
“Test runs” are practice passes to make sure the car is working the way you want before the real races. It’s how teams check that everything is consistent.
“Low nine nineties” refers to elapsed times in the high-9-second range (roughly 9.90s) for a quarter-mile. In drag racing, moving from 10.17s to the 9.90s range is a major improvement in acceleration and overall power.
“17 pounds” usually means boost pressure—how much extra pressure the turbo/supercharger is pushing into the engine. More boost generally means more power, but it also increases stress on the engine.
Term
60 pounds light
“60 pounds light” means the car was roughly 60 lb lighter than expected. In racing, being lighter or heavier can affect grip and how quickly the car accelerates.
Term
number five exhaust had 80,000 lash
Valve lash is the tiny gap in the engine’s valve system. If that gap is wrong, the engine can start making loud noises and won’t run as smoothly. Here, they think the squeal came from the valve gap being way off on one exhaust valve.
The valve train is what controls how the engine’s valves open and close. If it’s “loose,” it usually means the gaps inside the valve system aren’t set correctly. That can lead to noise and poor engine behavior.
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shift light was on
A shift light is a dashboard light that tells you when to shift gears. If it’s coming on, the engine is spinning fast. They’re using it to show they were revving the car hard this weekend.
A disc brake upgrade swaps drum brakes for disc brakes. Disc brakes usually handle repeated hard braking better and stay more consistent when things get hot. They’re saying they upgraded the brakes on both ends of the car.
A line lock is a device that can hold the brakes in place using the brake system. People use it to keep the car from rolling while they do burnouts or stage. They’re saying they connected it incorrectly at first, so it didn’t function.
Term
power brake rollers
Power brake rollers is a driving technique where you hold the car with the brakes and add some engine revs. It’s often used to gently load the tires/drivetrain before a run. They’re saying they used this method for years.
“Back brakes” refers to the rear brakes, which provide the braking force needed to hold the car during a burnout. If the rear brakes aren’t working or grabbing properly, the car may not stage or control the burnout the way the driver expects.
A “Top Fuel program” means they’re actively racing a Top Fuel drag car. It’s a serious racing setup that requires lots of maintenance and frequent rebuilds because the car is pushed extremely hard.
Term
rebuild them
“Rebuild them” means taking parts apart and fixing/refreshing them so they can keep working reliably. In racing, this is often done after a certain number of runs because the car wears things out fast.
Term
10 takes 71
“10 takes 71” sounds like racing shorthand—something like a reference to a specific run, setup, or tuning target. The speaker doesn’t explain it here, so it’s hard to pin down exactly what it means.
Term
long track
“Long track” means the race is run over a longer distance than usual. That can change how the car is set up and how the driver manages speed and traction.
The Pontiac Firebird is a performance car made by Pontiac. In the podcast, a particular Firebird is mentioned in an NHRA drag-racing context, which means it’s being talked about for how it competed on the track. The “white” detail is likely part of identifying the specific race car.
Shocks are parts of the suspension that help control the car’s bouncing. They help the tires stay planted so the car handles better when you drive hard.
Super Stock is a drag-racing category where cars must be based on real production models. Teams can modify them for racing, but there are limits so it’s not completely unrestricted.
Stock Eliminator is a drag-racing class where the cars have to stay relatively close to how they came from the factory. You can still race them, but you can’t change everything the way you can in more open classes.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a high-performance sports car made by Chevrolet. It’s often talked about because it’s built to be fast, especially when accelerating hard. In the podcast, it’s mentioned in an NHRA drag-racing context, where quick launches are the main goal.
Super Gas is a drag-racing category for cars that are more than just stock, but still have rules about what you can change. Racers compete head-to-head and the car that runs best in each round moves on.
Super Comp is another drag-racing class where cars are allowed to be modified for faster runs. Like other elimination categories, you have to perform well in each round to keep advancing.
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dead on
In drag racing, “dead on” means the run was extremely close to the exact target the driver was aiming for. Saying it happened “four out of the six runs” suggests the car was very consistent.
“Super Street” is a category in drag racing. It’s basically a ruleset that limits what kinds of modifications cars can have so the cars are more evenly matched.
Don Mazir is the driver/competitor the host says won a race in the “Top Sportsman” category. The segment is talking about his performance and matchup results.
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Ed open
“Ed open” is mentioned as the person Don Mazir beat. The audio text is a bit unclear, so it may be a name or a label the host used for the matchup.
This sounds like a category of motorcycle racing bikes. It usually means “the kind of bikes used in a certain class/competition,” not a specific make or model.
Term
chicken wing
“Chicken wing” here is slang for how the rider holds their arms/body while riding or celebrating. It’s not a literal part of the bike—more like a recognizable riding pose.
Term
early gliders
“Gliders” usually means you’re not buying a fully finished motorcycle. You’re often getting a frame/rolling chassis, and you still need to add key parts to get it running and street-ready.
“Twin turbo” means the engine has two turbochargers that cram extra air into the cylinders. More air usually means more power, which helps a car accelerate hard for drag racing.
In drag racing, “60 foot” is how quickly the car gets to the 60-foot mark after the start. It’s a big deal because a great launch often determines whether you can win the race.
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finish line
The “finish line” is where the drag race timing ends and the results are measured. Since drag races are short, what happens near the end can still make the difference between winning and losing.
A crank trigger is a sensor that helps the car’s computer know exactly where the engine crankshaft is. That timing information is important for spark and fuel delivery, so removing it can cause the engine to misfire or not run right.
A throttle stop is a small adjustable piece that limits how far the gas/throttle can open. That lets someone fine-tune how much the engine can breathe, especially at low speeds.
A gasket is a thin seal that sits between two parts so they don’t leak. If it’s the wrong thickness or not installed correctly, the parts can end up misaligned and not bolt together properly.
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Welcome back to the most handsome podcast and all of drag racing with your co-host Troy
in Oregon and his partner in crime multi-time national event winner Parker Theobald.
This is the Bracket Breakdown.
Hey.
There we go. I had someone calling me real quick. Had to shut that down.
He's getting phone calls. He wants people, people want him to come flying and drive their cars now. He's big time now.
Brother, I love that intro. We're going to have to get him to change it to one time local event winner, Troy Abercrombie and multi-time national event winner, Parker Theobald. How you doing big dog?
Pretty good. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. We've been on standby here at home waiting for baby boy to come.
Yeah, let's give the disclaimer for tonight's show right now.
Yeah. Disclaimer, my wife could go into labor any second now.
Yeah, we might pull the plug on this thing halfway through guys. So we're going to try to make it through it and we'll get through everything.
But congratulations, man. I'm super stoked for you guys. I hope it goes smooth and really stoked to see your little family growing and happy for your big dog.
It's exciting. That's for sure. More exciting news. Another member of the family. You got a big win up there in Woodburn Dog.
Hey, I'm going to try to make it through. My voice is hoarse. I'm going to attribute it to Friday night at the night race.
My buddy, my partner, Matt Kielman, went to the final round in the night race on Friday.
And while the day race is actually the bigger paying race, the night race is kind of the one you really want to win because that's when all the people are in the stands and it's under the lights.
It's the one time a year that we get to race under the lights.
And Mattie drug the bumper for about 380 feet in the final round. He proceeded to kill a bunch of ET as he did so and was not able to close the deal.
But the wheelie was worth it and we were hollering. It was it was epic, man.
The air got good and his Nova packs them anyway, you know, 150 feet pretty much every run and he sent it Kenny Underwood style and it was it was pretty bad ass, man.
And so I'm a little hoarse today, but we'll try to get through it. But yeah, man, a great, a great weekend for sure.
Were you on the mic for that call?
No, I wasn't. I was standing on the starting line with our other buddy Brandon and we just kind of look at each other with with eyeballs about this big because it's happened to him before.
You know, that car loves to pull a big wheelie and and like, I mean, you know, he probably should have put a click in it.
But we these are cool. And and like it went way. I mean, it was it was doing good all day. But but boy, she got back on the bumper.
And I don't think it drug the license plate this time. But but it was close. It was close.
So he may not have won the trophy, but he won the crowd award is what you're saying.
Oh, but he always does, man. It's one of the best leaving cars in the country. It's got all the best stuff. And he spent so much time and money to to get it right and make it leave that way right.
It doesn't have to leave that way. But we these are fun and he likes to do wheelies. So he set his car up like, yo, I want to do 100 footers every pass.
And he does. And this time, just grabbed hold of it a little too much and center deep. But but it was a good way to end the night with some highlight reels.
And he made it deep enough that I don't think he was too sour.
And we had a good time.
Oh, yeah.
So that that event is night of fire at Woodburn. It's kind of one of their prestigious bracket races they have up there. How long is that been going on?
I believe I've called the final rounds for the last few years.
I believe this was 15 or 16 might have been the 15th or the 16th.
Yeah, so it's and it is it's our biggest race of the year, right? It's the it's the big one. And it's a three day deal Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Test and Tune on Thursday.
And we have what's called the ET triple crown.
And and so it's like four grand to win for no box Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It's like six grand to win for top bulb Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
And then Friday and Saturday night under the lights.
They have 64 car ultimate gamblers a Jagster door car shootout.
So it's it's a big weekend race and there's five races you can get into if you're a sportsman racer.
It's the big daddy so big big race if you're a bracket racer but also big race if you're a fan they got the jet cars with four of them this year or jet car.
Do they have like a nostalgia cars or anything or is it just.
Yeah, no, we had funny cars.
We had Chris Marshall and a couple other guys had their fuel altered out we had outlaw 85 outlaw 10 five deals front engine.
You know, Paul news out there in his front engine dragster.
Yeah, bro, we I mean a little bit everything.
The only thing missing is Ed Jones, you know, the quietest retirement in drag racing history.
My God just stopped showing up, you know, and we all knew he's getting to the end and so we miss Ed.
We miss seeing the stage coach out there but but outside of that, you know, it's the big banger of a show and they absolutely packed the place on Saturday night.
So, yeah, it was a great weekend.
Yeah, so let's get into your win.
We're going to we're going to bring on a special guest tonight.
The dangerous move right here.
This is this is a dangerous move.
What's going on fellas.
What's up big dog.
Not much not much.
I had to put on a shirt.
I had to find a shirt.
That's the only thing I could find.
Then, you know, I've been laying in bed for the past three hours and so got the bucket hat too.
So we're going to rock.
I can join us what all the way from Virginia, right?
Yeah, yeah, Richmond, Virginia, where we we were about an hour south doing the East Coast triple 50 store.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Well, thanks for joining big dog.
It's good to see I'm looking forward to seeing you up in Michigan here in a couple of weeks.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was texted Weston yesterday.
He sent me some pictures from me and him at Virginia.
Now I was like, Hey, you know, the last thing you told me is you weren't going to be at Martin.
I, you know, we always have the same to at a certain point in the night.
And I'm like, I can't say that to anybody else.
He's like, I'm going to try to make it.
I'm going to try to make it.
So we're breaking and get Weston there.
We're breaking news.
The bearded wonder might fly into Martin, Michigan.
I would love to see it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think I had a PJ and Brian there.
They're missing an opportunity right now.
They had all this time to get you on their podcast, but we're the first ones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, do you see the drag champ show I got on the podcast with them the year, the year
we bowed in the million out there in Vegas, but I was a little, it was a little tuned up
there.
Okay.
So even Tyler, that wasn't my younger days and I was tuned up.
I actually did that from Tyler's couch.
That podcast.
Yeah.
So he knows, he knows better now.
He's, but he doesn't see that before.
Yeah.
But the thing I really want to go over is, you know, it's almost August.
And with the NHRA, it's time to talk points.
And that's what I was trying to, I was texting Dolly yesterday.
I was like, Hey, we got to talk points.
So hopefully we're going to talk some points, brother.
We've got them pulled up and we're going to talk today.
So you came to the right place.
You're on the right podcast tonight.
We got flipped the bill up for this.
We're going to get into Troy's win first.
Last week on Monday at the end of the show, Troy signed off and went straight to work
on his car.
His car was not running a week ago at this time.
It didn't have an engine in it on Monday, I don't think.
Yeah.
So walk, walk us through what, what it took to get the engine in the car,
all the struggles you've faced.
We've seen that you were tapping the head.
This was like Thursday.
It was, it was a grind as it always is, right?
My situation is not unique drag racers.
This is what this is how it goes.
Right.
And, and I had gotten to a point where it seemed so far away.
So I had kind of resigned to driving someone else's car.
Well, then it's like, all of a sudden me and all the boys were all having trouble with our car.
So there was a line like four people long to drive this one car.
And it's like, that's not going to work.
So, so I'm like, let's give it a, let's at least give it a shot, you know,
and, and there started to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
I'm thinking I'm going to fire this thing up, you know, Tuesday night.
And I get halfway through putting on the intake bolts and cross threaded two of them.
And so they had to come out.
The silicone was on the China walls were done, brother.
I went through so many tubes of silicone because how many times I had to redo the China walls on this thing.
You know what they say, a cross threaded or lock tight tight as tight, right?
Brother, I tried, I said, I'm like, I'm just going to send him home and we'll deal with it later.
I couldn't get him to go anymore.
They were, they were not in.
And so they had to come out and they were the ARP stainless, right?
So it wiped out the bolts.
One of them had a helicoil ruin the helicoil.
And, and so we anchor off and I'm working not in my shop.
I use every one of my boys rags because of all the silicone.
I had to wait.
I mean, like he ain't got a rag left in that place.
And so I basically give up Tuesday night and my boys Matt and Brandon just laid into me and.
And so I went back out at Wednesday with fresh pair of eyes.
And, and, and yeah, we got the tap out, baby.
We got the tap and the helicoils out and we started running, running threads and, and got it fired up late Wednesday night.
I mean, I don't know close to midnight.
I wish we could.
I was.
All right now.
Have you started it?
Let's go.
Oh, dude, it was, it was like the emotional swing, right?
I went from like defeated.
I'm knocked out when I gave it all I had, right?
And it is what it is to like, brother, we're about to put a fire on this thing.
And rolled the timing back, dropped the dizzy in and she fired up first click and it was, and it sounded a little mean because we added some power to it this year.
It sounded a little extra rowdy.
And so I was just pumped and hook up the shifter, this and that, drop it on the ground, get out of there, go to load it up Thursday morning.
I put it on the trailer, let off the break.
She starts rolling backwards.
All I got is high gear.
I got and got first gear and got reverse and ain't got part hooked it up wrong.
And so, but I got to go and, and so I hit the boys up.
I'm like, guys, I don't got time to stop for food or for nothing.
So they're like, we got you.
And so we get into the track immediately off the trailer and in the air, right?
We got the hood up.
We got we're messing with the linkage.
We lose a starter with starter goes bad.
My boy Phil breaks out the power master 9500 we get her plugged in there.
She's cranking like she's never cranked before we're feeling good.
And then it was time to race man Friday.
And so, so that's what we did.
And, and just I was going to put this at the end.
But I think for me, you know, I believe in this kind of stuff.
And I've, I have never drove as good as I drove on Friday for as long as I did.
I can go a few rounds, but you know, always come up short.
And Friday was the sixth anniversary of the last time I spoke to my dad.
And his name was Kenneth Lee Abercrombie and Ken Lee racing is my tribute to him.
And that was the sixth year anniversary of the last time I talked to him.
He passed the next morning.
And I was just, I was good when I had to be just like everything.
I'm not going to say that I was just dominating people.
But, but I was good when I had to be, I got a break here and there.
And, and was in the right position to take advantage of those breaks that I got.
You know, and the car, though, as the rings were seating in,
it kept getting faster and faster.
Right. And so we start out test runs running 10 17s by the end of the week.
And we're running low nine nineties.
Just, just a solid quarter seconds.
Yeah, no big deal.
Right.
And so, so I went up for first round, put 1009 on the window and I never changed it.
And so we was holding, we was holding some and I was never holding less than four.
And I was holding as many as nine sometimes.
And I've never done that.
Like, I don't know how to do that.
I didn't think I knew how to do that.
But man, I don't know why I've been doing that the whole time.
Cause when, when you ain't got to worry about getting there, like I'm getting there.
And like we were getting there every time.
And so got down to the final round, eight rounds.
I was in the right lane four times to start it out.
I was in the left lane for the final four rounds.
And my guy, Alan Snyder took me out in the Wally race a couple of years ago.
And, and so we staged it up for four grand in the final round.
He's 80.
I'm 10.
I pull up on him.
I get ahead of him.
I tighten it up, but I got a little behind.
I got back behind.
So I had to deck it in like the last 20 feet in the old big block.
She got back around him to take seven and I almost messed it up.
The, the time slip looks like a hero, but I really almost messed it up and
just got lucky at the end.
So what you're telling us it was panic at the end.
Oh brother, I was way, I got, I went way ahead of him.
We got to tighten that up and I was behind him.
I'm like, Oh no, that's finished lines right there.
We got to go.
So, so I decked it.
We get back to the pits.
He's like, I saw you grab all that throttle.
I was like, I'm thankful that she had some left in her.
So we're 10 takes seven to be over a 10th above and down 12 mile an hour.
So it was a, and that was it man.
And all my buddies were there.
So many people have supported me and Matt and Brandon and feel like none of this
would have happened without them in the pits.
Get me there.
And, and we had a great time.
The good winter circle picture and it was, it was everything it was supposed to be.
Man.
It was cool.
And yeah, my first final, my first win.
So your first big check.
First, a lot of everything, man.
First time in the nines, first final, first win, first time I blowed up a motor
at the track.
The next day we're going up for round four.
We're one round away from, from getting into money on Saturday morning.
I'm halfway the stage lane.
She got 17 pounds, a whole pressure.
So I was about 60 pounds light on that.
And we took her back to the pits and, and tried to do what we could.
It started squealing off the left bank and number five exhaust had 80,000 lash.
So she, she hurt.
She ain't dead, but she hurt.
We parked it.
I was thinking a little bit about this because you told me that story earlier
today and I'll bet it's, it's Mark kids fault that valve trains loose.
He's told me he's shifted at 7,200.
That's way too.
Brother, we, we turned some, we turned some RPMs this weekend for sure.
Shift light was on and every burnout.
I've never done.
So here's the deal.
I did the, I did the full disc brake upgrade in front and rear, right?
It had factory discs in the front, but that drums in the back.
So, and when I first built the car, I hooked the line lock up, up wrong.
And it didn't work.
And I thought it was just busted.
So I went for years just doing power brake rollers, you know, slow rollers.
And, and then that was my routine for so long.
I didn't want to change it.
Once I figured out I'd hooked up the line lock wrong and it actually does work.
But now that I got these fancy disc brakes on the back, I got it.
I can't be doing that.
Right.
I don't want to heat them up and get them grabbing.
So I'm doing my first line lock burnouts of the, of the day.
And when you ain't got back brakes grabbing back there, she'll light them right up.
And, and so the rip-ins were going to the moon.
And in the burnout took me a while to get the hang of it.
But, but yeah, man, it was, you know, it was fun.
We lost, you know, we're going to have to fix the motor, but it's all part of the story.
And it's a, we just got a little top fuel program.
You know, we put 1718 runs on and we pulled them out and rebuild them.
Dylan, you got any questions for Troy?
I have a lot of questions.
I might forget a few of them here in a second because I got that little bit of
attention deficit disorder stuff, you know, so, but on Tyler and PJ's podcast,
they told me you were 10 takes 71
I didn't know it was the long track.
Oh yeah, buddy.
That's two thumbs up.
That's impressive.
The other thing is I was told the guy was 80 in the fight.
He was 80.
Why are we 10 takes seven?
Why don't we 10 take 30?
Brother, I, you know, we got to keep her tight.
You know, like I said, I almost screwed it up.
I almost screwed it up, man.
But I didn't know, again, I didn't know what the car was doing, like,
because it just kept getting faster.
Like, I knew we were getting there, but I didn't know what we were running.
And so, you know, and I didn't know he was 80.
So we're just going to keep her tight.
What Troy was doing is the other guy was dialing for him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Were you chasing this guy?
Yeah.
He was down 1066 to my 1009.
So he got a little half a second jump on me.
But Troy was holding a quarter of a second.
Yeah.
We had plenty to do.
We had a lot.
And he's got 70 in his pocket going past the tree.
That's what I told you.
Like, brother, we're getting there.
Like, there was no, there was no doubt about it.
When, when did you, let me, how do I put this in polite terms?
When did you start donkey kicking it?
A little bit, but I really just kind of rolled it off.
I just kind of, I kind of rolled up to him, but I rolled past him.
And I was like a little further than I wanted to.
So I, so I backed back into him and then I had to donkey kick to get back in front.
Boy, she went through the floor cause I was like, we're behind and we got to get
back in front.
So, so I put the foot through the floor and we got it.
I was worried I was going to get DQ because I immediately rolled down the window
and started banging on the roof.
I had my hands out of the car.
I'm still on the track.
And I'm like, wait, we got to get back in here.
Is there a round this weekend where you felt like you might seal the deal today?
Yeah.
I had to race my dog Steve Kelly in the semifinals.
Um, and he's, we're a world champ, Steve Kelly where my, me and my guy, Steve had
the same, we're playing the same game cause he's driving someone else's truck.
And he put 10, 18 on the window of that thing.
First round, he never changed that one either.
Like he was getting there too.
And, uh, we get up to the, we get up to the finish line.
I'm on his door and I haven't killed nothing yet.
And we're at like 1,100 feet and I'm like, well, he ain't killed nothing.
I mean, I'm like, you know, I knew what was going on.
I'm like, wait a second here.
Like, ain't neither one of us killed nothing.
And we both got to be holding a pile.
So, so we both grabbed some break and kill, I don't know, 34 mile an hour piece.
And, and he, he had me on the trees.
The one time I was not ahead on the tree and, um, and I just kind of kept it at his door
and, and, and he went on through there.
And, and so I got the way and we're both like five under for the, the race.
And, um, and that was when it was like, we could do this, you know, um,
that was the biggest round for me of the, of the night.
And not that that's not to take anything away from Alan, but it was like,
that's, that's Steve Kelly.
You know, I mean, earlier this year or late last year,
there was a sign on the fence in the winter circle that said,
this is Steve Kelly's winter circle.
You know what I mean?
And so, um, he wreck shop up there.
And, and, uh, so, and then we were in the final.
So for me, I was just having fun all day.
And, and it was like, we had checked the box by going to the first final.
So then it's all gravy after that, you know, cause like,
maybe I got to pay my dues and get me a runner up or two before I get a win.
And I'm okay with that.
Like I was going to take that number two picture.
Um, and so, so yeah, then it was just, we settled in and, and, um,
and we were good to go, man.
So that, that was the, that was the one for sure.
Yeah.
So we do have a, a blowed up motor now.
Um, does this win entice you to get it back together soon?
Or is this another, it's going to sit in the garage for a couple of years
and then you'll get back to it and do it again.
No, and it's just more because I'm slammed busy, right?
So I leave for the Seattle national in a couple of days.
I get back from that.
And I'm at the woodburn double vision on the mic with Reinhardt.
I get back from that.
And a couple of days later, I hop a plane for Martin, Michigan.
So, um, in the next three weeks, I've got like eight days at home.
Uh, you know, I got to spend some time with my family.
Not got to, I want to, you know, uh, I got pools to vacuum.
I got yards to clean up.
Uh, we got stuff to do.
You know, I got to get cut up on work so I can get behind again.
And, um, I just don't know if I'll have time.
Uh, I don't have anything else on my calendar really anyway.
I'm not chasing any points, championships or nothing like that.
So, uh, we'll get to it when we get to it.
And, um, and if we can make a Halloween race, you know, hopefully it ain't hurt too bad.
Maybe we'll need a cam.
I'm not sure, uh, but we'll, uh, we'll do what we can.
And maybe we'll get back out there this year and maybe we won't, you know,
but either way, if, if all my season consists of is what happened this weekend,
best season of my life.
So we're good.
Anything from Dilly?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got two questions.
One's for Parker.
Uh, the Steve Kelly guy, is that the same NHRA, Superstalker, Fort Gen,
White Firebird Kelly?
That's Brad Burton.
No, no, no, that's a third gen.
Oh, yeah.
Who is the guy?
The last name is Kelly.
He's from y'all's area.
I'll be honest.
I met Steve Kelly like in the spring for the first time, like face to face.
Okay.
That's what I know about Steve Kelly is he wears them out on the bracket scene,
but I do know that he is dabbled in the NHRA stuff.
There is a Kelly that's from out there.
That's Dave Kelly.
Dave Kelly.
That's the guy.
You see, I was scrolling through Facebook earlier and Steve Kelly came up and.
Yeah.
Well, he's been, he's been friends with him.
I didn't know.
So he's been that look at that Ronnie big Ronnie was in the house this weekend.
Uh, um, yeah.
Steve's been the D six representative for, for ET finals multiple times.
He's won it before.
Um, he was in the pro final a couple of years ago at the fling.
Uh, and just like local, local hitter, uh, who's made some noise on some,
on some pretty big stages, uh, and, and one of my best friends, um,
and, and mentors, right?
Like I've learned a lot of what, what, what little I know,
a lot of it I've learned from Steve.
So that was, it was cool to, to get to racing.
George, do you have the, uh, the flip flop sit behind you in the race car?
No man.
I once, once, uh, so what's funny is, is my boy Henry Roberson, uh,
they're, they're hay dudes, Tanner for the record.
I wear hay dudes in the car.
Um, my boy Henry Roberson was, was video in the run.
And, uh, and he's waiting for me at the ET shack with a gang of people.
And it's like, normally you park it and you get out and you hug it out.
And I'm like fighting through tears.
Like, like I'm, I'm wrecked.
Uh, but while we were sitting at the ready line,
they're calling round one of the night shootout, which I'm also in.
And it's like, yo, I'm still racing this race.
So I'm coming up the lanes and everyone wants me to get out and, uh,
and I'm like, I can't, I got a race.
And so do you like, we got to go.
And, uh, and so I came back up first round of the, of the gambler.
And I was four take 65 to break it out.
55.
So my luck had run out.
He got a little nervous about giving him back the round before we got there.
We got there for sure.
And he took a Walmart parking lot.
Yeah, but I didn't care.
My man Brody Kelly, Steve's, Steve's, uh, son brought me an orange soda on,
on ice, which is like my kryptonite.
And so I took a shower, put the, put the flip flops on and just enjoyed the
rest of the evening.
Oh yeah.
Did you take the shower before or after the winter circle patient before
that's why I got that linen on baby.
I put on the good stuff.
Bro, who's got time to want to take a shower for a wonderful picture.
Me, when, when you go out first round of the shootout being four take 65
had all the time in the world.
I had lots of time.
That's all I had was time after that.
Good.
Okay.
Well, Troy, is there anybody that you'd like to thank?
Oh, I mean, you make me do this for the record.
I wanted this to be at the end of the show, uh, cause there's a lot more
cooler stuff that happened this weekend, but they talk about racing
family and in some ways it's cliche and in some ways racing family doesn't
always hold up, but so far my racing family has held up really well.
And so many people have helped me along the way, whether it's from
this is back at racing elite.
I mean, Justin Lamb set up the shocks for me in that car five years
going on.
I don't think I've touched them once, you know, so many people, so many
little things or just, I finally did this time cause Maddie's like,
you better loosen that thing all the way up.
So I cranked shoes full loose.
Uh, and, uh, but until then I hadn't touched it in five years.
Uh, and so many people, man, you talk about Mark kid.
He was there when I did my first burnout in that car.
Um, you know, my wife and kids have given up anniversaries and
birthdays and all kinds of stuff.
So I can, whether I'm racing or announcing or whatever, so I can do
my thing.
Um, and yeah, just a million friends, man, that have been there along the
way, my man, Sean Clark.
Uh, I call that dude like three times a week and asking the same questions
over and over and over.
And he answers them like it's the first time.
So, um, yeah, just everybody who's always been in my corner, man.
Uh, I've been close, really close and, and you know, let myself down,
let the car down before.
And it was just really cool for it to come full circle.
Um, on, on that weekend on that day, uh, which was a significant day in my
life.
Um, it was pretty cool.
So thanks to all them people.
I don't, if I start naming names, we're, we're, you know, too much.
I'll forget everybody, but you know who you are.
If you're in my camp, then thank you.
Well, uh, Dylan, I, I personally didn't get things.
So we're just going to kick Troy off for the show.
It's just going to be you and I, that's fine.
If we go start and talk in NHRA and points broke, we can be here all night.
Okay.
Speaking of NHRA, um, we had the divisional out there in Sonoma that led
into the national.
Um, some pretty significant stuff, um, happened out there.
Uh, what do you think Troy?
Let's go baby.
How about, how about, uh, Kevin Carter getting it done in calm.
I can hear him.
Yeah, that's you brother.
We're good over here.
Uh, Kevin Carter rocking the front engine, baby.
Um, getting it done in comp against Cali, Neff.
Uh, and Hey, what a weekend for the Neff family.
We'll get to that.
But, uh, Kevin Carter getting it done in comp.
Um, and this is that we're going to talk points with, with D mud right here.
We're getting to that point in the season where it's really starting to,
we keep talking about this picture getting painted.
And, um, we're getting to it.
And I'm really excited about Seattle next week.
Cause that's where we really kind of turn the corner.
We've got multiple people with over 500 points in multiple classes.
So like it's starting to get real, man.
And, and these are really starting to mean something.
And people are going to be running out of opportunities to,
to improve their score.
People are running out of clean claims, you know, so, uh, it's a,
what a time right now it's getting starting to get exciting.
Super stock, move it on.
Sorry.
Super stock and stock.
We've both had McLean of hands in the final.
Um, pretty cool family affair.
Um, Ryan McLean of hand picking up the win in the super stock final
and Jimmy D.
I'm getting the wind there and stock eliminator.
Brother, I'm telling you that Jim girls used to just get the trophy.
Yeah.
That Corvette is the coolest car in all of the NHRA.
Uh, that thing is so, so sick.
That orange Corvette of his, um, but you know,
fell a little short to, to Ryan McLean of hand heck of a run for Ryan, uh,
in the cobalt just doing the work.
Absolutely.
Uh, it's, uh,
it's never a surprise to see a McLean of hand in the final at Sonoma.
Um, so to see both of them there was almost expected.
Yeah, man.
Not pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
Um, another name that was in multiple finals was Marco Paravilaris.
Um, he got the win in super gas.
Um, got the runner up in super comp.
Marco was throwing down, um, in super comp.
I think he was dead on four out of the six runs.
Yeah.
Well, he's what he's fourth hour under, uh, you know,
in a, in a gnarly race, uh, in the final against Kevin Griffiths,
who comes out of Fruitland, Idaho, which is just like 20 minutes from my home
town of Emmett.
That's a guy you'll see at Firebird Raceway.
Um, and yeah, Marco, I mean, you know, not only the nicest guy in all
the drag racing, but just an absolute assassin, man.
So congrats Marco.
Appreciate Marco too.
He reached out to me, sent me a text message, um, you know,
saturday morning or late friday night.
And, uh, so that was cool.
Congrats to a congrats to our boy Marco.
Yes, sir.
Moving on to super street.
Um, both of these guys have made final rounds this year and both
collected diamond wallies.
So, um, Andrew Olson getting the win over Michael boner.
Uh, he, he, Andrew Olson, he's tearing it up on the bracket scene in his
Volvo too.
Um, he's got a Volvo station wagon, which is crazy sick.
I love his Camaro too, man.
Um, when he's got that thing all shined up, it's one of the cleanest
cars around.
I think he got the win in Fallon, uh, earlier this year.
I think that's where he won.
Um, and, uh, hell of a race car driver, uh, rolls around with some of
the, some of the people that I, that I'm friends with from California.
So a big shout out to Andrew.
Congratulations for getting it done this weekend in super street.
Moving on to a little bit faster class, um, top sportsman, um,
Don Mazir getting the win over Ed open in, uh, Don Mazir's last five rounds
or excuse me, yeah, five rounds, 15, 15, 16, 6, 19, nasty in top sportsman.
That's kind of men tell them to take some notes.
He's not paying attention to none of that.
No.
So, and so now if you, you moved from, you moved from super street to a
little bit faster class in top sportsman, now we got to move to a
little bit slower class in top dragster.
No kid.
I think the, the both top sportsmen cars were faster than both of these
top.
They were.
They were.
Uh, so, uh, fun fact or fun story to tell.
I, uh, I messaged Chad acts for it after, I think it was first round or
second round and I said, congrats on the wind dude.
Like he was, he was laying down some laps and he, he replied, what?
I'm like, there's no way you're not winning this thing.
So, um, I felt kind of like a, I was reading a crystal ball there.
Um, but Chad expert picking up the wind over Brian how, uh, just making good
enough runs.
Yeah, man.
That's it.
That's obviously I'm always going to, to root for our boy Chad
expert, but I always root for the how family too.
Um, you know, Brian and, and Mindy and Dylan have, uh, have always been good
to me.
They picked up some big wins at, at my races and, and I announced the 20 K for
him the last few years now.
And so obviously I picked Dylan how to win top dragster world championship this
year.
He got some work to do if he's going to do it, but, but he ain't out of it yet.
Um, and you know, Brian, Brian been dabbling more and more in, uh, in things
outside of, of the funny car.
You know, he's bracket racing.
He's racing top dragster.
So I think that's super cool.
Um, you know, got her all the way to the final and, and just couldn't quite get
it done.
Um, against one of the best in the country, man chatting me.
He's out on the East coast now, but, but we'll always claim chat out here on
the West coast.
So, uh, congrats to Chad acts man.
Hell of a run.
Heck yes.
Dylan, what do you know?
What do you know about sportsman motorcycles?
I don't know a thing about them.
I know, I know some of them.
They like to chicken wing down there at the finish line, but that's about it.
That's all I know about them things.
Would, would you ever ride one?
No, no, no, man.
I've wrecked scooters.
Okay.
I've wrecked scooters.
I don't need, I want a motorcycle.
I really do.
I've been looking at the Facebook marketplace.
I've been seeing some early gliders as they're called or whatever.
Really want one.
But, uh, in my best interest.
No, no, not at all.
You call my boy David Chun and ask him about riding motorcycles at our age.
He'll talk some sense into you.
I'll be honest with you.
I can't hear a word Troy saying right now.
So he said that, uh, call up David Chun.
David Chun knows a whole lot about riding motorcycles right now.
He laid one over about three days ago.
That's right.
He, uh, he, his wife was, uh, expecting that one to happen.
And she tried to talk him out of it, but he was a little hard headed.
Hey, we saw him.
Shout out to the Chunzo because they were offering me all kinds of cars this weekend.
And David goes in for surgery, like on Friday night or Saturday night.
And he's at the track the next day hanging out with us.
So like they read like reconstructed his whole shoulder biggest plate they had,
like 15 screws or something wild like that.
And he was at the track the next day.
Uh, so shout out to David Chun for being a soldier.
I'm going to try that.
Steve, we can hear Dilley now.
Oh, can you hear me?
Oh yeah, we can hear you.
Okay.
We're good.
Michael O'Neill got the win over Mark Avila.
There you go, Mark.
Let's, uh, move on to super comp.
This is the most valuable player, greatest of all time of this week.
Uh, we're going to go ahead and give it right now to Trey better.
Hey, he, that track and him are like PB and J man.
He laid down a perfect run there last year came in as the, the reigning defending,
I think at the national, um, and he gets it done, uh, against Marco, right?
We talked about Marco in there, lays it dead six and, uh, for the win.
And he wasn't done yet.
He was just kicking off the weekend.
So, uh, big shout out to Trey better man.
That kid can wheel it and, um, and, uh, got the win over one of the best in the game.
So shout out to Trey.
Good job.
Trey, Trey is one of the most calm, cool and collected people I've ever seen.
Um, behind the wheel of a race car and, uh, he just got ice in his vein.
Nothing rattles him.
Um, it's, it's impressive.
I, I don't know.
I wish I had that in me sometimes, but it's just, it's just cool to see killer.
And that's why he's the greatest of all time of the week.
Cause, uh, he crushed him out at some moment this week.
Yes, sir.
Moving on to the national event.
Well, we kind of did that.
He, he won the national event as well.
Um, his cousin.
Um, I don't know if you've heard of him before.
Um, Justin lamb.
Hey, I mean, you know, word, it's gotten around a little bit that, you know,
about some guy named JL, uh, dude, this guy is so sick.
He's so sick.
Um, when, when it's, and two, it's like, once he gets rolling, it's like, it's over,
man.
Like he's just, uh, he's just so good.
He can be behind on the tree.
It doesn't matter.
He figures out a way to get it done.
Um, he wasn't stellar up front.
He was 38 and, and he was second to leave.
Uh, but he's chasing.
He's got plenty of power to get there.
Um, he figures it out, sends him through there.
931 and a buck 39.
That's a, I don't, I don't know.
Is that, is that all it's got?
I don't know.
Brother.
No.
Hey, I honestly don't know.
He's got to be, I mean, I don't know for sure, right?
Cause it, cause it's really, really fast up front.
But I mean, he's got to be down, I don't know, seven or eight.
I would think, I would think.
Got to be close.
You're right.
Yeah.
But Justin lamb lived in the twenties all week until the final.
Um, he knows how to put that car dead on and, uh, he did it there in the
final dead to dead to buddy.
Just pretty dang cool.
How about the super stock final?
Uh, I love me, some Jody Lang and, and maybe that's why Dylan decided
to wear his bucket hat tonight.
Yeah, brother.
You're rocking the Jody Lang special right now.
Oh, he's gone.
You kicked him out.
He's back.
I'm back.
Hopefully we can, hopefully we can hear him now.
Can you hear me?
You got it now?
We got you.
I got you.
Heck yeah.
I'm ready.
What do you know about Jody Lang Dylan?
Uh, I know he worked on airplanes or still does.
Um, he is one of the baddest dudes, probably the baddest dude to do it in a
slow car as well.
A hundred percent.
Um, well, uh, fun fact, both of the finalists worked for Boeing, Jody
Lang and Brad Burton.
Um, they are both broke out by the same amount and Jody taken eighth
that when the final to slide up the scoreboard.
He's trying to be like Troy Abercrombie.
Hey, hey, he did it.
Man, there's 8000 between them up front.
They both go under by the same amount.
So there's 8000 between them at the finish line and, uh,
against bad Brad Burton, right?
You talk about one of the best ever do it in Jody Lang.
Um, you know, both of those guys on the list this year, uh, top drivers of
all time, uh, in the HRA.
So hell of a final round.
That's the kind of final round you want to see in some ways you expect to
see it, but even when you do, uh, it don't make it any less awesome.
And, um, you know, hell of a lap from those two Jody Lang grabbing
another Wally his 35th.
Oh, wow.
He's got, he's, he's got more wallets than races I've attended.
He got a few, man.
You know the crazy thing about that though?
Like he is in what he's near Seattle.
What, right?
Like that is hard to do to go.
Like that shows that he's been doing it for a while,
but he is willing to make the travel.
You got to put some miles on.
I mean, what, what do you think the distance is between there?
I've seen him at Phoenix.
What do you think the distance is between there and Phoenix?
I know from Sonoma, it's 13 hours in a rig.
Sonoma to Seattle.
Yeah.
I mean, it's got to be a two and a half day drive at least.
I think Phoenix is probably every bit of 18 hours for me and Seattle,
66
So, you know, I mean, it's 20 hours at least probably to Phoenix for,
for Jody.
I mean, going to Tucson from here, it's 14 hours of Vegas and then nine
more hours to Tucson.
So it's far, man.
And, you know, even when you're just racing the West Coast races, right?
There's, there's, if you're in the top corner of Washington or Oregon,
you can drive 89 10 hours and you're still in the same state.
So it's a lot of miles to put on and Jody Lang has definitely put on some
miles.
So shout out to him for getting it done.
Hold on.
You said it's 14 hours to Vegas and then how much longer to Tucson?
I think nine more after that.
I would have stayed in Vegas, brother.
I mean, I've never been real.
There's a reason I, I mean, come on now.
There's a reason I never been to Tucson, brother.
Hey, there is a Waffle House in Tucson though.
The one place on the West Coast, I think that you can get it.
I, uh, I frequent that.
Hey, that is a, a, uh, odd commodity we have out here, Dylan.
I'll got them all over out there and we have one.
Waffle House?
Yeah, buddy.
Oh yeah.
Whenever I, uh, when I flew into Bowling Green for the hundred,
for TB, a hundred K next morning, Tyler said, Hey, you know,
we're being a waffle house show up.
Troy's already there.
I didn't think Troy was getting there.
You know, as soon as I seen it, I was in the park.
I think I went there before I checked in as soon as I seen that place.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I guess Waffle House to you all is like in and out to me, you know,
like when I'm out there, I gotta have in and out.
I mean, it might just be because, you know, I got the belly and everything
and then it's delicious.
But, you know, we stayed, I don't remember if it was at St. Louis,
but one of the place we went to this year, I show up to the hotel.
We got a waffle house, steak and shake and a white castle surrounding
the hotel.
I was in heaven.
Yeah, that was St. Louis.
You didn't have to leave the hotel.
I didn't have to go nowhere.
The only time we really had to leave the hotel was the over the race track
or the casino, but we had to cross state lines and we had to cross the river
for that too.
But yeah, it was lit.
Where are we going next?
We got a little super gas.
Yes, sir.
Good to see Doug Sedmak in a winter circle.
He does a lot of this so Cal progress.
Excuse me.
So Cal pro gas.
Hey, that's so Cal pro grass is a whole different.
It's got the high of highs and the low of lows.
He's got it all.
But he he's been doing this a long time.
He won his first Wally after the race.
They have those interviews and his wife has lucky pants.
So she wore him at the last pro gas race and he won it and she wore him
here in Sonoma and he won it.
So those pants are a hot commodity.
That's for sure.
And he's filthy too.
He's four take 10 to be one above.
Erasing Brad Pierce who's a little late on the tree puts it dead six
and and can't get there.
So Doug man just laying down a lap 22 dead six in the final of
super gas.
I'm going to take that all day long and make people get in it.
And Doug just got in it.
Well, if you can be 28 total in any class all the time, like you're
going to win a lot of races.
But you're going to win that one.
Maybe not super pro or or.
An eight mile bracket.
I'm a long track.
I'll take it.
Top dragster.
Top dragstone winters.
Pete's been doing this a long time.
Vegas native.
He won wins his first Wally.
He's been at this.
I want to say like 35 years.
He mostly did.
Does a lot of a.
Racket racing locally in Vegas, but he got him a hurricane race
engines top dragster.
It's one of those twin turbo deals.
It's got like a pretty slow 60 foot, but it gets after it at
the finish line.
She moves man.
He got better 60 foot than Tom Bear does in there and he's
down 13 hun slower than Tom.
That's winners his first final and his first Wally.
So he's 17 to Tom's 19.
So they're locked up 2000 between him gets there first by a
foul.
I mean, nasty, nasty final.
Just great job.
Great job by both of them.
Moving on to top sportsman.
Ken Ratzloff gets the win over Brian war.
One of the cool things that I did see the most that Ken
Ratzloff was off his dial was 12,000.
So I don't see how that's possible, man, because I hear all
them people out there live out there.
We're dealing that live says it's really hard to be consistent
when you're going that fast.
Yeah.
I suppose he got one 685.
It ain't that hard, bro.
I don't know.
That's what they say.
Listen, we can't talk about top direction.
Top sportsman because I haven't been able to voice my opinion
on that from Tyler's podcast last week.
I'm still on one.
I'm ready to get on.
Oh, Dylan's a time bomb.
We don't want to let that go off.
We do not want to talk about top direction.
Top sportsman right now.
Well, shout out to Ken Ratzloff.
Ken Ratzloff worst light was 20 and the furthest off the dial
he was was 12,000.
So nasty stuff to find those together.
He probably would have won every class this week.
Yep.
No, that was good.
Hey, we talked about Cali.
Neff, you know, going down in the final round at the divisional,
but Clint Neff revenge for the family in the comp final.
Him and Steve Graham squared up and and Clint gets the win there.
Neither one of them were looking at the Christmas tree.
I'm not sure what they were looking at,
but thankfully that they were both not looking at him.
So it's Mike, you know, it evened out and and Clint Neff getting it done.
Sorry.
I'm I'm searching through all these results real quick.
Oh, that's good.
I can tell you Justin Lam's box score.
I mean, if you want, I mean, that was nasty this weekend.
Did you talk about that while I was gone?
Oh, yeah, we talked that he was.
And he's 20 every year.
And then 38 in the final.
Hey, he does what he does, man.
I've already made the call.
I've already picked three world champions for this year.
Who you got?
Let's go.
Let's go through the classes.
Better.
He's one of the super cop following it.
Well, what's crazy is Trey Vedder is at 522 and he's only got two
nationals and four divisionals right now.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And his cousin, Justin Lam, Lam Chop going to hit him with the
double up this year.
I'm calling that right now.
Well, he's got 515 points in stock with three and five.
Michael Brand, though, he'd been on a heater.
He's only 17 points behind and he's got three and four.
So yeah, it's going to be hot coming down the
stretch between those two dudes on opposite sides of the map.
Going to be a lot of fun.
Heck, yes.
So Justin Lam leading the clubhouse stock and super stock.
Trey Vedder leading the clubhouse in super comp.
Let's jump over to super gas.
Nathan Vrooman also crested that 500 point mark with only three
nationals and five divisionals West Coast three car West Coast
Brad Pierce just barely lost in the finals.
He's at 453 sitting in fourth place with the same amount of
races.
So how about last year's champ?
He's 53 points out of the lead.
You're champion last year.
JJ Brock.
He's coming.
Another racer that I want to mention who's kind of down there,
but the races aren't aren't showing it for him.
Phil Unruh is on a tear this year, both in super comp and
super gas just doubled up.
Was it in Norwalk?
Yes.
He's only 100 points out of the lead.
He's only been to one national.
Yeah.
So give him 60 more points to match.
He's he's only trailing 40 points.
Three wallies in his last two races.
Yeah.
It's like how about our guy Pete both though sitting in the
number 11 spot with 400 points at two and five.
I don't know what Pete's plans are, but pretty solid season so far
for our guy Pete both.
Yes, sir.
Pete, Pete, we're going to tell you what you're
going to do.
You're going to go on a run this second half of the year.
We're going to see you Vegas, Vegas and Pomona.
And Pete is going to make some hay in this fall.
I'm calling it.
I'm ready for it, man.
Let's go, Pete.
This is like my favorite time of the year.
It's great.
You know, the fact past few years, I haven't really cared
about racing.
I still don't care to do it.
But talking about points, it's just just get you going.
Well, and like you said, this time of year, right, we're
talking about it.
We got multiple people over 500 or right at 500 and they're
going to be running out at people are running out of spots.
We got people with 678 divisionals.
I think a couple of people already, you know, Seattle's the,
the, I think we're right at the halfway point in between
Sonoma and Seattle for the pros.
So next week we really kind of turn the corner west coast is
streaky.
Like we had a pile of races in the beginning and then it was
really quiet.
And now we have a whole bunch of them again.
You got the Sonoma divisional, the Sonoma national, you got the
Seattle national, the very next weekend, you have a double
divisional at Woodburn.
So west coasters are going to stack up a bunch of points here and
then it's going to get quiet again out here and you'll watch
the Midwest and the East Coast people even it out and man,
it gets exciting.
Dilly, since it's one of your favorite topics right now, let's
let's go through the top dragster.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Yeah.
I don't Cooper.
He's in there somewhere super duper Cooper sitting in the
four spot, baby.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So top dragster and top sportsmen are a little bit different
than all the other categories.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I think they take their best
three out of five nationals and they take their best five out
of eight divisional.
So they're short one national if my memory serves me correct
shorter than the rest of everybody.
But Nick Brenner, we're going to call a quote unquote slow top
dragster leading the points at 469.
In past years, top dragster and top sportsmen aren't very high
scoring just because there's not as many races and not as many
rounds to be one.
So 469 had this point in the season.
It's pretty stout.
It's pretty stout.
He's getting close to claimed out on the divisional side.
He's already been to seven.
So we'll see and holding Larisse, who is not slow, sitting
number two.
He's been right at the top of the boards all year.
Couple West Coasters out there.
You got Cooper Chun.
You got Tom Bear.
Macy Gordon.
We had Macy Gordon on the show.
She's sitting in the number number seven spot with two and
five and three 71.
So she's less than a hundred points out.
Cody Weber sitting right there.
So man, still a lot of moving and shaking to happen.
What happened to a sure way machine this past weekend?
I was on the drag race central and they said he couldn't finish
the lap.
So he left.
He was.
He murdered the tree.
And then the, the bolt stripped out of the, the police on the
boat.
Just shut it off.
All the crank trigger stuff came off.
Send it a little too hard, Bob.
But, uh, I, I thought Cody was going to win the, win the race.
He was driving excellent, uh, obviously form world trap knows
how to do it.
But, uh, yeah, I thought that was Cody's race to win.
Just suffered a little bit of mechanical issues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would really be looking at definitely a West coaster within
the next couple of weeks.
I mean, do they run top fracture this weekend at Seattle?
I don't know.
Honestly.
So they only have one, well, technically two, but one actual
national in division six and it's Seattle.
Um, they do have the sports national.
Um, so they do run all the categories up at Seattle.
Yeah.
I would, I would really look at a West coaster for like you said
Seattle and then Troy, you said Woodburn for that double coming
up to Woodburn doubles the very next week.
So it's a, you know, it's like I said, it's a big bunch of stuff
happening right here.
If you're on the West coast and people are traveling right now
and, uh, you know, you're getting what you got three
divisionals and two nationals in three weeks.
Yeah.
I'm going to go ahead and, I'm going to call this here.
A slow dragster is going to win top dragster again this year.
You can post that on Facebook.
Let's go baby.
Clip it right now.
Cooper Chun probably is going to be able to qualify for Seattle.
He's going to qualify for two divisionals in Woodburn.
So, uh, could see big things out of coop in the next couple of weeks.
Um, anything else you guys want to touch on on top dragster before
we move on?
Just my guy, I'm not abandoning my pick yet, but my guy Dylan,
he got some work to do.
I believe in the young fella.
Uh, he's got the equipment.
He's got the talent.
Um, he's not that far out.
He's 150 points back and he's got some clean stuff to go.
If he can put together a run, uh, he can, he can get in there
and make some noise.
So, uh, we'll, we'll see how he does, but, uh, I'm not,
I'm not giving up on you yet, big dog.
I still believe in moving on to top sportsman.
Rick McDonough is running away with this deal.
He's got the lead by almost a hundred points over second place.
Um, and pretty much everybody below him is.
Got about the same amount of races.
Um, Lance Abbott's only got one national.
He's got a good shot at, um, improving quite a bit.
So, um, Rick McDonough is the leader and he's got a string of hold.
Well, and the standings look so much different at this point in
the season in top sportsmen than they did last year.
When we went into Seattle last year, six or seven of the top 10
were West coasters.
Um, and I don't know if that's just the way the schedule was aligned
last year, because I think they were, they were,
some of the races were flip flopped.
I think maybe the Woodburn divisional was maybe before,
uh, Seattle last year.
So there was 22 opportunities for points going into Seattle
that they didn't have this year.
Sonoma was after, I believe.
Uh, and so they flip flopped it, but, but.
Top sportsman looks a lot different at the top of the sheet,
uh, this year than it did last year.
Don Mazir up there, number 11 spot, Yakimitz, Herbst,
Brian war, uh, top 20 right now.
My guy Chad Riley, uh, rounding out the 20 spot.
Um, and there's some guys that are still, you know,
Sean sitting, uh, at three 22 with one and four.
Um, Lance Abbott is sitting in the number six spot with one and five.
So he's got a lot of points he can grab still.
Um, so it's going to be interesting.
Just, it's just funny how from year to year, some classes,
it's the same old guys you'd expect.
And then, you know, the next year, um, in a different class,
it's, it's a totally different ball game than it was the year before,
which I think is good.
Right.
That shows me that, that top sportsman is,
is maybe more healthy than some folks would like to lead on.
Uh, you know, we've got hundreds of people on the sheet.
Um, and the top 20, 25, uh, are all people who could win it.
I mean, maybe not this year, but like they're good enough and they
have good enough cars that they can win it.
So, uh, I like the parody that I'm seeing in top sportsman right now
outside of Rick McDonough.
I was like, he's wearing them out.
From two, from two down, there's a lot of parents.
Let's talk a little bit of comp eliminator.
Uh, Joseph kind of scally.
Let's be honest.
Comp guys are like, with the names.
Gotcha.
They're, they're either related to hockey players or NFL kickers.
They all got some weird last names.
So sorry if I pronounced your name wrong.
Uh, Joe, how do you say it?
I think it's kind of shawl.
I'm going on a scale.
Okay.
My Kentucky word of wisdom is kind of scale, but you know,
the person, my pick for comp, he's sitting about a hundred and six
points, maybe a hundred and seven points below him.
And he ain't been to a national yet.
Jeff Taylor, baby.
Jeff Taylor.
He's, he's running it back.
Well, did he just win two times or winning runner up?
He, uh, the first race at great, at great then he ran Don Thomas
in the final of the first race.
He lost second race.
He ran Don Thomas in the finals and won.
Well, he, uh, went to the Dallas double as well and won both of those.
So we got three wins and a runner up in, uh, in as many attempts.
So you've been to four races and you got three and a 40 points.
You're doing pretty good.
That's just divisional points.
That's not even, he ain't even been to a national yet.
I know, man.
It's, uh, it's pretty impressive, man.
That, that whole team, that whole unit, uh, it pretty impressive stuff.
So it'll be interesting to see what he does and where he,
where he lands when it's all done.
But if he wins this thing, I mean, at this point, I wouldn't be very surprised.
That's not who I picked.
I'm looking for my guy on the sheet.
I don't see him anywhere.
Uh, so I'm probably not going to pick the right guy for,
for compliments for this year, but, uh, that's okay.
Who's your guy?
I can't even remember.
I'm looking for his name here.
Uh, I think I picked Kevin Carter.
We're going to have to, that's a good thing right there.
We're going to have to go back.
I'll go back here.
Probably when I'm having this baby, uh, and I got some downtime and we're going
to listen back to who our picks were.
I wrote him down somewhere here, but I don't got those notes anymore.
Do a mid season update.
And if I look at the sheet here, I'd be able to tell you.
Should we, should we make, I think I picked chase Williams.
He finished six last year with seven.
I picked trace.
Um, but I don't see him.
So I don't know what he's doing.
28th.
Yeah, brother.
I don't know.
But he's only got, he's only got one national.
So we got a lot of racing left.
What's his best score this year?
Uh, semi 50.
My man must've got a girlfriend or something.
I don't know something.
I don't know what, what chase is doing.
Even got him a new girlfriend or something, man.
I'll ask Walt Walker.
Chase, did chase get a girlfriend?
What chase doing?
He got a new girlfriend.
He had another kid.
What's going on with chase?
Oh goodness.
Well, uh, that pretty much wraps up our mid season point breakdown
nationally.
There's a lot of divisional stuff we could talk about.
Um, shout out to whoever's leading their divisions.
Wherever you are, wherever you are.
I want to shout out my man, Jordan Pratt, man.
One of the nicest guys you'll ever meet.
I got to know him through the, this is bracket racing elite.
Over the years.
I've got to work with him at races before, uh, out at I 57.
He's one of the best guys you'll ever meet and, uh, doubled it up.
Doubled it up out there in great band.
So, uh, shout out to my guy, Jordan Pratt for putting it on him.
We could just put it on him right now.
The greatest of all time of a couple of weeks ago, Jordan Pratt.
Let's go.
Let's go.
I'm pretty sure that might be like the last undercover roadster
ever built to.
Oh yeah.
You think so?
I think so.
Is a hell of a driver.
Is bozan undercover?
Yes.
Well, it's like an O2 and we had race tech.
We did it and it had the chrome cage and race tech powder coated
over the chrome cage and that got me a little salty.
Now it's an under tech.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now it's under tech.
I didn't have to cut an undercover motorsports motor plate to fit
a different motor and that thing.
And I think I shed a few tears whenever I did it as well.
So.
It's good to see you, brother.
Thanks for coming and hanging out with us, man.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for having me on.
Hey, whenever y'all want to talk more points or y'all want to
have stories, we're bringing you on.
We're going to make it a thing when we're having points night.
We're bringing on D mode and we're going to talk about it.
Oh, we can have points nights.
We can have we can have stories from hanging out with that Yahoo
right there.
Hey, I don't know in Vegas.
Oh, we can.
We can have stories out the wazoo.
Okay.
I mean, we had a couple in.
We had a couple in Beach Bend.
It's it's Thursday more.
We didn't even started the week and Wednesday night.
We had a good time.
We had a real good time.
Real good time for you.
I woke up before you.
Well, I we get to the hotel, go to bed at 10 30.
My phone's ringing 10 30.
We're supposed to be racing.
I mean, they were racing.
I just wasn't there.
And Brian Whitworth's calling me.
I mean, he is blowing me up.
And you know that feeling when you wake up late for work, like
it's just the worst.
It's the worst one ever.
And I look and says 10 30 in the morning.
My heart just sank.
And I text them.
I'm like, I'm so sorry, brother.
I had too good of a time last night.
And all of a sudden someone's banging on my door.
And I thought it was room service.
And I was like, no, thank you.
No, thank you.
And they just kept banging on the door.
And I'm like, I don't need anything.
No.
But it wasn't room service.
It was doing mud trying to get my ass out of bed.
I, I, uh, we partied so hard.
Wednesday night, I had D Lo drive me back.
Well, apparently we stopped off at the Taco Bell.
Well, about 10 o'clock, my eyes start, you know,
gently opening and my head starts hurting.
And I hear, wake up, wake up.
And I look over and it's D Lo trying to wake me up.
And I look at the clock and I said, why don't you try to wake
me up, you know, three hours ago instead of hit me with this
soft wake up at 10 o'clock in the morning.
We were in the doghouse Parker for, for a little bit there.
Yeah. Yeah.
You missed the party on Saturday.
Dude, I was cooked for the, I've done all my,
I did all my party and I'm warm up night.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't have one of, I didn't have one of these on Saturday night.
Okay.
We got, we partied hardy at the Willy bar.
Okay.
So what's the next race y'all are going to be at?
The 250.
August six through the ninth.
So can we establish right now what song that you guys are going
to do at our viewing pleasure?
What do we want to hear?
Did we, did we do at a song?
No.
And I was expecting a FaceTime call and,
yeah, we never did.
Didn't get there.
Well, PJ, he got some, you know, fancy singer from Nashville
to come and sing.
What was it?
Saturday night?
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had a live band.
Yeah.
I jumped up there too.
And I, you know, I think the words were coming out of my mouth
clear, but I don't think they were actually karaoke at the
Willy bar.
It was good.
I mean, it's good.
Yeah.
We'll be at Martin.
The 250 grander.
I can't believe the season's already over the TB season.
It seemed like it just started.
It's been a marathon and it's almost finished up.
And it's been a hell of a ride.
So looking forward to it.
I know that.
I know that I'm young, right?
But I haven't been to Martin, Michigan in like 20 years.
So I officially feel very old.
Well, I've never, I haven't been there in 43 years.
That's where I first met Clay Millican.
Okay.
There you go.
Yeah.
Is that where you learned to stomp on that loud pedal?
No, no.
No, no.
Hey, shout out to all the folks who hung out with us tonight.
I see my man, Henry Robertson, Walt always checking in.
Who else we got?
Simonton.
Everybody's out here.
I didn't see who was on the Facebook.
Brett Sawa said, if you want to run the Halloween race, he's got
a motor for you.
My dog.
My dog.
So if the Halloween race is actually on Halloween, October
31st, that means Troy will be stuffing an engine in on October
30th.
Oh yeah.
We're going to cut it close.
I'll be hanging out in Vegas with Parker at the National.
You coming?
I thought about it.
You see, you see, Treasure Island, you've sent me emails on
my free rooms and everything.
I'm getting free rooms from Treasure Island and Caesars.
So I'm like, might as well, you know, you should go.
You should have been out there in a while.
And, you know, I'm hoping to know true to my words on, you know,
Trey and Lambchop getting it done out there too.
And, you know, Parker, I ain't seen you on, what, 34 years?
Yeah, we need a reunion.
Yeah.
I think we just locked it in right here.
If you guys don't do it, I'm going to be disappointed.
Well, you got to come to now.
Yeah.
Hey, you know, this is what I've been kind of thinking.
Why don't you just, you know, hold off on the motor and everything.
Just wait and, you know, make 2027 your year.
And then you can come with me, meet me out in Vegas and.
He's got a room for you at the Caesars.
Y'all can be bunk buds.
Hey, if I can get, I got a throttle stop sitting on my, on my workbench
that I really want to try out.
So if I can get my stuff together, get me a divisional or two,
get me a couple of points.
You know, maybe we'll go do some dot 90 down there.
Well, if, if we've learned anything in the last hour and nine minutes,
it's that we don't want Troy working on anything related to the intake.
So maybe not a good idea.
What I realized is that the way that my man West King got her dialed in
and way we got it machine, she's 00 with no gasket.
The gasket threw off the geometry and the bolts wouldn't go in right.
You had been so proud of the silicone job.
I did to stick that intake when I was finally ready.
It's a thing of beauty, man.
I want to see your healing call job.
I mean, are all them boats, you know, parallel with one another?
Hey, the flanges on the bolts hit the, hit the intake all at the same time, baby.
She's there straight as narrow.
I stripped a valve cover boat out of one of those motors on his road show one time.
So I went to put a healing call in it.
And all of them are sitting like this, right?
And that was like, let me be honest here.
Uh, the, the, the healing call that I had to put on is it's sitting a whole thread
proud of the surface of the head, but it's lined up perfect.
And it goes inside the whole bolt hole of the intake.
So it's fine.
Perfect.
Well guys, uh, Troy's got some announcing to do this weekend in Seattle.
Dylan's got a few beers to smash and I've got a baby on the way.
So, uh, I'm cutting myself off.
What are you talking about?
As he takes it.
That was the last one.
So, uh, we'll see you guys all next Monday.
Have a good night.
See ya.
Okay, is this going to be, oh, is he gone?
About this episode
Bracket Breakdown bounces from Sonoma and Seattle travel talk into NHRA and bracket-racing recaps, then zooms way in on Troy’s first win. The crew explains why the night race matters, what went wrong in the final-round run, and how Troy’s week of chaos turned into victory—engine work, thread repairs, and a starter fix on the trailer. They also cover staging, boost, valve lash, burnout setup, and a busy West Coast points stretch.
