S3 Episode 4: Las Vegas - "Over The Wall Too Late”

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. This is Ray's Rowdy Racing with Caleb. [00:00:08] Speaker B: Conrady and Dawson Edwards. [00:00:13] Speaker A: Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. What's going on, man? [00:00:16] Speaker B: What up? [00:00:17] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Let's talk about some racing. Well, just so everybody at home knows, Dawson was a little bit busy this week. He's got a lot to take care of. So we got Ike sitting in here for today, coming in to help us out, making sure we can get a podcast out here real nice and early. Great. It is Wednesday, but we did our best. I know we've been talking about, like trying to schedule these things to be more consistent. And of course, like, that really helps if you have like a consistent lifestyle. And I feel like we just do so much crazy stuff, we just can hardly stay focused on one thing at a time. [00:00:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think any of us would have what you call consistent lifestyle, so. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Oh, hell no. Because you were just telling me that you just got started up working for the Fort Nash six one five house. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Yep, yep. And have you all been on the road and. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Oh, not yet. [00:01:12] Speaker B: Not yet coming up though, so that's gonna make it even crazier. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Dude, I'm telling you, we're already going crazy and we're not even like started on the road yet. So that's. That starts in 10 days. We start our rehearsals. So coming up, I know we've been. I've been making the joke to everybody. I've just been like unemployed for like a half a year. I have nothing to do but stuff at home. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Watch a lot of racing. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Dude, for real, I mean, home. All of yesterday, I was putting these fans in this greenhouse. So I have two big giant solar panels on the side of it now, and they're blowing air in. I think the stories are still up on Instagram if anybody sees this fast enough. But I was just out there working on that all day long yesterday. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Sounds like a productive day. At least it was. [00:01:59] Speaker A: But I'm. I was joking around. I was like, my wife just needs to. Allison just needs to go out and pop this damn baby out already. Because I'm out there. I have the friggin adjustable wrench on the bolts on the outside where the solar panels are connecting to the roof of this greenhouse. And I attach it to the bolt and I put some duct tape on it to hold it into place because I can't reach around from inside and outside to tighten these bolts up. So I had it taped on the roof and I'd have to walk inside and start with the socket wrench to see if it would hold so I could tighten these damn bolts down to hold it onto the roof. And I was saying, man, she needs to go ahead and pop my free labor out already. I need to start taking advantage of this. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Literally. That's the whole point. [00:02:45] Speaker A: One, man. Crew chief. In a greenhouse, Dude. It's a rocket ship now. [00:02:50] Speaker B: There you go. [00:02:52] Speaker A: Oh, man. Well, hell, where'd you. Where'd you end up watching the race this week? [00:02:56] Speaker B: I watched it at home. My roommate and Jerry were watching, so I had a great race. I had a blast watching it, dude. [00:03:03] Speaker A: That was exactly what we expect the Cup Series in a mile and a half to be these days. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Which is great, because for a while, you know, that was kind of a dreaded, dreaded distance. [00:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah, but you aren't kidding, man. [00:03:15] Speaker B: These days, I mean, yeah, they're. They're crushing out there. It was nice to finally have, I guess, a normal race. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah, no freaking doubt. And watching the guys have to, like, genuinely battle handling issues coming off of turn four and fighting side by side with each other, going three wide half the time on a restart. [00:03:34] Speaker B: I mean, seeing them get loose. I mean, just seeing the cars run up the track, you know, like, with the bumps at Vegas, like, you could tell. Like, you can actually see the difficulty level where, you know, some tracks. I feel like that's obviously hard, but you don't see it as much. You can see the impacts of, like, just being on edge the whole time in this race. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Dude, you're not wrong. I would hate to go through the 1 and 2. I would hate it with that shade coming in and out and then the sun being on it. So I'm not being on it and then just going through a shitload of bumps right through the transition. I would. I'd rather not, especially with the way they have them bump stock now. I feel like all you'd be doing is just getting your back blown out every other time you went over them. Yeah, my. Me and my back couldn't take that. That's for sure. I got. I broke my back trying to build a damn garden the other day. [00:04:25] Speaker B: But. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Hell, we got a Josh Berry win, man. First in the Cup Series. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Exciting, dude. I mean, I love. First of all, I love seeing Wood Brothers win anytime. 21 cars in victory lane. It's always fun, but especially for Josh Barry. I mean, Tennessee guy. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. Represent. [00:04:42] Speaker B: Short track racer. Like, it's exciting to see him prove that he can win. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Hell yeah, dude. Second biggest tea since Texas. Let's go. [00:04:53] Speaker B: He's been running well, too, so it's cool to see that payoff, dude. [00:04:57] Speaker A: For real. So I told you right before we got onto the podcast, I was gathering up some last minute stats, and basically what I meant by that was I was putting together this list of average finishes. You can still see me, right? I'm flipping over on my screen. Okay, cool. So what I was doing is I went on the driver averages because I was just sitting there thinking to myself, I'm watching the 21 car just dominate week after week after week in comparison to the way that it used to drive. And by used to drive, I mean kind of for the last like five years. I think you and I both know what I mean by that. [00:05:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:35] Speaker A: So I was just sitting there thinking to myself, I know it's early in the season, but let's look at Josh Berry's average finish right now as it sits with a win in the pocket, by the way, So I get feel like it gives it a little bit more credence. So Josh Berry threw five races in 2025 is an average finish of 18th, and I'm going to round down every time just because, you know, you can't have a 0.9% of a position. So we're looking at an 18th. Then I was like, all right, what does that stand for? Like a Cup Series champion? So, like the last three champions, Logano, Blaney, Logano, it went 11.7, 14, 13. So you're looking at a guy that's coming within five to seven positions of what a natural, what a champion would do. But looking at the car itself, the 21 car, for like the last 10 years, when Burton was in the car from 22 to 24, he had a 22nd and 22, a 25th and 23 and a 25th or a 24th and 23 and a 25th in 2024. Dude got worse by at least a position every single year, but never did better than 22nd on the average finish. Geez, you go back to De Ben Odetto and it jumps right back up to where Barry is right now. In 2020, he had a 14th. In 2021, he had a 16th average finish. So already right there, you kind of got to look at your driver and be like, what was Harrison Burton doing in this, in this car that. I mean, he was finished in like a full 10 places back. And then, not to go too heavy into the stats, but Menard had a 19th and a 16th and Blaney started at a 25th and went 18th and 17th. So progression for every other driver But Harrison Burton. So that makes me beg the question, like, did the Wood brothers go away, or did they hire a shit driver? I mean, right. You just kind of have to look at. You just have to look at those kind of stats. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I mean, obviously, Burton, I came in with a lot of name recognition, and I'm not saying he doesn't have potential, but, yeah, he may have not been quite ready for the Cup Series, that. He's still super young. [00:07:47] Speaker A: Absolutely. And you're looking at the way that he's racing down in the Xfinity Series now for the 25 team, and he's right back at where you saw him when he was in the Xfinity Series back in the day, because he has. I don't remember off the top of my head how many wins he has in that car, but he had at least like, three or four. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:06] Speaker A: That I know of. [00:08:07] Speaker B: He's definitely got potential, but, I mean, you can. You know, there's a lot of guys you can look at. He's gotten called up too early, maybe even Ty Gibbs has struggled, and he's got a ton of talent. I would, you know, for a guy. For Gibbs, like, he's a legit driver. [00:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:21] Speaker B: But is he ready to compete at the cup level? Probably not. [00:08:25] Speaker A: I couldn't agree more, man. That's been such a huge talking point for the last, like, I feel like two, three weeks. Dawson brought it up to me, and he's like, yeah, we. How many tweets do you see now where it's like, we got to talk about Ty Gibbs, dude. [00:08:37] Speaker B: And he had gotten a little unlucky in some of these races, but, I mean, at some point, you know, you create your own look, so it's true. [00:08:44] Speaker A: And, I mean, you can look at it last week, like, Denny Hamlin was running dog into the last little tail bit of the. Of the entire field. I think at one point, he was battling with Blaney for the Lucky Dog, and Ty Gibbs was back there, too. It was like, those are the last three place guys, all three of which I think you could easily chalk up to bad luck. So. You're exactly right. There's some times where he doesn't necessarily deserve it, but, man, those weeks where he doesn't have any excuses, that's where it's coming into play. For sure. [00:09:17] Speaker B: For sure, for sure. And it's crazy because when he came up to the Cup Series, you know, and ran a limited schedule, he was kind of balling like he was. He was looking pretty good. Yeah. You know, I don't know what happened. [00:09:29] Speaker A: After that, but I don't know. Dude, that's such a great question. That's like. I want to hear from a young Cup Series driver that's willing to actually tell you what it's like. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:39] Speaker A: To find out, like, what is it when you transfer up. And I'm sure if we looked hard enough, we could find that, but I'm sure we could. Just like, somebody tell me, what is the. What is. Is it a mental thing? Is it just like, you have to earn your respect in your garage? Is it just simply that the other drivers are that good that you're having to figure it out? [00:09:57] Speaker B: You probably. I mean, right. Like, once they learn how you drive, they're gonna figure out how to block you and how to defend. And, you know, it's almost. It's almost like a. Like a batter getting called up and going on a hot streak in mlb and then the pitchers start to adjust. And, you know, if you can't adjust back then, you're gonna be dead in the water, man. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Such a good point. Absolutely. Golly. But yeah. So Josh Berry gets his very first win in the Cup Series. Dude is been on a tear for the last five weeks. I mean, it's hard to look at what he's been doing in the car and not wonder where this year is going to go for him, because obviously now he's in the playoffs, he's got that position figured out already for himself, and he's sitting in 13th in terms of just regular season points. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And it feels right now, I mean, last year we saw the 21 in the playoffs, but that felt more like a fluke. This feels legit, you know, this feels like he's going to be a contender. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Yes. Couldn't put it better, man. Getting the one win that Daytona, getting that hundredth win for the Wood Brothers, and then immediately back out of the playoffs again. I mean, it was like, here's your. [00:11:05] Speaker B: Three seconds of that coming for sure, you know? But. [00:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I mean, I hate to talk so much, much crap about. [00:11:14] Speaker B: This kid, but he's good. At the end of the day, he'll be fine, I bet, you know? [00:11:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, his last name's Burton. He'll be all right. [00:11:22] Speaker B: He just got some learning to do. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Oh, no doubt, man. So, like that, I guess it might be too early to predict, but, like, how far into the playoffs does this run go? How far does he take the 21? How many wins is he gonna have by the end of the year if he's already knocked one off and he's barely even been in the Cup Series for this little bit. Driving this car, it's like, okay, I know he's been in for last year, but just getting into this 21 machine, it's like, how is everything firing so well immediately? [00:11:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we've seen hot starts, I think, so it'll be interesting to see if they can keep it up. I think the advantage they have is that, yes, they're part of Penske, but they're a single car team, so, you know, they're, they're locked in on him versus Hendrick. I feel like we'll see one driver get off to a hot start, and then maybe the resources get shifted around a bit, people start to politic and then, you know, that driver will fall off and someone else will kind of come up with Barry. I mean, they're going to be locked in on him all year long. There's no, there's no competition for resources other than, you know, what's going on with Penske, but in terms of, you know, their Wood Brothers shop, they're. They're going to be locked in on him. So I think that they just have all the potential in the world. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's scary to think what he'll be able to put together now that he's got a win in week five. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Yeah, 100%. [00:12:43] Speaker A: I mean, what is that, like 20 more races and the playoffs even start? [00:12:47] Speaker B: Short track guy, he's still got short tracks coming up. He wanted a mile and a half, so. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah, for real. I mean, he's got all this crazy potential going on. And, I mean, Harrison showed flashes of old Wood Brothers stuff every now and then last year, but, I mean, it was so sprinkled in. Whereas this year, it's like, we're running up front. We're competing for top tens all, all the time. When Josh Berry's behind the wheel, I mean, it's. It's like they can envision their entire race strategy from the beginning of the, from the war room back in Charlotte, they can already be planning for, are we going to try to take stage points? Are we going to go for this win here? And with Harrison, and for the last, like, at least good, solid few years, even back to the de Benedetto days, it was almost like getting stage points was more a play of long winded strategy and opportunity that pops up when the green checkered is about to fly. Whereas this year, it's almost like we have to decide what do we want more because we probably have a pretty good chance of getting both. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah. 100%. [00:13:55] Speaker A: Yeah. What a turnaround. I just love seeing that man from 1950 to here, or 49, whatever year it was, they founded it to here. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of teams like that bouncing back. I feel like right now McDowell's on the pole. Obviously, he didn't do great in the race, but, yeah, they had speed and qualifying. [00:14:14] Speaker A: I didn't even see where he ended up finishing. [00:14:15] Speaker B: Do you remember maybe top 20, but not. [00:14:18] Speaker A: Yeah, 16th. He was not competitive, Golly. But yeah. Dawson called him the new rocket man, this year's rocket man, because most polls last year, he's already got a poll this year now. So we got a new Ryan Newman, an old, old driver with a whole lot of history in the sport, just going out there and setting blistering qualifying laps. [00:14:39] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, he knows what he's doing behind the wheel. Going to be competitive in the race. [00:14:44] Speaker A: God dang it. That's not true. I don't know what is. [00:14:47] Speaker B: I would love to see him get a win this year, though. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Ah, me and you both. Gosh, it's nothing. Nothing's better than watching Michael McDowell, of all people, get out of his car because he's the one person that's been in the sport a super long time that's not, like, crazy cynical about it. He's still excited when he wins. He gets out of the car and it's like, dang, that just looks like your goofy uncle got out of the car and he's just happy to be there. And he got the win, too. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Like, yeah. [00:15:13] Speaker A: All these other old drivers, they get out and they're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to talk about all these years of success and how this is just another one in the belt. He's just like, holy crap, I won, man. I love that. Oh, man. So we got Josh Berry winning it. Now we got to talk a little bit about the old boy and other old boy that came in second and third. You got Daniel Suarez and Ryan Priest. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:38] Speaker A: Both of which are in very different parts of their career right now. And we talk about Daniel Suarez needing to knock off as many good finishes and wins as he possibly can because he's got old Zillich breathing down his neck right now. So he gets a second place finish and he battle. I mean, how long were they battling? [00:15:59] Speaker B: They're battling for a while. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Golly. [00:16:01] Speaker B: That was one of the better lead battles I've seen. Even though Fox didn't Cover it the best. [00:16:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Or a weekly complaint, but, yeah, no, they were battling for a while. I mean, he put up a fight for sure, and, like, I feel like those are two of the most respectful guys on the track, too, which was kind of cool to see. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Some good clean racing. [00:16:20] Speaker A: Oh, it was so much fun just watching them just kind of battle back and forth, getting almost to where he paid pass him once, and they repassed him back. And I mean, it was like 15 to 20 laps of just like, you don't know who's going to win. And I'm a Penske guy, so, of course, seeing Blaney's old ride out there for the lead, I was definitely in my Josh Berry pajama pants right there watching that finish. But. So Suarez comes in with a second place finish. How do you feel about that? Like, he started in 23rd position. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he had a great race. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And he comes all the way up. [00:16:56] Speaker B: To a great race, too. I mean, obviously, strategy we saw play out in a big way, but they did a good job, I think. You know, Suarez is a guy who I think has a lot of talent, and I think we've seen him flash it. I just. I don't know what it is where he can't get over that hump to just be consistently good, you know, but also, yeah, there's something with that team where, like, Ross will go on these hot streaks and, you know, but he'll never, like, consistently compete with the top level of drivers. So I don't know if it's like a track house thing or if it's just Suarez, but there's. They got to figure out how to consistently be at the top level. [00:17:33] Speaker A: Yeah, No, I agree with that so much because you remember back to Chastain, when he gets in the car, I mean, he just. You couldn't outrun the guy. He was so quick and he was so aggressive, and he was lighting the world on fire with huge highlights, getting on ESPN and different things. [00:17:53] Speaker B: And, I mean, he was the most exciting driver in the sport. I still think Rick Hendrick talked him down a little bit, which is. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Yeah, but I know it's. It sucks. [00:18:02] Speaker B: They needed him. I mean, he was the perfect guy at that time to come in and be, like, not just a villain, but an exciting villain, I guess. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And the team itself, too, was just doing things so differently. I mean, they had Pitbull. They had this weird name that just nobody saw coming. And then they come out and they're like, super competitive and they're making all these aggressive contract deals, pitting their drivers against each other. I mean, you want to talk about an organization that runs themselves in such an exciting way. It's so frustrating to see what happened to Chastain and how he's no longer that exciting, aggressive guy. And you got Suarez in there, that man, he gets that three wide finish at Atlanta, but if it wasn't for that, I don't know what I can really say towards the guy. I mean, he gets the second place. [00:18:55] Speaker B: Finish here, but I mean, he's been through. He went where Gibbs and then Stuart Hoss. Yeah. So he's been through rides. I mean, he's a consistent, you know, consistent driver. Like he'll put you in the middle of the pack weekend and we got. He's not going to crash too many cars, but. Yeah, he just doesn't have that top end of winning a bunch of races. [00:19:16] Speaker A: No, he doesn't. And see, that's the thing is like finishing second right here to almost anybody else. I mean, I'm about to talk so much awesome stuff about Ryan Priest and he finished in third. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:29] Speaker A: So you got Suarez finishing in second here. It's almost like your frame of reference when it comes to that particular driver has got to be like, dude, you need, if you're not going to win, you need to finish in the top five at least. I don't know, like 25 to 33% of the time. You need to be competitive all the time. You need to be fighting for top tens and stages. He ended up with a seventh place second stage finish, but nothing on stage one. I mean, he's just got it. He's got to find that level of consistency right now and he just doesn't have it. And he's sitting down in 19th in the points at the moment. [00:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:07] Speaker A: And of course it is super early to be talking about points, but his teammates sitting in 10th. So you're talking almost a double digit difference between where your teammate is and where you are right now. Yeah, that's pretty tough. [00:20:20] Speaker B: That is pretty tough. [00:20:21] Speaker A: So dude's got to pull out a lot more of those finishes. Good for him for having a hellacious finish on a non drafting track. [00:20:27] Speaker B: But is that, is that also the kind of scenario where you'd like to see him be a little less clean and a little more aggressive? Battle? [00:20:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Because you know. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:20:35] Speaker B: At some point respect's only going to get you so far when you come down to the end of the race. I mean, if he's against Kyle Busch and Kyle hasn't Won in however, you know, over a year. And Kyle's going to take him out, dude. Like he's not going to care. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Yes. [00:20:48] Speaker B: That's where that killer instinct comes in. And that's where. I don't know if Josh Barry has that either, but we haven't really seen him have a chance to show it or not. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Yeah, no doubt. He's definitely got a little bit of that, of that wild street to him. I always think back to the Phoenix finish when he gets wrecked out, or it's either Phoenix or Las Vegas, I can't remember which. And I want to say it was Brandon Jones or Harrison Burton that wrecked him in the Xfinity series. And I just remember the double bird he flung at him coming into turn. It was either three or four at Las Vegas or one and two at Phoenix. Somebody was gonna have to remind me of that. But he just flipped a double bird at him and I was like, that's the guy right there. That guy gets it. Yeah, this eating grin on the whole time. [00:21:30] Speaker B: That's the difference. Like Suarez, like, you know, if he needs that win, he's gonna have to put the bumper to him maybe and you know, make, make his own luck because you gotta, you gotta win the race. [00:21:41] Speaker A: No doubt. So, yeah, that's, I mean, that's where Suarez sits right now. So dude's gotta, he's got an uphill climb. And you also, you gotta keep in mind too that a lot of this race came down to 18 people rolled four different rolls at a set of dice when it came to pit strategy. And there was no flow to the end of this race. [00:22:01] Speaker B: There was no way to know what was gonna work. [00:22:03] Speaker A: No, you, you just didn't know. And how much do you attribute a second place finish for Daniel Soarez to something like that? Just getting kind of lucky. Then again, you say that about him, you got to take it away from everybody else that's up in the top. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Right. You can say that about Barry or Priest. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:19] Speaker B: I mean, there was a lot of fast cars like Blaney got wrecked. Right. A lot of fast cars fell back. Larson, even Kyle Busch had a good. [00:22:27] Speaker A: Car, but yeah, absolutely. I mean, and Larson finished in ninth. And I don't even know where Bush ended up by the end of the. [00:22:34] Speaker B: Briscoe had a good car. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Golly, 33rd for Kyle Busch. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I guess he did have that. He had that wheel kind of cut in half. [00:22:43] Speaker A: I nearly forgot about that. That's a whole nother thing to have to talk about today. Yeah, but, yeah, you got Ryan Priest finishing up in third, though, so good for him. Solid finish for your boy. Golly. I just. He's been another one that's been impressing me this year. Where's he sitting in the point so far? He's down in. He's down in 18th. But, I mean, when you're talking about the Ryan Priest you saw the last couple years and the Ryan Priest you're seeing right now, if you take away a couple bad finishes at Daytona for Mr. Astronaut, I mean, yeah, who knows where that guy would be sitting right now. So definitely another guy I've got my eye on for a lot of really good finishes this year, for sure. [00:23:27] Speaker B: No, I like him a lot. [00:23:29] Speaker A: Yeah. This is just gonna. It's gonna be a career year for him for sure. And I'm super excited about that because I've been watching that kid. Since I say kid, he's probably beat my tail if I looked at him funny. But I've been watching him since he debuted in the Xfinity series and was doing all those rides with the 18 car with Joe Gibbs. And, I mean, out of, like, five races, he won two of them. Two or three of them. So I was like, this guy's got something. Like, he's got something good here, and it's cool. He's finally getting a chance to show. It's like he found a home finally. [00:24:00] Speaker B: 100. Yeah, he's settling in, and he's learning how to race at this level, which it always takes time. I mean, it took time for Chase Elliott, took time for William Byron. It's just. Takes time. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Absolutely. It takes time for Austin Cindric, too, But he's also another one that's been just, like, killing it this year. [00:24:18] Speaker B: 100% out of nowhere, which, I mean, he's kind of. I don't know, he just doesn't strike me as that exciting of a. As a. Of a guy, which is like, I kind of find myself rooting against him sometimes. [00:24:34] Speaker A: That's so funny. That's hilarious. Is it the glasses or the bow tie? [00:24:42] Speaker B: I was like, man, and I don't want to see him win. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's so funny. [00:24:47] Speaker B: But that's how I felt about Kez when he was in the 2 car, too. Like, I got sick of Kez winning in the two. I'd love to see Kez win now. [00:24:55] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. But back in the day, yeah, he had that kind of. He had that kind of air about him. Just like, yeah, get out of here. Kind of, you know, Detroit air to him. [00:25:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:25:07] Speaker A: No, that's too funny, man. I've been paying attention to the two this year, and you know what he reminds me of? He reminds me of where Ryan Blaney was in, like, 2017, 2018, when he would run up front for a lot of the race. But once it came down to the end and the strategies were starting to play out and the pressure started to mount and different things started going down and different people started to get more aggressive, it's like he lost. He loses that edge, and you'll have a guy that's running in, like, top 10 just suddenly finish super far down the standings for no reason. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. You got to learn how to finish the races. I mean, that's more important than probably anything. When. As, like, when we talk about adjusting to the top level, just learning how to put yourself in position and not back down. When you see your childhood icon coming up in your rear view, you know. Yeah. You got to stay in the gas. [00:26:01] Speaker A: Absolutely. Oh, gosh. Yeah. So that's. He's been somebody that's been a lot of fun to watch this year. I'm. I'm excited to see where he can take it, because he's definitely on the hot seat for Penske right now. I mean. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:14] Speaker A: Even now with the 21 getting his win, I mean, and the way he's been racing this year, you kind of got to look at that two car and be like, all right, you. You have to at least beat the 21. You cannot go out here and let the 21 beat you. In his very first year with team. [00:26:29] Speaker B: No, that's true. [00:26:31] Speaker A: So I feel like there's a lot of pressure on him right now, and he's. He's helping his case. He's helping it, but they got a pretty strong one right now that he's going to have to surmount. [00:26:40] Speaker B: So 100%. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Anybody else that stuck out to you this year, this week that you wanted to talk about? [00:26:46] Speaker B: I thought Redick looked fast. I was surprised to see him finish so far back, but. Yeah, where did he look good when he was. I mean, everyone kind of looked good when they clean air up front, but Redick especially, I thought looked. Looked fast. He was running good lines and couldn't put it together with the strategy. But, yeah, you know, I think that's a guy who's kind of surprised me with a relatively slow start this year after last year. [00:27:10] Speaker A: Yeah. For real. [00:27:11] Speaker B: Going crazy. But he's. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely not doing anything insane right now. [00:27:16] Speaker B: No, I think he'll get it together. But, yeah, he. He's kind of been. Been in the background this year so far, I feel like. But he looked good this week. Till then, he. [00:27:26] Speaker A: He definitely did. And I'm looking through here, the other guy on his team, Bubba Wallace. [00:27:31] Speaker B: I mean, Bubba looked fast, too. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Yeah. This is a. One of those very rare races where Bubba just completely blew Reddick's doors off. [00:27:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:40] Speaker A: He had a fourth place stage finish in both stages and ended up doing. I can't remember exactly where he ended up in the entire. [00:27:49] Speaker B: Well, he got dinged up. He got dinged up in that wreck. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Yep. [00:27:53] Speaker B: I think he ran into Blaney. He didn't get a ton of damage, but it was enough. [00:27:57] Speaker A: But, yeah, I mean, he outscored his teammate. He may have finished four spots behind him, but he scored more points than he did. [00:28:02] Speaker B: So, yeah, and he had a legit shot to win. I thought this week if he hadn't got caught up in that wreck. That wreck took out a lot of good cars. [00:28:09] Speaker A: It really did, man. I was. God, there's this, like, graph of a Blaney car, and it was like. It was like the picture of a Blaney car. And there's this, like, very bit at the beginning. Oh, man, we got a race coming up. This is gonna be so exciting. And then the next little bit of the race car was like, oh, my gosh, we're actually fast. And then the next long bit of it is like, holy crap, we have a chance to win. Back end of it. It was like, I hate my life. [00:28:39] Speaker B: That does seem to be how it goes. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Whose fault was that wreck? Who do you think caused that wreck? [00:28:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I would say Christopher Bell. [00:28:49] Speaker A: Hell, yes. [00:28:50] Speaker B: The way he popped up there. [00:28:52] Speaker A: My God. [00:28:54] Speaker B: No, you're open. I wasn't gonna say Blaney. [00:28:56] Speaker A: No, I didn't. I honestly didn't care either way. I'm just so happy to hear somebody else blaming something on Christopher Bell. That guy, he swung up the track. [00:29:05] Speaker B: And definitely poplady into. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Dude. I could not believe my eyes when it was Seabelle that was in there. And then you had. I golly, there was so much that went on in that wreck, I barely even could tell what was going on. But all I knew is it wasn't Blaney's fault. And anybody that said something can suck one, including Blaney himself, for saying that he might have caused that wreck. Dude, get out of here. You were 4 wide, and you were the first. I mean, he was a full. Almost his entire car was out in front of all four of those other guys, he just happened to be right. Just still bumpered on him. [00:29:43] Speaker B: He was almost clear. I mean, I don't know how they got four wide. I didn't see exactly. We watched the replay right here. [00:29:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Send that replay over to me since you've already got it pulled up, because I was just about to pull it over to mine. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll text you it. I mean, yeah, Blaney was nearly clear in a sense. I guess maybe Blaney thought he was clear, but he definitely got pushed by Christopher Bell. He wouldn't even had to go up there if Christopher Bell didn't come up the track. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I love how you said nearly clear there, man. Like, if I had a nickel for every time Blaney was nearly clear and then ended up wrecked like a mother, I'd. I'd have a lot more nickels. Yeah, it was real close. Yeah, that was such a frustrating thing here. I got it pulled up over here, but. Yeah, yeah, no, I was just. I was heartbroken, man. That was the. The hate my life portion of the race because he. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he took a car, dude. [00:30:40] Speaker A: He fought, too, so he fought through so much when it came to actually finishing that race in a decent position. And he was getting up there for a really good, solid finish. I mean, he had a shot. If the wacky strategy at the end played out right. He had a shot of winning just to get taken out by four wide. Here we go. He's coming off the corner. Seabell walks it up the track, squeezes him up there. Oh, dude. [00:31:10] Speaker B: And I mean, it took out Bubba, who had a shot, you know, which I want to see Bubba win a race. Like, that'd be cool. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, yeah. Seeing Bubble win an actual natural plated out race every single season should be in the bingo cards for him. He should be able to get at least one of them every single year. [00:31:30] Speaker B: Ah, no, I mean, 100. He was. He was fast this week. And then who else did it take out there? [00:31:36] Speaker A: Oh, it was Gron in the. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:31:40] Speaker A: But you gotta. You gotta give props to your man Justin Haley. That dude snuck through that hole between Blaney and the 43. Like he had that sucker custom made for his car to fit through it. [00:31:55] Speaker B: Yeah, that was pretty crazy. [00:31:56] Speaker A: That was move of the race. [00:32:00] Speaker B: The other move of the race was Briscoe pitting in a. Whose box did he put it? [00:32:07] Speaker A: Oh, no, it was Christopher Bell, wasn't it, Fitting into Chase Briscoe's. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Bell. Bell with the loose Wheel. That was a great audible, dude. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Props to him. I don't know that. So I text him with Dawson and he. And he was watching Twitter closer than I was. I was at my in laws house for this race and I texted him immediately. I was like, dude, can you even do that? Like. And he's like, actually, yeah, it's just technically pitting outside of the box. And I was like, that's some horseshit. But that is. That's one of those rules NASCAR didn't even think to put into the rule book until this week. And you know that. No, you know, it got added. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah, they're definitely gonna add something about it. I mean, that's like almost a safety issue because, like, that picker is probably not ready for him. Oh, no, they can't radio that to be like, you know, and he's cutting across traffic and. [00:33:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw a picture of a dude just laying down there holding a beer, just like chilling on the couch, and he's pointing at himself and it's like, Briscoe's right rear tire changer me, dude, that was just. I was mind blown. That was absolutely crazy to me. [00:33:21] Speaker B: Even the crew guys after the replay, they were like, what? [00:33:24] Speaker A: Like, yeah, what are we doing here? Is that even legal? Like, are we gonna get in trouble? That. Could you imagine if Chase Briscoe got penalized for that? [00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. If the crew guys got suspended and then like, go a week without pay. [00:33:36] Speaker A: That'D be over the wall too soon by about 55 lapse. Over the wall too late. [00:33:47] Speaker B: That's the new penalty. [00:33:49] Speaker A: Holy crap. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. That's definitely the title of the podcast, over the wall too late. [00:34:02] Speaker B: I mean, now there was no rule against it. I don't know if there will be. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Now, but in the moment, that was just. It was. It was genius. Absolute genius. Because there was a awful slate of drivers losing wheels this week. Who was it? We had Kyle Busch do it. Then we had Christopher Bell do it. Was it Michael McDowell that did it too, in the middle of the race? [00:34:25] Speaker B: It might have been. I do. Yeah. I know there was a couple more. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Oh, man. It just kept falling off. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Who was it who had to pull down pit road? Was it Byron who had to pull down pit road just off speed and go fix the loose wheel? [00:34:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. Yeah. Golly. There was so many of them. We can't even remember everybody. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:41] Speaker A: What was that about? [00:34:43] Speaker B: It was like if you used to watch like old race at Pocono or something, how many blown engines we Used to have. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:34:48] Speaker B: For, like, loose wheels. Yeah. [00:34:50] Speaker A: It's so weird. And I'm like, is it something with the air in Vegas? Is it just, like. Is. Are people just assuming that it's going to be tight before it's tied? Is everybody just jumping the gun or what? [00:35:00] Speaker B: They might be getting complacent. I mean, like, it's been single lug now for a little while, so they might be starting to get comfortable with it and try to cut time off, you know, because you got to find an advantage somehow. But. [00:35:11] Speaker A: Yeah, but damn. I just. [00:35:14] Speaker B: I've never. [00:35:15] Speaker A: Such a show on pit road. Yeah. [00:35:18] Speaker B: I mean, you know, we had that accident with. I don't even remember who it was. One of the young drivers got Crash coming out of his box, and then. [00:35:28] Speaker A: Oh, I do remember. Was that Ty Gibbs? [00:35:31] Speaker B: It might have been Ty. [00:35:33] Speaker A: Golly. That was when the fifth beer started kicking in for sure. But. But yeah, it was. It was a show on pit road this week. I have no idea what the hell to expect. It. [00:35:44] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Oh, but, man, it was. Out of all the different. Out of all the different things you could be doing, loose wheels are just the wildest one because you had. Oh, Kyle Bush. I think we mentioned him. But going up and just slapping the wall, ruining at least one other person's race, and then chopping a wheel in half and all the other crazy stuff that was going on. I just couldn't believe it. We're gonna have so many crew members out next week. We'd have to reintroduce all the pit crews just because nobody's the same. [00:36:13] Speaker B: No, it's kind of crazy. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Yeah. No freaking doubt. It must have been extremely frustrating to be on pit road during the middle of Vegas. God dang. But, I mean, that's kind of the. The biggest storylines to come out of. To come out of Vegas for sure was loose wheels, Josh Berry wins, and just crazy stuff. And we got Homestead coming up next week. [00:36:40] Speaker B: That's always a good one, dude. [00:36:42] Speaker A: I can't wait. Homestead's gonna be phenomenal. Who are you picking? Who are you picking for Homestead? [00:36:49] Speaker B: I feel like we're finally gonna see someone whose last name doesn't start with a B winner. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Hey, I think. [00:36:55] Speaker B: I think it'll be Reddick. I think he's coming alive here. I think. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Gonna put himself back on the map, and he's good at that track, so. [00:37:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I couldn't have named a better driver other than your boy Kyle Larson. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:37:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I really think those are the Two, if you're not watching for Kyle Larson or Tyler Reddick, I don't know who you should be watching for outside of that, because. Yeah, damn. They're gonna be blazing fast. They always are. [00:37:24] Speaker B: They're gonna be tough to beat. Watch Christopher Bell put himself back in the spot to win though. [00:37:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:37:28] Speaker B: I mean, one more caution this week. He could have been up there. [00:37:31] Speaker A: Yeah, he was. [00:37:32] Speaker B: He had battled back. He was bordering on top 10. [00:37:35] Speaker A: He was. [00:37:36] Speaker B: I mean, no way that race was going. He could have made a dive bomb and passed a ton of cars. [00:37:40] Speaker A: That dudes must have a rabbit's foot shoved up his tailpipe or something. Dude, I don't know what's going on with him, but he has had so much luck at the beginning of this year. It just, it's unbelievable how well it plays out. [00:37:50] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:37:53] Speaker A: Oh, you know, we forgot to mention one person at Las Vegas. Denny Hamlin. [00:37:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:00] Speaker A: Running like a. Just a wet dog in the back. [00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah. He did not have a good week. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Dude, I'm getting worried about that guy. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Did you see his new car for this week for progressive on it? [00:38:13] Speaker A: Oh, is it Progressive? I saw the announcement tease thing with the COVID still on the car, but I did not see the actual announcement for who it was going to be. [00:38:20] Speaker B: It looks, I mean, obviously, you know, you're used to FedEx. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Yeah, that looks super weird just having purple cars between Yahoo and FedEx. He just has a purple thing going on. Let me look at this thing. Progressive. [00:38:32] Speaker B: It looks weird. It's gonna be odd on track. [00:38:38] Speaker A: Come on. Wi Fi. Dang. He's driving a blue car. Yeah. That's strange, man. [00:38:45] Speaker B: It is very strange. [00:38:46] Speaker A: I like it. [00:38:46] Speaker B: But maybe he needs to bounce back right now. [00:38:49] Speaker A: I like the P on the hood. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's a good looking car. It's just gonna be weird like you said, to see him in blue. [00:38:56] Speaker B: How much of it do you think is him really starting to move into his role as an owner? [00:39:02] Speaker A: Ah. [00:39:02] Speaker B: And really it's on now, a three car team. [00:39:05] Speaker A: I, it's. I, I think that definitely plays a large part in it for sure. He's got a lot of things on his plate that he didn't really have before and the podcast and all this stuff he's doing with his kids now that they're getting a little bit older too. [00:39:18] Speaker B: And for sure, I mean a lot of commitments, you know, that take away from driving and he's getting older, like it's harder. You gotta probably put in more work as you get older, to stay in shape and to stay sharp. [00:39:28] Speaker A: Absolutely. And new crew chief this year. [00:39:31] Speaker B: Yep. True. How many years do you think he has left as a full time driver? [00:39:36] Speaker A: I think as long as he stays interested in it. And I feel like that if he has a. A terrible season where he's no longer competing for championships, I think he's out. I think he's basically accomplished everything that he wants to outside of that championship. [00:39:50] Speaker B: And I'm sure he wants it, though. [00:39:52] Speaker A: You know it. You know it. But I think, gosh, I feel like he would race a lot longer. I feel like he'd stay in the sport longer if it. If he already had that championship under his belt. Kind of like Truex, you know, like Truex really could have retired. They were contemplating a retirement for like three years before it finally happened, but he just kept doing it because he enjoyed it and he had everything that he needed from it. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Right. You might as well then. [00:40:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:18] Speaker B: I could see Hamlin doing a Jimmy Johnson kind of thing and running some one offs with 2311 once he retired. [00:40:23] Speaker A: Definitely could see that 100%. I just get so worried that we're seeing the Jimmie Johnson that I got to know, because I didn't start watching until right after his very last win. I started this September after he got his last win. So I never even saw Jimmy Johnson win a race, which honestly I think I'm kind of thankful for because I would have gotten sick of it real fast. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. He was crazy, though. He was dominant. [00:40:48] Speaker A: Yeah. But it's just crazy to even think that. Like, I don't know if I'm ready to fully commit to the Hamlin's washed. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Thing, but no, you got to give it some time. I mean, you do. I mean, even Kyle Bush, you could say it, but Kyle, like, Kyle runs up front. He just. He's had crazy bad luck, too. [00:41:07] Speaker A: He has crazy bad luck and he has a team. He doesn't have teammates that he can really bounce things off of because who's he gonna call? Austin Hill in the Xfinity series? That's about all he's got, man. But, yeah, but no, I just. I get worried for Hamlin with. Because it's. It's one thing to have some bad races. It's another thing to naturally run in the 30th position and like 35th and crazy terrible and ending places like that. He did say on his podcast that he felt like they had a shot to win it by the end, but, I mean, had a shot to win it, but finished in the 25th spot. Like, what do you make of that, Mr. Hamlin? Yeah, like what? [00:41:52] Speaker B: Maybe with two more caution. [00:41:53] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Like anybody in the field almost had a shot to win it at that point. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:59] Speaker A: So, yeah, that was on a slight aside, but we're coming to a track that he has historically run fairly well at, especially recently in this next gen car. Do we have a Denny Hamlin turnaround this week where he finally gets something, or are we going to get more of that struggle? I don't know. [00:42:17] Speaker B: At least the top 10, you know. [00:42:19] Speaker A: But you got to be hoping for it. I mean, we're early in the season. They've got a lot to figure out for sure between the two of them. [00:42:27] Speaker B: But that's always worth seeing his teammate have so much success. [00:42:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And Christopher Bell's killing it right now. I think his. It's a little interesting with Joe Gibbs at the moment because they've got two guys that we're talking about should be doing a lot better than they are with the Hamlin and Gibbs. You got one guy that seemingly can't stop winning or at least finishing extremely well, and then you got Briscoe, who's brand new to the team. And to be perfectly fair to Briscoe, never has had a position in a Cup series team where he genuinely felt like he had a full level of support until now. So it may still be a bit of a learning curve for him, but for sure, I don't know. I just feel like we got to see a bit more out of that 11 machine, especially, like you said, with the 20 doing as well as they are. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Gibbs isn't a weird Eric. They were so dominant for so long, but. And they still obviously are with Bell, but I don't. They just don't have the star power right now that they used to have, I don't think. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Yeah, they got one out of their four drivers right now that's really popping off. And, I mean, Hamlin's gonna be. Hamlin's gonna. Hamlin, he's always gonna be popular despite it. [00:43:37] Speaker B: Sure. Or booed or, you know, he'll always be known. [00:43:40] Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, that'll be interesting to watch where he. I'm more. I'm not gonna pick him to win it by any means, but I'm definitely gonna be keeping a close eye on the 11 just to kind of see what they're doing throughout the race. [00:43:57] Speaker B: Yeah, no doubt. [00:43:59] Speaker A: So we got Redick, we got Larson. Who else we looking at for. For Homestead this week? [00:44:06] Speaker B: I mean, I think you Got to talk about Bell. He's always. He's been up there all year. I don't think he helps now. [00:44:12] Speaker A: That's another good point. Oh, Martin Truex going. Oh, wait, no. Am I looking at the right thing here? No. Okay. I'm looking at the standings. I was. Thought I was looking at the entry list, Miami. And I was like, let's go again. [00:44:24] Speaker B: I wonder when Jimmy's racing again. [00:44:26] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm sure he'll probably. I'm sure we could probably figure that out. [00:44:30] Speaker B: Third place finish at Daytona. [00:44:31] Speaker A: I know, it's wild. He. The fact that he finished a race in his own car is a miracle at this point. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Still blows my mind that he got third place. [00:44:40] Speaker A: Absolutely. I love it. You know, I always partial, but I'm going to be paying attention to Ryan Blaney for sure. He has a win there. He could. Or. Yeah, he's got a win there. We could definitely see some crazy stuff out of him. Yeah, but I mean, you're right, man. It's. It's C. Bell, it's Reddick, it's Larson. It's your usual cast of characters when there's a high side to be ripped. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Anybody that drove dirt 100, I mean, Josh Barry might come around and. Yeah, hey, we'll see. [00:45:12] Speaker A: I would not be mad about it. Keep the bees rolling. [00:45:16] Speaker B: You never know. I think. I think it's right. It's race to lose, though. [00:45:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I. It's definitely like. It's. It's gotta. It's gotta be time for him. He's got to get there at some point. [00:45:24] Speaker B: Or do we see Kyle Busch finally get a win? [00:45:26] Speaker A: Holy crap, man. I'd be here for it. That'd be frigging badass. He had to win championship races there, so, yeah, he definitely knows what he's doing. [00:45:36] Speaker B: You want to see it? A veteran finally celebrate. I think we'd see a pretty good celebration for who? [00:45:41] Speaker A: I think we would definitely just like. Everybody shut up. One of those kind of wins, like, I still got it. I ain't watched you. All right, man. Well, we got a few minutes left here, and you know what we gotta do? You know what we gotta do? We gotta pick a hack of the week. We gotta pick that hack of the week. [00:46:00] Speaker B: I feel like I know who you're gonna pick. [00:46:02] Speaker A: Oh, damn. All right, well, you go first because I gotta. I gotta put my ducks in a row here. [00:46:07] Speaker B: All right. You know, I think. I think it's. It's a tough one because I think there was so much Craziness that went on. [00:46:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:17] Speaker B: But I think, I think it's the. The single lug wheels. Yeah, it's my hack. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Wait, you know, wheels themselves or the people putting them on? [00:46:28] Speaker B: Well, I think it's the wheels themselves this week because A, Kyle's broke. I don't even think that was a pit crew thing. B, I think everyone thought the single love wheel was such a good idea. And maybe it is. But realistically, watching wheels fly off the cars every week is not entertaining racing. [00:46:47] Speaker A: No. [00:46:48] Speaker B: And it creates issues for other people on the track. And you know, we saw one in the Indy 500 fly over. I don't think that happened in NASCAR, but yeah, could be a safety issue for the spectators. [00:46:58] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:46:58] Speaker B: So I don't know. You know what the whole. I don't even know why they switched. To be honest. I was never fully clear on what the deal was. Was it money or was it. [00:47:08] Speaker A: It was. Their exact reasoning was due to the fact that they switched to an aluminum cast 18 inch wheel because of the forces and loads that were going to be put on it, that a single lug wheel would be the only structurally sound thing that was going to hold that wheel together rather than five lugs. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Well, maybe we should just switch back because four lugs can hold a wheel on a car. [00:47:31] Speaker A: Damn it. [00:47:32] Speaker B: You have a lot more room for error. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Give me a star pattern. Come on now. [00:47:36] Speaker B: You know, I understand that they try to. They try to discourage you from having loose wheels with a lot of penalties and suspensions, but yeah, it's gonna happen. And it's not fun to watch. [00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I mean, it's the, it's the hot coffee lawsuit of nascar. Gosh, regulations. It's like somebody spills a hot coffee on you at a drive through. Somebody else just won like millions of dollars from that, from a Starbucks settlement. It wasn't Even the old McDonald's story. This is a whole new one somebody just got paid out for. But it's like these random people in the middle of the team, AKA the drive thru window associate or the tire changer go up there and they make one mistake and now it's costing thousands and thousands or millions of dollars. It's causing damage to things out on the track between the car and other things. And you get suspended for it and you get kicked out. While I do understand you have to have something in place, it's almost like, golly, it sucks to know that you made one tiny mistake of pulling that lug off a half second too early or the Jackman dropped The car down a half second too early. And it's cost. It causes race long implications when used to. Like you were saying week long for. [00:48:55] Speaker B: The team because you got suspensions now. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And just like you were saying when you had the 5 lug, even when you had a loose wheel, I mean. Yeah, you'd have to bring it back down pit road. And it may cost you a finish or $10,000 after the race, but it's not costing you members of your crew for races on out. And it's not causing. [00:49:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not causing wrecks that is, you know, now taking out other innocent cars that haven't, you know. [00:49:23] Speaker A: Such a good point. You know what? Hack of the week, single lug wheels. I like it. [00:49:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:28] Speaker A: God dang. Well, you called it, Christopher Bell. You could suck my absolute hack of the week again. Just because that guy sucks. He's Oklahoma dude. I always make fun of my Oklahomans being a Texan, but he's kind of like the epitome of an Oklahoma kid. Just can't stand that guy. And so hack of the week, Christopher frickin Bell. Welcome to it. Sorry about your bad luck. You hit the wear the crown again. Yeah. [00:50:00] Speaker B: He's got a potential win from Blaine. [00:50:02] Speaker A: I know, man. I gotta. I gotta stick up for my boys here. I gotta stick up for my boys and get mad at the people that cause them any kind of grief so he can suck one, get back out and try again later. [00:50:16] Speaker B: I knew that was coming. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Sometimes they're a little predictable, but I was sitting here thinking, like, what else is there to even go in on? And that's really it. [00:50:24] Speaker B: Nah, it's gotta be. [00:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah, no doubt. But anyways, the xfinity race, I know we don't have too crazy much time here left, but got ourselves a good old win for the seven. Finally getting his. Finally getting his xfinity win out of the year after like multiple attempts at giving it away. Successful attempts at giving it away. Yeah. One of the good guys in the sport, you know. Oh, that just reminded me I had a whole different hack of the week picked out up until the. The cup series race. The crew member for the seven, I don't know if you saw this during his post race interview right next to the car. Did you see the crew member that would not let him just get done with the interview? I don't know if it was his crew chief or if it was like one of the tires. I don't know who this guy was. And I'll probably get somebody in the comments being like, bro, I can't believe you didn't recognize that guy. I don't give a shit. This guy in the middle of Justin Allgaier trying to give his post race interview. He's pouring water on his head. He's grabbing his shoulders, he's putting him on FaceTime with a guy that's on like, I think it was one of the sponsor affiliates, like on the phone. He's got him on FaceTime and he's like trying to give Justin the phone. He is grabbing him, he's yelling at him, he's saying stuff. And the whole time that this is going on, Justin is on camera to the national TV audience trying to give his post race interview. And you know Justin, he's like a serious guy. Like, he's not boring. He's just, he's. He's not that goofy character. So he's got this guy just harassing him for like two minutes straight. All he wants to do is give this freaking interview. And this guy's just like, imagine a drunk Dawson being behind you while you're trying to give a serious television interview. And that's what's going on behind you. [00:52:31] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:52:32] Speaker A: You gotta watch it because you're gonna be dying laughing the entire freaking time that you're watching this. So back up. And if somebody knows who this guy is, I'm giving this as kind of like a light hearted hack of the week. Like, I was laughing the whole time. Dude was obviously excited, like just happy to be there and so stoked for Justin. Like, those are the kind of people you want in your corner. But damn if he didn't make a freaking spectacle of himself the whole time that he was on camera. [00:53:00] Speaker B: So it's crazy. [00:53:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to look that one up. I'll have to see if I can find it. [00:53:05] Speaker B: I like it. My hack of the week truck race was the weather. [00:53:08] Speaker A: Go, dude. For real. I mean, crazy. How many was it? Two red flags for rain. [00:53:15] Speaker B: It was. I don't know, it was a long race. I didn't even watch the end. But my fiance Ashlyn was working it remote and so she was up till 2:30am editing. [00:53:24] Speaker A: You can't be serious. Good for her for putting in the work. Damn, that's a long day. [00:53:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. But yeah, you know, props to NASCAR for actually getting the race in and doing it all the way to the end. I mean, a lot of other, A lot of cup series races have ended a little bit early because of rain. So to let A truck race play all the way out. Like hell they were. They were there for the win. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Might help too that they're all their fox people were already there anyway, so it's not like they were going to get them home early. It wasn't like it calling it would have really saved him any money. So not. [00:53:58] Speaker B: I just wanted to get to the casino probably, but. [00:54:00] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Well, you're getting overtime pay so you can shuck like your extra time and a half on that. [00:54:06] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:54:07] Speaker A: Oh, man. All right, dog. Well, that was a good one. [00:54:11] Speaker B: I was. [00:54:11] Speaker A: I had a lot of fun. Let's go. We got to do that again sometime. [00:54:14] Speaker B: Definitely. We definitely will. [00:54:15] Speaker A: Oh, man. Now that was a great time. And so we got Homestead coming up next week. Who all's racing that week? Or is it going to be all three of them? All three of them racing. So we got racing starting on Friday at 7pm so this is a good 3 wide week. I love that. [00:54:34] Speaker B: That will be good at that track too. [00:54:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it will be. I'm excited, man. But anyways, you can catch us on any of our social medias. You got Raised Rowdy Racing. You got across all the board. Rzd Rowdy racing on Twitter. You can follow me at Caleb Khan Rowdy everywhere you can find good, solid content. [00:54:54] Speaker B: Yup. You follow me at Ike Everard. [00:54:57] Speaker A: Heck yeah. And don't forget to follow Raised Rowdy. Raised Rowdy Burrell and raised Rowdy Nikki T everywhere you can find them. They're all great people. And let's make sure that we don't do too much cocaine before this race so we can remember everything. So that way we can talk about it on the pod. But everybody, thank y'all for listening. Y'all have a great week. We'll catch y'all on a flip. [00:55:21] Speaker C: I don't drive a mon and my truck ain't painted black it ain't got a big white number three turning left around the track but you can hear me coming from a mile and a half away these good years can't handle dirt don't need no curves with banks what I like in horses I make up with 4x4 I'm in and out of traffic till I make it to your door Checkers, wreckers my r hammered on the gas I'm making my way to you, girl Earn hard fast.