Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: This is Raise Rowdy Racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards.
[00:00:11] Speaker A: What up, what up, what up?
[00:00:13] Speaker B: Hey. Rise and shine in the early morning.
Shine on through the day.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Monday morning Raise Rowdy Racing podcast.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's been a. It's been a while since we did a. Just a flat out Monday morning, first thing when we woke up.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I know.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: It feels good. Back at it again.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: It does indeed feel good.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Dang. We might even beat Denny out today. We'll find out, though.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Would be cool.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: All up to you, Burrell. We're looking at you, boy.
Hell, yeah. Well, we had our Miami weekend, man. Homestead finally back on the circuit again. That was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It delivered.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: I love Miami. I love.
Golly. Homestead is just like the. I don't know. It's like the race. It's just awesome. Yeah, no, it's kind of like Kansas. It's like. Just always does well in these cars.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Like the mailman. It just always delivers. Gotta love it, man.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's.
I don't know if you saw the leak from the website. That was a complete accident for sure. And then it got the drivers talking in the media on like Thursday or Friday, but it's confirmed that the. The championship race is going to be there in 26.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: No way. I did not see that.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they accidentally put it on their website. On Homestead Miami's website, they have tickets for sale for November 1st, 2026.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Holy crap. That's funny.
November 1st. Is that about when the championship happened? I always thought it happened like a.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: So did I. But everybody said weekends in. Everybody said that was it. And then like this year, the last race of the year is on the second, so.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's right.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: And then Byron, I think Blaney, there's a couple guys that were like, yeah, this is.
This is. This. This seems like it's happening, you know?
[00:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah, this is great news, man. That would be probably the biggest thing to happen to NASCAR in a long time. Bringing that championship race back to. Back to Homestead. Man, that just. The racing that you get there in all three series was so good. It just doesn't make sense to have your championship race happen anywhere else when you can know you can put it there. You know, it's worked before. Just do it. That was too much damn fun all the way around.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah. It's so like my dad's generation, their whole. Their whole time. The last race of the year was Atlanta. And then my whole generation has been last race of the year at Miami.
And I guess there's like a new generation of fans who have only seen the championship race at Phoenix, which I think it's been, what, like five years or something like that?
[00:02:59] Speaker B: It's been a solid run. Yeah, I know I saw at least two or three championships at the. At Miami and then. Yeah. Right over to there.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: So going back to Homestead will be like how it literally was my whole. My, My whole life until up until like five years ago. And it's just like. Yeah, I don't really. It's warm, which is one of the. I think their main thing. It's warm.
Miami doesn't sell good tickets, but it was all. It's always sold out for championship race. So it gives Miami away to like, an incentive to sell tickets.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:35] Speaker A: Because it is. I mean, it's so far away. I mean, it's damn near in the fucking Keys. So it's just forever.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: So you're flying there for most of the country.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think. Even though I think that's the main reason the tickets don't sell well, I think it's probably. If you asked every NASCAR fan, like, I mean, I'd say 80 plus percent are going to say Miami is an incredible racetrack. I would love to go there. But one, it's so far away. Two, I can't afford to go down there. It's just like, you know, I think travel is the biggest issue, is why the crowds are not great at Miami except for championship weekend. Because I've heard a lot of drivers say, and a lot of fans, they make it like their family vacation. Take a whole week, head down to the Keys after the race is over. All the things like, it's like a big. You can make a deal out of it. It's not just like this random people can justify paying all that money to go. If it's a championship race. And we'll add this into the vacation, but it's like, oh, just a random race in the middle of March. It's like, yeah, I'll wait till summertime.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Exactly. Like you're not going to catch spring breakers there.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Because I mean, it's. It's so far away from anything they'd normally be doing. You're just. And it's on the weekend, so you're probably hitting. Heading right back to school as soon as it's done.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: But yeah, I mean, it's. It definitely is exciting to hear that. I had no clue. I had not come across that somehow. And all my. In my entire Twitter, I never Saw that come across. But that's awesome.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: I think it's for sure gonna happen.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: And then you heard it here first on Razoratie Racing.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: For real. Yeah. There's a couple things that have been floating around though. There's that coming back. It's.
And I've heard there could. There's rumblings of like actual people on Twitter talking about how there's going to be a.
Around a final championship round. Like a three or four race thing.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: As it should be.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: If we can bring that back in. Ha. Like if we can bring something like that back. Have a three or four race thing ended at Homestead. Get like another mile and a half. Keep Phoenix, keep Martinsville, keep Homestead. Man, we'd have a hell of a final round if we could do something.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be. That would be fantastic. And just to even think about the whole reason they put the one last final race is like the championship decider be in that like game seven moment. That's. You gonna have it. You're gonna have a hard time convincing me that there's not gonna be a regularly scheduled game seven moment with the. With like a three race run right at the end. Because I mean. Yeah, the odds. The odds do say there's probably at one scenario where one driver could run away with that, but it's gonna be so unlikely with four really good teams that that still doesn't come down to the very last race.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: It just. I don't see it.
That's why I think a full season of points with a next gen car would. Would blow people's minds.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Oh it would.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Because no one can get too far ahead. Yes.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: If.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: If you really do have this many guys win every year and I know it. The gap has closed a little bit. But still take. Take it where I think you're damn near guaranteed in the next genera. 12 plus guys winning every single year anyway.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: It sure seems like it.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So I just think no one can ever get that. No one will ever be able to get that advantage ever again. Like Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson. Win every race and be the champion. You know, Matt Kins's style, race, top five, everything. It's just not going to happen anymore. Just because everybody's hit that point in the sport and they tried to change the championship format to fix that and now they've changed the car and now we got this old. They got the championship is like it would just go back. It would just fix everything is all I'm saying. It would just be awesome.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: At some point you got to change the band aid. You can't just. You can't just have that old crusty thing sitting there for the next eternity now. It's definitely going to be exciting to see any kind of changes they can make to the playoffs. So I think a lot of people were really bummed out this year when that didn't happen.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: And to be perfectly honest, I'm almost glad that they didn't do anything because I'd be afraid that they would make some crazy, way too fast decision over December and then announce it and the next thing you know, we have all these issues with it again. Yeah, I'm almost kind of glad that they took at least one more year because, I mean, while the playoff system isn't exactly healthy, it's not always broken. Sometimes it does play out how they intended for it to. And it. And it very naturally follows. But, I mean, you just had so many bad issues with it last year. It showed a lot of holes in the system. So I'm glad they're taking the time to, like, try to figure it out. But if that's the case, if both of those rumors are true, that's the two things people have been asking for since everything went down last year at Phoenix. So I'm excited to see all those changes. If that's actually true. Man, this could be the. This could be the last year of us complaining every time the race is over and maybe we'll actually have something good to say.
[00:08:47] Speaker A: I would be. I would be very, very, very happy if that was the. If that comes out and is the case.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: Well, let's dive into what Homestead was. I thought. Yeah, here again. It's been. It's been crazy this year. I've gotten to watch.
I. I missed. Only because we want. We all. We took my dad out to eat Saturday and I was. The race was on. On my phone. On my phone.
The Bush. The Xfinity race. But I feel like this season, so far, between trucks, Xfinity and Cup, I've watched the most laps of racing I've, like, ever watched in my life.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. So love to hear that.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: I watched the whole entire truck race again.
And I just also want to throw this out here. Me and you texted about this and I sent Trey Ryan. I know you remember that page. Used to have the Reese's car in his thing. So he actually got hired by nascar and he runs that NASCAR Insights page for NASCAR now. So basically what he was doing, he now just gets paid to do it, which is cool. So that's like a legit for anyone that wants, like any stat of all time ever in the history of the sport. You can go to that NASCAR Insights page and Trey Ryan has it. And they are what truck series is said 17 races without an overtime finish, which is like the most ever has been 2017 in a row.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: Yeah, they're working. They're working on the. Yeah, they're working on that record for sure.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: The truck racing man over since we've had this podcast, I've pretty much said at one point I was like, I'm done watching truck races just because they got so bad.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: And I honestly stopped watching them too. Like, I would throw them on if I had nothing else going on. And I was just cleaning the house. Yeah, I wasn't exactly stopping what I was doing to pay attention.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: I couldn't. It couldn't be more opposite this year. It has been great races, just no wrecking and idiots. Idiots acting. You know, it just seems like kind of like what truck used to be to me. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better than it has been in years past.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I couldn't agree more. And this last race was another good one. I mean, they just. They do such a good job these days. Days. And they're not. Like you said, they're not doing the stupid idiot stuff. They're not trying too hard. They're not. I mean, there's still going to be a little bit of that. You're just guaranteed it with people being as young as they are, but that. I don't know what changed. Maybe there's some mentality to switch or maybe Matt Crafton finally punched enough kids that they started acting right. Like, who knows what.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: It ended up making it all happen. I don't know how true this is, but sometime about a year and a half ago, someone in the sport, like, jumped into the truck series driver's ass and was like, y'all gotta clean this up. Cause this is embarrassing for everybody.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Damn.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: And I don't know how true that is. I don't know who it was, but I just saw a post and it had a bunch of likes and a bunch of people talking about it. And I was like, maybe somebody did jump in somebody's ass. Old school.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: Yeah. But who knows? I mean, shoot, it could have been Kyle Busch in a driver's meeting.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Whatever it was, they've really turned a corner here recently. And I've. I've actually enjoyed truck series racing.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, that's the Thing is, they always say the garage will police itself. And I think a lot of times people get a little carried away with that, and they think it's actually going to do it pretty immediately. I know it takes a little bit of time, but it's nice whenever somebody actually does finally come down.
I mean, when the switch finally happens, that's. They've been needing that for so long because you had so many hardcore fans starting trucks, like another arca.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: So they. They really needed this turnaround.
[00:12:33] Speaker A: They did.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: I think it'll help them out a lot. A lot down the road, for sure.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. And like you said, weekend delivered again. It was a great race.
And damn. I. Somehow, from 22nd place on the last run, Kyle Larson runs him down and wins. I just. Yeah, I mean, it definitely. If Ham doesn't have.
Which was also the weirdest thing I've ever seen, the car shutting off, and then he can fire it back up and he's good, and he's.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Somebody's just hitting the off switch.
[00:13:03] Speaker A: It was just odd. The oddest thing I've ever seen. But if that doesn't happen, I think Haim is too far out there for Lar to get even though they were saying he was, at some point, a whole entire second faster than he was, you know, on their fast laps, that last run was only, what, 38, 41, something like that.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: It. I don't even know if it was that many. It was. It was like something stupid, like 24 or 25. Yeah, he had that.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: It averaged out in passing that. That's probably right, because he averaged out, him passing about a car a lot.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Wild to watch, because I already knew what was going down, so I had the added benefit of already just super hardcore watching everything he was doing. And so I knew there was going to be a wreck at some point. And I was watching the damn race go down, and I'm getting down to, you know, 60 to go. I'm like, okay, that wreck should be happening any second now. Then it was 50 to go, and I'm like, holy crap. I thought he was supposed to spin at some point. It gets almost down to 40 to go, and he finally goes around.
I'm just like, holy crap. Like, I really thought that that was going to happen so much earlier. Every single lap that went by before he wrecked made it more impressive that he came back and won that race.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it was.
It was crazy. I couldn't. I just could not believe that it happened. It was just one of the more impressive things I'VE ever seen.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that was absolutely insane to watch.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: And then good for him.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Getting that. Getting that win was huge. And I mean, it did take a little bit of luck playing out, but, man, with his luck at that track, he's got to take his good luck where he can get it.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he's. He's had.
He. Kyle Larson's only been racing like 10 years, and he has the all time most laps led at Homestead. I saw that yesterday on the broadcast. Yeah, crazy.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Just adding to it last. Last night.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just.
Yeah, crazy. And then the Xfinity race, I mean, just dominated. Just fucking.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: I mean, we're one. Whoever drives the 54 car away from the suite.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, he had it all but locked up there. He really did. And I mean, yet that's just some. That's just a part of it. You can't always predict that kind of stuff.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: And when you got Superman lining up behind you, man, I just. God, that was such a Superman. That was so frustrating.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Oh, God, it took me a second. You're talking about Sam Mayer with his little. Oh, yeah, your little thing. He does.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Sam Mayor has the lamest NASCAR celebration out of all the drivers I've ever seen. And I'll stand by that.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: You also weren't too thrilled with Sammy Smith.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: He said he's.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Whatever he's doing, you know, like, thumbs up doing this, man.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: And so I'm gonna have to post this on Twitter.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Just the little short video.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: The. Holy crap.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: It's almost like a boomerang. It's so short. Like, you just like. Yeah, you can tell him what you said, but the video is so short. It's literally looks like a boomerang that Caleb took.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Yeah. This is. So Sammy Smith wins. I think it was stage two that he won that day.
He wins the stage. You know, they do the little promo video just showing him, like, standing in a random place. The clock tower thing that they do or whatever, and they just show off the driver. Well, this guy's got to be every. Every, like, single second of 11 years old standing there looking at the camera, and he's got this blank expression on his face. And you know, young people these days, I don't know what it is, but they have this, like, way of hiding any sort of emotion or anything.
It's almost like they're afraid to express themselves. So he's just got this blank stare going on at the camera, and he just looks like he's bored as all get out. Or just completely scared to death somewhere in between him.
[00:16:59] Speaker A: Or both.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Or both, honestly. And they do. You know the random shots where they pan the camera from right in front of his face and they're, like, coming around from behind and then they're coming down from up top. He puts out one cheesy school photo smile on the last one, crossing his arms and looking at it with this, like, cheesy grin. And then the next thing you know, he's pumping his fist in the air. But he. But. But he puts that damn blank, dumb expression on his face and just starts pumping his fist in the air. About as slow as I've ever seen anybody pump their fist in the air. And it's just the most awkward, just uncomfortable looking. Like, he just looked like he had no business being there. Like he had no idea why any of this was happening. He was just scared to death.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: And I'll have to post that on Twitter because it was just one of the most. I can't believe the camera people in the room didn't try to help him out a little bit and that NASCAR was just like, yep, looks good. Signed off on it. Like, not a good look for your boy. And it's not his fault. Looks like nobody coached him on this.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: Yeah, Caleb sent it to us in the group chat. I don't know if it was, like, three different videos or what, but it came through three times. And I was like, oh, yeah, great. And then he said, I'm going to use this for. If anybody has anything going on that I basically don't give a shit about, I'm just going to send them this. And he was like, so and so. Puts out a new single and sends us the video again. So I think we got it, like, four times.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: Just kept resetting. This is awesome. All I. I sent it the first one after he wins the stage and just said this.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That was. It was funny as.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: I'm just gonna go ahead and pop that up on Twitter right now, so that way, anybody that wants to can.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Go see Jordan Bianchi posted, though, when the. When the caution flag came out, Larson was at, like, seconds ahead of second, and he had lapped up to fifth or sixth. I can't remember, but let.132 laps. 100% should have won. We should have had the weekend sweep diecast set, but we don't.
So, yeah, that kind of sucked. It just is what it is. Shit happens, I guess. And then we get to the cup race, and it's the Least dominant Kyle Larson win I've ever seen.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. I really was getting worried he was even going to finish in the top five.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he.
Between just, he just, he just kind of every race this past weekend, though, he did not have the short run car. Every single car was the long run car, which they did a great job. I thought on the broadcast, talking about, like, it's not necessarily that his car is set up for the long run, it's just that he is better at making speed on those old ass tires, which.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:56] Speaker A: Denny and Larson were the two guys that pitted both of them on the stages. Denny would pit at lap 41, Larson would pit at lap 40. So basically dead split in the stages.
That was the strategy that kept Hamlin up there, that kept Larson up there. They had the new retires on the second set of the second round of pits, not pit stops, but the second half of the stages gave them a. I mean, dude, Blaney and some of those guys were pitting at like lap 32. So, I mean, that's eight laps. And it was really showing at the end. Even though I know the pitting early gives you that advantage first, but that's not that advantage. When the green and white checkered fall. And finally Boyer, at one point he was like, all right, I've seen it work already. I am sold on the splitting it in half. And then, and then it kind of tailed towards. I feel like everybody's kind of started doing that if they saw how much it helped on the second end. But every time those two guys pitted and they raced beside each other all day long, it felt like. But every time those two guys pitted, it was. They split their fuel, their run dead in half, and it worked.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: I mean, they, they definitely nailed that strategy. And I wonder if part of it has to do with the fact that back in the day when this car first came out, it really wouldn't have mattered if they did. I mean, it would have. At the end of the day, it always matters a little. But with the way the tire was previous trips to Homestead, it was almost like they were banking on, well, our tire's not wearing out fast enough for these extra laps to really make enough of a difference for somebody to be able to genuinely pass you. Whereas nowadays, I think they've worked on the tires and they've worked on the, the cars enough that that tire advantage is starting to creep its way back into the sport where you really have to. You kind of got to watch what everybody else is doing. You can't Just do your strategy. And who cares what anybody else does? As long as you pit first, you're fine.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: Which is where we were for a little bit there. And now, all of a sudden, they're able to hold onto it for a little bit longer and really play up that tired difference. And it's awesome that it's Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson being the ones that are pushing that envelope and saying, now we're going to stick to this strategy.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: Yeah. And I thought that's what made.
I got a couple of people to call out here, but, like, that's what the race. To me, whether it's Larson or Jeff Gluck. No, Jeff Gluck didn't actually say one thing this weekend that pissed me off for the first time all year.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: Dang.
But, Jeff, you're unblocked on Twitter again.
[00:22:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Fuck.
Where's, like. Oh. With the stages, like, every part of the race, between static strategy stages and the finish, you never knew how it was going to end up because of these guys. You have the whole field on basically a between pitting from 32 laps to 41 laps. So like, nine laps of different sets of tires. You never knew at any point how any of it was going to fall unfold. Like, with strategy, with the stages and with the finish. And P.J. north, one of my great friends, he text me at the beginning of the.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: Race, call this guy.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: He tells me that this is why he hates Miami. Pj, I love you. You know I do, but I had to bring this up. He hates Miami because the leader gets.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: This is all Dawson's opinion. By the way, I know you're working on my logo.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: Just don't ruin it. He does all of my logos and stuff, too, so.
But I just had me and pj, we also text every.
Not just even on Sundays, we text about the trucks and Xfinity races, too. But he tells me this is why he hates Miami, because the leader gets so far out, and I'm like, damn, I love this track. I'm like, even if it's not Larson or whoever, like, you can run somebody can run somebody down. Which is all I. That's what I love about racing, is there's always the chance, like, it's. That's what's changed a lot with these cars and stuff, that you get close, you can't do it well. Miami so wide. If this guy's in your way, you're messing your area up. Well, I'll just go low. Or if he's low, I'll just go High. I got plenty of options to figure out where I need to go. And then this other fella on TikTok, his name was, like, Christopher Cummins, double zero or something. And he tells me the same thing. This race sucked. I hate Miami. I'm like. I literally text back. I'm like, I'm Kyle Bushton. I'm like, if you don't like that, I don't know what to tell you, dog. Like, yeah, if you. You need to go.
I don't know what you need to watch, but it ain't F1. But you need to go watch something else. If this isn't doing it for you.
[00:24:31] Speaker B: I just don't know what I. You know, I wonder if it has to do with the people that don't really watch for the strategy calls. They just want to see who's in the lead. They want to see people pass, like they're not paying close enough attention to really know. Because the. The secret sauce in Miami is that even when it's boring, there's something going on. There's always something going on. Because I used to say the same thing whenever we first started watching. I was like, I really don't get Miami. It just seems like every single time, it's like, yeah, a little bit of strategy plays out, but it just ends up with one guy being way out in the lead. Well, I started to figure it out. This race isn't all about insane close racing all the time. 100% of the time, this race is about the details. It's about the real skill of the driver, because you have people that can go faster around that racetrack just because they brought a bigger set of balls to the racetrack with them. I mean, you got LARSON that's within 2 inches of the wall. He's going to run faster than a guy that's not able to get up that close and has to rely on different grooves in the racetrack more often. And so you really do have a tested driver skill. It's like, how good do you want to win here? Because if you want to win here, you've got to go out and perfect every inch of that racetrack. And it really is. It's a thinking man's game. Everything is based off of inches instead of miles, and it's based off the little, tiny moves that you make rather than the big, grand, crazy moments. I mean, it's. This race tells a story in a way most races don't.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. I texted PJ and I was like, well, if more people paid attention, you can. You can See that, like, touching the wall a couple times during the race is in. Putting it literally on that edge is still way faster than backing a foot off the wall and not making that extra speed because you don't want to get into the wall. And, yeah, I thought Harvick said something cool at the end of the race. He was. It was after Larson had won. But the thing Larson does the best is the cars, and the car is on the outside, but it's really just the back end of the car that's against the wall, and it's the way the car is. So he's got it so hung out in my. Only the. He can get into the wall, but the front end doesn't get into the wall, so it doesn't screw up any speed off of his car. I mean, Larson spent. There's no telling, like, if you put together all of his hits in the wall, how many miles he was in the wall yesterday, the whole day.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: Clint Boyer did say in the middle of the race, he's like, I've been watching him. I think that's like the 17th or 18th time he's been in the wall.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, the right rear of the car was. Was gone.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Just, you know what he's doing? He's flattening out that side of that car right there where you want it to be flat. I mean, he's making his drive better every time he touches the wall.
[00:27:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And he sits there and he drives it sideways, and he lets the ass in hang out, just like he does in a dirt car. And it. That's. He's so comfortable with that, and he just makes so much speed. It's just insane, really. It just blows my mind. And after this, we can get off the Kyle Larson train here. But I thought this stat was just mind blowing, but Larson. So that was Larson's 30th career Cup Series win on his 372nd start.
He got to 30 wins in less races faster than Mark Martin, Denny Hamlin, Dale Jarrett, Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr. And Kyle Busch, all Hall of Famers, or soon to be hall of Famers.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's wild.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: That's a wild.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: That's crazy stuff.
And that's. With a. That's. With missing all those races in 2022.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: He gets out of the car and says, if.
If we were still in the old car in 2021, the same car that we. The same style of car race in 2021. He said, I think I could have 50 cup wins right now.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: That's, that's saying something.
That's saying something.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: I mean, dude, that was five years ago and he could win 10 races a year. I mean, it's just crazy. He's.
The car brings everyone back down to even playing field, but just off straight talent. It just blows my mind how, what he does. It just blows my mind.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got just insane streak going on right now. And it's like, I wonder where's the ceiling here? I don't know that we even have come close to seeing it yet.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: And he's just like every other driver. The more he's in a race car, the better he does. I mean, he wins the high limit race this week, wins a truck race, dominates the Xfinity race, wins the cup race.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:22] Speaker A: Went to victory in, in a span of four days.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: That's just insane. Dudes just got it. I mean, he's, he's. I'm excited to see where he goes. By the end of his career, I'm probably going to be sick of that guy and ready for him to retire. Yeah, for sure. See how we talk to me in about five years about the five car. We'll see how we feel about it.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: I don't know how long Larson's going to really race, though. He does. I've heard him say an interview, like, he doesn't really see him going past 40 in a cup, really. Which gives him, I think like eight more years.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: I mean, he could say that now, but a lot can happen in eight years. Totally. Once you have a couple championships under your belt and all these engagements are giving you all this crazy benefit, I mean, who knows what he'll end up doing or he'll just, you know, Carl Edwards, his way right out of the Cup Series.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I've said all along, since he started the high limit series, I was like, that's Kyle Larson's retirement plan right there. Because they're going to make that bigger than the World of Outlaws one day and it's going to be.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, especially if he's the one racing. They're already going to bring so many, so many fans over.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah. So I, I wanted to bring this up. I thought this was kind of crazy. I didn't realize that they were all doing this well. But all four HMS cars are in the top six in points, and the other two up there in points are Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bell. Gosh.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: And I'm just not surprised because they've been racking off at Least top tens, just all the time.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: I mean, the 48 just had the poll, too. I mean, he's probably the one guy. Him and Chase are both the kind of guys that I feel like are pulling up the rear right now and.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: But look at my stat. Direct look at number four on the list here. This is what blew my mind.
[00:31:10] Speaker B: Damn. I would never have thought that he.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Has the best average finish in the Cup Series this year. Just from. It goes back to when everybody was talking last year in TJ Majors, like, stood on this ground, he was like, how do you get rid of Alex Bowman? The dude runs top 10 every week. And he just said that every time somebody says that this person's getting the 48 or he's getting this. It's like, who you gonna put in there that's gonna do that every single week?
[00:31:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just. He's so quiet. I just don't even notice him on the track finishing that high every week.
I feel like, though, yeah, he's super consistent. He's never.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: We're talking about yesterday. I. I know I said, look at number four. Y'all can't see my list here, but Bowman is who we're talking about.
[00:31:54] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I just.
It's so funny, man. I just have not noticed him this year. I would. If you would ask me where he was at in points, I probably would have given you like eighth or ninth. I would have. I had no clue. That's. That's awesome. That is. That's being quiet and doing your damn job and getting the damn job done.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Not complaining. Not making huge waves or anything, but, I mean, you're right. How do you get. How do you get rid of a guy like that?
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Jeff Gordon was sitting on the 48 box yesterday, and then he gets into the winners press conference and does the press conference, and he. He reiterates the whole. They almost talked about Bowman in the press conference more than Larson. Like, he wanted to just stress. Like, he said it multiple times. Bowman is our guy. We're giving him all the resources. Like, he's. He's not on his way out the door, basically, like everybody in this whole industry just assumes he is, which I think is the craziest thing ever. I always have. I think Alice Bowman's a great race car driver. So it just. I've never understood that whole deal. And like I said. And like TJ said, brings it up all the time. Like, dude just finishes in the top 10 damn near every week pretty much wherever they go. He's not necessarily winning every single race, but consistent. If this was. If this was the old point standings, the way things used to be running those top 10 races, ask Matt Kense. In 2003, Ryan Newman had the most wins, but who ran top five every single week? Matt Kenseth. And that's how he won the championship. Consistency.
[00:33:28] Speaker B: That consistency carries you a long ways.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: That used to be king. And now, you know, winning races is. But, golly, I don't want to ever get to the point where we think a guy that's averaging a top 10 finish just because he doesn't win every week is not a good race car driver. I mean, come on now.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: And, I mean, that's where the Twitter trolls be just going crazy on the Internet.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: It's so true. I mean, they're just looking at. That's the thing. You can't just look at one stat line for a guy. You can't just look at career wins. You cannot just look at how many times he won recently. Like it. As much as winning matters, it's not all about the wins. There's so much more that builds a great race car driver that does not show up in that particular stat line that you have to pay attention to know, is this guy worth keeping around or not? And honestly, average finish, to me, is one of the biggest ones. And that's a. I mean, how do you argue? Third in points, 9.5 average finish this year. That's solid. That's solid. That is averaging in the top 10 every single race.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: All right, let's go to the next point here. This is one of our favorite topic discussions.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: Little tiny squirrel boy ty Gibbs is.
[00:34:38] Speaker A: 34Th in points after Homestead Miami, and.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Finished in, like, 24th or 25th, I believe.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:34:45] Speaker B: Golly.
I don't know, man. I just don't know. I don't know what's going on there. I don't know how to. I don't know what the guy needs.
It's weird.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: I think a.
I think a lot of it is. Is, like, he has been so much better in everything up to this point. It kind of goes to like, what, Joe? I heard Joey Logano talk about this, and it was either with Kevin Harvick on his podcast or in a broadcast with Kevin Harvick.
But he made a point, and he was like, all the way through my whole entire life, he's talking about legends cars, late models, Xfinity cars, trucks, all this stuff. He said, I could just win. I didn't have to work for anything. I didn't know how to work for it because my talent, my raw speed just got me there. I did not have to work for anything. Then I get to the cup series and you're racing literally against the best of the best and just the raw talent doesn't do it. You have to put in all of this other work. And it took Joey Logano. Joey Logano got fired from Joe Gibbs Racing because of that exact thing, you know, so it's like I feel like a guy just like Joey Logano could sit down with Ty Gibbs and like really give him advice or, you know, just how it. You know, this is what it was like for me. This is what I had to do. But I mean, they put this little compilation of Joey the gonna talk about. I mean, Joe the gono used to just wreck all the time and then one day it just all figured it out and now he's sitting here with however many wins Joey Logano has in three championships. Yeah, so it's just. It's. You know, I feel like that that's a solid point.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: I love that. That makes absolute and total sense because even in the Xfinity series, he was out there winning on his very first.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: Start, won his first race ever and.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: Goes out and still does really good with every other start that he had. And then next thing you know, he's in the cup series. And yeah, he started off on really good. I feel like you see this happen a lot when people enter into a new series, they'll do the beginner's luck thing. Sometimes it works out that way because you don't even know what you're doing right. You're just doing.
You're just happen to be making the best decisions possible even though you don't really know what you're doing. And then all of a sudden you start to get a little bit of that extra knowledge and you start to overthink everything. And it's almost like all that lucky we're having goes away because now you're thinking too hard about it and then you're trying too hard and then next thing you know you're over driving and you're ending up in 25th. And it's almost like you need to hit that reset button at some point and hopefully he can find it and hit it because I mean, it's just going to be brutal for him to get on social media. I don't see him getting out of that ride anytime soon.
[00:37:35] Speaker A: His name's on the building. Ain't no way.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Yeah, his name's on the door. But, I mean, at some point, he's just. Unless you want to feel like Austin Dillon every time you log on to Twitter. I mean, you got to start doing something.
[00:37:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
Something. That next point here.
So I got. I got on Twitter and I. And I was like. I said something. I was like, there's somebody in this race who normally gets talked about a decent bit, who literally. Name has not been spoken once on this whole broadcast. And it was Chase Chastain's. And I get a whole Twitter. They post their finishing order from this race. This is. From. This is Track House posted this. They ran. Suarez finished 22nd, Chastain finished 31st, and SVG finished 34th.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: SVG, I understand, but what's going on? Something with Chastain.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: Just. Track House, man. I don't know.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: Weird. They're just off.
[00:38:36] Speaker A: I have.
[00:38:37] Speaker B: Just off.
[00:38:37] Speaker A: I have a.
I don't know. I'm just going to ask you what you think about this. Okay. They've been in town. They've been doing this for only a few years, and now they have.
Well, they don't necessarily have an Xfinity series program, but basically they have a Cup program, an XFINITY series program, and this MotoGP stuff, and they have all these drivers from all these places. Is it possible that Track House is, like, kind of stringing themselves too thin a little bit here with just kind of stuff going on everywhere?
[00:39:14] Speaker B: Hey, it could be. I mean, hard to say that that can't be the case.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: I just want. That's strictly my opinion. I haven't seen anybody post that, so I'm not, like, you know, putting that out there. I'm just. That's my opinion of, like, they came in just kicking ass, and I posted all the time. I was, like, working at Track House nowadays, probably, like, working at DEI back in 2002. Like, just like the funnest, coolest, best, you know, place to work.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: We're the shit, and we know it.
[00:39:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And then something just happened. Happened to Ross Chastain after that Darlington deal and the Rick Hendrick deal.
And not necessarily that Suarez is just lights the world on fire, but, like, just in general. They used to just all run better as a whole.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: Yeah, they really did. I mean, everybody was vying for wins every single week, and now they're finished in 22nd, 31st, and 34.
[00:40:06] Speaker A: Stain has wins on ovals. Like, it's not like they just, like, snuck up and got a win at a plate track or snuck up and just because they dominated a road course.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Like, I mean, Chastain was in the final four.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Yes, exactly my point. This team, they've. They've done.
Something's happened. I don't know what it is. Something's changed. Something. I don't know. I have no idea. But they just. Yeah, they.
They should not with the. With the team. They are the resources. They have the drivers. They have.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: Dude.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: Going out and running 30th with two cars. I mean, that 22nd. I mean, even 22nd is brutal. Like, just not even being spoke about.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: All day long and just being so far back. I wasn't even paying attention to them. I know there wasn't any kind of wreck or anything that they were in.
[00:40:51] Speaker A: They just ran in the back.
[00:40:53] Speaker B: It was hardly any of those.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: I'll tell you what it is. This actually, this is my opinion. That damn Kubota scheme sucks. And it's got too many damn words on it. I feel like I'm reading a newspaper trying to look at this Kubota scheme. It's got too many words on it. Slowing down the damn car. That's the problem.
That's the problem.
[00:41:11] Speaker B: Slow it down so the fans can read it.
[00:41:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got to be so slow. They can read the newspaper that's on the hood and the side of it. So that's actually why Chastain's running so bad.
[00:41:20] Speaker B: I got to pull this scheme up just to look at it again.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: I reach. We didn't have the weekend enough. The weekend they ran the first weekend ran it, I reposted it. And the thing is, like, orange and black. Like, the color combinations of it is like my. I love orange and black together. But he's got. It's like Kubota tractor days. And it's got some words underneath it, and it's just these logos on the car with all these words. And I'm like, oh, God, this is ugly. This is horrible. Do you see it?
[00:41:49] Speaker B: I'm guessing it's this one right here.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You see the hood? So we got the. We got the fender with some words on it.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: We have days sales event, and then the year best selection, year's best deals.
Kubota.
Yeah, I mean, they don't really have a good.
[00:42:09] Speaker A: They're just words. Not a good view of the hood car.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: But there are a lot of words. I think it's not helped out by the fact that the other contingency sponsors are all big, wordy, blocky logos as well. Like jockey.
[00:42:23] Speaker A: Yes. It makes it.
[00:42:23] Speaker B: And moose.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: A dictionary across side of the car or something.
[00:42:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's, it's. It definitely has a bit of the classifieds going on.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm glad someone agrees though. Like I read, I definitely thought it.
[00:42:35] Speaker B: Was going to be worse by how you were describing it, but I totally see what you mean because there is. It's less about the artwork and it's more about. I need every. I need all the words to be there when they. Our logo and our name when they ran.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: Just the Kubota logo and him and Suarez had the bright orange cars with the black kind of highlights and chrome highlights all about it. I loved it. And then this thing comes out and I'm like, oh God, this is horrible.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: So not on your trading paint list today?
[00:43:03] Speaker A: No, not at all. That was not. Not it.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Hell, I. Maybe you're right. Maybe that is what's slowing them down. They're worried too much about where to put all these damn words on the car. They have to spend too much of their weekly meetings discussing that for the rap.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: Okay, we got to bring this up since it was all over Twitter last night and it's been semi on my tick tock this morning. So Kyle Busch finishes 30th, I think finished. Actually 30, I think 30th.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: Just let's, let's make sure everybody understands. Didn't just finish there. Naturally ran and finished in that location.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: Just. Also a guy that did not get spoke about all day, he says last night on Twitter it was like 42 minutes after the green or after the checkered flag falls in. The race just says big announcement tomorrow at 18:51 Central Time or east, whatever it said. Eastern Central, whatever.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: Okay. 18 and 51 are his two old numbers.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: I did not put that together.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: So what's this announcement going to be? Is it him and his son racing? Is it a major announcement like it's coming out today? It's coming out this evening at 6:00, almost 7.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: Kyle Busch Motorsports on the way back in.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. See, I just don't know.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: There could be a lot of different things, but I mean that's, I think the most likely thing to me, I don't see him retiring yet. I really don't see him retiring. I mean, I don't think he's. I don't think he's ready for that. I think he wants to be in a better team. That's for damn sure. That's for Damn sure. But 1851, that's. That's a tough one. Maybe starting up an Xfinity team this time. Just saying, screw the truck series. I'm just gonna go Xfinity racing.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. I saw Eric Estep posted. All right. He's like, I haven't paid attention much, but can someone tell me, like why Kyle Busch is running? At the time he was running like 30 seconds 34.
[00:44:58] Speaker B: Kyle Busch fans, can you let me know why he's running so shitty?
[00:45:01] Speaker A: And did you see the comments? Every comment.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: No, I. I didn't click on it.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: Just tags. RCR racing. Just art. Just tags a minute. The whole thing.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: I'm like, oh, dude, there's.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: I had so much faith when he went to that car after Reddick success in it and Kyle Busch going into that car. I had so much faith.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: Three races his first, like the first half of that year.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: Yeah, he did great. And then it just tanked. It just tanked. And you just can't blame Kyle Busch for that. Yeah, something's going on with that team.
[00:45:32] Speaker A: If you can't win with Kyle Busch. I think he got major problems.
[00:45:36] Speaker B: That their major problems is RCS started to worry a little bit too much about going to trump rallies and telling people to hold his watch. I think his focus is not on racing the way it used to be. I think he is way too.
You talk about spreading yourself, then I would just. I don't. I'm not saying he's the, like the ma. The only problem, but I definitely don't think it helps that you got the owner that's acting like it's still 1994 and being just a little bit out of touch with his team. It feels like that's just my personal also though, feelings about it just watching it from the outside.
[00:46:11] Speaker A: On the flip side of that, their xfinity program has two of the fastest damn race cars every single week is mind blowing how drastically different the two situations are.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: Yeah, and I mean, they're digging themselves a deeper hole every year they leave Austin Dillon in that car. I mean, just that that's got to change until they get him out of the car. Nothing's going to change at that team because it's just. They're just doing the same thing over and over and over again. And they expected Kyle Busch to be the one thing that was going to turn that team around without changing anything else. And it's like, I don't. I don't know what you expect this guy to do. He can't do it all for you. He can't just go out there and out drive his equipment every Single week. Eventually you've got to give him equipment worth driving or you're not going to have that guy for very long.
[00:47:00] Speaker A: Please tell me you heard what Austin Dillon said on the radio last week when he got in the wreck with Keselowski.
[00:47:06] Speaker B: No. Oh, wait, yes, I did, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I remember him talking a mad shit about dogs and fleas.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: Okay. He has the audacity to come across the radio and say, when you run with the dogs, you get fleas. Does that motherfucker not realize he's a flea?
[00:47:24] Speaker B: You're the flea, dude.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: I mean, golly, talk about just like no self awareness whatsoever.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: And it's just. Jesus. Funny, because if I was in the same situation, I would have said something the same thing. You know, you're frustrated in the moment. You don't know that that's going to get clipped for radioactive. You don't know that people are going to hear that and throw that up on a logo. So you're just assuming, you're just saying this to your team. But when you say stuff like that and it does get out to the public, you're definitely holding it. You're. You're standing next to a hole holding a shovel. Like it's pretty, it's pretty obvious that you're the one that's. You're creating the situation for yourself, dog.
[00:48:01] Speaker A: All right, next.
[00:48:02] Speaker B: Flee.
[00:48:03] Speaker A: Yeah, flee.
[00:48:04] Speaker B: Next.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Next point here. And this has been pretty cool, but our Priest has been the fastest RFK car all year long, finishing in the top 10 qualifying.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: So proud of that guy.
[00:48:16] Speaker A: Yes, Caleb is a big, Been a big Ryan Priest guy like since the Xfinity.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: Joe Gibbs since he. The 18 car that he jumped in and just started winning races in three out of five or something crazy.
[00:48:28] Speaker A: All the in points, Priest and, and Busher, they're doing pretty good looking like back in playoff cars, but man, Brad K is sitting there in 32nd. I believe it was either 32nd or 33rd, right above Ty Gibbs.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: And yeah, he's. I don't know what's going on with their, with their car. I mean, I mean, he's been like.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: Three or four races, but like they're just still like not qualified even. They're, they're not even qualifying good, you know?
[00:48:55] Speaker B: Yeah, like nothing. It's, it's. Everything's missing. Everything's skipping a little bit along that team and it's just out of character. I mean, Brad K. Is a great driver and they were doing great the last two years. I mean.
[00:49:07] Speaker A: Oh, you Know what? I just.
[00:49:08] Speaker B: Everybody was talking like so much stuff about them. Like look how much they're improving and he's winning races and now they.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah, they have a crew chief this year.
[00:49:17] Speaker B: Ah, that will probably.
[00:49:19] Speaker A: I think was his name that guy. He went to a different team, I'm pretty sure.
[00:49:23] Speaker B: Gotcha. That'll definitely.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: We've talked about that. With crew chiefs late and all these guys have different crew chiefs now.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:32] Speaker A: And yes, we the crew chief struggling. The crew chief change late in a driver's career is the. The. It just tracks out not to work out well for the driver.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Not a death sentence, but definitely usually not in. In their.
[00:49:47] Speaker A: So we've talked about that.
Thought this was a cool stat. Almondinger has the best average finish in the next gen ERA at Homestead and.
[00:49:56] Speaker B: I almost put him down instead of Austin Cindrick on that battle. You should have you about yesterday. You should have the most heartbreaking bed of all time yesterday. Well, not of all time, but I had a parlay with Austin Cindrick and Ryan Priest finishing in the top 10. Austin Cindrick runs top 10 all freaking race long. He was riding in like seventh place. Ryan Priest starts in like 30th, 31st and he climbed his way up position after position all race long to finish in ninth place. And who gets a frickin speeding penalty on the last pit stop of the race? Austin Cindrick, who has been my lock for top 10 drops all the way down to like 22nd or something.
[00:50:41] Speaker A: That's tough.
[00:50:42] Speaker B: On the last stop of the race, I had that one called. I had Blaney winning the race. If I bet on him yesterday, I'm telling you, something bad happened to him.
[00:50:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that sucks.
[00:50:52] Speaker B: I had Reddick to finish in the top five and that dude couldn't smell the top 10.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: Also though, the Penske boys. And we're gonna throw Josh Barry in there just for a second, even though they don't, you know, however that situation is. But man, they had some weird pit road stuff yesterday. Cedric and Logano got into each other and then the 21 and the 22 get into each other and they spin out like they had some weird pit road stuff when they were all together yesterday.
[00:51:16] Speaker B: No, man, we just.
That's execution right there. You just can't help. You can't help a bad finish when you're spinning on pit road.
[00:51:24] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Blaney second blown motor of the year after dominating the race.
[00:51:30] Speaker B: I'm. Where's God, dude?
[00:51:32] Speaker A: Oh, four style blow up too. I mean it Was so smoky. I mean, it grenaded the motor.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: I'm telling you, that's two week, that's all year for Blaney. Luck has not been on his side, but that's just the second week in a row where I really thought we were going to have a win. And just goes away all at once without warning. They just. That is such a bly thing to do, to just dominate the race and then just blow up your motor. Yeah, it's like, what, What? You're just not meant to win. This one caught on fire, even.
[00:52:03] Speaker A: I mean, it was a legit blowup, you know?
[00:52:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I, that is true. I have not seen a blowup that big in a long time, and not, not that many have. But that's just.
How do you. You just can't help it when your engine blows up that big? I mean, that's just nothing you can do. Well, it's just time to go home.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: This is a good point to move on to. Next week. We are going to like his best track of his career, so if he's got a shot of dominating, I feel like it's going to happen next weekend. So he has. He's, like, top of the list and, like, average finish laps, led stage, finish it like every. He was green, number one across the board and like, all the things they track in the metric thing at Martin, we're talking about Martinsville. He's number one across the board. Literally a green stripe. He's number one across the board at Martinsville. So, like, dude, by far, Blaney, Homestead being one of them. Blaney has a couple of tracks where he, like, dominates, but, like, man, Martinsville is like his sweet spot wheelhouse.
Exactly what I just, I mean, top of the board on everything. Going to qualify.
[00:53:08] Speaker B: I love a good Martinsville race.
[00:53:09] Speaker A: Yeah, going to. We're bringing that soft tire back. Going to be rubber all over the cars again. I love that.
[00:53:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Martinsville is going to be a hellacious race, and I cannot wait.
[00:53:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So I, I, that that's going to be, I mean, for picks for next week.
I mean, damn. It's going to be hard not to save Blaney number one. I mean, Blainey's number one.
[00:53:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:53:31] Speaker A: Might even throw some money on Blaney to win. His odds are probably shitty, though, or.
[00:53:35] Speaker B: Oh, they're stupid. They'll never be as bad as Kyle Larson being, like, minus 130 to win a race in the Xfinity series, bro.
[00:53:43] Speaker A: He was minus 900 for the truck before it cranked up.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: It Was.
[00:53:47] Speaker A: I was like, come on, man.
[00:53:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just not. That's not even fun. That's not even fun. They just don't want you to bet.
[00:53:54] Speaker A: On Kyle Larson, every single driver, because you never know what happens. Should be plus money, no matter what in a race.
[00:54:01] Speaker B: And I mean, a little bit of a minus, but like, it's still a 50, 50 shot that you don't get wrecked at some point in the middle of a truck race. Like, let's keep that in mind here.
[00:54:11] Speaker A: Yeah, they now I looked at it, I was like, man, come on, that's lame.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: That. That's just stupid. But that tells you how many Kyle Larson fans are out there, that they want to adjust it that hard. But, gosh, other picks. So you got Blaney for sure.
[00:54:26] Speaker A: William Byron runs pretty good at Martinsville.
[00:54:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, he definitely does. Yeah, he. He definitely's got it.
[00:54:32] Speaker A: Hamlin runs really well at Marilla.
[00:54:35] Speaker B: If Hamlin brings a decent car, I would wait till after qualifying to worry about whether he's going to be good or not. Yeah, maybe a couple of practice sessions and a qualifying, because that dude's been inconsistent this year.
[00:54:47] Speaker A: A sleeper, which is not a sleeper because how he's running, but a guy that's like, sneaky good at Martinsville is Alex Bowman.
[00:54:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I could definitely see that.
[00:54:56] Speaker A: I mean, no doubt about it. He's probably going to run top 10. It. No, I mean, he's like a guaranteed top 10 bet.
[00:55:05] Speaker B: I would say another one, like a garage driver for your fantasy would be AJ Almendanger. Maybe like a top 10 bet on him, because I bet he'll be plus money, but he usually does uncharacteristically well at Martinsville. I saw him at least like, scratching for a top 10.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: Not that SVG just talking kind of about some road course guys here, they've always said, you know, Martinsville kind of fits into their wheelhouse because of the shipped in and the heavy breaking and all that.
[00:55:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:30] Speaker A: Granted, I think he's only raced twice at Martinsville, but his Average finish is 12, which is. Hell, yeah, terrible.
[00:55:37] Speaker B: Another good sleeper.
[00:55:38] Speaker A: Yeah. So I do. Being a 500 mile race, 500 lap race, like, I think it just. That also kind of fits into SVG's wheelhouse. I don't know why, but it just seems like he's that guy that can.
Like a priest, though. They just have that same kind of mentality, if that makes sense to me. Yes, they can.
[00:55:58] Speaker B: Very much so.
[00:55:59] Speaker A: They can just get there by the end of the race, like they have. They're not going to just go in there and plow through everybody. They can like methodically get themselves to the front in a 500 lap race.
[00:56:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's gonna be. I think those will definitely be a couple guys.
[00:56:13] Speaker A: Is a guy to watch too, though, man. I mean, I know when he qualified on the pole there and had the. That one tire problem, but the dude, like we've all said it once he got into some good cars like Martinsville is his track. I mean, he's a modified. Yeah, that's their biggest race. Yeah, he's one there before.
[00:56:28] Speaker B: Loves that track.
[00:56:29] Speaker A: So Priest, I might be having priests in my lineup and your top five.
[00:56:35] Speaker B: For sure, even on top of it. So that's a good. Another good point. I mean, there's a lot of guys to watch for. That's the one great part about Martinsville being a 500 mile race is that's a long time for a lot of things to play out. And one bad move from your driver that shucks them out of the line and they have to rejoin somewhere. That could cost him five positions. But that five positions is like 50 something laps behind those guys till you can finally pass them all back again. I mean, you could be there for a minute. So, yeah, anything, any one weird thing happens to your driver and you never know what the rest of that race is going to look like.
[00:57:10] Speaker A: Totally.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: So.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: So that's our.
[00:57:12] Speaker B: It's good to have a few sleepers there.
[00:57:13] Speaker A: Solid Martinsville predictions there.
[00:57:16] Speaker B: Heck yeah. Brandy's pick of the week.
[00:57:20] Speaker A: What is your hack of the week?
[00:57:23] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Just blowing up Blaney's engine motor.
[00:57:30] Speaker B: No. Ah, gosh. The hack of the week for me. Yeah. Blaine's engine wielder would be definitely a good one.
Hack of the week for me is gonna have to be the. The. Golly. What Was his number? The 41. Just.
Just doing what he did right there on that last restart. Not because it took the. The. Not because it took the sweep away from Larson, him doing that, but just how badly he mistimed it, how much that affected his own race on top of Larson's race. Just, you gotta time that better. He definitely had himself in a position there where he could have easily taken that win and run with it. And he just put himself on the back foot.
I just. You gotta be. You gotta time your moves better. You gotta think a little harder there. You can't let that pressure of that moment get to you. And kind of piggybacking off of this, Alex Bowman's My other backup hack of the week, getting right down to the.
[00:58:33] Speaker A: End of the race, hitting the wall.
[00:58:35] Speaker B: I mean, it's. It's one thing to race him hard and end up in the wall at some point. It's another thing to literally just see him get close enough where he can start making moves and freak out and get into the wall. And I know it could have happened to anybody. It could have happened at any point. But damn, you're in the Cup Series, man. You can't be getting into the wall on your own before he even has a chance to like push you up into it.
[00:58:57] Speaker A: But yeah, my. I'll get to my hack of the week in a second. I just want to hit something about the Sam Mayer thing. Sam Mayer, the reason he gets so much flack on the Internet, he brings it all on himself when he gets out of these cars and says, I don't know why. And he's this last year, not yesterday or Saturday, but like, like, I don't know why a Cup series team wouldn't want me and does a Superman stuff and just does stupid and then also says stupid shit. That's why on Saturdays. It has nothing to do with Kyle Larson. It has everything to do with him bringing it all on himself. And if he just learned not if he could just shut up and that they could just not put a microphone in his face and he wouldn't say the stupidest shit you've ever heard.
He would not have as many haters as he has.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: It's so true.
[00:59:49] Speaker A: All of his haters are self induced.
[00:59:52] Speaker B: I'm telling you, I would not be a hater if it wasn't for the Superman move. That, that's, that's it for me. Yeah, it's the.
That slow that's just awkward and weird. Like he needs to quit doing that.
[01:00:05] Speaker A: My hack of the week, though, isn't even the 41. It's for the dumbasses. Causing a caution with five laps to go on the front stretch, 54 spins out. It's just like, what are you doing here? Lap down. Like, what are you doing?
[01:00:24] Speaker B: Yeah, why are you can't be racing that hard when you're already a lap.
[01:00:28] Speaker A: No, you just.
[01:00:29] Speaker B: Some point, you just have to. It's five to go. Figure out where the guy is that you're worried about passing you. And just make sure you stay in front of them, but don't push that hard.
[01:00:37] Speaker A: Yeah, there has to be some racing IQ in there somewhere.
[01:00:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And don't be the idiot that changes the complexion of the race. Because you're going to be the one everybody looks at when they're pissed off their driver didn't win.
[01:00:48] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's my hack of the week. I just.
When that caution came out, I was.
[01:00:54] Speaker B: Like, oh, I know. There's nothing. When your driver's leading a race, there's nothing that can just deflate you more than a late race caution. Because anything can happen on a restart. And it's so. It sucks so bad because you have to live the rest of that week knowing, my driver should have won that race. We were that stupid caution.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: We were one call away from a sweep.
[01:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And you would have had three die cast order today.
[01:01:19] Speaker A: I would have done it. I would have done it last night. Yep. I want to give a shout out to my dad, though, because when Larson door bangs laying rigs in the truck race and spins it out and kept it off the wall, dad goes, you know, with whatever many laps to go, dad goes, that'll win in the race right there. And I'm sitting there like, there's no fucking way he's coming back. He's going to be in the back, you know.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: Yeah. He's going to be so far back.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: With, like, he stays out to go. I just was. I was like, oh, God, the friend is going to be ripped off. This son of a bitch. And then none of that happens and he wins the race. And I was like, how did you call that? I was like, I just can't believe it.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: Well, hell, at least he ended up with a lady look that gives him two wins out of three instead of one win out of three.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: Jamie Johnson says two out of three ain't that bad.
[01:02:06] Speaker B: No, that ain't that bad. That'll do. All right. And he didn't even have a shit finish in the second one anyway. Yeah, I mean, his average finish for the weekend was better than almost anybody else that could have pulled that same.
[01:02:18] Speaker A: Exact Better than Sam Mayors would ever be.
I want to end on one more thing. I just thought about. Well, you know, we Talked about the 30th in points and what Keselowski and Gibbs and all this.
[01:02:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:36] Speaker A: I think we have to have the conversation. No matter how good and how many championships and how many races he's won in Xfinity. I do not think, and I'm confident in saying this, I do not think Cole Custer is a Cup series material driver.
[01:02:54] Speaker B: Damn.
Coming out and just letting him have just.
[01:02:58] Speaker A: It just ain't there. Something ain't clicking. It didn't click in the old car when he came in the first time, goes back and dominates xfinity for a couple three years, and it ain't there now. Talk about somebody they don't talk about. Golly, yeah. That car ain't been. They ain't said Cole Custard's name once on the broadcast. They.
[01:03:16] Speaker B: Well, they did. He almost spun off a turn two on the second lap of the race yesterday.
[01:03:21] Speaker A: Well, it's just. I didn't see the second lap of the race, so that'd be why I didn't know that.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: But yeah, they said his name one time on the broadcast, and it's because he almost.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: But, man, he's just. I don't know what the deal is. I think Cole Custard's a cool dude. 28th, but man, just brutal back there in the low 30s with those guys. We already talked about something else that everyone is just ripping and roaring about on the Internet. Still, still. After yesterday at Homestead, Jimmy Johnson is ahead of Cody Ware in points. Jimmy Johnson only raced one race. Cody Rare has started every single race.
[01:03:58] Speaker B: This season, and he's still beating him in points. Good lord.
[01:04:01] Speaker A: Cody Ware, man. They. We praised and praised and praised Rick Ware racing last. Last year they put Justin Haley.
Justin Haley's getting top tens in a Rick Ware car. Like, man, they're changing it up. They're turning it around. I think the cars are still exactly where they were. Cody Ware is just not a. He's just Rick Ware's son. Like, he's just not a race car driver. And he's just there.
[01:04:24] Speaker B: I mean, he does what he. He doesn't wreck a lot. He doesn't make a whole lot of waves. At least you got that going.
[01:04:29] Speaker A: I don't know. He does.
[01:04:30] Speaker B: That's a starting point.
[01:04:32] Speaker A: He's been. He's wrecked, I think, in three or four races this year.
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:04:36] Speaker A: Golly, last week, the right front of that car was flopping around like a fish out of water, I guess.
[01:04:41] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right. You're right, man. Finishing it. He's in 37th the points right now behind Jimmy Johnson. Yee haw. People, guess who's right ahead of Jimmy Johnson? Cole custody.
[01:04:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:04:52] Speaker B: With 35.
[01:04:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:04:53] Speaker B: 56 points on the year.
[01:04:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, man. Not even. Not even.
[01:04:56] Speaker B: Guess who's right ahead of him.
[01:04:59] Speaker A: And who's right ahead of him?
[01:05:01] Speaker B: Brad Keselowski, Shane Van Gisberg, and Kezlowski's at least got 30.
[01:05:05] Speaker A: I'm not worried about Shane Van Gisbergen being back.
He's got.
[01:05:10] Speaker B: He's got a lot. He's got to learn.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: And he is going to win races this year. I'm telling you. He's going to win races.
[01:05:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he's already fought for one at Coda. I mean, he was up there the whole time. He. He could have had something for him.
[01:05:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he. He's. He will be. He's locked into the playoffs. I mean, it just is what it is.
[01:05:26] Speaker B: He's locked in, golly, just craziness right now. And I know we're only six races in on the year, but it's still fun to start watching those trends and see who's doing good points a race.
[01:05:38] Speaker A: I mean, just put it that. I mean, you got to think about that. He ain't even averaged 10 points a race.
[01:05:43] Speaker B: I give him at least a little bit of leeway knowing that he jumped into the biggest shit show in NASCAR right now, but with that whole Stewart Haas meltdown that came around last year. But, I mean, we'll see where he ends up. I. It's hard for me to wholly blame it on him because he's driving that 41 car.
It's. I don't know. We're just gonna have to see where it goes from here. But he'll never have another ride with his connections being all around all that.
[01:06:07] Speaker A: So I was just about to say he's lucky he's in the 41 car and his dad's. Whatever his dad does for Gene Haas, because I don't know.
[01:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah. But I mean, I give at least the credit of knowing that he's in probably a big shit show situation right now. So he's got to be able to. He's having to Kyle Bush and RCR team at the same time, but he just doesn't have the Kyle Busch stats to back it all up.
[01:06:32] Speaker A: Exactly.
All right, thank you all for listening. I felt that was pretty good. Episode. Raise ready race.
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[01:06:50] Speaker B: So, hey, there you go.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: I don't know what changed, but Take My Truck has been doing really well on Twitter. I've had, like, I have, like, in the past seven days, I have like 16,000 impressions on my post, and I'm like, damn, it just never happens. I don't know why.
[01:07:06] Speaker B: Gotta love it.
[01:07:07] Speaker A: Even my Twitter has noticed it because it's, like, giving me these little highlights now that I'm getting all these, like, impressions and views and all this stuff. So I'M like, okay, it took me like 12 years to get there, but got a thousand followers on Twitter.
[01:07:21] Speaker B: Hey, that's at least like 890 more than I got. So I love it.
[01:07:26] Speaker A: I also wanted to say Take My Truck is doing really well. So thank you all to everybody for jamming out and listening to that.
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[01:08:18] Speaker A: Oh, God.
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[01:08:35] Speaker A: Such a good song.
[01:08:35] Speaker B: So keep an eye out for that kind of stuff coming down the pipeline. But also check out Raised Rowdy. Raised Rowdy. Nikki T. And Matt Burrell, thank y'all for helping us out with all this other stuff. And y'all go, y'all go enjoy your week. Get ready for a Martinsville Blaney meltdown. I can't wait. Hell yeah. Talk to y'all later.
[01:08:54] Speaker A: See y'all.
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