Larson Ends Dry Spell

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It's a wonderful win for Kyle Larson at Worldwide Technology Raceway.
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Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, and many others can't catch a break.
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And don't look now! Joey Logano is looking for a fort.
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Now here's the host of Fast Talk, Doug Rice.
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Welcome to the show, Doug Rice, along with Alexis Erickson and David Styles.
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And it was a wild four-hour fest of speed and mayhem at Worldwide Technology Raceway.
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Otherwise, known as St.
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Louis and Gateway, guys.
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So art informally known as.
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Please.
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So anyway, it was crazy.
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18 cautions.
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It did run a total of four hours plus a tiny bit.
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And here's how the ending sounded on the Motor Racing Network.
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Larson, the leader in the turn, number one, side by side for second with Bowman and Logano.
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Logano looks to clear Alex Bowman coming up for number two.
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Joey Logano has to hustle down the back straight away and make quick work of Alex Bowman if he wants his job at Kyle Larson.
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But Alex Bowman hanging them strong to his inside.
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They remain wheel to wheel in turn three.
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Kyle Larson will lead them as the white flag is now here at Worldwide Technology Race when he is the race leader behind them.
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Alex Bowman has now cleared Joey Logano for second.
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Legano Tremster cross over to his inside.
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They're side by side going into turn number one.
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Up front, though it's Kyle Larson by two Carls.
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Make it three, Carl's turn number two.
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Final time down the back straightaway.
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Alex Bowman gets clear of Joey Lagano for second, and that is exactly what Kyle Larson wants to see.
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He leads by two Carlinks in turn three and four, looking for the checkered flag.
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Bowman dives in deep into turn number three.
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He's not close enough as they come off of turn number four, checkered flag.
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And for the first time in over a year, Kyle Larson wins the Enjoy Illinois 300 here at Worldwide Technology Raceway.
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And it was another Kyle making the final call there.
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Kyle Rickey from the Motor Racing Network.
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And Alexis, it wasn't that many years ago Brad Gilly wouldn't have been on an MRN race, but the times have changed as he was wearing a blue shirt yesterday, much like your blouse today.
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Yeah, it was it was interesting listening to that clip, hearing, you know, the melding of voices, but that's where we are in 2026.
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And we've uh got a great relationship with the folks over at MRN, and uh they had a spot that opened up and Brad was able to fill it.
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So if you heard that familiar voice there in that call, it was our Brad Gilly, who will be calling the race at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend.
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And David, when we finally got down to it, it took a couple of green-white checkers, but they got to the end.
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Yeah, there for a second, I was sitting on the couch watching it with my wife, and she goes, Is this thing ever going to be over?
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And I said, Hopefully it'll end at some point.
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But uh I thought it was a great race.
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Great to see Kyle Larson break the 51 race winless streak that he was on.
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He had a really good weekend overall.
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Second uh position qualifier.
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He led the second most laps.
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Just really good to see that Hendrick is starting to come on here late in the season, and they may make a push for a championship now.
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We're going to spend a segment talking about Kyle Larson and where he is right now.
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But Alexis, it was almost a case of yes, big win for Larson, moves him to second in the points.
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That losing streak that David referred to.
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But the the the B story underneath that of 18 yellows robs a little bit of the headline from Larson, I feel like.
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I think so.
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I mean, when you watched the race yesterday, you talked about it.
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Four hours to go 300 miles.
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Um when when when you have that much attrition, we had a lot of break rotors that that went.
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We had some aggressive passing that led to incidents that caused yellow flags.
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I mean, 18 yellow flags, that's pretty close to the record 22 that happened right where we're sitting right now.
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Um, you know, I don't even know what year that was, but that's the record of yellow flags.
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And 18 is just a monstrous number.
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I did not expect for us to have this weekend at Gateway.
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And it started early, too.
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I mean, Riley Herbst spins on lap number seven.
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I think Riley was like five of the 18 cautions yesterday, unfortunately.
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Poor guy couldn't get out of his own way.
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He even caught on fire at once.
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At one point, yeah.
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So uh bad day for Riley Herbst.
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But this was a rash of yellows that started at the beginning of the race and just continued on as we got further and further in.
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And three really quick ones, and then we ended the stage one under green, and then we get into stage two, and it was one of the first times that we've seen this happen.
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They had a crash with nine laps to go at the end of stage two, and they said, you know what?
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This is just the end of this stage.
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So we're just gonna we're just gonna put a button on this and we'll go to stage three.
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We'll move on.
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And and I was like, everyone said, Yes, this is exactly what we should have been doing.
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But the brake rotor problem, I mean, you saw some major Chase contenders have brake rotor issues.
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Blaney had a brake rotor problem, and one of the pit stops, they pulled the tire off.
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You could see the brake dust come out of that right uh right front tire.
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You also had uh Chris Busher late in the race with a brake rotor failure, and then Chase Elliott, who was running well, has a brake rotor failure, collects Chase Briscoe, pretty much ends both of their days, and it was just a just a calamity across the racetrack from these broken uh brake rotors.
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I can't help but think of a story many, many years ago.
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Sterling Marlin was knocked out of a race.
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He came in, it was clearly a brake rotor that exploded on the car, much like what we saw.
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He got they got ready to interview him, and somebody got to him and said, You you did not have a brake problem.
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So he says, I don't know what happened because they were sponsored by Robestus.
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Sure, sure.
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Yeah, I got any of those partners.
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But you did not have a brake problem.
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Right.
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Okay, and I was just wondering yesterday, is there somebody going like no, no, anything but that?
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I I don't know.
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And I'm not kind of hard to refute when the caliper falls out from underneath.
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But it's exploding, you know, as they're entering the the turn.
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And apparently, David, there was a reason behind this because we don't hardly ever see this.
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No, and a lot of it had to do with the heating and cooling of that rotor, and there's a couple of different ways that they do that with holes in the front of the car and that front bumper, but we also had a longer practice session, and so one of these brake rotor failures from Chase Elliott, they actually changed their brake system after practice, and it still didn't matter.
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They still had that brake failure, and this this track has been bad for this problem anyway, Alexis.
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Yeah, it has been.
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I think, you know, obviously it's the heating and cooling cycles of the rotors, but I think there are things that that some teams were able to do to kind of mitigate this.
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Like I don't think we saw any Toyotas with any brake rotors um explode yesterday.
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I think it was mostly Fords and Chevy's.
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Um so is it, you know, is it was it too much tape?
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Was it, you know, not enough cooling?
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Was it what were they doing for the tolerances of these?
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Plus, you had red flags, you had the practice sessions, you had all these cooling uh and heating cycles that cause this.
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But it's interesting to know that this is a racetrack where this happens quite often.
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Um and it wasn't something that we went into the weekend not knowing you know that that that this was something that happens or occurs at Gateway.
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So what is it that that is these tolerances that they're getting right up to the edge and sometimes over the edge of that are causing these issues?
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No, well they've got to be overcooking the bricks at some point in this time and then accelerating again and the fact that it started scorching hot.
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I mean, those are all mitigated factors in all of this.
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And and once it gets a crack in that rotor, it's toast.
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I mean, it'll get too hot and then just explode.
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And that's what we saw a number of times, especially on the right fronts.
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And when that happens, you're just going into the wall.
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And when you're talking about Chase guys, you're talking about, you know, uh you're talking about Blaney.
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Huge, huge implications for him.
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You're talking about Chase Briscoe that, you know, was hit by Chase Elliott, who had his I mean, these are huge implications for guys that are um, you know, running in this chase that are looking to be contenders once we get towards homestead.
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And so um, you know, big it's a big deal for a lot of guys.
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I mean, if you're looking at those chase drivers that had problems, Chris Busher dropped two points two positions in the standings.
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Then you also had Chase Elliott drop two positions in the standings.
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Chase Briscoe didn't have the brake problem, but was collected by Elliott.
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He dropped three positions in the standings.
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Ryan Blaney's is mitigated a little bit.
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He only dropped in that dropped one position, but that's because he had really good stage points.
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And so if you didn't have good stage points, and then you also had this brake problem, you're just sunk.
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I mean, now we're two races into this chase.
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You you're running out of chances to come back.
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A little bit later on, we're gonna break down where we are in the standings.
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You know me, I've got a bigger marker than Alexis and David Stiles.
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I'm gonna eliminate more drivers than you guys, okay?
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Because they're done.
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But we'll we'll get to that.
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Are they?
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Yeah, they are done.
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They're done.
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Put a fork in on it.
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I don't have that.
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I don't have that kitchen utensil, but if I did, I would put it in.
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Uh I would I will say this about that.
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There was part of me that kind of enjoyed the mayhem of the night.
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We don't get this ever so often.
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Usually it's a tire thing.
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This time it was a brake thing.
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I was okay with it as it went off.
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I I enjoyed it.
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I thought it was a good race just because of the varying strategies that you had from all these cautions.
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And at one point I was thinking, oh, it's gonna be a fuel mileage race.
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And it's like, no, it's not.
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They've got plenty of fuel.
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There no one's gonna run out.
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Now it's gonna be who has the better tires, who did the better strategy.
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And I I thought it was refreshing versus just let's run out here and whoever has the fastest car is gonna win.
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So you know, back in the day we'd have a lot of attrition, and you never really kind of knew what that attrition was gonna bring.
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Who was it gonna take out?
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Who, you know, who would be affected by it.
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It was kind it was an interesting element added to the race yesterday to know, okay, well, this is happening and it can happen to anybody at any time.
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Who's gonna be next?
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Who's gonna be, you know, the the person who falls in the standings because they had a brake rotor that exploded or they didn't get to pit road in time or or what have you, or they get collected by somebody else who had uh an incident.
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So I mean that attrition, although it really sucks for the guys that it's happening to, it does create an element of drama within the broadcast.
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Now there was a good bit of racing roulette yesterday, and and if it hit on your number, you knew it really quick.
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Your best finishing driver was Denny Hamlin, who squeaked out a ninth place finish and is still the points leader.
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Oh, we just he just crashed again.
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No.
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Hi, I'm Doug Rice breaking down the action from Worldwide Technology Raceway, where Kyle Larson, after a 51-race absence, got back to victory lane.
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Let's hear from the winning driver.
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It feels great.
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And honestly, I mean it doesn't feel like it's been 51 races.
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You know, I feel like we've been in contention and had shots to win and have you just had to work really hard at it and stay patient and trust in the process.
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So I'm still proud of the team, proud of Cliff Daniels, the pit crew.
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Did not think that I would break the streak here.
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It's more looking in next week, but this definitely uh builds some momentum.
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Just got to keep it going.
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It's still a a lot of uh racing left, but you know we need more days like today.
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All right.
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Lots of different cliches in there, but thank you.
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At least it was an energized Kyle Oxford.
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It was.
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I I I just twitch a little bit when I hear trust the process.
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But yeah.
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He did trust the brother yesterday.
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He leaned in.
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He did lean in and it paid off without having to pivot.
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That's right.
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So he did trust the process because they had a plan, Alexis, Cliff Daniels and his team, that was a little bit different than everybody else.
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And at the end of the day, that may be why he won the race.
00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:22.720
Yeah, I mean, obviously he had to have some things go his way, but at one point, and I don't know exactly where it was in the race, um, but there was a caution that came out him, and only one other car stayed out, and that was Josh Barry in the 21.
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Um, and at the time, I will say, I thought, man, that's crazy.
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They only there are only two cars that stayed out.
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Everybody else is pitting, like they're sitting ducks, you know.
00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:47.679
But as the race unfolded and how things went on, uh, and how cautions fell and and and all of that that goes into strategy of a race, they were the ones that strategy of those two cars that stayed out were ones that were looking like they were going to be in the catbird seat.
00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:53.120
And, you know, obviously Josh Barry had his incident and was taken out, but it worked well for Kyle Larson.
00:16:53.200 --> 00:17:00.000
And it at that moment, I think a lot of people, especially, you know, Kyle Larson fans, were thinking, what are they doing?
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You know, being only one of two cars that stayed out.
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But the way things fell and the way the race progressed, it worked out.
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They had to do that.
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Yeah.
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Because if they had not have been on that varying strategy, there was no one that was going to touch Joey Logano.
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He was quicker than everybody else.
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And if you go back and look at when they pitted, when Larson and Logano both pitted at the same time, Logano was better than him every single time.
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So when he came down off the varying strategy, there was this whole conversation between Paul Wolf and Joey Logano, and Paul Wolf tells Logano he got eight positions by pitting when he pitted with fresh four tires.
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We don't have the same tires, but we have the track position.
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So if we stay, he's gonna continue to move up the field.
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So then we have this late caution, and everyone needs tires and everyone needs fuel, but Logano tells Paul Wolf, he says, Look, I don't want to pit.
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I don't want to come down and lose a track position.
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We're in the lead.
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We have control of this race.
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If we lose the outside on the restart, we're gonna be toast.
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And Paul says, We have to come because if we don't, they're gonna blow our doors off.
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They come down pit road, Logano says, I want the position.
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They give him two tires.
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Paul Wolf says the left tires haven't really been that important today.
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So we're gonna give you two tires, and that was the difference in the race.
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Because Larson came down and took four, and then on a couple of other restarts, he had some help with Alex Bowman, he got to the outside, and then he just had the better stuff down toward the end of the race, and that was that was the factor for him winning.
00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:38.799
And you could really tell that once once you got down to those few late race restarts, Joey Logano just used his stuff up.
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He just didn't have what he needed in order to compete with the five at that time.
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Yeah, on this post-race television interview, Logano goes, I knew I didn't have shot.
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Yeah, I mean he had 112 laps on those left side tires compared to Kyle Larson with 46 lap old tires.
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Yeah.
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Like it's just it's a no-brainer.
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Like he he was not going to be able to get there and pass him.
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All right.
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So this segment, we're talking a lot about Kyle Larson.
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Guys, he's moved up to second now.
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And for a lot of the year, I felt like a week Alexis didn't mention Kyle Larson because he he didn't do anything to Merritt talking about.
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Here we are, two races in the chase, and the guy's looking for another title.
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Well, when you're talking about 51 races without a win, um, especially, I mean, look, you're talking about Kyle Larson.
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This is a guy who we have seen do things, uh amazing things in a race car.
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So we all knew he was gonna get back to Victory Lane at some point, um, and probably should have known that it was gonna be at, you know, the most opportune time in the second race in the chase.
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But because we had, you know, this what have you done for me lately kind of mentality with him, we didn't talk about him very much because he he was having some good runs here and there, but then he would have some not great runs, and it was a little bit of a roller coaster up and down, and so you know, it was just not a lot to talk about when it came to Kyle Larson, except for why hasn't he won yet?
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Yeah.
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David, I watched very popular YouTuber Eric Esta, and I watch him all the time.
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He does a really nice job, by the way, if you go to YouTube.
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He was saying, I think this all started when Kyle Larson finished sixth at Richmond and then hopped in and went up and won the Knoxville Nationals and it renewed him.
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Energized him.
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Yeah.
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Do you put any credence into that at all?
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I think Kyle Larson's just a racer, and he wants to race every chance he gets, and I think that he has a short memory, and he gets in and out of these cars every week, and that's his happy place.
00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:42.559
I think the bigger threat in all of this is that Hendrick is getting slightly better here late in the season.
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They've been really bad all year long, and now all of a sudden they had three of their four cars in the top ten yesterday, and that that is not by accident.
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They were in the top four.
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Yeah.
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They were able to withstand all of the attrition.
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They only had one car with the brake rotor problem, and they were able to salvage some good finishes, and Kyle Larson qualified well at this track, and they've been slowly getting better every week.
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And so this is just it's not that big of a surprise.
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I think it's more of a surprise that he went 51 races without getting a win.
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That's why it was a story.
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That's why it's the story.
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Yeah.
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So I I think that the bigger story is just how Hendrick has underperformed and now they're starting to come back towards the front a little bit.
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And I think, you know, and I, you know, the Doug, this is for you.
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Um, but I think that Kyle Larson is Hendrick's only hope left.
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Yes.
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You know, for the Star Wars reference, he's our only hope.
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Because when you look at the fact that Chase Elliott, um, you know, he obviously had a bad day yesterday with the break rotor.
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He's n he's minus ninety three now, uh, in eleventh place.
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You have William Byron who had a really good day yesterday but had a terrible start.
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What thank you for putting that image in my head.
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All I Can see now is Rick Hendrick bending over R2 D2 going, help me, Kyle R2.
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Help me, Kyle H exactly.
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Well, I mean, when you think about it, I think he is for Hendrick Motorsports to get a championship this season.
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I mean, look, who knows what could happen, you know, in the next what eight races that we have left in this chase.
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But right now, with Chase Elliott and William Byron being, you know, basically a hundred points out of it, uh, you know, average between the two of them respectively, that that is going to be a hard, hard hill to climb.
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You look at Kyle Larson, he's nine points behind Denny Hamlin.
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And he he jumped seven spots.
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Coming up, we'll break down the top 16.
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There's really only about the top five, but we'll break down the whole chase field next here on Fast Talk.
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This is Ross Castain, and you're listening to PRN, the Performance Racing Network.
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These cars are about to fire it off in anger.
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He collects a couple cars side by side.
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Austin Sentry has him at the line, and he will take the lead in the wall.
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Here comes Shane and Gisbergen on the bottom.
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He's looking for second at the Prince Bush fire out of the cannon.
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Oh, it's a multi-car accident.
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I wanna say 15-20 cars, guys.
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He has already moved up to second.
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We had Seabell winning.
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Darlington, Kyle Larson coming back and winning at Worldwide Technology Raceway.
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So two of the big names that had gone winless have now finally scratched a W, but they wait till the chase.
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She also scored 73 points apiece back-to-back weeks, which is kind of eerie.
00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.079
And I I did misspoke.
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Uh David reminded me in the break that he that Kyle Larson did not jump seven spots.
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He was seventh and jumped to second, so he he uh gained five spots.
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But still, that's a that's a monumental leap forward to now only be nine points out of the lead.
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I'm gonna take a quick peek at the point standings and I will stop where I think you have no chance.
00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:02.960
Okay, so Kyle Larson.
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No, I'm gonna I'm gonna start at the bottom.
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I'm gonna start at the bottom.
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And if you if you hear your name right now, it's bad.
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Because you have no chance at being the champion.
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Sorry to do this, amigo.
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Daniel Suarez, minus 119.
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William Byron, minus 114.
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Ryan Priest, minus 113.
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Chris Busher, minus 111.
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Austin Cendrick, minus 108.
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Some hate here.
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Minus 93 is Chase Elliott.
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In 10th, minus 90 is Bubba Wallace.
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In 9th, minus 88 is Carson Hosevar.
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And in 8th, minus 69.
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59.
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59 is Chase Briscoe.
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You think it stops right there?
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I think it stops right there.
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I could agree with that.
00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:01.119
I think if I just called out your name, there's not a realistic hope for you winning the title this year.
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:02.720
I I can agree with that.
00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:23.440
I think 60 points, which is you know, practically what Chase Briscoe is back, is gonna be a tough, a tough uh mountain to overcome because of the fact that we have these stage points, and even if Denny Hamlin has, you know, potentially a bad race here or there, you know, get gathering these stage points is gonna make a a huge difference.
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:29.359
Um and so it's gonna be really hard for somebody that's back 59 points to make that leap up.
00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:36.960
I'm not saying it's impossible, it's certainly not impossible, but when you're looking at probabilities, I don't know that it's a probable.
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I think Briscoe has the slimmest chance.
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I think you're right, from ninth to sixteenth, they're you're you're toast at this point.
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But we've seen two guys in back-to-back week score seventy-three points.
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If you're within 73, within 70-ish, but they're not these teams.
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No, none of those teams that we've seen that I just talked about any point in this year performed at a high enough level consistently to believe that they've got some magic three race win streak tucked away.
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I mean, up up until lately, Chase Briscoe has been top five, top six in points all season long, but now he's he fell three positions because of something out of his control.
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So, me, I'm looking at each one of these races and they're becoming increasingly more important.
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Every one of them is almost like an imminent elimination race.
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And I know we used to say that in a couple of years past when we had the old playoff situation, but they're becoming almost like that, where we're seeing drivers be eliminated.
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:40.640
There, they're I don't think I think you're right.
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.880
I think for if you're 88 points back, you're you don't have a shot.
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I just I think it's just because the the guys that are you know one through five, really one through four, because I'm I I'm a little bit out on Tyler Reddick right now.
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.720
Um, but your Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney.
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Ryan had a tough day yesterday, but I think he can overcome that because he's had a lot of speed.
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They're just not gonna mess up that much to allow somebody that's that far back to gain that much.
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And not all four of them are going to probably mess up in the same race, allowing you to catapult over all them.
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And I'm not saying that some of these people down below the fourth won't win.
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Ty Gibbs could go to Bristol this weekend and win.
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He's been really good there.
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He won in the spring.
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He should have won this race last year.
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Absolutely.
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Agreed.
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.279
I mean, Bubba Wallace is good on these mile and a half.
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23-11's been good here.
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I know, I know.
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I know.
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Bubba Wallace finds a way to get into the top five, and then his car gets hit by lightning.
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He can't, he can't finish.
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He has a hard time.
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He's closing closing.
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And I like Bubba.
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I do too.
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Love to see him have some fun, but that's just the way it is right now.
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They need some help with their execution, especially in stage three of these races.
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I mean, uh constantly this year.
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I'm looking at Bubba's having a great day.
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Oh, good it's good stage points.
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Then it gets to the Then you're like, where did Bubba go?
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Where did he go?
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It's been their whole thing all year, though.
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Is that we're gonna try to run well on these stages and get a good finish, and then something happens and they don't get a good finish.
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So it I I I'm going to agree with you, Alexis.
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I kind of feel like it comes out of that Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney, Quartet.
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And I'm what you said about Reddit.
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You don't think Logano has a chance at all?
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That's what I was just getting raising my hand for it.
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Now I would put Logano in that mix too.
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Because when you look at at you know, look at what Kyle Larson just did by moving by catapulting himself up five positions.
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I feel like the way Joey Logano has been running lately, he's he could have another day like he's probably kicking himself for not gaining as many points as he should have yesterday at Gateway.
00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.400
Um it it it could have been better for that scene.
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He capitalized as much as possible.
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Number one in stage number one, second in stage number two.
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Didn't get that win.
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:16.640
And as we're watching the race go on, you know, they have the little ticker that's moving everybody up and down with if the race ended right now, this is where they would finish.
00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:20.799
He would have been in second or third if he would have won the race.
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And he's seventh.
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:22.559
Yeah.
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:24.400
So that's where all of this shakes out.
00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:27.599
Each one of these points is becoming increasingly more important.
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:35.519
So when does our points leader start feeling heat just a little bit?
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.519
I think now because of the fact that he's had issues on pit road two races in a row.
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:54.720
And when you're a driver, you want to feel like you're in control of everything, and he has not been in control of what has happened to him um on pit road, which has put him into some I mean, now I don't think he had a great car yesterday anyway.
00:31:55.039 --> 00:32:02.720
Um, but you know, having incidents on pit road put you far back in the field, puts you in precarious positions, that's gotta feel uh uneasy.
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:04.000
That's gotta be unsettling.
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:06.480
I think it's kind of the dichotomy of both of those things.
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Darlington, you had a really good car.
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Then you have the problem on pit road and you get wrecked.
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:14.319
Yesterday, you don't have a great car.
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:19.359
You still have problems on pit road, but you salvage a good finish, but you still have the points lead.
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.400
You salvage the finish because the rest of the field's self-destruct.
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:23.519
It doesn't matter what they did.
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You were able to capitalize.
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I don't think that they're looking at that over there, and it's not even a thing for them.
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:33.119
They know that they're gonna go to these three mile and a half.
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:36.400
He knows that he's gonna finish well at those three tracks.
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:38.000
He's decent at Bristol.
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:39.519
He could go up there and win this weekend.
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:40.640
I said last week.
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Bristol's his.
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:42.559
Yeah.
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:44.160
Or is it ties?
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:45.119
You just said ties.
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I said tie will be good.
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Please.
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He could be a one-two.
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.559
But I really think Denny is due a rebound.
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:52.799
Yeah.
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We've talked a lot about him.
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Their performance level isn't awful.
00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:58.720
No, it's not been excellent lately.
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:15.440
No, but uh to that point, he's still been able to hold on to the hold on to the lead, and everybody else is still scrambling trying to get up there, and we've seen two guys in back-to-back weeks cut it to within 12 to 9 points, and they still cannot get to the lead.
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.480
How many chances does it take to cut the head off the snake?
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:20.000
Like, I don't I don't know.
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:20.480
There's eight more.
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I don't know.
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.640
He's got eight more chances left.
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That's exactly.
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That's it.
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That's the answer.
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There's eight more chances.
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:32.880
I I don't I don't think I think that they're feeling good right now, knowing that they've had two bad weeks in a row and they still have the lead.
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:35.440
Do they have to leave Bristol?
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:38.079
Does Denny Hamlet have to leave Bristol with the points lead?
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.519
I think so, yes.
00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:40.559
Alexis.
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:41.920
To win?
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.160
To be to win the championship.
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:54.319
If they if they in the course of three races go from having this 25-point regular season advantage to they leave Bristol after three races and they're not the points leader.
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:54.799
No.
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.359
I don't think that's I don't think that's the case.
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:08.960
I mean, I think because I think, you know, he could again have some issue at Bristol on pit road or something get taken out in a in a in a wreck of some kind, and then he could go on a tear and win three races.
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:12.880
No, I do not believe he needs to be the point leader to win the championship.
00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:14.000
Would it he like to be?
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Sure.
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:15.280
But I don't think he needs to be.
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.360
I mean, I think he will be the point leader after Bristol.
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Can't wait till we get back here next Monday to talk about what happened at Bristol because it's always fun coming up.
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A week to Darlington and the Southern 500.
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Carson Hosovar drives over his head again, hits Brad Keslowski twice, spins him out.
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:10.239
Then we spend an entire week talking about this like it's Armageddon.
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.280
Like it's the biggest battle between racers ever.
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:26.000
We spend a great deal of time in the pre-race show interviewing Carson Hosevar and interviewing Brad Keslowski and asking Brad at his presser how mad he is and when's he gonna get a club out and go after Hosevar.
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:36.880
All of this energy because of one incident on the racetrack and I felt like to use a very popular term these days, this was fake news.
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:39.920
Yes, Hosevar's gotten into a lot of people this year.
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:41.199
That's not news.
00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:47.920
But to make this one bad Brad's back and he's gonna wreck him, it just felt forced.
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:53.760
It was the low-hanging fruit, I think, for a lot of people that were looking to push out some content.
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:55.360
And look, we talked about it too.
00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:56.239
You know what I mean?
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.320
Because it was being talked about a lot.
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:14.639
You have a guy who has angered a majority of the field, angering a veteran of the sport, and you have uh sound bites of of said veteran immediately after getting out of the race car saying, you know, I'm not gonna take it anymore, basically.
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:16.960
And so then we run with that.
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:28.880
We have worldwide technology raceway putting out posters of boxing matches and all these things, which by the way, if you're going to do that, if you're gonna put out marking materials, let's not use AI.
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:36.400
That guy that they had on that poster was supposed to be Carson Hosovar, looked nothing like Carson Hosovar, in my opinion.
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.239
Brad looked a little bit like himself, the other guy, not so much.
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:44.239
Um, but you know, I think I think we just took it.
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:49.119
What we tend to do sometimes in the media, we took it and we ran with it.
00:38:50.239 --> 00:39:04.800
Yeah, and the the other thing that is a contributing factor to this is both of their cars were pretty good Sunday, and so neither one of them wanted to take a shot or an unnecessary shot to ruin their day.
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:13.360
And Keslowski had a chance, I think, uh, at a win, finished very well in both of the stages, led 55 laps.
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:23.519
So, of course, he's not going to do anything to Carson Hosevar at the front of the field to maybe mess up his opportunity at getting a win and then have to sit out next week.
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:28.639
So I it's one of these deals where I think they were racing around one another, nothing happened.
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:35.199
It's proved that Hosevar doesn't wreck every single person that he's around during every single race.
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:38.480
And we ended this just kind of okay, it's over.
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:39.920
So do you think it's over?
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:55.280
Do you think if Brad Keslowski is in 25th place riding around at Bristol and Hosevark happens to come up to his uh quarter panel that it'll be being 100% honest, I don't think it was ever there to be over.
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:57.360
I don't think there was any there there.
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:03.199
I think this was a mad Brad Keslowski who got caught by a random reporter.
00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:04.800
I'm not I'd like to give credit.
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:13.679
I think it was maybe below the yellow line, above the yellow line, had a reporter there, and he turns around and he barks off a little bit and says, Well, he's got it coming.
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.400
I I and then I think we all just ran with that.
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:21.519
As you said, Alexis, it was the low-hanging fruit, it was the juicy little story we could get.
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:23.360
I don't think it was real.
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:35.039
Let me ask you this: do you think there's any pressure on Keslowski being a veteran in the garage area, knowing that the garage is, you know, upset with Hosovar.
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:41.599
As a whole, a lot of these drivers think he drives over his head and he does things that he shouldn't do, and that, you know, we talk about him.
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:46.320
You talked about it last week, how he wears the black hat to the drivers in the garage.
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:49.440
Do you think the drivers are like, well, come on, Brad, just do it.
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:51.039
I mean, just do it for all of us.
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:55.599
You do jujitsu, you have the one guy that's the mat enforcer, right?
00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:56.719
Somebody starts acting up.
00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:02.880
You send the mat enforcer over, they uh handle business for a couple of seconds, and then that person learns the lesson.
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:08.480
But I think Hosevar is gonna end up learning this lesson by not being able to win any races.
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.519
And I don't think he's gonna get any help from anyone else in the garage.
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:14.800
But I don't think they're gonna make Brad Keslasky their hockey goon.
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:15.039
No.
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:19.440
And it this was not original.
00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:20.000
No.
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:20.639
Oh no.
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:26.880
I for years saw Humphrey bring in boxing clubs and drag dead sharks through the garage.
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:31.519
Eddie Gossett set up a boxing ring in the infield at Texas one year.
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:34.320
And it it was just forced.
00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:37.119
I did like the idea of the poster, but you're right, Alexis.
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:38.480
I'm just looking at it on my phone.
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:38.960
Yeah.
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:44.639
And I I found Brad, I'm happy because they gave me more hair than I had before.
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:46.880
I'm with you, Brad.
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.679
But that Carson is not Carson Hosen.
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:50.400
I'm sorry.
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.639
No, if it doesn't have a 77 on the side of the hat, I'm going, I don't know who it was.
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:56.719
I love rivalries.
00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:58.559
I thought this was a cute idea.
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:00.239
I just felt like it got overplayed.
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.760
I think this was just a feud, a weekly feud that we have, and it's now coming past.
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:07.119
I think it was a tift.
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:07.920
There you go.
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:08.719
It was a tift.
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:09.519
Yeah.
00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:12.239
That makes it sound so much less, doesn't it?
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.719
Sounds like one of y'all's kids on the playground.
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:15.119
Yeah.
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:17.360
Send them to timeout, and now everything's better.
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:19.519
Has your son ever gotten a tift yet?
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:21.280
It's gonna be five.
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:21.760
Yeah.
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:23.360
Oh gosh, don't remind me.
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:25.440
Not really, but I'm sure it's coming.
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:26.159
I'm sure it's coming.
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:27.519
Yeah, between five and six.
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:29.039
Lots of tips.
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:31.440
Lots of tips in my future, I'm sure.
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:32.559
I fell down, mommy.
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.039
Really?
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:34.480
I want to know that story.
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Yeah.
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Alright, so I'll read them.
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Our panel will mull them over.
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If they agree with what I'm saying, it gets a green flag.
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If they disagree, it gets a black flag.
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Never heard of black flag before?
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That's what it sounds like.
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Here we go.
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:01.440
David Stiles.
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:10.239
If you are more than 55 points behind the current leader, your championship hopes are toast.
00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:12.639
Hey, I think I wrote that one.
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:14.559
I'm going to say green flag.
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:17.360
Yeah, you're giving away the bag.
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:18.159
We're not supposed to.
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:19.039
That's man behind.
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:21.760
I said toast like five times this show.
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.760
I mean, this is a slight.
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:25.760
Here we go, Alexis Erickson.
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:33.199
Um, I yeah, I'm gonna say green flag also because of the fact that I said that uh Chase Frisco, who's minus 59, is out.
00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:34.559
So I'm trying not to hit the biggest.
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.280
Yeah, some of you guys are trapped by your previous number, I think.
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:38.480
What was the magic number?
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:39.519
55.
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:40.400
55, 55.
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:40.960
55.
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:41.599
55.
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:42.480
55.
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:44.559
No, that's a black flag.
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:48.880
Ty Gibbs and Joey Logano are not 55 back.
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:51.039
They're 51.
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:51.440
Oh.
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:52.639
Oh, right, okay.
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:53.039
Okay.
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:54.000
So it's two, yes.
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:55.039
Minor technicality.
00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:56.239
Yes, minor technicality.
00:46:56.480 --> 00:46:58.159
All right, we go on to Alexis Erickson.
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:02.159
We will have a new points leader after Bristol.
00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:04.400
Yeah, I'm gonna say black flag on that.
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:13.360
I think uh Denny and team are gonna turn things around this weekend in Bristol and extend their point lead uh into maybe double digits.
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:14.719
Doug Rice.
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:15.599
Black flag.
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:18.880
I'm gonna die in the Team Denny ditch.
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:21.679
As we all have before.
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:23.840
I'm just so used to living there.
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:24.400
Oh man.
00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:30.320
But uh no, Denny, Denny's gonna have a really great day at Bristol, and he'll emerge the points leader still.
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:33.119
David, either break the tie or go your own way.
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:36.079
Uh we're gonna go unanimous and black flag it.
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.199
If it hadn't happened in two weeks, it's not gonna happen at the end of next week.
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:41.119
He's gonna hold on to it for a little bit longer.
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:42.719
All right, we go to Doug Rice.
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:43.760
You guys just talked about this.
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:46.159
The Hosevar, no, you didn't talk about this.
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:50.639
Hosevar versus Brad Kay thing isn't real.
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.079
In other words, you said it is not.
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:55.519
It is not real.
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:57.440
I'll say this again.
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.159
It is it is manufactured news.
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:05.920
It is it is a top 10 clickbait thing that never was real.
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:08.800
Doug Rice, was it real?
00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:11.599
He said he said no, it was not real.
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.119
I'm gonna say, yes, it was real.
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:18.159
Yeah, it cooled off.
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:25.360
Yeah, I'm gonna say it was real after Brad Keslowski got out of the car on Sunday night in Darlington.
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:30.719
I don't know how long it it remained that way, but I think it at first it was real, yes.
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:31.280
Okay.
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:35.760
Back to it, back to um Dave, the guy in the middle.
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:36.239
Me.
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:40.880
You know, the riders aren't the only ones that are underpayable.
00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:42.000
Yeah, no, kidding.
00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:42.719
Yeah, I know.
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:43.920
Apparently they're for a vacation.
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:45.360
Back to Utah.
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:46.800
Here we go, David.
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:55.199
I know it's technically still summer according to the calendar, but enough already with the warm weather.
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.199
Oh man, yes.
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:02.639
As a Western North Carolina boy, I need it to start getting cool and cool fast.
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I have not adjusted to the heat down here.
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It's just not something that I'm ever going to get used to.
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The humidity absolutely wrecks me every summer.
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And we've said it before, I keep my house on a cool, crisp 66 degrees.
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If you want to come over and hang out at the morgue, you can.
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I love that.
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You lizard people, stay away from me.
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I love that.
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I'm curious, does the does the wife protest this at all?
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She's more hot natured than I am.
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:28.159
Oh, okay.
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:29.920
You're a compatible guy.
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She is a redhead.
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Yes.
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So whatever she wants it on, that's what we set it to, and then it doesn't get get moved.
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So come on over.
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Alexis.
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Yes, you can sign me up for um whatever room that was that Ryan Priest had in his newest commercial.
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Pumpkin spice.
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I don't really love pumpkin spice, but look, all the fall foliage he had, all of the sweaters, all of the warm, cozy things.
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Yes, I am a fall person.
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It is my favorite season.
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So summer could just you guys wear it.
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Go on and you're not going to be able to do that.
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Not right now.
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You could have the pool still open.
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The the oh, it is.
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Oh it is.
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Yesterday was at 85 degrees.
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Oh my god, 80, 84, 85 is optimum temp for the pool.
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No, I'm burned out on summer.
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I'm I'm I'm done with it.
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I want to get out my hoodies and put them on.
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Besides that, they're slimming on me.
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I I tell myself that they're really not.
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Agree.
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I love my my fall winter wardrobe much more than you guys wait.
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:33.360
We've got a pumpkin bread recipe that I'm gonna try out.
00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:36.159
So you guys are going to uh gonna be the taste testers.
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Well, hopefully you deliver better than Kyle Petty does because I'm still waiting on my hoodies.
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Well, yeah, though.
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I do like speaking of pumpkin and all things pumpkin spice, I think it's a Dunkin' Donuts commercial that's out that has two of the three two of the spice girls on it, and then there's a pumpkin spice character playing in it.
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It is screamingly funny.
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It would almost get me to go to one of their places.
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Really?
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Almost.
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Almost.
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I might, I might go for a coffee.
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:06.960
I'm not going anywhere I gotta pay eight dollars for a coffee.
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I'm a good Carolina boy, Krispy Kreme man.
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:14.400
I don't know why I just thought about this, but for some reason when you said Spice Girls, I thought celebrity.
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:18.320
For some reason, I thought Ben Ben Afflack, who does the Dunkin' Owns commercial.
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:21.039
Brad Pitt is gonna be Bristol this weekend.
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I'm sorry, he's a bona fide movie server.
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He's a rock star.
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:27.360
He has a no, he's a he has a movie server.
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He is.
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He is A-list as a guest.
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:31.039
You got a favorite Brad Pitt movie?
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:32.159
Oh gosh.
00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:33.760
Uh I don't know.
00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:35.920
I just saw uh was it Moneyball?
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:37.119
Moneyball's a really good movie.
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:38.079
Moneyball is very good.
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:40.719
Um there's so many though.
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:41.519
It's hard for me to do that.
00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:44.559
He's been in two Tarantino films, which are very, yeah, very good.
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:47.679
Um I like him in that World War II movie, Fury.
00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:49.760
Yeah, that was commander.
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:51.199
That is some serious stuff.
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:55.360
I'm Shyla Bluff and uh Barenthal are in that one too.
00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:56.559
Yeah, that one's good.
00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:59.199
And it's an excellent kind of unsung movie.
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:01.119
So wow, Brad Pitt.
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.280
Will right here's today's rando question of the day.
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Will more people at Bristol get their picture made with Brad Pitt than they got their picture made with Sophie Cunningham at the gateway?
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:22.079
Well, that really depends on Brad's availability, but yeah, I mean I would think more people would know who he is than know who she is.
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:25.920
I felt like everybody that went to the race got their picture made with Sophie Cunningham.
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:27.519
And good on her for doing it.
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:28.000
Oh, yeah.
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:30.079
And she was she was money on TV.
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:35.039
I mean, they had her on for multiple different little guest spots, and I'm like, we didn't have her on enough.
00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:36.239
Yeah.
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:38.559
Okay.
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:43.199
I love looking at you, Lee Diffie, but you know, Dale Jarrett, that was great.
00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:48.400
Dale Jarrett was on the screen at the same time as Sophie Cunningham in case you missed.
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Each week, we'll put it in reverse and take a trip down memory lane, looking back at that week's top 20 country songs from years past.
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We'll dive into what made those songs and artists move the needle, what pop culture trends made those years unique, and you'll get to hear me tell stories only I can tell.
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Welcome to PRN's at the track.
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I'm Lenny the Ticky.
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We are PRN, half our weekly show dedicated to the short track, shirt track, legends, and card racing across the Southeast.
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We provide our audience with the news and insightful conversations with the newsmakers from Grassroots Racing.
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:57.519
How did that help you this time to take this victory from a grassroots perspective?
00:54:57.679 --> 00:55:00.400
I definitely felt like Morza was a lot harder than the other one.
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:02.639
That's PRN's at the track.
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.840
They always we like to say behind the glass.
00:55:26.159 --> 00:55:31.840
We're not allowed to go up and tap on the glass and say I think it's the other way around.
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:33.760
We're the ones in the box.
00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:34.400
In the bowl.
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:35.920
We are kind of in the bowl.
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:36.480
Yeah.
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.280
And they're they're they're actually not put behind anything.
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They're free.
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:40.480
No, they're free.
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.440
You know that is crazy you said that, Alexis.
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:49.599
That's one of the odd things you hear on the plane.
00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:52.559
Uh you're never really free to move about the cabin.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:52.960
No, no.
00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:54.880
They don't want you moving about the cabin.
00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:58.079
I mean, unless you just absolutely have to go to the restaurant.
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:00.400
They frown, they even frown on that.
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:01.280
You get dirty looks.
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:01.599
Yeah.
00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:08.159
They're like, well, the seatbelt sign is off, but stay in your seat with your seatbelt fastened.
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:10.079
We don't want another incident here.
00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:11.199
I gotta go.
00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:11.679
All right.
00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:19.440
Uh normally this is the time of the show that we do one last thing and all of us come around and talk about something that is on our mind.
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:32.639
We are going to sacrifice our time today to play back this interview from USA Productions of Alex Bowman after his second place finish talking about a loss that he had suffered earlier in the week.
00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:37.519
Super happy for Kyle and just it's a really hard weekend.
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:40.480
Um just to get on the plane and be here.
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:44.480
So just uh had a little extra help today.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:57:01.920
So yeah, ready to go home, but um proud of everybody on this Highlight 48 team for helping me through the weekend and uh yeah, life is hard sometimes, but um yeah, I lost my best friend, so just uh ready to go home.
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:04.000
We love our fur babies, don't we?
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.079
And when we lose them, it is tough.
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.880
Was he on your mind and were you racing for him today?
00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:23.920
Yeah, I mean I stuck here, so clearly I had some help, but um, yeah, you just never want to see your best friend suffer, and unfortunately the end was pretty bad, so um yeah, just uh that was really difficult.
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.440
By the way, kudos to Dave Burns there doing the interview.
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:28.960
He handled that so masterfully.
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:36.079
As Alex Bowman is talking about the loss of his dog, Finn, and apparently a lot of fans were very much aware of Finn.
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.119
And David, all of us are pet owners on this uh panel.
00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:44.960
Alexis has cats, you got a couple of dogs, I got a pair of dogs, I've had dogs for the last 40 years.
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:48.800
I totally get where Alex Bowman was coming from.
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:59.599
Yeah, and as someone who lost their childhood dog that I had when you know I was one and she passed away when I was eighteen, so she lived a very long, long and happy life.
00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:01.360
Um it's just it's hard.
00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:05.599
And the one thing that I take from that is be more like a dog.
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:15.039
You know, be loyal, be someone that someone can count on, be happy to be in that situation, and just be a friend to people.
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:18.719
That that's what dogs are to me, and and I love my two dogs.
00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:27.519
I know last week I was giving them a little bit of a grief, but uh they're two good dogs, and I wouldn't trade trade them for anything.
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:32.480
We were all texting each other last night, Alexis, and I think we all had the same emotional response to that.
00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:37.519
Yeah, I mean the one thing that hits me the most out of what he said, he just said life is hard sometimes.
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:48.559
And whether it's losing your dog or something else that you're going through, you know, life is hard sometimes, and and and that's just that, you know, it just is, and sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:54.000
One lesson that took me way too long in life to learn, I'll be serious here for 20 seconds.
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:56.239
You don't know what other people are going through.
00:58:56.320 --> 00:59:05.519
Yeah, you have no idea when you come up to somebody and maybe they're not super friendly, and maybe they're not smiling, you have no idea what is going on in their life.
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:09.519
I'd had no idea until they interviewed Alex Bowman at the end of that race.
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:11.039
The man had just lost his dog.
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Feel for you, Alex.
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Hope you feel better soon.
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For Alexis Erickson and David Stiles, I'm Doug Rice.
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In the meantime, we'll be back next Monday.
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Keep it between the navigational beacons.
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Between the buoys.
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