Door Bumper Clear - 244 - Atlanta: Safe but Sore

Episode Date: March 21, 2022

The Door Bumper Clear crew is back from Atlanta Motor Speedway and has much to say about its new "superspeedway" configuration. Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft break down Atlanta’s new style of racing and how mile and a half tracks could be impacted moving forward.In Spot On, Spot Off, the guys replay the final laps of Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race and what led to William Byron’s first win of the season. Freddie shares insight into what went wrong for Bubba Wallace in the closing laps as he went from contending for victory to wrecking across the finish line.Next, they talk about the tire failures that some race leaders experienced. Hear the gang explain potential causes and why failures aren't necessarily a bad thing.Friend of the program, Kyle Busch, made comments on the balance between being a driver and entertainer after crashing out of Sunday's race. The guys discuss how this weekend's product flirts with that line and why NASCAR's initial attempt at creating this racing at intermediate tracks failed.Hear what the crew has to say about Myatt Snider’s comments towards the driver that wrecked him late in the Xfinity Series race. Freddie expresses his frustration about why Snider needs to put action behind his words.Did John Hunter Nemechek unfairly interfere with the outcome of the Truck Series race? The DBC guys debate the role of teammates in late race situations, when not all teammates are still competing for the victory.Denny Hamlin tweeted comments regarding the effort of tracks to maintain their facilities and it sparked conversation about race tracks' responsibilities. The crew shares what's important for tracks to get right in order to create a positive fan experience.Could NASCAR be playing favorites after announcing Hendrick Motorsports will field a modified Next Gen car in the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans? Hear how one driver/owner from a different manufacturer reacted to the news.In Reaction Theatre, we learn of more dead pets and Fred Griffin gets a touching tribute. Later, the crew previews what to expect as the Next Gen car makes its road course debut this weekend at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partner RacingUSA.com for making this show possible. Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Once every, like, a few years you have a cable or something go bad. And it's always like at the most inopportune time most of the time. But yeah, like green, green, green, beep, are you serious? The other day, I looked down and it was two, I had two full bars. And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm good. Restart. Yep, restart. I'm like, what the fuck?

Does anybody really know how long you got after the first beep? I'm never going to find out. I know. I always start. I like the other, like, you know what bothers me is when they start beeping fast. It's like like like sometimes like you hit key unkey and it's like and all of a sudden it's like Yeah the more you key up the more it beats you're like I'm like beep and you're wasting battery by beeping. Yeah I don't. I was wondering I've always wondered how long batteries last like what is that?

I changed one on the green yesterday and it three wide here in there. Is that like 25% left still or what is it here man 10% where am I at five? Oh man. Welcome to door bumper clear presented by Offerpad. I'm Freddie Kraft and we have a lot to talk about after Atlanta. We'll discuss the new Super Speedway style race, leaders blowing right rear tires, whether this racing makes racers, more entertainers and drivers, and much, much more.

Let's kick it, Jason. The best in the booth, stumber the Monday, they tell you the truth. Giving the Finneys and breaking the rules. Good call to the holler to bring it to you. Casey, you pretty, Freddie, you fat. DJ, you suck. Brett and so bad. Jason is facing kind of plate in this racing.

If someone don't crash and it's going to go mad. Freddie, he's killing the bottle. Casey is making messes like a taut. The tweet something stupid then don't even bother. Brett's going to block you like TJ is to spot. See them online, though FF in the chat. Tell Rick where to stay off the track. All of the podcasts are living in fear.

This isn't the download. It's door bumper clear. Nah, don't get it twisted, baby. This isn't the download. Nah. This is door, bumper, clear. Clear, clear, clear. There you go.

I like it. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. It's part of the six cup car. the 68 Xfinity and the one truck. Don't forget, Brett, I know you had a biscuit. We would like to thank Bojangles for providing us with breakfast this morning. Brett Griffin's spotter for colleague racing had Daniel Hemrick on Saturday,

Justin Haley on Sunday, and we managed to wreck both days. What's up, Freddie Crafts, spotter for Bubba Wallace, Lannie Castle, Derek Krause. I'm in a bad mood. Why? Yeah, why? Because I thought we were in position to win and we didn't. So you do a better job, I guess. I've got something that might make you in a better mood.

I doubt it. I think you might. Is it alcohol? I might drink it right now. Happy birthday, Casey Boat. Yep. Tomorrow, when you hear this, she's getting ready to go to bet. Chad's probably rubbing her feet, giving her a pedicure.

Only if she's sitting in a micro. How's it to feel it'll be in 40? Yeah. If I had Milbridge, maybe. Oh, you know what? I was actually going to get you a cupcake for today. Well, why would you say it if you didn't do it? All right. It was a thought that counts.

Somebody got a good bourbon. Hang on now. Jesus. Yeah, you give me the good stuff. What the hell? That's a boy. E.H. Taylor, single barrel from Chase. Which chase?

To Freddie and Brett. Thanks for... My name's first. Thanks for last. I see my first. I just said yours first to be nice. Thanks for last every week. It seems like you two.

Genuine great guys. Yeah, we fake it till we make it. You're always able to make me laugh even during hard times. Split this however you want, but none for T.J. No T.J. That's good. You ain't got to worry about that. Man, this is amazing.

This is the best gift I've got today. It's the best half of gift you got today. Yeah. I'll split this with you. My half's on the bottom, just so you know. Yeah. Do you want to start drinking that now? Yeah, I got, we got some Tim Smith, Southern Reserve Whiskey.

never had that before and some Jack Daniels single barrel select T.J. Hands off, it's not for you. Shut up, Jason. You drink White Clause. Yeah, I might bring both of those bottles this afternoon. It'll be fun. It's good stuff right there. Buffalo Trace's finest.

Well, Freddie, while you're on the topic, tell us a little bit about that the final lapse of that race. You know, I just, it kind of worked out exactly how we wanted it to, and I thought we were right where we needed to be the second place car, or I shouldn't say the second place car, but the leader was kind of a sitting duck Saturday, both races. So when we got to the lead, I wasn't super pumped about it with seven, eight to go. And you guys were dicing it up. Yeah, bottom line started coming. And I knew that William was probably the best car. The 24 was really good all day long. And he got the bottom line rolling again. And I wasn't really upset when they got in front of us. us because I thought I said to Bub on the radio I said I think this is where we want to be anyway you know with there was like five or six to go and uh we were there and we started trying to back

up a run you know back up to get a run coming to the white and just couldn't you know we actually started with two to go trying to back up and just get runs and William was doing a really good job of backing up with us to kind of you know kind of neutralize our run uh last lap coming to the white the one bailed on the 12s we had to kind of pull down and block that momentum block the one bottom, blocked the one back to the top. Standard kind of, you guys tell me if I'm wrong, but like, I feel like Daytona Talladega, you block two runs like that. You've kind of neutralized their run.

They're not going to have a lot of momentum coming back at you. And the one was still able to pull out and get inside of us. What are we talking about right now? I zoned out for a minute and definitely came back into the wrong part. Again, TJ, he would call it from TJ saying you're not to cut that out. Yeah. So, you know, I don't want...

This is a Freddy's life story here. They were listening to... I'm good. Let's just go ahead. Well... So we got... We missed a block on the one, pulled back up in front of Blaney.

And Blaney was just getting shoved by the 14. Chase, obviously doing everything he can on the last lap. I don't know how I could fault him for kind of shoving to 12 through the back of us. And it was just the timing thing. When they got to us, was right on the entry at one, right?

Yeah, right at the entry to one, right? Yeah, right at the entry to one. where it's just, you know, probably the worst possible place where they can get to you right on entry. Just loosened us up. The three of us wall went up the hill. And then we were going to recover, finish six, seventh. And Brett over here got dumped on the bottom. And, I mean, as the hardest I've ever hit, Bubba's hit the wall.

You know, people talk about Pocono yesterday. But the abrupt stop he came to yesterday, I knew he was going to be, the wind was going to be knocked out of him pretty bad. And he could not talk for, I don't know, a minute, a half or so. I could hear him trying to catch his breath. and I know everybody on the team was worried. Fans were worried, but he was, I knew he was okay because he was trying to talk to me. It was just, he couldn't catch his breath.

And I was like, all right, just calm down, catch your breath. We're all right here. And then, you know, obviously sucked, but it's just super frustrating, feel like you're in position to win all these damn plate races and just don't get it done. So I don't know if that's my fault, his fault. We made the comment that we thought California was treacherous

and I was afraid Atlanta would be dangerous. And holy cow, massive hits by a lot of guys. Noah Gregson started the race with a massive hit. Obviously, the wreck Freddy's talking about, Justin Haley was in. Justin, the first thing he said to me on the airplane is, that's the hardest I've ever hit the wall. I'm hurting all over. And when you look at how hard Bubba hit, Noah hit, Justin hit, I'm glad they walked away

because I was worried that we may see guys get injured at that racetrack. And thankfully, everybody walked away from it. but holy massive hits. Yeah, there was some really hard hits. I don't think all of them said it was one of the hardest hits they've ever had. I've pretty much heard that from all the drivers. But, you know, also, yeah, it was a hard hit, but these guys were walking to the airplanes. You know, these guys are safe.

Probably going to be a little sore. I mean, I remember back in the day, I was watching a race on TV, and I think Kenny Schrader had flipped over, and they did an interview with him. after he came out of the character, and he already had a black eye. Do you remember that? Yeah. Like that,

I always remember that as a kid. That's one interview that always stood out to me. But seeing these guys walk away from those hard hits and they're going to be sore today, I'm sure. But, you know, they're going to go and they're going to race next week. Here's the thing about this package, okay? This was a brand new package, brand new surface, all the things, right? we unveiled on this show years ago that NASCAR was going to try a low horsepower, high down force, high drag, big spoiler, package in an all-star race.

And that yesterday, what we saw, that was it. That what we saw yesterday is what NASCAR wanted that package to race like. Yeah, that's what we thought it was going to be. And all I'm going to say is, thank God it didn't, because we don't have enough cars and we don't have enough money to do that. week. But, but, but let me say this about it. If I were in control of NASCAR, and this is going to make some people in the industry mad, because I thought yesterday was a pretty fun race to watch. I thought as a spotter, it was very frustrating. If I were a driver, I would have been very frustrated. And we even said about that package they unveiled the 550 years ago that if this thing races like

they want to race, the Kevin Harvicks of the world and the Matt Kenseth of the world and those older guys are going to be like, you guys, I'm leaving. I'm not doing this every week. And after seeing that race yesterday, I stand by what I said, but I will say this, Michigan and the All-Star race, we need to run that package because Texas All-Star Race weekend is going to be a boring, single-file, not entertaining race. And that race was a lot of things yesterday. Entertaining was one of them. Do I want to see all those wrecks?

Absolutely not. Do I want to be frustrated racing? I really don't. But it was something to watch. We saw a lot of lead changes. We saw all the things that you could realistically want in a race. Michigan is one of our best racetracks. And with what we went to for a rules package there,

we ruined that freaking place after they paved it. So take me back to Michigan with four or five lanes because my biggest complaint yesterday was we only had two lanes. And once we were too wide, we were clocked. You couldn't make a lot of things happen. It became a track position game. Did Brad Kesowski screw me one time yesterday? Yep.

Ricky Stenhouse screwed me. Yep. But in general, once you got in position, you kind of stayed there until a pit cycle happened and or a crash happened. but I am thankful that NASCAR's rule package years ago when they tried to make us pack up that it didn't work because we don't have enough cars to do that. And I'm not talking about with a car shortage situation. I'm talking about you logistically can't not have to bring a brand new car every single week, Freddie. I don't have enough batteries to spot like that every week.

I mean, I don't know about you guys. I was talking probably twice as much as I did at Daytona. Like I went through seven or eight batteries yesterday alone or over the weekend where every normal weekend I might go through three but yeah it was wild you know at times it got kind of just single file when they felt like not you know just riding around kind of like any other plate race

going back to you know the hard hits and stuff did you guys think that the front stretch wall I don't know with the reconfiguration why it looks so different to me but I felt like some of the angles compared to where they painted the white line were a little abrupt for you know being on the front straightaway

like that. I felt like there was some like 30 and 40 degree angles at like the entrance of the tri-oval. I mean, you know, you know, before the start finish line, maybe just after restart zone and then exit of like where you know where the turn one of the road course was. It just looked to me like the angles of the wall were a little bit different compared

to where they've been in years past. And I could be wrong. I just some reason it stood out to me yesterday. I don't think they changed to that at all. Well, we've never had a line a distinct line that we had to follow. Which caused the final wreck, by the way. If we didn't have that stupid line rule, we would not have had that final wreck.

Justin Haley was on the bottom. Chris Buster was forcing us below the line, and Justin had to make a decision. Hold my line or wreck him. And we held our line and we wrecked him. And if we had been able to blend down because there's asphalt there, a lot of asphalt there, if we'd able to blend down and let him make that move and force us below the line without a penalty, we wouldn't have had that wreck. So in my mind, that last wreck where three guys hit extremely hard was because,

of the freaking line rule that's trying to prevent wrecks. But it is what it is. I'm not sure we would have been down there a bunch with the cup cars anyway. We race smart till the end, honestly. I mean, considering. Yeah. I mean, I agree with that.

I think trucks and stuff are going to be all over the place. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they could have brought the wall closer so it's not maybe more round instead of the dog legs. Since you don't have a dog leg as much anymore. Maybe they could have rounded them. Yeah, just round the line off.

Yeah, cut some of the corner off out by the wall because we doubt everybody cut it a little bit so you didn't really need it there um but i know any any front stretch any front stretch with a track you know that's curve like that and you get hooked to the right rear it's that's even even at a kansas or something when you get hooked there still the outside wall is not forgiving much there this never seems like a good angle uh Vegas is scary you can get hooked at Vegas on the front stretch that that's a tough place to the worst wrecks I've ever seen and I'm not trying to take us down on some morbid path but we were at an arc of race in Charlotte and uh blaze Alexander he got he and carry Earnhardt were racing their tails

off for the win and blaze got turned at a really bad angle freddie to your point and where he hit around start finish oh man I thought I was going to vomit yeah I mean that impact of that wreck was was hard to watch so man if I feel you it's just man like you said if we're if we're going to be plate racing. I don't think we need that freaking dog leg like that or whatever, that whatever you want to call that thing. It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, not to touch on something else about yesterday's race. We've beat this horse of death on here. 500 miles of that was my God. Yeah, that's, we didn't need four hours of that yesterday. You know, that was a four hour race. That's insanely too long. I mean, just a lot, really a ton of

I mean, did it, how was it at home? Like, did it feel like, yeah? It made me think if you're trying to attract a new audience, no one's committing four hours. You're not going to get people to watch that entire race. I want to say our race was longer than the Formula One race and the IndyCar race combined. Yeah. I mean, I like longer races, but that's too long.

Like that, I like the day hona 500 being, that's a, you know, that earns it. The 600, um, it's unique. That ones are unique. This 500 deal here with like that. the whole time. Holy smokes, man. If you see it right, if you're the network and you want people to watch, you know, if you get four million viewers for four hours, like we're saying it's too long, but I promise you the network ain't saying it's too long because they're selling ads for four hours. I mean, don't get me wrong. It was definitely exciting. Just by like one, lap 130, there were more

lead changes. If you had bought a ticket, two years, two races of last year. If you had bought a ticket, it for 140 bucks and you had set in those stands would you have thought a race was too long I know we all thought it was too long but if I were a fan and I'd spend 140 bucks and Chase Elliot's leading and Blaney's up there dicing it up and Bubba's getting wrecked and Byron's winning and I don't think a fan that was there and thought it was too long probably not I mean if you're there hanging out with a bunch of buddies I don't think it matters if it's six hour race how they go to they go to 12 hours of C-bring and love it yeah yeah I mean you know I mean you know my I just think it's too long, like Freddie says.

It's too long for that style of racing. My buddy Clark Cox was there. He's a big gang-cock guy. Lives in Columbia, a friend of mine. And he was there for the whole weekend. And he didn't think it was too long. I got, I can't tell you how many tweets and messages I got that that was the longest race they've ever watched. I think on the broadcast it's hard because you do take breaks for commercials.

So, I mean, you're, you are missing some of the action that those at the track get to see. Speaking of broadcast, did you see Clint's tweet where he went at that guy saying lay down, this is the awesome. some racing. Clint Boyer, the race car driver, would have been literally screaming at the top of his lungs. Had he been in that pad? Oh, yeah. Running 7th and trapped in two by two lanes. He would have been the most irate individual in the state of Georgia. But Clint, the TV guy, is like, oh, this is awesome. I love how they switch gears when they put a freaking tie on instead of a helmet. Which, oh, by the way, why does Cliff Boyer ever wear a tie? He shouldn't wear a tie. He don't even know how to tie tie. I'm sure it's mandatory. He's from Kansas.

It's probably a clip-on. It is a clip-on. One of those clip-on ties. Or he has somebody there to make sure his tie is on. Everybody, Mel Clint Boyer, a clip-on tie right now to his house. When you walk by those booths, they got those clothes racks in there. Those guys just come on up there. They don't need guys in suits and freaking ties calling NASCAR races.

Everybody in the infields got mud all over their butts and cut off jeans shorts. And these dudes are in suits and ties. Come on. You see how many people were buying the DBC diecast last week? I did. I can't believe, Jason. I can't figure out if they're buying the diecast because of us or because Justin's signing the diecast.

Which one do y'all think it is? Well, everyone wants y'all sign it too. So I think Justin Signor sure is just a good. I know Mike's giving us one too as part of our deal. But the best part about the whole diecast situation is we finally got a pin tweet on Dirtymo Media. I know. Well, it might be. You're welcome.

I don't know. I also did it like three weeks ago. you didn't know. I didn't know. And you only left it up for like two hours. Because I may have been told that. Then it was like, hey, Dale Jr. Farted.

We got to put a new Dell Jr. He told you to change it. Who do you think? Mike Davis. Yeah, he does not want us to be the biggest deal. Now. Well, your heads are already big enough. And so we made a t-shirt with them on it.

Yeah, just to add to it. RacingUSA.com's got a DBC die-disc t-shirt now. So go check it out. That die-cass is awesome. Yeah, so the diecast sold so good that... now we get t-shirts. Yeah. We're killing it.

I think that your confidence was already big enough pre-paint scheme that at this point, I mean, you probably won't fit in the studio anymore. I'm just waiting on stand-ups to come out next, Casey. At the way we're going. Yeah, seriously. I don't think they make them that short and fat. Like every stand-up I see is like six feet tall. It definitely will not fit in a house.

Dude, they always, them stand-ups are never correct anyway. because I can't tell you how many times that I've walked into a gas station with Del Jr. He walks by his standup and thinks like four inches taller than when he is. Like, that's not right. I just love our fans because our fans, it'd be just like that. Our fans sold out the Las Vegas experience in 24 hours and we had to extend that ticket package and then they freaking sold out the backcast in 24 hours. That was awesome.

We had to extend that package, right? So the allocations, man, you guys are awesome. I have to say I met quite a few people with the track and a few people who went to Vegas and they were asking when the next one was. They were like, can we do this every weekend? All they got to do is listen to the Dell Jr. download tomorrow and Mike Davis is going to tell him. I think Mike sent the teaser out.

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It goes like this. Spot on means you agree. I'm spot on. Are you joking me? He's lost his mind. Oh, and by the way, no one ever seems to agree. And then spot off means you disagree. Spot off.

Here we fucking go. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But if you're TJ, um, uh, uh, there's only one correct answer. I don't know.

It's time for spot on, spot off. First topic, no one is able to make a run on and pass William Byron in the final laps. Spot on, spot off. TJ. Uh,

spot on for him putting himself in that position. I mean, I think they were side by side behind him, weren't they? Uh, not for the last. last 10 laps or so. Just the last lap.

No, I'm saying like, yeah, well, when they get side by side behind you, that's what you want to see as a leader. I've been in front of some plate races like that. As soon as they get side by side and you're leading, it's like, thank the Lord. You can tell he broke away when they were side by side. Oh, yeah. And he did have the fastest car, I think, all day. Every time him and the one, I think, were the two best cars.

And every time they made a move, it was like, well, there he goes, you know, and they could kind of do what they wanted. but yeah you know can spot on for william getting it done had the best card and in my opinion and the best car won so that's the driver and the team not doing their jobs correctly yeah i mean from our standpoint we didn't want to make a run on them until the last lap we were trying to just control the line behind us and keep us second behind him like i said you know all weekend maybe you should have been leading maybe you know the leader had been a sitting duck all day Saturday so i didn't think i wanted to be in the lead unless they get racing and then you know, the one, like I said, the one got next to us. And that pretty much, like TJ said, handed William the win there. We were never, even when we got side by side and then we got wrecked, somebody else, I think the 20 went below the line and ended up getting side by side with the one.

And it was over. Like, like, you just can't generate a run when you're side by side like that, especially without anybody really pushing you. So yeah, good. Congrats to them. Like just the unknowns of, you know, not what not to expect here in this situation because it's not exactly like plate racing. I mean, it looked a lot like plate racing,

but the runs generated differently, and it's just just the unknowns of it, and then he worked out well for him. Once we saw one to go, we knew nobody was lifting. We knew everybody was going to push as hard as they could. That's what caused the wreck. So it caused Freddie to get wrecked,

or get him out of control going into one. And spot off, because I honestly thought that we would see a pass for the lead on last lap if they didn't crash beforehand. So obviously, William a spotter, Brandon, did a good job, and won a race, man. That's a cool race to win.

That's another, so how many races? How many race center we had? It's a first time winner for the spotter. Is that five? Yes. And that's three spotters with their first career wins, right? I don't even remember who won the other races. Yep.

Yeah. Campbell's. Both Campbell's. Both Campbell's, Brandon. Who won the other races? I was, I'm sleeping. Anybody got it? Larson.

Larson. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hell with him. Yeah. I think that's it, right? I think that's it. Yeah.

I mean, still a great start. Oh, yeah. Ross Chastain, Tyler Reddick, and Ricky Sandhouse all blow right rear tires while leading throughout Sunday's race. Spot on spot on. Can I say that again? No, that's the best part about it. That makes it better when you do that.

Oh. Ross Chessing, Tyler Redick, and Ricky Sandhouse all blow, right re-retires while leading throughout Sunday's race. Freddie, spot on, spot off. Cut that one out. Spot off for them. We saw this with some of the Chevys, obviously, these three guys are Chevys. I would assume not being

a technical guy that it has to do with either right rear camber or right rear air pressure. We used to see this a lot back in the day with the right front tires, now with independent suspension in the rear. So I assume that they were just either running a little too low on air to start or just had a little too much

camber in the right rear. And we saw the same window kind of, you know, whatever it was, 30, 40 laps if they would blow right rear tires. So we kind of were worried about it there towards the end of the run with William, but luckily, I guess HMS maybe didn't, you know, they were, we never saw any problems with the HMS cars. So we were a little more confident behind them, but it was definitely in the back of my minds that, hey, we're following a Chevy here and they haven't had a good track record out front. But I would just assume that it was either right rear camber or air pressure issues. Ross Chastain has led the most laps he's ever led in his life this year already.

He's got a third, a second, and a second in his last three races. Obviously, lights out for those guys. I did not see those guys coming out and leading 80 plus laps at a track and then 40 plus laps at a track. I think to your point about the right rear tire, that's the only tire that was really wearing a lot yesterday. So I think on some of those longer runs, that leaders out there, you know, ripping. and I think that's why that right rear goes down.

It wasn't, had it been three tires in the same organization, I would have been like, ah, they're doing something. But you look at an RCR car, you look at a trackhouse car. Who was the other one? Stenhouse, JTG car. Obviously all Chevroletes, but nonetheless, the right rear tire was giving loose. But, man, shout out to Ross Chastain for having a killer freaking last three races.

I didn't see that coming out of those guys. That whole team track house. has dominated. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say dominated. I mean, they've been up front. You got to win to dominate. They've been up front. But, no, I mean, look, man, I think when you look at, well, what do we talk about all

the time on here? We talk about tire wear, and we talk about tires that need to matter. And when you have guys blowing right rear tires, that's a big deal. And I love it. I don't have an issue with that. Spot off for the tour up cars, because you don't like to see that, especially at this point. But I think the hardest part for me, T.J. is, you know, I'm back there running anywhere from 15th to 20th when Ross had his issue.

And I'm like not really watching the leader because they were single file in the front. And so I see everybody start checking up. And I'm the same area. Why are they wrecking? So then I start key up talking. Justin's like, you were about a half second late on that. I'm like, yeah, no. I didn't expect the leader to wreck by himself running, running to freaking to top of one and two.

when we're back there 20th, two and three wide. I had the same thing in three and four. Luckily, I was looking at Ross when it happened. I was looking up there when it happened. And where we stand like three and four, like I wasn't using my binoculars a lot in one and two, but I was having to use them in three and four because we're offset so much to turn one that three and four is way further away.

And we had just gotten into a little pack back there at the back where we're two wide, but we're 20th again. And that's when Ricky blew his tire. And Bubba's like, are you using binoculars? I said, yeah, he's like, I can tell because you were a little late there. And I was like, yeah, there's nothing I, you know, doing the best I can. I'm trying to judge these runs because the stackups in front of us were crazy at the same time.

So you're trying to like key in on that, you know, that little panoramic view you got. And like you said, you don't anticipate the leader who's single file up front by himself just spinning out. Something happened. Yeah. I don't think, I hate to see cars get tore up, but I think it's more of a, you know, aggressive in areas. That's what I think. I mean, I don't know, but I think it's them being aggressive in certain areas. That's my guess.

It's random. Yeah, but it's also, I mean, those are probably cars that I would see push the limit. You know what I mean? I don't know. It could be a tire. I don't think Goodyear had an issue. I think Goodyear had a good tire. Spot on, spot off.

Kyle Bush says, yep, when asked if this type of racing is making him more of an entertainer than a driver. Jason, you want to play audio? Here's the interview he gave to Dustin Long at the back of his trailer during the cup race after he was out yesterday. this type of racing is it making you more an entertainer than a driver? Yep. And then he took his hat off and threw it at his PR person. Could you imagine needing a job and having to go be Kyle Bush's PR representative? Now hiring Kyle Busch's PR representative.

Who wants this job? And Joe Gibbs is walking out of the hallway behind him during the interview as he stormed off. Yep. Nope. Spot on for his interview because I thought it was highly entertaining. like I said earlier in the show, these guys were frustrated and they're not going to do this every single week.

They don't have to. Not guys like Kyle Bush. Guy like William Byron? Absolutely. He ain't got hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. Kyle Bush is already very wealthy. But these guys are, these guys were frustrated and rightfully so.

I mean, Kyle Busch is sitting there. He's the second car in line in his line. They're coming to into stage. And Austin Dillon just gets loose and flat out wrecks. you know did Denny Hamman have a hand in that yeah probably because he pulled off of Austin's butt probably got him a little light and Kyle packed a little air next thing you know Austin ran out of talent wrecked and Kyle just got swept up in it and Kyle had an extremely fast car all weekend now he was loose yeah he was loose to start the race once he got up there in the

lead I saw him dancing on his right rear but he had a fast car so not only was he frustrated because the racing was probably getting on his nerves he also tore up a really fast race car Yeah, I mean, it's probably not popular with, you know, the fans' this opinion, but I, like, I'd be, I'd be glad to never spot a race like that ever again. I mean, I don't, it's just, like Brett said, it was super frustrating. Like, you couldn't really go anywhere. The track position was king. You know, we had an amazing pit stop at the end that got us in the front and then we never lost it. Our car was super fast all weekend.

And we spent probably 150, 200 laps. I felt like running around 20th because we just got back there and, and, and, you know, and, you know, Bubba the one time they were, I think it was when I forget Redick maybe spun out I think and caused a big wreck and Bubba's like this is getting a little we were 15th or so he's like let's just get the hell out of here like I don't want to be here

so we bailed to the back and they all wrecked so now we're in the back and then we spent the next like literally 150 laps back there just kind of riding around because there's nowhere to go they're kind of get single file up front maybe there's a pack of three or four cars on the bottom that doesn't go anywhere past like

ninth or 10th. it's just and the biggest thing that was getting me yesterday was just the abrupt checkups that would like seem like they came out of nowhere like it'd be we'd all be good in the three and a good in the three I spotted more of that than anything else like it would just be you know you're talking you're telling like part of our job is telling the driver how much room the car in front of them has in front of them so it's like you know one out the front one tight tight you know that because they would just stop you know like speaking of checkups can we bring up how stupid the 34 and the 38 where yesterday there's a segment later I was going to bring it up when we can talk about

When the pack, the pack is too wide, okay? The racetrack is two and a half lanes wide. And we catch two teammates, the 34 and the 38. One decides to run the top. The other one decides to go where? The bottom. To the bottom. So guess what you leave?

One lane open for freaking two wide traffic coming at you. And then the 38, not only did he do something stupid by not getting in the same lane as his teammate, then he hit the freaking wall. And then he freaking about right rear to me and turn me head on into wall. God bless Cody wears heart because he hit a freaking ton on that inside wall because of the 38. So like I don't know what you spotters and what you drivers are saying to each other in that scenario, but it was the wrong thing. I was ira.

I literally saw us catching this. I was like, this cannot be happening because these are two veteran spotters. This is Michael McDowell who should know how to handle this situation and a rookie who surely to God has enough information to know what to do in this situation. Like how this this literally looks like an arc of race. Yeah. And like McDowell was multiple laps down. So it wasn't like he was trying to get the lucky dog right there.

I don't think. You know, when we were coming up on them, you know, you kind of, same thing I'm sure you guys do. I told Bubba like there's two on the bottom. They're kind of hooked up,

but they're 20 out the front. All right. They're 10 out the front. Holy shit. They just split lanes. Like. Same thing I said. Like now it's like you got to follow.

Wherever the 24 goes go with him. And we all went through the middle. But I'm sure by the time. front. Yeah. By the time they got back to that 10th or so where they were too wide, then it's, it's just a wreck. Oh, yeah. You know,

that was back in there when that was happening. It was awesome. I don't, I don't get it. That was, that was high on my list of what idiot candidates. I don't know. I don't even know.

Whoever pulled to the top was the idiot. I don't know who that was 38. I couldn't remember who which carb did what, but I just know that they, it was, it was about as dumb as it gets. We still talking about Kyle? Are we knowing that?

You can talk about it. Yeah. Go for it. spot on for Kyle being Kyle. His interviews are always, I mean, I want to watch him, but they're interesting. So spot on. Mike Snyder says I should have whipped his ass last year

about Riley Herps after Snyder stayed out for a late restart on the front row with sparks shooting out of his car in the Xfinity race. Spot on, spot off DJ. I don't understand this. Why should he have, like, why does he want to fight Riley? Well, Riley wrecked him. ish he wrecked him ish he was inside and riley was inside of mya myatt came down and then riley was like see ya hmm i'm confused is is myatt gonna say this same thing next year when riley does

something that he should have whooped his ass this year like stop being talking about it either whoop his ass or shut the fuck up that's the end of it my god i should have whooped his ass we'll go do it jesus i mean i just you know, on the other side of the fence. I don't think you should have restarted the race where you were at with a car throwing a sparks after that. But I don't think it was, I think they had issues the whole time. And he got rolling fine.

And I don't really know. I guess, you know, Riley was panicking because he saw the sparks. But I would have around him too. When you get to that corner, who knows where that guy is going to go? Where are you going to do for yourself there? Where's the top line going to be by the time you get around a 31? Where are you going to be when that guy goes sideways in the corner or something breaks?

Shove them. Get them out of your way at that point. I can tell you this. They're not supposed to spark. I think that under yellow Under 55 mile an hour You're sparking

It's gonna be really bad at 175 or 80 It looked to me like I think he was just dragging a sway bar Because like When that comes off That doesn't do anything Don't worry about that I might not come off

Is that something you think That he His team should have told him To pull off Or NASCAR to have told him to No Well then what was There's

What was there worse? I've seen worse If there was 50 to go Yeah get out of the way What was there Three to four to go I'm not pulling off then I mean I would have probably risked it all right there

But you know I mean you like it's probably his only shot to get to playoffs right there You know or his best shot to get into playoffs Um No I'm not pulling off especially like if you if you don't know what it is and you just see sparks And you feel like you've had an issue all race and you could probably They probably had a good idea of what it was So you know just hey go for it but I don't know So did Maya whip his ass after the race?

I'm pretty sure nothing happened after the race I don't know maybe I missed it So he didn't whip his ass out of it? last year. He didn't whip his ass last year. And he didn't whip his ass Saturday. No, so maybe next year he'll talk about how he wants to whip his ass, he should have whipped his ass this year. I don't know. Huh. Weird. This next topic's going to be a good one.

Spot on spot off. Corey Heim wins the truck race after lap teammate John Henningichick pushes him past their other teammate Chandler Smith and Smith says, Jason. Chandler Smith said a lap truck who was his teammate John Hernanemechek just

shoved a guy out that won the race and then blocked everyone else that had a run. I get it. We're teammates. We're trying to help him out, but you f***ed your other teammate. Spot on, spot off, Brett. Freddie, what glasses you have on for this? I still don't have my sunglasses from John Hunter. John Hunter.

They're reing glasses. He's going to get you. John Hunter Nemechek with the biggest bag of the Move Award of the year. Congratulations. We're four or five races into this season and you've already won this thing and locked up the title for the year. at two laps down, when there were two laps to go,

you should have bailed out of the draft and said, hey, you boys race for the win. I don't deserve to be a part of this conversation today. You can't win a lucky dog. You can't get a wave around because they're not going to pit if the caution comes out. Why would you insert yourself into this scenario and be that guy? And look, I get it. We're race and his teammates are up there.

Yeah, you're not lying. Help one teammate and screw the rest of them. I'm like, I don't know why you think you'd think you'd, deserve to be a part of the race for the win because you don't you're two laps down sorry you're crazy I'm all for it who won the race the team that he helped kbm won because of john hunter emma check your job in my opinion is win the race for your team if you can't win the race make sure your team wins the race and that's what he did they didn't have to let him in line they they they you know he side drafted his way in the line they could have hung him out and tried

harder to hang him out earlier but hey listen this is what you have teammates on the racetrack for. We've seen teammates help teammates in the past. We saw Denny Hamelin, I think, was it to clash a couple years ago? Laps down push Aaron Jones. Eric Jones was wrecked and Danny got behind him and pushed into the win. You know, I'm all for it. That's a fun race as well. But here's the problem. Listen, and I'm all for this too. You just painted a huge, huge target on your back. Because Brett said, it is a d'a-head thing to do. You know, it is, you know, you're, you're, you're definitely going to pain of target on your back and he got this is the guy that almost missed a championship last year or maybe

did i can't remember he was was he was in the championship for yeah he was but he got wrecked he got wrecked at martinsville and almost missed it because of the way he races some people so hey listen if you're willing to be the bad guy and piss a lot of people off to help your team win i'm all for but his job there was to make sure he won or kbm one and kbm one and to chandler's point listen the 51 had the run and at that point the 51 was in the best position to win the race so that's why he went with him. And that's, and, and I think if KBM wins the race, John Hunter did his job. Now, whether or not it's popular or whether the, you know, the, the competitors are going to like it or the fans are going to like it, I would assume not. I didn't, I didn't think it was the,

the smartest thing on his part. But hey, if that's what he's willing to do, be the bad guy to help his team win, I'm good with it. I am spot off for it. You're saying, uh, basically you're saying one of them wasn't going to win if he wasn't there, because I disagree. I think one of them still win the race. You don't think he helped them win? Yeah, but I think one of them, their first and second, let him race it out. Did you think he helped them win the race? Yeah, he helped him win.

That's all. But, I mean, that guy was in the position. They might have won, you're right. He was in the spot. He needed to be in to win the race regardless. 100%. But he definitely helped them win the race. I don't think,

I don't like whether teammate or not. I don't like to see lap trucks. You know, you hang out, you hang out up there until the white flag comes out. then or you know when you're not going to get the lucky dog or whatever then you just you get out the way you let them guys race it out in my opinion that's that's what i would do you know that's i know that's the kind of a respect thing that that people do you know some will do it some will don't i mean not every driver is going to pull over not every driver is going to push you know so

that's what he chose to do and like you said he's the there's consequences of both things so he's just going to have to see where that takes it last year we were in this position in the Daytona 500 where we ended up with a loose wheel late in the race and ended up a lap down and we were in that single file train of whatever it was 10, 12 cars. And we were a lap down. We were the only one in there a lap down. So we were in the position for the lucky dog. So we were kind of just hanging out waiting.

And I said, just sit back here because there's no bottom line. So when if the Toyota's go down there, Danny, there wasn't many Toyota's left, I'm sure. But Danny was in like two cars ahead of us. I'm like, we're here to help the 11 right now. Like if he goes somewhere, we're going to go with him. and then by the time we took the white, I knew we couldn't get a lucky dog and the run just weren't general, you know, generating,

we kind of bailed to the bottom, ended up still getting in the wreck, but we were kind of bailing out halfway down a backstretch. And, but, you know, that was just because there wasn't nobody to help, really. If Danny had gone to the bottom, I'm sure we would have been right up his ass trying to push him as far as we could. So, you know, like I said,

if you're there to, for one, make sure John Hunter's there to make sure the four truck wins. If the four truck don't win, four truck finished 24th. His job is to make sure or do what he can to help maybe the 18 and the 51 win. His best finish of the year is 24th. Second across the line. 24th, 25th, 24th, and two lapsed out.

Hey, like I said, that's definitely unpopular. But listen, I don't have any issue with it. As long as you don't mind being the bad guy. Moving on to Freddie's favorite person in the world, in response to Jennifer's thread about Texas Mother Speedway's lack of effort for the IndyCar race, Denny Hamlin tweets Tracks are taking all the money yet not reinvesting it back into their

facilities. If teams just showed up with vendors ripped off in junk pit equipment or pit boxes, NASCAR would have a serious problem with that. Why can't we treat the tracks the same? Brett, spot on, spot off. Look, man, I I'm going to go down a path here. You can have my time on this too because

I don't need it. You can just take my... I mean, look, man, the first time I went to Kentucky Speedway, I was expecting to roll in, because Kentucky Speedway wasn't that old when we went there for the first time of the Cup Series. I never went to watch an Xfinity Series race. But I rolled into there, and this facility is disgusting. It's not clean.

It's never been pressure washed. There's crap everywhere. Like, I could not believe that we were going to charge fans 100 plus dollars to come to this place that wasn't great. And so when I look at our sport from a facility's perspective, like, I mean, look, we just saw the Raiders build this amazing, amazing venue out in Las Vegas. Right? So, like, I mean, when I go to these other sporting events, look, I love sporting events. I go every chance I get.

I get, I'm on Team Denny with this, man. I get upset when I go to racetracks and I see cigarette butts from three years ago in the corner and a spider web. And look, man, I was at Daytona. Okay, we spent $400 million. Did you hear how much that is then? $400 million to renovate Daytona. All right, I get there this year, and I love working with our guys at Daytona,

but I spent an enormous amount of money in my mind on behalf of our sponsor to host 50 guests in a suite. I get outside, and the patio furniture is rusted. I have to send a member of my team to a freaking hobby lobbyer somewhere, or Michael's to get freaking tablecloths to cover up their nasty tables. Like, you have a lot of,

the ability to store this stuff and keep it nice. Or if you don't, take the money I just gave you for this year and go buy me new tables. Right. So I think from a facilities per step perspective, we've got to offer our fans the cleanest, nicest amenities that we can. How many people yesterday had problems using their cell phones? How much money did you spend on asphalt? Maybe you should have put a second cell phone tower out there. Right. So I am all about the fan experience. There's a lot of places in our sport that need facelifts, right? When I go to Darlington Man and I'm in the suite in turn three, I don't have an issue because I feel like this suite has a lot of nostalgia in it. I feel like I'm back in the 80s. You know why? Because it's been well maintained. It's clean.

But when we go to some of these tracks, they're not keeping up with the times. And that's just the way it is. That's the way I am from a fan guest experience perspective. If we're going to charge premium dollars for these people to come do these things. Las Vegas Motor Speedway. We charged a premium dollar to have a sweet experience. How was that sweet, Jason? It was awesome. Yeah, it was very nice. It was very nice. We had a pretty sweet as anybody could have in the state of Nevada that particular day and time. That's how I go about my business. That's how I run my events. We've got to treat the whole experience that same way. You know, yesterday, I don't know if anybody besides me and Brett saw this, but you talk up like, tracks need to be held to a higher standard. And the

line to get into the track yesterday was absurd. Quarter mile long. It was absurd. I don't know what happened. Obviously, it's great. We have fans there. It's a shame they all had to miss probably the entire pre-race. And I would assume, judging by the length of that line,

they were not in there for the green flag. Because I was going to the roof from where they have little spotters hang out before the race. And there was maybe 20, 30 minutes to the green flag. And there's no way that the guys at the back of that line got in before the green flag happened. I don't know what the problem was. I know one thing.

It needs to be resolved before we go back in July when it's 150 degrees outside. But, you know, just like, of course, I don't know if you guys know this or not, but Denny's great. And if he's not careful, he's going to get called to the NASCAR hauler pretty soon. But I don't think he cares, you know. You guys going to go together? Maybe. They were, but they were cutting purses. And Texas Motor Speedway went and built big halls, the biggest television in the world at the time.

like you're cutting purses. Why are we doing that? Well, I'm going to tell you why we did it to make it an awesome fan experience because we had to have a TV bigger than the one at Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Okay, that's fine. But make the facilities clean. Yeah. I mean, if you let, you know, that was the big, that was the way this thread came from

was Jenna talking about, you know, bulbs being out on Big Haas. And then you start reading the fan comments and replies to this. And it was, I'm never going back because the bathrooms were dirty or didn't work or whatever. Like, how does that happen? Here's what you need. Here's what you need. You need Roger Penske. That's what I was just going to say.

All you need is Roger Penns. Because India is phenomenal. The minute that day, the minute that guy bought Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I would eat off the concrete. It's so nice there. The bathroom is freaking cleaner than the bathroom. I walked out of the bathroom there and I said, I literally, I walked out being like, wow. And guess what Roger Penske was doing when we got there?

He was walking around looking at every single detail of that racetrack. He was in the grandstands. He was in the bathroom. bathrooms. He was in the concession stands. I saw him with my own eyes. Yeah. This guy was invested in making sure he had a pristine venue. And guess what he had? A pristine venue. Yeah, Roger, the indie looks phenomenal there. I mean, the facility, just walking around it. You just, I mean, it's just nice, super nice. They did a really good job. There's TVs everywhere now, big TVs all over the place to see everything. You know, one day I want to go to the Indy 500 and

experienced that event, but I'm sure it's off the charts, the atmosphere there for that. But facility helps do that. Nashville. We hadn't been in Nashville in a while when they announced we were going back. I was legitimately nervous. They did a phenomenal job. I thought Nashville looked great. Making Nashville ready for us.

St. Louis is on deck. St. Louis is charging a lot of money to do corporate hospitality out there that particular weekend. I've never seen rates as high as what some of the rates they're charging. But guess what? You better have a freaking nice facility or you're going to get on blast with us because

you cannot ask people to come out and spend money and spend time and be invested and you not provide them an awesome venue. And every single racetrack we go to should be the nicest racetrack in the world that particular weekend. Yeah, I'll tell you, between Kyle's interviews and Denny's tweets, they got stuff covered. That KBM, the PR department, they're probably. Oh, man. We need them to come on the show together.

I might have to follow Danny. Geez, I might have to follow him pretty soon. Perhaps start paying them for all this content they provide us. I appreciate it. NASCAR is allowing Hendrik Mother Sports and Chevy to build a modified next-gen car to compete in the 2023, 24 hour of Lamont. And Denny Hamlin says Toyota wasn't invited to the party. DJ, spot on, spot off. I don't know the ins and outs of this.

I don't know. I mean, I really don't know. I mean, is there some sort of benefit to it? I have no idea. I know 24 Lamas is a very big race for a lot of people. Do you think that this looks like NASCAR is playing favorites by picking Hendrick Motorsports to partner with them in this effort? I think that I didn't get that impression, but I didn't initially get that impression.

I think that's what Danny is insinuating here, obviously, that there's some kind of collusion between NASCAR and. and Hendrick and and this what is it called track attack program is probably not helping that at all right now but you know obviously that's a whole different deal nowadays but you know I don't know maybe there should have been one car per manufacturer that would have probably been a little more I think I think if if you hold a meeting right if I'm NASCAR and I don't know who headed up this initiative do we know who headed up this initiative okay let's just say that it's TJ Majors if T.J. Majors is brass at NASCAR, and he holds a meeting.

I kind of am. I mean. And he says, hey, guys, this is what we're going to do with any of y'all like to be a part of this. If they do that, is any team owner in the garage, do they have any reason to be mad right now? Yeah, hey, guys, we should take one of each of us and go here and run. What's just saying? If they opened it up and said, does anybody want to do this? And Rick Hentress is the only one that says, yeah, nobody has the right to be mad. Maybe it was. I don't know.

Maybe it wasn't. I don't know. Does not sound like that happened. So if that happened, then he shouldn't be mad, right? But if it appears that did not happen, which is why Denny's upset. And if I'm a team owner, right, if I'm the Dallas Cowboys team owner and you take my quarterback and you take him off to give him special steroid injections to make him a better football player, but you don't offer it all the other quarterbacks,

if I'm an NFL team owner, I'm going to get mad. So I think that the optics of this are, hey, why wasn't this an open invitation if we're going to do this? Why did you pick one team? Why are we not picking all of us together, forming up a group to go? I don't know anything about it really, but I was so happy about this announcement because I was scared to death when I saw the NASCAR was at the EMSA race at Sebring making an announcement. I was like, please do not tell me we're getting another. road course on the schedule. So when I saw this announcement, I was like,

oh, thank God, we're good. What if we did a race where they had to do driver changes and stuff, like a 10-hour race? A 12-hour oval race. Or like another 300 miles at Atlanta. Yeah, just do 500 miles at Atlanta. I needed a spotter change. What if we were going to do one of them?

I'm going to tell you who ain't spotting a 12-hour race ever. Brett Griffin, never. A 24-hour race? It's Freddie would say that would be absurd, not absurd, but absurd. Absurd. Ain't going to happen. I did one 24 hour race and that's the last one I'll ever do

When was that? Like a couple years ago Yeah, three or four years ago Yeah Every 10 minutes I looked at Doug Campbell and said Hey Doug Where the fuck's my car? It's so hard in the middle of the night

Dude, it's so hard You never done that race? Have you done that race? He did it once. Oh yeah The middle of the night That's the most nervous I've ever been

I literally look You know how you scan the track You look around? I looked back and all this thought was Yellow lights, white lights And I'm like Go which one is mine?

Oh my God. And you can't tell. Oh, but you make $5,000. And I'm like, you can have my $5,000 back and I'll give you another $5,000 to take my ass home. And then you start off the weekend with, you know, the guy. Oh, we don't need anything. We don't need any info. Oh, yeah.

And then half through the race, I need more info. Spotter, are you there? Yeah. Yeah, I'm here. You told me another talk. Yep, that's the guy. I had some dude speaking Italy language. That's Italian.

Italy and much. I was like, bro, I can't speak Italy. Italy. I don't know what's what you just said. If you're NASCAR and this opportunity, obviously, next year will be the first year, this is happening. What do you, like, what can you think? Are you speaking Italy? What can you think would be we can see in the future?

Like, a cafe or cappuccino. Do you see them building a whole program around this race or even similar races? I think this is a one-off deal. this is one off. Yeah. I wouldn't be mad if we went to Sebring. I mean, fans are screaming more short tracks since Sebrings are a lot like a short track.

So why wouldn't we go try it? Sebring's rough. I was so happy. I was so happy. I text Brett. I'm like, please tell me we're not getting another short track. I mean, short track. Yeah, God forbid a short track. Another road course.

I just want to fly back and forth the West Coast every week. My back's still messed up. My back's messed up. My butt hurts. Oh, I didn't tell you. So I actually. Oh, God, wait. I did tell.

Hold on, Jason. Have the button ready. I did tell these guys for the show that I felt like Freddy's brother stayed in my house all weekend because I came home last night. I was going to make you an idiot. What happened? One of our three fish were dead. And I proceeded to try to make sure the other two weren't going to expire. And they did.

But this reminded me because I'm down there fixing this fish tank. I look at the clock in that room. And it's like 1115. I'm, or no, it was like 10. And I'm like, oh, sweet.

I got a lot of time left. I didn't fix the clock in that room yet. I was 11. Yeah. Oh, it was like an hour later. And I went upstairs and I'm like, oh,

good news. We solved that problem. We don't have to change clocks anymore. That was a pressing issue. Yeah. Yeah. I think it might be a few more and then eventually. Oh,

yeah. Oh, so the dude. So I'll tell you what else John didn't do any house at. He didn't get the mail out of my mailbox. I opened the mailbox. Damn, John. Bro, you couldn't have fitted

a paper clip in my mailbox That's so much mail's in it. Yeah, but I don't know what John did for a week at my house. I know what he did. He killed Fred. He gave Fred mouth to mouth. He killed Fred and he did not get

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slash DBC. Yeah, this is Andrew. I am the Brett Griffin fan club president of the Indiana chapter. Finally, yes! Way to go, Josh. Way to go! The data tells me that Bubba still sucks. Freddy, you can't see shit.

I just want to say, I'm not drunk. My great grandma here I run him and she's 90-8. Reacts in theater. Rolls in three. Two, one. With all this talk of safety and consistency, I don't know how they can keep that 31 car out when he has fire shooting out the back of his car and almost destroyed the whole field about 20 seconds later. I just had flashbacks to Ross Chastain indie last year. I mean, that was just the tire rub.

And come on, just unacceptable. Man said fire shooting out of the back of the 31 car. Listen, if you're rolling and it's going to accelerate with two to go, you're not coming in. Just so we're fucking clear. Okay. You can force someone off the racing surface below double yellow line. No penalty. You can wreck someone on purpose.

No penalty. But if you get forced below the yellow line and go there to avoid wrecking the person forcing you down there, you get fucking penalized. the future. Don't go below the yellow. Just dump the guy. NASCAR's full of shit. Brett? I'm waiting for him. I mean, the yellow line rule, which was a white and red line this week. I don't know why it wasn't double yellow. I guess just because we don't want to be consistent, but that's what calls the last red.

Yeah. And what he's, what he's talking about is Christopher Bell. Christopher Bell got, you know, blocked below the yellow line and went below the the old line to complete his pass and got penalized for it. and uh you know it's like we talk to me and brett we're gonna want to text with bob this week love bob he'll text us something tomorrow about what's something stupid we said on here but uh you know it's it's just you put yourself in a position to have to make judgment calls and you don't every the rule book should be black and white and and now you're in a position

where who's to blame there ross clearly you know forced christopher to go below the line so I thought that was the penalty. I thought if you force the guy, you're the penalized car. Now Christopher gets a penalty because he went below the yellow line to avoid Ross. Who's to say which one's right, which one's wrong? Why is it not both? When they get busted for pushing at the race, you know, in the plate races, both guys go to the back.

So if you force the guy and you go below, it should be both these get a penalty. Funny Bob's story. He tweeted something about rain flaps at Roadcourse is starting next weekend. and Rodney Childers quote to him. So I'm so glad you send out all this so we can learn what we are doing. Yeah. Did you see that?

That was great. I do think they actually, we heard them flaps mentioned a long time ago though, I think. Yeah, but Rob had like what they're supposed to be made out of, how they're supposed to be installed. And apparently that was the first time Rodney had seen that diagram. NASCAR won't listen. And I don't care. You really need to fix the right F in rear. I mean, that was a good effort.

I'll put the edible down. Yeah. But, yeah. I thought that was a team issue, I think. Let's go, boys. Finished in the top ten. Well, one of them did anyway. Go Chris Buster.

Gotta be proud of Brad Keselowski with the 12th place finish. Hell of a race there in Atlanta Motor Speedway. Hell of a race, he said. I do think people were 100% loving it or 100% hating it. Like, I don't think there was a lot of middle ground yesterday on the whole fan deal. You know what I mean? But I will say this, man, Atlanta was a packed house and they were on their feet to watch the end of it. And I'll tell you what, it's got, it's a one-off.

Like, it's, that's going to be Atlanta now. You know, I don't want to do this like you said it. I don't do this every week at every mile and a half. I miss the old Atlanta wearing out, you know, tires and stuff. But this is a unique event now. Yeah. please shorten these godd s races i watch the f1 race this morning it's an hour and a half of action-packed racing you don't want to turn it off that's a lie then you go to our show

and it's six hours long and everybody on the announcers and the broadcast but you know what i don't blame them because how else you're supposed to fill six hours of time when the drivers aren't even trying till the end of the stages that's the sake nassus that's a lot are the races should be an hour and a half tops. Oh, the lie. Britsch is ignored because this guy disagree. I got his home. I will say I watched most formula on race,

and it's exciting. I mean, when they... It's exciting. No, listen, it's only exciting when a guy's leading by four seconds, and then the guy in second pits, you know, decides to pit, and then the guy picks the next lap that's leading, and then it's the excitement is to see where they come out near each other, and then they have to have the DRS,

And they race for two, three laps, you know, until the one guy that's faster. Sounds super exciting. And then it gets spread out until the next cycle again. The, what do you call? What's that guy's named? Crofty or whatever that calls the F-1 races. He makes it seem like it's the most exciting race in the world. He does an amazing job.

They do a really good job, yeah. Because you think that they're racing their asses off, and there's no way that guy's going to have any shot at passing the other guy. Well, I mean, I will say that the first time the pit sequence came around, Verstopping. I mean, Verstappen was able to pass. passed him. They swapped lead two or three times, but then once LaClair got out in front, just by far enough, and they couldn't get the DRS, it was, but if there wasn't DRS,

they'd never pass. Yeah, I'd be. But it was exciting for a few laps at a time. Technology, thumbs up, personality, thumbs up, exciting. No, F1 has never been exciting. Not in, not throughout an entire broadcast. Yeah, there's points that it's exciting, but like, yes, yes, yes, I would agree with that. Jason, I'm sorry, I know you got your, you got your F1 over there. You can't say that. You can't say that.

You can't say that. He gets excited about F1. Yeah, the production quality is like watching that and they go watch the NASCAR race. It's kind of, it was a letdown. Oh, before you play it, did you see the end of the race? Like when they were doing the victory lane stuff? They parked the car on this huge TV screen.

Did you see that? I don't think so. Dude, it's amazing. They had a huge screen, probably this size behind the car, and the car was parked on one of them the same way, and it looked awesome. Like a digital board? Yes. The car was sitting on, and it looked... Killer?

It looked, yes. Oh, they do experiential stuff. They got that figured out. Yeah. Man, I don't want to be this guy, because I don't really like this guy, but I don't know if I like that shit or not. I really don't. I am undecided on whether or not I think that was a good race. I guess it was entertaining and Mike Davis is going to eviscerate me.

What do you want? What do you want? People? No, I don't. I don't need 40 fucking lead changes for me to say that it's a good race. I want good racing. I don't need guys. I don't need to be worried about when they hit the freaking wall for me to say, is that a good race or not?

I mean, I don't know if I liked it. I really don't. I really don't. Is it a good race if Corey Lejoy finishes top five? after everyone else, Rex. I think that it's a good race because Coralajal always finishes in the top five. Like, that's a guy that could use a great finish

and could use some attention. And, I mean, look, he survived the carnage. He ran top 15 during the majority of the final stages of the race. Like, I think stuff like that makes it a good race. Now, did he draw it out of a hat? I mean, nah, I don't think he did. Did you see the picture of his car when he slid through the grass,

all four tires are in the air. Literally, Cori LaJoy's, all four tires are in the air. He had a great tweet. You see his tweet? That's how you're back into a top five. That's awesome. All four tires are literally off the ground.

Yeah, man, I'm a LaJoy fan. I think he's got a good personality for our sport. Noah Gragson, speaking of personality, he gets on my plane last night and he sits right behind me. He goes, you guys going to talk about me tomorrow? What are you going to pick to talk about me tomorrow? about. I said, I don't.

I was like, no, I don't think you did anything stupid this week, did you? He said, no, I just wreck running by myself other than how to do anything stupid. I was like, well, I guess I'll bring up that we had this conversation since you want to be on our show so bad. I like watching Noah race. He's trying. I mean, he's always been a text last week. Come on. He never answered me.

Oh, he didn't even answer you. He ghosted you. I think that was great for the sport. I think he is a really good race car driver. Obviously, him and Luke Lambert working well together to start the Xfinity series off until this past weekend where they had some problems. These guys were top three everywhere they went. So he's definitely a good thing for our sport.

They had some problems all right. We need him in the Cup series. J.R.M. Problem's name was Trevor Bain. He took out the whole company in one shot. You got Bained. You got Bained. Dear John, we see it all now that Fred's gone.

Don't you think he was too young to be messed? with his guinea pig friend cried the whole day long we should have known we see it all now that fred's gone don't you think brett's girls were too young to be messed with so reaction theater wrote you a song you should have known we should have known we should have Oh, Brett, you should have known. Dedicated to Fred Griffin, run and play. It has to be March 2020. What a terrifying name that would be. He's going to cry over that song.

That was great. That other guinea pig ain't made a sound sense. Like, they used to run around and everyone, like, doing all this. He's depressed. John was right. Arlo has not made a peep. Arlo, how one's name is Arlo?

Yeah. depressed. He's depressed. Payton, now you have to work on song for TJ's fish. Did they have a guinea pig therapist or you got to take him to a human therapist? I don't know. I'm going to have to pay for it either way. I'm a little worried right now because I did leave the three fish in a small bowl in my garage

on my workbench and I'm pretty sure my daughter's going out there playing right now. Oh, she's going to see them. Yeah, that's not good. They're just sleeping. How would they know? How do you kill three fish at the same time? Nobody's going to know. How do you kill three fish at the same time?

I don't know. I literally thought the other two were, I mean, I was getting ready. Sleeping. I was getting ready to John this thing and try to give his CPR somehow. Like, you know, a little fish or something, man. Fish killer. I'm thinking about finding Nemo right now with Darla, tap in the glass or thing. Oh, I tried everything.

I also thought about flushing them too. I'm not going to lie. Gone. These poor animals. Meet your guinea pig friend out at sea. To leave an audio message 24-7, go to anchor.fm. Slash door bumper clear and click the message icon. We'll keep playing the best ones on the show each week.

Offer pad. Question of the week. What officially marks the start of spring at your home? When do you start spending more time outside? T.J. Oh man. I mean, as soon as it gets, as soon as it gets like now, now's perfect. I mean, it's a good time to start getting outside until the ground is covered in yellow from pollen. Then it becomes go inside time for a little while. So, you know, it's usually really nice in the afternoons right now and the evenings are really, really good. It takes a little cold as I woke up this morning and it was 66 degrees in my house. So that was kind of cold. But, you know, this is probably one of my favorite times the year. I really like fall. And Western New York, we used to get all four seasons up there really good. And but springtime, that was a really good time of the year.

Baseball season, man, that means springs here. I do wish there was a way to figure out how to get rid of mosquitoes and pollen. If that's the only, if I could get rid of two things in this world, it would be them little aggravating ass mosquitoes and all that yellow pollen that falls and gets our cars dirty and it gets on our shoes and we're tracking it in the house. Like, man, I can't stand. pollen. The start of spring for me is when my eyes start itching and I can't breathe because it's pollen season and I can't take enough algae medicine. But yeah, pretty much Bodey's baseball

season is the start of spring for me too. I think they start this week, right? Yeah, this weekend. I was scrimmage yesterday. That's our, it'll consume most of our, I guess our off week. That's what we're going to do, watch baseball. Yeah. Go get a cash offer on your home today with our presenting sponsor, Offerpad.com. What an idiot, man. Time for What an idiot. And I imagine Freddie and Brett have already said who's theirs are. No, I have not said who mine is.

I just said who's on my list. I have not said mine either. Go for it. So we were sitting in our pit box and we were getting ready to change tires. And our Jackman, our tire carrier, and our tire changer came around in front of the car. And David Reagan just ran over all three of them. So I got to give him the What an Idiot Award. Like, you've been doing it.

Honestly, I was like, is Josh Balicki driving this car? Like, who is in this car that isn't aware of what's about to happen? You knew you were coming around us. You knew our crew guys were going to be coming. And there literally was not enough room for even Casey Boat to walk around this car because of how tight he came in on us. So, man, that was pretty dumb and dangerous. Go ahead.

Knock it out of the park. So I had four names on my list. One is my one idiot for sure. But 38 and 34 were my, they were on my list. list. Mya Snyder got added to my list because I didn't know he said this until just now. That hauler driver. Oh, yes.

He saw this. Tinkane to the top of that trailer. It was the Riem. Josh Rium. Rune, whatever. I think it was their truck hauler. Is he Italian? He tried to go out. He's Italy. They tried to go out the wrong tunnel. What an idiot.

And Pant can't open his trailer. It's so bad. I'm just glad he's okay because I hope he's okay. I have not heard How about how many fans saw that? There's so many pictures. But my one idiot for the week has to go to myself because we were staying. I was going to use that too. We were staying in Peachtree City, Georgia, which I have never been to in my life.

And we got up and headed to the track and Jason Jarrett was driving and I was navigating. And that's the last time that'll ever happen because I took us about 25 minutes in the wrong direction by hitting the wrong button. on my like I had Atlanta Motor Speedway and Brett had me look up a SDK steakhouse the night before to see how far it was. And for some reason, they were both on my history. And I just must have missed and clicked the SDK. So we were, we were heading the SDK in Midtown Atlanta instead of the racetrack for about 20 minutes before I realized.

Hey, well, we see air. Why do we see airplanes? Are we close to the airport? What the fuck is going on here? And I said, Jason, are you sure we're going the right way?

I said, yeah, of course. I started scrolling. I go, nope, we are not going the right way. So we rolled in, and Jason is notoriously early to the racetrack. I am notoriously late. So he was on my plan this week because we got there.

TJ was sweating for Jason when I got there. Jason's usually there like early, like one of the first ones. And he has his headset on like 30 minutes for practice. And it was 30 minutes for practice. And he wasn't even there. And I'm like, I about calling. I'm like, because it's very unlike Jason to not be there. Wow, he had to be sweating.

He wasn't, you know, he was. He did. He was. I'm sure. Not on the inside. I saw his face. I saw a look at us as a weekend walking up there and it was just like... I said, we got plenty of time.

Practice is 10.45. It's ETA's 9.58 or so, 10.01 or something. I said, we get... It's good. It was pretty rough. Yeah, there was a loss to pick from this week. I mean, between hauler drivers, lap cars splitting on a narrow track. Navigators.

Not only did a hauler driver drive through the wrong tunnel and hit his trailer and get stuck. Like, he drove it in pretty deep. he had me going in a pretty high rate of speed like to do all that damage that had to scare him I'm just like he's okay because a lot of times like you see bridge accidents like that like a guy

it's a bridge they're obviously going much faster do you fire that guy I don't know how you don't I don't know if you but it's hard to find good help but though Tony Raines I think Josh was running the Xfinity race so this happened this is his truck hauler so this happened during the

Xfinity race and Raines was packing up his bag during one of them red flags and he's like I don't know what to do. And I said, what do you mean? He's like, well, Josh just wrecked his car. And I don't want to be the one to tell him, hey, your hollers are even worse on the back stretch. Yeah. What a bad day.

That's a bad day for him. Jason, do you fire that guy? Well, I feel like not many people volunteer to be a hauler driver. So you may need. You're crazy. Everybody wants to be a hauler driver. Everybody in the truck and business is like, I want to be a hauler driver. Until they drive.

Until they race. To me, because we need hauler drivers or people. to help with CBI. If you do become a haul of gyro at CBI, just learn what tunnels you can and cannot drive out of. We saw this last year. Was it last year at Indy? T-Mez destroyed his

T-Mez destroyed his souvenir trailer going out of the wrong tunnel at Indy. It's all a blur. Which that trailer had already been wrecked by Chris Windham going through a toll booth. I think the only way I would fire the guy is if he agreed to pay, if he agreed to pay the deductible, I would not fire him. But if he didn't agree to pay the deductible,

deductible. Here you go. I mean, yeah. I feel bad for me. That's a whole other level of dumbass. Hey, what's up, DBC fans? If you haven't heard about Anchor, it's the easiest way to make a podcast. Let us explain. Well, first of all, Freddie, the best part is it's free. There's nothing better than using a free awesome service. To make the process simple and easy, there's creation tools that allow you to record and edit your podcast right from your phone or computer. Anchor helps people find your show by distributing the podcast for you so it can be heard on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and many more platforms.

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I lost on the last freaking lap. I was going to win. Who'd you have to? I know that feeling. That's right. I won in Atlanta with Chris Bisher. And now everyone is tied for the lead with one win apiece.

So for Coda, Freddie, you get to go first since you suck. Wow. Jeez. Cota. Pretty impressive. We're all tied. Is my man driving a 16 this week? AJ Amundinger

will be in all the road courses in the Cup series for Colleg Racing, Freddie. AJ Almondinger. Is that your pick? Yep. I'm going to go with the legend, Kyle Book. The legend. Yep.

I can't believe I lost. It should have been two to one to one to zero to Casey. I'm going to go with a guy who was on fire who showed a lot of speed last year at Cota. In the rain and in the dry. This guy learned how to road race, in my opinion, from A.J. Amandinger, Ross Chastain. I'll pick Austin Cindrick.

You're going to suck. Why? What an idiot He's racing Yeah he's racing Jason's just looking at me like What are you know Is he raised?

I was thinking today I'm like When you make your picture You have way more knowledge About what's going to happen And I do And I'm just like Oh yeah

He's really good there Same Like She could have seen Jason looked at me He's like What do you know I know

I know I know I will go with Chase Elliott Wow Big gun Big swing She's feeling

confident Hopefully it pays off Happy birthday, Casey. Happy birthday. So what are you going to like? Yeah, what's special party? What's in here? What's happening?

We need to take you out to lunch. Is that going to be your only? Honestly, if you guys want to celebrate my birthday with me, Chad will be racing at Millbridge. So I'll be at Millbridge, Wednesday, probably Saturday. I don't know where Chad's going this week.

It is, but it's a week of celebrating. Like, you're supposed to celebrate. I like celebrating things. I'm not going to lie. Oh. So if you have ideas on how to celebrate my birthday, please let me know because I got nothing.

Unfortunately, I have. You have been to scores? Whoa. Hell of about it. Wow. What kind of food do they serve there? Well, before we close up the show, I want to give a shout out to my new official friend, Soco, because he is giving me. Soco, John Soco?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I got a. And Kip. Well, unfortunately, we did piss off another NASCAR official last week. Of course he did. Kip Childress was mad at Brett. Yeah, he told.

for saying Danica's strived baseball cards. Danica's hot. I saw him in the garage and he was like, oh, man, I have a bone to pick with Brett. So I saw him at the airport and he gave me a look. And I was like, Kip, I got a wig. If you just put the wig on it just look like Danica coming by, I won't know the difference. Air blowing out of the window. Air blowing, flowing, flowing.

I did get somebody ask if I was Danica. Really? Hey, we got to talk about points before we jump. And I know it's early in the season. But let's talk about points. Denny Hamlin. Where's he 50th? 26th in points.

Cole Custer, 28th in points. Christopher Bell, 30th in points. And Harrison Burton, 32nd in points. I definitely didn't see that caliber of teams this buried in the points this many races. Because we've run five races now. Like you get a couple races, get through your deal. The 21's got to get it rolling. 21's buried.

I don't, you know. It's going to be. hard to climb out of any for these guys but obviously some can do it better but the playing field is I mean adding that out these Atlanta's in there like that these are places where he should have made up points Harrison has struggled more than I had anticipated him to struggle this year just watching him kind of kind of looks like he's still getting acclimated to this car a little bit and he has struggled a little bit more than than maybe I had anticipated but you know it's good now he's he's buried in a hole it's going to be

extremely hard to dig his way out of I just I those are or big names with big funding. I mean, some of them guys, you know, like Danny, you would anticipate Danny's probably going to win a race. I mean, he'll probably be able to point his way in anyway. But, you know, a guy like Bell, you know, we've seen early in this year, he's spun out just about every race. You know, I mean, it's going to be,

if you continue to make mistakes like that, it's going to be hard to point your way out. You might, he might be getting, I mean, we five in already. You got 21 to go. 20 to go. You know, you got a long way to go. I mean, obviously, it's still pretty tight. but you've got a long way to go here

and a lot of guys that make up points on. You got to start having, now is the time to start having some decent, quiet finishes. Yeah, like you better, it's either, take a 10th. Yeah,

like just take what the car's giving you to it right now. Yeah, I mean, and look at Denny. I mean, he was pressing an issue yesterday when he caused that wreck. The more races we go

and, you know, a guy, these guys don't get wins, the 20% of your regular season's over. It's going to be harder. You can't afford many more Mulligans if you're those guys.

You got to, I think you got to get it in the next 10. If you don't get in the next 10, it's going to get really hard. I just think it's worth mentioning. I mean, obviously you got a couple surprise winners, maybe. You know, definitely Austin Cendrick. I don't think anybody saw Austin Cendrick or Briscoe, you know, winning the Daytona 500. Briscoe never even had a top 10 in an Oval and he go out and wins a race, right? So you kind of checked off two guys that, I mean, look at Austin Cinder right now, he's 17th and points.

If he continues to fade, guess what? He's still taking up that last playoffs. Yeah. You're going to have more, and you're going to have a. a lot of winners. Do you see there being more winners than spots? I don't think so. I don't see that. I think there's going to be more potentially, I mean,

Ross Chastain has been on the verge of winning three races now. I still think, I mean, the poor guy has crashed out of the lead or broke out of the lead more times this year than I've ever seen anybody. But Tyler Reddick is going to win races this year. It's the end of the point, period at the end of that statement.

So that's two more guys that did not win races last year that could very easily win. Suarez is in contention to win. You know, there's, there's a lot of guys that could, you know, sneak up here and steal races, which is what this car was designed to do, kind of level the playing field a little bit. Yeah, I think it's worth noting, but we'll see what happens this weekend. We could see another surprise winner. You never know.

Road racing for the first time in this car. We've talked about unknowns, a lot of unknowns coming into this season. Daytona, obviously, California, even Phoenix, right? This weekend, Atlanta, that was an unknown. But do you look at this weekend, first road course? Hey, we're checking the box again. another unknown. If I said it last week, I said again,

if you live with them 50 miles less joint, buy your ticket. Yeah. I think one of the biggest thing to look for this week is these cars race a lot more like road racing cars that some of these guys grew up driving. You know, AJ's one of them. Cendrick's probably one of them. This is a whole different braking package than we've had in the past. And the guys that have always been fast on road courses were fast because they knew

how to outbreak guys that did not know what they were doing. So you might see that disparity show again here a little bit where these guys know how to push it a little bit harder. Obviously, everybody's a good plate racer. These guys are all really good, but there's some guys that will excel this week. Was that your way of saying Bubba's going to sit on the pole? Yeah,

I think we're definitely going to be straight to the top of the board this week. Favorite for the pole bubble walls you heard of here first? Or are you trying to set or are you trying to cover for yourself already? No, no, I don't think so. I mean, it would be fine. But I'm just saying, like I just watching,

I don't know if you were at that roval test, but you could watch guys like AJ that could attack like that final chicanne on the front stretch there. They could just attack it harder. And there were some guys like Reddick. They're comfortable with it. Yeah, they just are more comfortable attacking. Redick would be comfortable driving it in D.B.

He might not get a stop, but he's going to try. So it'll be interesting to see if that plays out a little bit more where you see them road course, quote-unquote, ringers, have a little bit of an advantage on some of the cup regulars. And two, man, some of these guys that are struggling into points, this is going to be a tough weekend for them. Yeah. I mean, Harrison Burton, he's behind B.J. McLeod in points. And he's going to roll into a track in a new car that he doesn't have experience with. like this is going to be a challenging weekend. And I hope he does well with it.

I really do. It's supposed to be hot. It didn't. Thank God. It's not going to. I don't care about it. That might have been the worst. That is definitely the worst conditions.

This is where I got bit by all them like chiggers or whatever last time I was there. Remember that? I don't know what you got bid by, but you got to tell. I was covered in freaking bug bites to this joint. It rained all weekend and whatever got in my pants would not stop biting me. And it covered my. It covered. It covered.

The lower bottom half of my body and itching bug bites. Okay. So, anyway. Take a bath or something. So as always, thank you all so much for listening. And thank you to our amazing presenting sponsor, OfferPad for hanging out with us every week. Go buy your t-shirts and diecastracing.usa.com slash DBC. Bye, boss.

Listen to Dale Jr. download tomorrow. No, don't do that. that. What? Who the hell said that? I like Mike Davis. I like Dale. So, hey, good news.

I did see this last week. Dale does know where our studio is because I saw him here. It's in the commercial. So he's got no excuse why you can't come over here anymore. I'm going to take your line. You're going to show up. Do it. Yeah, do it.

Quit talking about it. Yeah. Quit talking about it. But, yeah, thanks to everybody. Appreciate your listening. We out. I'll appreciate it. Word.

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