Door Bumper Clear - 248 - Bristol Dirt: Right or Wrong?

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

After spending the weekend looking for eggs in the dirt of Bristol Motor Speedway, Brett Griffin, TJ Majors and Freddie Kraft are back with plenty to discuss after the second ever Bristol dirt race weekend.To start Spot On, Spot Off, the gang addresses Kyle Larson’s comments about Cup cars using windshields when dirt racing and whether or not he thinks the series belongs on dirt. They discuss industry and fan responses after the race’s second attempt and offer solutions on how the weekend could be improved.Then, hear their reaction to NASCAR throwing the caution due to cars overheating from the mudding track conditions. They talk about the track prep process and alternatives to avoiding the heat issues that developed in the Next Gen car’s first dirt attempt.Kevin Harvick went a lap down during the competition caution attempting to deal with his overheating issues and shared his displeasure with racing on dirt after getting caught up in a wreck. Are his comments justified?The guys discuss a tweet by Denny Hamlin after NASCAR’s confusing running order after stage 2 during a red flag for rain. Hear what the spotters and drivers were told and how NASCAR responded to the situation. Also, find out why it would have been disastrous to call the race for the rain.Chase Briscoe’s move on the final lap cost Tyler Reddick his first Cup Series win. They break down what Chase could have done differently and react to Tyler’s response. Then they get into the differences between spotting a dirt race and a pavement race.Lastly, hear Cody Ware’s comments over the radio about making contact with Chase Elliott. The crew responds to what Ware said about being disrespected and what he can do to fix that.Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and 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.

Brett, have you broke the toilet? All I hear is echoes coming from the bathroom and water running out. I hope Mike is not here. I can't hear. He went silent. Silent Brett's a bad sign. You broke the seal? Now you're going to have to go every 10 minutes.

What'd you do? Just put the lid on it. Let it run. He's still in there. All right. Ready? Yeah. Hey, what's up, everybody?

You're listening to the door bumper clear. presented by OffaPad. I'm Freddie Kraft, and we're dusty, but we're back from the Bristol Dirt Race. Today we'll cover Chase Briscoe's bold move on Tyler Reddick in the final corner. The confusing, very confusing scoring situation. Chase Elliott having nothing for Cody Ware, racing dirt with windshields and much, much more. Jason, let's get started. Messing the booth.

Stump in the Monday to tell you the truth. Giving the Finnis and breaking the rules. Get called to the hollor to bring it to you. Casey, you pretty, Freddie, you fat. DJ, you suck. Breaking so bad. Jason is facing how to play in this race And if someone don't crash and he's gonna go mad

Looking for Freddy, he's killing the bottle Casey is making messers like a taut The tweet something stupid then don't even bother Brett's gonna block you like TJS or spot I'll 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, clear. There you go, I like it. AJ Majors, spotted the six-cup car this weekend, and I also had the one truck. That's awesome. Brett Griffin, Spotter for old Justin Haley at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Got us a heat race win. That was fun. Yeah, what's up, Freddie Crafts, Spotted for Bubble Wallace, Derek Krause this week. Yep, that's about all I want to say about Bristol. So, what's up, Casey? Hello, guys. Happy Tuesday, I guess it is now. Hey, Jason, how was your weekend?

Hey, it was great. I watched some really exciting Bristol dirt racing. Casey, what time did you show up here? 8.59. I just had to yell at something. Absolutely not. You did not walk in that door at 8.59. I swear, would you like?

We recorded it. And meanwhile, Chad is babysitting Chloe at the shop, so I cannot wait to hear about that one. Let's take care of his own kid. Very nice of him. Jason, you got a tattoo. That is correct. Tell us what day you got this thing on. Last week, I was like, I always wanted to commemorate being a DBC producer.

So if I get Brett Freddie and T.J.'s face. He's tattooed on my arm. I think that would be a great idea. Yeah. You could have got us on your ass. It would just have me and bread on one cheek and a T.J. Well, speaking of my ass, I always wanted to put an M on each cheek of my ass. I bend over, say, mom, do a handstand and say, wow.

Wow, that's a real. I never heard that before. And the show was already off to wear it. So how long did your tattoo take? 40, 20, 10? Probably like 20 minutes. 25 minutes. Did it hurt?

Did you pass out? No, it wasn't as bad as I thought. Did it feel like he was burning? No, it wasn't too bad. How many white clauses you have before? 15. It was not as bad as I thought. My sister got one on her forearm

and she acts like it was the most painful thing ever. I think forearms are pretty like easy spot. So Brett is, I don't know if anybody else is aware of this, but Brett's an asshole. And my wife got the coordinates of where we got married in, tattooed on her forearm in my handwriting. So she showed it to Brett,

and Brett said, is you saving the other four on for where you get divorced? I can't help my six humor. Hey, that's not so bad, though, but not the, I'm talking about the cordoness part because, you know, you can tell anybody what it. I'm just going to say if she gets remarried, she gets go to the same spot and say that was for the. Yeah, like, you can say whatever you want. Like, you know, you can make it up. That's my favorite Bojangles.

That's awesome. So back to last week. Thanks for Bojangles for giving us breakfast. Thanks for the Dell Jr. surprise, Jason. Are you the only, who all was in on this deal? Dale asked, texted Sunday night. He's like, I'd like come on DBC. I'm like, all right, sounds good.

He's like, don't tell anybody. I was about to call you. He'd be like, hey, then he's like, don't say I'm like, all right. Surprise. Well, shout out for him doing that. I thought the coolest part of him coming on, though, was probably two days after when he texted us and said, he wish he could do it every week because he truly got on here and had a good time, I think.

I think that he would like to do that every week. You know, like he, his show now is more about kind of just touching on the current events and then the guest, the guest, you know, and the guest, their show is obviously incredible. Their guests are incredible. But, like, I think if he, you know, you don't want to have him on here every week. We lose it. Like you said, it wouldn't be cool. It wouldn't be as cool if we did it every week.

But I'm sure he'll pop in from time to time. He had enough fun if I think he will. That was pretty cool he jumped in. And I guess the cat's out of the bag that he saved us on the NASCAR meeting. So we were told to keep that quiet. Well, they said it on their podcast. My, oh, so Mike owned it. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, but Mike, Mike told us point of blank, you can't, talk about Adele Jr. on that meeting with you guys. And Dale Jr. gets on here. You're like, oh, appreciate the thanks, guys. It's like, you guys just sold me down the river. And T.J. didn't kiss his ass nowhere near as much as I thought he would. Last week? Yeah. He waited until after.

Why would I kiss his ass? Geez. I want to fight him at the time I'm right. Well, I... Real quick, we're going to have a gift brought over. Oh, here he comes. We got presents. A bottle of water? TJ, what do you got? This is older than...

So a few weeks ago remember another guy named Chase sent us a bunch of alcohol. Yeah. Well, he sent some more. Oh, what is it? Island Park. Scotch. I made a mistake of ordering at one time. Is that the same stuff?

It was. Is that it? You're just 25 here. I was in South Beach and I saw this scotch on top of this shelf and I was like, I want to pour that. It was $695 for one pour. Dumbest thing I've ever done. I think there's some sake. Now we've got a whole bottle.

There's sake? Is that what T.J's got? Maybe T.J's got it. But bread sends me a receipt. Bread sends me a picture of a receipt one night. And it's like $712. And I'm like, what the fuck did you order? And it's like one pour of Highland Park and a bread pudding.

And I'm like, I hope that bread pudding was delicious. Highland Park. That's good stuff. And this will be great. 21 year. I have a blackstone. We just do the rice, you know, night. Make some stocky now, too.

Yeah. Can you do habibachi? Yes, I can do. We probably got to get rid of this. I, I, I, I do. the hat and everything. The Japanese volcanoes, all the thing, you know. Where's the invite?

Chase, thank you. Well, you wouldn't be there on time anyway, so. All right. Well, I would ask how Bristol is, but I'm a little afraid to ask that. So I'm a Talladega. Anybody is excited to go to Talladega? Oh, yeah. Raised.

I could see Freddy's face, like, ready to vent. We got a whole show to vent. All right. Well, let's talk a little. bit about this ultimate Charlotte experience that we have going on. I can't wait. I better hurry up. It's almost sold out.

It's almost sold out. We got so much to do in Charlotte around NASCAR. If you're a NASCAR fan, you've never been to Charlotte. You're an idiot. You've got to come to Charlotte. Yeah, this is like Charlotte, this area during that week is a lot of fun. And, you know, I think our sweet experience just tops it all off as well to go to the race. and it is one of the longest races of the year.

What a great race to have free beer. And food and a place to sit. Air conditioned. Air conditioned, yes. That's very good. In May, that's usually very good. When he said a place to sit right there, I was almost sit in the way he was going to take. I heard we hired a five foot tall model that's going to be there.

Oh, no, that's just Casey. First of all, I'm 5'1, but I will accept the compliment that I'm a model. I was just trying to give you some props. We really hired, we really hired like a two-foot model to come. That's Chloe. How tall is Chloe? What about the like seven-foot guy that's coming? He's, I mean, Jordan, I can't.

I don't think he's quite seven-foot. He's very tall based on the years. I don't think he's any taller than Dale Jr. really? It's about the same height, didn't he? I haven't met him yet, but he seems pretty tall. The coolest thing from Vegas was like, y'all came early in the day, hung out for hours and did the Q&A and stuff like that. And the atmosphere in that room during the Q&A. it was just like everyone's a fan

the show, everyone's a fan in Dirty Mo Media. It was just such a cool experience to be a part of and hearing y'all converts back and forth answer questions and stuff like that. Like that's nothing, you're not going to be able to anywhere else.

Can we add a segment after they leave about them like bashing them? Yeah, Casey, if you stay for the race you can take my role and bash them to everybody else. We will do a live reaction theater. Tell us what you really think. Casey, they would throw you a little ass out of that sweet. They love us.

That's why they're coming. And all 85. Some of us. All 85 pounds of you. And that you just completely explained one of your fantasies that Jordan Taylor is seven foot tall. I mean? I've never met him. He just seems really tall.

Chad's probably a what, five, six, five seven? I can't wait to meet him. Yes. I'm excited to meet him. Me too. Seven foot tall. Yeah. I mean, is he staying like?

I assume so. The whole race, yeah. There'll be some, so y'all will be there before the race hanging out. Then there'll be some dirty mom immediate personalities during the race in the suite with everybody, just hanging out. And that was a cool thing about Vegas, too. Like, you could watch the race, but you could also mingle with people and talk and hang out

and other DBC fans and Dirtymo Media fans. Like, it's just a cool, it's like the coolest way I watch a race. The environment in there was a lot of fun. Like, everybody, it was just a lot of fun. The way that was set up and it was just a lot of fun. I mean, I don't think anybody, everybody in there just had a great time. And even afterwards, like, we left there and Twitter is filled with, man, that was the best time ever.

I can't wait to do it again. So I'm looking forward to going in there. Yeah, I mean, we got a bunch of giveaways. I think we gave everybody a shot of fireball last time we're there. Just about everybody walked away with some sort of Raffle prize. Two people won freaking Dale Jr. Autographed vodka bottles. I want one of those.

Yeah, no kidding. You get me one, Jason? I'll work on it. We had three, but I took one for my house. Oh, so you got one. Oh, of course he did. Private parking pass to Charlotte. Parking could be a hassle, but this will be very nice and close to this.

And it's a great parking pass. Some of them, some tracks they don't have like the greatest sweet parking. Charlotte is not one of those tracks. It's very easy, easy to get in and out of close by. Is there any, uh, might to cut this out? Is there any garage things, Jason, like tours or anything? It's a pre-raced pit road. Okay.

I mean, if you, like the pre-race pit road, who wouldn't want to drive to Charlotte, park close, go get something to eat, go on a pit road tour, hang out down there with, you know, so much room for activities down there. Yeah. See the pit boxes and everything being sent up and stuff. Charlotte does really fun stuff down on the front stretch before the race, on the turf and stuff. So it's a nice. It's a really cool.

The pre-race show for the Coke 600 is. Epic. Easily the best one of the year. Like there's guys jumping out of helicopters in the infield. Freddie gets shot out of a cannon. I get shot out of a cannon. Somebody made a picture of that. I don't know if I sent it to you.

It's amazing. But, yeah, I don't think that'll be this year. I'll have to practice for next year. But, yeah, it's that pre-race show at Charlotte, get there early because it's pretty, It's pretty ridiculous. All right, go buy your tickets now at dirty momentmedia.com. They're almost gone, so get them while they're here. Don't wait.

And before we heading to Spot on Spot Off, how about all the tweets we've been getting with their DBC shirts for Dover Race Weekend? They're awesome. I can't wait. I can't wait to see the Die Kass, man. I know. Two weeks away from Dover. Beautiful car.

Are you going to Dover, Jason? Yes. We're going to Dover doing content of the deep. We're going to put the most content out of any sponsor, of any car in the history of NASCAR. I can't wait, man. Content. head to racing USA.com to get to your DBC shirts. Yeah.

Good, and well, they're hot. Dover will be fun a few weeks away. Prettiest paint scheme and NASCAR. I don't know about prettiest. Let's see how many times it fails tech. They're going to be like, it's just the hood. For some reason, the hood will not get through tech. Apparently when they were wrapping it, Freddy's face on the side was a little too big,

so they had to do some creative wrapping. They cut my face down a little bit. Shed a few pounds off. They just shaved your go-toe. I hopefully took one of my four chins out. All right. Before we head into Spot On Spot Off, let's hear a little bit more about their presenting sponsor OfferPad.

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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 T.J. Um, uh, uh, there's only one correct answer.

I don't know. It's time for spot on, spot off. First topic, Kyle Larson's thoughts on not taking out the windshield to race Bristol dirt. Jason, you want to read that quote? Kyle Larson said mid-last week, we shouldn't race on dirt if we're not going to take the windshields out and actually have a dirt race with moisture in the track and being able to produce a real dirt race. I feel like we're just wasting everyone's time. Brett, spot on, spot off.

Oh man, spot on. I hate to say that too. I mean, Chase Elliott even made a comment like, you know, this isn't really a dirt race. It didn't seem like the industry as a whole really wanted to embrace this race. And I think that a lot of that had to do with the timing of it. You know, you put it on Easter weekend. I don't think anybody love that. And I mean, they're just wanting a ton of excitement out of our industry, which is very odd to be at Bristol.

Because Bristol is one of those places that is very special to drive into and park at. And you can't wait to go inside. But listen, you've got some guys, Kyle Larson, obviously Brist's. go, you know, you got Bell, you got a lot of guys that came out of the dirt series to get here, man. And if you're not consulting with those guys and you don't have those guys excited about getting there, you're already a step behind. So I feel like, you know, Marcus Smith, which is obviously SMI, NASCAR, Fox, they're going to make

this thing happen. They're going to have to get more aligned with drivers and people in the industry for it to be an A plus effort. I mean, if I go through this thing, and I'll just run through. this quick. Racing on Easter Sunday, I gave it an F. Three-day weekend to run a cup race on Sunday night. I give it an F. Track prep

leading in the green flag. Give it an F. Throw in the yellow flag around lap 17, get it an F. Attendance a B because tens of thousands of people showed up. I thought it was a third full. Holds about a what, 160,000 people. Moving the race to a night race, absolutely an A-plus. That was a difference maker in making it something that you could put on a good show. The race itself, C-plus, finish A-plus, plus, plus, plus, plus.

So a lot of A's, a lot of F. You've got to live in that B to C range for me to call it a success. And Kyle clearly knows what he's talking about. Yeah. I'm kind of half and half here. Spot on for the windshields, but spot off for it wouldn't have solved the problem, I don't think, because, you know, the reason why they want the windshield out

is so they can keep moisture in the race track, keep the track tacky, more like you would see your, you know, midget races or late model races, whatever that is, you know, sprint car races. But we would always always. overheated. You know, the problem right now isn't visibility. It's every time they have any kind of moisture in the race track and the track's tacky, you saw the first truck heat race. You saw the start of the race Sunday night.

Anytime the track has moisture in it and it's tacky, you know, the grills get caked with mud and the car's overheat or the truck's overheat. So, you know, taking the windshield out solves half that problem. But then you've got to figure out how to, how to, you know, have the grill opening protected or protected better or more open so that, you know, we don't overheat. I know what Kyle's saying that, yes, ideally there's not a dirt car in the world that has a full windshield in it. Oh, yeah, there is now.

Yeah. But, you know, at the same time, it doesn't solve the whole problem just taking the windshields out. We have to come up with some other stuff as well. Yeah, kind of like Freddie spot on for half. I don't think you can take the windshield out of these cars because if you look at a true dirt car, they can literally pull the seat cushion. out the seat cover out and drive it through the car wash and and pressure wash it off they can do it with basically every dirt car you have and there's not we got a lot more components in there than what a

normal dirt car would have like if we're going to do that i mean we need to just take the dashes out everything with electric you know what i mean like the put a regular water temperature gauge in there or something um i don't i don't know if it's worth doing all that to to have a dirt race and the grill thing not not everybody had any had issues with overheating i guess there was different options for the grill that you could have ram and some of them chose options that you know you know had problems with the overheating so um but i don't know man it's it's we're going to come across something whether the track was it almost has to be like that to start a little bit but then you're also then you got mud all the windshields and stuff like that that i don't know

if we're ever going to find a perfect mix. The fact of the matter is these cars... We're trying to run asphalt cars on dirt. Yeah, you don't belong on dirt. These things are 1,000 pounds heavier than any other dirt car in the world. You know, we're running 150 laps at least

more than any other dirt races in the world. I think the longest dirt race I can think of is the world 100. I know the Syracuse mile used to be, maybe, you know, it was longer, but... Yeah, it was longer. But... Oswego's longer.

Yeah. But, I mean, we're talking hundreds of lapsed. You know, every, every dirt race, if you go to any weekly race, whether it's the outlaws, whether it's USAC midgets, whether it's, you know, majority of your dirt races are somewhere between 35 and 50 laps. And, you know, we're out here running 250 laps. Well, not with a car that's not made to run dirt. And it's a series. Yeah. Had an hour, two hours of practice, basically.

Yeah, which that never happens in the dirt world. You know, I don't know. Why we didn't show up, have a 15, 20 minute practice, run your heat races and race. and race. I mean... In one day. In one day. Not three days.

Yeah. I mean, I'm fine. We took a Richmond schedule that was perfect. It was so efficient. And then we go to Bristol and we completely waste three freaking days of our lives when we could have done it in one. You're spot on for saying that, TJ. Yeah.

I mean, and I got news for you. We're doing this again. I don't know that it's going to be at Bristol, but we're doing it again somewhere. You know, I would assume it's going to be back at Bristol. And I've seen Bob Packers made a video the other day and he's right. Like Bristol hasn't gotten really a fair shake. at this yet because every time we've tried to do it, it's rained. You know, so it's, even if you try to prep the track, you're not, you're still at the mercy

of the moisture coming from the sky versus what you really want to put down on the racetrack. It's hard with our cars because you can't just go out there and race. You can't have a tacky racetrack like you could with any other dirt car. And honestly, I think the rain during the race helped keep moisture obviously in the track. And honestly, I think that rain helped for the high side at the end. I really think it kept it. Yeah, I think if you go back, it's like, you know, it's a double-edged sword. I think the end of the race was amazing.

But you have to start the race the way you started it to get to that point. You can't, I know you want to say like, why can't we just make that track like it was in the end? Well, you can't. That's not possible. You have to start a certain way to get it to that point. So while the racing and the finish was amazing and them guys were using all kind of lanes and, you know, Chase Briscoe's running Belda. I mean, I read it down. So I got a question for you.

if we make it a hundred lap race and put softer tires on the thing because these tires didn't wear out at all, not one bit. If you have your choice of say three different, you know, like real dirt,

you can have your choice of compound. What if you brought a hard, a medium and a soft? You know, soft might not last. You might wear it out. You know, a hunter lap race with a tire choice

or a softer tire in general for everybody. Yeah, I mean, that's what, that's what all their race is on. You know, it's just, it's, we're just not meant to do it and it's going to be hard to replicate what you want. It wasn't a bad race. No.

I truly don't think it was a bad race. I just think NASCAR fans don't want to see cup cars on dirt. And I think a part of what we talked about last week is it said Bristol. I hate giving up. I hate giving up asphalt or pre Bristol. I hate giving that race up. Yeah. But I also think the issue is like it's a new car.

It was run on Easter night race. Like, I think there, it rains. There were a lot of things against them. All of those things are knowns. None of that's unknown what you just said. I know, but it's a new car. There were so many. And it's in Bristol and Easter.

There were so many things against them where the idea of it is fair. It's just that they're still working out the kinks. And I do agree that it will be back next year. I don't know where. I don't mind running here. I'll tell you who won't be at Bristol watching a dirt race on Easter weekend. Brett Griffin. It ain't going to happen.

I don't know what my contract will or won't say, but I'm not going for that. Ain't happen. I would like to go to a true. a true dirt track and not give up Bristol. But here's what you got. You got people like Marcus Smith with a North Willsborough announcement,

which was awesome, saying that they don't have the infrastructure to hold a cup race. Let me ask you something. When a race is sold out, isn't it sold out? Bowman Gray has to turn people away. We just had a race somewhere recently

where the racetrack was turning people away. I don't think selling out's a bad thing. Once it's sold out, it's sold out. Your TV revenue is your TV revenue. Like, how much money did Bristol spend this weekend to support their own infrastructure. They were 9,000 golf car drivers there. How much does North Wiltsboro hold you think?

I don't know. But it doesn't mind saying about North Wiltsboro. It's about wherever you set. Peavely or wherever, you're El Dorah, wherever you want to go, right? Once it's sold out, it's sold out. It doesn't matter about the infrastructure. Every time they run, every time that, you know,

you look at the stuff we did there. Everything was sold out. Yeah. I mean, you could, I mean, you could, I think Knoxville holds over 20,000 people. And that's just in the grandstands. That's a lot of people. You know, that's a lot of people. It's a lot of people.

I mean, Bristol was at best a third full. At best, right? At best, the third. How many people were there at the end of finish watching it? And a third of that? Maybe. Like, I'm telling you, when I walked to my car, I didn't even have to say, excuse me. No.

And typically going down those hills at Bristol when we leave. That second rain, the second rain delay, I went down to the elevator just to hang out in case they called it. And there was just mobs of people. But it wasn't, it wasn't like crazy late. Like, that wasn't the excuse to leave, right? you had to have an excuse to leave, which was I don't want to be here anymore. Yeah.

Because we never got like a torrential downpour that held us up for like, if we'd been in Talladega, I'd been a two-hour rain to like. It'd be pretty hard, but it wasn't like a storm. No, but it was also Sunday night. I mean, people had to hurt. Guess what? That was also a known going into this. Okay, don't be a d'I.

I'm not. All right. He's not being a f*** to you. He's being a borg to them. Continuing on the topic of competition at Bristol, NASCAR throws a caution 15 laps into the cup race because mud covered every car's grill. TJ.

I'm spot off on that. I don't think, you know, I know there was people, I don't know. It's, I want to be spot on and spot off at the same time

because I don't want to see people have overheating issues, but I also don't want to see the race stop. You know, I honestly think that I hate the fact that this is a points race because I feel like, I feel like,

I feel like it's almost like Russian roulette. Like you don't know, you don't know. Nobody knows exactly what's going to happen to start this race. Obviously, this is a scenario of that, you know. And it could be as simple as you got in a wrong lane behind somebody and got your grill covered in dirt. Now your race is over. You know, overheat, whatever.

And you got to come down pit road. Now they threw a caution and tried to rectify it. But you're still, it's stuff that's just completely out of your control. I know that can happen anywhere. but this was just too big of an unknown. I feel like we should maybe explore the option to just making this some kind of exhibition race, whether it's the All-Star race,

whether it's some kind of version of The Clash. So you're saying it makes more sense to go to Bristol Dirt for All-Star Race than to go all the way to Texas to run an All-Star Race? 100%. Spot on for that too. This is why y'all listen to this show because we have all the answers.

It makes no sense to go all the way to Texas to run an all-star race. Not when we've got all these great racetracks around here. I mean, I mean, listen, I get it. Like, SMI owns them both. They can figure that out.

And, but, like, the thing that kills me about that all-star race is, like, you're going to make Rick Ware and B.J. McLeod go all the way out there to run the open. That's 25, 30 laps, whatever it is, to turn around and come home. You know, like, no shot of money. I don't think does the open pay anything? I doubt it.

$200. You just won it like eight times. Brett's the dominator. That used, that was a Clinton. Boyer open for about five years. Thank goodness. That's fine. Yeah, I don't know, man.

It's just... Throwing to caution, I am, man, I hate to say I'm spot on for it, but I think it was getting ready to ruin a lot of people's day. You had to do it. And they didn't know what to do. But to me, you needed to know that going in. I mean, I asked the question to the spotters around me and the crew chief,

are we going to have a competition caution here? Because we knew that there was probably going to be a mud problem. Were you hot? Were you running hot? I mean, I overheated eventually. My grill got covered, but then it got uncovered. It was a weirdest thing. We didn't get hot either.

But I looked down. I mean, obviously we're looking down. I'm like, man, Larson's grill is solid. Mine's solid and you're seeing some other guys. Like I said, that's just where the guy in front of you was running. You know, that's anywhere. If you were anywhere near that guy's right rear, mud flap or not, he was throwing mud on your grill, right? So it's like they had to do it.

But when they threw the caution, holy cow. How many lapsed the cold custody get back? Like 17? Well, see that. He drove by a pace car like three times. See, the problem is, and I don't know. if you notice this, but the scoring might not have been exactly what we were used to the other day, because I don't know what the hell happened.

Like he was, I know he was at least two down. I didn't even look to see. I think he came out with a lead. He was all sitting. When we all pit, he stayed out. So he was the first car behind a pace car. So I'm like, okay, he's going to get the wave around. So he waved around.

Yep. And then they said, okay, we need the 41 to do another wave around. I said, okay, Jesus. How many, what? I mean, are we just giving the guy all of his last back? He got to wave around. He got to wave around in a free pass. all in his lame

call in the same but that first lap might not have counted because it was under red and who the hell knows what the hell

that process is but yeah Amarola got the lucky dog and the only one that got screwed in the whole deal was Arvick

yeah on that note after losing a lap under the competition caution and then starting at the rear he gets caught up

in the wreck then he said we all look like a bunch of bozos coming into pit because we don't know how to prep the track and then asked

if he would talk to NASCAR he says you can't talk to them I love the word bozos. That's a good word. That's a good word. I'm not saying that we don't know how to prep the track and I think

the problem was they're worried about rain. So you don't want to go out there and water the hell out of the racetrack and then it rains and now the track was perfect for a dirt car. Yeah. The problem is we should not be out there. That's the problem. But I'm sure that's part of what he's getting at. And when he says you can't talk to him, I don't

fault him for that. But yeah, I don't know. Did he pit? I thought he stayed out. Did he pit a degree? He tried to limp around and and not have to pit. Oh, so, and they lapped him? And he got laughed. Okay, so he was, that's why.

I was trying to figure out why he was right behind it. So that makes sense. Then he was under, he stayed out and they lapped him on a race trail. Why not? Why not give him? I mean, we all got free,

but I guess, you know, the 41 stayed out and got a lucky dog. And the 10 was the lucky dog. And, what did you say? And I'm sorry, the 41 got a wave around and the 10 was a lucky dog.

Yeah, and then the four doesn't want to pick because he doesn't want to take that because we never get. get wave rounds like that and then he ends up just getting the hammer. Yeah, I don't. It was. And then of course, he ends up in the back and Corey spins out in front of him and Noah runs him over from behind and his race is over.

How many times did they say put the four in the back? I thought they were going to go nuts. We'd go one to go but the four won't move. Brett looked at me and said this and he's absolutely right. Like, how long is this going to go on for? You know what I mean? Like it was five laps you looked at me. If it's your game and you're running your game and you're telling a player in the

game to get off the field or you have a holding penalty back to ball up 10 yards you don't tolerate that we tolerated that for how many minutes if i'm running the show i'm saying fucking park before he won't listen go green i'm not going to keep playing them games i mean he was there for it was four or five laps four laps probably shout out to the fastest thing that was there that damn water truck going around there so they need to let's run whatever tires he had on Did y'all notice like whenever like early on Friday or whatever whenever they'd water it and there would be some fans walk up to the fence and they would have no idea that water trucks coming around? That was funny. They don't need to give us the keys that I think because we'd be up there fire hosing people.

Dude, I'd love to have a six pack of beer in that water truck. I want to drive on that racetrack. I want to drive them packer cars around. I mean, you probably could. I don't drive. I just want to ride around and have fun. That looks fun riding that water truck. You just want to ride around and have control of a button.

Yeah. When the water comes out. A lot of those packer cars had better control than Christopher Bell, man. All right, moving on. This was a hot topic and still continues to be. The confusion over the current running over order after stage two when the red flag was out for rain. After Fox tried to explain it, Denny Hamlin then tweeted. Over a one minute explanation, people in the sport don't even know what's wrong with this picture.

As a fan sitting on my ass now watching it, it's hard. hard to take this seriously. I want to know, and Freddie, this one's for you. I want to know, did NASCAR provide the background on this before the race as far as like where the running order would be if something like this would happen? No, of course not. Because if they did, we wouldn't all been confused. You know, I, I don't know where to start with this.

You know, I don't understand. Okay, the stage ends. pit road is open. Rain's coming. It's actually raining. There's three cars on the track that have a mandatory pit stop to make. The 14, the 99 and the 1, 14 being the leader of the race, have to pit. They have to.

It's mandatory in the rules. You had to pit at one of the brakes. So they've, well, they didn't have, they had to. They're mandatory. Then there's a bunch of guys that voluntarily came down pit road. And then we get a rain delay. there. Gave up their track position.

Which was important. Yeah, very important. So then there's, I don't know, what was there? Maybe 12, 15 guys stayed out. So then the rains. So now we're going to go to rain delay. So we're just, I'm like, oh, that was a good call. You know, we're going to get, we went from 18th, 19, 20th, to we're going to finish

ninth if it rains out. And all of a sudden, you're like, some guys in the suite that were, you know, they have a spotter deal where we can go kind of get some shelter from the rain. And they're like, what if the 14 guys are completely? plane that they're leading. And I'm like, there's no way they're leading. They just had a mandatory pit stop. They had to come down the road. And then all of a sudden you start thinking about it. And you're like, well, I guess they could go back a lap because the last lap's frozen.

And it's just, I didn't have to pit. They got caught, they got caught in a situation that they never expected or didn't bank on. And it's, it's highly irregular that it just happens to start raining right at a stage break. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's just so much going on here. I'll let you guys jump in, Brett. But like, when I heard the final announcement that if it does rain right now, if it rains out right now, Chase Prisco's the winner, I was dumbfounded.

At no other track and then no other scenario has this ever been in play. This was a surprise to them and they had not thought this through. And yes, I do believe that Chase Briscoe was going to be declared the winner if it had rained us out. And I do believe they were considering him to be the leader of the. race, even though, T.J. may remember this part. What did Tim Berman say when he came over the radio? Your current lineup is this. The 18

is the leader and then he goes throughout the entire lineup. That happened after the pit stop. So, according to what we all heard, the leader was who was a leader? Who was the leader? Who was the leader?

So what they said, I tweeted it during one of the rain delays neighbor, everybody said, well, Mike Joy's calling you out. here's your lineup, gang, 18, 22, such, such, such. Was this when they knew that they were under a red flag or before? This is why we were sitting on the back straightaway while they were under the brain. But they were expecting to go back out. This is the sag same time.

It doesn't matter. That's the lineup right now is 1822. That's what you're calling out. I promise you, all those guys that pitted were expecting the race to keep going because you don't pit. No. I would say, wouldn't you? I mean, listen.

We didn't know if it was going to keep going, but we all started. stayed out so that we would be scored higher than where we were running, which means, A, somebody didn't know the rules, but B, NASCAR didn't either because they called a lineup out. This is your current lineup. 18 is a leader. But here's the thing. But here's the thing. Here's the thing.

They clearly were going to become severely under fire if we had a rain out right there. Thank goodness. Mother Nature, let us get back racing. A plus for the fact that we got to go back green. I don't think anybody on the. roof cared what happened so long as we took the green to start stage three to keep mud off our faces as a sport because if we had called that race and they declared chase briscoe the winner we were going to be the most confused industry we've ever been in our lives because in no other scenario

at no other track have we ever had that happen to where if you come off of the racetracking give up your track position guess what you gave up your ick and spot yeah like and we see this often when it is when there is weather in the area. I think the first mistake they made was opening pit road. They should have never opened pit road because now we see that. If it's raining somewhere else, they don't open pit road. That's still bad

like Chase, you have to pit in one of those breaks. How did Justin Haley win Daytona? That's what I, did I say that to you? Like the same. How did Justin Haley win Daytona? Yeah. I mean, he stayed out out of a freaking open pit cycle when it was raining. Yeah. But they don't go under a red flag

under caution. Like, after a stage. They could. That's where, like, so I don't like to talk. They could if it rained right. I don't like to talk about stuff on here that you don't have some kind of idea for a solution. And I don't understand the solution is very easy.

As soon as we roll off, you know, I'll open your pit road, go red, park the guys that stay out on the backstretch, let the guys do their five minutes, six minute, break, whatever it is on pit road. Now, as soon as we roll back off, we're yellow and you're coming around and that lab's going to count. Because all we had to do was do that. And once we rolled off the back straightaway to come back to pit road for the rain delay, that lap counts.

The 18's now your leader. The lineup is set behind him under yellow. Now we can roll down pit road. We're under rain delay. And now we can see what happens with the racetrack. I don't even think you have to come back around because. What I'm saying, they had to bring them back to pit road to get them on for the race track. I think, yeah.

I mean, once you hit pit road, you're giving up your track position. Even if you roll around there faster than the pace car, you have to stop at the end of pit road and wait for the field to come by. And that's where you line up. So if we don't know the rules, it's our fault. I will say that. But when NASCAR comes over the radio and gives me the lineup. What they're going to say is that was the restart lineup.

But you're telling me the 18's the leader, you just told me on the radio. And like this is what I was laughing about. Freddie Mike Joy just called you out. He ain't calling me out. He's calling out whoever told me what the lineup is because I didn't invent the lineup. I just read I just verbatim said what they just told me. The 18's the leader.

But if the race ends right now, he's not the winner. Well, I'm confused. Same. Yeah, I don't, you know, I don't think, there was a mention, I believe in the driver's meeting that said the red flag, you know, it's, but I don't think

anybody anticipated the rain coming. Essentially, there's no reason to pit. I mean, there's no reason to stay out. I'm sorry. Because there was no, there was no benefit. You were putting yourself on older tires. The reason why you're staying out there is because you're banking on, obviously track position was important, but

you're banking on the race. It's going to either be end right now or very soon. And there was no benefit to that if it ended right now because you weren't going to gain any track position. We stayed out. We put it on the first time and we were going to stay out no matter what and just see how it worked out. So. Thank goodness. Yeah.

Which fixed everything. But I mean, this definitely showed the flaw with that. I mean, ultimate. Like that was worse case. It just to be a lot more clear moving forward. I don't understand. How many laps do we burn off everywhere else under yellow and stage breaks? why were we red the whole time for this one?

Like I don't understand the thought process there. Yeah, I don't know. It was very funny watching every single driver interview during the Red Flag conflict, like Fox's like, oh, you're going to be you're in position 5. And Reddick's like, no, no, I'm in what position, whatever. It was like every single driver made a comment. Landon text me. Landon's like, I guess Bubba said, yeah, I'm going to finish ninth.

And Landon's like, Bubba doesn't know, does he? And I'm like, what? He's like, that you're not really ninth. You're actually 20th or? I'm like, yeah, nobody knows. Hey, I would like to thank Bristol. for having an area for us to go when it does rain. Because there's a lot of places we go to that we have to hide and stairwells.

Bristol's my favorite track. Bristol does a very good job of making sure that we that we... I could go to Bristol every week. I love that place. Dirt? No. Easter? You ever watch that movie, Meet the fucker out.

You just said you weren't going there Easter. So now you can't go every week. I'm not going dirt racing on Easter ever again in my life. But if it was a regular racer? Would you go concrete racing? Saturday night. Probably not Sunday night. Spot on, spot off.

Chase Briscoe's move on Tyler Redick in the last corner going for the win. TJ. Does this look familiar? I know what that looks like. Man, I like seeing that's, that's, that's, I want to say that's Bristol, man.

That's guys going for it. but I think Chase is in the wrong by I'm fine with him being aggressive with it, but when you wreck both you, it doesn't look good. And Tyler's been running good. He ran a great race. He probably deserved to have the win. And, you know, I know you could say Chase already has a win this year, which he does. I don't think he should still go for it.

But I think there's a, I think, I don't know how to say it. There's a better way to go for it without cleaning you both out. Make sure you both finish first and second still. Yeah, or at least one wins. Yeah, one of you win. It looks really bad when you're both spun out and a guy backs into it. I mean, my man went full send. He was so far sideways.

The roof flap came up on the roof. You know. Hey, for effort. Yeah, and listen, I'm with you. I think that here's, you know, and it's hard to fault Chase because he was on the edge, the last, whatever it was, 10, 12 laps. I didn't see anybody in the corner like that, like slinging it in there. And you have now.

run him, you know, he came from over a straightaway back, or it seemed like at least a straight away back to run him down. And now you get there on the last lap. It's hard to say you shouldn't go for it after you just work this hard to run the guy down. But like you said, you know, listen, at the end of the day, it's, it's a dirty move. It's, you're throwing it in there really with very, very little chance of a positive outcome for somebody. You know, you're, you're not going to clear them. So, you know, your, your chances are that you're, going to either door slam him up the racetrack and win the race or kind of what happened where you slide in there backwards and take the two of you out. But like we talk about

here all the time, when it all costs. And you can say he's got a win, but is a win enough? You know, we're talking about there's a lot of winners already. Is one win enough? A second win will definitely lock you in. So, you know, I don't, I don't fault him for going for it. But like you said, you have to have a better outcome than what happened there. I would, I would rather see one of he is win the race not hand it to somebody like Kyle I'm a football fan and this was a hell Mary for me oh yeah he threw a hell Mary and there were 10 people on defense and end zone he had one receiver he had no chance of making that he had zero chance of making that stick whether reddick was there or not there I think his plan was to go in and maybe door redick and they both come off there

with eight wheels and may the best man win he missed that you can't do them with the tail I go back to what he did last year at Indianapolis on a road course he wrecked any hamill Denny Hamill was leading the race. This guy is starting to roll up his sleeves and say, you guys, I don't give a crap about any of y'all. I'm here to race and I'm here to try to win. I got to respect that about him.

Denny also ran him off twice. He's there to try to win this race. But I mean, you guys are 100% spot on with what you're saying. It was a dirty move and he had no chance of making a stick. I don't understand his desperation, right? He's already in the chase. He's going to have a good finish. go in there and try to make a move.

He just, he almost tried too hard. A spot on for his comments walking down pit road, expecting the fact that he might get punched in the face. And I, hats off to Tyler Reddick for keeping his cool because Reddick has done a lot in this sport, two-time Xfindi series champ, arguably the most underrated driver in the Cup series, not on our show, because we give him tons of credit. And had he taken away my first win, I had to punch him in the face. Yeah, I don't, you know, and credit, like you said, credit to Tyler because Tyler, Tyler essentially blamed himself.

Tyler said, I should not have let him get that close to me. You know, I had a big enough lead to where that should not have been in the equation. You know, I should have done a better job. So did North Carolina Tar Hills and that's a championship. Yeah. You know, but, you know, I think, I'm telling you what play, I think in my, if I'm Chase Briscoe and I have just spent the last 10 laps with my tongue hanging out, doing everything I can to get there, that's the, it's, I don't know that it's, I don't know that it's. this desperation is so much as I've got to take a shot. I've just rode this guy down. Like I think if you're riding behind him for 10 laps right there and you're like, all right, maybe that shot doesn't come, but you just ran this guy down.

You've just now finally got to his bumper. It's like, I've got to send it. And it almost looked to me like, I think that Chase made that move and then decided, this isn't going to work and tried to like, tried to stay off of Tyler. But at that point it was too late. And he just like, because if he really wanted,

if he was really trying to wreck Tyler, he doesn't turn the wheel. He just goes in there and door slams Tyler, and Tyler's in the fence and Chase probably wins the race. Yeah. So, you know, but, you know, I think at the last second he was like, this ain't going to work. I'm going to try to spin or try to stay off of Tyler

and it just unfortunately took the two of them out. But, you know, it was exciting. Yeah. I mean, that's what we want. I mean, on that topic, Adam Stern just tweeted Fox earned a 4.007 million viewers for Sunday. You better get your contract, Brett. Race, it is the most watched.

car event of any kind at Bristol since spring of 2016. So, well, guess what? People watched it. We're racing on Easter. Come back. Pack your bag, Brett. Yeah.

You know, got your own eggs. I ain't going to eat. I'm not going to Bristol to watch a dirt track race on Sunday. One thing that I think adds into Chase's music. I mean, I hate to say this about it, but the spotters certainly matter

at Bristol, but it's different. Like, it's not, it's completely different than us spotting a normal Bristol race or a Martinville race. It's chaotic. It's cluster, but like, you don't need this, like, high caliber. You could have a, I'm not degrading you guys when I say this. You could have a normal short track spotter that's good anywhere in this country,

South Boston, Hickory Motor Speedway, wherever, come do that race. I call Justin Haley before the race. Actually, I'm on my drive up. And I'm like, hey, what do you need out of me this weekend other than the obvious, which is where they're running behind you. So if you want to take air off their nose, you know, take away their line, whatever. Like, what do you need? He's like, well, I don't know.

I've never had a spotter at a dirt track. I said, great, I've never spotted a dirt track, so we should be awesome together. Like, you could take that race, give or take a spotter, and maybe make you more exciting. And there's no other racetrack that I'm going to say that at in terms of where NASCAR runs. I couldn't disagree more. I think that you need an absolutely high caliber spotter. I think we should all get raises for that race. You should get double a pay.

That's for damn sure. And an Airbnb, bring your family, swim in the pool, high your own eggs there in the yard. I don't think you can take the spotter away from that. Just simply because not every guy in this series is a true dirt guy. You know, like Larson, there's a handful of them that would be fine. Bell, Larson, Ricky, all them, them guys would be fine. But you got other guys. Maybe we need to take their spotters away to make a fair.

Maybe we do. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Like, you got a guy that, like, Justin's run a bunch of dirt, though, so he's familiar with it. You take a guy that's basically ran zero dirt. Like, let's, I mean, like a Cindric or somebody like that. I mean, and this is a point.

race. You know, I, it's, thank goodness it's a point race. Oh, yeah. I tell you what, though, man, like watching the cars, did you notice how some guys would go in there and they would almost get the car to set like it was concrete? Like, you wouldn't see them get yawed out? You know what I mean?

If you saw my car sideways, we were spinning out. Yeah, there were guys who almost had to drive it like it was concrete. Then there were guys who could really get on that right rear. And I just go back to, and then we've said this for a million times on deaf ears, this thing needs to have more horsepower. Like, these guys need to be able to freak. I'm talking about Martinsville, Virginia. Any short track we go to, we need a thousand horsepower.

Maybe not the dirt race. Give them some more motor. Like Brad drove it straight, but there was that little bit of grit about a lane off the bottom, a lane and a half off the bottom, and that's where we ran the entire time. We ended up passing a lot of cars running that middle lane, but it was such a fine line. You had to really like under drive it

because if you jumped it, you were, it was the penalty. was pretty bad. But Brad really got good at driving it straight in that grip part. And we ended up, I mean, we ended up passing a bunch of cars. So it's definitely, uh,

two different styles. Like at the end of the race, Chase was slinging that thing into the corner so hard. Like it was. That's where you could see. You could see the difference in the dirt guys versus the ass fall guys at the end or or any time that kind of got slicked off. When they wanted to,

they could just hang the right rear up in the, in the moisture on the top and kind of get a yawall. thought out on entry and and haul ass so that was the biggest thing but damn you know we talk about on here all the time reddick's going to win a damn race i don't know when it's going to happen but he's going to win multiple probably right after it happened i saw tyler on pit road maybe it'll be old christmas eve when we want running a all-star race somewhere i saw tyler on pit road and i told tyler i said tyler i watch your times and practice and to me you're the guy to be like if you go out there and just run your normal race you weren't even pushing it like he wasn't even getting

close to the fence and he was running ridiculous lap times i'm like if you go out there and just front of an A-I-10, you're probably going to win this race. I thought he was a guy to beat too. Yeah. That's why I picked him. Spot on, spot off. Cody Ware goes after Chase Elliott under the caution because of a spin. And Chase says, if he touched our tire, I'm going to whip his ass.

Cody says, I'm tired of getting bullied by all these guys. Brett. Oh, boy. Did you hear it? No. You didn't hear a recording of it? No. I wonder if we could find it.

I am 1 million percent. spot off on what Cody Ware is saying here. Like you're 20 miles an hour off the pace, almost everywhere we go. You're in the way. You're a moving chicane. And I don't know what the hell happened in this particular scenario. But look, man, nobody wants to get run over. Everybody wants to be respected.

But at the end of the day, you've got to be more relevant week in and week out to take the stance for me personally. I don't know what Cody wears, but I would change clothes if I were him. You get bullied because you're in the way. That's why you get pushed around. If you weren't in the way, you wouldn't get pushed around as much as you do. This was one of my top one Didiate contenders, and it wasn't Cody. It was, I assume it was the crew chief.

But the radio communication says he is mad because he didn't have anything for you, Cody. Chase Elliott didn't have anything for Cody Ware. What a- idiot. I mean, who the hell considers saying that? I mean, how do those words literally come out of your mouth? He needs to be our pre-race hype guy. If he hyped Cody up like that. I have been, we have obviously been very critical of Rick Ware racing in the past and we were very complimentary of them in the beginning of the year because they have had more speed this year than in years past. But the fact remains that Cody Ware is still last in points of all the guys that have

have ran all the races this year. And he's 40 points behind the guy in of them. I don't remember. I think it's Corey maybe. Oh, there's a couple races. But, you know. You want to hear it, Brett? Yeah, play it. Bark tall. I'll tell you what Cody did do. He hit him in the right rear twice hard. Like, he tried to spin him out one time.

That's the hardest ever seen anybody go after somebody in their caution. Yeah, it was pretty awesome. The reason why we say this all the time. And ideally, if you're the guy that's in the 51, and I'm not going to say Cody Ware could be anybody that's that in that position where you are literally probably the slowest car or one of these slowest cars on the track every week your job in this sport is to not be noticed at all like you don't want to be notice for anything because anything you're going to notice for is probably going to be bad and the really good way to fly under the radar is by

running into the most popular driver in the sport under caution and I think that he cut his own tire when he was trying to do this by the way it probably is so I just listen you've got to be smarter than that. I know you guys you want to stop being picked on. You want to stop being a laughing stock? Well, stop making news for shit like this and maybe people will stop laughing at you. I got to give Jason a shout out right

quick before we roll into the next segment. We know he has big Kyle Bush fan his whole life, had pajamas and the whole deal. The fact Jason that you didn't mention Kyle Bush quote backing into this win on this show sheet just tells us that you don't want us to bash your favorite driver. So

we should congratulate him on his 60th couple favorite driver. And how about the comment, what we talked about last week about him not being for this race, too. It worked out in his favor. I mean, if you didn't think you earned it, you probably shouldn't have celebrated there. 18 straight seasons he's won a race. It's a pretty solid effort. No wonder you love him, Jason.

Is that tie, did I see a stat where that tied Richard for the most consecutive winning seasons? The king, Richard. King Kyle. For Jason. He's got a shirt on that. He got out here a little bit. He'll be here later. He's coming away.

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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 ran him, and she's 90-000-8. Reaction theater rolls in three, two, one. All right, Fox, you've officially crossed into absolute joke territory. Truck race restarts with 19 to go.

You go four laps, 15 to go. Leaders are duking it out. It's heating up. You go to commercial do side by side and force us to watch the leaders wreck in side-by-side and that tiny little screen you got. But you know what? Thank you for letting me know of Blue Emu. lack of funky smell. Wow.

He's not wrong. I don't know. I was watching it. He went to commercial and I could not believe it. Hey, it could be worse. At least he was side by side and not just commercial. Yeah. Poor Cody Ware.

Not only can he not drive, but he can't wreck Chase Elliott. After four attempts and still couldn't wreck him, the guy can wreck anybody in the world when he's not trying. But when he tries, ultimate fail. Ain't wrong. Like I said, turn yourself into a laughing stock. Oh, look out. That's Kyle Busch backed into a win.

Technically, Chase Briscoe backed Kyle Busch into a win, I think. Brad was saving it for that. Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm sure you were. Kyle Busch, you whiny, hypocritical little baby-backed you get out after the race and say, It doesn't matter how you win them as long as you win them. I'm old enough to remember. remember you were ending that Bowman backed into a win at Vegas.

Go choke on some M&Ms. I'm bold enough. What was it? Like a month ago? Nobody in the sport has pouted more running second than Kyle Bush publicly. Now, what you do privately? I don't care about. Joy Lugano came on this show.

It was very obvious. He has a burning desire to win every race. All these guys do. But nobody pouts more than Kyle when he runs second or third or fourth or the new Kyle. What? Ty Oh, Ty.

That's the new Kyle. That's his nickname. That's a good nickname. Why can't ask her, just properly explain that the field's frozen under red. Why is Fox arguing about it over and over? What are we doing here?

Just say that it's frozen and we can't go until it's green. And then positions change. Why is this so complicated? It's because Casey, if everybody knew what was going on, everybody would know what was going on. The TV partners, the drivers, the crew chiefs, the owners, the spotters, everybody.

That's why. Why did you say Casey? Because Casey seems to think that everybody that was at the race was an idiot for not knowing that the field was for us. No, that's not true. I asked Bob yesterday. I actually messaged Bob and said, can you give me some background on this? And he said he didn't think anybody knew. He asked.

Though I wasn't saying that. I'm just playing devil's advocate. Just realize that we're all living in the moment. We don't have the ability to ask Bob. Bob should have a channel where he can come over everyone's radio and explain rules. I wish he asked Bob. I wish he did because he'd have more answers than we get. Well, I'm glad NASCAR is trying new things,

but I'm sure all 27 fans in attendance as well as everyone watching at home can agree. It's probably time to move on from this. And also, everyone's saying Tyler Reddick handled himself so well. That's just a business decision. When you're 5'3, 112 pounds, you can't really be throwing blows on pit lane there. So love the show. Keep it up, guys. Have you seen his workout regimen?

Tyler's a, he's a wiry little guy. I would, I would, I would, if Brisco can't knock him out quick, I would take Tyler Reddick to beat him out of Chase Brisco. Yeah, I agree. Because he's got reached. Chase has obviously got reached. So if he lands a couple, but I'm telling you right now, Tyler looks like a little bulldog.

Yeah, it's like a spider monkey. Yeah. Get up there and worry out. I think he handles himself very well. And if I were his sponsor, I would be proud to. To leave an audio message 24-7, go to anchor.fm.fm slash doorbubber clear and click the message icon. We'll keep playing the best ones each week on the show. Offerpad, question of the week.

If you were to build your ultimate beach home, name one feature you're including in the home. Oh, Brett. This is good. I want an outside shower. I know it said in the home, but I want an house. I stayed at some joint in Sonoma, Corneros in or something like that. I think that's where I'm saying this year.

God, it's like $800 a night, you rich lady. We went and they've got like you, you open your bathroom door and you got the option of showering outside or showering inside. I love being taking a good old shower outside. You should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Shower without walls.

Wow. No, there's walls probably. Yeah. I mean, well, if it's outside, I mean, just there's no roof, I guess. Well, the beach houses have that like a little outdoor thing. It's got a little, it's got a little covered patio. That's not enough.

Not enough. We need four walls and a ceiling for you at all times, 24-7. The fact that you're envisioning me taking a shower just makes me feel good about myself. Don't worry. I wasn't. So. Nobody was.

TJ. What do you think? You know? Computer room. I would probably, uh, You guys want to go to a beach, do some high racing? Maybe just put a beach in my house. A shrine of Dale Jr.

Maybe a beach. Oh, yeah. Gonna have that. He already has it. Yeah. Well, Dale's house has this. I'd have this too. A boat.

A boat. Yeah, I'd put that. You know, I'd make like a sitting room with the half of a pontoon boat in it. With maybe a big TV with some waves or something playing. Just like your house is. So I can feel like I'm in the ocean. Yeah, that'd be, that'd be great. T.J. I mean, Brett.

I mean, Freddie. Are you drunk? She's looking at me. She said, TJ, I mean Brett. I mean you. I mean, Freddie. Sorry. I don't know. A bar would be there for sure. Some gigantic monstrosity of a pool would be there. You know one thing I wish I had at my house that I don't have that if I don't buy a new house. A pool, yeah. One thing I wish that I had at my house that I don't have is when I'm in the kitchen and I want to run water into a pot. Like I love those kitchens that have the water behind the stove. Well, my stove is on an island, so I don't have that.

That would be one thing. If I go house shopping with offer pad, I'm going to have a stove that has water that I don't even have to move the pot. I can sit the pot on the stove, run the water and bowl it. You have that at your house. I don't. It's Jovi. It's Keely. Yeah, right.

Here you were holding up. I don't know where the kitchen's at. One thing I would like is just a separate refrigerator for beverages completely. Like, you know what I mean? He's got that. I'm not talking about like in your garage, but like, hell, you probably have one in your kitchen. I want two refrigerators, one straight for drinks.

Yeah. Yeah. Go get a cash offer on your home today with our presenting sponsor, offerpad.com. I did see in the news that a guy got. Did you see that? A guy got in a wreck or whatever and pulled. Oh, somebody. What the hell?

Lambert showed me that, I think. Lambert said, he said, I got to the track and Lambert said, are you all right? I said, what? And he said, you got a wrecked? this morning and I'm like, what? No, I didn't.

And he just shows me this picture. This guy looks similar to me, body size anyway. And he's like in a, I don't know what he was in like a speedo. But he was driving in this thing. He got wrecked and got out. He wasn't in a speedo.

He was in absolutely nothing. Oh, the picture I thought he had a bathing suit on. No. The guy got and took every single bit of his clothing up and stood next to his car. Uh-huh. So maybe that was just an edited version I saw. It probably was.

PG version. Like, yeah, the guy just took all his clothes off and stood next to to his car. Well, why wouldn't you? Yeah, that's common thing to do. Well, it's that time again where we discuss our favorite X-FINITY more than fast moments. Whether you're on or after track, speed isn't the only thing you need. So, Brett, where we see teams need to be more than fast this week. Definitely Kyle Busch, man. He was more than fast coming around a wrecked Tyler Reddick. I really thought Reddick should kind of just hang a right and just get nailed right in

the old butt and knock them both across the finish line and give him a chance to win. Might have had a suffered a little whiplash there, but Kyle Bush, man, backed right into the more than fast moment. Freddie. My more than fast moment's actually going to go back to that, the second stage restart with Reddick. The move he made to get the lead, shooting the middle on that restart was pretty ridiculous, actually. And it's only a dirt guy was going to make that move, whether it was Reddick, maybe Larson, Bell, somebody like that. But, but yeah, my more than the fast moment is getting the lead, getting control of the race and then unfortunately kind of getting it taken from you. But without that last lap,

move by Briscoe, that move would have been the race winning move for Reddick. T.J. There are my Xfinity more than fast moments. Probably going to go to the truck race with Ben Rhodes for basically stealing every stage point and winning everything you can win in that race. It's fast. And not even being a true dirt guy or anything, this guy comes in there and just decides to clean house.

I text him after the race. I'm like, hey man, save some stage points for the rest of us. It's not to be denied. Yeah, I mean, really. All those laps he took in the micro, Chad's micro. Hey, here on Doorbumber Clear, being more than fast is a way of life. Thankfully, there's plenty of weekly action for our Xfinity X-Fi more than fast moments. You know that else's more than fast?

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Who wins this week's one idiot award, Brett? Well, I really want to give it to the person that put the cigar bar beside of the spotter stand because I huffed secondhand cigar smoke. T.J. was right beside me. Freddie was right beside me. Nothing like going home smelled like Havana, Cuba. That's essentially what I did. But I'm not going to give to that guy. How many people fly on our airplanes?

on a team plane on average weekend how many people's on your airplane about 60 okay it's about 50 on mine we hadn't been wearing mask at all this year none of us have spread COVID so my wouldn't idiot is the CDC for making us wear masks so long up until yesterday they finally made the lift no more mask on commercial airplanes the CDC didn't lift it the TSA said they're not enforcing they're all a bunch of idiots uh I have a bunch go ahead because I got a bunch of city I go ahead I mean I didn't come with them prepared I don't want to give it to I want to give it to you. Yeah, you do. Go ahead, Freddie. So let them drop and give it to him.

There was a wreck in a lay model race where Derek Griffith, who's been running, Sam Hunt's, uh, exfinity car here, sporadically, he got wrecked in a heat race at Loudoun by a guy that has never or, I mean, I shouldn't say never, but has not, not any

experience in a lay model. So they decided to go to Loudoun with a super late model and just about wiped out Derek Griffith there. Luckily Derek was okay. Cars destroyed. The other guy's cars destroyed. So, My one idiot, for one, is to not go to Loudoun for your first race or one of your first races. Two, Ben Rhodes saved his own day by missing Pitt Road on the first stage break. He thought that he was going to come in, pit road off a turn four, that lap.

So when he drove by turn two, he realized he screwed up. And luckily, he drove back to the win or else. He drug his teammate with him too. Yeah. Or else Rich Lussus would have kicked his ass if that didn't work out the way it did. but my one idiot at the end of the day is whoever decided once again to paint the walls black at the dirt race

we saw this last year guys complained they couldn't see last year couldn't see the wall we never really got up there to have an issue we go back out there this week for practice and the guys believe it or not can't see the wall again because it's black if you go to any dirt race or watch any dirt race in the country the walls get caked with mud

and they make it a point to go out there and scrape the wall down at least like in a horizontal fashion so that you can see stripes on the wall so these drivers can see where the walls at when they get to the cushion and we just go ahead and leave the walls black now they did add a white stripe about halfway through the weekend to help these guys but i mean how did you not know this was going to be an issue when we had this problem last year and you never see a track with black walls like why are the walls not white when we get there freddie i don't know if you noticed last year we all ran the bottom i know but i'm just saying they still complained about it you know guys were

complaining about last year they couldn't see the wall you know i'm thinking about all the races and usually you can find somebody in every race that we run that just makes a bonehead move. But, you know, it's been, I haven't been able to pick Derek much this year, which is a complete opposite of last year. So that's good for him. But it's kind of the opposite of what an idiot. Every truck finished the race.

How does that happen? Yeah. You didn't see that? First time ever in history, I think, that every single truck finished the truck race. Maybe they should race on dirt every week. I mean, we're going to Bristol Dirt. And, you know, you know how that truck series is?

Last time with the Knoxville, it was chaos. Now we go to Bristol Dirt and every single one of them finish. So I kind of want to do the opposite this week. And I wish they would have wrecked more and we didn't get caught up in it. We could have got a better finish out of some attrition. But no, these guys all decided they're going to finish the race. Rock and roll. Do you guys see the hype guy getting a flag stand?

That was pretty funny. See, the hot guy? Hype guy. I mean, he might have been hot, too. I didn't get that good of a look at him. I mean, how does that happen? How does that happen? Hey, I'm going to go up here.

Hey, guys, I'm going to be right back. I'm going to go stand in the flag stand and I'm going to get this crowd hike. Watch this. Hold my beer. I mean, I'm assuming that didn't work out well for him. I mean, I didn't see any. I watched most of the video and I saw him get up there and get down and I didn't see any track personnel. I mean, they say you can't go up there.

They don't say no trespassing at the bottom. I know. I mean, that's just one of that things when no one, it rains or whatever one gets out of there. If anybody has that idea to do that again, make sure you're wearing a DBC t-shirt or some with our faces on it. Will you pay the bail money? Yeah, I'll bail them out. If you want to do it at Dover, we'll get some content out of it. I'll pay the fine.

Yeah. So Jason, will you... You're going up, Jason. Yeah, you do the guy. Jason needs to be... We get to be flying. He's not here. We'll just tell him.

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will be your first guest. So download the free Anchor app or go to anchor.fm to get started. That's A.N.C.O.R.f.f.f.m. to get started. Time for DBC picks. I'm pretty bitter about this one because I could have one. You didn't. Freddie wins DBC picks at Bristol with Tyler. Now everyone except for me is tied for the lead.

Staying pretty even, which is surprising so far as season. Yeah, whatever. Let's make picks for Tal Daga. T.J., go for it. Sorry, Austin. Just wanted to go ahead and apologize for picking you at the dirt race. I was doing his car cut off on the front stretch. I was like,

ah, yeah, it was pretty rough. Go high. So, looking at Talladega here, going down the list, I either have to throw a Hail Mary

or I lay up here like Brett would do. I'm going to go with... When I get first pick, I'm usually go hard. Yeah, but I'm going to go Noah Gregson. See, he's running that.

He's running a 62-30. Yeah. I go Noah. Noah should be in the college car. No, Noah was in the 62. Who's in the collard car? I would think. Probably Hemrick.

Hemrick. Oh, yeah, that's a good choice too. I am going to go with Brad Kislauski because that was my most memorable win when I worked with him. So done. Brett. Can we make these letters bigger?

I can't read these guys' names. I'm going with Todd Gilliland. Golan? Gilleland. There's three days. different words. Gillaland. Gilaland. Jason.

Breyer has said to say DeBenned at on the broadcast this week and he totally messed it up. He was doing well for a bit. Yeah. I pick Michael McDowell. Son of a

Jason. That's what I was going to pick. That's what I was all teeter and all Jason is either McDowell or Gilal Land. I will take damn, you take longer than me. Well, Jason just took my pick. I didn't think anybody was going to pick him.

That says a lot. I almost picked them too. Jesus. I will take Corey Lajoy. Kyle's here for a shoot. You ready? Coral Joy, good job. Hey, why don't we not talking about the restarts?

What? What restarts? Why are we not choosing or having some sort of lane? Oh my goodness. That's coming next year. 100%. There's no way we go back to that race without a choose. It should be coming.

I mean, where do choose cones come from? Where were they invented? Short track dirt tracks. No, dirt track. Yeah, short track ass false us choose role. But outlaws do the deal where the leader picksie out. all the odds go to the outside. And no, this is the same thing.

Every car in the outside lane was running behind the car that's on the inside lane and has an advantage over him now like nothing. Almost an event. Fifth place had an advantage over two cars on the inside. And it shouldn't have been like that running in front of him. Six place. Yeah, six place had it had fifth and third pretty much beat on a restart. I thought it was ironic because Bristol concrete, the way the tires had turned into with

the old car. This is where it became that you would rather be eighth on a restart than you would to be second and be stuck on the bottom. So I thought the irony was there. Dale Jr.'s in the booth this weekend, right? It's true. That's awesome. I know Clint worked really hard on that all winter because obviously NBC had to bless Dale to come over. Great segue to take Fox and hand it off to Dale Jr. and NBC.

Obviously, very, very, very good plate racers. So you got two great plate racers in the booth talking about it this week. weekend. So I think it'll be cool to see their dynamic to see who can scream the loudest and get the control of the booth. It should be fun. How much time will you guys be spending on the boulevard? None. Yeah, I don't go to the boulevard.

I haven't been to the boulevard in years. I've been a long time. We're thinking about when you're going to do some Vegas style of content in the boulevard. I think that would be a great idea. I would go to the boulevard, but I stay about an hour away and it's not very conducive to my boulevard routine.

If somebody wants to give me an air mattress in the middle of the infield, I'll happily go out there and have a beer with you and have a good time. Eat some crawfish. There's some crawfish cooking machines out there on that infill. The raging agents. Well, shout out to everyone I met in Peebley, Missouri. If you're looking to play hide and seek, you can go play in the holes on the track because they were bigger than me watching that race.

But it was great meeting. I finally got out in public on the weekend to a race track and it was great meeting a lot of people. Yeah, thank you guys for listening this week. We'll have a hell of a lot to talk about next week because this race at Talladega is going to be nuts.

Nuts. This package is going to be massive runs. I can't wait to all the manufacturers get to arguing and splitting up and pitting together and all the things. We need to win. Yeah, a lot of guys. I mean, I'm in a must win deal.

Same thing. Can't wait. We're out. Have a great week. See ya. Hey, everyone. it's Mike Davis here. I want to talk to the listener right now from me to you.

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