The Dale Jr. Download - 193 - Tech Line Trickery and Chatting with Truex

Episode Date: September 19, 2017

Dale Earnhardt Jr. calls up his good friend and Chicagoland winner Martin Truex Jr. to discuss his strong season. Junior also offers his opinion on the manufacturer battle and some of the trickery teams are doing to enhance their car's performance. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My racing career isn't just about me. It's about the team, the fans, the sponsors, the families, the tracks, the whole sport. Join us over the next five months on the Junior Nation Appreciation Tour, where we show appreciation to where it's owed. This is Dale Jr., and you're listening to Dirty Mo Radio. Hey, everybody, this is Dillon Hart Jr. with another episode of the Dale Jr. download with Tyler Overstreet. That was the dangerous summer with the song, Sends, thanks to Hopeless Records, for providing that. How's it going, Tyler?

It's a good Tuesday for me. How's it for you? It's a good Tuesday. Yeah, buddy. Really? Yeah. What's going on? A lot.

It's a busy day, but it might as well start it off good. Well, you sound like something good's happening in your life. What's going on? Nothing. Oh. Just living. You're just having a good day. Yeah.

It's only 8.13, and I'm having a good day. Yeah, it is early. In this show, later, we're going to try to give Martin Tricks Jr. We've got to text him right now. so that he is ready. Do you think we're 50-50 on him answering? We'll see if he responds to this text. Yesterday in our conversation,

he seemed to be more maybe 60-40 than he was going to answer. Wow. So I told him, don't make me reach out to Sherry. Yeah, you don't want to do that. You don't have to go to the big guns. Yeah. So let's talk about Chicago. Finish 17th.

We got behind early in the race. We struggled with that car all weekend, man. It wasn't very good. Not for a lack of effort. I mean, we changed pretty much everything. We had a really good plan. I thought Saturday going into practice, we sat down and came up with a lot of changes we wanted to make,

how we were going to use our tires. We had this great plan, ready to go. Went through both practices, trying everything. that we thought was going to help us, and at the end of that second practice or the final practice, or just as lost as we were when we showed up. And I wasn't very confident, but cooled off, took a break, sat down with Greg for a while and talked about some ideas.

We leaned on the 24 a little bit, who was pretty fast. The 88 also wasn't very good, and he leaned on the 24 as well. and they seem to get a decent finish out of their car. But the race started off pretty much how the rest of the weekend went. We got behind pretty early, and we got a little fortunate on a wave around to get a lap back. And then about the second half of the race, the car actually came to life and ran pretty good. So I was pretty happy about that.

We actually drove by the 18 and the 3 on one of those restarts and was in position for the Lucky Dog, which might have been able to give us opportunity to actually run. as well as I think the car was capable of running had we got that lap back. Certainly, you know, 17th isn't anything to brag about or be too excited about, but from where the car started at the beginning of the weekend and at the start of the race to where it finished, I was pretty surprised, actually, would be a good word to describe how the car was driving at the end of the race. Martin Trex Jr., who we were going to try to talk to here in a bit, he has not responded to the text yet.

he finished first this is his fifth win of the season yeah he's up to like 55 playoff points right so the um the thing about that is and i know it's unlikely but if the other guys behind him that do have playoff points as well so who else who else has playoff points so like larsson bush if if any of those guys don't make it to homestead that leaves that leaves grows without Martin ever doing a thing, right? Well, like, if they don't advance to the next round, because once you get to Homestead, it's straight up, yeah. If they don't make it to Homestead,

right? Like, then that lead grows. Right. So right now, his lead's probably 25 over Larson. Right. But if Larson were to fall out, then it's 35 over, yeah. Then his opportunity to get to the next round gets even better without him doing anything. Right.

That's really interesting. There's this, you know, I really like the playoff point. I really like the stages. I think that NASCAR, oh, we got a text. Okay, he says. So he's ready. It's 817. I told him I would call him at 8.30, but we'll see.

We may push that back about five minutes. Do you like that they carry over in each round? Yeah. To reward him for how well he's done all season. Because last year, he was in a similar situation. He blew up that one race in the second round was out. Yep. So really, I think them carrying over is because of that happening last year.

last year. Yep. So I think that, I'm good with it. I think it makes it more interesting. I think it makes it funner to follow. What you need, though, I guess, what's important, I guess, is like year after year after year, will it sustain this interest?

Will it sustain this, you know, this intrigue? Right. That's what we want, right? We change it every year to create intrigue and create interest. We need it to sustain that. I like where they're at. I hope they can stick with it for... Yeah.

I love the stages. And another reason why I like the stages, people are all, you know, what about these stages? Do you like them? Got to ask that this weekend at one of our Q&A sessions. One thing about the stages that I think is interesting, and I know this sounds trivial, but NASCAR struggled for a really, really long time trying to create a fantasy platform. There's millions of dollars in fantasy sports, right? Yeah.

Look at NFL. They make... There's millions of dollars. in that industry. If not billions. Right. So NASCAR struggled to find a way to make fantasy fun. We get scored at the end of the race and at the end of the race only.

Right. So how do you make that fun? So the state has provided an opportunity for NASCAR to have a legitimate fantasy platform for drivers to actually score points in the middle of the race. So you're watching the race and seeing your team or your teams do well. And fantasy play out before your eyes, much like when you're watching the NFL game. And, you know, you're running back, scores a touchdown, boom, four, six points, whatever. I mean, that's not why they created it, but it's a fringe benefit.

It's not why, but I think it's one reason why I'll really like the stages. Right. Because if I'm a fan, I can watch that, like you said. Think about how many people play fantasy football that weren't football fans. I can name several that are in a few leagues of ours that didn't watch any games and now watch all the games because they're in fantasy. Right. And only because they're in fantasy.

I've got that guy going tonight. Yeah. So yeah. I got my wife, Amy, they got a girls league. None of those girls watched football. Now they all watch football. Right. As many games as they can watch.

And think about what, you know, think about what that could do for NASCAR, which is, you know, trying to tackle a new demographic or trying to get new fans. There's a great opportunity there. Anyways, back to Chicago, back to Truex. There's a lot of conversation about tires. Dascar took some tires during the race, dump them in this bucket of water or whatever. There's all kinds of ideas and rumors. So they say they've done it multiple times.

I've never seen this tent. It was like a shady looking little tent where you couldn't see inside of it. It looks like now the NFL has one on the sidelines, and that's where they take an injured player. So that was the weird part, I think, is actually showing the tent. It may very well have been there all year, but that was the first time I've seen, and I know that they showed the tent.

Obviously, they're dunking the tire to see if there's any leaks, because you can basically take a tiny, tiny, tiny drill bit and drill a hole in the sidewall of the tire, and it won't leak any air until it reaches a certain amount of pressure, and it basically is like a bleeder. It'll bleed down and keep the tire pressure low, keep gripping the car. This is, you know, bleeders, I ran bleeders. They were legal in a late model series.

So it's very similar to a bleeder. And it's, it's this rumor that, you know, anytime anybody runs fast, you know, there's people start tagging all kinds of reasons why this guy's fast. The pinhole and the sidewall of the tire, that little trick's been floating around in the rumor mill. and tagged to several, several teams over the last 20 years. I mean, this is nothing new. Not a new phenomenon, but NASCAR is trying to get a little more clever about trying to keep everyone honest.

I like it. I was thinking, so they're taking the tires from 78. People are saying the Toyotas have all this power. Do you think that Truex gets enough credit for how good he is? Because people are like, damn, that 78 car is fast. Cole Perrin's a genius. I don't feel like Truex is getting enough credit for how good he is. Yeah, I mean, I think that...

Because obviously he's a two-time Xfinity champion. You know, the record will show that he's won a lot of races, that he's accomplished a lot. If he can come out of here a champion, I don't think anybody's going to deny his ability and giving him credit. But in the thick of the battle, in the middle of the season, there's a lot of things flying around

there's a lot happening and so maybe the yeah the focus is a little bit too much on parts and pieces and cars and manufacturers and teams and less on the drivers and the sports should should be all about the drivers

right you know all about the personalities that's how fans get connected I mean the fans do care about manufacturers the fans are interested in the crew chiefs. They are interested in what's happening in the industry and the technology and so forth. And it does make you curious as to how teams are engineering speed. Right.

That's always been interesting to everyone for any hardcore fan. But the sports should be about its faces. Drivers and personalities make fans, create fan bases. Regardless of how good that car is, you still got to get it around. the track and you still have to on these restarts you have to not make the mistakes and get yourself in trouble so yep i just feel like he should get a little more credit for how talented he is versus how good that car is which obviously the car is awesome i think he'll get his credit um i think he's getting right some of that credit maybe we don't see it as much because of the you know how loud

the other conversation is about you know whether it's manufacturers or what have you uh or cars being illegal and so forth. I mean, there's a lot of hubbub about all that. And, you know, the simple conversation of, wow, Turex is a great driver is probably not the loudest conversation today. But one of the conversations Sunday was after the race, which we've talked about it on this show before. Yeah.

He did a very exuberant burnout. Yep. And ultimately blew out the tire. So I did not do the research, but we believe here that, and in talking to some, some other folks in the media that the last person to win a race without blowing out the rear tires was way back to the first Pocono. Yeah, which would have been. It was Blaney.

Mid-June. That's a long time ago. That's a lot of burnouts with blown tires. Yeah, that's probably, what, 12, 13 races at least? Yeah. And it's my opinion that the blown tires are its own purpose. It's not a coincidence. It's not a coincidence or accidental, you know.

So I remember back when, I remember 15, 20 years ago, we did burnout all time after winning a race and nobody blew tires out. Now everybody blows the tires out and you tear the car up. Like you blew the tire out that one time at Richmond, but that wasn't, that was just getting a little too excited. Yeah. I'd seen someone do it a couple weeks before and I thought, you know what I'm going to do it until it blows out the tire. I want to try that. So, but after that, I mean, we won some races and didn't blow the tires out. If you won a race now, would you blow the hell out of that tire?

I guess I would if I was told to. Yeah. When do you have that conversation? I don't know. Because you can't, it's not like you can be like, you know, blow the tire. Yeah. They can't say that on the radio. No, I think you have to have it in privacy.

Right. You would have. Yeah. Obviously. It's, I mean, if there is anything to the conspiracy that it's done purposely. Right. Then, you know, the conversation has happened in private. So does that get you some wiggle room in the tech inspection? Well, I think that if you, I mean, obviously if you blow the tires, you tear out to crush panels.

If you unseal the crush panel in a race car, it creates downforce. If you unseal the interior a little bit, it creates downforce. You remember when Carl Edwards won at Vegas and the oil cover was popped off? That creates down force. I mean, that was purpose. That was purpose, purposely done because when you can bleed air into the interior of the car, It just creates some additional downforce. So there are a lot of creative ways to, you know, sort of manipulate these cars.

It's genius, really, to be honest with you. And we've gotten to the point in a sport where we have to work that hard to get that advantage. So part of me really appreciates the ingenuity and the thought process behind it and whoever figured it out is, you know, it's impressive. But so if you tear up the back of the car, it's harder to tech. And obviously, you get to jack the car up and put new tires on it. What happens during that process? And you can drag that out as long as you won't.

I think, does the Indy car, does F1, F1 basically confiscates the cars as soon as they come across the finish line and win the race, they put them in this little area and they don't let anyone touch the cars until they can be inspected. I know that they like park the top three cars like in a gated off area. And the crews can't get near them. The crews are sort of ganged around this song,

you know, packed around this fence. Right. Celebrating with the drivers. It's kind of a, it's, I don't say, awkward, but it's a weird sort of. Right. Like you can look at your car, but you can't touch it. It's kind of a weird little moment.

It's kind of a weird little moment. in this great celebration. But they confiscate the cars to where nothing can happen to the cars, nothing can be touched and done. In our sport, we can burn the tires off of it and blow it up and tear the quarter panels off and come driving into the pits with tires flat. We go to Victor Lane and jump and celebrate it all around the race car. The car can be jacked up to put tires on it so they can go over the LIS machine by the team.

Meanwhile, everyone else that finished the race is out on pit road, crew members walking around their cars. We walked around our car after the race for 15 minutes without an inspector in sight. So, I mean, 6, 7, 8 crew members standing around the cars. So it's a much different environment. Do you think that that... In our sport. Are they eventually going to get to the point where they're going to be like,

hey, park way out by the grass. Nobody can do it. The driver walks to you? All right. So part of me wants to, part of me wishes that it was a stricter policy, but then there's half of me that, um, there's part of me that says, be careful what you wish for, because we are, the rule book and everything and the rules are so tight today that, uh, you remember how the cars used to look, say 2002, 2004, how cars were all twisted up and the bodies were all, you know, the tail pieces

were slid way over. You had to be giant left front fender, right front fender. The body men in the sport had gotten so creative. And there was, you had areas to work to get an advantage. If you were a good, smart person in whatever particular expertise you worked in, you could be creative and be an asset to your team, bring something to the table, make your car better, make your team stronger. with the rules that we have today in the templates and the LIS machine,

there's not a lot of areas where teams can work and be creative. You know, so you don't get to see that ingenuity quite as much. So part of me kind of, part of me really appreciates that ingenuity, engineering, tricking the rulebook, finding loopholes, tricking the inspectors, snookering the sport in a sense. part of me is like Bravo impressive

but then there then there's some sometimes it's I don't know it's some of the some of the more blatant stuff I guess the tires blowing out the tires during burnouts

is something that I think they could police they could just say don't burn your don't blow your tires out you can do a burnout you're not going to blow your tire out you know what you're doing yeah if you blow the tire then your ass better go across LIS

like that yeah I think if you blow the tire, yes, you have to go across tech like that. But I think they could do a few things to limit, you know, some of the more blatant stuff. Another controversy over the weekend was Brad Keselowski versus Toyota. As a Chevrolet driver, or I guess, I mean, Chevrolet forward, whatever, non-Toyota driver. So Brad Kislowski says, after first practice, Jeff Gluck tweeted, Toyota was, one, two, three, four fastest. So Brad tweeted, we're all in for a rude awakening. I haven't seen

NASCAR let a manufacturer get this far ahead since the 1970s. Yep. Which, Brad, somebody pointed out, Brad wasn't alive in the 70s. I think Cole Perrin pointed that out. Cole Pern said that. But then somebody said, I didn't know you had to be alive in a certain era to know anything about it. Right. Because, like, you're a student of the sport. Sure. So was Brad. Brad's a pretty good student in And Kyle Bush promptly, and not shockingly, responded, STFU, which isn't a friendly way of telling him to shut up. And Denny Hamlin told him to focus on his own program. As somebody not driving Toyota, are you like, man, they're way ahead? Or do you think it's the Gibbs Furniture Row team specifically that are ahead?

All right. So when I heard them comments, I, you know, I see Ford's in the top 10 in practice. I see Ford's finishing in the top 10 in the race. I see Chevy's up there. I see Toyota's up there. Who is the strongest team in the sport? Today, definitely Gibbs. You could say Toyota's, but it's really Gibbs.

It's Gibbs and their alliance with the 78 team, the 77 team. They are the strongest team of the sport. They have done their home. homework. Basically, you had a bit of a perfect storm. Gibbs has a, I think Gibbs has a really good way of working together as four teams. How they, and this starts on, you know, this starts in the shop. They build their cars together. They work together and share information together in the shop. This is also what HMS does, but this is a, you know, they do it really. well. They work together in the shop, share information, all the cars, share information,

all the, you know, the company really works as one to put four cars on the racetrack. And then they go to the track. They've done a really good job cultivating their talent, bringing up their engineers to crew chiefs and so forth and replacing their engineers with better, with good engineers and so forth. They work all their guys through the Xfinity series, much like we do here at Junior Motorsports through HMS. So it's just a really good system that they have to get their guys really sharp and smart to be able to provide their drivers. very, very good race cars. On top of that, they made an alliance with the 78 team who was a dominant Chevy.

Right. He made the championship four driving Chevy's with an RCR lines. So they basically aligned with one of the other powerhouses. I know people don't look at the 78 or didn't look at the 78 at the time as the best team in the sport, but he was definitely up there. And they also trade information back and forth with that team. So they take some of their ideas. And this is what goes on in the sport year after year after year.

You take someone else's idea, you bring it in, you let your engineers look at it and go, that's a great idea, but I'm going to make it better. And that's what everybody in the sport does. So the 78 team, furniture row and Gibbs basically shared their best ideas. Each one took it, engineered a little bit better. And they just rose together. You know, so this is a bit of a perfect storm. They're all enjoying and sharing the fruits of that labor.

But like to point out how equal, I mean, Toyota's are the top guys right now. But Sunday's top 10, there's three Toyotas, four Chevys, three fords. Right. In the chase, there's four Toyotas, seven Chevroletes, and five fords. Yeah. I mean, granted, there's six legitimate. Toyota's and four of them made the chase. But, I mean, it's, like you said, it's specifically that program. Yeah. It's not. It's not Toyota. It's that team. Right. So.

Which Hendricks been the lead dog for a long time. I agree. I think that Brad, Brad's smart. Yep. He didn't, he didn't just go say these comments to be, you know, just be running off the mouth. Uh, he, he's very smart. He's going to. He's going to, to use every advantage he can on the racetrack and off the racetrack. He sees the opportunity to talk to the media. If he wants, you know, if he's thinking in his head, you know what? I'd like NASCAR to take a little more time to focus on the Toyotas and what they're doing and whether it's in the tech process or what have you.

Well, he did that. He basically planted that seed with his comments. He's pretty smart. I think that that was a calculative move by him. Brad is super smart. And he's done this in the past. You know, I mean, this is his MO. when it comes down to championship season

is he's going to fight not only on the racetrack but with psychological warfare as well as well as he possibly can. Yeah, because he's a great raceguard driver too and he's super smart. And he's always thinking like strategies

and different things. What can I say in the media today that might give me an advantage or at least create a conversation? He wanted to create a conversation about that. He succeeded I like that he's not afraid to do that. I think that every sport needs that, especially our sport.

Right. All right, so we're going to talk about that a little bit with our guest here. You want to call Trix? You guys' number? No. All right. Let me send that to you. Hello.

Mabodam. Is this Martin Trix, Jr.? Come in. Yeah, who's this? This is Dale Jr. How are you? Hey, Dale, Jr. How are you? Are you awake yet? Yeah, I'm awake

How long have you been awake? I got up just for you, buddy Are you still in bed? No, I'm not I'm outside Oh, you're outside? Yeah, I hear you All right, so

This is We're interviewing you In a segment we call three questions with And we've been talking about Chicago We've been talking about Your success and Tyler doesn't think you get enough credit as a driver. A lot of the focus in the conversation in the sports,

obviously around manufacturers, around teams, around crew chiefs and so forth. But you're seeing a, you know, you had a couple of solid years here so far with the furniture row guys. And now a lot of people are looking at you as, I guess you could say that you're the favorite to win the championship, especially coming out of the box when in the first race in the playoffs,

and you're carrying such a comfortable league going into each round with these playoff points. How does that feel? Like, this is the first opportunity, I think the best opportunity you've really had to win the championship. How does that feel with all these playoff points, all this momentum going into the playoffs and coming out and winning Chicago right out of the gate?

It feels great. I mean, you know, I think if you look at it, that's, you know, that's where everybody wants to be, and that's where everybody's been working towards all year. So, you know, to be that guy in that position feels amazing. It's been an unbelievable season, and it just seems like it keeps getting better. So, you know, I feel great about what we're at. Our team's performing well. You know, obviously, we've got speed everywhere we go.

I think, you know, I think about the rest of the tracks coming up. up and I feel really good about all those. And we'll just see. I mean, you know, with the eliminations and it all coming down to just to one race for all the marbles, I think there's, you know, it's kind of hard to pick a favorite just because, I mean, how racing is one race to determine at all. You never know what can happen. But at the same time, I think that, you know, we've got a great shout at it.

And, you know, we're just taking it one race at a time and see where it all, we're at all, Falls. Do you guys have an opportunity to go to, I know there's a test at Homestead for several teams. Are you guys part of that? Yeah, we plan on going to that. Right. That'll be a big deal for all the guys that are in the playoffs. I think that, you know, you've had some pretty good runs at Homestead.

Sure. It's a racetrack that I think it, me and you both enjoy, especially being able to run against that fence. But it seems like everybody's figured out how to get up there and do. do that these days, so it's a little bit more difficult to pass these guys. But do you look at Homestead? I know that, you know, you still got a lot of racing in between now and then, but when you look at Homestead, where do you rank that track as a competitor? Yeah, I mean, you know, like you said, I think everybody's kind of figured place out.

It's gotten, I think it's gotten more difficult over the years to run there. I think the, you know, the wall has gotten harder to run. just because I think the last couple years it seems like you need to be closer to it, and especially in turns one and two, I feel like it's gotten bumpier up there. That's made it more difficult. I think, honestly, that if you can figure out a way to run down, you know, half a lane off the wall, make your car work, I think that's going to be the way to go. We'll just have to wait and see.

I'm not real sure. But I feel good going there. It's been a good track for us over the years. I know the two years ago we didn't run very well. well there, but last year I thought we made some big gains. We got tour up in the race pretty early on and still had a pretty good run going after that until last wreck. So I feel okay going there.

Testing there is kind of, I don't know how to feel about that. I feel like we run better at places when we don't test, to be honest with you. So we'll see how that goes. But looking forward to it, and I think we're in a pretty good spot to be able to get there. All right. last question. I'm kind of curious as to where your priorities are at this moment in your life, because we had all these hunting trips planned that we planned much earlier in the year,

and now you're starting to back out of several of them. Me and you own some property together, which I think is amazing, and we have a lot of fun with that. Considering, you know, obviously, all jokes aside, your racing's number one, but a lot of fans know you're a big-time hunter. How do you squeeze in a few opportunities to get in the stand during such a hectic time in the season? And does actually getting in the stand and hunting,

I think it's very therapeutic and an opportunity to kind of clear your mind and it's a little, you know, it's kind of nice to sit up there and just kind of think about things and sometimes you sort out some of the things going on in your life. But how do you find a time to get into tree stand during the playoffs?

It's definitely not easy, as you know, especially, you know, it seems like the last couple years has gotten harder. I think the more success you have, more you're kind of engaged with your team, and the more you've got going on, especially during the week. So it's a little more difficult. But I try to get out, you know, whether it's, you know, hunting or fishing anywhere,

really nice to get away and get some more where your phone is turned off. and just disconnect. I agree 100% with you. That helps a lot of it. It helps keep you focused. It helps, especially if you had a bad week. It helps you just kind of forget that

and kind of flip forward and think about the next one coming up and what you've got to do to maybe figure out how to run better or put a bad week behind you or figure out those kind of things. So I think outdoors and getting away is probably the best ways to recharge and regroup and kind of refocus.

And, you know, I wish we could find more time to do it, especially now with, you know, having our own place and everything. It's been awesome, so looking forward to it. But, you know, I think someday we'll have all the time in the world, hopefully. Oh, yeah. But you just, you never notice. So you try to get it in while you can. Yeah.

Well, I remember just what, in a few years ago, that you were ragging how you didn't have too many appearances, and I know you're busy as hell these days, so it's kind of nice to see the shoe on that foot. Yeah, for sure. So enjoy it, man. We're going to be pulling for you. You've got a lot of fans over here at Dirtymoe Radio, a lot of friends,

and we'll be watching you throughout these playoffs and wishing you well. Thanks for allowing us to give you a holler, and we'll see you to racetrack. Yeah, man, I appreciate it. Good talking to you, pal. All right, we're going to get to the Ask Junior questions. As always, we take these questions using the hashtag Ask Junior. We're joined by Mike Davis, who is running the Facebook Live. and pulling questions from there as well.

All right, you ready? As ready as we're ever going to be. Cornwit. He submitted a question before. Corn wit. Corn wit. It's Colwitt's a secondary Twitter account, I bet. That's his burner Twitter?

Yeah, his burner Twitter. I saw something in the news this week, by the way. Like Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant has a fake account so he can go around hyping himself. Oh, I heard it was to troll people. Oh, yeah. To go at haters. But he's like,

also like man Kevin Derrett's awesome. Is that a good idea? This is not Cornowitz question. I'm asking this. I don't think it's a good idea to be found out. Right. Yeah, if they find out. Oh, so did you just suggest perhaps that you have a burner account?

I do not have one. But I was laying, me and Amy were going to bed last night and we were talking about it. And I was like, she was like, I was telling her about it. And she was like, oh, my God. And I said, yeah, I'm kind of glad I don't have one. because that, I'd feel pretty stupid. I have a theory that Dale Jr. was on Twitter way before he made his first public debut. I had no idea how to use it.

Yeah, but see, this is what, let me just tell you what would happen. You know, we'd be at Bristol Motor Speedway, Darlington, Pick Your Track, whatever, and he'd be like, why did you post a picture of me wearing that hat? And I'm like, that was two weeks ago. How do you know about that? Well, it took me that long to find out. I mean, if I was already on Twitter. I was already on Twitter, I'd ask you that day when you posted it.

That would have been too obvious, sir. Right. I'm not that calculative. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, Kezalowski over here, plotting everything that comes out of my mouth. So you said you did not have a Twitter account just to kind of look in on people. I promised to the Lord that I did not have, and I know you're deacon, so you could take this, you could take this as fat. All right.

I guess we'll get to Cornwitz question now. Only 33 drivers started 23 plus regular season races this year, and 16 made the playoffs a huge percentage. Should the playoff field be reduced? Sure. Why not? I mean, we've gone from 10 to 12 to 16. I think 12 was a good number. I thought 12 was a pretty good number, too.

But we're going to get there anyways. I mean... After three races. Yeah. A couple more races. It'll be 12. Yeah. Cornwick.

Just be patient. Yeah. Just wait three weeks and you'll see. But I look at the NFL and the NBA, I mean, half the league gets into the playoffs. Yeah, 16 of 30 NBA teams, 12 of 32 NFL. So there you go. Yeah. I'm good with where it is.

It doesn't really make a difference to me, I guess. I mean, the guys that should get knocked out will probably get knocked out in the first round anyways, I think. He's dogging them. I'm not. I'm just saying. I felt like it. I feel like it dig to me. A little harsh.

Hey. I like your honesty, though. When it happens, it'll, you'll be like, yeah, that guy probably shouldn't. You and Truex. You don't think there'll be any surprises. There's always one surprise because somebody will wreck or something will happen, but. Do you want to make a prediction on who the surprise will be? Who the surprise?

Who is the guy that should be in the last round that will not make it past the second round? I don't want to say because I might hurt someone's feelings Oh good gracious You're a great host on a podcast Let me tell you You know what you care about people's feelings There's no feelings here We got no feelings

We just woke up True X It might be the 11 Denny He's fast You're worried about Denny's feelings Well I don't I got friends at Gibbs I don't want them to be bad at me

My brother My brother works at Penske So He didn't mention any Penske driver No Didn't don't do that Don't want to upset anybody over at Penske. They'll be fine.

Keselowski ran like 50 other day, six, something like that. I wouldn't, I mean, nothing against Denny, but I think I wouldn't be that. I don't think that's a, I don't think that's like a shocker if Denny doesn't make it to the last round. I think he could or he couldn't. I think it's 50-50 that he gets there. I mean, I think it would be more of surprising maybe 78, 18. 42. 42.

Is there a fourth? like alpha dog yeah maybe the four maybe the four or two i don't know yeah four or two or 11 i think that's the fourth guy that you mentioned that would be one of the shockers if maybe the 42 doesn't make it that'd be pretty shocking yeah because he has he's got a lot of playoff points yeah i just it's so weird i think that you know it's going to be hard for those guys not to put out of seven eight or a lot to get the homestead and i think the 42 is too because he has so many bonus points yeah I think that that is going to... So that is why, I mean, that fourth spot could be anybody's.

Right. Denny's anyone's. Right. Because he has that encumbered win. If he had those extra five points, he might make it. Yeah, might. He put a tweet out this week that had encumbered in it. He did.

You see that? Yeah. Because he was suggesting that that's how he was trying to say that NASCAR is. That was his justification on how they're not having Toyota favoritism going on. All right. Good. Question, Cornwick. Good luck, Denny, though. Drummer 69 asks, when a company changes manufacturers, are the drivers required to change their personal cars as well?

Yeah. I mean, I have a very close friend that I share a airport hangar with, and he has changed manufacturers, and he drives different vehicles. I mean, that's logical. You support the people that support you. Plus, they probably give you a free one. So it would be dumb. I mean, he gets a, he, uh, he, uh, imagine gets a, yeah, a free truck.

So, yeah. If they're going to give it to you free, you'll change. Right. Exactly. You'll change. T.D.B. 83. I wonder what that stands for. The dirt bag. The dirt bag 83.

Yes. Were you really thinking dirt? Uh, no. Uh, no. Are you bummed about leaving full-time cup racing before breaking Bill Elliott's most popular driver record. You're at 14 and he has 16. Now, before you say that anything, I want you to know we get this question a lot.

Like, it bothers, it bothers junior fans that they didn't, they're not going to get that Bill Elliott record. You could be the most popular driver of all time. Oh, now I feel bad. Yeah, you ought to. I feel like a little nauseous about this now. Thank you. Did this come into your mind at all?

I never thought about it. Yeah. I never thought about it. I, um, uh, yeah, I mean, it would be, it would be, it would be sticking around only for that and that would be wrong or that wouldn't feel really, really like the right thing to do. So it'd feel awesome when you got that trophy. The most popular driver trophy moving forward would be a statue of you. Oh my gosh. No, I would not.

With the little kid. It's hard enough to get him to just appreciate or just want people to say thanks to him right now on his own retirement tour. He doesn't even want that. So you think they're going to make a statue. He's going to okay a statue being made of him as a trophy. That would be awesome. I'm completely thrilled with the 14 that we have. And, you know, Bill was awesome because he had, you know, that was his name.

because he was yeah he was awesome I you know and I read where I read where Chase Elliott said that he was glad that I wasn't going to break that record

oh and I can I can understand that I mean there's you know there's part of me that yeah there's a little sliver of me that doesn't want Jimmy to win eight you know right right absolutely you don't want your dad to be second best

no I want a dad to be the man I like that Jimmy he tired him because I think that Jimmy and my father I see them more as equals and I see you know I think Jimmy is in definitely in the conversation of the greatest driver that's ever been in sport now I'm biased because I think my dad's awesome but

there's part of me that doesn't I feel the same way Chase does about you know his dad's you know 16 most popular driver awards so yeah I don't know I I think if I you know if I was if if

If I could see myself racing another five years, then that might be something of interest or I would be something I'd be super proud of if I ever did break that. But I, that's just a long conversation, maybe for another day. But I can, I'm tracking with you on that. Yeah. All right, let's move on here. JC 7303. Hey, what does JC stand for, Tyler? You got any, any wise cracks on that one?

Jesus Christ Jesus, good Lord. Any updates on your Key West property and renovation project home? Well, everything is on hold. Obviously, our contractor, so I'll start here. Our contractor, Steve, he's got an Instagram, Steve Krieger, if you wanted to go on his Instagram and see some of his posts on there that are quite interesting about. He stayed in our house during the hurricane.

So he lives up in Marathon or around Marathon, which is, it's really dangerous up there. The houses are a little bit further apart. And so he and his family, he has a newborn with his wife, and they stayed in our house down in old town because the houses are very close together and they kind of shelter each other. He posted throughout the entire experience what was going on. and we've been in contact with him. His home's got some damage. A lot of his family members down there, and he's a contractor,

so there's a lot of other folks that he does business with that need his attention and help. We have put the show on pause until Steve can sort of regroup. He just needs even about a month to figure out how much of his equipment's lost and damaged and ruined and sort of get his self-organized.

So we're really concerned with Steve and all of our friends. The infrastructure down there, Steve has told us that the infrastructure down there is in critical shape. They had about 200 telephone poles down. The water system was busted in several locations down through the keys. So there's no water, there's no power. it'll be quite a while before all that stuff is is secure and safe to use and they just recently opened up the airport for to allow traffic down there. They've had it closed off and it's it's really bad. You know, it's a bad situation for a lot of people.

And so we're doing some things up here to raise some money to help. um hendrick has a uh charitable calls that uh folks can get involved in hendrick relief dot org yep so if you want to send some uh you know send some help and some relief down to the keys you can uh you can go to that website and and donate so we've been raising money there for a couple weeks now for not only key west but also for the houston folks uh and the folks in texas but yeah so that's how i mean really we're just sitting we're just like hey shut it you know turn it off let's just wait till everything sort of gets sorted out and the keys can get back on their feet and get going again um i can't wait to get down there and and see everybody

and uh that place is they're very resilient of people though and this isn't you know uncharted territory for them they've dealt you know the keys has a history of of of You know, and it will be back better than ever. It has a history of dealing with situations like this, and they'll bounce right back. All my conk friends down there are thinking about y'all. I saw Jimmy was down there doing some work with Lowe's. Yeah, Jimmy went down there with Marty Smith for Lowe's. And got to see firsthand some of the destruction and devastation.

It's pretty severe. It's rough. Yeah, it's rough. All right. Good question there. TRD 78 ask, have you ever thought about running Chase Elliott or Jimmy Johnson's setups? If not, why not? Yeah.

So this is a conversation that we had quite a few times this weekend, actually. The way the cars are built, designed, the 48 and the 88 both leaned on the 24 this weekend. It's gotten to the point in today's technology and the way the cars are being. built and set up at the shop that we can't basically perfectly copy another car set up while we're at the track. We don't have all the things in the hauler that we need. We would have to change spindles, ball joints, all the front suspension. We would have to change a lot of things that we literally don't carry.

people think oh just put that put his springs and shocks in that's not that's not that simple and so we you know we can do we can see what they're doing we have an open database to be able to see everybody's setups and we can you know we all you know show up pretty close anyways but it's not as simple as just make it just like that car you can't do that because everything you know you don't have the resources right there at your fingertips and the cars don't leave the shop with the same parts and pieces and spindles and geometry and all that stuff the whole front clips are are different and the one thing that the one thing that HMS is

in the process of doing is for the longest time the 48 88 was one shop and the 24 and the 5 was another shop and they had a they had no connected between them And so no matter how hard you tried to make everything the same across the whole company, the two shops worked independently and they would build their cars differently.

They just had, you know, they're just different theories on what to do and how to do the geometry and how to put the rear end in the car and all that stuff. So,

but what Hendrick is doing is they're going to merge the two shops together. Eventually, over the next couple of years, all the cars will be built in the same shop. and so

which is similar similar to Gibbs to the Gibbs model I've never been in Gibbs shop but I believe it to be similar to the Gibbs model um so that

that with the goal in mind is to get the cars closer so that when you do go to the racetrack you can you can get even closer if you do want to copy a guy's setup can you get identical no you never will be but in a and check and out

said it this weekend in our meeting. He said, we're going to get as close as we possibly can. But you'll never be able to be just like it. So if you see the 24, for example, this weekend running really well, you can get close to him, but you'll never be able to be identical to him. You have to do that on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So in the shop when you're in there building the cars. So for somebody who's a fan of the five who didn't run that well this week and the 24 well, they're going to be like, well, those two are in the same shop. Yeah. I'd assume that they did not have the exact same setup.

Right. But, you know, you could take two great race car drivers like Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon, who were in the same shop, and they did not run the same setups, and they would run side by side. You know, they battle each other, that famous finish to, the famous finish between them at Martinsville, where they're banging doors to the finish line. Both cars probably had completely different setups. them. Right. If you put Jimmy's setup in Jeff's car, I bet Jeff wouldn't like it. If you did the same for Jimmy, he probably wouldn't, they drive differently. They feel things differently. They want a

different feel. Jeff likes to turn the steering wheel and there be, the car be a little snug and comfortable, and he wants to steer the car into the corner. Jimmy likes the car very loose. He likes the car to turn around the car without really having to move the steering wheel too much. I mean, there's just very different ways that they drive the cars. Some drivers, you know, we've look at the driver traces. Another example, I guess, we used to look at the driver traces when we were paired up with Stuart Haas. And the four car, Harvick, he'd go to the racetrack and we'd see his driver trace, and there

were racetracks like at Charlotte in one and two or three and four or whatever. There'd be some racetracks we'd run at, and he would never come all the way off the gas. And that's just how he drives. And we would try to go out there and mimic that, and we just couldn't do it. you know, but we could see his setup. We could put it in, but couldn't run the same speed as him. None of us. Right.

It's Jimmy, me, nobody. And he'd never come off the gas at Charlotte? In one and two, maybe. Okay. You know, like he, he had a way of driving the car at a lot of tracks to where he lifted maybe a little sooner, but didn't, maybe only come back to 50% throttle, you know, and rode 50% throttle through the middle of corner. And so you see, but, and that's just an example, like, Jim, Jimmy drives, Jimmy comes off the throttle really slow.

When I get to the corner, I lift hard off the throttle. Everybody has a different way of driving the cars. Everybody has a different way of using the throttle, mashing the gas, how quickly they use it. That's just how you drove forever, so it's not like it's hard to. It's just like me. Like when I go in the corner, I put both hands over on the left side of the wheel and tow on it. And it's called the Arkansas pool that Mark Martin made famous. Some drivers run at 10 and 2.

I don't know how they do that. I don't know how you drive like this in the corner. That feels so weird to me when I try to do that. Seems like your arms would be. Yeah. I raced at Martinsville in the late models, and I looked in the mirror one time, and a guy was at 1145 and 12, 15. I mean, I don't know how you race this way.

Dude, the school bus, yeah. So. That's crazy. All right. Good answer, good question there. Let's see where we want to go here. Let's ask Johnny NASCAR's question. besides guys you have worked with before like Jeff Gordon and Steve LaTart,

who else will you seek out advice for going into the TV booth next year? That's a good question. Did you hear it? I didn't. I'm sorry. I was trying to see if Truex had tweeted me. Wait, Truex is tweeting? Well, let's stop right now.

Let's find out what he's tweeting about, right? He's probably like Dale Jr. did not ask me about Brad Kozlowski. No. I know. I thanked Martin for letting us interview him, and he didn't text back. He's like you. He doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't respond.

I said, thanks grumpy. Didn't respond. Oh, wait, wait, wait, so he has not replied. Yeah, he is grumpy. So you were just checking to see if he had replied. He has not. And so now you've texted him again and called him grumpy. No, I said, thanks grumpy the first time.

Maybe I shouldn't have called him grumpy. Yeah. You know what? And that's why I don't reply to you sometimes when you call me names. Mike will respond, but it'll be 12 hours later and it'll be a document. True X just probably wrong. I'm like, I'm like, that's a long text.

I think that Martin actually just, when he hung up the phone, he rolled over and went back to sleep. Of course he did. Of course he did. I'm outside. He was not outside. Yeah.

When I walked into this, when I walked into this studio and I could hear him on the speaker, that voice, that's morning voice. That's Truex morning voice. He ain't outside. He ain't out of bed. Yeah.

That's what I thought. Absolutely not. All right. All right, the question for Johnny NASCAR was besides guys you have worked with before like Jeff Gordon and Steve LaTart, who else will you see seek out advice for before going into the booth next year?

Man. Mike, Tyler. Oh, I hope you go bigger than that. You're going to need some more advice. Well, talking to my boss, Sam Flood, my boss at NBC, he's mentioned a lot of folks that work outside of the sport that he would like to introduce me to, and that he would actually like to take me and set me down and have conversations with and actually watch these people work and prepare for their jobs.

So I think I'm going to be able to see a lot of things like that. Yeah, like outside of the sport. Right. I mean, like, yeah, football and that kind of thing. And, yeah, I'm going to lean on Kyle Petty Dale Jarrett and obviously the three guys in the booth. You know, I got to get to know everybody. And outside of that, you know, I trust those guys because I've raced with them

and they've watched me grow up. And I think as I get to know everybody else, I mean, Steve's Tartch's been running off all kinds of names of these folks that he works with at NBC that I haven't really got to know yet. This guy's great. This guy's great. This girl's great. This girl's great.

And I'm sure I'm going to have all kinds of folks that I can lean on. But I'll be interested to sort of go wherever Sam Flood thinks I need to, to see what I need to see and experience what I need to to get prepared. All that kind of starts up in January, I guess. What about Ken Squire? I mean, if you're going to go...

Yeah. Go to the best. Yeah. The legend. Did he catch some flack about the way he called? What was it that he did? He said the Mexican.

Oh, yeah. About Danosquire. And then he called Eric. He's like the boy Eric Jones, right? Is that what he said, Jordan? The boy? What did he say, Jordan?

It was the Jones boy, right, that Jones boy, which is just an old-school way of calling him. He caught, he caught plaque for that too, I guess. He said, ha-ha, you're welcome. We're still friends. Did he say, you're welcome, like proper? Yeah, did he do that. Or did he did.

He says. Like, you are welcome or? I'll correct him. That's worse than calling him. He did not use proper language. This stays in. Yeah, True X is never coming back on this show. Never.

We might as well... David Reagan... Nobody else for that matter. David Reagan sent me a picture of a Unicow 76 ball on a trailer and wants to know how much it's worth. The guy wants $2,500. Dude, that's a steal. That they go to you asking you what a Unicow 76 ball is worth says all we need to know about Dale. He's like, I know...

Well, he's got one, so... No, no, that's my point, right? I mean, it's actually on our... It's an excellent shape. The guy wants $25. It's the same size as the one I got from North Wiltsboro. Yeah. It's one of those rotating 76 balls.

It's up on the post. Yeah. No, not that one. Not that one? This one behind him. Oh, okay, so it's not the full ball. It's just like that one. It rotates.

Gotcha. But this one's an excellent shape. I'm going to offer $3,500. I'm just kidding. Oh, my gosh. I'm just kidding. That guy. That's what I do.

Like Tim Dugger and I sort of, we both collect these old retro t-shirts on eBay, and we had to stop showing each other the ones that we were bidding on. Of course. Because the other one would go secretly bid on the same shirt or just outright buy it. Hit the buy it now button. That's a dick move. It's a same. Listen, we know this about it.

No, he is. I mean, I'm not going to deny it. Man, like, well, he'd be like, oh, man, somebody bought it. He knows who bought it. He takes me, cussing me out. That's messed up. But he did it, too. This is why I don't even play fantasy football with him anymore, because, to be honest with you, he was.

This is not why you quit fantasy football, by the way. You use the same tactics that, and you would be like, hey, you know, do you want some advice on this or whatever? I would go to him thinking I'm going to a friend, and I'm like, you know what, I think, you know what, I think, you know, you know, this guy on the waiver. waiver wires, you know, I'm going to pick him up. And then at 2 o'clock in the morning, the thief in the night goes in there and takes my guy. That's when waivers open up. I just happened to be in the middle of night.

I played him in a championship game. We changed the league. Hey, we changed the rules and now the waivers are... I played him in a championship game two years ago, and my running back got hurt. And the Panthers running back was available, so I was going to pick him up on waivers. He told somebody else who was in, like, the, fifth sixth place game. Constellation round.

The consolation to go pick up that guy. Put him on his bench. Yeah, so I couldn't get it. So one time my kid was sick and Dale, and I'm kidding. I'm going to make up a story. His running back was hurt, so I texted like four teams to pick up all the running backs that I thought would even score any points that were still on the waiver wire.

And I lost. Yeah. Champion. There's an asterisk by that one. Whatever you got to do, right? Yes. What, uh, is there, is there a question here that we want to end on? Let's see here.

I like this one here. The most memorable, um, Mike Belcher asked what's the most memorable hunting trip with your father? You didn't like, you didn't like that question? I did. And I, there's a story actually that you have. I just didn't know if you, if I asked that question. Just tell me one word. Um, it's not actually answering the question, but you told me how your dad used to hang those tree stands to where,

Oh, yeah. He would use this. God. It's just, it's so crazy to me. Okay, so I tweeted a picture like a baby, I guess, the year ago. Oh, yeah. That picture freaks me out, too. So dad's in this tree stand. He's really, literally, what, 75 feet there?

Every bit of it. Way. And I said to Dale, I said, shot in the dark here. I know they didn't have safety harnesses back then. He did not have safety harnesses. Does he even just humor me and tell me he has like a rope around his waist or something? He goes, absolutely not. So.

Dale Earnhardt didn't have a safety harnesses. rope of anything. He was even the top of this big tree. Yeah, it's a pine tree, no limbs. He's all the way up the top of it. So he asked me to go, he's going to take me hunting and I've never

shot a deer. This is exciting for me to go, Dad, I'd hurt, you know, he's going, he would go hunting every single day of the season, every day. I mean, as soon as the season start, you wouldn't see him for months. And it sucked, you know, you're like, where's dad? You

be around dad dad's not around dad's hunting dad's racing dad's this dad's that so he's finally going to take me hunting with him down in alabama on this property that he's leased and he's part of a club down there so we go we get ready and we're going out in the stand we go up to this tree and it's dark right sun's not come up yet um i go to to climb up the uh the pegs he's got these screw in pegs and I can't get my foot on the second peg. I can't reach it. Like I pulled my leg up, and I'm still like a half a foot from the peg.

And so he had to push each foot onto the next peg, and he literally, like, pushed me up this tree, right, going right behind me. He's got my gun and his gun. Loaded. No, they're not loaded. So he's pushing me up these pegs, and we went up, you know, 40, 50 feet into this tree. Yeah. No limbs on this thing.

It's up there swaying. He sets me on the chain up that's mounted into the chain up stand. There's two by fours. There's only two two by fours ran to this limb. And he sits on the two by fours. Oh, my gosh. In the top of this tree all day. And we did, we saw a big dough come out and like 150 yards.

and I shot it. He was so excited. We'd get down, which was scary. Of course it would be. Because he had to go down behind me and take my feet off to the pegs and put them on the next one. I literally couldn't get, you know, that was too short. He had put the pegs so far apart to use the least amount of pegs possible, right? He didn't want to put every damn peg he had in a tree.

So, and how many pegs you want, you know, he's probably saved himself screwing in five. It's six bucks. Yeah. Well, plus, I mean, 50 feet in the air, he saved himself. screwing in five or five pegs probably. Right. The work of doing that, right? Right.

So, man, that just goes, I would want more pegs. Anyways, go ahead. That's, so, that was one story. The, the same hunting trip, or at the same cabin on another hunting trip, he, we had a dough come out behind the cabin on our lunch break. We got out of the stand, didn't see anything in the morning. We're sitting, we're in the cabin, and dad's like, get you going. Go to the bathroom.

We go to the bathroom and sit on the toilet and shot this deer out the bathroom window. I remember that. He thought that was funny. Is that the first deer you shot? That was the second. Okay. The first one was the one in the stand that I just, the first story. Okay.

Well, you haven't hunted. I've always said you haven't hunted until you shot a deer off the toilet. Yeah. You haven't. No. How many people do you think have shot a deer off the toilet? My father-in-law actually has. Really?

The first... Apparently it's a thing, right? The first... I mean, you're going to... You'll do... There's no... I mean, there's nothing going to stay in your way when you're going to shoot a deer

in its hunting season and you're hunting, right? Yeah, but you weren't really hunting. We were just... We were eating a sandwich. Call Truex back and ask him if he shot a deer off a toilet. Really? Just to mess with him. No?

No. Tweet it? Text him? Text him. Grumpy? No. I hear you. If you love Dale Jr., then Exaltor racing is your go-to social media account on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It brings you Insiders info all weekend long on the 88 team. It's at Exaltor Racing, a must follow for any Dale Jr. fan. All right, let's go to looking ahead.

We've got a busy week. This week has been chock full of work. I have been going and going and going and going. Seems like as soon as we got home from Chicago, we never stopped. Yeah. Today we got a nationwide production, and we also have the Driven to Give Charity Dinner and auction tonight. There's a live auction. There's some very, very good items.

What are you bidding on? Well, I know last year... There's no Buy It Now feature, so nobody can swoop in on this. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to have to check it out when I get there, but last year I know there were about three or four items that I was battling for. They got up there pretty high, but I did not end up taking anything home.

last year? No. No. I tried to bid on some Panther stuff, and I even tried to bid on the Josh Norman Redskins helmet. I wanted the Gwen Stefani Blake Shelton autographed guitar. I think somebody called in on that one. Yeah, they did. It's one of the online. Somebody won that online or bid on that online. So we got all that going on. I'm going to actually emcee this dinner. Do you know that? No. Me, well, Kelly's going to emce it, but we don't have an emcee like last year. Last year we had Kenny Wallace. This year, me and Kelly and Amy are going to get up there and do it. Oh, I know you have a lot of it. I know you have a script.

Yep. Wednesday, we got the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum in Aquarium. Gala. Gala. Yeah. So that'll be fun. We're going to that. That's by Johnny Morris from Basbro Shops.

He's built this, right? Yep. In Springfield. In Springfield. Yeah. So we're going to go do that. Friday, Thursday, I have a day off. I'll be damn.

Well, we got to do something about that, Tyler. You got one thing to do. Those appreciation videos that we've been. We got to finish those. We still have a few left to do that we're tweeting. Friday, practice and qualifying. Qualifying is at 515 Eastern on NBC Sports Network. And Saturday we have two practices in the morning before lunch, one at 9 and 1 1130.

The trackside live show outside the tunnel at 6 p.m. We did that. You did that the first visit to allow. It's a lot of fun. Me and Clint Boyer and Blaney sit up there and made a lot of fun each other. Yeah, so we're going to do it again. The Xfinity race is in Kentucky this weekend. This is the first race of their playoffs, so we'll be glued to the TV watching that.

Pulling for all our junior motorsports drivers and teams. Sunday, the race is at 2 p.m. 2 p.m., not at 3. If there's a threat of thunderstorms, it'll be at 150. Eastern. No, intros will be at one. Entros will be moved up. The green flag, me.

Really? I don't think. They moved the intros up 10 minutes and didn't move the race up? Well, I don't know. It just feels like it's the same. All right. I think this has been a good show. Yeah, it has. The race, yeah, the race is at 2 o'clock. Sunday, NBC, Sports Network.

Good job, Tyler. Awesome. See you all next week. See you. The Dale Jr. download and all Dirtymo Radio podcasts are made possible by Exaltah. You can subscribe to all eight programs on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, and all major podcasting outlets. As always, you can listen to Dirtymo Radio podcast on Dale Jr.com. Follow us on Twitter at Dale Jr. at Overstreet Tyler and at Dirtymoor radio. Also check out the Dirty Mo Radio Facebook page. Thanks for listening to Dirty Mo Radio.