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The Favorite For Gateway May Not Be Who You Expect · Racers Odds

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Racer's Odds.
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm David Stiles.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's Andrew Curland.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: Christopher Bell finally gets to stand on the top of the podium and claim his first victory of 2026.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: And it's at a crown jewel.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: Darlington Raceway.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: He is a Southern 500 winner.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: And it couldn't come at a more opportune time for the driver of the 20-car as he is only 12 points out of the lead for the championship after just one race into the chase.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Andrew, your impressions as we leave Darlington, South Carolina and get ready to go to St.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: Louis and Gateway at the Worldwide Technology Raceway for the Enjoy Illinois 300.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was only a matter of time for Bell.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: I've been singing his praises, I feel like, uh a lot of the season.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: And even that was a lot of what I was interested in hearing his take on at our uh Chase Media Day before the race at Darlington was Tony Stewart was winless going into the 2011 chase, went on to win five, including the opener, by the way.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I asked Bell, actually, before I was even really able to get the question out to Bell, he's like, it's the 20s turn.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: So um I could see the confidence in him uh at Chase Media Day, and um yeah, it's not a surprise.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: You look at seven runner-up finishes, at some point he's bound to finally break into victory lane.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: He even pointed out that uh there were moments before he even broke his wrist when we kind of started noticing that he was getting hot, that um they had potential to win, they had speed to win.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: So um I think the one in the win column for the 20 team is not representative of their season, and um I think the points is representative of the season they had.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: They're minus twelve, and uh I think anytime Bell's in the postseason, you can't count them out.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: I fully agree, and I I I think that history is kind of like a circle on a piece of paper.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: It ends up repeating itself sometimes, and we may be seeing that with the 20 team this season as they start to make a push here with only nine races to go.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: I knew that that race was going to go through Toyota and it proved us right again.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I had Denny Hamlin last week as the winner, and he just could not get out of the way of a bad pit stop, and then he ran into Michael McDowell and just had a lackluster day.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: But he ends up scoring 35 points, which is very on brand for Denny Hamlin, as he's averaged around 35 plus points almost every week, and he's still in the lead as of now, but things are starting to tighten up as we get down toward the end of the season.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: And now we go to a track that has been historically dominated by the Fords, but Denny Hamlin also has a win at this venue as well.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm interested to see what you think we will end up seeing this weekend, Andrew, and where are you really at with your bets?
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting pretty good right now.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm plus 312.18 units or$312, however you want to look at it.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: We're still riding a little bit of momentum.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: And last week I said Josh Barry will get that sixth consecutive top 10, and it paid out.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: That was a plus 325 bet.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: So we're still rolling here.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: The bank roll is growing.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: We're having a lot of fun, and I'm interested to see what you're looking at shorting this weekend.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, where am I uh in in terms of my bets?
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Couldn't tell you.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Not sure.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: We're just going off of vibes.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'll tell you, my pick'em game's pretty good.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, your pick'em's really good.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: You're up like 280 points at this point.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Picking Chase Briscoe uh last week.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: I as soon as I saw the schedule come out, I'm like, I'm picking him for the second Darlington.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: And uh that was like the first decision I feel like I made when I mapped out the entire season.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: So um it was good to see uh him not he didn't get the winning points I was looking for, but he had a good day.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: And um I might I might be taking a little bit of a step back this week.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: But um when you look at Gateway, really to me I'm thinking Fords, and this is one of those racetracks going into the chase.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is where Penske needs to capitalize.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: They're not the strongest on the classic intermediates, but they've had a fantastic history here at Gateway.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Joey Logano, a winner.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Ryan Blaney, not a winner, two top fives very possibly could have been a winner, should have been a winner, because his teammate, Austin Sindrick, ended up winning that race.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: So you look at the Ford's history here, and um, I just feel like the winner's gonna come out of the Penske camp, plain and simple.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: So um betting a team, I'm gonna bet manufacturer Ford being the winning manufacturer, and I'm gonna go team Penske being the the winning team to get it done.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um that that to me is the big thing.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, Denny Hamlin's been really good here and JGR, you can't count them out any week, especially with this being the chase, um, and this new format, too.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this may give Gateway a little bit more attention than it's gotten in years past.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Gate Gateway last year was a round one, round of 16, middle of the round racetrack.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: People were kind of more focused on what Bristol would be or the home opener at Darlington.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: Gateway may have possibly been forgotten.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you want to win that first race and you want to make sure you're good for the last race.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, now every race is stacked the same.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: So you could see some other players, and I'd expect the championship contenders to be up there.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: If they want to be champions at the end of the year, they're gonna have to go through Gateway.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's why you can't count out Denny Hamlin or uh Christopher Bell or even Chase Briscoe as part of that group.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, really, long story short, I'm looking at the top uh, what is it, nine in points to all be possible players there.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: I will say I'm not sure about Hendrick.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's my only thing.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh question marks for me as well for the Hendrick camp.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: But my matchups this week, the two of them are the biggest hitters we have.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: Denny Hamlin, former winner here, coulda, shoulda, woulda winner with Ryan Blaney.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: They're matched up together.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: This is a coin flip bet, minus 115 for both.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: I am in the same boat that you are in.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think I will favor the Fords.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'll put a 10 units down on Ryan Blaney over Denny Hamlin.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: And the one thing that is kind of shading me in that direction, Denny Hamlin and Toyota, they've had the raw speed all year long.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: He's ran very consistently, consistently.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: If you look at the way that his points are gained, he's getting most of his points from winning races.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: Ryan Blaney is the opposite.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: He's getting a lot of his points from stage points and stage racing.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that the chase is going to be predicated on capturing more stage points, and then that will lend itself to finishing better at the end of the race.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: So again, in these matchups, you just have to finish ahead of the other driver that you're matched up with.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Ryan Blaney versus Denny Hamlin, those are a clash of Titans, and I'm favoring Blaney in that scenario.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good point about stage points because uh now there's two ways to skin a cat because you don't necessarily have to win the race to still get the job done in terms of getting points that you need for the race.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: So that's definitely interesting, and that's that's something that um I hadn't really considered when you talk about just straight up betting, where sportsbooks don't care about how many points they scored.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's the it's the result at the checkered flag, which is a different result than I think the drivers are seeing.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: Big picture.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: It is, it's different.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: So um that's that's an interesting point you made there.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking, I I don't normally do the matchups, but I just found this one entertaining, and I'm glad the sportsbooks did their homework.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: But uh Carson Hosevar versus Brad Kazelowski is listening to the Hide Head matchup.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's talk about it.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um Carson Hosevar is made three career cup starts at Gateway, including what was his cup series debut uh back for Legacy Motor Club.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't do well in that race, finished 36th.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um two years ago, he finished eighth, and most recently last year in 2025, he finished 15th.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: Brad Keslowski is also sort of hit or miss, finished 17th in this race last year.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: He's got a third place finish two years ago, 28th and 20th to round out his results.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: So they're pretty even.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go with Brad Kozlowski because I think he puts Hosevar into the wall.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I think he finishes in front of him.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: So the only reason I'm taking Hosevar is Keslowski is not in the chase for RFK.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever secret sauce they're trying, flavor of the month, they're gonna put it in that six-car and see if it hits, trying to help the other two cars find a setup for later in the chase for the next tracks that are very similar to Gateway or Worldwide Technology Raceway.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: So the problem I think that Keslowski is going to have in this scenario is actually being around Carson Hosevar because Hosevar has been historically pretty good at tracks like this.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned his stats just a second ago.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I think if those two find themselves around one another, I fully believe that Keslowski will end up putting him in a wall or something.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: But I hope so.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: For entertainment purposes.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: But if they don't get around one another and Carson Hosevar can actually salvage a good finish and run up towards the front and gain stage points for this race, I don't think those two cars will be around one another very much.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that there's a better scenario for Carson Hosevar to finish ahead of Brad Keslowski, even though Keslowski's favored in the matchup.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: On the one on Caesars that I'm looking at, Carson Hosevar's minus 110 and Keslowski's minus 120.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: So those odds are very close together, but Keslowski's favored ever so slightly, which I think you're giving it to the veteran driver.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, I'm putting the units on Hosevar, you're putting it on Keslowski.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: This will be good to come back and look and see what the outcome was next week because I I want to see some fireworks.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: And we've talked about this on other shows.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: There's a difference between rivalries and feuds.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: I don't really think this is a rivalry.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: This is a feud and it's going to be spectacular.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think there will be some fireworks if they get around one another.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's uh it's a feud, not just with Hosovar and Kozelowski, but Hosovar and a running list of drivers throughout the raise your hand, right?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's pretty much honestly what I have as uh as as who I'm looking at for Gateway.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: I did find it interesting, at least on DraftKings, that um sportsbooks are favoring Christopher Bell as top driver, which it's like, wow, you win race one of the chase, hadn't won a race all year, and now all of a sudden you're the favorite.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta go down to the third most favorite driver to find the points leader, Danny Hamlin.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: Ryan Blaney's second most.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um but yeah, I'm this is one of those races where I don't really know what's gonna happen.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Gateway is just kind of like a weird anomaly, one of one type of racetrack, and that's what I think makes it fun.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Well, just to give you some numbers on Christopher Bell, average finish at at Gateway, 8.5.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: He's pretty pretty darn good here.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's yeah.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: He also has led 8.3% of the laps that we've run at this track in the Cup Series, so that's also ranking fourth.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: So the 20, a lot of momentum, and we've seen this before.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: People start to go on runs and they're good for multiple weeks.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see if he can sustain this, but he's been very consistent all year long, and they could be making a push, like he said, at Media Day towards that.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: I have three other bets that I'm going to talk about.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: One of them I'm not so sure about.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: I may just put some units on it because it feels good to do so.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: And then the other two we're fading forward.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: So Austin Cendrick to top 10.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: He's one of the first drivers with plus odds to top 10.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: Average running position at Gateway, 11.3.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Average finishing position, 11th.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: He also has a win here.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: So he runs up front.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: I think if you're looking for a little bit of juice to squeeze with some little bit longer odds, but you're still in that safe probability.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think taking him to top 10 on DraftKings at plus 100 is a pretty solid bet.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll put a few units on it.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: And just to add on that too, um you'll see it on our PRN social accounts this week, but we asked Cindric about that win of Gateway.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: And um he's like, yeah, first of all, a win's a win.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care how you get it.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if first place runs out of gas or not.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: But he said, regardless of that, that has been a racetrack that we have just been good at in the past, and that we just had a really good car that day, anyways.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: So the way that Cindric won it, yes, there's somewhat of an asterisk because he won it on the leader running out of fuel, but they also had to take more time to put more fuel in the car.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: Blindy didn't do that.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and he had the speed and he had the track position to be there when it counted.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: So just to back up your Austin Cindric bet just a little bit more.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: The other one that I'm looking at, Logano to top five.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: If you look at Joey's statistics here, he's actually very, very good.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: His long uh run speed is actually very solid.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: He's also a veteran driver, knows how to take care of his stuff.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: I think him to top five, it's minus odds at minus 125.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think that that's worth putting a few units on as well.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: And now the more fun bet.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Can Josh Barry get seven top tens in a row?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Will it happen?
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: He's in that Wood Brothers car.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's a Pinsky Alliance team.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's coming off his sixth straight top 10 finish, the most that he's had in his career, and I think the most that the Wood Brothers have had since David Pearson has been in that car.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: So they're on a tear that they have not seen since the late 70s.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: For Josh Barry to top 10 this weekend, it's plus 110.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: So you're close to minus odds.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is the probability around this is still around that 52-ish percentile.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: Now I'm going to back it up for maybe a reason why you shouldn't bet this bet.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: His average start at this track, 20.5, average running position, 31.7, and his average finish is 36th.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: Not great numbers for Josh Barry.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: But they weren't really good at any of the other tracks that he's been racing at.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: So do you throw all of this away and you ride the hot hand, or do you go with the numbers and you don't lay any money on this?
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm gonna ask your opinion on this.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: I think I may put like five units on it just because I think it's fun.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: But where do you where do you feel that this will shake out at the end of the weekend?
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: Momentum's a real thing.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I wouldn't have guessed that he would have finished in the top ten at Darlington, that being the opener to the chase.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I my biggest argument against Josh Barry at Gateway would be well, it's a chase race and the chase drivers are gonna rise to the to the occasion.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: But obviously that wasn't the case at Darlington because he was still able to break through.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um why not?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: I would say yes, just because uh when momentum's a tangible thing, it's a real thing.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And when you're riding that high, there's no track that you can't conquer it.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like you look at when Denny Hamlin was hot, when Tyler Reddick was hot.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you look at those racetracks, yeah, they could win anywhere.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think Josh Barry can run top ten uh anywhere right now.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: He gained three spots in the points just from Darlington last week.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: He's in 25th.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I mean if he keeps us going, he's within a hundred points at twentieth place.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: He is uh let me do some quick math here.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just about eighty points behind 20th place Ross Chastain.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think he can get there by the end of this uh nine more races to go, end of the season.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so this will be another interesting thing, and anyone can look this up if you look at the results from Darlington.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: There are three drivers in the top 15 that were not chase drivers.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: The first one in the top 10 was Josh Barry in seventh.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: The next one, surprise, surprise, Alex Bowman in 12th.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: What about that?
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then the final one finished 15th was Eric Jones.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: So three guys that are very good.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're veteran drivers.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: They ended up top 15ing at Darlington.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think that that is a pretty good barometer of where they're at in the season.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm gonna put five units on it.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's a fun bet.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think Josh Barry is is showing people that he belongs in the cup series, and it was just announced earlier this week that he will be driving for Legacy Motor Club next year in the 42 car.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: So he's putting on a show saying, hey, look, you guys made the right decision.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna put me in a Toyota, and I'm gonna be pretty dang good.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited for it.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think he'll have a good, a good turnout.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: Should we uh should we get in to pick him?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's do it.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm down 200 plus, almost 300 points.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: My favorite segment of the show, David.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: At this point, you know, I what can I do?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: We're just gonna pick someone and hope hope it pays out.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I had uh Hamlin last week, 35 points.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's a good day for me.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like uh the other totals, 35 is pretty, pretty respectable, but you had you had Briscoe and he scored, what, 43 points?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: So something like that.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: All for not.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like I can't can't win for losing, right?
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: You go so you go first.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I get to go first.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, which I'm gonna pick a guy that you picked last week.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna pick Chase Brisco.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I think he has a ton of momentum right now.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: He runs well at this track.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's a former uh pole sitter at this track, so uh give me Chase Briscoe.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: I think you'll have to be up front all week.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Stage points are a real thing.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna have to stage race and hopefully he can amass a slew of points and then I can uh gain some momentum back on you.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: You can't pick this driver because you picked him in Indy.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going with uh previous winter.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: We were talking about him, we were hyping him up.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Give me Austin Cendric for Gateway this week.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: I like it.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: I like it.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think Cendric will be good.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see what happens.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: I know that we're in another fantasy league together where we pick, and and you moved up how many spots this week?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of and it's the same style of game like that.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: I moved up like eight spots.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: I was um I was in I was in like 29th or 30th and moved up to 23rd.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: So um just from picking Chase Briscoe.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: So that felt good.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: I've got Cindrick in that league as well for him.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: And um my goal is to make a run to like the top 15.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think I can do that.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: I think a lot of people in that in that top spot have have been picking good drivers early.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Well, just to stay with Brand and to show you how poor I am at this game.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Last week I was 66th.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: This week I'm still 66th.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I didn't I didn't move up at all.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: I gained 35 points and didn't move a single position.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's not just our Bickham game that we're playing here on Racers Odds, it's all of the Pick'em games.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not good at them.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll stay with the matchups.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's what I know how to do.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: So any closing thoughts here, Andrew, before we wrap this one up?
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: No, gateway should be fun, and then uh we're then we're on to Bristol.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's really the race I'm looking at.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's the race I'm pumped to go to.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: We'll both be there uh for PRN.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: And um I know I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I'm just I'm excited about the rest of this chase and and especially being able to cover it on the air.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: So um this is we're just one step closer to that with gay way.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: We're less than what, 60 days away from crowning a champion in the Cup Series.
• 19:48
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• 19:50
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• 20:15
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• 20:16
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• 20:19
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