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Was Bristol a Good Race? Really?! | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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What's up everybody, Charlie Marlow here we are live on the
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Kenny Wallace YouTube channel. Thank you for joining us.
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I really appreciate that. We've already got a couple
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people watching, couple comments.
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I'm going to read your comments 1st and give everybody a chance
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to jump on the live stream. We got Marcus Villarreal first,
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my driver Christopher Bell, one at Bristol, C Bell getting it
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done and then Jim Tolliver saying I really enjoyed the
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Bristol race. Lots of action, passing tire
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strategies, cars fighting to get back on the lead lap, Mustangs
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on fire, marbles the size of golf balls.
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It had everything. And then Brian Lacortic says,
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yes, good race, Randall G good morning, good afternoon.
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All right, get your comments back in.
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I'll read some more, but I want to give you guys my opinion
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first, so I'll read your comments and questions in a
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second here. The reason I titled this was
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Bristle a good race. Was it because look, we always
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talk about the Jeff Gluck Poll, and I'm a big fan of the Jeff
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Gluck poll for this reason. It's like an election.
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It's a democracy. You can agree, you can disagree,
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but in the end, the people should decide.
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Not the media, not NASCAR, not people lobbying.
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It should be the people. So Jeff Glock's poll was Bristol
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a good race? 81% of you said yes.
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Only 19% said no. And the reason I think it's
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interesting more so this race is because I voted no.
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And by the way, I think I'm pretty neutral.
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I think I think I'm, I'm pretty fair.
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I'm not overly negative, I'm not overly positive, but hardly
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ever, hardly ever do I disagree with the people in the Jeff
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Glock poll. And so I, I didn't think it was
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a great race. No, I didn't think it was
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horrible, but I didn't think it was a great race for, for this.
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I was going to say this main reason, but there are two big
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reasons to me. We talked about this on Herman
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Schroeder earlier today. We just got done recording.
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It'll come out Wednesday. So I'll just give you the real
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quick story. We got a dumpster at our house.
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All weekend long, I'm moving stuff in and out of the
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dumpster. And so I'm watching the race
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Saturday night and I'm moving stuff in and out, but I'm
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stopping to check the race every time I come in and out of the
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house. And I just kept thinking to
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myself, this freaking race is under caution every single time
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I look at the TV. And then I saw this stat and
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I'll, I'll find it for you. But we did discuss this earlier.
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So I think I have the right numbers here.
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So there were 14 cautions. There were 137 laps worth of
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caution, which is the most lapse ever in the modern era of
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NASCAR, the most lapse ever under caution, not necessarily
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the most cautions, the most cautions at Bristol ever.
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We look this up. It's tied three different races
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for 20 cautions. This race had 14 cautions, but
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it had 137 laps worth of cautions.
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And This is why I didn't think it was particularly a great
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race. And I'll, I'll try to find the
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exact tweet, but somebody did the math on this and it
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basically said if the race lasted like 3 hours and 45
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minutes, I think that's about what it was.
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I'm, I'm I'm ball parking, but I'm pretty close here.
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If the race lasted 3 hours and 45 minutes, the time run under
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caution was over 2 hours. It was something like 2 hours
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and 3 minutes. To me that's like, that's pretty
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crazy if you think about what other sports are trying to do to
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keep sports interesting. Obviously football has changed
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all the defensive rules. Whether you like them or not,
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you can't touch the quarterback. They want more scoring, they
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want more action, they want more offense.
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Look at what baseball did a couple years ago with the pitch
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clock. The whole reason baseball went
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to the pitch clock was they wanted more action.
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They didn't want the dudes stepping out-of-the-box taking
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25 seconds, the pitchers taking 40 seconds between pitches,
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action, action, action. We have a low attention span ADD
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sports audience. We want action.
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So for me, the fact that that race, they're just doing caution
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laps for two hours. I didn't love that, but I'm
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being fair. I get it.
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Y'all like the strategy, the crazy tirewear.
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We can get into that. I also, and I'm adding I'm
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adding a third now. I mean, the fact that they
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people talk about gimmicks and all that and WWEI mean the fact
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that NASCAR really wasn't prepared for the tire wear and
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they had to basically say, hey, teams, you get another set of
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tires that screws with a lot of strategies.
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I don't think that was fair right there.
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So that was kind of my that was my third part.
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I mentioned so many laps under caution and again, great finish,
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great finish. Love the finish.
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I'm not being a hater. But the other part, and, and
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maybe this is where I've been programmed to expect more, is
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this was a cut off race. And I think most of us love
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watching cut off races for the fact that there's usually crazy
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drama at the end. There's usually crazy drama,
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Who's in, who's out at the end. The whole reason NASCAR went to
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the playoff format is to have the cutoff race nights where you
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just glued to the TV. If not, hey, go back to the 36
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race schedule. Mark Martin will be happy and
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all that. But the fact that there was very
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little drama whatsoever in terms of the four drivers being
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eliminated. Now, I do know, look for a while
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there, Alex Bowman was leading the race and he was right there,
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top five. I think he finished, by the way,
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let me look. He finished well as well well as
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well. Well, well, well, Alex Bowman
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finished 8th. So I understand that if Alex
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Bowman wins, that makes it interesting.
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Now on the cut line a little bit with who that had been Ross
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Chastain. Let me just let me just ring
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them off for you because I don't have the greatest memory either.
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So, yeah, there was a time at that race when Alex Bowman is
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leading where you're then thinking, OK, it's down to I
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think Ross Chastain at the time. So Tyler Reddick is the is the
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12th place driver right now. And I'll read those those
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standings off to you. But my point is to me, way too
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many laps under caution and no cut off playoff race drama.
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So that's that's to me. I'm not saying I hated the race,
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by the way, the Jeff Glock pole is just it's just was it good,
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yes or no? If you had more options, like
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was it a great race? Was it a good race?
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Was it an OK race? Was it a bad race?
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I wouldn't have put bad. I wouldn't have put great.
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I would have fallen somewhere between, actually, I probably
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would have put mediocre, whatever that, whatever that
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word would be, mediocre neutral, blah, blah, blah.
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So that's my take on it. Christopher Bell wins, you got
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Joe Gibbs Racing sweeping, sweeping the opening round of
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the playoffs. Even more impressive is 3
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different drivers, three different drivers win.
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Chase Briscoe wins Darlington, Denny Hamlin wins our race here
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in Saint Louis. I'm located in Saint Louis if
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And then of course, Christopher Bell, good on the last restart
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and he wins. And then Ty Gibbs, by the way,
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Speaking of JGR drivers now, Ty Gibbs, obviously not in the
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playoffs, but Ty Gibbs had a hell of a run, led the most
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laps. Let me find that for you because
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I looked this all up. I was looking up all the stats
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earlier this morning when we recorded Herman Schrader.
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Ty Gibbs finished 10th. He led 201 laps of this race.
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He led the most laps of this race.
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We've already discussed. Obviously a lot of these laps
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were under caution. Chase Briscoe led the second
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most, 127. Siebel only LED 12 laps in the
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last, what, four or five? Whatever it was on the restart,
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but give Joe Gibbs Racing a ton of credit.
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They've dominated the first round of the playoffs.
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So those are my opinions right there.
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The Tirewearer stuff. And then I'll I'll kind of
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elaborate before I get to you guys on the chat and I
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appreciate you guys jumping in. We got 49 people of you watching
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right now live. I appreciate that.
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And I do these live streams by the way, just to get you guys
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involved. I think you guys like commenting
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and and what not. Yeah, I'm not Kenny Wallace, I
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get it. But I'm somebody, right?
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OK. The other part that I haven't
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really thought of, but I've kind of always thought of this, which
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is, and this is a big picture problem.
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It's an offseason problem. It's a next year problem.
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But I'm I'm not going to pretend like the tire issues, whatever
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it is, good, bad in between. There's so much pressure on
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Goodyear to get this right. Every race, different tracks,
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different track temperatures, the temperature changing 5°,
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which made a huge impact. Let's be honest.
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Also why they're doing this because of the next Gen. car,
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which is not perfect. It has its problems.
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I think most people would agree with that because the Next Gen.
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car, they're so similar, it's hard to pass blah blah blah.
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NASCAR is relying on Goodyear to bail out the car in my opinion.
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And so Goodyear every week, different track, different
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weather, different length, day, race, night, race, whatever it
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is. There's so much pressure on
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Goodyear to try to solve the racing with the tire when it
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should be the opposite. The tire shouldn't have to bail
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out the car. In my opinion.
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The car should be able to bail out a tire.
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The car, the car is the same. The car, the car needs to race
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better and it's not something they can change right now.
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They can do the horsepower increase coming up off season.
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They can figure stuff out. They're going to let the teams
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tinker and all that. They got to do something.
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They got to do something. But those are my thoughts.
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I know people like the strategy, the bump in the physicality, the
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cording of the tires. I get that there was some
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entertainment value to all of those things that I just
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mentioned. But to me, the 2 biggies way too
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many laps under caution, that's boring and not enough cut line
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drama for a cut off race. So there you go, 11 1/2 minutes
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in, let's go to the chat and see what y'all are talking about.
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Drake Steffy Got to love them Chevys Tropy cannabis.
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Todd, it was a driver's race. Driver's race and strategy.
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Marcus, you're famous lol. Henry Abrigo, great day.
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Awesome content brother. Thank you for sharing NASCAR
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news and insights. Let's see, I think we should go
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to Waffle House for chicken and eggs and iced tea, OK?
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Felt like old Bristol, old Bristol from Tony Kendrick.
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Mike Martin says great race but tires wore too fast.
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Talk about all the fires. I thought NASCAR fixed this
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issue with the Next Gen. car. The original fire issue though.
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Remember Kevin Harvick? That was the first year.
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That was the first year. If you think about the evolution
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of the Next Gen. car, the first year was the safety issue.
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That was cars on fire, Kevin Harvick car on fire.
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He comes out, he's very critical.
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And then also, of course, Kurt Busch.
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Kurt Busch has the concussion. It essentially ends his career a
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bit early. He probably wasn't going to race
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much after that, but year one of the Next Gen. car was fixing the
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safety. I'm trying to think I'm, I'm
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trying to think of it. Am I wrong on this?
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We've always thought this with the passing, but I feel like
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this is year 4 of the Next Gen. car.
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I feel like this is the year where it's really hit critical
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mass with the racing of the car. Year one, safety, year two and
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three. What were we talking about?
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I feel like we're kind of over the safety stuff and I feel like
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we were, we were starting to discuss the race ability of the
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car, but this is the year where we've really focused on the race
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ability of the car. And you've had big names again.
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Kevin Harvick says the car sucks.
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Dale Junior says he's not a fan of the car.
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Year 4 here is when we've really seen.
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I mean, you tell me guys, besides the lawsuit, which is a
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constant, constant storyline, the Next Gen. car being a
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problem has been a discussion for the entire season 2025.
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And it really plays into that Jeff Kluck poll week after week
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after week, which I brought up at the beginning, which was that
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81% of the folks thought Bristol was a good race.
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And I actually disagreed. And I rarely ever disagree with
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that Jeff Kluck poll again, because in my opinion, too many
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cautions and not very much cut line drama, which is normally
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the case for a cut off race in the playoffs.
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Five star, yes, tires that wear. Let's see, Brian Lucorchik says
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rather have drivers manage their tires than run 500 qualifying
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laps. I get that too.
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That was the whole argument that Matt Weaver was making.
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Matt Weaver, who does a great job covering the sport, he
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contributes on this channel. We posted his interview with
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Brad Kozlowski on this channel. It's like 2 minutes.
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You can check it out. But that was his whole his whole
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storyline. I didn't read his article
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because I was too busy watching all of his videos, but he's
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basically saying binary choice. Look, we all want to fix the
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car. I would think the car is not
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going to be fixed right now. So if you have to choose between
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a tire wear race craziness like Saturday night or Kyle Larson
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dominating and frickin leading 400 some laps, what do you
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choose? I think most people would choose
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the tire wear race, including me.
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I totally get that. But still, that's to me more
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micro issue. The macro issue is next Gen.
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car. We got to fix it.
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But I do agree, if you're giving me a choice and I have to choose
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between Saturday night tire wear or Kyle Larson dominating, not a
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lot of passing, I'm certainly going to take Saturday night's
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race over some of the things we've seen previously at
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Bristol. So Brian Lacortic saying old
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Bristol, let's see we got Tony Crivello.
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What's making the rubber sticking to the underside and
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Catching Fire? Too many times since this car
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came about. Brian says blame TV for that.
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Are you talking about the cut line drama?
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I'm guessing Chi Town says liked everything about the race except
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for the fires. That is BS.
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OK fire is bad. I feel like this is like Beavis
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and Butt head Fire fire. Remember that fire?
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Fire. I'm 43 years old, OK?
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I grew up with Beavis and Butt Head back in the day.
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Yes, fire is bad. Mark McGwire said steroids is
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bad. OK, but so am I wrong when I say
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am I wrong? It's my opinion?
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Am I the only one thinking that there were way too many laps
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under caution? Did that not bother you guys
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that two hours of the race was run under caution?
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I get the hour 43. Whatever it was.
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You got to watch racing. You like the racing?
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If more than half the race is under caution, that's not very
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entertaining to me. Am I in the minority?
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It sounds like I am. Let me know.
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It was nice seeing Bristol have it all.
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That's from Falcon 1824. There were more empty seats than
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caution laps. That's from tracks former 41.
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Too many caution laps. Valid complaint.
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All right, you agree with me there.
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Tires is what wins a race from Harry Hog, Wade says.
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I think it was a good race simply because it was different.
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I get that the tire wear made it more entertaining and exciting,
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and one of the best cars drivers still won.
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I agree. Tony Corbello seems like NASCAR
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doesn't care about having people in the seats less to clean up
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after the race. OK, let me bring this up real
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quick. I don't want to steal material
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from Herman Schrader. This is a very small part of the
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show, but we did. I read this earlier, Kenny
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Wallace sent me this. So I'm going to find it for you
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real quick. It's about this creative
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marketing agency that NASCAR hired to kind of go back to the
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roots, the good old days. So I'll just read these stats.
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NASCAR is doubling down on its brand amid momentum for the
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sport. NASCAR Cup Series broadcasts
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averaged 2.7 million viewers per minute, the highest among US
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Motorsports properties. That's right.
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Now ticket sales are up 6% year over year.
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Nobody's saying it's 1518 years ago, but it is up ticket sales
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wise 6% year over year. Digital platform visits have
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grown 10% and social followers now total 18,000,000 across
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platforms, an increase of 1.5 million since the start of 2025
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according to the brand. So that's like, that's like an
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increase of what, about 10 percent, 11%, whatever that
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number is. So I get you seeing some empty
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seats, but it's actually on a slight uptick from last year.
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So we do have to put these things in perspective.
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Gib Salisbury says it was an absolute joke.
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I didn't call it a joke, but I didn't love it.
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And I just think the adding tires at the end, I mean, so
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they they clearly they weren't prepared for the tire wear
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there. There is, it's fair to say
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there's a little bit of WWE in there that all of a sudden you
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have to change the strategies during a race.
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What Ross Chastain said after the race, again during his Matt
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Weaver interview. He's like, just tell me how
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we're racing. Just prepare me.
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Let all the drivers and teams and crew chiefs know what's
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going on. That's what's fair.
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Let's see. Yeah, here we go.
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Shy town. NASCAR should have had the tires
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ready to go before the race started in case they need them.
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Yep. I agree.
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Brian Mccorchick. Meh.
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Kevin Gallagher. It was OK, but boring.
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That's kind of where I was. OK Too many caution laughs.
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Lisa Jones. Hello, Charlie.
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Kenny is quite busy. He is.
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He did the show, by the way, he won last night at Quincy.
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And his daughter is and he can let me say this because he
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already said it to you guys, all in coffee with Kenny.
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His daughter is in labor right now.
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So he he finished Herman Schrader and then he drove right
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to the hospital. So he is very, very busy.
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Let's go homestead in the wood with D Hello everyone.
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Thank you Lisa Jones. Race was OK.
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That's what I thought race sounded exciting on PRN.
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There's another way to look at it.
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There's so many different ways to watch a race in person.
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Different experience than on TV. Different experience than on
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radio. TV you might go.
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Kind of boring, but maybe the broadcasters elevate the
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product. Maybe the broadcasters elevate
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the product. On radio you don't have the
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pictures. I thought Amazon Prime's
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coverage was amazing when they had the five races.
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I thought they elevated the TV product both pre race, during
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the race and post race with all of their hour long post races
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and all that. Bowline Rail fan To me, the race
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was exciting at the start with the tires and it was great
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seeing the cars running on the bottom lane and using bump and
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run again. Overall, even with cautions, it
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was great. All right, that's cool.
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Don't disagree about the caution lapse, that's from Brian
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Mccorchick. Engineers can't touch the car.
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But I do agree with you, the car driver should take care of the
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tires. Yes, after the last two races at
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Bristol Motor Speedway, yes, this felt like the Bristol that
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fans love from the 90s to 2007. I was in attendance for the last
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four races and the race was anything but boring.
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David Bradley. Yeah, I don't know if when I say
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boring, I mean can't we agree with that?
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Caution laps are boring and there were too many.
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That's all I'm saying. Way too many caution laps.
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You can't have two hours of caution laps.
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I've been happy with that. If I was there only been to
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Bristol for the inaugural dirt race, why did they ever go to
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concrete anyway? Bring this tire back in the
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spring you will see a different race because teams will
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anticipate the fall off and you will have tires lasting for 60
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to 70 laps. David Bradley V Ginger P Well
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Bristol is a rough track in my opinion.
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I've been twice and one races car crash right in front of the
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VIP section and one race cars crash right in front of the VIP
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section. Worn out asphalt is king.
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Brian Mccorchick tires. Lisa Jones, more horsepower
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would still be nice. Brian Mccorchick, Larson has
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been all messed up since his Indy crashes.
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Yeah. Wasn't he good last week,
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though? Larson, what was his finish at
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at Saint Louis? He was leading or he was up
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front a lot of that race. St.
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Louis yesterday, Larson finished.
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Where did he finish 32nd? 32nd for Kyle Larson.
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Let's go to Saint Louis. St.
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Louis. I thought it was 12th.
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Yeah, Kyle Larson finished 12th at Saint Louis, but the 52 laps
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LED. Let's also remember Hendrick.
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Hendrick has not been great since the playoffs have started.
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Joe Gibbs and Toyotas have dominated.
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Just because I'm on these results, let's check that real
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quick. Let's check Hendrick drivers for
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the three playoff races. OK, not one Hendrick driver in
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the top ten at Darlington. You got to go.
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I mean, we all know Darlington that they were bad.
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Let me just double check. So I'm not saying the wrong
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thing here. Hendrick, Darlington, you got
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Kyle Larson 19th, William Byron 21st, you got Alex Bowman 31st,
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and you got who did I miss there?
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Where's Chase? Chase Elliott?
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Chase Elliott was 17th at Darlington, so 17th, 19th, 21st
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and 31st at Darlington. I'll just do this real quick.
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My point is Larson, yeah, Larson certainly looked like had a
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slump after Indy, but the last three races or so, you got to
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basically say that that Hendrick also has been in a slump.
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So Chase Elliott did finish third at Saint Louis, and who
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else? William Byron, 11th at Saint
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Louis. Kyle Larson, 12th at Saint
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Louis. Alex Bowman was 26th at Saint
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Louis. Remember, Alex Bowman at
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Darlington also had the terrible pit stop.
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So Hendrick terrible at Darlington, a little bit better
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at Saint Louis, and now we'll go to Bristol and Hendrick Bowman
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was 8th, Byron was 12th. Where are we going here?
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I already mentioned, I mentioned Kyle Larson 32nd.
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Chase Elliott was out after 311 laps.
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He was 38th. So yeah, Hendrick terrible at
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Darlington, a little bit better at Saint Louis.
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And then so Saint Louis was their best race and then kind of
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sporadic there at Bristol, including Chase Elliott being
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38. So while I'm here, let's go to
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the playoff standings just to give you all an update.
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So Denny Hamlin in first, he's plus 26 to the cut line.
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William Byron's second, he's 24 + 24 to the cut line.
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Kyle Larson, third, also plus 24 to the cut line.
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Christopher Bell, he's won a race.
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Just one Bristol plus 20 to the cut line.
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Ryan Blaney, fifth plus 19 to the cut line.
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Chase Briscoe 6th plus 10 to the cut line.
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Chase Elliott 7th, +5 to the cut line.
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Bubba Wallace 8th plus one to the cut line.
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And the guys that are right now beyond the cut line, Austin
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Sindrich one point back, Joey Logano, 2, Ross Chastain 2,
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Tyler Reddick three. You got to think there'll be a
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lot more cut line drama, we would think coming up here in
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the round of 12 down to the round of eight.
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We didn't see hardly any cut line drama from the round of 16
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to the round of 12, unfortunately.
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Let's see, We'll go back to the chat, chat, chat.
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David Bradley. They went to concrete because
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asphalt from the early 90s was not sticking.
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So they went to the concrete. No caution lapse length to sell
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commercials. Brian, burning bridges.
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I don't think they can ever bring it back to where it was.
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NASCAR really thought the woke crowd was going to hang out.
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They were just there for the grift and then left.
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Yeah, I also think all corporations went.
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If you want to get into this, certainly most corporations went
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too far woke and I think you're seeing a correction.
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You're seeing a correction in the last year or so.
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We'll be back to the the real good old days.
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No, should it, should there been a little correction?
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What I'm saying is should you, should you have gone the
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direction of the woke? A couple percentage points?
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When I say woke, I just mean like a little more PC, but not
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way more PC. And I don't even love PC, but
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I'm talking here and there. We can argue about all this
27:04
stuff if you want to, but they certainly went too far that
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direction. But now you're seeing a course
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correction coming back. Let's see.
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I thought the race was a rec fest.
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Rob Johnson laps don't count under stage caution.
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Ken Ruggles, what do you mean by that?
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No, I get that. But I'm saying still too, too
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many, way too many, way too many caution laps overall.
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What I'm saying is 200 or two hours of caution laps, and I
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think the number was like 100 and 37138 laps, whatever it was
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under caution, which was the most in the modern era of
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NASCAR, the most laps under caution, that's 49 years.
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We look this up, that's like 49 years, 17171 races.
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Bristol was the most laps under caution.
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That's too much for me. Shy town.
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NASCAR was running all those caution laps because they knew
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teams wouldn't have enough tires to finish.
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Yeah. So isn't that boring, or am I
28:09
wrong? The lapse between stages is
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ridiculous. I don't mind that normally just
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because it does give you a chance to go to the bathroom.
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Way too many chances to go to the bathroom in this race.
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But if you drank a lot of beer, you need to go to the bathroom.
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So I get that. I think more people in stands if
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it's if the tickets were cheaper from Alisa Jones.
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Yes. People today don't see what we
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saw in NASCAR years ago. They don't change engines.
28:36
They don't see 10,000 parts working together to make that
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car go fast. The youth don't see that.
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Yeah, it's from burning bridges. Are you calling me the youth?
28:45
Am I the youth? I'm 43.
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I know. I have a babyface.
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I love the Amazon Prime races. Homestead.
28:52
Yes, I agree, they're great. Tickets aren't expensive when
28:56
that many are available. Just shop the secondary market.
28:59
Brian Mccorchick, congratulations to Kenny on his
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win and on being a grandfather again.
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Yes, Bowline Rail fan. I mean, he's got to have, I
29:08
don't know exactly. He's got to be having now what,
29:10
678 grandkids, something like that, 5-6, something like that.
29:14
He's got a bunch. Tires were too fast, Maybe they
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could make them just a little less soft.
29:21
That's from Patricia. It's all about how well a driver
29:24
can maneuver the cookie cutter Irock cars around the track.
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Ken Ruggles, not a fan of the next Gen. car I loved.
29:30
I rock racing better than some higher dollar team winning
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everything all the time. Dominance is boring.
29:36
I think there's a happy medium there though.
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I think. I think we want a little more.
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In my opinion, I like the fact that the Next Gen. car has
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equalized, that smaller teams have a better chance to win.
29:48
I don't mind the better teams though, having a little more of
29:51
an advantage, A little more of an advantage.
29:54
NASCAR sucks is trending. Is that true on X?
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I'm going to look that up right now.
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NASCAR sucks is trending. Is that accurate?
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Let me find them. Let me look.
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Let me look at my trending, trending, trending.
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Lot of politics trending in sports.
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Let's see. I'm not seeing that.
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I'm not seeing that. I'm going way down.
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I'm going way down. I don't see any NASCAR sucks
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trending on X. I mean the people love this
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race. 81% Jeff Glock pole. People like this race.
30:36
Let's see Brian Mccorchick Racing isn't just for gearheads
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that care more about technology and performance.
30:42
It's about entertaining sports fans.
30:43
Sports fans like drama and a lots of offense.
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I agree. And really look, I love you
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diehards. I love you diehards.
30:51
They got to get the casuals though.
30:53
When you start getting the casuals is when you start to
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really see the ratings explode. Jim Tolliver My wife and I were
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there in a sweet overlooking turn 4.
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I enjoyed the race very much. There were some empty seats but
31:04
it was still crowded. Took 2 1/2 hours to get back to
31:07
the hotel after the race so that ain't good.
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D Turner 40 Problem is the start of that race would not have
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played out like it did and be so screwed up if NASCAR would have
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had a couple one hour practices. Unknown package.
31:21
Let's try to save money and screw the fans.
31:24
Brian Lacorte. Cracker Barrel keeps their
31:27
mascot. Let's see, you need to count
31:32
laps under caution lol, unless you want a 5 hour race.
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Yeah, my point if if you're coming at me for that, I
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understand that. I get that.
31:41
Isn't 2 hours of caution lapse too much?
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I mean, am I, am I in the minority?
31:45
I guess I am. I just think every time I look
31:47
at the TV caution, every single time I look at the TV, it seem
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like they're under caution. That's my point.
31:54
Let's see. All right, I'm going to try to
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read all of your comments. Boo, Boo, Boo Jeremy Gilly.
32:02
How would the race have played out if the severe tire wear
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would have been known from practice or even expected prior
32:07
to the drop of green? Teams can play with setups to
32:09
increase tire life as well, but that's where I do give NASCAR
32:13
some leeway. Apparently the five degree drop
32:17
in temperature is the reason the tires responded that way.
32:20
It's hard to predict things like that, but then again, this is
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the point you're asking the tire to always bail out the car.
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It's got to be the other way around you.
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You have to big picture fix the next Gen. car.
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NASCAR needs a red flag if cleanup is going to take too
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long. Red flag.
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Yellow flag. To me, it's still it's not.
32:40
It's not cars going around the track exciting in green flag.
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To me, yellow caution is just as a boring as a red flag.
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And the car sitting there parked.
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Let's see. Robert Beanbein, I think if the
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team would have known there was going to be a problem, they were
32:59
able to change setups, it probably would have been better.
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Ken Ruggles This one is 6. What does that mean?
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I don't know. Tim Garrett.
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Stock car racing isn't a sticking ball.
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Stop trying to be them. I enjoyed it, was a great race.
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Live is way better when you can see everything.
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I agree. I watched Saint Louis live, it
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was awesome. I'm sure some people watching on
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TV didn't love it. I was there.
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It was fantastic. Cautions are unpredictable.
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Bristol laps click off quickly. That's true, True.
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But it's still 2 hours, 2 hours. That's been my .2 hours of
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caution laps. Lord Jesus has been good to
33:35
Kenny. 8 grandkids is certainly a blessing.
33:38
Yeah, if that's the right number, it's it's right around
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there. Jeremy Gilley 100% tires are not
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the long term solution, just a short term Band-Aid.
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The question is, is NASCAR looking at it like this?
33:48
I think so. They're needing the the tires to
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bail out the car for 2025. Hopefully they can make some
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significant changes that make a big difference in the offseason
33:58
so that the racing is better in 2026 and beyond.
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We all know they're not getting rid of the next Gen. car.
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Let's improve it. Let's make it as raceable as
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racy as possible. Brian Lucorchik says true.
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There you go. I have read every single one of
34:12
your comments. I really appreciate all you guys
34:14
doing this. I'm going to try to jump on
34:17
every Monday after the race if I can, if it's possible.
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I did it last week. I started it last week because I
34:23
was at the Saint Louis race. So I thought I had a little more
34:25
to to say. But also I like reading your
34:29
guys comments and getting you involved as well.
34:32
So there you go. Brian Mccorchick says more
34:34
horses and hopefully less shifting.
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There you go, let's end on that. Thank you very much for
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watching. Please comment like subscribe
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comes out Thursday on Dirty MO Media.
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Lisa Jones says God bless all. God bless you as well.
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Lisa Jones, see you later. Thanks for watching 35 minutes.
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