Latest / Pushin' the Cushion / Weekly Race Recap 4/22: Ricketts Wins Abilene
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- Slim Pushins: Hey everybody, welcome back to the weekly recap, the pushing the cushion weekly recap. ⁓ I was the lone pushing the cushion member that showed his face at a racetrack. We'll talk about that on the podcast this week also. What's up fellas. Corby Scherb: What's happening? Jim Gardner: Not too much. Corby Scherb: Kind of a slow weekend, honestly. It was rain everywhere, all across the country. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it went from four races to one real quick. So, ⁓ Slim Pushins: Abilene showed out though. Abilene was a good time. Corby Scherb: I'm pumped for Abilene in the car count. It's really good. heard the racetrack was really good. Semi, or for the most part, racy. Heard from a couple guys that the bottom would work and seem pretty quick. The top's kind of weird. We talked about the fifth turn and everything, but Abilene's really good. The corners open up real wide. It's kind of narrow, still down straight away. Four wide salutes there were pretty sketchy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: I think, I think they did a three wide this. If they'd have done a four wide, there were only 18 cars. I say only 18 cars. That's the most that, ⁓ that Avalyn's gotten since TSS days. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Probably the most they've had since 21. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Yeah, it's good for them. It was a show. A couple of pretty good rides. ⁓ Freaking John Ricketts. Jim Gardner: My first kid down in turn one. ⁓ I should know what that kid's name is. Slim Pushins: Trevin? Trevin Jordan? Corby Scherb: Trevin something something something like that 12 car. Yeah Jim Gardner: Yeah, that was a big ride down there in turn one and there's not much of a fence and room back there from what I remember. Maybe the tech shed or something's right over there in turn one, but. Corby Scherb: No, it's... Slim Pushins: Yeah, he almost headed straight to the scales out of ⁓ turn one. Corby Scherb: It's like the scales and then like four feet from there is the tech shed. He looked like he just got in the one and I'm not sure who it was right in front of him but he just, Jimmy you have one of these moments that you didn't judge the guy in front of you very well and so he got in the back of him pretty good. Jim Gardner: Hmm. you Slim Pushins: He he he he. Jim Gardner: You get three flips in and you think, am I crashing? I think I'm crashing. Slim Pushins: I was on the opposite end of the track ⁓ during ⁓ when that happened. ⁓ So I saw the aftermath. The car left the track a whole lot shorter than it did when it ⁓ rolled onto the track. I hate that for him. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that was a big spill. You Corby Scherb: Yeah, he took a couple of, as Jim calls it, a couple of good cage checkers. Slim Pushins: Yeah, but it was a good race. Pushing the cushions on John Rick, it's ran away with it. There were a couple of contenders. DJ Estes. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So I'm glad, I'm glad his motor issues, I guess, weren't serious or I don't know. I haven't talked to him. ⁓ you know, it looked pretty bad at Kennedale. It was a big puff. ⁓ thought something was pretty catastrophic, but evidently not, or they, you know, I know they do their own motor work. So, ⁓ maybe it was a long week and. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: No curse. The Corby cursed. No more. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. His dad's pretty salty with a motor. Slim Pushins: Well, it showed, it showed, it showed the last few weeks. That's the second win. What have we, what are we two, three, four weeks into this? that's John Ricketts second win. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Five, is this? Yeah. Chad Wilson had a pretty good run going and ⁓ he was trying to be incognito in the folding car. He looked really good. Land of Venezuela looked really good. Super pumped for him. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep. He's at, he's off to a flying start. Slim Pushins: made a guest appearance in the B2. Jim Gardner: I guess, Bowden, Bow, yeah, he's been fast. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Who was that? ⁓ Landon Vizuela. Yeah, he was real fast. I got a chance to talk to him for a little while ⁓ after the race. Said it, he felt really good. ⁓ I think things are starting to slow down for him, making good decisions. Corby Scherb: Yeah, and then ⁓ Yeah. That's the biggest thing. It should all happen slow. And it doesn't many times in many moments. But it should all be slow. Slim Pushins: Yeah. There wasn't, ⁓ Jim Gardner: Mine's still happening at light speed, you know. Slim Pushins: with cars coming straight at you. ⁓ There were four or five contenders. DJ Estes might have had something for John Ricketts. Chad Wilson might have had something for John Ricketts. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah. What? Corby Scherb: Of the old dog Kevin Raimi, he's always good anywhere. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he, he was up there and I just looked at the results. said him and, ⁓ DJ got together. Kerbo. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Wilson was charging and tagged a tractor tire and I heard from a couple of different people that possibly because of all the rain when he hit that tractor tire, a bunch of water sloshed around. And when DJ came through there, he washed up into Kevin. Unfortunately, Kevin got the worst end of that deal. So, ⁓ Jim Gardner: Mm. Yeah, looked like he DNF'd and then DJ came back and I think still ran eighth or ninth or something like that. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Do you have the plus minuses? know Kevin Rutherford was, I think he got hard charger, I think he was seven plus seven. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I joked and I texted, you know, cause he was starting 16th. said, if he, you goes hard charger plus 10 or more, he could be a guest on the podcast. And I think he was a couple short. ⁓ what did he do? Slim Pushins: Mm-mm. He was charging though. I'm sure his charge was purely based on a push in the cushion appearance. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he was only plus seven. plus seven's a good run. Zane Lawrence was plus six. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Yeah, it didn't have nothing to do with the text I sent him. Slim Pushins: Yeah, there were a couple there were a couple plus sixes. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Cool to see Zane back in the car, back in the 305 and we ran a midget a couple times this year. It's good, I always, always enjoyed racing with Zane. Jim Gardner: saw he was a pedal in the factory stock for sale today. So good for him to upgrade his life and get back in where he's supposed to be. No offense, no offense to the door slammers, but. Sprint car snobs here pushing the cushion. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Hahaha Corby Scherb: He still rips it immediately. ⁓ Slim Pushins: It was a good time. ⁓ I'm always, ⁓ I got home somewhere between somewhere after three 30 ish. ⁓ I cleared the old schedule for Sunday though. So, ⁓ I slept, I slept late. ⁓ and then I tried to take a nap. I tried to take a nap, but yours truly over there just started hammering my phone. He didn't take, he didn't take no for an answer. Jim Gardner: What time did you get home, Kerbo? Nice NASCAR nap. Yeah. Slim Pushins: So after the third call, literally in a row, I answered. Corby Scherb: Well it's tough too, Abilene is one of the few places that doesn't have any form of streaming of any kind and so I saw a couple of videos but nothing like in depth of what would have happened and who crashed but I needed to know, I to know some details, Kerbo, like post race dinners and stuff like that. Slim Pushins: Why would you call me for details? ⁓ The fact just the. Corby Scherb: you're gonna answer. Rutherford has a whole family and like church and I'm sure he was at church because he doesn't miss church. He's just that good of a guy. Slim Pushins: I missed church. I was asleep. What's coming up, Jim? We got KSP. I know we have KSP this weekend. And who else did I see? Maybe 105? Corby Scherb: I'm sure you do. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. ⁓ So there's a four tens racing in Ennis this weekend. The power I four 10 series runs Friday and Saturday night down at big O Speedway in Ennis. hopefully they get a good turnout. Hopefully the racetrack's good and hopefully it's a good successful program for them. ⁓ we'll see. We'll see. ⁓ I think that's, don't Slim Pushins: Yes. Corby Scherb: Yep. Her ride with the plan will be there, so, yep. Yep. Jim Gardner: I Houston's running. I don't think 105 is running. And then high limits in town next week. So. Slim Pushins: I saw Lawton was running, Lawton's running some, I'm going to get it wrong. Sport, sprint, something. That one. I don't even know what that is. Corby Scherb: Champs friends. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so that's a mixture of ⁓ 305s and two barrel 360s. They're big in Oklahoma. But that's that. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Yeah. Yep. Slim Pushins: Built to save? Corby Scherb: But I mean, I think that Eagle's on right now. This place is gnarly. Jim Gardner: No. Yep. They got it juiced up too. It's, it's rowdy. I'm, we're going to do some live streaming about that on the main podcast, but, ⁓ let's, let's wrap up this recap with, ⁓ the national tours. High limit only got one show in at Lucas oil speedway. Carrie Madsen was the winner there at arrowhead next Tuesday. ⁓ up there, the little quarter mile, ⁓ the outlaws. Corby Scherb: I think that we'll talk about it more... ⁓ The old dog. Yep. Jim Gardner: That rained out Friday night and Saturday night, but they, ⁓ ran Hobstod, Indiana. Great little racetrack. ⁓ it's, yeah, buddy Kofoids three feet under, under the infield tires and then hits one and bucks it up and turns right and him and sunshine got together and sunshine ends up winning. Hobstod super cool. It's basically Kennedale, but it, the track is like mulch. Corby Scherb: Pretty wild last lap. Slim Pushins: What a great race. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Like there's literally wood chips in it and the farmers down there that own the track really take care of it. And it's like, it's super juiced up and you can ride wheelies, but it gets super slick. And it's, actually, when you walk out on the track, it's like this mulch. It's, it's crazy. And it's just a real unique place. ⁓ that was a hell of a race. always is there. They go to the, outlaws are, ⁓ at Knoxville Friday and Saturday. And I'm sure they're going to have a huge car count because high limits off. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Until Tuesday, all the big teams are in the Midwest there. So, and USAC midgets at Kokomo this week. Corby Scherb: Gotta love some Mitch's coconut. Jim Gardner: Going to be wild. They probably won't get a ton of cars, but the cars they get get it on so Good streaming options our weather's a little dicey here during the week supposed to get maybe a little better Hopefully Kennedy'll gets in Yeah, so yeah, yeah, but Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. It was pretty bad today, we got a lot. Slim Pushins: Yeah, it rained all day today. We'll see what happens this weekend. Well, join us for the, for the push in the cushion garage beers, garage beers, 2.0 or a shop beer. Sorry. Shop beers volume two tonight, depending on when you listen to this, ⁓ you'll hopefully hear us, ⁓ live streaming some high limit races as always. Thanks for joining us. Jim Gardner: That's right. Volume two. Yeah. Yep, he... Slim Pushins: We'll do it again next week.