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- Slim Pushins: All right, welcome to the weekly recap of the push in the cushion recap local recap. What do we have this weekend? Kennedale we were all at Kennedale this weekend. Jim Gardner: Sort of, yeah. I participated. Slim Pushins: Well, we were all there. Your brakes didn't show up. Jim Gardner: Yeah, my brakes didn't show up. couldn't get it figured out. You don't need brakes there, you know, but when it got late and slick, was bad news, real bad news. yeah, 33 cars. I would have called like 25, 28, but 33 was awesome. Corby: Wicked fast in the heat race. Wicked fast. Slim Pushins: What a great turnout. Corby: Great turnout and yeah. Slim Pushins: I counted. Yeah. Corby: The racetrack actually was way better than what I thought when we got there. It looked super slimy even still in those heat races and it opened up a lot for the future Jim Gardner: So they, I think Kennedale learned something from the outlaws and they're just procedures because they sent, they sent the spray cars out third, which is great. And the track had like some meat to it for hot laps. didn't hot lap at 18 and 19 seconds to just, you know, throw slime all over the racetrack and check our system. So they gave us something to work on. They let everybody hot lap before the heat races, you know, a lap or two, just to make sure we knew what we had. ⁓ they, they, they tried to roll in the track. ⁓ it was, that was a, that was a positive move in the right direction as far as just the quality of racing, the heat races that, you know, the track, the track was juiced up and ready, but you could at least kind of run two grooves wide open. You know, it wasn't super narrow. Corby: Yeah, mean, John Ricketts made some moves in his heat race. Chad did, Marcus did. And then poor old Jeb got hung up in the back of his heat race. But you could at least pass, which is a super, it's not super unusual, but it's not very common at Kennedale on Heat races. Jim Gardner: Yeah, no, I... Slim Pushins: What about the feature? The feature had a lot of passing. ⁓ Kobe Stoufffield was plus 14. Wasn't Jeb Sessom's plus like 9? Corby: He was plus 10 until he let Subba fill back around him. Slim Pushins: I don't think there was any stopping stubblefield. Jim Gardner: We'll give them a hard time without that. Yeah. It got. Corby: It was a good race. was really cool to see a bit of the older guys. There was a big pile up on the back straightaway that kind of hindered Chad Wilson. to see John Ricketts get the win, Kyle Jones, like we kind of talked about in last week, he still is a local guy. And Marcus Thomas was really fast and ⁓ he tried to stick the bottom on one of the restarts and Kyle absolutely ripped through one and two and rolled around him and gave John everything he could. I'm gonna be honest. I think he was a little nice on that slider there on the last lap But it's tough to make a slide job in turn one and two at Kennedale It always seems kind of kind of pinchy in the center. It's kind of hard to get across the racetrack Yeah, I think in my opinion he should have waited till three and four, but John had been running low So it was his only shot Slim Pushins: Is pinchy a race term? Okay. ⁓ John Ricketts looked great. Really fast. ⁓ Through some circumstances I didn't get to see the end of the race. ⁓ But I saw the replay. I saw the replay and I had no idea that the finish was so exciting ⁓ like it was. I'm very respectful. Corby: Yeah, for sure, for sure. Jim Gardner: It Corby: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Thanks, girl. I didn't see much of the race either. I was hanging on for dear life when I was out there and then I was on the hook. Slim Pushins: ⁓ I think, but a great finish. Speaking of speaking of Kyle Jones, I got a chance to talk to him Saturday night and we did not alienate him. He's still open to the idea of being on the podcast. So Corby: Yeah. He's still a local guy. He's a local guy right now. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that was good. ⁓ yeah, the racetrack got really slick late. ⁓ the two stock car features in front of us really made the track take a big swing. ⁓ you know, we missed it, a little bit and we weren't expecting that at all, but Kennedale is tough. It, goes from heavy lockdown to, really, really slick, really fast. It's never really in between. ⁓ Corby: think they did a really good job though about leaving some meat on the top so that if you wanted to go up there it wasn't curbed up I mean it had a bit of a lip but it was really slick to get across there and I think that a lot of people I talked to Chad Wilson too about it I think you needed to be ⁓ tighter to get across to the center and there was too many people to me I was sitting in the grandstands I wasn't in on the racetrack but it seemed really slick on entries Jim Gardner: Yeah, I can vouch for that. It was really, really slick entering without breaks. So. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby: But it was a good race. Yeah, I'm proud of Kennedale did a great job. It's awesome to open up sprint cars around here like that. Slim Pushins: I can tell you, I can tell you Jim entered the track for the feature completely out of patience because that race before us was just yellow after yellow and he was 100 % out of patience. Jim Gardner: really, yeah. Corby: Yeah, they'll have those. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Uh, I had a, I had a long couple of days chasing, chasing the race car and getting it done. Yeah. And it, was over it, but, anyway, that was good. Good job to Kennedale. Looking forward. Uh, they are off this weekend. got, uh, their next races, uh, the 11th of April. So. Slim Pushins: chasing demons. All right, what about what about the out? Yeah, great night. ⁓ What do we have this weekend is Hunt County. Corby: Hunt County. Jim Gardner: Hunt County is Friday, it's still ⁓ on. I think part of the reason Kennedale all had so many good cars, Kyle and all those guys, they were getting prepped for the big 20,000 to win show up in Oklahoma, but that has since been rained out. ⁓ That was supposed to be a two day show and they just went ahead and axed that. Slim Pushins: I saw that they're not even ⁓ attempting, they're not going to reschedule it. just, ⁓ yeah, which is interesting. Corby: Right. They canceled it for this year. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ and reschedules reschedules are really hard. You know, it's just like the nationals last year. You have a date where you're, you're getting a lot of people, you're paying a lot of money. know, Tanner Thorson, Sam Hafertepe T there were some big names committed to go run that deal. And, and the other hundred guys, you know, we had a bunch of locals signed up Kyle and Rickets and, ⁓ I think Jordan was on the, Jordan Rupe was on the entry list. Carson Bolden, Ryder LaPlante was supposed to go. Slim Pushins: Now some balding. Corby: ride a little plant, yep. Jim Gardner: You know, and so when you're paying that much money and you're trying to have that big of an event, if it just doesn't work out, you know, once you get into April and May and the Midwest starts running and you just really start losing a lot of guys and it kind of feels it loses its luster. So, um, don't, don't blame it all for them canceling out. Right. But so hopefully Greenville, uh, hunt County raceway gets to run Friday. It's going to be a thousand to win 200 to start. So they're paying a good. A good purse. ⁓ Hope the weather holds out. Hope they get a bunch of cars. Slim Pushins: What about the, what about the, let's talk about the outlaw show this weekend. Where were they? Jim Gardner: ⁓ the outlaws random Missouri, us 36 speedway Friday, Carson Macedo one. They were in Kansas. Yeah. And they had it juiced up. I think they got a bunch of rain Wednesday, Thursday, cause they were all complaining about it. ⁓ but yeah, Macedo wins, ⁓ Saturday go to Kansas. Go ahead. No, that was, that was high limit. Keep up Kerbo. Keep up. Corby: Crazy banking there. Yeah. Yeah. It was gnarly coming off a four. Slim Pushins: They got winded out, didn't they, Saturday night? I'm trying. That's why we keep you with the notes. Corby: No, that was high limits. Yep. Jim Gardner: The outlaws on Saturday go to 81 Speedway in Kansas. Buddy Kofoid gets the win. Our guy Ryder LaPlante was flying. And I think, I think I saw where Kevin posted a picture. They might've, must've run over something with the right front tire, cut a right front tire down and he had a very scary accident. Corby: Yeah, I talked to Roddard. thinks yeah, he remembers running over something shiny count off turn four and then but pretty much the next thing he remembers impact ⁓ He hit the wall a ton Slim Pushins: That was a ride. That was a ⁓ gnarly ride. Ended up upside down. The car was on fire. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it was. upside down and on fires is bad and the outlaws have the best traveling safety crew. so ⁓ luckily it seems like he's okay, banged up, shook up. I only just kind of texted with his dad back and forth, but ⁓ he was flying. was in ninth or tenth or something like that too. So, and I have already dropped the ball. think I don't know where the outlaws are at this weekend. Corby: hearts hurt more than anything. Yeah, he was going really good. Yeah. Jim Gardner: But, ⁓ High Limit had three races last weekend, right? So one Vato Tuesday while we were trying to have a podcast and we were all distracted. ⁓ Tana, Tana Thorson, ⁓ won an Amarillo on Friday and they got winded out in Kansas on Saturday. And I think a couple of the High Limit guys ended up going up over to the Outlaw show. didn't see, ⁓ what was going on, but, ⁓ I know High Limit's offer a week or two. ⁓ I bet I could figure out where the Outlaws are, but. Slim Pushins: ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: No big deal. Look it up. It's on dirt vision, worldofoutloss.com. You don't need me to do that. Yeah. So, um, anyway, good. I'm at 33 cars, you know, I got tore up. I tore up Devin Debrick, my bad. And, uh, no, a couple other guys tore some stuff up. So hopefully it's not too bad. Um, they get a good car account for Greenville this weekend. Kennedale is next weekend. Again, the 11th of April. Corby: We had a lot to talk about locally though, it was good. Slim Pushins: The 11th? Jim Gardner: And there's also power iMidgets up at i44 in Oklahoma City and Micros are also running up there. That's next week on the 11th. So I'm sure our guest this week, Wout Hoffmans, will be up there. ⁓ So, but that's what's going on here in the next week or two. Hopefully it stays dry and we'll get some racing in, but it doesn't look good. So. ⁓ Slim Pushins: RPM is the 18th. Well, that's your weekly recap. We appreciate it. Thanks for listening.