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Ep. 76 - NASCAR (Nashville), IndyCar (Detroit), NHRA (Maryland), High Limit (Davenport) Recap · Throttle to the Floor Podcast

• 0:24
  Hey y'all, welcome to today's episode of the Final Fun podcast.
• 0:27
  I'm your host, Will Ernest, here today with my co-host Evan Sandra.
• 0:30
  Hello, y'all.
• 0:31
  Uh I got a packed episode tonight, so let's uh let's just get right into it.
• 0:35
  Uh I want to talk about first up the high limit sprint cars over at our place at our crib.
• 0:41
  Well, not here here, but home track.
• 0:43
  Yeah, we have them race around the park, you know.
• 0:45
  Yeah.
• 0:46
  Home track, Davenport Speedway, um, with the Iowa Lottery duel at Davenport.
• 0:51
  Aaron Ryssel had the car to beat early in the night, took the pole after demolishing the track record by over a second with a lap of just eleven point four eight five seconds.
• 1:03
  Then he won his heat race, started on the pole for the dash, which he also won that, and then started on a pole for the A-mane, led the first seven, you know, like, well, I think it was six laps, and then just couldn't nail down the cushion on the top side.
• 1:18
  Larson ended up getting on the top side and just ran over everybody else.
• 1:22
  Yes.
• 1:22
  Kept going over the cushion, and that cost him as Aaron Reitzel ends up seventh by the end of the night and sees his championship points.
• 1:28
  He just dwindled.
• 1:29
  Just a little bit.
• 1:30
  Not a lot, but a little bit.
• 1:31
  Uh, Giovanni Selzy had a good bounce back night after his top ten streak was snapped last Saturday at Butler Motor Speedway where he finished 12th.
• 1:39
  Selzi won his heat race before finishing fifth in the dash and ending the night in third place.
• 1:44
  I caught up with him in the pit area afterwards.
• 1:48
  I was wondering how were you able to stay so ripped and committed on the bottom when Larson just did the Larson things and just looked on the top.
• 1:55
  Yeah, I mean the curb was so big early.
• 1:57
  Um when they tilted, they really knocked it down, but um the exit of two had a bunch of grip, and the exit of four was super square.
• 2:03
  Um you start with that third fourth row, it's stuck on the ground and figure out where to call it.
• 2:09
  Especially with that.
• 2:10
  You get two out of the cushion and you just take off.
• 2:13
  Yeah, definitely.
• 2:13
  Clean area is key.
• 2:14
  Of course, I am a Giovanni Selzi fan because I love chilies.
• 2:18
  Who doesn't love chilies?
• 2:19
  Yes, love the president day margaritas and the triple dippers.
• 2:22
  Yes.
• 2:23
  Brent Marks took a second straight, second place finish, but of course, Kyle Larson did Kyle Larson things as usual.
• 2:30
  Larson was trading sliders with Reitzel until lap seven when Larson took control for the rest of the way.
• 2:36
  Uh after the last restart with 20 to go, he proceeded to lap all the way up into the top ten.
• 2:41
  Yeah.
• 2:42
  And won by 3.275 seconds.
• 2:46
  Sky Larson's third win of the year with Interstate Batteries, high limit racing, his twelfth career win and fifth career rotor rooter midweek series victory, which is second only to Rico Avery's eight wins.
• 2:57
  I've met Rico Abra.
• 2:58
  He's a lot smaller than I thought.
• 3:00
  Nice guy, nice guy.
• 3:01
  Which he actually ended up fourth.
• 3:03
  But this event, it it had everything.
• 3:05
  We had one of the fastest high limit qualifying sessions in history.
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  You had cars that could make the bottom work or make the cushion work.
• 3:12
  The weather was perfect.
• 3:14
  Crowd was great.
• 3:15
  And we saw wrecks in the mains, but they weren't total wreck fests either.
• 3:19
  Like it wasn't crazy, but we had we had cars flipping still.
• 3:22
  And then the fastest car at the end of the night ended up walking away with the victory.
• 3:26
  And it was a lot better than two years ago when High Limited had everything set up and then it just rained.
• 3:32
  Kind of like one they got like just a few hot laps in and then just gone.
• 3:37
  Rain.
• 3:38
  Come back two years later, and uh it all works out.
• 3:41
  But I was I was pretty impressed with how well everything was put together, especially with all these new venues in such a short period of time.
• 3:48
  It's starting tomorrow.
• 3:49
  High limit will race for four nights in a row across the upper Midwest and Larson, I think, is a part of three of them, I want to say, before heading to Michigan.
• 3:59
  Yes.
• 4:00
  For NASCAR obligations, but more on that later.
• 4:03
  But moving on, I want to talk about IndyCar now.
• 4:06
  This race had so much contact and very entire strategies.
• 4:09
  It's like the streets of Detroit uh were like very tiny.
• 4:13
  Yes, very narrow.
• 4:15
  Mucho narrow.
• 4:16
  Still another dominant outcome at the end of the day, which uh you'll love to hear in the world.
• 4:21
  Yes, for me personally.
• 4:22
  Yes.
• 4:23
  But I really thought Will Power had a chance to write the sinking ship that he's had this whole entire season with, you know, moving to Andretti uh this past weekend.
• 4:31
  He qualified second, led 18 laps, but late in the race got taken out by former Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin.
• 4:37
  And power was not happy about it.
• 4:38
  I mean, not 2011 New Hampshire double bird unhappy, but Power understandably was not happy, especially with how his day was going up to that point.
• 4:48
  Kyle Kirkwood looked like he was screwed while staying out to lead, and then he got caught with a caution, you know, while staying out.
• 4:56
  Uh, so he was forced to pit while other cars stayed out.
• 4:59
  However, he was aided by a bunch more cautions afterwards, including when rookie Mick Schumacher and 8500 runner up David Melukas got together in turn five while battling for third place, and Kirkwood eventually got up to second at the end.
• 5:13
  Graham Ray Hall, meanwhile, used some insane defensive driving in the closing laps to take third for his third podium of the year.
• 5:22
  Yes.
• 5:22
  I mean, somehow, he had like no push to pass up.
• 5:26
  Uh, but it was Alex Pillow once again crushing the NTT IndyCar Series field.
• 5:31
  Just why?
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  I don't know how he managed to do it.
• 5:34
  But he started on pull and led 71 of the 100 laps on the day on route to a 3.0584 second victory.
• 5:41
  Kirkwood winds up second, like we mentioned, Ray Hall third to complete the podium, and then McLaren slash Chevrolet teammates in Pato Ward and Christian Lingard completed the top five at Chevrolet's home race.
• 5:52
  At least their engines didn't explode.
• 5:53
  Yeah, at least they didn't go kaboom.
• 5:56
  They managed to fix and find the part.
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  So hopefully Chevy can play catch-up.
• 6:00
  But to be fair, it is Honda in IndyCar.
• 6:02
  So that's a tall task.
• 6:05
  It's Pelow's fourth win in just eight races this year as he now has a 62-point lead over Kirkwood over a race length as Pillow looks for title number five at a record tying fourth title in a row, which is just crazy.
• 6:18
  But to make it even more crazy, it's Pelow's 23rd career victory in just a one in just 106 starts.
• 6:24
  Yeah, that is kind of crazy.
• 6:25
  That's a that's a 21.7 winning percentage, and he's won 12 of the last 25 races dating back to the start of 2025.
• 6:33
  That's a 48% winning percentage.
• 6:35
  I mean, that's just incredible.
• 6:37
  I don't know how he does it.
• 6:38
  I don't either.
• 6:39
  But our uh picks and standings, uh, I still lead now by 169 over Evan.
• 6:44
  You jump into second and you chop like a whole 20 points.
• 6:47
  Yeah.
• 6:48
  If your pit road strategy did not pay off, I've been in a much better position.
• 6:51
  Because Pelo did win.
• 6:52
  My pick did win this week finally.
• 6:54
  Yes.
• 6:55
  My pick actually won a race.
• 6:56
  Problem is for you, is I finished second behind you.
• 7:00
  Yeah.
• 7:00
  So yeah.
• 7:01
  Bernardo is 223 back, Stacy 227 back, uh, Haley, 269 back, Noah, 275 back, and then uh Ethan and Zayn are new part-timers.
• 7:12
  Yes.
• 7:13
  Uh Ethan's got uh 20-point advantage over Zayn uh in their first race.
• 7:18
  But picks-wise, uh, I picked Kirkwood as we alluded to earlier, finished second, led five laps.
• 7:24
  You picked Alex Pelow, dominated the race, although at the same time it was not no easy stroke.
• 7:29
  The party like Barber was not even close.
• 7:32
  Haley with Joseph Newgarden ended up 10th, which is pretty impressive considering he's got that injured foot that he's driving around on.
• 7:39
  Stacey with bullpower ends up 22nd, DNF hang.
• 7:42
  Bernardo with Scott McLaughlin ends up 19th with that running with willpower.
• 7:47
  And Noah with Scott Dixon, 24th, ends up DNF, part-time picks.
• 7:52
  Uh Ethan with Pato Award ends up fourth, solid day best Chevy in the field at Chevy's home race.
• 7:59
  And Zayn with Dave Malucas ends up 18th after getting into it with Mick Schumacher towards the end of the race.
• 8:05
  But moving on away from IndyCar finally with NHRA now, the inaugural NHRA Potomac Nationals presented by Jiggs was definitely a resounding success as we saw some competitive racing all afternoon and all weekend.
• 8:18
  Although no record making runs like me and NHRA on Fox broadcaster Brian Lones talked about after the last event in Chicago two weeks ago.
• 8:27
  What do you think we're gonna see in Maryland in a couple weeks?
• 8:30
  Um in Maryland, our free racetrack have been there a bunch of times.
• 8:33
  Uh crowd is gonna be awesome, crazy.
• 8:35
  They have really direct fans there.
• 8:37
  And Royce Miller and those guys have been working 24 hours a day getting ready for us.
• 8:41
  So uh if the weather does what the weather can do in Maryland, if we get some cool weather, that place is at sea level and it could look a lot like Georgia with huge route.
• 8:49
  But still pretty dang competitive.
• 8:51
  In top field, it once again came down to the two Coletta Motorsports entries of Sean Langdon and Doug Coletta, and once again Langdon prevailed, beating Coletta with a 3.762 at 334.90 miles per hour.
• 9:05
  If you thought that, you know, oh maybe the Coletta Motorsports cars, they're gonna be pretty widely apart.
• 9:11
  Now they're pretty well evenly set up as Langdon, one by two ten thousandths of a second.
• 9:18
  It was a crazy finish.
• 9:19
  For sure.
• 9:20
  Uh it's around one inch, uh, at 334 miles an hour.
• 9:25
  Just an inch, just just that much.
• 9:27
  Yeah.
• 9:27
  Just that much.
• 9:28
  Liter, literally this much.
• 9:29
  It's one of the closest top field races in NHRA history.
• 9:32
  Langdon's fourth win of the year, including his third top field win in a row.
• 9:36
  It's the first time in five years that that's happened.
• 9:39
  Uh 2021, Steve Torrance won at Norwalk, Denver, and Sonoma.
• 9:43
  Langdon was dominant all weekend, qualifying number one, winning the mission too fast, too tasty challenge on Saturday, and setting the track record with 3.718 at 338 miles per hour before picking up the event win on Sunday.
• 9:57
  It's Coletta Motorsports' fifth Wally through the first seven events this year.
• 10:04
  That's quite a bit.
• 10:05
  Yes.
• 10:06
  And it's Langon's 26th career victory as the 2013 Top Field World Champion extends his points lead to 76 points over reigning top field world champion Doug Coletta, his teammate.
• 10:17
  And funny car, Austin Proc finally, finally, finally got a win.
• 10:22
  Yes, finally got a win.
• 10:23
  He broke through with the mission to Vast Tutation Challenge win on Saturday, and then the event win on Sunday, taking down Jack Beckman with a 3.956, uh, 324.20 miles per hour, holding off Beckman's 3.971 at 323.5 miles per hour for Proc's 22nd career win, but his first since joining Tasca Racing and Ford.
• 10:46
  The struggles of Austin Proc this year, post-leaving John Force Racing, where you know, last offseason he left after winning back-to-back funny car world titles to join Tasca and Ford.
• 10:56
  The the struggles have been well documented.
• 10:58
  Yes.
• 10:59
  For sure.
• 10:59
  They D and Q'd at Gainesville before four straight first round losses after that.
• 11:03
  But we were in Chicago a couple weeks ago where they advanced to the semifinals.
• 11:08
  They were able to put it all together this weekend, which is what the rest of the funny car field hoped they would never accomplish.
• 11:13
  Yeah, because if when Proc gets going, he's gonna keep going.
• 11:17
  Proc has now cracked the top ten in funny card points, which will be the 10 in contention for the championship during the countdown, which starts after race 14 with the U.S.
• 11:25
  Nationals in Indianapolis.
• 11:26
  We are seven events done now.
• 11:29
  So we're halfway through the regular season.
• 11:31
  It seems like it's just flying by at this point for something.
• 11:33
  Ron caps with a semifinal finish this past weekend took the points lead from JR Todd and Leeds Todd by 16 points.
• 11:41
  The top five and funny car points are separated by just 55 points.
• 11:45
  So all of them are less than like three rounds apart.
• 11:48
  Very tight there.
• 11:49
  Um heading into Epping, New Hampshire next week, where Todd is the defending event winner in funny car.
• 11:54
  So something interesting there.
• 11:56
  In Pro Stock, it was Greg Anderson taking another victory, collecting his second win of the season and 114th career victory.
• 12:03
  Anderson took down KB Titan teammate and ranning Pro Stock World Champion Dallas Glenn in the final round with a 6.472 at 212.46 miles per hour.
• 12:14
  Anderson now holds a 10-1 final round advantage over Glenn, who had a huge starting line advantage as Anderson was trying not to replicate his 96,000th of a second red light at Chicago two weeks ago that uh threw away that victory.
• 12:30
  But Glenn's car ran into trouble early down the track, so that gave Anders Anderson the easy victory.
• 12:36
  Glenn now only leads Anderson by 11 points heading into race eight out of twenty, which as we alluded to was in Epic, New Hampshire.
• 12:43
  Next week is race two of three on this unofficial eastern swing.
• 12:48
  We got Bristol in two weeks, and in in Pro Stock Motorcycle, Angie Smith got redemption for A, for bike transmission breaking at Chicago two weeks ago, and B in honor of husband Matt Smith, who was not racing this week.
• 13:02
  Yeah, he was out with injury.
• 13:03
  Well, since injury, but gallstones.
• 13:06
  Yeah.
• 13:06
  Painful in hospital.
• 13:08
  But he was at the track on Sunday watching Angie Smith dominate and secure a win.
• 13:14
  It was it's been a while since she's won.
• 13:16
  But Angie beat Ryan O'Lair in the final round with a 6.683 at 201.52 miles per hour for her first win since the 2022 NHRA finals.
• 13:26
  It's been almost four years since her last win, but it's her fourth career win and the 200th national event win for winning in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing series.
• 13:38
  That deserves a golf clap.
• 13:40
  Yes.
• 13:41
  Uh Angie Smith now ranks second in pro stock motorcycle points, 26 points behind defending world champion Richard Gatson.
• 13:50
  But the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing series returns to action this weekend, June 5th through the 7th, with, as we mentioned, the NHRA New England Nationals presented by B Pro Auto at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire.
• 14:02
  Great track up there.
• 14:03
  Yes.
• 14:03
  Very nice.
• 14:03
  I mean, first first we were getting the Maryland crab cakes, and now we're getting lobster.
• 14:07
  Yes.
• 14:08
  But heading to Nashville now, we'll start with the truck series.
• 14:11
  They finally got rolling after like three hour rain delay, and uh I think the big storyline, uh, broadcast issues.
• 14:18
  Yes.
• 14:18
  I don't know what was going on there.
• 14:20
  I mean, for me, it's like there was absolutely no broadcast on.
• 14:23
  Like, I still heard the the sounds of the trucks, and I heard the sounds of like all their graphics, and I heard the outside noise, but like in terms of the broadcast, like nothing.
• 14:33
  Nonexistent.
• 14:35
  Nothing.
• 14:35
  Which on one hand, I didn't have to hear Jamie Little, but on the other hand, like, because it was so late at night, I fell asleep with like 60 laps to go.
• 14:44
  So, yeah, but just in general, like, as much as we've given so many bad things about the broadcast, and most of them they deserve, you know, not being able to hear the broadcast at all is just terrible.
• 14:58
  Yes, it's just it's it's just terrible.
• 15:00
  It's even worse than a bad broadcast because a bad broadcast is still better than no broadcast.
• 15:04
  Lane Riggs just took off into the lead, and I mean, he won stage one, he won stage two, just another dominant performance by Lane Riggs.
• 15:14
  A lot of cautions.
• 15:15
  Yes, I don't know what it is with the truck series, with so many cautions and just terror.
• 15:21
  I don't know why.
• 15:22
  I should call it the caution truck series.
• 15:24
  Yes.
• 15:24
  At this point, we might as well call it the caution truck series.
• 15:27
  Of course, after I fell asleep, I find out later that Caden Honeycutt had a battery issue, which took him out of top five contention that was not uh great, and everybody likes to hype up this truck race off of the finish, with Roger Carew leading until the white flag and then Lane Riggs got past him uh to win.
• 15:46
  But this truck race was not good.
• 15:48
  No, overall racing was not great.
• 15:50
  The racing was not great.
• 15:52
  The broadcast didn't exist, and I mean the rain didn't help.
• 15:56
  Yeah, I fell asleep with 60 to go, that's how bad it was.
• 16:00
  Was the finish cool?
• 16:01
  Yes.
• 16:02
  Was the race good?
• 16:03
  No.
• 16:03
  No, not at all.
• 16:04
  No, not even close.
• 16:05
  But Lane Riggs, first one at Nashville, third win of the year, including second in a row, and his eighth career win.
• 16:12
  Caruth ends up second, Chandler Smith ends up third, Ross Chast in fourth, and Tyler Ankram completing the top five are picks and standings.
• 16:20
  Stacy has taken back the points lead once again, uh by 16 over Bernardo, 32 over Evan.
• 16:26
  You fall from uh the lead back to third.
• 16:29
  Yeah.
• 16:29
  I'm 108 back, Haley's 117 back, Noah's 144 back, and then Ethan has a 18-point advantage over Zane, uh, part-time picks-wise, our picks.
• 16:42
  I picked Honeycut.
• 16:44
  He was running in the top five for most of the night, has the battery issue, ends up 27th.
• 16:48
  Evan, you end up with Ben Rhodes, ends up 28th.
• 16:51
  That's that's kind of how you your points lead went bye-bye.
• 16:54
  Yeah.
• 16:54
  Haley with Stuart Friesen, uh, solid run in six.
• 16:57
  Stacy took the points lead via Chandler Smith, who ends up third.
• 17:00
  Good bounce back after finishing 30th at Charlotte with the hitting the inside wall.
• 17:05
  Bernardo with Corey LaJoy ends up 22nd.
• 17:08
  Just bad day for the ram trucks.
• 17:10
  Yeah.
• 17:11
  Bad day for the Ram trucks.
• 17:12
  I thought you were typing them up at having good trucks again.
• 17:15
  Yeah.
• 17:15
  It's like they had good trucks, and it's like we were giving them uh praise, and it's like, good job, you have good ram trucks, and then there's no.
• 17:24
  They were practically a no-show at Nashville.
• 17:26
  Except for the ram trucks that ended up wrecking out of the roots.
• 17:29
  Noah with uh Clayton Green, just random pick, whatever.
• 17:32
  He he didn't really care, ends up 29th.
• 17:34
  Uh part-timer wise, Ethan with Christian Eckis ends up eighth, and Zayn with Daniel Henrick ends up 15th.
• 17:41
  So a couple solid results there.
• 17:43
  Moving on now to the O'Reilly series.
• 17:46
  At first, it looked like Jesse Love's race.
• 17:49
  Um, I do not agree with Jesse Love putting uh Cletus McFarlane the lap down early because at the end of stage one, or towards the end of it, he had like a six-second lead.
• 17:58
  Yeah.
• 17:59
  And Cletus was his teammate, so it's like, eh.
• 18:03
  I don't know if I really agree with that.
• 18:04
  And then Cletus had to fight for the free pass, and then he did a spinning, yeah, which really kind of kick-started his bad night.
• 18:11
  But then Justin Algayer ended up taking the lead at the start of stage two, and uh Love and Algayer were uh battling throughout much of stage two.
• 18:19
  Kyle Larson was been he was getting a head start on the dang high limit sprint car.
• 18:25
  He was practically drifting around turn four in Nashville because he about got wrecked, but he of course managed to save it.
• 18:31
  And I guess it was a prelude to him winning last night in the high limit sprint car over at Davenport Speedway.
• 18:37
  But the big change of this race was Jesse Love's loose wheel has to end up pitting, and that's what really uh took him out of this race.
• 18:45
  And he was the only other car that could really compete with Algar this weekend.
• 18:48
  Well, I mean, Brent Cruz went all the way from 33rd up to second and into the lead, and I think I really thought Brent Cruz was gonna win this race.
• 18:57
  I thought he had the car to hold off Algar, but they battled for the lead after final pit stops, and Algar took the lead with 19 to go and held on to win Justin Olgar.
• 19:09
  Second straight win at Nashville, his fourth win of the year, his third overall win at Nashville, and it's the 32nd career O'Reilly series victory, which breaks a tie with Jack Ingram for sixth all time in O'Reilly's wins.
• 19:22
  I feel like Algayer is the O'Reilly's of uh the O'Reilly's equivalent of Denny Hamlin.
• 19:26
  It's just he could retire.
• 19:28
  He probably will retire soon, but it's like it's like both of them, it's like they've never looked better.
• 19:33
  See on Matt Crafton before he retired.
• 19:36
  Yeah, pretty much.
• 19:36
  It depends on who you ask, though.
• 19:38
  Yeah.
• 19:38
  Depends really depends on who you ask on the whole situation.
• 19:42
  Brent Cruz uh in second, William Swallows in third, Sam Mayer in fourth, and Brandon Jones completes the top five.
• 19:49
  JGR, three cars on the top five.
• 19:51
  Good night for that.
• 19:52
  Pre-precursor to cup.
• 19:54
  I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:56
  But our O'Reilly's picks and standings.
• 19:58
  Uh, I still lead in the O'Reilly's standings now by 131 over Stacy, 214 over Haley, 259 over Evan, 271 in Bernardo, 377 over Noah, and then Zane has a 15-point advantage over Ethan, uh, part-timer-wise.
• 20:15
  Uh the big reason why I still have the O'Reilly's ladies is because I picked Justin Legar, who got the win and the passive slap.
• 20:22
  Evan, you picked Corey Day, ends up sixth.
• 20:24
  Very quiet.
• 20:25
  Very quiet night for Corey Day.
• 20:27
  It's usually not a Corey Day type performance.
• 20:31
  Usually he's Checkers and Rickers.
• 20:33
  Yeah, yeah.
• 20:34
  Um Haley with Sammy Smith ends up 10th.
• 20:37
  Stacy picked Jesse Love, ends up 16th after pitting for that loose reel.
• 20:41
  Started on pole due to the metric, led the most laps, but just not Jesse Love's night.
• 20:46
  Bernardo with Sheldon Creed ends up 15th after starting towards the back.
• 20:50
  Noah with Brent Cruz started basically in the back, but ends up all the way to second.
• 20:54
  And then part-timer wise, Ethan with Taylor Gray ends up ninth.
• 20:58
  Zane with Carson Coppel ends up seventh.
• 21:00
  So just solid results there.
• 21:02
  Cup wise, Danny Hamlin, man, starts on poll due to the metric, immediately jumps the start.
• 21:09
  That was bad.
• 21:10
  I can't lie.
• 21:10
  Yeah, it wasn't even close.
• 21:12
  It wasn't it wasn't like Richard Spring 2024, although he should have been penalized for that.
• 21:17
  We don't talk about that as a True Rex fan.
• 21:19
  But jumps the start, gets sent to the back.
• 21:22
  Somehow AJ Almendinger won in a photo finish for stage one.
• 21:27
  I don't really know how he did that.
• 21:28
  It must have just been all the strategies, but it bit him later with a break rulers.
• 21:32
  Yeah, break roaders this weekend, kaboom.
• 21:35
  Yes, they went, they went kaboom.
• 21:37
  Suarez backed up a 600 win last week by winning stage two.
• 21:42
  But towards the end of this race, the big thing towards the end of this race, five lap shootout with the JGR cards, the Joe Gibbs racing cards, the Joe Gibbs racing battle that we missed out at Charlotte.
• 21:52
  Yes.
• 21:52
  That we did not get the deserved battle between JGR.
• 21:56
  Yes.
• 21:56
  Denny Hamill comes all the way back.
• 21:59
  Sunday Somehow manages to come all the way back after the jump start on lap one to finally prevail at Nashville after like he should have already had like three wins.
• 22:10
  Literally, he should have had three to four wins.
• 22:12
  Should have won in twenty-two before all of JGR decided let's all pit with five to go and finish like twentieth.
• 22:19
  Should have won in twenty-four until Austin Cinder opened up the gates of hell in that race, which ultimately led to Joey Lagano winning the championship.
• 22:28
  The Lagooner.
• 22:29
  Yes.
• 22:29
  And then last year had a top five car and had a winning car, but ended up third.
• 22:35
  Just wasn't his night last year, but it w it was somehow was this year.
• 22:38
  Second win of the year after Las Vegas.
• 22:40
  Third, I guess if we count the All-Star race, which was also on concrete.
• 22:45
  62nd career win, which is one away from tying the late Kyle Bush.
• 22:51
  Moment in silence.
• 22:52
  And it's the eighth win for Toyota this year through 15 events.
• 22:56
  Toyota continues to just dominate.
• 22:58
  Dominate throughout the whole year, for sure.
• 23:02
  Christopher Bell with a second straight second place finish.
• 23:05
  Chase Briscoe in third, completing the JGR one, two, three.
• 23:09
  Uh at least they didn't wreck each other.
• 23:11
  Yeah, they they've learned their mistakes.
• 23:13
  Yeah.
• 23:13
  Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
• 23:15
  fourth in the Cowboys tribute scheme and Shane Van Gisberger, man, fifth in another great oval star after Charlotte the previous week.
• 23:23
  SVG led this race.
• 23:25
  First career top five on Oval.
• 23:27
  Yes.
• 23:28
  I don't I mean originally he finished seventh, but then in the whole mess with Oh, we got a crash.
• 23:34
  Yeah.
• 23:35
  Average Dill Jr.
• 23:36
  jump scare.
• 23:37
  Yep.
• 23:37
  Big record start finish uh with Reddick, Elliott, and Blaney.
• 23:40
  They all finished sixth through eighth in that order.
• 23:43
  Hamlin in the replay after is like, oh, that's expensive.
• 23:46
  Yeah.
• 23:47
  Hamlin wins at Nashville, but at what cost?
• 23:49
  Yeah, at a cost.
• 23:50
  At a cost.
• 23:51
  That car is destroyed.
• 23:52
  Yep.
• 23:53
  But NASCAR heads to Michigan next week with Arca Trucks and Cub.
• 23:57
  O'Reilly's finally gets an off week after 16 straight weekends of racing.
• 24:01
  That's worse than the Cubs standings.
• 24:03
  I know, that is horrible.
• 24:04
  I can't lie.
• 24:04
  Yeah, but Cup picks and standings.
• 24:06
  I still lead the Cup standings now by 104 over Haley, 152 over Stacy, 172 over Bernardo, 185 over Evan, 280 over Noah, and then Ethan leads Zane by 27 in the part-timers picks.
• 24:22
  Pick our picks wise, speaking of which, I picked Denny Hamlin.
• 24:26
  So another win this weekend, this time on the cup side.
• 24:30
  I don't know how Hamlin won this race after jumping the start.
• 24:33
  I guess his car was that good.
• 24:34
  And technically, uh by one lap, I led the most laps in this race.
• 24:38
  And I also had the fastest lap, which I figured I'd get that.
• 24:41
  Evan, you picked Joey Logano, ends up 14th, literally did nothing.
• 24:45
  Yeah.
• 24:46
  Lagooner did nothing again.
• 24:47
  But you led a lap at some point.
• 24:49
  I don't I remember that.
• 24:51
  Yes.
• 24:51
  It must have been on all the pit strategy, which led to all the break rotors.
• 24:55
  Yes.
• 24:55
  Haley with Austin Cindrick started in the back, finishes in the back after getting caught up in uh another wreck, ends up 26th.
• 25:03
  Stacy with Ryan Blaney ends up eighth, leads 46 laps.
• 25:07
  Bernardo with Larson ends up 23rd, 56 laps, led the second most laps.
• 25:13
  Somehow Larson has not finished 22nd ever in the Cup Series.
• 25:17
  It's all he needs to complete the the full set.
• 25:20
  I mean, he was close to Watkins Lane, he was close at Nashville.
• 25:23
  I just I don't know how Larson manages to do it.
• 25:26
  And he was the cause of that mystery smoke in turn 40.
• 25:28
  Yeah, I was wondering what happened with the last one.
• 25:30
  Yeah, I was wondering what that was.
• 25:30
  It was Larson with, I believe, a flat tire.
• 25:32
  He spun to him and pit road, but no caution.
• 25:34
  NASCAR learning not to throw a caution.
• 25:36
  NASCAR did not throw a caution.
• 25:38
  Because they want they don't want another 2024.
• 25:40
  Nashville.
• 25:42
  We don't talk about that.
• 25:43
  The Lagooner.
• 25:44
  Noah with Chase Elliott ends up seventh, leads a few laps, and then part-timers-wise, Ethan with Reddick ends up sixth, leads 42 laps.
• 25:52
  Most of those due to uh right after Hamlin jumped the restart.
• 25:55
  Yeah.
• 25:55
  And then Zane with Byron ends up 30th DNF.
• 25:59
  William Byron needs help.
• 26:01
  Yeah.
• 26:01
  Hendrick honestly, entirely is helpful.
• 26:03
  Hendrick entirely needs help, but like, I mean, Bowman's kind of gotten screwed this year due to existential things.
• 26:11
  Elliot has two wins, so like I feel like Elliot's okay.
• 26:15
  I mean he doesn't have consistent speed.
• 26:18
  He doesn't he doesn't he doesn't have consistent speed.
• 26:21
  Larson, he hasn't won in over a year, but like it's not due to like a trying.
• 26:25
  Yeah.
• 26:26
  He has speed, it's just he hasn't gotten a win.
• 26:28
  Byron's the one who really needs some serious help.
• 26:31
  I mean I don't know what's going on with Byron.
• 26:32
  I feel like at best Byron has like an 8th to 12th place car.
• 26:36
  At best.
• 26:37
  And at worst, he ends up 30th with a wrecked race car.
• 26:40
  Byron needs some serious help.
• 26:43
  But last but not least, uh, the House Host Bar segment.
• 26:45
  How is Carson Hostbar?
• 26:47
  Uh, once again, did not run the 77 truck at Nashville.
• 26:50
  This time gives it to Jesse Love, who ends up wrecking the truck.
• 26:53
  But you know what?
• 26:54
  That's what happens, I guess.
• 26:55
  In the cup race, the pit crew somehow was not horrendous.
• 26:59
  They did a good job.
• 27:02
  I'm proud of them.
• 27:04
  Not not Chili's go get a triple dipper worthy, but you know what?
• 27:07
  You get a president of margarita.
• 27:09
  Yes.
• 27:10
  They deserve a presidente margarita for all their hard work.
• 27:13
  But hostbar managed to climb up and finish in 10th when it was all said and done after starting in 17th.
• 27:20
  He took the wrong lane.
• 27:21
  He's he said this, he took the wrong uh lane with the first tires.
• 27:24
  Stenhouse ended up taking the right lane.
• 27:26
  He charged all the way up to fourth, and host bar was still 10th.
• 27:29
  Good wreck avoidance at the end of the race.
• 27:32
  Got some drift style points drifting in turn one.
• 27:35
  But sadly, no more chilies for the cup ride this year.
• 27:38
  But hey, I mean, Chili's will be uh back on his late model.
• 27:42
  Host bar will run Wednesday and Thursday as part of the dirt late model dream at Eldora before heading to his home track at Michigan this weekend to run both trucks and cup.
• 27:53
  But the late model, it looks like the Intimidante scheme.
• 27:56
  Like the Cup ride.
• 27:57
  I was so happy.
• 27:59
  If you can't tell, I love chilies.
• 28:02
  Chilies, chilies, chilies.
• 28:05
  I love chilies.
• 28:06
  Who doesn't love triple dippers at chilies?
• 28:08
  Who doesn't love their mozzarella success?
• 28:10
  The things are so good.
• 28:11
  Yes.
• 28:11
  Go to triple dipper order Natural Hot Mozzarella, uh, Big Mouth bites, and honey chipotle wings.
• 28:20
  For for me, it's the honey chipotle mop sticks, honey chipotle tenders, and I'll get the big mouth bites with a coke zero.
• 28:27
  You really love the honey chipotle.
• 28:28
  Oh, yeah, and I also get a coke zero, but you really love honey chipotle.
• 28:31
  I do, that's so good.
• 28:32
  I split the natural hot and the honey chipotle.
• 28:34
  I split them both.
• 28:35
  And also, I I mean the crispers are good.
• 28:37
  The problem is the crispers, half the time they're too crispy.
• 28:41
  And it's like it's like if you try and air fry some chicken, but you air fry it too long.
• 28:46
  And it's like extra crispy.
• 28:47
  And it's like, I like extra crispy on a lot of things, but not not not on chilies, chicken crispers.
• 28:53
  That's why I get the wings.
• 28:54
  I get the wings boneless because I don't like boneless.
• 28:56
  But enough about chilies.
• 28:57
  I mean, I love chilies.
• 28:58
  We love chilies.
• 28:59
  We can go on a whole episode about chilies.
• 29:01
  We can do a whole episode about chilies.
• 29:02
  We really need chilies to sponsor.
• 29:04
  But enough about chilies.
• 29:06
  Finally, done with a full house weekend, and it's ironic because it was a full house weekend already, and then we just added the high limit sprint cars on top of that.
• 29:13
  Yes.
• 29:14
  But lots of action, including uh me graduating.
• 29:17
  I am a high school graduate.
• 29:19
  I'm so proud.
• 29:20
  Yeah.
• 29:20
  I am a high school graduate.
• 29:22
  But, anyways, continue on with another uh field weekend coming up.
• 29:26
  NASCAR is in Michigan, like we've mentioned.
• 29:29
  Uh Anthray is in Epic, New Hampshire, like we also mentioned.
• 29:32
  And IndyCar heads to Gateway under the lights.
• 29:35
  Hopefully don't have another flip.
• 29:36
  Hopefully, New Garden does not flip.
• 29:38
  Please don't flip.
• 29:39
  I picked him.
• 29:40
  Please don't flip.
• 29:42
  Please win like you've done five times before at Gateway in the nine years that they nine years that they've ran it.
• 29:49
  Yeah, hopefully we don't come back from commercial car upside down.
• 29:52
  Yeah.
• 29:52
  Please please don't, please don't flip.
• 29:56
  Penske needs help.
• 29:57
  But to be fair, Newgarden won at Phoenix.
• 30:00
  So yeah.
• 30:00
  But to be fair, also, Newgarden has broke foot.
• 30:03
  Yes.
• 30:03
  They're not good.
• 30:04
  But we'll preview all the action on Friday.
• 30:07
  But that's all we got for today's episode of Throttle Floor Podcast.
• 30:11
  Tune in, listen, download, watch on Spotify, podcast, YouTube, check out the chill photography and throttle for podcasts, Instagram, TikToks.
• 30:18
  I will have the photos on high limit sprint cars coming out later this week.
• 30:22
  So uh look out for those.
• 30:24
  But that's all we got.
• 30:26
  And we'll preview all of it on a Friday.
• 30:28
  Have a good night, y'all.