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- Slim Pushins: Welcome friends to the push in the cushion recap on Masters week. Y'all excited about Masters? Jim Gardner: Yes. Corby: I think that was like sleep music. Slim Pushins: I told Corby how we were going to start the show today and Corby goes, I don't even know what that is. Jim Gardner: Now it's Corby: the Masters is. I play golf. Jim Gardner: That's why, yeah, right. Slim Pushins: you hit a golf ball with new friends. No, you have golf friends and then you have us. They don't intermingle. All right. ⁓ there's not a ton to talk about. ⁓ this week, everything got rained out. We remained hopeful, ⁓ that Hunk County would hold out, but it is that time of year again. And, ⁓ Corby: With you guys, with you guys. Now I play golf with y'all. Jim Gardner: Ugh. Right. Yeah, right. Corby: I think it would have been pretty close to, honestly, with the timing of the rain. What was it a couple years ago? They ran basically a day race to try to beat the rain. What race was that? Was that the Gobbler? It was super cold. Slim Pushins: Was it, it was cold. Was it, it was, they tried to beat the cold. It was a cold front coming through, wasn't it? Corby: Well, it wasn't just the cold because it was raining. Remember, we and ate Buffalo Wild Wings after the race. It was raining then. Slim Pushins: Who? I didn't... you and your golf friends? I went? Corby: No, you. You was there. Yes, and Jimmy was there. I think Jimmy was there. Jimmy was there. Are you sure? Well then it was Wes. Jim Gardner: Ha Slim Pushins: Jimmy's more of a hoots guy. He's not all about Buffalo Wild Wings. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby: Now the USAC still got to run. ⁓ Justin Grant just, what was it, Red Hill? Yeah, Justin Grant did what he always does, of course. He just sat there and then it ended up being a pretty decent race towards the end, but I mean, it was too tough to throw sliders on a racetrack like that. The cushion just wasn't all the way to the wall and I mean, Grant's always gonna be quick, so. Slim Pushins: Where were they at? Jim Gardner: Red Hill, Illinois. the, ⁓ the highlight of it for me was Robert Ballew's injury. guess he had a huge gash on his arm from, from work from like a cutoff wheel or something. And they had like 10 stitches in it and he was running up front and I, I like Robert Ballew. He's blue collar works hard. Yeah. And, ⁓ I guess a rock or something hit the stitches and blew them all open the last half of the race. he finished like 10th. ⁓ Corby: The Madman. Slim Pushins: Was he bleeding? Was he bleeding like your nose at TMS? Jim Gardner: Yeah. I don't think that's bad, but ⁓ yeah, pretty dicey. They go to my home track, Lawrenceburg Saturday. And ⁓ then they go to Terre Haute Sunday. Those, those four 10 non-wing boys are built different, man. ⁓ Running those big race tracks. Corby: The action trap. Yeah. Slim Pushins: What did Corby, ⁓ where were we watching? Where were the four 10s that you and I were watching? Corby called, we talked for like an hour and a half on the phone, it's, yeah. Corby: ⁓ they raced Williams Grove and PA and then Port Royal and PA. I mean two of the most famous sought after racetrack. I would imagine that Williams Grove only follows Knoxville in my opinion. I know El Doris very high up there. Port is pretty cool because Port gets slicked to the wall but Williams Grove is an absolute character of a racetrack. You even got the walkway or the back straightaway. ⁓ Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: There was some big names. Corby: One and two kind of, well yeah, and that's the difference I think, even like the Texas stuff and then just Pennsylvania in general. Pennsylvania is huge in the wing sprint car stuff. ⁓ Typically they run three sprint car classes and then they'll have like one whatever selected support class. Compared to around here, a lot of times it seems like even just the 305s are kind of somewhat a support class. Slim Pushins: Corby, none of Corby's golfing friends were available. So he was, we were on the phone watching the Williams go over. It's always great watching a race with watching a race with an ad with a race car driver because the whole time Corby's like, I'm faster than that guy. I'm faster than that guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ Corby: Macri ended up getting... Jim Gardner: getting banged up. Corby: It's like a goofy looking crash kind of kind of looked like a little bit of dirty air and then just hook the cushion just right and then Caught some guardrail and then came back down, you know, just just flat to the back and two compression fractures L4 and L5 Not like major with the whole spinal injury and paralyzation But let's be honest no one wants to break it back. It's it's a long road to try to get back from them Slim Pushins: It was ⁓ a weird crash too. It reminded me of Alex Bowman when he messed up his back. ⁓ It didn't look horrible. was just the way that the car landed. ⁓ You could just tell. mean, well, you and I knew immediately that they were peeling back the top wing and then once they brought the backboard over there, they cut to another shot. I hate to see that. Corby: You know, some people worry about the 10 degree, the 18 degree, the 20 degree seat lay back. Some people claim that that stuff works, but there's new like compression stuff that they can put in there for our seats to make them a little bit softer as they come down. I mean, everyone wants Kevin Swindell and what happened to him. And I just think that it's just, it's a very unlucky break. But. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Kennedy L released some big news today. $5,000 to win. Corby: Yeah, huge. Five grand to win. That's big time. That's big time. Yeah. Jim Gardner's supposed to win it. That's last thing that I heard. Jim Gardner: Plus lap money. Plus lap money. I think that might be my next race. think I need another three weeks to get my pile back together. ⁓ Corby: then. Yeah, that'd be cool, man. It's big deal in Kennedale. I will always say this the same, even, know, the first Mike Milt Memorial. They've always tried to do a lot of stuff for sprint car racing and it'll be big. There'll be a lot of fast guys there, even the same like we talked about last week, that some of those guys went there just to get ready for Arrowhead, but even, you know... People like Kyle Jones might have went there just to make sure that if we remembered how to get around Kennedale for a race like that. ⁓ I think it'll ⁓ be a really cool race to be a part of. Jim Gardner: Yep. Yep. It'll be good. then, ⁓ so leading up to it, what do you got Kerbo? Slim Pushins: I I think that I saw before we started recording, I think I saw if you, there's a potential of like nine, total of $9,000 to win with all the lab sponsors and stuff. Corby: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah, if you set quick time, win the dash and lead every lap plus the big prize 9K, nine stacks. Yeah. Slim Pushins: or the pole, is it the pole shuffle? Which is a dash but not a dash? Corby: That'll sure help out a whole lot of local 305 guys. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so it'll be good. Uh, that race is the first weekend of May. What is that? May 5th, 9th, 7th, I don't know, 5th, I think. Um, leading up to it. Yeah. Yeah. Leading up to it. KSP on Saturday, uh, is the only race for a sprint car race going on. Um, I don't think I'm going. think, uh, the rain better hold off. Um, I think I'm going to go take Justin Bates up. Corby: Night, something like that. Slim Pushins: ⁓ KSP KSP's this weekend Corby: No, this weekend of course. Jim Gardner: to I-44 to run the midget on Saturday. Those are the only two races really going on that are open wheel. ⁓ Next week, the 18th, there's a 305 show out at Abilene, which our buddy Wes Cranfield is promoting. ⁓ Corby: great dude. Slim Pushins: Those people love, love sprint car racing. Love sprint car racing. Corby: Dabbling fans? ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: That place is cool too with the sweets on the back stretch and turn five down there down the middle of the back stretch. ⁓ Corby: I know. Slim Pushins: Corby had women ready to leave their husbands. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Corby: It's a cool place, We've had some pretty good highs and some pretty terrible lows there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so that's the 18th and hopefully a lot of the West Side guys will go out and they get a good amount of cars out there. That same night is RPM's first show. What's up, John? John: What's going on? Jim Gardner: You caught us. We got started late because Kerbo had technical difficulties. So you are you are live right now on the Internet. If you want to chime in. Slim Pushins: Yeah! Corby: Because Jimmy was doing what he always does. John: Well, glad to be here. Slim Pushins: We're just talking about the big race at KSP in a couple of months, six weeks. John: Okay, yeah. Yeah, think it's April or May 9th I think is when it is. Slim Pushins: And then... Thanks. That's what we need a fourth person for because we knew it was close to the ninth. Jim Gardner: I'm glad you knew it. None of us knew the date. Corby: Good job, John. John: Yeah. Jim Gardner: And, John: No, I'm a, that's gonna be an exciting show for sure. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so yeah, we'll get in. Slim Pushins: What about it, are you gonna run this weekend? John: plan. Slim Pushins: What about the 18th? You gotta choose between KSP and RPM. Jim Gardner: Good deal. No, RPM, Abilene, and 105 Speedway's got to show that night too. Corby: No. Slim Pushins: Not yet, yeah John: I know so this weekend we're planning on running KSP the 18th. I some understanding was just between RPM and Abilene, which I obviously know Texas weather coming in springtime. It's that magical time of year. Plan is to get RPM, but we'll we'll see. Corby: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Okay. Yeah, so the 18th there's three shows. Houston's running at 105 Speedway, Abilene and RPM. Then the following week, the 24th and 25th are Power I410s and Ennis, ⁓ which would be a good, I we'll see. The tracks, it... John: That place could be fun. I've been there before when when it rips good. I've been there before when it's just You know, not at its best Yeah Jim Gardner: You just don't know what you're going to get. And, um, so I'm hoping that's pretty high profile show for, for those guys. I'm hoping it, they get a good amount of cars and the shows are really, really good. And then KSP runs. That'll be the last tune up before the big go. Uh, they run next week. Also the outlaws are in Peevely, Missouri, I 55, um, this weekend for two shows, high limits off again next week and Kerbo. Corby: Yeah, I agree. John: Yeah. Mm. Corby: free place. Jim Gardner: There's 30,000 to win pavement cars on flow Saturday night down in Florida. Pavement cars are cool, bro. Yeah. Pavement stuff. Look, I know they don't bang wheelies and throw big sliders and bounce the curb, but pavement cars are cool. ⁓ they're going for a lot of money. Three stacks of high society is, is not chump change for those guys to be rural connect. So. Slim Pushins: We knew he was going to slide in some pavement talk. Corby: I'd better be wicked to drive one these things on pavement. Slim Pushins: You've been watching too many movies. Corby: John might even show up for that one. John: Yeah, I mean, that's hard to argue. It's good money right there. just, you know, I everything I have is set up for dirt. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. But that is what's going on this week. So hopefully the rain holds off. But if not between the Masters, USAC, World of Outlaws, pavement racing, there'll be a lot to stream at home should the weather not work out for us. ⁓ yeah, always. And I bet they probably have midgets too. We'll see. John: I lost up, he'll be a fun one. Corby: know. John: I think they're running 305s every week and a power out 305s. So I don't know who was on the card that night, but it'd be interesting to what they have. Jim Gardner: They're starting to build a pretty good contingent of 305 stuff up in Missouri running Lake Ozark and Lucas oil and, and, and I guess Peevely and, and, ⁓ know, double X speedway and stuff. So it's a good scene up there, but, anyway, Kerbo wrap us up here so we can get going on the, ⁓ the big show. John: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Well, that's the push in the cushion recap that didn't have anything to recap. Thanks for joining us. Jim Gardner: you