Speaker 1: What is going on? Racers?
Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Motorsports Monday. Brad Anderson, how
Speaker 2: you doing? I'm your host Brown Performance host Terry Bridges
Speaker 2: and welcome to episode eight twenty six, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Hey tonight, we got a cool show for you. Gonna
Speaker 2: be talking to Andy Brown, winner of Oh Thanks, Brad,
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Pat Held, what's up? Sandy Allen?
Speaker 1: What's up? Girlfriend?
Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking with Andy Brown, winner of the
Speaker 2: OGA one hundred down at Madera for the mini stocks.
Speaker 2: And we got a really cool guest at seven forty five.
Speaker 2: Can't believe we caught him, first time SRO winner, the
Speaker 2: Colorado winner, uh Cole raz So he's showing you his
Speaker 2: He's showing you his talent by being able to roll
Speaker 2: out to Colorado and picking up a big win.
Speaker 1: M Kinsley was up.
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Speaker 2: Hey, what's up, Jay, you rock to brother, Thanks for
Speaker 2: being here on another Monday, Todd, what's going on?
Speaker 1: My man, David Nelson? Let's go out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, here's the here's kind of our first guess
Speaker 2: is until seven thirty. So I got half an hour
Speaker 2: to kill. So if you guys got something you want
Speaker 2: to talk about, by all means, type it in there.
Speaker 2: Let's let's let's uh, let's chit chat about it. But
Speaker 2: the first thing that's kind of all right, uh, the
Speaker 2: first thing that's coming up, Hey, what up? Joe Joe M.
Speaker 1: Canton.
Speaker 2: Uh, Coach Joe is over in Graham, Washington. Guess he's
Speaker 2: got four teams over there for the quarter Midget Regional
Speaker 2: over in Graham, Washington. So, uh, super cool, pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: So Joe Catton, looking forward to talking to you tomorrow
Speaker 2: maybe if you have time. Super cool. Susan Jackson, Hi,
Speaker 2: sweet lady, how are you glad you're here? Appreciate it?
Speaker 2: Who said hello?
Speaker 1: Hello? Oh yeah, big Joe Joe M.
Speaker 3: Canton.
Speaker 2: Dude's a stud. Appreciate you, Susan. Yes, it's gonna try.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great weekend. I love it, buddy,
Speaker 2: I hope it goes great for you. Coach Joe's a
Speaker 2: good dude. He's a driving coach for a lot of
Speaker 2: the quarter midget teams there. Got to meet him at
Speaker 2: the at the twenty twenty four Western Grands up in Monroe.
Speaker 2: Great dude, got a great attitude, got a great passion
Speaker 2: for the sport and doing good things for these young kids,
Speaker 2: not necessarily always just driving, but just uh life lessons
Speaker 2: as well. Man So coach Joseph, coach jose the man.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you he's a he's a really good cat.
Speaker 2: Here's one of the things I was looking at Cars Tour.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, somebody's gonna need to help me out
Speaker 2: on this because I really don't. I know, we run,
Speaker 2: you know, who's your nineteen seventies out here? And you know,
Speaker 2: But I guess the Cars Tour is switching from an
Speaker 2: ST two to an F forty five. I guess that's
Speaker 2: a pretty big deal. You know what I haven't I've
Speaker 2: heard of the F forty five's, but I haven't heard
Speaker 2: of an ST two, So I don't really know. I mean,
Speaker 2: let me just say, if if you know anything about
Speaker 2: who's retires, let me know, because I know about the
Speaker 2: nine to seventy, you know, in the nine tens or
Speaker 2: whatever they got or the nine four fives or whatever
Speaker 2: they sometimes they go. But yeah, dude, I got some
Speaker 2: I got some results from that. It's pretty cool. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the big I guess that's the big talk is
Speaker 2: the cars tour is going from an ST two to
Speaker 2: an F forty five. I don't know if that's going
Speaker 2: down or up or laterally, I'm not I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the real talk going on. I guess
Speaker 2: one of the hot topics. But uh, I do have
Speaker 2: some shout outs tonight.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: First of all, I got a shout out Dave Tolliver
Speaker 2: from the Severe Shirt Company. Dude sent me like five shirts. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm happy. I got a couple of the damnit shirts.
Speaker 2: I got two Hector Racing ones. I got the yellow
Speaker 2: and the orange one. Don't worry, I'll have them on
Speaker 2: next week. And then he sent me a couple of
Speaker 2: Severe T shirt stuff. So check out Severe T Shirt
Speaker 2: Company if you want to, if you want to try
Speaker 2: a little something different. The T shirts look nice, the
Speaker 2: quality looks nice. I'm one of those guys. I always
Speaker 2: got to wash my T shirts for I put them on.
Speaker 2: That's just just how I am. I'm always been that way.
Speaker 2: Just can't wear a fresh one, got it unless well
Speaker 2: I did wear Coach Joe's because I didn't have time
Speaker 2: to wash it there. But I wanted to represent so
Speaker 2: they're in the wash. I'll have them on next week.
Speaker 2: And uh so, Dave Tolliver, big shout out to you, man,
Speaker 2: appreciate you greatly, appreciate the the kind gesture sending me
Speaker 2: some shirts and I will wear them.
Speaker 1: Proudly, I promise.
Speaker 2: Uh the other guy, I gotta think And this was
Speaker 2: from last Wednesday. I don't know if you tuned in,
Speaker 2: but he was on our show, Steve Clinton. This guy
Speaker 2: is a stand up guy. I can't say enough good
Speaker 2: about Steve Clinton. And Steve if you're listening, man, I
Speaker 2: I appreciate you more than you know. And Clinton Racing
Speaker 2: Products and you know, check them out if you're a
Speaker 2: Carter and you need some good good stuff. He's in
Speaker 2: the process of buying a business, so things are a
Speaker 2: little hectic for him right now. But I just I
Speaker 2: just got to give a big shout out to Steve
Speaker 2: Clinton from Clinton Racing Products.
Speaker 1: Super good guy, beyond a good guy.
Speaker 2: Just just one of those once you know, he's just
Speaker 2: a damn good dude.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: Doug Fleming, another Carter engine builder.
Speaker 2: He made the Carting Hall of Fame, which is huge.
Speaker 2: And my buddy, this is the guy who I learned
Speaker 2: not just karting from but I I learned how to race.
Speaker 2: I learned the mentality of how to race, how you
Speaker 2: got to think, how you have to prepare. It wasn't
Speaker 2: just go go karts were the avenue. But this guy
Speaker 2: taught me how to think, and he taught me how
Speaker 2: to analyze, and he taught me how to He taught
Speaker 2: me a lot. I mean, pretty much everything I know
Speaker 2: other than the stuff when I left him and I
Speaker 2: learned on my own. But to get me started, he
Speaker 2: gave me the it's an it's a uh, it's an
Speaker 2: instruction that you could not pay for.
Speaker 1: Nobody could afford it.
Speaker 2: If you got the same instruction that I got, it
Speaker 2: was priceless. And that's Phil foul a legend in karting,
Speaker 2: one of the best to ever sit behind the wheel
Speaker 2: will go kart. I don't care who you are. You
Speaker 2: can say what you want. But he's done more. He's
Speaker 2: done as much or more for the sport than anybody,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately it's just not out there. The guy invented,
Speaker 2: basically invented the fiberglass stuff that you see everywhere. None
Speaker 2: of that, none of that stuff was around before Phil
Speaker 2: did it. You know, the the pro shields, the the
Speaker 2: you know the fairings that everybody. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 2: telling you, he's done more for karting than most people
Speaker 2: can ever dream of. And I'm just so happy and
Speaker 2: proud that he got in there because he he deserves
Speaker 2: it more than anything. And another shout out to the
Speaker 2: High Limit uh Sprint car Series, which is down in Roseberg.
Speaker 1: Hey, what up, David?
Speaker 2: Thank you man, appreciate it, he says, listening on the
Speaker 2: patio grilling steaks.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you got a cold cocktail in your hand too
Speaker 2: as well. But uh, the High Limit Series is down
Speaker 2: in Roseberg getting after it. Carlin and Galen Stewart are
Speaker 2: down there. How's the guy doing the fifty? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Justin Dietrich.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know what, he just had a race. You
Speaker 1: know what.
Speaker 2: I need to thank you, Brad. I gotta get that
Speaker 2: guy on. I gotta get Justin on. Justin Dietrich is
Speaker 2: his name, and uh, I think he just had one
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 1: I will next week.
Speaker 2: I will have how many states that he's doing, and
Speaker 2: actually I will try to get him on live.
Speaker 1: That's a great that's a great thought. Thank you for that.
Speaker 2: But High Limits, got Carlin and Galen Stewart down there.
Speaker 2: They're down on there. Uh they finally took a road
Speaker 2: trip and they got Jeremy Means from Sunset, so pretty cool.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: Coming up.
Speaker 2: The Hermiston Labor Day Spectacular. I know Lacey Walden's got
Speaker 2: stuff laid out. You know when you go to Hermiston,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a show of shows. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: a good deal. North was super late, Miles Series is
Speaker 2: gonna be there.
Speaker 1: What's up? True? What is? Uh?
Speaker 2: So a big shout out to Hermiston And if you
Speaker 2: guys can get over there, this will be a This
Speaker 2: is gonna be a sweet weekend, the Labor Day Spectacular.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be two days of great race and so
Speaker 2: I would uh hi Jim. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: Jim Terry will be there, his son Justin. They'll be
Speaker 2: there running the North Push Truck Association over there and
Speaker 2: handling things. Two unsung heroes on our sport, Jim and
Speaker 2: Justin Terry are and the rest of that whole group
Speaker 2: who go and push each and every week at these
Speaker 2: different race tracks. They're just as passionate about their pushing
Speaker 2: as we are about our race, and so right on
Speaker 2: to Gym and Justin Terry and their whole group of
Speaker 2: guys that that push each and every week for all
Speaker 2: the races, whether it's stock cars or Legends or you know,
Speaker 2: mini stocks, whatever it is. Oh yeah, uh Spud Cup
Speaker 2: coming up. Five grand to win and Senior two oh six.
Speaker 2: I think that pays more. That might pay more than
Speaker 2: some of the lame model stuff. You know, that's crazy true,
Speaker 2: that's what five grand to win.
Speaker 1: That's over.
Speaker 2: I think, excuse me, that's over in Boise right Ken
Speaker 2: Bonnie said, I'll be there. Yeah, five grand to win
Speaker 2: for the carts if you win Senior two oh six.
Speaker 2: I think I want to say it at the Uh.
Speaker 2: I was just there a weekend ago. Uh for the
Speaker 2: tenth annual Saturday Night Shootout. It was uh, it was
Speaker 2: two grand to win senior. So that's not bad money either.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, shit, that's more than that's more
Speaker 2: than they pay for some of the pro late.
Speaker 1: Or Super eight shows.
Speaker 2: But yeah, uh, five grand to wins a big purse,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be a good deal. Eagle, Idaho, yep, Okay,
Speaker 2: I know right where that is. Yeah, that's gonna be
Speaker 2: that's gonna be cool. That's gonna be a good event.
Speaker 2: And they got a brand new track over there. Well
Speaker 2: it's not brand new, but they they did some additions
Speaker 2: to it, so there's some add ons there. And and uh, hi,
Speaker 2: coach dB, what's happening. Great to see you. That man
Speaker 2: saved my life many years ago. One day I'll tell
Speaker 2: you the story. But but coach dB, Dan Barry saved
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: If you want to know more about it, let me know.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you he he did no no,
Speaker 2: no if sands or buts about it.
Speaker 1: I owe that man a great deal.
Speaker 2: Race five of the Big Five Series in Montana gonna
Speaker 2: be uh happened in September seventh. There's yeah, the Motorplex
Speaker 2: at the Mill. Dude, there's so much stuff going on. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's where it is. Okay, I thought it was the
Speaker 2: old I thought it was the old Boise track.
Speaker 1: But the Motorplex at the Mill okay. Cool?
Speaker 2: Even cooler for the Spud Cup. That's gonna be badass.
Speaker 2: But they've also got a late model race there and uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be cool. My boy Dan Louther gonna be there.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he can get some better lo and get some
Speaker 2: stuff done. But uh and then we got the Spectacular Course.
Speaker 2: We got Race five of the Big Five Series in
Speaker 2: Montana September seventh. I'm gonna try to get to Travis
Speaker 2: Sharpon next week talk a little bit about that. But
Speaker 2: I encourage you to go to Hermiston if you're free,
Speaker 2: go support that place. That place is worth supporting. You know,
Speaker 2: Wayne Walden and Greg Walden and Lacy Walden and the
Speaker 2: whole group that's there. I mean there's a whole it's
Speaker 2: a whole village that takes care of that place, and
Speaker 2: you need to be there and support it if you can.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be it's gonna be two great nights of
Speaker 2: racing over there, and the weather should be perfect for it.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing like a Hermiston sunset. Let me just
Speaker 2: tell you that when you're at the race check, they
Speaker 2: are pretty cool.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: You go Truemore looking for some sponsorship, if anybody's willing
Speaker 2: to help to get them over there. Let me just
Speaker 2: tell you his son, Trustan is a stud can wheel
Speaker 2: it and they'd have a really good shot of taking
Speaker 2: home some money. But uh, kin Bonnie says, I have
Speaker 2: a few real good sets of used nine seventies for
Speaker 2: this weekend for practice and setups. If anybody's interested, get
Speaker 2: a hold of King Bonnie. So that's pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of my shouts and info that I got.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of on vacation, you know.
Speaker 2: I I uh, Friday was my last day at FedEx,
Speaker 2: at least with the contractor I was with. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just time to move on and and uh, hopefully this
Speaker 2: is this is gonna be a positive deal.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: I've got some exciting news I really can't let out yet.
Speaker 2: But if it all goes down, oh baby, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be cool. And those nine seventies are free oh as well.
Speaker 2: This weekend the Canada two hundred at Saratoga, long standing
Speaker 2: race previously run at Western Speedway. Cool, so awesome. The
Speaker 2: Canada two hundred. That's gotta be a hell of a show.
Speaker 2: I'd love to get up there. I've never been to Saratoga.
Speaker 2: I never was at Western either. I think before it left,
Speaker 2: right Todd, I think that went bye bye, which is
Speaker 2: sad because I've heard a lot of good stuff about
Speaker 2: that place. But yeah, cool, Maybe I'll have to get
Speaker 2: a Canadian on there. The winner or that maybe Todd,
Speaker 2: you can help me work on that for Monday. That
Speaker 2: might be kind of cool. Let's see have some stuff
Speaker 2: going on. I'll start off with the dirt. The two
Speaker 2: things that really triggered me this weekend was I'm a
Speaker 2: big Sunset Speedway fan down in Banks. I love Jeremy Means.
Speaker 2: I love what he's done with the racetrack. I love
Speaker 2: what he does each and there every week. There the
Speaker 2: Late Model Showdown, super Lates, Colin Weinberger. I mean, just
Speaker 2: listen to some of these names. If you follow the dirt,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. Colin Weinberger's your winner.
Speaker 2: Bryson James second, Corey Yak third, John Duty fourth, Craig
Speaker 2: Hanson fifth.
Speaker 1: They don't get.
Speaker 2: Any better than that, I'm telling you they don't. That's
Speaker 2: a that's a solid, that's a beyond a solid. Top
Speaker 2: five h M commds Tyson Blood, Colin Weinberger doing double
Speaker 2: duty second, Jake Walters, son of Greg Walters and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: and Matt Jenner Craig Castle another solid five of the
Speaker 2: sport mods, Trevor Points, Ethan Killingsworth, Dalton Bloom Braden Brookshire
Speaker 2: and Austin Petrae.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The American Classics, they're kind of like a hobby stock
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Joey Tartio, Ron Prevost rod Lowe were
Speaker 2: top three, and in the asphalt Stuck cars it was
Speaker 2: Joey Tardio, Dan Jenner and Calista Johnson.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: That's that's both of those. That's that's solid. Then we
Speaker 2: go to state Line they had the Race Cows twin fifties.
Speaker 2: My man Scott mad Or, this guy is not only
Speaker 2: is he doing the Northwest Super Late Mall series, he's
Speaker 2: also sponsoring races at state Line, the Racecal's twin fifties.
Speaker 2: In the first fifty, it was Evan Getz, Corey Allard,
Speaker 2: Jesse Haven's third, Nicole Tar and get this one, Cole
Speaker 2: Dawson Bach. Yes you heard that right, Cole Dawson Buck
Speaker 2: out of a bando and out of a legend into
Speaker 2: a prolate.
Speaker 1: Pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The second fifty, Corey Allard, Alex MANDERI, Cole Dawson Brock,
Speaker 2: Nicle Tar, Evan gets I'm telling you this cold Dawson
Speaker 2: Brock is impressing me more and more and more. This kid,
Speaker 2: this kid is something special. I mean, I certainly do
Speaker 2: believe he's something. And Mandari, I don't know who's Alex.
Speaker 2: I've seen the name, but I don't know much about him.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna have to do my homework on this guy.
Speaker 2: He as well. But get this out. But check this out. Qualifying,
Speaker 2: This was qualifying, And I just want you to see
Speaker 2: how close I mean, this is crazy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Jason O'Neil was fast time with a fourteen to one
Speaker 2: to three zero. Okay, Evan Gets was second quick with
Speaker 2: a one fifty six. Mandari was third with a one
Speaker 2: eighty one. Tar was fourth with a one ninety one.
Speaker 2: Allard was fifth with a two thirty three. Sixth was
Speaker 2: Haven's with a two seventy six. Seventh was Dawson Brock
Speaker 2: with a two eighty seven. Eighth was Ackerman with a
Speaker 2: three eighty six. Ninth was a Keen Meek with a
Speaker 2: five seventy seven, and Elijah Pennington with a nine to
Speaker 2: forty one.
Speaker 1: I mean, can it does it? Is it any.
Speaker 2: Closer than that? I mean, that's that's pretty wicked. That's
Speaker 2: really wicked. Hi, Leilani, I'm glad you had a good
Speaker 2: time at Indy And when you can, can you message
Speaker 2: me your phone number on Facebook.
Speaker 1: PM me with it.
Speaker 2: I tried to have it the other day and I
Speaker 2: don't have it. I have your card somewhere, but I
Speaker 2: need I need it on face so if you could
Speaker 2: message it to me, that'd be super cool. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at this call find and I'm like, holy smokes.
Speaker 2: Then the Pro four trucks Cole Cooey, Cody Cooey, UM
Speaker 2: one two in the Pro four Trucks, Doug Wilkinson, Calvin Miller,
Speaker 2: and McKenna Cox one two, three, four five boom solid.
Speaker 2: From what I heard, those trucks are beautiful. Everyone there
Speaker 2: brought a like a stellar piece, just super super cool.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then they had the four cylinder Figure eights, Bryce Cohler,
Speaker 2: Damon Claiborne, Zach Bristol. So here's here's what Here's what
Speaker 2: happened was Damon Claiborne had the thing won, but he
Speaker 2: goes through the intersection. He was trying not to head
Speaker 2: on with somebody and had to jump all over the brakes.
Speaker 2: So from what I understand, that lets Bryce Cohler go
Speaker 2: on to the wind, Claiborne's and Zach Bristol third. Then
Speaker 2: they had the Northwest Figure ates James Connolly's deal. I'm
Speaker 2: sure James was there. One of the best guys you'll
Speaker 2: ever see in motorsports. Passion, passion, passion, I'm just telling you,
Speaker 2: just amazing. Ryan Clark, Chris Curtis and Seth Fundon, we're
Speaker 2: your top three in the Northwest figure eights. They're at
Speaker 2: State Line. So coming up at seven thirty, we got
Speaker 2: Andy Brown on the show. He was the winner of
Speaker 2: the Olga one hundred. One of the biggest and baddest,
Speaker 2: Well it is. It's the biggest and baddest mini stock
Speaker 2: race on the West Coast. Thank you, Leilani, Thank you
Speaker 2: for the twenty stars. That's badass and it was down
Speaker 2: at Madera. What a cool place. Robert Coppley does an
Speaker 2: amazing job with this event. You talk about promotion and
Speaker 2: and just sheer passion. That's that's Bob Coppley man. One
Speaker 2: of the most passionate guys you'll ever meet. He does
Speaker 2: a great job with this Olga one hundred. It's after
Speaker 2: his wife, Olga, who he lost here a couple three
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: And this thing is huge.
Speaker 2: It brings the best of the best of mini stalkers
Speaker 2: from all over and we had a good We had
Speaker 2: a good number a good number of Northwest ministocks going
Speaker 2: on there. Travis Milburn putting on the Spud Cup at Motorplex.
Speaker 2: That's cool, right on, Travis, Appreciate what you do. Man,
Speaker 2: that's pretty awesome. That's gonna be a good deal. So
Speaker 2: if you're over there in the Boise area or no,
Speaker 2: that's is that boiseeror Meridian. I think it's a Meridian,
Speaker 2: get over there to the Motorplex at the Mill and
Speaker 2: check that out. The Spud Cup is a big deal,
Speaker 2: one of the biggest karting events we got towards the
Speaker 2: end of the summer, besides the Shootout and besides the
Speaker 2: pad Holder regional series that runs all summer long.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty cool. Oh Eagle Idaho.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, I encourage everybody to go over their
Speaker 2: Eagle idol check out the motor The Motiplex at the
Speaker 2: Mill is a cool place. I know if you followed
Speaker 2: anything on the north of super Light miles when they
Speaker 2: were there, they pulled the winners right in there to
Speaker 2: the concert area and you got you know, you got
Speaker 2: bands playing and food cooking and all kinds of cool,
Speaker 2: you know, really cool stuff over there. So Super super big,
Speaker 2: super big deal. I had a great visitor this weekend
Speaker 2: by the name of Sandy Allen. She came over for
Speaker 2: South Sound, and of course it got rained out. The
Speaker 2: weather was kind of crap over here. But she stopped
Speaker 2: by brought me a thing of apple butter, which I
Speaker 2: cannot wait to try, and we sat her on bs
Speaker 2: for I don't know, it's a good hour and uh
Speaker 2: before she went back to the motel and got herself
Speaker 2: her first time ever eating Burgerville. I was a little shocked,
Speaker 2: but where she lives it really, I mean, it shouldn't
Speaker 2: have surprised me because there's no Burgerville's over there, but
Speaker 2: she had never had Burgerville before, so she went over
Speaker 2: to Burgerville, got a burger her first time, and then
Speaker 2: headed back to the motel room, which I thought was
Speaker 2: super cool. One of our one of our unsung Hey Franco,
Speaker 2: what's up, buddy?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: One of our unsung people when it comes to uh
Speaker 2: doing photography. She's with GM Ballad on bent wheel racing.
Speaker 2: Those two work hand in hand, and you know, her
Speaker 2: stuff's free.
Speaker 1: She doesn't, you know, she just shoots.
Speaker 2: What you get is what you get, and she does
Speaker 2: a pretty damn good job. He's not in there editing
Speaker 2: for four hours. When she's done, she just she shoots
Speaker 2: and she gets some really good shots. And uh, I
Speaker 2: appreciate Sandy Allen a great deal because she's a true
Speaker 2: ambassador for the sport and.
Speaker 1: Really really loves being there and loves the people.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so Sandy, thank you for coming over, meeting
Speaker 2: my wife and meeting Poppy, our new our new minpen
Speaker 2: that we got, and meeting Lexi.
Speaker 1: It was it was great to have you.
Speaker 3: At my home. For sure.
Speaker 2: You're welcome here anytime, anytime. It was it was fun
Speaker 2: having her. She's a hoot, good lady, really really good lady. Franco,
Speaker 2: what's up, buddy, Franko Rays used to work with him FedEx.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a big Franco's a big drag racer
Speaker 2: down got a nice little mini truck with a nasty
Speaker 2: V eight in it and does a lot of drag
Speaker 2: race and he's kind of running the motorsports Monday on
Speaker 2: the drag race deal down there in Vegas, spreading the words.
Speaker 2: So Franco, yo yo, thank you man. I appreciate you
Speaker 2: really a really a good guy. He's from Guama originally,
Speaker 2: and uh I guess his hell of a baseball player
Speaker 2: and really a good man. So proud to know him.
Speaker 2: So thanks Franco for tuning in, buddy. Yeah, just kind
Speaker 2: of staying, well, we're gonna get We're gonna get summer back.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get summer back. I think starting after tomorrow
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Did I do anything fun this last weekend? You know what?
Speaker 1: I quit.
Speaker 2: Friday was my last day with the contractor I was
Speaker 2: working for. So yeah, I had I had a good weekend.
Speaker 2: I knew I had some days off that I wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna get otherwise, and so yeah, it was, Uh, it
Speaker 2: was sad to go down like that. I didn't want
Speaker 2: to go down like that, but it was just something
Speaker 2: I for my own self respect and self worth. I
Speaker 2: felt it was something I needed to do. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be starting with a new contractor on the third.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was a it was a good ride.
Speaker 2: I got no uh, no hard feelings. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those things you gotta do what you
Speaker 2: gotta do, and each of us so I got no,
Speaker 2: I got no uh, I don't have any hard feelings.
Speaker 2: It was just, you know, one of those things where
Speaker 2: you have to make a decision and and I did,
Speaker 2: and he did and no hard feelings I got, I
Speaker 2: got nothing but the best for him. So uh, here
Speaker 2: we are our first guest, mister Andy Brown. All right,
Speaker 2: our first race cows in the seat guest, mister Andy Brown.
Speaker 1: Andy, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 3: Not too much?
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? But you know what, why don't Why
Speaker 1: don't I know you more?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 3: Mostly just late models.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, we're at.
Speaker 4: We're from school camp. But we won a couple of
Speaker 4: Ike car championships up here and local stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, so you and then you had a mini soccer?
Speaker 2: Did you drive for somebody else?
Speaker 4: It was actually my motor in Cameron McKennon and Kevin
Speaker 4: McKeon three K Racing.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean Junior Hanley.
Speaker 2: Sure, that's what I call him because it's number seventy two.
Speaker 2: Mm hm wow, that's awesome, dude. Yeah, Cam's a good dude, man.
Speaker 2: I really like he's a really good dude. I met
Speaker 2: him at I think when the Spokane Oval was still
Speaker 2: going on. That's where I first met him, Sure, and
Speaker 2: gave him some ship. I called him Junior Handley and
Speaker 2: he was looking at me like who. I'm like, you
Speaker 2: don't know who Junior Hanley is, bro, But yeah, that's
Speaker 2: neat man, That's that's super neat. So how did you
Speaker 2: made it down? Did you guys unload out of the
Speaker 2: box good? Or was it a bit of a struggle
Speaker 2: to get there?
Speaker 4: The worst thing was just so hot?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: How hot was it?
Speaker 4: I think it was one hundred and three on Friday,
Speaker 4: but it was like a one and twenty.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well it probably was on the racetrack or in the car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was pretty hot.
Speaker 4: But we were pretty good off the trailer, and really
Speaker 4: we made all the right adjustments. You know, you just
Speaker 4: have one of those weekends where everything goes well. Yes,
Speaker 4: and luck is a big part of it. I mean
Speaker 4: we got lucky right, right.
Speaker 2: You know, let me ask you something seriously. I mean,
Speaker 2: so when you go down there and it's one hundred
Speaker 2: and three, right, I mean you're already kind of I
Speaker 2: mean the weather sort of got you beat right out
Speaker 2: of the gate, right, I Mean it's hot and you're
Speaker 2: a little bit lethargic and maybe not one hundred percent yourself,
Speaker 2: right just because of the weather.
Speaker 3: Sure, So what do you.
Speaker 2: Mindset wise, what do you have to do going in
Speaker 2: there when you know it's this hot and you're gonna
Speaker 2: be practicing, trying to qualify and maybe running some heat
Speaker 2: races or whatever, and then the main events at night
Speaker 2: when things cool off. I mean, how does how do
Speaker 2: you gotta what's your mindset like with all that?
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's at a big obstacle, especially at a.
Speaker 4: Track we don't normally race that, we've only been there
Speaker 4: once before. And some of the local guys, the late
Speaker 4: Model guys we were talking to, said that the thing
Speaker 4: was going to tighten up a bunch at night, and
Speaker 4: so you don't know who to listen to and how
Speaker 4: big of a change you need to make for racing
Speaker 4: because practicing at four and we ended up racing at
Speaker 4: what was it eight o'clock or whatever? It was, so right,
Speaker 4: definitely part of the channel and the whole deal.
Speaker 2: Right, And that did you qualify ahead of that or
Speaker 2: did you qualify the day before?
Speaker 3: We qualified?
Speaker 4: Did everything on Saturday?
Speaker 3: Just practice on Friday?
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay? So what time did you qualify at four o'clock?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: That sounds about right?
Speaker 3: What was this?
Speaker 4: I know the sun was.
Speaker 1: Up yep, yep.
Speaker 2: Well four o'clock is usually that's pretty close to the
Speaker 2: hottest time of the day, right, So yeah.
Speaker 3: Saturday was a little bit better.
Speaker 4: It wasn't so hot and there was a little breeze
Speaker 4: so it wasn't as bad.
Speaker 2: Okay, right, And did the and did the track tighten
Speaker 2: up like you suspected?
Speaker 3: Not as much as we thought.
Speaker 4: Actually we had to make some changes at the halfway
Speaker 4: point to get it a little bit better so we
Speaker 4: could run the top because we were we were pretty
Speaker 4: good on the bottom, but it was free on the top,
Speaker 4: so we actually tightened it up at the halfway point.
Speaker 4: I took a little bit of stagger out and played
Speaker 4: with the bar a little bit. So, like I said,
Speaker 4: we got got lucky and made the right changes.
Speaker 3: Really was the biggest part of it?
Speaker 1: Is that really luck?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Or is that kind of what you're doing a little bit?
Speaker 4: Well? I like to think so, Cameron, I had Cameron McKeon,
Speaker 4: Berett Santa Rosa, John Blogne and my son Kobe Brown
Speaker 4: with us, and we worked so well together. It was
Speaker 4: a it was it was a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Hey man, that's awesome, you know, that's that's that's super awesome.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about let's talk about the race itself.
Speaker 2: So were you as good as you needed to be
Speaker 2: in the first half?
Speaker 4: The first half was crazy because everybody, I mean, I
Speaker 4: felt like we were pretty good, but everybody was running
Speaker 4: a frantic pace. And those frontwel drive cars, they're so
Speaker 4: fast out of the spot of the box it's hard
Speaker 4: to and and the real drive cars are a little
Speaker 4: bit different speed at different spots on the track, So
Speaker 4: you kind of got to watch people and pick up.
Speaker 3: How they drive.
Speaker 4: And so it was kind of weird the first hundred
Speaker 4: because our first fifty that we were just kind of
Speaker 4: riding around seeing what everybody was going to do, right,
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 2: How about the and then at the halfway point you
Speaker 2: you said you made some adjustments.
Speaker 1: How was it in the second half.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we could have been much better
Speaker 4: than what we were.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a little tight on the bottom of one
Speaker 4: and two, but other than that, I could pretty much
Speaker 4: go wherever I wanted to go, and we just didn't
Speaker 4: fall off as much as what I kind of anticipated.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, we were we were really good.
Speaker 4: Car was really good.
Speaker 1: Isn't you know what? And isn't it fun? To drive
Speaker 1: a car like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure you've been on the other end
Speaker 2: of it where you go, holy crap, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a long night.
Speaker 4: It sucks when you're hanging on right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it makes it easy and it makes it
Speaker 4: look easy, but it you know, when the car is
Speaker 4: that good, it's it is pretty easy.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty neat man. And it makes them fun.
Speaker 2: It makes it fun to go race that way too,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean that's yeah, I've been there. I mean,
Speaker 2: not on your level, but I mean I've been there
Speaker 2: where you know, you you go and you go sailing
Speaker 2: in turn one and you're gonna be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a good night or I don't know, Guys,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be a long It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: long one.
Speaker 4: And there's usually more more of those than better nights.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Amen to that. Amen to that.
Speaker 2: So you had Cameron down there too, Yes, Oh awesome dude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a he's a wonderful guy man, pretty knowledgeable too
Speaker 2: from what I understand.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: He's a good dude.
Speaker 2: Yep, super super good dude. So now throughout the second half,
Speaker 2: did you have any battles. Was there anybody you were
Speaker 2: worried about for.
Speaker 4: The first I mean we kind of got goofy with that.
Speaker 4: They called it early. So around the lap fifties in there,
Speaker 4: I had a good race going with the jet skis
Speaker 4: and Bryce Rupert and uh and I knew Rhodes was
Speaker 4: gonna be coming because him and I were pretty much
Speaker 4: the same speed all weekend.
Speaker 3: We were talking about that all weekend, so we.
Speaker 4: Kind of knew if one of us got out front,
Speaker 4: that was probably gonna be hard to pass. So me
Speaker 4: and him and I had a little battle there at
Speaker 4: the end, but just flying around on the outside was
Speaker 4: a lot of fun racing with those with those with
Speaker 4: the other Spokane guys, and there's I know, Justin Carson
Speaker 4: was fast there in the beginning in that frontal drive
Speaker 4: car too, and.
Speaker 2: I heard Colton Schultz was okay too, but they blew
Speaker 2: up right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was gonna be definitely one to work worry
Speaker 4: about too.
Speaker 3: But they had some oil pressure issues earlier.
Speaker 4: So I you know, I wasn't hoping for them to
Speaker 4: have a bad day, but we kind of knew that
Speaker 4: they weren't going to make.
Speaker 3: It probably right.
Speaker 2: So now this car that you were driving the camps.
Speaker 2: Is it is it a one that you guys built
Speaker 2: in the shop or is it a is it a
Speaker 2: manufactured one?
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's a Pinto that they started building. I
Speaker 4: think that they started to build it the year before COVID.
Speaker 4: It was Kevin, his dad and him were building it
Speaker 4: and they were just going to build it for fun.
Speaker 4: And during the COVID thing they got it done because
Speaker 4: there wasn't nothing else to do, right, So at that
Speaker 4: point we just kind of I had another motor laying
Speaker 4: around here and we just got together on it because
Speaker 4: always it's a lot easier to raise this stuff when
Speaker 4: you got somebody else taking fifty percent of the budget,
Speaker 4: you know for it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely man. And then your motor was it? Was it
Speaker 2: an Esselinger or was it one that you did yourself.
Speaker 4: This motor is a short Blox, the one I got
Speaker 4: from Bud Rumsey earlier this year.
Speaker 3: And we just looked at it and put it in.
Speaker 4: Basically, it's a Van Cleeve motor from twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: I think it was Wow, it runs pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'll bat Van Cleve built some good stuff.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cool, that's super cool.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the main question at the end of the
Speaker 2: day one hundred and three, I know, and maybe one
Speaker 2: hundred or ninety nine or ninety five whatever it was
Speaker 2: on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Did you have a good time?
Speaker 4: Oh, it was a blast. I mean it helps when
Speaker 4: you win and you do well.
Speaker 3: But you know, Bob does such.
Speaker 4: A great job compley of I mean, he's probably already
Speaker 4: working on next year's sponsors. I'm we have.
Speaker 3: It helps when you got I don't.
Speaker 4: Know how many different things I got, as far as
Speaker 4: one hundred dollars here, fifty dollars here to a drive
Speaker 4: line and a pyroateech helmet and arrow wheels, and I
Speaker 4: know Vicky Smith added to the purse and then he
Speaker 4: sent me something this week that for leading lap seventy one,
Speaker 4: I got another five hundred dollars And it's I mean,
Speaker 4: that makes it makes it more fun.
Speaker 2: Right, And I think Brad Rhodes was saying there were
Speaker 2: some guys going, you know, holy crap, dude. Every time
Speaker 2: I turned around, I was getting a hundred bucks here
Speaker 2: and a hundred bucks there or fifty dollars here.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They did raffles and they had you know, like prizes
Speaker 4: and he gives you a goodie bag and stuff. It's
Speaker 4: it's a pretty neat deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like a really neat deal. How are
Speaker 1: the stands? Was that packed?
Speaker 4: I was a little disappointed there wasn't. I mean, there
Speaker 4: wasn't a whole bunch of people up there, but there was.
Speaker 4: Some of the fans came over afterwards, and we're really friendly.
Speaker 4: And yeah, everybody likes a Pinal because it's something different.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Dave Paige says, the Pinto is a beautiful
Speaker 2: hot rod, super clean.
Speaker 4: It's nice. And Kevin and Cameron build a nice car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. Their stuff is always antiseptic, so andy.
Speaker 2: I mean, so talk to me really quick. We got
Speaker 2: about four minutes left, but tell me about your late
Speaker 2: model stuff. What do you what are you running for
Speaker 2: a car? And and what's what's your plans for the
Speaker 2: rest of the season.
Speaker 4: Well, I think we're done for the season.
Speaker 1: No fault Classic, No.
Speaker 4: No fault Classic. Cameron might run the pin with the
Speaker 4: fault Classic, but we kind of we got other stuff
Speaker 4: going on. You know, when you get older, kind of
Speaker 4: changed a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, right, I get it, I do. And you're probably
Speaker 1: married too, right, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not but I might as well be. I've been with
Speaker 4: Brittany first, right, almost thirteen years.
Speaker 2: So you know you got you got you know, happy wife,
Speaker 2: happy life, you know that deal, right, So yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So now are you you said you were late modeling.
Speaker 4: I haven't granted my late model, but it's been two
Speaker 4: years now. But I mean, I have a port city
Speaker 4: in there, and it's just know, everything is getting out
Speaker 4: of hand cost wise, but it's just to the point
Speaker 4: where it's just not fun to go spend the money anymore.
Speaker 4: I guess this is a lot funner in the pino
Speaker 4: and run the force cylinder stuff, and and my daughter races,
Speaker 4: and her husband races, and my son races, and I
Speaker 4: just I'm having more fun helping everybody else and kind
Speaker 4: of taking a step back.
Speaker 2: God, that's cool, man, I take you know what, and
Speaker 2: and and if you're a fanatic, like it sounds like
Speaker 2: you are, that's a I mean, that's a that's a
Speaker 2: big step and a hard step, and I totally get it.
Speaker 2: But I commend you for it because it's it's tough
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I still get the itch. I mean that that
Speaker 4: was a good scratch there in California.
Speaker 3: But how bad I'll bat like, not as bad as
Speaker 3: I used to.
Speaker 1: Does it make you want to have one?
Speaker 4: I mean I really like the force cylinder deal, and
Speaker 4: I've started in a pinno in ninety four, so it's
Speaker 4: kind of going back to where we started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Well how about some of the sponsors
Speaker 2: you had? Anybody you want to think that helped you
Speaker 2: get down there?
Speaker 4: It's three K racing and Zip's family restaurants. We had
Speaker 4: an American onsite jump on board to go down there, and
Speaker 4: basically like it's just all friends and family chipping in
Speaker 4: for the most part.
Speaker 2: Man in that beautiful that's pretty cool man. Well, dude,
Speaker 2: that's a huge win. I mean, you win the OGA
Speaker 2: one hundred. I mean that is a big I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a bigger deal than then it seems, and probably
Speaker 2: a bigger deal than I mean. I think it deserves
Speaker 2: a little bit more credit than it gets because that's
Speaker 2: a big deal.
Speaker 4: It's pretty competitive. Like I said, we were down there
Speaker 4: four years ago and this field was as stout as
Speaker 4: I mean any probably local.
Speaker 3: Late model show for sure.
Speaker 1: M hm m hmm. That's awesome man. So are you
Speaker 1: I'm racing for the year.
Speaker 4: Then I am actually working on my daughter's cylinder heads.
Speaker 4: She's gonna run that state line. I think it's next
Speaker 4: weekend and I'm just helping everybody. Basically, I'm personally done
Speaker 4: for this year.
Speaker 1: Right, That's really cool?
Speaker 2: Andy, commendable dude, I mean, uh, really really slick.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. We tried to get you on last week,
Speaker 2: but no, you were traveling. So I appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: the time to to be on the show tonight. Congratulations
Speaker 2: on that huge win because it's it's a lot bigger
Speaker 2: than it's a lot bigger than anybody thinks it is.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, man.
Speaker 2: You bet, Andy, take care man, Okay, buddy, bye bye?
Speaker 1: All right? Andy Brown, what a good guy. I gotta
Speaker 1: look him up.
Speaker 2: I like I was telling Dapper today, I'm like Andy Brown,
Speaker 2: It's like, who is Wow?
Speaker 1: Who is this guy?
Speaker 3: I need?
Speaker 2: I don't how come I don't know about it? But
Speaker 2: that's uh Hi gm Hi Christy Bruce. Sorry I missed that.
Speaker 2: How are you girl? Thanks for tuning in. Let me
Speaker 2: see me go back here?
Speaker 1: Oh what up?
Speaker 2: Bobby Bobby Pendergraph, Rick Jones, Doug Barley, what's up, Dave.
Speaker 1: No regrets, Nope, nope, no regrets.
Speaker 2: If you're talking about the job, yep, nope, no regrets.
Speaker 2: It was just, uh like I said, it was just
Speaker 2: a thing of personal respect and personal worth and so
Speaker 2: that's why I did what I did. But no, no,
Speaker 2: no regrets at all. Awesome Andy, Yes, sir, sounds like
Speaker 2: the guy can roll too, so.
Speaker 1: Pretty neat.
Speaker 2: Congratulations and Andy Brown winner of the Olga down at
Speaker 2: Madera Olga one. That's pretty cool. My boy Chris Maloso
Speaker 2: did pretty good as well, won the CEA main. He
Speaker 2: was pretty tickled with that and and uh so, way
Speaker 2: to go, Chris. That's super cool. Bitch Dust was uh rolling.
Speaker 2: And here comes our headliner guest tonight, mister Cole Razh.
Speaker 1: Race Cows did to see guests. Mister Cole Ras. What
Speaker 1: is up, buddy?
Speaker 5: Mister Terry Bridges, how are you, dude?
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful to you. I know you're busy and
Speaker 2: I know this is a lot. Thanks for taking the
Speaker 2: time to be on the show man.
Speaker 5: No, I'm I'm absolutely ecstatic to be talking back on
Speaker 5: here with you.
Speaker 6: It's been a little while, so yeah, has a good sign.
Speaker 5: If I get a text from Old Daffor Dave.
Speaker 2: A man, So you went to Colorado. Mm hmmm, ran
Speaker 2: an s R O race and got it done. That
Speaker 2: was your Was that your Was that your first ever.
Speaker 6: S R s R O race or uh so our
Speaker 6: first s REH win. We ran their full.
Speaker 5: Schedule in twenty twenty one and we kind of split
Speaker 5: that up with the Northwest Tour as well, and man,
Speaker 5: I feel like it's been a long time coming to
Speaker 5: try and finally get a win in that series, you know,
Speaker 5: still looking to get our first one in the Northwest
Speaker 5: Tour ironically enough, so it's just kind of been a
Speaker 5: tour win has been kind of hanging over my head
Speaker 5: lately and just incredibly thankful to finally complete the job
Speaker 5: because I feel like we've been, you know, so close
Speaker 5: for so many times and just something would always come
Speaker 5: up about right, something would break or just make.
Speaker 6: A mistake on my end.
Speaker 5: So it's nice to finally have a clean, clean race
Speaker 5: and just capitalize on a good race car.
Speaker 6: Finally there.
Speaker 1: Dude, that's that's cool.
Speaker 3: Now. You were in the.
Speaker 1: Jefferson Racing Phase two.
Speaker 5: Right, so it was uh that that was Jeff Jefferson's
Speaker 5: previous phase two. So that is one that we had
Speaker 5: been running. It's our family owned car that we've been
Speaker 5: running all year. So I had Jeff Jefferson with us
Speaker 5: there for uh Berlin, Michigan a couple of weeks prior
Speaker 5: than Colorado with us also, so it's it's been really
Speaker 5: nice to have the whole whole gang back together and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of pick up where we left off
Speaker 5: ultimately from from Tucson with the whole whole whole group
Speaker 5: back together.
Speaker 6: So yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it was really incredible to get another win with
Speaker 5: Jeff and and for Port City Race Cars. I just
Speaker 5: the whole direction, the whole company and Jeff and Gary
Speaker 5: Crooks have been working really hard on on on taking
Speaker 5: the next step to to make port city race cars,
Speaker 5: you know, compete for for wins weekend and week out
Speaker 5: across the country, and you know, I'm just really pleased
Speaker 5: to be a small part of that whole process and
Speaker 5: to see where it's been growing the last couple of
Speaker 5: years too.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, I believe you you're a little
Speaker 2: bit more than a small bit of that process, but.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: But let's go back to Berlin. Was that your first
Speaker 2: time back there?
Speaker 5: It was, and uh that that was an incredible experience.
Speaker 5: So Patrick Taylor, who you remember, Yeah, his boy Jason
Speaker 5: ran quarter Midge, Yes, yeah, Patrick, Patrick and I we
Speaker 5: loaded up in the truck. I don't remember the date
Speaker 5: here is a Saturday morning, and we rode tripped all
Speaker 5: the way across to Michigan, and uh, just had a
Speaker 5: lot of fun first off, the whole entire trip, just
Speaker 5: seeing new parts of the country for the first time
Speaker 5: and taking that all in. But got to Berlin on
Speaker 5: a Tuesday and practice all day there, and you know,
Speaker 5: it's definitely a unique racetrack. It's low grip, similar to
Speaker 5: Tucson in that aspect, but just really rough and uh,
Speaker 5: obviously the the caliper of competition and teams that were
Speaker 5: there was at an all time high. So I was
Speaker 5: thankful enough to go take a couple of laps around
Speaker 5: and Eric Jones' rental car and he gave me some
Speaker 5: pointers come Wednesday morning, and that was a huge help, truthfully,
Speaker 5: just being able to dissect the track with him, because
Speaker 5: you know, it's kind of was in his backyard growing up,
Speaker 5: so it was really cool to have a chance to
Speaker 5: meet him. And and and pick his brain a little
Speaker 5: bit and just try and be a sponge in that scenario.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, come Wednesday, had a good practice run.
Speaker 6: I think we ended up top.
Speaker 5: Of the board thankfully that that day and qualified around
Speaker 5: six i'd say, and got real lucky on the invert
Speaker 5: as it was a top eight invert, so that put
Speaker 5: us third, and uh, you know, rode around the top
Speaker 5: five for most of the event. But it was just
Speaker 5: really thankful to have that experience and run well and
Speaker 5: have a car that was clean, to go take the
Speaker 5: Colorado and go have a good weekend there.
Speaker 3: As well too.
Speaker 1: That's killer. So what about Levy? Did you get a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to Levy Jones while you were there?
Speaker 6: I I gotta see his mom.
Speaker 5: Uh, Levy was was busy as always, uh, getting his
Speaker 5: whole program situated.
Speaker 6: But it's cool to see.
Speaker 5: You know, another Northwest family all the way across the
Speaker 5: country like that. It's just crazy where everybody's paths can
Speaker 5: can cross at any given time. So I know he's
Speaker 5: been running out there all year long and and having
Speaker 5: a huge learning experience for right, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 5: a big move for him and his family and for
Speaker 5: the knowledge he's gaining with that group of guys that
Speaker 5: he's surrounded with is really really valuable for him at
Speaker 5: SUCHI a young age, so I know it was, you know,
Speaker 5: a big deal for me to go around the Berlin
Speaker 5: or Battle Berlin two fifty and for him that's that's
Speaker 5: probably his biggest race in his life, I'd say, So
Speaker 5: that was really cool to see from the other foot
Speaker 5: of it, right, I mean, I remember going to my
Speaker 5: first Chili Willie race and that was like a snowball
Speaker 5: derby to me, right, Like, It's just it's a lot
Speaker 5: to take in with the amount of people that are
Speaker 5: there and the amount of good, good drivers and teams.
Speaker 5: So I can only imagine what was going through his head.
Speaker 5: But again it was it was nice to see some
Speaker 5: familiar faces over there.
Speaker 1: Dude, that's so cool, you know.
Speaker 2: And and I I gotta admit, I mean, I look
Speaker 2: at like what Levy's taking in over there, I mean,
Speaker 2: if you were to, I mean, I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is just my thought, but I don't
Speaker 2: even know if you could even put a i mean
Speaker 2: a price tag on the kind of experience and learning
Speaker 2: that he's getting back there, right being with those guys,
Speaker 2: and I mean, from what I understand, he's kind of
Speaker 2: in a test car and they try different stuff on it.
Speaker 2: So I mean, man, you start adding that on top
Speaker 2: of trying to be consistent and trying to have something
Speaker 2: that wins, when you're constantly like moving the car around,
Speaker 2: I don't know. To me, that's like, that's like priceless
Speaker 2: info that you I don't I don't even know if
Speaker 2: you could, if you had enough money to ever pay
Speaker 2: for all of that.
Speaker 6: No, without a doubt.
Speaker 5: I mean, I get exactly what you're saying, you know.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's that That's the reason why in
Speaker 5: my mind, jeff Jefferson has been so huge and into
Speaker 5: my career as long as along with Dustin Ash. I mean,
Speaker 5: those are two guys that have taught me so much
Speaker 5: over the years. And having the hands on experience on
Speaker 5: the ins and outs of how your race car works,
Speaker 5: I mean, that's invaluable. That's only the way to get
Speaker 5: better as a driver is to know what's underneath you
Speaker 5: and how to not only fix it but make it
Speaker 5: go faster. Right, So, I think I think he's taking
Speaker 5: the right steps and it's gonna be really cool to
Speaker 5: see where he can flourish him the next couple of
Speaker 5: years being back there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But you know that's a that's a testament to
Speaker 2: you too, because for you to go back there, you know,
Speaker 2: and even if it is in practice, if you're top
Speaker 2: of the board and you go there your first time
Speaker 2: and you you know, you qualifying the in the top six,
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, bro, that's that's the average. The
Speaker 2: average dude don't just go back there. The average dude
Speaker 2: just doesn't go back there and do that. Sorry, I
Speaker 2: mean I hate to put anybody down, but I mean
Speaker 2: that's a pretty remarkable deal.
Speaker 6: No, it was incredible, you know.
Speaker 5: Honestly, the week leading up to it, you know, my
Speaker 5: whole goal was obviously just to run on the laps
Speaker 5: and if I got a top fifteen in it, like
Speaker 5: I was going to be ecstatic.
Speaker 6: And then as.
Speaker 5: Tuesday progressed and we kept getting faster and faster, and
Speaker 5: I got more comfortable with the place, you know, the
Speaker 5: expectations kept growing and growing in my head, and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, come Wednesday, being as fast as we were
Speaker 5: throughout practice, it was like, you know, we we have
Speaker 5: a good shot to go run really well here. And
Speaker 5: you know, once we get racing and just being able
Speaker 5: to be around you know, two Cup drivers like Carson
Speaker 5: Hosavar and Eric Jones and and Bubba Hollard. I mean,
Speaker 5: how can you go wrong with racing against a guy
Speaker 5: like that. There's just so much knowledge to be gained
Speaker 5: and how they race.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's invaluable.
Speaker 5: So I mean, you know, as a driver, I learned
Speaker 5: a ton just throughout that that whole entire race and
Speaker 5: maneuvering through traffic and when to push, when not to push,
Speaker 5: and just how to race hard I mean within inches
Speaker 5: of one another for laps on end. It was just
Speaker 5: a lot of fun as a driver, and it's an
Speaker 5: event if funding is right, I don't ever want to
Speaker 5: miss again.
Speaker 6: It's just that that's how good it was.
Speaker 1: Wow, dude, that's that's incredible. Bro.
Speaker 2: So then you left there and you know, and I
Speaker 2: and I do get what you mean about the road
Speaker 2: trips because I can remember well way back you you
Speaker 2: you were probably just.
Speaker 1: A little guy.
Speaker 2: But back in the in the in the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: I got to go on the Northwest Tour with Dave
Speaker 2: Goulay and and and JJ Soffino and all that, and
Speaker 2: we used to go around all the Northwest Tour races
Speaker 2: and you know what, man, for me, I mean, the
Speaker 2: racing was great, it was it was awesome, But the
Speaker 2: road trips were ship. The road trips were half the fun, right,
Speaker 2: I mean those are those are the things we used
Speaker 2: to talk about. I mean we used to talk about
Speaker 2: the race, but was like, hey, remember on the road
Speaker 2: trip when this happened and we did this and that.
Speaker 5: I mean without a doubt, and uh, you know I
Speaker 5: was in luck. So so Patrick and I we we
Speaker 5: share a very big love and sushi. And so along
Speaker 5: the way we were getting more and more scared because
Speaker 5: you know, we were leaving the.
Speaker 3: State.
Speaker 5: But we we had stopped in Billions, Montana go see
Speaker 5: my grandparents, which I don't get to see very often now,
Speaker 5: and so we stopped there for the night.
Speaker 6: We rose, we rode.
Speaker 5: Into uh Missoula, and uh we went and got some
Speaker 5: dinner and had some soushi.
Speaker 6: We're like, man, this.
Speaker 5: Is honestly better than any kind of place back at home.
Speaker 5: Like it's just what you wouldn't expect and it's just
Speaker 5: those little things that you kind of remember and yeah,
Speaker 5: and you build those memories with one another and ultimately like,
Speaker 5: like you're saying, the racing is great, but it's the
Speaker 5: memories you build along the way to and from the
Speaker 5: racetrack that are just invaluable and then something you'll never forget.
Speaker 1: Dude, And you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And it kind of goes in hand in hand with
Speaker 2: you know, like I try to tell everybody, it's all
Speaker 2: about the struggle, man, you know, I mean, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, when you're all said and done,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: All the winds are great, it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna lie and the good runs
Speaker 2: and stuff, but it's the struggle. It's the days in
Speaker 2: the shop, right, It's those times when you're when you're wondering,
Speaker 2: you know, what do we got here? And are we
Speaker 2: gonna make it? And then you go and you do
Speaker 2: something great. I mean, it's it's for me. It was
Speaker 2: always the things that I remember most. They were mostly
Speaker 2: always about the struggling just they ended up being really good.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily they were bad at the time, but at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, they were really good memories
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 5: I Mean, I think the the hard times teach you
Speaker 5: and build the character to when you do have the
Speaker 5: chances to have those good moments it, let's he soak
Speaker 5: those in and enjoy those longer because you never know,
Speaker 5: as we know that this sport is such an up
Speaker 5: and down and primarily has downs. I think anybody within
Speaker 5: the racing community can agree with that, where you're always
Speaker 5: fighting to have those good days. But ultimately, if you
Speaker 5: constroine yourself with the right people and have fun along
Speaker 5: the wakes, that's ultimately the number one priority is just
Speaker 5: to have fun with it.
Speaker 6: You know, no matter how.
Speaker 5: Serious we take this or make it like our own
Speaker 5: livelihood of racing, if you can't have fun with it,
Speaker 5: there's no reason we should be doing it in the
Speaker 5: first place. So having fun through the hard and bad
Speaker 5: or the good and bad time, excuse me, is number
Speaker 5: one priority.
Speaker 2: Amen, as Amen, dude, couldn't have said that better myself.
Speaker 2: So so you guys get down with Berlin, you load
Speaker 2: it in the box, and you're off to Colorado.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we uh, we never came back home, obviously, so
Speaker 5: we went along the Northern States over to Michigan, and
Speaker 5: then we went and made a pit stop for about
Speaker 5: a week. Patrick he has some family that he hadn't
Speaker 5: seen in about fourteen years in Winterset Iowa and just
Speaker 5: an old little farmhouse that was an incredible first off,
Speaker 5: incredible people to be around it and to have us
Speaker 5: play with them and give us a bed and give
Speaker 5: us food was just incredible. And they just got done
Speaker 5: building the shop on their property and it worked out perfect.
Speaker 5: They let us use that to get the car prep
Speaker 5: for Colorado, so was really cool. Was able to go
Speaker 5: check off the Knoxville Nationals off my bucket list as
Speaker 5: it was the same weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh cool man, cool that was.
Speaker 5: That was incredible to go see a different kind of
Speaker 5: racing and go see Kyle Larson in his own, you know,
Speaker 5: true form.
Speaker 6: So that was honestly that.
Speaker 5: The whole fifteen days swing we did was very surreal
Speaker 5: and something I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: Dude, and as it should be.
Speaker 2: Bro Seriously, man, I mean, you know, and and we're
Speaker 2: gonna get to Colorado here in a minute. But you
Speaker 2: know it's it's it's I tell everybody this and and
Speaker 2: I don't. It took me a while because even though
Speaker 2: I didn't do it at your level, I used to
Speaker 2: go run with Lamb and I had my little super
Speaker 2: sport that I ran every week. But you know what,
Speaker 2: for me, that was my Northwest tour. Right, that's what
Speaker 2: got I could afford, and it's what I could swing.
Speaker 2: But and we took it serious. But at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you know, winning was cool and all
Speaker 2: of that. But I I think I look back now
Speaker 2: and I and I say, holy crap, you know the
Speaker 2: fact that I I got to do it, I don't
Speaker 2: even I can't even put a price on that win, lose,
Speaker 2: or you know anything. I mean, we we'd go there
Speaker 2: like everybody does, to go to win. But I mean
Speaker 2: I think when you get all done and you look
Speaker 2: at it, I mean, the wins are just a benefit.
Speaker 2: All the rest of the shit is. I don't know,
Speaker 2: just the fact that you get to sit in a
Speaker 2: race car and go do it. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: there's I think people kind of lose track of how
Speaker 2: cool and how awesome that is, regardless of whether or
Speaker 2: not you're winning or not.
Speaker 6: No, I mean for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean I remember growing up and running quarter minutes
Speaker 5: around most of my life.
Speaker 6: It was always wishing to be at the big track. Right,
Speaker 6: we'd be at.
Speaker 5: Yakama or at Monroe and making a deal with all
Speaker 5: the quarter midget parents of all, Right, if we lock
Speaker 5: ourselves nay Maine.
Speaker 6: We get to go to the big track tonight.
Speaker 5: And you know, once I was thankful enough to get
Speaker 5: in that position to go run the big tracks. Now
Speaker 5: it's something I think a lot of us take for granted,
Speaker 5: is that we do get to go do this, and
Speaker 5: a lot of people would kill to be a Arscenaria
Speaker 5: to go drive race cars on the weekend, right if
Speaker 5: we really want to just dub them down, that's what
Speaker 5: we're doing. So it's something we do take for granted
Speaker 5: for and I think we all just kind of reflect
Speaker 5: on on how fortunate, no matter how much work we
Speaker 5: put into it. You know, we're all pre damn fortunate
Speaker 5: to be able to go do what we love and
Speaker 5: do with the people we enjoy being with.
Speaker 1: God man, I love that.
Speaker 2: So you're rolling, so you got a fat belly and
Speaker 2: you've hung out in Iowa, got to see the Knoxville Nationals,
Speaker 2: which was cool as ship, and you roll into Colorado.
Speaker 1: So you unload and what happens from there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we uh, we unloaded Friday night.
Speaker 5: The The fun thing is, so I'll backtrack to Berlin
Speaker 5: real quick for the last time, is we were on
Speaker 5: a complete new tire than we've ever raced on.
Speaker 6: They were the McCreery brand, and oh.
Speaker 1: Wow, were they EC eighty four's no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: That's what people are tracking comparency.
Speaker 5: But they weren't even closed, so I was hoping they'd
Speaker 5: be liking but nope.
Speaker 4: They were.
Speaker 6: They were wrong on that.
Speaker 5: So we we ran those in Michigan. So we got
Speaker 5: to Colorado and we were on the ST one s
Speaker 5: T two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, let's let's let's let's stop for a
Speaker 2: second there. Yep, because at the start of my show
Speaker 2: that was one of the cars tour is going from
Speaker 2: the ST twos to the F forty fives. Now I
Speaker 2: was asking, I'm glad you brought that up, because I
Speaker 2: got I got. I mean, I know we were in
Speaker 2: nine seventies out here, and what's the other one in
Speaker 2: a nine or something like that, But what what's an
Speaker 2: ST two and and what's an F forty five? And
Speaker 2: why is that substantial?
Speaker 5: It's all under the same umbrella of who's your racing,
Speaker 5: So they have a variety of compounds suited to a
Speaker 5: specific series. So in the Northwest, you know, even last
Speaker 5: year we ran the thirty thirty five thirty forty five compounds,
Speaker 5: So it's just it's made it's a different type of mold.
Speaker 5: So ultimately that the easiest explanation I can do is
Speaker 5: just a harder, softer tire, Like that's the main difference
Speaker 5: is your your sidewalls will be a little stiffer, a
Speaker 5: little softer compared to a thirty thirty five.
Speaker 6: To an ST one.
Speaker 5: So the S T one ST two series was their
Speaker 5: newest model that come out, you know, and the last
Speaker 5: year roughly, and we we debuted that in Northwest to
Speaker 5: at Tri Cities. I believe, and I think they're a
Speaker 5: great tire. I feel like they've been pretty consistent for us. Obviously,
Speaker 5: each each team is going to have a different story
Speaker 5: based off their experiences, but I.
Speaker 6: Feel like that it's been a really good tire.
Speaker 5: We ran those that Evergreen didn't have an issue for
Speaker 5: the most part, and uh, it's uh, it's a tire
Speaker 5: that I feel like it's been durable. It's got a
Speaker 5: stiffer sidewalk compared to the thirty thirty five thirty five compounds,
Speaker 5: so you can run a little bit less ERINGO.
Speaker 1: Is it repeatable? Is it repeatable?
Speaker 5: It depends on how easy you are on I think,
Speaker 5: I mean you can you can go burn them up
Speaker 5: for sure. I honestly, I I love fallof I love
Speaker 5: when it's in the drivers shoes to manage their tires
Speaker 5: the best they can. So if you go abuse them
Speaker 5: in the first twenty five laps, like, I don't want
Speaker 5: them to be repeatable. And obviously that's gonna dictate from
Speaker 5: serious to series because in my mind's super late Male
Speaker 5: Racing is a premier series for for our full sized
Speaker 5: stock cars. You know, it's we're not trying to be
Speaker 5: overly cost efficient on that right, I mean, we're going
Speaker 5: through such to tires regardless, So if we're putting the
Speaker 5: money in it, like I want to get all the
Speaker 5: life out of it and in one weekend. So I
Speaker 5: honestly I can say that they can be repeatable throughout practice.
Speaker 6: They can be consistent.
Speaker 5: Each track is gonna have it fall off a little
Speaker 5: harder than others just based off of track wear.
Speaker 6: But I mean, I call rado, I.
Speaker 5: Feel like they're fairly repeatable. But you know, when you
Speaker 5: get fifty laps into a run, you can abuse them
Speaker 5: for sure, and you're really.
Speaker 6: Going to get that back.
Speaker 5: So and I think that was honestly the same story
Speaker 5: with a thirty thirty five thirty forty fives. I think
Speaker 5: the this T one s T two is they take
Speaker 5: a little bit longer to fire off just because they
Speaker 5: are a little bit of a stiffer tire, But honestly,
Speaker 5: grip level wise, once they do come in, it was
Speaker 5: comparable and I feel like they falled off relatively the
Speaker 5: same compared between the two the two series there, so
Speaker 5: I think they were a good tire.
Speaker 1: So what's an F forty five Is that the same
Speaker 1: as a thirty five.
Speaker 5: It's same principle, they're gonna be stiffer compared to the
Speaker 5: thirty thirty five thirty forty fives. That's actually a tire
Speaker 5: that we used to run in the SRL series quite often.
Speaker 5: So we used to be before COVID I believe it
Speaker 5: was or even started twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: Excuse me.
Speaker 5: We ran the thirty thirty five thirty forty fives, but
Speaker 5: we got to places like Current County and we a
Speaker 5: lot of the teams started having the tires blister and
Speaker 5: start coming apart. So you know, they worked with Hoosier
Speaker 5: and they come out with a little bit better option
Speaker 5: for us. And a tire that was harder and in
Speaker 5: my opinion, kind of hurt the racing a little bit
Speaker 5: because you didn't have quite as much fall off, but
Speaker 5: the tire hell together, so it was kind of a
Speaker 5: dance and act of trying to find the right balance
Speaker 5: between the two. But they found their home with the
Speaker 5: f forty fives. In the f fifties is what we
Speaker 5: ran from left to right. So to see back east,
Speaker 5: I think you mentioned the cars too, where you have
Speaker 5: going to from the st twos to the forty fives. Again,
Speaker 5: maybe they're having a different issue back there that we're
Speaker 5: not on the West coast. It very well could be.
Speaker 5: I'm just not sure, right, but I personally haven't had
Speaker 5: an issue.
Speaker 6: With him yet.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Interesting, all right, So now that we got the tire
Speaker 2: deal out of the way, so you're at Colorado, you
Speaker 2: roll out of the box.
Speaker 1: Were you good out of the box?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know, it was pretty close.
Speaker 5: We had really good notes from last year, and you know,
Speaker 5: we ran second there last year to Jase Hansen, and
Speaker 5: I felt like we knew where we had to be better.
Speaker 5: So we were just waiting all year long to have
Speaker 5: the chance to go back, and I felt like.
Speaker 6: We were fairly close.
Speaker 5: You know, Port City as a whole has made some
Speaker 5: pretty good swings from even just a snowball derby, and
Speaker 5: that's information that can be spread across the Port City camp,
Speaker 5: which is amazing because it's a one team environment. But
Speaker 5: leanedless to say, we really were just a couple of
Speaker 5: adjustments away of being pretty damn good. So, you know,
Speaker 5: I think that all comes down to Jeff Jefferson and
Speaker 5: Gary Crooks and the other Port Cities that were there.
Speaker 5: Between Blaine Roach and Buddy Shepherd, we were all putt
Speaker 5: it next to one another and trying to feed some
Speaker 5: information between the three of us just so we can
Speaker 5: have the best run for Port City as a whole.
Speaker 6: So you know, I think as the.
Speaker 5: Three three car operation for Port City, I think we're
Speaker 5: all pretty close all be in the top five at
Speaker 5: the end of the night, and it was it was
Speaker 5: pretty close off the trailer.
Speaker 1: So that's awesome, dude.
Speaker 2: So now do they now does the s R Do
Speaker 2: they have a halfway break like we do here?
Speaker 5: So they do for that race and Colorado we had
Speaker 5: a break at seventy five. It was a four tire race,
Speaker 5: so we were on the same tires from qualifying till
Speaker 5: the end of the race.
Speaker 6: So we had a halfway break.
Speaker 5: I think it was about five or seven minutes for
Speaker 5: fuel and adjustments, so we honestly, we didn't really adjust
Speaker 5: much at the halfway break.
Speaker 6: We felt pretty comfortable.
Speaker 5: So that's that's another thing I enjoyed of it being
Speaker 5: a four tire race is that's something you had to
Speaker 5: manage the whole night, right, So I feel like you
Speaker 5: have some scenarios where when you get tires at the
Speaker 5: halfway break, it kind of bails some people out and
Speaker 5: you repeat the whole cycle.
Speaker 6: Again of saving and when to go and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But it's pretty close to the same structure of what
Speaker 5: we have back home. They do have races where it
Speaker 5: can be an eight tire race so they can get
Speaker 5: four brand new ones at the at the break, whatever
Speaker 5: lap that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you are you a fan of that? Are
Speaker 1: you a fan of the break?
Speaker 6: Honestly, I don't mind it.
Speaker 5: I think, uh for for AE hundred and fifty laps,
Speaker 5: I think we could be just fine going straight through.
Speaker 5: If you're struggling in the first part of the race,
Speaker 5: like you want that option to work on it, right,
Speaker 5: So it just kind of depends on what what side
Speaker 5: of stick you're on in that given the night, it
Speaker 5: just ever so happened for us to be where I
Speaker 5: would have loved for it to go green to check her,
Speaker 5: but that just wasn't the case.
Speaker 6: And they do the same thing as we do.
Speaker 5: Back home, where every X amount of laps consecutive green,
Speaker 5: they're going to throw a competition yellow.
Speaker 1: So what is that? I mean, what now? I mean,
Speaker 1: are you a fan of that?
Speaker 6: The same deal? I think it depends on what side
Speaker 6: of the line.
Speaker 2: You're on, all right, I mean, I mean, if you're junk,
Speaker 2: you want that, right. They're the same as the halfway break.
Speaker 5: But I mean, isn't Honestly, as as a driver, I
Speaker 5: want to do what's best to make the most entertainment
Speaker 5: and as as we're there to do to have fun,
Speaker 5: right and and go win races. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: if we can't have a product that entertains the fans
Speaker 5: that come out and spend the money with the racetrack,
Speaker 5: if we can't give them a good product, and there's
Speaker 5: no reason to be out there. So I think if
Speaker 5: we can spice it up by doing a top eight
Speaker 5: redraw or having a halfway break or throwing a yellow
Speaker 5: every forty laps. I think that's what we have to
Speaker 5: do if that creates the best product. If it doesn't,
Speaker 5: then I think we need to have a different conversation.
Speaker 5: I think the blessing and disguise is if you can
Speaker 5: do it and steer away from tearing up race cars,
Speaker 5: and I think it's a win where you can run
Speaker 5: into issues as you start bunching the field up and
Speaker 5: you're starting to wreck race cars, right. I think we
Speaker 5: saw that at Tri Cities, So I think, truthfully I
Speaker 5: would love to extend the rule on fifteen laps to go,
Speaker 5: we won't do it. I think if you put that
Speaker 5: at fifty to go, I'm just fine with that because
Speaker 5: I think that that puts the leader at a disadvantage
Speaker 5: when they work so hard to get the track position
Speaker 5: and then there everybody bail him out with a fifteen
Speaker 5: left shootout. I think that's where it gets Harry. So
Speaker 5: I think it's still in development. In my opinion, it
Speaker 5: can always be fine tuned. There's always room to grow
Speaker 5: in any series, right, right, right, But that's just kind
Speaker 5: of my two cents, Like I want to do what's
Speaker 5: best for the fans and.
Speaker 6: If they want a damn fifteen left shootout, we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Give it to them.
Speaker 2: Oh no, dude, I I mean, you know what I'll
Speaker 2: be I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I mean I do. I see both sides of it.
Speaker 2: But when a guy's worked his ass off and he's
Speaker 2: got a you know, half a straightaway lead, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just like, that's just like one of those cautions
Speaker 2: you don't want to see, right, It's the same thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, you've worked this hard to get where
Speaker 2: you're at, only to have it just gobbled up and
Speaker 2: taken away. And I guess but on the flip side
Speaker 2: of that is, if you're really that good, you'll go
Speaker 2: ahead and do it again, as we saw with like
Speaker 2: why Gardner over there in the prolate race. But exactly,
Speaker 2: But I mean still, I mean, uh, I like you said,
Speaker 2: I think it's all on which side of the stick
Speaker 2: you're on. If you're on the good side, you don't
Speaker 2: want it, and if you're on the bad side, you're like, hell, yeah, let's.
Speaker 6: Do it for sure? For sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah that makes good sense. How good did it feel
Speaker 1: to win that?
Speaker 6: It was awesome?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's probably hard to put into words,
Speaker 1: but it is you.
Speaker 5: Know, honestly, anytime you can go in a race, it's
Speaker 5: it's huge, right, and you never know when the next
Speaker 5: one is going to be, and it's been the last
Speaker 5: two years has been truly incredible, and actually even extend
Speaker 5: that to three years.
Speaker 6: Just to see the hard work.
Speaker 5: That's put in and just the the effort that all
Speaker 5: my guys put into a weekend. It's it's nice and
Speaker 5: rewarding to see their emotion and reaction out of it
Speaker 5: as much as it is for me, Like I just
Speaker 5: enjoyed taking the whole moment in and seeing the joy
Speaker 5: it brings everybody and and the benefits that it has.
Speaker 5: And when you can go do that a at a
Speaker 5: good pain event, you know that helps us how as
Speaker 5: a team, tremendously. So to finally get an s r
Speaker 5: L win. My brother and I were doing the math
Speaker 5: on I think it's been about eight years between the
Speaker 5: two of us once he started doing an s r L.
Speaker 5: Race to Colorado is about an eight year swing of
Speaker 5: not having a win as a family within that series.
Speaker 5: So it was incredible to finally have have one of those,
Speaker 5: and you know, you never know how many more chances
Speaker 5: you have in that scenario. I mean, Derek Thorn used
Speaker 5: to be class of the field when he was running
Speaker 5: with them consistently, and he was kind of doing a
Speaker 5: little Jimmy Johnson era. I felt like, for like, you're
Speaker 5: running for second if he's showing up in that series.
Speaker 5: So it was it was great to finally do it
Speaker 5: with the competition that was there. You know, we had
Speaker 5: we had Dawson Sutton with gractically war Racing come out
Speaker 5: after their their race got rained out in Ouasso in Michigan,
Speaker 5: so they came out for the first time in Colorado
Speaker 5: and he that's a strong contending team when it comes
Speaker 5: to the Snowball Derby.
Speaker 6: So it was it's great to see where.
Speaker 5: We stacked up against them, and you know, can I
Speaker 5: take what we need to learn from it and hope
Speaker 5: we can continue the strong speeding.
Speaker 2: So what's what's next for the the rest of you?
Speaker 2: Are you going to do the derby again this year?
Speaker 3: You gonna that?
Speaker 6: That's my plan right now.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna be off until October eighteenth. There is
Speaker 5: a Car's Tour event in uh Las Vegas their debut
Speaker 5: in the Super Late Model race there for their annual
Speaker 5: Fall Classics. So that's gonna be great to finally be
Speaker 5: back at the Bowl Ring. That's the track I grew
Speaker 5: up racing on in legend cars. So that's gonna be
Speaker 5: our next one. And then after that we're gonna be uh,
Speaker 5: you know, full full, fully locked in and eyes forward
Speaker 5: for for the Snowball Derby and try and get ourselves
Speaker 5: back into that race again.
Speaker 1: Dude, are you gonna be ready for those forty five?
Speaker 6: I'm ready for whatever.
Speaker 1: No, man, that's that's freaking awesome.
Speaker 2: And lastly, I just got to ask you, did you
Speaker 2: ever think because I remember I I'd go to Portland
Speaker 2: and I think I went to Monroe and I see
Speaker 2: you and your brother's names up on the board, you know,
Speaker 2: for all these track records and stuff, and you know,
Speaker 2: you guys were I mean, you guys were solid back then.
Speaker 2: I mean you and people say, wow, God, they were
Speaker 2: just a little kid now now, No, even as little kids.
Speaker 2: I mean I went up to the grants this year, dude,
Speaker 2: there were some kids there that were like, I mean,
Speaker 2: you're like what right? I mean just the just the
Speaker 2: savvy they had and the and and.
Speaker 1: Just the the the.
Speaker 2: Track presence, right, you look at that and you're like, wow,
Speaker 2: and this kid's only you know, twelve years old.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's almost like mind blowing.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 5: It's crazy how young they're threting and how professional they're getting. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: and not only as as the young kid and driver,
Speaker 5: but just the whole family operation is is crazy.
Speaker 6: I mean it's there.
Speaker 5: They're showing up to their own Dayton of five hundred
Speaker 5: every week.
Speaker 2: It seems like, I know, I mean I'm watching some
Speaker 2: of these kids and I'm like, wait what I mean
Speaker 2: it was? It was so cool and Whytt Gardner was there,
Speaker 2: you know, and he made the he made the statement
Speaker 2: to me that you know, this track and quarter midget
Speaker 2: tracks everywhere, I mean, they can't go anywhere because the
Speaker 2: whole sport as a whole will suffer both dirt and asphalt. Right,
Speaker 2: there's so many. I mean, look at the kooies, right,
Speaker 2: they're over there in the trucks doing their thing. And dude,
Speaker 2: I mean and then you got wagering the Legends and
Speaker 2: you got you know, uh, the the other loose Jayden
Speaker 2: Lewse that's been killing it. I mean, man, dude, you
Speaker 2: take that away and and I don't know, Bro, I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know. I don't know where stuff comes from.
Speaker 2: If if that goes by bye, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean I think I think, uh, you
Speaker 5: know you and Wide are right. I hope it never
Speaker 5: goes anywhere. I don't think it will. But I mean
Speaker 5: quarter Midgets was able to build so many long lasting
Speaker 5: friendships for me and and people that have become like family.
Speaker 5: I mean you look at the Hilliers and and and
Speaker 5: even the Borden family and even look at Levy Jones
Speaker 5: and his family.
Speaker 6: But you know, I really look.
Speaker 5: At Rob Yeger and Gavin and Carson and Peebee like
Speaker 5: they there's so many great people that have come from
Speaker 5: Quartermages that whether they continue racing, you know, further into
Speaker 5: their life or not, Like, it's just their long lasting
Speaker 5: relationships that have gotten so strong. And that six month
Speaker 5: span of quarter midged season is and you go travel
Speaker 5: the country country with one another and it's just it's
Speaker 5: a fun environment. If you take the racing away from it,
Speaker 5: the whole family atmosphere is great.
Speaker 6: I hope that still is the case today.
Speaker 5: But I just remember growing up and getting out of
Speaker 5: the car and go playing with my friends out in
Speaker 5: the woods or whatever the case may be, and just
Speaker 5: having fun as a kid at the racetrack.
Speaker 6: Like that's what we all grew up on.
Speaker 5: Was having fun with it, and I think, as I
Speaker 5: mentioned earlier, that's number one priority, and some people lose
Speaker 5: that as they get older. But if at one point
Speaker 5: in your life you can really just reflect on where
Speaker 5: you came from and realize this is why you fell
Speaker 5: in love with it, and you can slowly get back
Speaker 5: to it as you get older and keep that same
Speaker 5: mindset moving forward.
Speaker 6: It's just important.
Speaker 2: It is did you ever Did you ever think you'd
Speaker 2: be here when an SRL races back then?
Speaker 5: I honestly, when I was about five years old, I
Speaker 5: thought I was.
Speaker 6: Playing basketball my whole life.
Speaker 1: You were a hooper.
Speaker 5: I played basketball in the off season just to keep
Speaker 5: the competitiveness in me, and I finally got taller. I'm like,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe I got to think about a different career,
Speaker 5: but no, in all seriousness, it's racings consume my whole life,
Speaker 5: and I've met so many great people from it, and
Speaker 5: it's made our families so much closer. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: what we grew up doing, right, So my goal was
Speaker 5: to always go as far as I could, and I'm
Speaker 5: just incredibly thankful for the ride I've been on. And
Speaker 5: no matter how far it may go, or if this
Speaker 5: is as far as I do go, I think I'm
Speaker 5: going to be very well pleased for for what I've
Speaker 5: been able to accomplish with the people I have been
Speaker 5: able to do it with, and and try and do
Speaker 5: it for as long as I can.
Speaker 2: Dude, you know what, I think You're freaking awesome. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you, seriously, man, I appreciate your time. I appreciate
Speaker 2: you always giving me tons of respect and and uh,
Speaker 2: I just always trying to appreciate what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 2: And I can't tell you enough what an honor it
Speaker 2: is to have you on my show.
Speaker 5: Man Seriously, anytime, Terry, this is a It's been so fun,
Speaker 5: like I've said so many times, to see what you
Speaker 5: have been able to grow in the Northwest and given
Speaker 5: us drivers a platform to stand on and talk about
Speaker 5: our race weekends and all the Shenanian games we get into.
Speaker 6: So what you're doing for the community is absolutely.
Speaker 5: Phenomenal, and I hope you keep keep digging through it
Speaker 5: and keep getting bigger and bigger throughout it.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Cool, good luck to you the
Speaker 2: rest of the year. Man, I'm I'm all right, I
Speaker 2: won't see it. You're gonna be at the Fall Classic
Speaker 2: or no? I uh oh what wait?
Speaker 3: What? Wait? What?
Speaker 5: I I know I won't be racing it. You know,
Speaker 5: as we get closer into the year here, it's just
Speaker 5: all focus on the Derby and and uh, well, I'd
Speaker 5: love to come out and just be around everybody. And
Speaker 5: then obviously it's a fun event, so it's it's one
Speaker 5: you can't miss, whether you're racing or respectator. So definitely
Speaker 5: gonna try and make it out there just to just
Speaker 5: to watch it and take it in right on.
Speaker 1: Man, appreciate your time. You have a good rest of
Speaker 1: the week.
Speaker 2: I love you, brother, and and uh good luck back there.
Speaker 1: Keep me posted is what's going on?
Speaker 5: Okay, Yes, sir, thank you for having me. Terry, always
Speaker 5: a pleasure.
Speaker 2: All right, cool, take care buddy, see yeah, bye bye,
Speaker 2: all right, everybody. Colt raz U the guy speaks for himself.
Speaker 2: I don't even need to say another word. It's uh,
Speaker 2: I'm just honored. I'm just honored that these guys would
Speaker 2: even want to be on my show. I mean just
Speaker 2: so thankful for guys like Cole Raz. I mean, if
Speaker 2: that isn't, if that isn't, I don't even if you
Speaker 2: were gonna judge class, I don't even know if he
Speaker 2: ain't get any better than Cole Raz, Right, I mean
Speaker 2: everything he said hit home to me. And he's just
Speaker 2: so appreciative of what he's got. Same with Andy Brown. Right,
Speaker 2: He's giving up his time and efforts to help his
Speaker 2: daughter and says he just loves to help others. And man,
Speaker 2: you talk to racers like that, and I'm all about
Speaker 2: them getting everything they deserve. And what I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you is this isn't the end for Cole razs. Cole
Speaker 2: raz has a huge, bright future ahead of him. Man,
Speaker 2: he is he is beyond He's just beyond his years
Speaker 2: and maturities. He's just gonna be good. He's gonna be
Speaker 2: one of the best ever. I got no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Big don what's going on? Man, thank you for that.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. We we try it. You know what,
Speaker 2: our show is nothing fancy or you know, elaborate, but
Speaker 2: you know what, dang it, it freaking works. And as
Speaker 2: long as you guys can hear and you know, uh,
Speaker 2: get to understand what these guys are saying.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And and you get guys like Cole raz and Andy
Speaker 2: brown on and you know, all the great guests we
Speaker 2: had on last week, and I mean it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: Brad Rhodes. And I gotta think Dapper Man. He lined
Speaker 2: all this up, so big shout out to Dapper Dave.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people don't know that. They
Speaker 2: think Dapper is a super fan, and he is a
Speaker 2: super fan. But the guy's been around the block, he's
Speaker 2: worked on race cars. He's uh, he's no dummy.
Speaker 1: Let me just put it to you that way.
Speaker 2: He's probably for gotten more than a lot of people
Speaker 2: will ever know, just because of his contacts and the
Speaker 2: stuff that he's done. Thank you, Leilani. I appreciate that
Speaker 2: so much. You have no idea, lady. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: So my hat's off to my hat's off to Dapper
Speaker 2: because he's choosing to help me each and every week.
Speaker 2: He puts his own money in there and buys decals
Speaker 2: and make sure everybody gets them. And uh, what can
Speaker 2: I say, He's he's uh, he helps me, He helps
Speaker 2: me a ton.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could.
Speaker 2: I could probably do it, but it wouldn't be U
Speaker 2: wouldn't be as good as it is without the DAP.
Speaker 1: So appreciate you DAP a lot.
Speaker 2: Thank you Cole, thank you Andy, and most of all,
Speaker 2: thank all of you, because I'm really nothing without all
Speaker 2: of you guys tuning in every Monday, There'd be no
Speaker 2: sense in me doing it. So I love you all.
Speaker 2: I hope you have a good rest of the week.
Speaker 2: I'm on vacation. I'll be back next Monday. Don't forget
Speaker 2: Hermiston Labor Day Spectacular. Make sure you take a friend.
Speaker 2: Race five of the Big Five Series at Montana on
Speaker 2: September seventh. The Canada two hundred is gonna be going on. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: Let's let's meet up at the same time on Monday, okay,
Speaker 2: and have a good time, love one another and appreciate
Speaker 2: one another and do that the rest of this week.
Speaker 2: Eric Johnson, thank you, sir. It was such an honor
Speaker 2: to talk to you today and looking forward to uh
Speaker 2: what our future brings. What our future brings, I'm telling you, sir,
Speaker 2: I'm so on board. You have no idea, So thank
Speaker 2: you very much for your time today. Eric Johnson Junior,
Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in on the show. Sandy Allen, Thank you,
Speaker 2: Ken Bonnie, thank you. I'm your Horse Proform host Terry
Speaker 2: Bridges from my Man Dapper Day page. Thanks a lot
Speaker 2: everybody for tuning in to Motorsports Monday.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week, everybody. Peace stems to