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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think humanity reached its full potential in the nineteen
nineties personally, and Adam Sandler was at the top of that.
Happy Gilmore the original nineteen ninety six came out very
successful flick. But Happy Gilmore two is being really or
has been released on Netflix. I'm excited, but I'm a
little bit nervous about it being a letdown. So we
talked about that. We'll get back to it. Still again,

(00:20):
a lot to talk about, but right now we talk
some racing. They are in Indianapolis this weekend. In fact,
Marty Snyder, NBC Sports, Amazon, NASCAR Studio host Pitt Reporter.
He is joining us live from Indianapolis ahead of the
Brickyard four hundred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend.
Let's bring him in, Marty Snyder, It is hot as
heck here. How's the weather in Indianapolis?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Not much cooler. I left home this morning and already
hot in Charlotte today, and it's hot here in Indianapolis
as well. And then we got the gift of rain
right when we were supposed to have practice this after
kab and you know what happens in the summertime when
it rained just gets more humid, and it's been a
scorcher since then. So but yeah, it's no cooler in

(01:06):
Indianapolis and there's at.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Home, okay, So kind of like Happy Gilmore in ninety six.
I mean, I guess the race in the movie have
a similar length of history. First race there was ninety four.
Jeff Gordon won that inaugural race back then. There is
a lot of history there. You go to all these tracks,
you tell a lot of these stories over the years.
What stands out to you about your time at the
Brickyard and what it means to NASCAR fans?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, I mean, and I was blessed enough to do
several Indianapolis five hundreds as well on the VC Sports yea,
And yeah, this place is always special to me. A
new museum this year here at Ims Bar. The Vince
Kinas group did a great job with that as well.
So I think for the NASCAR guys, you know, there
was a road course for a few years and now

(01:49):
it's back on the oval. And you know, de Indie
Amlin and I were talking in our rainfill on True
TV today, you know the specialness is back with the
Brickyard four hundred because it's on the o a lot
different than the road course. Just the feel of the
race feels bigger. But yeah, it's a tough race to win.
I think that's the biggest thing that people don't grasp.

(02:12):
And to me, I've always view this race as sort
of a playoff review, Like all the teams bring kind
of their playoff cars, you know that they want to
bring to the playoffs. They bring it to Indianapolis. You
have five races to go before the playoffs. It will
be the last time this car runs before we get
to the playoffs. So so to me, it still has
that prestige. It still feels like a big win. And

(02:35):
you know, when you think about Denny Hamlin won last
week at do Over, here's a guy who has not
won this race. It's the only crown jewel missing for Denny.
Hamlin just announced a new contract today with Joe Gibbs
racing for a couple more years. So I think this
one's a big one for Denny this weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, Marty's a smoke here. I mean, I know this
is gonna be a big race for Denny because he
almost won the race back in twenty twenty before he
had a flat tire go down to the hard wreck.
But I don't even know if he's the one that
wants this race the most. It's his teammate, Chase Briscoe,
and Chase did win at Pocono. He's its native. Who's
your I mean, how big is this race going to
be for him? And could he win it this weekend?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah? I mean I think he certainly could massive race
for for Chase Briscoe. There they they brought the car
that they won Pocono with a few weeks ago, and
uh and for him to come home and like he said,
you know, he's only had really one shot on the
oval last year, Stuart Hoss. They didn't have a real
shot to win the race, to be honest, you know,

(03:33):
like he told me earlier today that this is his
first real chance to win the Brickyard four hundred and
and I think you know he does. He'll have one
of the better cars, back to back second place finishes
for him. Came home early, he came to Indianapolis, I
think on Monday, and his sister's getting married today kind
of made the wedding around around racing, which her whole

(03:55):
life has revolved around racing, you know, because Chase his
dad was a sprint car drive forever and a pretty
famous guy here in the Midwest. So so yeah, so
you know, his sister's getting married tonight, and so he's
got a lot going on this weekend. But yeah, he
is in great spirits. He loves being home, uh what.
And he won the road course in the Xenity Series

(04:18):
in front of his hometown fans, but that was during Covit,
so nobody was here to celebrate with him. So so
I think he would love to win this race and
it would mean so much to him. They put a
lot of effort in to, you know, understanding what he
needs here, him understanding what Maine Martin Trucks Junior so
fast here over the years. So I think Chase Prisco

(04:38):
is going to be one of the guys to be
on Sunday for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Since you mentioned Denny, I know, you know both these guys.
Nobody's going to ask you to pick a side in this.
But you know, he and Larry McReynolds publicly going at
it on on social media about you know, Denny's proposal
for playoff changes to the format, and he's accusing Larry
of spreading disinformation about the twenty three eleven racing lawsuit
against NASCAR, and you know, things of that nature, but
just you know, pulling out. I guess the argument over

(05:02):
the proposed changes to the playoff format, like, do you
have a sense of what most people feel about that
right now within the NASCAR community about potential changes or
you know, if there's any swell of you know, I
don't know, I mean consensus in one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, there's this whole playoff committee thing, and then he
is on the playoff committee and so he's had to
say and and a vote and all this and where
it's headed and what the thoughts are. And I think
there's some conjecture that the playoff system should change somewhat.
It's I will say this, it's never going to go

(05:39):
back to just a full season of points, and nor
should it NASCAR introduce the playoffs. Whether you like it
or not, I think the playoffs in some format are
very good for NASCAR. I think this elimination format is excellent.
I don't see anything wrong with it. Now, should it
be a longer? I think I think the format of

(06:01):
having one race for a championship, that's kind of tough,
and I think that's been Denny's point the entire time
is that we need more than one race for a championship,
so make it a three race championship series. I think
that's more fair. I've always been an advocate of changing
the playoff races every year, and the tracks complained. They're like, oh,

(06:22):
we have date equity and we be our fans expect
us to be there at this time of the year.
I don't care. I think the playoff race has changed
every year, and I think the championship race should change
every year. It should rotate between five tracks because if
you keep the same format, you're going to keep producing
the same results. I mean, like, right now, going to

(06:45):
Phoenix for a championship, I can tell you Hendrick Motorsports
is at a disadvantage. They just aren't good at Phoenix.
They haven't been good at Phoenix in a long time.
They've tried and tried and tried to get better at
that race, but it's just not their race track. So
you got to move around. You got to make different
championship races every year, in my opinion, and keeping in

(07:05):
at the same race track they get the same format
forever and it's just not good. I mean, you know
Jimmy Johnson won all those those races because those same
ten races were his ten best race tracks. So that's
a difficult way to make a format. You got to
change it up every year. I'm a big believer in that.
I think Denny's a big believer in that as well.

(07:26):
But I think also I like the idea of having
multi races for a championship format bes to three or
whatever it winds up being. I think that's the right
way to go about it.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Marty, we haven't really talked about the playoff bubble over
the last couple of weeks, and it's really tightened up
with a couple of new winners and just some different results.
But as of right now, Bubba Wallace is the last
guy in on points, sixteen points ahead of Ryan Priest.
But maybe in Bubba's favor could be the fact that
you're going to the Brickyard this weekend, and specifically on
the Oval. It's been one of his better tracks where

(07:58):
he's gotten multiple top five So you think we could
see a major shift in the bubble after this weekend's race.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I don't know we'll see a major shift. We can
see Bubba certainly extend his lead. Yeah, three trade top
tens here at Indianapolis. It is a terrific racetrack for
Bubba Wallace and they have gotten, you know better over
the last couple of weeks. He got his first ever
top ten at Dover last week to extend his lead.
Smoke and you know, Priest had a really good stretch

(08:25):
where he was gaining every week and kind of making
that cut line pretty tight. And Bubba finally started to
extend that a little bit last week. I mean he
got down to three, they got down to two points
at one point, and it went from three to sixteen
this week. So yeah, I think this is a very
good racetrack for Bubba. I think there are you know,
starting at Iowa. When we pick up the coverage on

(08:46):
NBC and USA next week, I think there's a there's
a couple of interesting racetracks. Well, Ryan Preech could have
an advantage. Iowall be one Watkins Glenn the next week
being one, and then you've got the wild card Daytona
to wrap up the regular season. So when we pick
up coverage next week on NBC and USA, you're going
to kind of see a shift in the storylines to Okay,

(09:08):
the end season challenge is done, and now it's four
races to the playoffs, and it is going to be
heavy playoff push, just because that's what the teams are
talking about. They're really focused on this playoff push and
who can make a run. And I think there's still
a number of wild card rates has left. You look
at Indianapolis this week, which could be a fuel mile

(09:30):
of rates. You've got Iowa's a short track, you never
know what can happen there, and then you've got Watkins
Glenn and you've got Daytona. So all these interesting races
that are coming before the end of the regular season.
There's still time for new winners and still time for
the cut line to change.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Marty Snyder, NBC Sports, Amazon, NASCAR's studio host Pitt Reporter
with us here on a Friday afternoon, As expected, NASCAR
announced that the Chicago Street Race will be omitted from
next year's schedule in twenty twenty six. We're told best
to allow for proved logistics and planning, and they hope
that it returns in twenty seven, but they are going
out to San Diego to the naval base. I haven't

(10:07):
talked to you in a couple of weeks. What are
your thoughts on that.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I think it's great and I'm glad it's finally done.
There was some some things with trying to get everything
to make sure it was good with the Navy, and
everything worked out fine with that finally. But yeah, no,
I think it's going to be great. You know, my
wife went to you know, college in San Diego, so
I mean personally, I'm excited to go out there and

(10:31):
spend all the time. And and supposedly it's going to
be back to back weeks next year with San Diego
and Sonoma back to back, so that'll be a fun
little mini West Coast swing in the middle of the
year if that comes to fruition. But yeah, I think
the San Diego course is going to be incredible. Cornado
Island is beautiful for those who have never been. I
think kind of bringing that environment from Chicago to San

(10:53):
Diego and Cornado Island, it's going to be incredible. And
I think if you haven't watched the announced video that
NASCAR put together this week, it's incredible. It's worth watching.
It's a couple of minutes, but the drivers did a
great job and they shot all that a couple of
weeks ago, and the announcement came off really well. But
I think it's going to be really cool to have

(11:14):
it there on Father's Day weekend, right before the you know,
two hundred and fiftieth Birthday of America, and I think
it's gonna be really neat to have all that play
out that way. But I'm interested to see how they
make the course. The one thing about Chicago that's been
really cool KB is the repeatability of the track. I mean,
they had it down to a science, like to the

(11:35):
millimeter of how they had those walls, and can they
replicate that as well on the streets of San Diego.
I think that's going to be a big thing to see.
But yeah, it's gonna be cool to be in southern
California for that next year. It'll wrap up our Amazon
part of the schedule next year, so I'm really excited
to see how all that comes together.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
All right, Marty, last thing training camp has officially begun,
So now I get to harass you for football opinions.
You know that, right, So now the training camp's now
our Carolina Panthers. I'm going to go full Homer here.
I'm I'm cautiously optimistic. I want to be excited, but
I've been wounded just like you. I'm going into my
ninth year talking about this team on the radio, so
I am I'm hesitant to jump in with both feet,

(12:16):
but man, I want to believe. What are you thinking
this year in terms of win loss?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Right there? Way to kV. I want to believe as well.
And in like Princely hit you know, Bryce on day one?
What are you doing? Man? You know, hey, good job,
but b don't do that again. No, I'm afraid to
even throw a number out there? Does does nine sound okay?
I mean is that? I don't know what I'll take.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think I think every Panthers fan out there would
take nine, don't you?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
In a second?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah? I mean I think you've You've been very consistent
in saying for a couple of years, just constant improvement. Right,
let's just let's have constant improvement. And and I love
how saying I only want to play for Dave Canal us,
you know, I mean, I like how you know you've
got these players who are saying they love the system
and they want to be a part of it. And

(13:08):
you know, I just like where the team is. I'm
afraid to say more than nine. I'm going to go
with nine that I would love to have double digits,
but it just feels too lofty and too raggadocious to
say double digit wins this year.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
All Right, I get it. I'm right there with you, Marty.
We appreciate you. Enjoy and the enjoy the brickyard. We'll
talk to you next Friday.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
We'll enjoy the heat here. Everybody enjoy the heat at all.
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