LTN RADIO NETWORK - February 2,2025

LTN RADIO NETWORK - February 2,2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Certainly from various locations via the miracle of Skype.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's the ltn R.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Let's talk Nascar with your host Todd Bayling, co hosts
Brian Schmidt, PJ Newdleman, and producer Dangerous Dan Margetta. Call
the show anytime at four one four four two one seventy.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Nine oh one.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
And now the creator and host of the Fastest Hour
and Radio, Todd Marling.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, I don't want you to hate me or anything,
but it is Groundhog Day, and I certainly hope that
back in the great state of Wisconsin, some vermin just
sought shadow because out here there's no shadows to be seen.
It's sunny, and it's going to be the first eighty
degree day of the year, and so we have six

(01:01):
more weeks of this coming before it warms up. I
just thought i'd throw that in on groundog Day.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Hello there, Todd.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Bayling in Lovely Phoenix, Arizona. PJ is not with us today.
She is under the weather. She has lost her voice,
and you know, when you do radio, that's not a
good thing. However, we are still joined by the other
two legs of this tripod today, starting with Brian Schmid

(01:29):
up in Utsburg, Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Hi, Brian morning. The shortest off season and the shortest
off season in all sports is over.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Isn't that awesome? There?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Ready to go racing already?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Dan is the first time in the last three weeks
he's not calling us from slinger.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
I guess right, No, I'm back at home right now.
But you do realize that there's six weeks a winner.
No matter if the rodent sees it shadow or not,
there's still going to be six weeks a winner.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, last I check. Rodents don't have a degree in meteorology,
and they usually they really don't know what the heck's
going on.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
So yeah, but you know the farmers all my knach
man if the farmers.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Don't always know that either. I hang around with a
lot of them.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
You're a part time farmer, aren't you? Yeah, right right, yeah,
fertilizer spreader. Either way, we are racing today and it's
pretty exciting. It's actually tonight televised on Fox. Comes on
at five o'clock, the green flags at five twenty. Theyn't
have a last Chance race. I hope you saw it
last night. We're kind of counting on that you did,

(02:32):
because I was on FS one, and they had their
heat races and that determine the lineup for today top
twenty starters, which, boy, oh boy, I've been told in
the past that I'm kind of negative Nelly, and I
guess there's good. As far as I can tell here,

(02:53):
there's good and there's bad. It's easy to pick the
bad out. I hate one lane race tracks, no matter
how you paint it. The only way to pass is
to get a guy out of shape and scoot underneath him.
That's not racing. Now. On the other hand, one, it's different. Two.
You like action, do you well? Get ready because there's

(03:16):
gonna be action on this track, and all these cars
on this flat quarter mile, which is built around a
football field, is going to be action no matter how
you look at it. But what are the chances that
you're gonna come from very far back and actually do anything.
Chase Elliott will be our polesitter pusher on the outside.

(03:40):
That's good run for him. Hamlin third and Reddick fourth.
Noddels were the four heat winners from last night. My
cohorts here are the ones that are keeping me propped
up and off the ledge. We're going to have a
good show, right, guys.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, show, I think is the right word. I mean,
this is this is a different form of racing. It's
an acquired tape. It's what makes Bowman Gray the madhouse.
I mean, you can't race a guy side by side
and probably pass him, which is what racing's all about.
But if you've seen, I mean, there's a reason that
place holds seventeen thousand people and it's full every week.

(04:16):
It's because people want to see action. I mean, it's
not WWE style action like the Royal Rumbo last night.
You're not that far out and left field as far
as made up stuff. But then again, it's gonna be
a different type of racing. It's going to be, you know,
move the guy out of the way type of stuff.
And I think all these drivers know it. And it's gimmicky, yes,
But on the other hand, we've been clamoring for years

(04:38):
that we want NASCAR to go to a short track,
and this is this is a traditional short track that's
been there since the forties, you know. But it's a
different style of racing. So you know, there's two different
ways of looking at it, I guess, and I think
we just got to enjoy it for what it is.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Right, Dan, Yeah, I think it's for the event. I
think it's a pretty good venue to have it. I
mean when I saw last night had plenty of action,
and I don't I wouldn't want to point race there,
but I think for something like this to kick the
season off, I think it's a good way to do it.
I like it better than the Coliseum. The Coliseum was
cool the first year, that was kind of faded after that.
This place is a dedicated race track and it's kind of,

(05:16):
you know, right in the heart of the racing country
there in North Carolina, and the people kind of expect
the kind of race and they got and that's what
it was. Yeah, you got to move somebody. But for
an exhibition race, I think that'll ramp up some excitement
for the five hundred.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
And it's dripping with history. I mean the history there
is what's the big thing? You know, It.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Is nineteen seventy one last time they raced there, which
is pretty cool. There was there was some attempts. There
were attempts to pass on the outside last night. I
don't most of them were unsuccessful, however, And you know,

(05:55):
as our buddy Aaron Baird points out that Noah Gregson
did go three wide, however, without a significant amount of
contact among the inside two that are battling. Nobody's passing
three wide at this place. As a matter of fact,
without some contact from behind. It seems like it's gonna

(06:16):
be hard to pass two wide because it's really not
meant for two wide. It's that's why they don't race
there anymore, guys. I guess it's just too much.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
You know.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
They added that for safety measures. So the track's a
little narrow than it was before. The outside's kind of there,
but it's really easy for the inside guy to to
run them up in the fence, you know, just make
the space get narrow oerd to the outside wall. So
I guess the guy's got to get up. You have
to be alongside him enough that you can hammer the
gas and stay out there and then kind of bulldoze
your way by the guy.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
So I mean, I saw I saw a priest do
it last night on a restart. They're gonna have the
Choose Choose cone. You're gonna have a ton of restarts
and people, you know, can move up several rows on
a start, and the key is and priest did it
last night. He had a really good restart to the
point where you can get you know, like three quarters
of the way in front of the guy and then
left turn client you know, left turn cliente right in

(07:10):
front of him, boom, and get yourself in. That's what
you're gonna have to be. You're gonna have to be
rude as hell to get anywhere. And and that's what
creates the action though, and that's what the fans are
looking for. That they want to see, you know, some action.
I think if there's not a fight tonight, the fans
are going to be disappointed.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, well you get the feeling there's going to be
I mean, and the announcers are all, okay, okay, this
this should create a problem. They're they're whipping each other off.
Oh you know, I guess that's what the real attraction
is here. Now. They raced the modifieds in the afternoon. Jeez, guys,
I didn't write the guy's name down at one and
he's like one of the winningest drivers.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Were Flaming, Flaming Yep.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
That was from the that was wasn't he part of
that Madhouse radio show? Pretty sub the TV show?

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah, he came up period drove Conrad Morgan's car at
Slayer having John Boy drove one of Dennis Prompty's car,
but he's.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Been during my coffee break at Slinger because I didn't.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
It was but a lot of guys. I think some
guys from Conrads Correction went down and helped them out
a couple times in some race.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
No, they're still real good friends. But that's pretty cool
that a guy that's won all those races down there
did it. But Ryan Priest ran in the modified race
in the afternoon and then they asked him about it,
and Brian, I guess, he had some pretty interesting pointers.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
He claimed the cup cars had more grip than the
modifieds did. I don't know if it's because they put
more rubber on the track and then the cup cars
are more forgiving. You know, a modified, you're running an
open wheel car on that really narrow track. You know
you hit the wall, you're gonna you know, wreck your
right front tire and stuff like that. These cup cars
are going to bounce off of it. So from what
I heard from Priest, he made it sound like if
there's going to be better racing, there's a chance the

(08:50):
cup cars may produce the better racing. So that's that's
what we're hoping for. Really hard to say. I mean,
you only had ten cars on the track at a
time doing those heat races, so you didn't get into traffic.
I think the best case scenario for seeing some pretty
exciting racing is going to be when the full field
of twenty I think they're starting twenty three or twenty
four cars are all out there together and you're able

(09:10):
to get some green flag runs and get into traffic,
you know, and that's when you're gonna you're the leader
and you got guys in front of you, what are
you gonna do. You go to the high side, you
risk losing, you know, losing your spot, and the second
place guy will have a chance. I think that's when
you're gonna get some pretty decent racing. The key is though,
getting along your green flag run. Hopefully we can get
to that point.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, no kidding this program today. I hope you watched
last night, and I hope you have an opinion about it,
because we'd love to hear it at four one four
four two one seventy nine oh one. Also later in
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(09:52):
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(12:31):
announcer from Slinger Speedway on this current edition, which would
be you know me. That was the last one she
did and still running apparently, So let's tune in. You
get to find out all the deep dirty secrets you
wanted to know about me, and I know deep dirty
secrets here. You hear what it is, no matter what

(12:53):
do you think, I see that NASCAR has adopted the
s REQ series strategy of adding local drivers to the field,
because since it's not a points race anyway, why not
spice it up for the locals. And they add Bert

(13:13):
Myers and Tim Brown. By the way, I've heard of
Burt Myers before, and I don't follow the racing at
this Bowman Gray that closely. But Tim Brown, he's fifty
three years old, he has one hundred and one wins
at this track. That's that's more than Al Shill has

(13:35):
that Slinger Speedway if he can believe that. Plus he
has twelve, count them, twelve championships. He's the perfect guy
to add to the field. Did I hear that right
that this guy works for the fifty team or that
where where? Oh where where racing? He's a fabricator? Did

(13:59):
he build this car himself?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah? I think were they preparing the fifty car or
something for helping that team out for Bert Myers, And
I thought he worked in a shop or something and said, hey.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I'll co come, he's got maybe that it.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, you can drive the fifteen if you want that.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah. And before rick Ware, I forget when they actually
had the Madhouse program on.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Michael he worked for yep.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, So he's always been working in the Cup series,
working in the garage and stuff. And then he he's
a weekend warrior that races on the weekends with his modified.
I don't remember Dan. I haven't seen if he takes
his modified out and runs any other races. I mean,
we've never seen him at New Simerna and I don't
know if he runs many of the wheel and modified
too races. I think he just sticks to Bowman Gray.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah, I think it's just there. Bert Myers will go
off to some of the traveling races once in a while.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yes, Yeah, we've seen him at New Simurna before and
he ran that Uh it's probably over ten years ago now,
when they ran that thing on the backstretch at Daytona,
that failed attempt for two years. Bert Myers was at
that race as well. But yeah, Tim Brown pretty much
just sticks there.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
But he's accomplished one hundred and twelve championship. I mean
that's a hell of a resume at this trick. So
and he has his fans. The announcers were pointing out
just exactly, you know, so Brown and Myers are great rivals,
and when one pulls out, half of the fans all cheer,
and then when Myers comes out the other half. It's
a pretty neat deal. And they picked a couple of

(15:18):
perfect drivers to join the field. Now the bad news
today when it comes on Fox at five o'clock, we're
going to have the Last Chance race.

Speaker 13 (15:28):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Two drivers are going to advance from that thing.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, top two and one provisional, So only three cars
getting out of that last chance race, and right now,
some big days aren't in the show, like Ryan Blaney
and Kyle Lars Larson. Blaney he's got the provisional right now,
so if he doesn't finish in the top two, the
provisional will go to Blaney. If he does finish in
the top to the provision will go to Larson. So
those are the two that are you know, haveing exer

(15:52):
shot for making that provisional, but everybody else will have
to finish top two and a lot of guys are
starting back there.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, a lot of guys are right. It's a seventy
five lap or two for top two to fit to
move on. I mean that's pretty pretty major stuff. Uh,
Ty Gibbs was fastest in the early practice and he
didn't make the race. It's a little bit like a
like dirt racing, is it?

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
It seems to me that the way this format is
totally copying dirt racing, and you can have a good
car and not make the show completely, which is kind
of where Gibbs is right now. Am I wrong?

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah? Yeah? I mean he gets a good spot here
for the LCQ. You got Ty Dylan Zane Smith in
the front row, and then Gibbs Michael McDowell row two.
So Gibbs is gonna have a shot. He's gonna be
right up in the front there. But Kyle Larson's got
to start tenth. Now you have seventy five laps, and
he's gonna have to use his horn a lot to
make his way up there. But I mean other other
names up there, you know, A j Allmendinger starting eighth,

(16:48):
Eric Jones is sixth, Bert Meyers starts fifteenth, Tim Brown's
gonna start a shotgun on the field there nineteenth. Ryan
Blaney starts seventeenth. So I think Ryan Blaney knows he's
got he's got the provisional, so I don't. I wouldn't
see a whole lot of action out of him. So
Larson's gonna have to go. So what we're really gonna
see here is how bad does Larson want it? You know,

(17:09):
yesterday in the heat race, you could tell he had
a good round early in it got going, then he
got shoved up out of the way and he kind
of was just like, wow, it is what it is.
And there were no cautions and you couldn't really make
up any ground. Larson is the type of guy where
if he knows he can do something, you're gonna see
him get up on the wheel and goal. Is he
going to have that in this race? I don't know.
Is he how hard? Is he gonna want it? You know,

(17:29):
that's the question.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Seventy five laps, it's a a good long, last chance
race with you know, lots of action, which is what
they're looking for today. And then they will go to
the rear of the field. Now there's twenty cars, and
so twenty two cars plus a provisional for a total
of twenty three cars start on this quarter mile track,

(17:54):
a flat quarter mile, and they're gonna race for two
hundred laps.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
With the break at halfway right to work on your car.
Did you change time?

Speaker 13 (18:05):
No?

Speaker 14 (18:05):
No?

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh, I don't know. I don't know the exact rules
on it. It's very similar to what the modifiers to
start their season in April when they get the regular
season started. The modifight's around a two hundred lapper there
to start it, so it's not uncommon. I think back
when the Cannon series ran there, which was probably over
ten years ago. Ben Kennedy was the winner of that race.
Ironically enough, I think that one was like a one

(18:26):
hundred and fifty lapper. So they do that quite often
here with these longer races.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
It's a fun track. Yeah, after the back, then the
Bush race, and in the later years after that race,
on Saturday, I check up the Bowman Grades about an
hour from Charlotte and check it out, and it was
a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
The people were excited.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
They were very impressed that somebody from Wisconsin come all
the way to look at their race track and I'm like,
I heard them about this place. I want to check
it out. And they were very friendly. It was a
good time. I did it every year I was at
the six hundred.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
I believe they put huge crowds in there on Saturday nights,
don't they.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
They do they do? I mean they packed that.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Thousand people every week.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
It's part of that city. It's whole part of that
whole town and everything. It's a big deal. I mean
that what happening.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Twelve dollars admission that helps to for real bucks.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
The purse today is a little over three million. By
the way, I thought I'd throw that in for your
I doubt it's twelve dollars admission. They're fighting over raisin
admission prices too, right, because they got to make it somewhere.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Oh well, yesterday was only twenty five dollars to get in,
and you got to see the modified race and then
the practice qualifying and the heat races. So that was
pretty economically yesterday for people to go on, I mean,
or else Can you see cup cars on a track
for twenty five dollars? Probably not anywhere else?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Really, Yeah, no kidding, And there were races. It was good,
good stuff. What the hell, let's just hope the racing
is good too. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3 (22:11):
Welcome back to weltn Race season for NASCAR starts to night.
They did have a test at rocking Him, Brian. I
believe there were trucks and Exfinity cars there, and all
I really recall is that time at Jessky was fastest
of the trucks.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes he was, Yeah, and he obliterated the old track
record from there when they were out there the last time.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
But you know that'll do it, Yes, yes, that'll do it.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
So yeah, there's a lot of momentum going for that
event coming up in the Easter weekend there, so uh,
the both the Infinity and the Cup. I believe all
of the cars were there. Casey Keene was there turning
a couple of laps. I didn't see a whole lot
of like actual times from what they were doing other
than what they were saying. I don't know if they
had a lot of timing and scoring going on there
for that weekend, but a lot of Rave reviews, a
lot of guys said it race really good. You know

(23:03):
a lot of people out there running laps, some different
people in the different cars there. Carson Koppole driving the
one car for Junior Motorsports this year. Don't forget he's
got a full ride with them. So it's going to
be exciting to see how that race turns out and
hopefully the fans turn out for it. I know a
lot of people a lot of buzz about it, so
let's see if that they actually creates the big crowd
that you're looking for to get that place back up
and going again.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
It's the first time Sam Mayer raced what is it
the forty one he's.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
In Yeah, Yeah, he's running one of the hotscars.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
It's fun. Kind of kissed the fence too.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
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(23:56):
ben Solem, Pennsylvania. Never heard of it myself. It's not
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in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and that is going to be his
sponsor this year for the Exfinity Series. And we'll see
Josh on a pretty regular basis. And oh, by the way,

(24:19):
congratulations to Josh and his wife Caitlin, who welcomed their
son this week, Cole Michael Blicky was born Wednesday. Congratulations
to them. It's an awesome day for anybody. By the way,
that team, that number ninety one Xfinity team is owned
by Mario Gosselin. If you remember that name. He's been around.

(24:40):
He's first of all, he's still races. I know because
I just saw him race in that event at the
Freedom Factory on on Thanksgiving weekend down in Florida, and
he didn't spin and didn't do anything. But you know,
this guy has been racing a long time. I think
he's he's so old, he's damn near my age. And

(25:04):
I'm pretty sure he wasn't He.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Like a Hooters Pro Cup guy and that where he
really got his name back in the old Hooters series.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, and he's had that Infinity team for quite a
while now. That's the ninety one ninety two cars and
maybe these thirty sixth a part of that at one
point too, hm.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Hmm, I think.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
But yeah, I mean, and that Ritaz is a pretty
big company. I mean, they've had a lot of stores.
They're not here in Wisconsin, but other states. They have
a pretty significant you know, footprint and places, and that's
a pretty big game. We talked to Josh in Phoenix
and he had they came on. It was kind of
like a test thing and they were very happy with it,
and they signed up for more.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, they signed up for one race of Pocono he
told us, which is obviously that's what he got it for,
was for race and Pocono because it's not far from
that area, and they were really happy with the results
of it, and they're the ones that approached him about
doing more stuff. So he said it. He was he
was very surprised and he was, you know, pleased with it,
and they looked on branching out and getting their name
out to everybody. So, you know, Josh is a hell

(25:57):
of a marketer.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, the first time I saw that was on that
show Undercover Boss.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well really, yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
That's right first I heard. That's why when he was
on the car I actually knew what it was because
of that other program.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
You know, it's such an important part. Marketing yourself is
such an important part of racing now that we should
probably have Josh on the program give us a little
bit of a taste of what it's like and what
exactly how do you go and get yourself money to race?
And he has made it into an art form. I swear,

(26:33):
I think it's a lot.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Of it is just sending him a cold call, uh,
you know, just calm up and sending him something. That's
a lot of it doesn't we we were in daytona
years a couple of years ago, remember that Brian, that
guy was there. He was and after he left and
Josh is like, that's the guy that runs done so
guy right, eight million dollars a year selling soap out
of his apartment and he's going to be on my
race car. How did you find this? And he just

(26:55):
sent him a message out of the blue and said, hey,
you want to be part of this, and that's how
it got the ball.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Every bit as important, perhaps more important than your ability
to drive a car, is to be able to go
find a sponsor so you can drive a car. And
you know that's let's let's make a point of having
Josh give us some pointers of how you do that
sort of thing. How do you go and find in
some city I never heard of in Pennsylvania a place

(27:23):
that sells Italian ice and have him sponsor you in
Exfinity series. He knows the answer to that question. Who
would have thought so?

Speaker 5 (27:31):
Pretty test that we were talking about. Luke Fenthouse drove
on the ThorSport trucks. He was thirteenth, thirteenth fast.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Man talking might be running that truck a couple times
this year so we'll see how that works out. There's
a I've heard some rumblings that he may be able
to run a handful of truck races again this year,
so that would be cool.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Now that's, of course, the team that Johnny Souder drove for.
I wonder if they have any extra car trucks for him.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
To drive Jest team, that's Ties team.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, sure interesting. M Well, we'll hope and see what
Johnny shows up. Sometimes, you know, he finds himself in
a race. He oh, I didn't know he was even
gonna be there. I don't even know if he knows
he's gonna be there. Half the time he answers the
phone and jumps on a plane. And that's pretty cool
to be able to do that, And it's cool that

(28:22):
they call him too after all this time.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
Sometimes truck right or more to be really.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Yes yes. Sometimes they call it Johnny and say you
want to drive the truck and he says sure. Then
he finds out who sponsors it and he says no.
So we'll see. Sometimes he guy calls him and keeps
calling him, keeps calling him and wants him to drive
a truck. And he shows up and he's like, I
don't know what I'm doing in this truck. And then
like last year he drove a Thorsports truck and that
was a good deal. So you never know what you're
gonna get with him. But it's getting laid here now

(28:54):
pretty soon. If Johnny was gonna be in Daytona this year,
one would think he probably would have gotten a phone call.
But the sixty six truck. I don't know who's driving
the sixty six truck at Daytona this year. I have
not seen an entry list yet for Thorsports. So maybe
it'll be Luke, maybe it'll be Johnny, maybe it'll be
something we don't even know.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Remember that one you're when you're that truck about a
tennis set.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yes, that was the greatest line. If I were you, guys,
I wouldn't stand too close to that truck without getting
a tetanus shot.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
He says, who I said, Johnny, who's your COO chief?
I don't know. We're standing on Pitt Road for qualifying,
and the guys come up to us and go, hey,
you know, Johnny, where is he? He's got to qualify soon,
like you should be coming, you know.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
You know this goes back you pick me up from
the Halifax. I hear that was he.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Speaking of marketing yourselves. The team Bonafide is a pretty
big deal for sponsorship round the short trucks of Wisconsin.
And we're going to announce uh with with the man himself,
Mike Egan, who's getting those sponsorships when we come back.
Miller Sales and Service of Random Lake is where to
go for a trailer, no matter what you're hauling. Tom

(30:01):
and Jerry Miller have been selling trailers from B and
B Trophy and Bravo for over fifty years. Quality and
integrity is what put them on the map. On the
corner of fifty seven in k since nineteen thirty nine,
home of the number eighty nine dirt and asphalt cars
of Brad Miller. That's Miller's sales and Service. It's where
to go for a trailer. Just twenty minutes north of Milwaukee,

(30:22):
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Speaker 14 (31:44):
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Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's perfect music for an announcement, isn't it. You know
him perhaps as the driver of car number eighty nine
at the Slinger Speedway, although we haven't seen him as
much in a race car as we would like the
lastst couple of years. But of course from Bonafide Security Solutions,
our good friend Mike Egan joins us right now. Mike,

(32:26):
this is a This is a pretty big deal for
the drivers and for Bonafide also.

Speaker 13 (32:31):
Correct, Well, good morning everybody, and thanks for having me. Yeah,
it really is.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
And give us an idea. How many people apply for
the Team Bonafide sponsorship.

Speaker 13 (32:46):
This year was just short of about two hundred. I
think it was one hundred and ninety something.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Oh my god, that's that's pretty impressive. And how many
actual sponsorships are you going to announce today?

Speaker 13 (33:02):
Well, you know, it always varies because we always have,
you know, our anchor members, and we always have a
few returning members to help the new people to get
with the program. But there's a total of about twenty four.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Okay, outstanding and with without further ado geez, I don't know, Matti.
We should have had a drum roll ready for this one.
I never thought of that. It's time for the announcement
for Team Bonafide.

Speaker 13 (33:31):
Well here we go, folks. So you know, everybody that
applied really is deserving of it, and it's quite overwhelming.
You know. We asked a series of questions and everything,
and it's tough to decide, you know, who actually makes
the team because everybody honestly is deserving of being on
the team. But it's really it boils down to the

(33:53):
answers of the question and how the four people on
the panel vote. So you ready, here we go, all right,
the anchor. The anchor members obviously are Nick Egan, Hunter Cardinal,
Johnny DeAngelis, and Mitch Havever.

Speaker 14 (34:08):
This year.

Speaker 13 (34:08):
Returning members of the team from last year are Shane Barr,
Lincoln Kine, Logan and Aiden Prunty, Tyler Ramatka, and Rachel Callis.
And then new members this year to the team are
Carl Gannette Tyler, Netkevin Tracy New, Jeff Steinberg, Jeff Storm,

(34:36):
Simon Seyffert, Tyler, Vinitage, Lexi, Gets, Trevor Rasky, Justin Payinach Hunter, Graham, Hayden, Costika,
and Mac Miller.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Well, congratulations to all those Team Bona Fide team members.
I see that it's not all just young up and
coming racers you have on that list. How cool is that?

Speaker 13 (35:10):
You know? It really boils down to how the answers
the question their social media presence, you know, how they
can help us with our marketing. And quite honestly, Jeff
Storm was one of the only people who was voted
on by all four people. Oh, this was unanimous.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah, he's been speaking of social media. He's done some
some absolutely outstanding pieces on Facebook to talking about how
the twenty five car has been moving from race to
race and the preparations involved and uh and giving a
good shout out to all the sponsors. So that that's
that's pretty awesome right there. Mike, Well, you got to know.

Speaker 13 (35:51):
What Jeff does, well, thank you, thank you. You know
what Jeff does though, is I think he uh, he
exemplifies what we're about, trying to teach maybe some younger
people about racing and shows them how to work on
their cars themselves. And I think that's important in today's world.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
It is.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
And well, congratulations to you and to all those folks
that have been I was gonna say, guys, but you
got a couple of females in there too, and well
deserving all I should say.

Speaker 13 (36:26):
Well, thank you and congratulations to everybody that made Team
Bonafide this year. Look forward to seeing what the year brings,
and can't wait to go raising.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Are you racing yourself this year, my friend?

Speaker 13 (36:38):
I am planning on it. You know, the last couple
of years, I've had a little bit of health issues
and it's kind of kept me out of the car,
and you know, Nick keeps me plenty busy working on
his cars. So but yeah, I'm planning on racing several
times this year. We're gonna they're having an all Gellicy
memorial up at Kacana that I'm planning on running, and
then I'm gonna try and do several other super late races.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Standing well, you'll see me in your pits with one
of your beers in my hand after the after the races,
it's always Mike, congratulations and this is this is really
awesome what you do for the Wisconsin racing community, my friend.

Speaker 13 (37:20):
Well, thank you, and the racing community is strong and powerful,
so I just want to see it keep continuing for
years and years and years to come.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
All right, thanks a lot. That was Mike Egan from
Team Bona Fide and then pretty pretty cool thing to have,
especially have us being able to announce it. That's great.
Congratulations to everybody who was named there, fellas. I don't
know if you saw this, we did. We talk about
Iraq returning to Laguna Seka. Have we mentioned that this

(37:51):
year yet?

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Not this year?

Speaker 8 (37:53):
No.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
We talked about how Ray Averham was taking it over
last year and he took it to Limerock last year.
But interesting for this year.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, it's gonna be a four day show. The Iraq
series goes to Laguna Seca. For those of you who
don't know where that is, and I don't blame you
if you don't, because I had to look it up
just so I knew. It's east of the Moderrey Peninsula,
about an hour or so south of San Francisco San
Jose area and a four day show. But this, listen

(38:25):
to the driver lineup, sounds like the best of SRX.
Plus they've got Jeff Gordon's gonna race Mark Martin, but
we could have asked him about that last week.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah, He was quiet about that last week, wasn't he.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, no kidding, Bill Elliott, Kenny Schrader, Bobby Labonte.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Are going to be there, Sullivan, Scott Prewit. Scott Prewit.
Yeah so, And it's a part of It's not just
an IRAQ event. It's a part of the Rolex Moderate
Motorsports Reunion, which is a huge vintage event. For those
of you that are familiar with what we do in
Road America with the with the Brian Redman Challenge in July,
It's it's very similar to that. In fact, I think
it's even a little bit bigger than that. It's a
huge vintage event, so there's gonna be tons of vintage

(39:05):
events here, so it's a perfect place to bring these
are basically vintage Irack cars in there, and to bring
these drivers in. I think that's gonna really it's gonna
be quite the event to check out.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
And Laguna Sik is one of the more well known
road courses on it'sic, isn't it. I Mean that's a
track a corkscrew in it, right.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yes, West Coast iconic for sure. Then you can say that, I.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Mean, if you ever see highlights of an IndyCar race.
Was that Dan Alex Nardi took.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
The cork screw well that was passed, Brian Yep, Brian
Hurd Yep.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
I saw that. I actually remember that. I don't know.
I must be getting old. Hey, thanks for for being here.
We're gonna come back with some results after this break.
Hang in there.

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go for a trailer no matter what you're hauling. Tom
and Jerry Miller have been selling trailers from B and B,
Trophy and Bravo for over fifty years. Quality and integrity
is what put them on the map on the corner
of fifty seven in k Since nineteen thirty nine home
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(40:39):
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Speaker 14 (41:27):
The game is heading to New Orleans for Silver Bowl
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Speaker 2 (41:45):
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Speaker 1 (41:55):
And now the LTN Hour presents turn on that term
with Brian Schmidt.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Busy week of racing. His speed weeks continued to roll
on this week. We'll start on Tuesday night, need More
Speedway up in Georgia for the Hunt the Front Dirt
Late Model series. There scary, scary incident with Brian Shirley
blowing a motor during a heat race there. His car
was engulfed in flames and fortunately he was able to Yeah,
fortunately he was able to get out of there. And
I think the throttle stuck wide open on there and

(42:25):
he was able to get it out of gear.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Real freaking is in that car for quite a while
while those cars.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Are hard to get out of and he's not a
small individual there. So once they clean that all up,
Hudson O'Neil grabbed the feature win there and at ten
thousand dollars to go along with that. Monday night they
were supposed to run there but it rained out. Move
on to Thursday night. We'll go out to West Coast
first Costa Grande Arizona for the Central Arizona Speedway the
late Models as they wrapped up the Ernie Mincy early
thaw there. Tyler Peterson won and the late models of

(42:52):
modifieds went to Troy Morrise. Third back to Florida Barberville
speed Barberville, Florida for Volucia's Speedway Park. That dirt Car
Nationals kicked off their three week run with the ASCs
three sixty Sprint Car Series. The World Racing Group purchased
that racing series last year now so the first time
they made the appearance there. Justin Peck grabbed the win
there from Wisconsin. Scotti Theial made his appearance there in
a new team, driving a fifty one car out of

(43:14):
the Michigan area. He finished eighth in his debut there
a fifty seven cars good. Yes, fifty seven cars are
so good run for him unp modified. I believe they
had sixty eight cars there. On Thursday night, Kurt Spaulding
grabbed the win over in Lake City, floor to the
All Tech Raceway for the LUCASOYL Late Model airt Series
the big half mile ten thousand dollars to win, and
Ricky Thornton Junior picked up the win after Devin Moran

(43:35):
had a flat tire on the last lap, So unfortunate
for Devin there he was on his way to a
win there. Ricky Thornton grabbed the win. Friday night, back
out in Arizona for another night of the Ernie minsy
Early Thought in the late Models, Dylan Thornton was your winner.
Modified went to Troy Morris. The third. Back to Valusia,
night number two for the ASCs three sixty sprints. Justin
Peck grabbed the win again. Scotty Theal finished seventh so

(43:56):
on one improvement from that and then the unp modified
it was Cole grabbing the win. Lake City, Florida for
the All Tech Raceway Lucas Soil Late Model Dirt Series
twelve thousand dollars to win. Ricky Thornton Junior just kicked
everybody's ass. He just did. He won by eight seconds
on Friday night, picking up the win there. Last night,
the final night of the Early Thaw at Central Arizona Speedway,
Dylan Thornton grabbed the win again. The modifieds went to

(44:18):
Troy Morris the third again Barbarville, Florida, Lucia's Speedway Park,
the final night of the ASS three sixty Sprints ten
thousand dollars to win. Justin Peck won again. He clean
swept him. This year he's in the rudein racing twenty
six car and if they bolt the four to ten
in this week and have the performances they had in
the three sixty, he's going to be tough to beat
this year. Scotti Thal ran again. He finished sixth. I'm

(44:38):
not sure if they're putting a four ten in for
the week or not. I know they plan on going
down to Henry County Speedway for the King of the
three Sixties later on in speed weeks, so we'll have
to watch and see the World of Outlaws take to
the track at Vlusia starting Wednesday through Saturday this week
to open up their season for the World of All
All Sprint Cars. So in the UNP Modified's Cole Falloway
grabbed the win. Cole Sarneski was there from Wisconsin. He

(44:59):
finished seventh amongst the seventy eight cars were there. The
Modified's run six straight nights starting Monday at Felusia, and
they plan on having another twenty to twenty five cars
add on to the seventy eight they already have there,
so they're gonna be well over one hundred cars for
this week.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Is that gonna be flow?

Speaker 4 (45:16):
No? That is on dirt vision. Everything from Vlucia's Under
Option and last Night finally at least said he Florida,
the final lane of Lucas Oil Late My Alert Series.
They're fifteen thousand dollars to win if you stayed up
and watch it. It was late because they had a
wet track. I think it was almost twelve o'clock when
it was over. Devin Moran won. He put on a
heck of a show, fifteen thousand dollars to win. There
were probably just short of a dozen league changes. The

(45:36):
track was chopping in spots, drying spots. It was. It
was an absolute classic. Rickey Thornton Junior was near the front,
got clipped with three laps to go, going for the
lead and stuff the front stretch wall. He said it
was the hardest hit he ever had. But Devin Moran
hung on for the victory there in the fifteen thousand
dollars win the six Yeah, and.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
At Lucas Oil Ray's Last Night, we're the top three start.
For those guys that say you can't win from off
the front row.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Oh yeah, they all started outside the top ten. Here
I have to bring it up. I had it, I
had it in front of me, and now I lost it.
It was. It was incredible. Where they start here we go.
Devin Moran started started eleventh and one. Jonathan Davenport started
thirteenth and finished second. Tyler RBS started fifteenth and finished third.
So yeah, lots of passing. Impressive for a third race,

(46:21):
that is very impressive. Yes, the undercard was the six
or four crates. Cody Overton grabbed the five thousand dollars
and win there. Lucas Oil Series is off until Tuesday
when they start five nights at the Quirky Trioval in O'calla, Florida,
so they's kind of taking the place of East Bay
this year. We'll see how well that is. That can
be seen on flow starting Tuesday night. And that is
everything for this week.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
And sitting in for the UH under the weather PJ Noodleman,
who usually does these results from around the asphalt, but
there's only one to give this week. The UA r
A super Fast raced at Cordeal, Georgia. By the way,
we all said it wrong until PJ straightened us out
on that one. Bubba Pollard was your winner. Johnny Satter

(47:02):
was down there finished seventh, and Kendrick Kryer made the
trip and had a problem in DNF, So that was
all from the Cord deal. This week in super Late
Model news, Ty Frederickson, this year's Kowiki Series champion, has
committed to the ASA Star Series. He becomes the thirteenth

(47:25):
that I counted commit commitment to the ASA Star Series,
so that's a pretty big deal. Also, we've got some
racing coming up if you haven't. If you're deciding which
of the streaming services might be best for you, I'm
I'm gonna say I think it's Flow. Everybody has their

(47:48):
own that they particularly like. But starting this coming Friday,
on Flow, you'll see the new Sumyrna Racing and they're
racing down there for what is it, eight nights, like
seven out of eight nights, So it's going to be
you'll get your money's worth out of Flow this week,
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
And you get the ASA Stars race with your Flow subscription.
ASA Stars is usually on was that Track TV or
one of those other streaming services, but because it's at Flow,
and because it's at and part of the NASCAR Weekly
Racing Series event, that race will be on Flow next
week Tuesday eleven.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
On the way down to Florida. There is a thing
this coming Saturday thing. It's a super late model race
at Citrus County Speedway, which apparently is in Florida, and
I just I never heard of it. It's North Tampa
rant to Win. Where is it, Brian north.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
Of Tampa, probably about forty five minutes to an hour
north of Tampa. I think it's like Iverness, Florida. They
call it.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Okay, all right, well that's going to be this coming Saturday,
and Tim Ajeski is not going to race. I don't
know where it's televised. We think possibly Racing America. Is
that what you guys said.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Possibly didn't see it on their schedule though, so I
don't know. It's a UI type event. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
So it's one of the Ricky Brooks series. It's one
of their races, which they usually have it somewhere.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Okay, so you'll find it. You just got to look
for it, and maybe you have it and maybe you don't.
But you know, it's kind of nice to have one
of those streaming services. And I don't know, I think
all three of us have flowed, don't we. Yeah, so yeah,
there's a lot of good stuff on Flow and new
SMYRNA is gonna make it worthwhile this week. But the

(49:36):
real odd thing about the World Series of Asphalt, which
is what they call that series, is that some of
those features are just thirty five laps and that really
seems to.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Be not enough laps.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
So don't you guys think it seems like there should
be like a the minimum should be like seventy five laps.
But that's just an opinion. And you know what they
say about we'll be back.

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Speaker 3 (52:17):
Gay Welcome back. Well, you know, the last thing that
happened to Bobby Allison before he died was to find
out that he got that that tie breaking win, and
it happened at Bowman Gray. Jeez, was that in seventy

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one the last time they raced there? I believe so
sure it was pretty close either either way. Tonight's trophy
has been named the Bobby Allison Trophy, which is pretty
cool as far as I'm concerned, and that will be awarded.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
Tonight's did a special on Wednesday, and I don't know
if you can find it online and see it if
you're able to catch it before the clash tonight it's
really good it's like at about an hour documentary about
the history of it, and they talk about how Bobby
Allison ran that race and back when they ran that race,
they had like two different types of car. They had
the cup car and then they had what now we

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know as the Xfinity Series car. And Bobby ran that
type of car in that particular race because it was
lighter and faster and won the race. And Bill France
was all upset because he didn't run one of their
types of cars and that's why they didn't award him
the victory. And they waited until this year to finally
award it. And they go through how they brought it
to him, and they actually interviewed Donnie Allison about it,
and it was like, you know that Bobby that bothered

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Bobby up until the very end, and when they finally
went to the nursing home and presented him with a trophy,
Donnie says, that was like closure for Bobby and then
and after that he felt it was okay to finally
go because that bothered him for so long. It was
really cool story. Fox did an outstanding job on it.
Tom Rinaldi was the one who narrated it. So if
you get a chance to see it. It's really good outstanding.

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That's very cool. In other news, how many of you
remember Bill Weber. He was one of the TV announcers
back in the day. I don't remember. Was he with
a specific network then or.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
He's a TNT a lot and I think he did
some NBC, but I know he was the big guy
for TN t W and they had their racist.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
He disappeared one day. The word was he pissed somebody
off really bad. I don't know what he did or said,
or we never found that out. That's the way they
want these things to be.

Speaker 5 (54:33):
Hotel in New Hampshire where he got an arguing with
somebody or or got mad at somebody. It was before
the New Hampshire Race and suddenly he wasn't on there anymore.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
And uh, you know, there may have been alcohol involved.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
We don't know that.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Things happened in hotels bars sometimes and yeah, either way,
he passed away this week. I always liked Bill Weber.
I thought he was really a cool announcer, but there
were people that had real issues with the guy for
some reason. There's sometimes more than meets the eye. But
rest in peace to Bill Weber. He was only sixty
seven years old too.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
I mean that's the thing and doesn't really say what
happened to him, but yeah, he was only sixty seven
years old. ESPN is where he was I think where
he was most known well, I mean he was always
with the ESPN Cruise back in the day.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Really, I wrote that down just for the case it
comes up again broadcast.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
He never ended in two thousand and nine when he
was replaced by Ralph Shaheen, and he worked as a
magician in Florida. He was a magician.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
That's pretty good made his job disappear. So by now
you know the name Austin Sindric and many of you
will recall that Austin's dad runs Penske. He is the
president of Penske Racing, and Tim Sindrick announced this week
that he's going to step back from his duties as

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overall president of Penske Racing. He is going to stay
with the Indy car team, but he is going to
start reducing his duties as he heads towards retirement. And
it's interesting, you know, his kid is I think if
his goal was to make sure the kid had himself

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a pretty good job before he got out of there,
well he did, and Austin Sindrick has been the driver
of the number two car for the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
And then.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Okay won the Daytona five hundred. That had to be
quite the day for Tim Sindric as much as Panske.
But the fact that he's going to step back is
a kind of a kind of a big deal and
and he is not going to be the guy there anymore.
Other than that, we have a race tonight. We do
not know who PJ is going to pick if she

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wants to, maybe posted on Facebook if she has, I.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Guess it would be with Chris Busher starting second. Yeah,
I'm sure Toby's telling her to pick Chris Busher, so
I would say, let's just give her Chris Busher, all right.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
That's unless she.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Wants to change her pick, But that would be my guess.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Knowing history I am, as you probably are aware, there
are guys I'm not as enthralled with as others, and
that doesn't have a lot to do with why I
would pick them to win a race. But you know,
Joey Logano seems to be a guy that when they
race somewhere for the first time, manages to pull it

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out if this is a resume and win this. So
I'm gonna take twenty two to win tonight and let's
go to Brian next, will you take?

Speaker 4 (57:38):
And it's a flat track And Denny Hamlin is really
good there, and I'm with all that's going on in
the off season, Denny Hamlin probably cannot wait to win
a race and go out in victory lane and talk
and then go into the press room and talk after that.
So I'm gonna go with Denny Hamlin and he's gonna.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Have a lot to say, and Dan, I'm gonna say
that Chase Elliott is sitting right there for Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Know he's in the pope, But I agree with you
with Joey Logonald. First dirt race at Bristol, he wins,
at first race at the Coliseum, he wins at every
time there's something new where nobody's been to before. Somehow
Joey Legonald seems to pull it off. So I'm agreeing
with you. And as far as Denny Hamlin likes to talk,
he talked this week again too. They asked him about
that provisional HELI old Kestram, this is gonna use for
that and he called it weeks of desperation. The guys

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in that are they're so accomplished, yet I come over
even be able to prove themselves. That's pretty pretty getting
it out there.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
He's not afraid to spit it right out and say
what's on his mind. And uh, that's you know, when
you're gonna spend your time hiring lawyers to go to
court for you, that that's a good thing. Hey, we
appreciate everybody tuning in. Sorry if we never made it
on there, I don't think we did, so this will
be podcast only. Well, it seems like we should have

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sworn or something just to make it for the podcast,
But we do appreciate everybody tuning in. And what we
really want you to remember.

Speaker 11 (58:55):
Is that real race cars have doors.

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