LTN RADIO NETWORK - January 5,2025

LTN RADIO NETWORK - January 5,2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
From various locations via the miracle of Skype. It's the LTNR.
Let's Talk Nascar with your host Todd Baaling, co hosts
Brian Schmidt, PJ. Newdleman, and producer Dangerous Dan Margetta. Call
the show anytime at four one, four, four two one

(00:30):
seventy nine oh one. And now the creator and host
of the fastest hour in radio, Todd Veiling.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know, when I was a kid, I couldn't even
see myself living past forty one because you don't understand
those numbers when you're a kid. And here we are
starting the forty first season of LTN right here on
Fox Sports ninth twenty. Thanks so much for tuning in
as we kick off yet another season of frivolity with

(01:04):
my three partners, beginning with Brian Schmidt in Utsburg, Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Happy New Year from frigid Usburg, where it's nine degrees
January fifth.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I heard that PJ. Newtleman is probably much much nicer
out in Trumpolo, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm mostly cloudy seven degrees at Trumpalo.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh good god? And uh well down south in Saint Francis, Wisconsin,
where Den Marget is hanging out. That's got to be
the hot spot.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I guess it's a whole eleven degrees here, but el
snow in the ground, so we're happy that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
This Once again, the off season has been dominated by
the talk of the lawsuit and the positioning for the lawsuit,
and lawyers and how we're going to spend money on
lawyers and what they're going to do for their money,
and uh, it's very confusing for me. Thank goodness, Stan

(02:02):
Margetta has a mind for legal matters and has studied
the latest positioning from the two opposite ends of the spectrum.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
I don't think a whole lot has happened the last
two weeks because of the holidays. It's kind of been
where it was going into the last time we were
on the air. You know, the teams won their injunction.
They were able to run as chartered cars. They were
able to get the Stewart House charters that that they
were hoping to buy, which they apparently did front Row
I think announced theirs already that's done. Now twenty three
to eleven has to formally request to get that jet

(02:37):
transfer or that sale of charter. It wasn't part of
the injunction. It was just the front row on, but
Nascardi said they're not going to challenge that because it
would be kind of, you know, futile, because the judge
already said that they can they can do it. So
when they request this, which is going to happen if
it didn't happen already, those teams will run as chartered
cars next year with this loss of going on in
the background. Now ask how can appeal the whole the

(02:59):
whole injunction to decision as a whole, which I think
they're going to do probably in this week coming up,
and we'll see where ghost mayre will be a whole
bunch of appeals and motions and it'll probably take all
year to get this done.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know, it seems to me, and I think we've
talked about it on the program, that the absolute bottom
line last thing NASCAR wants to do is open their books.
So doesn't it seem as though if there, if that
is the ultimate goal, that they cannot possibly open their books,

(03:29):
that they're going to have to have a settlement before
any real decisions are made in the courts, you'd.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Think so, I mean, that's probably the best interest to
have everything, you know, put the bed and be done
so we can go racing and concentrate on that. I'm
not sure. I'm not sure what are the teams seeking that.
I don't think they've ever spelled out what they want
to win, Like, should they win this, what do they
want to get? I mean specifically, no kidding.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It almost seems like their biggest thing is that they
want NASCAR open their books. Yes, they want to see
that they spend, you know, fifty million dollars to do
a street circuit in Chicago, or they spent X amount
of million dollars to pay the coliseum. I think the
teams want that out in the open so that they
can say, hey, this is not a fruitful way to
go about your business, you know, just because these networks

(04:13):
tell you that they want some pizazz to the thing.
But we got speedways sitting empty, and you know, Kentucky
and Chicago and these these empty tracks. Yet you're spending
money to do all these other things in these big cities.
That almost seems to me like that's one of the
big ulterior motives of what they're looking for, is to
get this out so everybody can see this and kind
of gasp and.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
The teams supposedly are losing money, right, Yeah, that's yeah.
So you know it makes sense therefore to try and
pull their pants down and make them open up their books.
And that's a nass. It's interesting to see what, you know,
where this is gonna go and how they're going to

(04:52):
do it.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
And it looks like Wednesday, January eighth is the hearing
on this motion to dismiss from NASCARS. That's the next step.
You'll see Wednesday, the next hearing.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's the next one, all right, that's this Wednesday. Much
in the world of racing has well. We've seen some
interesting things this week from the ASA Stars series, and
after our next break, we're going to talk to the
director of operations from the a SA Star series, Marty Mellow,
who's gonna kind of tell us how that series. You know,

(05:24):
we were concerned about the long term with that with ASA.
It seemed like they something was missing out of the
whole thing. And I got a funny feeling that we've
made some real positive moves, especially this last week with
some announcements, and well, Marty will be able to tell
us a little bit about that and and where in

(05:46):
the future of the ASA Star series for the next
few years, so that'll be pretty cool stuff. Before we
go much further, i'd like to say happy birthday, Dan, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Thank you, but this is yesterday.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
I can't drive fifty five, is that right?

Speaker 5 (06:04):
That's where I'm at right now. Time to I guess
I get discounts going forward, not that I'm looking forward
to that.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
You can now buy a house in Sun City, Arizona.
Dam if you buy it now, it'll be paid for.
But I'm no, no, I was gonna say, don't, don't
take out a long term loan whatever.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'm going to say. Now, you're really killing the casinos.
Not only are you winning, you're getting discounted food.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
At the senior free money.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
See isn't that great? By the way, in the in
the city of South Milwaukee, what is the minimum retirement age.
I'm just curious.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
I'm there now. You can go at fifty five and
I'm not going to ASTI got a couple of years
to go, but that's where we can and at that
point where you're eligible. All right, Well either way, I've
been there thirty fifty thirty six years. Five.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Wow, that's amazing. Well from all of us. Then, happy birthday.
It was actually yesterday, but you know, we celebrate all
week on this program, so good news all the way around.
Speaking of old people, Mike Wallace is going to attempt
at Daytona five hundred this year. He's sixty five years

(07:15):
old and he's going to be in a back marker car.
Is this really news? You know? It's it's good for Kenny.
He gives him some content for his shows and all that.
But really, I suppose having a sixty five year old
driver attempting to make the greatest stockhrh race on earth
is is you know Newsworthy MBM Motorsports number sixty six, Dan,

(07:39):
I know in the back of your head you can
tell me more about MBM.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Yeah, Carl Lungs car, I think Josh get some runs
in that car. I was not obviously not not a
top notch car. It's it's probably the back marker. But
at Daytona doesn't really matter, Brian, I mean, no, you
just got to get in the race.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Absolutely not as long as your car can draft you. Fine.
So I mean for anybody to say, oh, it doesn't
make a difference, Hey remember that, Well, it's not plate
racing anymore, and we call it super speedway racing.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's it's all.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Bets are off. Anybody can be a part of it.
And in the duels, hey, it'll be a kind of interesting.
There's a fair amount of cars this year. There might
be four or five or six cars that go home
in the duels this year, so maybe they'll be a
little bit of z azz to those Thursday night races.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Before you start betting on this guy, keep in mind
Jimmy Johnson hopped into one of these new cars and
couldn't make it go. And Jimmy Johnson is what about fifty.
Mike Wallace at sixty five hasn't been in a race
car in how many years? And he's gonna race at
Daytona for the first time in how many years in

(08:44):
a car that he's never sat in before. Yeah, unless
you can get about one thousand to one, I wouldn't
put a hell of a lot of money on on myself.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Or two years ago somebody made a parlay bet on
like DraftKings or a fan duel or bet MGM one
of those that was all those backmarker cars they all
had to finish in that I think there were five
of them, and that was the year when it rained
and turned one and they crashed them all. Alf Field
and those five cars finished in the top ten and
that like twenty dollars. Bet paid like nine hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
So who well, there you go. Uh see, there's there's
hope at Daytona. We never know what's gonna happen. By
the way, speaking of Daytona, uh, it is four weeks
to the to the clash. I almost called it the
bush Clash, but it's not the Bush Clash anymore, folks.
It's the cookout Clash. What the hell that is? I'm

(09:32):
really not sure. It's that some kind of a restaurant
chain in Charlotte is that it?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Don't knock it, man. Sponsorships make the world go round.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So we'll know more about it now. Of course they
did the Southern five hundred, didn't they.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, they've been the sponsor of the Southern five.
It's a it's a chain down Charlotte, Dan, have you
ever been one of those down there?

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yes, I have those right outside my hotel, and I'll
go to the six hundred. I walked over there and
hand some food and they even after the races, once
the drive through his pactics. That's everybody was going to
get their burgers for the night's.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
What it is a burger Giant.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yeah, mostly Hamburger's that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Cookout, a cookout clash four weeks from today. Tell me
that's not great. We'll be back with Marty Mellow right
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Speaker 2 (12:07):
Man, Welcome back to LTN the season premiere for our
forty first season right here on Fox Sports nine twenty.
And it's a real honor for us for the first
time we are we are having Marty Mellow. He's the
director of operations and sales for the ASA Stars series

(12:28):
and this week they had a huge announcement. It's called
the Platinum Program, and Marty is gonna tell us a
little more about it. First of all, it's you're an
LTN virgin, Marty. Great, Great to have you, and we
hope we have a nice, long and fruitful relationship. Great
to have you.

Speaker 11 (12:47):
Yeah, thank you, thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now, tell us a little about the Platinum Program and
what it means for the racers.

Speaker 11 (12:57):
Well, you know, I came into this position of four
months ago and we started re evaluating some things that
you know, the series have been around for two years
and what was called the Winner Circle program for for
the full time teams, and everyone has done a great
job building this out for the last two years. Out
I'm kind of getting the benefits of it, I'm walking
into the foundations there and now I'm trying to evaluate

(13:21):
and help elevate that. And one of the things was
the Platinum program is is it costs a lot of
money to race nowadays, as most know, and it cost
us a lot of money to put on these events.
So we're trying to look at that relationship with the
teams and the owners and you know, we need to
get it across the board at some point, and we're

(13:41):
working that on a three year plan. But start out
our platinum full time drivers, they're they're gonna get some
substantial benefits to not only help monetarily get them to
the track, but for their commitment, but also to h
to help them elevate their platforms on the digital media side.
So we built this off a ten ten race team program,

(14:02):
so like, if we could get ten race teams committed
and help them out, it would be a great start
on year one with it, and we've surpassed that already.
So you know, it's a six hundred and fifty five
thousand dollars program if you break that out for team,
about sixty five thousand, five hundred dollars in monetary in value,

(14:23):
And like I said, we've passed that ten mark, but
my boss has committed to it, so we're not gonna
cap it. We're gonna keep going here and see what
we end up with. But it has a lot of
elements to it.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Marty.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
I'm my background is dirty mil racing. I was on
a dirty model team for twenty years in the Upper
Midwest here and follow the World of out Laws in
Lucas Oil series, and for years we've been talking about
how if there was a way we could take the
asphalt stuff and kind of mirror what the dirt teams do. Now,
looking at this platinum program here, it looks a lot
like that. And is that your ultimate goal to kind
of to kind of solidify it like the Lucas and

(14:57):
the World of Outlaws series have done to get those
drivers to buy in and make names out of him.
Is that your ultimate goal with this?

Speaker 11 (15:06):
Yeah, it is exactly And people have been mentioning that,
and I'm not going to say that I sat here
and created this on my own. That you know, we're
not looking at whatever the series they're doing, whether it's
on asphalts or dirt, and I'm not doing my job
and our team's not doing the job. So I was
very fortunate. You know, I've been an asphalt for thirty
plus years. It's my pass in my heart. I had

(15:27):
a great opportunity to two years ago roughly to go
to work for Rico Abrew on the sprint car side,
and you know, I learned so much over there two
years and just short of two years in dirt working
for Rico. Rico is a master at promoting himself, selling
merchandise social media. So not only did I get to

(15:48):
learn the whole dirt side, but I've learned that from
a driver's standpoint that's built his brands and his platforms
out himself essentially for years. And then I got to
look at the World Outlaws and the High Limits essentially
a program similar to this, and yeah, so exactly what
I did. I brought some of that back with me,
not all of it, of course, but and we're trying

(16:10):
to blend that in and it's very successful. No one
can argue that that the dirt is where it's at
right now, and we need to catch up, and we
are catching up and continue to try to elevate to
that level.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
We had Matt.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
We were on this program two weeks ago and we
talked about this very same subject, and one of the
things he brought up was that somehow we got to
get asphalt super late model racing to get away from
this stigma that they are a stepping stone to NASCAR.
When you're in the world of out lt sprint cars
or late models, you know, that's kind of the top
of the line on the dirt stuff, But on asphalt racing,

(16:44):
this is just a stepping stone. How do we get
away from that and get this to a point where
this is the top of the line. You know, guys
can make a living doing this, I guess is where
it is. How do we get to that point?

Speaker 11 (16:55):
Well, a couple of things there, you know, the Stars
National Tour. I'm very fortunate I have multiple series under
the umbrella of Tracking Enterprises that I work with and
with We have the SA Stars National Tour, which is
our super late top top tier, I guess you would say.
We also have the A S A Midwest Tour run

(17:19):
by Greg mccarrn's a very successful series to the Midwest
for years, and so we have that platform, and then
I have the c R A Jag series. So and
we also have a really good strategic alliance Tim Bryant
down there that runs the Southern Super Series. He's been
in with Bob since day one on this, so I

(17:40):
have so many resources. So when you talk about stepping stones,
we already have the stepping stones within ours, within our umbrella.
And that essentially not saying one is better than the other,
but what each individual racer, what they want to do
with their career, whether they want to stay as a
family run Grassroots two grassroots, the old and that's fine too,

(18:01):
and you can implement that in all these all of
these different levels of platforms. But you know, you kind
of look at the c R A Jags and then
the Midwest Tour in a regional series and then you
kind of elevate up to the Stars National Tour. So
we've built out our own they've built out, prior to me,
their own stepping stone, if we want to use that word,

(18:21):
within our asphalt racing system already now, if one chooses
to go on up to the upper series of NASCAR,
the truck Stitity, the Cup, you know, then yeah, that's great.
If we could get some drivers that come out of
our series and have the opportunity to go up there
and do that level of racing. Then of course we're

(18:41):
going to help support that and before that and hopefully
they'll come back down and support is what you've already
seeing that happen and when they can with their busy schedules.
But ultimately, ultimately we're building a brand around the ASA
that we are here in grassroots are focuses the retain

(19:02):
and promote and help our drivers to stay right where
they want to be. Most of them want to be,
don't have aspirations to go up to the top three series,
and some do, so we need to accommodate both of that,
both of those things and work with those teams and
different drivers of what their what their goals are. So
for me not to entertain all those or look at

(19:23):
how to entertain all those would be a short cell
to everybody in grassroots racing. But by no means do
we want that stigma that we're one hundred percent behind
just promoting and pushing drivers on. We have some great,
great drivers that I have no doubt, no doubt that
if they would have had different opportunities to typically it's monetarily,

(19:44):
would have been very successful in upper three series. And
you know those names are Abubba Hollard and Steven Nazi
and Derek Thorn and we got just those are great
names and and you know what those are in our series,
and those are kind of our we're building. We're building
pivotal pivots around them right now because if you talk

(20:08):
to those guys, most of them, most of them, not
all of them justin still making a push up, but
most of them are very content, whether that are committed to grassroots,
super late model asium.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
We're talking to Marty Millow. He is the director of
operations for the ASA Stars series. Marty has agreed to
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Speaker 2 (22:54):
We are chatting with the director of Operations of what
I'd like to think as it's a major league of
super late model racing, Marty Mellow from the ASA Stars series.
Great to have you on for the first time.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Hey Marty, it's PJ. Newdleman. I've got a couple of
questions regarding kind of leading up to each of the
races on the schedule, Do you guys have something in
place to kind of limit how many weeks out from
an event that racers can practice at that track or
even how many days of practice for each event, because

(23:30):
I think that's kind of part of the way that
this series or this super late model racing is kind
of eating itself, right.

Speaker 11 (23:38):
Yeah, exactly, and we are constantly evaluating those and we
do and see our first points race at NU Sumra
on February eleventh. You know, we do have a test
in policy within our road book. It's fourteen days prior
to the event, so that will that will be in
effect as of right now for twenty twenty five. There's

(24:01):
a little little question on the Speedfest coming up, which
is a CRA Southern Super Series joint thanks and there
with the SA brand coming up here in a couple
of weeks at Cordell. Now that we actually lifted the
tested policy which has been the MO on that just
because there's so many teams rolling out with a quick
break they had with with new equipment and we're on

(24:25):
some new retires, so there is some open testing allowed
to that one. But yes, fourteen days testing policy.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
And then how many days of practice is usually going
to be the rule of thumb for each event.

Speaker 11 (24:39):
You know where that's another great question, and that's we're
listening to the teams and we're looking at our costs too,
and these longer you know, some events, we're not going
to get away from our three or even four days.
You know, your big Winchesters and potentially all Americans. Those
events are so large and there's so much support classes

(25:00):
coming in that they just have to be that way
to a degree. Now, what we'd like to be to
is that that two day possibly a single to some
single day events, which we've incorporated that. So that's cost saving, right,
some teams can afford to go for three four days.
And we're not just thinking I have track stuff, that's
just part of it. It's the travel, it's the hotels

(25:22):
for the teams and our threes, so that that all
adds up, so everywhere we could we could slim that
down but still be a premiere series and give everybody
what they need. So great question. So here's the question
right now. Some will say one day, one day, Well,
the people will saying that one day, and we do
have some one day show scheduled this year, Slinger Speedway

(25:43):
being one of them. So there's a couple there. Two
days think about this is and I listened to the
races and so does Bob very much. And as one
of our staff is, we've got teams that we don't.
We need more than just the top tier teams coming.
We need those teams that want to come and do this,
that that are jumping into our shows three, four or
five six times a year, and they're not up to

(26:05):
part of rolling through our stringent tech. If it's stringent,
you know, we're trying to keep that very fair and consistent.
So we don't want to push them through on a
one day show and then they get one push through
and then the second time if they don't fix it
that you put the rulebook there, it could be a
penalty for qualifying, right, So we don't want that to
happen and discourage these other teams. But that's where the

(26:27):
two day comes in. You've got a whole day to
practice and more so push through tech and get things
right before you have to push through tech on that
on that qualifying day.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
I think I think a two days fair. I think
that's that's solid.

Speaker 11 (26:41):
Yeah, Yeah, I think two days is very is kind
of where everyone's wanting to land and Freddy Carry our
tech guy and Tim Bryant and you know, everyone involves
looking at that, and I think you're going to see
more two day shows a couple of single day shows,
and that's kind of where we're going to try to
balance out this year and see how that works for Well, how.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
About the race format. Are you guys still doing the
stage racing and are there good sponsorship dollars available for
people who win each of those segments if you're doing.

Speaker 11 (27:12):
It, there is.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (27:15):
Our plans right now is to stay with that. We
run three stages. You know, we have these competition caution
breaks as we call them. We don't want live pit stops,
but we do that and last year that was one
thousand dollars per stage break, and I see that staying
in place currently, if not growing. So there's just a
lot of other money in there that we're trying to

(27:36):
give opportunity to the to the race teams to pick
up some cast. It's not all about just winning and
getting the big, big number on pop. We're very aware
of spreading that first down and it really comes down.
You know, really it comes down to me, bj I
do the marketing, and more money we infludes into the program,

(27:56):
the more we could support the racers and start building
up pers from the top down.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm pretty excited. You're telling Slinger Speedway on Father's Day, Marty.

Speaker 11 (28:07):
Yeah, you know, let's talk about that. That is so
exciting for everybody. There's been some some rule the rule
packages are a little different from Midwest racers with this
Midwest Tour and everyone up in here, so that's been
a point of contention the last few years prior to me,
and you know, we we came in line with each
other this year to get those races. We'll be at

(28:29):
Madison on Friday, June thirteenth, uh in a nast speedway,
and then we'll have Saturday we'll be at Slinger Speedway,
no on track, but again push through tech, get the
cars ready, We're gonna have a pit party, and then Sunday,
the Father's Day Juke fifteenth, it will be ANFA Stars
National Tour running for the first time at Slingers super Speedway,

(28:54):
which is we all know how how iconic that is
and we can't thank top to you on enough to
give us opportunity to come there, and I think he's
excited as excited. So we're really excited about that double
weekend up in the.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Wisconsin area, Marty. Have you and Todd discussed the amount
of lapse yet?

Speaker 11 (29:14):
Yeah? So on that Yeah, absolutely. We had a call
last week with our race director series director, which is
which is a boy, I'm going like a Scott Minland,
thank you. Scott Minland has worked with Todd, so I
don't get too much in the weeds on that. We
We have kind of an unwritten policy that our Stars
Now School will never be less than two hundred laps,

(29:36):
so we're trying to find that balance also with the
tires and with the tracks and the size of the track,
so I would guess that it's going to be between
two twenty five and two fifty. Uh, they'll hold me
to that. That that's the Scott Minland decision and working
with Todd's input, and they actually had that conversation. Were
not coming in there to try to mimic this the

(29:57):
This Slinger Nationals. I mean, that's an unbelievable event right
right at the top of the charts for the national event.
So we're kind of doing something a little different with
our flavor, and but i'd be fit sure of that
it's going to land between not two twenty.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
All right, But because the reason I asked ASA, the
old ASA had one race at Slinger Speedway early eighties.
I'm thinking eighty four, maybe eighty three perhaps, which Mark
Martin won. But at that time it was a three
hundred lapper and I think he won by a lap

(30:32):
or two. So that really talk back back in the
old days when when this the first time around. Marty,
It's been great having you on and I certainly hope
we keep the lines of communication open.

Speaker 11 (30:46):
Yeah, I'm here for you now and whenever you need
me questions call me Jahaga jump on the availability. And
I think the more we continue to talk about where
these grasses programs are growing to it the better for everybody.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Thanks a lot, Marty Mellow joining us from the SA
Star series. We do appreciate it. We're going to take
a break and be back hang in there with us.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
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Speaker 2 (33:05):
All right, Welcome back season forty one. A few racing
deals happened this week. I don't know how you finalize
a sale. I guess the rumors came true or whatever.
Front Row got their charter from Stuart Haas, and they
announced that Noah Gregson, who's going to drive their car,

(33:27):
is going to be number four. So the number actually
came along with the charter. That's interesting. Drew Blickensdurffer, you've
heard the name before. He used to be met Ken
Seth's crew chief back in the day. He's been around,
he's been with different teams. He's going to be the
crew chief on this number four car. And what I
thought was interesting about that whole thing is that much

(33:50):
of the crew is coming along from Stuart Haas Racing. So,
you know, I'm which guys I don't know, but it's
going to be left over for the guys that are
left over and I didn't find other employment after Stewart
Haas Racing closed its doors. Are look like they're going

(34:13):
to be going along for the Gregson car, So that's
that's kind of cool. Also, Zane Smith, that's no surprise.
I think we talked about that in the past. Speaking
the front row, he'll be number thirty eight. So what
are they dan, four, thirty four and thirty eight are
the three numbers.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Yes, yeah, fo thirty four to thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Basically Villa Land is the other one, right.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
The other one in thirty four they took they used
to have thirty four, thirty six, thirty eight. They just
scraped thirty six and put four on the car.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
But number four on and no those single digits, you know,
it's kind of a big deal. They did come up
with a plan for Martin Truex. What's going to happen.
David Gilliland is the owner of Tricon Racing. They don't
have a charter, they don't even have a cup car.
They don't need a cup car. That's going to be

(35:00):
the listed car owner for Truex. The number is still
to be determined. It's going to be a TRUEX car
with excuse me, a Gibbs car with Gibbs people, and
it's going to be under the name Tricon Motorsports, which
is owned by David Gilliland. And that's where TRUEX is
going to race in the five hundred and Brian when

(35:22):
this is not exactly a back marker thing. This could
be a winner in that race, even though Truex hasn't
you know, won a Daytona five hundred yet. But you know,
that's not really the whole deal there. This is a
car with a team that we'll be able to win
the race. For Truex is basic last race in a role,

(35:48):
right after last season. So he's come.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
With an inches I think, yeah, was that he didn't
didn't he didn't Hamlin beat him by like an inch
or two.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
Yeah, twenty sixteen we thought he wanted were all disappointed
because kence it lost the lead in the last turn.
But but yeah, it was between the seven, eight and eleven,
and I really thought Truix wonner at first, and they
the scoring showed that Hamlin barely be barely, just barely.
Was the closest five hundred finish ever we got to see.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, so they're gonna put their best foot forward for
Martin to get, you know, one more shot at winning
that race because he's come so.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Close to it.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
But that's a crapshoot race. As we said before, you
have no idea who's going to be in the front.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
So Dan, you had a pretty good idea when they
didn't announce a number what it could possibly be. I
didn't really think much about it before, but I think
you might have hit it on the head.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
People online have been speculating what number will be in one.
One they caought up was it was fifty six. That
was the number he ran when he was in the
with Michael Walter racing back.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Sure is available, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
That's notice because I think the seventy eight is used
by that BEG McCloud team, so that's already out there
unless they would somehow.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Live Fast Motorsports. Yeah, they have the seventy eight.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
You know, I don't know the number nineteen. Obviously he's
going to be used that. That'll be Chase Briscoe.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
So yeah, fifty one is out.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
There, one like one numbers he ran, He ran eight
and he ran one and those already taken.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
So interesting. Also this week we have learned that Corey
Lajoy looks like he is sol there. He's not gonna
be brought back to drive the fifty one car next year.
Rick Ware owns it. Cody is his kid, right Dan, Yes,

(37:25):
some kind of want to be Indy car driver, isn't he.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
He's been all around you think is rick Ware has
team's everywhere, sports car racing, IndyCar racing and even stuff.
He's kind of bounced around. But it's a family deal.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
And uh so, you know, here's another one of those.
Corey la Joy has a very nice social media presence.
He is a great interview he's a nice looking kid.
He does a show on a serious radio. He's he's
out there. But at the end of the day, you
gotta you gotta contend for wins, and yes, he did

(38:00):
contend for a win or two at Atlanta. But you know,
at the end of the day, you gotta do something.
And Corey Ljoy just I think he's wore out as welcome.
But there's other there's another theory, Dan, right.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
Well, some people are speculating that, you know that Tommy
Balden's the general manager over there, there might be some kind
of a rift there between them, that he wasn't happy
with him and then went back to a modified race
like two years ago, where Corey, I don't you wrecked
the Tommy Baldens driver to win the race or he
moved him to win the race or did something back then.
That's just all speculation online, which you can go down

(38:35):
a rabbit hole and try to figure that out. But
we do know racers have long memories. I mean, it's
if you talk to anybody at races or any any
racer out there, they'll never forget when they got moved
to win a big race. And if that was the case,
maybe that came about her. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, it reminds me a little bit of a new
De Benedetto, same type of thing. Had a great social
media presence, a lot of popular that way, and Joy
is the same way. But you don't get too many
chances to win races, and when that chance comes, you
better jump on it. Where the heck was that that

(39:10):
the Benedetto could have won Bristol Crystal.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
He couldn't get around Ryan Newman was a lap down
or he wouldn't get around Ryan Newman. Yeah, but if
it's your first win, then you got to move that guy.
You have to get around and you can't let somebody
hold jump like that. And that cost him the race.
I think that was a big deal at all. That
showed everybody. You know, it was in his in his lap,
rightther just do it. If you wanted it super badly,
you would have moved the laugh guard. He didn't do it.

(39:36):
He raced clean and with a nice guy, but I
think it cost him in the end.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
And I mean, if that doesn't remind you of our
buddy Ted Muskrave when he had a chance of moving
that eighty eight car to win a race at Darlington.
He didn't do it. And he wasn't around much longer
after that either. So that's the way of the world.
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That's right.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
New year means new dirt results. There is no off
season really in dirt track racing. Get started on Monday,
Monday morning. Anybody wake up Monday morning and turn on
Flow at about seven o'clock in the morning and see
a race on there was. It was in Perth, Western Australia,
the Perth Motorplex for the high Limit Sprint Carson. They
went overseas. It was not points or anything like that,

(43:03):
but took their series overseas and they had a one
hundred thousand dollars to win feature. Kyle Larson was there.
It was a heck of a race. Kyle Larson took
the win, grabbing one hundred thousand dollars at seven thirty
on a Monday morning. That's a good way to start
a week. I would say fast forward back here to
the United States. Last night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Tulsa Shootout,
six hundred and forty six entries among six classes of

(43:25):
micro sprint racing. And we don't usually do a lot
of micro sprints, but this was not your ordinary micro
sprint race. The non winged Outlaw feature which was fifty
five laps Christopher Bell versus Kyle Larson. If you stayed
up and watched that last night, that was one heck
of a race. Kind of reminded me of the Chili
Bowl from years ago. And Christopher Bell got by, got
or held off Kyle Larson to pick up the big

(43:46):
micro feature win there and Christopher bug out of the
car and the first thing he said was thank you
Joe Gibbs for allowing him to go back to a
track racing again. And he is loaded for bart. Expect
both of those guys that cottend in the Chili Bowl
in two weeks. The outlaw winged Mike feature win went
to Kyle Larson. He then hopped in a winged a
class micro sprint. Kyle Arson won that from eleventh and

(44:07):
the non stocked wing micro feature that went to Brett Cruz,
and then there were junior sprints there that Brexton Bush
was in and he picked up the future winning that
so a very successful Tulsa shootout. They take a week
off and the three hundred and twenty seven total entries
for the Chili Bowl will get going one week from
today with practice and then they will race the entire
week of the thirteenth, concluding their feature on Saturday the eighteenth.

(44:29):
Also yesterday Talladega, Alabama, at the Talladega Short Track, the
annual Ice Bowl Super Late Models were there. Sam c
Wright was your winner in the six or four crates
that went to Jimmy Thomas and the big money race
of the weekend and for the next week and a
half will be in Vado, New Mexico for the nineteenth
Annuel wild West Shootout. Twenty five thousand dollars to win
in the Super Late Models last night and Bobby Pierce

(44:49):
grabbed the win late race pass to pick up the
victory there. In the Usra Mods it was Cad Dillard.
Mitch McGrath made the trip down there. He had some
very bad luck right away out of the right out
of the shoot for qualifying, didn't quite make her into
turn number one, hit the wall and wadded up his
brand new Longhorn number seventy four car, and hopefully they'll

(45:09):
get her fixed up and be back at it today.
They raced today for ten thousand to win. They raced
again on Wednesday for ten thousand to win, and then
next week Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, concluding next week's Sunday
with a twenty five thousand dollars to win event down
in Vadu, New Mexico. So that is everything for this week.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
On the pavement side of things, we're going to widen
scope a little bit because it is somewhat the off
season for pavement. The Impact Survival Series Chill Chaser in
Duro at Thomas Sparta Speedway happened. Davy Pennell pretty much
led the whole race until he broke his right front
wheel hub with about fourteen laps left, and that handed
the lead over to Justin Schlitski. Salz. Yeah, justinful and

(45:50):
I want to cuss, so I'm so sorry, Justin, but
congrats on your win anyway, So there we are. And
then Saturday, last night we had the red Eye running
at New Smyrna Speedway the super Late models. They had
oh about eight cars there for that.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Terrible unfortunate. Scott was going to give us on site.
He's going to be our reporter from down there, and
when he saw the car call and he turned around
and left. Well.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Gavin Bouchell was the winner of the super Late. The
pro lates also ran. Max Reeves was the winner there.
They had thirteen cars for that, so a little better
in that regard.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Jadavidisian was in that event. I think she finished eighth,
making her debut in a prolate.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Model out of nine cars.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Thirteen thirteen.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
New Year's Eve the New Year's Bash at Dylan Motor
Speedway down in South Carolina. Last night they had the
street stock qualifying fast timer was Bobby Tumbleston. They had
an invert of twelve so Chris I don't remember, and
he starts in the poll. But we had a veteran
Rockford racer Adam Cartwright. He made the race. He was

(47:01):
nineteenth in qualifying, so he will be running as well.
Joey Pontbriand is twenty seventh and Joshua Lundy thirty first,
both of them and the rest of the drivers outside
the top twenty going to be running that last Chance
race which is today where the top six will advance,
and then today's race from that New Year's Bash can
be seen on Racing America. And that n.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Races around the state of Wisconsin right then. I remember
he does.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
He has a super light that that Toby it's a
Toby car, believe it or not. He races at Norway.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
Yes, out of Upper Michigan and Norway.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
He's a regular up there. But he does come around
and we've seen him Dan I know I can remember
him at Slinger right.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
Oh yeah, that seventh car by the way.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
That New Year's Bash James Swan used to go down.
In fact, he did for many years, and for one
reason or another, he didn't go this year.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
So they'll be back next year, they said, Uh, actually.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
Having a watch party on Rock for the day. They're
all getting together to watch it. So he's still going
to be a part of it.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
That's that's pretty good. It's uh, there's there's some positive
things we've heard today about a short track racing, I think,
and we needed to see some some positives, I think,
And uh, there's great reason for for you know, optimism.
I think in the near future and in the in

(48:24):
the sport, don't you think I think we've turned the
corner exactly.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
I think I think Marty Mellow is the right guy
in that position, and I hope that the powers that
be continue to empower him to be able to put
forth some ideas and help execute it. How I think
he's got a great vision.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
They always say it's about the people you put around it,
and people are what make things work. And if you
get the right people, uh, you know, things can happen,
and he sure sounds like it now. Now. The bottom
line is to get the teams to support it. That's
why I guess test I got a foundation here that
that's spectac. They're all over the place, the pieces have
always been there. He's got to have somebody to keep

(49:04):
mal you know, pulling on the same page and go
in the same direction.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Everybody's got the same common goal. They all got way
different ways to get there, and I think you got
to have somebody to kind of keep mall going the
same way and keep it all in place. And that
looks like he's doing so far.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
And you know, I think he even said they were
hoping for ten cars.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
He said they have ten cars so so far, they've
announced Billy van Meter, Austin Nason, Derek Thorn with Highland's Motorsports.
It's a new ride Chase Pissinott Pinsinnat from Hosts of
Ours Racing RTT Jones Racing, which is Ben Kyle Steckley.
Not sure if it'll be Kyle again next year. And

(49:42):
then Cole Butcher with Donnie Wilson Racing. I think we
can rest assured that there'll be at least two more
Donnie Wilson cars into the mix. They just probably wanted
to announce the biggest one first, which is Cold Butcher
Candy Car.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Probably expect to write, don't you think, Anthony Camp You'll
probably put one in there eventually.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Hi don't know.

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I think we turned that corner. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 13 (51:49):
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Speaker 10 (51:54):
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Speaker 2 (51:57):
Your iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to Weltn's forty first season premiere.
I think it's kind of funny how they you know,
we have we have political speak. You know what it
is when somebody, when something really sucks, they say opportunity.

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There's a good opportunity. Well, I love this one. The
Chicago Street Race next year after this is the last
year of the three year deal. And the quote is
they are unsure if it's coming back after this year. Sure,
how about where the hell are you going? To race.

(52:38):
How about Road America. It seemed like we did a
pretty damn good job up here in Cheese Land.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Did But I don't know. It just seems unlikely because
it's not a NASCAR own track and it's not the
pizazz that they want for their you know, ratings. Although
the Chicago race, I believe that's going to be during
the Amazon Prime portion of the schedule. So no, when
you when you see the word on shore, that pretty
much tells you this is it. So, uh, this is
the last of the three year contract. Now there's been

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talk and you know, you got the big Oval right
down you know, about forty five minutes west of downtown
Chicago that's sitting there that you know, these new cars
will put a hell of a show on. But then
if you want the pizazz and you want to go
to southern California, there's talk that maybe San Diego would
be a place you'd have a street race. So we'll
see if that's something they're going to look into. You
would think, if that's something you're going to be doing

(53:28):
in twenty twenty six, you got to get going on
that earlier, you know, so probably by the time we
leave Chicago in July. They have some sort of plan
in place for what they're going to do going forward.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Well, I'm sure they're already working on something. They're just
trying to decide which street they want to race on.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Well, and then, and then when you're in the middle,
like we talked earlier, when you're in the middle of
people suing you, you also have to be careful as
to how much money you're going to spend to do
all this type of stuff. True that to cost you
sixty to seventy million dollars or whatever. You know, if
it was fifty million to do this thing in Chicago,
you're going to at least have that, if not more.
If you're going out to California to build a street circuit,
they gotta be careful on that as well. So a
lot of movies see if.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Their pants getting pulled down first, Cyan, you had the
right idea. This it's come around to where a mile
and a half track oval might just be a pretty
good geez, what could we replace the Chicago street course
race with? That might be you know in the neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Right, you know, I mean, yeah, you're not You're not
gonna be able to sell twelve hundred dollars tickets like
you do in downtown Chicago. You're gonna have to probably
have them priced at you know, fifty sixty dollars to
get people there. But you know, everybody there's there's talk
that people want to have one more shot there, So
this would be it, and NASCAR would roll it out
just like that.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
This is this is it.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Twenty twenty six, We're gonna come back to the Oval.
You know, people either show up or that's it. We're
gonna sell the property and get out of there, you know,
because they haven't set yet, you haven't probably right. Yeah,
And in twenty nineteen we were told, you know, there
are maps out there showing where they partitioned off, where
they're gonna sell it, and this that and the other thing,
and none of that has come the fruition. I mean
I went, I went in October to the World of
Outlaw race at the Oval down there and drove around

(55:04):
the property. Nothing's changed. You know, it's still there.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
They ran a motorcycle race there in twenty twenty three,
so the lights still work, the property is still there,
the grass is cut. Wouldn't take much to go race
in there. Again.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
But I think you're leachers.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
They're all there. Nope, everything's still there.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
But it could be a placeholder for a couple of years,
you know, because with it being gone for all these years,
people flock there. The first year back, Hey we're back
at Chicago Speedway. Everybody want to go. And then about
two or three years into that, it kind of, you know,
gives them time to go find another another thing in place.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Not a bad idea. They wouldn't cost them, they wouldn't
have to pave the La Coliseum to do it. It's
right there.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
The same thing happened with the NHR when the NHRA
went away from the strip down there in Chicago. You know,
people it didn't didn't really matter. Well, then a couple
of years went by where they didn't race there, and
then Dan and I went back that first year, tons
of people there, you know. So that's kind of the
society we live in today. People, Well, we used to
always have the same schedule every year, and we've kind
of gone away from that where something needs to be
new all the time to get people's attention. It's kind

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of sad that that's the way it is, but that's
just the truth.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
So this, this.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Constantly moving schedule, I think, is what we're gonna have
to see.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Yeah, it's not. It's not the worst thing. Although when
they're talking about racing in Saudi Arabia, I'm not real
sure that's a good idea unless you do some kind
of a you know, exhibition race and you pay the
drivers to make the long trip and pay the.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
That's the formula one guys. How much they like going
to Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
I mean they tried that international so I get NASCAR
wanzov be on an international level, but I mean they
tried Japan, they tried Australia. It was okay, but it
never really was unsustainable. I mean, I'm not sure Mexico
City coming.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yeah, I mean I'm glad it go.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
New Mexico and Canada. Are you know we're all connected.
It's not that all the way overseas kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
I still have an open border todd right.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Yeah, well, I'll be fixed in about fourteen days if
I remember, right.

Speaker 5 (57:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Well, it's a quintessential. There's a word for you. It's
a quintessential American racing series. We don't need Canada, we
don't need Mexico. We show as hell. Don't need to
go to Saudi Arabia. Just pick the good tracks. And

(57:21):
and that fancy oval in Canada, what is it?

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Junk junk? What does it start with? A?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Jay Dan?

Speaker 3 (57:26):
Remember that junk Jacuna Jacana. Yeah, that's that's a cool oval.
That's not that far from Detroit.

Speaker 8 (57:32):
That would be cool.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Tecassa, that's it. Yeah, that would be cool. It's not
that it's near Toronto. I think, you know, west of
east of Detroit, somewhere in that kind of area there.
I remember seeing a picture of.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
It north north of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
If you're hell bent on racing out of the country,
if you have an established, decent oval where you don't
have to, you know, put up barriers in race around
street corners, it sure makes a lot of sense. And
what do do we really know? I was gonna say,
I'm not sure that this Mexican thing matches that description

(58:10):
where we're going to go down there and no.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
But it's a it's an existing course. The Formula one
runs on it, and they're going to pack the place.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
For that race. So oh yeah, and Daniels Sports it's
gonna be the man too, and that's pretty cool. I think, Hey,
thanks for being a part of our first program of
the forty first season of LTN. Packers play early today
another hour that'll be fun. By the way, you should

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