Season 3 Episode 13 Running on Fumes To Rolling In 50k w/ Mini Tyrrell

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know what everybody, everyboy, my name is Roy Felps.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Here of the Ruff and.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Fenders podcast soft To where we talk anything and everything
about racing from north to south at various shops. We
go on as it untu, unedited and no bullshit anyone.
If they just go back to the pit, well he
fucked up, he can kiss my dick.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
We talked about rules.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I don't know. We got all these rules cubes that
we see on the track.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I've been waiting for.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
This ut here you've been running. You've been running the
back of it all for like five years, laying inside
of Me's blaming me.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
What's age that day?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Raine Jacket, Paine Jacket, I racially just like you. Joy
David's nice.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I did it for the wrig.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
You can talk to various drivers in their shop where
they cut their teeth, blood their blood and they make
their name and the sport that we.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Love of short track racing.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
On a tree and so kick back, relax and grab
a road soda and enjoy get various drivers that we
go and meet.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
And now on with the show. That's always says every time,
Oh you know we should do this, we should do that.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You're scared, you're scared? How we doing? Everybody? My name
is Randy Phillips here of the Rough Finished podcast and
James as late as usual. If you guys know James,
he's either good for two things, talking about modified or
being late to everything that has to do with anything
that he's obligated to do. Today we have the fifty
k winner, Minni Tyrell, joining us to talk about his life,

(01:20):
the big fifty k win and all that stuff. So
welcome Minnie. Thank you for taking the time to talk
with us and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Of course, thanks for having me on. Always a pleasure.
It's a pleasure to meet you guys. And yeah, thank
you for having me always up up for a conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, that's great. We love that you're pretty much like
maybe our fourth person we've interviewed out here. We're still
trying to branch out and all that stuff. But if
anybody watched the race Sunday night, after all the rain
and the dragging of the tires and all that stuff,
you definitely saw a great race for the late model stocks,

(01:59):
you coming out on victory on top and all that stuff.
As I fall over my words here, but uh so,
how did how did all this. How did this all
start for you? How did you How did you get
into racing? Many?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, so, actually, my my father you know, and his dad,
my grandfather, kind of growing up, they were always into cars.
My family's big time in the cars. You know. My
father's been in the car business, uh with fixing cars
for the past thirty years. And we've got two family
owned and operated shops up in northern Virginia and that's

(02:35):
what I do kind of day to day basis currently
is I kind of started working on cars when I
was fourteen and been involved with cars ever since. And
my whole life has revolved around things with wheels and
that's got motors and make noise. And at the age
of four my father growing up with a racer and
he did a lot of road racing, whether it was

(02:57):
Indiada's Spectmadas or Porschas, He did all kinds of stuff
like that. And he did end up racing late models
in his later years and at old Dominion Speedway in Manassas,
Virginia at the time. Now it's Dominion Speedway in dorm Berg,
but which is a beautiful place. I hope you all
can check that out one day. But yeah, so I

(03:19):
kind of got into it as soon as I turned
four years old. My dad asked me if I wanted
to try a go kart at the Old Dominion Speedway
of Manassas, which was about a mile from my house,
and I was like, yeah, absolutely, and got into it
at a young age and did go karts for many years.
I didn't thought I was about nine years old, and

(03:41):
I raced a variety of different things, like you know
the mini cup cars which you know race and local
divisions up and down the East Coast. I did those,
indo worry. It was called arena racing at the time
in the Richmond Coliseum and those were a blast of fun.
I raced Bandalaios, I did a couple of Yustac Mitch's
race seen with Butcher Lamb with radical race gear. Did

(04:04):
all kinds of different stuff kind of when I was
really young. And I first kind of set foot into
a late mole of stock car when I was nine
years old, and I ran three races at nine years
old and turned ten and met the cruchiefs that I
have now, Brandon Butler, and we've been together ever since
I've been ten years old, and it's been nothing but
amazing in these cars with my team that I have now, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
No, for sure, I look like I said, just talking
to you for the first time, and all that stuff
going through your biography and all that stuff they have
on your race and page. If you guys have a chance,
go check that out, go go support obviously all our
local racers. How did your first race ever go a

(04:52):
goat cart?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
You know, honestly, I can't even remember how the first
one when I think, I want to say, I ended
up finishing second in my first ever go car race
at King George Speedway was one of one of my
first ever go car races and I ran Old Dominion
accardiing there. Michael Diaz ran it at the time, who's

(05:16):
the owner of Southern National motors and Motorsports Park. And
I've actually grown up kind of racing with Mason, Michael's son,
Mason Diaz throughout the years. So ever since I've been
into racing, I've known the daz family and grown up
racing against Mason, so uh, he's a good friend of
mine and also from around our area. And I think

(05:39):
ever since that, I went to King George Speedway and
and raceco carts there and want of pilot races. Uh,
when I was super young, and I went on to
win a couple of different little track championships there, and uh,
you know, I kind of got into that that was fun.
I actually didn't like at the time. When I first
got into go karts, I didn't like being bumped mhm.

(06:00):
And I told my mom, I said, I really don't
like this stuff, and I got I actually got out
of it for a couple of weeks, and my mom
figured out that I didn't. I didn't like it because
I was scared of being bumped. So what my mom
did with me was I had little battery powered cars
that the kids ride around on. I had a wheel yeah,

(06:23):
the power wheels. Yeah. So I would ride those around
the backyard and my mom said, well, we're going to
get used to bumping, and I'm going to bump you,
and then you're going to bump me. And so what
we did was around in the backyard and my mom
would bump me, and I didn't like it, but then
I got used to it and accustomed to it. So
then I started doing it to her and I thought

(06:43):
it was really fun doing it to her, and she said, well,
well that's what they think when they bumped you, and
I was like, oh, okay, so this is more or
less fun rather than rather than scary. So uh, I
got back into the go cart and I it ever since.
Never put it down, ever since, Never ever put racing

(07:03):
down since that point. And I've raced every single year
since I've been four years old, which is pretty crazy
to believe. I'm twenty years old that it turned twenty
one in September here, and I've been racing every single
year of my life since that point. So it's been
been pretty pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Pretty fun, definitely committed. But going back to the parts
where you enjoyed doing it but you hated having it happen,
I think every racer is.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Going through that.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
We always love having a car that can use up
the front bumper, but we hate it when we were
just in the way of everybody. So I totally get that.
But that's awesome. I didn't know you were honestly that young, honestly,
so with the with the accolades that you have and
accolades making up new words that you have at such

(07:54):
a young age, that's that's very impressive. Plus, like you said,
you've been doing mechanics and all that stuff, just like
most racers get into it, you know what I mean,
And it's definitely a good backfield to get into. Nonetheless,
that's how we all pretty much got started. I mean,
I feel like I came up the same way as

(08:15):
you as my dad was working on cars all the time,
and that's how he got into it. And then from
there we got into racing. And then I was like,
we weren't that good. We weren't as good as you many,
but but we definitely had our fun though, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm very, very blessed. You know, my dad is my
biggest supporter. He's my number one fan, and he's my
best friend, and yeah, he's he's supported me and giving
me every single avenue and resource available with my fingertips
growing up. And it's something that you know, he didn't
have when he was trying to race, and he kind

(08:52):
of grew up and and not not the most wealthiest
family that you know, they could only do certain things,
so he had to kind of do everything on his own.
And you know, I think that was the biggest thing
for my dad with me growing up as a kid
that he he just really enjoyed seeing me get out
there and have his experiences and be able to raise

(09:13):
plate models and uh, you know, go up to these
levels of racing that uh, it just makes them really proud.
And he works, He works so hard for me to
be able to do things and be able to get
into racing. I'm very very fortunate that, you know, I
was blessed to be born into a family that is
so supportive and they love me to death and everything
they do revolves around me. And uh, it's sound him

(09:37):
selfish saying, but many I don't I don't ask him
to do it. Yeah, they love me to death and
everything they do. My mom has sacrificed so much in
her life. You know, I always never forget she always
wanted a bathroom redone at our old house, and she
waited to have that bathroom redone for five years just
because I was still racing and we wanted to money

(10:00):
is to go to raising. So definitely, Uh, pretty cool
to know. And I feel very loved all the time
around my family that they're so supportive of me. So
I'm very lucky to have the success that I've had
to be able to get into racing and have such
an awesome life at a young age and be able

(10:21):
to do it. But you know, we work, We work
so hard and I do this NonStop. That's all I
do now, is uh, you know, I graduated high school
and got into the family business full time, and I am, uh,
you know, pretty much turning wrenches every day that I'm
not racing and trying try and enjoy my life a
little bit on the weekends. But we we worked on stop,

(10:41):
like I said, I was telling you before the show.
And we live an hour and a half now from
from the shop, so I'm I'm up five to six
in the morning and and all my way to work,
and and I'm not usually leaving until so about now
around seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night every night. So
we were always uh working the long hours. But it's
all worse in the end.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh for sure, for sure. And at one point I
did want to touch I saw your flow racing thing
where you were asking for sponsorship and stuff like that,
and I think that was pretty I'm gonna try to
word this like, you don't really see that a lot,
you know what I mean, But you were you were
pretty much straightforward about it. You like, we're just trying

(11:24):
our best to get by with what we got and
I don't know how much we got left, but I mean,
this race will definitely help us out. And then all
all the obviously the race and gods were with you
and uh help out there, you know what I mean.
And like I said, it's it's my first time meeting
you and all that stuff, and I didn't, like, I

(11:48):
didn't know you were out there wrenching on cars from
from the dust to dawn and all that stuff. And
it's awesome to see, you know what I mean, because
being a part of like the cars, the cars touring stuff,
a lot of you see all the media, we get it.
We see all the media and stuff, but we don't
see like the behind the scenes stuff, you know what
I mean. We don't see waking up at five to

(12:09):
go bust your ass all day and then then you
got to get ready to go race the car August
sixteenth and Anderson, you know what I mean, We don't
We see all the media, we see all the glitz
and glamour, we don't see all the everything that leads
up to it, you know what I mean, the long days,
the stuff that should be going right but it's not,

(12:29):
and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
So yeah, absolutely, it's uh, it's it's definitely. You know
a lot of people don't and I you know, I
kind of I feel bad because it's you know, I
hate to be the guy, and I know a couple
of people have done it, and there's so a lot
of people don't realize that. It's that it's not only me.
I mean, there's so many of us that are all
in the same situations. I mean I can rattle off

(12:53):
lists of names of guys that you know, just growing
up in the car store and racing against. You know,
guys like Deek the Castle, who his family is his
full time auto repair and he works every single day.
And there's been callous times where Deep showed up to
the racetrack and you know, at five six o'clock to
try to test, to get an hour or two of
test in, but that's because he was having to work

(13:15):
and get a job done throughout the day. You know,
guys like you know Chase Burrow too, which you know,
we've become very good friends and growing up racing with
him too, and he's constantly working as well, in the
same kind of boat and we're all just trying to
scrape together enough. And you know a lot of these
guys that don't you know, ask is that's kind of

(13:36):
the biggest thing. And I know a couple of people
have kind of put out there that they're struggling, and
I don't know, I just I feel bad, I guess
is the way to put it going out and trying
to ask for people, because I don't ever want people
to think that I'm trying to take advantage of anything
and take advantage of anyone. You know, obviously we're we're not,

(13:56):
you know, just like I do. No one's in the
short track business really to to make money, and this
stuff is not uh, you know, the Hickory was a
race that you know, if you went into it, absolutely
you wanted we made We definitely made some money of
that race. But that's that's uh, you know, the wall
off during the year that you can say you did that,
and it's it's very hard, you know. I didn't know

(14:19):
that going into Hickory. I didn't know that I was
going to make it to the finish out the season
in the car store. I knew that I could probably
get to at least one or two, two more maybe
towards the end of the year, but uh, you know,
really and truly, my family's just been struggling and I've
had I've been so blessed. I've had some help this
year and Coleman director allowed me to put Jesus' Lord

(14:40):
on the car and kind of try to spread my
word about Christianity and try to get my generation more
involved with that, because we're in my generations very very
disconnected with the Lord. And I kind of passed. Twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty three, I had really bad
years of I just was not doing well. I didn't

(15:03):
really focus on myself. I myself was pretty disconnected with
my faith. And going into twenty twenty four, I have
my best year yet. At the start of the year,
my team we just set a goal, Hey, we're just
going to finish inside the top ten, and we're going
to finish these races and things are gonna start going
our way. And I threw it up to God and
I said, you know, I just prayed and tried, you know,

(15:26):
really kind of came back to my faith, and then
He answered and opened so many doors for me that year,
and we had our best year yet. Didn't win a race,
but we ended up third in the points and rolling
into this season, I approached, like I said, Coleman, rector
with reb erected real estate out in my area in
northern Virginia, and asked him and kind of told him
my story and was seeing if he could help me

(15:48):
out with my racing. And he didn't want anything in return.
He didn't want he didn't care about his name being
on the car or nothing, and he was just tickled
to death as a very Christian man. And him and
an other gentleman named David Taylor that came on board
and helped me get to the racetrack, you know, the
first half of the season, and that that helped out
a ton. And it's this stuff has gotten so so

(16:12):
expensive to get to the racetrack. People don't realize it.
And you know, like we said, you know, you're not
you're not making making a profit unless you're winning all
the time, which you know is great. You know, we
want to do that, but it's, uh, it's so hard
to win in the in the car store. And just
like I said, I was getting into Hickory, and uh
I kind of knew that. I mean, I was on

(16:33):
my last leg. Honestly, I was still behind on some
bills and it needs to get those squared away. And
I just didn't know if I was gonna be able
to make it to the next one. So I kind
of trapped into that car thinking that, and and you know,
coming to realization that I might not be getting into
the race car maybe at all the rest of your
I didn't know what was going to happen. It was

(16:54):
all kind of based on what happened that night. And
h it's again, I threw it up to God. Man.
I said some prayers before I got in the race
car and strapped in and it was like that massive
wreck happened late in the race, and I mean you
could see, I mean we barely missed it. I mean
about a half a car length. Yeah. Uh, it was

(17:14):
I felt like, you know, a guy kind of opened
the sky and opened the door for me, and I
was able to get by unscathed and just did what
I had to do to keep him behind me and
we ended up winning. So after the race, and I
just kind of broke down inside of the cars, I
mean as soon as I crossed the finish line, it
was like I just started, you know, just bawling over
the radio, and I was like, man, I it was

(17:35):
more or less not like obviously I was stoked, you know,
it's often winning I mean, I'm still on cloud nine
from winning the race, But it was more or less
just I was so emotional because I knew that now
I could, I can make it, I can finish the
rest of the season. You know, this this was helping
me tremendously. And it's it's all I want to do, man,
I want to go to the next level. You know.
I want to be a professional race car driver, and

(17:56):
I want to work as hard as I can to
become that. And it's, uh, you know, it's kind of
it's hard. Man. You battle yourself mentally when you don't
have the backing and the support to do it, and
sitting there thinking, I know I'm young, but it's it's
just I'm always sitting there chomping at the bit, like,
you know, is this my year? Like is this do

(18:16):
I need to perform this year? I feel like I
got to perform, you know, to make it. So it's
you get on yourself pretty hard and they come away
with a win like that. Man, It's just it was
like all the all the prayers in the world were answered,
and this year, I mean all the prayers have been answering. Man.
We've got three wins this year, and we've had a
ton of speed in the car stour and then contending
to win you know about every race we've been in

(18:38):
almost this year. It's been pretty incredible. Man. I'm so
proud of my team and probably I'm proud of myself.
I think I've become a pretty pretty solid driver and
just growing and mature and as the years go by
and hopefully I can have that opportunity to set in
a seat in the next level and try to make
it from there.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, it's all out. It's all about opening doors and
obviously doing this big race is the biggest late model
race in the Southeast for some time, you know what
I mean. Putting up fifty grand and putting up thirty
grand to win, for these guys to go out and
battle their hearts out, it's it's definitely eye opening. Definitely
had I mean, I wish, I mean, we definitely went

(19:22):
through it the whole weekend with the rain and everything
like that. But Saturday seeing Hickory packed and I mean
absolutely packed full of people was just awesome to see.
For Hickory, if anybody's known Hickory. It's been on its
downfall for a little bit, but it's it's starting to
come back. And then just seeing that hole, that whole

(19:42):
uh crowd of people and seeing everything is just stacked
and everything is just everything is compiled into one thing,
and just seeing the fans all show up minus mother Nature.
I mean, I went and took Sharer, came back for
Sunday night, you know what I mean. I wasn't gonna
miss the race.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I was like, I've been here all week.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
And yeah, I kind of wish I could have gotten
the shower honestly before I stick bag, but uh, the
shower at the end of the night, after I was
covered in the champagne, was was something that was definitely
worth worth sticking out. I'll tell you that.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I hear you, so no, I totally get it. But
so take take us, take us through that race. I mean,
you were you're obviously riding for a little bit and
then when when did you think it was time to
go for you and your guys is to start making
a charge through the field and try to get into
better position to get it obviously the win.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, I mean I thought, you know, we had a
good car and throughout practice on Friday, and we had
came even Wednesday and practice a little bit. We kind
of I thought we were really good on test day,
and then on Friday we kind of battled a little bit.
I almost kind of center right in the middle of
the corner on the center exit rolling off the corner.

(21:06):
We were a little tight, and you know, we thought
we had kind of made a good game plan and
made some good adjustments going into qualifying Friday night, and
I was glad that we got qualifying in. I didn't
think that was gonna happen with the weather, but I
think there was just so much moisture on the tires
and I couldn't I couldn't get the right front tire
to come in during qualifying. And I mean even I

(21:27):
crossed the line you're taking the checkered flag and went
off into turn one and the thing turned great right
then and there, and I was like, man, I thought
we could have been a little bit better in qualifying.
And we still qualified ninth, which is which is pretty
stout and a forty three car field, but you know,
we kind of just took our time and at the
start of the race and didn't didn't try to push

(21:47):
the issue too. All were just kind of crawled by
a couple of guys slowly U through there. Just didn't
want to burn the tires up too bad. And I
think about a lot. I don't know. I want to
say it was lap sixty or so I had ventured
into the top five, and I felt like we were
riding at a decent pace, but the leaders were going

(22:07):
really really hard the whole time pretty much, and which
has been it's been pretty amazing to see how these
tires have kind of held up with these tracks going
so hard the whole time, and it's so yeah, I mean,
they were going pretty hard, and I knew that I
needed to try to stave a little bit so that
I could have something for him. I mean they I

(22:29):
think Tristan McKee definitely in Land and Lewis had a
really good race car that whole race, and they were
going to be the two to beat. Caden Honeycutt was
pretty good too. I thought me and him were pretty
identical when it comes to, you know, how our cars
were handling it. Just the only difference between us was
kind of who was in front of who. It was
like we couldn't get back around each other, so it

(22:52):
just come to like thirty Togo. I was able to
get by Cayden on a restart and set my sights
on landing there and him out the way a little bit,
and got underneath of him and went off into turn
one when we cleared him, and he ended up giving
it back to me about four times harder, and I
got up into the fourth groove and thankfully saved the

(23:12):
race car and came back out and back and forth.
So when that happened, I knew that, you know, after that,
I couldn't couldn't get back around them because we were
all running about the same speed, and we ended up
stretching away from the rest of the field a little bit,
and I knew right then and there, I was like, okay,
I got to back off and just try to ride
as as much as I can because I knew there

(23:33):
was gonna be another caution and I knew that wasn't
it for the night, and I took I took a
little bit of a gamble instead of trying to chase
him back down, I just just rode and we tend
to go. They had that yellow and that was that
was what I was waiting for and lined up for us,
and it looked like Kayden kind of jumped that start

(23:53):
there at the end, and they had called it back
or called called it on him for that, which I,
from my point of view, did it look like. And
it's been a pretty controversial topic in the past few
days about that, But it looked like you did fire
a touch early. But I was the first one to
say it. I said it multiple interviews that night. I said,

(24:14):
you know, I've done it. I've jumped the start too
this year. I've done it, and I've gotten away with it.
It's just this race, you know, they've they've been they've
been cracking down pretty hard on it recently, and it
was something that you didn't want to screw around with,
especially when you're trying to battle it out for fifty grand,
and it just he did it, and it just looked

(24:35):
looked too obvious, and so they called it on him.
But and that was right there, you know, looked like
Landing kind of jacked up the seven cars there and
got underneath of them and they tangled and was able,
like I said, skate right behind it untouched, which was incredible,
And it was like, you know, I got the call
on the radio onto the red flag. They were putting
the seventeen to the back, and I was like, man,

(24:57):
there it is, this is my I raced to win now.
So I probably been a really good race between me
and Kayden at the end. I thought he was, you know,
about matching me in terms of handling. So we the
battles out pretty hard, but I was just able to
get back and you know, get control of the restarts
and uh, you know, just never looked back, just kept

(25:18):
Jared Friar behind me, and I know he was coming
on strongly at the end, and I just just knew
I had to get away from him on the start
just enough to keep him there. And we did just
that and I ended up winning the race.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Man, it was.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
It was pretty incredible. I'm still still out in the high.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, no, for sure. You I mean, I don't know
how many baseball caps they gave you in the victory lane,
but they were a lot.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
But yeah, that was that was like I was watching
you just toss him around. You're like, here you go,
You're gonna have this one and that one, this one.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
But yeah, you know, I never thought about that, and
I wish I would have done in that dominion too,
because I you know, they all started asking I'd taken
a bunch home from Wake County and also from the Menion,
and I was like, you know, when they started doing
it again, my girlfriend Hannah was there. She's the one
that I when they do the hat togs, I tossed

(26:13):
them to her and she ends up holding them for me,
and I was like thinking, right before they did it,
I was like, man, I got too many of these things.
So a fan called out and it was like, hey,
you know, so I'm here, and I was like perfect.
So I just started launching them out everybody, and you know,
I don't want to take them, only shout out to fans. Man.

(26:34):
They stuck that race out. And I've never seen more
dedicated fans of my life on Sunday night than the
ones that were there, because I mean, it was raining
all day and they were there from you know, about noon,
and they stayed up in those grandstands the entire time.
And I was I was borrown away because me, I personally,
I don't think you could have paid me enough money
to sit up there for that long. I was.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
I was shock seeing that too. I was like I
was like, man, I mean we were there. We were
there until like four or five o'clock, and I was like, man,
I was like, I don't know when they're going to
fire this race off, but I need to I need
to go warm up or the old lady is going
to go yet start yelling at me, you.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
So I was like, we'll go right, We'll go home
for a couple of minutes, then we'll come back later
in the night. So that's what we did. I mean,
we didn't stick it out, and we definitely salute the
fans for doing that. I mean, that's that's a big thing.
And uh, nine thirty start time. I was like, damn, man,
it's going to be a long Monday.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, especially especially on Sunday night.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
And it was.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I was blown away there was that many people there
are still yeah, they truly was incredible seeing that. Man.
It was Yeah, there's a lot of people that are
are committed and they want to see the race. So
I was just I was pretty that was pretty cool
seeing how many people actually, uh you know, stuck it out,
and it was cool seeing the it wasn't a giant

(28:01):
crowd that came down, mit Chreolane. But it was definitely
a crowd that was pretty cool. They even stayed to
come and congratulate me and take some pictures, so shout
out all of them, and that was that was awesome.
Need more people in the sport like that?

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh yeah, no, no, for sure. So obviously I think
the next race for you guys is August sixteenth out
of Anderson.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Right, yes, sir, yeah, next weekend. So what you oh?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Wow? Really?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Dang. Yeah, I'm gonna be at Richmond. I'm going to
be in a whole different I'm going to be in Virginia.
You guys are gonna be where Where is Anderson?

Speaker 2 (28:36):
It's in South Carolina?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Okay, yeah, okay. I mean I'm still trying to get
used to everything. I know where racetracks are. That's about it.
Anything else. Been down here for eight months, I have
no idea, you know what I mean, I've been.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Anderson is about as far down South Carolina as you
can get and a half from Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
We raised we raised cord Ale, Georgia earlier. It was
the second race on the scheduled third race on schedule,
excuse me. And that was that was Ike I mean
it was it was about a twelve hour ride. I'd say,
all by the time we stopped, I think it was
about ten hours on the button from my house. Oh

(29:20):
so yeah, but I stopped. You by the time you
stop and you eat and you you know, go to
the restroom and do all that good stuff, it's about Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, for sure, I know there's gonna be I think
I bounce around. Just stay with me. Uh car story.
Like I said, it has a bunch of bunch of talent,
bunch of competitions. You guys are racing the best of
the best in a late model. I think that's tenfold

(29:51):
what that series is. You know what I mean. You
guys have a lot of stacked competition and stuff like that.
What is your what is your game plan going into
Anderson China? Double it up and doing all that going forward?
Have you have you raised Anderson before or no.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
I've actually never seen the place before, So it's it's
gonna be something totally new. I think it's gonna be
new for a lot of people in the tour. I
don't think a lot of the guys haven't raced there before.
I know some people K Brown has won a race
there this year, So he's going to be one to
watch for sure. That's gonna be a guy that's gonna
be really good. But in terms of yeah, the competition, man,

(30:29):
it's uh, these races are incredibly hard to win. They're
incredibly hard to run up front. I mean we are
qualifying I think, uh, two tenths or two and a
half tens of the second off of the polls that
are uh from Hickory was sending you home, so uh
that it's is so incredibly tight. I mean I've I

(30:50):
got the poll this year at the Minion and I
was one hundred or I think it was a couple
of thousands on the pole from second and third. So
it's it's just it is so tight. It's so hard
to qualify good, so hard to run good. And when
you've got that many good cars, that many good drivers
in this series. And I mean I've been at the

(31:11):
car store now for for fix years. I got into
it right as as soon as I turned fourteen. Ran
my first Laate Mall Scott Car Store race at South
Boston and it was definitely an eye opener because I
mean I went from winning a lot of a lot
of local races at young ages and I was having fun, yeah,

(31:31):
racing all the time winning. It was great, and uh,
it was definitely an eye opener going into the car
store just seeing how hard it was to compete, and
it hasn't changed. It seems like every year it gets
harder and harder with the amount of equipment that gets
introduced and the amount of teams that show up that
you know, racing against, you know, Junior Motorsports every weekend,

(31:52):
we're racing against Kevin Harvick and Nelson Motorsports, Lee Pulley
and Performance. I mean, those are all incredibly top tier
teams bringing the best of the best stuff and have
a ton of resources and a ton of funding, the
kind of back that deal. Which it's pretty cool to
say that that we've been able to run up front
with those guys and beat them this year. It's been

(32:13):
very very cool. Yeah, but yeah, man, the car store
is just like I said, I'm almost six years I think,
but it was a Hickory was like my eighty third
start in the series. And it's hard to believe I've
made eighty third starts to twenty years old, but I have.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
You're committed, That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
That's hurt.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
That's what racing is all about. If you want it,
you got to go get it, you know what I mean.
And that's that's at all levels and all that stuff.
Like you were saying earlier, you want to go into
the next step. You want you're hoping doors open and
all that stuff, and it's all about what if you
want it, you got to you got to manifest it
and go and get it, you know what I mean.
So absolutely, it's one of those It's one of those

(32:53):
big things. So one of the questions I like to
ask everybody on this podcast is how do you get
your racing number?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Usually people have a cool story, or maybe they don't,
or whatever the case may be. We like to hear
how we got our our race and numbers because you
see him on the backsides of uh backsides of trucks
and all that stuff. It's on every apparel thing you
could think of, and we we literally have it on
our chest while we race. So how did you get

(33:22):
the number? Eighty one?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah? Man, it's actually a pretty pretty cool story. So
I when I was nine years old kind of how
when I got started in late models, I was at
a at my family friend's house, Sam Beaty. And Sam
Beaty was a big time uh you know car owner
back in the day and race it's on that old

(33:44):
Dominion Speedway and you know at guys like Philip Morris
drive for him, and some really really strong competitors throughout
the years of driven for him. And uh my father
knew him, and I knew Sam at a young age
and he needed help. Bush Hall ugg in his backyard
one day and he called my dad, and you know,

(34:05):
I asked if if he could come and help him,
and he's like, well, I got to work, but you know,
Minnie's not doing anything, then he can help you. He
can drive a tracker and uh so he said yeah, absolutely,
So me and Sam spent the day bush all going
together and raised him up in the bucket and he
was trimming tree limbs all day. And I walked into
the garage of his house and I saw the uh

(34:27):
his playball that he still had, and it was the
number eighty one card and I said, hey, man, you know,
when when can I drive that thing? He goes, well
and he said it's South Sam is because he's he's
just old old school, he said, you know, he said,
let me tell you something, son. This is his favorite thing.
You talk to Sam, Baby, he'll look you in the face.

(34:49):
Let me tell you something, son. But Sam say, you know,
let me tell you something. You get a seat, maid,
and we'll go take it and we'll test. We'll test
this together. Now, I said, you know, okay. So I
ended up calling staying back, you know, a day or
so later, and I said, you know, how about this weekend,
you know, make if you're not doing anything, we can
ride to Charlotte together. And we rode the Butler built

(35:12):
and had a seat built for the car. And I
had a buddy that we know has done business with
my father for years, Mitch Piper Piper Motor Sports in Leedsburg, Virginia,
and took the car up to him and he fabricated it.
Because I was so tiny at the time. I really
haven't grown much. I'm still so pretty short, but I
was even tinier at the time and they had to

(35:36):
make that seat. There's pictures all the way back on
my Instagram in like twenty fourteen of me in the car. Yeah,
if you go all the way to buy you can
see the pictures and see me actually sitting inside of
the car. Yeah. But It was pretty pretty insane how
they got it all together. And we went to Shandali's
speed Away, which is one of the only racetracks in

(35:59):
our area that was uh, non NASCAR sanctioned because I
could only rate that non NASKAR sanctioned tracks because I
was not fourteen years old. So we went there and
met the owner of the track. So also a pretty
funny story. And I was, you know, come to the
gate and to sign in, and they're asking we have

(36:20):
the car on the trailer, and yeah, we're running late
models this weekend, and you know, okay, Well the lady asked,
you know, who's the driver. I'm like, oh, I'm driving,
and she goes, oh, hi, you know he's so cute,
and I'm like, yeah, okay, you know whatever. You know,
So we go on in and they thought I was

(36:40):
just you know, being a kid, you know, just playing around.
You know, I'm there to support dad. But Dad was
there to support me. And the owner of the track
came down after, right before I got in the and
into the car for qualifying, and he came down and said,
you know he's really driving the car, he said, my father,
And my dad was like, yeah, no, he's he's been

(37:02):
driving practicing it all weekend and he goes, wow, well,
you know, he shakes my dad's fan and says, y'all
have a good race. That's fun. And he went on
and he couldn't believe it. And then you know, I
set a world record that night of being the youngest
ever to start a late miles stock car race and
went on at the age of ten to win two races,

(37:26):
and then went a championship when I turned eleven, and
then went another track championship back to back when I
turned twelve.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, it went on that year as well when I
was still twelve years old and was able to get
a win it the Thanksgiving Classic for the Limited League
on race there at Southern National.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
That's that's that's crazy. I'm going to date myself here.
But people that are listening, when I was twelve, I
was trading gel pens in middle school. You know what
I mean, You're out here winning championships, you know what
I mean. It was I didn't even know what was
going on at that age, you know what I mean.
So that's cool. And uh, the NASCAR sanction stuff, that's

(38:07):
something new that we're getting used to down here. It's
like there's a lot of tracks that are NASCAR sanctioned
down here. Up north, we got a couple. Most of
them they're just open, you know what I mean. We
don't really have NASCAR sanction up there. So yeah, to
hear that, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. It was.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
It was pretty crazy, uh, you know, being able to
do it, and obviously we we had kind of put
out online and stuff, and you know, people caught out
wind of it that, you know, being so young getting
into a Late Model and they you know, my dad
got called pretty much every name in the book. You know,
he was endangering me, this and that, and oh he

(38:44):
doesn't really want to do it, and they're doing this
for publicity. But yeah, in reality, it's my dad had
nothing to do with it other than just showing up
and helping me on my own. And I built the
seat and we went down there and I sat with
Mitch Well he fabricated everything, and I wanted to do it.

(39:05):
I wanted to race. So that's that's how that's how
the story started. And it's it's pretty crazy to say that.
I mean, I've been in Late Models now and this
is year number eleven. Basically being in a stock car.
So it's it's pretty nuts. I know I'm twenty years old,
but I think I've got clearance enough to say I'm

(39:26):
probably a veteran at this point in these cars. Yeah,
it still it doesn't sound right to say, but I
guess I have that title.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, no, no, for sure. I mean people get there,
oh excuse me. If people get their experience, however they can,
you know what I mean. And big tool for kids
nowadays is like I racing and stuff like that. But
you you went into a full car and I don't
know how he's endangering you. You got a cage in
a seat and five point harness and all that stuff.

(39:54):
You're fine, You'll be all right, you know what.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I mean That that was a lot of the things.
My parent didn't want me to play football and stuff.
They're afraid I was gonna get hurt doing that. So
they were to okay with racing because I was. I
never you know, knock on wood. I've never had any
serious injuries in a call before ever, So it's it's
probably I fit everybody. Man. I think a race cars

(40:17):
want to save the places to be. And my girlfriend
still did crazy on top of the trailer every time
I go out there, and I'm like, man, you need
to just take.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Hey, you need those in your life. She seems like
she seems like that type to be jumping up on
top of the trailer. So she is she's the biggest supporter. Yeah,
see exactly, you're the biggest supporter. They think you're the
craziest s ob out there, but they're the first person
to tell you what you fed up on.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Oh I know. I remember the first time I ever
took her to the track and I was explaining everything,
and you know, what's this? What's that? I'm like, yeah,
well this is that, you know, and and She's like,
I don't know how I'm gonna do this. And I'm like,
what do you mean. I just don't know how I'm
gonna watch this tonight. I might have to close my
eyes and lay down. And I'm like, well, you do

(41:08):
what you need to do. I was like, Uh, this
is nothing new. I've been doing this my entire life.
We're gonna have to get used to it. If you're
gonna hang around me any longer, this is what you're
gonna have to deal with. She got she got broken
into it. Uh, pretty fast and now now she's we

(41:29):
debrief every time and she tells me what I could
have done better and what all the other people screwed
up on.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
So, like I said, your biggest supporter or definitely let
you know that you can do better here and do
better there and all that stuff. But oh yeah, it's
just one of those things. It's just one of those things. Yeah,
going back to like the first time going to the races,
it's crazy to see like people that never been around it,

(41:57):
never grew up in it, and they're like, you're crazy,
And I'm like, I been doing this for about seven years. Man,
I've been I'm actually toned down now. You should have
saw me when I first started, you know what I.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Mean, right right, Yeah, I mean just see me, uh
two to three years ago. Man, I was I was
getting wired sucked down quite a bit from where I was,
which I hope I can keep on shucking down. And
I still still have a little bit of a gut
on me. I probably should lose.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Oh I thought you made aggressiveness, but yeah that too.
I mean I still I still fight with that every day,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah, Yeah, I thought I'm always talking about size, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
No, no, no, like that aggressiveness out there. No, not
the size, Yeah no, like the aggressiveness that you have.
Because when I was a kid, man I was I didn't.
We'll get back up real quick, you know what I mean.
Now now, being the age that I am, give me
a couple of minutes, I'm getting usy over here, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
I know, I know I'm young, but man, it's like
I feel like that every day it works. I'm like,
you know, I love at all the guy. Yeah, I
work with guys, and you know, we've got a couple
of younger guys, but you know, I work for guys
that are twice chirting you three times my age. And
I look at them, I'm like, man, I'm skinned too
old for this shit. They give me another the blankets

(43:20):
there and I'm like, you know, I just like to
screw with them because they're like, Maddine, how I feel?

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, I mean, I mean we went to the fifty
K race. I just turned thirty, and I looked at
my old lady and I was like, if I feel
like this at thirty, we're in trouble. We are in
trouble out here. Yeah, we are in trouble.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yes we are, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
So tell us about Minnie's Mission. You had the big
race that you had for the Cars Tour with the
whole thing. I was reading up on it. But I
think it's a great cause that you're doing, and I
want I want the listeners to know about it and
all that stuff. So what is at the Mini mission?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah, man, So Minnie's Mission is something that I started
when I was six years old. I had a friend
named Ella Day who was a close family friend and
to this day are still very close friends with my family.
But Ella was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the
age of seven, and I was over at her house
one night and kind of overheard her parents talking about

(44:26):
expenses and how hard it was just doing the simplest things,
you know, putting gas in the car and putting dinner
on the table and taking her to the hospital. And
I was still young, I didn't quite understand what was
going on. I went home, and I asked a ton
of questions and kind of wrapped my head a little bit,
you know, as much as six year old me could

(44:47):
have about what was going on. And I worked to
my dad and at the table and I said, you know, what,
what can we do to help people and kids that
are struggling? You know, what can we do? You know,
I think that I want to you know, at the time,
I was in go carts and I said, I want
to use my go cart because that's all I love

(45:08):
to do is race. I said, I don't want to
use my go cart as a tool to try and
rally people together and raise money for pediatric cancer. And
uh so that's when Many's Missions started. You know, me,
mom and dad kind of figured out. You know, we
did a little slogan and it was called Manny's Mission,
Burn Rubber to Help Another. That's when it was born.
And uh, you know, I've been doing fundraising and actively,

(45:31):
uh you know, trying to raise money for pediatric cancer
since I've been that age. And it's been nothing but
an amazing journey. And at the age of eight, Jeff
Gordon saw my news on NBC Nightly News. Uh, one night,
Ann Thompson did a story on me and uh about
what I was doing and what I was doing to
help others, and he got win of it invited me

(45:54):
out to Martinsville Speedway to meet him and hang out
at the racetrack with him, and I got the most
people only kind of get a couple of minutes of Jeff,
and he actually ended up spending two hours with me
at the track. It was was under the rain delay,
and you know, he was like, man, I remember he
He's like, I was supposed to have this interview here

(46:14):
in the next hour, but you know, I think I'm
gonna push that back. I'm kind of bored. I just
want to hang out. So I was like, yeah, that's great.
So we went around and you know we at the time,
you know, he's a race and hero of mine. I've
seen him on the big TV. And uh my parents
actually got the phone call. Is his management team called
our home phone and my mom answered the phone and

(46:38):
and she you know, said, oh, hello, and this is
you know, they said, oh, this is so and so
Jeff Gordon and uh you know, we saw your son's
deal and story and Jeff wants you to come out
to you know, Martinsville Speedway on the state and uh
my mom was like, is this you know, is this real?
You know who you know, she obviously knows who Jeff

(46:59):
Gordon was. And so we went and you know, we
spent all that time, and I got to meet Denny
Hamlin and you know a bunch of drivers, you know
Jimmy Johnson, which you know legend he is, And got
to sit in all the race cars and you know,
sit there and it was it was a pretty surreal
experience at a young age as a kid. And I

(47:20):
got to go to a couple of different races. I
went to Martinsville, I went to Richmond, uh and I'd
go to go to the races. I went to see
Jeff race the following year at Martinsville, and I went
there a contract or not contracts resumes and of my
racing career. And I just went there in my fire suit,
all dressed up, and I had a little bag and

(47:40):
I was just handing them out. I had the one
that Tony Stewart. I handed one to mister Hendrick. I
met Rick Hendrick and Victory Lane there at Martinsville. I
believe Jimmy had actually won that race. And Jeff picked
me up and set me on the stage and I
shook the stand and introduced myself. I said, hey, you know,
I'm man, you know, and he says, oh, well, nice

(48:03):
to me. You know, I'm Rick Hendrick and I'm like, yeah,
I know who you are. And I pulled out my
my little fashil and I handed on the resume and
he folded up put in his pockets. They come talk
to me when I when you turn sixteen, And I
haven't got the chance to speak with him in depth

(48:24):
of my racing career, but it was a pretty cool
moment at the child And I hope, you know, one
day that's that would be a dream, is to end
up driving a race car for the guy. One day,
that'd be that'd be pretty incredible. I have to tell
him that story. I'm sure he remembers it. But yeah,
but I'm getting off topic of Mini's mission, but that's

(48:44):
went I had to start it there. But yeah, So
Jeff ended up matching what I'd raised at the time
when I was I just turned seven and broke me
a check. I think i'd raised like seventy five hundred bucks.
Brote me a check for the same amount that I
had raised, and uh, he matched it. And I ended

(49:05):
up getting involved in doing kickball tournaments every September with
because Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation was heavily involved with that,
and I ended up doing a lot with Jeff and
raising money for you know, pediatric cancer through his foundation
and pediatric cancer research. So I ended up raising about
four hundred thousand dollars with the Jeff Gordon Churnan Foundation

(49:26):
for Research and that was super cool. And continue to
partner up a variety of different organizations throughout Many's mission
and throughout the years and to this day. You know,
I haven't don't have the confirmed number after we did
the big Dominion event in June, but I believe we're
approaching seven hundred thousand dollars raised and we're now a

(49:48):
five to one C three nonprofit organization, which is huge.
That way I can you know, process donations and through
through myself and through my organization. That way we can
kind of do what we want with the funds and
make sure that you know, they're going to help people.
And I really enjoy doing quality of life programs, which

(50:09):
you know, I really enjoy seeing the money get used
and actually you know, going and touching a family which
is really cool that are going through a horrible thing.
So it's I really enjoy doing that. You know, got
into quality of life programs by the past three and
a half four years now and getting to interact with
the kids and the families, and you know, creating a

(50:31):
weekend for them to get away and come to a
race and stuff has been has been awesome and I
really enjoy doing that more than anything.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Yeah, no, for sure, excuse me. I think that's awesome.
You started out at six years old and you're close
to seven hundred thousand dollars uh unofficial, but still close
close to doing it. That's that's that's awesome to just
have something touch your life and then you're like, you

(51:02):
know what, we should pay it forward, you know what
I mean? And I think that's awesome. I applaud you
for it. So if you guys are ever, if you
guys are ever trying to kill time, make sure you
guys go check out many Tyrrell's racing page. He's got
the uh burn rubber to save another? Right did I
say that?

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Right? Burn rubber to help another help another?

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Sorry I was close.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a cool one. Once you get in
your head, though, you can get it out.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah. If you head over you head over to Mini's
Mission dot org uh. Again, the Mini's m I and
I s Mission dot org. Uh. That page is dedicated
to everything that we do to help children and and uh,
anybody in the community that's struggling or going through a
hard time. That's so many missions all about you know,

(51:52):
not fun of percent dedicated to pash your cancer, but
always looking to help anyone, anyone we can in this need.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Yeah, no, awesome. We'll definitely put the link down in
the episode right underneath, So if you guys want to donate,
definitely do that. It's an awesome organization that many put together.
I think it's awesome that you went the extra mile
to help out a friend, you know what I mean,
And now it's grown to be so much bigger and

(52:22):
you ever thought of. But it's awesome because it's helping
out people that are obviously going through the tough, tough
times out here. So who are some of the people
that help you get to the track every day? Obviously
give them their time to shout them out and all
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, absolutely, it's you know, thank you so much to
Coleman Rector and David Taylor with Jesus Lord number one.
It's all they do for me. The Henderson family that
has been a long time family friends of ours and
big supporters of mine through my entire career bed it
with BdL Motorsports, Victoria's Swimwear for her support throughout this year.

(53:02):
It's been one heck of a ride. And all the
boys at Commedians tiring although at home for everything they
do for me and all my friends and family. Man,
everybody that's been a part and has touched a piece
of me throughout my career and it's giving me a
hand and some help. Is doesn't go unnoticed. Philly Banks
for the awesome race engines, Forrest Reynolds Racing Chassis for

(53:25):
all he's done for me this year or too. Uh.
You know, everybody's got a piece, you know, the whole team,
all the guys, Brandon Butler, Dan Gibbon's hippie, Colin h Brying,
his wife Alidra, everybody that has got a piece and
touches that car makes go fans wouldn't be able to
do without them.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
So that's awesome. A couple more questions for you and
then we'll let you go on to your destination. He's
been he's been traveling back home this whole time. We appreciate,
like I said, uh, you coming on and talking with us.
More questions, Uh from us? Is another question that We

(54:05):
usually ask people and it's either it's called your biggest
roughing veenders moment. It's either, uh, either you did a
bonehead thing out there or your hardest wreck or something
like that. Do you have any stories like that. It's
hard to make that be understandable, but we're gonna We're

(54:26):
still trying to figure that out.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Yeah, I mean that. Yeah, I mean I've I've done
my fair share of bone head things behind a race car,
that that is for sure. It's uh, you know, I
don't know. I can't pinpoint one really big bone head move,
but I could tell you my probably the hardest wreck
I ever been in was the South Boston two hundred

(54:50):
race that they do on the fourth of July weekend
every year. It's the thunder Red Holly Davidson two hundred,
and we came up he qualified and terrible. I think
we qualified thirtieth and actually drove all the way up
to I think I was sitting in ninth place at
the time of this accident, and two guys up in

(55:12):
the front of believe it was Mike Looney and Jerry
or Jonathan Schaeffer kind of tangled together and this I
think this was in twenty twenty two, So this was
a couple of years ago, and they tangled and Jonathan
actually ended up he was on the inside of Mike Looney.
He ended up spinning towards the bottom of the racetrack
and turned around head on, basically on the inside wall

(55:35):
and everybody behind it. You know. It was in front
of me, all planned on the brakes and got turned
sideways and I immediately he checked up at the brakes,
went low. Thought I was going to make it through
Mark Wurtz. He made it through right in front of me,
but that gap closed as soon as he somehow made
it through and ended up hitting Jonathan Shaffer like head on,

(55:58):
and that I was a pretty hard hit. And then
I got hit from behind. It ended up picking the
car up about six feet in the air from the
hit from behind, and then set it back on top
of on top of someone could So that was definitely
the hardest hit of my life or so far. I
hope I knock on wad I hope have those experiences again.

(56:23):
But that was that was the hardest hit. I think
more than anything. I was just racked from the seatbelts
in the impact and shout out to Kenny's components for
a safe seat and the seat is you know, they're
covering Frivor seats, but they it actually ended up diamonding
the chassis. It sent on entire chassis, including the center section,

(56:46):
and what happened was with the seat mounting points as
well had gotten twisted in the accident, and it actually
twisted the seat that I was sitting in, but the
from Ford insert that was molded to my body didn't
move inside of the car. And I think that you possibly,
if it was a different style seat, I might have

(57:08):
gotten some back damage or something there, but I was,
I was perfectly okay, walked away from it, and we
on both of the seat of the race shop and
the seat morph straight back into place just like it
was brand new. So that was pretty pretty cool to
see that happen and see how safe a lot of
this technology has gotten since, you know, back in the day.

(57:31):
But uh, that was that was definitely cool. Brandon sent
me a picture of the there's two kind of push
rods that go to each master cylinder, uh in the
in the late models, and both of those push robs
on the brake pedal were completely bowed and bent. So
he he sent me that that picture and said, uh,
you know you were doing all you could to try
to stop it. Just a sheer force of the leg

(57:55):
and the impact is what bent those So it's quite impressive.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
No, for sure. Who is someone that you would like
to see come on the podcast next, either like a
family friend, a racer that you've raced against, or anything
like that. I think that's our last question.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Man, that's a good question as I as I mean,
so I got so many friends in the racing world. Yeah,
to pick, all right, I don't know's we'll go with.
You know, since I stayed at Kate Brown's house on
Sunday night after the race, we'll say Kate Brown, okay,

(58:33):
then give good buddy of mine. I think he's a
pretty talented race car driver. He had one heck of
a year in twenty twenty three, and he's probably got
a couple of interesting stories that he could tell you.
All for sure?

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Yeah, no, no, for sure. Like I said, man, we
appreciate you coming on and sharing your story with us,
and hopefully this starts a great friendship going forward. We'll
definitely come and see you at the racetrack. And probably
not Anderson, but one that's closer will definitely come and
say hi and all that stuff. And like I said,

(59:05):
we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us
and after your big win obviously, and hopefully this opens
up bigger doors for obviously the next series that you
want to be in hell of a drive at the end,
wait to miss that wreck as well. It's awesome to
see a storyline like that happen. You have a guy
that's strapped for cash and doesn't know if he's gonna

(59:27):
make it, and he goes into the next race, and
obviously the race and gods were with you that night,
and obviously you put on a hell of a run
at the end of it. So it's all about leading
that last.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Lap, you know what I mean, it is for sure.
And yeah, thank you guys so much for having me on.
It's been fun pleasure meeting you both. And I hope
to see all at the races soon and please feel
free to come and hang out with me, and I
love to love to do it again. Hopefully I can
talk to you all and maybe have a couple more
wins or even maybe an opportunity at the at the

(59:57):
next level. That would be pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Yeah, No, no, for sure, can we jump on the
trailer with the old lady or what we allowed to
do that too?

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
If you guys want to come and knock on top,
you know, you can try to keep her saying up
there freaking out, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
We'll just we'll just try doing breathing exercises or whatever.
You know, let's do something up there for But like
I said, but it's awesome to see, uh what you
what you've become as a driver from a young age. Now, man,
you you win, you won pretty much one of the

(01:00:32):
biggest late model races that is to date right now.
It's awesome to see. Like I said, I'm just learning everybody.
You're a very humble dude. You go out there, you
cut your teeth like the rest of us. We love
to see that. We always, we always will support the underdog,
always one hundred in this racing world because that's what
that's what we all started as you know what I mean.

(01:00:54):
And you're just making it work every day waking up
at five and doing all that stuff. You doing great
for causes outside of racing, to help out other people.
You're doing all this good stuff. So don't stop doing
what you're doing. Don't get too hard on yourself. I
know what's us as racers were the biggest critic of ourselves.
But you're doing good out there, And like I said,

(01:01:14):
I appreciate you taking the time to talk with us
and all that stuff. And like I said, well, obviously
this will be a start of a relationship and a
friendship going on from now on, and we'll always be
rooting you on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Like I said, we appreciate you coming on awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Yeah, of course, thank you guys so much. Again, don't
let me fool you too much to waking up early.
I tend to sometimes be late for things as well,
so I can't I can't be totally totally. Hey, I'm
terrible waking up in the morning, but I try my best,
and my girlfriend kills me every single morning.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Hey, that's that's what the alarm clock is for. So
you get working up by the other one. That's how
I look at it. But we appreciate you for actually
showing up. LJ didn't even make it so hopefully, so
we'll try to get him on a better thing, and
we'll definitely come see you at the track. Like I said, man,
and I got your number, We'll try to get ahold

(01:02:11):
of Cad Brown. We'll keep making this circle go around
down here, and we appreciate you taking the time as
as always, man, we appreciate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
It of course. Of course, thanks for having me on.
It was great, great chat and and we'll look forward
to the future.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
All right, Thank you man, no problem.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
So that was Mini Tyrell Man and he is honestly
a humble dude. Like I said at the beginning of
this thing, being a part of the Late Model Stock
Tour and UH Cars Tour and all that stuff. All
you see is the media because it is definitely one
of the biggest late Model UH series that is out here. Obviously,

(01:02:51):
we have our controversy from the race that happened with
Caden and the big debacle with Landon Lewis and and
McKee and all all that stuff at the end where
a lot of cars got torn up, but there was
a lot of cool throwbacks that happened out there that
were racing and all that stuff made you really go
back in the day. And then doing it at a
historic track like Kickory Motor Speedway is just awesome. I mean,

(01:03:14):
that place hasn't been paid since the nineteen sixties and
these busts. I totally forgot to ask him how he
felt going out of forward, because that's a whole bump
out of forward and then you just dig right off
a four and go up the front stretch. But like
I said, man, don't let that deter you from the
big thing that happened here, which was him not knowing

(01:03:35):
if he was gonna make the next races and then
now walks away fifty k richer after a big race
and having everything fall on line. And like I've always
said that it don't matter how good your car is
halfway through the race. As long as you lead that
last lap, you're doing pretty good out here, and it's
better to be lucky than good, you know what I mean.
So we appreciate y'all for listening this podcast episode. His

(01:03:59):
Spawns by Richie Helger racing from Bandoleros to Legend cars
up in the Northeast, over at SEACONK Speedway or anywhere
he goes. Make sure you guys get ahold of him
for great rates and all that stuff. Get your little
man and racing just like many tyrell I mean, he
went go cards right into a late model, but Legends

(01:04:21):
is definitely the next best thing to get your little
man back to get part of car Control and all
that stuff, and definitely get a hold of Richie Helger
if you guys want to sponsor reach out. We appreciate
many taking the time out of his day to talk
with us and all that stuff. Big win for him
and his team. Like I said, we're gonna be following
him more along. We're gonna try to get ahold of

(01:04:42):
Kate Brown. We're gonna try to get more people from
the South down here on here on the podcast. We
appreciate everybody that followed. I mean, we gained over twelve
hundred followers off the weekend. So like I said, man,
we're always humble. We always love having you all all listen,
having y'all comment, having y'all engage in all that stuff.

(01:05:03):
You guys might be passionate, but I ain't gonna hate
you for it. We love you either way, you know
what I mean. We can agree or we can disagree.
I won't lose I won't lose sleep, and I won't
love you any less, you know what I mean. That's
racing and that's why we just call it straightforward. That's
why we've been building this stuff for the longest time
because we don't sugarcoat stuff. We're not a tie, suit
and tie podcast. We just call it how it is.

(01:05:24):
And if you go into a shop and they're talking
about racing, this is how this podcast is. We're just
talking about racing. But many Tyrell, congrats on your win.
Congrats to your team. Keep pushing that foundation that you're
pushing Minnie's mission. Make sure you guys go donate or
go support, go share, go do whatever. Make sure you

(01:05:45):
help him out, help other people out. It's awesome to
see so as myself, Randy Phillips, James didn't show up,
but we appreciate you all listening and have a good night.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Thank you,

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