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Denny Won't Give One Driver What He Wants

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Denny Won't Give One Driver What He Wants

The podcast analyzes the first Chase race weekend, focusing on standout performances by Sheldon Creed and Christopher Bell at Darlington. Creed’s dominant win in the O'Reilly Race highlights his experience and team strength, while Bell’s Southern 500 victory underscores his consistent speed, despite occasional lapses in team execution. The race outcomes emphasize that stage points reward performance over just finishing positions, making the Chase more about consistency and strategic execution. A key moment involving Michael McDowell and a bobble off Turn 4 is examined with mutual respect and a focus on non-intentional contact. Hendrick Motorsports’ high-risk stay-out strategy to challenge for a win results in a fifth-place finish, seen as a bold and well-justified call. The discussion also touches on non-Chase drivers like Josh Barry, whose strong performance suggests potential entry into the Chase, signaling a shift toward talent-based decisions in team hiring. The broader takeaway is that the Chase has become a tightly contested, performance-driven series where results are shaped by strategy, execution, and resilience—especially on driver’s tracks like Darlington. The competitive field remains focused on the top six, with only a few drivers like Bubba and Elliott capable of challenging for the top spots, though early momentum points to a close and evolving playoff battle.

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that's it that's all i got you good with that i'm sure i'm sure you'll clip it but i'm not talking about him anymore all right i'm not gonna give him what he wants i'll talk about spire you want to talk about spire the following is a production of dirty mo media i believe that i've been a competitive for 20 years opinions from tonight's podcast strictly biased you're gonna hear from my point of view i'm a fighter no you are not the spoils of victory for jared allen he's got better luck than rick and drink to win i know you do two trophies missing from your collection a championship and the most popular driver someone told me that their drinking game is when i say for sure yeah and i've already said hey guys welcome to actions detrimental if you heard that that was a pop top by travis he said the you in the fridge i open up the fridge and there's the water do you hear voices and it says open me there was another drink me there was you know a 16 ounce lemon bottle what am i supposed to do that's all right it's 2 p.m on labor day and if travis was not here working that's what he would be doing what he'd be doing yeah did lots of it yesterday well we had the first race of the chase christopher bell wins at darlington in the southern 500 sheldon cree wins in the o'reilly race at darlington um what do we want to tackle first let's knock out the sheldon creed and his o'reilly win um yeah i didn't get i watched 70 of the race the part i didn't get to see is at the end it appeared there was a split of strategies where some cars came and took tires others did not justin algar was on the did not trying to save it for the for it to happen later in the race and so there was a clear-cut split of strategies everybody that decided to go ahead and take their tires ended up finishing in front of everyone that did not so justin algar's lead um down to seven it's crazy like a six race lead the sport probably more um but uh he's gonna be fine he's he's gonna be the car to beat week in week out um in the o'reilly series i just think he has way too much of an experience advantage um team advantage all the things right um he's too good for to be denied i believe but is there anything to say and this is different than sticking ball sports but like he hasn't had to have that moment recently he hasn't he hasn't had a win in a while like he hasn't had to be like on where some of these guys have just been like every you know race has meant something um i think he's been on no matter what i i don't it's hard to argue i mean just eyeballing it over the last 10 weeks i mean you know if he's not finishing well it's because something bad happened like it's it's not performance wise i don't see anyone performing on his level at a consistent basis which is why he had over a 200 point lead well great win for children creed um yeah i thought uh really kind of dominating that the day there the only kind of noteworthy thing i saw was the corey day stuff that that was interesting i mean um he really he wrecked william swalch three times like didn't he got him the first body slam the first time clipped him the second time and then finished him off the third and it didn't really seem like he was going to be able to do that he was going to be able to do that he was going to like he acknowledged it that much afterwards so interesting like that was like the corey day that we had seen like from a year ago um and you know that they got his car fixed back up enough to where he was able to finish second um be on the right side of the strategy at the end but that was the only thing that like was for me at the o'reilly's race that i was like man that's just you know what was he doing kind of moment yeah trying to make enemies doesn't seem like a smart move who knows but um you can just definitely see there's still some growing to be had there people make arguments about you know the 48 car and who's the right guy who's the wrong guy that got in that like it clearly shows corey's got like a long way to go to like be ready to race on sundays in my opinion that's my opinion um but a great job by uh stewart haas team and sheldon creed on getting a big big darlington win he mentioned that how big this race was for him in the sense of you know how how much he wanted this race because he feels like this is a driver's track which which it is yep and he finally i mean someone's already said it but him and christopher bell went on the same weekend two guys who are too fond of second place well c bell is mostly this year of second places but sheldon creed's a career second place guy that's it that's it for sure uh c bell on to the sunday race as you mentioned wins the southern 500 yeah it um it was apparent to me probably around the first stage the end of the first stage uh he had a car that was coming through the pack and and was very very competitive so um then at that point it's like you know execution even still they didn't have a perfectly executed race in the sense of uh at stage three when i went to the back same time that he went to the back ish not not really i think he restarted 12th when i restarted 19th um and so he was able to bust through and get into the top 10 pretty quick after that but um it didn't seem like any of the front guys had like a totally clean um race uh everyone had like the 45 had pit road you know a bad stop you know the 19 ran out of gas lots of little little things here and there 20 had a bad stop yeah somebody was you know some were able to rebound some were not nine had a bad stop too like is that what set him back he thought they were taking two and they were taking four tires and so he started to drive out when the guys are coming across and so they had to stop and obviously messed it up gotcha um yeah i mean we we all knew that you know seabell has clearly had enough speed to to win races this year uh but their team got it done when it really mattered the most here in uh at darlington so takes him from um how far back 50 50 to 12 i mean this is a that's a big big chunk and certainly uh you know that team feels like they don't have any um necessarily any weaknesses in in the chase so uh they'll be able to do a lot of things and i think that's going to be a big part of the race so uh they'll be contenders and certainly um this is a great start of the chase for them yeah i mean this vaults them right i mean they were in contention already but this puts them very much in contention now going forward yeah i mean when you can knock off a big chunk in in one week that you know in in winning does that um you're you're going to feel pretty good about it well it's winning plus dominant in the stages yeah he he got you know what he scored 73 over a week yeah he he got you know what he scored 73 over a week yeah he he got you know what he scored 73 over a week yeah he he got you know what he scored 73 over a week yeah he he got you know what he scored 73 over a week yeah he he got you know what he scored 73 over a week yeah he he got you know what overall yeah so he had a all but three point perfect day so that'll do it you do that multiple times that's uh that's big chunks yeah i think the importance of the stage points were a reminder in your performance because you're still 12 up but had you not scored you know how many stage points you score 17 16 16 right eight and eight you know a big different day sure all together yeah and i mean that's what the stage points was designed to do is is not only reward results but performance right and there's those are two different things sometimes um you'll definitely see cars that sometimes will squeak in get you a top 10 but they didn't really run in the top 10 it happened through attrition and whatnot and what what this what the chase format does or generally speaking how they reward points in nascar now by rewarding stage points is that it it rewards greatness not just a good finish you know what i mean and so we we definitely know that you're gonna have to have all the above you know to to maximize your day um how do you feel about about your day how do you feel about the evening i mean not great certainly felt like um you know we had a car that was that had just gotten good um we um i felt like generally speaking i was really happy with the direction that we that we set out before the weekend i told you guys in the chat kind of here's where here's what we're aiming to do and fix and i thought we we got those quite a bit better um and then you know we um just had a few you know the long run is where where our pace wasn't great certainly in the first stage but then by the second our long run was actually pretty good so i thought that we were uh definitely gonna be contenders by the end of the day to challenge for the win yeah at 6 49 i tweeted in the group that you had went over the rating so this is the best the car had ever been and 30 minutes later yeah so i mean a missed opportunity from that standpoint um and so you just i don't know it's it's it definitely could have been better definitely could have been a lot worse you know what i mean so that's that's the kind of the um you know we we've been really good all year about having you know clean races and running up front well we got the running up front part we just did just wasn't a clean race yeah yeah i've seen seen a few tweets out there that you know are mentioning it's kind of a blessing in a way that a bad day for you is 16 stage points and then a 18th place finish like you could be a lot worse right but it could be but back to we talked about this first race was just like a vibes race right the championship would not be won or lost in this first race but it certainly would just change the way you look at these next nine yeah and and when you look at the finishing order as well all the contenders are there they're all there i mean i'm convinced that if svg was in the chase he would have been running 16 i saw you say i saw you say that it is it it's just the motivate what is just how the race was going oh it just seems like i don't know his car was so bad you you think that they would go from like last to it was more about this just this this switch that once you get into the playoffs of the chase all of a sudden all these cars that are in the top 16 are running more or less 1 through 16. i don't know if that actually i know i know i i just think that in the past that would have been more of a thing because i mean certainly we've talked about it in the past when you could build your own cars and whatnot the chase cars were always had more down force than the rest of them they got things through tech that just you know did not fly early in the year i it's a little more even nowadays i would say i it's more apt to have non-chasers be part of the race and i think that's a good thing because i think that's a good thing finishing order but i would also say darlington is just that's the driver's racetrack that we talked about and and in my mind the six strongest contenders finished one through six you know what i mean so i just there's nothing really that shocked me about looking at the scoring pile on when i looked up yeah i guess too is that darlington's a driver's racetrack right so the top six guys are the best guys in the sport arguably they're gonna especially right now right i mean in ebbs and flows you can throw other guys in there um i thought bubba had a really strong first stage even seconds and it's faded a little at the end of the second stage but at the beginning you're thinking oh it's him and reddick or you know the cream of the crop when it comes to long runs and so it just they they just didn't quite seem to keep up with with the changes or the racetrack or what have you so um but i think certainly the top six here are you your your challengers and they finished one through six yeah i mean they're they're they're guys so slow stop there in the third stage but no there's the end to start the third stage of the pit stop after so um put you back in traffic which then led to this incident with with michael mcdowell what do you what are you feeling from your perspective in the race when this happened um what i was feeling in the race i was definitely um i i didn't know exactly i i knew how it happened but i didn't know to what extent obviously needed to see um like from his in car like what did he see to understand a little bit more about um which you know because i only saw it from my perspective right and that is okay clear look in my mirror all right i'm clear by a ways it's you know it's not like you know it was at the time almost one car length and so it didn't i didn't feel like i was like shutting his nose off and there's lots of slide jobs that can happen to where someone comes in there and they you know you see in sprint cars they really take your nose off they force you to lift i didn't think that i did that with mcdowell um which is why i i said that we were nearly car length clear you know almost a car length um at our biggest point and then yeah i had a bobble off or off the turn four and i knew i had the bobble um i just i thought at the time that um man that i thought there was enough time for him to react to that bobble it wasn't like i was on his hood pins right away i thought he had time to react but you know it didn't happen can you pull up the um mcdowell in car on your computer there like where where is this bobble in the in his um it i i can just tell you from my perspective it was right off a turn four um i don't know if it was a tight moment that i had because is that what causes him to to catch to you know to come to your back bumper yeah it was more like a half a car length i was in front of him but but yeah i had uh i was i'd went from the bottom to the top so my angle was not great coming off the corner so i needed to lift to keep it off the wall right um yeah i i just i don't know i i i mean i certainly felt like you know i had some responsibility in it being that i i did lift off the corner because i had a moment i just thought that mcdowell could have been a little quicker with the trigger of not throttling up as he's seeing i'm getting closer and closer and closer that's just you know given the benefit of the doubt um i don't you know i believe i'd earn that from from him um we we've raced in the past no issues anything like that and i try to make sure i be respectful of my competitors and you know i don't think that he wanted to be part of the story and you know his side of it was that man i i didn't think you needed to slide me to clear me i thought you were going to clear me anyway um obviously wasn't it what he's telling me he's not intentional on his part so you know i think my job is to give him the benefit of the doubt as well and say that that's just one of those racing incidents that i put myself probably you know in a tough spot could you have waited to make that move or is there something different that you could have done or would you make that move again well if i knew the result i wouldn't know take the result like would you've i yeah i mean listen i just had a horrendous pit stop and i thought that my car was good enough to contend for the win i'm looking there's a hundred and some laps left so essentially i've got two pit stops left i'm restarting 19 uh i got to 16th within like a lap or two like this was a battle for 15th i believe 14th 15th so i'd gotten a chunk pretty soon on the restart and i look and then so two laps after the restart that the field that's when they they string out that's when they start going one by one so you're trying to get a good start and then you're trying to get a good start and you're trying to get all you can while they're side by side so i got underneath mcdowell in the middle of one and two um got under him like he was running mid track he was running low in the middle of one and two anyway i went lower to get position on them we both were respectful we both had a checkup moment off of turn two um and at that point i'm like yeah i got to get clear so i can just move on to the next guy i you know i don't think michael had any beliefs that he was like gonna hold me off for the long run right he's he's but he's still trying to maximize his position he's got someone right behind him i would have yes i would have absolutely just went ahead and run another corner beside him maybe then i get you know maybe he lets me go into turn one if i'm still behind him still beside him coming off of turn four maybe he doesn't but i feel like that's a another second of really really important lap time that i need to if i'm gonna make my progression towards the front and contend for the win i gotta get i i felt like i needed it in the moment absolutely in retrospect being a monday morning quarterback i would say yeah just just hold your car low there he's gonna come back on the outside that's fine we'll just have to you know give up a little time here to to get around this car but but in the moment there was no doubt in your mind where it's like oh i don't know maybe i'm no i know because again i knew i was clear by a chunk of time and i was like oh i don't know maybe i'm not going to look not by like a nose you know you you slide someone right across their nose and you ask them to lift that's a tough ask i just felt like there was enough space between us to where even if i did have a bobble moment he had enough time to react but again for for all i know maybe his goal was to push me down the front straight away and when i had to check up you know it got me out of shape we'll never know but i'm done analyzing it for sure and we got to just move on which incident we want to talk about next here travis and talk about byron's day uh i think we need to go with the good stuff the good stuff what's that you're gonna make any ant go from analyzing himself to analyzing hosvar and brad yeah uh carson wreck brad what else what'd you make of uh brad's comments afterwards uh brad's comments i would say um he seemed upset and i have no reason to doubt what brad said but i mean we've heard and seen that before if there's anyone in the field that you would trust to follow through on their words where's brad rank on that list great question trust their word now trust their word on retaliation because that's different like i like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know trust their word now trust their word on retaliation because that's different like i like i trust brad's word no no yeah not talking about you know yeah yeah trust that he will now go out and do something on the track middle of the pack middle of the pack yeah middle of the pack that's right but but i don't i don't know that's my thing is we see a lot of drivers talk a big game but then when it comes time to actually back it up it's yeah but there's not been a whole lot of times where i've been in a situation where i've been in a situation where i've been in a what's brad got to lose that's why i think like you like back to the cory day thing like pissing off a non-chase driver and someone like brad who he owns his own team like he's not worried like it's a bad move tbd yeah it's just all unfortunate all around because you say pissing off another chase driver as in carson's a chase driver right yeah he just it's unfortunate he was lucky at the moment where it's like if he finishes 16th in this chase it's whatever they don't really care i don't that's the vibe i get when i hear him talk you're not going to get anything more from me because i'm not going to give him what he wants i'm not going to give him the clip that he wants period so you want me to talk about spire i'll talk about spire well i do wonder like there's no adults in the room clearly in that building no adults that's my opinion because how can you honestly think that that's what's best for your company if you're running a serious organization i think they're unserious anything else that's it that's all i got you good with that i'm sure i'm sure i'm sure you'll clip it but i'm not talking about him anymore all right i'm not gonna give him what he wants i'll talk about spire you want to talk about spire we're good go ahead yeah i bet you are good let's move on to to hendrick y'all don't know where to go do you i don't know where to go good good day for the five good day for the five strong day for the five tough day for the 24 what'd you make of the five staying out um you know what it's what they thought they could do to win like if you look if you listen to his comments he says well i had these guys in front of me i'm going to come out on pit road behind them most likely so how am i going to pass them in a 25 30 lap run that's what they're thinking which i believe they're correct i think that it would have been very very difficult equal tires to pass you know multiple cars now could they i got a they deemed the risk of of maybe finishing a few spots worse worth the bonus points of winning so i think it's a ballsy but great call on their end to uh to say we're going for the win not a great finish and you're hoping that what a couple more they still got the good they still got the good finish and you're hoping a couple more cars stay out and maybe a caution and now you're sitting good yeah all you need then is a yeah let's go five four more laps maybe another caution then the field pits again now you're in front of them so there's lots of there's lots of different variables that could have happened um that that would have been a beneficial from that call but it but it you know it worked out the worst that it possibly could have and he still finished fifth so good call in my opinion and he thought that he was only just a bit yeah that's what you're hoping right is that by the time they get to you it's the tires have equalized so if you kind of look at the slope in which these cars lose lap time the bulk is going to be in the first six to seven laps and then it's still it's still uh what's the word where not vertical um it's still progressive the the amount that you're falling off but it's it goes from let's do it to the skimmer so here's lap time you know zero so a lot of times fast here slow here so the first six or seven is like this and then after it goes to like that so he's hoping to get to that window of the new tire guys so now it's like oh okay i can air block enough to to make it happen so again i'm i'm confident that was that was a really good call could have worked out even better it was very exciting i thought for a split second there with what like 20 to go i thought just maybe he was going to be able to hold him off because bell was racing the 54 as well truly once bell got away from the 54 and then just focus on the five is when he was he was reeling him in yeah um yeah tough day for the 24 uh they lose three spots in the chase and he had a and he had a good run going too yeah right i mean i think that um i certainly feel like uh the the 24 this was step in the right direction for them it was as competitive as they've been in a in a in a minute which is what back half of the top five most of the day but for a team like that now do you like like like where's your head out now do you feel like you're out of it a hundred no i mean if you're in the on the team no you don't you don't feel like you're out of it until four races to go and you're 130 back you know what i mean and you and by the way and if you have to pass like five guys there's also a thing like in golf where when scotty scheffler is lurking in third play he's six six shots back but he's in third he only needs two guys to fumble the ball but if he's six shots back and he's in 15th there's too many there's too many guys that you are counting on to fumble the ball and so it's like that like that's when you start to lose hope is when you're 10th in points four to go with 130 back like you know that there's just you'll gain be able to gain these these chunks on two three four guys but you're not going to do it on eight or nine that makes sense yeah um so it it's a tough first it's a tough start but you know if they go to st louis and have a 75 point day things could look a lot different they'd be 50 back and then next thing you know it all right we're back in this thing you just never know it's just so early what are your takeaways there looking at the chase standings no surprises yeah i mean the top seven i mean the bell blaney reddick briscoe gibbs larson and then there's the gap which i would agree that that is the gap but and then it's legano elliott bubba busher host of our sores cinderella priest byron so like i think it's the top six toughest challengers from where they started are there um it's just a matter of can someone like can bubba or somebody in that or chase elliott like i know someone maybe have a big week this week that puts them in that conversation and now they're in the top six other than that i just don't i don't know i just see is like that seventh place where larson's at is like those are the consistent guys that you think week in week out have got enough speed to make it to the top six so i think it's just a matter of can someone like can bubba or it happen. Do you think that anyone outside the chase wins a race in these final times? um yeah talladega other than talladega um probably not probably not yeah i i doubt it the talent and then the chases is too much um i mean it's a combination of all all the above but were there any winners left out of the chase svg svg svg okay but besides svg i don't think so right so i mean it could happen like you know josh barry continues to show strong runs right so like he's putting himself in there also why were why were you why were you saying in the chat he uh made life easy on you early in the race i think you were trying to put him a lap down or something he kind of just let you go i don't think it was a lap down maybe not a lot down but you're passing him and he didn't put up much of a fight he's a gentleman racer i know i i tweeted out that he's i'm giving him denny burr status and he liked the tweet so i that's an agreement he's a denny i mean listen maybe he'll get one of these i dislike when non-chase drivers uh you know well and not only that i i mean even amongst the chase drivers like you know blaney gets to the inside let him go my teammates get to the let him go like those things i i'm very comfortable in saying that those things pay dividends right and every time i got same position on blaney boom he let me go same thing with reddick and all those guys we never really fought each other it's like if you're better take it because i know holding you up trying to herbal it's not helping either one of us and what you do is you allow the the next place guy back you know into the picture now you're gonna lose multiple positions so i thought there was a ton of give and take amongst you know the front of the field all day and barry was part of that discussion right and he was he was up there racing the top five and yeah i mean i i think i might have been in a tire advantage at the time but yeah he he's never given us any trouble he's had a hell of a run lately it's it i believe it's earned him a ride i mean top tens it's i mean you would you would say it's it's well earned at this point it's impressive i guess that segues us to the josh barry news that we didn't get to talk about last week there is no there is no josh barry news what john hunter john hunter right and riley are the news nobody announced anything oh as far as i just put that am i just putting that do i just watch too many random nascar youtube videos that in my head now i possibly that might be it yeah it's you know it's a it's it appears it's a done deal um but but yes john hunter you know is is what we thought he had a uh contract for next year but legacy wants to go in a different direction and my guess is they're gonna buy him out of that and uh move on do something different and what it appears to be is is is a uh a ride for uh josh barry but but nothing's announced yet correct except for the release of john hunter right yeah um seats open for somebody i i believe it's open for josh barry um but i mean i you know if there's anything good that comes out of it is like i mean what was josh going to do right it just i mean he was on the cusp of like not working not having a ride period right right and these run these runs have just legacy enough it appears to at least raise an eyebrow so that's that's good for the berry family if that comes out to be true what i like is if legacy is in fact bringing them in they're making a decision strictly on performance clearly you don't yeah because josh didn't have any funding you don't cut a driver with a contract so now you have to pay that out like most teams aren't doing that because that's just they can't afford it legacy apparently has the money to do it and they're willing to say you know what performance is more important than the money that you're bringing and i'd like to see more of that unfortunately i get the business though yep i believe you said it all there um it is it's good to see that you know performance still still does matter and and you know if your legacy you you've got to take the next step to to get better and they feel like this will be the best that you know assuming it's josh barry they feel like this is an upgrade for them and we'll see if that turns out to be true how are we feeling about looking ahead to st louis um i mean i guess i feel good about it um i i thought that you know some of the takeaways for for me personally is that you know i focused on darlington i wanted to work on a couple things we improved those things there was no question so we just didn't get the the result to to back that up right so but i know that what it does reaffirm is like stick to the process everything will be fine and so um we'll make we'll do the process again this week and um hopefully have a good result just going into darlington we had talked about on the show last week that you know you hadn't been great there in a while but you have been great at st louis recently so it feels like just there's a yeah which is interesting i i mean i remember the win from last year but i don't i don't remember years before that second and second right ran second to cowbush for sure last three years first second second qualified first six third hmm that's good only the only time you finished outside the top two was a little spat with ross chastain that's right um and that was also a strong day if i remember correctly before that it was so early in the race who knows but uh yeah i mean i don't know we're gonna we're gonna prepare like we've never seen the racetrack so i don't i don't know past results to me all the results do you know the result is one thing how do you run is really the question and what you learn from is is how you run and what i what i knew at darlington is that yes our results were were pretty good they weren't exceptional but they were good but i knew that we never really had a whole lot of race winning capability over the last few years and i thought that we we got that back this this time how do you does it feel different this year with the chase after the first race compared to the first race or is it different this year with the race after the first race you know the result is one thing how do you run is really the question and what you learn from is is previous years with the playoff for like oh a ton ton different just just because i mean you know there's no reset um i don't know that the mental is just a little different i guess when you looked at the standings after the race last night i'm assuming you got back to the bus whatever what's your thoughts i thought i i thought i was third or fourth oh really yeah in the car that's what you thought yeah i mean especially i get out of the car right first thing i do i'll look at the pylon i'm like oh you know all those guys you're not on it and they are yeah exactly um so i i braced for impact on that one and i was actually quite okay seeing that like oh all right what it's not it's not horrible it's not great but it's not horrible um it softened the blow a little bit yeah i mean winning matters you go win a race and you're you're gonna jump 30 points on that's right on any one of these guys that's right um good finish by gibbs did not have good strong stages that's crazy he only he had the member he started in the back yeah ty gibbs yeah because of the metric the metric you crashed last week at daytona you missed out on stage points oh okay well i saw him at the bottom of the pylon uh every time the end of the stage sure he didn't get one or two i guess not if he he had got one because he scored 36 you get 35 points for uh for for a second he only scored one more point than me yeah that i guess that the stage points were pretty big yeah um i don't know who else no no other really surprises i thought this was a good race for blaney in the sense that like you know this has been a this is not like a track it's i don't know i don't consider it like a mile and a half like all big tire wear tracks it doesn't matter the size blaney's been really good at but it hasn't this kind of track has not been their right I think we find out you know what what they got when we go to like Vegas tracks like that but i thought that they did what they needed to this weekend 44 point day uh finished fourth um i thought they were really good when the sun was out leveled off a little bit at nighttime uh i i thought yeah all those guys did what they needed to do and everyone probably feels pretty good about where they're at i think that there's again that seven guys that that feel still really really strong about their chances then you got the leganos like i need to go this weekend score big points put myself in that conversation yeah blaine is another guy that had to start towards the back and spend all the stage one trying to get up into the top 10 scoring stage points now if we have qualifying though the 16 chase drivers will go last no matter what right and then it goes off the metric like in the order the metric matters because the metric that's where you go out of those 16 but yes the the chase guys will all qualify in the so no matter what you're still going to be kind of up there you're not going to be i mean a rough guess is i'll probably be 10th to 12th how important is maybe on the more side more of the 12th side because my finish there was only one chaser finished worse than me is that right byron no byron finished worse than you who else what about busher did i beat him i beat him so that's two cars i definitely am not start that will qualify before me swaras elliot was how many spots ahead elliot finished 14th 14th but i'm ahead of him in points by nine that's going to be a close metric um cendric same thing 14 spots ahead in points but he's ahead of me by five like how important i'm probably gonna be 13th how important is where you call where you go out and qualify i don't even know what time qualifying is later in the day it's like four o'clock or something not great then because the sun where the sun's just setting a little more yeah yeah just how the solar effect is of yeah when the sun goes down it's 3 30 practice and qualifying 3 30s practice practice but that's 3 30 local eastern yeah so that's 2 30 2 30 you're almost in the middle of the afternoon oh okay i don't know trav we're gonna give it our best shot we qualify on the pole at pocono being like with a horrible draw who knows uh we're gonna give it our best shot um yeah that's really all i got from darlington truthfully how about you guys i got a review here from miss j dub 80 lol the baby's screaming sent my dogs into a tizzy was drew screaming last week yeah when when denny put him down he started oh oh yeah yeah he didn't like that oh no hmm also denny big game this week denny put him down he started oh oh yeah yeah he didn't like that oh no also denny big game this week denny put him down he started oh oh yeah yeah he didn't like that hmm also denny big game this weekend the what big game this weekend uh texas yeah we'll handle them also i told jerry before you came in i should have appreciate y'all boys that's what texans do i should have y'all go get them i should have known this weekend wasn't gonna go well when uh the outlaw at the bed uh we didn't play our best uh we didn't play our best we lost i mean they're talking about basketball now yeah we're on it's it's hoop group i'm sorry yeah our team me charlie ransom brandon who am i missing um chase yeah uh we just we didn't play our best man i don't know and they threw a zone at us challenging us to shoot we didn't make our shots when we had when you had the opportunity so we lost i mean they're talking about basketball now yeah we're on it's it's hoop group i'm sorry we'll we'll be prepared next time i mean do you think we needed to make personnel changes from what you saw or you think it was just we played a bad game i think some players need to know their role and shooting threes for some people is not what i would be doing um i mean clearly you weren't focused on yelling at charlie and you're telling me to be quiet like you guys need to lock in it appeared you had you got charlie in a tip-off and then you got charlie in a tip-off like if i could get charlie in a tizzy we got throwing the ball on the lake on a few of those passes i'm not sure where well he was blaming you on one of them he looked at me what about the other four and and listen i i didn't want to do this on our group chat but how do you let your man give them 30 feet of space to catch the ball with three seconds to go i like you got to burn every second of the clock and that means when he touches it you're in his you're in it right so i'm not putting the blank you know we shouldn't have been in that position to begin with we clawed back but that was not charlie he was just honest get guard your guy tight and i look and back as catches the ball uncontested and just dropped runs right to the three-point line and shoots i'm like wait a minute i i got my hand on my man i'm turned around saying what how did he get that like you it should have taken him 10 seconds to get to the three-point line but i get it he didn't want to foul but man i don't know how you let your man catch the ball that easily and because when you do that he burns no time going right to his spot and they we got burned on a buzzer beater also ransom and charlie need to go practice free throws i think they've been pretty solid on that they weren't thursday just saying wow anyway this this hoop group game was last thursday you guys are really earning it out here on monday you've been in your head for a while i'm gonna be game time decision i got a little neat full disclosure i'm making the call now you're not playing yeah my knee i i tweaked it at the end of the game and it swole up on me so i might get a sub this week jared no jared's not my sub we might get an upgrade um okay that that that's a wrap i think 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Sheldon Creed dominated the O'Reilly Race at Darlington with a strong performance, showcasing experience and team advantage that makes him a top contender in the Chase.
  2. Christopher Bell won the Southern 500, demonstrating consistent speed and a strong finish, though his team’s execution under pressure highlighted areas for improvement.
  3. The race outcomes reflect a competitive field where top drivers like Creed, Bell, and Bubba are in contention, with stage points emphasizing performance over just finish positions.
  4. A strategic split in tire tactics during the O'Reilly race resulted in a clear performance divide, with drivers who took tires finishing ahead of those who didn’t.
  5. Michael McDowell and the incident involving a bobble off Turn 4 were viewed as a close, non-intentional collision where both drivers gave each other the benefit of the doubt.
  6. Hendrick Motorsports made a bold call to stay out on pit road, risking a poor finish for a chance at a win, which ultimately resulted in a fifth-place finish—seen as a smart, high-risk move.
  7. Non-Chase drivers like Josh Barry are gaining visibility due to performance, with Legacy Motorsports reportedly prioritizing talent over financial commitment.
  8. The Chase format rewards consistency and execution, with early race results setting the tone for a competitive and tightly packed playoff structure.

Summary:

The podcast analyzes the first Chase race weekend, focusing on standout performances by Sheldon Creed and Christopher Bell at Darlington. Creed’s dominant win in the O'Reilly Race highlights his experience and team strength, while Bell’s Southern 500 victory underscores his consistent speed, despite occasional lapses in team execution. The race outcomes emphasize that stage points reward performance over just finishing positions, making the Chase more about consistency and strategic execution.

A key moment involving Michael McDowell and a bobble off Turn 4 is examined with mutual respect and a focus on non-intentional contact. Hendrick Motorsports’ high-risk stay-out strategy to challenge for a win results in a fifth-place finish, seen as a bold and well-justified call. The discussion also touches on non-Chase drivers like Josh Barry, whose strong performance suggests potential entry into the Chase, signaling a shift toward talent-based decisions in team hiring.

The broader takeaway is that the Chase has become a tightly contested, performance-driven series where results are shaped by strategy, execution, and resilience—especially on driver’s tracks like Darlington. The competitive field remains focused on the top six, with only a few drivers like Bubba and Elliott capable of challenging for the top spots, though early momentum points to a close and evolving playoff battle.

FAQs

Sheldon Creed won the O'Reilly Race at Darlington, securing a dominant victory. His win was attributed to strong performance and strategic decision-making, including a clear split in tire strategy that favored those who took tires early in the race.

Christopher Bell had a strong performance in the Southern 500, finishing in the top 10 after a competitive start. Though he didn't win, he showed consistent speed and ability to recover from setbacks, ultimately gaining significant stage points and positioning himself as a top contender.

Stage points reward not just finishing positions but also performance during each stage of the race. They emphasize consistency and execution, making it harder for drivers to rely solely on final finishes to gain an advantage.

Yes, there was a near-collision between Michael McDowell and another driver off turn four. The driver believed they were nearly a car length apart and thought McDowell had enough time to react, though the incident sparked discussion about responsibility and racing strategy.

No, according to the analysis, no drivers outside the Chase won a race during the playoff period. The Chase format and high level of competition made it extremely difficult for non-chase drivers to win, with exceptions being rare and typically limited to specific tracks like Talladega.

The team's strategy, such as tire management and pit stops, significantly influenced performance. For example, a poor pit stop by one driver led to a loss of position, while another team's clean execution allowed them to maintain or gain ground in the final stages.

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