1 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,560 big money races to your local track porch and nobody. 2 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,400 What's up, everybody? It is it's supposed to be April 3 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:32,440 14th, but it's April 17th, 2026, episode 230 of the Going Bracket 4 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,080 Racing Live podcast. We missed you a couple weeks 5 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:35,920 here. That's all right. 6 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,800 Old George had to go under the knife over there, as you'll see. 7 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,640 Sounds like some of those rappers. 8 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:45,120 What did that? What'd that just say? 9 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,160 It just said hold on or whatever is that. 10 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,760 Is everything still good here call still good you? 11 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,320 Good. 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They revamped some things with 42 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,600 that, always making improvements to the track, quick sixteens, 43 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,120 all kinds of stuff out there for you Midwesterners. 44 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,600 Visit Mid State Dragway out there in Havana, IL if haven't 45 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,800 already. We appreciate them coming on 46 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,680 board. George, you finally can talk, 47 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,640 man. Finally, kind of. 48 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,440 Something like it, something like it. 49 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,560 I'm a little different man. I don't know whether I ought to 50 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:47,120 be on GBR and some some musical area studio cutting a record. 51 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,600 Well, I sound like Barry White. I feel like a real, real deep 52 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,440 voice and and you know, it'll come back after a while. 53 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,120 I'll be I'll be sounding like this for maybe a few more days 54 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,840 and then I can get my pictures back. 55 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,480 You know, my highs and my lows right now, man, there are all 56 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,520 lows, brother. I can't come up much higher than 57 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,080 this right now. Or are. 58 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,960 You give us some of that. What's that Star Wars talk that 59 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,040 guy does? You know what I'm talking about. 60 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,280 I. Am your father? 61 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:16,240 See what I'm saying? It's so low. 62 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,560 One thing I got to say here, you know, it reminded me whenever we 63 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,120 had the we had the gold digger up there on the on the back 64 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,680 screen whenever we were coming in, whenever the GBR music, 65 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,920 which we still need to get up out there for everybody because 66 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,480 they've been asking about it a bunch to get that soundtrack. 67 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,240 But anyway, dude, does Cory Galetti now also hold the record 68 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,760 of filling a dragster raffle in the least amount of time? 69 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,800 Because it was like a day. Probably so, man, that thing, if 70 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,000 you blinked your eye, you missed, you know what I mean? 71 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,120 I put that up there just for that reason too, Casey, so that 72 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,440 it would prompt us to say something about, about the, you 73 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,320 know, the waffle that he's having out there. 74 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,880 Somebody going to be in a pretty bad machine, dude that's won a 75 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,560 whole lot of races. I know we, we made a post on, on 76 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,120 Facebook there. Casey, is it the car or is it 77 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,120 the driver? It is both in my opinion, guys. 78 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,680 But it's sure the heck of a lot easier when the car is right 79 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,520 there. So when I think I read 1 post 80 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,440 where if you put, put Corey in a car that is not as good as gold 81 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,720 digger, make it, put him in my truck, even though my truck 82 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,520 ain't that bad. Put him in there. 83 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,240 He'd be a little bit different, you know what I mean? 84 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,920 No, that's the truth, man. I mean, you got to have, you 85 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,040 know, I would say the car, somebody on there commented, the 86 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,240 car's got to be at least 25% of it. 87 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,520 And I believe that to be true. The funny thing about that 88 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,000 particular car is that car started out a winner because he 89 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,840 won the chassis and then proceeded to start winning. 90 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,560 I mean, I bet you, if you really look into it, I mean, I don't 91 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,000 think that it would be, I don't think it would be out of line to 92 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,200 say that car, if you know, barring splits and stuff like 93 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,920 that, I bet you that car has $1,000,000 worth of big checks. 94 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,320 I ain't going to doubt it, you know what I mean? 95 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,400 And like you said, it's probably 25% car. 96 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,680 I think it's probably 25% driver half the time. 97 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,160 I'm sorry, I do. Some of these cars are just so 98 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:13,120 Dang good. Casey. 99 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,720 Let's just call it 5050 and we can just get out of here with 100 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,080 that. Leave your thoughts in the 101 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,200 comment. What is it? 102 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,880 Is it the car? Is it the driver? 103 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,560 Go ahead and we know what Vin Diesel thinks, right? 104 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,560 There's only. Yeah, there's only been which he 105 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,080 sounds similar to you right now too. 106 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,600 The no man. Ultimately there's only been two 107 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,960 people I've ever been able to see just and it and it turns 108 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,840 into luck at a certain point. Like skill level is something to 109 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,040 get you close, but when a car just didn't write, there aren't 110 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,440 many people that can that can make it happen. 111 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,440 I mean, Jeff Sarah obviously won that first GABR $500,000 112 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,240 guaranteed race in a car that shouldn't have won and wouldn't 113 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,960 have won with anybody other than Jeff Sarah in the seat. 114 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,000 And of course, we saw Scotty Richardson back in the day do it 115 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,560 tons of times with something that wasn't, you know, that only 116 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,720 was capable of winning with Scotty Richardson in the 117 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,080 driver's seat. I think Corey Lady's one of 118 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,840 those people, too. But that car is not one of those 119 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,440 cars. Yeah. 120 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Yeah, So hey, man, before, before we get too far off into 121 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,400 this show episode, I don't remember now I'm just going to 122 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:26,280 tell you 2. 130. 230 All right, 230 before we do, we are going 123 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,720 to talk about wasting fuel. Who's going to be wasting fuel 124 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:37,960 at the wasting Fuel event? I 57 Ellis 57 Speedway coming to 125 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,200 you live right here on Going Bracket racing. 126 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,280 GBR Media will be providing the live stream for the Memorial Day 127 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,520 Cole Rust 20s by the wasting field promotions team out there 128 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,880 May 22nd through the 24th 2026. Look like BP racing fuel is in 129 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,560 there pretty strong. We had them on the show so we 130 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,680 know they got a pretty good list of sponsors and special shout 131 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:06,280 out to them those sponsors that are behind them pushing this 132 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,880 race to the top there. Friday 5000 Saturday, Sunday 133 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:16,000 20,000 575 for a weekend single entry if there are any 134 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,280 remaining. I put a big a big quotes on 135 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,440 doing air quotes. Fellas, ladies, I haven't 136 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,760 checked in a in a little bit just because I've been down and 137 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,720 out. This race could potentially be 138 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,080 sold out. Do not snooze on getting in. 139 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,600 It is a limited amount of entries based on the the 140 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:40,040 geographic capabilities of LS57 Speedway. 141 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,800 So get in where you fit in and if you don't, well, you're just 142 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,320 going to be missing out. The wheelie contest, burnout 143 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,040 contest, just that and the third. 144 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:52,520 So definitely looking forward to that, but we have to get ready, 145 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,120 get your get your excitement up. I know you can't tell I'm 146 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,800 excited because of my voice. Mid state is back with the twin 147 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,880 10s starting May 1st through the 3rd. 148 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,920 And if I'm looking at my calendar correctly, that's about 149 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,680 two weeks away guys. So be ready to get after it for 150 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:14,040 10,000 on Saturday and Sunday. Come out for the Friday night 151 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,840 gamblers race. Even 1500 bucks for 32 cars if 152 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,920 I'm not mistaken myself. Junior directors is in the mix, 153 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,680 $10,000 shootout at the end of the year. 154 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:25,880 Is that a mix? Looks like it's going to be May 155 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:32,360 1st, June 19th, July 17th, August 28th, September 18th, 156 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:37,160 October the 2nd and those races are are enhanced a little bit, 157 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,760 meaning it ain't ten, it's 20. So even more reasons to come on 158 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,640 out there to mid State Dragway and get it in. 159 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,000 Special shout out to Mid state as always, for being right here 160 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,520 back in the on the back end of going Brack racing, helping us 161 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,240 do what we do. Can't wait to see the place 162 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,600 packed out. Casey, I'm saying my voice for a 163 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:57,360 second. You go with it. 164 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,160 I'm already seeing the YouTube chat anyway. 165 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,880 Blow up Troy, Troy Abercrombie out there in Oregon. 166 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,120 It's probably almost quitting time for him now for the week. 167 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,080 Also, if you guys like listen about that class racing bracket 168 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,160 breakdown, another, another show that's out there. 169 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,240 Pretty interesting talks on there between Troy and Parker 170 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,200 Theobald, which Troy now he's big time now. 171 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,440 So we got a celebrity in our chat now because Troy, you know, 172 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:31,000 he's NHRA announcer now, he's on with TB promotions now, got his 173 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,480 own podcast. He's big time now. 174 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,200 So we got a celebrity here, man. But Troy's saying if the car 175 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,880 wasn't an important piece, people wouldn't be spending 176 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,960 $100,000 on new race cars. And that's the truth. 177 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,640 That's that's 100% the truth. Yeah, yeah, there's no question 178 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,720 about it. Cars definitely got a lot to do 179 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,040 with it. All right, so no, Casey, let's 180 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,560 get it moving, man. We can, we can bounce off this 181 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,720 thing any direction you want to go. 182 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,320 You want to talk about fuel prices first, man, because it's 183 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:08,800 obviously if this was Fox News, it would be the breaking news 184 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,240 for drag racing right now. I feel like we're going to begin 185 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,960 to see a little bit of impact with the cost of fuel. 186 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,200 So let's start there. What you what you think, Casey? 187 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:22,880 I can tell you that it cost a whole lot of money for me to go 188 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,880 run Mad Dog at Farmington the other day. 189 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,960 I mean, ultimately some of these races that are capped races, 190 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,080 you're seeing them not quite full yet. 191 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,280 I'm interested to see. I don't really believe that it's 192 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,880 going to affect the Spring Fling because I think the Spring Fling 193 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,880 on the East Coast is so prominent. 194 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,440 It's kind of like it's as prestigious as some of these 195 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,440 guys that are about, I would say 10 years younger than us. 196 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,080 So not like super young guys, but younger. 197 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,000 The prestige of winning the spring fling million at Galat 198 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:02,360 Dorana, whatever it is now, obviously I think it's Galat 199 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:07,720 just saying, but I think the prestige is really almost up 200 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,800 there on the East Coast of the OG million. 201 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,960 I mean, it's, it's means a lot and I think people, specific 202 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,680 people are going to go to the spring fling at Galot every 203 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:20,360 single year for as as part of their deal. 204 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,800 And it's, it's like I was saying on the last episode, there's a 205 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,200 lot of people that'll throw everything they got at the fling 206 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,680 and you might not see them until July or so. 207 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,760 And you had the idea of, well, it gets hot. 208 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,640 That's that's true as well. But I do think that as far as 209 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:39,000 the East Coast is concerned, we got a lot of big races coming up 210 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,120 and a lot of pre entries have opened and I think the right 211 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,600 people need to do good at the Spring Fling to fill those 212 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,080 races. Yeah, man, I think that maybe we 213 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,200 should caveat this whole thought process on will fuel prices 214 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:58,560 impact drag racing and leave out the the marquee races. 215 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:03,080 You know, you're, you're fling races, especially Galat. 216 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,120 You know, you, you, you, you have to keep leave that one out. 217 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,640 It's always going to be well traveled based on where it is in 218 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,000 the country. You, you North Carolina boys are 219 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,120 going to show up and and do your thing out there. 220 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,920 Local. Track, you know what I mean? 221 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:21,800 So or or the OG million people are going to the OG million. 222 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,440 It is what it is. That was planned probably five 223 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,600 years ago for the next 10 years for most drag racers, if they're 224 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,200 going to be in the mix and want to go after big money, the OG 225 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,760 million is on the list of races to go to. 226 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,240 So moreover, we should be speaking, I think on the races, 227 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,480 you know, our local races like our coal rush 20s, you know what 228 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,040 I mean? We're going to fill that race 229 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,880 up. Our mid state twin, twin 10s. 230 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:56,240 We're going to fill those races because it's it's mid market 231 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,520 races. It's it's structured to let us, 232 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,880 me in particular run it if I was coming from Texas little bit 233 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,600 harder right then we were right there in the fuel talk. 234 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,720 But that's. Why do we start seeing, do we 235 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,800 start seeing some of these big rigs not showing up as much to 236 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,240 people start bringing trucks and being like, man, for that fuel 237 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,160 price, I'll just stay in the hotel up the street. 238 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,440 You can buy a lot of hotels for what I saw. 239 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,240 I saw something earlier this week where Chris Gilletti said 240 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,400 his rig cost $3 a mile to go up and down the road. 241 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,080 Man, it's 1200 miles, he said to Galot from where he lives. 242 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,880 So it's like where they live. Tomball, TX. 243 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,240 So, you know, that's, that's one way. 244 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,080 It's like at a certain point, you know, I know a lot of 245 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,320 people. The thing I've always thought 246 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,440 personally about stacker trailers is I'm like, man, 247 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,120 stacker trailers are cool and all, especially if you break a 248 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,560 transmission or something, then they're really cool for if you 249 00:15:54,560 --> 00:16:00,280 have a door car, But you better still keep your 28 foot your, 250 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,800 you know, 24 foot 30 foot 32 foot trailer because if anything 251 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,640 ever happens, that big old stacker trailer isn't going to 252 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,520 get towed by your 2500 very easily. 253 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:17,560 So I just always have have kind of been against that unless 254 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,280 you're the type of guy that can legitimately afford having. 255 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,720 Man, this happening, half those jokers need air rod in the 1st 256 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,360 place. You better have something to be 257 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,280 able to even to pull that son of guns. 258 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,400 So you know there's a lot of variables you got to keep in if 259 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,560 you're pulling the tracker, you got a stacker, you got two cars, 260 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,560 you got three cars, you got your golf cart. 261 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:39,760 There's a lot of things going on, but. 262 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,760 Maybe we start seeing the door car and open trailer stuff show 263 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,480 up because a lot of the guys that have that type of stuff, 264 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,440 they still got their their one of their original back half cars 265 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,920 and their open trailer. And you put that behind your 266 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,840 1500 truck and you don't really know it's back there very much. 267 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,240 And it still gets, you know, 15 miles a gallon. 268 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,720 Yeah. Can you, Can you imagine Chris 269 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:05,680 Galady traveling, traveling from Texas with that red super fine 270 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,079 Chevy 2 on a doggone open trailer heading out? 271 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:12,319 I feel like, man, I tell you what, if he's trying to have an 272 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,400 entourage behind him, trying to figure out where the heck he 273 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,160 going, You know what I mean? Going to get that. 274 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,000 Yeah. How we going to get this? 275 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 You go catch a bullet. Shoot, let's not do that. 276 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,160 Excuse me? You ain't going to catch a 277 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,800 bullet or nothing like that. But you know how that goes. 278 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,920 I bet you he'd do it, though. If he had to, he'd do it. 279 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,800 I think you're right, man. If it came down to it, he'd do 280 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,080 it. So, but Casey, we've been here 281 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,120 before, man. I feel like there's a thumbnail 282 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:41,760 if you look back in our in our archives, this is not our first, 283 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,520 it won't be our last even time down the the fuel price 284 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,720 impacting Drag race in conversation. 285 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,760 So I think it'll impact only for a specific amount of time, 286 00:17:55,040 --> 00:18:00,120 especially as economically or, or policy, whatever you want to 287 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,480 call it, we begin to to shore up things that are causing it to go 288 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,680 up this high in the 1st place. So this is all hypothetical if 289 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,200 things remain the same. And here's the hoping that we'll 290 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,720 get a break on those fuel prices sometime soon. 291 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,920 So that's what I got on that. Casey, what you think I'm 292 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,840 thinking maybe I'm hoping by the summertime we got, we got $3 gas 293 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,880 again man 3399 at least get get below $4.00 at least. 294 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,840 Yeah, it'll be your, it'll be your typical scenario where 295 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,760 where they'll say, well, at least it's not this, even though 296 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,600 you know that it should be cheaper than that, just like 297 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,160 it's happened ever since 911, since we were kids. 298 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,800 But but the fact of the matter is, it is what it is. 299 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,440 We can't do anything about it. But I did see today, literally a 300 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:51,080 couple hours ago, I saw that the talks on that straight seemingly 301 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,080 are going well. And East Texas crude dropped 302 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,960 from 100 and something a barrel to 80 something a barrel. 303 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:01,120 So it's not like it's going to be an overnight thing, but it it 304 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:04,160 should be a hopefully in a few months things will be back to 305 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,760 normal. So at least it gives people see, 306 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,240 having anticipation that things are going to get better will 307 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,600 help as well. It doesn't necessarily need to 308 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,000 be better right now to make things work out. 309 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,200 You just need to understand that they're more than likely going 310 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,600 to be better and have and be able to anticipate that things 311 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,440 aren't going to suck as bad in the future. 312 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,960 And then that gives you reason enough to go. 313 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,800 So maybe it'll be better now. At the same time, we're leaving 314 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,000 out the potential that it could possibly get even better than it 315 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,800 was before. So I don't know man you, you 316 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,520 have to consider what type of deals we might have to enter 317 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:41,320 into. Or get. 318 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,080 I mean if. It enter into as well, so I'm 319 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,880 I'm optimistic. If we became a net exporter and 320 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,120 could somehow get the diesel fuel to be down, or like if we 321 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,800 could get diesel fuel even to be 3 bucks a gallon again. 322 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,000 Dude, remember how much money people were spending when that 323 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,560 happened? Because that makes everything. 324 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,880 You're right man. That's where we need to be in 325 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,040 the 1st place. Diesel needs to be around the 326 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,000 same price as regular unleaded and stay there and it should 327 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,720 never change again. Yeah. 328 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,880 It's a byproduct. I mean, come on guys, whatever. 329 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,720 Anyway, So, but yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm optimistic, man. 330 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:18,200 I know that for me, as far as I travel out, I'm not really going 331 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,960 to be impacted as much as say, the big money bracket racer. 332 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,720 It is what it is. I'm a local drag racer. 333 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,200 And if if, if they're just so happens to be a big money race 334 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,520 in my immediate area. So I guess I'll turn into a 335 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,960 local big money bracket racer. Do you understand? 336 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,640 So that's just how it works. Every now and again you might 337 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,920 catch me get out to Saint Louis. It's probably the only 338 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,400 destination. It's my whole family's from 339 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,760 there. So it turns into a drag race and 340 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,880 a vacation at the same time, you know? 341 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,560 Yep, and this is a prime example of why you need to still support 342 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,520 your local tracks. You can't only go big money 343 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,120 bracket racing because right now I bet you there's a whole lot of 344 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,040 people out there saying I'm staying local. 345 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,360 Well, luckily you got local tracks still there guys. 346 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:03,840 Don't forget about them this year. 347 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,200 Remember it? Yeah, you know something man, 348 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,440 that's it's good. That's a good call. 349 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,760 I'm going to, I'm going to call out Kevin Little here because 350 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,160 he's got a real good point, something that I haven't 351 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,160 considered yet just because I haven't re upped on my 55 gallon 352 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,040 drum. What are the racing fuel prices 353 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,760 even looking like in lieu of this whole thing? 354 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,280 Is that even impacted right now? Because that would be a double 355 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:29,200 whammy if what we call liquid gold racing gas went up in price 356 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,360 higher than what it seemingly already is. 357 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,360 It's already pretty expensive. I don't know. 358 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,880 It's it's already manufactured methanol. 359 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,560 Shouldn't, I mean, who, you know how that goes, but it shouldn't 360 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,600 because methanol is a byproduct of natural gas. 361 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,360 It's made off of natural gas, I'm pretty sure so. 362 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,480 So. That should be a. $25 hike 363 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,200 already. But that could be that could be 364 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,360 because of delivery, you know, like to deliver it to the place. 365 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:05,480 Like even though methanol is is made off of natural gas, it 366 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:10,000 still has to get on a diesel powered truck and travel to 367 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,920 wherever you're bringing it to to your wholesaler, you know, 368 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,440 so. So I guess it'll go up, but 369 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,240 hopefully it shouldn't go up a lot. 370 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,040 Now as far as racing gas goes, I don't know. 371 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:25,920 Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to find out. 372 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,360 I'm going to need a 5 because you know, I got the primer 373 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:32,480 system on OLMO and 110 goes in that joker. 374 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:37,000 So we'll be finding out eventually, but pretty cool, 375 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,160 Casey, man coming up on that time, I guess. 376 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,720 And I know we got in here a little bit behind one of my 377 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,840 computers almost cost us another show. 378 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,200 Luckily, we were able to pull Audible, but going to give a few 379 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,840 moments of your time guys out there to our marketing partners. 380 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,400 Let them show you what they have to offer. 381 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,200 We will come right back with more ongoing bracket racing here 382 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:04,080 in just a little bit. 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Right, welcome back, welcome 412 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,960 back going bracket racing believe it's episode 230. 413 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,000 Special shout out to everybody out there being here with us 414 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,600 this long sticking it around, keeping the keeping the 415 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,480 conversation going right here on GBR. 416 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,000 So especially Syntex Printing, Ken Jones performance crew chief 417 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:18,280 pro Driven racing oil, Mid State Dragway, TSR racing products, 418 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,200 pro form parts, eighth mile apparel, Team 14 Motorsports, 419 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,400 Gearhead solutions and those boys that you're at here, that's 420 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,000 Casey and George. If you would like to become part 421 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,920 of the GBR community as a marketing partner, let our let 422 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,480 our community see what you have to offer to their racing 423 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:37,960 programs. Hit us up at 424 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,400 goingbracketracing@gmail.com. We'll be more than happy to sit 425 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,920 and discuss what we can do to help you out. 426 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,920 Case. I see some serious numbers on 427 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,120 the Facebook side man. Something like $25 a gallon for 428 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:54,920 1/16 my bank account yield and the bank is closed already. 429 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,960 Yeah, yeah, I'm, I don't know, I'm in the as usual saying just 430 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,720 switch it to switch it to alcohol because that's just too 431 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,640 much. You can buy it. 432 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,880 So you buy 5 gallons of that. You can buy your alcohol 433 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,760 carburetor probably, but yeah no. 434 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,560 Might be time to think about doing the swap. 435 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,160 Hey man, you know me and of course both of our families, 436 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,280 we've, we've been methanol kids since as long as I can remember. 437 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,480 I can't tell you a time that I remember ever running on gas. 438 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,160 So that's kind of where my roots come from anyway. 439 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,320 Just how it is, you know, especially when you live close 440 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,640 to Pinky the Alcohol Carburetor Whisperer, you know what I mean? 441 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,040 Yeah, that's the, I mean I got blown alcohol stuff. 442 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,520 So I mean it's is what it is. There's there's no gas deal 443 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,280 going in my stuff that can't happen. 444 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,320 So anyway, yeah, Austin Day over here saying 2/5 gallon pails for 445 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,400 C-12 cost $200 at Indy. So I don't know. 446 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,000 I don't know if that's good or bad. 447 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,800 I don't know if that price is good or bad. 448 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,200 I can tell you right now that what he just paid for 2/5 gallon 449 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,000 pails, you could easily get you a drum methadone and all for 450 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,800 that. So 55 gallons. 451 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,160 You ain't joking. All right, so let's switch. 452 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,760 Let's switch the beat here. You know we don't we don't like 453 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,120 to get off into what I would consider drag racing politics at 454 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,480 this point when we're talking about how much it's going to 455 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,000 cost us to get to the racetrack. Not world politics guys, that 456 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:30,440 was drag racing politics right here live on not ABC but GBR. 457 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,600 So you get to be whomever the heck you want to be and have an 458 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,280 opinion and tell us that you think we're crazy, that we feel 459 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,000 like gas prices might have a slight impact on us going drag 460 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,640 racing. Let's now talk about what 461 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,440 impacts us from winning rounds because we talked about this a 462 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,360 little bit on a on a, on a Facebook post as well. 463 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,600 There's a lot of things that, you know, we know internally I 464 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,280 lost that round because of this. There's that one thing that 465 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,960 nobody really tells anybody, and we got a whole list of them on 466 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,520 GB RI Believe. There's almost 150 comments. 467 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,560 Casey, I got one that stuck out to me. 468 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,920 Which one stuck out to you? I think the one that stuck out 469 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,360 to me most was the guy that said basically don't lie to yourself 470 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,200 about what happened because it's, it's just like the whole 471 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,520 whole deal of, you know, like a drug addict or something. 472 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,200 You can't not be a drug addict if you don't know you have a 473 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,080 problem. Because if you can't admit that 474 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,360 you messed up, then you can't fix a problem that doesn't 475 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,840 exist. So don't, don't lie to yourself 476 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,840 about what happened in the Let me see if I can get the screen 477 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,320 back going out here while I'm talking here, but don't lie to 478 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:47,040 yourself what happened about during that round because you 479 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,480 need to try to fix it. Essentially see if I can get 480 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:51,760 this going. Yeah, you're good. 481 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,680 I kind of take off from what you're saying because I think 482 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,240 it's important, you know, we know we make mistakes, earn up, 483 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,480 live up to our owner or accept our own mistakes is the only way 484 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,080 we're going to get better at it #1 I can't just fake it and and 485 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,000 think I should have did this and I should have did that or right 486 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,760 when I pulled into the pre stage beams, I took 10 out the box and 487 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,400 I was 3 red. You ain't going to tell nobody 488 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,560 that, right? You might feel a little, little 489 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,120 butt hurt. It is what it is. 490 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,640 But on up to it like yeah, I did a dummy. 491 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,520 You'll be better off for it. You know what I mean? 492 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,280 It's kind of why we make mistakes in life, so we can 493 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,920 learn something that's not just GBR talking, that's biblical. 494 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,520 So make a few of them and then learn from them, and then you're 495 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,160 doing a good job. So I like that one, Casey. 496 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,920 I want mine. And this is where I feel like I 497 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,080 do OK sometimes because when we keep going, we're going to talk 498 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,320 about another subject that I fall into quite a bit. 499 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,880 But Ronnie Court posted on here, he said turning a mathematical 500 00:29:53,880 --> 00:30:01,160 equation into a human element, trying to add the human thought 501 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:06,200 process to a math problem that I probably couldn't solve in the 502 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,320 1st place sounds about right. You know what I'm saying AC But 503 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,280 it seems to be true that if you do have Goldie, you know you got 504 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,080 Goldie. He run dead on all day long and 505 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,600 to your left foot tells you to get off the gas. 506 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,960 Somebody does you wrong. That's what I'm talking about, 507 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,920 what you think. Yeah. 508 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,960 I mean, essentially, I think what you're what you're getting 509 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,920 at is just because everybody else holds and wins races 510 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,400 doesn't mean that you have to win races that way too. 511 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,760 I mean, there's guys, there's guys that hit the tree and run 512 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,360 the number all day long. I was listening to something 513 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:44,680 earlier this week where somebody said, well, you know you're 514 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,080 going to, you don't want to give someone a clean wheel. 515 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,360 Because if you give them a clean wheel, now they know where 516 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,160 they're at. It's like, yeah, but they don't 517 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,240 know where they're at until they leave the starting line. 518 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,160 So if you beat them on the starting line, no one knows 519 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,640 where anybody's at for you. Let go of the button, you beat 520 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,760 them on the starting line, let them get it in and all day long. 521 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,240 Because ultimately, let's say you can take 3 foul if you're 10 522 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,160 on the tree and I'm three on the tree and you can take 3 foul, 523 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,240 but I'm going dead on with a three. 524 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:13,960 You're going to break out every time. 525 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,720 It doesn't matter. And and you hold the numbers 526 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,400 doesn't affect me if I'm not looking at you. 527 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,160 That just made your life harder for no reason because the only 528 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,920 reason to hold numbers is to screw the other guy up. 529 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,120 And you obviously always know you can get there. 530 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,440 That's common sense. But the fact of the matter is 531 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,200 holding numbers just gives you one more thing to do. 532 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,600 And if you're running somebody that doesn't care, if you're 533 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,240 holding numbers, then going to look at you anyway, knows what 534 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,880 the car is going to run, you put yourself at a disadvantage as 535 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,840 far as I'm concerned. What that does right there is it 536 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:51,480 really throws a big, big, big exclamation point over those who 537 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,640 says race what you see, race what you. 538 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,920 Know what you're seeing. Equals He just pulled out 2 539 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,440 three wheels in front of me. What am I going to do? 540 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,840 Well, you're probably going to stay on the gas until he starts 541 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,440 backing up and starts letting you or him around you. 542 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,520 Then what are you going to do? Well, you might lift. 543 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,360 You have not, you know, you have not made a choice. 544 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,640 Now the race looks completely different to you. 545 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,280 So is it? I know we all do it. 546 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,200 We all get down there. We race what we see, what we 547 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,320 think we see. But is that a smart ray to race 548 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,400 in this shark pool? It's a smart way to race if you 549 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,240 know what you're doing and you've practiced it, that the 550 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,000 time to practice it is not first round, third round, whatever. 551 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,520 Like if you, if you know what you're doing, it'll work. 552 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,840 I I mean, there's people out there like, I don't know if I've 553 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,280 ever seen Jeff Sarah or Johnny Ezell or Donovan or somebody 554 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:57,320 ever dial honest ever like, but they race that way all the time. 555 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,560 Jim Simmons, he always told me this specifically about Gary 556 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,360 Donovan's dad. He said don't ever play their 557 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,040 game. That's why it's called their 558 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,280 game. They're going to beat you every 559 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,200 time. And that's and that's the truth 560 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,760 and they prove it time and time again. 561 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:17,480 But ultimately, man, it doesn't. You know, there's more than one 562 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,280 way to skin a cat. That's what you say all the 563 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,360 time. And ultimately that's the truth. 564 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,040 That's that's in everything. It doesn't matter if you're 565 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,240 going to go up there and say see the thing. 566 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,320 A lot of people don't realize too, If you're a guy that hits 567 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,160 the tree and runs the number every single time you're going 568 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,640 to run at the scoreboards. You have clean data every time. 569 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,400 That guy that hits the tree and runs the number probably knows 570 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,520 what he's going to be able to run because he has clean data 571 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,440 every time. He's not trying to interpret 572 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,120 from the 3:30 what he's going to run in this temperature because 573 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,400 he already knows. So he runs it every time. 574 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,640 Especially if his vehicle is what I considered I got gave up 575 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,280 5050. I'm mad I did it. 576 00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:00,320 If his vehicle is in the 80th or the 90th and then his driving 577 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,760 ability is 10% of his race and operation you in a world of 578 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,320 trouble because he's got a good car that's going to run the 579 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,400 number yes he's showing you a clean wheel every single pass 580 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,920 too. He's got clean data. 581 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,560 He's showing you everything he's got. 582 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:20,520 You've got to figure out how you're going to put your game 583 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,280 plan. How are you going to execute 584 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,040 next to somebody who's going to be double O and take double O? 585 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,320 Because you're. There and let's let's think 586 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,000 about this. If if there's a guy he's a hit 587 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,280 the tree and run the number guy, chances are that car is pretty 588 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,360 good, right? Like because that's the only way 589 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,080 you can be a hit the tree and run the number guy. 590 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,760 You have to have a car that's going to go dead on and you know 591 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,840 what it's going to run. Well, if that guy's a guy that 592 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:47,880 say he's going to say he's get 470 dragster because that's 593 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,159 perfect. Hit the tree, run the number 594 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,000 car. If he's going to go 470 with a 595 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,360 nine, that guy's going to dial 471. 596 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,400 He's going to just do something to slow it down a couple that 597 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,200 right, but he he knows he's a hit the tree and run the number 598 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,800 guy. So he's going to set up double O 599 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,920 and he's going to go dead on. So let's just say he's going to 600 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,520 be let's just say he's going to be 10 or better, so 10 at the 601 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,680 worst and let's say he's going to probably be dead 5 or better. 602 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,080 So he's going to be 15 total. Well, The thing is, is like you 603 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,440 can, if he's a show, the clean wheel, you can get inside of it. 604 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,240 The only thing he's really allowing that guy next to him to 605 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:26,080 do is if his car's not good, which if you're a number holder, 606 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,760 your car's got to be just as good as hit the tree around the 607 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,480 number guy. People don't think about that 608 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,280 because you got to know what you're killing because if hit 609 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,920 the tree around the number guys going under because he knows 610 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,720 you're going to take it now you're going under 2, so you got 611 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:43,520 to know to get behind, which that's confusing, but it's. 612 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,640 Also hard because if you try to get behind on a real driver like 613 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,480 that, the race is always going to be if you're dead on double O 614 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,400 dead on, he's always going to be able to get back to dead on as 615 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,640 well. So you're only going to be 616 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,640 talking about thousands in the 1st place. 617 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,280 You'd better you better have LASIK or something down there at 618 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,560 high speed because you're going to have to be able to see a 619 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,120 really tight margin. My bad and. 620 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,560 Well, I was just going to say ultimately, in today's day and 621 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,200 age where you know, you know, there are people out there 622 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,240 again, Donovan Williams can get inside anything. 623 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,080 That's true. He can take itty bits just like 624 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,800 his dad, just like his uncle. But the fact of the matter is, 625 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,240 is that hit the tree around the number guy knows he's a sitting 626 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:29,520 duck for that to happen. He's not going to set up to be, 627 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,040 you know, 10 on the tree. He's probably going to set up to 628 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,200 be 5 or better on the tree because he knows he has to beat 629 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,240 the other guy on the tree for the strategy to work. 630 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:43,080 So basically there's ways to do it all the time. 631 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,680 And just cuz like just cuz 90% of the people out there are 632 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,880 repeating what other people say that they can't implement. 633 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,600 Like there's maybe there's maybe 20 guys that I would say you 634 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,240 show a clean wheel to that guy and you are at a disadvantage. 635 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,080 But I don't think it's the majority of people. 636 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,000 Most people just repeat what they hear. 637 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,880 And there are people out there that maybe that wouldn't be the 638 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,400 best strategy. But I think 90% of the time if 639 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,560 you are a guy who can consistently hit the tree, like 640 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:17,040 let's say, let's say your average, you know, your variance 641 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,880 is like 5, like you're a really good guy hitting the tree. 642 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,320 You set up five or better, chances are you're going to be 5 643 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,880 or better somewhere in there. Chances are 90% of the time 644 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,160 you're going to at least match your opponent on the starting 645 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,360 line. And even if you match them, 646 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,720 let's say you're 5 on the tree, I'm 5 on the tree. 647 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,680 If I'm going dead 4, you better figure out how to go dead 1. 648 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,560 And because that's the only way you can beat me. 649 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,480 So essentially you got to be 1 total. 650 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,080 That's very unlikely, you know. Hey, I'm going to tell you and I 651 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,400 was going to say this too. I see her in the chat now so I'm 652 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,120 definitely going to bring it up. But Brittany, Brittany Lejeune, 653 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,320 she had mentioned on the on the post, one of the main things 654 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,960 that people have to come to terms with is you probably 655 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,920 shouldn't be holding numbers in the 1st place. 656 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,160 I'm paraphrasing what she said of course, but it's true. 657 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,360 You're holding numbers and you shouldn't be you. 658 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,880 You think that you, you are have the capability and the equipment 659 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,200 more importantly to to go down there, kick it at the 3:30 and 660 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,280 then spray drop down the track. Like Joe Peters just said, he 661 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,760 likes to spray drop on people. We're going to what are we doing 662 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,000 here if you're executing that versus say Brittany Lejeune, you 663 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:26,760 know? I don't know how. 664 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,800 She races, I don't know how Brittany races, man. 665 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,080 She goes dead on a whole bunch. All right, I, I, I filmed it 666 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,160 from the, the, the bird's eye view, I don't know how many 667 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,360 times and watched her go multiple rounds executing. 668 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:46,800 So whatever, whatever has been figured out seems to work right. 669 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,120 I can tell you from the ear, I can hear pretty good. 670 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,840 I've not heard her get down there and just beat on the 671 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,320 throttle and just shake the hood scoop on your behind because 672 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,680 most, well, I mean, you know. The thing is, I'm pretty sure 673 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,640 her brother is Johnny. Yeah. 674 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,840 And Johnny, I think it would be a it would be a up for a debate, 675 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,400 but I think it's Johnny. And then it became Jeff. 676 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,960 Sarah Jeff might always driven like that, but I remember Johnny 677 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,800 being the guy who really started showing people something that 678 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,080 they had never seen before 1st And she's probably seen it her 679 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,800 entire life that her brother gets people in positions that 680 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,680 they don't even know what they're doing anymore. 681 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,240 And he won a lot of races for those first couple years by just 682 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:30,840 making people not understand what's going on. 683 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,400 But he knew what he was doing and no one else did yet because 684 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:38,400 no one had seen that before. And that was a he was a pioneer 685 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,480 in that style of driving. And then Jeff went on a roll 686 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,320 shortly after that doing the same thing. 687 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,520 I can tell you now, for me, it was Brad Gephardt, Young Brad. 688 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,560 Listen, young Brad, Brad, Brad at old age right now, and he 689 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,320 ain't old. Don't get mad at me BG, I'm I'm 690 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,520 not trying to age. You but. 691 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,360 That was the first person that I'd ever seen. 692 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,080 By the time he got to the 3:30, the hood was already shaking. 693 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,640 All right, so. That's what I know about him. 694 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,960 And if I had ever raced them, I promise you he was the person 695 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,440 that if he was in the left lane, I would be looking to the right. 696 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,000 Why would I do that? I don't want to know what you're 697 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000 doing over there, but I'm going to be standing on the gas pedal 698 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,600 until I get to the finish line and then hopefully I see the 699 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,840 scoreboards because I I need to know when to let off. 700 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,040 You know what I mean? That's that's no, I see it, 701 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,200 Kevin. OA Little would call it kamikaze 702 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,480 in that finish line. That's what I'd be doing. 703 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,680 Yeah, and it's, and like I said, man, people have raced for 704 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,360 years, you know, all different types of ways. 705 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,240 There's people that are hit the tree and run the number guys 706 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:48,320 that still win to this day. Yes, typically it's an older guy 707 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,920 doing it. But the fact of the matter is, 708 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,000 is they still can beat up on the young guys because ultimately 709 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:58,000 Allen Boykin, he's he's this is his famous phrase. 710 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,160 He's always said his best package wins every single time, 711 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,360 no questions asked. Always best package wins. 712 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,800 Yep, and I mean. So how can you get to your best 713 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,760 package? That's the that's the question 714 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,400 right there. What are you personally best at? 715 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,000 It doesn't matter what you wish you were best at what other 716 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,720 people think you should do what other people do. 717 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,120 What are you best at consistently? 718 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:22,800 Exactly. And that's where I was going 719 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,480 next. And that's why we're partners at 720 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,240 this whole Going Bracket Racing podcast. 721 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,080 We don't know where you're catching us at. 722 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,880 You could be in your car. You can be right here on 723 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,720 Facebook or YouTube. But we just want to say thank 724 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,680 you for chiming in as well As for leaving comments in the 725 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,480 chat, everything, you know what I mean? 726 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,480 But what you really need to figure out, and I'm talking to 727 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:47,400 myself here as a as a drag racer who who has room for improvement 728 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:52,280 as well, you know, what are you good at on that racetrack and 729 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:58,000 what can you execute? Florida State, I always equate 730 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,720 it to golf, man. You got to have multiple, you 731 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:04,760 know, multiple shots to be a good golfer, but you definitely 732 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,240 got to have one that you're really, really good at to lower 733 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,200 your score. And you got to be able to do it 734 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,320 all the time. Same thing. 735 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,480 So got to figure what what out, what that is and then do a good 736 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,680 job of executing your game plan. You're going to turn on a whole 737 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:25,320 lot more wind lights, Casey. And I think that it seems like 738 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,400 it slowed down a little bit, thankfully. 739 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,200 But I think that a lot of people need to understand there's 740 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,640 certain cars you can't drive certain ways. 741 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,480 Like for example, my Nova, I can go down there and bomb the 742 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:41,600 brakes in my Nova and 650 car, embark the tires almost and kill 743 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,840 10 mile an hour. It's all good. 744 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,240 It's going to go straight, right? 745 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,560 If I go try to do that in the Chevelle, it's going to be 746 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,040 upside down in the wall barrel rolling. 747 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,120 You know, you can't do it in a car like that. 748 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,960 It's it's not a good idea. It's not safe. 749 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,840 So what can you do it in? And like I said there for about 750 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,680 a year straight, it was crazy how many wrecks we had seen in 751 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,120 bracket racing, because that's a relatively new thing. 752 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,640 And it's not because cars got faster, because it was cars that 753 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,600 weren't super fast doing it. People driving over their head. 754 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,200 Yeah, there's people driving over their head and they're I'm 755 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,400 not saying things can't be done because we watch. 756 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,280 I mean, Jeff, Sarah will GO-465139 mile an hour or 757 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,760 something, 132 mile an hour. And it'll it'll be fine, 758 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,720 perfectly safe. But that's because he 759 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:30,040 understands the feel. You can feed the brake in. 760 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,440 You don't just go stab the brake on a 440 car, you know, like and 761 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,480 there's people I can do. I I am not one of those people. 762 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:41,800 I could not do that. Most people can't, but you can't 763 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,960 get caught. A lot of that comes again, 764 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,680 though, from what we were originally talking about of 765 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,640 being caught up in the race, looking over and looking back 766 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,920 and be like, oh crap, I was supposed to hit the brakes back 767 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,400 there and then stabbing them when you're supposed to feed 768 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,120 them in. I kind of like this comment out 769 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,760 of time where that then I feel like it's worth talking to the 770 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,960 community with Casey, he says. So you don't have to race both 771 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,240 ends of the racetrack. He's laughing and it doesn't 772 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,600 seem like a question, seems more like a comment. 773 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,480 I happen to agree with him, but you do got to race one end of 774 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,600 it. And I personally would have to 775 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:17,560 say if you let go and you are trash, just take it back to the 776 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,800 trailer, reach into the cooler and come on back up to the 777 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,600 finish line and watch the rest of the day. 778 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,960 All right, so you got to let go of that button, man. 779 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,560 That's that's the key. Or or get off the brake, 780 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,440 whatever you're doing in your race car. 781 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,480 So what do you think about that? Oh, I agree, man. 782 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:42,560 It's it's to a time where now people are a lot more serious 783 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,560 about it. I think partially, in fact, I 784 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,800 think mostly due to the money involved on everything. 785 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,760 I mean, I was texting back and forth Will Holloman last night 786 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:57,320 and he had mentioned something about, I can't remember what I 787 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,360 said, but he said something about, yeah, race cars are 788 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,840 $150,000 now if you want a top of the line brand new dragster, 789 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,560 that's what they just what they cost now. 790 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,360 And when you get that much involved, you have to be more 791 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,120 serious. Like at what point? 792 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,240 At what point when you're spending this kind of money 793 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,600 racing, is it not so much as a hobby anymore? 794 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,640 Like is it AAA baseball? For some people it is. 795 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:26,800 I think that for some people it is a contribute a, A, what am I 796 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,520 trying to say, a contributing factor to their income every 797 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:36,560 year Because when you can win what Tyler win 325,000 dollars, 798 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,200 $350,000. You mean to tell me that's not 799 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,240 part of his income? He races for a living and runs 800 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:42,880 TV promotions. That's what he does. 801 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,800 You know, it's it's you know, Will who I was just talking 802 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,160 about. That's his job to maintain all 803 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,000 those race cars, make those race cars good. 804 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,800 Like that's that's his job for they got a lot of race cars that 805 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,680 over at that team. That's a big family, you know, 806 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,440 and and they have a lot of cars. That's what they do. 807 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,600 Somebody's got to maintain that stuff. 808 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,240 You can't you can't run businesses and maintain a fleet 809 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:09,720 of eight or ten top tier race cars that are ready because 810 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:11,600 Bohannon won in Jayden's dragster. 811 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,200 You know, like that's one of their cars will run it up the 812 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,640 dragster race Jayden, I think one in their cobalt. 813 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,400 Well, those cars are good because you have someone 814 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,600 constantly maintain them. You can't go to work every day 815 00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,960 and have all you might have one good car. 816 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,480 You don't have time. There's not time to focus on 810 817 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:34,960 cars, you know, So it's just, you know, I think some of these 818 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,320 guys are semi pro essentially, you know. 819 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:42,720 Yeah, I'm, I'm OK with saying that there are professional drag 820 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:46,920 racers, semi professional. Let let me rephrase that. 821 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:52,560 Bracket racers out there, we have people who are considered 822 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,200 professional. All right, because if you want 823 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,800 me to be honest, the quote UN quote professionals, there may 824 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,360 be a handful of them that can come down here and do it with 825 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,480 this to Sean Langdon's to name one right off the top of my 826 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,120 head. But are they the professionals 827 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,200 of their category and we the professional of ours this way? 828 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:16,640 I'm going to call it myself. Thank you for the the mid 829 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,560 market. I maybe say AA or single A, you 830 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:25,040 know what I mean, to where I'm not the big money bracket racer, 831 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,040 but I can bracket race at a high level. 832 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,560 It makes me give more appreciation and I was I'm just 833 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,560 going to go here because I feel like it's important. 834 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,240 Especially while that fire's up there. 835 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,720 Make sure you get out and appreciate your market. 836 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:45,320 Whatever you are racing in local, mid 10s, twenties, maybe 837 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:51,120 below that, bigs, 2530, forty, 5000 million, whatever you're 838 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:57,360 racing, participate hard but appreciate it as well. 839 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,080 Give thanks Pat, Pat, the promoters on the back. 840 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,120 Whatever you got to do, keep the sport strong because it is 841 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,920 important. That's all I got, man. 842 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:12,000 Total, not really off tangent or off topic per SE, but I was 843 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:17,600 talking to Champ on the phone, you know, earlier this week and 844 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,960 we were talking about, you know, fuel prices and this was before 845 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,040 the oil gone down. We didn't know what was going on 846 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,040 this and the other. And he said, do you ever see a 847 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:32,680 time where there won't be race? And I said, no, I don't 848 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:36,040 actually, I think as long as there's race cars, people want 849 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,000 to race them. I mean, as long as there's cars 850 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,320 people want to race them, I think I think you could 851 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,240 potentially see some stuff slow down. 852 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:48,160 I personally, I've been saying this for years and and I will 853 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,960 say also that for years that a participation has been proving 854 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,520 me wrong. I've been saying for years that 855 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,600 I think that mega money bracket racing has got too far out 856 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:01,320 there. But again, they constantly get 857 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:02,960 bigger and bigger. Every year the OG million 858 00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,320 seemingly gets bigger and pays more every single year. 859 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:12,680 I think there will come a day whenever a big money race 860 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,760 returns to what I believe it should be. 861 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,320 And I'm, you know, I'm nobody, I don't promote events. 862 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:19,560 So who do I? What do I know? 863 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,000 I'm just saying in my mind, I feel like big money bracket 864 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,600 racing should be some 50s. Like that'll be the high point. 865 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,400 Maybe there's 100 or so. And then there's the OG million 866 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,640 that would pay and you know, the Spring Fling million and there's 867 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,520 a couple of those, a progressive purse structure. 868 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:42,400 But I feel like people have forgotten about the 10's, the 869 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:50,920 20's, the stuff that really can be participated in, like the the 870 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,160 megabucks style events where you have no buybacks, but you could 871 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,600 buy 4 entries and you can race the entire event for 600 bucks 872 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,160 for three days and it's a 510 five. 873 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:08,040 I think that I don't think that would work today because that's 874 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,600 just people aren't going to travel for that like we used to 875 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,360 because that was a big event back then. 876 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,520 There were no three day races. There are only a few. 877 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:19,160 You know, if there's 100 granders out there, people 878 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,080 aren't even going to bat an eyelash at at 10 granders. 879 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,320 You know, it's not in the same category. 880 00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,680 You know, you're talking, you're talking. 881 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,760 We're comparing an open trailers in a Dooley to Stacker trailers 882 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,520 with four brand new Dragster Zone and a Renegade. 883 00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:40,240 So that's the difference right there is that we have evolved 884 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:45,200 this sport with our capabilities of pouring money into it. 885 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:50,160 Should I say something into we have to have a big money market. 886 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,360 The beautiful part about the promoters, the thought process 887 00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,960 in the evolution of racket racing as a whole is it is a 888 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,880 tiered sport. We have local, mid and major. 889 00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,080 It is what it is either way you look at it. 890 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:10,120 And that's why I feel like we haven't seen the law, quote UN 891 00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:14,520 quote, that we've expected or should maybe have seen with gas 892 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,560 prices being so high. Even a couple years back. 893 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,520 We had Brett Kepner on the show. He says it's been this way since 894 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,240 he could remember. Everybody's always thought, oh, 895 00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:27,000 here it goes. Drag racing's about to die and 896 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,720 then it's stronger. Oh, COVID comes. 897 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,680 Everybody in their Mama went drag racing during COVID, bro, 898 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:36,560 I'm I'm telling you, people came out of woodwork during COVID. 899 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:44,360 So I'm always going to, I always think that we'll see a big money 900 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,800 market of bracket races. Will it be 10? 901 00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,640 No, probably not. We may lose a couple, you know, 902 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,960 big money races down the line. Will it always be the Moroso 5 903 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,960 day or the Gulfport five day down there with Britt and Galen 904 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,400 them? Well, maybe, maybe not, who 905 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,880 knows, but it's probably going to be 3 or 4. 906 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,920 You know what I mean? Might lose a day, Still going to 907 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,200 race at least three to four days, so. 908 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:16,280 Well, and that's what you and I were talking about this earlier 909 00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,320 this week whenever you finally could talk again. 910 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:24,040 And you said really what when you look at it for your normal 911 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:29,520 person, what makes it unaffordable is the third day. 912 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,000 Whenever you start looking at some of these races and you look 913 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,320 at comparisons and you're like, it wasn't, it wasn't 914 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:43,200 unaffordable till you say, here's the third day because I'm 915 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,720 not going to mention it, but there's there's an event that's 916 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:48,280 a perfect example of it because it's the same event and the same 917 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,640 payout and all that stuff. And there's one more day and now 918 00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,440 it's now you got to pay this much money versus that much 919 00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,600 money. Problem is you're never going to 920 00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,040 not pay if you're going to go to the race, you're never not going 921 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:00,840 to pay for the third day because number one, you're already 922 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,120 there. Same expenses. 923 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:03,920 You're just paying for the other entry fee. 924 00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:05,640 So it's really not that much more. 925 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,600 But the reason it's not that much more is because there's not 926 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,640 a daily rate. It's not like say to make things 927 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,160 easy, it's not $100 a day to run for 10 grand, no matter how many 928 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,280 days you're there. If you run for three days, it's 929 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,240 300 bucks. But if you run for two days, 930 00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:23,440 it's still, you know, 275 bucks to entice you to buy three days. 931 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,520 So you kind of, if you want to go, you got to run wall. 932 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,040 And what you're forgetting about is that third day. 933 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,080 You, you also got to think you might have to buy back that 934 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,840 third day too. So now it's more than that. 935 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,480 But I'm really liking that, you know, this is me. 936 00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,560 This is how I feel my budget works. 937 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:48,040 And this might be one time per year for me, but man, that 599 938 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:52,800 to 799 range right there. Yeah, once it gets to 1000, it 939 00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,560 gets hard. You get to 1000, man, I don't 940 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,000 even know if I can Drag Race because that's that's a lot of 941 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,640 money on the line for me to have come out of pocket in order to 942 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,400 do it. So I don't know. 943 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,880 I love that circuit is all I know. 944 00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:10,360 Yeah, the last time that I did that, I, I know I've told the 945 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:15,680 story on here before, but I it was right after we had my kid 946 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,920 and I had quit racing. We're going to have him in 947 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,880 August and I quit racing in the end of June. 948 00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,000 And because we're going to have a kid, you know, I was the first 949 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,040 kid, I didn't know what's going to go on, but I knew it was 950 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:32,200 going to be expensive, right. So as you know, so I quit racing 951 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,440 and I told my wife, I said I'm going to save money and I'm 952 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,960 going to go to this first, which isn't here anymore, but I'm 953 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,400 going to go to this first loose rocker race. 954 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,760 I'm on double all of it. I'm a race, all of it because I 955 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,960 haven't raced at that point I wouldn't have raced in like 8 or 956 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,320 9 months. So the point is I saved all that 957 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:51,160 money up and like I had the money because I didn't do 958 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:55,120 anything for all that time I went out there and I'll never 959 00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,200 forget. I laid down 800 bucks in front 960 00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,600 of me and double that entire thing is ended up being two 40s 961 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,280 and I was just like, dude, this is already not fun. 962 00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:06,960 Like because it's just so much because that's a lot of money 963 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:08,440 for me. Like that's a whole, you know, 964 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,360 that's almost a whole month of daycare, you know, and I'm just 965 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,280 sitting here and looking at it. I'm like, man, this isn't fun. 966 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,600 And then I ended up being doubled in fourth round both 967 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,120 days. And I, I made money. 968 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,840 So it like it worked out for me. I made money and but I'm sitting 969 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,160 here and I'm like, I still don't. 970 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:27,840 I don't have any desire to do that. 971 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,600 And I'm that's just me. Like I don't expect everybody to 972 00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,160 think like me. I'm just saying that's how I 973 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,560 feel about it. Enjoy it for now, for now, until 974 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,040 until my bank account is set up a little differently. 975 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,920 One time per year, maybe twice. I can pull it off twice a year 976 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,400 and be just fine, right? The mid mark, the mid, the 977 00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:49,520 middle, the 10s. Boy I love anything. 10,000 for 978 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,080 100. Yeah, I'm. 979 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:55,440 Going to every one of those jokers, I can go to 10 for 200. 980 00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,920 It's a little steep, but I think I can pull that off too. 981 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,600 Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, that's my thought. 982 00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,040 I feel like when it gets to the level and everybody's at their 983 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,240 own level, but when it gets to the level that you can buy 984 00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:12,280 something in your own life that would that would help your own 985 00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,200 life, that's when it starts to be because it's for me. 986 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,200 For me, racing is for fun. And if I'm not, if that's what 987 00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,880 makes me not have fun, that's what I'm not personally going to 988 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,240 do. But for other people, they like 989 00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:24,560 that. They like that feeling. 990 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,040 If they got that 800 out there and they're sitting here saying, 991 00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,840 man, now I got a chance to win $40,000, I could turn to say 992 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,320 840. And everybody's got their own 993 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,360 thing. And I, I'm glad it happens 994 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,000 because that means I can watch it on TV and talk to my buddies 995 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,600 about it. It's like a lot of buddies that 996 00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,240 they go to those races and I know what's going on and it's 997 00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:45,560 fun for me to watch them and see, see them do good, you know, 998 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:51,320 But I'm, I don't know, man. It's, it's one of those things 999 00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:55,240 whenever, like for example, if you spend 100 or even $200 to 1000 00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:58,320 race, you sit here and you're like, I mean, really well, what 1001 00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,560 can you buy for 100 or $200 anymore? 1002 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,360 Like I could buy one tire for my truck. 1003 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,160 Seriously. I mean, so it doesn't hit you 1004 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,720 like that, But when you're sitting here, you're like, man, 1005 00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:12,480 I could buy all the tires for my truck and it needs them, you 1006 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,280 know? Well, I don't know. 1007 00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,760 I know this was fun. We haven't gone live on a Friday 1008 00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,360 in a while, if ever. Maybe once once before. 1009 00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,200 So let us know how you liked it. It's Friday. 1010 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,200 I'm going to find something to eat here in a minute. 1011 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,760 Casey, what you got closing? I'm about to do the exact same 1012 00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,560 thing, man. I don't know. 1013 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,600 Other than that, I'd I'd say the same thing. 1014 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,240 Tell us how you liked it on Friday, see what's what. 1015 00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,920 We'll see. We got Spring Fling coming up. 1016 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,440 I think it probably will go live on Spring Fling Braca races here 1017 00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,160 in a couple days, Tuesday more than likely for that High Roller 1018 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:51,920 shootout. I know I got a couple of my 1019 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,240 buddies in that deal. I mean, realistically it's like 1020 00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:56,760 a lot. I pretty much know everybody out 1021 00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:01,000 there. But it's going to be, you know, 1022 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,600 I know we always say Spring Fling Vegas is what starts to 1023 00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,760 determine what's going to happen throughout the year. 1024 00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,160 It was very well participated. Fuel was high then too. 1025 00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,240 You know, it's a long way away and never gets any closer to 1026 00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,000 anybody participating in that race. 1027 00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:22,680 So that's good. Oil prices coming down, so it 1028 00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,800 should be good. In the future, I expect the 1029 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,240 Spring Fling will look like nothing is happening as far as 1030 00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,360 the economically. I feel like everybody's going to 1031 00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,720 Spring Fling no matter what. So I hope that that makes it 1032 00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,280 look good for I hope the outlook now that everybody's going down. 1033 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:43,320 Don't forget FTRI believe is the is the following week 250 car 1034 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,280 cap. It isn't terribly far to TV 1035 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:53,320 promotions triple 50s at VMP the I think next month beginning or 1036 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,840 middle of May. So there's a lot of stuff going 1037 00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:58,560 on. Man, I'm glad that I'm glad that 1038 00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:04,080 hopefully we'll know by Monday. In theory, everything stays the 1039 00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,000 way it is, because as long as everything stays the way it is 1040 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:11,120 and everything stays calm, I think that all the promotion 1041 00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,040 companies don't really have a lot to worry about. 1042 00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,320 Yep. Couldn't agree with you more, 1043 00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,840 man. Well, guys, thanks for joining 1044 00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,040 us. Another two. 1045 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:21,880 Well, I almost said Tuesday, it's Friday. 1046 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,320 We'll see you guys Tuesday for another episode. 1047 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,360 He's out. Have a Good Friday and don't do 1048 00:59:27,360 --> 01:00:57,160 anything I wouldn't do. right there.