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No prep is one of the most intense competitions in motorsports. What's

dude? I got a quarter million dollars in this car!

Where drivers race down an eight -mile track at speeds nearing 200 miles per

hour. There is no room for error. One mistake here, you're going home.

For the last five years,

Drivers have gone head -to -head racing for an individual championship.

Ryan Fireball Martin.

But this year, we're doing something we've never done before.

We have eight teams led by eight captains.

This is no prep like you've never seen it before.

The racing is more intense.

Everything that we're used to is no longer.

We got the money.

That's the most important part.

And winnings are bigger than ever.

Game on, baby.

That's huge. Pots are bigger. Cars are faster.

With nearly a million dollars on the line.

We've been starting off this wonderful day here at Virginia Motorsports Park.

Today is our first 32 -car invitational where racers can earn points for their

team. Ten points per round. The further you go, the more points you get.

We're the only team to have all five of us make it in, and that says something.

Since there are 40 racers on teams and only 32 spots in the invitational, that

means not everyone is going to get to compete.

Obviously, the more racers a team has in, the better chance they have to pull

ahead.

Today, invitational points.

Yes. $40 ,000.

There are zero ducks in this deal. Like, everybody's fast. Everybody.

This field is insane.

20 racers that won in our qualifier last week were guaranteed a spot this week.

Then, everyone else had to race for the final 12 spots. And there were some

surprises.

Team Captain Bodie was having car problems and couldn't even make it to

race. And Jerry Bird, the number one draft pick overall, lost to Rich Bruder,

which means he is not racing in the Invitational here in Virginia.

It's just depressing because I feel like you picked me first and I'm kind of

letting you all down because I ain't shining like I should.

Well, you got the new car. You got the new car blues. We all know how you run.

The good thing is that you guys never say quit.

Yeah, we're not quitting. Like I said, since last week, we've been just at it.

mean, I'm going to wait a car out in the first two races.

But despite these surprises, the final 32 -car lineup is a strong one.

Team captains Disco Dean, Mike Murillo, and Justin Swanstrom were all able to

race their way in.

That means that all the team captains, except Bodie, will be racing tonight.

One of the issues that we see with Birdman's car, again, it's nothing to do

Birdman as a driver.

It's all to do with his car, and his car hasn't been doing good.

So, I hate to bring this up.

He hasn't made the trip.

Right. Can we put somebody in that has made the trip in his spot? The only

reason I say that is because I just don't see any sign of improvement just

I know it's coming, but I'm just trying to look for help for our team. Right. I

just hate to roll in the first round with not making the trip at all.

I'd like to ask him and talk to him and get a point blank his feel for it.

Okay. Let's go next door and talk to him about that.

This is the year that we're doing team championships.

So team captains get to choose who's going to be on their team. And before

race, we can make a trade or we can drop someone down and pick somebody up from

the pool.

That's something I have to think about when it comes to Birdman.

What's up, girls? What are y 'all doing?

Birdman got a win in the qualifier, but the only reason he got a win is because

his opponent broke.

Birdman has to get out of it.

5 of 60 foot.

And in testing, he only made it 60 feet. He didn't even make it 60 feet.

Birdman has issues there on the hit. He has to get out of it just past the 60

foot cone.

So it's my duty as a team captain to make a choice whether I should drop

down, pull somebody else up, but I just don't know how Birdman's going to take

that.

Where do you feel that you are right now?

as far as making the trip this first round?

Not.

So what we wanted to do, but wanted to talk to you first and see how you felt

about yours, is possibly pull Dominator, or if you are adamant that you guys

think that you're okay.

I'm 50 -50 on it. We have T -minus less than 10 minutes to pull Doc, Dominator,

Dr. Dominator, basically.

I don't know where I stand on it. I really don't. I don't know that Dr.

Dominator could do anything for it.

But do whatever you want to do. It's up to you. You're the captain.

I know, but that's not how this works. You know how that is. Yeah, we want to

all talk about it. Yeah. You're not going to stay in the pool if we do that.

promise you. So what's the timeline? What are we looking at? We bring

up for this race while we're here in Virginia. You know what I mean? Yeah.

next week it goes back to the same thing we had.

Yeah. Okay.

It sucks for me. I don't like it. Anybody in this position wouldn't like

But you just got to swallow that pill and move on.

If that's what y 'all think is best for the team, then that's what needs to be

done. And I would probably be saying the same thing from that end. If you're

okay with it, I'm going to do Dominator. I've struggled the past few years. And

with the car being hurt.

So what's your deal? What's your thoughts on Dom?

Is he not? No, well, he had the motor out. He had the motor out yesterday.

Oh, he did?

Yep. At the end of the day, they got to do what's right for the team.

What's up, Dominator?

How you doing?

How you doing there, man?

I'm good. So how do you feel about, how was your testing?

We made it 60 foot, rattled the tires, came back, made a shock adjustment, and

went right down. Can you bump in? Is it going to bump in? Yes.

So Dominator wasn't at the draft, but we know he's been out testing.

I know he's been struggling, but I'm hoping and praying that he is the guy to

replace Birdman for now.

We need you to come on our team.

And it may be only temporarily. I get it. Okay. I totally get it.

Are you good with that?

Absolutely. Okay. Yes, sir.

All right. Yep.

Get ready. We love you. Thank you. Thank you, Bill.

Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, buddy.

Careful, guys.

Man, that was tough.

All right, so I do believe I have all of our racers here. There's 32 of them

racing for that Invitational Team Championship.

For those that were here last night, you saw the Grade 8. You got to see Ryan

Martin win that race last night. $10 ,000 in his pocket. Oh, yeah.

Today, a little different.

All these drivers are on their respective teams.

And also, we've had our first substitution of the season. There is a

pool that you can pool drivers from, and one team has elected to do that.

Team Mike Murillo has pooled from the reserve pool.

They have sent Birdman down to the reserve pool.

It has brought up Dominator.

Dominator is now on team.

Murillo picking up Dominator, and it just blows my mind. I just don't

understand. He wasn't even at the last race.

So for Murillo to not even come over and talk to me about it, give me the

opportunity, huge kick in the... So I'm going to go on record saying that if

Murillo needs me later in the year, my answer would be hell no.

So... We're going to move into the chip draw now.

There's some great matchups heading into the first round of racing today, and

three sets of teammates drew each other. Mike Murillo and Scott Taylor, Ryan and

Robin Roberts, and Lizzie versus Chris Rankin from Kai's team.

They do have the option to trade chips to break those matches up, but it's the

first points race, so there might be a different strategy.

All right, my teams that drew each other, can y 'all step forward here,

Hey, Kyle. Well, you're first in line. That's great.

So we have three teams that have drawn their teammates for a race. I would like

for Scooter and Mike to swap it up if they would like to.

Scott and I drew each other first round. So it's not an ideal situation. You

don't want to race your teammates.

However, I always look at things from the big picture.

Any other way, it's a possibility that he could go out and I could go out.

Neither one of us are accomplishing anything. We're not getting any points

the team. So the good thing about it is one of us is moving on and we start

accruing some more of those team points that we need.

Well, but Ryan, you probably want to do something different, don't you? I mean,

Ryan, what do you want to do?

You know, I was kind of thinking that since we were the first two to draw each

other and you guys were the first two to actually draw out of the bucket, you

know, we kind of figured that out first that we should swap.

They were at the end. It really didn't count. They were at the end.

So I thought maybe. Well, I mean, you count. Trust me. Your car's real fast.

I'm just saying you're at the end.

So if we could do that, that's what I think we should do.

And I think Kai's just trying to run from me again.

But I'm just saying.

Wow. Kai.

Kai, is that true?

Maybe.

Mike, I got to hear from you. What do you think should happen here? Well, with

all that being said, the last thing I'm going to do is try to help Kai.

So we're going to stay where we are.

Really?

Okay. So if y 'all want to trade.

Good job, Mike. That's the best thing you could possibly do.

That being said, the last thing I want to do is help Ryan. So we'll probably

stay, too.

Let him take one of the two out. One of the fastest cars is going to get out

regardless, right?

Yeah, we're going to stay also.

Okay, so it sounds like the pairs are staying as they are.

Nobody wants to swap except for Ryan and Robin.

The matchups are set for the first round of our $40 ,000 invitation.

Racers will earn 10 points per round, going all the way to the finals where

winner will earn 60 points.

That's a whole lot of points to accumulate throughout the season.

But these team captains want to start the season off right with a win and get

ahead.

We're here at Virginia Motorsports Park.

Going to kick off the first round of our invitational event.

It's all about going rounds and earning points for your team. You win, you move

on, you lose, you're out.

All right.

First pair, though.

We haven't made a hit with the rear steer that's in it right now. Okay.

Whatever y 'all had in there against Chuck 55 was a nice pass.

So we're out here at Virginia Motorsports Park. Everybody knows it's

track. I won MPK the last two years in a row. Plan on making it a three -peat.

It's the first invitational race that we can actually start getting some points.

I drew Marty Robinson. I don't really know a lot about him. I just know he's

a nice hot rod. He's got some really nice parts, and I've seen him making

passes. I haven't had a chance to run beside him yet, but here I am. I drew

first pair down the track, and I'm going to see firsthand how fast he really is.

So you were chasing that Greenland we had with the wiring.

Find anything?

Yep.

One of the wires I spent loose, so that's why I was intermittently trying

shift and not shift.

So Marty Robinson drew last night's runner -up in the great eight, Kai

It's not a matchup you want first round in the invitation.

Maybe turning the power down a little bit will help us get that shake out of

there and we can not be chasing broken wires.

Have a better shot at it. So we've just come back from round one, chip draw.

Drew, Kai, Kelly, all people.

Been chasing this Grimlin in the transmission.

We found out last night the car didn't even shift out of first gear. So

after chasing it for hours this morning, we found the wiring issue.

Wire came loose out of the computer, got it all fixed.

Car's shifting now, so feel pretty good about this next run. Coming up with

Invitational.

Here we go.

Invitational first round coming at you right now over the left lane. That is

going to be Marty Robertson going up against Kai Kelly. Kai Kelly in the

lane.

Should be a good run for us.

Nice job right down through there. I didn't have a clue what we were up

so we just swung at it. Old car carried the tires probably about 500 feet the

whole path.

It was dead hooked up, first pair down.

We got a hot rod, ladies and gentlemen.

Hell yeah.

The Buffalo Nickel.

Oh, Buffalo Nickel, man. Those are awesome.

I ain't never seen a Buffalo nickel, man. I think it's a good look.

Let's get this first round out of our back end.

Let's go all the way.

That's the game plan.

Let's go get them.

So I went out for a first -round chip draw. You know, me, Callie, Jim Howe are

in it. I think we all got good chip draws.

I'm second pair out going up against B -Rad.

Listen, I know he's going to be good on the tree, and he's been going down the

track. So I think I got a good car. I just need to go out there and do my job,

and let's see if we can pull off this win.

You know, I got this new Buffalo nickel, so let's see if we get some good luck

rolling our way.

And see if we can take on some wins.

Hey, let's get a partial shade.

Come on.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

It feels good to have all my team in. Having all five of your guys is going to

go a long ways into getting more points added to our pot.

And hopefully,

here we come championship.

I drew Justice Wansham. What's crazy about this is I haven't raced him for

years, and I've done racing two times now, the first event and this again in

second event.

Thank you, you too.

He got me last time, but I was late in the tree, but I know I'm there, so we

just need to not be late, and I think we might have him.

Going to get their first turns on the wind light. Nice job. He'll move on to

next round. That was a close drag race right there. B -Rad right next to him.

Glad to get that first one out of the way.

We're on to round two.

And you?

Golden.

Ready to go? Yeah.

First round, I got Jim Howell.

In the last year, the dude was fast and consistent.

The plan is to just gain points all the time.

We can share data and we can help each other so we can win this championship.

My team has four of us going into the Invitational. We're guaranteed the 40

points for that.

That track is probably a greasy mess.

It's a little slippery.

Daddy Dave has made some good headway here this year, so there's no ducks out

here in this pond anymore.

Everybody's a serious threat. The goal is one round at a time. We don't want to

look ahead.

Had a little bit of a struggle bus here getting everybody, you know, set up the

way we want them to.

But, you know, today I need myself and Callie and Justin to go rounds.

Our biggest problem is what we don't do or what we miss.

Jim taking on Daddy Dave. That's a captain. If he can get rid of him,

threat. So if we can get rid of him and go ahead and start getting some points.

You need to touch the lead.

Kick some ass, girl.

First round, I ended up drawing Chris Rankin.

Of course, a teammate. Like, this don't change, apparently.

Last year, I was drawing teammates left and right.

Two of my team drew each other. I only had four going into the Invitational

today, and now two of us have drawn each other.

Ryan and Robin also drew each other, and they just wanted to swap, but the team

decided that we would rather race each other so we could for sure have one

person moving to the next round. That would give us more points. It's all

the points.

If we would have raced both of them and they would have beat both of us, we

would have had no points, and they would have had 20. It's all about strategy

here. We're trying to get to that number one goal, the team with the most

points.

We've got Chris Rankin in the right lane. Going up against Lizzie Mewson in

left lane.

And Lizzie Mewson gets the win.

As soon as the lights turned green, I left. And I saw him for a little bit,

I didn't see him anymore. Apparently he had problems again.

And my car made a nice clean pass, got there first, and got the win. So I was

happy with that. We got data to work with. We're moving on to the second

We're moving on up. Here we go.

This is a big race for Team Bodie.

Nate Saylor was Bodie's top pick in the draft.

So he is counting on him to deliver a ton of round wins.

and a lot of points this season.

All right, next pair coming at you right here are going to be Kyle Kane over

there in the right lane going up against Nick Saylor in the left.

This is the first of the points. This is my first race ever in the Invitational

today. I'm pretty excited, pretty anxious. I know what the car can do.

going to be really dependent on me.

Kyle had a horrible look in Ohio. He kicked some rods out of the motor.

He got him a new motor. He earned his spot in the Invitational today.

Kyle's got a lot of drive to him. He knows that this is an opportunity for

to step up and shine above everybody else. And that dedication and that

determination is what's going to get him into the winner's circle and keep him

on my team.

This is the trickiest round to go through.

Sun's blazing down on the track. First round is a very important round for our

team. This is the first race here in Virginia that 40 grand is up for grabs,

also the team championship points.

The more rounds we go, the more points we accumulate. We need to stay ahead and

gain points to win this championship.

All right.

We've got Manny Alvarez in the left lane going up against Rich Bruder in the

right.

Manny, he struggled a little bit. He had some suspension problems.

He says he figured those out, so hopefully he's got a hot rod this

We've got fast cars in our crew, and all we need them to do is make good,

consistent passes, and we're going to be all right.

I knew Rich has always been fast.

Rich's car runs good.

They've got a new screw blower combination that runs very well. And

making moves and pivoting along the way.

They changed some stuff yesterday in testing that helped the car. And every

I see that car gets faster.

We get one lucky round, that's our lucky round. So, yeah.

Team Murder Nova came into the event with all five of his drivers in the

round. Now he's down to three after Manny's loss.

And he has drivers in each of the next two races, including... Jeff Luck, his

number one pick going up against Bobby Ducote. It sounds like Bobby's having

some problems in his pit.

Is there a pig?

He has one, but he needs a cam sensor.

He needs a cam sensor. Mike Bowman has one. Oh, yeah, I was going to say, yeah,

we probably have one, yeah.

I had my team over here. Scott Taylor was helping me.

Had one of his guys over here. We had an issue with a sensor. It had a broke

wire in it.

So for now, I don't have the stuff with me to do the pin. I would just butt

connect it. You got stuff to do that?

Butt connect it? Yeah. Do you?

We want to win a team championship.

And in order to do that, all of us have to be firing on all eight cylinders. So

the whole team jumped in and got it done and fixed.

I got up there for round one, chip draw.

And when they called number seven, I was ready. I wasn't waiting. I just walked

out there.

And then a little short dude, Jeff Lutz, walked out and I said, this dude's been

racing since I was even thought of.

My number one draft pick, Jeff Lutz.

Hopefully he's got a nice hot rod this weekend and he can do what I picked him

to do, you know, and that's go rounds.

He's going to be a front runner anytime he races. That's what he does.

bulbs come on i let go of the button i can look over and i just kept seeing you

know started creeping up i'm in the car going yeah like hell yeah i was all

excited going to second round

get them all in there bubba

today is the first point phrase it's absolutely crucial to go around here

though I made the grade 8 last night, next week could be altogether different

we don't perform here today and I could get passed up extremely easy.

One more time.

I am feeling confident in my car.

We tend to be the slowest first round. You cannot do this here. You cannot make

any mistakes against Chuck 55.

He is very fast. We were in the same position last night. We have the same

amount of points in the grade 8. You could argue and say that we're very

matched here, and I'm up for the challenge.

All right, Daddy, let's go.

We still were struggling a little bit on that short game. You know, from the hit

to about 100 feet, we're struggling.

Going into this round, I'm not going to lie, I'm a little bit nervous.

I feel like our cars are pretty closely matched.

And Kayla's got two teammates that's running identical combinations.

And her tuner that they share is going to have the data to know what the track

will hold ahead of time. He can go back, make a few changes.

So they're going to have a tuning advantage.

I don't want to make any big changes, big swings on the converter pressure

now because I don't want to be out in the left field going up there first

This is an important round because if we lose this round, we could possibly be

racing our way in. We don't want to take that chance.

We're going to go out there and pull back.

All right.

All right, Nick.

There, that's going to be Chuck 55 going up against Kayla Morton.

Kayla, she's doing amazing, and we're all standing on her shoulders. She won

Ohio. She went to the Final Four last night in the Grade 8. I mean, she is on

point, and she's rocking it.

So Chuck 55's car's rolling. He made it to the Final Four of the Grade 8. You

know, he's in the Grade 8. First off, you know, that's amazing.

and people are starting to realize why he was one of my top picks.

All right, next pair. That's going to be

Chuck 55 going up against Taylor Martin.

Round one continues in this invitation with another big matchup.

It's Chuck 55 from Team Murder Nova going up against Kayla from Team Daddy

All my guys are out.

Out? Everyone.

You?

Not me. Haven't we yet? Oh. I'm the last one left, though.

So last night, we were able to pull off a grade 8 win.

We had a transmission problem.

Pulling the car out to go take it up the staging lane.

Transmission's making some weird clicking noise I've never even heard of.

Somebody tell me what is going on. What is this?

It's clanging and banging.

I think I've had every problem you could possibly have in a race car. I've never

had this one.

So what did we do? Replace the whole training now? Yes.

I'm pretty sure we're going to be standing up all night replacing

We went through and changed the transmission out, torqued all the rods.

were all good.

And then Robert and I drew each other.

Not even almost how I wanted that to go.

It was worst possible case scenario.

The one guy on my team that I for sure really, really, really don't want to

draw, we screwed that up.

It's a worst -case scenario.

You absolutely couldn't have picked a worse case than for Ryan and I to drive

each other. We think we're two of the fastest cars here.

Now we've got to challenge each other. Look, the only good thing about the two

of us running each other is one of us goes forward.

And the worst part of it, whoever doesn't win between the two of us, now

other one's going to have to race their way in in Minnesota.

Again, worst -case scenario.

Yep. I just got to get one round, so I have to race my way in. I've never had

race my way in before ever.

I don't want today to be the first day.

And Robin Roberts will take the win there.

Ryan Martin, like he shook the tires there early.

Unable to recover.

Robin Roberts will take the win and move on to the next round.

Green light drops. We'll take off.

My car goes into instant tire shake, which I felt first round testing before

when I got here, and I just watched Robin drive off.

Nothing I could do. Didn't matter how many times I could pedal it.

He made a clean path.

He went A to B. Mine didn't go anywhere.

Sucks we drew each other, but at least one of us is going on.

Good job.

Yeah, it's all good. Good job. Hey, good job. Thank you. Yep.

How about a potential surprise of the year? Team captain and returning No Prep

Kings champ, three -time champ, Ryan Martin is out in the first round. That

means he will be racing his way in next week, and guess what? That is the first

time ever that he's had to do that.

But coming up next is going to be a matchup between Team Bodie and Team

Dean. Both have already lost a driver in round one today.

We actually probably made better passes than we probably went faster than we've

ever went here.

That's good.

We should be right up there with them top dogs for sure.

So here in Virginia, right now, feeling great. The car has never been faster.

We're slowly creeping up on this deal and getting a handle on it with this new

combination. It's just getting faster and faster and faster.

And the more comfortable we get, the more dangerous we're going to be.

So in the driver's meeting, we drew Larry Larson.

Never ran that guy, but I'm telling you, when we line up today, he better have

it together because last night we made two test passes, back -to -back personal

bests. We were flying, so if our pass today goes anything like last night,

put him on the trailer early.

Larry Larson drew Damon.

He's been making a lot of great passes. He's making the transition from the

street to no prep kings, and he's shown a lot of promise.

Not really too concerned about who I got.

Biggest thing is we just got to get past first round so that we don't have to

race our way in for next weekend.

The first two rounds are going to be really important to get down the

and after that, then it's going to be game on.

We need to go.

That's two of them. Good one, y 'all. Good one, baby.

Yes, J -Man.

I just heard that you drew Mike.

Yeah. That sucks.

Yeah. Well, you know, the only thing about it is we was going to swap, and

obviously we wouldn't do the game to where we call out our teammate or

like that, but Mike's having some trouble, and instead his car's making a

noise. The new motor is? The new motor is. So he turns around and looks at me.

He's like, I don't want to give it to anybody else. We drew each other. Let's

just leave it the way it is.

Scott and I drew each other first round.

Prior to going up there, we started the new motor for the first time, and it did

not sound right. So that's in the back of my mind because I don't know what

we got going on. The oil pressure was low. We for sure don't want to hurt

another motor. Once I came back, We got our oil pressure. We had to swap some

parts off the old motor, oil pump -wise, and put it in this motor. We sound

good. We feel good. So I'm going to give it all I got with Scott.

Here's the deal. If I beat Scott, I deserve to go to the next round. If I

Scott deserves to go to the next round.

Next pair coming at you right now, and that would be Mike Murillo.

He is going up against his teammate, Scott.

Taylor.

Next pair coming at you right now, that will be Mike Murillo.

He is going up against his teammate, Scott Taylor.

Scott Taylor rattled the tires, but he's still going to get the win. Mike

Merlo's car dies on the starting line.

Sorry, guys.

It didn't work out how we planned, but Scott knocked the tires off. I didn't

happen to just beat him, and then I couldn't make it to the next round, so

actually worked out as good as it could possibly work out.

Sorry, guys.

Scott Taylor is going to catch a break there.

There are just five races left in round one, and so far we've seen some major

upsets. Team captains Dave and Ryan Martin have both been knocked out.

Murder Noble went from having five of his drivers in the event down to just

He is the only one left, and he hasn't raced yet. But first, it's a battle

between Team Kai and Team Boat, as David Gates goes up against Mike Bowman.

Like with Jeff Kai, if you ain't first, you last.

Right. At least from here, right?

Yeah, we're on it.

We didn't have to race our way in like the first four races last year.

I don't know. It's been a lot better year and a lot more confident with

this chassis.

Yeah. If I just don't get up, then I'll be doing good. What do you think?

I feel great. You know, the weather's good. The track's going to be a little

greasy. This car likes it.

Got the best tuner on the keyboard.

I think we got a decent draw.

Bowman was in the grade eight with us last night.

So I know he's fast, and to be able to go out there and knock him off right at

first, I think that's what we need to do and set our pace for the day and not

let up.

I know we're getting ready to go and stuff, but we need to just kind of

-check everything.

This will be the first run on this one.

Didn't like what I saw on the last one, so we had to change that blower out.

So we matched up with David Gates, and we're going to go out there and do our

best. I know he's fast. It's Kai's old car. We're fast, too.

So just got to be on the light.

and make a good run and get on to the next round.

It's going to be over 100 degrees on the racetrack, so it'll be a little bit

sensitive. I'm going to go for it, see what happens. I think my car will be all

right out there, and hopefully we'll be fast enough to win. Track conditions are

going to be a little bit tough, though. First round, they always are. Step it up

from there.

Straight down Broadway there.

Greepy -ass track, man.

Mike Bowman rattles the tires in that right lane.

And that was all she wrote.

Keep going and good luck. Thank you, man. Yes, sir.

You got your jacket in there?

I was just trying not to put it on until I had to. Here at the second race,

which is our first race, Murillo and his crew come over.

Burban's still struggling with some programming or something in his car.

They've asked me to come and be on their team for the weekend. It may be just

this weekend.

It may be permanent.

We don't know. We drew murdering of a 13th pair. The plan is we're going out

there. We're going to throw everything at it. We're going to smash it.

Look at it this way. We're just on separate teams together.

We're on the same team.

Don't get twisted.

Every round when they call who is racing who, you're like, oh, that's going to

be a good race. Oh, that's going to be a good race. Damn, I'm glad I didn't get

him, you know.

This year, one mistake, you're done.

It worked out, putting Birdman down.

I don't feel so dumb.

You know what I mean? I actually feel like I'm pretty smart, you know? We got

Scott still in, and so, man, I'm going to do everything I can to help him, and

our team's going to help them and do whatever we can to keep them going.

Tire shake. Man, it was shaking hard.

This sucker shook so hard, we just broke a rod in in a freaking wheelie bar.

You knocked the tire out? All right, I did.

Let go of the button.

Shook my teeth out.

We overpowered the track.

We messed up.

We had that moment where all five of my guys were in first round.

Nobody's left. At least it was Dom. You know, at least Dom's going to the next

round.

Brandon is here. Brandon's a very talented, smart guy.

Brandon James.

Brandon's got a new car, new setup.

He's going to be badass.

Today, we're rolling off each other and straight up the track as fast as

possible. That's going to be tough.

Axeman, man, he's got the job that everybody wants.

He shows up with a suit and a helmet.

He's driving Steven Brindle's car.

With them guys working together the way they do, Axeman's going to do things

this year also.

Brandon shook just like a lot of other cars that went down that left lane. We

expect him to do better and contribute also the next race. And so we're ready

get there and get going.

It's okay. We live to fight another day.

Man, I feel good taking on that fast car.

Next pair up, we got Greg Chandler going up against Cali Mills.

Greg Chandler versus Cali Mills.

Greg's been getting it together, so let's hope he can keep it together for

seconds and get around it.

Hi, Drew. Greg Chandler. You never know what could happen, so we're going to do

the same exact thing we did last night on Race Your Way In.

Don't worry about what they do. Just do what we do.

We're behind in points right now on all the other teams.

We've got to try to capitalize and try to do up so we can make up for our

that didn't make it in.

Pass right there from her.

Congratulations to her and her team. They will move on to the next round.

All the fast cars have been losing. People are knocking the tire off. We're

making the full trip. So tune -up's a big part of it this round.

First round of the Invitational, we get Giuseppe.

Obviously, he's on Ryan Martin's team. He has a force to be reckoned with.

Ryan wouldn't pick him if he didn't have his team together.

Conditions are hot muggy.

So we're not going to make a lot of power, and on top of it, the track is

to be greasy.

I don't care how the run looks. I just want to see wind life.

Look, it is hot here. The track conditions are gooey, limey.

That always proves to be a problem with traction.

So we drew Disco Dean.

Disco Dean is fast, so we put a good tune -up in it. We're ready to kick some

ass today and put some points up for Team Ryan.

All right, this will be the last pair.

The invitational first round over in that left lane. That'll be Giuseppe

up against Disco D in the right lane.

Giuseppe.

Nice pass in that left lane. Giuseppe moves on to the second round.

It's been a wild first round here in Virginia, as only two of the eight

remain. Team Disco and Team Murdanova are completely out of the competition,

while teams Murillo and Bodie have two each.

Meanwhile, team captains Ryan, Dave, Kai, and Swastram each have three racers

left. They're still in the running for that $40 ,000 prize and gaining points

for their team.

We're now moving into round two, and these drivers are adding ten more points

their team total.

Okay, so let's get this driver's meeting started. We are in the second round

now. I've noticed that there are some faces missing.

You almost always see Ryan Martin in the second round of a race, and as you can

tell, he is not in this driver's meeting.

I didn't make it in, which is terrible.

But, you know, three out of my five guys is good. You can do a lot of damage

with three people. And I've got three heavy hitters, three hard hitting guys

that will do really good. So hopefully those three guys can stay away from each

other and my team can continue to advance.

With that being said, there are a couple teams that now have no members

remaining in this race.

Disco Dean and Murder Nova, who had all five.

Of his teammates in the first round is now down to zero.

Going into round two, I still got three going to the next round. So that's

pretty good considering Sean lost all five of his in the first round. So I

really got a good feeling about today.

Only thing I'm worried about is meeting one of them in his chip draw.

So, you all ready to draw? See who you're going to race next?

All right, let's do it.

All right.

Okay, you go ahead. Go ahead.

You're drawing. Oh, you're drawing. I guess you're going to swap it up. Okay,

I'm not complaining.

I just want to point out all three girls are in the second round.

Hell yeah.

I'm going to take my chip. I'm taking it out of your hand.

Get out of my hand. Oh, my drivers. They have their chips.

Where are my number ones?

Woo!

Giuseppe and Bobby Ducote.

Giuseppe and Bobby Ducote.

It's going to be Dominator and Kyle Cannon.

Dominated in Kyle Cannon, Rich Bruder, and David Gates.

All right.

Scott, Scooter Taylor, Damon Merchant.

All right.

Jim Howe. Jim Howe and Caleb Morton. Jim Howe and Caleb Morton.

Ooh, Kai Kelly.

And Justin Swastra.

Oh, man.

Callie Moves and Axeman.

I heard you say I got seven. I was like, oh, man. Which means my final pair will

be Robin Roberts and Lizzie Musi.

Good luck. Be safe.

All right, y 'all.

Go get your cars turned around and bring them into the station lanes.

Let's figure out who's going to move on.

Invitational second round.

Stephanie and that beautiful Nova going up against Bobby Ducote.

Winner will move on to the third round.

It's a round two chip draw. I drew Giuseppe, you know, Mr. Clean, the ball

-headed guy.

And we're going to try to go out there and kick his ass, and that's the whole

plan. That's the whole reason we're here. We ain't here to lose. We're here

win.

Scott said we're going to sit in a little more than we did last pass, so

going to see what happens and hope it works out and get our wind light on.

We're here to do something serious.

That's all I can say.

Everything looked good.

So far looked good. Drive shot was...

ride on on what we made on Friday night.

We drew Bobby Ducati, and, you know, he's got pro -charge, Tammy deal.

He's going to be fast. He's good on the tree, so we're going to go up there and

do our job, and we're going to try to take him and send him home.

I am glad that I do have three drivers advancing forward.

Man, it would really suck to be one of the teams that doesn't have anybody

forward.

Plan is to win. Make a clean pass.

No mistake.

Everybody does the same thing. And continue to go around. That's the goal

this weekend.

We're packing a chute right now.

No, he said they were calling for it.

I am ready. I just got to get the car out.

Where's he at?

Oh, he's back there.

Punching them keys in.

Dominator, we had to wait on him a little bit. I don't know what he was

some trouble in the pit, getting his parachute packed, I think.

Go, go, go, go!

Well, they ain't giving no break this year on time, are they?

Hey!

Power!

Hey,

you're all right. Slow down, dude. Just put your safety belt on. Don't worry

about it. All right, bud, you ready?

Good?

Love you, man.

right lane, that is going to be Kyle Fennin. Kyle Fennin in that Camaro going

against Dominator.

We let him get up there, took our time, stayed calm, stayed collected.

You know, every round right now is pretty nerve -wracking for me. My first

event, so just trying to do my thing.

I know you hear it all the time, but I let go of the button and drove down

through there, and I didn't see him. It was a good, clean run, and I've got to

rinse and repeat now.

Okay, third pair here, Rich Bruder, going up against David Gates.

$40 ,000.

He said, put it right here in my right front pocket, please, sir.

Second round, we've got Rich Bruder, and, you know, they're fast. They've got

some good equipment, a good hot rod.

We're going to go out here and he's got to be on his game to beat us because

we're on our game. Third pair here. We've got Rich Bruder in the jacket.

Going up against David Gates over in the right lane.

And David Gates, left first, never looked back.

David Gates in that right lane. Nice job.

He'll move on to the third round.

Battle of two Camaros. We got David Merchant and Scott Scooter -Taylor.

We raced Larry first round. He's a veteran. We drove another veteran in

Taylor. I'm coming in here to prove that I belong.

I'm going to come place fuller all I can. I'm going to take these guys out

at a time and race the track and not really worry about who's in that other

lane.

We got Scott still in, and so, man, I'm going to do everything I can to help him

and keep him going.

Second round, we drew Damon Merchant. Praying it don't shake.

He's getting faster and faster, and he's making the trip.

Round one, we did not make the trip.

We got to go down to beat Damon. If we don't go down, we're not going to beat

anybody.

Damon's been carrying us, man. He's been really the heart of our team right now.

Unexpectedly, you know, Damon's going to have the motor everybody got. He's been

coming out here overachieving, people think.

He made it to the grade eight.

Gaining points by himself as well as our team.

This is Damon's first season running no -prep Kings.

But he's already proving to be a huge asset for Team Bodie, especially after

taking out heavy hitter Scott Taylor.

Damon's fast in the light, and sometimes that can win a race.

We left good.

Car made a hell of a hit the first 500 feet, and then it started kind of

stumbling, sputtering at the big end.

I wanted to make sure that people knew that us getting picked in the draft and

it being our first year wasn't no fluke.

Good job, Dad.

There was that.

Damn.

With Scott Taylor losing, that means Mike Murillo's team is down to zero.

They'll join teams Disco and Murder Nova over there on the bench.

That's going to be Jim Howe. He is going up against Kayla Morton. Kayla Morton

in the right lane.

Ready?

All right, Daddy, let's go.

Round two, I drew Jim Howe.

We got one heavy hitter out.

We're going to get two heavy hitters out.

There's lots of heavy hitters out from the first round, and it's looking more

and more like my day, so we got to get through this round, and then I think

we're home free.

Team Dave is looking okay.

Three and two, round two.

Axeman, Kyle.

We share data, it pays off, as you can see, and that's why we put the team

together that we did.

Day's team was pretty much using the same tuner for most of the cars.

That is the guy that does all the magical stuff on the keyboard and makes

car run as fast as it possibly can.

And if you have a tuner that has multiple cars on the same team, you can

data, which is critical.

You have one car go down early, you get data, you can use that data, put it on

your other cars for later in the rounds.

It's going to be Jim Howe. He is going up against Kayla Morton. Kayla Morton in

the right lane.

The track was a little bit better, and I thought, well, we don't need to leave

anything on the table because we're running Caleb.

Kept creeping towards the center, and I was like, I got it, I got it, I got it.

And I was like, oh, I better grab a button.

I threw a little bit more at it, and it almost cost me the race. We almost had

it too hot.

We stubbed our toe in Hebron. I stand by the fact that I think we've got the

fastest car on the property. Move on to the next round, one round at a time.

I'm not changing a damn thing.

Super disappointing L there.

I thought we would get that one, but it just wasn't our day, and that's okay.

Last weekend was, and there are going to be a lot of weekends that are.

It's all good. I mean, they didn't make a bad pass.

That was just a rough one. Rough L for sure.

Okay.

And moving on. I thought we had that one, didn't you?

Who, Justin?

His car ain't went straight in the last two races.

The last one wasn't straight?

No, he was tugging the wall in the right lane. He never lifted, but he was all

over the wall.

Round two, I end up drawing Justin Swanstrom. He's brilliant. So anytime

draw him, you know he's going to be deadly on the tree. You know his car's

to be fast.

You know you've got to have your ass together.

I'm just going to keep turning the car for the racetrack, and he better beat me

to the finish line because we're going to it.

This track's one of the smoothest tracks in the country, but it's hot today,

it's gummy, you know, the rubber's peeling up, so you better have the right

tuner. You better have a hold of that steering wheel and know what to do with

it. If the car's going to get loose, it's going to get sketchy, and then the

best driver and tuner win on a day like this.

Well, you're on, buddy. You're on, man.

Come on, buddy.

Callie Mills going up against Larry Roach, known as Axeman.

We need them team points.

Yeah, we need them.

Kyle's going.

I got the first one.

I got Callie Mills round two.

That hot rod is flying.

I don't know about this situation.

We're going to wick this thing up and give her hell.

In round two, we drew Axeman. I've raced him a few times before.

I think he beat me, but today we're doling Axeman's axe.

move on to the next round. Great grab race.

Did you get him?

Didn't have enough in it.

Me and Callie took a loss, so now it's only Jim Howland there.

Hopefully Jim can go off and win this deal and try to make up some points for

to be able to keep going forward, to keep working on our program, keep making

passes, try to get a little bit more consistent, and see if we can go ahead

try to pull off a win later on in the season.

Damn it, bud.

I forget I'm even racing anybody.

This damn thing's fun to ride, man.

Ackman, he's always tough, you know. He's got a great car.

I mean, I thought me and him were pretty even. Looks like they got me a little

bit on the tree, but we tried our best.

That was close.

I was like, go!

I didn't hear you, I didn't hear you, and then when I hit the chute, he rolled

up inside me and said, dang, that must have been close. Yeah, it was close.

was real close. I know, I was like, it hiked the front wheels up. I was like,

go! I thought it was going to get it, but... Oh, yeah.

I feel great, but I feel good.

I'm feeling great.

Round two, I draw Lizzie Musi.

She is capable of winning any event she goes to. They've got a great program, so

this will be a real challenge.

Yeah.

Fastest guy.

Good? Yeah.

We're still racing in the heat of the day, so we ain't going to make our

pass, but we're going to make a fast pass here.

This will be the last and final pair here in this second round of

And it's going to be a good one right here, folks. Over in the left lane, that

is going to be Robin Roberts. Robin Roberts in the left lane going up

Lindsey Mucey in the right.

Let's see who the final car will be to go to the third round of Invitational

class.

unfortunately, Kai Kelly's team has three players advancing.

That's not great for us. That's three guys he has in the top eight to advance

and accumulate points.

Right now, he's going to be tough to get in front of, probably almost

impossible, unless all three of his guys drop out and Giuseppe wins the event.

All right, that will do it for the second round of the Invitational Class.

Round three is set to kick off, and five teams will have racers left in.

We're about to find out who will be the last one standing.

All of our drivers are here on the starting line for our third round

invitational drivers meeting. We are down to eight racers. These eight racers

will represent the grade eight next week because they are in the top eight of

points. Nice job, y 'all. Congratulations.

Someone still needs to win this $40 ,000 today, right? And it's going to be one

of you eight.

So let's go ahead and draw chips and see who is paired up with who.

So going into the next round, I got three people moving on. That means we're

racking up 30 points every time we draw the chips.

So hard work pays off. You ain't got to have money. You ain't got to have the

best equipment. You just got to have no quit, and it's going to show.

Okie dokie. All my rakers have their chips. Where are my number ones?

Kyle Cannon and Damon Merchant.

All right. And number twos, Giuseppe and Kai Kelly.

Man, I hate this, but I'm going to have to put that old beer up on you.

Let's see. We'll find out.

Number three.

That will be Jim Howe and Batman Larry Roach, which means Lizzie has once again

drawn her teammate, as it will be David Gates and Lizzie Eason.

I can't do it no more. I don't know what to do with my life.

All right, drivers, you know who you're racing. You know what you've got to do.

Go back to the pit.

Get your cars turned around and bring them into staging lanes.

Let's get back to racing.

Something's just not making it happy.

It's trying to get probably too much timing, too much heat in the top end of

and that's why it's doing it in the top end.

So round three, I drew Kyle Canyon.

I've seen him run.

I know his car is fast.

We've been chasing a little issue over here.

It had some pops on the big end, and it was slowing the car down drastically.

Maybe we're getting too greedy with it. I don't know.

Yeah. We're just going to have to kind of go off data from yesterday, and

hopefully it runs as good as it did yesterday.

Stay settled down and stay in the zone.

We drew Damon Merchant.

His car's fast.

I think it's a good pick for us. My car is really doing its job right now.

Get up there, let go of the button, and try to collect another wind line.

My man Damon carrying us. He put this on his back.

We got one in still.

So we're the only one left for our team.

It's very important that we accumulate for these team points.

And, you know, I don't want to let my team down.

And I want to show these people that we're here to stay.

And Damon Merchant's going to get the win. Kyle Cannon has something break on

the front of the car.

What the heck is that?

That sucks. I was looking for him to win it. Absolutely.

Kyle had catch traffic failure. Nothing you can do about it. It can happen to

anybody. But all in all, I got a pretty solid team, and I'm looking to win the

championship with them.

I'm fine. I don't know what happened.

Your front wheel is doing like that.

When I let go of the button, this front tire was carrying up in the air.

It was like an animal when it set that front tire down. Felt like the whole car

was falling apart.

Ripped the steering wheel out of my hands, and then I was trying to steer

this shaft.

That went through the glove? Yeah, I'm guessing my gloves probably tore all up.

That was just a little more excitement than I wanted to end the weekend.

The front end broke, and it just went crazy.

I lost everything.

We'll patch this thing up.

make sure that doesn't happen again, and we'll go to Minnesota. We're in the

grade 8, and we'll try to make a killing there.

How are you feeling? You know, it looks good. The last pass was good.

It was good. It was good. The track's still greasy.

I don't know when we run here. If the sun goes down, it changes a bunch.

So right now.

I'm the last guy on Team Ryan.

Now we drew Kai Kelly.

I'm debating right now, last minute changes, if we're going to put a little

more in it or just leave it and let him try to beat us.

He's quick on the 60, right? I can probably pick this up on the 60, but you

with that? Yeah, I'm good. Okay.

All right.

Let's do it, baby.

Round three, I went up there and I drew Giuseppe.

All day we've been watching this car. It's been hauling ass, so he's

not an easy draw, but we're going to make sure that we're going to go down

racetrack. And we're going to try to be consistent and without shaking at all.

And I think that'll be fast enough to outrun him.

The sun is starting to go down here in Virginia, but it's still warm. And from

what I saw in round two, this track is still greasy and gooey.

This is always a tough time to race because the track can change quickly

one pass to the next as it cools down.

If he was right beside me, he actually pulled out in front of me. Maybe the 3

.30, the wheels come up on my car, and I went to pull it off from him.

Barely beat him on the big end. I bet it wasn't even an offender.

That's a win. We'll take it. It was a hard -earned win because he gave us all

wanted.

Something dropped.

Something dropped out on me. I don't know what happened. It just cut out

at the finish line.

Now we're going through the final four.

So last night we were in the finals of the grade eight. Now we're in the final

four. So I really feel like our team as a whole is doing great.

Who'd you get?

X -Man.

I tell you, this race is going to be difficult for him because of the sun in

that lane. So right now, this is the time to be in the left lane. Yep.

We're just going to go up there and do our thing. I ain't changing nothing.

That's what happened. Get it.

Good luck. All right.

We're here to race a hot rod.

Yeah.

That's our goal.

So I go up to draw in third round.

I seen some bears walking up, dropping a chip. I looked at my hand. I knew I had

Jim Howe. Jim Howe's blind.

So we got to get our act together, turn this hot rod up.

And make it fast. Get around it.

Jim Howe going to get there first.

Late.

A little late. Jim Howe.

The man of the hour took out, like, almost my whole team.

Hats off to him. His car is hauling ass.

Very well worked.

Next pair in the battle of the teammates, David Gates. He will be going

against Miss Lizzie Amuse.

Third round chip draw. I drew David Gates.

Another teammate.

No matter what.

points going to the team again.

So that's good. That's a good thing.

His car has been working really good. So he's definitely not one to take

lightly. But I just beat Robin Roberts. So we got a good handle on the car.

So I feel confident going into this round.

Whoever's in the other lane, I'm going to try to.

Nice drag race between teammates, but Lizzie turns on the wind light.

She tattooed his ass on the light. It went right there. Everybody has won

last three races right here.

All right, here we go.

Invitational drivers meeting. This is for the semifinals.

Look, we started with 32 racers. We are down to four.

Let's go ahead and draw chips.

All right, where are my number ones?

It's going to be Jim Howe and Kai Kelly. Jim Howe, Kai Kelly. That means

the second pair will be Damon Merchant and Lizzie Musial.

Damon Merchant and Lizzie Musial will be the second pair.

Go back to the pitch. Get your cars turned around. Bring them in the staging

lanes, all right? You got $40 ,000 to give away. Let's go.

So this first pair here in the Invitational Semi -Final is going to be

one. We've got Jim Howe and Ty Kelly.

Who's your draw?

I got Jim Howe first.

Who's losing it?

Jamie Mercer.

You're going to lose the end of the final?

Yeah, that's what we plan to do.

So we're down to four cars. Went up to round four.

Reaching the bucket, I drew Jim Howe. Everybody knows he's been running

for like 47 years.

You know, we just started doing this, but I feel like we're right there with

him, and it's my time. I'm ready to shine. I'm ready to show him what we

I'll run it just like it is.

You know, me and Kai have been rivals for years, but I'd love to see Lizzie

I in the final today.

That would be a perfect world.

You too,

bro. Be safe. You too.

Last time I lined up beside Jim, I had my nitrous guard, and he took me out of

the points race and the championship race in Ennis, Texas. So there for a

while, he's had my number.

The sun has officially set, and it's just in time for the semifinals.

I walked the track a minute ago, and it's really starting to tighten up,

it's cooling down, it's not greasy anymore, and these racers are really

be able to put down.

some real power.

And Kai Kelly will take the win.

Left first and never look back. Kai Kelly dropping it down over there.

He was out on me, and I was starting to come around like I was gaining on him.

Well, I've got an override button that I'm prepared to burn the motor up with

I grab it.

And I retch over there to grab the button, and when I did, I hit the CO2

on the parachute, got the chute out early. So the chute come out, jerked the

backwards. I don't know that we could have came around him anyway, but I was

going to melt the pistons out of it if that's what it took to get there.

That's huge, man.

Jim Howe's car is always flying. He's one of the fastest cars out here.

To run like that beside him with a brand new car, it don't get no better than

that. Good job, dude. You earned it. You earned it. I'm proud of you, man.

I look at that as one of the baddest cars here, man. So, exciting.

Hey, what about Dominator?

Huh?

Made a good choice. I mean, I hate it for Finney, and I think maybe...

just to put the pressure on Finney to keep on getting it figured out. Because

know Finney can do it. I know he can. We both know he can. Maybe, you know what

I mean. A little pressure. Yeah, there's got to be some pressure on him.

And it is, you know, and I think he's with us with it. I don't think he's mad.

can tell he's down, but he's more of a fit with himself and the situation.

And I don't think he's mad at me in particular. I don't think so.

He's just mad at me. You told him it was my idea.

We are down to three drivers still standing.

Kai has already punched his ticket to the finals. And coming up next is our

second race of the semifinals as Lizzie Musi goes up against Damon Merchant.

All right, so how short did we come up last time? A fender to her?

We drew Lizzie.

Raced her last week.

I didn't go our way, so it's time for a little redemption.

If I can get my job done on the tree, like, I don't see her coming around at

this time.

We know she's going to run hard on the top end, so I'm going to have to get out

on her and, you know, try to get a lead on her where I can stay out on her.

I feel like we've got it in the chamber. We've just got to let it go.

It should be good.

That'll probably ruin Kai and Lizzie's little hope of going to the finals

together.

The track come around now.

Oh, now it's good, yeah. Now you've got a damn race track. You do what you want

now. Yeah.

We're in it to win it. In it to win it. I got a cheer team right here.

We just tested. We tested here about a month ago. So we got some data under our

belt with this track.

Feel really confident about that.

Yeah. Are we going to get our teammate or?

Nope. Not this time.

Who are we going to get?

The white car next to us. Hey, good luck. Be safe.

Fourth round trip draw. I drew Damon Merchant.

I raced him in Ohio and defeated him.

So he's not going to take me lightly.

Damon is just dead eye on that tree, man. He puts his eye on that tree like

a flashlight.

And he goes out there, and he hit that thing, and you got to outrun him. He's

fast.

I feel like he left a little bit ahead of me, but he's 60 -footed, so freaking

hard.

I haven't had a car do that yet on me, and then he almost had about a car out

me. And then at the end, I started driving right around him, but it was too

late.

From Ohio to here, we got that redemption we were looking for.

I mean, I owed her one. She, you know, knocked us out, what, first round last

week. We got a ton of fans here, and it was time to take her out. We're sneaking

up on it, but yeah, we're about to be on that ass.

Deal, man. And, hey, even if you run her up, I mean, damn.

I know. You're in the finals. I said that in the last round. Hey, man, Ryan

Martinson, raise your way in.

Yeah, me, me, Sean, Dave, Ryan.

What the?

So now we've got Kai in the finals.

These people push you to be faster and faster and faster, and that's exactly

what we've been doing.

We've been doing our homework.

We've been pushing.

I've been putting all my money into this car.

I mean, it's just one thing after another, but it's for that competitive

I don't know. He's going to let me know.

They're both pretty good, right?

He's good on the lot, though.

He left Lizzie sitting here.

This is it. Battle through 32 cars, and it's down to two.

Know what lane you want?

Right?

Give it up.

You too, man.

If I can win this race right here, it's a three -peat in Virginia.

It's badass, so I'll just wait and see what happens, because here it goes.

When the car died, it was almost sheer panic.

I seen the RPM dropping. I tried to pass the gas.

You know, if I had another second, I think we could have got on the brake and

gave him a race, but it just didn't work out for me.

It was fair. You got a good car. We made it all the way to the finals. We got

the points.

You did great.

You're a hot rod.

Thank you for carrying it, sir.

The three -peat.

Something about this track, I got really good luck.

I mean, it's almost like I need to just buy me a house over here. If my luck's

like that in Virginia all the time, I'll be like a millionaire in no time.

Well, I'm standing here with Virginia Motorsport Park champ, Kai Kelly.

Hey, man. You have won Virginia Motorsports Park race the last three

row. I'd say this is your track.

Yeah, Virginia, I love y 'all, and I'm looking for a rental house over here.

I've been chasing after you for a long time.

I always get second, but now I got you.

We're not turning back no more.

I'll catch you next time. What happened, man?

I thought you were counting me out.

We ain't even started to find what this car can do.

So it's a badass hot rod, and I love it.

Now I'm going to get him to take a picture with me.

There you have it. That is our first points race of the season.

And it is Team Kai Kelly who is leading the pack with 140 points.

It's a pretty big lead over Team Daddy Dave and Bodie who are tied for second.

But there's a ton of points left up for grabs as these teams chase that $200

,000 championship.

Next week.

We're heading to the second points race of the year. Brandon International

Raceway. How are you doing today?

I've got to race my way in here. It's the first time for me to do it in six

seasons. Brian Martin has to win this race if he wants to be in the main event

tomorrow.

Team Ty Kelly is leading the pack.

We're going to have to pull out all stops.

There are cars out there that can outrun Ty. But.

They've got seven more teams ready to put them on the trail. If we play the

cards right and we can all go around, I think we can come up and possibly take

that first place point. And they'll stop at nothing to get those wins.

We'll give you everything I got. All right.