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Previously on The Great Eight, the top eight drivers heading into Tulsa battled

it out for $10 ,000 and points towards the individual championship.

Kai Kelly, number one right now, man.

Holding it down.

Kai Kelly came in looking to extend his points. He beat Justin Swanson in round

one and took down Giuseppe in round two.

Kai Kelly takes the win. Nice job.

Damon Merchant was struggling with an oil leak all day.

I don't know where that oil comes from.

But fought his way into the final.

Oh, it's Damon Merchant heading to the finals.

Holy, what a rush.

It was a close race until Kai's parachute released early and Damon won

great ace.

He took home $10 ,000, 10 points, and moved into second place on the

leaderboard.

I mean, we just worked our ass off all day in the heat trying to get this done,

and we made it happen. Like, homegrown, hometown, this is what you get.

Hey.

Kai still has a commanding lead over the rest of the field, but all these top

drivers will race for points towards the individual championship and a chance to

win $10 ,000.

Put your hands together for the grade A drivers.

Hey, Firebird Raceway, how y 'all doing today?

All right.

We're here in Boise, Idaho at Firebird Raceway.

This track opened its doors in 1968 and has been run by the same family the

entire time.

This track is in the northwest, and it sits at an elevation of almost 2 ,700

feet above sea level.

The air quality at this altitude will make it harder for a lot of these cars

make power they're used to.

Today, we're running the Great Eight. It's the sixth of 14 events spread

the entire country, and things are heating up.

Here's how it works. If you win the Great Eight, you get 10 points.

You also get $10 ,000.

If you runner up, you get seven. And if you make it to the semifinals, you will

get three.

Those points go towards an individual championship that will be worth $100

at the end of the season.

Tonight, everyone will be eager to knock Kai out in round one to prevent him

from opening up his lead.

All right, guys and ladies, y 'all are the top eight drivers currently in the

Invitational class. That's why you're racing tonight.

Going to go over our points standing for the grade eight, right?

First place.

Kyle Kelly. Good job. There you go. Hey, man, you're in first.

Yeah. Hey.

Then there's a three -way tie for second between Axeman, Giuseppe, and Damon

Mertz. All right, y 'all got 13 points.

Kayla Morton, you got 10 points.

Nate, Taylor, you have got six.

And then that's it for people that are standing here.

Lady squared.

Lady squared.

We two.

Yeah. I really suck at math, but I knew what that was.

Wait a minute.

I knew what that was. Hold on.

Okay.

That's why you have to.

Number one.

Scott Taylor and Jeff Pepe. Yeah, you too.

Round one of the grade eight tonight.

I drew Scott Taylor. We're consistently in the grade eight. We're doing good.

We've got to stay in there, so we've got to do good both days. Kai's got a

pretty big lead on us right now, and everybody's got like 25 or 27 points to

13. So in the grade 8, that's a pretty big gap there. He needs to go out early,

and I need to win one to actually make a move on the points.

All right, number two.

Number two is Nate Saylor and Kai Kelly.

All right, Nate, now is your chance to do the rest of the guys and yourself a

favor, knock Kai out in the first round.

And then that leaves it wide open for people to catch up to him, all right? We

talked about that. We need to hear it. That's the strategy. I like it. We have

Kai Kelly.

We need to take him out first round. I think I have the car to do that. We have

a car that goes down great in these kind of conditions.

He's been running really good, but I think with this new setup at this

elevation, he hasn't done yet. I'm hoping that he doesn't get that figured

So we're going to put a tune -up in it that we know will go A to B and quickly

and hopefully take Kai out this first round. If we do that, that gets us,

obviously, some more points and into round two of the grade eight.

He stops him from accruing points. He's got such a big lead right now. We need

to put a stop to that.

All right.

Number threes.

He's squared.

Oh.

Same time, same ship.

Lizzie versus Kayla, first round. My God.

We drew Lizzie Musi. She's a tough contender. She won in Tulsa. I'm excited

see how close we are at the stripe, and I think it'll be a hell of a race. Goal

today is to win the grade eight. I think that's everybody's goal in the grade

eight. Like I said, it's a do or die. We need to close the points gap and put

some pressure on Kai and Damon.

Which means our fourth and final pair will be Axeman and Damon Murphy. Big.

y 'all. Hemi killer.

Hemi killer. We'll see. Here we are at number two, tied with Giuseppe and

Axeman. This is a good opportunity for me to get Axeman out of that number two

position, solidify myself in there, and see if we can really make up some

points. Any questions? If not, head on back to your pit. All right. Good luck,

'all.

We got Giuseppe in the beautiful Nova.

Yeah, that'll be hard.

It is.

It seems like I run him or Nate Saylor every week, and they both have my

and that's why we did the upgrade, so that we could try to be more

We've been right there just a few inches behind and did the upgrade, but looking

at this, we made some right calls. It looks good until it didn't, so we just

to get in there and dig in and make sure to make it run good.

It's not in me just to be okay losing.

And we were losing by inches every week, and we decided to do an upgrade.

When you do upgrades, typically, every time I've done one, there's always a

minor setback.

But I think, you know, if we play our cards right and we hit the tune -up

we got a shot at it. But we got to make a good pass out running.

And that's going to be tough in this air. So not only did we do an upgrade

changes the fuel drastically, we're in air that changes the fuel drastically.

we got our work cut out for us for a tune -up.

From where this thing come from last night, y 'all wouldn't even be, you

couldn't imagine even running today. I mean, it was literally a bare block in

the car, 5 a .m. this morning.

We're not going to be able to race.

Can't get the gas in it.

The strongest guy on the crew can't even get it off. Here, I'll get it. Let me

get it. Let me get it.

I just wanted to do it on TV. I wanted to be the one to get it.

Hey, you broke it loose.

That's it.

So far with the car, we've been doing really good. The car's made almost every

single run except for the last run against Damon Merchant a couple weeks

We changed the front springs. We wanted to try something there because we were

having the front end was bottoming out on the top end and upsetting the car

through the light.

We've changed the tires, see if that can pick us up. Hopefully that gives us

that little bit of an edge there.

You guys I'm hearing, they're changing this, changing their converter,

their converter, trying more rear gear.

We're going to leave it the same.

So let's see if that plays out, the smart move, right?

Either we're going to not be fast, or they're going to be faster than us, and

we've lost a bunch, or we're smart, and they've, yeah.

We've already known. We made one change. We changed the spring last weekend, and

the car didn't make it. First run in 30 runs.

And all we did was change the spring. Now we're changing the tires, changing

springs back.

I mean, everything we do on this car is a gamble.

So out here, the altitude is like 2 ,500, but corrected is probably going to

4 ,500, which affects performance on these cars, brings the horsepower way

But it brings everybody down. So it's really who compensates the most or the

best for it and whatever changes anybody decides to do. As of right now, we're

going to try to just leave our combination alone that we know works.

and try to win that way this weekend.

Sorry, Scott. I can't beat this car, man.

Except he's going to sleep. Well, we'll see.

I'm trying, I promise, but you've had my number, dog.

I can't beat this guy either. Well, look, it's just like a cycle. Yeah, I

It's a cycle.

Everybody's got somebody.

Yeah, it's been really hard on Friday nights to come in, and you're racing the

best, all the fastest guys.

All right, Scott, be safe. Good luck, bro. Good luck, guys. See you on the

side. So whoever really...

Has it figured out here with the air and see what we can pull off here. But it

should be a good night.

All right. Over in the left lane. That is going to be Giuseppe going up against

Scott. Scooter Taylor in the right.

Beautiful. Nova there in that left lane.

Scott Taylor with the Camaro in the right.

Pro charger on pro charger crime.

in the left lane. That is going to be Giuseppe going up against Scott. Scooter

Taylor in the right.

And Giuseppe is going to get the win there nicely. Pass.

Scott Taylor has some issues.

Just past the 60 foot. Has to get out of it.

Woo!

Yeah, maybe.

So we go up there against Scott Taylor.

We made some adjustments to the car. I threw a bunch of power right off the

which I normally don't have to do. Put a little bit more on the launch chip.

Let go of the button.

Car got up. Oh, great. Went straight down.

Didn't move around. Didn't do nothing. Made a great run to the finish line.

light came on.

Damn, Scott.

What happened? Did your spin shake?

Yeah. We just kept pulling fuel off of it. We finally found it.

Found too much. Hey, good job. Good job. Yes, sir. Good job.

Tonight was huge on that first run. Now we'll have some data to base everything

on, look at the fuel -air -fuel ratio, make some adjustments, and we need this

win tonight.

But, hey, you've done a killer job. You've done better than I did. I

it, yeah. Made the lick. Yeah, we made it.

Hello, are you going to strap in?

What's that? Are you going to strap in? Yeah, we're right here whenever you are.

Okay. It's the first race of the Western Swing.

All year, none of us looked forward to coming away out here. Some beautiful

scenery, some nice racetracks, but our engines hate this air. It's the

country you'll see, but the air sucks over here. The elevation's high.

Where I live is sea level, which means zero.

Where they live is like 5 ,600 feet, so it's way higher than we're used to

being.

Old Jingalang's going to have some trouble breathing, but I think she's

got enough to get past these boys.

How many more gallons of fuel will we use if we make a full pass?

Oh, you'll be fine. Okay.

This is our first time out west with a blower. You know, we always came out

with a nitrous car. I had that figured out pretty good. I mean, I could almost

go just as fast out here as I could on the east coast. On a nitrous car, you

make your own atmosphere inside the motor. On a blower car...

All you can do is suck in whatever air you've got. So it's going to be a little

learning curve. Luckily, I've got Jeff and Adam here, so I'm not going to have

to learn much. They can go to transgrade, asking questions while

my car fat.

We are in Boise, Idaho. This is as close

to home track as I can get. We're about nine hours from here.

We're feeling good. The elevation here is really similar to at home.

We've been used to racing on the East Coast where you're below sea level. So

this is going to be a lot to get through for a lot of guys. I feel we got an

advantage because we're from up here. We got a good race car. The track's a

little sketchy.

But other than that, we'll get through that.

Next pair, Nate Saylor going up against Kai Kelly.

Kai currently leading.

In the grade 8 points, this points championship for Friday night, $100 ,000

the driver with the most points at the end of the season.

A drag race there, but Kai Kelly turns on that wind light side by side.

Me and Nate take off. He beats me on a tree a little bit.

Old Jingling rocks back, picks up them front tires, and goes driving away from

me. I beat him by about a car on the other end. He ain't no slouch. He made a

hell of a pass. He just made a better one.

Did Kai beat you?

Yeah, he was close.

But he got me.

He's fast.

I left on him.

And it was side -by -side. It's probably the best race we've had. And the last

one was close that we had. I mean, him and I are door -to -door.

It's really hard to gain points when I lose.

That was a good race, though. Yeah, it was.

Did you have one pass your paint?

Yeah. I won it.

Kai Kelly is the points leader right now. So for us to be door -to -door with

him is something that's an achievement for us anyway.

We got a hot rod.

I got a good crew. We got a fast car. We got good parts in it. And we make solid

runs. Unfortunately, he got the win.

We're done for tonight, but we're going to come back strong for tomorrow.

Good run, brother.

How are you getting beat by yourself?

It was side by side.

Good run, dude. Good luck.

Good God, did somebody grease out of those?

Did you douse them with WD -40?

God bless.

You don't have to do that, you know. They just slide right in there.

They don't got to be greasy.

We are in the grade 8 sign, which I'm super thankful for. It is a huge

accomplishment. However, we are getting to be like do or die time at this time.

The points are spreading.

We're not up here. We're more down here. And we need to do our very best to

accumulate some points and get closer to that 1, 2, 3 spot today. Tulsa was an

absolute train wreck.

We got out of our groove. We kind of...

Just lost control of our program and what we do.

And Chase and I had a talk this week. We are back to routine execution, doing

what we know best.

The little engine that could is back in. The MH6 is in, which we're familiar

with. We've won a lot of rounds. We've done a lot of digging with this motor.

we're just going to go back to square one, just like how we started off the

season.

How are you feeling, Lizzie?

Feel good.

Just going to take it round by round. That's it.

Come on, we need this one bad.

All right, next pair.

Coming at you right now over in the right lane. That is going to be Kayla

Morton. She is going up against Lizzie Mucey.

Lizzie versus Kayla here in the first round of the Great Eight.

Nitrous in the left lane. Bro Charger in the right.

Lizzie Mucey going to get the win there. It's like some issues in the right lane

for Kayla.

Lizzie right down through there. Nice job.

Did something get under her tire?

I don't know. That looked bad.

We're getting transmission broke.

Never went out of first.

Damn, that was rough.

Backed up. Everything was fine. And then it started idling real high.

And as a driver, you just kind of know something's off.

So I knew that it was going to be kind of a Hail Mary, if you will, and

luck if it went down.

But it did exactly what I anticipated. It fell on its face with the let go of

the button. We're just having a really rough time here the last couple races.

Coming over to you. This is the first time I ever won a freaking grade 8.

What happened?

Something must have happened. It broke. The transmission broke at the let go.

Oh.

I knew something because I said normally she's like right there with me. There's

no... I was just looking forward to, like, racing. Yeah. Like, to see where

were together.

And now that you've got your stuff trained up. I know. That would have been

nice kind of.

A boost line broke, so that automatically creates a vacuum leak,

the idle to go up and idle super high. And then when you let go of the button,

it just literally has no boost. And if you know how ProCharger works, you have

to have boost in order to make power. And we had no boost, so we had no power.

We'll get it fixed here, pick up our pouty faces, go make a test pass, and

to prepare for tomorrow.

Yeah, we got stuff too.

If you need anything. Okay.

Whatever you need.

I don't blame you. I hate losing like that. You want a good race? I know. I

want a good race.

I know.

It's broken two places.

Yeah, like this far away from each other. It's back here and it's back

I mean, as long as the bag goes, it just eats up, so.

All that stuff, I don't carry none of that stuff.

I'm about to.

Damn it.

So these things are ran off the crank.

This hub hooks up to your crank, and then you put a gear on it and a gear

that runs your blower speed.

The air here is pretty bad. We're down quite a bit of boost, so we're going to

put more gear to it to spin it harder to create more boost.

And in turn, while we were changing out the gear ratio in that, you always

inspect your bearings and stuff just because of wear and tear.

I found out that one's got two cracks in it right here and right here.

Once it goes, it goes, and it's catastrophic failure from there.

So we caught it.

We're debating whether to run it.

Nate, come over and check us out, see what we were up to.

Lo and behold, he has an F3, which a lot of people don't run. Everybody runs F4s

usually. He had a plate for one, so all it contains is the bearings here, plate

that bolts up to the block, and then, you know, all the magic happens and

it, and that's food. So I'm going to clean his up. You can tell here he's had

one come apart and been damaged before, but I'm not going to worry about that.

We're just going to clean it the best we can.

Butt everything up and roll with it. Going first round, we're more borrowed

parts here.

This thing will be fast this weekend. I'm working on it.

Yeah, we're getting it ready.

That's the goal there.

That's the goal.

But I choose it.

I know you went out on a limb to listen to me and keep the small motor in the

car, and you want the big motor, but I like being the underdog. Like, this

motor's not as big as the MH6, but I like it. I love this motor.

We beat three sevens last race.

Yes, yes, yes.

So I gave you what you wanted. Yeah. You gave me what I wanted.

I feel like this one has more in it.

And on this track, it's nearly as good a track.

Yeah. So we'll be able to manage the smaller motor better than they can

the big one. Yeah. So it's going to be an advantage to have a small one right

now. Yeah, it's awesome to drive this car. Next race, in altitude, you might

having a big motor in it.

With no testing.

We're testing. We're testing grade 8.

So we use grade 8 to test.

Swing for it.

I think that's a good idea.

When I first got into grade 8, and I won my first ever grade 8, I was still

thinking I wanted to...

When the Invitational Moore fast -forwarded a race and didn't get into

8, it kind of broke my heart. I was like, I want to be in Grade 8 more than

thought. To be back in Grade 8 is awesome because I can build my points. I

I'm around third now in points, so maybe I can creep back up closer to Kai in

the top.

And you know Kai's talking trash on the Internet about us.

Is he?

So basically coming from the last race to here, the air is going to be

different, different altitude.

So the car is going to have a little less power. So we're going to have to

little more timing, maybe spin the blower a little more.

The shifts are a little higher.

The RPMs in the engine make a big difference in all that. So we'll have to

up, I'd say, 200, 300 horsepower.

All right, final pair of this.

Grade 8 first round. Over in the right lane, that's going to be Axeman going up

against Damon Merchant in the left.

Great drag race, side by side.

Axeman getting the win. Nice job.

I turned loose at trans break. I didn't see him. 3 .30, I didn't see him. And

all of a sudden, my car pinned me in the seat even harder. I said, damn, this

thing is riding.

I said, if he comes around me the way he's running now, he's a bad dude.

Got the finish line, got that light, going to round two.

Mine didn't go in high gear. I only raced you in two gears, brother.

I left in high.

Oh, damn.

Damn. The story didn't work.

Everybody was like, who won, who won? We were looking for the light. I seen him

coming about the 3 .30, and then I watched him pull, and I was like, that's

over. Okay, well, good job there. Yeah, good job.

That was the one draw I didn't want was that car.

All right, here we go. We're going to go ahead and start our grade eight

semifinals driver's meeting. We started with eight.

Racers, we're now down to four.

I got bad news. Kai Kelly is still in, and he's in first place, so he's just

extending. He's gaining points.

You know, we're supposed to knock him out in the first round, but he is in the

lead in first place, behind nobody.

I like that, man. I'm going to keep saying it a couple more times. Kai Kelly

behind nobody in the grade eight right now. Can we start calling me gold medal?

Gold medal. If you win the championship, Kai, I will stop calling you silver

medal and call you gold medal.

Now, Giuseppe and Axeman, you're in second. You're tied for second now.

Lizzie, congratulations.

You got points. You're guaranteed at least three points tonight.

Let's go ahead and get the chips out and see who is racing who. All right?

Here we go.

Elizabeth. Here we go. Christopher.

Yep.

Jim. All right. Number one, please step forward.

Kai Kelly and Axeman.

Oh, boy.

Which means our second pair will be Giuseppe versus Lizzie Mucey.

All right.

All right, drivers, go back to pit. Get your cars turned around. Put your hands

together for these drivers, folks. See you in a little bit.

Be easy on me.

Yeah.

So we're going into the semifinals of grade eight. I drew Kai Kelly.

That's one bad dude.

So on my first pass in right lane, that thing was rolling. One of the fastest

passes I ever made in this car.

When I drew my chip, I got left lane.

Or it dropped just a little bit.

But then people told me left lane was good. So I said, well, shoot, we're

to turn it up, swing it, make it a little faster, and hopefully take Kai

The weather's great.

Humidity's perfect.

You know, got a little tailwind behind us.

All right, man. I'm going to run X, man. I'm going to kick his ass and win the

grade 8 next round.

All right. And then you can get to win, and then I'll be in the grade 8 next

week, and then we'll be back.

Yeah. Make sure to tell Booster that it's a $10 ,000 pot. I'm going to.

Car owner, Steven Brindle, he come over here trying to be tough to my mom at the

T -shirt tent tonight, talking about, I got $5 ,000 if y 'all want to grudge

racing this past.

And I come from grudge racing. I love betting money. All you got to do is say

the word, and if I feel like I got half a chance, I'm going to lock you in, and

we're going to race for it.

In my finals, winner goes to the finals also.

$5 ,000 aside, winner of this race takes that entire pot.

Let's see who it's going to be right here, right now.

If I can win $5 ,000 from Steven Brindle, $10 ,000 in the final, it's a

night.

to my final starts right now here is the first pair over in the left lane

driving the game changer mustang that is going to be axman and in the right lane

current points leader in the great eight that would be none other than kai kelly

winner goes to the finals also five thousand dollars aside winner of this

takes that entire pot let's see who it's gonna be

Moving to the finals once again in the Grade 8 and will take the pot.

$10 ,000 total there, $5 ,000 aside.

Kai Kelly, big winner here in this round.

So me and Kai rolled in, turned loose the brakes.

About 60 feet out, I didn't see him. And a little bit farther, I seen his little

injector hat sticking in my windshield. I was like, dang.

All the way up the track, I had to stare at the corner of my eye at that

injector hat and then watch his light come on. That was a hard feeling right

there. Oh.

Woo.

Well, that was a good one. That was a good one.

It looked better on your end, though. Man, Brenda was over there trying to

handle me all hard. He come over there telling my mom, I was running for 5 ,000

dollars.

We'll do it.

I told her, don't tell me. I don't want to get in my head.

I love X -Men, but you being a... That's a good right.

Hell, yeah.

To be honest, I get out 12 every time I lose. Don't care if it's by a mile or an

inch. I just hate it.

It's tough.

He done his job. He got that win.

Damn, that was a good break.

It was.

My car was unhappy at the finish line. Yeah.

Are you either fixing me or cut about a light? I don't know.

I've been sucking on lights all day. That's why we was kind of skittish about

betting.

I ain't got my help.

When I could see that blower hat, I said, that's not good.

All right. Colorado.

We'll be all right. We were glued together.

Damn, come on, come on.

Getting that win is the most important because that's more points toward the

individual championship.

But taking $5 ,000 from Brindle when he was handling me kind of rough is also

cool. I always try to stay humble.

Everybody's seen me throughout my whole career. I like being humble. If somebody

is not being humble, I like to try my best to humble them. So hopefully

Brindle respects my gangster a little more and he won't be talking with all

bass in his voice.

after a treatment, I guess.

I'm pushing through it.

Pushing through it. This one's a little rough on me, so I'm just trying to be

strong here.

Be safe, Lizzy. Good luck. Be safe. See you at the end.

All right.

Take it easy on me. No.

Put some in it.

Put some in it. We'll see if it makes it. Yeah.

I'm going to clear this really quick.

Okay. Just put your ears on it. It'll be fine.

All right.

I'm definitely going to have some drinks tonight if we pull it off, that's for

sure. We need one. We've got to get by Lizzie, though, one round at a time.

So we got some in it for our first round of grade 8. Car responded really good.

Still soft in the middle.

So we went up against Lizzie. I put some more in the middle. She's coming off a

big win last week. And Tulsa, definitely going to be a tough round for us.

All right, this will be the last pair of the semifinals here in grade A.

Over in that left lane, that's going to be Giuseppe going up against Lizzie

Mucey.

The winner of this race here will face off against Kai Kelly in the Great Eight

Final.

And Giuseppe gets the win.

Giuseppe. will face off against Kai Kelly in the Great Eight Finals.

Good race. I don't know what happened with mine because it was popping and

banging. Was it? Yeah. I was like, oh, where is she at? Oh, God. I don't know

what was going on, but I just say it's all good.

Yeah. Good race. Yeah.

Yeah, you were still there. I was still there. It was just like pop, pop. I

don't know what was going on.

That's all right.

Oh, yeah. Good race.

So good. Let go of the button. Saw her a little bit in the middle of the car.

Pulled good where I put some power to it. We got out, and we ended up getting

the win light.

Yeah, feeling good right now.

You got a big tie now.

All right, let's get back. Let's hurry up. We're not going to have much time.

Thank you.

Good race, guys.

Yeah, baby.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Make us say uh -huh.

She was popping, popping, yeah.

She said it was popping. She didn't live, but it was popping.

But she wasn't out on us.

No.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was good.

That's what we got to do.

So I liked it in the middle, too, so let's see what it picked up. Hopefully

we're right where we need to be.

Can I look fast?

Larry, yeah. Close?

Yeah, his top end's good.

Hopefully we picked it up enough on that one, yeah.

Yeah.

Do it.

All right, let's get the data out. Troy, you're going to do it.

Right there, just a little bit of the tire.

Yeah, yeah.

Right down.

Man, tire tracks are perfect. No paddling, no nothing.

All right, we can give them more.

We got to get one.

Yep.

I think I raced here in season two. It was season two.

We drove 40 hours to get here, had all the kids with us, and I got here

and made test hits, and I drew Dean Karn's first pass, Dinky Pinky.

And Dean came up to me telling me how fast he was.

He's like, man, I just went this fast.

So it got in my head.

I went straight down there, took a shot on the tree, missed it, went red.

I had to drive 40 hours back home on one pass.

And come to find that, Dean was just, he didn't even know that fast. It got in

my head.

All them muscles, all them biceps, he probably just couldn't hold that little

button like that.

So he done his job.

Hopefully I can redeem myself down there.

All right.

So I put how, I put it from early too. I put it from.

From half a second on.

I mean,

we've got to get it. We've got to get out on them. We've got to get out on

We've got Kai for the finals.

He's had our number. He's beat us three or four times. I don't even know

anymore, but we have been able to beat him all year. If we don't do something a

little extra, we're going to get, yeah, we've got to try it. We've got to get

him. I want to win.

I think I got his number tonight. Hopefully we can pull off this win and

celebrate.

I want to win.

What is it? Almost 700 feet better than the first half.

Oh, yeah. What are we at right now, 46?

We're running really good, though.

You better make a good run. If we make it down, he might be in trouble tonight.

It doesn't matter.

It's his altitude, too.

It's the same thing.

Oh, we're not slow, though. He's got to deal with it, also. We're not slow. I

got the working right now.

Feeling great with the car. You know, the car gave us a couple issues, which

normally hasn't done, but we made some adjustments to get it to go straight,

the car's going straight down the middle now. You know, Kai is fast, so I think

this one's who's going to take a bigger shot at it and win this tonight.

Hell yeah, man.

I need you to get in the smart car, though.

Hey, except he's fast. He's been running good.

I just need to keep chipping away. I need to get this win tonight and give

seven points.

The least he can get and let him put his car up and wait for tomorrow.

He's sucking it from me. Huh? I've been there, what, four times? One.

One.

It feels great to be in the finals. This is the second time we've actually got

to the finals now.

What do you think? You got enough?

I ain't seen his car make a pass.

We're just going to give it all we think it'll take.

Thanks. All right. Appreciate it.

All right. Thanks.

Kai's still got a pretty big lead.

but it's going to put us firmly into second place right now. So either way,

whatever happens, we just got to do what we got to do and win this tonight.

Grade 8 finals right here, right now. 10 ,000 to win over in the left lane. That

is going to be Giuseppe going up against current Grade 8 points leader, Ty Kelly

in the right lane.

Me and Giuseppe's been pretty much running side by side the whole year.

him up maybe at quarter fender or half car sometimes.

But he's fighting the same thing. He's got a pro charge hemming. I've got a

screwball hemming. They're both starving for air. So there's no advantages in

this race. It's just going to be may the best man win. The winner of this race

right here will be $10 ,000 richer.

Here we go.

Wow, what a drag race.

Giuseppe was fast all day. Ron told me in the staging lane that he didn't think

I had enough to beat Giuseppe, so being able to beat him today, that was badass.

Hey, man, we had a little tune -up in there for you.

Good job.

Can't beat you, man. Good job, though. You hauled ass.

That was good. Good race, man.

We'll get it. We'll get one. I don't know, man. Maybe we might not. We stage,

our thing, let go of the trans brake button.

I see him a little bit, Tim, and I'm like, oh, I got him in the middle.

I get something ahead of somebody, it's usually over. So I'm like, I don't see

him, I don't see him. And, man, right towards the finish line, I'm looking,

looking for my light. Here he comes. Boom, goes by.

You're the real number two. I know how you feel. I know. I'm right there, man.

can't get it. I know how you feel, man. I know. Yeah, I know you know how I

feel. I've got about three years' experience right there. Yeah, yeah.

I'll take it, man. We're getting there.

We were running good, too. We picked it up a lot. You just ran a little better.

You were fast on that one. My car gets loose, loose with the finish line. Same

with mine. Same thing.

Again, when we race each other, whatever happens. I almost thought we tried to.

Yeah. I was trying not to look. And it pulls me in every time when we race each

other. At the finish line with the chutes out, I've done this. So I think

happened is we're pretty close. So the chutes are both out. And it sucks us in.

Yeah, because I'm like. At least you're on at times. Every ride at the finish

line, they hit.

Every time, yeah.

Bad ass, man. Good job. That was a good race, though. It was.

So tonight I showed up racing for $10 ,000.

I'm walking away with $15 ,000.

Steven Brindle donated us $5 ,000.

Then we took the $10 ,000 win home. So $15 ,000 in one night with old Buick.

Hey, that ain't a bad night.

That'll just set me mad every year, man.

Then let me have one.

And there you have it. For the second time this season, Kai Kelly wins the

eight. He's taken home $10 ,000 and 10 points towards that individual

championship.

Kai is now 17 points ahead of Giuseppe, who's in second place with 20 points.

Next time.

This is the horsepower killer track.

So the higher you go up in air, the less oxygen there is in the air.

So the less power it makes.

The top eight race in Colorado's challenging high altitude.

Blew that baby apart.

We've got a mega problem.

I want to find out how fast this nitrous car is. No, whatever.

Stop. Everybody's talking about how fast Lizzie is.

Nobody's got a chance out here against nitrous cars.

Giuseppe Gentile goes after another grade 8 final, while Kai Kelly does

everything he can to add to his points lead.

Damn, Kai, with a guess like that, what's the most fireball level?

Oh, you think I guess?

You know what it is, man. We're making money.