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Last week on No Prep Teams.

And Kayla Morton gets the win.

Yes!

We needed that so bad.

Team Daddy Dave was able to do enough to remain in the second place spot.

And Daddy Dave's going to get the win. Takes a shot on the tree.

Awesome. Three.

Wow. I didn't think Dave would do that.

But it was all about Lizzie Mucin, who won her second Invitational in a row.

Transfer it for Lizzie Mucin. She just won $40 ,000 in front of you tonight.

That was a huge win for Lizzie and Team Kai Kelly. With that win, they are now

back at the top, sitting at number one.

Is this like a follow -up?

We're here getting ready for the Invitational Race at Vandermeer

Colorado.

This is a favorite track for most of the racers because it is in the side of a

mountain. But with the view comes the reason why it's a view. We are at

of 5 ,800 feet.

And as you know, that poses problems for the racers.

It's tricky to tune. The air is thin. It is very difficult to make power.

You'll probably hear it a lot, but the nitrous cars definitely have the

advantage up here on the mountain.

This track is very nice, and look, if you can figure it out, you can probably

pretty fast.

Vandermeer, how are you doing today?

All right.

Who was here last night?

Saw some great racing for sure.

Look, we have even more today.

As you know, Saturday is always the main event for the No Prep Kings race.

This is my favorite track.

I love coming to this track.

Let's make this the best No Prep Kings race of the entire season. What do you

say?

We are at the halfway point of the season. The competition at the top is

extremely tight. One race can make the difference.

Team Kai Kelly back in the number one spot for the first time since Bowling

Green. And part of that is due to great performances from Lizzie Mucey, who has

won the last two events, and Kai and Clay Cole, who both made it into round

three of last week's event. Clay Cole is a new racer out here. And look, some

teams didn't know what to think of him. But it seemed like he could be a real

contender. Daddy Dave's team is only 20 points behind Kai's. And Bodie is only

50 points behind Dave's. Every race matters as these teams chase that $200

championship.

Now it's time. It's late in the season.

We really got to go for broke. In order to even have a chance of winning this

championship, we got to make moves and it has to be this race right now. And I

think I'm going to do extreme moves to try to get these points this weekend.

No, but I do think I got a car to win. I do too. I really do. So obviously this

season, we haven't been winning any races.

Last year, Jerry won here on the mountain.

He's the only nitrous car we got on the team, so I want to make sure he's

racing. My main goal as a team captain is to make our team win. I really feel

that Jerry needs to be racing here no matter what this weekend.

You're our horse. You have to be racing this weekend.

It's stupid to not have you on the racing side.

So we're going to do whatever we can do to put you in that slot.

All right, guys, look, like we do before every...

race that we have this season. We have a captain's meeting.

This is your chance to make changes. You know, maybe you're not doing so well

this season.

You want to mix it up a little bit. You guys aren't going to all look at me at

once when he says that, man.

He was looking at me.

Dean. Yes. Are you going to make some changes? Listen, we're totally switching

things up. Do you guys remember who won here last year? Jerry Bird. Oh, he did?

Yeah. So Jerry Bird needs to be racing here regardless.

So I don't want to risk him racing his way in and not being able to race. So

what you do is you drop him in the reserves.

Drop him in the reserves. Yeah.

Then I'm going to end up swapping him out for Greg Chandler.

Okay, because Greg Chandler already has a spot. Correct.

Oh, man, so you're pulling Greg Chandler's spot and giving it to

and then making him race his way in? Yes, sir.

Solid. Solid.

With me making the choice of putting Jerry in Greg's spot, he takes the load

of Jerry's back, he doesn't have to race his way in, and he can get more test

passes. If you can't race your way in, you can't win a race. Exactly.

Okay, next.

Ryan. Yes.

Changes? Nope. None. Bodie. No changes. Who's that? No changes. Dave.

Yes. Changes? I don't know. You... What?

What? You want to do some trading or no? You know who I want. Who you got? Paige

Coughlin. You want to trade Paige Coughlin for Jimmy Taylor?

Ooh. What?

Holding a team together and managing a team is way more stressful than people

think. Paige, she'll go out first round, and that's the reason I want to trade

her off. Oh, that's the strategy. That's a tough one.

I'm going to pass for now.

Oh, wow.

Okay, okay, all right.

Kai, any changes?

I got a full team, man. Good.

All right.

I can see why Dave might want to make that trade.

Paige did really well in her first event this year, but she's fallen down since.

Page didn't even qualify for the event last week. Meanwhile, Jimmy Taylor made

it two rounds.

That 20 points is the exact amount that separates day team from first place.

And as a captain, sometimes you have to put feelings aside when you're chasing a

championship.

All right, next pair.

It's going to be Jimmy Taylor over here in the right lane.

And Jerry Bird.

Jerry Bird in the left lane.

Jerry Bird.

Lots of flame.

All kinds of stuff over there in the left lane.

It shook a little bit. It shimmied.

Then it backfired, and when I seen it backfire, I knew something broke.

We broke a rod.

I've never broke a rod, and nothing I ever owned.

Now's not the time for this.

We made a deal to get me in the show

and swap with another guy, and then my motor don't make it.

Man, it's a f***ed up situation here, ain't it?

That's like worst case scenario possible.

So Team Disco had to make some more changes. After Dean failed to race his

in and Jerry blew up his engine, Dean put himself into Jerry's spot in the

Invitational. And now, he and Larry Larson are the only ones representing

team today.

Mike Murillo also made a change. He pulled Mike Chandler up in the Dominator

spot. And he actually has all five of his drivers in the Invitational today

the first time all season long. Meanwhile, Paige Coughlin did manage to

way in, making a statement after Dave tried to trade her. Now, all five of

Dave's drivers are racing today, which gives them a shot at moving past Kai's

team, who are holding down the number one spot, but only have four drivers in.

Now, folks, as you know, there are 32 drivers. They all have to draw a chip,

this takes just a little bit of time.

All right.

All right, you're going first?

There we go.

One chip. All right, you ready? One chip, one chip, one chip. So the

are set here for round one in Colorado, and there's a few big ones.

Clay Cole is going up against Damon Merchant. This is an interesting race

because Clay is looking for some big matchups to prove his worth.

Teammates Dave and Kayla drew each other, and you know they've got to be

disappointing because they wanted both drivers to be in round two.

Ryan Martin is back in the Fireball Camaro, and he is going up against Team

Murder Nova, B -Rad.

Coming at you right now, that is going to be Paige Coughlin going up against

Scott Scooter -Taylor.

How are you this morning?

Frustrated. Frustrated, yeah. You know the feeling. I got that, too.

You know the feeling. Yeah.

What's going on?

Just keep losing number six. Like, it was running really good, and then it

falls over.

You guys checked everything mechanically.

Are you sure? Just not a fuel, a tune -up in that area?

Yeah, we hit the tune -up. We hit the converter. We hit all the steps that we

needed to go fast here.

And now it just keeps setback after setback on it not running on six.

Last night, we kept losing cylinder six, and we really haven't found the

solution. So we've dug in. It's not in the motor. It's not a mechanical

It's an electronic problem.

And that's the hardest thing to find. We got a gremlin.

And it keeps getting worse.

We've replaced everything on this car last night. We stayed up all night long.

Every single piece of electronics are new. We got all five in. Yeah, we got

five in. That's what I'm talking about.

That's the first time in a minute.

We're running badass.

So we got Pace Coughlin, first pair.

I like racing first pair.

Today, it puts a little bit of a time restraint on us because we're still

buttoning up, hooking all that stuff up, double -checking everything.

Paige is super fast. She's learning fast. She's running good.

But if this thing runs, I think we're going to be in good shape.

We come out swinging at the beginning of the season, and then we have just went

backwards and backwards and backwards.

You guys will figure it out.

I knew going into this race that the elevation was definitely going to play a

role in how this thing runs. And I know that we worked on it Thursday, just

making some little changes here and there to kind of help give it a little

more juice to kind of make up.

for the elevation.

I mean, it's very different than what we're used to racing in.

We're super excited to be here. We really want to help out Team Daddy Dave.

know we're second in points right now, but we got all five players in today and

Kai Kelly's team, team number one right now. So we really need to close that gap

today and we need to come out on top.

It's pressure, yeah, because I don't want to be the weak link.

I really want to prove my worth here. I said, I know I'm new, but you know,

we're willing to be here and we're worthy of the spot.

Scott Taylor, he's a tough opponent. He's fast.

Paige, she got in. All five drivers are in. The whole captain's meeting about,

you know, dropping people out.

I still like my team. I feel like we got the team to beat.

Coming at you right now. That is going to be Paige Copeland.

Going up against Scott Scooter Taylor.

That was a good drag race right there, folks.

Piece of shit.

Oh, sorry.

Didn't run good? No, you made a beautiful lap. I watched. Oh, I'm sorry.

All right, folks. Next pair coming at you right now. It's going to be Brandon

James in the right lane going up against John Odom in the left.

Problems in the left lane for John Odom.

Odom had issues in the burnout there. It looked like it died.

I don't know. It died when I was in the burnout.

Gave it gas and it died.

We're done.

All right, so it's going to be a bye run.

John Odom breaks in the burnout. Going to give a solo pass for Brandon James.

Who you got?

Mike Chandler.

I think

Team

Swan game's a little stressed right now because we haven't done very good the

past few races when it comes to team points.

We really just need to stick our head down and grind and try to take it round

round and get points.

I just hate first round. This is like my least favorite. I hate first round at

every race. Once you get past this round, it's easier.

If you get past it.

I've been struggling the last couple races.

No, we have too.

Hopefully we can pull four off and go to the next round. Yeah, we need to.

All right.

See you, buddy. Bye.

Moving on to Colorado.

It's going to be a tough race.

We're up here on the mountain.

Last couple weeks have been a big struggle for us.

Hopefully, sooner than later, we can put everything behind us and we can start

having a good run to try to get back up in this championship.

We're going to go out there and give it our best shot for this first round.

All right, next pair coming at you right now. We've got Mike Chandler in the

left lane going up against Cal Mills in the right.

And Callie Mills gets the W there. Great pass.

All right, folks. Next pair coming up. That's going to be Chuck Seitzinger

up against Kai Kelly.

Yesterday was like, I had so much pressure on me to try to get in this.

what I mean? So it's like, Team Ryan, there's four badasses on that team, and

then there's Chuck.

And so look.

I want to contribute to this team. It's time I step up and start going around.

If I could take Kai out right here, it just blows the point here. It's wide

right here in Colorado.

So we're out here at Bandimere, Invitational Day.

We come to this mountain thinking that we've got a car that we feel like we can

win.

The turbo cars and the nitrous cars are supposed to be doing better out here,

but I feel like I was faster yesterday.

Round one, I drew Chuck. He's really good at guessing the light, so he's

somebody we need to be worried about because if he guesses that light

definitely be right.

He didn't see that green. No, no, he didn't see it. Oh, yeah, he almost got

Lower belt, trading in half on the starting line.

Luckily, he went red.

I got a gift on that one.

We got lucky. We got a gift. Now what we got to do is go back and get this thing

fixed and be ready for round two.

But, dude, I feel like we had a tune -up, and I wasn't trying to, like, okay,

guess or die.

Yeah, it looked like it was going fast.

Like, when I took off with you, we was pretty much stuck for a minute. Yeah.

And then I just let out.

All right, man. Sorry, man. I hate that. No, don't be sorry to me.

That's 100 % Chuck's job. Ain't nothing got boarded but Chuck.

All right, next pair coming up. Got Jim Hound going up against Mike Murillo.

We just drew Mike Murillo, one of very few that I do not want to draw ever out

of the bucket.

Every time I've run Mike Murillo, we've had a mechanical failure on the car.

And so, like, we tease each other. I tell him he's got a voodoo doll back in

trailer, and they're, like, poking needles in it and stuff.

We do have all five of our guys in.

Everybody's running great, and so we'll see how it unfolds.

I'm glad you left that voodoo doll at home.

Good race. That was a tight race. That was a good race. I like that.

All right, folks. Next pair coming up. We got Clay Cole going up against Damon

Merchant. Man, we got Damon first round. We've not raced him ever.

Everything's good on the car?

Everything.

All we got to do is go up there and do our job. Four more wind lights after

that. Four more after that. That's all we got. Four more of the wind lights and

we're done. We're buying steak.

Damon Merchant. He's the people's choice, obviously.

But I'm the underdog.

Everybody usually roots for the underdog.

So we're going to go out there. We're going to put it on him.

We're going to draw next round. See who we get.

Longevity into the season was going to be our downfall.

Part getting parts, keeping parts to yourself.

So we're trying to be as competitive and cautious at the same time.

Things kind of changed with the atmosphere and everything around here.

So we're trying to make it through this race, go around without catastrophic

failure. But, hey, here we are.

We showed up. We're going to do everything we can to go around today

know, give them hell.

My team started off really, really good. But in the last six races, we've been

slipping. And if we don't make a move, man, we're going to get pushed out. So

today, the team, we have three guys in.

Bobby's in, Nate's in, and Damon is in. We really need Nate and Damon to pick it

up and hold us down again. We're putting a lot of weight on them guys.

Coming up, we got Clay Cole going up against Damon Merchant.

All right, so Clay Cole going to take the win.

They're in the right lane. Looks like Damon Merchant had some issues in the

left.

Something was wrong there. It didn't run well.

And the transmission jumped. For one, the transmission rolled a lot of road.

We didn't have transmission issues.

Something was bad right there.

Damn.

I roll in, turn on the bottom light.

Boom.

It's past the 330.

It starts tracking toward the center line.

Here we go. This is going to be bad.

I get out of it, get right back in it.

Boom, we turn on the wind line.

Did yours get out of shape?

I heard you pedaling it. I got out of it. I didn't know where you were at.

It goes pop, pop, and then just.

I was going to the wall. I was like, oh, I don't know where he's at.

I know he's fast. He's coming.

Race didn't go our way. This is two weeks in a row now that we've been out

round. If I ain't out there by 3 .30, you probably don't have to worry about

Had a really good first half of the season.

We know the longevity of this is going to be kind of a hard spot for us to be

in. But, you know, all we can do is push through.

...together for Las Vegas, and, you know, hopefully start kicking ass again.

Man, Clay Cole, he's a new guy. He draws Damon Merchant. I ain't gonna lie, I

didn't really have much faith he was gonna be able to beat him. But he went

there, made a hell of a fast pass. He pedaled the car and still outran Damon.

people's gonna start putting some respect on Mr. Cole's name, and I'm glad

have him as part of the team.

All right, next pair.

That is gonna be Kyle Canyon going up against Robin Roberts.

Kyle Canyon, first round here at Denver. It's probably a good draw for us

because he hasn't been here a lot. He hasn't made a lot of passes. He's still

fairly fresh. So for us, we've got this car rolling. We're just going to go up

and do what we do.

For the whole team, Team Ryan, here we are sitting with all five in. That's

awesome. So we just need to keep chipping away at it. This team is good.

We just got to do our thing, keep rolling forward.

As far as my team goes, you know, we keep saying every weekend, we need a

turnout for my team.

so that we can score a bunch of points, and we need some of these guys that have

been doing well to not do as good.

My team has always kind of done pretty good, and pretty good is where we go

where we are. I think we're fourth, and pretty good's okay, but not good enough.

The cool thing about this format and the way it's going right now is that it's

still pretty close between one and four as far as the groups go. When you start

getting to five, six, seven, those teams are a little farther down, but one and

four can literally swap spots.

at one rate that one does at Port -au -Prince.

Nice pass.

Grab the train's brake. Let go of the button.

I think we had him the whole way, but it was a good run because when I pulled

the chutes and looked over, he was right there.

Good pass for him, good pass for us.

All right, folks, next pair coming at you right now over the right lane.

going to be Birdman going up against Disco Dean Carms here in the left lane.

First round in the Invitational. Obviously, I haven't been in the

in a long time.

This is my second time being in the Invitational this year, so I have

lose and everything to gain. And we draw Birdman, so we're going to risk it for

the biscuit.

I've got my ass kicked all year, but it would be a big morale booster for the

team if I went out here and went to the finals and won or the semis and did

something for the team for me putting myself in Chandler's spot.

I let go.

Take off. The car's hauling ass.

I get to the middle of the track. Birdman ain't there. I come to the

line. I'm like, yeah!

Finally got a wind light.

Yeah!

I got my first wind light, man. It only took eight races and X amount of rounds,

or however many we're at. But finally got one, dude.

Monkey is officially off my back.

We just need to do four more dances, man.

If we could do the dance contest and win it, we'd be doing pretty good.

Don't call me disco for a reason.

Good run, Burr, man.

Make a lick?

We made it all the way, but it was sliding.

I grabbed the scramble to catch you in it. I'm like, I'm going to catch him.

And then it started sliding.

I love you, man. You killed me down low.

Good job, buddy. You had me.

Had to get even for last week in Idaho, man. I know you did.

Had to get even.

All right, folks, next pair coming at you right now. Over in the left lane,

that's going to be Rich Bruder.

He is going up against Nate Taylor in the right.

Hey!

Hey! I'm over here!

I drew Nate Taylor.

He's on a good team. He's got a good car, got a good crew. You know, he's a

really good racer.

Hey, who do you want?

Hey, who do you want, big man? Where you at?

I'm right here. That's my teammate.

We're 70 points behind Kai in first place. So we could be leaving here if we

around. You know, we'd be looking good. So that's our team plan.

You know, you always want to win.

And like I said, we have a hard team that's dedicated to be number one. So

just putting it all together, and we're going to show everybody.

They're going to get the win there.

We needed that win right there. We needed that. Good job, bud.

Did you make it or no? Nah, we shook right off. Dude, I was, I don't know if

could see me, but I was moving all over the place.

Thanks, man. We'll see you at the next one. Sounds good, man. Thank you.

Next pair right here is going to be a good one. That is going to be Jeff Lutz

going up against Lizzie Musi.

All right, well, let's do it.

Ready? Yep. Let's go.

Round one, driver's meeting. I draw Lizzie Musi. She won Tulsa. She won

Drawing her right now is not the draw we needed because we're struggling right

now.

First round, I end up drawing Jeff Lutz. I saw him struggle a little bit in the

beginning of this year.

Same with us.

But he normally runs pretty good. So our car has been running pretty good.

We gave it a little bit more.

We feel like he'll take it.

There, Jeff Lutz goes towards the center, has to get out of it.

Lizzie will move on to the next round.

Lutz has just been having nonstop problems, so they went out there today,

the tires, turned the car sideways, and it is what it is. You know they lost.

Next pair, that is going to be Bobby Ducote going up against Axeman.

Bracing my good buddy Bobby.

Man, that dude kills that tree, so I'm going to have my hands pulled right

You never know what he's thinking.

Hopefully I can get this cop right fast enough to take care of him, but we'll

find out here in a few minutes.

Larry, I better have a hug whether we win or lose.

I drew X, man.

Man. What can you say about him? The dude's fast.

I mean, there's no ducks here.

I'm going to try to treat that ass and hope he gets to catch my ass.

We got

Bobby. Bobby's been consistently

going A round at least.

Hope we can get him to go one or two rounds, if not more.

Next pair, that is going to be Bobby Ducote going up against Axeman.

Takes the win.

And we'll move on to the second round.

That was a good damn run.

Bobby was driving. He was on his ass. All right, folks. Next pair coming at

right here. And that's going to be Daddy Dave going up against Kayla Morton.

One of us going on. Yeah.

50 -50 shot, I guess. We need the freaking points. We do.

First two didn't go so well.

Huh? First two teammates didn't do so well. I know.

Hey, one of the team is going.

First round, we drew Dave. Not the ideal drawing.

It really sucks, but we are accumulating points for our team total.

Honestly, Dave and I both have been struggling. Dave has won one. I have won

one. We both struggled in Tulsa and Idaho.

So we are both really hungry for a win.

All right, folks, next pair coming at you right here over in the left lane.

That's going to be Daddy Dave going up against Kayla Morton in the right.

Black Cave over there in the left lane having some problems trying to get that

car to back up.

So Dave Copstock over there in the left lane.

Looks like the car died after the burnout.

Won't fire back up.

Drama. Drama, y 'all broke, broke?

Broke, broke?

Okay. All right.

All right, so going to be a bye run here for Caleb Horton.

Dave Comstock, broke, unable to get it fixed.

Going to be a viral for Kayla here in the right lane.

All right, so Kayla Morton right down through there. She'll move on to the

round.

This right here, $30 sensor.

It blows the center out, let oil shot out.

No way to keep it in, no sense of going down the track like that, so you just

shut it off and give Kayla the win. It's another teammate of mine going on the

next round, so that's ten more points for us.

Deal, but it's drag racing. That's what happens.

Next pair coming at you right now, and that's going to be Larry Larson going up

against Chuck 55.

First round up here on the mound, we drew Chuck.

Parker, truck 65, so he went to finals last week, knew everything was going to

be close, sitting there watching Dave and Kayla in front of us, and Dave goes

out there and pukes oil all over the racetrack.

Can't go out there and really do much other than clean up his mess, so we're

going to need everything we've got and a little bit more to get past track first

round.

All right, folks, we are back to racing here. Got that left lane all cleaned up.

Chuck, 55. Nice pass there in the right lane.

Turns on the red light, and we'll move on to the second round of the invitation

class. Nice job.

Next pair, that is going to be Giuseppe going up against Murder Nova.

All I can do is let go of the button. That's it.

Fast. Do your thing.

Round one, I draw Giuseppe.

Giuseppe's killing it this year. His car's fast.

He goes a lot of rounds. Not really the draw that I was looking for. At this

point, we're going to go up there. We're going to run our race, see if the track

holds what we want to put in it.

Hey, should we turn it down?

You want to turn it down a little bit in the middle? No, huh? I don't think so.

So we drew Murder Nova for the first round here of Invitational. Murder Nova,

I've been watching him. He's actually been really fast. He made it to

semifinals, the last event. He's been on a roll.

So it's going to be a tough round for us. I mean, we did good last night into

the finals there. But, yeah, this will be a tough round here.

Colorado's tricky.

It's a beautiful place. Everybody wants to race here.

But it's tough racing here. The high elevation messes with the cars.

So as soon as we got here, we had to do all kinds of work to the car. We upped

the compression.

We pulled the heads off.

change the head gaskets, and the numbers that it usually takes to win, it's not

even going to be close to that up here on the mound.

Next pair, that is going to be Giuseppe going up against Lerner Nova.

How good does that feel? Yeah. Yeah.

Man, I think you know.

I want to tell you, you have no idea how good that dude is.

All right, folks.

Next pair coming at you here. We got B -Rat going up against Ryan Martin.

We got about 10 minutes or so. Start putting the car up.

Okay.

So round one, I got B -Rat. He always runs really well. He's the type of car

that if you mess up at all, he's going to get you.

Lower, look all right.

This is my second week using the fireball for this.

Thank God that I have this car.

It's been sitting.

We've had it ready for big tire street racing, which for me is a completely

different setup. So I haven't really had a lot of time with this car to beat on

it and make it right and have it ready for No Prep Kings, but it makes a

fantastic backup car.

Today, I felt like we finally got the car a little closer to where it needs to

be. I don't know if it'll be enough on this mountain, but we're going to give

all we got.

I'm not swinging for it, but we're going to bump up a little bit from what I had

for round one.

Because it's Ryan, but we're not doing too stupid. Like, everybody does stupid

shit. Burns a motor off or blows the tires off. We're not going to do that.

We're going to make a good, solid, super -fast pass in state and have a motor

for the next round. That's what we're going to do.

All right.

Well, we've got to do tires and stuff like that. So let's go and get that

going. Go from there.

I'll tell you what. For me and my son, which, if you didn't realize, it's me

my son. That's who we are. We're like the David and Goliath battle here. Like,

we're always against these guys with these big, great teams. It's just me and

him. It feels good to just be here, but even, like, say Ryan beats me, beats me

by the defender, it really doesn't feel that bad. It's bittersweet, but it's

like, even though Ryan's got this big team, it's like, we're still coming for

him. I mean, we're going to do all we can do.

We're going to swing for a little bit.

Not completely, but we're going to make it happen.

Takes the win.

Nice pass there for Ryan.

B -Rad right there with him.

That was a good race.

Next pair, that is going to be David Gates going up against Justin Swansford.

I'd like to see you go past this first round, and I hope you do, but you just

had so much bad luck here later in the half.

It'd just be nice to get a round win.

The last couple weeks have probably not been the best of my racing career.

Two races ago, Tulsa backfired and went out first round. Went into Idaho,

backfired again Friday night. Went into Saturday, lost first round. Moving on to

Colorado, I feel like we got the car right. I switched everything out on the

car. We're just going to run our race. The track is very hot and greasy.

Going up against a nitrous car for the first round is pretty rough. But we'll

see how it goes down in place.

Hey, buddy, how's the car been feeling this weekend for you? It's fine. Let's

race. Good.

Yeah, I'm ready. I'm being ready. Yeah, I'm ready to go right now.

Love you, baby.

I'll be back in a minute. You're going to watch me talk. Give me nothing.

Love you.

Round one, we drew Justin Swann from the last pair.

You know, Justin's fast, got a heck of a program.

He's done good for a long time, and he's struggling right now. But I know last

night they made good passes, and, you know, I hate to race Justin. He's a

of mine. You know, but when we turn them beams on, everybody's an enemy until we

get to the other end.

And that right there was a close drag race.

All four of my teammates are going in the second round. So

that's badass.

Dave's only got two.

Kayla eliminated her own captain.

Boaty's team, they only got one in. So we're doing really good. We're making

moves. We're getting 40 points every time we go to the next round. So I'm

by the end of this day, we'll have about a 100 -point lead on everybody.

Just there.

I know it sucks to lose, man.

Even though I took a lost first round, I think I still won in the long run

because I feel like I now have my race car back.

I'm going to go on to Vegas, and I plan on trying to get back up there in the

top part of the field in points.

I will both make full passes.

I was happy with that.

That brings us to the end of round one.

Clay Cole was able to beat Damon Merchant, which was a huge statement and

giant blow for Team Bodie. In Dave's race against Kayla, he actually blew up

the burnout.

He had to be happy that it was a teammate getting that free pass versus a

from another team.

Sean was also able to beat Giuseppe, which was a huge win for him. You know,

Giuseppe is fast, but Muranova looking to get some momentum for his team.

Hey, the driver's meeting is back here.

go ahead and draw chips to see who is racing who.

Oh, ready?

Oh, yeah, just one.

All right, guys.

Come on in, come on in.

Where are my number ones?

It's going to be Brandon James versus Ryan Martin.

Number two.

Scott Taylor versus Lizzie Musi.

Again? Again? Take it easy on me this time.

Look, look. You probably owe me one though. No, wait.

All right, number three.

Number three is going to be Axeman versus Murder Nova.

Number four is going to be Kelly Mills versus Kai Kelly.

Number five.

Nate Saylor versus David Gates.

All right, number six.

Going to be Jim Howell versus Caleb Morton. They love each other.

All right, number seven.

Going to be Chuck 55 versus Disco Dean.

And my eighth and final pair will be Clay Cole versus Robin Roberts.

All right.

All my drivers know who they're racing.

All right, y 'all. Go back to the pits. Get your cars turned around. Bring them

in the staging lanes.

First pair of the Invitational second round. That is going to be Brandon James

going up against Ryan Martin.

We got about 10 minutes or so to start putting the car up.

We're off second round, and I got Brandon James.

I've raced Brandon James quite a few times throughout the last few years, on

street, on the track, whatever. He's always a good competitor. His cars

run pretty good. That tells me we've got to be on our A game. We went a little

too slow against B -Rad for my taste. This being second round, it will be

better. The track temperature will be better. The track surface will be

So we're going to turn this thing up a little bit and try to give him a good

race.

Y 'all do it. We obviously drew a bear for this next round, too. We have Ryan

Martin here.

We'll fix the tune -up, try to go as fast as we can. Hopefully it's enough to

beat Ryan.

He's definitely beatable this year. I mean, to be honest, he was beatable

year, you know what I mean? But the field got tighter this year.

Everybody's running better, so we've got to be able to outrun him. Right now,

second round here in Bandimere.

Congrats to him and his team.

Hey, you know what? We've taken out another pretty fast car with my car

been sitting around for a while. I do kind of feel like we have one of the

faster pro car cars here, and I'm pretty stoked about it.

Good run, buddy.

Did you make a good one?

Yeah.

Good run, bud.

Next pair, that is going to be Miss Lizzie Musi going up against Scott

Taylor.

I mean, the pan and all. Does he need to pull all that off?

No. You're good, Mike.

The first round went as good as possible with all the gremlins we had.

I thought we had a good tune -up of this thing. I already had the tune -up built

before I went to the driver's meeting.

I drew Lizzie Mucey, so come back and peck on the keyboard a little bit more.

We're looking forward to round number two, but we did draw, I feel like, the

toughest competitor on the property.

When we pulled into this track, I said Lizzie Mucey should win this event, and

that's who we drew.

I'm going to give her everything I got, and if she beats me, it's just her day.

If I beat her, it'll be my day.

Going to have to go part.

If we can run with her or close to her or outrun her, it's going to be a good

day. Good luck, ma 'am.

Round two, I'm drawing Scott Taylor.

I actually ran him in the grade eight. I beat him in the grade eight, but he

actually didn't have all his cylinders running, so he was down on cylinders,

his car wasn't up enough, so... He wasn't able to make a good pass against

but I know when he has all this stuff put together, I know he's going to haul

out.

And Lizzie Busey gets the win. Scott Taylor right there.

She's not able to get around Lizzie.

That was a close race.

We go up, get ready to stage.

Light turns green.

I feel like we left about the same time. Cars were hauling ass.

I saw him right there with me, and he stayed there right with me the whole

freaking way.

God, that race was close.

I swear I did not know.

I had to look.

Next pair coming at you right now is going to be Axeman going up against

Nova. So at the end of the run, when they quit pulling, I was waiting for

to pop back.

And it didn't. It could be anything. It's like a ghost in it. It could be

nothing.

But then again, it could be something major. And going against Murder Nova, I

mean, last time we raced, we were bumper to bumper at the finish line. So this

time, no joke.

We have less than five minutes, so we're supposed to be at the line. Yeah, we're

supposed to be on the starting line now.

And here we are coming down and going against Murdanova, and that thing is

moving. At the end of the last minute, pass is shut off. So we come back,

everything in the car. We'll change the fuel pump, injectors. We'll change

everything we can think of.

I'm hoping.

He's down there right now waiting on me, so I got to go. All right. They came up

to me, and they said, Axeman's having some problems. And I was like, hey, you

know, I'm not waiting on him.

I'd like to have had some more time in between rounds to work on my car, too.

All right.

I'll do anything I can to win this race.

He outran us in Tulsa, and I should have won that race. I owe him one, and I'm

looking to take it.

man's struggle to even get the car to the line it's a bad feeling like you

you don't know if he's gonna go on to the next round or not and then he drew

buddy sean burner nova which is a tough appointment this year i mean john's

doing really good it's two bads and not one good out of this deal

All I kept focusing on was the tree. I have to leave before him. If I don't

leave before him, I can't outrun Axeman.

Cut a good light.

All I know is I took the win.

That son of a bitch right there was running, brother.

No, hey, I made a good lick. You did. I made a good lick.

Hey, I don't know. I already watched the video. I don't know. We'll see.

Yeah, yeah. Hey, so. We watched the video. Hey, so. He's still a loser.

That's right. We all.

Next pair coming at you right now, that is going to be Callie Mills going up

against Ty Kelly.

So round two, I drew Callie Mills. Hey, that team's got a lot of knowledge and a

lot of money behind them. That's why you don't take lightly.

A girl can drive, so she's not nobody we're going to go up there and not give

her our best. So it's a tough draw, but we've got to beat her.

Kelly will get the win there. Nice pass right down Broadway.

Next pair is going to be David Gates going up against Nate Saylor.

So round two invitational, we got David Gates.

He's got a big nitrous car.

We're hoping we can overcome that with this pro charger set up. We think we got

the stuff to do it. We're just going to turn it up.

Round two, we drew Nate Thaler. He's fast.

He's got a great program. They've got a great team over there. They work hard.

They've got a lot of nice parts, a lot of nice cars.

But when we go up there and turn them beams on, I'm going to try to tear his

head off at the tree, get to the other end first, and I ain't throwing them

shoots early if I throw them at all.

It's going to be David Gates going up against Nate Saylor.

And David

Gates takes out Nate Saylor. Nice job.

Nate Saylor had to pedal over there. That's all it took.

Good run, Nate.

Jim, if I didn't have to pedal that stupid bitch.

That was a drag race for sure.

Good job, man. Good job. Always an honor to race you.

All right, next pair coming at you right now. That's going to be Jim Howe going

up against Caleb Morton.

Round two, I drew Jim Howe, but it's no secret that we don't really like each

other. He punched Chris in the face, and that's where it started.

He went straight.

You ain't straight.

You ain't straight.

And then it just kind of goes on from there. But, you know, anybody who

my man in the face, I want to kick his ass on the track.

So, yeah, that's just what it is.

We drew Kayla Morton, second round.

And I feel a pretty good draw for us. Felt like it was a good draw.

At the end of last year, Jim Howell come out swinging and... He looked very

promising. His combination was hauling ass, so he's not to be taken lightly at

all. But Kayla's doing really good this year. A handle on her car, and this

should be a really good race.

Left him on the tree. Then we look back. So Kayla Morton will move on to the

next round.

Yes. That feels so freaking good.

Couldn't have happened to a better person.

Love the W. Moving on.

That guy.

All right. Next pair is going to be Chuck 55 going up against Disco D.

I mean, we're making a lot of progress. We've been putting down more power than

we have all season. We found a lot of traction after the 2 -3 shift, so

everything's working.

So just if I have enough in it to beat him.

We drew last week's finalist, Chuck 55.

So he's also a screw -blown Hemi type of deal. I know he's got a PJS motor. It's

a little bit different.

Obviously, he has a lot of knowledge because he's made some good laps here.

He went to the finals last week.

So he is hauling ass.

I really need to go to the semifinals or the finals and get them points worth

it. If I fall out any earlier, I feel like I just failed the team.

Dude, I couldn't even give you a good race. What happened? I don't know if I

in something or what.

Hard left.

All right, next pair.

Coming at you right now. That is going to be Clay Cole going up against Robin

Roberts.

I got Robin Roberts. Never paired against Robin before. I beat Damon first

round. If we go up here and we beat Robin, in my opinion, that's two of the

fastest cars I've seen.

That would be a huge accomplishment for not only me, but as our team.

We're just going to go out there and turn on the wind light.

I actually don't know Clay Cole from Adams, so I have no idea about him. The

car's running good.

It's still a struggle up here. It's just hard to get these blower cars to work

the way they should, so we're just pouring everything to it and seeing if

holds, and so far it's working.

We tuned the car up. It's the best you can do in Denver, man.

We're going for him. So for the whole team, we're really not too far out of

next slot. So we just need to keep chipping away at it. This team is good.

We just got to do our thing, keep rolling forward.

About mid -track, he just pulled, I don't know, put a foot or so on us. He

a great pass. We made a really good pass.

That's how it goes, man.

For Clay Cole to go out there and beat somebody like Robin Roberts and Damon

Merchant in the same day, that says a lot about my number four guy. He's a bad

dude. He's got a fast car, a good -looking car, and he can drive. So

exactly what we needed on our team to get to the championship.

Clay Cole's kicking ass. We're number one, and we're steady gaining points.

What's the matter?

Just had a few weeks.

I'm sorry. Did they fix it? No, it's all right. That's how it happens, man. Good

luck. Hey, thank you.

Going into round three, we have eight drivers left, and four of them are from

Team Kai Kelly.

That team came into the event in first place, and you've got to think, this is

building up a lot of momentum for them. And it seems like they're gaining some

traction for the rest of the season.

Well, I guess let's go ahead and draw chips.

All my drivers have their chips. Where are my number ones?

Number one, first pair, Ryan Martin versus Kai Kelly.

All right,

where are my number twos at?

Disco Dean and Clay Cole.

Where are my number threes?

Which means my fourth and final pair will be Kayla Morton versus Murder Nova.

Drivers know who they're racing. All right, y 'all. Go ahead and go back in

pits. Get your cars turned around. Put them in the stage lanes. Let's do this.

Good luck.

This is shaping up to be a very interesting round three.

First up, it's going to be Kai Kelly versus Ryan Martin.

This is going to be the first time they've raced all season long.

Look, in previous seasons, Ryan has always been Kai's kryptonite. But this

new and improved Kai Kelly.

Let's see what will happen.

It was a best -case scenario. There was four of us, four of them, and we only

drew one teammate.

And there was two chips left in the bucket when I drew, so it was either

or Clay.

Gates and Lizzie drew each other.

Seems like somehow, someway, Lizzie's always the one to draw a teammate. So I

don't know if that's just bad luck for her.

People draw her all the time. I don't know. But at the end of the day, that

means that our team is going to get 10 points one way or another.

Depending on how this goes, I bet we'll be about 100 points ahead.

That'll be good.

I'm going to go get my ready.

You're going to be ready?

Yeah. Don't suck against Ryan, man.

Don't suck.

know when i race kai it's always going to be a good race and you never know

which way it's going to go i am fortunate enough to be way on the other

winning all these races but this year's different kai's got a lot of momentum

this year he's got a really good car he started off with a good car i'm in my

backup car so the cars are stacked against me but what i know is that this

is starting to come around and it's a good car to vent

In the left lane, that is going to be Kai Kelly. In the right lane, that is

going to be Ryan Martin.

Pick one and ride with them. Place your bets right here, folks.

on the next round.

Kai's car, it made a great pass. But honestly, my car made a great pass.

Pass off to him. He's got the faster car here on the mountain. You know, I

always say, hey, may the better man win. And today he did.

Oh, Rip.

Your run's good.

Not good enough.

Good race, man.

Two. Drop.

So finally, after two years, flat foot outrun Ryan Mark.

Beating that dude, to me, is the best thing of the season so far. He's just

always been in my head.

Even when I was pulling into the line while he was shaking, I was like, stop.

It's a big day for me to outrun him.

I'm not going to sit here and toot his horn all day, but I got a lot of respect

for Ron.

Just to be able to outrun him says a lot about my program and how far we've came

because he has definitely beat us to death for about two years straight.

Good job, man. That was a hell of a race from what I can see.

No, I'm happy for you, man. Yeah, I just don't. Every round you go, I'm like,

good. I just don't want to shoot myself in the foot. You know what I mean? Just

take it one round at a time. No.

You know what I mean? That's who you have next time, Clay.

He did outrun Robin Roberts, but he didn't. He got running.

Was it both good passes? Yeah, no, they was going side by side.

Round three, we have Clay Cole.

This dude has beat the brakes off of me and raced your way in. He's beat me

twice this season, so.

If there's any better time than now to get revenge, it's this time. I got

revenge with Birdman.

Chuck 55, I didn't need to get no revenge. I haven't raged him in a long

but I need to get even with Clay.

And I think today's the day to do it.

Goal going to get the win.

Disco Dean driving it over there in that right lane. Did a great job keeping it

off the wall, but ends up flipping the cone.

That car's fast.

All right, this next pair right here is going to be David Gates going up against

Lizzie Mucey.

Round number three, I drew David Gates. A nitrous car against a nitrous car.

He's been running pretty good this year.

Regardless, I mean, it's coming down to the wire. We're all still in it.

We're going to draw a teammate regardless.

It's just going to happen.

I happen to be the one. So no matter what, one of us is going to move on to

next round for our team. So I'm ready to go. Ready to kick some ass on round

number three.

That had to have been close to the finish line.

We're getting ready to daze.

Light turns green.

Car is hauling out.

I was pulling away on him on the big end.

We were able to grab another one, so car made a nice, perfect run, and we're

moving on to round number four. Good run, Elizabeth.

Drivers here in this last pair of the Invitational Class, third round. That is

going to be Kayla Morton against Murder Nova.

For round three, we drew Murder Nova. He is a very tough contender. He keeps

getting faster every week. Our setups are very similar.

His motor is slightly bigger than mine, so we have a little bit of a

disadvantage, but I have all the faith in the world in my tuner. He did be

Axeman in round two, so we're going to try to get a little get back here.

Willingly got.

Right.

They're about the same, though, aren't they? Yeah, they're both about as. I

to win this third round.

I need to win this third round, and it's going to take a lot. But like I said,

we're going to run the lane. We're going to put the amount of power that we

think that it'll take, and hopefully it's enough to outrun her.

Me and Sean have been buddies for a long time.

We've spent a lot of time together.

All that stuff ends on the start line. Like, this is a championship. This is

$200 ,000.

So right now, Sean is not my friend going up against Kayla.

was a great side -by -side drag race. Wow.

Great race, man, great.

All is good here, baby.

The race was probably one of the top five races of my career.

We were neck and neck the whole time, and I just nudged him out the end.

Catching Kai this race, as far as a team aspect, is probably not going to

happen. He has three in to one. It's kind of like a David and Goliath type of

situation.

But we're not worried about that right now. Right now, we're worried about our

lane, blinders on, just like we've been doing all day long, and just doing it,

man. Pretty car race, baby!

God dang.

Hey, it don't get no closer than that. Dude!

Great job, man.

Round three is in the books.

Heading into the semis, Kayla Morton is standing alone from Team Daddy Dave.

Everyone else is from Team Kai Kelly.

That means two drivers from Team Kai are definitely going to draw each other in

this round.

Lizzie and Kai haven't raced each other since their breakup.

And if we see that matchup, the crowd is going to go wild.

Oh, man.

This thing got kind of rough looking around here. This is rough looking. I

going to lie.

I'll tell you one thing.

He's having a great time.

That was the most fun I ever had in my life. What are you talking about? With

Kayla beating Sean, it's now Kayla Martin versus Team Kai. Going into the

it's Kayla, Kai, Lizzie, and Clay Cole. Kayla just needs to win her rounds and

possibly win this thing to keep that grasp, keep Kai within reach of points.

Man, Kai, wouldn't it be crazy if you drew?

Stop it.

Stop it. You drew. Stop it.

Wouldn't it be crazy if?

Where are my number ones?

Where are my number ones? It's not good. It's the same color. That's you. One.

Kai Kelly and Lizzie Mucey.

Oh, my God.

Kai Kelly versus Lizzie Mucey. First pair of the semi -finals. I stick my

in the bucket, and I wait until they call the numbers, and sure enough, I get

Kai.

I haven't raced Kai, I think, this whole year, so this is going to be

interesting. Which means our second pair will be Clay Cole versus Caleb Morton.

Battle of the pro chargers. Good luck, Clay.

All right, drivers, go back to the pits.

Get your cars ready. Let's find out who's going to go to the finals, all

Let's do it. Let's do it.

Good luck.

Thank you so much.

Here we are. This is the semifinals for Colorado, and it's going to be Kai

versus Lizzie for the first time this season. You knew this awkward race could

potentially happen at any point this season, and now it is here. This is

to be a great race. Lizzie won the last two invitational events, and Kai Kelly

just won the grade A. This is going to be a battle to the end.

Every time I get besides Lizzie.

Tough draw, especially with her car running good today. She done won the

two events in a row.

It's about to be a race, I know that. I guarantee you Pat blows that thing up to

finish line.

Oh, yeah.

He will burn it down to beat one of us.

Well, the thing is we ain't dating no more, so we actually just started

today for the first time since the breakup, and then we done went out there

drew each other.

So right now we got three from my team going to the final four. I mean, you

can't ask for a better weekend than that. That's picture perfect. But we're

going to have to run each other. It's going to be a dogfight. It's going to be

battle. Good luck, buddy.

Good luck. Good luck. Be safe.

Don't drive by me.

Shut up. You're acting like you don't got a car.

You're on a pay phone?

No, on the finish line like y 'all always do. Oh, no.

You tilt the wheels the whole freaking way, buddy. I know how you roll.

Everything has been civil with me and Kai, which is great.

We did talk about being friends.

It's just been making things a lot easier.

We've been on a winning streak here lately.

Our car is running really good.

Kai's fast, so we're going to give it a little bit more than we have been this

whole week in the race, Kai.

This will be the race of the round, folks.

That is going to be Kai Kelly against Miss Lizzie Musi. Here we go.

Winner will go on to the finals to race for $40 ,000.

Thank you. You're welcome.

We are

required to wear a 20 -layer fire suit.

As you can see, these pants are very thick.

Our boots come up super high, and they're really thick as well, and we

socks on.

The jacket's just as thick as the pants, and it is tough sometimes.

This is just part of the job, and you just embrace it like everything else.

Well, people don't realize how hot this is, the sun beating on you.

At all.

Like a rival store.

Give me your money.

This will be the race of the round, folks.

That is going to be Todd Kelly against Miss Lizzie Mucey.

was a drag race right there.

What'd I tell you?

That was a good race. Good job.

Proud of you. Good job.

I saw you tilt the wheels all the way.

Yeah, but I seen you start making a move right there on the big end. No, but

your car's hauling it.

Did you blow it up?

No. Oh, so you had something left.

No, no.

No.

Good job. Now kick ass.

Take it home. Man, that race was kind of tough for me because, uh, You know, the

breakup's still kind of, you know, recent.

But she's strong. She's out here racing, taking chemo and all that. So it was

a hell of a side -by -side race.

Proud of her and happy to get that win because Lizzie's one of the people that

always beat me no matter what. So I beat Ryan and Lizzie tonight. That's huge

for me.

Okay. All right. Good job. Good job.

Proud of you. Maybe I can win now. Yeah.

Now you got to take it all the way.

All the way.

Nice to meet you, man.

You got a picture of your grandpa on the shot.

Clay Cole versus Kayla Morton coming at you right now. The winner of this race

will face Kai Kelly in the finals for $40 ,000.

You got one job to do.

I have to hire you.

Yeah, I'll come over and crew.

It's not my finals now, right? Yeah.

Awesome.

Clay has taken out some heavy hitters today, and I'm glad for that. I love it

whenever he takes out people that are in front of me, so that's worked out good.

He's taken out Damon today. He's taken out Robin Roberts. His car is fast. He

has a setup that can win, and I'm definitely not going to take him

Kayla's super fast.

I'm a little intimidated by her.

I know we've got a fast car, so it's going to be a good race.

It's going to come down to who cuts a better life. That's what it's going to

come down to.

All right. Let's see who's going to go in first here.

Both drivers got their top bulb lit.

Neither driver wanted to go in.

Let's see who's going to go in first.

All right. All past the staging rule.

Here comes Clay Cole.

There he goes.

Oh, boy.

I'm going to the final.

Vandermeer.

Never dreamed in a million years I would be doing this right now, going where

we're going.

Good car race, baby.

Oh, beautiful car race.

Give me a hug.

We went up there, flexed on them, waited to light that fourth bulb.

It was just a fun little staging battle, but I'm a really stubborn human being,

and I was just going to wait it out until I ran out of fuel.

Good job. You guys are awesome. Thanks, man. So with Kayla losing to Clay Cole,

you know, it puts my whole team out.

And obviously, Kai will go on to win this event. One of Kai's teams will go

to win this event.

And that gives them even more points.

But, you know, I'm not giving up.

You know, this is very well anybody's game still.

We can definitely do this. We just got to keep our stuff together, work as a

team, and go rounds.

You helped me out of that tree. You 100 % deserve that. You helped me out of

that tree.

I'm stubborn. What can I say?

Here we are again.

All right, so I'm going to the finals in Bandimere. It's crazy.

It's just I got to race Clay Cole, another guy on my team. So you can't ask

anything better. Our team did badass this weekend.

It's picture perfect.

You couldn't have wrote the script if you wanted to.

At the end of the night, somebody on Team Kai Kelly is going home with $40

And they're going to get 10 more points. So, I mean, it's a win -win, no matter

what. I mean, I would love to go up there and let Clay Cole win his first

But I'm sure you don't want to win it like that. So I'm going to give him all

this old Buick's he got.

If he outruns me, he earned it.

Man, I could have wiped the old girl down for the final.

I bet Mike Murillo is over there right now just chewing his fingernails off.

Like, he got rid of this guy. He threw him in the reserve pool.

Didn't put no lock on him or nothing. Just threw him to the woods.

And I knew what the guy had. I've seen the car. I know who built the car.

So, man, I couldn't pick him up fast enough, and it's proven. He's not in the

finals for no reason. So it's going to be a good race, but the cool thing about

that is whoever wins is going to be on my team, and the points go to me, and

that's another step closer to that $200 ,000.

Push it on up there.

I get to race my team captain in the final, so we'll leave the weekend being

and two at Bannermere on the mountain where the air is terrible.

So if that's not an achievement, I don't know what is. So that goes to tell you

how. how well versed our team is as a whole.

Smart race, baby.

We caught a bad hard road.

I want to win this more than anything in the world.

I've never competed at this level. To be able to be here and be doing what we're

doing, it just means so much to me. So I'm going to do everything I can to turn

on that wind light here shortly.

Vandermeer, this is the last race of the night.

Over in the left lane, new guy to go prep team with the pro

-charged Camaro.

That is Clay Cole going up against your current point leader

in the right lane. That is Ty Kelly.

$40 ,000 to win here on the mountain. Place your bets. It all comes down to

race right here.

My guys have been telling me that Clay has been kind of letting people leave on

him all day.

And when you got a fast car like he's got, you can't get confident, you know,

because if he was the red light and throw away a pass with a fast car, he's

a jackass. I wasn't going to guess on him, but I was going to be foaming at

mouth when the green light come on. And that's exactly what I did.

Killed the tree.

I looked over there and it was side by side.

I'd pull him a little bit, he'd pull on me a little bit. I pulled about three

quarters of a car on him, and that's what I won the race by.

I mean, it was a badass race.

It was everything I expected.

I knew his car was fast because of who he's been racing all day today.

We definitely run out of my car. My guys have got to put new rods and pistons in

it. That's how hard we just ran my car.

I just want to thank Vandermeer.

This is my favorite track, like I said before.

Bro, I ran Ryan Martin and Vandermeer.

I'm leading the grade eight by 20 points. I won three invitational wins.

So going into Las Vegas, Team Kai Kelly has 110 -point advantage.

That's unbelievable.

I just can't say enough about my team. They put in the work, and it shows.

It's going to take a lot of work from these other teams to catch us. All I'm

going to say is it's safe to say that Team Kai Kelly owns this mountain as far

as no prep teams is concerned.

Am I correct?

You're absolutely right.

Congratulations, Kai Kelly, your fan and mayor champion.

And that's a wrap for Colorado, and the story of the weekend has to be Kai Kelly

and his team.

Kai himself won the Grade 8 race and the Invitational on Saturday.

Three of the four racers in the semifinals were from his team, and they

built a lead of 110 points.

What a weekend for that team. But 110 points can be made up in one weekend.

Kai Kelly is not safe in first.

Next week, we're headed to Vegas.

At this point in the season, every round could affect the championship.

Las Vegas, how y 'all doing today?

In the number one spot, there's only one way to go, and that's down.

We've always said that we're just, you know, a race swing away from being able

to take that number one spot.

Kai's team, you know, goes out first round, and all of a sudden that all

changes. We need to go right here. This is Vegas. We need to win this race.

But in no prep, nothing comes easy.

I think you can probably expect to see a few upsets first round. This track is

really going to be tricky.

These drivers will have to bring their absolute best.

Come prepared for

battle.

But it's no wonder every time he goes up there, everybody boos.

Because we're 200 grand on the line.

This is the perfect opportunity to bust his ass right here and go some rounds

and catch up on some of them points.

No one's going down here.