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Previously on The Great Eight, the top eight drivers raced at Dragway 42 in

Salem, Ohio for a chance at $10 ,000 and points for the individual championship.

Murder Nova and Kai Kelly.

Murder Nova was paired up with Kai Kelly for the second week in a row in round

one and put Kai on the trailer again.

And then beat Robin Roberts in the semis to secure a spot in the finals for the

second straight week.

Lizzie Mucey advanced to the semis after Dana Merchant red -lit in round one.

And there were fireworks at the finish of Lizzie's semifinal race versus

Kayla Morton when her hood scoop blew off.

I'm surprised they made it that far. Me too!

This led to a Grade 8 finals between Murder Nova and Lizzie Mews.

Murder Nova won the second Grade 8 race in a row and collected 10 points for the

individual championship.

And Murder Nova makes it two in a row!

Now the top eight drivers heading into Pennsylvania will battle for another $10

,000 and valuable points.

Maple Grove, how y 'all doing today?

We are at Maple Grove Raceway, located in Pennsylvania.

This track opened its doors in 1962 and is one of the 10 longest tracks in the

country.

Today, it's hosting the Grade 8.

Here's how it works. If you win the Grade 8, you get 10 points. Plus, you

get $10 ,000.

If you runner up, you get 7. And if you make it to the semifinals, you will get

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

,000 at the end of the season.

All right, this is the Grade 8 driver's meeting.

As you can see, though, there are nine of you in this Grade 8 meeting.

I believe Axeman and Jake, y 'all are tied.

So are y 'all going to draw a chip out of the bucket, or are we going to figure

out another way to decide who gets in the Grade 8?

I'll race. Y 'all are going to race to a spot off the trailer. I'll race. Okay,

so y 'all are going to race. You don't get a test pass. The test pass is your

race. Whoever wins that will then be in the grade eight. All right?

All right, ladies.

We want to draw last this time. Yeah, we're going to change it up.

Oh, wow. Really?

Yep, yeah.

I wanted last.

Go ahead, pick one. You can have the very last, and me and Lizzie will draw

right before you. Yeah.

Hey, that's a good, you know, middle of them all.

Okay,

that didn't work quite as well. No, it didn't. We would still do it. We would

hope.

Okay, where are my number ones at?

Number one, Nate Saylor and Kai Kelly.

Oh, man.

We drew Nate Saylor first round.

I didn't want to draw Murder Nova because I felt like he was in our heads.

We reached in there and drew a guy just as fast as him, and we've beaten Nate

Saylor all year.

So we know he owes us one. So that's one of them guys you don't want to draw.

Nate, congrats on your win last week, by the way. Mutational.

Number two, Robin Roberts and Lizzie Mucey.

Okay. All right.

First round, I end up drawing Robin Roberts.

Robin, he's been running real good. But if you look in the grade eight circle,

there is no one you want to draw there. So I can't really, you have to be on

your A game no matter who you draw. Number three.

Lizzie, we're not doing that again. No, we're not.

Murder Nova. We drew Murder Nova. It is a very tough matchup.

He's won the last two grade eights. And the last time we lined up, he beat me by

just a smidge.

But the time before that, I beat him by just a smidge.

My fourth and final pair will be Damon Merchant versus the winner of the Gates

and Axeman. Oh, wow.

You know who you're racing. Go back to pits. Get your car turned around. Y 'all

get one test pass except for Axeman and Gates who are racing.

So how's the chit -throw deal go?

Axeman, you know, I like him. He's one of my favorites. He's cool as hell.

Straight off the trailer?

Straight off the trailer, left lane. Left lane. And then whoever wins that

through Damon, fourth pair, left lane.

You guys got a grudge? No, we're racing for the grade 8 with Axeman off the

trailer. Oh, okay.

Last time we was in the grade 8 was in Brainerd, Minnesota, and we won it. We

beat Kai.

We beat Axeman, and we beat Giuseppe in the finals. We won the $10 ,000.

We're here today. We finally had some struggles. It got us out of the grade

eight, but we're right there back at it. We was one round away from securing it.

But 50 -50 chance, I feel lucky. I'm going to go up here and grab it, and

going to come on back and get this thing down through there.

That's kind of hard, Kevin.

Track look all right?

The track looks good. It's a bit thick.

Is it?

But it's most body is healing.

My biggest concern is water coming up.

If you go over there, like it's dry, but you go over there and rub your foot

deep down in it, water comes up.

Dang! It's going to be a... Racing off a trailer is always the hardest because

you don't know the track.

Use that first pass for all your data. You can see every bump in the track, see

when the car tried to spin and when it didn't. But I like the racing off the

trailer. It shows who can get down and who can't.

Again, folks, this is an off -the -trailer race for the eighth and final

the Grade 8 class tonight.

All right, so we've got David Gates in the left lane.

Axeman Larry Roach in the right.

These two drivers tied in points.

Only way to settle it is to race for it.

Axeman takes the win, so he will be racing in the grade eight.

He will take that eighth and final spot.

We raced it off the trailer old school style.

Best man won.

We're going to go the rest of the night, figure this thing out, be ready for him

tomorrow, so next week we'll be in. So he'll give us the rest of the night to

our testing and get it lined out with everything we're doing. And when we go

bed tonight, I feel like we'll be real confident in the morning for the first

round. You got full of data or you want me to?

Got it.

It feels like the front end's off the ground, so you could move the steering

wheel, thinking that, and it would go one way or another, you know what I

You know, we started off the season running through everybody in the grade

jumped way out in points.

In the last two weeks, we've had first -round exits.

Murder Nova all of a sudden decided to start doing good.

And Murder Nova wins again against Kai.

That's right, baby!

Yeah!

It really didn't affect us in points because he's only got 20 points and I

got 47. So as long as we don't screw it up from here on out, I think we still

got a pretty comfortable lead because really I just got to worry about Murder

Nova on his little killing spree he's doing because if he keeps winning every

weekend, he's going to catch me.

Just like normal, Kyle Kelly, drawing out of the bucket fashion.

I go up there, and I draw last week's MPK winner.

How you doing, man? What's going on, man?

I got a tough draw going in the first round, and that's pretty much the end of

the story.

Did you look at it?

I'm looking at it, and I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it. It felt

like I broke a blower, but it's not broke.

Yeah, like it left good, and it was good until about 610, and then it was

like...

Like the motor didn't quit, the motor's running, but the motor's banging up

against the rev limiter.

Oh.

Okay. Well, the grudge match against John Odom, we broke the transmission.

So left is left hard and left straight, and the transmission gave out, started

banging off the rev limiter.

He said it's just banging off the rev limiter. This is your rev limiter

It comes up here, and then it's a nasty -ass wall.

Yep. It's kind of a little bit crazy.

We'll make the shift along the two.

Yep. Yep.

Tranny. All right.

All right, guys.

We're going to take the tranny out.

Broke a transmission and that grudge hit.

We just needed to focus on our grade eight, and here I got greedy, and we

actually broke the transmission.

So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car. We're going to

started. Set it right here, guys.

Just set it right here, guys.

We broke a transmission and that grudge hit.

So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car. We're going to

started. I think we can change the tranny in an hour.

All right.

When you want to spare transmission, nothing comes exactly the way you have

have it. So all the changes we've made to this car, we've also made changes to

transmission. So we had fittings that were wrong.

plugs that were wrong, hoses that were wrong. So we had to steal everything off

of the old transmission, put it on the spare.

Have you changed bearings in it in a while?

I have bearings.

I guess I could ink it apart real quick. You got it from how you put on it.

Huh?

What are you talking about?

What about this one?

This one's smaller too.

He was trying to get time, but I don't think they're going to let him have

I'm getting ready to get in my car and push up.

Nate comes over here and says that his transmission's bad in his car and he's

trying to change it.

Normally that's a 20 or 30 minute job.

I'll just wait and see what happens.

Somebody get under there and help him push that up. Oh, Dan is.

Okay.

Where's he at?

Hurt something?

That's the transmission.

I don't know.

Realistically, at least 20, 30 minutes.

Now you can take your time, guys.

It's tough, but, I mean, there's no sense in crying over spilt milk. I mean,

it's broke.

I can't unbreak it. We have a spare. We're going to get it put in the car.

At the end of the day, my safety and the safety of the guy in the other lane is

more important to me.

Excuse me, guys.

Excuse me.

Sorry.

And I can tell you this will be a learning lesson for me.

we're going to take those transmissions out and they will have all the same

fittings, all the same lines. So I can literally take one out and dump it in.

I could have done that, we wouldn't have spent a half an hour, 45 minutes

swapping everything.

We'd have made first round grade eight.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I tried. I got 20 more minutes. So that's it.

I appreciate you giving me a chance anyways.

I got it in. I just, there's no way I can get up here in time.

We get up there, we wait in the staging lanes for 10 or 15 more minutes, then he

finally pulls up and said, hey, man, I've still got 20 or 30 minutes left.

I'm not going to make it. You're going to get a competition buy. So finally get

some good luck.

All right, folks, here we go.

Grade 8 first round coming at you right now.

I tell you, getting a break as Nate Saylor unable.

To make the call to Ty Kelly, getting a bye run here in the first round.

Guy Kelly, nice pass there in the left lane.

So he will move on to the next round of the grade eight.

Kai didn't wait for him?

No.

Well, I don't think they were close either.

I raced myself, but I didn't cross. I didn't red light. I done everything

and the car went fast. So the team's on top of it. I'm on top of it. I feel like

I cut a good light.

I feel confident going into the second round for the first time in three weeks.

we tried something we wouldn't have tried it took it so it's gonna make our

faster for the rest of the day so it's all good uh luck starting off with luck

luck's always good

can

i get a picture with you

This race, I actually feel a little bit better. The last race, I was not feeling

so great.

I was sleeping a whole lot.

My treatments really knocked me down on my feet, but I kept going.

It wasn't the greatest of a race for us in Ohio, but we're moving on to the next

race. I feel confident. I think the car is going to make a really good run, so

we can go up there and run our race. Hey, thank you, guys.

What? Did you get the grade A? Yeah. I was doing it anyway.

I got Lizzie.

Man, we worry a lot about Lizzie because she can run really good. She's just

really salty. So she's also really good on the tree. And so I want to do my job

just right.

She's been killing it. She's won two races in a row.

She's pretty badass. And then she got a little bit inconsistent.

So we don't know which Lizzie Musi we're going to see. But if she runs good,

it's going to be super tough.

All right, next pair.

This first round of the grade eight. Over in the right lane, that is going to

Robin Roberts.

Robin Roberts in the right lane.

Going up against Lizzie Musi in the left.

Takes the win. Nice job.

Robin on the tree, never looked back.

I missed it by a hair on the tree, but not enough for him to, like, come out on

me like this.

So he was definitely pulling ass.

I was probably right there with him, but, like, a little past 60 foot, he

like, pulling real hard, and he, like, stayed there, and I stayed where I was.

I don't know. It just sucks going out first round again. We've been having,

been rough last two races, and I don't want to make it three. We've still got

Invitational coming up, but we've got to get a little bit faster because

apparently Robin's flying.

Good job, Robin. You're on it.

Good job.

Good race.

Yep. See you. Okay.

So I've been in two grade eights and I've won them both, you know. So I don't

know if that's a good thing or a bad thing right now because in my mind

a lot of pressure on me to go out and do good again.

Right now we're sitting in fourth.

We're still a long ways behind Kai.

So at this point we have to get points every grade eight if we're going to

Kai.

I think I, yeah, I do got to be pushed back.

Here we go. Got it?

We have a little problem that we can't find.

You know, I'm having a hard time right now balancing my life, if we're going to

be honest. A lot of people stayed and tested last week at Dragway 42, and I

would have loved the opportunity to do that. But, you know, right now I'm

struggling with being a full -time mom and a full -time racer. And I had to go

home and watch my baby play baseball. And, you know, if I lose first round

because I made that decision, then so be it. But I'm doing the best I can.

lane backing up the pro charge mustang that is miss kayla morton going up

against murder nova murder nova there in the left lane has won two grade eight

events in a row looking to make it three gonna have to get around kayla morton

though first year in this first round

right lane backing up the pro -charge mustang that is miss kayla morton going

against murder nova has won two grade eight events in a row looking to make it

three gonna have to get around kayla morton those first years in this first

round

going to get the win there.

Kayla Morton on a pass, but the car made a hard move across the center.

That was abrupt.

My God.

I let go of the button.

I looked over, and of course Kayla's there. Her car's 60 foot's really well,

it's 330's really well. It was pretty neck and neck. Then all of a sudden, she

fell back.

I didn't know what happened. Are you okay?

Yep. What happened?

Did you not make one?

I took out all the cones and got crazy. Oh, no.

Dude, like, this thing is wild.

We've been fighting this car for the past few rounds.

She's just extremely temperamental right now, hard to control.

Anyways, good job, babe.

Good job.

Y 'all will figure it out. Mess.

It's all good. This thing is just being a complete bitch, honestly.

Been that way since 42.

I'm just having to drive it every pass, and, like, it's just not fun right now.

But we'll figure it out.

We'll get it back, get up on the sands, look underneath, and then make a test

pass. But Sean deserves that win for sure. But we were right with him until

weren't.

I'm going to end up crashing this piece.

I want to roll it back, get the motor out of the sun, put this back on that

like we usually do.

Hello. Will you do shoots real quick?

Please.

I got to clean up all this.

We're going to have to get on top of this car.

Make sure that, you know, everything's right, everything's ready.

We slipped up a little bit last week, but the car's hauling ass.

It feels good. So I feel like we can get a handle on it and haul out here.

All right. Good.

About 200, 250.

Well, somewhere up through there. I thought that chattered. I thought it

chattered a little.

And then it started back strolling. And then, I don't know, the last 100 feet,

it was calm.

But at the front, I don't know. You probably know.

I don't know if you said it like that or not.

Yeah, I was pretty conservative on the fuel and timing. Just to keep it alive.

We've got to race all weekend. Yeah, no, actually, I only made a hell of a pass.

I told Sarah, I told Sarah, if I have to drive this truck the rest of the year.

If we can go test during the week, that pays off.

For the whole car to be new and a different engine, rear end, converter,

then roll off the trailer.

Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it.

Racing Damon, you never know.

Last time I raced him, I outran him time before. He outran me, so we're back and

forth all season.

Most of us have Hemi's. He doesn't have a Hemi, so I give him props for making

that car so fast without having to go through a Hemi.

It's going to be tough.

All right, folks, last pair coming at you. That right lane, that's going to be

Damon Merchant going up against Axeman.

There it goes. They're in the left lane.

This will be the last pair of the grade A first round.

Takes the win.

Nice pass from both cars, but Axeman.

Moving on to the next round. Nice job.

Son of a bitch.

I took my time getting in, grabbed the button. It rocked really hard, knocked

out the felt ball.

Let go of the button. Didn't go red.

At the 3 .30, I was ahead of him. He starts coming and flips me at the end.

Damn, it's hard out here. These guys are fast.

and we're losing by inches. So we're just going to have to do something to

it up out back and, you know, stay out in front of these guys.

It's that feeling when I let off the brake and I don't see them, I don't hear

them, and then, like, we're coming right up on the mile -an -hour cone, and it's

like, I got this. And they just clip us at the end, man. I don't know how

many races we've lost like that this year, and I don't.

But the thing is, like, it's hard, saying down there, it's kind of hard to

all, you know, down about it because the car is running. Like, everybody's

just leaning on it. It's go time.

And that's, maybe that's where our lack of experience in this is going to start

hurting us. I don't know. I mean, I know we're competitive, but they're starting

to really lay into their.

That was an awesome race.

I mean, it's a great eight for a reason.

Shoot. I'm just glad to move on to the next round.

Hopefully I can take somebody out.

I'm going to try anyway.

Yeah, I seen it. Coming up to the 330, I seen a little corner of my eye. I was

like, uh -oh.

And then all of a sudden, I just said, yeah.

See you later.

Pulled off from it.

Hey, man.

Made it out of the first round.

That's because you didn't drop more than others.

No, I didn't drop nobody.

Had a competition behind.

That's what I mean.

All right, we're going to go ahead and start our Grade 8 semifinals driver's

meeting, folks. We started with eight drivers. We are now down to four, first

and foremost.

Murder Nova, still in the show, got his win there in the first round. Murder

Nova looking to make it three in a row for Grade 8 wins.

Also, current Grade 8 point leader, Kai Kelly, still standing.

Made the second round. Good job, Kai.

It was a tough race for you there. Man, that other lane was empty. But you made

a good pass nonetheless.

Unfortunately, Nate Saylor unable to get his car turned around after whatever he

broke. But now, no free wins this round.

As you've got some tough competitors standing next to you. You've got Axeman

Robin Roberts as well.

Two very fast drivers.

Well, hell, let's go ahead and draw chips. See who's racing who here in this

semifinals round.

My number one step up.

Kai Kelly versus Axeman, which means my second pair will be Robin Roberts versus

Murder Nova.

All right, y 'all.

You know who you're racing. You know what you got to do. Go back to the pit,

your cars turned around, and bring them up here to the staging lane.

I don't want to draw none of y 'all.

I like that competition buy deal I got last round. That was nice.

Yeah.

You got to race Axe?

Yeah. He might take a good pass.

Yeah, me and Axeman decided we was going to stand by each other so we wouldn't

have to pick murdering over Robin Roberts.

And y 'all picked each other? Yeah, they told us, that ain't going to work. It

worked.

We wanted to race each other.

I feel like we got a better chance with us than them two.

What do you think, Motor Man?

We're ready.

So all season, Kyle's been killing it with the Jenga lane.

I mean, he's been hurting everyone's feelings.

But last race or so, Jenga lane's been breaking apart.

He popped the blower.

I mean, it's just been heart failure about every time it takes him out of the

race. But still, I'm not going to underestimate him because I know he's

have that hot rod turned up to try to pit me out.

So he did make a good lick in the left lane? Yeah.

So he's been in the left lane, what, twice? Three times.

Yeah, dang.

He ought to be used to that lane.

Kyle's number one in the grade eight. I'm number three. He's about 20 points

ahead of me. So if I can take him out, that's just another point or two I can

pull off.

And if I can pull the wind off, hey, two wins and I've tied him. So that's

actually the game plan.

Grade eight semifinal starts now. We've got two pairs here.

First pair coming at you right now over the right lane. That is going to be

Axeman. Larry Roach, Axeman there in the right lane. Back in the game changer

Mustang up.

And in the left lane, that will be Kai Kelly.

Right at that Regal.

Current points leader in the grade A.

Axeman will take the win. Kai Kelly breaks the blower belt right on the hit.

What's that, man?

Whoo!

That feels a lot better.

So me and Kai rolled in.

I knew I was going to have my hands pulled.

Light turned green. I turned loose at trans brake. The game changer set me

Dang! I get to the finish line, roll around.

I was amazed at how fast the car ran.

I got to looking. There was no Kai.

Then when everyone rolled up, I said, what happened to the guy? They said he

broke a belt on the start line.

So the race was won right there.

Damn.

Sucks, man.

I can understand that we was running them bitches 20 runs or something, but

sucks. Yeah.

When you buy a box of blower belts, you're supposed to get 12 passes out of

blower at a minimum.

And the first belt we put on, it broke like seven passes.

The second belt shredded in half at like... Six passes.

And then that one just broke at nine passes.

So we're going to take that box of belts and the whole box because that's

stupid, man.

A $250 belt costs you $10 ,000, you know.

I really felt like I had an opportunity to be in the final tonight and then some

dump like that.

I hate that.

That is the hardest way to lose.

I might put some used ones in there.

Yeah.

Hey, Brian.

Let's set the torque wrench up.

105.

Man, I drew Murder Nova for the semifinals.

What a badass.

He's won two in a row. He was in the finals last week in the Invitational.

he's just on a roll.

This is going to be tough.

Should be good. I put one flat, and that ARV made it longer.

Let's see how that works.

Hopefully it takes away that little right off the hit. It just takes a

left move, and let's see if we can get rid of that.

I think our cars are quite similar.

I mean, we've both got Proline MH7s, so there's so much to say. There's a lot of

parity here.

Our runs are neck and neck, and so let's just see.

All right. I'm going to go ahead and get in.

We went up, and we draw Robin Roberts.

You know, we've been here before.

What? Damn!

I raced Robin in the last grade eight, and it was actually the first time we

ever outran him.

Everybody said he made a killer pass on his first one, but, you know, every car

up here is fast, and got to take them out one at a time.

All right, folks, last pair here in this.

Great eight semifinals over in the right lane. That is going to be Robin

Roberts. Robin Roberts backing up that blue Firebird there in the right lane.

And his competitor over in the left lane. That is going to be Murder Nova.

Murder Nova in the left lane looking to make it three in a row.

It's the win.

So your grade A finals will be Robin Roberts versus Axeman.

That was a good race, dude.

That was a killer race. My God.

Nice job, brother.

That light was long, wasn't it? Holy.

Nice job, man. Hey.

Thank you. I feel like I made a pretty good one, and I wouldn't.

I wasn't catching you. Yeah, you made a good lick, man.

No doubt about it, man.

The light was long.

I see a flicker green, and I'm off.

So we're rolling out, and we just edged him at about 60, and it just stayed

there the whole way.

And I quit paying attention because I wanted to go straight as an arrow. I

if we faltered or moved at all, he'd be around us. And I thought he'd have a top

-end charge.

Just quite didn't have enough, and we got lucky.

I mean, it's big to be him because he's on such a roll.

For us, though, to get into the finals of this grade 8, I just wanted to be in

the grade 8. Now we're in the finals of the grade 8. Now we're going to win it.

Every dumb thing.

Every dumb thing?

Every dumb thing. To tighten the loose nut behind the wheel?

I don't know.

Maybe.

To loosen up behind the wheels and always get the... Every dumb thing. I

know. It's been pretty tight so far. Yeah, it's done good today.

It's on the level.

Then when you do that, that's when something's little, you know? Yeah,

Hey, last week we got family doing something different, so it'll be good.

it's good.

It's our weekend.

It's our weekend.

Hi,

man. I like the way you wake up your crew. I just saw that video.

Yeah.

Always. Got to get them in the mood, man. Quit laying around being late.

It's time to get it.

Oh, my God.

That's got to be on that intro to one of the shows.

You got no shirt on and the toenails are painted red. Yeah.

We're going to go ahead and do our great eight finals drivers meeting. We

started with eight. We are now down to two.

Yeah. Our two drivers are Robin Roberts and Axeman.

Going to race for $10 ,000. Here we go.

Winner gets $10 ,000 and 10 points towards the individual championship,

as you know, at the end of the season, the driver with the most points gets

,000. So a lot of money there for that. What we're going to do here is we're

going to have a coin toss to decide who gets lane choice.

Robin Roberts, call in the air, sir.

Heads. Heads is the call. It is Tails Ackman's lane.

You going to let him know?

Yeah, definitely. All right, so Ackman's going to let Robin Roberts know.

All right, folks, these two drivers are going to put on a show for $10 ,000.

Make some noise for Robin Roberts and Axeman.

Good luck, Robin.

Most likely, that's going to be left. I'm just saying.

Okay,

that's fine.

Thanks, buddy.

How you doing, man?

I'm good, brother. You never know about this.

These guys are so fast, man. Yeah, really.

I always believe these cars run that fast.

Blow my mind.

Do your thing, baby. Yeah.

Finish mine.

Okay? Tell Alan Wright.

Same thing you did last time. Finish the car. Yep.

Man, I drew X, man.

Like, I haven't wanted to win anything like this in a long time. We've kind of

just edged at it this year, and I've been on the edge in Tulsa and things

that. Now it's our time.

Over in the right lane, backing up that blue Firebird, that is Robin Roberts.

And in the left lane, driving the game -changer, first -charge Mustang, that is

Axeman. Axeman versus Robin Roberts. 10 ,000 to win right here, right now,

on this Maple Grove surface.

Your winner for the Great Eight tonight, $10 ,000 richer and 10 points towards

the individual championship.

So me and Robin, we left out of there.

I didn't see.

My car starts moving to the left just a little. I tried to correct, but it kept

holding left, left, left.

First time in my life I ever seen the wall and thought I could drive down it.

So I said, I'm not letting out. Usually I lift. So I just held my foot on that

floor. And all of a sudden, I felt the car come back to the right. I said, oh,

we're off the wall.

I come off the throttle. The throttle was stuck.

I said, oh, man.

I go from one death trap straight to the next.

I get out, and we had a battle wound here before, like riding in a trailer.

But then I started looking closer, and you could tell where it hit the wall.

Here, here, here.

So I actually did hit the wall. I didn't really think I did.

I can't believe it didn't hit the headers, though.

As far as we know, we've got to check out why the throttle is hanging, but

that's part of racing.

Man,

I'm so excited. We've been looking forward to this. We've been trying to

get in the grade 8 and stay there.

We thought we could win something, but we could get in, and here we are.

That just happened. I can't believe it, but it just happened.

Yeah, guys.

Thank you.

Just winning in this grade eight is so incredibly difficult. There are eight of

the best, eight of your top points. They're the best, and there's no round

that's easy.

It's hard to get through this deal. It's just probably the toughest. It's

tougher to win than the Invitational. You might get a lucky round in the

Invitational. There's no lucky round in this group, and we just won it.

Rock and roll.

And that's it for the Grade 8 here at Maple Grove Raceway.

Robin Roberts won his first individual event of the year and is taking home $10

,000 and adding 10 points to his overall score.

That gives Robin 13 points, but he has a long way to go to catch Kai Kelly, who

is in the lead with 50 points.

Next time.

Kai, you may be in the lead right now. That might not... be the case much

longer. Y 'all have messed up thoroughly because you have let Ryan Martin into

the grade eight. So with you even being in this meeting, Kai Kelly right now is

very nervous. I can tell.

Still number one in points. I've been stuck in the last three grade eights. So

I'm trying to turn my luck around here.