1 00:00:01,899 --> 00:00:07,000 Previously on The Great Eight, the top eight drivers raced at Dragway 42 in 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Salem, Ohio for a chance at $10 ,000 and points for the individual championship. 3 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,780 Murder Nova and Kai Kelly. 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,980 Murder Nova was paired up with Kai Kelly for the second week in a row in round 5 00:00:21,980 --> 00:00:24,240 one and put Kai on the trailer again. 6 00:00:26,730 --> 00:00:30,990 And then beat Robin Roberts in the semis to secure a spot in the finals for the 7 00:00:30,990 --> 00:00:31,990 second straight week. 8 00:00:38,290 --> 00:00:42,490 Lizzie Mucey advanced to the semis after Dana Merchant red -lit in round one. 9 00:00:46,230 --> 00:00:53,130 And there were fireworks at the finish of Lizzie's semifinal race versus 10 00:00:53,130 --> 00:00:55,150 Kayla Morton when her hood scoop blew off. 11 00:00:55,580 --> 00:00:57,240 I'm surprised they made it that far. Me too! 12 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:01,940 This led to a Grade 8 finals between Murder Nova and Lizzie Mews. 13 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,260 Murder Nova won the second Grade 8 race in a row and collected 10 points for the 14 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:10,280 individual championship. 15 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:15,180 And Murder Nova makes it two in a row! 16 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,760 Now the top eight drivers heading into Pennsylvania will battle for another $10 17 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,140 ,000 and valuable points. 18 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:39,700 Maple Grove, how y 'all doing today? 19 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,820 We are at Maple Grove Raceway, located in Pennsylvania. 20 00:01:46,420 --> 00:01:51,820 This track opened its doors in 1962 and is one of the 10 longest tracks in the 21 00:01:51,820 --> 00:01:52,820 country. 22 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,800 Today, it's hosting the Grade 8. 23 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:59,600 Here's how it works. If you win the Grade 8, you get 10 points. Plus, you 24 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:00,700 get $10 ,000. 25 00:02:01,020 --> 00:02:04,980 If you runner up, you get 7. And if you make it to the semifinals, you will get 26 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:09,220 3. Those points go towards an individual championship that will be worth $100 27 00:02:09,220 --> 00:02:10,960 ,000 at the end of the season. 28 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:15,080 All right, this is the Grade 8 driver's meeting. 29 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,100 As you can see, though, there are nine of you in this Grade 8 meeting. 30 00:02:19,420 --> 00:02:23,660 I believe Axeman and Jake, y 'all are tied. 31 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,700 So are y 'all going to draw a chip out of the bucket, or are we going to figure 32 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:30,440 out another way to decide who gets in the Grade 8? 33 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,580 I'll race. Y 'all are going to race to a spot off the trailer. I'll race. Okay, 34 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,420 so y 'all are going to race. You don't get a test pass. The test pass is your 35 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:39,840 race. Whoever wins that will then be in the grade eight. All right? 36 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:41,720 All right, ladies. 37 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,660 We want to draw last this time. Yeah, we're going to change it up. 38 00:02:45,260 --> 00:02:46,260 Oh, wow. Really? 39 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:47,418 Yep, yeah. 40 00:02:47,420 --> 00:02:48,418 I wanted last. 41 00:02:48,420 --> 00:02:51,120 Go ahead, pick one. You can have the very last, and me and Lizzie will draw 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:52,120 right before you. Yeah. 43 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,280 Hey, that's a good, you know, middle of them all. 44 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:56,900 Okay, 45 00:02:57,220 --> 00:02:59,980 that didn't work quite as well. No, it didn't. We would still do it. We would 46 00:02:59,980 --> 00:03:00,980 hope. 47 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,360 Okay, where are my number ones at? 48 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,320 Number one, Nate Saylor and Kai Kelly. 49 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,079 Oh, man. 50 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,500 We drew Nate Saylor first round. 51 00:03:14,460 --> 00:03:17,200 I didn't want to draw Murder Nova because I felt like he was in our heads. 52 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:21,240 We reached in there and drew a guy just as fast as him, and we've beaten Nate 53 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Saylor all year. 54 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:26,020 So we know he owes us one. So that's one of them guys you don't want to draw. 55 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:29,260 Nate, congrats on your win last week, by the way. Mutational. 56 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:35,080 Number two, Robin Roberts and Lizzie Mucey. 57 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,400 Okay. All right. 58 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,440 First round, I end up drawing Robin Roberts. 59 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,300 Robin, he's been running real good. But if you look in the grade eight circle, 60 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,520 there is no one you want to draw there. So I can't really, you have to be on 61 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,720 your A game no matter who you draw. Number three. 62 00:03:51,540 --> 00:03:53,600 Lizzie, we're not doing that again. No, we're not. 63 00:03:54,310 --> 00:03:58,590 Murder Nova. We drew Murder Nova. It is a very tough matchup. 64 00:03:59,010 --> 00:04:03,430 He's won the last two grade eights. And the last time we lined up, he beat me by 65 00:04:03,430 --> 00:04:04,430 just a smidge. 66 00:04:04,610 --> 00:04:07,770 But the time before that, I beat him by just a smidge. 67 00:04:08,010 --> 00:04:13,370 My fourth and final pair will be Damon Merchant versus the winner of the Gates 68 00:04:13,370 --> 00:04:14,790 and Axeman. Oh, wow. 69 00:04:15,230 --> 00:04:18,810 You know who you're racing. Go back to pits. Get your car turned around. Y 'all 70 00:04:18,810 --> 00:04:22,150 get one test pass except for Axeman and Gates who are racing. 71 00:04:25,830 --> 00:04:27,330 So how's the chit -throw deal go? 72 00:04:29,450 --> 00:04:32,210 Axeman, you know, I like him. He's one of my favorites. He's cool as hell. 73 00:04:32,410 --> 00:04:33,410 Straight off the trailer? 74 00:04:33,590 --> 00:04:37,790 Straight off the trailer, left lane. Left lane. And then whoever wins that 75 00:04:37,790 --> 00:04:41,230 through Damon, fourth pair, left lane. 76 00:04:41,610 --> 00:04:45,250 You guys got a grudge? No, we're racing for the grade 8 with Axeman off the 77 00:04:45,250 --> 00:04:46,450 trailer. Oh, okay. 78 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:51,470 Last time we was in the grade 8 was in Brainerd, Minnesota, and we won it. We 79 00:04:51,470 --> 00:04:52,470 beat Kai. 80 00:04:52,620 --> 00:04:56,440 We beat Axeman, and we beat Giuseppe in the finals. We won the $10 ,000. 81 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,500 We're here today. We finally had some struggles. It got us out of the grade 82 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:03,700 eight, but we're right there back at it. We was one round away from securing it. 83 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:07,440 But 50 -50 chance, I feel lucky. I'm going to go up here and grab it, and 84 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,180 going to come on back and get this thing down through there. 85 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:12,380 That's kind of hard, Kevin. 86 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:15,680 Track look all right? 87 00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:18,160 The track looks good. It's a bit thick. 88 00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:19,269 Is it? 89 00:05:19,270 --> 00:05:21,290 But it's most body is healing. 90 00:05:21,550 --> 00:05:24,490 My biggest concern is water coming up. 91 00:05:26,110 --> 00:05:30,450 If you go over there, like it's dry, but you go over there and rub your foot 92 00:05:30,450 --> 00:05:32,810 deep down in it, water comes up. 93 00:05:33,490 --> 00:05:38,610 Dang! It's going to be a... Racing off a trailer is always the hardest because 94 00:05:38,610 --> 00:05:39,509 you don't know the track. 95 00:05:39,510 --> 00:05:43,930 Use that first pass for all your data. You can see every bump in the track, see 96 00:05:43,930 --> 00:05:47,190 when the car tried to spin and when it didn't. But I like the racing off the 97 00:05:47,190 --> 00:05:50,560 trailer. It shows who can get down and who can't. 98 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:58,200 Again, folks, this is an off -the -trailer race for the eighth and final 99 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,920 the Grade 8 class tonight. 100 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,080 All right, so we've got David Gates in the left lane. 101 00:06:17,580 --> 00:06:20,040 Axeman Larry Roach in the right. 102 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:24,540 These two drivers tied in points. 103 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,460 Only way to settle it is to race for it. 104 00:06:52,020 --> 00:06:55,160 Axeman takes the win, so he will be racing in the grade eight. 105 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,320 He will take that eighth and final spot. 106 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,180 We raced it off the trailer old school style. 107 00:07:03,540 --> 00:07:04,540 Best man won. 108 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,300 We're going to go the rest of the night, figure this thing out, be ready for him 109 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:11,240 tomorrow, so next week we'll be in. So he'll give us the rest of the night to 110 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,500 our testing and get it lined out with everything we're doing. And when we go 111 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:17,240 bed tonight, I feel like we'll be real confident in the morning for the first 112 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,880 round. You got full of data or you want me to? 113 00:07:20,180 --> 00:07:21,180 Got it. 114 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:36,780 It feels like the front end's off the ground, so you could move the steering 115 00:07:36,780 --> 00:07:40,920 wheel, thinking that, and it would go one way or another, you know what I 116 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,660 You know, we started off the season running through everybody in the grade 117 00:07:44,660 --> 00:07:45,660 jumped way out in points. 118 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:48,880 In the last two weeks, we've had first -round exits. 119 00:08:04,690 --> 00:08:07,290 Murder Nova all of a sudden decided to start doing good. 120 00:08:09,770 --> 00:08:13,730 And Murder Nova wins again against Kai. 121 00:08:14,270 --> 00:08:15,270 That's right, baby! 122 00:08:16,150 --> 00:08:17,150 Yeah! 123 00:08:17,570 --> 00:08:20,970 It really didn't affect us in points because he's only got 20 points and I 124 00:08:20,970 --> 00:08:25,010 got 47. So as long as we don't screw it up from here on out, I think we still 125 00:08:25,010 --> 00:08:28,310 got a pretty comfortable lead because really I just got to worry about Murder 126 00:08:28,310 --> 00:08:31,550 Nova on his little killing spree he's doing because if he keeps winning every 127 00:08:31,550 --> 00:08:32,809 weekend, he's going to catch me. 128 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,960 Just like normal, Kyle Kelly, drawing out of the bucket fashion. 129 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,780 I go up there, and I draw last week's MPK winner. 130 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,020 How you doing, man? What's going on, man? 131 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:47,860 I got a tough draw going in the first round, and that's pretty much the end of 132 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:48,860 the story. 133 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:50,940 Did you look at it? 134 00:08:51,460 --> 00:08:54,640 I'm looking at it, and I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it. It felt 135 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,920 like I broke a blower, but it's not broke. 136 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:02,360 Yeah, like it left good, and it was good until about 610, and then it was 137 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,360 like... 138 00:09:04,959 --> 00:09:08,340 Like the motor didn't quit, the motor's running, but the motor's banging up 139 00:09:08,340 --> 00:09:09,340 against the rev limiter. 140 00:09:09,420 --> 00:09:10,420 Oh. 141 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:16,960 Okay. Well, the grudge match against John Odom, we broke the transmission. 142 00:09:19,580 --> 00:09:23,780 So left is left hard and left straight, and the transmission gave out, started 143 00:09:23,780 --> 00:09:24,800 banging off the rev limiter. 144 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,620 He said it's just banging off the rev limiter. This is your rev limiter 145 00:09:28,980 --> 00:09:31,460 It comes up here, and then it's a nasty -ass wall. 146 00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:33,100 Yep. It's kind of a little bit crazy. 147 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:34,540 We'll make the shift along the two. 148 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:35,740 Yep. Yep. 149 00:09:37,060 --> 00:09:38,560 Tranny. All right. 150 00:09:39,060 --> 00:09:40,060 All right, guys. 151 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:42,040 We're going to take the tranny out. 152 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:44,360 Broke a transmission and that grudge hit. 153 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:48,200 We just needed to focus on our grade eight, and here I got greedy, and we 154 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,380 actually broke the transmission. 155 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,860 So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car. We're going to 156 00:09:52,860 --> 00:09:54,280 started. Set it right here, guys. 157 00:10:02,790 --> 00:10:03,870 Just set it right here, guys. 158 00:10:07,530 --> 00:10:09,510 We broke a transmission and that grudge hit. 159 00:10:09,790 --> 00:10:12,910 So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car. We're going to 160 00:10:12,910 --> 00:10:15,370 started. I think we can change the tranny in an hour. 161 00:10:16,910 --> 00:10:17,910 All right. 162 00:10:18,210 --> 00:10:24,930 When you want to spare transmission, nothing comes exactly the way you have 163 00:10:24,930 --> 00:10:29,750 have it. So all the changes we've made to this car, we've also made changes to 164 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:31,770 transmission. So we had fittings that were wrong. 165 00:10:33,010 --> 00:10:36,890 plugs that were wrong, hoses that were wrong. So we had to steal everything off 166 00:10:36,890 --> 00:10:39,150 of the old transmission, put it on the spare. 167 00:10:39,810 --> 00:10:41,390 Have you changed bearings in it in a while? 168 00:10:41,610 --> 00:10:42,610 I have bearings. 169 00:10:42,850 --> 00:10:45,410 I guess I could ink it apart real quick. You got it from how you put on it. 170 00:10:46,410 --> 00:10:47,410 Huh? 171 00:10:51,010 --> 00:10:55,390 What are you talking about? 172 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:02,520 What about this one? 173 00:11:04,780 --> 00:11:08,340 This one's smaller too. 174 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:13,500 He was trying to get time, but I don't think they're going to let him have 175 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:15,760 I'm getting ready to get in my car and push up. 176 00:11:16,220 --> 00:11:20,500 Nate comes over here and says that his transmission's bad in his car and he's 177 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:21,439 trying to change it. 178 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,860 Normally that's a 20 or 30 minute job. 179 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:25,940 I'll just wait and see what happens. 180 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,240 Somebody get under there and help him push that up. Oh, Dan is. 181 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:39,720 Okay. 182 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:42,360 Where's he at? 183 00:11:42,940 --> 00:11:43,940 Hurt something? 184 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:45,280 That's the transmission. 185 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:46,520 I don't know. 186 00:12:00,020 --> 00:12:03,060 Realistically, at least 20, 30 minutes. 187 00:12:08,319 --> 00:12:09,500 Now you can take your time, guys. 188 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:18,860 It's tough, but, I mean, there's no sense in crying over spilt milk. I mean, 189 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:19,880 it's broke. 190 00:12:20,260 --> 00:12:23,420 I can't unbreak it. We have a spare. We're going to get it put in the car. 191 00:12:24,740 --> 00:12:27,720 At the end of the day, my safety and the safety of the guy in the other lane is 192 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:28,720 more important to me. 193 00:12:29,460 --> 00:12:30,460 Excuse me, guys. 194 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:31,920 Excuse me. 195 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:33,320 Sorry. 196 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,880 And I can tell you this will be a learning lesson for me. 197 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,740 we're going to take those transmissions out and they will have all the same 198 00:12:39,740 --> 00:12:43,620 fittings, all the same lines. So I can literally take one out and dump it in. 199 00:12:43,620 --> 00:12:46,180 I could have done that, we wouldn't have spent a half an hour, 45 minutes 200 00:12:46,180 --> 00:12:47,280 swapping everything. 201 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,120 We'd have made first round grade eight. 202 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:55,420 Yeah. Yeah. No, I tried. I got 20 more minutes. So that's it. 203 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,480 I appreciate you giving me a chance anyways. 204 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,580 I got it in. I just, there's no way I can get up here in time. 205 00:13:03,290 --> 00:13:06,810 We get up there, we wait in the staging lanes for 10 or 15 more minutes, then he 206 00:13:06,810 --> 00:13:10,170 finally pulls up and said, hey, man, I've still got 20 or 30 minutes left. 207 00:13:10,830 --> 00:13:14,370 I'm not going to make it. You're going to get a competition buy. So finally get 208 00:13:14,370 --> 00:13:15,370 some good luck. 209 00:13:20,730 --> 00:13:22,250 All right, folks, here we go. 210 00:13:22,910 --> 00:13:25,990 Grade 8 first round coming at you right now. 211 00:13:27,710 --> 00:13:31,310 I tell you, getting a break as Nate Saylor unable. 212 00:13:32,140 --> 00:13:37,860 To make the call to Ty Kelly, getting a bye run here in the first round. 213 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:04,920 Guy Kelly, nice pass there in the left lane. 214 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,580 So he will move on to the next round of the grade eight. 215 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:10,620 Kai didn't wait for him? 216 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:11,920 No. 217 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:13,940 Well, I don't think they were close either. 218 00:14:15,260 --> 00:14:20,820 I raced myself, but I didn't cross. I didn't red light. I done everything 219 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,920 and the car went fast. So the team's on top of it. I'm on top of it. I feel like 220 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:25,920 I cut a good light. 221 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,360 I feel confident going into the second round for the first time in three weeks. 222 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,940 we tried something we wouldn't have tried it took it so it's gonna make our 223 00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:39,200 faster for the rest of the day so it's all good uh luck starting off with luck 224 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,460 luck's always good 225 00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:47,620 can 226 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:51,040 i get a picture with you 227 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,200 This race, I actually feel a little bit better. The last race, I was not feeling 228 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,200 so great. 229 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,200 I was sleeping a whole lot. 230 00:15:06,460 --> 00:15:09,740 My treatments really knocked me down on my feet, but I kept going. 231 00:15:09,980 --> 00:15:14,560 It wasn't the greatest of a race for us in Ohio, but we're moving on to the next 232 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,420 race. I feel confident. I think the car is going to make a really good run, so 233 00:15:18,420 --> 00:15:21,180 we can go up there and run our race. Hey, thank you, guys. 234 00:15:23,820 --> 00:15:27,160 What? Did you get the grade A? Yeah. I was doing it anyway. 235 00:15:28,270 --> 00:15:29,450 I got Lizzie. 236 00:15:30,150 --> 00:15:34,130 Man, we worry a lot about Lizzie because she can run really good. She's just 237 00:15:34,130 --> 00:15:38,810 really salty. So she's also really good on the tree. And so I want to do my job 238 00:15:38,810 --> 00:15:39,569 just right. 239 00:15:39,570 --> 00:15:42,010 She's been killing it. She's won two races in a row. 240 00:15:42,630 --> 00:15:44,910 She's pretty badass. And then she got a little bit inconsistent. 241 00:15:45,110 --> 00:15:48,110 So we don't know which Lizzie Musi we're going to see. But if she runs good, 242 00:15:48,170 --> 00:15:49,170 it's going to be super tough. 243 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,300 All right, next pair. 244 00:16:09,140 --> 00:16:11,980 This first round of the grade eight. Over in the right lane, that is going to 245 00:16:11,980 --> 00:16:12,980 Robin Roberts. 246 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,380 Robin Roberts in the right lane. 247 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,540 Going up against Lizzie Musi in the left. 248 00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:48,780 Takes the win. Nice job. 249 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,740 Robin on the tree, never looked back. 250 00:16:55,520 --> 00:17:01,000 I missed it by a hair on the tree, but not enough for him to, like, come out on 251 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 me like this. 252 00:17:02,660 --> 00:17:04,960 So he was definitely pulling ass. 253 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,839 I was probably right there with him, but, like, a little past 60 foot, he 254 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:12,460 like, pulling real hard, and he, like, stayed there, and I stayed where I was. 255 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,200 I don't know. It just sucks going out first round again. We've been having, 256 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,839 been rough last two races, and I don't want to make it three. We've still got 257 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,339 Invitational coming up, but we've got to get a little bit faster because 258 00:17:25,339 --> 00:17:26,780 apparently Robin's flying. 259 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:29,040 Good job, Robin. You're on it. 260 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:32,560 Good job. 261 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:33,879 Good race. 262 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,180 Yep. See you. Okay. 263 00:17:42,410 --> 00:17:46,410 So I've been in two grade eights and I've won them both, you know. So I don't 264 00:17:46,410 --> 00:17:50,250 know if that's a good thing or a bad thing right now because in my mind 265 00:17:50,250 --> 00:17:52,890 a lot of pressure on me to go out and do good again. 266 00:17:53,230 --> 00:17:54,830 Right now we're sitting in fourth. 267 00:17:55,170 --> 00:17:56,990 We're still a long ways behind Kai. 268 00:17:57,210 --> 00:18:02,270 So at this point we have to get points every grade eight if we're going to 269 00:18:02,270 --> 00:18:03,270 Kai. 270 00:18:05,190 --> 00:18:08,550 I think I, yeah, I do got to be pushed back. 271 00:18:09,570 --> 00:18:10,910 Here we go. Got it? 272 00:18:12,940 --> 00:18:14,920 We have a little problem that we can't find. 273 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,860 You know, I'm having a hard time right now balancing my life, if we're going to 274 00:18:18,860 --> 00:18:23,280 be honest. A lot of people stayed and tested last week at Dragway 42, and I 275 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,080 would have loved the opportunity to do that. But, you know, right now I'm 276 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,360 struggling with being a full -time mom and a full -time racer. And I had to go 277 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:34,400 home and watch my baby play baseball. And, you know, if I lose first round 278 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,260 because I made that decision, then so be it. But I'm doing the best I can. 279 00:18:51,950 --> 00:18:56,150 lane backing up the pro charge mustang that is miss kayla morton going up 280 00:18:56,150 --> 00:19:02,630 against murder nova murder nova there in the left lane has won two grade eight 281 00:19:02,630 --> 00:19:07,690 events in a row looking to make it three gonna have to get around kayla morton 282 00:19:07,690 --> 00:19:10,590 though first year in this first round 283 00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:37,200 right lane backing up the pro -charge mustang that is miss kayla morton going 284 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:43,280 against murder nova has won two grade eight events in a row looking to make it 285 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:48,820 three gonna have to get around kayla morton those first years in this first 286 00:19:48,820 --> 00:19:49,820 round 287 00:20:15,110 --> 00:20:16,110 going to get the win there. 288 00:20:16,810 --> 00:20:20,950 Kayla Morton on a pass, but the car made a hard move across the center. 289 00:20:21,330 --> 00:20:22,330 That was abrupt. 290 00:20:23,610 --> 00:20:24,610 My God. 291 00:20:29,850 --> 00:20:30,950 I let go of the button. 292 00:20:31,190 --> 00:20:35,910 I looked over, and of course Kayla's there. Her car's 60 foot's really well, 293 00:20:35,910 --> 00:20:40,290 it's 330's really well. It was pretty neck and neck. Then all of a sudden, she 294 00:20:40,290 --> 00:20:41,149 fell back. 295 00:20:41,150 --> 00:20:43,130 I didn't know what happened. Are you okay? 296 00:20:43,510 --> 00:20:44,690 Yep. What happened? 297 00:20:45,470 --> 00:20:46,690 Did you not make one? 298 00:20:47,010 --> 00:20:50,230 I took out all the cones and got crazy. Oh, no. 299 00:20:50,650 --> 00:20:53,670 Dude, like, this thing is wild. 300 00:20:55,090 --> 00:20:58,450 We've been fighting this car for the past few rounds. 301 00:20:58,890 --> 00:21:02,250 She's just extremely temperamental right now, hard to control. 302 00:21:02,730 --> 00:21:03,750 Anyways, good job, babe. 303 00:21:03,950 --> 00:21:04,950 Good job. 304 00:21:06,010 --> 00:21:07,710 Y 'all will figure it out. Mess. 305 00:21:08,490 --> 00:21:11,890 It's all good. This thing is just being a complete bitch, honestly. 306 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:13,840 Been that way since 42. 307 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,780 I'm just having to drive it every pass, and, like, it's just not fun right now. 308 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:18,960 But we'll figure it out. 309 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,020 We'll get it back, get up on the sands, look underneath, and then make a test 310 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:26,540 pass. But Sean deserves that win for sure. But we were right with him until 311 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:27,540 weren't. 312 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,380 I'm going to end up crashing this piece. 313 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,220 I want to roll it back, get the motor out of the sun, put this back on that 314 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:39,220 like we usually do. 315 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,840 Hello. Will you do shoots real quick? 316 00:21:46,420 --> 00:21:47,420 Please. 317 00:21:49,140 --> 00:21:50,520 I got to clean up all this. 318 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,300 We're going to have to get on top of this car. 319 00:21:53,620 --> 00:21:56,740 Make sure that, you know, everything's right, everything's ready. 320 00:21:56,940 --> 00:22:00,720 We slipped up a little bit last week, but the car's hauling ass. 321 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,980 It feels good. So I feel like we can get a handle on it and haul out here. 322 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,040 All right. Good. 323 00:22:16,590 --> 00:22:17,670 About 200, 250. 324 00:22:17,930 --> 00:22:20,070 Well, somewhere up through there. I thought that chattered. I thought it 325 00:22:20,070 --> 00:22:21,690 chattered a little. 326 00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:25,430 And then it started back strolling. And then, I don't know, the last 100 feet, 327 00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:26,470 it was calm. 328 00:22:26,630 --> 00:22:28,410 But at the front, I don't know. You probably know. 329 00:22:29,270 --> 00:22:30,830 I don't know if you said it like that or not. 330 00:22:31,150 --> 00:22:36,750 Yeah, I was pretty conservative on the fuel and timing. Just to keep it alive. 331 00:22:36,930 --> 00:22:40,450 We've got to race all weekend. Yeah, no, actually, I only made a hell of a pass. 332 00:22:41,350 --> 00:22:45,250 I told Sarah, I told Sarah, if I have to drive this truck the rest of the year. 333 00:22:45,580 --> 00:22:48,340 If we can go test during the week, that pays off. 334 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:55,320 For the whole car to be new and a different engine, rear end, converter, 335 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,320 then roll off the trailer. 336 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,700 Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it. 337 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:00,220 Racing Damon, you never know. 338 00:23:00,860 --> 00:23:04,880 Last time I raced him, I outran him time before. He outran me, so we're back and 339 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:05,880 forth all season. 340 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,840 Most of us have Hemi's. He doesn't have a Hemi, so I give him props for making 341 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,820 that car so fast without having to go through a Hemi. 342 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,080 It's going to be tough. 343 00:23:21,230 --> 00:23:24,730 All right, folks, last pair coming at you. That right lane, that's going to be 344 00:23:24,730 --> 00:23:27,370 Damon Merchant going up against Axeman. 345 00:23:27,570 --> 00:23:29,910 There it goes. They're in the left lane. 346 00:23:30,230 --> 00:23:34,110 This will be the last pair of the grade A first round. 347 00:23:58,920 --> 00:23:59,920 Takes the win. 348 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,760 Nice pass from both cars, but Axeman. 349 00:24:03,980 --> 00:24:05,740 Moving on to the next round. Nice job. 350 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,160 Son of a bitch. 351 00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:14,240 I took my time getting in, grabbed the button. It rocked really hard, knocked 352 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,240 out the felt ball. 353 00:24:16,340 --> 00:24:18,400 Let go of the button. Didn't go red. 354 00:24:18,860 --> 00:24:23,720 At the 3 .30, I was ahead of him. He starts coming and flips me at the end. 355 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:26,360 Damn, it's hard out here. These guys are fast. 356 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,920 and we're losing by inches. So we're just going to have to do something to 357 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,480 it up out back and, you know, stay out in front of these guys. 358 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,120 It's that feeling when I let off the brake and I don't see them, I don't hear 359 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:44,200 them, and then, like, we're coming right up on the mile -an -hour cone, and it's 360 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:51,020 like, I got this. And they just clip us at the end, man. I don't know how 361 00:24:51,020 --> 00:24:53,780 many races we've lost like that this year, and I don't. 362 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:02,460 But the thing is, like, it's hard, saying down there, it's kind of hard to 363 00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:09,460 all, you know, down about it because the car is running. Like, everybody's 364 00:25:09,460 --> 00:25:11,480 just leaning on it. It's go time. 365 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,820 And that's, maybe that's where our lack of experience in this is going to start 366 00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:23,640 hurting us. I don't know. I mean, I know we're competitive, but they're starting 367 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:24,640 to really lay into their. 368 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,280 That was an awesome race. 369 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,180 I mean, it's a great eight for a reason. 370 00:25:33,860 --> 00:25:35,940 Shoot. I'm just glad to move on to the next round. 371 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,580 Hopefully I can take somebody out. 372 00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:40,500 I'm going to try anyway. 373 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,720 Yeah, I seen it. Coming up to the 330, I seen a little corner of my eye. I was 374 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:44,559 like, uh -oh. 375 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,140 And then all of a sudden, I just said, yeah. 376 00:25:46,860 --> 00:25:47,679 See you later. 377 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,680 Pulled off from it. 378 00:25:51,020 --> 00:25:51,779 Hey, man. 379 00:25:51,780 --> 00:25:52,820 Made it out of the first round. 380 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,240 That's because you didn't drop more than others. 381 00:25:55,460 --> 00:25:56,720 No, I didn't drop nobody. 382 00:25:57,060 --> 00:25:58,060 Had a competition behind. 383 00:25:58,820 --> 00:25:59,820 That's what I mean. 384 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,860 All right, we're going to go ahead and start our Grade 8 semifinals driver's 385 00:26:03,860 --> 00:26:08,860 meeting, folks. We started with eight drivers. We are now down to four, first 386 00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:09,860 and foremost. 387 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:14,780 Murder Nova, still in the show, got his win there in the first round. Murder 388 00:26:14,780 --> 00:26:19,120 Nova looking to make it three in a row for Grade 8 wins. 389 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,080 Also, current Grade 8 point leader, Kai Kelly, still standing. 390 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,780 Made the second round. Good job, Kai. 391 00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:32,920 It was a tough race for you there. Man, that other lane was empty. But you made 392 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,440 a good pass nonetheless. 393 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,460 Unfortunately, Nate Saylor unable to get his car turned around after whatever he 394 00:26:39,460 --> 00:26:41,940 broke. But now, no free wins this round. 395 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:45,360 As you've got some tough competitors standing next to you. You've got Axeman 396 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:47,180 Robin Roberts as well. 397 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,520 Two very fast drivers. 398 00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:54,080 Well, hell, let's go ahead and draw chips. See who's racing who here in this 399 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,080 semifinals round. 400 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,200 My number one step up. 401 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:11,940 Kai Kelly versus Axeman, which means my second pair will be Robin Roberts versus 402 00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:13,300 Murder Nova. 403 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:15,840 All right, y 'all. 404 00:27:15,980 --> 00:27:18,640 You know who you're racing. You know what you got to do. Go back to the pit, 405 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,480 your cars turned around, and bring them up here to the staging lane. 406 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:23,700 I don't want to draw none of y 'all. 407 00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:27,800 I like that competition buy deal I got last round. That was nice. 408 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,160 Yeah. 409 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:33,400 You got to race Axe? 410 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,800 Yeah. He might take a good pass. 411 00:27:36,020 --> 00:27:39,480 Yeah, me and Axeman decided we was going to stand by each other so we wouldn't 412 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,340 have to pick murdering over Robin Roberts. 413 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,220 And y 'all picked each other? Yeah, they told us, that ain't going to work. It 414 00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:47,220 worked. 415 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,020 We wanted to race each other. 416 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,540 I feel like we got a better chance with us than them two. 417 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,900 What do you think, Motor Man? 418 00:27:58,900 --> 00:27:59,900 We're ready. 419 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,240 So all season, Kyle's been killing it with the Jenga lane. 420 00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:05,180 I mean, he's been hurting everyone's feelings. 421 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,960 But last race or so, Jenga lane's been breaking apart. 422 00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:10,460 He popped the blower. 423 00:28:10,660 --> 00:28:15,220 I mean, it's just been heart failure about every time it takes him out of the 424 00:28:15,220 --> 00:28:18,660 race. But still, I'm not going to underestimate him because I know he's 425 00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:20,560 have that hot rod turned up to try to pit me out. 426 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,820 So he did make a good lick in the left lane? Yeah. 427 00:28:23,780 --> 00:28:25,980 So he's been in the left lane, what, twice? Three times. 428 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:28,859 Yeah, dang. 429 00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:29,860 He ought to be used to that lane. 430 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,680 Kyle's number one in the grade eight. I'm number three. He's about 20 points 431 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,540 ahead of me. So if I can take him out, that's just another point or two I can 432 00:28:36,540 --> 00:28:37,519 pull off. 433 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:42,840 And if I can pull the wind off, hey, two wins and I've tied him. So that's 434 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,840 actually the game plan. 435 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,440 Grade eight semifinal starts now. We've got two pairs here. 436 00:29:00,130 --> 00:29:03,130 First pair coming at you right now over the right lane. That is going to be 437 00:29:03,130 --> 00:29:07,350 Axeman. Larry Roach, Axeman there in the right lane. Back in the game changer 438 00:29:07,350 --> 00:29:08,309 Mustang up. 439 00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:10,830 And in the left lane, that will be Kai Kelly. 440 00:29:11,390 --> 00:29:12,610 Right at that Regal. 441 00:29:13,190 --> 00:29:15,470 Current points leader in the grade A. 442 00:29:39,950 --> 00:29:43,350 Axeman will take the win. Kai Kelly breaks the blower belt right on the hit. 443 00:29:45,970 --> 00:29:46,970 What's that, man? 444 00:29:48,110 --> 00:29:49,110 Whoo! 445 00:29:49,930 --> 00:29:51,490 That feels a lot better. 446 00:29:51,830 --> 00:29:53,250 So me and Kai rolled in. 447 00:29:53,610 --> 00:29:55,210 I knew I was going to have my hands pulled. 448 00:29:55,530 --> 00:29:59,410 Light turned green. I turned loose at trans brake. The game changer set me 449 00:29:59,510 --> 00:30:01,770 Dang! I get to the finish line, roll around. 450 00:30:02,030 --> 00:30:03,790 I was amazed at how fast the car ran. 451 00:30:04,190 --> 00:30:05,610 I got to looking. There was no Kai. 452 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,620 Then when everyone rolled up, I said, what happened to the guy? They said he 453 00:30:08,620 --> 00:30:09,620 broke a belt on the start line. 454 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,620 So the race was won right there. 455 00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:14,660 Damn. 456 00:30:15,340 --> 00:30:16,340 Sucks, man. 457 00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:19,940 I can understand that we was running them bitches 20 runs or something, but 458 00:30:19,940 --> 00:30:20,940 sucks. Yeah. 459 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,100 When you buy a box of blower belts, you're supposed to get 12 passes out of 460 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,760 blower at a minimum. 461 00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:32,460 And the first belt we put on, it broke like seven passes. 462 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,240 The second belt shredded in half at like... Six passes. 463 00:30:36,620 --> 00:30:39,120 And then that one just broke at nine passes. 464 00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:43,580 So we're going to take that box of belts and the whole box because that's 465 00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:44,479 stupid, man. 466 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,980 A $250 belt costs you $10 ,000, you know. 467 00:30:49,020 --> 00:30:52,380 I really felt like I had an opportunity to be in the final tonight and then some 468 00:30:52,380 --> 00:30:53,380 dump like that. 469 00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:54,880 I hate that. 470 00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:57,320 That is the hardest way to lose. 471 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,560 I might put some used ones in there. 472 00:31:05,399 --> 00:31:06,399 Yeah. 473 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:10,700 Hey, Brian. 474 00:31:11,060 --> 00:31:12,240 Let's set the torque wrench up. 475 00:31:14,180 --> 00:31:15,180 105. 476 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,900 Man, I drew Murder Nova for the semifinals. 477 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:19,300 What a badass. 478 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:22,960 He's won two in a row. He was in the finals last week in the Invitational. 479 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,300 he's just on a roll. 480 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:25,500 This is going to be tough. 481 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,600 Should be good. I put one flat, and that ARV made it longer. 482 00:31:31,860 --> 00:31:32,860 Let's see how that works. 483 00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:38,940 Hopefully it takes away that little right off the hit. It just takes a 484 00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:40,960 left move, and let's see if we can get rid of that. 485 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:43,940 I think our cars are quite similar. 486 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,960 I mean, we've both got Proline MH7s, so there's so much to say. There's a lot of 487 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,719 parity here. 488 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,820 Our runs are neck and neck, and so let's just see. 489 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,540 All right. I'm going to go ahead and get in. 490 00:32:03,820 --> 00:32:05,860 We went up, and we draw Robin Roberts. 491 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,400 You know, we've been here before. 492 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,020 What? Damn! 493 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,500 I raced Robin in the last grade eight, and it was actually the first time we 494 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:15,500 ever outran him. 495 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,240 Everybody said he made a killer pass on his first one, but, you know, every car 496 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,520 up here is fast, and got to take them out one at a time. 497 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,940 All right, folks, last pair here in this. 498 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,980 Great eight semifinals over in the right lane. That is going to be Robin 499 00:32:36,980 --> 00:32:42,060 Roberts. Robin Roberts backing up that blue Firebird there in the right lane. 500 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,300 And his competitor over in the left lane. That is going to be Murder Nova. 501 00:32:46,620 --> 00:32:50,080 Murder Nova in the left lane looking to make it three in a row. 502 00:33:16,750 --> 00:33:17,750 It's the win. 503 00:33:18,110 --> 00:33:24,530 So your grade A finals will be Robin Roberts versus Axeman. 504 00:33:25,350 --> 00:33:26,750 That was a good race, dude. 505 00:33:26,990 --> 00:33:28,790 That was a killer race. My God. 506 00:33:29,010 --> 00:33:30,090 Nice job, brother. 507 00:33:30,350 --> 00:33:32,950 That light was long, wasn't it? Holy. 508 00:33:34,270 --> 00:33:35,770 Nice job, man. Hey. 509 00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:41,270 Thank you. I feel like I made a pretty good one, and I wouldn't. 510 00:33:41,890 --> 00:33:44,870 I wasn't catching you. Yeah, you made a good lick, man. 511 00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:46,170 No doubt about it, man. 512 00:33:47,550 --> 00:33:48,830 The light was long. 513 00:33:49,510 --> 00:33:51,390 I see a flicker green, and I'm off. 514 00:33:53,570 --> 00:33:58,170 So we're rolling out, and we just edged him at about 60, and it just stayed 515 00:33:58,170 --> 00:33:59,190 there the whole way. 516 00:33:59,430 --> 00:34:02,550 And I quit paying attention because I wanted to go straight as an arrow. I 517 00:34:02,550 --> 00:34:05,970 if we faltered or moved at all, he'd be around us. And I thought he'd have a top 518 00:34:05,970 --> 00:34:06,970 -end charge. 519 00:34:07,070 --> 00:34:09,250 Just quite didn't have enough, and we got lucky. 520 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,159 I mean, it's big to be him because he's on such a roll. 521 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,219 For us, though, to get into the finals of this grade 8, I just wanted to be in 522 00:34:16,219 --> 00:34:19,199 the grade 8. Now we're in the finals of the grade 8. Now we're going to win it. 523 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,900 Every dumb thing. 524 00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:23,260 Every dumb thing? 525 00:34:23,340 --> 00:34:25,580 Every dumb thing. To tighten the loose nut behind the wheel? 526 00:34:25,780 --> 00:34:26,780 I don't know. 527 00:34:27,540 --> 00:34:28,540 Maybe. 528 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:34,080 To loosen up behind the wheels and always get the... Every dumb thing. I 529 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,480 know. It's been pretty tight so far. Yeah, it's done good today. 530 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000 It's on the level. 531 00:34:40,460 --> 00:34:43,600 Then when you do that, that's when something's little, you know? Yeah, 532 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,480 Hey, last week we got family doing something different, so it'll be good. 533 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:50,480 it's good. 534 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,679 It's our weekend. 535 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:55,239 It's our weekend. 536 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,120 Hi, 537 00:35:05,340 --> 00:35:09,120 man. I like the way you wake up your crew. I just saw that video. 538 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,360 Yeah. 539 00:35:11,779 --> 00:35:15,160 Always. Got to get them in the mood, man. Quit laying around being late. 540 00:35:24,020 --> 00:35:25,720 It's time to get it. 541 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,300 Oh, my God. 542 00:35:32,580 --> 00:35:34,620 That's got to be on that intro to one of the shows. 543 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,000 You got no shirt on and the toenails are painted red. Yeah. 544 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,980 We're going to go ahead and do our great eight finals drivers meeting. We 545 00:35:51,980 --> 00:35:54,260 started with eight. We are now down to two. 546 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,100 Yeah. Our two drivers are Robin Roberts and Axeman. 547 00:35:59,340 --> 00:36:02,400 Going to race for $10 ,000. Here we go. 548 00:36:06,620 --> 00:36:12,300 Winner gets $10 ,000 and 10 points towards the individual championship, 549 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,200 as you know, at the end of the season, the driver with the most points gets 550 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,600 ,000. So a lot of money there for that. What we're going to do here is we're 551 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,520 going to have a coin toss to decide who gets lane choice. 552 00:36:22,860 --> 00:36:24,180 Robin Roberts, call in the air, sir. 553 00:36:24,740 --> 00:36:28,940 Heads. Heads is the call. It is Tails Ackman's lane. 554 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:30,920 You going to let him know? 555 00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:33,580 Yeah, definitely. All right, so Ackman's going to let Robin Roberts know. 556 00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:36,770 All right, folks, these two drivers are going to put on a show for $10 ,000. 557 00:36:36,990 --> 00:36:39,270 Make some noise for Robin Roberts and Axeman. 558 00:36:40,210 --> 00:36:41,210 Good luck, Robin. 559 00:36:41,490 --> 00:36:43,510 Most likely, that's going to be left. I'm just saying. 560 00:36:44,110 --> 00:36:45,110 Okay, 561 00:36:45,270 --> 00:36:46,270 that's fine. 562 00:36:47,190 --> 00:36:48,190 Thanks, buddy. 563 00:36:51,790 --> 00:36:52,790 How you doing, man? 564 00:36:54,010 --> 00:36:58,690 I'm good, brother. You never know about this. 565 00:36:59,510 --> 00:37:02,590 These guys are so fast, man. Yeah, really. 566 00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:05,810 I always believe these cars run that fast. 567 00:37:06,230 --> 00:37:07,230 Blow my mind. 568 00:37:11,370 --> 00:37:12,830 Do your thing, baby. Yeah. 569 00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:14,170 Finish mine. 570 00:37:15,050 --> 00:37:16,290 Okay? Tell Alan Wright. 571 00:37:18,190 --> 00:37:20,810 Same thing you did last time. Finish the car. Yep. 572 00:37:22,530 --> 00:37:23,790 Man, I drew X, man. 573 00:37:24,150 --> 00:37:28,330 Like, I haven't wanted to win anything like this in a long time. We've kind of 574 00:37:28,330 --> 00:37:31,610 just edged at it this year, and I've been on the edge in Tulsa and things 575 00:37:31,610 --> 00:37:32,910 that. Now it's our time. 576 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,920 Over in the right lane, backing up that blue Firebird, that is Robin Roberts. 577 00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:59,700 And in the left lane, driving the game -changer, first -charge Mustang, that is 578 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:06,560 Axeman. Axeman versus Robin Roberts. 10 ,000 to win right here, right now, 579 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,460 on this Maple Grove surface. 580 00:38:42,990 --> 00:38:47,790 Your winner for the Great Eight tonight, $10 ,000 richer and 10 points towards 581 00:38:47,790 --> 00:38:50,190 the individual championship. 582 00:38:56,410 --> 00:38:59,310 So me and Robin, we left out of there. 583 00:38:59,550 --> 00:39:00,550 I didn't see. 584 00:39:00,570 --> 00:39:03,750 My car starts moving to the left just a little. I tried to correct, but it kept 585 00:39:03,750 --> 00:39:04,790 holding left, left, left. 586 00:39:05,050 --> 00:39:08,530 First time in my life I ever seen the wall and thought I could drive down it. 587 00:39:08,830 --> 00:39:12,210 So I said, I'm not letting out. Usually I lift. So I just held my foot on that 588 00:39:12,210 --> 00:39:15,090 floor. And all of a sudden, I felt the car come back to the right. I said, oh, 589 00:39:15,090 --> 00:39:16,090 we're off the wall. 590 00:39:17,110 --> 00:39:18,750 I come off the throttle. The throttle was stuck. 591 00:39:18,970 --> 00:39:19,970 I said, oh, man. 592 00:39:20,290 --> 00:39:22,230 I go from one death trap straight to the next. 593 00:39:22,450 --> 00:39:26,950 I get out, and we had a battle wound here before, like riding in a trailer. 594 00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:30,050 But then I started looking closer, and you could tell where it hit the wall. 595 00:39:30,130 --> 00:39:31,630 Here, here, here. 596 00:39:32,090 --> 00:39:34,570 So I actually did hit the wall. I didn't really think I did. 597 00:39:35,110 --> 00:39:36,810 I can't believe it didn't hit the headers, though. 598 00:39:41,579 --> 00:39:46,980 As far as we know, we've got to check out why the throttle is hanging, but 599 00:39:46,980 --> 00:39:48,720 that's part of racing. 600 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000 Man, 601 00:39:55,940 --> 00:39:58,520 I'm so excited. We've been looking forward to this. We've been trying to 602 00:39:58,520 --> 00:39:59,840 get in the grade 8 and stay there. 603 00:40:00,260 --> 00:40:03,020 We thought we could win something, but we could get in, and here we are. 604 00:40:03,860 --> 00:40:06,740 That just happened. I can't believe it, but it just happened. 605 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,040 Yeah, guys. 606 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:10,260 Thank you. 607 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,040 Just winning in this grade eight is so incredibly difficult. There are eight of 608 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,280 the best, eight of your top points. They're the best, and there's no round 609 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:18,999 that's easy. 610 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,400 It's hard to get through this deal. It's just probably the toughest. It's 611 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,680 tougher to win than the Invitational. You might get a lucky round in the 612 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,700 Invitational. There's no lucky round in this group, and we just won it. 613 00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:35,220 Rock and roll. 614 00:40:39,370 --> 00:40:42,070 And that's it for the Grade 8 here at Maple Grove Raceway. 615 00:40:42,950 --> 00:40:47,170 Robin Roberts won his first individual event of the year and is taking home $10 616 00:40:47,170 --> 00:40:50,850 ,000 and adding 10 points to his overall score. 617 00:40:52,330 --> 00:40:57,730 That gives Robin 13 points, but he has a long way to go to catch Kai Kelly, who 618 00:40:57,730 --> 00:40:59,270 is in the lead with 50 points. 619 00:41:02,550 --> 00:41:03,550 Next time. 620 00:41:05,130 --> 00:41:08,860 Kai, you may be in the lead right now. That might not... be the case much 621 00:41:08,860 --> 00:41:13,360 longer. Y 'all have messed up thoroughly because you have let Ryan Martin into 622 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,160 the grade eight. So with you even being in this meeting, Kai Kelly right now is 623 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,160 very nervous. I can tell. 624 00:41:18,620 --> 00:41:22,660 Still number one in points. I've been stuck in the last three grade eights. So 625 00:41:22,660 --> 00:41:23,880 I'm trying to turn my luck around here.