My Fifth Race EVER in Vintage NASCAR Monte Carlo! Jeremy Mayfield's Pro Tips

I've watched a lot of people start off driving these cars. They drive them harder than they need to. Like you don't have to drive a big heavy car like this, you know, just wide open. >> So for the Super Cup stock car series rules, Jeremy's own car is not legal. So he's not racing today, but he's still at the track cuz Chrissy's racing in the 23. Well, he's able to help me more with my own car, and I'm certainly going to take advantage of this by um letting him go out there and see how it feels. come in, [music] change this, change that, and get it to where he thinks it would be right. Cuz I've never had that type of uh groundwork before going into a race. I don't know fully what I'm doing with my own changes or anything. So, having him go in there [music] and untangle everything, so to speak, is going to be very, very helpful for me. In addition to him explaining how [music] that car needs to be driven to do its job correctly. The suspension rules for this series are different. So, there's a ride a minimum ride height rule and you can't use bump springs. So, we have conventional big springs and the front end has to travel like how the cup cars used to be 20 years ago. So Jeremy's out there making sure that everything's working right because I have never driven my car with that uh what they call it conventional suspension setup on it. We just changed it over to that last night. When you're on the bump spring system, there's little springs on your shock shaft, little pieces of plastic called packers you put in there that you can change when the body of the shock will contact that and stop the travel of the car. And those little springs on the shock shaft do all of the work. The big springs on the control arm, they don't do very much. They just share some load. That's why you see when it goes in, the nose will come down and then it'll come back up. Kind of like how cars used to be. instead of being glued down like a go-kart the whole way around the track. Like you would have seen my car working all season prior to this. Now Jeremy didn't tell me this at the time, but he left the [music] car tight on purpose because he wanted me to figure something out. He had me go out there and he said, "Don't even floor [music] it. Don't even try. Take it real easy." and explained uh you know some other things like so like [music] okay I went and did that. I'm going out there. I'm not flooring it. Um and I hadn't watched his own inc car video yet cuz [music] it's still the same day. But I'm like trying to distract myself to wait extra [music] long to get in the gas. Not jam the brakes to get in. Just being really really conservative with everything. Like I'm reading the billboards and the turns to try to just completely check out of driving the car. And you know what? It was just as fast as when I went there and drove it myself the first time without any input. So I was like, okay, this is working. He's on to something here. I'm learning. >> I mean, it's good and snug. It's not bumped up. I'm feeling driving good. It's not going to drive like it was low down, you know? It's a whole different feel. Okay. >> But it's got good grip. You go like [ __ ] like that, you know? You see how I moved up? >> Yeah. >> Let it roll in. Just roll there. I can do that all I want. >> It's Norm Benning. What are you doing here? >> My buddy Jeff came to get my hand have some fun. Just cooling off. It was a rough race until >> he said Norm is here and I'm like Nory's here. Like what? >> Hey, good friend of mine. >> Now it's practice two too for the day. I'm about to get in the car. Jeremy said he got it to where it's good where he would race it at least for the the time that we have to test it now and maybe change around the click open the shocks a bit. Now, this is the first practice of day two, the race day. And again, going to have Jeremy get in there and free the car up a little bit because he confessed to me that he left it tight on purpose just for the sake of that exercise we did yesterday, which I didn't even film because I'm like, this is not going to be eventful whatsoever. I'm out here half asleep on purpose. So, uh, he's going to go out, going to come in, flick some shocks around, add wedge, [music] take wedge out, track bar up, track bar down. Anything you ask for, we're [music] ready to do it. And then after any of this practice, I'm going to assume that it's perfect. And he's going to tell me, drive the car the same way you did yesterday. Don't deviate. Do the same thing, except maybe get in the gas a little earlier and a little harder. But other than that, same thing. >> [music] >> He had me open up both front shocks about five clicks to help the front end of the car get down a [music] little farther cuz ideally I think the car needed a little bit more camber because the farther down the nose got the happier it was. I mean that's how it was set up before to be that low to the ground. So when it's not fully traveling down, you're not gaining that full range of camber and you're not going through the corner with the amount of camber that it was supposed to have. But he was reluctant to add more camber to the right front for fear of that might make the entry a little bit squirly. [music] It could just because as the that game changes, you're just you're getting into a whole can of worms that if you don't really have a way to science it out or already know what it's going to do, it could cause more problems than it solves. >> Put two rounds in the right mirror. >> In the right >> down on the right rear. How many? Two. Two. Did that help? >> Yeah, that helped a little bit. Yeah, that's better. It's not bad, man. The the front shock a lot opened them up about five more clicks a piece more than anything >> really. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. After I open up the shocks the front end was like really going down more. >> Yeah. When you hit the brakes it was like >> Yeah. Open five more. >> I I can't Yeah. I can't drive the seat up like that. I just can't get wide open. doing like this. I'm out of seat, >> but it's all right. >> Hey, Mitchell, this this right here is dead on. You're going to turn You're going to turn a little bit more than that, but no more than that. It's going to be a little bit more mass center. So, just hold it there. not like wide open. I get wide open a little bit on my straight right here, baby. You know, >> are you rolling at all between when you lift and when you break? >> Roll out. Yeah, I roll out at the same time. Roll out brake a little bit and I I put my foot on the brake just ever so lightly. I come off the brake a little bit and kind of just hold it right there until it gets turned real good. Okay. >> But just I'm talking about just a hair. You know what I mean? So just breathing on it. >> Yeah. Just kind of just about like that. just help you keep loaded and turn up down not on the brakes hard at all. I just go in and roll out and kind of squeeze on the brakes come out like that until it should be good. And the only reason you'll get loose coming off be you got wheel in it. >> So make sure you don't have wheel in it when you get the gas. >> So are you doing any rolling without gas or brake? >> Uh yeah, I'll go I guess brakes in I kind of almost come back off of them. All all the way I get that I'm just barely back on just just every once in a while just make a turn and I roll to the center good. 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Quickly charges phones, laptops, and other devices. Check the link in the description to get yours today. Make a great Christmas gift. >> How'd it feel? >> Way better than yesterday. >> Better than yesterday. >> Oh, so much better than yesterday. >> Were you loose coming out of four one of those times? >> Not really. Not Not more than I should have been. >> It looked like the back hand had a lot of move. >> It probably did, but that just means the car is rotating better. >> Okay. >> I was really really tight yesterday. >> Yeah, it was like full. >> Yeah. And the tank's full, too. So, it's gonna swing more back there. >> But, we're good. Everything's real good. >> The plan is, dude, if you or me win tonight, we're going to your house and big party, >> okay? >> At the new house. >> Well, we'll help put whatever holes in the wall, right? >> Have a big fire. >> Have a big bonfire, right? >> No shortage of wood. in >> hell. It's too heavy. >> I may have them little crooked on these pads over here on this side. >> It's my wallet. >> My [ __ ] wallet. >> If I walked up to him and did that, what do you think he's going to do? >> Go find out. I'll go walk in be like, "It's Mike Wallace in the house." >> After he's done conversating with that guy, >> you know what? You got to do it within the bravado. >> Yeah. In the past when they run that rush out there. >> Yeah. >> They follow it up with a giant blower. >> Yeah. And it like does like or twist a tornado debris wrap and sand up in your trailer. So if you see it, shut your door. >> That's a good idea. Thank you. >> I don't know where the other roll that's >> is it Mike Wallace. >> Mike Wallace. >> Mike Wallace is here. >> Okay. With a capital F. [laughter] >> You're too good. They won't even let you in a car this week. >> Yeah. [ __ ] They want me to drive the pace car now. >> That'd be cool. You're like Elmo Langley. >> Yeah. Oh, I don't know if that's good, but they offered good money, so I'm taking it. >> Oh, heck yeah. >> Yeah. What are you doing? >> Filming. >> What are we filming? >> You >> talk to me. >> What's it like to be in the presence of greatness that just walked up? >> Pretty great. I feel >> like you like that >> in unison. It doesn't even It just happens cuz it's natural. >> I was I was just coming to get my homework assignment. So, >> what were you having me do in practice yesterday? >> Well, I was trying to get you here. >> Let's mess with these. What went down practice? >> I wanted to start over. I wanted cut >> action. I wanted to include what your lessons were to me in practice yesterday and how you were having me drive this car. >> Well, I I've watched a lot of people start off driving these cars. They drive them harder than they need to. Like you don't have to drive a big heavy car like this, you know, just wide open just slinging it in corners and turning, grinding it, you know, whatever you got to do. The smoother you are with these things and the more you're roll out of the throttle, roll in the brake, don't put a lot of wheel in it. There's >> I guess yesterday's lesson, I guess that's what you want to say, that was more of just being smooth and not turning the uh tires past their slip angle. You know, there's a certain part, a certain angle of these tires that if you got the contact patches stuck to the racetrack and the tire and the wheels right here inside of it and you turn it, eventually it's going to snap the >> the U contact patch part. That's called slip angle the tire. And every one of them's got different angles, different tires, different brands. So, you want to run right till the edge of where you're not breaking that tire loose against the racetrack. If you start doing this, you know, the contact patches kind of going all all over the racetrack doesn't know which way to go. So, you know, the biggest problem a lot of people have is just are overturning the car. You know, I can go out right now like I told you yesterday, go on turn one and take your car and just turn the wheel and it's not going to turn. It's just going to slide in those. And there's a reason why it's going to do that because I've turned past the slip angle of it. So, if you just go in and run right to that edge where you feel it just start, you know, maybe lose a little bit of grip as far as you can turn it. Any more doesn't do any good. You're just wasting your time. And you did a great job yesterday by doing that. And I know that we put a little piece of tape on your steering wheel to keep you from turning past that point. I think that's helped you a lot. You know, I think it has. >> And then then learning to run, you know, more straight, you know, straight up off the corner, make sure you turn before you get back in the throttle, that kind of things. You know, that's all the slip angle, the tire is all it is. A lot of people don't understand, don't know how it works, but it's probably the most important thing that drivers should know. >> That's good. Did uh did you leave this car tight for me to do that so I could you could have more right that threshold is more obvious I guess. Is that why you wanted me to do that? >> Exactly. That's why I was told you yesterday it wouldn't run on the bottom yesterday and I knew that cuz I could you know I turn it so much as far as it would go. So I just moved up the racetrack make a bigger arc in the corner and I said okay there you go. Yeah you take it running. And when the first time you went out you said it just chatters front and it was chatter front. I could make it chatter the front if I wanted to, but I I knew better. You know, >> I figured that out. There's a little spot on the track that's like rumble strips out there. >> Yeah. >> I thought that was chattering the front because I couldn't see those bumps yesterday. Now, when I went out there and I saw the little ripples in the asphalt, I'm like, "Oh, that's what I thought was doing that cuz I was kind of on that." >> But you can shatter the tire. That's That's not norm, you know, abnormal. You go out and just turn the wheel and it's just like shatter the tire, you know. But, uh, you know, that's part of what Chrissy was doing yesterday, too. She I watched I follow her in your car and I watched my left front 23 just out here like this that much angle and I'm like it's not going to work that much angle, you know, slipping on her tire. So, it's helped her a ton too. >> Helped her a lot yesterday. So, >> I think I think it helped you tremendously. You know, you look good. It looked like your car was smooth and and today was probably a little bit better. We freed it up today a little bit more. >> Oh, yeah. It was way better. It was a lot more close to how it felt before. >> Right. And we can go a little bit closer than that after you know you qualify cuz you want to be precise you qualify right before qualifying cuz when you tape it up it's going to be good and neutral and I don't know if you taped it up yet. If not we will. But um and then after qualifying for tape off and then we'll free it up a little bit more for the first race and then maybe a little bit more for the second race. >> Okay. >> So So your mark on your steering wheel is going to start getting set up here. >> It's going to be about like that qualifying. It's going to be about like this for a race. A little bit less you know. >> Okay. >> Much you need to turn it to make the car turn. I know. Me and Chrissy are both running these races with our tires or we already raced on these tires. We're not getting stickers. I've never done this before. I've never run a race on uh scuffed tires. I think there's a few guys here that are starting with new ones. >> Are they? I don't know if they I didn't know if they were or not. You both running on on used tires, but it'll be fine. I mean, you might give up a little bit qualifying, but I think both of you are good enough where you'll be up in top five for sure somewhere. >> Yeah, it'll be fun. Looking forward to this. Never raced here before either. And and the good thing about it is is when we go back to the bump springs, bump stops, it's going to be that much better. >> You mean now you're going to be like, "Wow, this is a lot better cuz you never really got the feel of the bump stops. Really, the bump springs, I mean, >> you never really got a good feel of what this [ __ ] felt like, you know, like you do now." Like now, now I got out of it. I was like, "Okay, it's good now." You know what good is, you know? I mean, you just keep recording those in your brain and what your ass is feeling and know that that's, you know, what it needs to feel like. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Today I could actually I could use less brake and just let it roll into the turn and it would just it would just take it. Yesterday it would would take it >> and then when it turns you got grip. It's not just turning you got grip. You're not just like turning and the back end's coming around. The front end's working instead of the back end trying to free it up. That makes sense. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So as far as actually racing here, >> you can pass high, you can pass low. Right. What should I be thinking about? >> I I think a lot of people are going to be sliding up. Maybe not early in the race. Um but later on you sliding up. You need just turn on the bottom. That's where you can use that little trick I told you about. Put your foot right back on the brake a little bit. As you you know, as you roll through the center, just keep front end loaded. You'll stay down on the bottom. It might feel slower, but it'll be a good way to pass it. Okay? >> You know, and the car gets in really good. Gets in the corner great. So, you know, you can run in right with them or they can, you know, >> is it uh easier to do that in one and two or three and four? >> Um, >> like are there any spots in this track you got to be pay attention to? They're a little weird. >> I say I say you can run higher in three and four than you can one and two. You can run you pass them here. No problem. Seem like it's a little bit sharper corner enter turn one than it is enter turn three. Okay. >> So, it seems like turn three is bigger for some reason. I know it's not, but it seem like you got more room up there to run around. Yeah. But don't be afraid to move up there for sure. >> Wow, that's a really cool shirt. Where did you get that? >> stapletonautoworks.com. >> Let's see the back. Wow, that is sick. It's metallic and everything with artwork from Sam Bass Jr. This is the first design he ever did that is on a shirt, which is cool. Yeah, we got them. And we'll show the flag. We got long sleeve, short sleeve hoodies and limited like crew neck sweatshirts in limited stock. And we got these cool flags, too.…