My Fourth Race EVER in Vintage NASCAR Monte Carlo! Things Get Crazy...

I would suggest you lift. >> What did you tell him? >> It is classified. Oh, >> okay. >> Classified. We won't >> If you follow me, you're going to see Elvis. >> We're back at Dominion for the last race of the season. And uh this is the scene of the crime. Somewhere right over there is where I bent my rear clip back in May. And it's been uh one heck of a summer since then. I'm here to redeem myself. This is like my fifth or fifth race, I think, ever in one of these cars. Today in the field we have Jeremy Mayfield, Chrissy Wallace, and Mike Wallace is racing today. So, let's go talk to Mike. The last race day video, Mike was my spotter. Now, he's in the car. Be racing against him. >> How awesome is it to race with Mike Wallace today? >> I'm about to find out. >> That's going to be so incredibly cool, isn't it? >> I'm honored. I just think about 20 years ago, I was a kid in the grand stands at three of you at some different point. >> There's old guys out there racing. Here I'm racing against that older guy today, right? Ah, >> hey, rattle his chain. >> I'm not going to bother him. >> I'm not going. >> See, we went to uh Franklin County, right? I spotted for him in Franklin County. >> Oh, okay. >> Just take your time. Get yourself focused in there. Get your seat belts on. >> Good deal. >> So, it's very hard when you're trying to spot and the person you're spotting for is racing your daughter. >> And it's like, oh, hell. Uh, well, she's not going to give up the bottom. Just to let you know that. Yeah, >> man. I'm excited. Look at here. My old uniform. >> I love it. >> This old Chrissy and I raced Talladega. >> Look at here. Just to identify who I was that day. >> Just just in case. >> Just in case say daughter. >> The other one says Chissy says daughter. >> And it was really cool when my wife was with us there. She had a red shirt on and so she wanted she felt left out. So we got some tape silver marker and we put wife on one sleeve and mom on the other sleeve. >> That's awesome. >> So it was awesome. So, what a fun time this is. Biggest thing I don't want I don't want anything to go wrong that I inflict. I don't want to tag the wall. I don't want to run into anybody. I just want to go have a nice fun race. And uh got enough practice. I feel comfortable. I I think we're going to practice one more time. >> Yeah. >> Um but I feel comfortable I can start the race right now and hold hold my own. I think you'll be good. I've been racing for like 25 minutes and I I'll I'll survive. So, I think you'll be okay. >> Yeah, I know it's not a big deal to everybody or anybody, but in honor, I was a Charlie Kirk memorial on the hood of my car. Lost his wife, his wife without a husband, kids are without a dad. A little trippy, right? I don't know if you like noticed numbers and coincidence and things, but if I recall correctly, a few weeks ago, you made a Facebook post about how many years you were married to your wife. >> How many years was that? >> We were married for 34 years. We knew each other. >> Oh, I never >> Yeah, I when the when you told us that you were going to drive that car and you made that post, I was like, how crazy is that? You got the for that number's been on that car for over like years. >> I never thought about that. you end up in the 44 car right there, man. >> That's awesome. >> I got to share that with Chrissy. >> Well, good. I'm glad I can point that out. I'm excited. >> Now, even though some of these cars might have composite or different looking bodies, these chassis are either old Cup, Bush, or Pro Cup cars. This particular one that Jeremy's driving was actually an old junior motorsports car that was driven by Brad Keslowski in like 2008 or 9. See, it's got the HMS number on it. My own car down there is an old Joe Gibbs Racing Bush Series car uh driven by Bobby Labani in 2005, Eric Almarola in 2006, Joey Logano in 2007 when he run the Bush East Championship. He actually won his first NASCAR sanctioned race in that car at Greenville Picking Speedway. and I'm driving it today. They either got SB2s, I got an R5 Dodge, Jeremy's got the Arca LS style engine in here. And everybody runs on the same tire. It's a harder compound, so it's hard to make them work. They're heavy. Um, so they don't go as fast as late models, but they are they have a lot of power. You can blow the tires off at will, and you feel all that weight moving around. They're really tough to get a handle on. Oh, that works really good. >> I was impressed. >> Okay, you were you just walked up on the meeting of the mind. >> I just walked up on a professional conversation here. Jeremy Mayfield was clue me on on how to sit on the front row. >> What did you tell him? >> It's classified. >> Oh, okay. >> Classified. We won't >> Don't tell anybody else. He'll try to do it. >> Right. Right. >> Yeah. If you if I tell you then you s you knock us off. So then what are we going to do? >> No, you can't do that. >> We got to keep the show alive. >> So I'm ready. What do you think? They told me to drive the thing to the to the tech line. So I'm getting ready to drive it over to the tech line. Jeremy, you remember this story about the Wood Brothers? Wood Brothers racing. Yeah, >> they were the only race team in the garage area in the NASCAR world that would start their car up and drive it everywhere. They wouldn't push the thing like a lot of people do, you know. >> They go, "Damn, that thing's got that expensive old motor in it. If it can't be drove through the garage, we don't need it anymore." >> Right. That makes sense, huh? >> So, that's funny. >> You're right. Everybody had to push their ass off trying to get there, you know. >> So, how how's Mitchell doing today? How's your race car? Are you a big time race car driver today? You fast? You feeling confident? >> I felt better. Yeah. I just kept taking Packer out of the left front and it wasn't scraping. So, I only got an 8 inch in there now. >> Yeah, we got to take it out. >> I thought about it, but I'm like I kind of ran out of practice sessions. >> Hey, trust me, dude. Be all right. >> You think so? >> You're over evaluating all that stuff. >> That's what we got to get. That's what we got to change him a little bit is thinking. >> He's too You're too um what you call it? Uh >> if we had two races, I'd probably do about your changes or something. What do you call that? >> I like to know what I'm doing so I remember it. >> That's all. >> Well, just remember you pull another eighth out. It ain't hard to remember. >> If it bottoms out, then I'm stuck with it for 77 laps. out. You don't think so? >> No. If you do, we'll sneak one back in, man. I can wheel this damn thing. >> I take it out. >> I could try 16th. >> Yeah, I'm I'm bottoming out anyway over there. A little bit. Yeah. >> I tell you what, you need to do a >> We can't just like that. >> Can't qualify. After qualifying do it after >> cuz we're not like we're locked in, you know. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You got plenty of time. You qualify like that. You got taped up. Front end taped up. >> No, I should probably do that. >> Where's it at? >> In the pit still. I didn't I'm going last cuz I missed the driver's meeting. >> Have you got some black tape? I think so. I got orange tape. I got I got some tape. Yeah, we'll go tape it up. >> So, how does this how does the competition cautions work for this race? Cuz I didn't know the driver's meeting was happening first thing in the morning. >> Yeah, me either. >> You didn't go to either? >> No, I went but I didn't know it was happening. You uh have to uh 25 laps going to be a caution. 50 laps to be a caution. Then run it in. So, it's 25 25. >> Okay. >> You know, you come in work on it. You work on your car if you need to. And if you do need some work done on pull in my pits, I'll tell them. >> Okay. I can just tell you just shut it off so they're tight or loose and worn they know they'll tighten it up. >> Oh, you got some tape. Were you a little bit tight in practice? >> Um, yeah. I I put it some more up on the track bar and that helped going into the center. It got to the center much faster and I wasn't fighting it as much. >> Right. That's what you want, right? >> And it it felt a lot better overall. So, I I raised the track bar a little bit more cuz I wasn't loose yet, >> right? >> And I know it's going to get uh supposed to tighten up, right, as it gets colder. And >> it should. Yeah, but but it got last night the trail look like it's wet. Like it got the dude on it. Maybe I doubt it will tonight, but it could get slick, you know. >> All this tape is going to be worth at least 10 years of experience, I think. >> Right. Where are we starting? Mike, >> check this line out. >> Huh? Who's on the outside? >> Me. Who's on the inside? >> You. You know, that was an invert, though. I actually qualified a little ahead of you. >> I'm I'm on the pole. >> Okay. That's what the picture shows. We're not going to discuss inverts. >> See, don't get into that technical BS. I'm old. I'm on the boat. >> Well, I'm way back. >> He's going to hang around until like lap 30 and then he's going to lap everybody after that. >> He said he said he was going to wait till 35 just just to make it interesting. >> I'm going to ride for a while. Sure. >> He's figured out how to bracket race on a circle track. >> Bracket race on >> Yeah, >> that's right. >> Don't show your hand. Don't show nothing. >> Yeah. >> Wait, rewind a second. What is your plan, Mike Wallace? Well, I uh I am started on the front row pole and I entirely plan on leading now the first lap at least. >> Okay. >> So, I don't know. You you just got to put two and two together and figure out what that means for you. >> Okay. >> Cuz I'm sure through your vast knowledge of things that you've seen, you you've heard the stories. Drive it down the corner till you see Elvis. >> Yeah. >> If you follow me, you're going to see Elvis. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I would suggest you lift. >> This is thing I should probably tell you that uh as I said on my You can get these koozies on stable and autoworks.com. These flags and the shirts like Logan's wear right now. Show the people your awesome shirt. See, it's even metallic just like the real car. Metallic, too. The artworks by Sam Bass Jr. Actually, this is the first shirt he's ever designed that made it to mass production because he just started doing it a couple years ago in honor of his dad. >> We're real happy. >> I saw his artwork on somebody else's Facebook one time. >> Yeah. And then you showed it to me and I'm like, I know that guy. >> It was on a Mustang page for like North Carolina Mustang group and this girl had a drawing on her Facebook header and it was his artwork. >> That's awesome. >> Yeah. stable autoworks.com. The hats I'm wearing are on there, too. We pack and ship everything ourselves. And we just got done moving. So, we're not Amazon, okay? Just want to set expectations here. Oh, and we got pieces of rat from the car, too. If you want one, leave a comment. Maybe we can like throw them in your package or something so you can actually see what color it is, cuz it's really way more aqua color than how it comes up on camera. It looks light blue on camera. And because of that, all the merchandise we do, we make it light blue. That's kind of it official color. It's almost like Jeff Gordon's car was neon, like daylow orange, but on merchandise it's red. Same thing here. Oh, our race is about to start. About to get in the car. So, there's a couple circumstances that make this particularly interesting here that I've not dealt with before. One is there was a guy who crashed and practiced pretty bad and had an oil leak because of the crash. Well, he was able to patch his car back together in the meantime during the day. And they thought it'd be a good idea to send him out there for a few laps by himself just to see if he leaked any more oil, which to me that just seems like you're going to go fog up the entire racing surface if you're wrong. I don't know why they did that. The risk was not worth the reward there. And I'm not completely convinced that they think it's okay. They said it's okay, but heck, I've had cars leak oil before. I know what they do. You think it's done? It's not. There's a little mist there. You just don't know. So, I'm fully anticipating this surface to be slipperier than I think it will be because usually the track will get better when the sun goes down. It gets tightens up. You got more grip. You got your good tires on there. You can send it in harder. You can drive out harder. Everything is just like primed and ready to go. Now, in this case, I also put more gas in the car because I have a 22gallon cell and I normally don't run more than I need, but this race is longer, so I put more in there. I also started my tire pressure lower anticipating the buildup during the race. So, between those three factors, I really have no idea what it's going to feel like when I go in there. I'm just going to try to stay next to Mike and see how it feels. pretty quickly here. I mean, look at my hands. It's not not happy. And I don't know if it is because of my tire pressure or if the surface is oily. I don't know. But it didn't feel good. So now I'm just going to let everything settle out. If you're faster than me, go faster until It feels like the back of my car is coming around for a second. I don't even know why. And then I get thumped again and realize somebody hit me and it felt pretty intentional. Let's see. It was 75. I'm kind of like, okay, that kind of makes sense given on how the rest of things have gone for the last couple weeks. Just going to let them go and I'll follow the line around until it's time for the competition caution. Save my tires. I really don't like the whole competition caution thing because it just turns into a single file parade because everybody's doing the same thing. They're all pacing themselves to save their tires and there's no racing. If you ask me, the competition cautions are just there for people who are out of shape to catch their breath. If you haven't figured it out by now, I am a little fired up about this. And we've been through some crap in the last couple months of this series. And if I were on the outside looking in, I would want someone to be honest about that, not just be vanilla and gloss over it. So, I'm not going to say everything obviously, but I am going to tell you how I feel. So, these voiceovers will be interesting. Now, you get some intensity until things settle out for the first couple laps cuz people are trying to get in there for their track position. And I'm still not comfortable with what my car is doing right now. It feels like, if you've never driven one of these things, when I go into the turn, it feels like I turn in and it's it feels fine at first. It's the pendulum effect, like the visual of a a tube being pulled behind a boat. The boat turns and there's a delay and then the inner tube goes whipping out. It feels like I had a 200lb inner tube tied to the back of my car that would just whip out the back of the thing as I was going in. And I'm not sure. I think that maybe the extra fuel load cuz for the entire season I've been running my car the same way and I just added I don't know how many extra pounds back there. A good bit. Enough to feel like I didn't think you'd be able to feel it that much, but you can. Well, you know, with all of our moving and stuff going on, I haven't had time to do very much of anything else other than working and moving stuff around. Once we get a little more settled in, I'm excited to figure out wherever we put Logan's PS5 and fire up Project Motor Racing, which is today's video sponsor. And I got to say, this thing looks pretty interesting. It was just released a couple days ago. Project Motor Racing captures the challenge, intensity, and sensory overload of professional level race cars with uncompromising passion of big-time motorsport. The game blends 20 years worth of racing simulator know-how into one unforgettable racing experience. 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I don't know if my car is actually not handling well because of the tire pressure, the extra fuel or whatever, or if it's been driving over a misted oil surface the whole freaking time because it got bad enough to where they had to throw a caution and everybody went and it was the same car that uh had been questionable before. It's getting to the point in the race now where I could start racing. I'd like to, but the car is just not there yet. It's not gripped up going into the turns. And if you have driven something like this, you know what I'm talking about where the car is got it sinks into the racetrack. It's cutting in good. It feels like it's in the racetrack and not on top of the surface. Very much like the difference of running through grass with cleats versus regular shoes. If you have never driven one of these cars before, that's something I could relate it to. You know, when your feet are not underneath you, and that's what I was feeling here. And I'm having a day. So, you know what? Let's just freaking have one. The 62 car that is like a gajillion laps down freaking thinks he's racing or something. been holding me up here, which irritated me at first. Then I was like, "Oh, well, maybe it's a good thing I wasn't closer to this. Now, cautions breed cautions. Take a look at what happens on this restart here. Keep an eye on the neon car of Mike Wallace up there. Now, that was a great save by Mike, and that slows him down enough for Burn to sneak by. And I could have followed him in that moment. I didn't I didn't want to. I wanted to let him regroup himself so I could run with him, honestly. And in that split-second decision of do I gas it up, try to stick my nose in there, follow Chris underneath him, what could happen there? Is Mike even going to know I'm coming? What's good now is my car is actually starting to come to me a little bit. The pendulum feeling of the back of the car is subsiding. It's still slick. I mean, you could tell that I'm still fighting that. But the real difference is I could roll into the turns harder and feel more planted. So, I'm taking advantage of that and starting to pick it up a little bit here and finding out what I can get away with. Now, I see…