Pennzoil 150 at The Brickyard | NASCAR Xfinity Full Race Replay from Indianapolis Motor Speedway - YTread (2024)

Justin Haley's name back there in row six we want to chat with him before he gets too excited in this car Jeff, can you get him on the radio? Hi Justin, it's Boost, guys, you got us back. New race track for Xfinity. In the series, yesterday you had two hours of practice, what do you think will be the biggest challenge? You know, it's often a boot to get us here and they spend it in theory, so I think the biggest question is that the left rear tire under us has a lot. of the right corners of the letters get a lot of wear there, so before you of course we had an IndyCar racer complaining, you had a chance to see it if you did, did you learn anything from those guys?

Justin Allgaier said that first and foremost his thoughts are with Jimmie Johnson and his family and he certainly hopes for a quick recovery for them and then Justin also told me that he's been texting back and forth with big boss rick hendrick this morning and the Mr. He started off by saying, hey, don't look for pressure, just go out and do your thing tomorrow, but then he was also quick to point out that Justin will be the only driver except the seven-time champion to drive that number 48 car, so maybe a little . after all, pressure, in fact, when I saw Allgaier walking towards his car a few moments ago, he said: look, I feel very good for today, it's tomorrow, that already has me nervous, he is a three-time winner of the professional course, one one of the favorites here today and he has a good starting spot, he is sure to be fifth today Marty Snider Kelley, you got hurt Jeff Burton mentioned a moment ago that this program today will be AJ Allmendinger, he starts 30th this afternoon and this morning, when I chatted with him, I told him how it's going to be. the quote from him to me is funny and if you believe the wisdom of the garage area this morning, everyone says it will be a battle between Allmendinger and Austin Syndrich and the number 22 team Penske car number 22, he said I have nothing to lose .

AJ said Austin is struggling. For a championship, all I want to do today is kiss your teams. I can guarantee you Rutledge Wood, it's going to be a lot of fun to see AJ Allmendinger come from xxx today, that's for sure and you know we have a fan favorite in the field. that we haven't seen in five years, Mike Wallace returns to the Xfinity Series today in that JD sports car with Market Scan as a sponsor, but for a really special reason, US Marine Corps veteran Danny Garcia and his walk of honor 2020 is about to begin this is a four-month multi-state campaign to raise money for America.

He greets you. It's been raising money for veteran first responders and their families since 1996. He's walked more than 52 million steps on six different continents and Mike said he's so happy to be here to come back for such a great cause and said for once in my life this race is about having fun when he signed up of course he thought the fans would be here but for someone like that. he had a great relationship with the fans for so long he knows those fans are watching him at home and are excited for him to come back today guys what a great story and obviously there will be a lot of fans rooting for Mike Wallace just for that simple fact, very steep, gives us the race breakdown again, the first time this has happened in the Xfinity Series.

Well, it's a 62-lap event on a new track, the first and second stages, both 20 laps, the final stage, 22 laps on pit road. speed 35 miles per hour on fuel window I'm going to put some question marks next to 28 to 30, we really don't know. I spoke to teams who are not sure, but they didn't get enough in practice, so let's see today who decides to stretch the fuel who comes for tires many question marks for the race since it is a new track let's explain it we will let our drivers give you a bird's eye view of what this circuit is okay, everyone buckle up because turn one is going to be a disaster on this first restart, a huge braking zone towards one and a lot of back and forth, turn two , three, four, five and six that lead from one long straight to another. braking zone and overtaking opportunity at turn seven, Turn F will be eventful all day as an opportunity for overtaking and then very slow corners nine eight nine ten eleven is a long dream early in the series in another zone braking at 12, we can see something happen at that time 14 that's going to be important because you get a big run in that corner, getting to turn one is huge for you and there's still a lot at stake even though we think it's early in the season, check out the standings right now and only a few winners, a handful of winners so far that have locked into the playoffs with Briscoe Gregson Harrison Burt and Brandon Jones Justin Haley and Rick, let's have a conversation about points if you're new to NASCAR I.

I mentioned those stages earlier, at the end of each stage, the top ten get points, so when you look at Schneider and Braun there trying to make the playoffs, those points could be the ones that take the decisions for your season. Jeff Burton at the eighth and that blue number eight. on the right side and Michael Annett in the front row getting ready to start something new at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the NASCAR Xfinity Series taking on the street cars, chaos could begin quickly here, two and three wide as they work on some of these turns they really push, all Phil was able to get through there pretty cleanly, now it follows that the patients last, these guys start taking more risks like this and take right there to start this race, smart move by all the drivers .

I'm like you. all the last time, look here, look for the leader Mattie Jones pushing Jeb Burton right now Mike let's back up a little bit Brandon Jones tried to get inside the door that's going to be a tough area trying to get past someone there that number 7 Klondike on the hood He's just a very good Allgaier on the road courses and behind Hill there's no crack at a pass to take the lead right here. Oh, great start, look at third man, look for third Jeff Burton clinging to the lead as they come back. to the frontstretch, okay, Rick, I lose the bet, a clean first lap.

I would have lost that bet too, Jim's interesting run on the outside of that turn 12 to 13, you guys mentioned this is the big silt breaking up, right here is where we see. Look, right there in car 22, Austin Syndrich, he's the guy everyone was talking about. Noah, sideways, off the center of a great road racer, not good, he's great, he'll put pressure on these guys if Cedric started in 10th, he's already there. to fifth or and now fourth, oh man, Jones, going through turns five and six, which are going to be really key, three wide here in turn seven, and how about Allgaier, Justin Allgaier, takes the lead from Jones, took the lead from Jones, but I give credit to Jeff Burton for understanding that it was not time to go in there two and three wide, unfortunately, this continues to cost him points as the 19 is under attack from downtown Austin in that brilliant 22, it wasn't a big battle, 22 passes easily.

An emotional victory two years ago for Justin Allgaier right here on this racetrack, you remembered how he and his dad used to watch the Indy 500 from turn one and he was able to win and kiss the bricks here now on a different track. Although they talk about Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Wolfe I guess he had 22 cars owned by Roger Penske and he owns this facility. Now you know, as he talks looking for the leader, Justin Alghars, now I'm going to give him a good brake right there, by Allgaier, no. early mistakes for the top three this Allgaier has risen to the leader syndrich now right on the rear bumper the seven this is the critical part right here five and six this little cake you have a good time, you have a race all the guy in front of you, it's long The straight represents a great opportunity to move into the seventh house, a little lower, for street lord Cedric, and the hope is that Justin Allgaier also has multiple road course wins in the Xfinity Series, and the type of team he wanted.

So far this year he hasn't won a race, we missed the turn right there. Wow, Cedric came close to enter Turn 11. Much has been said about this short session. We hear from Matt DiBenedetto, a NASCAR Cup driver who tested here for the Xfinity. series, he said you never go straight for that short shot, you missed the apex just a little bit there again just to speed up the car a little bit, that's fine, though as long as I take the hit off it, well, it'll be fine, but citrusy. with a big race Kenny I'll take him to one on the right side you have to fight for the lead between Allgaier and Cinder Hill Syndrich will come out and appear on the left that's AJ Allmendinger's buffer chamber that started in the 30th Syndrich . line, how about the Hofmann boys dinger up to 22nd drafting patiently through traffic?

Allmendinger will be fun to watch as he moves forward. He got the first oval out of it when earlier this year the Xfinity Series didn't run full time and watch the traffic. ahead of Allmendinger was a good pass into turn one but now you see five six seven cars ahead of a group plus 11 for AJ Allmendinger in 19th position trying to drag some of those cars that started at the back of the cross country of the competes with them, so see one thing you can always do in Road Forces, if you are not worried at all about championship points, like De Allmendinger, you can change the stages, in other words, stop a little early while AJ look for another place here. press a fret and get in there for 17th position, but you can pit early before the end of the stage to determine track position, that's what they plan to do all day in 16th and why not, no They are competing for the championship. points like AJ told me I'm running to kiss the bricks that's it yeah I like that strategy and we use the word strategy it's going to be chaotic all day Rick we're going to have four or five different plans defined that we're going to have to do just stay tuned, but here it is, we knew it was going to happen,22 is Syndrich inside seven, but everyone who isn't giving up the position, you cross it over Syndrich with a good run into the turn and now an acceleration run down.

Syndrich's only stage with the advantage is inside Allgaier, he will pass Cédric to the front in Indy. There will be a lot of talk about Syndrich's 22 and the success he has had on the road courses, but Justin Allgaier, his first numbers on the road are impressive. also and it's showing why you know, he grants that position to the 22, but his elbows stay in contact with the rear bumper of the twenty-two. Innocent opportunity, I would say for the 7th of all, the guard alert was not as fast as the 22nd in practice, but here is a chance for you to find a little more speed on this race track watching Syndrich 5 laps in Syndrich has moved from tenth to first place.

We just watched Scott Nixon's women in the NTT IndyCar Series race here on the road hard, moving onto the US road at Elkhart Lake. Wisconsin next weekend will you be able to maintain perfect coverage Saturday on NBCSN and some on NBC Hope 8500 what a great photo thanks to our friends at Team Penske who took out the two Menards cars, you see the Indy car, the Xfinity car next to it, it's very obvious the difference, the height, the elegance, the size, the weight, so it's great to believe it. that we have to see both on the same circuit, you can see the difference, half the weight, that is an important point, half the weight for an IndyCar horsepower is reasonably the same, but look at the miles per hour it travels an IndyCar here basically. 30 miles per hour faster on average just because of the weight and downforce.

It's actually fascinating for me to see both disciplines on the same track, speaking of discipline, how about Austin syndrome? He's starting to get away from the field now. He moves away from Justin Allgaier. You know, Syndrich is only 21 years old and we've already talked about his road course successes while looking at Alex Lebay in the '90s. You know, Rick talked a lot about AJ Allmendinger, but Alex, it's not a good job, he already has more than 12 positions me too. I don't think people will be surprised that this is a 27-year-old from Quebec, Canada, who was the 2017 Pity Series champion, that's the Canadian series, they race on a lot of road courses.

We've seen Alex have pace on road courses before showing off. here at a new venue in Grant Six at the Robo last year and remember he is now one of those bubble drivers who are 50th and 15th, 36 points out of the playoffs coming into this race, today is a great opportunity to earn some points on those guys, party, that's exactly the point I was going to make Alex will tell you hey, I see this as a great opportunity for us and when the Xfinity series originally came out with five horse races, he was so excited which now obviously with Koba 19 they don't do it.

I know if it will be five road course races, but he knows that today is a great opportunity for him, since you guys mentioned the top ten at Robel last year. Alex is trying to gain some points on that cut line right now one night if this race gets aggressive. I can promise you that in the Penny Series those guys are aggressive and it's really tough racing, so he has to do what he can. I've seen it done and that series trains you and teaches you exactly how to do it and still keep all the fenders on the car Jeff, did you say if this race gets aggressive?

We've heard from so many drivers who have watched the Xfinity Cup Series, drivers have said, man, these guys are aggressive, there's another guy trying to get into the playoff bubble battle. Jeremy Clements He Yesterday was fast in both practices and was chased by AJ right here, but he also advanced from 21st place just as Lebay advanced with a fast car. Another opportunity for this driver to enter the playoff battle. He's on board here with AJ Allmendinger. A Nutrient AG Solutions Hammer looking at that 51 Clements, you know, the day we talk about drivers and their stories, it's really surprising to me that Jeremy Clements is even in this 51 car in 2004, this is a driver that They almost cut off his hand.

In an accident in a late model dirt car, the driveshaft was proclaimed through the floor, it took more than ten surgeries to repair that hand, a year of physical therapy and this young man was back in a race car, a racer. third generation spoke about his desire to be in Sport returns from horrific accident Jeremy Clements is the father Tony tells me he has all the confidence in the world and if he could put on the best gear he believes he could win, so how Did Jeremy Clements prepare well for this race? Some of the drivers from big teams spent endless hours in professional racing simulators.

Jeremy Clements pulled out the Xbox and said he was a force. He found this track and was playing it even last night. I said: Wasn't it worth it? everything he said you would be surprised how realistic it is, but nothing that was expensive, that other drivers had the benefit of Xbox, that's the next tool that drivers should use, so AJ Allmendinger made that pass, let's go ahead, let's show them this brand racing. new points on the front straight going backwards, we know what I see, right? Motor Speedway, this is driving down the wooded turn one, but it would be turn four on the oval, going backwards down the frontstretch into a ninety degree hard braking turn, why?

We see a great opportunity to pass so much ground. AJ Allmendinger paid right there, then a very slow section, another tight right turn and then this point here, heading five and six is ​​vital because of this backstretch, watch him jump this curb on the right. here on the right side jumped a curb these back immediately go down the back immediately into another heartbreaking song just go back one turns 7 the lefty who establishes another roundabout curve eight to the right passing through the curve By using a lot of curb here, these just broke, the strips turned ten and 90 degrees to the right and then a wide corner, turn 11, always loading that left rear tire, lifting the right front in the air and braking here has to be very crucial because you can slide the right front tire into turn 12 4:13 here, leading to the turn 14 pit entrance just to the right here, grass sweeper, turn 14, but you can't use full throttle here trying to put the power down . the frontstretch is an incredible laboratory in agricultural solutions Oh, 15 Jeffrey Earnhardt has a little smoke coming out of the back of that car, looks like he broke the track bar, yes, exactly, near the casing, you can see the tire left rear underbody.

The right rear tire shows there is a bar across the rear holding it in position, obviously it needs to come loose or break off. You'll have an idea if it happened on the track or not, it's already broken right there so the smoke is more than Probably just from the tire rubbing, you see how much the right rear tire sticks out from the body. It's unfortunate for Jeffery, no wonder you know this track is pretty flat and the curve isn't that big compared to, say, Watkins Glen Road America, some others. age clues you see Jeremy Clements in 51 currently running in 11th position let's listen on the radio seems like the right reader baby I'll push where my brother's smoke is coming from same thing so lefties kinda well they are Speaking of which, when we had the shot From Allmendinger's car, I thought there was some smoke, but I didn't know his was due to the tires locking, it was in different places on the track.

Rick, I can never figure out exactly what came from a three second lead. for Austin Cedric's 22 here at Indy, but an unscheduled stop for Anthony Alfredo and that 21 car just moments ago was a peculiar reason for their trip down pit road. Listen to me, I try, but you, if you can, try to grab it with your left hand here and put it at the end on top, don't worry about the back piece, it's trying to catch on, it's a problem, but try to keep it here as long as you can until Let them start talking to us, if you can try. push it down into the car for now, but it was a pretty long pit stop, they also took the time to repair the car.

Anthony Alfredo, but he needed help from the team members to raise the window net again and now the driver started it. they in the upper world are now scored one lap down, so I'm Josh Williams, I also had some problems on the race track, my lady, at turn 100, she will turn around and come back, also car 36 presses turn 7 stronger and gets into the grass a little. But I have to make sure the grill is perfectly clean of grass debris. You should be fine there. One thing about this racetrack is that there is a lot of runoff here.

You know, even in practice yesterday we saw a lot of cars having problems for the drivers, but no one hit them. anything there a lot of runoff a lot of places to go a little lenient road closures yeah the only concern is the grass on the grid we saw that B could be a problem for a lot of the guys that went off the racetrack in Yesterday's practice comment here if you're on the road course or the oval, any unforgiving D right now as the pace on us and centric is putting Guyver in the lead two seconds overall, more importantly, almost 25 seconds over Alex lebay. and tenth why does that matter Rick as we get closer to the end of this stage and about five lines, six laps in we will see that green and white box in a perfect world you would come to the pits before the end of the stage and have your car repaired .

When the yellow flag comes out, you'll get back to where you want to be, but you'll have to lose about a minute, about 60 seconds getting down to pit road, so if you're not within 30 seconds of the leader, you'll lose a lap. We'll have to see if it turns green there. We have any reports of a yes smoke, look at the left side here. Oh boy, they hit it on the left side and it looks good, that smoke looks like I see. the damage but it looks like the smoke is coming out of the left front tire and its talking about a power steering problem so maybe the smoke is normally fluid so I would imagine a power steering line or pump has broken , that's going to be very, very difficult.

I talked about the differences between racing cars. It is a big, heavy car with more power. It is very difficult to race without power steering. It's physically possible to turn the car, but not be able to run at any kind of pace if I see Jeb off pace. The mentioned strategy and the stops we saw in the IndyCar series three stop strategy works for them, well we see three stops to pretend to stop here. I think you'll probably see two or three caught in that sounds like the playoffs are coming up. on pit road you have to wonder if he's putting fluid on the track and I'm bigger the big difference is Erick the length of the pit stops we see that IndyCar race those pit stops happen immediately four or five six seven seconds It's going to take these NASCAR pit crews to exceed 12 13 14 seconds the a little bit uncomfortable here the driver is away from pit road backwards that's backwards what we would see in a standard NASCAR pit stop we will see the eggs spin to the right here go directly to pit road access right there.

I'm going to talk a lot about access road speed here, to wrap the engine up high. Pit road speed doesn't start until you've turned the corner on this yellow line, not a great situation for Jeff Burton with a mechanical issue, but when we look at the leader pit, we have to remember that driveway. Remember Jim only has a partial search schedule so I am very disappointed in his timing to call every week and we have mechanical issues. Let's follow AJ Allmendinger. All these leaders come. before TIA on stage, do you want to come, Chris, I will create the bumper for you on May 22, 2011.

I worried about her on the 25th. You have to let me know on the 22nd. Chris Rice is the CEO of Peer Racing and speaks of a strategy career. inside the race you heard Chris Rice say: I'm running 22, which means he feels he has a car that can win, which would be fighting against 22. I'll tell you another time doing a good job. Jeff, your son Harrison in this 20 has a great one year win a couple I know it's not meant to be a rope horse race if he's taking it easy here early staying inside the top 10 Oh, more trouble for the 30's 36's Preston starts around but returning to the track without caution four laps left in the first stage, that's how impressive Marta went off the track, he's trying to get her up to fighting speed, yes, he could ever slow her down.

Round II wins, Steve finishes the tough course strategies because these guys get those roads, but you also want to position yourself for a better finish to the race, so it's going to be a bit of a give and take for thesedogs, yes, you have to decide who to compete with, if you think you have a car that can win the race, if you are trying to do it. Earn your points in the stages with many different options, not just strategies as to what is best for your team, but what your goal is. We see that Mini Miller's 78 looks straight off the ground now, this should get everyone into the pits on that tire. ends up on the racetrack and could be rubble if I'm one of the leaders.

I'll call my car into the pits right here if I get the chance, it looks like he's early in his lap and has a long way to go as well. Being able to go back is good, right? Steve, the observers need to see that, tell them a little bit right now, knowing that potentially a warning will come out for that debris that is on the track, yes, state 22 on the track, surprisingly, 18. was in the pits and now the Yellow flag, missed opportunity there, Steve, yeah, so Bryce Syndrich didn't pit as Vinnie Miller tries to lift the 78 back.

Xena, 19, entered the pits. 60 came out of the pits. Have? to confirm that she pitted before the yellow flag came out right, so why does that matter? Jeff, very simply, in a perfect world, you have pulled into the pits under green flag conditions anticipating that yellow will come out, you get in, you can just serve as You stop when you get back on the track, everyone in front of you still needs fuel and tires, so when they came, when they came down pit road in yellow, maybe you're going to restart in front of them, we see AJ Allmendinger's 16 on pit road.

Now, this is a long entrance to pit road, so I don't know if he was already committed before the yellow came out. We'll have to go back and check that that's the key, Marty, and that's what we're going to check. they believe they overtook the safety car or undershot the yellow flag on pit road. AJ had broken into the top ten and drove to pit road. They told him not to stop, so AJ Allmendinger, who drove up pit road, The top ten here are driving down pit road trying to get through before that yellow flag and a couple of cars did that.

Brandon Jones also drove on pit road here, so Rick quickly updates the rules and the oval track. To get to pit road before the yellow flag comes out, if not, you can go down pit road. without penalty. Remember that access road we talked about. AJ probably knew he was stuck, but the problem is, he has nowhere to go, so you. You'll see right here AJ is going to take off to the right and you see the light is already flashing red, it's an unfortunate moment for AJ I didn't know if he didn't see it or thought he could beat him.

I like the bet, but the bet is going to hurt him and what you're going to do, which was that broken white line, is on pit road, he can't get back out of it. We were told that, by the way, not in the series director today, yes, you commit once. you see, you see the car on the left side Minnie Miller with the bright orange nose that is the access road your entrance to the pit lane like this and like that it will be two to start stage one austin syndrich in front NASCAR on NBC they bring it to you a tractor supply company that provides pet food, animal feed and gardening supplies and for credit at a bank, the official credit card of NASCAR, perfect for racing fans, the cars continued to roll around the circuit under caution at the first of the day and at the end of the stage and I know that you have been wondering if they would open the pit road before the end of this stage.

In the past, they have closed pit lane until the end of the stage so that everyone has the same opportunity. We'll see if you open it here. I think we are here and they will keep it closed too. That's a great decision by NASCAR. Basically, it doesn't force the teams to decide whether you have to pit or not, just finish the stage, award them their points and then continue racing until here, which means Austin Syndrich will take his fourth stage win of 2020. You only had three career stage wins coming into this season, so that's pretty important for Austin Syndrich, he already looked dominant in this race as far as stage one goes. but the guy who gets a little closer each lap is AJ Allmendinger, right off the board with AJ.

I have been impressed by his patience. You know, I would have thought AJ would have really attacked early, but the few moves I saw he made. Like he gave up positions, passes that he could have made, yeah, I think he understands that, even though 62 seems like a short race, Jeff, you have to be there, right? You have to have fenders on your car to compete. He's done a good job, yes, that's true, I think. Listen, AJ Allmendinger is a great route runner, he really just runs for fun here, right, no pressure, he pitted, we talked about him, hidden, what that did, it got him back to 12th.

He was running eighth, so he lost four places. Pilar was in favor of taking the risk of trying to make it to the pits and we asked AJ what the difference is between the IndyCar Series and Xfinity cars on the road course. The biggest difference is IndyCar, it's about half the way to an to the ground, an things fall to the ground you're Matt on the gas that thing is digging his car slides with good grip in the corner you get an Xfinity car it's almost like an SUV a minivan still trying to be aggressive with it but that car is rolling, it's sliding the tires they scream, that's basically what it feels like, the difference between an Indy car and an Xfinity car is still the same aggression, still just as hard to drive both just as fast, but a completely different feeling when you're sitting in those two seats.

Brilliant. explanation Marty, I had never heard of an . but one thing that comes into this race is his trust in AJ. He'll admit it's something he struggled with in his career, so Chris Rice told me that he wants to put AJ in more oval races. He said what gave him the most confidence was winning. Atlanta finally got that win on the NASCAR oval and it gave AJ so much confidence in Jeff. You can repeat this. It doesn't matter how long you've been behind the wheel, you get a win, you get confidence and that builds confidence to keep going, plus winning cures everything, Marty. it just confirms that you know how to drive, confirms that you have the ability, confidence for a guy like AJ Allmendinger, that will put a much more dangerous smile on his face even though he won't finish in the top ten, this will be the end. of stage one, so Austin Syndrich will get the victory points that will be awarded to the top 10, so Allgaier Haley Briscoe Gregson Ross Chastain Harrison Burton Alex LaVey Jeremy Clements and Ryan Sieg will finish in the top ten, so Penske wins stage one, that's right behind Austin Syndrich.

Pinsky's No. 22 wheel as Johnson brings out Super Bowl champion Victor Cruz and ninja warrior Jessi Grant to take on all comers to become the next Titan champion, that's the Titans games Monday on NBC, guys they're getting ready to jump the wall here for the pit stops and we'll see everyone with the exception of coming to the pits, right Steve, yeah, I think everyone, all the leaders, will come to the pits, a couple of cars, 19 and 18 , if they serve, they will remain on the court, they will get that position on the court. We're also hearing Allmendinger's 16th while rolling down pit road was caught speeding so we'll have to see what the NASCAR family should be the end of so now it's in the hands of the pit crew if you're this 22 brick team, Rick. you're just looking for smoothness you have the best car you just put four tires on this thing nice and smooth tell him Justin Allgaier led the first few laps here today said he's good at braking but he's losing rear lateral grip he asked for a bag of ice and a drink he said what does heat here meanwhile Austin focused on that bright yellow number 22 is led 18 laps his car is doing everything he wants it to do so he said no changes just four new Goodyear tires partial screen justin Haley says his cars were too tight there in third position, you saw no aggression, a flash in his position below him he is also having trouble putting the car in second gear, we will see where he comes out of the race here, the pit road is deep. having trouble getting it in year two, that would worry me here on road courses like that for Justin Haley, that's very concerning at both ends of the track, both slow sets of quarters in the first and second gear turns, so that the seconds were used a lot since the 11 stagnate.

Oh, and they're stacked, you can't go, this is a tight pit road and now these guys are coming down the back so completely different than normal that it looks like that's Briscoe first off pit road, just like that the narrowest pit lane in the series is also one of the longest and the boxes are really long and easy to get in and out of, but if there is no room to pull out, you have to be careful, you will get a lot of fender damage, damage in the fourth panel, big gains right there by Briscoe and Harrison, they are both at the other end of the pit road that everyone wants and everyone had to stop and that allowed them to ride in front of everyone, which was a big advantage, but Jade Buford's oh seven stops right here, oh, that confusion.

That's where the problem was, so I think Justin Halley did the right thing. If I'm the crew chief calling the 11, you have to concede the car that comes in, you can't go out in front of it. I know he's frustrated about losing spots. but good job, no damage, so pit stops completed for those on the lead lap, as we watch Justin Halley decide he wants to get rid of his water bottle just before the Xfinity Series started at this track here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. ntt IndyCar Series and once again Scott Dixon has dominated to take the win which is two wins in the 2020 season and he joins Mike Tirico and DJ thank you that's 48 wins in his career only Mario and AJ have more they would finish on this way. field race in second place three times in a row, so you definitely told me before I started on the grid that it was going to be a race strategy, the strategy worked for you, today it definitely worked, you know, I think we kind of got into a little hole, I think between the choice of tires, you know, when we looked and saw what came out of how the cars were going to grow or like, oh, we're in a little trouble here, but it actually made us stop early, already you know, it put us in that cycle where we had to commit to making three stops and you know that played into it a little bit later when you know we pitted three laps later, the yellow flag came out and and then we went out of navigation because of the strategy that we had started with, you also know that a lot of the other people that we had to try to pass were still in black, we had the red suit with better grip and we could take so yeah, I don't know, it was just you, we met, you know , down there, walking side by side and you must have given me luck, you gave me a 20 second response, that was quite the story, thank you, by the way, yes, congratulations Scott and I mean, your career has been outstanding, but my question will be directed to the crew chief, but you still had to do the job as you pointed out once you put yourself in a good position to win this race, but that's not the case yet.

Easy, my question is as a driver in the past, when my crew chief helped me get the position I needed, you give him that credit and everything, but does this give him a pass at some point when he is not the right height to do things like that? foot or maybe buy him a couple of beers too, we'll leave it at that, but no, you know, it's a new team for us, a lot of new and different people, my Ken and his first time at this, you know, the PNC comes back with the number nine this year. but it was huge, you know, I think his call between him and Mike, Chip Ganassi, they're all in my booth, so it was a little chaotic, but you know, it's just one of those days where we choose.

It just worked out, you know, and when we have seasons like that, now we start the season with two, one to beat number nine PNC Bank and we have to keep it up and it rains a little bit to get ready to go to the green. What were you watching while you were here watching the last laps of that first stage? Give me your impression by watching the Xfinity cars at the track. I just can't thank you. You know Roger Penske, everyone in NASCAR, Xfinity and the NTT IndyCar Series. how cool it isto see all these categories here in one weekend, you know, there's been a lot of talk about this, you know, there's been a lot of talk about this over the last few years, what could happen, unfortunately, the fans aren't here to witness it. but I just...

Steve, well then rain is an ugly four letter word when it comes to racing. but on the circuits we are going to continue, so if we see rain, this race will continue. You should have a red light in your rear window so all other cars can see you. You should have a windshield wiper that you can attach. You see these grooved rain tires here on your screen and hopefully you'll have them to mist. Remember that these are enclosed booth parties, so vision may be an issue if the rain shows up. Steve, this is where we hope you got your work done in the shop. to prepare for what seemed like a 0% chance of rain today, but you know, yeah, it's raining in the area right now.

The Xfinity Series teams have two sets of wet tires to use today and if NASCAR declares it a wet race, they would come. Come in and put on those rain tires and when you put them on you can lose spots on pit road so the teams know that a few years ago Kelly at Watkins Glen remembers it was two years ago where they had a race in the rain at Watkins. Glen, if it rains, Kelly, you know there's going to be a lot going on, it could be fun, so Brandon Jones takes over the lead for this race in that 19 car when I asked his crew chief, Jeff, meandering what his biggest concern was today, He said yes he said no.

It's just that Brandon has very little experience in the wet, he's not the best road course racer, he said we have a really aggressive setup that just wouldn't work well in the rain and you heard Mike Tirico say there are some drops coming down so this could get very interesting quickly yes, you talked to Rick, you talked about getting the car ready, what would I have to drive? I mean, there are a lot of drivers in this field today and they've never raced in the rain, so if it rains, it will. It will be an important change in this career, a great opportunity to learn, but I'm not sure I want to learn in the fire like that.

Randy Jones on 19 Riley Hurst on 18 now form row 1 as we prepare for the restart. and again the chance of precipitation intensifies as we prepare for the start of stage 2. Jake's Briscoe in here, how aggressive will Jase Briscoe be and at 90 a he can take the lead. He does and here comes Syndrich right behind of you. I'm interested to see how Briscoe does here against Cedric. Cedric has been faster all weekend practice, but Briscoe, those claps on the rope horses, we talked to Briscoe, he said he was focused. This race is a head start, but it runs in the simulator every Wednesday since February.

He's been racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indiana driver goes to Victory Lane at the Brickyard and he talked about his hero when he was here for his first Brickyard 400. The hero Tony Stewart won and he climbed the fence and said, Do I win? I'm climbing that fence. It's the corner just a little bit there in turn 10 passing by 11. Will the 22 try to pass on the inside here? 212 looks in right behind them is Noah Crixus. Oh 98 ma'am again. although in that bar the race track is so slow that he still kept everyone behind me that night braixen told us he's looking for wild moments, he wants to put it all on the line on the track, well this could be a WoW moment right here if takes the lead from these two, but right now the battle continues between big block 98 and 22 right there near Frisco, took the inside lane, there was a lot of debris there picking up tires, monocle Syndrich slowing Briscoe down, keeping Briscoe at bay to Syndrich. go through two, three and four.

Dale Jarrett at the top of the show talked about passing opportunities and maybe the lack of passing opportunities. There are two large areas of hard braking. Both drivers explained it in turn seven. This is one of them. Jeff, the lefty down here, braking hard, just look at that mirror and right now he sees the ash gun trying to sneak around a little bit, mr. as luck would have it the role good road racer experience with water bracelet syndra continues to push it, although in order not to make a mistake syndra's car is fast dozit is removing that line in turn 12 this is water right here before at that moment without identification on the 22nd Oh, he just uses less racetrack, that tells me he's patiently waiting for his chance here.

I'm still impressed with Gregson's nine running there in third. He hasn't let these two get away from him. Great run here centering Briscoe. He knows, let's take that completely away from him, it's Rick's preview and you'll see this in the last few laps, if 22 doesn't have that lead position, he's being pretty patient here, I've yet to see it. my contact with the bumper Not sure it was Oh Oh, a little tire smoke from the '98 locked it in there a little bit to chase Briscoe maybe a little mistake and I met you chase Briscoe Driver from Indiana a racing family his father beat a hundred and fifty sprint car races Briscoe is the 2016 Archer champion, so he has a lot of driving experience through that number, find out what he said at the beginning of the year.

Rick said eight, you needed eight. I don't know where he got eight from. wins but I could have sent my number a little lower boy I put a lot of pressure on myself he's backing it up so with the art from before we see a car turned around with the yellow ones that's Bailey Curie in '74 it's not working . so the warning is out once again and keep the net up, they say the 23 year old from Driftwood Texas is here in turn 13, just before the pit field returns. I would love to tell you that I knew that bundle, but I'm still learning this race track too without the full perspective.

I was trying to figure out which end to use that on, so the crews will get to the 74, probably push it back to pit road and while we take a quick break on the race track, great opportunity. here you are also watching the Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard, something new for the NASCAR of the group. Yes, AJ Allmendinger, he has a lot of work ahead of him again, so not this yellow, but the yellow flag before entering pit road he had to keep going, in short, he was too fast, one of those trips he had to going back, she recovered, so way back in 17th, but she's definitely winning the fictitious prize of passing the most cars, not the prize you won, unless of course she passed everyone who was open and had the right one at the end of the race, let's find out where Rutledge Wood is. this track Rick, I'm just inside turn seven and that's a bit of a misnomer, we said there were no fans here today and in the stands that's correct, but around all these blank turns are the corner workers and every one of them.

Men and women are huge racing fans to the point that they donate weekends across the country to help make sure everyone understands. Hey, there's a place on this corner. You need to be careful. They are very helpful. We want to give them some love. Behind me all observers can also notice. We saw earlier in the Indy car race, there were no spotters here, so here for the NASCAR The highlight of that turn is why they had to add a spotter group here because IndyCar didn't have a spotter here. My strategies: the team leader would be placed as an observer anywhere.

I thought it would be the overtaking zone. I would say Dale and Jeff, you know if your primary spotter isn't there, I'm not going to want that guy to tell you if they're passing you or not, but I'll let you know that there's pressure on you as the driver to have to use your mirrors and decide how much you want. To block you have to have people there that you trust, you know TJ and I worked to get several different spotters at the Indianapolis Speedway we were talking about that week's preview of who we could find who we could catch we trusted who we thought we saw the o7j Buford I have a problem on pit road II, a little bit of confusion because only the inhaler was coming out, he was coming in, they stopped, you know, we mentioned this is his first race in Xfinity, but the American Ninja Warrior is no stranger to the races, it has many races. experience, a 32-year-old from Houston, Texas, has raced in many different series and of course, a couple of times he has competed for American Ninja Warrior.

I think you should do that. You know I'm 51 years old. I'm sure you'd be fine if you came back. for the restart Austin Syndrich with that fluorescent yellow number 22 on the outside, switch flags, wave his Syndrich and chase Briscoe as they will have a drag race to turn number one. Sanders gets a lot of help on that outside line in the braking zone. go side by side and sindrich with the advantage as they have a bottleneck there through one. Cedric has the advantage, it hurts a lot there in the 18th and here comes a grexit again in the nine, you know what advantage you want to be in front, late restart than the 22nd. used outside the first turn, him inside to turn towards Jeff.

In fact, I think it's an advantage and it seems that it did and outside in the rain it went very well. Miette Schneider, in great spirits, is always seventh or eighth for that outside lane, even if you start. Let's look at that again, remember what the rules are, the leader of the race has to start, yes, the smart one first has to launch before the guy in second place. 298, the leader looks like it and it's hard to say I've looked like 98.2. Almost at the same time, but then there is a stubble or something like that in '98 22 to have him ahead. 22 looked like he backed up, but immediately there was a car behind him that wished they could allow him to back up, interested in seeing what they call.

That's the Syndrich who's still out front and chasing Briscoe Riley Hertz. Noah Gregson and Justin Allgaier are in the top five. Hello, everyone is talking about Maya Snyder there at night, now her position at 22 where Henry stock car has penalized a 22. for that restart then Steve passing penalty for the 22 at the start about 35 seconds of study here is the central very annoying claims to be pushed so Jeff you mentioned it so basically the leader divides the field in the restart zone red markers on the wall anywhere from the first five to the last line can speed up, as you can see they are great, and then there are two red lines here surfing outside, here we go, that's another matter, it leads on the wall, the codes are fed up with the defense, it would be a good indication that there is the person there is a second well you talk about different circuits that is something what do you know on some of the ovals the gluten free starting area is very defined for me obviously the drivers knew where they were I didn't recognize what line it was but the leader has the opportunity to accelerate first NASCAR feels clever 2:22 before 98: He's going to be penalized with the doghouse and he often says that nice thing on the radio, he says he was braking, he said 18 was pushing him all the way through that restart zone and at first his crew chief said, hey, we're not going to win. this one, but now they canceled them from serving that penalty immediately, they said we have three laps to serve it, so I like the strategy of not doing it.

It doesn't come because of an argument. I don't think you're going to overturn it, but if you're lucky enough to get a yellow card, you could serve your yellow card penalty, so there's no reason not to wait for your three lands. but he did mention that the 18 was pushing him and that's why he's trying to say, "Hey, I backed off, the 18 pushed me, so NASCAR is now going to take another look at it and make sure they have the right penalty for this situation." Go back and look at it again this is one of those positions I have a plan I'm not a NASCAR official that oneofficer who is in his box you will convey the message here we go again who throws first that is really the question who throws first, that would be there, it is quite clear to me that Syndrich's 22 was the first to throw, he threw first, so that's not what I was supposed to do, that Maddie Gate is the one who goes first, the total dark look. the 18 is right on the bumper to see right here the 22 eighteen on the bumper the 22 is going to lead the bumpers of the late teens and when it starts to leave the bumper right there, that's accelerating that little increase that you saw from '98 which was when the nine hit the 98, so when it wasn't going, but I threw it to be fair, Dawson sitting, I don't know if he could know that, right, he saw that he learned just that look, a little strange movement of the 9, he hit it and Then sometimes bad things happen in races and that could have simply been that he saw that he hadn't sold anything, the 98 moved forward and then accelerated Kelly's seeds here while serving as penalties that already had a lot of ground to make up. what Alonso Rick could express, we are talking about a new facility in the state, so who are the favorites?

Ginger Allmendinger Cinder Tompa Dinger. You have to win well. The two of them have currently defeated themselves. One with a speeding penalty. The other with a restart penalty. I hope to see them both get back up front during the second half of this race, but if you're chasing Briscoe in '98, if you're Noah Gregson's nine, the door has been opened. An opportunity has presented itself. take advantage, so now it's Chase Briscoe who's out front without running aggressively in second place as we go NASCAR non-stop pikes NBCUniversal's new streaming service is packed with hit movies, current shows, sports news and exclusive originals that you can watch free. thank you or join the flock at peaco*ck tv.com still out front is Chase Briscoe followed by Noah Gregson Allgaier running in third Riley Hertz is fourth Justin Haley right here as we ride with him in the leaf filter better protection aboard Haley running in 5th position right now, see the 80 car rally, Hertz stuck him, he left, the crew chief said Ronnie to that live experience road race, um, he's doing great right now, run it for Haley, she has been running very well the whole race, please winning a lot. speed, knowledge and understanding of AJ Allmendinger, his teammate, have been helping him lean these cars while they plan to come here, make the settings work downloaded very quickly, all the cars on his colleague's team or running the chess state weekend also right behind. these guys Justin Haley has two wins and the upper divisions of NASCAR surprisingly keep me one of them from the Xfinity series the other is from the Cup Series got a win at Daytona in a short range race take a look at the wins Xfinity Series teams Kollek Racing right there, third on the list behind Joe Gibbs Racing and Stewart-Haas Racing, say the teams' first few months and then the buddy races that just started recently have been very successful.

Marty Justin Halley in that number 11 white leaf filter Chevy and yes, Rick. You talk about those victories, the first anniversary of his first victory, which is today, so the coach ran out of bread and Jones, the 19th, on the grass, flames coming out from under that car. Ronald, let's go to the track right behind him. that track moderation, turn nine here, they came off the track Colibri now the race car showed up nice, the fire suppression systems on these cars are very impressive because we saw the flames coming out from under that car, look at the tail rear, that color just says To me, there's probably liquid everywhere, Kelly, and look, tell me if this could be related?

But a few laps ago, Brendan came on the radio and said he feels like the car doesn't want to stop when I use the brakes, he says. I don't have faith in them, interesting, I don't know if they're related or not, but maybe it was a mechanical failure that caused an oil leak, maybe it's not an oil fire, maybe it's a brake fire, maybe the brake fluid caught fire, discoloration. the back could just be because of the burnt paint. We're seeing the AMR security team there helping Brandon Jones. Brandon's had a tough couple of weeks. He won that truck, Reese, a week ago at Pocono, which ruined the first lap of the season to secure the playoffs, but he was happy on board. of the tree actually doing all over the chamber here he has big problems the 20 behind him was also very loose in the fall in the nineteen and-yeah so all that discoloration on the tables from the fire you see it wrap that's how the the air comes out from under the rear of these cars.

I think Kelly might be onto something. I wonder if you didn't have a brake failure, if that's not brake fluid or something that catches fire, Jeff, you know, oil, you'd think it would keep burning or burn Bora, there's a ton of oil, five gallons of oil on these race cars, that seemed like a pretty quick flash, like maybe it was Bora, the amount of brake fluid, so they'll hook it up to 19 and take it back to the garage area where the Joe Gibbs Racing team will take a look at what happened there, but Brandon Jones took advantage of his day to see this as an opportunity for Austin Syndrich, you know they had that penalty on the restart, well now with the yellow, the closed fields backed up, maybe he could come to the pits try to do something to get back into this race he is back in 25th position you can see it right there when he brakes he failed he missed his marks and then he never started again he knew he had a problem he can He doesn't know what the shot came from, although he can't tell if it comes from the left front.

No, I think almost you, I don't know brake fluid. You would have so much brake fluid in a hole in front of you. the car i think almost has to be oil, locked the front brakes, yes exactly, brakes, great point, you know what i have learned, regardless of where the fire came from, there is no good ring, it is bad on a break, we'll be right back and The security team just took the 19 and towed it back across the grass and while they're doing that, we'll go to Rutledge Forest. Rick. I was there with the observers, they told me to take a walk literally and figuratively and that's exactly what I'm here now, in front of the museum, something really interesting when Roger Penske bought IMS?

The museum is actually a totally separate entity, it's a 501 3 C charity and it's an amazing place. Take a look inside, just some of the incredible history that exists here and honestly, no matter what kind of racing you're into, there's absolutely something for everyone - seeing the turbine cars really take off, if you're a fan of the old setups offi, there's so much stuff here it's real living history, the vents on some old brake drums or even Larry Bisceglie is an old 51 Chevy and then a 67 Ford that used to be the guy waiting in line to be the first person to get his tickets to the Indy 500. and in 1967 that's what the track gave him to say thank you.

I mean, that guy was a legend just for being a sports fan, which we all know, is the most important part of all this, the museum, me and everyone else. Here at NBC we can't wait for the fans to get back on the track and enjoy it, but wow, it's exciting here today. Kelly, right guys, coming down pit road. Justin Allgaier Pitts from third position. The air pressure setting the team made last time. The corners are too tight and it is considerably light coming out of the corner, so they went back to the air pressure adjustment.

Marty, a long debate between Noah Gregson and Dave Allen all year long. They've been looking for stage points, but Dame Ellen said I think track position is more. important today here they come down pit road giving up those state points in all likelihood taking on four new Goodyear tires as they chase Briscoe pulls up to his stall he asked Greg Zipadelli told him the car was definitely closing in on him but still a little frozen and I feel that in the long run we will be very good and does it Justin Allgaier also wins a strong place at the front of pit road and in the back was Chase Briscoe, wins the race outside of pit road problem for the 19 no, no tricks and a little trip there by the team, it'll be a short sprint to the end of stage 2 here, Indianapolis and a messy lineup, everyone didn't come to pit road, we're looking at a red Brandon Brown Josh Palicki in the first two rows on old tires trying to steal some points at the end of the stage, while the fastest cars, Brisco's 98, Syndrich Allmendinger's 22, the guys we've seen have speed, will be returned to the field , this one has Crazy Rick heading into turn one getting ready to head back for the restart Two to go for stage two Can these guys hold off on some of the tough chargers on new Goodyear tires?

This is going to be difficult, stay tuned. on that bright yellow 22, 98 and seven also right in the middle of the pack running around eight right now so get in one, three, four wide and a lot of contact, all the guys are getting sent off ​on that seven in Josh's 99. Palicki strong contact we see part of the rear bumper of Brandon Brown's 68 almost falling and now it is flying out of the grass I do not respect the yellow still in front is Ryan Sieg here comes Allgaier in that seven a lot of smoke blocking the is located behind him, yes, a one more lap to go, Bob Brisco came to get tires and is already attacking, eyes for the race lead, chases Briscoe back to the sixth spot, a doubt, one of those drivers around that playoff bubble trying to get some stage points here. to hold on to that second place, that would be a big problem for that team, Christos comes from seventh, take the lead, the old seat and there you see Gregson's nine on the grass, all that work he did, now he has to come back. and get all those places back, how did it happen?

Oh, he got hit by 13. Timmy Hill moved him to the grass. Yes, we see the drivers racing side by side. It's like Noah missed the turn. Timmy went inside. away now as you see Chase, Briscoe has the lead on Ryan Sieg again, look for Steve-o, good strategy here, stay out and get stage points, great strategy for the 39 games stage points, we stay in second place , Third, those eight or nine points, can I help you try? to get to the playoffs, you see, the set of all the guys, our dive in at this point, the 39, it was better to let it go, don't get left behind this strategy, all these guys, Brandon Brown, who stayed in seventh place, he stayed.

Tomorrow the Cup Series returns to the NBC bridge. Coverage from the Brickyard begins at 4:00 p.m. This, you can have a historic weekend here in Indianapolis with IndyCar and NASCAR sharing the same track, so we thought we'd do a little comparison. IndyCar NASCAR is a little more expensive to run in the NASCAR Series, both cars, although they have a much different top speed than an Indy car. about 240 miles per hour, why does the NASCAR race car go around 200 miles per hour sometimes, but it's shorter, the Indy car is only 40 inches tall, first 54 inches on the roof, this is the big difference in my opinion, although the weight is almost half the weight of the Indy.

The car now with the new arrow screen had a completely open co*ckpit, now they have that safer Aero screen and as we know a closed co*ckpit area of ​​a full body car, which is usually a temperature issue, we've had that temperature inside Haley's car. You see around 110 degrees which was a problem for Scott Dixon in the IndyCar Grand Prix today the hose fell out of his helmet, which before the open co*ckpitHelmet hoses weren't even a conversation in IndyCar, so they took some stock car technology and tried to pump some fresh air into the helmet of the driver who had trouble with it, which ran a little hot under the helmet. , still ended up going to Victory Lane and we want to listen to Riley Herps radio which I think I've ever seen in my life apparently if you want and put the whole flow on. guys in front of you and then your teammates can use her like an old fish and put her on top so maybe a little frustration and her on top you know when you get back to that group you're supposed to start.

Eleventh or tenth or twelve is like every man for himself and it's crazy how drivers have gotten to the point where they just take whatever line they think they want, they should be on it, there's really nothing you can do but watch everything this chaos. Yes, I saw that contact between 7 and 99 and apparently Riley saw it too. Justin Wow, Palicki crashed into him and ran from behind, so Kelly sees Ryan Sieg in that number 39 car pulling into the pits, he just picked up something valuable. At points in the stage, he hasn't said much about the car itself, although we've heard it, but he's been criticizing himself saying that he's just coming into the corners too hard, which is killing his exit, so which a lot of these drivers are still trying to learn, especially on this new road course Marty Brandon Brown in the middle of the screen, ends up winning five stage points because of that, so they'll come to pit road right here and Michael Annett in One quote, Travis Mac, his crew chief, told me if there's an opportunity.

In order for us to get stage points, we're going to do that, so this is a good option for Michael Annett, who wants to get six stage points for himself. Nice pick up after stage two, these guys that didn't pit towards the end of stage two, got the points now they're in the pits, had a problem with the jack there, couldn't keep the car up Brandon Brown in that 68 to Rick, you asked about the story and you don't see urgency in the 68 car, so NASCAR will consider the The circuit is like a short track, so you know where, I'm glad you still have your fenders on.

We are not worried about the queue. The reason why high speed tracks are. I know it will be hard to believe, but crew chiefs in the past have dropped their tails on purpose because it can be an aerodynamic advantage. I'm surprised by any advantages you guys can find. What a view we've already had and I think the guys who have the best view in the house have to be. Mike Tirico and DJ and his James Hinchcliffe up there with you, yeah Hinch is here, we're all enjoying it, it's hard to believe, with Steve Letarte, it's like a regular feature, we love that stuff, we highlight Steve showing the difference between NASCAR and Indy Car and we mentioned. the Aero screen wasn't any hotter there while you were driving today, you finished 11th by the way, yes it certainly was.

I mean, it's a huge advance in security, obviously, we're all excited it's there, but it brings some new challenges. and the heat, we don't have room in the car for a fan system, so we have a hose connected to the helmet, but it's just a kind of compressed air because of the speed at which you leave the car on a circuit. you go fast, you go slow, the speed is not constant like an oval, so today was a little more of an issue, usually you see in this race here today the two favorites, AJ Allmendinger and Austin Syndrich, both. having trouble making some mistakes put them back into the field the difficulty of coming back through this particular ropes course not many overtaking opportunities no I mean obviously I had a long long straight into turn one but you still have to making it stick I think that's one of the big challenges you can get in these big races, but slowing down these big, heavy stock cars and not racing the high-low guy too much, yeah, that's a big challenge, so getting back on the field will definitely be difficult. for positions on the track it will always be an advantage.

We could end today with a limited season to change the steering wheel for a microphone. We look forward to hearing from you next weekends on NBCSN. I am very excited to have you on the team. I finished 11th today, get ready to go green, we'll reshoot the boys, Mike, you've got a mayor there with James Hinchcliffe, we've got a mayor here with Jeff Burton, I'm telling you it's a perfect situation and Hinchcliffe will be part of the tomorrow's pre-race show with the Woods brothers, so he traded in the steering wheel for a microphone. We're excited about that, seeing the points earned today, just an outlier of 18 points.

Briscoe Haley looks at C horrible at practice yesterday. Today already eight points. Brilliant. day by those guys, great strategy they made it work. I was going to say ring because we have a kind of restart with 20 to go, we talk a lot about strategy, well, here there are no more stages, no more brakes, 20 laps for the trophy once we cross the line, there will be nineteen to go and we return to the final stage at the Annapolis Motor Speedway circuit. Road Course Briscoe on the inside trying to take advantage of that line. Allgaier dives right into his side panel, innately Jerris gets burned there too.

Right here in the mix in front of Syndrich, having a good day, I haven't mentioned much about it, but 93 and Snyder up there are also running for the RSS, the Sikh family team this week has a full schedule, but it's for different teams. There she is, right behind Justin Haley, look where, excuse me, Maya Schneider running in that fourth position at the teen party. Look you see the sixteen, that white number sixteen, that's AJ.Allmendinger, it took him a long time to get there, Hazard never turned on Schneider and a NASCAR euro Series last year, a lot of road courses with that right on all the road courses, no They're leaving here, they've earned the ace, yes, they definitely gained valuable experience during that trip abroad. for Maya Maya she did a good job today, she moved up 26 position to 11th in the first stage and got a couple of points in the stage.

Second stage, let's see that 22 follow the plan. Snyder, climb down, he's chasing AJ Allmendinger's 16, let's go through all our containers go around the front immediately coming out with gears third year now in fourth year hard braking downshifted use those gears slow the car down now see Austin centered right behind him and Austin knows he needs to try to get around AJ if they take the lead he's long gone, you won't pass AJ if he takes someone who takes the lead. 22 is the only option here, I think it's being able to get around AJ as he tries to get through this traffic on the backstretch to turn seven, just a little bit.

Kinda, look at this whole section here, I'm going to leave it, he actually changed gears, the wheels don't turn at low revs, other drivers' seasons go through their first year, he's in his second year, maybe he does it because you know , the cars turn well enough not to eat. Oh, looking at you sliding back, you turn 11, which makes us hell, but if we go, he'll be on the inside here, he'll run to turn 12 13, this is where he has to revise a little to get a good run . Again, this right here wasn't asking for a good forward momentum to happen right now.

Haley knows Medina will look for 80 tribes with him. What an eccentric novelty it is a chance for him to get around Haley or not. Does this look like this right here? It's going to be a place where you really can't get past Haley's painting. We'll go over it throughout this section right now. The goal is to get a good forward momentum leading six, so back here just a little big run here trying. to beat him to seventh place, but hey, they have very good speed from six, go see it all in mod stock, more race action approaching with just 14 laps to go at the Pennzoil 150 at Brickyard, still out front, their chase Briscoe Jepson will be filling in for Jimmie Johnson has been out since testing positive for kovat 19, so this could be the perfect doubleheader for Dustin.

We talked about his road course prowess. He's won three times, don't forget two years ago he won the Xfinity Series race here. at the Brickyard and that was on the big mobile, so he certainly showed that they can do it on the big oval too. It hasn't been the perfect season for Marty and they are looking for this weekend to be the time to change things. with 17 and is trying to hold on to that second position while AJ Allmendinger talks about chasing Briscoe and asks Brexit Fedeli and observer Tim Fedewa what I do running hard to save the tires is the radio conversation Jace Briscoe is the pride of Mitchell Indiana he team to the 99th race of the Indianapolis 500 and ran into a security art friend, the security guard said, hey, don't go kiss the bricks he knew, chase him, he says, this driver car, Brett, chase it, you know what I'm going to delay that? maybe one day he will return here as a driver would never have dreamed he believed he would be an Indian 14 to go and the chance to kiss dicks on his own for second place now in the hands of AJ Allmendinger so the gap has increased.

It's been closed to Allmendinger, one of the best on road courses running second, then it comes back to Allgaier with Austin syndrome, the top four right now and of course four of the best on road courses are running in front, a little clean left for AJ, compared to our leader crag Crisco runner 91 12 the last lap AJ was a little slower but passing Justin Algar these are for the better, they have won six of the last seven Oh, turn up the hours in the twenty to enter the curve. 12 Hello TC, then complete the flow part here. I'm sure if it did a lot of damage to the tire, it certainly won't affect the car's handling every time you puncture one of those tires, yeah, since for a long time it did drug it up a bit.

I don't know about these tires. I find that some tires are more susceptible to punctures than others. Yeah, I talked to some crew chiefs after the first practice, we saw a lot of tires lock up and they said the denier actually held up pretty well, you know? On some tracks, when you lock that tire up a little bit, you just shave the rudder and put a flat spot. Any round tire can make you vibrate, impair handling, or if it gets severe enough, the tire could crack, but these tires are a good year. I've brought this weekend not only before, well they seem to be very durable for that flat spotting issue while the senior style is really aggressive right there but I needed to hear just 13 laps to go it doesn't look like it's getting to that section very. well right there just look at it to see if those tires are going to have a lot of balance issues just on speed it looks like it may be oh we have a problem here the Mike Wallace zero is there that's the zero of a Moffatt footprint with boffin you also see some damage to the right rear quarter panel in the O2 they are going to continue taking another book the rats breathe into my clothes they go down the curve, it's too deep it seems to tear the wheel hub around the dryer from the o2 talks about breaking ten we break for NASCAR and Fortune's motocross accent Brett Moffitt broke both his legs in a motocross accident he was able to recover to get back into a race car, but if we asked ourselves how do you know what they'll feel like? those legs after a long day on the road course there's a bit of a gap between 22 and 7 now as it looks like Austin Syndrich has filled it in to see if he has a flat spot on that right front a little further back here on the lineup as We go back to Harrison Burton and Harrison Burton currently running in the paint position right behind him.

Riley herps as we watch the Toyota driver update. Branigan tobik in position 14. I would say Harrison and Riley, their main goal here today is obviously to stay on track. get good results but continue to improve you know Harrison is in the playoffs so he will take on the role that he will have to play in the role playoffs so Andrew Force Express and continue to improve is going to be really important for this championship and us. You're going to NASCAR non-stop once again, you won't miss a thing, as Briscoe, trying to keep all the diggers at bay, saw the yellow flag on NASCAR non-stop, the 44 Tommy Joe Martin was putting a lot of fluid in the smoke track.

On the way out we saw an axle that is in the front section, so obviously there is a problem there, yes, the first piece of debris was the entire left axle and then from there the oil from the operating grease came out, so you can see when turn this corner here. Focus on the left rear tire and you will see a hole where the axle should be. You'll see a lot of fluid coming out of that spill on the race track, so right in the center of the left rear tire you can see that. hole, yeah, I guess the shaft comes out right here on this curve to theright, yes, and to be clear, that's on the front straight, yes, so it's gone all the way around a race track, with some cover on the rear, which means that gray-ingred rear could be everywhere before this yellow appeared.

The question was, could Briscoe hold off the Allmendinger Center in Briscoe was running some great laps? You know, we always talk about road courses being a race for track position, but guys, you know, Noah Grexit came to put on tires and drove through the field to sixth position, so Marty, the question needs to be pondered. by these top team leaders: do you need tires for this short sprint to the finish line? Yes, if you look up the crew chief's playbook with a Nine to go, which is essentially when they get back to the line and what seems like a very long cleanup, I would tell you to stay out, but everyone saw the that Noah Gregson did and you're talking about almost a three-second drop. -He trails off and laughs, so it's been a while since they were on pit road, so I think these leaders will end up going down pit road, what would you do crew chief?

Oh, I'd stay on the track, there's no doubt in me. Keep in mind that with Briscoe AJ Allmendinger or Austin Syndrich there is no way I am giving up those top two rows. We saw the chaos. I mean, they somehow made it through those corners when we put car seven on the curbs and two and three beat it wide. and the hitting will only continue, we're not sure these last eight or nine laps are going to be under green, we could see another yellow, there's no way I'm giving up track position at this point, there are 30 cars in the lap leader, yes, even.

If you run 10th, 11th, 12th, it would be difficult to fit in from there, plus there are so many cars still on the lead lap, which makes the decision much more difficult, okay, so we see the guys take a little respite, we'll take one. Also, I want to talk to Junior a little bit about what's happening on July 15th on Peaco*ck. He has lost the Speedway. It seems like you've been traveling all over the country. Yes, we know we've been passionate about abandoned racetracks for over a decade and we want to. To make a TV show about them and learn about them, NBC was able to help me do that and you'll be able to watch Lost Speedways Al Peaco*ck, which is NBC's new streaming platform on July 15.

We are very excited. Wait, do people on the show we've been dreaming of doing this for many, many years think? Here you saw the King there, quite old, I wouldn't want to say drivers from yesteryear, but many boys who ran. at racetracks that don't even exist anymore, yeah, I think there are strikes that I didn't even know about and we go in there and we learn about the legends that raced on them because of those guys and we also learn about what those tracks meant to those communities. very funny let's get to Rutledge Rick not mentioning Matt Dill there will be such a bright star on that show.

Can't wait, Dale, but guys, we've been using the NBC Racing Weekend hashtag online and a bunch of fans wrote in them. I asked a great question that I want to ask the drivers and Steve as well, but they are asking with the cars going in the opposite direction today and the rubber that both series have put on is the one that will work either way tomorrow, will it have that grip? It would be weird because it was placed in the opposite direction or that doesn't even matter. Everyone wants to jump over the drivers. I see them looking at me, so I have their pain.

I don't think the grip will change, although it may come. and see a little bit when the cup cars move away from you towards NASCAR, one that could be an area where there may be some cleaner areas on the racetrack, but I'm not sure it's going to make a huge difference for the oval. They will know it very quickly on this arrow, without practice or anything else, they will just drive there and the drivers will have to trust that it will stick. Fortunately, the maximum load areas in turn one and turn two of the oval are not.

It's being used where they're actually going to test the grip, the lateral grip of the car should be good, so you know, I made the decision or I took the opinion that I would stay on the track, we're hearing a lot of chatter. Of the leaders who can end up reaching the pits, Allmendinger's 16th and Syndrich's 22nd, so the most difficult position to be in is 98th because I think that if he stays out then 60th and 22nd may think that it is the only chance to beat it if the 98 pits were 16 or 22, so let's see here, let's find out, look at this, someone is going to have to stay on the track.

I imagine that further back on the field. Oh, Gregson arrived. and had five laps on newer tyres, should have stayed well at this point, didn't stay out of it enough as the whole field pitted, new tires will be the decision, now what the pit crew can perform when it matters most. Kelly, well, we saw Austin. Syndrich said he smoked that right front pretty hard when his crew chief, Ryan Wilson, asked him if he wanted four tires, he said he'd love them and water. He also said that the bright yellow 22 car is too tight and doesn't turn well at low speed, so he'll go in now, bring those good racers who drink the bottle and they'll send you back.

Marty AJ Allmendinger and Chris Rice remember that they are just here to win the race, so they want to stay on offense. with four new Goodyear tires and how about Greg Zipadelli in his last race from the bench replacing the suspended crew chief on the side where they ban us, they come to the pits and they're going to run four tires here. Chase Briscoe said my thinking is much better. In the longer race, I don't know what we're going to have for the short race, squeeze me. I guess I put four tires on pit road and the dinger came out second and as they come off pit road I get back into the race.

So this show started with the drivers talking about who they thought were going to be the favorites and it just so happens that Chase Briscoe put his name in the hat but we've got everyone AJ Allmendinger up there Austin Syndrich is up there Justin Allgaier is up there Well drivers, Who do you think we only have a few laps left to go? Man, the gloves are off, going into turn one on this restart, everyone's been pretty nice most of the day, that's coming to an end right now. I see a lot, someone will come out of that corner and be very happy because they will be in the lead, the rest those guys will be really upset, I don't know who it will be, maybe he will chase Briscoe, I think if he can take the lead, his car doesn't have that initial race speed, but if he can maintain that lead for about three or four laps, seem to adapt and run times comparable to AJ Allmendinger in the rest of the field, everything is going to get better.

I know who can make this restart, Jr and I We've been in these late race restart positions at all the circuits and it's chaos, you'll expect chaos in turn one because in turn one you almost come to a complete stop so we're all now going to try to break each other to be in the doors of others. Whoever comes out of there with the advantage will become very aggressive, obviously not the best opportunity to win this race. Okay, team leader, you mentioned the word chaos, how do you maintain it? Your driver is calm for these last few laps.

Well, I think at this point it really depends on what you're here to do. Everyone wants to win the race, but there are some drivers I have to worry about points for. We know AJ Allmendinger is only here for The Trophy Syndrich has said several times that he believes road courses are his best opportunity overall. The disaster. We started the day talking about a great day of racing on a July 4th holiday. IndyCar and NASCAR Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I didn't know what this road course was. I would run like it was amazing. I applaud Vine, they brought a tire and these drivers want to come and get tires in the last laps.

We haven't seen that before, so it will be a short ride to the finish line with bumps and bumps with the old guys. tires starting at the front remember the new tires are at the front we heard and there's a penalty right here from Justin Allgaier at the top of the screen removing the equipment look to see what comes out of the pit box with car 7, there you have it, catch the air hose there it was, let's listen to the radio and things happen that fast as this signaled us this part of the race too late. 2000, I also rode, so Harrison Burton takes 220 to the pits as we go.

Ready for the restart again, lots of cars out front here, well four of them now that they're in front of the guys that were just on pit road, partisan weathermen on the front row with seven laps to go at Indy, watch Briscoe in line. three would see me Matt Frank, a lot of these guys in the confusion, which is that one sigma position line display to do that again, all the diggers there too and now look at the energetic fan to the middle five wide six behind him, big move for Briscoe, right in the middle, broke everyone.

It's amazing to be a race-winning move. Allmendinger is in second place now that they have worked their way through these right fins. Look at Syndra, how much she's hanging behind. these cars did nothing wrong just on the wrong line, who has the initial speed here? AJ or Briscoe, so I think sixteenth showed that the new tires have been his advantage during practice. Rob got bored with 16 right here, an update of Harrison Burton's 20. we heard it was a loose wheel that's why I came to the pits look at him close with the brake 98 all over the rear bumper because the leader is looking in now he can't get there Briscoe pulls away AJ Allmendinger making a very A weird mistake there Briscoe has two lengths of car now has the speed, even though it's clearly faster right now he chased the back of that car right there, you see him loose in turn 11 and it's as he goes down left turn 13, Allmendinger closes the gap, what can he do? do?

Now, when he goes out on the frontstretch, the key is where he is best, since Kody Vander Waal, one of the 19-year-olds in the field and we went green with six laps to go, damaged the rear screen of the place just when someone Tesla In bay number 90 comes Syndrich trying to surpass Gregson. This battle for third place is important. These two leaders come together, but a third could be the winning move, side by side, for that third position. There will be frustration here at the end of this race. Syndrich will put. the buffer for him, look in trying to pull, because a big move from the sender right in front of the two forwards running for one and for Briscoe and all the diggers that is sin now, who has put Gregson in fourth place, Briscoe.

It has to be perfect AJ is so good that it looks like the area of ​​the track where the 90 is actually a little bit better than the seven eight nine quarter complex looks like the other end of the track. I think Allmendinger is better, the car on board is better now. one thing, the plastic, another, the almond, Ingrid has to improve on one of these curves that lead to a straighter road, that is the key to achieving the lap time is one thing, but passing a spell that saw light there , Allmendinger in the car was not connected, so let's go.

Briscoe has a big gap on him in this braking zone, so there's not enough horsepower here at the track right now and well, they'll continue in the Breeders Cup Challenge series after this race and we're still seeing that battle. for the lead, Briscoe still has a lead of about two car lengths over AJ Allmendinger in 16th as we watch this battle for the lead. Justin Allgaier has battled back to 11th after that penalty with a pin team so it's a great car for 7th, it has to be too little too late but he should be able to get back into the top 10 recovered so Allmendinger passed through that section very well and closed the gap.

This right here is just kind of a fake move. Sammy, I can see you know what it is. there, yeah, can't you look in the mirror, but look at this inside? Does he make the move? Do you put the bumper on it? No, Brisco still has to go. Bob Brisco missed the entrance there and here comes Almond Meyer Albany, are you? He couldn't capitalize going into turn 11 so much pressure on Chase Briscoe trying to be perfect he's taking Chase off the line he's having to block a little bit that's brought 22 right into this battle he's just hitting his marks right here, just stick to your marks This is not a newly created overtaking zone for this last section here comes Austin Syndrich with 22 or blocking here chasing until the breaks all the commotion in four remaining laps it's great to compete with the three best drivers, the three cars Fastest all weekend, right? here, fighting for the victory, look there, Frisco goes a little out of line, but now Allmendinger, this is his job, it becomes more difficult for him because if he makes a mistake trying to make the move, the chicks are there to take the second place, then, withHow often should it be done? be more selective and win, he makes his move on a run to five and six to set up a pass down here at seven, but man we just need to put pressure on Briscoe, justice, we are a strong man, he is brilliant, owning this, says that. block to the right, get on the right side now just get on the old line here just line up in the corner that stand where you didn't need to miss it's just not a passing zone just shows you how hard they're pushing to the limit now consider that pressure AJ, look at me aggressive with the bumper, that car will sink on contact or contact if they cross the track to prepare for the grass 14 cliffs praying for more contact, it has brought him back to the race, remember one time Indrid said no he knew what the schedule would be in the future, this road course means so much more to him he is so good on road courses he needs his win here, syndra keeps the pressure on, he has to stay on the rear bumper this one Car 16 can't let AJ Get some car lengths with no comfort.

AJ just pulls away very slowly through this section of track, nice gap right there. AJ will look at the beer and think it's just what he needed but he didn't need it. There are less than three laps to go and the top four are separated by less than a second to win here in Indy and a three becomes four Noah Gregson in nine is now on the rear bumper of 98 any mistakes any accidents as part of the track and fit into the fastest part of the track for AJ Briscoe and then the 22 car didn't make things easy for Cedric in the second defining question of this road course in Indianapolis.

I think that has been answered. I ran a great race in 3:12. Here comes the 22 What's the bumper you give AJ Allmendinger? Right, Artie, bumper, he knows you can feel it good. Be on your side Briscoe, three wide on the frontstretch. I'm a bigger attempt to block per second. They are next to each other. AJ will have to rent. blue here Briscoe trying to make three wide Frankie no he hit him hard on the counter attack he takes the lead here comes the 60 back on the outside everyone just ran him across the grass you can send him in your time I mean it was an amazing mood this race ain't over though smoking on the right side was briscoe momma dinger not happy with that move i can promise ii he may have a problem 22 a lot of damage still right in front he's working on a car in the back before i try to see if he has all four tires on, let's get him off the track, he'll take second place AJ Allmendinger drops back to third place now Justin Haley takes that spot from him this battle rages sixty-one gives you Frisco's 98 now he's got a 10 Carl Akeley Come on the white flag those two guys hanging against each other had obviously damaged their cars Chase Briscoe we heard he had a friend who worked here as a security guard he used to let him sneak into the garage so he could hand out business cards and now he's running and he's out front of all the local pressures and his spotter tells him he has no pressure with one lap to go presented by credit a bank trying to win the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Rick, told us that his first memory of the Brickyard was watching Tony Stewart win the Brickyard 400 , the kids repeat, another driver from Indiana won for Brickyard in second place, Noah, of course, there, in turn, one gives up second place to Haley, so Haley is now second Noah Gregson, third AJ Allmendinger back and forth and a smoking 22 from Austin.

Cedric is fifth, there you can see the gap between 1 and 2, the biggest fight on the track now for third place, what a race to chase. Briscoe earlier in the year said he thought he needed eight wins to reach the top series. of NASCAR, which is the Cup Series, he has four victories and is already looking for victory number five today and it could be one of the most important. He calls this his home track. The kid from Indiana has been up and down this season, bring him home here, bring him home. the words that play on the radio for Jace Briscoe the first race of the of hanging on and never giving up after a mistake, it looked like Chase Briscoe was offside, but then he broke through and took the lead.

NBCSN will return on Saturday, July 18 from Texas Motor Speedway and as we just saw. The best racing is the celebration and it's getting so good here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Chasing Briscoe, his fifth win already in 2020, only one driver has done better in these few races: Sam Bart in 1984, who took six wins. 13 races, but chase Briscoe really dominating right now in the NASCAR . makes you the king, they just make those guys over there absolutely love you, yeah, at a time when the third touching moment is right at a time when everyone is expected to work so hard, here we go.

I told you like she knows about Tony Stewart's victory now that he's won with Tony, crew chief Greg Zipadelli, and they're going to climb the fence. Oh, watch out for the fence, man, he told us that if he won, he was climbing that fence, it wouldn't keep him away, you just don't see the drives. So often, it was incredible. I thought it said AJ and Syndrich got in front of him. I thought it was about two. Those two guys. We thought about it all week, but man, he came back and took it away. He just does it.

I don't see things like this happen every day, the sport is incredible, what he has done today and this whole year has been an incredible year for Briscoe. What a dream come true today, to be able to win an Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He spent so much time in the simulator. He tells us that in February, when he found out that this race at this circuit was going to be part of his schedule, he immediately went to the simulator every week that he spent time working on this circuit and it was definitely worth it, yeah . I mean, I thought guys would just be ramping up to send time this week.

He told us that he has been at this track since February. An incredible party. What a boost for Mitchell. Indiana. Stacey Briscoe. You told us you were doing everything you knew. I'm not kidding, you know everyone knows I grew up. You know my hero and racing was Tony Stewart and I drove him. You know, watching him win the Brickyard and that was always the defining characteristic of him, so you know, he just wanted to do it. and obviously it's not the same prestige to win on the oval, but you still want apples. Motor Speedway doesn't matter if you are racing on the oval, on a road course, on a dirt track or even in the parking lot especially when you win here and I grew up coming here all the time with some people thinking I just won here, very happy to get in High Point Commons what you are putting again and I am tired of climbing the fence that will take up a lot of my time. significant victory of your career, yeah, I mean, from a personal point of view, you know the Darlington deal means a lot just because when it was happening, but you know I've dreamed of coming to this racetrack and it's to race here to win .

Here's a label I can't put into words and you know all of our sponsors in victory lane driving for Stewart-Haas at Indianapolis. It doesn't get any better than that, which would make it even better. The fans, the Indiana native who wins, chase Briscoe. a winner at the Brickyard and what a day he told the Indy star yesterday, this place has so much history and heritage that just a race here is a privilege and now he won here guys. I think we saw aggressive racing but we saw determination in Chase Briscoe determination and great rates. Tomorrow there will be a big IndyCar and Xfinity race in Indianapolis on scooters in the NBC Cup Series races from the Brickyard in the coverage we will have at 4:00 p.m.

Next up in the East is horse racing, the Breeders Cup Challenge series live from Belmont Park. Congratulations to Chase Briscoe.