eage with those race cars very interesting insight there from all see canals but yeah so stage two is just complete one more stage to go what do you do you think that this I know we've been seeing a lot of aggressiveness out of these drivers from the get go but do you anticipate this is where things really start to ratchet up because it's it's go time right the gloves come off right here and this is where guys get wild so the green flag will drop for this next stage the brains will go out the window if they haven't already which you can argue with race car drivers that they weren't there in the first place uh and we're all I wasn't going to say that I'll say it I used to turn the motor on and I forget who I was you know it's Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde I I'd like to believe I was a relatively tame person till that race car fired up and all of a sudden I became this just vicious vulgar competitive spirit comes out a lot of things I didn't want my mom to hear on that radio I can assure you of that radio active radio active didn't exist when I was doing the majority of my cup racing I'm thankful for that I had a number of car owners threatened to uh to cut my radio off you're like the most even keel person it's hard for me to envision that but I know you have out of the race car I've changed I had to I had to chill out a little bit you know I had kids too you have children I had children that's right I don't you know I don't want to well I'm gonna leave it at that yeah yeah but it's uh but but the in terms of the racing it's it's gonna pick up it's gonna get crazier I know me coming into the day I felt like we'd see a relatively clean race until about lap 120 to 130 roughly then you start trying to position yourself for that final run of the race and and that's when it gets a little bit crazy a little bit wild and you have to worry about what the guys around you do how big the moves are that they make and how they're gonna make those moves that's gonna be exciting to watch but I feel like this race has been moving along pretty quickly you never know when you come here it could be six hours it could be four hours it has you know when we look at the speeds I know it's only a second a lap but but the speeds that we are turning that much quicker they they add up after you know after a good amount of time and 200 miles an hour plus still in a number of instances on the racetrack here yeah well I know we talked to Michael earlier obviously he was out roving the infield and he said that he wanted us to check back in with him when hey we found another spot in the infield I wanted to show y'all I really appreciate you guys giving tribute to my brother thanking him for the memories boogity boogity boogity's on the back straightaway here you guys saying saying hello giving my brother a shout out thank you so much for that how you been how long you've been coming to Talladega actually we started in 85 twice a year I started in 86 my first race was the 86 race in the spring qualified it 203 miles an hour some sort of stuff in an old Pontiac and it looked like I was riding on a paint can we didn't have much uh much of an interior in those things but you've been here ever since huh yes sir twice a year and uh you were telling me just now 20 some years ago we shared a moment together absolutely we was in the bathroom over on pit road and Michael now don't don't cut there they're they're they don't cut there keep there's a lot more to this story I promise Michael's tried to help me find my contact we were unsuccessful unsuccessful but I appreciate his help well I appreciate all y'all coming out to NASCAR I'm on Talladega Boulevard during the daytime and I'm not sure there's ever been a picture made on Talladega Boulevard during the daytime most all that stuff happens at night how are you sir I'm fine Michael how you doing I'm doing well yeah we we already took a picture of it and said thank you to you fellas thank you dad very much I've been coming for 44 years not give anything have your way well 44 years you've been wow 48 because this is the hundred this is features 50th year 100th race at Talladega and you've seen 96 I've seen them all that's awesome thank you thank you for being a NASCAR I'm a NASCAR fan all these friends all the people in Talladega Boulevard are my friends that's awesome boy let me sign your hat and we're gonna hey an old Ty Dillon he won stage one in the GEICO car it's the GEICO 500 maybe he gets the victory I might give you a hundred dollars I ain't got a hundred dollars I don't know if you know this or not but I spent all my money on race cars and women and then I and then I just wasted the rest yeah I got a ride down the Boulevard I'm gonna show everybody at home the Boulevard and I'll ride back by and collect my money yes sir yeah all right appreciate y'all where's your school bus well heck I'll sign us all shucks oyster bar I've been there let me run site let me give me a second here I'm gonna run sign his school bus and then I'm gonna take you on down the Boulevard and show you some of the unique campsites that we have here so guys over there Regan Caitlin stay with me let me have this for a bit I know we're at stage break so not a lot's happening on the track the teams are getting ready for the for the run to the checker so I'm gonna come over here and sign this school bus hey man how are y'all good to see you this school bus has been modified yeah it's got a camper got a place to sleep you got a pen what me you want me sign it inside yeah hey listen I'm gonna go in and sign and sign this bus if I don't come back out please come in and get me I really need really really need you hey look we got one rule in here and I think this is a solid rule you can't be drunk and get on this bus all right here I go I said it he said it's the only rule and ain't nobody paid any attention to it yet all right let me sign this I want to sign it right here above Austin Dillon I appreciate y'all coming out to the races this is awesome oh yes sir we're streaming live on caffeine it's a live stream and we're on Facebook and Twitter and so uh maybe your friends will see you appreciate you go Clint Boyer all right yeah is he drunk no no I can't drink it's not allowed no Dale Michael just as good as you are and I wish you come in and see you just like he did thank you very much Michael love your brother thank you for all you do that's awesome I really appreciate the fans thank you so much appreciate seeing you I tried to I stole this pen will you yeah give it back hey dear how are we all all right we're going to make our way on down to Boulevard Caitlin Regan uh hey who y'all pulling for I got Kyle Larson no I mean I really got Kyle Larson he's right here see y'all later come on Kyle I thought somebody took our keys so we're uh cruising the Boulevard some of the sponsor folk out here this is a nice bar hello sir I like I like your uh oh man smells great I like your bar let me have one of those I'm gonna have that later that looks so appetizing man where y'all from everywhere where how'd you tow all this stuff in here here yeah yeah well I think it's awesome y'all here thank you we're on Facebook on caffeine so if uh if any of you aren't supposed to be here please turn around because well please turn around somewhere else yeah all right thank y'all so much I'm gonna take this lobster with me oh it's kind of hard to steer with the lobster okay bye dear so uh you see a lot of cornhole games you just see this is a community I'm gonna use this as like our hood ornament there we go there we go look at that fella you see so many families uh friends what about the guy that has been here for 48 years that is incredible and just so thankful uh to to to be able to say hello to Daryl that meant a lot to me these people here have built a uh looks like a Christmas tree and uh there's old Denny Hamlin hey man how are y'all some of the some of the some of the experiences that are had here or talked about late at night you know craziness hello brother but what I love is seeing just good folk enjoying company of their friends hey how's it going where'd y'all get that pride at so so many people just enjoying a day at the races this is what it's all about if you haven't been an ass car you really need to come out and see it from the inside and out because it's quite the experience how you doing brother maybe uh maybe not too close oh wait a minute gotta get over this way that's the crapper the crapper trip I mean we we are digging all the way into the details you gotta have that stuff what do you think it's gonna do just go away it ain't gonna decompose in a weekend I can promise you that so uh I'm gonna throw it back over to the garage area and uh we're gonna get ready to race to the checkered flag stage two is over it's time to regroup and get ready to see who's gonna win the Geico 500 and uh Regan Caitlin I'll be there in about 15 minutes I hope perfect we will be timing him 15 minutes I hope Michael is nice enough to make sure whatever the beverages are that he was getting passed out at different times there and the lobster and everything else back for us break some back for your co-host come on Mikey don't leave us down I got a little nervous that the very first interview you did right there on that segment and then the very first fan he was talking about took it right to the bathroom almost immediately and any story of somebody in the bathroom with Mikey I yeah I'm like oh boy where's this going so I'm glad he cut that off immediately either I'm sure there's young ears but uh but fortunately for us he got this back to us right in time to start this second stage and these guys are getting ready to go green and as we've talked about this is the moment where business picks up and guys get a little bit wilder and all of our cars are still up there look at I see uh Kyle Larson now moving to the front so we've got some good picks today this is a professional broadcast right here look at us and we pretty much I did a lot of homework before I made my pick as did you and Michael evidently absolutely and I don't know if CJ did his homework but I know I'm supposed to be checking in with him our resident social media expert what's going on CJ oh absolutely so we uh didn't want to give a quick update about the Coca-Cola racing family of drivers how they're doing here in Talladega today and of course unfortunately two of them uh already headed home as right now we have Denny Hamlin and Bubba Wallace they are out of the race right now Joey Logano leading the charge he is currently third here at Talladega and then taking a look at yeah no he's not that my my leaderboard did not update sorry about that don't know don't know why my my my scoring is completely off now so I did do my homework let's check this out as we uh scroll through Larson right now leading the charge he is third out on track Austin Dillon right now running in seventh so we'll wait and see the leaderboard coming back here I'll defend my man CJ just a little bit uh the board's having a difficult time updating for us and it's actually cutting the positions are being cut off of it right now we can see the order they're running in but you gotta count up each of the cars so I know CJ doesn't have his shoes off and socks off so it's a tough time for him to get to 20 but we'll defend him a little bit all right so I think now I can see the board we can do this taking a look at your Coca-Cola racing family leaderboard right now Kyle Larson leading the charge he is in third and then we have Austin Dillon he is also running inside the top 10 right now nope it cut that off too so no positions I apologize guys I will get I will get an update Austin Dillon right now in sixth there we go Joey Logano in 12 all right and they're cutting them off fours again well the other thing you have to remember when we are at a speedway race the scoring monitor updates frequently and it's a non-stop adjustment every time they cross the start finish line the official scoring position changes but as well as on the race track the scoring position changes as they're running and I'm looking at the at the monitor in terms of our race broadcast on Fox we're seeing speeds right now today that we have not seen all day I just saw some 203 204 some big numbers popping up on the board right there as we go through all this and we mentioned that guys were really going to start to show their hand and see what they had right now that's exactly what's taking place in a big moment on that restart Kyle Bush and and I believe he's taken and then dropped to the back just a little bit since this happened he got a little bit of a shove from behind in the middle of turns three and four that car jumped sideways in the front of the field and and he had one of those moments where he's pitting for four tires and perhaps a new clean pair of underwear after that just took place well you were talking about the speeds we see Chase Elliott our leader running 202 right now I've done a driving experience at Charlotte Motor Speedway I did 125 and I thought that was fast and that's really pathetic how cool is that about our sport but how cool is that that you can go hop in the car for the driving and I remember when you did this this was on race up it was it was a proud moment for me did you I thought you won that you didn't win that oh gosh maybe you were a little bit off the pace well I was going to sell it that you want it we should have just gone with that and we were going to talk about your driving abilities Katelyn but but when you guys did that how cool is that about our sport and and I don't know that I can't ever go experience what it's like to jump off the ground and dunk a basketball I physically can't do it it's not going to happen right but the great part about NASCAR's is people can go hop in a race car with these driving experiences and they can experience what it's like to go 130 140 150 miles an hour sometimes even faster than that depending on where they are and that really allows you to relate to what a race car driver is doing and and I'll be honest when I'm when I'm sitting in traffic I live in Charlotte obviously right now and you sit in a lot of traffic but whether it's Charlotte or New York or LA we go to LA quite frequently when you're sitting there three and four wide in traffic on some of these big interstates and you look and you figure you know what I'm putting around at 10 miles an hour man the race car drivers are doing at this 200 miles an hour you can really associate what it feels like to be out in the pack like this and I don't know that there's any other sport that you can do that if I go get hit by a football player it's going to be lights out for me for at least six to eight months like I'm going to break every bone in my body but the race car you can go out and do that and a lot of fans have experienced that as you have and that was a very impressive piece that you guys did on the race up I know I thoroughly enjoyed that I was pulling for you by the way oh well thank you I'm glad someone was so we've been talking about the speeds of these cars and I know we mentioned it way earlier in the broadcast but in case people are just just now joining us there was a lot of anticipation going into this particular event because of the aero package the changes that we were seeing to these cars that they never had before walk us through what some of those changes were well I think that the biggest most obvious one is going to be on the spoiler the back spoiler the race car and then the spoilers essentially nine inches tall and when they made that spoiler as big as they did they had to cut a clear opening in it so they cut this big clear opening in the spoiler so it's it's nine inches all the way across the back of the car but in the center section and these guys are getting very dicey right now we're seeing a lot of movement on the straightaways out of the cars but when they cut that spoiler down it's it's basically across the center four inches to the outside two edges and then it goes back up and it's metal in those areas the center section is a clear strip of plastic that allows the drivers to be able to see out the rear mirrors we got down here for the race the cars were going too fast NASCAR said oh we're going to make an adjustment to what's on here and they put a wicker across the back now what a wicker is it's a piece of metal that's bent 90 degrees and they bolted onto that spoiler so if you've got a flat spoiler and then you have a 90 degree piece on the top of that spoiler it creates a bigger hole in the air it slows the cars down just a little bit more but by creating that hole in the air it allows the cars to draft up to each other to catch each other quicker we could see somebody a half a straightaway behind to actually catch the field because of the air that's being disrupted as they go through as they go through it and the hole that's being punched in it and this is it's unique from what we've had in past trips down here because it used to be a little bit more of a precise technique in terms of staying with the draft not losing the draft keeping up with it yes yes the other big part was what we did with the motors and what they did with what was used to be called the restrictor plates they took these they had these plates that sat across the top of the motor and it essentially restricted airflow into the motor and or for a motor to to work properly you've got to have airflow to create action to do all the other cool stuff way over my head i'm a driver i'm not that technical but i mean you're you're pretty dang sharp i gotta say you know just enough to to buffalo myself along here basically but but what they've done is they took that plate off and instead they put a spacer that slowly tapers down it's got more because of the big spoiler it's got more horsepower with that and it allows the drivers to do stuff in the car that they've never done before with the throttle they can lift off the throttle get back on it and it's still going to respond used to be if you lift it off the throttle at a restricted plate track you're going to lose 20 spots because you're just going to be basically out there waiting for your car to recover your car wouldn't recover so they've they've changed a lot of things it's just creating more passing and a lot of excitement for these race cars you've been out here all weekend obviously covering the racing action what has been some of the drivers reaction to this aero package do they like it have they been pleased with what they've experienced well i think it's a it's a mix back you know when we go to these big racetracks like this you always have a a lot of different opinions about what they think of this speedway racing some are more vocal than others some love it some hate it uh you know i think for the most part the drivers have enjoyed the the new challenge that comes with it that the main thing that i gathered from everybody i talked to was that that feeling of nervousness just because it's something that they hadn't done before yeah and and trying to see what was going to take place with that and again this is the the build up in the race that we've discussed all day that as they're learning that they are trying to slowly understand the cars and get to the point where they know exactly what to expect out of them now they're getting more comfortable now it's a more normal race for them now we get brave now all of a sudden uh you know you basically set them on the dashboard and go people become heroes someone was thanking you for the insight by the way on the engines we saw that comment coming up on social media well we appreciate that uh great work by you reagan and now a more speaking of great work let's check back in with our social media expert cj thank you and so i made some repairs on my leaderboard and we have rejoined the field thank goodness here today yeah no i know right so for the coca-cola racing family update we'll go through the leaderboard real quick cow larson leading the charge right now in third austin dillon he is six we've got jollo joey legano he's right now just outside the top 10 and 13 daniel suarez and the orange vanilla coca-cola car is 23rd we have ryan newman right behind him in 24th and then of course denny hamlin bubba wallis they're doing pretty good with an early flight home they're not in the race right now today but we've got call arson and third lead in the charge that's the coca-cola orange vanilla racing family of drivers here at talladega see i do all right when my leaderboards up see yeah one they're way to totally redeem yourself cj back on the lead lap my friend got my lap back i'm all i'm all good now speaking of the lead lap all of our picks are in the top 10 right now with mine just moving up one spot eighth keselowski ryan blaney reagan's choice seventh kyle arson was michael's pick he is currently running third and it has been a rough season for him i know mikey touched on it a little bit earlier just not the luck he had hoped for and the last race we were at richmond raceway you could hear the dejection on the radio when kyle arson just came on and said this is so fun obviously for those of us who know him he has a very dry sense of humor obviously sarcastic they're saying uh this is not the way we wanted this to go you know they they wanted him to come down pit road to get that car looked at and and didn't get clearance arson decided that i'm just going to go ahead and take it to the garage i've had enough of this today i am all done with this right now i'm completely over this speaking of uh kyle arson i see his his face that's or i'm sorry i took that a different way we weren't talking about arson were we we were oh we were i thought so oh my god why would you ever do that to me is this a lobster or a crawfish we're trying to not have me like say a profanity on here and that that was almost a close call mikey did you try any of this i wanted to try it but i didn't really know how to get into it here that's not a new york thing there's a claw for it let's try it with you we'll see kailin you want some i'm good thank you you can have the you want the tail i think the tail will be a hamster it does look it's a miniature new hamster version here i don't think i'm gonna do that trophy yeah how is that mikey you gotta be careful with seafood sometimes it was so fun i just think that people sometimes my hair is kind of a mess i think that people sometimes have a misconception of what the infield might be like you know really you hear a lot of crazy stories about what goes on at night but my favorite thing is every time i've ever gone out there i find families and friends that have been together ever and and i don't know if y'all heard that gentleman had been here for 48 years he only missed two races that's that's crazy that that he's been here that long and and just the fellowship just enjoying time together and yeah what are you all been doing you got any polls going how we've been well we've been here obviously watching the final stage chase ellie it's been leading the charge since you left yeah what we talked about earlier but your driver's third kyle arson you're back love it the chevvies have been surprisingly strong mikey since you left they really they had some business is picked up yeah they were able to put themselves in position with the pit stops the way they did it and you know we talked about datona how chevy the hendrick chevvies in the toyotas that teamed up at datona and that was very unique well this race was completely different all the chevvies pitted together and said you know what we're going to make an effort to keep our cars to the front as best as we can that's exactly what they did and when they did that all 10 chevrolet cars came down pit road at the same time they were able to leapfrog the field and most of them have remained up to the one thing we have yet to see though there's a lot of that pushing and bump drafting that we thought about that could be a problem for the chevies when it gets down to the end you know what that says reagan to me pull me once shame on me pull me twice shame on you that's right gomer powell made that statement popular back in the 70s and what he meant was if you don't learn from from what you did in the past and then you're not very smart and i think everybody saw uh-oh we got caution on it's awful quiet quiet all of a sudden yeah so i think everybody learned from from how well ford worked together and and toyotas plan and chevy obviously a lot of smart people work in the chevy camp and they came up with their own plan and looks like they've uh maybe one upped everybody a little bit what do you say i have to wonder if they didn't say we've got 10 cars on the racetrack here why don't they just work together that seems like a really good idea to me reasonable well things are going to heat up and and we know we saw it 10 laps into the race that the the the difficulty with the front bumper on the chevrolet is certainly going to be a challenge and they will start pushing and shoving what will happen then are the chevries going to be able to push i don't think very well a and then b can the fords do what we've seen them do so much in the past and that is with those really flat noses on the Mustang be able to shove each other forward and we haven't heard a lot out of the toyotas i know denny got crashed and and martin trex has been up front and had some issues but you know will will the toyotas come forward well and and literally as you were walking up here we saw the the 12 of ryan blaney and the two of brad keselowski they were doing some pretty serious bump draft and trying to help each other out they didn't they didn't really make it forward as much as i thought though they kind of lost the the pack to the outside just a little bit it didn't do as much as we might have anticipated for them so a lot of questions to be answered uh here very very soon the other thing that i thought was really cool when we all sat up and said hey there's a caution something must have just happened or or what's taking place that it got so quiet not only because the drivers lifted off of the gas puddle but as we mentioned earlier in the show they shut the motors off almost in sequence and when they shut the motors off almost in sequence the only noise you can hear is actually the wind coming out of the car so as they came through behind us you could hear the wind from the spoilers but that was all you could hear it was a it's always so very very unique to see that take place at bob bob bob we don't see that we hear that take place bob pakris our fox sports inside reporter has uh told me there he goes behind us hey bob look it was there goes bob there's debris on the racetrack debris on the racetrack you know bob one of the uh we mentioned earlier the best in the business and i think bob's gonna sit down and uh perhaps get ready to join us here in just a second and uh you know it'll be really uh really nice to hear bob's take on that it's always nice well what what he's been seeing as the day goes on bob can you hear is it bob can hear us now i can hear you all right hey a fun race so far and and really a lot going on a lot of different strategies they're getting ready to hit pit road uh i don't think this will be their last pit stop i think they're gonna have to make one more after this but what are you hearing and seeing as you've been moseying through the garage and through the infield right yeah they'll have to make one more pit stop if they pit now there were some guys like ty dillon that when he pitted between stages they were like we're packing it with fuel and start saving fuel it sounded like they were thinking if it went green the whole way they may end up just pitting once you know it's right 70 what 75 miles of green or 75 laps of green flag around would just be about what your fuel window is but uh when kyle bush you saw him get loose after getting tagged by bragg his last he put the parachute out and went to the back we talked about that on the show here how quick he went to the back and he said uh he said their adjustment didn't work and they said well we have two stops to work on it so they were definitely thinking two more stops before this debris which may have come from austin dillon's car you saw him drop to the back they think uh they had some bear bond i think in the back of the car uh from repairs and they think that might have come off and austin actually thought he had a flat for a moment oh wow so a good break for austin the debris that came off of his race car brought the caution out that perhaps allowed them to get that tire changed on his race car and earlier at the end of the first stage we had kind of talked about biggest surprises so far in this race michael mentioned obviously ty dillon getting the stage win what's stood out to you maybe so far as as one of the surprises well i i've been surprised on how the outside line hasn't every time they try to get a run it seems like they can't make it to the make it to the front and you saw ryan blaney he was about six or seventh in the last lap of the second stage goat pulls out and i thought that he might get a little you know as high as the second or third i want to say only finished fourth so it'll be interesting to see what moves are made come the end of the race and it certainly looks like that the chevys the chevys had a big meeting on saturday morning they got them all together they they tried to estimate tell me what meaning well they met in the driver's meeting room which if you know anything about how they get is right next to the media center oh so it's so it's not really hard to see them all going in and their crew chiefs going in them bunch of people with black shirts and boats and uh chevrolet logos going in to figure out what the world was going on well what was what was interesting during this uh round of pit stops bob is some of those chevys took four tires and lost some track position i saw that eric amarola took no tires there were several two tire stops so that's all positioning whatever they did did here has to do with what they're going to do later so when you get four here it leads me to believe just gas and go on that last stop and not not get tires and hopefully gain track position back by doing so so i think if i'm at home i'm going to really pay attention as to who got two who didn't get any who got four and then understand when that next pit stop comes that is going to tell you give you a hint as to what they'll do later in the race and i think they learned earlier in the race we saw a lot of two tires stops right and i think they learned what or even some gas and goes and i think you learn you know how really how important tires are or not important the fresh tires are here a lot of talk about what style of racing we would see today and and as the bottom has kind of been prevailing i talked to jeff gordon right before the race started they were down here getting ready to go do some of their their pre-race festivity things that they do on the racetrack and i said jeff this really to me if i was running in this race i feel like i would have studied a truck series race is that kind of what you're seeing right now is it looks very even before the race people are saying this is going to be the truck race on steroids because you have but the reason it's on steroids is because you have 35 good cars out there whereas in the truck series maybe a little more discrepancy between equipment and drivers and talent levels did truck series even got five to ten guys that are really good at the draft and out here you got 30 of them that are that are very good at it and in good cars we saw we saw guys like michael mcdowell who's maybe a smaller team lead this race early on or run up front in this race early on a guy like bubble wallace having a great day early on it it just opens up the field to that many more i mean you're talking the fastest laps have been guys like matt deban ditto cori la joy he just matt d just muscled that car to that lap that car was so scared it's like i better go fast with him sitting there talking a little bit i just want to say a little over 203 miles an hour on those laps so i think so many everybody you know we we always say cliches everybody can win with but with this package it it's even tighten tighten the pack more so i think what you're going to want to watch for now is what have people learned how much more will uh well what they learned will they remember and and how much does caution get thrown out the window over the last 20 30 laps but you know why a long shot is a long shot because they rarely come in so my brother always says man i gotta have me some of that hundred to one on brennan gone well that's just peeing away five dollars if you bet on generally so my race was the last end of lap 134 and brennan gone is our leader currently no he's not going to get back to the star finish line he's on pit road so my point is didn't see that what my point is a favorite will win you just watch you you can cheer for the underdogs you can you can preach hype and say they're gonna come through they're gonna get i guarantee you when it's over today a favorite will have won but it's going to be fun that's what makes upset so entertaining what if somebody does overcome those those deficits they're faced with who's coming in the rock speaking underdogs landing castle double zero making a trip back to the garage second time today for them i uh did you have a pic bob i picked helene oh you two are all the same bob you i said earlier in the show you're the best on the media center pit road all over the place i'm going to reconfirm the fact that you are the best because we are thinking the same way why why did you pick blaney out of curiosity well i thought the fords are going to be good and i have a feeling that he uh you know he hasn't gotten his win yet among the among the group and not that they were going to let him win but i thought you know he's he's had a strong car and he's obviously i don't know whether he's the strongest of the bunch today but he's certainly one who's willing to make moves he's aggressive he's going to make those bold moves what about this guy larry max talking about him right now on the broadcast he was talking about bragg keselowski why didn't you go with him five time winner yeah well i mean maybe it's just one enough i don't know or because i thought he might be hitting the back of kyle bush and they might be getting favored back in return i don't know maybe or no favors back in return so i don't know you know what one thing i'm going to look at the end of this race and this is very technical but you know they made this gear change because of rpms right and so are there going to be engine issues over the last 100 miles 100 miles and then also you're talking about the such a huge rear spoiler and a wickerbill that's more downforce that's ever been put on these decklids and they're carbon fiber decklids and how much have they been uh how much have they been flexing during the race and could there be any issues with those there's been some speculation there could be late in the race could be just crew chiefs being crew chiefs and worrying about everything but they want bob late in the race once my spoiler broke off and i i can't i worked out really well i couldn't believe i was able to hold on to that truck a lesser driver would have wiped out i would just somehow able to win the race i mean very rarely do you think though about you know parts and pieces breaking at the end of races anymore but this is i remember that was one of the unknowns going into this race is how these cars will handle for 500 miles we've shown as well on the fox on boards today that that rear bumper cam that that thing is shaking like crazy because of how disrupted the air is back there so to further prove your point we've seen actual camera shots as to how much is going on with the back of those race cars and how rough things are back there from well if you watch if you're watching our fox podcast blaney just got shuffled that was a very aggressive move to the bottom and the top and he finds himself in a real pickle and that's what's so cool about racing here at talladega how quickly things can change you think you've got everything under control you make one wrong move and you're running 20th and looking forward at a swarming beehive of activity that you've got to figure out somehow to make your way back through the good news for blaney right now though as he has found the 17 of stenhouse jr another ford right behind him that's a good sign for him earlier on in the race stenhouse was a good pusher he was able to help get some guys to the front of Eric jones up there none of us picked him you know we didn't and and and here's a guy right Eric jones has had a lot going on and look at this look if you're watching i told you look at the run i know look at this push they just keep making us look we look smarter and smarter than we actually are but and look who tagged onto the back of it matt de benedetto a guy that i think i think he's gonna finish top five i really would put money on it so you wouldn't put money on him winning because he's a long shot guy but you're gonna put money on the top five there's a big difference between first and fifth that i don't disagree with that there's big pay difference too as you know that as a driver but now look did you saw some guys pull out a line and did it just stall that that outside line it seems like every time you get about eight or ten to go to the middle lane then somebody says well hey let's try the top i'm gonna tell you what they're they're figuring something out right now though bob because we've seen it twice now down the back straightaway to where the 12 and the 17 can get the run and they can get the draft just right they've made up some pretty big ground two laps in a row as they come off a turn too i i and do you think they're just waiting for lap 180 or 182 or 184 or 180 i think the small part of the calculations of what do we need to do when do we need to do it and we're seeing the good cars start to make the moves the guys that we know are good at drafting start to make the moves that we we would anticipate well i guarantee you everything that's going on right now bob is calculated you're trying to figure out no matter what part of this pack you're in you're trying to figure out how you can make a move and you do it by letting off the gas a little bit possibly or maybe dragging the brake or just taking a different lane everything these drivers are doing right now joey legano so good at restricted playlation there's blaney up front eric jones who won down in Daytona last july they're thinking they're using their brains their feet their hands to make a plan for lap 188 and by the way mikey they're doing it 203 204 miles an hour as we see on the board right there on the on the left side of the fox and there and they're also they're also doing it reagan while dancing around moving from one lane to the other making blocks this this isn't easy stuff look at the moves these guys are able to make and that's why this race was predicted to be so entertaining as we go four wide and why it's turned out to be that way kyle bush too the guy that we just talked about falling to the back a little while ago all the way back up front again in the top and i'll i'll say one thing katelyn i'll let you get your point in no one's going to be more aggressive than ricky stenhouse he's that way on the golf course when we play he's that way if you race go-karts he is wide open if you if he's behind you i would say that you would expect to be hit well and we earlier today when you were heading out to the infield we touched on ricky and about how he doesn't care what guys think about and i love that yeah if we had 30 guys out there that didn't care what they thought about each other that is wonderful i wanted to ask you guys a point when you were talking about obviously driving at those speeds just the mental focus that is required of you all when you're driving when taladega when you get out of this race car this afternoon just drained you are not physically drained it's it's not it's hot in the race cars and it's it's a challenge in these cars physically but the mental aspect of detona and taladega and especially taladega you do a lot more three and four wide racing at taladega when you get out of it i used to get on the airplane the airport's really close by here i used to get on the airplane and almost immediately go to sleep because i was so mentally drained about what we had just done for that long focus for that long it it's unbelievable that the focus that these guys are putting in 140 degrees inside those race cars 200 miles an hour it takes every ounce of mental focus that you have to do that and and what is athleticism athleticism is doing something that's physically challenged while using your brain think about patent manning think about tom brady they're they're they're they're athletes they're obviously very fast and skilled and and and and strong but how much more important is their job to be mentally sharp yes to look at the defense to make split second decisions on going forward that's exactly what you're seeing this here today these athletes these race car drivers they're making decisions that could throw them into the wall at 200 miles an hour they're making them based on what they see what they hear from their spotter but you got to understand this is athleticism at its very best we talked a few minutes ago about what our favorite paint scheme in the field was today yeah and i know a lot of us like the uh the 41 of swaras but there's a pretty cool tribute car out there the 37 of chris busher i just saw him peek out going down the back straight away when he peeked out there don't don't count guys like that out either they just seem to find their way there and then he's hooked up with matt the benedetto right now as we speak and i think we agree chris busher is an awesome racer absolutely i mean it doesn't last a championship to him i was mad about it we know that that he is a talented young racer well we got 45 to go so it's a good time now to check in with our social media experts cj what do you got going on my friend all right so i want to ask you guys a question off the top of your head favorite talladega finish which one do you like the one i wanted absolutely they are let me let me get on past that one you go now reagan i'm going to tell you not 2008 definitely not 2008 uh you know i have to go back to when we had the tandem racing and they came across the line four wide eight wide well four wide four by four basically eight cars literally within what i think a tenth of a second of each other it was some ridiculous number like that i came off of turn four running in ninth place i was hooked up with jeff burton felt like we were going to be in a perfect position to perhaps win that race by the time it was all said none of our cars broke apart we end up finishing 15th and 16th and i literally felt like i was running on track positionally in fourth or fifth that's how close we were to the front of the pack so that was a a absolutely incredible race uh mine's got to be kevin harvick cutting his winless streak uh back in 2010 barely beating jayme mcmarie to the line but we've got some of them prepared for you let me go we get oh i thought what's your favorite finish i never spoke what's your favorite what's your favorite i guess maybe brad's first career win in the cup series that was a good win yeah i liked it so we have a package for you some of the best talladega finishes as we get ready right now we're less than 50 laps to go here at talladega here's what i want to tell you if mine isn't in here you and i got a problem reagan reagan with him david reagan july winter at daytona a couple of years ago gilligan with him edwards up top michael waltrip and here they come on turn four push boys push push hard edwards high reagan comes up think about david reagan david gilligan and their other teammates josh bice rent together early in the daytona five run what a celebration what a great win for this his dad ken reagan a long time independent driver on the sprint cup circuit and one of the nicest young man you'll ever meet in your life day plenty first to break from the traffic to drag this lowski here called ryan Anderson takes the game hold not a part of that this boy a long trying win does the pack have a chance to run a new one clamp boyer wanted to get jeff burton out there so they could get far enough that he might can make a move to have a chance to win this race that was a passing answer you know i was trying to figure out where to pass him and i was gonna you know i said i'm at least going to give him a shot at him i'm gonna try it early and it's gonna be a drag race cross the line head back off into turn number one and it will be jeff dorton and mark martin can they hang on to the league as he's looking for a check his dragon trying to make it three in a row here at talladega super speedway about to be decided into the trial till they come the challenge on down low jimmy johnson pulls out one but boyer looks like he held him off no they're saying jimmy johnson high fives all the way around chad canals the rest of this lowe's team absolutely stunned they are now trying to figure out to make sure everything's okay are they definitely going to victory lane and those league the two league groups started side drafting and slowed each other up i had a good run into three but nowhere to go with it and then by the time we got we had another big run going and those guys were worried about side drafting each other towards the top of the track and let that bottom wide open for us and we rallied our way through there how long will harvick stay there they're working back to the trial couple of daytime of 500 winners going to the victory today here at talladega super speedway the defending day to the 500 winner jimmy mccurry up front here comes kevin harvick diving to the inside and he's going to pick it off the 2007 winner of the day 2500 will win today in the errands 499 at talladega super speedway he pushed mcmurray all the way around the track and then when they came in the trial for barney he dove to the inside of the track and made the pass make sure that he and mcmurray got away from the field they accomplished that and when the coupler 300 yards remaining in the race he went on to job one jumped to the inside and beat mcmurray the 55 harvick regan smith the rookie paul minard is there tony steward has never won at talladega in a nascar sprint cup car left to a lot of blocking right here they've got a run on him got a run here they come i can't go down there and do that though i can't do that it's legal on the last lap i think it's legal on the last lap next door to see below the yellow line we still haven't got an indication but it looks like regan smith won this race why would it be legal on the last lap here's the replay again watch a zero one and he got forced down there i mean tony steward actually forced him down a little bit well yeah if he's gonna consider that he only yeah they are saying tony steward has won the race tony steward is the official winner here at talladega they would not allow that pass below the yellow line that's the only way that can be you can't go you can't race well in like 187 thank you man thank you guys last lap well i knew i was gonna get one shot at him and paul was back there pushing me i backed it up a little bit going into three and i knew i was gonna make my move at and i don't know i was got told that the rule is if you get forced down there then you're the winner of the race on the last lap anything goes that's one thing to get back to victory lane but to do it at talladega this is one of about four places i haven't won a cup race at and man talk about one to win i wanted to win here for so long i got so many friends down here and uh red farmer and donnie allison and all these fans man i mean there's so much orange up there and i know this hasn't been one of my favorite places on the fan side you know people haven't always liked me here but this was for those guys up in stains all right 35 to go here from talladega super speedway joey logano currently shown as the leader we just were looking back at some good moments from talladega good it depends on your perspective it depends on your perspective but i know mike he mentioned a moment ago when we had the twitter question on his favorite moment was the 2003 of course his victory here in the cup series we kind of want to relive this we want to relive that moment he referenced so i know we've got a little bit of a piece to kind of show that and take a look at michael's win from 2003 i have to tell you about my favorite talladega moment since we're going to head to that beautiful 2.66 miles super speedway in alabama it was 2003 and it's been on twitter this week it's pretty funny because my crew guys that were a part of that race that day have been talking about what i was saying on the radio about what a piece of crap car i was driving and how i couldn't pass anyone and i couldn't keep up with anyone and my crew chief slugger lappy he made a decision late in the race to try to stretch our fuel mileage and get our car up front i've been back in the traffic all day long couldn't make any moves and we got up front and that thing came to life and it was running and we had the lead with just a couple three laps to go and elliott saddler flips down the back straightaway goes tumbling into turn three nascar throws the red flag and we come to a stop i'm in first del juniors in second jeff gordon's right there battling with this as well and we're under a red flag so now it's going to be a sprint to the checker this was a green white checker before there was such thing as green white checker we didn't go into nascar overtime but we certainly had to finish it to the checker with a green flag white flag checkered finish come off turn two i got the lead coming down to get the white feel really happy about where i'm at jeff gordon gets a nice run on the outside of del jr goes to the top side i go up and block him dive to the bottom block off del jr was able to hold off jeff gordon and won at talladega supersedo and why that was important to me i grew up in kentucky and as a kid in kentucky one of the best trips of the whole summer for me was when we would go to alabama to watch daryl race at talladega i was so intimidated by that place it freaked me out because people got hurt there there were bad crashes and and my brother was out there racing but i always thought man if i could ever get a chance to race on those banks and i did i got my chance and i got a victory back in 2003 that's a special moment to me it's a trophy that i cherish and so i was talking to jeff gordon a couple of months ago and i said i just put that perfect block on you when i went up high and i was able to win the race he said that wasn't a perfect block i messed up i went up too high when you made that block i'm like damn jeff can't you give a brother some credit i thought i did a perfect job and by the way if it wasn't a perfect block then why didn't you win think about that jeff and for all those crew guys that i said that car was a piece of crap and i'm sorry we got to victory lane though and i got to pop out of my hatch we had a roof hatch and i won and my victory celebration was me hanging out the roof that was a pretty good day a NASCAR to me oh well very nice memory there shared from a wall trip unfiltered mickey's podcast i love listening to his podcast every week uh but we've had a crazy race happening while we were watching that segment on pit road guys what you making that with brad a good break for brad actually it as he came to the pits right there look like he probably wheel hopped his car just a little bit as he did that the car starts to spin out on him well what luck to spin perfectly into your own pit stall be able to do the pit stop backward and the best part about that over our shoulder we could hear the crowd and you can see the guys directly behind us but over our i guess it would be my left shoulder the stands are probably a hundred yards away from us right here right the entire crowd starts cheering and that's because brad whips a donor in his pit stall drives right back off pit road he likely lost the draft but could have been a lot worse for him in terms of how this race is going to play out we see that he's basically about turns three and four away from the pack right now so without a caution his days over he needs a caution badly right now but then the other thing that just took place right there was eric jones getting blocked by david reagan david reagan misses his pit stall instead of going around and saying you know what i miss the stall i gotta keep going he stops and eric jones's stall well eric jones is trying to get in and do a pit stop so david reagan they're they're bumper to bumper the pit crew guys can't get around to the right side of eric jones's race car cost him a ton of time a car that was leading the race a bunch right before that pit sequence now potentially might have taken him out of a shot to win this race so a little bit of a bummer for him mayhem mayhem absolutely you said the pit stops would be mayhem yeah and that's why i love that we have um in in car cameras and visor cams because you can't think at home if you're watching an aspar race oh they're gonna take a pit stop to get a break i mean it's it's more intense as intense as racing on the track because you know how crazy it can get and and you know the reason why brad will hop is because you've got to get all you can get you you've got to have every every inch of the road to to be successful and and he tried to get more than than was there and around he went that that half a second extra on the pit road could be worth two or three spots when you come off a pit road and that can very easily be the difference of being in position to win the race or position to finish second or third in the race and these guys know that well when you make the big mistake like you did that definitely makes it even worse yet for you we're seeing some great camera angles from our fox coverage of talladega which i love this place but three and four wide but but like you said earlier reagan that that i love that rear bumper cam we're shaking around because that reminds me of what my brain looked like when i was driving a holiday like when i'm driving around talladega it looked just like that to me and then when i see these perfectly positioned cameras where it looks like my grandma could drive down to the supermarket like that i'm like well that's not how it is it's not like that so i think what we should do is have looser camera mounts that it should be they should let it show what's really going on in the car oh i love nascar oh recap recap here a little bit earlier on i was talking about the cameras oh i thought you saw the wreck happen i was like michael michael that happened a while ago i don't i know you're in the infield for a while i don't know what they were serving you in the infield but that was early on in the race lobster it looked like lobster forum they were serving a nice blend of unsweet tea and lemonade they call it an arnie palmer arnie palmer but we are seeing on the fox broadcast now a recap of what's happened we saw that that accident early on in stage one kevin harvick denny hamlin boy was involved ty delin was this the stage perfect stop one winner chacelly he should get style points for that yeah i should put him ahead ben and exciting race and and here's the thing we're just getting started and i hate to keep preaching this but this is this is go time this is when it happens and we have just over to the left of us the care center i'm going to tell you folks something we haven't seen the last driver go in that care center today there will be others that enter into that care center and they are not going to be happy about it well let's check in with cj our social media expert cj what do you got for us all right so we found the replay and you guys were talking about the weird backwards pit stop but we do have a replay for you so what what happened here it just was wheel hop i think brad trying to get in as hard as he could get his car got away from a bit but then i mean see the bumps he hit the bumps and that may have played a factor in it as well there's some bumps in the lower you go right there he caught those bumps and that may have started the actual but sometimes it's it's so cool to be a badass and brad keselowski is a badass right here watch watch the car hop up and down right there that one hop up and down with the nose that was enough to set the rear of the car actually will happen but he didn't he didn't never quit driving it and he puts it right in the box perfectly in the box and then they they change the tires but then the best part is is after that's all done he just burns the doughnut right out of there how about the pit crew guys having to wear with all about them to know you know what we got to do the right side paul wolf on the top of that pit box saying right sides do it you're in the box you're good to go because there are rules your car can be backwards in the pit box but it's got to be completely in your pit box that was a very nice job from that entire team brad driving the pit crew paying attention and paul wolf communicating with them what to do right there if i was a pit crew guy i'd have been like ah darn uh the cars backwards where i i mean where do i go but that just shows you what athleticism there is on pit road if you're the rear guy and now you're the front guy how do you determine where to put that tire and if and if i and that's why i wanted so bad for reagan to go down there and see those guys because not only are they smart but they're freaking crazy athletes i mean they they they hoist those that jack around the car like it's a a feather and they grab those 70 pound tires and put them where they're supposed to be i just am so in awe of the job the pit crew guys do i've tried a couple times to bounce on the jack and actually put the car up in the air and it's how that takes a lot of force and a lot of there's a there's a like a technique to that not only having the size to do it but a severe technique to it to be able to get that car off of the ground with one pump the way those jacks are designed and i gotta tell you something it almost springboarded me from the from the jack post into the race car and i didn't make the car budget not even a single inch so it was rather embarrassing to me and to michael's point these these guys they're athletes it used to be that we had guys that worked on the race cars and and guys that were double duty kind of they would they would mechanics basically do the entire job and they travel and do everything all week and long and and now we've got guys that are basically they are strictly recruited college athletes i mean they do former hockey players a lot of a lot of division one athletes that maybe didn't get to go pro in their sport had an injury something like that these teams and i know hendrick motorsports is one of the ones that's very well known for doing this they go directly to those schools and they say hey if you're not going to go pro come try out for us and you can make very good money i mean these guys are making six figures oh yes very good six figure salaries hitting these race cars and and it's been a big change in what the years past one of the best pickers the driver obviously running right now in the top five kyle bush that team has risen to the occasion a lot this year they're a very strong picker the same crew as last year i think that's a big thing to point out when you talk kyle bush is true it's it's the same guys that he had the year before they didn't leave they had no turnover a lot of times you have serious turnover but not with that particular picker with that i actually had that conversation with adam stevens just two weeks ago actually the continuity of the whole team not just the pit crew but also the road crew he's had the same car chief mechanics the interior front end guys for a number of years a lot of them the same from when he won his championship so adam was saying that paid some pays big dividends for them having that familiarity with each other but i know michael as we saw he just kind of walked off but that's kind of how he is uh squirrel it gets back to we said that's where but he is uh hanging out right now i think uh perhaps can't quite see where michael's gotten up to right now michael likes to uh go check things out and uh and wander quite a bit so we'll uh we'll get we will get to michael here in just a second he's tracking down a hot story here in the garage area so as soon as he's here we're getting the camera to him so sometimes again one of those things you never know with mickey what might be possible so as he's doing that we're getting to 20 laps to go and uh a lot going on on the track and there's a lot going on in the garage area i think michael is ready for what's going on right now with him hey guys while the pack is uh screaming down the front straight away stanton barrett has been racing nascar for a long time he has a a one-off chance every now and then and it's a good looking husky chocolate car but unfortunately it went into the wall what happened yeah we had a bolt come off the time to the tie rod so i kind of felt in the trial so i slowed down a little bit hoping it wasn't a tie you know i thought man something's really wrong here so i went slower going to one just be safe and sure enough i heard a snap and it came out into the wall he went look at your non abrasive as possible look at your crew over here you got a good looking husky chocolate group group uh what is husky chocolate so husky chocolate uh it's a real hot chocolate with drilled syrup uh we make over in europe and it's a b2b right now it's ski resorts restaurants and cafes and all that so we serve as a food industry with amazing real hot chocolate and now with our organic uh cold chocolate beverage that's how you can raise some good awareness and get some distribution and get it out to the fans i don't know if people appreciate or understand your background your dad's stand was a crazy amazing snut racer he brought burt reynolds to nascar and paul newman yeah and uh you've i don't need him did you've followed in those footsteps and uh done some interesting things yeah thank you got to race with you a bunch so had a lot of fun and had a great career a long time so not not as great as you're but i still live out there well uh i hope to see you back again with your uh beautiful team all right thank you thanks for having me man always good so that's stan barrett and and this race guys on the track hey if you guys want to want a free hat just uh follow us on twitter instagram we'll get you a hat that's awesome thank you that's all i'm not real good at this so really all i got but uh hey appreciate y'all coming to nascar you having a good time oh yeah great time awesome awesome uh so anyway back to y'all because that was pretty bad at the end i don't know what i was doing it's um written a calm final stage thus far but as you predicted earlier you think there will still be some trips uh to the infill care center and the race is getting wilder we're seeing joey legano do what we would expect out of joey legano you can hear it on on the a little bit of the scanner frequency that we were actually airing for a split second there i think it was off of the actual fox feed but joey and his spotter tj majors and that's something we can't look past michael had said earlier that joey's one of the best he's ever seen at this but you can't look the past effect that he's paired up with tj majors in terms of spotters and i was fortunate enough right both of my super speedway wins came with tj majors on the we're actually one of the two wins came with tj majors on the roof wins as well with he is is something else when it comes to spotting the plate track or the uh the super speedway tracks that's twice today now 50 cents i'm up to he's something else when it comes to spotting that and he's got he's got this knack for seeing the runs and being able to talk the runs through his driver and uh you know we saw him and joey legano get together and have success immediately in terms of a driver spotter combination with that and they're continuing it on right now here today that the the moves he's calling the way that they're manipulating the pack i didn't think we would see a car manipulate the pack like he's been able to and he's doing that right now can y'all hear me there we go i was turned off couldn't hear you for a second now i'm turned on i don't know where to go with that yeah i'm just gonna tell you i'm just gonna scoot over closer to katelyn for a second you're a process he's processing the information yeah i don't i don't i don't it's hard to to to explain what a job that joey legano does behind the wheel moving that car back and forth making those moves because it's one thing to be told what to do but then to to be able to act that quickly because there's a delay and remember katelyn when they're going on the back straight away tj is a mile away and and joey's got a a lot of that he has to decide on his own he's using tj but he's also making decisions on his own hey you predicted this earlier mikey you said you had your money on matt di benedetto to get a top five right now he's running second yeah third and i i also said that he wouldn't win you did say that he would finish top five but he wouldn't win and i'll stand by that as well you you know you're going to have great stories of guys that charge to the front i mean look at daniel suarez he's going to get shucked shucked here because blaney went to the inside a tactical error for suarez right there but but you're going to have that it isn't too late to commit those you just have to make sure that that you learn from it and i saw a nice move by kurt busch he's shucked his brother and now what what what now calls in front and curves behind him so depended that was about to suffer the same fate is what just happened to suarez as well they shucked him out of the way and and this is where the wreck is going to come from is somebody getting shuffled out of line and then trying to get back in the line thinking that they know they're going to go all the way to the back all these drivers have just seen that take place as we're watching on the broadcast speed they've seen those cars go back 20 25 spots they're going to get more aggressive about getting in line and staying in line right there as we see stenhouse dive down in front of martin surex jr and this is exactly what we thought we'd see with about 15 to go it's nuts and they're going to and i'm just going to tell you i'm nervous i'm i'm sitting here like every time they're making these moves i'm just going to tell you they're they're gonna there's going to be a wreck somebody's going to miss time one of those moves but i think it's really interesting you see legano out front he's the guy that we feel like maybe be the best is the best i know it's hard for other drivers to hear that but probably the best at at manipulating the lines using all the air to his advantage you talked about his spotter tj majors but then as soon as you say that how you're going to be how you think you're going to tell kyle busch he isn't the best he thinks he's the best and so that's why this gets so fun well and kyle kyle highlighted this week he that's our report or a story where he basically said denny has been better at this than me because he's been more aggressive i've had the same cars as him and he's won more and run up front more because he's been more aggressive so i would anticipate seeing kyle bush with that in mind being very aggressive at the end of this race and we know when kyle wants to get aggressive he can do that we are about 12 to go here at taladega wanting to remind you and thank you for joining us here on the fox hophouse hangout presented by coca-cola orange vanilla it's been an eventful day thus far i think it's time maybe to check in with cj once again our social media expert cj what do you got yeah so the laps are winding down i want to say once again thank you to all the fans for joining in being a part of the show here today for sharing don't forget no matter where you're watching share the broadcast i'm going to go through before i drive home to charlotte pick one winner and i'm going to send you my daniel suarez autographed coca-cola hat that can be yours you can be a winner too here in taladega so our final fan question of the broadcast coming in from jacob and i like it he uh goes with the classic if you could start a race team question if you were going to have one day to start you're a one and done team and you can pick any driver from any era to put behind the wheel of your car who's it going to be well if michael could have had one day to start a one and done team that would have saved him a lot of money over the years i think he would have been okay with that but if i'm going to do one and done and man the racing is getting awful awful awful dicey blaney is almost wrecked three times in one corner basically right that was off the bumper of truex that was a hell of a save right there me personally if i can have one driver one race i got to tell you i'm it's hard for me to go against joey legano and what he's been able to accomplish what he's been able to do on the racetrack and and what he's done the past few races at these plate races he's been very very solid as of late i would take del earnhardt i want del earnhardt to come back and and understand these rules and i kind of left that one on a tee for you and watch this if you're watching i mean truex just basically almost wrecks that was weird that car caught the air all by itself yeah he caught the air off to 22 after that big push from truex just shows you what they're dealing with they're not just dealing with cars pushing them they're dealing with air still messing with the cars as well right oh and i saw kurt bush getting a bit of a bind there and he split up the hill and that look now truex needs help from blaney they just about wrecked him a second ago and they got to help each other that's how play or speedway racing that's three times now that's how speedway racing works is you're going to end up back by the guy that maybe you know had almost dumped you earlier in the race or you had had a close run in with and uh poof is anyone surprised that that legano late has taken control of this race i think no no three time winner yes i am disappointed my guy though bragg islowski obviously not going to get it done today well i think brad might be in a good spot still because we haven't seen that last caution that we keep talking about and he'll catch back up when that happens don't say anyone's not going to get it done today it's way too early i think if you're still on the lead lap you still have a shot and if you're in position to get the lucky dog you still have a shot right now i like stenhouse though we talked about how aggressive he has he's sitting there or he is he's sitting there running third he knows how talented the two racers ahead of him and the ones behind him are so he's just collecting information trying to see when his car makes a nice run you know reagan even though the rules are pretty much together for all the cars yours may be maybe based on how it's tuned it'll run a little bit better off the corner right or or to run a little bit better a little bit better at the end of the straightaway so you're processing all of what your car is doing and what it feels like you know the cars get run and the energy changes at different spots on the racetrack and that and there were two optional gears that these guys could run they had their choice of a couple different gear ratios this weekend and that could change where the runs come as well and i know that engine manufacturers were all concerned about the higher rpms that we saw in the engines in the draft when they were running those big speeds but i got a question for you michael and and you were very good at this type of racing we asked earlier in the race where you wanted to run earlier on where do you think you would want to be right now as we're getting down to the end of this a lot of guys thought you wanted to be the leader some guys thought you didn't want to lead because he was a sitting duck when it came down to the end of this so where do you want to be based on what you see today right now i want to be Joey Logano because not only is he leading and he's in control of the race he's taking charge he's led the last 10 10 laps or so but his ability to block he knows how to move it around so if if i were oh we got one in the outside wall oh big hit and that's to benedetto benedetto we got chris busier martin truex involved in this wreck uh it'll look like also justin hailey oh and there's that'd be true x i don't think truex actually hit anything i think he's just getting his car spun around debited it was in it right i thought it was definitely in it yeah he was the one that actually hit the 37 we see all the damage to the front of that race car that was a very hard impact and i curious to see what got the as glad to see him climb out of that car a little bit of a fire where the fuel connects into the engine justin hailey you know i i always i think my favorite part about when there is a wreck is seeing the drivers get out of the race car and and know that all of the things that nascar has implemented with the safety and that we've been fortunate to learn over the years and you know it's come at a big price for a lot of people but we've learned from the past and get out of wrecks that you just don't think they're going to walk away from and that's uh that's a great thing cj williver we've got another poll question that i'd like you to run for our friends at home and that is is that our last crash of the day i think not so cj will get on the twitter machine there we go we'll get on instagram fox sports app and we're gonna ask our fans and you know what we're gonna get one lucky fan a beautiful coca-cola hat you should sign that hat mickey i'll sign along with daniel sware i think that's i think that's perfect so ask our poll is that the last crash the last crash of the day so if you want to vote in on our poll fan poll do yes or no you'll be able to vote along and we'll make sure that we get the results up for you as uh dany who's been cranking on the graphics all day putting that together for us here i want to tell you i want to know from you guys do you do you think this is it do you think we have another big one before the end of the day fortunately do not think that that is going to be it and and i will say that was a huge impact by debited and and busher glad to see both those guys out of those race cars already look like it started off of the front bumper of eric almerola a little bit of a push gone wrong here in just a second i think he gets lined up just off of the corner a little bit and we're gonna see it just turns turns busher around i don't know what else to say about that other than it was just bump draft gone wrong and you're gonna have those and truex was unfortunately collected in it you could see call arson my guy was able to slip by on the bottom so he's still in contention we yeah i mean i guess i think from what i've seen and the way the the action has intensified i think for sure we're gonna see another crash yeah and so right now the fan number is coming in 93 percent of fans do not think that was our last big crash so far and which one of them are you going to give that beautiful cola hat to uh going through a pic with you got to share it too so we're going to go through we're going to pick one see who shares it yeah can we say that's uh almost a unit as unanimous as a poll as we can get i mean that's pretty close now it's in terms of twitter 95 percent that's like 120 percent in terms of twitter look at truex just coming into the camera and he did get some damage off of that i thought he got through with just spinning but unfortunately i think he made contact right here with the 95 of pretty good this place has not been good to him you know something i noticed in that wreck that i'm really pleased with though there's been a lot of changes made to these race cars to keep them on the ground and and we're running as fast as as we ever have and we see that impact that usually it's the impact that sends the cars into the air it stays on the ground right here and as we're watching the feed of the actual broadcast when busher gets hit by the 95 car of de benedetto that car goes in the air but it immediately goes right back down to the ground and that's been something that's car has worked extremely hard at and been very diligent about trying to make sure we keep these things on the ground and and i think that's why they had some confidence in the speeds that we were running this weekend that that they could do that and and still keep them from getting airborne which none of us want to see well that's a that's a cleanup right there yeah that's a real cleanup that is and wanted to say a quick for you we had a lot of shares a lot of votes nothing that wasn't good it was tied clean up get it i know that's i was with you it was a michael's point game was on point but it was close always but i want to say congratulations she shared she voted she waited she didn't think it was going to be the last crash of the day but patricia cole i'm going to be sending you a coca-cola hat signed by daniel suarez and also michael waltrip we're going to put his autograph on there for you too on it might be able to get might be able to get reagan smith to sign it for you we'll see cj if i can run into him before the end of the race i want to tell you the view of our crack staff from cj to neil down to alex and on down the line what i mean that's just beautiful it shows that we're not only here to show you pictures and tell stories we have folks that are working hard behind the scenes to make sure our nascar fans can participate today is all about interactivity and access and we're giving you that access and we're giving you this is all about baby that's that right and you mentioned the access michael we are going to be going to victory lane to interview the winner as well um once we have a winner and i want to know guys commenting you know it might take a little bit but who do you think katelyn is going to go visit in victory lane let's get those comments in i'm going to start pulling up some of the votes you'll see your name on screen and also thank you guys so much for playing along all day this has been a great one going what do you think with kyle larson you're still doing kyle larson i like it i like it i've been there all day and i'm not going away now karen is going she says that she likes it if ricky gets to victory lane ricky stenhouse junior what do you guys think about that one i like that pic i love ricky's personality i love how he acts so i'm good with that what happened to your big kyle larson face he fell down he fell oh but he's made it to the infield and the garage all kinds of places we've had a good time today colin i were buddies so it's good to partner right i have a daniel one so daniel's been hanging out the wind has not agreed with him a whole lot but where you're representing my coca-cola orange vanilla boy daniel suarez here today and uh again thank you coca-cola for uh bringing hot pass hang out for you here today let's see take a look at some more of the fans that have been voting and see who they think is going to go to victory lane here today we got a lot of fans devin we've got michael say in the 18 we've got maryland picking chase elia we've got denis saying ryan blaney so they're certainly weighing in here today as we're wrapping it up here just about it tell the day to make sure you watch the finish with us here on hot pass hangout micah have you had fun today michael i've had a great day and we're under red flag right now cj you know these cars are stopped coming back straight away with crash but uh that just gives the drivers more of an opportunity to to make a plan i remember you were talking earlier about my win here back in um as they pull chris busher's car behind us my win here back in 2003 we had a red flag light and you know i took in everything i'd felt seeing the moves the air the momentum and and you just sort of process it all and come up with a plan as to how you're going to attack those last couple of laps and that's everything that's going on in those cars right now drivers aren't just sitting there looking at their watches they're they're seriously thinking and contemplating about what might happen and how they might have the best chance to win this race so if you're on a pit box right now and you got a driver that's still in the hunt fighting for the swim while we're on a red flag what do you say into that driver trying to keep them calm trying to keep them focused what what's your best advice for the driver from a crew chief perspective i think the crew chief just says this uh they're going to have it cleaned up here in a couple minutes just stay focused make sure you think about all the things that you've been through today and then you also remind the spotter let's let's stay sharp let's make sure we don't lose our adrenaline not lose our energy and make sure we we stay on the same page so that we're able to to finish the deal they're they're almost home but it doesn't matter it isn't over till it's over and these racers know that and you know what also that is is so famous about talladega cj if you ain't first you're last that's right so you better you better shake and bathe i love that too in the music you can be second or third no you're first to last but our team back in LA clipping the replays for us they actually were able to get it to us really quick we've got the replay from the big crash that brought out this red flag and we're going to show you and uh break it down for you here during hot pass hangout oh it's just dirty looking i mean the the contact you you sometimes seem to forget that these cars are running 200 miles an hour but when matt de benedetto piled in to chris busher and then you were reminded yeah you you see how i mean these cars weigh 3400 pounds and look they just get thrown around like they're they're pieces of paper and those impacts while while they're they're it's safer than it used to be that hurts these guys tomorrow are going to feel all that energy and that impact i think maybe reagan went off to the infield care center to try and talk to some of those drivers uh who will be released from there shortly uh i see the lobster you brought back has found a new home oh nice yeah it's on the mic stand for cj's mic that's good i grew up i grew up where we uh caught these back behind the house so i'm cool with that they were quite that big at all but uh i think we got a more craw daddies that's a good look you get a craw daddy and a coke cola orange vanilla zero i like the ring to it i love it all we got a 77 car behind us justin haley i know we mentioned him earlier making his cup series debut it's 20th birthday not the present he was hoping for mickey yeah but down at uh at the infield care center i see reagan smith he's conversing with vince welch our uh fox nascar reporter and and the voice of the gander outdoors truck series vince is down there and everybody's waiting for the drivers to to come out so what's what's interesting about this is these guys are going to have the latest insight the latest info that we can share with our folks at home about what's going out on the what's going on out there on the racetrack so we talked about accessibility and and how we're able to to give folks at home the information that they want and they need well then that's why we're here to bring that to them so i like this question that came in from darlene how far back do you think is too far to be able to have won this race ah darlene darlene sit down i want to talk to you you ever heard that song i have i used to work on the radio so i my wife says i know the words to every song that comes on the radio darling that was t grand brown learned something new every day um i i just feel like right now i think seconds too far back because i think joey legano's got this race in hand but if it isn't if someone gets around joey gets beside joey that opens it up all the way back to the top 10 of guys that if they get two three wide up front can make some kind of amazing i remember when davin reig i remember when david reagan won here back in 13 or 14 i was a part of that push to the front i was probably running 10th when i came off the second turn and i got the right run and i got behind david and i wound up finishing third that day so you can make some huge moves and i like this question too from denis denis asked does does anybody dare pit from here no no no go reagan down here where the drivers are just coming out of the care center this is where the drivers are taken after an accident happens the first of which has come out is justin hayley we're going to step in justin we are live on nascar on fox's hot pets hang out we'll hold out for just a second here as he has another interview going on currently always fun the scrum down here it's a difficult thing the drivers come out of the scrum and and basically they talk to all the media tv a little bit everything we see my colleague vince vince welch over my shoulder right now chris busher coming out of the care center right here as we see him stepping up to do tv first we'll get in here and get a word with justin hayley real quick justin a rough rough finish to the day for you i know that was your first race in the nascar cup series how was it up until that right well it was fun obviously this package is super fun and you could be racy um we were a lap down right there and i was just kind of riding at about 10 carlings in front of me and these speedway cars don't have the best brakes you know that so um unfortunately i couldn't dodge it especially with a little bit of team like that so feel bad that i wrecked your car you're doing a nice job today enjoy that you only get one first start to look like it was a blast out there we'll step down here and uh mapadena da da benedetto matt d as they call him also walking out of the care center right now he's also going to do an m r n interview we can hear that over our shoulder and the grandstands at the moment a lot of disappointment for him this is a guy that many expected as michael has told us earlier in the day to have a shot for a good top five finish maybe even a win maybe that guy that could have been our big surprise story and it's always a challenge you come out and you're frustrated and all the media is right here to meet you and these guys have to put on a nice face and smile and they're not thinking smile at that particular moment i've made this walk many times i made this walk at this particular racetrack many times and it is a challenge to do that we'll step in and see if we can get a word with matt real quick matt real quick here we're on the hot pass hangout live a good day for you much like daytona we see the dirt look at the dirt and debris on your shoulders this tells you what these drivers go through in in these wrecks they get covered in dirt and debris as they go through the grass another a disappointing end to what looked like it was going to be another great super speedway race for you yeah gosh we can't catch a break on these things man that's just how these how these deals go but i'll tell you what i'm about tired of uh speedway racing at this point not because there's anything wrong with it just so frustrating getting bounced around like a pinball a two in a row now and when having a good run glad to see you're okay that was a hard hit most important part is is that obviously want these drivers to all be safe chris busher of course taking the largest impact in that wreck we'll go ahead and get a word with him in just one second as he finishes up with radio as well he's already talked to our friends on fox sports we guys have likely heard him once already but still something that he doesn't want to have to do as we mentioned earlier and it's uh it's obviously a frustrating moment for him he's putting on a good face though we saw his car come back through and i'll tell you what guys we're actually gonna go ahead and get ready to send that back to you guys over at the hop pass hangout because i believe we're getting ready to go green flag in just a second so back to you guys thank you reagan yeah five to go we're back underway racing here at talladega uh mikey what do you think what are your predictions here on what we're going to see in these closing laps well what people say is the best racer in nascar kyle busch was lined up versus this past season's champion and best plate racer joy legano and and wow give a big advantage to that inside lane i don't know what happened to kyle busch there he looked like he launched well maybe he's got low fuel maybe there's problems with fuel in that car because he has certainly fallen way back you could see the yellow car there of william byron making a big surge ricky stenhouse moves up to block there's so much blocking and so much pushing and shoving this thing is far from over kurt busch up to the back of joy legano one of the most aggressive racers and all of nascar is there but what happened was legano went up to block hurt and opened the door for chase and chase to the front you heard the crowd's reaction to that the crowd was very loud i was walking back here and i knew exactly who had taken the lead as i was walking back four wide back further in the pack there look at joey though he's got some help from that guy that was trying to pass him maybe cost him a lead kurt busch kurt slips down gives a little side draft on daniel hembrick what about daniel hembrick in the i did not see that coming at the end of this race i'll be honest with you let's take our picks real quick guys let's take our picks as to who we think now that we're down to two to go i know we've got our fat head picks still but based on what we see right now who's everybody taking oh they're not eric jones eric jones does that bring out the caution he's just sliding through the infield i think he's gonna keep going i think nascar will hope to keep this thing green we've got a barn burner going on they don't want to throw the caution i don't i'm gonna take chase elliott i'm gonna go ahead and say i don't think they get back by him same he got up front he's got a teammate there helping him out and another chevy behind the teammate this would be big for hennry motor sport we talked about that earlier what about a guy we haven't even mentioned today daniel hembrick saw him before the race i said what do you think buddy he said mike you know better i don't know what you think i'm just gonna give it i said this racing is as unpredictable as my golf game and he agreed wholeheartedly and he's a guy that'll be content with the top five after the way his year's gone high hopes for him coming into the season a lot of speed early on and just has not got the results that he's wanted out of this what about those chevys what about the chevys they're lined up i mean we've got chevys all in the bottom row they're gonna have a very difficult time getting to run somebody's gonna have to lock up and try to do the tandem i think to get a big enough run to get past them don't you think this is interesting rigging that the chevys that if they if they get the white flag right here this is it if there's a wreck there's the wreck and they took the white flag the chase elliott win at talladega a place that is how long we'll have to see how long they let them race for sometimes they let them go ways down the back straight away joey legano hoping they let them go for a while right here yeah joey stuck oh now we got another wreck and and this one's gonna bring out that'll do it we got one on the roof on the back straight yeah that was that was kyle arson who had a crazy crash and you could see everybody's backing it down cautions out your winner is going to be chase elliott we knew it would be crazy at the end that was crazy jeffrey urnhardt on the left side of the screen there a big impact for both of those guys will wait to see those window nets come down but chase elliott at talladega you said it's going to be a party tonight the boulevard is not going to shut down tonight like it typically does and you're also going to be able to hear the souring oh yes from from here listen to the crowd we can hear them through our headsets right now this is amazing how loud this place is the elation of all the crew it's been a bit of a rough go for hms this is a big momentum builder but nobody saw this coming katelyn because we talked about how that's a lot of this car a good thing that we're seeing on the uh broadcast right now his car went up in the air before he hit that wall it did it looked like it hit the wall in the air almost it was tough a little bit tough to tell we have yet they haven't seen the replay just quite yet but uh how about that chase elliott and uh all that talk about hendrick motor sports we can put that out the out the door now they've got to win chevy has a win holy smokes he's in the playoffs guys puts a plan together today and it works out for him as as there's the tumble that larson took uh what a shame for him this has been a rough season for him most people would freak out by that but he's been on his top more than anybody in the field four or five wow that's one of the his teammate jay mcburry our broadcast analyst or our uh teammate right now uh went through a similar ride like that well chip ganassi racing has lost a couple race cars down here the past couple trips david reagan damaged the front of that car didn't see him involved in that wreck but uh well it appears everybody that was involved with it is okay and that's the uh most important that's the most important part the caution comes out while chase is leading and then alex bowman kind of keeps in the gas which are not supposed to do which was kind of dumb because people upstairs get kind of confused but it was chase elliot that won the race yeah and i think in bowman's defense what i would say is a lot of times your spots spotters telling you just keep rolling uh because you got uh you got guys that are that are behind you that might not check up quite as quick as you do and you just try to play it safe right there knowing that you're going to let the the other car back in front of you i make sure you guys stay with us because we will be going to victory lane to interview the winner who we now know is chase elliot so we'll be bringing you guys access to victory lane and what that celebration is going to be like for uh young chase elliot i have to imagine this would be a very popular win uh very popular win in taladega and then quite honestly in the whole nascar uh nascar world uh chase elliot somebody a lot of fans like to cheer for well this this track is why bill elliot so famous i mean the fastest man ever he came here and took this place took took this place and and and made it his own and was able to win races here and set the world's fastest lap in a stock car 212 miles an hour this is bill elliot's this is a house that bill bit built and now chase is able to celebrate in it devin williams on facebook just said the biggest winners are watching in person at the racetrack right now i can't disagree with you devin uh you know obviously uh very cool to to be here and in person to see a win like this but if you can't we are very thankful that you joined us today on the hot pass hangout as well as nascar on fox and you gotta you gotta tell your friends about the access i mean that that we're able to uh uh afford you yeah i mean cj's over there working so hard reagan on pit road me out in the infield we're showing you what a nascar experience is all about and we're so thankful that you joined us and can see that fox sports cares about the nascar fans and we're going to do everything we can to bring them every angle of every uh moment of action on the racetrack and i'm thankful we got to show that stuff off a lot of times it's tough we we go through a broadcast and we have a lot of things that a lot of moving parts going on with the race and and that we have to get in and it's nice to be able to kind of take a step back and give a different viewpoint this is the stuff that all of us that have worked in the sport we get to see it sometimes we take for take it for granted how cool it actually is and how many neat things there are that happen around this racetrack so to be able to let you guys come down here and see the things that we see very cool i know chase elliot finishing up and uh you're probably gonna have to get into victory lane very soon katelyn thank you so much to both of you for joining today on the hot pass hang out it's been a blast i love working with you too of course i'm jealous of the walk to victory lane you get to make right now and you get to go uh find chase elliot and uh get to talk to the winner when he gets there thank you guys safe travels and leslie talking about coriola joy with a p11 finish here today better talk about brennan gone with a p10 yeah how about them wasn't even town yesterday and i i was able to cj hang out with the team owner there mark beard from uh beard oil and and he was just saying how much he's been a racer his whole life and to be able to fill the team and have brennan finish up in the top 10 that's pretty cool but you're talking about the siren going off in dawsonville georgia right now so i can't hear quite this far but we know they're celebrating for chase elliot going to victory lane here at talladega you guys keep sitting in the comments i'm going to throw them up on screen having all the fun so our crew continuing to work hard here today at talladega i hope you guys have enjoyed the show don't forget uh that uh we're going to be going through picking out some winners for the shares uh i've got a i've got a stack of hats that i'm going to be sending out so hit the share button we're going to send you guys some stuff that's going to be fun coca-cola hooking us up with that so uh guys final thoughts what are you thinking well i i got everything out of the race today that i wanted michael i we had the excitement we had some wrecks we had a little bit of everything we saw the pass and color saw cars going from the front to the back uh green flag pit stops you name it one of the most popular drivers in the series winning alex bowman in second place ryan priest the guy that needed a good run in third place my takeaway from this is two thumbs up to nascar there was a lot of hard work that went into putting these rules in place at this racetrack a lot of question marks coming into this race what we got out of it was a race that was very good and that was exactly the speed the pace everything that we wanted the cars being on the pass the way that we wanted i i don't see anything that i can complain about today well and as usual nascar got it right you know there was so much concern about the speed and the way the cars would handle this looked like a typical talladega race to me you saw some crashes you saw some domination at stages and then you you saw at the end a winner and and chevrolet's taken taken the first four spots i mean who saw that coming because of the fact that we've talked about those pointy front bumpers and when it came to push and shove how could they execute with those pointy front bumpers but obviously they got the job done big crashes you're going to have that at talladega that only goes back to about 1960 when i think they had the biggest crash ever in nascar here so don't think that today wasn't a fun race it was it was really really cool as far as we know at this moment nobody got hurt there was a lot of entertained race fans and golly i'm just so thankful for all the access that we were able to give the fans here on caffeine on facebook through our fox sports app uh and kudos to kudos to chevy for for getting their teams together getting their teams to work together going out there and saying hey we we learned from what happened to us at daytona we're going to do a much better job at talladega of as a group working together and they're rewarded because of that and i've been critical of chevy this year in the fact that they got to get their race cars faster and they've got to do things a little bit differently they they are taking that criticism and they're working with it that was very evident today to your point i'm surprised we did not see a tandem towards the end of this race or the bump draft play a bigger role but these drivers learned what they had to do when they were out there they figured it all out and this has been fun today we we got to do a lot of cool stuff we got to talk to a lot of fun people talk to some drivers talk to some crew members and take you behind the scenes i know the last thing we've got coming up here very very soon is going to be katelyn as you'll notice she's left us taking it away in victory lane and i like the question from jody she says do you think they make changes to the package as far as the aero package absolutely not and quit saying package tell your fans tell everybody lose the word package we're racing cars with rules we're not racing packages we're racing 2019 cars we saw a very entertaining race and besides that cj we're at talladega how fitting how fitting is it chase elliot is all hopped up on mountain dew and he's going to victory lane these uh these rules are here to stay we're not going to see nascar change these rules not this year anyways we got at least two more races like this and i'm all hopped up on one thing i'm hopped up on another it's going to be my coke orange vanilla i just got to throw that out there cheers buddy shannon saying awesome chase from the same place making a dosenville georgia reference i like it fans are excited that sound that sound when they came across the line i got to tell you guys how people love chase elliot fortunate that i'm going to do three straight days of race hub this week at six p.m on fs one for those who haven't seen it as as race cars are being delivered behind us this is the car of jeffrey urnhart they're cutting on it you can hear the saws in the background this team's got to get this car loaded up to go home but three straight days of race hub co-hosting and looking very much forward to all the chase elliot talk that's going to be coming along and i think we're getting close to going ahead and uh joining in with katelyn in victory lane here as well as we wait for chase elliot you guys this is awesome access we've got the car the man of the hour arriving as you can see this is an incredible look of our race winner here in talladega chase elliot rolling in the victory lane guys wow and i anticipate this is going to be a big party you see all of his road crew is cruchy val and gustus in there to greet him along with his mom as everyone gets situated to bring chase out of the race car you see lots of people here from hendrick winter sports obviously as well to celebrate this big win really an incredible moment for the entire organization as you see the driver waiting for the queue to come out of the race car and here he comes the winner at talladega his first win so far this year chase elliot as he soaks in that moment with his team raising the checkered flag confetti gatorade flying just an incredible incredible day for him and for this team now he's gonna go ahead and obviously do another interview with fox as we traditionally do on the broadcast the two-way interview you see jimmy johnson has made his way to to congratulate his teammate chase elliot jeff andrew is one of the key personnel at hendrick winter sports in front of me as well getting a hug from his wife but this is the place that everyone wants to be at the end of the race victory lane at talladega is so special you can see all the camera crews everyone gets lined up across from the team to take the traditional photos the sponsor photos for chase elliot as you can see all the road crew mechanics looking on that's a whole a bunch of them right there alon gustas and the crew chief since chase has been in the cup series his car chief behind him josh kirk these guys have been with chase since he started his career in the cup series greg ives crew chief also congratulating chase elliot as you can see the geico 500 trophy moving past us going into place people commenting the trophy how heavy it is but you see the trophy being placed in the front now as you guys are seeing in front of us trophy presentation about to take place for chase elliot he has a number of obviously media obligations that take place for the race winner here chase elliot now getting a chance to congratulate his teammates on the victory it's going to get set to add that wind sticker there to the car and now taking place is the big trophy presentation as representatives from talladega super speedway talk with chase elliot for the big geico 500 winner and chase elliot now posing with the trophy as they begin now their sponsor photos alex bowman is hindering motorsports teammate just coming into victory lane to congratulate him as well jack canals also crew chief coming to congratulate chase elliot all of his teammates have made their way over to congratulate him on this victory you guys are getting behind the scenes access to victory lane right now from talladega as chase begins his celebrations with his team first win of 2019 for them so you can see getting hugs from his teammates