On this week’s episode of Bringing the Heat, Trey Lyle fills in for Bryan Nolen as podcast host.
The show starts with Adam Cheek’s conversation with NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series rookie Rajah Caruth on his first year in the series, balancing racing and school work, and his prerace playlist.
Chase Folsom then joins to talk about his CARS Tour coverage last weekend at Tri-County Speedway and the latest topics in NASCAR, which included the playoff bubble and the announcement of a Netflix series.
Stephen Stumpf comes on for his weekly stats portion, discussing the run time at Watkins Glen International and previewing Daytona International Speedway.
Lyle and Folsom rejoin to discuss the future of Alan Gustafson with Chase Elliott and the NASCAR Cup Series No. 9 team.
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A Graduate of Virginia Tech in Sports Media and Analytics, Trey Lyle has been covering NASCAR since 2021 as the producer of the Fast Lane with Ed Lane on VTRN Sports 93.3 FM in Lynchburg, Va.
Trey joined FS in 2023 to cohost Happy Hour and help out on the podcast front as the producer for Brining the Heat with Bryan Nolen. Now, he oversees the entire podcast operation for Frontstretch.
Chase began working with Frontstretch in the spring of 2023 as a news writer, while also helping fill in for other columns as needed. Chase is now the main writer and reporter for Frontstretch.com's CARS Tour coverage, a role which began late in 2023. Aside from racing, some of Chase's other hobbies include time in the outdoors hunting and fishing, and keeping up with all things Philadelphia sports related.
Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.
Stephen Stumpf is the NASCAR Content Director for Frontstretch and is a three-year veteran of the site. His weekly column is “Stat Sheet,” and he formerly wrote "4 Burning Questions" for three years. He also writes commentaries, contributes to podcasts, edits articles and is frequently at the track for on-site coverage.
Find Stephen on Twitter @stephen_stumpf