On this week’s episode of Bringing the Heat with Bryan Nolen, Nolen sits down with NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Joe Graf Jr. about his upcoming start at Kansas Speedway with Joe Gibbs Racing and his outlook for the rest of the season.
Trey Lyle fills in the rest of the way for Nolen and is joined by Tanner Marlar to talk about the Denny Hamlin extension with JGR and John Hunter Nemechek signing with Legacy Motor Club to drive the No. 42 in 2024.
Lyle and Marlar then do the playoff round up and discuss who is trending up, who is trending down and who is likely eliminated after the first playoff race at Darlington Raceway.
For the soundbite of the week, the guys listened to Rodney Childers, crew chief for Kevin Harvick, and discussed the pit road incident that cost the No. 4 the race.
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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 co-host Happy Hour and help out on the podcast front.
He now hosts Bringing the Heat with Trey Lyle and oversees the entire podcast operation for Frontstretch.
Bryan Nolen is the Operations Manager and Multimedia Director for Frontstretch.com. He also hosts the Bringing the Heat with Bryan Nolen Podcast and occasionally makes appearances on The Happy Hour Podcast. He has a Sportscasting degree from the Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting. He resides in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, his French Bulldog Archer and two rabbits.
Follow him on Twitter @TheBryanNolen
Tanner Marlar is a staff writer for Sports Illustrated’s OnSI Network, a contributor for multiple automotive news outlets, an award-winning sports columnist and talk show host, and a PhD. student at a premier college of media and mass communication. Tanner began working with Frontstretch in 2022, covering the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.
You can’t say it cost Harvick the race. It cost him a “chance” to win the race.