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On this week’s Happy Hour, hosts Trey Lyle, Michael Massie and Caleb Barnes are joined by Frontstretch Video/YouTube Director & Graphic Designer Jared Haas to talk a miserable NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway.
The quartet give their solutions to NASCAR’s short track package problems and rant about how bad the FOX broadcasts have gotten. They also talk about the recent rumors that Stewart-Haas Racing may sell two charters, what that means for the team and who could potentially buy them.
Then, the guys debate whether Hendrick Motorsports is the greatest team in all of sports.
In the bonus segment, in honor PGA’s The Masters Tournament this coming weekend, each of the guys select what their NASCAR version of Augusta National Golf Club would be.
Watch the whole show below or listen to the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.
About the author
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.
Jared Haas joined the Frontstretch staff in May 2020. During his time at Frontstretch, Jared has grown the Frontstretch YouTube channel from less than 200 subscribers to well over 23,000 subscribers.
Caleb began sports writing in 2023 with The Liberty Champion, where he officially covered his first NASCAR race at Richmond in the spring. While there, Caleb met some of the guys from Frontstretch, and he joined the video editing team after graduating from Liberty University with degrees in Strategic Communications and Sports Journalism. Caleb currently work full-time as a Multi-Media Journalist with LEX 18 News in Lexington, Kentucky and contributes to Frontstretch with writing and video editing. He's also behind-the-scenes or on camera for the Happy Hour Podcast, live every Tuesday night at 7:30!
Michael Massie joined Frontstretch in 2017 and has served as the Content Director since 2020. Massie, a Richmond, Va., native, has covered NASCAR, IndyCar, SRX and the CARS Tour. Outside of motorsports, the Virginia Tech grad and Green Bay Packers minority owner can be seen cheering on his beloved Hokies and Packers.
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I can’t be bothered with podcasts so I don’t have a clue what the participants decided about Hendrick, but I can say that I don’t even think they’re the greatest team in racing, let alone all sports. Hendrick has had great success in Cup, but his success in other forms of racing (like IMSA) has been somewhat limited. On the other hand Penske Racing has won and often dominated in just about every form of racing they’ve chosen to compete in. Penske’s teams have won races and championships in Trans Am, Can Am, Cart, USAC, Indycar, NASCAR Cup and Busch/Xfinity, FIA Endurance racing, Australian Supercars, and Formula 1. Of course his cars have also won the Indianapolis 500 19 times too.