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On this week’s Happy Hour, hosts Trey Lyle, Michael Massie and Caleb Barnes are joined by frequent guest John Newby, senior writer at Savage Ventures and AltDriver.com.
The quartet dive into the wreck between Corey LaJoie and Kyle Busch. Was NASCAR right in not assessing LaJoie a penalty for the incident?
The guys also talk about how Tyler Reddick has come up short in a lot of recent races. They then get into the lack of NASCAR Cup Series opportunities for some of the top prospects, as it seems Austin Hill, Corey Heim and Chandler Smith will move up next season.
The gang discuss the new tire options that will be raced at Richmond Raceway in August and what factor those could play in the racing. Finally, in honor of the return of the Brickyard 400 this coming weekend, the guys name what thing they would like to see return to NASCAR.
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.
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.
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!
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Hamlin has to say something about it before Nascar will react.
Wondering what Hamlin had to say about Bubbles purposely ramming into Bowman a couple weeks ago? lol
I’d say he got away with one. He hit K B once and that didn’t do it, so he hit him again and spun him out. It couldn’t be more obvious that it was on purpose. I can’t wait to see Busch crash Lajoie.