On this week’s Frontstretch Happy Hour, hosts Trey Lyle, Dalton Hopkins and Michael Massie are joined by fellow Frontstretch writer and recent Jeopardy contestant Jack Swansey.
Swansey details his experience competing on the long-running game show before the group discusses a wacky week of NASCAR news leaving the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.
Alex Bowman was disqualified following Sunday’s (Oct. 13) NASCAR Cup Series race for his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet failing to make minimum weight. As a result, Joey Logano took Bowman’s spot in the Round of 8. The Happy Hour quartet dive into whether there was attempted foul play involved or just really bad luck for the HMS driver.
In the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the ROVAL the day before, another No. 48 driver seemingly had a Round of 8 spot taken away. A caution for Leland Honeyman just prior to taking the white flag prevented Parker Kligerman from scoring his first career NXS win and advancing in the playoffs. The race went into overtime, and Sam Mayer won instead. The gang discusses the problem with how long it took NASCAR to throw that caution flag and what can be done better.
On Monday (Oct. 14), the AP put out a story about how one of the race teams allegedly stole intellectual property from Joe Gibbs Racing via paying off a JGR engineer. The guys speculate on which team they think stole the information and what the aftermath should be.
Watch the whole show below or listen to the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.
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.
Jack Swansey primarily covers open-wheel racing for Frontstretch and co-hosts The Pit Straight Podcast,but you can also catch him writing about NASCAR, sports cars, and anything else with four wheels and a motor. Originally from North Carolina and now residing in Los Angeles, he joined the site as Sunday news writer midway through 2022 and is an avid collector (some would say hoarder) of die-cast cars.
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.
Dalton Hopkins began writing for Frontstretch in April 2021. Currently, he is the lead writer for the weekly Thinkin' Out Loud column, co-host of the Frontstretch Happy Hour podcast, and one of our lead reporters. Beforehand, he wrote for IMSA shortly after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2019. Simultaneously, he also serves as a Captain in the US Army.
Follow Dalton on Twitter @PitLaneCPT