Former NASCAR crew chief Jeff Hammond is this week’s featured guest on Bringing the Heat With Bryan Nolen.
Frontstretch‘s Dalton Hopkins discussed various topics with Hammond, including what he has been up to for the past decade since leaving FOX’s NASCAR coverage.
Frontstretch‘s Trey Lyle then joins Nolen to look back on news from this past week and look ahead to NASCAR’s return to Mexico as the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series take on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Denny Hamlin is on baby watch this week, and all eyes are on whether he makes the trip or if Ryan Truex takes the green flag.
The soundbite of the week is Alex Bowman speaking to the media after being released from the infield care center at Michigan International Speedway, where he took a hard hit into the wall. The Frontstretch duo reacts to his quotes and ponder where his future may lie with Hendrick Motorsports.
Lyle and Nolen conclude their final thoughts reacting to the change to Motorsports Christmas, with Formula 1 moving the Canadian Grand Prix into the same time window as the Indy 500.
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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
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
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.
