This week on Bringing the Heat with Trey Lyle, author Andrew Clarke joins to discuss his book “The Immortals of NASCAR.” Clarke is from Australia, and the racing talk includes describing similarities and differences between NASCAR and Supercars and driver crossovers between the series.
In the book writing process, Clarke shares who he feels is the greatest NASCAR driver to ever wheel a stock car. Clarke also details what it meant to have Richard Petty write the foreword for his book.
After the interview, Caleb Barnes joins Lyle to review the hottest topics of the week. That includes talking about the hottest driver of the week, and of the season. The two set the ceiling for Tyler Reddick’s win total after his impressive performance at Circuit of the Americas.
On Wednesday (March 4), Richard Childress Racing and Cleetus McFarland’s upcoming plans were announced. Barnes and Lyle lay out what they would like to see when it comes to the approval process and NASCAR making sure drivers like McFarland are actually up to the task when they run NASCAR events.
This week’s soundbite of the week comes from Shane van Gisbergen, recapping his Cup race at Circuit of the Americas where he was dethroned of his road course kingship for the time being. Barnes and Lyle debate whether or not van Gisbergen has already missed his opportunity to make the postseason after he failed to win the first road course 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.
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!