This week on Bringing the Heat With Trey Lyle, William Sawalich and Dalton Hopkins discuss world travel, including a recent trip to Africa. While Sawalich shared that he enjoys traveling, his trip to Africa included giving hearing aids to those who need them.
Sawalich described the experience of seeing kids experience hearing for the first time. He also explained why it’s important to him to go on these mission trips.
After the interview, Caleb Barnes joins Lyle to review the multitude of midweek headlines that dropped, beginning with rumors that NASCAR is exploring a return to the Chicago street course in the future. Barnes and Lyle speculate on what that may mean for the 2026 return to Chicagoland Speedway, and what will happen with that track in the future.
Also announced, Katherine Legge will be attempting to complete the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day. Barnes feels the biggest hurdle will be the lack of practice (and hopes that the weather cooperates), but Barnes and Lyle believe there is a shot that Legge completes more laps than Kyle Larson did in either of his Double attempts.
The two also react to news that Mike Joy will wave the green flag in Sunday’s All-Star Race, discussing what that may mean for the future of the legendary broadcaster. Lyle also goes over the All-Star format, and Barnes shares what he thinks this means for the future of Dover Motor Speedway.
The soundbite of the week comes from the post-race presser in Watkins Glen, where Shane van Gisbergen explained what was happening on his team radio as he reeled in the leaders en route to his latest road course victory. Barnes and Lyle argue whether or not it’s time to go ahead and crown SVG as the greatest road racer in NASCAR.
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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!
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 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.