On this week’s episode of Frontstretch Happy Hour, hosts Bryan Nolen, Michael Massie and Dalton Hopkins are joined by NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series rookie Mini Tyrrell and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series road course specialist Preston Pardus.
Tyrrell joins the podcast first to discuss racing this past weekend at the Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. He also details his win two weekends ago in the zMAX CARS Tour race at Dominion Raceway, taking home the trophy of the Mini’s Mission 125 for the second year in a row. He also describes what Mini’s Mission did during that weekend. Mini’s Mission is a foundation Tyrrell started when he was just a child that benefits children with cancer.
Pardus then joins to tell about his experience at Coronado and what the rest of the season could look like for him and his family team. He sticks around and helps the Happy Hour hosts fill out a bracket for the NASCAR In-Season Challenge, which starts this weekend at Sonoma Raceway. All of the Frontstretch podcasts will be competing against each other to see who has the best bracket, so stay tuned for that in the upcoming weeks.
Watch the whole show above, on YouTube or listen to the audio version on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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!
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.
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
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