This week on Bringing the Heat With Trey Lyle, 2025 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Champion Jesse Love joins Danny Peters from the west coast in Sonoma. A California kid, Love reflects on where he learned his skills racing a variety of cars in local circuits growing up. Love feels California “made a lot of the best drivers,” producing champions like Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick, as well as a number of other current competitors.
The 2026 season is one Love describes as “trying,” with a challenge to catch Justin Allgaier in the regular season. Love feels he and his team can rise to the occasion to bring the fight to the No. 7 once the Chase begins. With news for 2027 announced, Love feels “honored” to drive for the Wood Brother, looking forward to the challenge the next season will bring.
After the interview, Caleb Barnes joins Lyle to review the hottest topics of the week. That includes discussions about the desire for Prime Video and Turner, owners of TNT Sports, to broadcast more races in the future. Barnes believes more races on Prime could be beneficial, but it would depend more on the trajectory of the sport.
The future of racing in Chicago is still an ongoing discussion, with more conversations about whether or not the Chicago Street Race should return. Both Barnes and Lyle agree that they enjoy seeing oval racing back at Chicagoland, but they each have their own ideas for how NASCAR could approach hosting one or both races in the greater Chicago area.
This week brings a double dose of soundbites, as Austin Hill and Shane van Gisbergen offer a bit of their perspectives on their run-in at Chicagoland. Barnes and Lyle were both glad to see no penalty announced, but they walk through the complexities of what it means that no drivers were penalized at Chicagoland, while Ryan Preece was dealt a hefty penalty for a similar incident at Texas earlier this year.
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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!
Danny Peters has written for Frontstretch since 2006. An English transplant living in San Francisco, by way of New York City, he’s had an award-winning marketing career with some of the biggest companies sponsoring sports. Working with racers all over the country, his freelance writing has even reached outside the world of racing to include movie screenplays.
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.
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