No, no, no, no, no! [bleeping]
No, no, no, no!
I... I wonder what he's gonna do. I know what I would do.
I'd have another car and I'd be out there as fast as possible.
The only choice I have is I have my brand new no-prep car.
[Christine] How about if we just built a cruiser.
What, and stop racing?
[both laughing]
What are you, crazy?
I don't... I'm not afraid.
[Murder Nova] It was a good pass, I was happy with it.
How can you be upset besides the fact I'm 0-6?
[Ryan] You got the second best record here,
It's almost a guarantee that you're going to America's Top 20.
Will we get like a most improved trophy or something?
Nah, probably not.
You know, after looking at the '57, there's just no way.
- Yeah. - [Jeff] That we're gonna bring it back to life,
and we've got a lot of racing left to do.
So recently I had to say farewell to the '57.
Ah, [bleep].
[tearing up]
[Christine] [bleep].
You were so lucky. [crying]
[Jeff] It's devastating to both of us.
It's way beyond getting fixed.
I feel like that road has kicked my ass,
and part of me wants to just walk away,
but the racer in me... I... I just can't do it.
To not have the car is just bizarre to me, but we got to adapt.
To get to America's List is very important to me.
I missed out last time, and it was really close.
This time around, there's no excuse.
I mean, yeah, I wrecked. Yeah, the car's gone,
but I'm only down one tally mark.
So it could be worse.
What do you think about bringing the GTO to the street?
I love GTOs, I've always wanted to do one,
and when I had the chance to do a new no-prep car, that was an easy choice.
So my team and I have been busting ass.
We finally got the 2006 GTO ready.
It's got a 540 twin turbo, 88 millimeter, 400 Rossler,
same everything that I've run in the '57,
and when we brought it out to the track, it paid off big time.
[crowd cheering]
We went to the finals in Louisiana, and we won the whole damn thing.
[BoostedGT] All right, whoo! Jeff Lutz. Hey, man, congratulations.
$40,000 richer, it is yours to keep.
[Jeff] And I know that Jr. can tune this car to win on the track.
I hope we can tune it to win on the street as well.
- Congratulations, sir, I'm proud of you. - Thank you, Boosted.
- [BoostedGT] Jeff Lutz, your winner! - [crowd cheering]
I know I said I would never do that,
but this is, uh, abnormal circumstance.
I feel like the GTO's gonna be hard to go down the street because of the weight of it.
- You mean how... How light it is? - Yeah.
But Ryan and Dave are running that new ProCharge deal, they're super light now.
To watch them go down that street is absolutely amazing.
They go down through there effortlessly,
and one of the last passes I've seen of Ryan,
there's nobody gonna touch him.
I... I thought about it all night,
and I thought, you know, traction control's never been our strong point
and Ryan is the king of it, in my eyes, he is
because, I mean, I've never not seen Ryan make it down the street.
- Yeah. - You know what I mean?
This car, we gotta take gobs of power out of it to make it down the street,
and that's where Ryan's gonna come in.
Hopefully, Jeffrey and I can learn his ways of getting down the street.
I've always watched him, he gets down pretty safe, and that's what I wanna do.
I don't want to go out there the next race night and expect to beat everybody.
Hell, I don't expect to beat anybody.
I just need to get my confidence back.
That I can conquer that road, that road has kicked my ass many, many times,
and I, uh, I'm convinced that I'm gonna kick its ass.
So we need to hit the ground and hit the ground running really fast.
So, and I think the only way to do it is with the GTO.
So we just gotta slow it down.
You know, race nights coming, and I need to be there.
All right, well, let's do it.
- Wanna go check it out? - Yeah.
[Jeff] I've only got a couple days to get it in the box
and get it to the street.
I got my work cut out for me because we gotta get scrappy with it,
and take it to Okemah and see what happens.
So I say we drop the weight, run the valves, is it... What else is there?
I mean, really, it's not much.
- Change the oil. - Yeah.
Just give it a once over and make sure there's nothing...
Go test it tonight?
- Sounds good. - [Jeff] Okay.
- [Jeff Jr.] Let's do it. - [Jeff] Yep.
Hello. What are you doing?
- Huh? - What are you doing?
Apparently not looking at your phone.
- Why? Were you calling me? - No,
but Jeff Lutz was texting us,
and I had to bring him your, uh, balancer puller thing.
You loaned someone my harmonic balancer puller?
No, I loaned it to Jeff Lutz.
[laughing] Huh?
When I went there, he was working on his GTO.
Balancer puller's a weird thing to borrow unless you're close.
It looked pretty close.
- Really? - [Jackie] Yeah.
Ooh.
So Jackie finds out that Jeff Lutz is putting together the GTO.
That would mean that he's planning on putting that GTO on the street.
So he's gonna be on the street this weekend.
It was specifically built for No Prep Kings,
but Jeff sees Ryan and Dave's new cars
with all that horsepower and he probably thinks
it's not gonna be that big a deal.
I mean who are the lock-ins right now, right?
You got Monza who... He just got beat for the first time by Ryan.
Monza's killing it, Ryan's killing it. You know, Ryan's undefeated.
You got Dave, who only has, you know, two loss, something like that.
- To you. - Chuck... Yeah, to me.
[Jackie chuckles]
And then you.
Yeah, I'm kinda, like, riding the edge there.
- You know? - Mmm-hmm.
It's weird though because...
The surface is so different so it has kind of flipped things around.
Like, when we were racing on America's List
and we were racing to make it to America's List last season,
we were in Nebraska on that road,
and so Monza wasn't doing very good, but then you had somebody like Shawn who did.
Shawn did well, Shawn raced at, you know,
he raced at the top of America's List.
But now look at us, we come here and Shawn is winless.
Literally winless.
That's the difference between the surfaces, you know.
So you got Shawn who did good, Monza who struggled
because the surface wasn't what we're used to.
But now, we're back home.
Now, you've got Monza, who's, you know, almost undefeated,
and Shawn, who's defeated.
But still, like, I have to wonder if... If we were in Nebraska right now
and Shawn and Monza raced, I have to wonder who would win.
When we go to America's List, if it's on asphalt,
you know what I mean, I'd take the OG Murder Nova.
What if there was a way for the five that don't make it
to still have, like, a second chance?
I don't know that we can do that,
we're... That's not really how the 405 rolls, you know?
We kinda take it the way it comes and we deal with it.
Now, I've been thinking of expanding America's List to a 25 list.
But just because there are some other out of town guys,
there are some other areas of the country that would like a shot
and that may deserve a chance at this.
But for the 405, we just have to play it out by the rest of the season
and just win as many races as we can win
to set the example of, no matter what,
you work and you bust your ass till the very last moment,
and then we rely on the tally marks to tell us who did their work.
You know, 'cause at the end of the day,
effort is really 90 percent of street racing.
Once you do something like I did, it scares the hell out of you.
So it's a conquest of mind to conquer this road,
to lose the fear.
So we're 6-0, what do you think?
[Javi] Thinking the car's working good.
[Ryan] Yeah, the car is working good.
It obviously made the fastest pass
that it's ever made on the street, I think.
- I think. - [Javi] Yeah.
[Ryan] At least for this combo, but because of that,
and because we try to change the oil every six or seven passes,
and we're not testing this week because it's raining,
and the cars working really well and so we don't need to go out and risk it.
Um, I don't know that we have much to do to this thing.
So after beating Monza, I'm the only undefeated driver
and the car's working better than ever.
Did you run the valves after the last pass?
Yeah, after the last pass, ran the valves...
- [Ryan] Against... Against Monza. - Yep.
Right now, we've built ourselves
a pretty big cushion to make it in the top five,
but that doesn't mean that we can sit back and relax.
Anything can happen in drag racing,
and the more that we can plan, and test, and repeat, the better.
So speaking of that Monza race, what did you think about that?
I was a little nervous, I feel like we were making good passes,
- and he was like right there making good passes. - [Ryan] I know.
[Ryan] Good lord.
Next season on Street Outlaws, No ProChargers.
Battle of the undefeated, somebody had to come up on top of that.
- [Ryan] Um... - We came out on top. So...
- Still hoping for that 10-0. - [Ryan] Yeah, I don't know, that's a big...
- It's hard to win 10 races... - [Ryan] Because you gotta... You gotta figure out...
You know what you gotta do to go 10-0?
So here's what we gotta do, if you really thought about this,
The engines gotta do what it's supposed to do for 10 times in a row.
- Yeah. - [Ryan] Okay.
- No hiccups. - [Ryan] I think that's pretty possible
with this combination, I think it'll do it.
You gotta do what you gotta do,
but then I gotta do what I'm supposed to do too,
so that means that 10 times in a row I gotta drive right.
I get... I can't get tree'd, or if I... Or if I do, I gotta make sure my car's faster,
- Yeah. - [Ryan] then I can get around somebody.
I can't red light. I can't do anything stupid.
And you gotta... And you're tuning it,
- all while doing the tune. - Yeah,
and I gotta tune it and make the right choices on the tune.
So, I mean, to do any of that all together 10 times in a row,
- I mean, listen... - The odds are not in our favor.
[Ryan] When you said it, I was... I thought it was funny
because I'm like, yeah, like we're gonna be able to do that again.
- Yeah. - [Ryan] But we have a good shot,
- [Ryan] So I don't know, we'll see. - Yeah.
Right now it looks like we got the fastest car,
-but it's hard to say -[Javi] Yeah.
Because, look, Dave's...
- We got him early. - Car is improving every time.
[Ryan] And it's early, if he gets a good handle on his car
we gotta be ready for that.
-Chief struggled early, -[Javi] Yeah.
[Ryan] and then looked pretty good the last couple passes,
and I know he's probably gonna come around, so I gotta be ready for that.
And now the road has proven to come right back where it was two years ago,
- Yeah. - And so here we are on this really good road,
and everybody's going faster than they've ever gone, you know?
With how fast everybody's running this season,
I have to be prepared to put the fastest tune up in the Fireball that I have
every time I make a pass.
And as far as looking at the data and everything,
I still think that... I think we can turn it up some more.
Pick it up a little bit down low?
I mean I'm not gonna make as big a move, I don't think,
but it's like... This hasn't showed me that it's gonna spin the tire yet,
and I hate not knowing what we got.
I think the only way to stay ahead of those guys is to try things.
- Keep trying to pick it up? - When we don't necessarily need to.
- Yeah. - [Ryan] Like I didn't really necessarily need to try
some of the stuff I tried against Shawn, or something like that.
But if I didn't try it then, when I get...
When I get somebody who I think might be the fastest.
- Dave, or whatever the case is. - [Javi] Or Jerry, yeah.
Yeah, or Jerry. I... I won't know what it'll do.
[Javi] Yeah.
[Ryan] The car's running great now,
but I want to be able to push it to know its limits.
So the reason for that is when we get to the faster guys and the faster cars
and all the way to America's List, we'll know what to do with it.
We got two races coming up this next race night, and we haven't raced...
- Chief. - And Chuck.
So we know if we race Chuck, it's gonna be a big deal.
[Javi] That's gonna be a good race.
We know if we race Chief, it's gonna be a good race.
Yeah, he's coming... Like you said, he's coming around.
And we know how everybody else runs.
- As of now. - As of right now.
[Damon] Well, power's on, switch is off, so uh...
What's happening? We got a delivery for Donny?
- No Donny. - [Johnny] No Donnies?
- No Donny. - A Darryl?
- [Damon] No Darryl. - No Darryls.
- Damien? - [Damon] No. I think we're all over that.
- [Johnny] Oh, okay. - Yeah. It's Damon.
- Still Damon, okay. - [Damon] Or new guy.
[mechanic] New guy.
[Johnny] What are y'all working on?
[Damon] Trying to get some damn reverse lights working here,
- you know how these street cars are. - [Johnny sighs]
-You gotta have reverse lights, -[Johnny] Yeah.
And brake lights, and tail lights,
and we've only got tail lights right now. So...
[mechanic] More of a decoration.
[Johnny] That is... That is not my area.
- [Damon] No. - [Johnny] I'm glad you got Craig here.
-I'm not sure it's quite anybody's area, -[Johnny] Right.
- But we'll get it figured out. - [Craig] It's almost fixed.
- But hey we are 2-4 at the moment. - Yeah.
Almost looks like we know what we're doing.
Uh, I think the bar change, and the little bit of weight that we added
kinda played in our favor, it settled the car down some.
Even though we had another slow start to the season,
we started to put together a couple wins, and the car's starting to look great.
So this is still kinda anybody's...
[Johnny] It's open right now.
Anybody's game, we just gotta keep... We got a two win streak here.
- We gotta keep it going. - We gotta clock in and get two more wins real quick.
[Johnny] We good to test them, Do you have the data to look at for that?
Yeah, actually I do.
Right now, things are looking so tight that just a few wins
is what's coming between the top five racers.
Went to the two-step and it said activated.
We finally start to feel like we got a handle on the road.
Uh, we can use that data and start racking up some wins here.
Oh, gee. Okay, yeah. So you legit lost...
- [Damon] Yeah. - What? Three-tenths of a second right there?
Yeah, and then the whole car was just... Or it was just pissed off.
[Craig] It didn't touch anything.
[Johnny] Until you turn the trans-brake part on, you can see it.
- Yeah, yeah. - [all laughing]
[Damon] It wasn't that the tune was a little too hot and it let go,
I might have been adjusting my hands at the time.
I hit the trans-brake.
But other than that,
- like, the 60-foot looks [bleep] solid. - [Johnny] Money.
Yeah. The 60-foot was money, the tune up was great, the chassis was great,
- and then you rookied it. - Yeah.
Hey, but it was on a hit though. That sucker was on one.
That was a starting 60-foot,
or a fastest pass out there, so far.
I really think that it got their attention pretty good.
We've been running with everybody this whole time,
and I think that 60-foot kind of perked them up a little bit.
- [Johnny] It was woke up on that one. - So...
- We've got six runs on this road for data. - [Johnny] Yeah.
They've got 6,000.
- Well, it's getting started, so... - [Craig] So...
They'd better be on their toes
thinking about this, so...
It's easy to forget that I'm new to this group of racers,
and I haven't really been down this road before.
And a lot of these other guys have spent years here.
So, I can't let a few mistakes and a slow start get in my head
and slow us down any.
With what we've learned, against Dominator,
I mean, if I wouldn't have [bleep] up,
then who knows how that pass would have went, but...
We need two more wins. We haven't drawn, yet.
We don't know who we're racing next.
Hate to say it, but if we can stay away from Fireball,
that'd be awesome.
- Totally and I think we could get... - Totally, yeah.
A few more licks on this road.
We get some more guidance, some more time.
I'd like to be the one that hands him the loss.
For real.
[Murder Nova] Man!
Those look like those are brand new.
New tires.
Already?
- Twenty-five passes. - Ugh.
- What? - I'd put like 35 on them.
- You do? - Mmm-hmm.
- That'd save me a lot of money. - Yeah.
- What are you doing? - [Daddy Dave] Nothing. That's it.
- Yeah? - [Daddy Dave] I ain't touching it.
- It's fast. - That car is really nice, now, dude.
[Daddy Dave] Yes, it is.
- That's the nicest car you've ever had... - [Daddy Dave] Yes.
- And the fastest. - Yes.
- Good job. - [Daddy Dave] And it's working good.
Not me. My car's still nice and slow and...
- What are you doing? - What?
- What are you doing? - What do you mean?
Your record.
Oh, yeah, no, I'm 0-6.
- Yeah. - It's hard to stay friends.
- Well... - Just so you know.
- Well, I bring other stuff to the table. - You do!
You do, but, damn...
- [Daddy Dave] You're gonna have to win. - It's not always wins.
You're gonna have to win here.
I'm obviously not bringing any wins to the table.
I mean, at some point by default...
- -surely I'll win one, right? - [bleep]
[Murder Nova] It's no secret this season has been a struggle for me.
Everybody that beats me, half-a-car, man.
The OG's definitely doing good and making fast passes.
But with everyone else changing up their cars in the off season,
like Daddy Dave, I don't know what else to do, man.
The OG just doesn't have what it takes
to compete with this group on this road.
- My car is fast. - [Daddy Dave] It's fast.
It is fast, but everybody else is faster.
But put me on a road that isn't that road.
Man, look, I, trust me, I don't want to keep on saying
that road, that road, that road.
We should be fast on any road.
But at some point, you just can't go faster.
I can't go faster with that car.
- Right. - I didn't do, you know, what you and Ryan did...
over the winter.
And it's paying off for y'all, you know...
- I'm as happy for you guys, as I can be. - Yeah.
[Daddy Dave] I do feel bad for Shawn.
He didn't change his car up like a lot of us did.
But, I know that my car still does decent...
- on marginal surfaces. - Yeah, I know.
But, we're not on marginal surfaces.
[Daddy Dave] Last season in America's Top 20 List,
Shawn was in the top five for most of the season.
And when you got a car that fast on a bad road...
[man] Damn.
You wouldn't think you would have to change very much.
It's running good. It's just everybody's fast.
[Daddy Dave] But when you got a bad surface car
and you're on a really good surface,
there's really nothing you can do.
Once we go back or y'all go back to America's List...
What? Stop.
Like...
What's gonna happen then?
And now you made the thing so damn fast that...
I don't know what you're gonna do.
So, this road we're on, it's really good and it's really fast
and Shawn is 100% correct.
We're gonna have to rethink our tunes when we go to a bad street.
But for right now, I just gotta concentrate on what I'm doing.
Making top five on this list and hopefully helping Shawn turn his season around.
I can only do what I can do, man.
You gotta get some good draws.
- I'm sure I'll draw you. - Oof.
That's all right. That means you get to try something.
What you got going here?
[Chuck] You made it. You find it all right?
I did find it. You're out here in the middle of nowhere.
[Chuck] So, I told you it's a hike out here,
but if you wanted to come by, come by.
- [Damon] Well. - What's on your mind?
I just gotta figure out how to quit drawing each other
in these [bleep] damn races.
For whatever reason I can't get around this [bleep] damn thing.
I didn't know if you had a 481X in here or whatever,
but it doesn't look like it.
Back in Nebraska, I feel like me and Damon raced the entire season.
So, this season we're back on track.
I've already raced him twice.
The last time me and Damon raced, the kid almost beat me.
Nice race. That was a good race.
I've come out on top every time me and Damon have raced.
But every time we've raced, he's gotten closer and closer and closer
and I guarantee it, one of the next three races,
Damon is gonna outrun Chuck.
I really don't wanna race you again, either,
because I feel like the next time you might be right here.
- That's true. - And then that [bleep] me up if you're right there.
That kind of gives me a gauge of kind of where we're at on the road...
- No. - 'cause you've been real consistent.
You've been out there for years.
And we're starting to kind of gain that momentum
- so we're starting to get... - [Chuck] Well.
A pretty good handle on the road.
What I've, when this car came out as a big tire car,
- it was number one for two seasons in a row... - Right.
Sitting on that road.
And I feel like we're going faster out there
than we've ever been on that road.
- [Damon] Well, that's good to know. - So, you're not...
You just haven't raced with us long enough.
And unfortunately, you suck at drawing out the chips...
- Yeah. - [Chuck] ...because you just keep drawing me.
But if we race long enough, you're gonna kick my ass,
- like, the next seven times. - [Damon] Nah.
[Chuck] No, it's true. Trust me.
You've got one of the fastest cars out there.
You're trying to take it that way.
I'm trying to gain as much knowledge as we can,
and take my losses right where we're not just
on the struggle bus the whole time
because I have been right there.
- I've been right there with Ryan. - Right.
- I've been right there with you. - Uh, yeah.
[Damon] When every win counts, it's tough.
- [Chuck] There you go. - And, I've...
[Chuck] So, now instead of just where you're at on the list...
- [Chuck] ...now you're trying to be in the top five. - Right.
- So, we can go to America's list... - [Damon] Right off the bat.
And race all these other people
and try to be in the top 20.
So, I get it. So, there's more pressure.
You're [bleep] fool if you show up out there...
- and you don't think you got a top five car. - [Chuck] There you go.
Don't do what I did last year.
I mean, I went to America's list and represented,
and I was a [bleep] baddest number 20
we've ever [bleep] had.
But I was just not in a good spot,
so I feel very good this year.
This car is [bleep] on ass.
Last year, bringing up the rear in, uh, America's list
was not a great time and it's not where I wanna be.
But I'm never gonna quit pushing
and trying to get to that number one spot.
I'm not gonna stop until I'm there.
I had to put Ryan, a fender, in front of all of this.
- I just, I just... - [Damon] Yeah.
For me watching the passes, I think, Ryan's a fender, faster than anybody out there.
- And then, I think the other guys... - [Damon] That's true.
Which kind of goes into our first meeting at the first of the year
when Chief said, "Hey, I want my number 10 guy,
you know, within a car of my number 1 guy."
- [Chuck] And that's... - We're [bleep]. We're there.
That's what we got and so, so, hopefully, like you said,
me and you don't draw each other anymore.
And maybe I draw Monza or Dave or Ryan or somebody like that...
- and then it gives you a chance to maybe you draw... - Against somebody.
Some of the other guys that you know you can beat and give you some confidence.
So, just, let's, let's talk about that.
- On, on the way out there... - Yeah.
I'm not racing Chuck.
Just remember that and then go kick somebody else's ass.
- That's how you do it. That's how you do it. - We'll just do that then.
That's healthy. All right.
- Mental, hey, half of this is a mental game. - Thanks, man.
[Chuck] If it don't work, we'll [bleep] change the numbers on chips.
- And I'll just turn the [bleep] car up. - [Chuck] All right.
- [Chuck] I'll see you out there tomorrow night. - [Damon] Good luck.
[Jeff] Yeah.
Jeff, you just want to start it up.
[man speaking]
Oh, [bleep].
If you would have told me a week ago
I'd be unloading this car to put it on the street,
I'd say you were crazy.
After a lot of thought with my family,
you know, it just feels right to put this thing on the street.
[engine whirring]
This is where I belong.
It's gonna take a whole lot more to knock me out of this game.
[engine whirring]
[Chuck] Here comes these [bleep].
What is wrong with you?
It's only been a week.
- [Chuck] I know you're a racer. - Nah.
And I'll do the same [bleep] thing.
But what are you doing?
[Monza speaks]
Here's where I was.
You was in the hospital a few days ago. It's where you was.
I'll be honest with you.
I thought to myself.
I either go back down this road right away
or I probably won't ever do it again.
- So... - [Chuck] I mean, I...
I get it. I get it.
[Daddy Dave speaks]
[Chuck] I don't think we could.
When you fall down, if you don't get back up,
- you may not get back up. - [Daddy Dave] All right.
If I'd have sat there one more day,
I probably wouldn't have got in the car.
I 100 percent get that.
That's just, unfortunately, that's bred into some of us.
- Yeah, we're dumb. - [Chuck] It really is.
- Bruises ain't even gonna... - No dude.
[bleep]
-[Daddy Dave] Hans device -[Chuck] [bleep]. Holy, [bleep].
- Oh, [bleep]. - [Chuck] [bleep]
[Jeff] But that probably saved my life.
I've never been bruised that bad, but then again, you're old as [bleep].
[exclaims] Chuck!
[Chuck laughs]
You're older than me, son of a bitch.
- You are! - I was just...
I don't believe it.
- I'm just... - [Damon] Good luck.
Thank you.
- Be careful. I hope I draw you. - [Jeff] Yeah, me, too.
- [bleep] him up, Jeff. - [Jeff] Yeah.
[Daddy Dave] This GTO is beautiful.
And if he can force it down the street,
he's gonna give us all fits.
Looks good.
I know most people that crashed,
they're hesitant, they're scared.
They don't know if it's gonna happen again,
or when it's gonna happen again.
Very nice.
So, they're real hesitant about climbing behind the wheel
and letting go of the button again.
Never been down the road.
But, Jeff wouldn't be here tonight
if he wasn't fully ready to race,
so I can't wait to see what he does.
- [Chuck] All right, man. - Well, good luck, Jeff.
- [Chuck] Good luck tonight, man. - Thank you, guys.
- [Daddy Dave] Be careful. - All right, yeah.
[Chuck] I'm glad you're back out here, though.
Thank you, buddy.
[Chuck] As the sun sets on this fifth race night,
Dave, Ryan, Monza and myself are killing it
at the top of this list right now.
And the rest of the group is still right behind us
so the top five is definitely not locked in.
It's gonna take every inch of effort
for them guys in the bottom five to reach the top five.
And now with a brand new hot rod joining our group,
things could really get shaken up.
[Big Chief] Okay.
- [Murder Nova] Looking pretty good. - I feel good.
[Murder Nova] Considering.
I know, I know what you're doing here.
- Yeah. - [Big Chief] We all know.
I think we all have kind of figured out what you're doing here.
But what are you doing, bro?
I've been in the hospital a couple days.
Did they let you out or did you escape?
No, they let me out.
But, no, I mean, we all get why you're here.
I got, I got a car back here.
I did see. I did see it.
Man.
- [Big Chief] Did I see it? - It's hard to miss.
[Big Chief laughs]
[Big Chief] Oh, man.
When I get here, everybody is already here
and I drive through and I see all the trucks and trailers and cars,
- and there's one back there that just don't belong... - [man] ...here.
- I see the MPK car back there. - Is that what it is?
The MPK car 'cause it's weird that it's here.
Yep.
This is an MPK, last I checked.
Uh, you never know.
[Big Chief] Well, the weird thing is, Jeff, is because, you know,
me and Jackie were having this discussion
and she goes, well, can he do that?
And I say, well, I don't know.
And of course, she's a lawyer for you
'cause she's on your crew, so she's...
Well, I mean there was no rule
and she's giving me all the reasons
and I'm going when we made
the tally mark race-off thing, we were in Nebraska.
So, obviously, you brought it.
What is your, what's your feeling on that?
Is it [bleep]? It's legal beagle or what?
It's definitely legal.
My GTO is a lot like lighter than most street cars,
but that don't make it illegal to put it on the street.
This car has factory roost, steel quarters, and a vin tag on the dash.
This has always been the rule with this group.
And there should be no reason
that I can't put this car in the street draw a chip and race.
All right, well, there you go, guys.
- [Big Chief] You heard it from him. - [mimics whip]
- Hey, hey, hey, bang it down. - [Ryan] Bam! Approved.
- [Jeff] But if we were running a list, I get it. - Stamped and approved.
- Yeah, I mean, I get it. - [Big Chief] Jeff said yes.
If we were running a list, you'd have to start at the back
- and bring up steel car, yeah. - [Jeff] Sure.
So, yeah.
- Right on. - [Jeff] We got that?
So, the question mark is, I guess...
the tally marks.
Tally marks. Okay.
- Yeah, so you've got a view. - [Jeff] I mean I'm up here.
- [Murder Nova] Good job, Jeff. - Yeah, I mean.
You did miss a race. I don't know what took you so long.
I mean one.
[Jeff] I missed one race.
Uh, this is more of a, uh...
a quest of my own.
I need to get down this street.
Just for my own piece of mind.
I need to do this and that's why I'm here.
Well, I mean, you brought the tool for the job.
- That's for [bleep] sure. - Well, there's a tool back there.
- [Murder Nova] That thing's a hammer. - [all laugh]
- That thing is a hammer. - [Big Chief] [bleep]
All right then, well, then let's draw this [bleep], huh.
[man] Let's draw.
Let's get to racing.
[Big Chief] Let's do it.
There you go.
[Daddy Dave] That one just fell in my hand.
[bleep]
- Let's get it. - [Big Chief] All right.
Who's the number ones?
- [man] All right. - [Chief] Dave.
[man] Who's number one?
Chief, he drove you right into that number one spot.
[Dominator] My bad.
Who is two?
[Murder Nova] Is it me, Dave?
[Big Chief] Who are you dragging into this deal?
You did!
All right.
I wanted to see how bad Dave would beat me.
[Daddy Dave laughs]
Threes? Who's got three?
[Daddy Dave] No, hell.
- Who you got? - Dave three [bleep] times.
[Murder Nova laughs]
[Daddy Dave] I guess it has gotta be me who welcomes
the GTO to the street.
Here we go.
It was also me who welcomed Jeff's original '57 to the street way back when.
That race didn't work out too well for Jeff.
And while all I want is a good, safe race,
I really need this win to put another notch
in the win column for me.
[Big Chief] All right. Four.
- And Chuck. - Pass, no problem.
[Chuck] After all that talk I had with Damon
about not drawing each other, and staying away from me.
What's he do? He goes and draws Chuck.
But if I've gotta whip Damon's ass every week
to get to the top of this list,
that's what it's gonna take and that's what I'm gonna do.
- Five. - Five?
Oh, that's me and Ryan.
Isn't this just typical?
Even though the car's hauling ass,
I'm having the season from hell.
[Big Chief] How many time have you raced him?
Uh, I've raced Ryan...
This is third time.
This will be the third time.
And now I draw Daddy Dave and Ryan Martin.
Six.
[Big Chief] Who is it? Was it me?
[man] Damon, I think.
[laughs]
- [Big Chief] Who's next? - [Ryan] Seven.
- [Ryan] Yeah, me and Monza, again. - [man] Seven
- [man] Again. - How many times you guys raced?
Well, this will be second. This will be the second time.
- [Chuck Seitsinger] Eighth pair? - Yep. Who do you got?
Lutz.
Oh, man. You guys got something there.
- [Big Chief] I'm nine. - Did you draw me?
I did.
We're 1-9.
- [Murder Nova] You did the quick math there, huh? - I did, yeah.
- [man 1] Nobody is left? - [man 2] Yeah. Atta boy.
I haven't raced him yet.
[Chuck] It's been a long time since Chief and Dominator
have lined them up,
but look, Dominator has been reckless this last couple seasons.
All right, Chief and Dom, let's go.
[Chuck] Last season in Nebraska,
his tally marks didn't show you how fast he was going,
but I guarantee you this season is no difference,
Dominator is a force to be reckoned with.
He gets the first pass and he gets the last pass,
so, Chief, better be careful because Dominator's gonna pull one out of his ass
and take Chief down.
Who are we flipping for on me and Dom?
Who's flipping?
[Chuck] I'll flip it. Here, I got quarters. I got quarters.
- Oh, scary-ass. - Who's calling it?
You came further.
[man] Who's calling it?
- Okay. All right. - [Big Chief] You call it.
Tails.
[Chuck] It's heads.
Starting off right.
[Big Chief] All right. I don't know, Dom.
You're gonna let me know.
So we come into this race night, we're the first pair down,
I'm 1-5, Chief is 2-3.
I really wanna try right, but it's early.
[Chuck] If I win, that puts me at 2-5.
And he loses, that puts him at 2-4.
Which means,
we're still right there in the hunt.
[Big Chief] What the [bleep].
[Jeff Lutz] That's weird. Usually, that is full of [bleep].
I'm serious.
Last week out here it was [bleep] 2, 3 quarts in there every pass.
[Big Chief] That's weird.
I'm racing Dominator first off the trailer tonight.
I'm sitting at a 2-3 record which puts me at fifth place.
Hey, let's change that model up.
It's not exactly where I wanted to be this far into the season,
but there's still time left.
Only thing I can do at this point
is to put as much power as I can into the car every run,
and pile up those wins for the rest of the season.
He said since he got Dom, he's gonna try something.
[Jackie Braasch] Oh, good.
- [Ryan Martin] Ready for this? - Yeah.
[Ryan] Your outlook of "if you fall off a horse, jump back on it"...
lotta people have that outlook.
Yeah.
He said since he got Dom, he's gonna try something.
[Jackie] Oh, good.
When you're in fifth place and you got a wore-out motor,
there's no point in playing it safe anymore.
The best thing I can do here
is put as much stuff as I can put to it and see if it'll go.
[exhales]
- [Dominator] Take the bars down half an inch. - Okay.
[Dominator] So it'll take them down to six-and-a-half and six.
We've been going up a quarter-inch every hit,
because the surfaces are getting better
and we haven't been on that tire on a good surface
and it's just sticking and sticking and sticking.
Well, so the reason we went up
is because when I ran Chuck,
150 feet out, the front end started to come up and it hit the bars.
And it knocked it... it spun, because the bars were so low.
So I was trying to get them up out of the way,
and then I thought, "you know what?
We need to start really putting power to this bitch as soon as it hits the bars,
and try and 60-foot with everybody else."
The problem is, if the pitch of the car... and it's so tall,
when it tries to do your initial bite, it bites too hard.
It can't, it can't make the initial wheel speeds.
What you gotta do is you gotta force that to do it.
And the only way you can do it right now is back there.
Put the 33 back on it. [clears throat]
Get the ass back in, I've already got him on the way.
[Jackie speaking]
Okay, fair enough. Totally fair.
[Dominator] It is.
We ended up in the right lane,
which, I prefer the right lane at this point in time.
So it's either gonna go straight and we're gonna haul ass, or...
we're gonna test my reaction times.
[Chuck] Hurry up and wait.
[Dominator] We've been testing the car all day,
it's warmed up, we've had it on the chip, it's ready to go,
and we're gonna find out just how fast this car really is.
- Try and get me as straight as possible. - [man] Yes, sir.
- You wanna pour the juice, Jeff? - [Jeff Jr] Yeah.
Okay.
- [Jeff Jr] If that's okay with them. - Yeah.
[Jeff] It's just me and Jackie, so.
[Jeff Jr] Yeah, no, I'm down.
[Big Chief grunts]
[in sing-song voice] Oh.
All right. Let's [bleep] do it.
Oh. [bleep]
- [Big Chief] Oh. - [Jackie] Good luck.
Thank you, love you.
All right, Ms. Crow.
[man] Ugh! Ugh, [bleep] geez!
[man 2] Yeah, it's gonna go fast.
- [man 1 speaking] - [man 2 speaking]
- [man 3] What's the matter? What's the matter? - [man 1 speaking]
Hold on for a sec.
[Jeff speaking]
[Chuck] Hold one second! Missing a wheelie bar pin!
- There's no pin. There's no pin. - What?
[man 1] We got it. We're getting it. We got it right here.
- [man 2] You got it? - [man 1] Yup.
- [man 1] Just need to adjust it. - [man 2] You're good.
[Big Chief] [bleep] damn it.
- Send it! - [Jackie] Okay, go.
[man laughs]
[Daddy Dave] Good?
[engine revving louder]
- [man on radio] Look out, guys. Look out. - Look out.
- [man] That's some badass tranny lines he's got. - Man.
- [Murder Nova] That didn't lay that down, though, did it? - [man] No.
[Dominator] I don't know. There was nothing there.
Like it wouldn't start popping and banging, it was like... I don't know.
It's not like we're fixing me putting tranny fluid in it.
[Jeff] Yeah.
Holy crap.
[Dominator] So we do the burnout,
the car feels like it's going really straight in the burnout,
and usually when that happens, everything's happy in the rear.
So in my head, backing up, the car's going to go straight.
Dave brings me to the line, I set the tranny brake, smack it to the floor...
It goes about 3,000 RPM and just kinda lays there.
But I can see Dave in my peripheral
just really getting with the whole "get on up here".
It finally got to 6,000 RPM.
But there's no popping and banging.
We're not making boost, the turbos aren't whistling,
I bump in anyway.
There's still nothing.
The light goes off, and Chief is gone.
And mine goes... [mimicking engine dying]
[Dominator] Okay, so, you know the last time this happened?
It was because I didn't tighten those clamps.
[man] Yeah.
When it... it was missing a bolt the last time.
Yes, we're probably gonna have to loosen it here, Shane, because it--
[Shane] We will, 'cause something's...
[Dominator] It let everything move.
So basically what happened is,
I didn't get the bolts tight on a boost clamp.
And this turbo
was blowing air not in the engine.
So it got to the rev limit,
but it never made any boost.
Yet again, something dumb.
So literally the only thing I have to do
is let this cool off, loosen up this one clamp,
roll that pipe back in where it belongs,
put this clamp back around it, throw two new bolts in it...
and we're golden.
The sad part is, I just put this thing on the chip right here.
And three different people commented on how fast my [bleep] got on the chip
compared to what it had been.
And then I go up and I do something with it.
So, you know.
I got no one to blame but myself.
[Dominator] Easy to fix, throw some bolts in it.
I got Chief again, ninth pair of this race night,
and I will be ready.
[Jackie] Well, you had one job.
[Jeff] I mean, damn, bro.
[Jackie] You didn't put a [bleep] pin in it, bro!
[Big Chief] I'm clearly not as good a crew guy as I am a driver.
[Jeff] You freaked me the [bleep] out.
- I'm, I'm over there spinning this [bleep] thing! - [Big Chief yelling]
- [Big Chief laughing] - Hey, you looked pretty good.
That was a good hit out of the [bleep] starting line.
[Big Chief laughing]
He didn't have a wheelie bar pin in.
I'm a terrible crew guy. [bleep] it.
[Big Chief] I left the pin out of the wheelie bar,
which would have made the car stand completely up on the bumper
and probably kicked it to the left or kicked it to the right,
and I'd have hit the curb.
[Big Chief] [bleep] damn.
[Jackie] Well, then you were all flustered and you pulled way up--
Oh, yeah, [bleep], I was pissed, and,
I brought... I did a burnout and backed up twice
with no correction, I was like,
"there's no [bleep] damn way I'm straight or in the marks."
Finally, my car makes a hell of a pass,
I mean, wheels are up at 400-foot, I'm really happy with it.
[Jeff] Just [bleep] it, man. Nice [bleep].
Maybe you should work on the wheelie bar.
We'll try harder next time, [bleeping].
- My bad, Anna. - [Jackie] He's gonna do--
[laughing] We went up there without a [bleep] wheelie bar.
Unfortunately for Dominator though, he's having trouble,
and... but that doesn't give me reason to look past him,
I still have to race him again later on tonight
and I'm sure by then he'll have his stuff figured out
and I'll have a drag race on my hands.
[Jackie] He's not a crew guy, you know.
[Jeff] Yeah. You're not a crew guy, we get it.
[Chuck] Who's up next?
- Me and Dave! We're ready, though. - [Chuck] Oh, Shawn.
[man] They'll both go down there, though.
I gotta go back here and rebuild the car.
[Chuck] All right, uh, which lane you taking?
- I'm gonna take this one. Yeah. - All right.
- Let me lay some tracks down. - Okay.
Shawn's fixing to hit that Hail Mary, just... [clicks tongue]
[Murder Nova] It's got a Hail Mary in it.
I'm ready for this race with Murder Nova.
I beat him before, but I know this time he's bringing a lot more.
Gonna be smashing the [bleep] out of that thing about two feet out.
But I also know I got a really fast car, so I'm just gonna go for it.
- How long you need, Dave? - I'm ready.
I'm currently sitting at 4-2 and the car's been running great.
So I'm not making too many changes for this race.
I know Shawn's been struggling down there at the bottom in the last place,
but with every pass he's been getting faster and faster
and these races are getting closer and closer.
So hopefully I can keep doing what I've been doing
and get to the finish line first.
Even one loss this far into the season
can change the whole outcome.
[Big Chief] Shawn!
- Yo. - What lane you get?
- Right? - Yeah.
I don't think it really matters, you know.
I was gonna say if you have the left,
- tee off. - Yeah, no. I'm teeing off anyways.
- I got Dave. I got another option. - Oh, yeah. [laughs]
I went by Dave's this week and got even a closer look at the all-new Goliath,
and that bad boy's mean.
- Well, we'll see, though. - [Big Chief] What shock is it?
- The same one we always run? - Yeah.
So it figures that I come in tonight and draw Dave and Ryan.
It's turned up a lot.
- We'll see what happens. - Hell yeah, man.
- Right on. - Right on, brother.
[laughs]
[Murder Nova] At this point there's only one thing left to do,
try some stuff I've never tried before
and put more power in this car than I've ever have.
God [bleep]! That's illegal!
It was right as I was taking them off, I was like,
"ah, he's done. Oh, he's not."
Somebody call the cops!
[Murder Nova] So I know Daddy Dave's car is hauling ass
and he's one of the fastest guys out here, but,
Every tune-up I've put in the car, I lean on it
a little bit harder, and it's taking it.
So if it takes what I got in it right now,
we're fixing to lay down a hell of a pass
and it'll be hard for anybody in the country to outrun it.
[engines revving]
Wow! Shawn got him.
[indistinct chatter]
[bleep]
Hey Phantom! Is that a W or what? Holy [bleep].
Nice [bleep] job. [bleep]
What's the call?
[man on radio] Standby.
- [all laughing] - No!
- No standby! - No standby!
[man on radio speaking indistinctly]
What? Say it again, sorry.
[man on radio] Left lane by a bumper.
[all] Oh!
[Big Chief] Sorry. Yay! We're real sorry.
- [all laughing] - [Jeff] Damn. By a bumper.
Is that his car that left marks all the way to the finish line?
- [Ryan] Yeah. - Wow. No shaking or nothing, huh?
[Murder Nova] Holy [bleep]! Did you have to lift?
You came around me hard for a second.
[Daddy Dave] Oh, yeah. I had to lift.
[Murder Nova] And then you lifted and I went back around you.
[Daddy Dave] I followed a couple of times, but the last one I seen you coming
and I just rolled back into it.
- Nice job, man. Nice job. - [Daddy Dave] Absolutely.
[Murder Nova] Honestly don't care who [bleep] won that.
[Daddy Dave] No, me neither. Mine had the [bleep] wheels in the air at 300 foot,
- just like [mimicking engine]. - [Murder Nova] I never [bleep] lifted pedal [bleep].
- [Daddy Dave] I did. I pedaled the [bleep] out of that. - You came around me
hard for a second. And then I was like,
"Oh, [bleep]. He's in trouble."
Hey, Damon, you can have this lane. It's got fresh oil in it.
Just straddle it.
[laughing]
[man in crowd] Coming through! Car with no lights coming back.
[Big Chief] Man, that was crazy.
[clapping]
- [bleep] Tell me he won. - [Big Chief] Got... No.
- He didn't? - Dude, he drove around him going... [mimicking engine]
- He's fast then. - You're a [bleep] dude.
- I am [bleep]. - [Big Chief] [bleep] You're [bleep].
You told me you was going to pat the gas on him, and I said, "Don't do it."
[Daddy Dave laughing] You lying son of a bitch, Ryan Martin.
[Big Chief] Not only did you pat the gas on Murder Nova.
[Chuck] He hoss the gas on him.
[Daddy Dave] These guys are yanking my chain saying I let off the gas
at the end of the run to make a close race
between me and Shawn, but I would never do that.
Chief pulled us both in and banged the light.
[bang]
Shawn may have jumped the light, but I was able to catch him.
We were side-by-side going through there, I had to pedal a little bit,
but I managed to stay out in front of him.
I took the win this time, but I'm really more happy for Shawn
because he actually got his car to go down through there.
Shawn says, "[bleep], damn he went around me so [bleep] fast."
- [bleep]. - Yeah, in the video, yours goes [mimicking engine],
and then it goes [mimicking engine], like, look at that.
Front end [bleep]. Damn, that's a foot in the [bleep] air, dude.
[Daddy Dave]Yeah, no, they had him in the [bleep] air down there at 300 foot.
- [Big Chief] Look at that. - I was like, "What the [bleep]?"
[Murder Nova] Dude.
[bleep] Yeah.
No shake, man. It worked.
That [bleep] part change worked.
- [Jeff] Dude. It [bleep]. - Hey. It was [bleep] rolling, dude.
[Jeff] It, dude, it looked like you drove out of his life.
- [Jeff Jr.] That was a hell of a battle. - It was close.
- Yeah. Dave... - Like, [bleep].
- Dave just roll up... - I've never had so many close races in my life.
Dave just rolled up and said, "Tell me he won."
Dude, we thought you won.
[chuckles] I'm like, "Is that a [bleep] W or what?"
[Jeff Jr.] It looked good, man.
- Nice job. - It felt good, man. It finally felt good.
- [Jeff] Good, uh... - Didn't shake or nothing.
- [man] Hey, good job, man. - Thank you. [bleep].
[Murder Nova] Good news and bad news.
Bad news is, I'm still this in the win column.
A big fat zero.
The good news is the OG's fast and it's going as straight as its ever been.
Right now, Dave and Ryan definitely have
two of the faster cars on this road.
So to lose to Dave by a bumper?
It's a loss, but I'll take it.
I feel like I still have a chance.
You can never count the OG out, so I'm gonna keep fighting.
Hey, that thing left, I don't know if it [bleep] does this,
I don't think it does, but it left dark black marks all the way to the end.
- Oh, really? - Yeah, [bleep] yeah.
- Way up, dude. Like, it used to do that, but... - Yeah, but usually...
- shaking marks, it [bleep] leaves. - Yes, yes.
- It looked good. - No, it [bleep].
- It rolled. Like... - Yeah.
Hey, but what are you gonna do? I had to try something, right?
You know, we were at the end and Dave goes, "Man, I hope you won."
I go, "Dude, you pedaled it, didn't ya?" And he...
- 'Cause I saw him come up... - Yeah.
- And then all of the sudden I saw his front end go down. - Yeah.
- And then I went back around him. - Yeah.
- And I know he stuck it again at the very end. - Yeah.
And I thought, "I don't know if he clipped me at the very end..."
- Right. It was close. - Like, I seriously...
I've never had so many close races in my life.
Every one of your races is close, dude. Every single one.
Every single one. It's crazy.
- What are you gonna do, man? Hey. - Yeah.
- But I can't be upset! - I know. I totally agree.
- You can't. - Ahhh!
Plug your ear holes.
[engine starts]
- It's a bad [bleep]. - Dude.
This thing bounced, and then it sat down, and then it just goes...
I was like, "Holy, [bleep]!" And then I pedaled it.
It was close. Like, he went by me, and I was like, "Oh, [bleep]."
And I looked up and seen the light.
I didn't stick it, but I rolled into it real hard, and it just...
- Yeah. - Went [mimicking engine].
Like, I knew it was close, so...
- That was good driving. - Yes, sir.
Whew.
- [Daddy Dave] One more to go. - One more.
[Daddy Dave] I love that.
Those straight passes are boring.
When you got to drive the [bleep] out of them...
That's when I get excited.
Parachutes, girl.
[Chuck] Look.
This, what, our... Third time on this road to race Damon? So...
He's getting faster.
We're getting faster. But, look...
You race somebody long enough...
They're gonna steal a win from me, you know? So...
Golly, I beat him, like, four times in Nebraska.
Now, like, three times here, so he's like, 0-7 against me?
He's gonna sneak up and take one of these.
- Yeah. - Like... I mean, if I was him...
I'd try to win at the light, uh...
I'd throw a Hail Mary tune-up in it.
And I, I mean, he has nothing to lose.
I'm the one that's got everything to lose, so,
sometimes, the stack can be kinda sketchy.
[Chuck] Look, I feel bad for the new guy.
I am having a hell of a season, and he just can't seem
to stay away from me this year.
I'm hanging out in the second place spot,
and two of those wins are against Damon.
Damon is getting faster and faster every week.
So you cannot sleep on him, even for a second.
You got Pimp Juice?
- Yeah, he's got it. - Okay.
Tires are close.
I'm fixing to put another hot tune-up in this car,
and I'm fixing to give Damon another loss to Chuck.
- [bleep] man. We need to get this one won. - Yeah.
Chuck...
This is race night five, and once again I draw Chuck and Monza.
I've already raced Chuck a few times out here and fell short.
First night...
Car stumble, he goes by...
- Full, full car. - Full car.
Next night was fender, inches...
I heard kinda a little bit... They don't know what, but...
I feel like it was a hell of a race, so we're right there with him.
He keeps giving me a shot at him, eventually I'm gonna get around him.
I really wanna get this win against him and get it off my back.
Pick this one up and...
Get some good data off of it.
Yeah, 'cause we've got Monza right behind him, and he's...
- His record is pretty [bleep] solid at the moment, so... - Monza's real solid right now.
But he's beatable.
He's beatable. Well, you've been right there with him, too.
[Damon] Good? All right.
Try again.
[engine starts]
Here we go, baby!
[engine revving]
My [bleep]. That Mustang is angry.
That [bleep] dude. [bleep] violent.
My God!
[Murder Nova] Look, he asked me to lay down rubber.
How could you not lay down a better patch than what I laid?
And then he didn't use none of it!
- He didn't use a [bleep] bit of it. - [all laughing]
What's the call on the pit-bull?
[man on radio] Right lane, two cars.
Man, you can watch him and know he ain't lifting.
He's just gonna [bleep] ride it out the whole way like that.
[Chuck] Yeah, boy.
I may have had a little too much in it, but...
She went on down through there.
She wasn't pretty, but she's a W.
And, and I'm on a [bleep] mission...
to redeem myself from...
that [bleep] America's Top 20.
[Damon sighing]
[bleep] me running.
Shanked that one.
So we decided to, uh, go in a little hot.
Chief brings us in, hits the light,
and my car set the tire on fire.
Car made an immediate right, I bailed on it.
And he went on down the way.
That was my Daddy Dave tune-up.
She a little bit too hot out there early in No. 3 round there.
- A little too hot? - She had a little bit too much in her.
She got all sideways and...
Still made it through there, right?
Made it down through there. I didn't cross.
I thought I was... Oh, butt end was sticking out there, you know.
I like, I like big butts, but that thing was like way out there. It was...
Whew!
The car got a little sketchy out there from the wild tune-up I put in it.
But look, I saved it. I didn't cross the center line.
And I got by Damon just by the skin of my teeth.
And Chuck has another win.
That last pass may have been a little sketchy, but it was super-fast.
So with Lutz coming up in his new car later,
I'm gonna use the same tune-up,
and give him the same I in that other column.
That was your pass to kick my ass.
I had it too [bleep] hot and it was your pass.
- We did too, apparently. - I mean...
- Went right towards ya. - Oh, you did?
- Hadn't left yet. - See, my ass-end kicked out,
I had to pedal it two or three times. I was like...
I was waiting for you and then, all the sudden, I didn't hear ya.
So I was like, "Damn it."
I was hoping you didn't pedal because I was sideways, but...
Nah. I pedaled 'cause I was sideways. Did you go left?
- I went left and then it, it... - I went right.
- The ass-end came around. - We got close.
That was your pass. That was my [bleep] up.
- You should've took advantage of it. - I tried.
- We swung for it. - [Chuck] I was even rooting for ya.
[Chuck] I was like, "Man. Damon is gonna [bleep] me up."
[Big Chief] Who's calling it?
- [Daddy Dave] Me. - Who you racing?
[Daddy Dave] Lutz.
- You cool with him calling it? - I don't give a [bleep].
[whistling]
Ready?
Tails never fails, except for...
- [Big Chief] Not today. - [Daddy Dave] Not today.
Perfect. Tails it is.
You want to throw it?
- Yeah. - [Big Chief] There you go.
[laughing]
- [exclaims] - They keep it.
Man, somebody get rich out there.
[Big Chief] What lane you in, Jeff?
I would say the right.
[Big Chief] Copy that, Roger.
[Daddy Dave] Careful.
[Jeff] You know, I wanted this day to come, but now that it's here
I'm nervous. I won't lie.
You know, after doing what I did in the '57 here...
You know, we stayed up all night, put a new Bullet in this, went testing today.
The testing went amazing.
But that road still makes me nervous.
So I'm not worried about who's in the other lane, I'm gonna race my race.
And if I beat them, fine. If I don't...
It's a conquest of mine to conquer this road.
You know, to lose the fear because once you do
something like I did, it scares the hell out of ya.
So I need to get over that, and the only way I'm gonna get over that
is get back in the seat and take a rip.
- I just wanna make it so that he can stay fluid. - [Jeff] Yeah,
I just need to be able to go down through there.
- [Jeff Jr.] Do not have to worry about that. - Yeah.
- I just want you to win, I want you to go fast. - I know you do.
As far as the other [bleep] goes that's in here...
- Yeah. - I ain't worried about that one bit.
[Big Chief] Jeff and I have grown closer the last few seasons, and...
while I understand Jeff and I know he's a, you know, a manly-ass man,
but at the same time, getting back in that car this soon is still risky,
and I feel like he needs to take this very seriously.
While the racer in me wants to see this lightweight, fast GTO go down the street,
the friend in me is a little nervous.
Anybody else, all the [bleep] you've been through, they would have give up.
- You know what I mean? - Yeah, no.
- We don't give up. - [Big Chief] No.
[Jeff] I hate to say it 'cause I hate that saying, but I need to go ahead and be.
- Need anything? - I need Jeff Lutz to know when he's okay to drive.
What lane are you in?
Left.
Nah-nah. That right lane ain't as good as it's been. I'm just going, I mean...
I know...
Shawn went down it pretty good.
But I tried to go faster than I've been in it, and it didn't take it.
Which, I was out of the groove, too, so I shouldn't say that but...
he ain't gonna go that fast. So...
I know Jeff is a little nervous, and I'm right there with him.
After what he went through in the '57, I can't say I blame him.
But Jeff's been doing this a long time,
and if he wasn't ready, he wouldn't be out here.
I'm not gonna hold anything back.
And I don't think Jeff would want that anyways.
If y'all need anything, let me know.
[Dave] I know I'm good.
[Chuck] I know you're good too.
It's just the other person you gotta worry about.
His GTO could possibly be one of the fastest cars out here
and I don't wanna be the first one
to take a loss to him in his new car.
- [Jeff] Hey, Ryan. - [Ryan] Yo?
It pulls three Gs leaving.
It's like this [bleep] thing just [imitates car].
It's crazy.
- Yep. - I don't know.
- You ready for this? - Yeah.
Your outlook of, "If you fall off a horse, jump back on it,"
a lot of people have that outlook.
Yeah.
And, in the same situation,
I may... That may be exactly what I would do.
- You have to. - Yeah, I mean,
it's just, this road has kicked my ass three times.
- Yeah. - And, I just... I'm not gonna let it.
We all make drastic decisions
when you're in the heat of the moment.
This is a dangerous sport
and those are the reasons why it's dangerous.
- Yeah. - And what do we do, though.
We wake up every day and this is what we love to do.
- I love it. - This is what we gotta do.
Yeah.
- Okay. - All right.
- Good luck, guys. - Thank you, man.
Good call on the blue lights.
- [Chuck] When it black tracks like that. - [Ryan] Yeah?
- See how the outside edges are darker than the center? - Yeah.
Are they... you say that's low on air?
It's probably an air pressure deal
or it could just be that tire.
[Chief] Wait, hey, wait. Look... look at him.
His tire's way over that way, come over here and look.
You know what I mean? 'Cause the car's narrow, you know?
Make sure the other tire's inside that mark, that mark too.
- See how narrow it is? - [Jeff Jr.] Yeah.
[Chief] It either needs to come over or it's just so...
it's just too narrow. You know what I mean?
My new GTO is considerably narrower than my '57 Chevy.
So when the guys line me up, they gotta be especially careful
to make sure both tires are in the rubber.
I don't think you can move it over any, Jeffrey.
I'd put it right there.
I don't think you can, it's just too narrow.
[Jeff] Instead of having the one tire in the rubber,
and one in the bald gap, that'd be bad.
[Jeff speaking]
I really don't know what this car's gonna do on the street,
but I know I cannot sit on the sidelines.
I gotta put the crash behind me and let it off.
I did it.
I [bleep] did it.
Left lane. My car.
Good for Jeff, though. He made [bleep] money.
- Yeah, I'd say. He just kicked the world's ass. - That is success.
Nice job, wheeler.
What was the official call there?
[man on radio] Left lane by a car and a half.
[Ryan] Coming back.
I mean, the first lick it went straight, it hooked,
the front end was up.
[Jeff Jr.] Yeah, look at that, the front end up [bleep]
Damn, dude. And the tire is just not even mad, like...
[Jeff Jr.] Probably gonna be fast.
That car is gonna be really fast.
[Dave] Well, that went about as good as I would hope for.
I got the win, but more importantly,
it got Jeff back in the driver's seat.
And he made a first, clean pass in his GTO.
This is some bad [bleep].
- [Jeff] Oh, man. - Like, that was a good lick right there.
I was like, "Oh, [bleep], this thing's [bleep] going."
Chief lined us up, banged the light,
and we both just took off.
I got the lead on him a little bit early
and I kept that lead all the way to the finish line.
Jeff may have clipped it, let off a little bit early on the big end,
but, after what he went through,
I can't blame him for being a little bit conservative.
6-2, baby.
How'd that look, Ryan Martin?
It looked pretty dang good, Dave.
[man speaking]
- [Ryan] I think. - [Dave] No.
- [Ryan] I bet it is. - [Dave] Nah.
[Ryan] It's about a second off from that thing.
Dude, good job.
You know what, I've been racing for probably 25 years,
and that was a bittersweet loss for me.
[woman speaking]
[Jeff laughs] I was so [bleep] nervous.
Last Friday was pretty traumatic for me and my team and...
It's something I never wanna experience again.
And the chances of experiencing it again are great.
I mean, because we're back at it, same roads, same [bleep].
I know everybody here says, "Yeah, you know..."
I don't think they quite understand what I went through.
How'd it feel?
- Good? - I just...
- Yeah. - Out there I got... Got nervous.
No, I get it. Did you pull off a little?
- Oh yeah, way off. - Yeah. I got you.
- Yeah. - Well, you got some data to look at.
- [bleep] All right. Thank you, Ryan. - Yeah.
- Appreciate that. - No problem. Not a problem, bro.
But that loss right there means the world to me
because I didn't give a [bleep] who was in the other lane.
I raced the road.
And the car is so [bleep] damn fast on low, I was out on Dave.
[woman] You're in front of him the whole way.
- [Jeff laughing] Holy [bleep]. - Good job.
- Wow that was [bleep] fast. - Congrats, Jeff.
Buddy. Check the [bleep].
Ugh. So glad to have you back, brother.
[bleep] man, I just need...
Hey, it's like it never even happened now.
You know what I mean?
Next pass, whew.
If us Turbo guys got a [bleep] horse, it's this one, baby.
[Jeff] That's it.
By the end of this season, I'm gonna have to keep
- the 481X LOL tag. - Oh yeah.
- You're gonna get the Hemi LOL tag. - Oh yeah.
- [laughs] - That thing is [bleep] bad, dude.
It's stupid.
We got him right were we want him.
Oh yeah, [bleep] homegrown right on the ropes.
[both laughing]
[Chief] Who's calling it?
[Murder Nova] He can call it.
- You sure? - Yeah.
[Ryan] Heads.
- [Ryan] [bleep] damn, Shawn. - [Murder Nova] Thanks.
I got all the luck, huh?
[bleep] damn, man.
If I smoke the tires right there and find it back, I'll throw it.
[Chief] You ain't gonna smoke the tires.
[Murder Nova] [bleep] no. What are [bleep].
[Murder Nova] Listen, what are [bleep].
[Ryan] Aw, man, I don't know, man.
Shawn you might can beat me.
[Chief] Yeah. Hey, man, you know,
don't take this one lightly.
[Ryan laughing]
[Chief] You know that's what he's gonna say in his interview.
- [Ryan] Uh-huh, uh-huh. - [Murder Nova] What?
[Chief] "I'm not gonna take this one lightly."
[Ryan] Yeah.
[Murder Nova] Race night five, and coming up, is the battle of the extremes.
You've got Ryan who's sitting at 6-0.
And you got the OG, Murder Nova, who's winless.
I would love more than anything to hand Ryan his first loss
while getting my first win of the season,
but, that's a tall order.
It's just uneventful as hell, in the car. Yeah.
It's just wet.
Thing is wet.
Yes, I calmed it down early.
So, hopefully, it don't black track the whole way
and be on the traction control so hard.
So, it should make the same pass.
Maybe just a little smoother.
If it's smoother early, then it's gonna be smoother late,
and it should roll out the back a little better.
Because the car's doing good.
I just... You know... I can't catch a break
and race some of these guys who aren't making passes.
But instead I gotta race Dave and Ryan and...
You know, the guys who have their [bleep] together.
I feel like I have my [bleep] together.
I'm just, you know, half a car behind them.
I've been making some solid, fast passes,
but it seems like everybody out here's
making faster and better passes.
It's definitely discouraging, but one thing I got going,
is right now, the car's making full hits
and it's going straight.
My car's gonna make a good lick no matter what.
So, I just need them to mess up this much
and I'mma get my first win.
[man speaking]
Ah, I barely hit it so, it wasn't that bad.
But, it ain't good.
Yeah.
We about ready to start getting in it?
Okay.
[Ryan] Even though Shawn hasn't won yet,
he's making really good passes.
He may be a little behind the combos
that me and Dave are running, but he's still fast as hell.
There's definitely still a chance that he could be
the first guy to outrun me.
I'm not gonna mess with my car on this pass,
I'm gonna use what I know is working
and going down the road.
[Dave] Oh, my God.
That was as fast as that car's been, probably.
[bleep] hell, Javi.
[Chuck] Golly.
I saw that it has some in the front.
That the first he's ever hit that thing in the front that hard.
Hey, Javi, it rips this [bleep] up, but then whenever you leave, it goes, so...
What's the call?
[man on radio] Right lane by a car and a half.
Car and a half.
That's tough.
[Chuck] Damn.
[Murder Nova] Chief banged the light
and Ryan was gone.
No matter how good my car's running out here,
Ryan's on fire.
There's not much left to say.
I may not be able to beat Ryan,
but hell, he beats everybody out here.
If I could draw anybody but him and Dave,
I might actually get some wins out here.
I hit the scramble.
I thought maybe you did.
I hit the scramble. It was the first time I've hit it.
I just wanted to see if it were gonna do anything.
- What'd it do? - I felt it.
- Yeah, no I mean, I've seen it. - I felt it.
- I... It shook out there that time. - Yeah.
But, you're talking minimal
- compared to what it normally does. - Yeah.
So, at least now we know.
If we don't get Ryan or don't get Dave,
we can [bleep] run with anybody else out here.
I feel like that... Yes.
You know, I know Ryan don't like the right lane.
But, I was in the right lane the first pass.
- You were looking for a win. - Yeah and... well, and, and...
And yeah, no, I'm not gonna... Just 'cause he's my buddy,
I'm still gonna try to make him uncomfortable.
- Yeah, yeah. - You know? But...
- Wow. That thing's [bleep] fast. - It is freaking quick.
Like, I just sit and watched him drive away.
Yeah, I feel like he did go faster, honestly.
- You know what I mean? Like... - I think I hit the override
and I think I could feel it actually doing something.
That's the first time I've... I've thought to myself
I mean, I... I saw him out there and I was like,
- "Maybe this does..." - "Let's see what this does."
You know? So I tried it and I could tell it picked up,
but it, uh, it shook a little.
But, not near as violent
as what we've lost body parts on the car for.
- Yeah. - You know? So...
Cool the old girl off
- and put her... put her in her home for the night. - Yep. Yep, yep.
- How close a call? - Uh, a car and a half.
[Ryan] That was a great race.
Shawn is absolutely not letting up.
- Looked all right, though? - Yeah.
[Ryan] For me, I'm gonna keep battling to stay in that number one spot.
This is all about preparing for America's List.
My car's doing everything I want it to do,
but the question is, do I push it any further?
Or do I even need to?
We'll just have to see how things go moving forward.
But I couldn't be happier with that win tonight.
- [Chief] Another W. - [Ryan] Yep, another W.
[Dave] Damn, Joe. Remember that time in Nebraska,
you fumbled the light and screwed me a little bit?
[Joe laughing]
[Joe] Yeah.
[laughing]
His A pillar is right here, Dave.
[Joe laughing] Yeah.
[Dave] Where's that button?
[Joe] It's the top one.
- The bottom one? - Yes.
[Dave] I'm gonna be like, Joe...
[Joe laughing]
[Dave] Monza, can you see that?
[Monza] Somebody get him some glasses.
[Joe laughing]
[Dave] I wouldn't do you dirty like that, Joe.
Now watch me [bleep] trip.
[all laughing]
[Chuck] All right.
[Chief] Who's gonna call it?
- You call it, you drove the farthest. - Are we calling it?
[Damon] Oh, sure.
Tails.
[Chief] It is tails.
You win again.
That's two tonight.
Already [bleep] up the left lane,
- so I'll take the right lane. I'll [bleep] it up too. - [Chief] Even 'em out.
[Damon laughs]
[Damon] So with this next race with Monza coming up,
what I'm gonna do is probably back it down
just a little bit, which I hate doing
and that's just not something we've done out here.
Turn down a little bit.
Too hot. Too good of air.
Turning it down is...
- hard to do. - A rather hard option to do
out here when we're down so many races. Huh?
- Your neck? Sorry to interrupt. - Yeah.
- Who you racing? Monza. - With Monza. Monza.
- It was a little hot on that first one. - Yeah?
I didn't quite compensate enough for the air and...
- Uh... - Yeah, I didn't get to see what happened.
It splits the tires?
Oh, [bleep] yeah. They were on fire.
So, mmm...
- Good luck, sir. - All right, man. Thank you.
Good lick, by the way. That looked good.
I took the right as well, so...
I mean, I don't think there's much difference in the lanes
- as far as quality. - I don't either.
Honestly, especially this late at night, you know?
This is a pretty good spot to be in if you're racing
six-pair or whatever, you know?
Good luck.
I mean, I think... Look, you can outrun him.
I think so, too. [chuckles]
I really do believe that.
So, do your thing and good luck.
[Damon] We're gonna look at a few things, wheel speed
and try to calm the car down a little bit and make the trip this time.
First lick is way out there on left field on that one, this one here, we got it.
We've been turning the car up and up and up and running with the guys
and finally get a few wins under and then...
we come out here and the air's [bleep] completely different,
we don't quite compensate for all that.
We haven't seen air like this since October.
[Johnny] We got a good handle on it right now.
[engine cranking]
Can you see all right?
Yeah.
I, I tried to move this down a little bit,
so it wasn't, like, straight in your face or nothing.
[Monza] So, after starting this season really strong,
last weekend we kinda had our first rough weekend.
Um, we got a "no call" against Chief,
they couldn't tell who won the race
and then Ryan kicked our ass.
But, if there's anything I learned from Nebraska,
you gotta hold your head up high and keep trying to win.
Be careful.
[engine cranking]
Just to let you know, that was my all around fastest.
Fastest through 60 foot, fastest, uh, to the 330, fastest mile an hour
and he said man, dude, [bleep], every bit of a 45.
[Ryan] But you think it's a better car today?
- [Murder Nova] 100 percent. - [Ryan] Good.
[Murder Nova] 100 percent.
I really think this car's fast enough to make America's list and win.
But, right now, I need to make a statement, prove it
and if I can get it over a car like Monza's,
that'll be huge for me right now.
Whoo! Oh, no.
[Johnny] That was a close one.
[Big Chief] What do you call, Ryan? Good job.
[Ryan] I don't know that, that was close
Jerry by a small margin.
- [Big Chief] Jerry by a small margin, oh man. - [Daddy Dave] He didn't lift.
[Big Chief] Nothing for the new guy.
Nothing for the new guy.
What's the official call?
[man on radio] West wing by a bumper.
[everybody] Ohhh!
- [Ryan] There you go! - [Daddy Dave] Not by much!
[Big Chief] God damn!
You just can't [bleep]!
[indistinct chatter]
[Big Chief] Just can't make it happen.
[Daddy Dave] You ain't got nothing to be mad about.
[Johnny] Yeah, it's pissed me off [bleep].
[Daddy Dave] Bumper to Jerry? [bleep]
[Big Chief] Hey, race cars are [bleep] hard, dude.
They, they suck.
They're [bleep] the biggest up and down thing you'll ever do in your whole [bleep] life.
[Daddy Dave] Hey, here's a good way to think about it,
they can't decide between them two who won
and y'all just got beat by a bumper by Monza?
That's a good pass.
- [Big Chief] Man, y'all dead even. - [laughs]
Honestly, I don't have it in there,
when I'm in the car and it's really close like that, I can't tell if
I'm a bumper or they're a bumper or [bleep] what, it's like...
- [Daddy Day] Cos your fast. - [Ryan]...Like I got blinders on, you know?
- We got time to look. - [bleep].
- [Big Chief] I'm a little better... - [Daddy Dave] Ryan's like nah.
[Big Chief]...I'm a little better at it nowadays, but, it really,
I'm only good at it with you and you, you know what I mean?
With everybody else, I'm usually just, like,
"Oh, where the hell did you come from, bro?" You know?
But, with you guys, I'm like,
"where is he, where is he, where is he, where is he, where is he, ohhh!"
Nice [bleep] lick, guys. [bleep] damn it.
He can't catch a break, too.
[Big Chief] Nice. Nice lick, big dog.
Hey, nothing to be ashamed of.
[Damon] Let's see it roll with that [bleep] [bleep] his ass up. [laughing]
[Brandon] No, you won't, boy. You talking to the tuner.
[Damon] Brandon, go to your [bleep] trailer and get the [bleep] outta here.
This race with Monza, we backed the car down a little bit.
The car came outta the hold...
planted hard,
I had quite a bit of mile an hour on him,
so it's kinda hard to judge whether I clipped him or not.
They called it by a bumper.
I knew we went around him, but it was just a few inches too late.
I wanna see that.
I had him by five or [bleep] ten mile an hour, dude.
[bleep] bull [bleep].
I just thought I got so much mile an hour on him.
See his headlight beams.
See, I feel I got him out front there, but I know it's passed, I know it's passed.
But, I'm like, that's why I'm, like, argh.
That's just weird looking.
[sighs]
Hey, when every race counts...
I'm trying to get on this [bleep] list and this is not easy.
I knew I had the mile per hour on him,
but, I mean, he, he, he got me. I had, I had to see it, though.
Good job, guys. Good call. I mean [bleep].
Hey, I [bleep] had to see it after all the controversy everybody's been having,
I'm like, I gotta see it now.
'Cause we were right there neck and neck and it was, it was a good drag race.
- [Monza] So Damon made a hit. - Yeah, he did.
[Monza] But it wasn't no bumper.
[man] You was driving that son of a bitch on the big end.
[Monza] I was sweating that one a little bit, I could hear Damon right there.
He, Damon's getting faster and faster every pass, so,
I think we pulled off a good one here, we got the win
and we got two more wins on the tally sheet tonight
and we're one step closer to making America's list.
That was a hell of a pass.
Getting fast.
- You had my attention. - Oh, I was...
[Chuck] Look, that was a hell of a pass between Damon and Monza,
but curfew's coming up, the sun's coming up, so we gotta call it a night.
We saw a lot of fire from the guys tonight.
You can tell everybody's excited, but everybody's very desperate
because time's running out.
Out of all these guys, everybody is doing whatever it takes to win
and, I'll tell you what, whoever we take to America's list
is the baddest top five in the country.
Next time on Street Outlaws...
We've all been in the top and then all of a sudden here comes somebody else.
[Chuck] Every man out here is so relentlessly competitive.
I'm fixing to try to go faster than I've probably ever been on this road.
That, no matter the odds stacked against us...
Well, you better [bleep] swing for it.
You could give me my first I.
If there's anybody that can do it, I know that car can.
[Chuck] ...we'll do anything to win.
Oh [bleep].
[Big Chief] You could've died just now, bro. Phew.
Holy [bleep].
[Big Chief] Go under the hood and find out how we make our cars so freaking fast
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