[Ryan Martin reading]
[Chief] On this episode of Street Outlaws...
This is gonna be a badass race right here.
[Chief] Our epic Chicago shootout...
- You dirty. - The biggest thing is we don't like each other real well.
[Chief] ...comes to its dramatic conclusion.
- That's a heads. - [bleep] you kidding me?
I'll take the right lane.
[Chief] And for the 405 to come out on top...
[bleep] awesome.
[Chief] ...we're gonna have go through one of our fiercest opponents...
A little frustrated with what happened up there on the coin flip.
[Chief] ...who's willing to stop at nothing to win.
[Chuck] [bleep] that guy!
And the only ones that are left are [bleep] fast.
- [Chief] Ryan. - Ryan, Monza, Chief me and Larson.
- So, there's no joke. - [Chief] Oh, no doubt.
[Chuck] Tires are set and everything?
[Nova] Even back in the day, man, it's all you heard was come to Chicago, man.
Which you know, Chi-Town, man. Chi-Town hustlers.
- Yeah. - They... That's there for a reason.
- You guys have raced Chicago group already, yes? - I wasn't there.
- Okay, I wasn't either. - I missed out on that,
so I missed out on the whole circus
- of an act of what everybody said that it was. - Yeah.
I heard Chief talk about this Juicin' guy,
and everybody talking about he runs the show down here, whatever.
- It seems like he's kind of-- - Yeah, he's like a deer in headlights.
- [laughing] He seems like... He seems a little rusty, man. - He does... Or something.
Almost like he's... He hung it up. And he's leading the team?
Look, the story of this event so far has got to be on the flagger.
So why don't you just let me hit the chip
and then you just turn the light on. As soon as you hear him spool,
just put your arms down, and then I know I can leave.
[Ryan] I mean, we have had our share of pickups
around here at the starting line.
Juicin' had the light up and he left.
He never got the line. He sat there.
- He never dropped it. - The light goes on and he left.
Why is the... Why is the [bleep] hit?
Turn [bleep] you got the hit. You go.
- Well, what about when Robin and I raced? - Yeah.
[Ryan] You did not stop me and you banged the [bleep] light.
He didn't stop me, so we ha to rerun that.
So you know, Robin's all bent out of shape with me
because I threw a fit about rerunning it, but...
Man, that wasn't a fair race
We know this dude's a hustle
So maybe this is part of his big master plan.
But it just kind of seems that he's just out of place out here.
You know, one thing Chief has said a couple of times
is something about being ready 'cause you never know
- what you're gonna get with a flagger or whatever. - Yeah, yeah.
- This is a prime example of that. - Yeah.
[Ryan] Regardless of what Juicin' does on the lin
the 405 has got to be on point.
And out here, street racing rarely goes perfect.
It just sucks that, you know, I come all the way up here, I do pretty well first round
- and then I draw Chief, you know, who... - Yeah.
- [Nova] Which I haven't beat a 405 car all season. - Yep.
Obviously, another 405's gonna be out 'cause Damon
- is racing Monza. - Damon and Monza. Yeah, that sucks.
Uh, and it sucks
- because both of their cars are running really well. - I know.
And then, what do we got? Lutz against uh, the small-tire car?
Yeah, Brandon.
- Who put it on Dave. - Who really did put it on Dave. Yeah, yeah.
[Ryan] So heading into the final round,
we know we can expect more 405 versus 405 matchups
But it is not gonna keep us from pushing as hard as we can to the front.
While seasons blend together, big events like this live on for years to come.
And when we think back on Chicago,
we're definitely gonna remember who won this one.
But there's still some other heavy hitters in this deal.
You know, Larry Larson's still in.
And he got a lot of data in that truck too.
And I'd have to say, he's probably the one that worries me the most.
There's a lot of potential there for that truck to be fast.
Larson is still probably the biggest threat of this event.
And I know that each one of us that's still in it wants to be the guy to knock him out.
So, you also got to consider the fact that Robin's car ran good.
- Oh, yeah, it did. - And he was... He made a good lick right next to you.
- He did. - So... And you know them two buddies.
- I know. - You know they're sharing data right now.
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
He's gonna go tell him, "The road at least takes this."
- They got the same drive-- - "And I didn't outrun him,
so you need to do something else."
That's what he's telling him right now.
Shawn is absolutely right.
Not only does Larson have good data from his own hits,
but he also has everything that Robin did.
But no matter how much data Larry Larson has, the 405 always has more.
I mean, and I'm... If I go out,
I want to help anybody I can to try to get one of our guys to the top, you know.
Um, but it's gonna be an interesting round, so we'll see what happens.
It doesn't matter if this deal's been a [bleep] show,
it doesn't matter if it's went smooth,
it doesn't matter if they've got big-tire cars,
it doesn't matter if they've got small-tire cars.
One person from the 405's got to win this deal.
There's $11,500 up for grabs.
It'd be cool if a 405 person took it home.
- Try to stay alive. Try to stay alive. - Make it happen.
We'll see. I never raced anybody like this before, so I'm a little nervous.
- Why? - I've never sat on the starting line
waiting for somebody to leave.
Well, as soon as you see him launch,
- not bump, launch, roll. - Yeah.
I've been drag racing for over 25 years.
And I got to tell you, tonight I'm a little nervous
because there's somebody gonna be sitting
in the other lane out in front of me
and I got to wait for him to make a hit.
- Alright, who's calling it? - Who's calling it?
- I don't care. Go for it. - Go for it.
Uh, heads.
- Ready? - [Mork] Yeah.
- Oh, I never win. I never win. - [Lutz] Tails.
I'll take uh, right lane.
- How long do you need? - I literally got to put my pants on, drive the car up.
- Okay, good luck, man. - [Mork] You too, buddy. Drive safe.
- Do your thing, Jeffie. - Yes, sir.
- We got right lane. - Sweet.
I got to wait to see his car move before I can let the button go.
That's a little nervous for me, but you know what?
I'm pretty confident in my crew and the car. It's [bleep] hauling ass.
He could leave two cars on me, and I think I'll reel him in.
We need to just uh...
Take it round by round and uh, do our deal. Race our race.
We got to think ahead because there's a lot
faster cars out there than this guy.
You know, I know they're small-tire guys. I'm not belittling him,
but Larson's still in. Chief's in.
- Monza, Ryan. I mean [bleep]. - Yeah.
So we got to go for it.
Alright, love you guys. I'll see you up there.
I'm [bleep] damn nervous.
[engine starts]
So, you want a short one like we talked about?
Yeah, I mean, get it by me.
- He'll have to come through me. - Okay.
Yeah, I'm not gonna go totally crazy with it, but...
Yeah. Alright.
Alright, I got to get a little heat in it.
My name's Brandon Mork. Uh, I got this '03 Cobra
I bought brand new when I was 19.
It's a small-block Ford twin turbo car from Chicago.
[engine sputtering]
[engine starts]
Going into round two against Lutz.
I'm excited and uh, always happy to race.
Love our street racing, so that's about all there is to it.
[engine accelerating]
[tires screech]
[engine accelerating]
[Chief] This is the last of Chicago's small-tire guys
If Lutz can take care of him now,
that will be the nail in the coffin
for Juicin' and his Chicago team of hustlers.
The only thing left standing in our way is Larry Larson.
[engines roaring]
Nice job, Jeffrey.
- [Jackie] Good job, Jeffrey. - Nice job, Jackie.
- [man on radio] Right lane by three cars. - Right lane, three.
Damn, I felt the wheels in the air on that [bleep].
Oh, my God. It was just gnarly, dude.
[Mork] You know, kind of did what we expected.
Car took it off the hit.
Felt good at first, and the I got off the transition, made a move.
But couldn't lose to a nicer guy, so.
It's all in good fun.
[Lutz] It left finally. You know what I mean? But...
Oh, I don't know. I don't look at that stuff.
I had a lot of fun. Um, they're... Everyone's a lot cooler than I thought.
Um, I like them all, I guess.
I'm a ball buster, so I get along with all of them
and it's actually been a great time.
We didn't exactly bring a gun to a gun fight, but..
Little tires, they suck. [laughs]
- Yeah, that was-- - Nice job. Hey, that was a good lick.
That was [bleep] fast, bro.
I felt the wheels in the air on that one.
When the 405 goes out of town, this is something I thought I would never see again.
We used to do this all the time.
And when we go out of town, there's nothing that can beat us.
We're a brotherhood. We help each other out.
Tunes, backing up, parts, pieces, you name it.
If I had to make another pass, I would just drop
the [bleep] out of the air in the tires to try to get wheel speed.
- I've got no [bleep] wheel speed. - [Lutz] Okay.
It's like a brotherhood and this is the 405
that I fell in love with eight years ago.
This [bleep] is real and it's back and it's amazing.
- Yep, hey. [bleep] - Now you know.
[Nova] I'm out. Y'all still in,
so you probably don't need nothing from me.
- [laughing] Hey, maybe parts. You never know. - [Nova] Hey, you never know.
Hey, there it is right there. Parts car. [laughs]
[Lutz] Wow, how'd it look?
Oh, my God. It was [bleep] amazing.
Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, yeah it... When it come up,
it felt like it instantly went left on me.
Then I tried bringing it to the right.
Yeah.
[engine roaring]
[Larry] Pisses me off is I'm trying to be [bleep] teams this whole weekend,
trying to be cool and help everybody and be [bleep] awesome
and he was full-on lying' to me.
[Larry] Hey, I saw him flip it over when he picked it up.
[Lutz] You're so full of [bleep].
- I would never do that. - What a piece of dirt.
Jeff's my hero sometimes.
[engines roaring]
[Brandon] Hey guys. We have enough sticking through.
- I'm not gonna mess with him. - [Monza] It'll be alright.
- [bleep] alright. - Yep.
- I gotta go check the tires. - Okay, I'm gonna get in.
- What? - I'm gonna get in.
[Nova] Second matchup of the night and it's 405 on 405.
Monza versus Damon.
It sucks that they got to race each other,
but that also means we must be doing something right.
- [Brandon] Another day in the office. - [Monza] Mmm-hmm.
- [Brandon] You got this, right? - [Monza] Mmm-hmm.
[Brandon] Boy, they're in trouble if this thing makes a good pass.
[Monza] I'm fixing to learn a lot right there.
Oh, yeah. I think it's gonna go really fast.
Been wanting power right there for a long time.
Like every pass we've made has wanted power right where I put it.
I made sure that gap in the plot, I pulled it down,
so if nothing, it will go.
It's not gonna get on it. It shouldn't get on it,
but if it spins a little bit, it's still gonna go.
[Monza] He's gonna pull me in first.
First?
[Nova] It's crazy to see how far Monza's come this season.
From struggling to make America's List to making the passes he is now.
- [Brandon] You ready? - [Monza] Mmm-hmm.
- [Brandon] Good luck. Just be careful, okay? - [Monza] Okay.
[Nova] And honestly, if he can keep rolling the way he has been,
he's got a good shot at winning this whole deal.
[deep breath]
[bleep] I'm nervous about this one.
[Damon] So night number two in Chicago.
We're on to round two
and in the driver's meeting, I draw Monza.
Just put it down. I'm good. I got it.
You don't have to hand me nothing.
You don't have to buckle me in.
I got it.
Thank you, though.
It's not exactly what we wanted, but...
Luck of the draw, I guess.
This gonna be a [bleeping] drag race.
Any time you race Monza,
he's super fast.
I mean, he was high on the list for a reason.
His car's consistent.
It just has been working really well.
This is gonna be a badass race right here.
- Man, that [bleep]. - Brandon lost his [bleep] shoe.
[Damon] Never wanna take that guy lightly.
I've raced him a couple time in Oklahoma
and fell a little short,
so we're gonna try a few things and get after it.
Yeah, baby!
[man] Good job, Brandon.
I don't know if I recorded it.
What's the call?
[man over radio] Right lane by a car.
Right lane, by a car.
- Wow. - Yeah, Monza stole that from him.
- Yeah, he did. - [laughs] He definitely did.
Oh, that was barely early, if anything.
[man] It was super close.
[Jackie] A chase is a race, though.
[Brandon] That wasn't even early [bleep].
[man] I didn't think it was
- Little bit? - Maybe a bit.
Maybe a frame.
They got the equipment stand over there, so...
Different flagger, you know.
He didn't steal it. He just went dead on it, I mean...
- [Brandon] We needed it. - I know, I know. I know.
It was a good run.
[Damon] So going into this race with Monza,
I thought we had a pretty good chance.
We put a hot tune in it, know the road's gonna take it.
Juicin' brings us in.
I seen his car move.
The light wasn't on yet.
I think I might've glanced
and seen his car was moving.
And I let go of the button
terribly too late
and it cost me the race.
Yeah, I'm the young guy, the new guy.
I haven't had this car near as long as they have,
but the car's gonna get faster
and I'm gonna take this list over before long.
[Chuck] Still got it.
I guess I have, buddy.
[bleep], yeah!
[Ryan] Did you steal it?
- Huh? - That [bleep] pretty quick.
[Ryan] Did you steal it?
- [Monza] Did I stall it? - Somebody said you stole it.
Oh, he stole a hit on him, yeah. [laughs]
- Yeah, he did. - Did I?
- Yeah, you did. - Somebody said,
I heard walking by, "He stole it."
Yeah, he was like, "You [bleep] stole the hit."
Picking on Damon.
[bleep] and he's the new guy.
The new guy, you're initiating him, huh?
- Be nice. - I waited till he was right here.
I kinda anticipated the light.
- I wasn't trying to steal nothing. - [laughs]
You dirty.
Yeah, he did Damon dirty.
- He's dirty. - No, I didn't.
- [Chuck laughs] - He's dirty.
[bleeping] light was on before my car moved.
Hey, we're all playing by the same rules.
- [Chuck] It really wasn't, but that's okay. - Yeah.
Hey, it was close.
- [bleep] moved. - Yeah.
I wasn't trying to [bleep] nobody.
[Chuck] No, I know you weren't.
- I told him I'd give him a straight-up race. - No, I know.
But you definitely, like, if it was a...
Like, if y'all were racing off a light
and there was no chase is a race,
you would've lost that. [chuckles]
It definitely, hey.
[laughs] You were definitely gone before that [bleeping] light.
But it's okay. I mean, that's within the rules.
It's really close.
- It is what it is. - But we were...
Just between us, we were calling you dirty.
- Just 'cause we can. - Just 'cause we can, yeah.
- And we're friends with, yeah. - [Dave laughs] You dirty son of a bitch.
Hey, regardless, hey, good win.
Car looked fast.
That was the most power we've put it in yet.
That's gotta be the fastest pass it's made yet.
Last night, we ran 23 pounds of boost.
That was 30.
- [Dave] Yeah. - [Chuck] And it took it, too.
[Monza] Yeah, but it [bleep] wiggled.
Yeah, that's okay.
Turn that [bleep] up, now.
- [Dave] You want me on a keyboard? - Huh?
You want me on that keyboard?
[Monza laughs] I don't think so.
[chuckles] Hey.
Hey, maybe in the finals.
[Chuck] Good job, man.
If I end up racing him, I gotta do something drastic.
- Damn you, Ryan! - [Ryan] What?
[Monza] I said if I end up drawing you,
I gotta do something drastic.
[laughs]
[Ryan] But that's what I'm thinking, too.
If I draw you, I gotta do something drastic.
You better not [bleep] up,
'cause if you do, it'll be a drag race.
[Ryan] I know, already know.
It's gonna be a drag race anyway.
I know.
I see that thing looks faster every time you guys make a hit.
- That was, that was the most we've put to it yet. - Yeah.
Yeah, that had to be...
That felt fast.
Don't forget, uh, I had that same combo.
I know them bitches run.
I know, I know what you got what you got in the gun.
[man 1] Maybe it's just the Chicago style.
[man 2] I got a driver's license [bleep].
[Juicin'] All right, we got six left.
5, Oklahoma. 1, Kansas City.
So, draw away.
No, get Chief in last.
- What? - [men laugh]
[man laughs] My bad.
[Chief] So it's round three of this hat race in Chicago
and Oklahoma has dominated.
Last round, Lutz took out
Chicago's only remaining small-tire car.
And myself, Ryan, Monza,
and our own small-tire guy, Joey Cook,
moved on as well.
The only holdout now is Kansas City's Larry Larso
He's a hell of a racer,
and he would love nothing more
than to stomp every 405 car in the dirt
on his way to winning all that money,
so we have to take him out now.
All right, let's see it. Twos.
- Twos, twos, twos? - [man] We're just the losers over here.
All right, we got threes?
- Lutz... - [man laughing]
and Larson.
- [men] Oh. - [Chuck laughing]
- Oh. [laughs] - [Juicin'] Getting there.
I love that one.
[Juicin'] I think everybody loves that one.
For the Chicago people who don't know what's going on,
they don't like each other.
- [man 1] Oh. - [man 2 laughs]
Gotcha. All right, we got fours?
[man cackles]
- There it is. There it is. - Yeah.
- All right, I bet everybody's happy about that one. - Oh, yeah.
That means that it's not possible for us
to be in the final. What the [bleep]?
Of course Ryan's never the g you wanna draw in a hat race
but in order to win,
you gotta beat fast guys like Ryan,
so the Crow and the Fireball are going at it.
And then we have probably the most interesting matchu of this round,
which is Lutz versus Larson
These guys have a long histo
of bad blood between them,
and I'm sure things are about to get heated.
- Good luck. - Daddy Dave won't mind, yea?
[Ryan] Awesome, I just should put brakes on my car.
- Did you find some? - Then I'll be okay.
- [Chief] Brakes? - No, I'm making some.
After the last pass last night...
the brakes felt, felt really spongey.
It didn't feel right
and it was hard for me to stop after the burnout.
But, you know, when I pull the chutes at the end,
I rely on the chutes a lot,
so I just kinda give it a little brake pressure
when we stop and it's no big deal.
So we put the car up late.
We didn't finish till, what 6:00 in the morning
or something like that, so..
We said,
"Okay, tomorrow during the day time,
we're gonna check these brakes out."
We went to sleep at 6:00 in the morning
and we woke up around 11 or 12
and totally forgot about the brake problem.
I had Javi take the wheels o
and the brake pads are smoked.
Uh, we don't have any brake pads.
Nobody out here has any brake pads.
So, we're gonna try to shim the piston
back in the brake caliper a little bit
to get some more stroke up the brake pad.
We'll see what happens.
Come on, fastest big-tire cars in the country.
He's got old Joey Cook, in that old [bleep] box.
Can't ask for much more.
Right there now.
Bet you're gonna have some problems getting invited to some small-tire races, though.
- Big ones. - That's for sure, yeah.
Don't get caught slipping, 'cause it will eat the rods out of the thing.
- Our motor's like $5,500 to fix. - Yeah.
- His is like $7,000. - Yeah, no.
I'll blow our [bleep] up.
Well, let's go get this thing ready.
See what happens.
[Dave] What?
- [Monza] We don't know yet. - [Dave] It don't matter.
That thing will go.
I can almost guarantee you
he's gonna take the right lane.
Because he's been in the right lane the whole time.
[Dave] Ryan [bleep] made a lick in the left.
Chief made a lick in the left.
I tested it the other night, he was in the left, right down Broadway.
That's a warm tune-up, but there should be enough in there to catch it.
It's not gonna matter.
I can actually see him to be set up
better out of the left lane.
- [Nova] What's happening? - [Joey] Nothing.
Yeah? Still here.
Old small-tire truck.
- [man] Our hired killer. - All right, who's calling?
Monza, you calling it?
- I guess. - You good to go?
Yep. Heads.
It is tails.
I'll let you know when we pull in there.
I wanna go look at them real quick.
Let us know.
The lane ain't even matter this [bleep] time.
I don't think so. What lane are you getting?
- We don't know yet. - It don't matter.
That thing will go.
[Nova] You know Monza's sweating on this one.
Joey drug Dominator in round one
and Monza definitely don't wanna be added to that hit list.
Monza's been gunning for the top of our list all season.
If he somehow lost to a small-tire car,
that would definitely blow up all the hard work he's put in.
[Brandon] Remember to watch him.
After you bump in, I'm...
I don't know if you're first or second, but watch him.
[Monza] They'll pull me in first.
[Nova] Then when you add that much pressure,
an easy win all the sudden becomes something different.
I've yet to even [bleep] wiggle out here.
- Really? - Yeah, just [bleep] [mimics rocket].
I haven't any. I mean, that last hit,
I'd say it was just a little bit...
I have all three bars in the trunk.
Oh, do you?
- Yes. - Wow.
[Chuck] All right. [claps] Come on, Brandon.
- Come on. - [Brandon] This is what happens.
[Chuck] Yeah, you got this. Come on.
Send this old bitch right down through there.
Oh, you didn't.
You're good. Just [bleep] be perfect.
That last pass was fast, man.
You got this.
[Joey] What do you think?
- So... - You think he'll chase?
Monza? Yeah.
I mean...
'Cause if he gonna chase,
I'll tell him, "Aw, yeah, I'll let you go in first."
Soon as he bumps me in, I'm gone.
Go up here, you want the right, go in in right.
Don't tell him that.
Go up there, "I wanna go in first."
Get locked in first.
He goes to spoolin' up Monza.
Monza's letting-- Long as he's on the chip, you should hear it, I would think.
Even a car-and-a-half out.
He's gonna lock in,
'cause now he's doing the,
he's locking it, you know what I mean?
- Mmm-hmm. - He's like, "Okay, stop."
Soon as he goes, you go back with him.
[Joey] We drew Monza this round.
Mathematically, he's...
Should run out of our lives.
We're working on the truck. It's running good.
We're gonna give him a race and see what happens.
What's that squealing?
- No idea. - Did you hear it?
What was that?
It's on that truck.
Whoo!
What's wrong with it?
I don't know.
Brandon.
He's broke.
Hold on.
Two minutes.
He wants two minutes. He wants two minutes.
All these cylinders are hot as hell.
Well, when I pulled up there to do my burnout, it, uh...
wouldn't rev up right and there was something wrong.
So we, uh, killed it.
And they get, luckily, they gave us two minutes to try to figure it out.
It won't even rev up.
I think it's hurt.
I don't think it's...
[Joey] 'Cause do you not smell it?
Messed with some of the wiring and stuff,
and it fixed itself for a second.
And then I started turning on my nitrous kits
and it, uh,
started acting and doing the same thing, again.
But, uh, I'm gonna make a pass anyway.
Uh, you know, maybe anything can happen.
Maybe we'll get lucky, you know.
[man] Come on, Joey!
[Joey] I thought maybe it was a voltage issue,
so I killed the lights, it didn't fix it,
'cause I've had a voltage issue before.
[man] Forward it.
[man] Hey, don't stake it, maybe he'll jump.
He'll take his lead.
[man] They coming.
[cars revving]
[engines whirring]
[cars revving]
[car whirring]
[Joey] Brought us in.
Let off trans-brake.
Didn't go anywhere.
He beat me. Went right around me.
It sucks that I lost to Monz
We'll take it back. Try to get it fixed.
Maybe making it to the next one.
[Monza] She was a little salty up there on the big end.
[man speaking]
[man] You did a really fast pass.
[Monza] It felt faster through the middle.
[Nova] Larson ain't setting.
- [Ryan] No. - I don't believe that.
I don't believe that for a second.
[Ryan] It's really hard to commit to a set.
- [Lutz] You don't think he can set. - I don't think he can.
Did you not see how bad Chuck got out on him?
And he still [bleep] let go.
- Listen, to set... - Yeah.
You have to go into the race...
- 100% knowing... - in the burn-out box knowing...
- you're gonna do that. - That you're doing that.
And there's a chance that that dude don't jump against you.
So you can't commit to that.
- Set it to [bleep] line. - Wouldn't that [bleep] you up?
Then that [bleep] you up on the other...
Yes. Yes.
Yeah, I know.
I 100% tried to leave before Chief.
I knew he was gonna leave early.
So I knew I was gonna have to leave that much earlier than him
and I still didn't leave before he did.
- [man 1] They both tried to steal it. [chuckles] - Yeah.
I knew you were gonna steal it early, though.
- [Nova] Get on, baby. - [Chief] Nice job, baby!
[Chief] Man, I thought you were gonna steal it like a [bleep].
[Nova] Can't do that. I tried.
- But I can't ever steal it as much as you. - [Chief laughs]
[Chief laughs]
[Nova] Hey, I promised I wasn't [bleep] playing.
[Chief laughs]
So, you know.
[Ryan] He was like... he left like
- here. - [Nova] Even on a light, when it's not chase is a race,
[Nova] he leaves early.
So, you know.
[Lutz] That's what I said.
I said it's gonna be a good race
'cause I know Shawn ain't gonna sit there
and I know [bleep] Chief gonna stab at the light
- and Shawn's gonna do the same, so, you know. - [Nova] Yup.
- [Ryan] Yes. - But you gotta think old dude's lights are...
and it's up and it's on.
You know what I mean. It's fast.
Like I knew it was fast and I still wasn't ready for it.
[Ryan] Well, I think, I think...
he could, I think he could sit
and I'm just gonna hit the light.
So if I hit the light,
- and he gets out on me, then I've had a dry run. - [Lutz] Who do you have?
- Chief. - [Lutz] All right, yeah.
So you mean, every history says every other time
but I'm thinking that he's thinking,
"Well, he knows, I'm gonna make it."
- He knows I'm gonna take a shot at him. - He made, he made a good lick,
but I don't, I don't know that it's...
I don't know.
[Nova] I... I mean,
I know about what he ran.
[Ryan] Yeah.
He ain't got enough.
[Ryan] Now, my pass had just made that left lane,
first down the left lane, it wasn't as pretty as the right lane pass so...
[Nova] 'Cause there's been a lot more passes since then, too.
For sure.
- [Lutz] Yeah. - [Nova] What's happening?
Just relaxing.
- [Nova] Yup. - [Ryan] I don't know.
I'd probably go straight up.
If you do that, I still think that, you know...
I don't know. It's tough.
I just hate chase is a race.
-[Ryan] I do, too, -I would rather [bleep] go heads up.
[Ryan] It takes whose car is faster out of it.
It takes whose fastest out of it.
[man speaking]
It will be the ass not just any ass.
Coming into round three, there was six of us left.
The one small-tire guy,
four OKC guys,
and me left for Kansas City.
We pulled.
Um, actually probably got the one I wanted.
Didn't care if I got the small-tire guy or not.
If I was gonna pick any of them of the OKC guys, it was gonna be Lutz.
Ah...
Biggest thing is we don't like each other real well.
[man] We know.
[laughs]
Let's just say that he's down to one car now.
How's that sound?
So everybody thinks, gets a little humor out of I
'cause, uh, I've known Jeff since 2009
when he first came into HOT ROD Drag Week
and, uh...
Just really haven't hit it o since the beginning.
2012 or 2014, we really kind of locked hor and it's just kind of
spiraled into the basement since then, so...
We just don't have a whole lot of love for each other,
I'll put it that way.
[Lutz] You know.
Our differences aside, he's a great competitor.
[bleep] fast.
- Yup. - And I wanna beat him just like I wanna beat Ryan
or Monza or Chief.
- Oh, no doubt. - So...
- We always wanna win. - Yep.
Everybody does.
[Lutz] I'm pretty confident going into this round with Larry.
The car's flying.
I got all the confidence in the world in Jeffrey
and my crew so...
[Jeffrey] Whatever you feel comfortable with, I'm good with.
[Lutz] I think I can outrun him.
[Jeffrey] I think we can, too.
I think if it's a fair race,
- I think we can outrun him. - Yeah.
I do, too.
[Jeffrey] I mean, we've been slowly creeping up on this thing,
and it just keeps going faster and faster, but...
- Yep. - You know.
And let's face it, there's no shame...
in our game, if, you know, we don't win against him
because right now his [bleep] looks fast.
- And I know ours does, too. - Yeah.
And the only ones that are left are [bleep] fast.
- Look we got Ryan... - Ryan.
Monza, Chief, me and Larson.
[bleep]
It's gonna come down
to the baddest [bleep] here and there's no joke.
Oh, no doubt.
No doubt.
- I mean, I'm proud as hell with what the car has done. - Oh, yeah.
- How many passes we've had on the street. - Yep.
You can't argue.
Larry Larson is a great racer.
He's [bleep] fast.
I will never take that away from him.
We've got some bad blood, but you know what,
it doesn't matter whose over in the other lane.
I'm here to win this deal.
I don't give a [bleep] if it's Larry, Chief, Ryan, it don't matter.
The bad blood, I can look past that.
That doesn't change my outlook on the race.
But do I want to drag his ass?
[bleep] yeah.
[Ryan] Where they at? Is he over here? Okay.
- [man] Ready? - [Ryan] Yep.
[Ryan] Who's calling it?
Oklahoma or Pennsylvania?
They're both about the same.
I drove 12 to get here, so...
[Ryan] You wanna flip to see who calls it?
- No. - [Larry] No, what is this...
- Go ahead. - [Ryan] Okay.
Heads.
[Ryan] And that is a tails, I believe.
But I need a phone or something just so I can...
- [Lutz] You're getting old. - [Ryan] I am, yes.
- [man 1 laughs] - [man 2] Ryan, you are getting old.
- That's a heads, sir. - Is that a head?
- [Larry] Hey! - It was a heads.
I wouldn't screw you out of a [bleep] coin toss.
- [Ryan] Yeah, it was heads. - It was heads.
- [Ryan] It really was. - [Larry] He called heads, right?
- Yes. - [Ryan] Yes.
[Larry] I saw him flip it over when he picked it up.
You're so full of [bleep].
- [Larry] Jeff, I saw you. - I would never... I would never do that.
[Larry] Jeff, I saw you flip it over when you picked it up.
- Never. Never. Never. - [man] I watched. He did not flip it over.
I'll take the right lane.
[Larry] Good, that's what I wanted to get you, would've give you anyway.
What a piece of [bleep].
- I know. I'm good. - You gotta race.
[bleep]
I'm good.
- You gotta concern yourself with your lane. - I know.
I'm [bleep] good.
As he picked it up, he flipped it over in his hand and he goes,
"It's a head."
I'm like are you kidding me?
What a piece of dirt.
A little frustrated with what happened up there in the coin flip.
Did it change anything? No, I still got my lane.
Um, he got his lane which is all good.
It just proves a lot of character of what that guy is about
and why we are dire enemies.
Because he grabbed the coin.
Ryan told him not to grab the coin
and he flipped the coin over in his hand.
I stood right there and saw it.
- That's a heads, sir. - Is that a head?
It was a heads.
I wouldn't screw you out of a [bleep] coin toss.
And then said, "Oh, I'd never do that."
Well, I watched it with my own eyes.
Ryan told him not to touch the coin.
Anyway, just... just one more thing to pack up in his book
that I don't like about the guy.
[Ryan] I feel like I [bleep] that deal up,
but I didn't mean to, so I'm sorry.
[man] You can't rely on you for anything.
[Ryan] I said, "Wait!" Jeff picked it up.
I was like, "Wait! Let me get a light." [bleep]
[man chuckles]
[Lutz laughs]
[Lutz] [bleep] idiot.
- [Jeffrey] You can't make this stuff up. - [Lutz] Oh, my God.
[Jeffrey] That's all he got.
[bleep]
[engine starts]
What a dirtbag.
[engine starts]
Well, Jeff goes down and picks the quarter up.
He's like, "It's a heads."
- And so Larson was like [exclaims]. - Damn.
He's like, "I [bleep] saw him flip the quarter."
Jeff's like, "Nah. [bleep] you, I'm taking the right lane."
So he walked off.
[man laughs]
[bleep] awesome.
[man] Wanna make it tonight?
Yeah, I know, Jeff's my hero sometimes.
[Lutz] Yeah, baby!
I got you! [bleep]
Whoo!
That's how you play the game!
- [crowd cheering] - Yes! Yeah! [bleep]
- [man 1] He's coming. - [man 2] [bleep] Nice job, Chuck.
- [man 3] [bleep] let's get them. - [man 4] [bleep] man!
What's the call?
[man on radio] Right lane by a half a car.
[all] Yeah!
- [man 1] Whoo! - [man 2] Yeah. [bleep]
[man 2] [bleep] get down.
We gonna show. [bleep]
[men laughing]
- [man 4] [bleep] - [man 5] Good job!
[bleep]
Good job.
Yeah. [bleep]
- See you later. - [man 1] That thing's rocking.
[man 2] [laughs] Dude.
And that was, that was probably pretty fast.
- I don't know. We looked good just dragging in... - [Ryan] Yeah.
- Cause I figured either if we lost... - [Ryan] Oh, yeah.
- We can then... whoever is next... - Yeah. Yeah.
- Would know what they're like. - [Ryan] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[bleep] yeah. Good job, man.
[Damon] Your dad's [bleep] stoked right now, that's for sure.
[man 2] Good job, Jeffrey.
Yeah, [bleep] great job.
- It's bad ass. - [man 3] Welcome through!
[man 3] Go! We'll go!
[man 4] He gonna get out.
[Lutz] That's rent free, baby.
- [Lutz] Whoo! - [man 1] Baby, yeah!
- [man 1 laughs] - He said rent free.
[men laughing]
Whoo!
I feel [bleep] great.
I told you I was gonna go out there and drag his ass,
and that's exactly what I did.
He started this deal all wrong by calling me a cheat on the coin flip.
I'd never cheat.
I'm here to [bleep] race, heads up,
and that's exactly what we did.
I let the button go and guess what,
I never [bleep] seen him.
That was rent free right there, baby!
[laughing]
[bleep]
[Lutz] Oh, yeah.
I'm so in his [bleep] head right now.
That was [bleep] [bleep] deal.
Oh, my God.
- You made me so proud. I wanna flip, come on. - [chuckles]
[Lutz] We got a tall order coming up with
Ryan, Monza, and Chief, so, you know,
one of them's going to be out, unfortunately,
but you know what, there's nobody [bleep] slow.
And guess what? It's the all 405 final, baby.
[grunts in excitement]
405 baby!
[Larry] I feel good. I had a good, good weekend, a good outing.
Everybody knows we were fast.
I figured he was going to leave early.
I was going to try and leave a little early.
But we never do that.
We're racers and we want to race.
So, after all these years of leaving on the light
it's very difficult to make yourself leave early.
I can guarantee everybody out here knows how fast that thing is.
- Or got a good idea. - Yeah, yeah.
But, that coin flip deal?
That's some serious bull [bleep].
- Never touch the coin in a coin flip, man. - Yeah.
I swear to God, I watched him [bleep].
He, he... That thing had flipped in his hand he just...
He's practiced it, 'cause I mean he just grabbed that thing and went whoop.
And just went whoop right over in his hand.
I'm like, "What the hell?"
And he stood right there, "Oh, I would never do that to you."
[grunts]
What a pile of [bleep].
[Larry] I think we're as fast as anybody here.
So, I'm sure there's a few of them breathing a little bit of a sigh of relief,
uh, because now, you know, the 405 guys
can fight it out amongst themselves, so...
They'll sit over there and gloat and beat their chest and, you know,
more power to them. This'll happen again.
[Lutz] [bleep] that guy! [laughs]
[bleep] nice job, baby. Nice.
He [bleep] started that deal all wrong
by telling me I cheated on the coin flip.
I'm thinking... Should I... 'Cause I know I was in his head back there.
And I'm thinking, "Maybe I'll just sit and let him jump."
Then I thought, "Nah, [bleep]. Boom. Gone."
I'd [bleep]. I never seen him.
Never [bleep] seen him.
We know. You don't ever see nobody.
I said, "All right. Hey, I let go of the button. [bleep]."
[bleep] take a load off, "I don't see nobody."
[Lutz] I'm so far in that [bleep] head of his right now.
Gah, I love it. I love it.
[man] He didn't even seem too upset.
[laughing]
Hey, he kept coasting just to get away from me.
[man] Yeah. [laughter]
Did you celebrate loudly?
- [Lutz] [bleep] yeah. - I figured [bleep].
Right. You know me. I ain't holding back.
- [Nova] You did. I heard him. - [man] Yep. That was [bleep] awesome.
Yeah, it was.
[Lutz] [bleep] damn. Now it sucks from here on out.
Hey, guess what? It's all 405 final. We know what the [bleep] to do.
So [bleep] badass.
I'm coming [bleep] for you, Ryan.
[bleep] I'm coming for you, baby. [laughs]
- [Ryan] You got a quarter? - Oh yeah, I got quarters.
Oh, it's a nickel. Oh, no, I'm just kidding.
I don't care. It's got a, it's got a heads and tails, right?
Who's gonna call it?
- Chief can call it. - You calling it?
- Okay. Heads. - Oh. Keep me in suspense, would you?
Heads which way, though?
[man] Can't see it. Need a light.
[Chuck] That bitch is heads. It's heads!
[Chief] Twice in one day.
Winning is a coin toss.
That makes my decision way harder.
Nice [bleep] job, dog. Hey.
My dog, right there. That's my dog.
Nice [bleep] job.
I learned from the best, man.
That was a good one there.
[Lutz] I was in his head back there with the coin toss.
[Chief] That's what they were telling me, I [bleep] laughed.
Dude, he freaked the [bleep] out. [bleep] I said,
"I'll take the right lane." He goes, "Good, that's the one I was putting you in anyways."
- I'm like, "Well, how'd that work out for you?" - Yeah.
[bleep] that was a nice [bleep] job.
Thanks, brother. What lane, what do you think?
I don't know. I... I don't know.
How is yours in that one?
[bleep] great. If you want to look at the data, you can.
All the way to the finish, [bleep] stuck.
We added... We added two or three degrees here
just to get, try to get some wheel speed.
I, I could feel it wasn't still enough.
- Yeah. - 'Cause it just dead stuck the tires.
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm afraid of.
[bleep] yeah, so...
I don't... Do you think it's worth trying Pimp Juice to get wheel speed?
No, just 'cause I'm afraid it'll get greasy.
Get [bleep] up. But greasy would be wheel speed down the road.
Yeah but, I don't... I haven't had any wheel speed
- and I've been okay. - Well then, yeah,
- let's not change that up. - If I try and get some,
- it might [bleep] the whole tuneup, you know what I mean? - Yeah, right on.
[Chief] I just got a big... It just sucks 'cause I don't have enough [bleep] shock,
I don't have enough... Like, I can't...
I need a 4-link change out here.
You know what I mean? It's burying everything.
[Lutz] Yeah, I'm with you. I'm in the same boat.
What do you think?
Two burnouts. Line you up exactly the same.
Hopefully it stops.
- Well, I know it's going to stop on the big end. - Yeah.
- [Javi] Just how far you got out there. - [Ryan] Yeah.
I don't know what to think about to do at the light.
Yeah, it's a crap shoot I think.
I would say go with your gut.
I don't know what that is.
It's the third round here in Chicago and I drew Chief
You know, Chief, against cha is a race is a tricky draw.
He's very good at the light. He likes to leave
that split second right before the light comes on.
And usually nails it probably 90% of the time.
So I feel like I've got to decide in advance
whether I'm going to leave or I'm just going to sit on him.
- It's all 405? - Yeah.
So far, four 405ers left.
Once I knock one more down, it'll be three.
But one of the 405 guys will get a bye next round.
[Javi] Mmm-hmm. Somebody have to race for it?
I wonder, Ryan, is the... that weight in the back
is that good?
- Don't know. - [Javi chuckles]
- We ain't changing it. - It's a bad... a bad part.
If we can get by this round, and maybe somehow we get lucky
and get a bye next round, maybe we'll take that out and turn it up.
[Javi] There you go.
But, we got one thing at a time.
We got to get by this.
And it ain't going to be no easy one.
No. It'll probably be the hardest one of the night, right here.
Yep.
'Cause there's so many factors.
I know I've got the fastest hot rod here,
but even if I give somebody a little bit of a leave on me,
it's hard to run them down.
All right, chutes are on, power's on in neutral,
HANS is on. Everything's good.
[grunts]
Shut that.
[Chief sighs]
All right, well. Let's [bleep] do it, hon.
[Jackie speaking]
What?
Yeah. If it'll make one more pass I'll be pretty happy.
If it'd make a couple more and win the whole deal, that'd be cool, but
I think in our current state I think that's asking a lot.
You think he's going to sit on me?
I mean, you're pretty notorious for leaving early.
That's kind of my thing.
Well, I mean, you would think...
with his [bleep] car...
he wouldn't need to [bleep] sit.
You know what I mean?
- So you'd think... - Shouldn't have to sit on anybody.
And you'd think he could go...
He could go on the light and still beat me probably,
- you know? - [Jackie] Yeah.
So, unless his car's [bleep] up...
[Lutz] We talking about the light?
- [Chief] Yeah. - I don't know what to tell you there.
I took a chance at it. I figured [bleep] it.
- [Chief] Yeah. - But, I... Here's where I'm at with that.
Everybody here knows that you're pretty [bleep] close on the light.
So, I don't know what he's gonna do,
but I would say he's probably gonna sit there.
[Chief] Something's going on.
[Lutz] You think?
No doubt about it because he texted me. I text...
On the way here, I texted Ryan and Shawn.
Well, that was at [bleep] 7, 8 o'clock, you know?
And then
just before you raced, I got a text from Ryan that said,
"I just lied and told Jeff I was gonna go on the light."
- So he's saying... - [Chief] So he was texting Shawn...
He accidentally sent it to a group text.
But he accidentally sent it to me.
He looked at his phone and it just said "Shawn."
He didn't realize it said "Shawn and Justin."
- [Lutz] No [bleep]. - There, yeah.
That's what... And what pisses me off
is that I'm trying to be a [bleep] team
this whole weekend. You know what I mean?
I'm trying to be cool and help everybody and be [bleep] awesome and...
[Lutz] Yeah, no, I, I get it.
And then he's texting Shawn that he's lying to you
about what he's going to do to me, you know?
He was full on lying to you.
'Cause he thought you'd come tell me.
I could see where Chief would be pissed off
about this deal with Ryan.
And, you know what? It's street racing.
[bleep] gonna happen.
- [Chief] Oh, well. - Yeah, well...
- [Chief] I'mma do my thing. - You do your thing.
- [Chief] If he sits... Okay. - You'll know, you'll know
when you're sitting there what you're gonna do.
I'mma do that. I'mma do my thing.
If he sits there like a [bleep]
he'll have to live with that the rest of his life.
Especially in an event like this where we're
competing against each other to win the whole damn thing.
[Chief] Thank you.
- [Jackie] Love you. - [Chief] Love you.
[Lutz] And I know Chief well This is the type of thing
that will fire him up and make him drive
absolutely on the top of his game.
[Nova] Holy [bleep].
Holy [bleep].
- [man] Good job. - [Nova] Damn [bleep].
[man] Tommy, nice job. That was a [bleep] race.
[Nova laughs] Holy [bleep].
[man] Hey, that was close.
[Nova] No brakes. No brakes whatsoever.
- [man] Man, that was [bleep]. - What do we got?
[man on radio] Standby.
- [uproarious laughter] - [Nova] Oh [bleep].
- [man] Gotta love that. - [Nova] Standby.
That was a [bleep] killer race right there.
[man on radio] Left lane by a car.
[cheers and clapping]
[Nova] Still a car.
That old turd's kind of fast.
[Lutz] They said, "by a car."
[Chief] Dude, [bleep] what? What the [bleep].
[bleep] I thought he was bumping me in first.
So I didn't even get up on his [bleep].
The thing clicks, I thought he was going to Ryan.
And then he didn't and I was like, "What the [bleep]? Okay."
I saw his [bleep] hand moving with the flashlight
and I was like, "Oh, [bleep], I better go." So... Whatever.
It's all good.
Got to be ready for anything.
[Lutz] Hey! There's no shame in that, man. That was a hell of a [bleep] race.
Oh yeah, that was a good race.
[Lutz] Dude...
[Chief] Now I know.
- What's that? - [Chief] Now I know.
Yeah. You know where you're at. I mean...
Been wanting to know.
- Last time we raced was in Nebraska and I... - Hey, hey.
Kicked his ass by that much or more. So now I know what I gotta do.
[Lutz] Yep.
[Dave] I'm pretty sure he just left about 5,600.
He usually leaves 5,500.
- [Dave] 50 what? - 55.
[man] Kind of low, though.
[Dave] Yeah, look out. He may not have brakes.
[Ryan] Man, as suspected, Chief took a shot at that flashlight.
He nailed it pretty good,
got me a little bit out of the hole.
But I was right behind him.
Once we got both cars out of the hole,
he just didn't quite have enough horsepower to hold me off.
He did come closer to beating me
than anybody else has in this event
so hats off to him for that.
- [Javi] Whew. Felt good? - [Ryan] Yeah, it felt good.
- We're, we're good? - [Javi] Yeah.
- [Ryan] [bleep] break down. - [Javi] Yeah.
[Ryan] What was the call on it?
[Javi] Uh, a car.
- [Ryan clears throat] - [Javi] Oh, man, that's fast though.
- [Ryan] Was it? - [Javi] Oh, yeah.
[Ryan] I just felt like it was shaking... Maybe it was...
Maybe it was shaking our motor. I don't know.
- [man] Shaking the tire? - Maybe it was just shaking the tire or something.
It just had a vibration to it and it didn't seem...
It did not seem right.
[Chief] I expected him to be [bleep] way out on me
when I left him on the line though, you know?
So that... And to see him right here and know he was like...
I know I went way early, but to see him...
Just to see that we were racing halfway down I was like, "Hell, yeah."
Well I knew it wasn't going to be easy.
[Chief] Yeah, me too.
It was, it was way harder than I thought. [laughs]
- Good job. - [Chief] Now I know, though.
Yep.
All good? Three left. Good.
Getting down to it, huh?
[Juicin'] Yes, sir. Who's getting that lucky bye?
Come on, let's get the bare bones. What's the, what's the bye?
[Juicin'] Ace.
[Chuck] Monza's got it.
- I can look at his face and tell you [bleep] bye. - Yep.
I can read him like the back of a book.
[laughs] His face. [continues laughing]
- Twos? - [Ryan] Who am I racing?
It's obviously me and you.
[Ryan] Oh, Monza's headed to the finals, huh?
Good job, Monza.
With only three of us left, we knew that one of us
was going to get a bye to the finals,
and Monza happens to be that lucky guy.
So me and my old buddy Jeff are going to be lining them
to see which one of us gets a shot at Monza in the final
And there is so much more than just cash on the line.
The winner of tonight is not only a huge accomplishment,
but also carrying some momentum into that last night
to see who goes to America's List
and you cannot put a price on that.
And then we got a call out too?
Ah, yeah, so, I feel like I have one of the baddest small blocks in the country.
- [Juicin'] Okay? - And I, you know,
And I, you know, there happens to be
another badass small block here on the property.
So, um...
Rankin's right there.
You know, twin-turbo car, twin-turbo car,
badass small block, badass small block.
He's outrun a lot of people. I've outrun a lot of people.
Yeah, be badass, be good-ass race.
- We good with that? - [Chris Rankin] Oh, yeah,
- You got it, bro. - So...
- Do $500? - $500?
I'm good with that.
Straight up? No chase, nothing?
No, no chase is a race.
We're gonna race heads up.
We're gonna find out who's faster.
We're gonna go off the light. If one of us jumps, we lose.
So we're gonna race head up.
We're gonna race heads up.
We're gonna find out who's faster.
We're gonna go off the light. If one of us jumps, we lose.
So we're gonna race head up.
- Let's do it. - Somebody got a quarter?
Oh, quarter, yeah [beep].
Who wants to call it?
Uh, you can call it. You call it, man.
- You make it hard on me. - [chuckles]
[chuckles]
Heads.
[Chuck] That is a tails.
That's a tails.
That made it easy on me anyway
'cause I didn't know which one to take.
[laughs]
What should I take? Which lane you want?
Right.
Okay.
I'm gonna take the right.
All right, you made it easy on me.
- [Chuck] All right, man. - All right, guys. Sweet.
So for months you got [beep], and sometimes it's just your [beep] day.
I told him, uh, if you're cool with it,
I'll just take the right you take the left.
You good with that? Or do you wanna flip?
- I think I'm cool with it. - Okay.
I'm just gonna think for a minute.
- Yeah, go ahead. No worries. - Okay.
- Thank you. - Yep.
[Ryan Martin] Are we all good with giving Jeff the right lane?
[Ryan] Okay.
[Ryan] Yeah.
If I can do that,
- that's a [beep] tall order, my friend. - I think you got it.
- If anybody can do it... - I'm gonna try.
It's one of us two. [laughs]
We're the last ones to try, you know.
That's right.
Pretty badass.
I'm blown away. I'm stoked.
I'm happy. We're all here, the final crew.
Two people they completely didn't expect...
- at all. - That's right.
Round four, I draw Ryan Martin
and Monza got the bye.
So, you know what, this is gonna be a tall order for us.
Because, you know, we only got this car out a week ago.
And we're making huge strides with it.
I'm gonna have to... I'm gonna go for the light.
You know, I'm gonna have to with him, so...
Do I have enough in it right now to get him?
I'm gonna try to steal the light on Ryan
to just get every advantage I can
'cause let's face it everybody here knows
that's the car to beat right now.
[Lutz] Let's get her done.
Hopefully, I can get enough advantage to get the win.
[Jeffery] All right, make sure that silver knob's on.
All right.
Let's [beep] do this [beep].
Ryan Martin. It's gonna be a [beep] tall order.
- [Javi speaking] - [Ryan] I know-- Yeah?
- [Ryan] Okay. - [Javi speaking]
Coming, dad.
[Dave laughs]
- Ooh. - 1, 4.
Should of...
Win?
Ah, don't do that.
I don't that. I don't wanna jinx myself.
[chuckles] What's maybe?
- Who's maybe? - That's like maybe I'm gonna go around that.
I'm not real sure yet.
That's a maybe I'm gonna run it.
So I have it in here. I'll save it.
And then when it's time to walk over to the car, I'll go,
"Well, I might... Yeah, maybe."
- Let's maybe it. Maybe. - Yeah, maybe.
Let's not maybe this one.
Let's just go ahead and run that one.
I'm running it. I'm doing it.
Sending it.
Okay.
[Dave] I can't. I'm [chuckles] always [beep] swing that bat.
[Javi] What a relief.
Parachutes are on. CO2's, uh, off at the moment.
Uh, HANS is on, power's on.
We're good to go.
[Ryan] All season long, my mission has been
to stay on top of the street racing world.
And after all is said and done so far,
I've only lost one race.
And now, we're coming out here to Chicago,
and I gotta prove myself yet again.
[Ryan] After all the drama in round one,
I find myself up against who
None other than the best 405 has to offer.
That's Monza and Jeff Lutz.
I'm two wins away from winning this whole deal.
But I've gotta get through Jeff and Monza to get there.
And even though we're all buddies, and we're all really close,
I guarantee ya they want nothing more than to crush m
- [man 1] [beep] Damn. - [man 2] Whoo!
[man 3] [beep] Race!
- What a good race. - [man 3] Good race.
[Big Chief] That was a good [beep] race right there.
- [Chief] Nice job. - [man 3] Man.
[Chief] Nice job. [beep]
[man 4 over radio] Left lane, two cars.
Left lane, two cars.
- How bad? - [man 5] It was two cars.
Two cars. Damn, nice job, guys.
At what [beep] point do we kick this [beep] out of here
and not let him race with us anymore?
- [Chuck] Hey, don't take that tone with him. - [laughs]
Or he's gonna get mad.
Man.
Yeah.
[Lutz] [beep] All right, baby.
Nice race, man.
That was [beep] killer. Yeah, I'm proud of the car.
[Ryan] Good job, good job, good job.
- [beep] Man, whatever Jeffery put in it was good upfront. - Yeah.
- Oh, yeah, it seemed like out of my peripheral I saw you--
Yeah, I was with ya, and you got a car on me,
- and that's where it stayed. - Yeah.
It was [beep] cool, man, [beep].
Hey, it was better than just getting [beep] drug.
[Ryan] Right. Absolutely!
[man speaking]
[beep] me that pass right there that Lutz just made,
I'm gonna tell ya there ain't nobody [beep] outrunning that.
- [man 1] It's ridiculous. - And he just put two cars on him.
- [man 2] Yeah, how do ya move? - [beep] Stupid, man.
- Yeah. - [man 3] Coming through!
[man 3] Move! Coming through! [whistles]
That was a [beep] drag race there.
What'd they call it by?
[Lutz] No, it was a car. It was a car.
[Ian] That looked like a badass race.
- Yeah, it was... - Yeah, man, it looked good.
It was a car. It was [beep] killer, dude.
- Yeah. - Good job, man.
Thanks, man. Thank you.
Good driving.
- We had to go for it, man. - Good job, man.
[Lutz] So the race against Ryan went pretty goo
I stole the light on him like I said I was gonna do.
I got out on him.
He come up and got a car on me.
And I stayed with him the whole way.
We weren't sure how much to put in or how much we can put in.
So Jeffery did a great job, the team, Ian.
Uh, to get that close...
We just got this car out a week ago.
And to be in the semifinals and race Ryan,
it's a good day at the race
We'll come back.
We got more in store for everybody.
This [beep] gonna be fast.
I got out on him.
And he got me by a car.
And that's where it stayed.
I thought holy [beep] this bitch is rolling.
I mean...
Yeah, I know they called it by two, but it was no way two.
It was a car.
Yeah, thank you, man.
- That was a good race. - Thank you.
Yeah.
[Ryan] Pretty good.
[Ryan] I like touched your phone, and it turned off.
I don't think so. It seemed to go straight. Did it look like it moved?
I heard something, but it wasn't nearly like what it was.
- Good job, baby. - Good race.
Going to the final.
- Thank you, man. - Right.
- Good race. - Hell [beep].
- Howdy, guys. Nice job. - That was one [beep] hot rod.
Nice job, man.
- Nice job, baby. - [Ryan] Good job, good job, good job.
- You too, man. - Yeah.
Getting to race out of town again was absolutely amazing.
And to do it in Chicago with Chicago and some Kansas guys
was [beep] epic!
[sighs]
To have all of the 405 in the finals is just amazin
Our run in the past two days, I got to take out
Chicago's big-tire car, the only big-tire car they brought,
Kansas's big-tire car. I kicked his ass, sent him packing.
So next time we race, we gotta race Damon.
And I think we're second, second off the trailer.
- So we're gonna need this. - I guess.
Oh, it's on it right there, huh?
It's on the engine. I just didn't raise it up high enough.
We need to raise that up.
- But look, it dips out of it. - It's close.
Like I said, it's all great.
Being out of town, racing Chicago,
putting the [beep] period on this deal is awesome.
All right, Jeff, it...
She's a hot rod. Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, there's no shame to losing to that car.
- No. - I mean...
Hey, we took out...
Chicago's big-tire.
We took out [beep] from Kansas.
And we was pretty [beep] damn close to Ryan.
- I'd say that's a win-win for all of us. - Oh, yeah, no doubt.
[Rankin] Racing one of the baddest small blocks
in the country right now, boys.
What do you think?
Conventional small block, we're gonna show him what's up.
Grab that the side, Charles.
So, uh, we're running out of pits a little bit tonight.
Just trying to see who's available to get a grudge race in.
I already told... Juicin' knows.
Ryan, but you can still verify,
let him know that I'll bump when I'm in. I'm going in first.
Chuck says he goes right off,
so, hopefully, he don't hang me out.
We talked to Chuck,
and he knew that I had a badass small-block LS,
and he knew he had a badass small-block conventional Chevy motor.
And we hit it off in the driver's meeting, so let's get this done, so...
Get my prep good, get my burnout good, get me right in the groove.
Same old [beep]. Just another day.
$500 grudge race, nothing big, nothing crazy,
just kinda out of respect honestly,
but throw a little happiness on it with some Ben Franklins, ya know.
[Chuck] What are the tires at now?
[man speaking]
[Chuck] Put them at six-five
- This road's really good. - [man] Okay.
Yeah, but them at six-five.
I feel like I have one of the baddest small blocks in the country
And old Mr. Rankin over there has a badass small block.
He beats a lot people.
So we're both here in the same county,
on the same road.
I feel like we need to race
I plan on kicking his ass.
Rankin races a whole lot on the street.
He's deadly on the street. He wins a lot of races.
That car can go down just about anything.
It's gonna be a great race.
I hopped this thing up a little big.
I feel like all he's gonna be doing is staring at my parachutes.
[Chuck] [beep]
Chuck just blew that son of a bitch up.
Yeah, what happened?
Something blew up.
Yeah, that just went up in smoke.
That was weird.
I mean... [beep]
I don't know how that happens.
I don't know how you can get that much wheel speed out here.
What the hell was that? [chuckles]
[Chuck] I don't know. I didn't change nothing.
That's weird.
Did it white smoke the tire?
[Murder Nova] Stuck the tire, hit the bars, bounced it up.
[Chuck] Okay, wow...
That's kinda why I wanted you to do a short burnout to--
If that's what it did, then, uh...
- Yeah. - [Chuck] Yeah.
Oh, yep.
I didn't hit them that hard though.
- Normally, I don't like that. - [Chuck] Yeah.
- [Chuck] No, it didn't... - You just let go, right?
[Chuck] Yeah, I just let go.
It's not on the bar.
The bars didn't bounce, didn't basketball.
It did something [beep].
Nope. that's not what happened.
All right, so me and Rankin's race,
Juicin' pulls him in,
pulls me in.
Boom, I let go of the button...
and the car knocks the tires off.
Racing a very respectable Rankin,
this [bleep] knocks the ti off at the starting line,
I lose $500,
my pride's hurt,
I'm pissed off,
and I just wanna tear [bleep] up.
That's weird.
[bleep] weird!
[bleep] piece of [bleep].
[groans]
[sighs] Oh, man.
But, I don't have a choice.
I gotta fix it, figure out what's wrong, go over the data,
and, uh, we'll race another day.
Missed that one by a [bleep] mile, huh?
[laughs] What the [bleep]?
Looked like [bleep] fish out of water.
[bleep] stupid like a bunch of [bleep] idiots.
[Rankin] Coming through!
Man, I'm feeling good.
We obviously raced Chuck.
He's definitely one of the baddest small-blocks in the country.
Car basically got a track tune put in it.
I knew that I'd need to throw the kitchen sink at it and then some,
so I did,
and these guys are really running fast,
but I'm telling you right now, this little small-block's getting it done.
[Chuck] Well, damn, I wish I would've got to race you.
I know. Hey, man, do you know what--
[Chuck] I don't know if it broke the tranny. I don't know what happened.
Hey, man, sorry to [bleep] you.
- You know what, man? - No, it's all good.
- Hey, it's racing. - I wish we could've had a race, man.
- Yeah. - You know, I tell you right now...
- Yeah. - I'm glad whatever happened happened 'cause...
- [Chuck] Yeah. - You know, I'm $500 richer.
Man, it didn't... It just...
I let go of the button and it, like,
made one tire revolution and then it... And I was like,
"Did it knock off the tires?" And all my guys are, like,
"Yeah, I didn't see it spin," and I'm like,
- "Well, I mean, did it spin or did it not spin?" - [Rankin] Yeah.
It either knocked off... Which, it shouldn't have knocked off the tires at all.
- [Rankin] No. - So, it may have been the tranny.
- [Rankin] Yeah. - So, I'll figure it out.
[Rankin] It is a tight service, man.
- I mean, their [bleep] is tight, bro. - That's what I'm saying.
You should be able to throw anything at it with a small-block.
- But I'm telling you right now, I don't-- - And it's... And--
- And I still had more to throw at it... - That's the truth.
- Yeah. - But I was conservative at what I was throwing at it,
and it didn't even try to take it.
That close ratio three-speed that me and Rogers Transmissions put in this car
- has made a world of difference. - Yeah.
- I like the three-speed with my small-block. - Dude, it's great.
Yeah, it works great.
- Hey. - Hey, man. Be safe.
- Good race. We'll do it again sometime. - Yeah, you got it.
We definitely will.
[Monza] What lane do you want?
Uh, I don't really care.
You can run in the left, I'll run the right, if you want.
[Ryan] Okay.
You just made two stellar [bleep] hits in the left.
[Juicin'] Who's calling it?
Uh, I think we just agreed on it.
- You can take... He can take left. - Yeah, I'll just take the...
- He said he wants the right. I'll just take the left again. - [Juicin'] Okay.
So, not much of a coin toss, but...
[inaudible]
Okay.
I'll... I will come as fast as possible.
I know you're ready, so let me just get this thing cooled off and we'll turn it.
- Get it right. Good luck. - [Ryan] Okay.
Well, it finally comes down to this.
Me versus Monza for all the marbles.
I know Monza's been gunning for me all year long,
his car's been hauling ass,
and this is his last chance to maybe finally get that W against me.
And, who knows?
If he can beat me here,
he might be able to also surpass me
on the final night of tally racing
towards America's List.
Well, we ought to be able to see the road good
- and I don't think we need headlights anymore. - Nope. [laughs]
The way I look at this,
this is our first daytime race.
- Yeah? Is it? I guess it is. - Yeah, we've never raced in the daylight.
- [Ryan] I feel like we've raced close, yeah. - I feel like,
- you know, like, some guys are scared of the dark? - [Ryan] Yeah.
We're scared of sunlight.
Like, I... I feel like we're part vampire.
It's the 405 final in Chicago and the only...
The last person from Chicago that's here is Juicin'.
- [Ryan] Yeah. - I hope he still has the money
'cause otherwise, we gotta beat the [bleep] out of him.
[Damon laughs]
[Lutz] Y'all good?
[Ryan] Yeah, uh, he's gonna start it,
- check the tranny fluid one more time... - Yep.
- And then we'll be ready to go. - Hell, yeah.
-I'll just take the right. You take the right, -Okay.
- I'll take the left. - [Lutz] Okay.
- We won't flip. - [Lutz] All right.
Unless you wanna flip and pick the quarter up again or do something cool like that.
Can I do... Try that deal?
I... I guess I got this [bleep] deal
where I can pick a quarter up with my finger and flip it over.
You could try it. I mean, it was pretty...
[Lutz] It's pretty [bleep] gnarly.
Larry seemed to think that that was the thing.
[Lutz] No, he says, like, I went like this...
- [Ryan] Yeah. - [Lutz] ...and I picked it up...
- [Ryan] And flipped it. - With one finger.
Which... Which you kinda did,
but you didn't flip it. You didn't flip it to the other face.
It's just... The quarter just rolled around.
I know what he's talking about,
and he don't trust you, so he's like,
"I know he flipped it!"
He even told me after, "I know you changed the quarter!"
I'm like, "Dude, it was heads,"
but I just wanted... I thought that's what I saw,
but I just wanted to get a light out and make sure
but no.
Pappy Sticky Fingers here had to snag the quarter up before I could look at it.
[laughing]
- You always kick his ass right at the right time. - I... I do.
Not only did we win it,
we dominated the whole [bleep] thing.
You could say, "Well, they brought small-tire cars,
blah blah blah."
We brought a couple small-tire cars too,
and our small-tire cars that raced big-tire cars won.
Yeah, we're still in when they're out.
We're in when all the Chicago small-tire cars got beat
- by all of our cars. - Yep.
- [Damon] It just shows you the level of our [bleep]. - But, thanks to Chicago
for hosting the hat race,
and, uh...
And we're... We're taking home all the money.
One of these beautiful specimen men right here are gonna...
- Specimen? - [Chuck] In the daylight is gonna get paid.
- He call us specimens? - [Damon] I'd say Camaros.
- I don't know. - [Brandon] I was gonna say Camaros.
- Battle of the Camaros. - [Chuck] Okay, but
one of these beautiful Camaros is gonna take home...
$12,000 and some change.
- Let's do this. - [Brandon] Whenever you're ready.
[Chuck] All right, hey, good luck, guys. Hey, Monza.
- [Brandon] Good luck, homie. - [Chuck] Good luck, man.
Come on. Good luck, guys.
[Ryan] One more, baby.
One more, baby girl.
Running this race without new brake pads in the rear
is gonna be tricky as it is
but I need this car to pull through for me
just one more time
so I can take home that money.
[Javi] All right, uh, I know the sun's out,
but the power's on, chutes are on, HANS is on.
- Power's on, we'll push you back. - [Ryan] Okay.
- [Javi] Little burnout, good to go. - [Ryan] Yep.
Yeah, baby.
[Brandon] Ooh, we made it to the finals!
- [Monza] We did, didn't we? - [Brandon] I'm pretty excited.
We're going into the finals against Ryan and Fireball.
Nobody here's been able to hold a candle next to him
I'm pretty tired, son.
I'm tired, too, but this is something to be excited for, ain't it?
[Monza] Yes, sir. You did an awesome job, buddy.
We got more power in this car right now than we've ever put in it on the street.
We're gonna swing for the fence, see what happens.
- I'm rooting for you, buddy. - [Monza] Thank you.
[Doc] Somebody's gotta give him a loss.
We're going down fighting.
Win or lose, I'm proud as [bleep] of you.
See you up there. Good luck.
- [Monza] Okay. - Be careful.
[Chief] Oh, man.
- [Chuck] They're pretty bad. - [bleep], where the [bleep]? What the hell? [bleep]
[Chuck] Yeah, they're following him. They were on Damon.
[Chief] Is it you?
No, it's Damon. Look, they're all over him.
[Chief laughs] He said, "Look, they're all over him."
[Chuck] They're attacking.
- Attack flies. - [Chuck] They only attack pretty people.
- [Chief] They only attack pretty people. - Like, they're not after me.
- They're only after Damon. - [all laughing]
[yells]
So loud!
So [bleep] loud!
- [Chief] Still don't have no brakes? - [Dave] No.
That sucks.
If we can't stop it, throw yourself down underneath it.
It's been stopping okay.
[man 1] Hey, it...
[man 2] No.
[crowd clapping]
[man 1] [bleep], there we go, boys!
[man 2] Pay the man!
[man over radio] Left lane by two cars.
[Juicin'] Left lane, two!
[Ryan] Yeah, baby!
[Nova] It wasn't gonna stop that time.
It wasn't gonna stop that time.
The pass before that, he was decent at stopping.
[Chuck] I mean, it actually was a good race.
Monza's [bleep] was wheels up.
[all chattering]
Yeah, looked great.
[Chief] Monza's gotta be happier than [bleep], you know?
[Chuck] Yeah, he may not stop, okay.
I was like, Monza's stopped and he ain't got no brakes.
He'd have crashed into the back of Monza.
We were running back there to stop him
in case, so he didn't crash into you.
I mean, uh, we made it to the finals against Ryan.
Um, I proud of my boy.
I'm proud of me.
We're doing rounds on making it to the finals.
We've made a big turn around with this car...
and it's only gonna get faster from here on out.
You're just the first loser, okay?
We lost a long time ago.
So, good job, buddy.
[Ryan] I've turned this thing up a little bit every time...
and I did it again for Monza,
because I wanna see when will this car fail?
And it's not showing me that it's gonna spin the tires.
It's the fastest hot rod I have ever had for a street car.
It's light-years better than the old setup with the Fireball.
- [sighs] - [Dave] Good job.
- Now they're talking about banning you. - Yeah.
I'm... I'm sure.
Or at least we're gonna let you pull one chute
and race with one chute out.
[Nova] Nice job.
[Ryan] [bleep] damn!
- [bleep] - [Monza] Good race.
[bleep] rocking, man!
[bleep]
- [Juicin'] All works out at the end. - Hey! Hey!
- [Ryan] Yeah. - [Chuck] Hey, nobody's told you?
- We [bleep] y'all up, okay? - Yeah, you did.
- You did. Yeah, you did. - [Chuck] Just in case nobody's told you that yet.
[man] Good Lord.
I got your, uh, $11,500 cash beans.
Whatever. Whatever it is.
- Got that 50% hat race... - [Ryan] Yeah, right. Right.
- Hat race, uh, tip here. - Yeah.
- [man] There it is! - Oh, there it is!
- All right! - [Juicin' groans]
Hey, we... When we came here,
we said we wanted the money to stay in the 405.
Here it is.
- It stayed in the 405. - It did, and it all stayed in one damn pocket!
[Chuck] Hey, from now on, you have to have one parachute out when you leave the line.
Oh, okay.
We're gonna have to handicap you
- and add weight or something. - Oh, come on.
- [Chief] [bleep] I'ma [bleep]. - [Ryan] Yeah, I already know there's one guy--
[Chief] Yeah, I don't give a [bleep] what y'all say.
- He gonna [bleep] no matter what y'all say. - Already know.
I already know.
We thought we had, like, the golden road.
- [Chief] No, no. - What is this?
- [Chuck] No, this-- - Chicago has the golden road.
[Chief] But what does this mean?
This means everybody that says we shouldn't go to blacktop...
- [Ryan] Yeah. - It's... Dude,
- we just need to go get a [bleep], you know? - [Ryan] Yeah.
We just need to find a blacktop road at home and do all this to it.
[Ryan] Yeah, that's been there for a long time.
- We had really [bleep] and that really [bleep] us. - [Ryan] Yes.
- [Chuck] How much you get? - His wheels are spinning already.
- [Chuck] How much you win? - That's $11,500.
- [Chuck] $11,500. - Yep.
[Chief] To be honest, out of everything,
we had a [bleep] hell of a good [bleep], dude.
When we left Oklahoma City,
- we had no idea we'd have this much fun. - [Ryan] No.
We knew we'd get [bleep], but we didn't know we'd have this much fun.
[indistinct chatter]
I'll be honest with you, I was kinda dreading coming to Chicago
'cause all the [bleep] talk on the Internet,
all the drama that went along with it,
every... You know, not knowing who's coming, who's going, whatever,
but in the end,
this is one of the funnest races I've ever participated in.
- I appreciate you putting it on. - Yeah, man.
- Good racing, man. - Thanks for letting us come.
- [Chuck] Thanks for having us, Chicago! - [man] Yeah, thank you!
- Good meeting you, man. - Yeah. You, too.
[Ryan] Later, buddy. Good job, Monza.
[Monza] Thank you, buddy.
[Ryan] Hey, man. Take it easy, dude.
Good job! Give me a hug, [bleep]!
[Javi] We've got no brakes.
We ain't got no [bleep] brakes.
We got a [bleep] race car, but we'll fix it.
You know, one of the awesome things about this race
is that we...
I really feel like the 405 came together.
Like, you know, we get separated when we do the tally mark races
and all that type of stuff,
and we all kinda had a talk
and Chief pulled everybody together and said,
"Hey, look, I want this to be about a team.
I want us to try to work together.
I feel like if we work together,
we can outrun Chicago,"
and that is exactly what we did.
- So, hey, thank you. Appreciate it. - [man] We're out, brother.
- Hey, you guys be careful. - [man] Yeah.
- Talk to you soon. - It was good to see you.
It was an all 405 semifinal.
It was an all 405 final.
We're in Chicago
and we took the money home.
[Chief] Next time...
I get to race four times tonight.
- That's a lot of licks. - You get to, baby.
A lot can happen.
[Chief] Only five drivers ca make it to America's List..
Take a swing at it. That thing's a rocket ship.
[Chief] Any time anybody beats Dave is a big deal,
- and now-- - Dave's a bad [bleep].
[Chief] You're right.
[man] Hey, we're going for it, okay?
[Chief] ...and there are a ton of races to get done before it's over.
- So, I still need that one magical win... - You need that one win.
To get that seventh win to be a shoo-in.
We all know Daddy Dave's a tall order.
[laughs]
[Chief] ...and as we stand,
it's wide open for the takin
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