[narrator] Last week on No Prep Kings...
[Boosted] Ohio, how're you doing?
[crowd cheering]
[Boosted] All right, let's do it. Oh, wait!
Ryan's team, all went out early.
-Which one? He beat Ryan? -Whoa!
[Boosted] But team captain, Murder Nova,
and Nate Sayler from Team Boddie raced in the finals.
-And Nate Sayler! Wow, what a drag race! - [all cheering]
That earned both teams enough points
to pass Team Ryan in the rankings.
And Team Murder Nova now holds
their highest ranking of the season.
[man] Here we go!
[Boosted] All right, kids...
[all cheering]
[indistinct shouting]
[Boosted] Hey, Maple Grove, how're y'all doing today?
[all cheering]
[Boosted] Folks, we have a big show planned for you today,
a lot of racing.
The Invitational Class pays $40,000 to win,
$200,000 to win to the team
that has the most points at the end of the season.
-Let's go! -[all cheering]
[Boosted] We are here in the beautiful, green countryside of Pennsylvania,
about an hour or so outside of Philadelphia.
We're getting ready for our 10th points race of the year.
[Scott] All right, we'll go right here.
Go by my buddy, Mikey.
[Boosted] Team Kye Kelley has been holding down first place now
for four straight weeks,
and they have held that position more than any team this entire season.
But Team Daddy Dave is just 100 points behind them.
Even though both of those teams didn't do so hot last week in Ohio.
Kye Kelley got knocked out in round one
by his teammate Clay Cole,
and Dave hasn't made it out of the first round
in the past three events.
That's gave a couple of other teams a chance
to move ahead, like team Murder Nova,
who had a great event last week.
-So we're in third place. -Yeah.
We're only 60 points away from Dave's team.
-So-- -The only bad thing is,
-they've got all five in, and Doc, he can't... -And Doc.
-...get a break. -Yeah. I know.
-We're four. -We're four,
but if we have another week like we did last week,
we might get around.
-We need to put them out first round. -No doubt.
Now's the time to make a move, bro.
-We're running out of time. -I know. I know.
[Boosted] And also, Team Boddie has been looking strong.
Mr. Bowman.
[Boosted] Boddie himself, unfortunately, could not make the event,
but one of his teammates, Damon Merchant,
has stepped up to help lead.
Having three ins have been really hurting us.
-[Mike] Right. -But we've been putting in work. We've been doing it.
[Damon] But if you think about that now,
-what are we, in the ninth or tenth race? -Yeah.
-That's 90 to 100 points right there. -Yeah, it's a lot.
It would have made a big difference if I was there with you guys, but...
[Damon] Like I said, it ain't been for lack of effort.
-[Mike] Yeah, yeah. -[Damon] We know it's fast. It's been looking really good.
You're in.
-We got rounds to go today. -[Mike] Yeah.
-You know what I mean? -Yeah, we got rounds to go today.
[Boosted] Mike Bowman, was able to successfully
race his way into the main event.
This will be the first time that Team Boddie
has had four racers in the invite.
Meanwhile, Ryan Martin's team is having a little bit more trouble.
Last week, Ryan traded Chuck for Jerry Bird,
but unfortunately, Jerry Bird was unable to race his way in,
that along with mediocre performances from the rest of the team,
forced them to drop two spots in the rankings.
The reason why we came here first
is to welcome you guys to our team.
I think that we can help you guys get a little faster.
And that part, I'm ecstatic about.
We're all stoked.
Together, we're gonna get this deal turned around
and it's gonna be a great move for our team.
-Y'all know I love you. -Well...
-Thank you, mate. -I appreciate it.
[indistinct chatter]
And I'm glad to have you.
We'll go out there, and see what happens.
-[man] I just hope we don't get each other. -[Ryan laughing]
[Justin] We got all five in.
We are 60 points behind Ryan.
And I think, uh, Kye, now, they're still in first.
Uh, they got a pretty big lead.
But we're coming up on the races,
where it's really gonna count,
where we're gonna have points-and-a-half, points-and-a-half,
and double points at the end.
Um, last year. you and John capitalized a lot
-on that points and a half... -[woman] I did, too.
[Justin] ...double points there.
Nobody's out of it yet.
I mean, Disco Dean may be out.
He's... I don't know if he's even got a chance, honestly.
[Disco] Look at that... breadcrumb, that's like a ginger.
[Boosted] Finally, we have Mike Murillo and Disco Dean's teams,
who have had a really rough year.
They each had less than half the points of Team Kye Kelley,
and they're running out of time to catch up.
Our main concern is, obviously, Larry's been doing pretty good.
The rest of the team over here has been struggling, riding the struggle bus.
We made a change. We got Chuck on the team...
-Yeah. -...trying to change our luck up.
-Jerry' is over here-- -Booted that worthless ass, Jerry Bird, out of here.
-Yeah. -He couldn't get in, so I mean,
-he's out of here! -[all laughing]
-Kick him [bleep] -Yeah, we did.
[Disco] I got big shoes to fill.
-You know, I only wear nine-and-a-half, right? -[all laughing]
[Boosted] Last week, we had a lot of back and forth with trades.
But this week, there were only two changes.
Dave dropped Kyle Canion, who was unable to make it to the event,
and picked up Reaper.
And Boddie replaced himself with Tim Brown.
Team Disco Dean did not have much success racing their way in,
so they only have two drivers racing in the main event today.
And the deal he made proved to be better for Ryan,
as Jerry Bird was able to race his way in
and make it into the main event,
which now means Ryan has all five of his drivers in today.
That should give him a good chance
at crawling back up the leaderboard.
-He wore an Earnhardt shirt. -[all laughing]
-He wore an Earnhardt shirt for driving. -Lizzy!
-What?
[chuckling] Oh, God! That's it.
This is getting really out of control. What the [bleep]
I'm sad that he can actually fit in that.
[all laughing]
[Lizzy] Where's Cassie at?
You look like a little pregnant water snake in that sweater.
[laughing] Oh, my God!
[all chuckling]
[Boosted] All right, folks, we are now at the point in time
where I ask my drivers, go ahead and draw from the bucket.
There are 32 drivers who are gonna draw chips for their pairings.
[man 1] Oh, God.
[man2] Oh, my God!
[bleeping]
[man 2] No.
[bleeping]
[Boosted] There are some very interesting matchups coming into Round One.
Ryan drew his new teammate, Jerry Bird.
which is a tough draw for him, since it's his first time
back in the Invitational since Idaho.
[man] Ain't nobody trading with him.
-Whoo! -[all laughing]
Dammit!
That could have went better.
[man] Hey, you wanna trade him back real quick?
Nah, we're good. We're good.
[all laughing]
[Boosted] Lizzy Musi drew Tony McKinney,
who actually was able to take her out
in the first round of last week.
Then Damon Merchant from Boddie's team
ended up drawing Clay Cole from Team Kye.
Both those drivers have been earning a ton of points for their team,
but that will not be the case for one of them today.
All right, folks, we're gonna go ahead and get the starting line cleared up,
and we're gonna go ahead and get this show started.
Invitational First round coming at you right now,
that is going to be Mike Bowman going up against Justin Swanstrom.
[Mike] If he outruns me, then he's got to make a [bleep] stellar run.
Whether or not he knows that, who knows?
We're gonna see.
-Huh? Yeah. -Just got to be consistent.
Yeah. I mean, we know we're making good runs, so...
We're in the Invitational. I'm super stoked
because I haven't been there for a while, so...
I'm getting ready to race Justin Swanstrom.
They're telling me he hadn't made that good licks yesterday,
and I have, so I got to build some points,
so every round counts.
I gotta make it happen. It starts today.
[Justin] It's been, you know, four or five races,
since I've been able to get out of the first round,
so hopefully, we can change that today.
We got a new color scheme,
and, uh, we got all five drivers in.
Hopefully, we can all win,
go to the next round, gain some points.
I think we're only, like, 60 points behind Ryan Martin.
Let's just see if we can go out there and do our job,
see if we can win, and go on to the second round.
[engine spluttering]
[engines roaring]
[pistol fires]
-[all cheering] -[Boosted] And Justin Swanstrom takes the win.
-[all cheering] -[Boosted] Nice pass from both cars.
[man] Hell yeah!
[Justin] Whoo!
Holy [bleep]
I was able to cut him on the tree,
and I was able to win that race.
Very, very exciting for my crew,
me, everybody.
I mean, we've been struggling so many races
to just get it out of the first round.
And let's see if we can go more rounds.
[team member] Whoo!
-Let's go. -[all cheering, exclaiming]
-Let's go. -Whoo!
Let's [bleep] go!
Yeah, bud! Yeah!
[Boosted] Next pair coming at you right now, I've got Jim Howe
going up against Kye Kelley.
[Kye] [bleep], man, I hate having Jim Howe.
[bleeping] little Hail Mary.
[man] Man, don't overthink it.
I don't, man, but...
if we're conservative,
we're gonna get our ass whooped, I think.
Me and Jim Howe, we always go back and forth.
He's one of the guys that kind of intimidated me
'cause he can pull a really fast pass out of his ass,
especially first round, you know?
Somebody who don't have nothing to lose first round,
they can swing at it and they either beat you or they don't,
it don't matter, so that's the kind of guy Jim Howe is,
and I hate drawing somebody like that first round.
[Jim] I feel like we've got a faster car,
so drawing Kye is not a bad thing in my eyes.
But it is a tough draw, first round.
I need to gain points. You know, that's the thing,
and the only way to do that is to beat the guys at the top.
[engines revving]
[engines roaring]
[Boosted] Next pair coming at you right now,
I've got Jim Howe on the left lane going up against Kye Kelley.
Kai Kelley in the right lane.
[engine whirring]
[engines roaring]
[Boosted] All right, so Jim Howe gets the win. Kye Kelley goes red.
Good job!
[Justin] You made good hit?
That tree take forever for you?
Dude, I almost let go of the [bleep] button.
[Jim] He left before the tree came off.
On the light situation, man,
I went up there, just long light, and I let go.
It's one of those things, it sucks, you know?
There's really nothing you can do about it. Just...
If you wasn't a grown man, you'd just cry,
or drive off the end of the racetrack or something,
but whatever. You just... you can't take it back.
You can't fix it up. I [bleep] up.
It is what it is. On to the next one.
-[Jim] That's a long tree. -Brain [bleep], man.
[Jim] I thought they went to sleep on us.
-I didn't. -[both laughing]
[Boosted] All right, next pair, we've got Scott Taylor
going up against Murder Nova!
It's out of control, man.
At this point, if you go up there
and you're not in your right mind,
and you are not ready
-to do your job flawlessly... -Right.
-...you're gonna lose. -Yeah.
-Push it right to the limit each round. -[Murder] Yeah.
It's as competitive as it can get, man.
I draw Scott Taylor.
Scott's struggling a little bit right now.
I know how fast his combination is,
because it's the same combination I have.
And I can't take him lightly.
Scott's a good racer.
He's gonna get it figured out.
[engine spluttering]
[Scott] Murder Nova has been killing it!
That is a tough draw.
You know, we've been stinking a little bit lately.
We had a bunch of stuff that just kept fighting us,
but we found a lot our program the last couple of passes.
I think we're gonna put up a good fight.
It's gonna come down to inches.
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[Boosted] Murder Nova takes the win.
Nice pass there for Shawn.
He will move on to the next round.
[Murder] I don't know if I let go of the button first,
but I got to the finish line first.
We made a good pass.
Uh, it made every bit of the pass that we put in it.
We got this win out of the way.
On to round two.
-[sighs wearily] -Nice job, man.
In that slump, dude.
-Yeah, made a good lick. Yeah. -Yeah, I know, man. I know.
I'm just in that slump.
[Jeff] Well, we've never raced Paige before, so this will be the first.
I don't know if she's fast or not.
I don't know. I've only got to see a couple of her runs,
-but... they happened here... Yeah. -[Jeff] They look good. Yeah.
We're here at Maple Grove,
first round drivers' meeting,
I drew Paige Coughlin.
I've never drawn her before.
I've seen her run. It's fast,
so we're not gonna take her lightly.
Let's do it.
I'll be good.
So when we went up for our chip draw for Round One, we drew Jeff Lutz.
And I'm, like, thinking to myself,
"Oh, shoot. Okay. You know, he's an OG to this show."
You know, my dad knows him,
and he's been here,
part of this series, for a while.
This is gonna be a really interesting lap because I'm the new kid,
and we're earning our way in, and making our...
we're, kind of just, like, proving ourselves.
We really need those win lights
to turn on for myself and Team Daddy Dave.
We really need to go some rounds today.
Like, all of us, full send it.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, next pair, we've got
Paige Coughlin in the left lane
going up against Jeff Lutz in the right.
[engine sputtering]
[engines spluttering]
[engines roaring]
[pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Paige Coughlin takes the win.
Great drag race there.
Jeff Lutz was coming but ran out of room
down at the top end.
[Paige] Whoo! [cheering]
It felt so good to see my win light turn on
against an OG like Jeff Lutz.
This car is on fire.
They are doing it right.
It is boogieing, and it's just...
it's mind-blowing to see it all kind of come together finally,
and we're really working well together and...
[exhales] it just feels so good.
[Jeff] Man, that was a close one.
-Good job. -[Paige] Thank you.
-I'm happy for you. -[Paige] Thank you.
Thank you.
Mmmph!
So the race with Paige went down, man...
I left with her and I thought I clipped her at the end.
It was that close.
Man, we just gotta figure out what happened.
As soon as I look at it, we'll know.
I... I just don't know yet.
Man, this thing's a beast.
Holy crap! We needed that.
Ten more for Team Daddy Dave.
Come on, everybody else. Let's roll!
[Boosted] All right, next pair,
Giuseppe going up against Nate Sayler.
I heard they were struggling a little bit, but...
I don't really give a [bleep] who's in the other lane.
I don't... See, that's me. That doesn't ever bother me.
-I just get in there and do my deal. -I don't care. Yep.
I'm just gonna go when the light comes on...
It could be my sister, and I'd still want
-to chop her head off. -Right.
We got Giuseppe,
and, um, they've been having a few issues.
They've got a fast car.
They're both HEMI ProCharger cars,
so they're gonna be real similar.
Obviously, mine's ProLine powered,
his is Noonan powered.
We're just gonna put a tune up in it, that I know the track will take.
We got the left lane, which I think is the better of the two lanes.
The right lane is missing a bunch of rubber.
[engine revving]
But I mean, realistically, HEMI ProCharger, HEMI ProCharger.
It's gonna be a coin toss,
but we're gonna give him all he can handle.
[engines revving]
Invitational today, still working on the car, having some issues.
Still having backfiring issues to the manifold.
We've changed every electrical part on the car,
computer, everything, gone through that.
Everything's going wrong. We broke the transmission.
We're just having multiple issues,
so, uh, going in the first round
is gonna be a tough deal for us here.
We're gonna just try changing more stuff
and get back to where we were.
[engines spluttering]
-[engine roaring] -[pistol fires]
[Boosted] Giuseppe Gentile, on the right lane,
going up against Nate Sayler over in that left lane,
who was your Invitational... champ last weekend,
looking to double up here in Maple Grove.
-[engines roaring] -[pistol fires]
[Boosted] Nate Sayler...
able to win that race there.
That was a great run.
It was a good race. It was a great run.
-Yeah. -My best run of the weekend.
Whoo! [straining] Yeah.
It went good.
-[pistol fires] -[Nate] We leave and go right down Broadway.
We made a really good pass.
He was right there with me.
It was a good race, side-by-side.
I think we ended up winning by about half a car is all.
The new transmission's working great.
Now we're gonna turn it up. Now we know that she'll function,
and take what we can give her.
And we're on to round two.
-That was a good race. I loved it. -Yeah, it was a good race.
-[chuckles] -I was on it, that time we made it, yeah.
-Uh, nice run. -That was a good race.
Yeah, I was like, "[bleep] can I hold?
Can I get him? Can I get him?"
Yeah, You got it, man. That was good.
That was a good race.
[Boosted] All right, folks, Tony McKinney versus Lizzy Musi
coming at you right now.
[man speaking]
[bleep] yeah. Yeah!
[bleep] revenge!
[man] [bleep] Tony!
Yeah. [chuckling] Yeah.
First round, I end up drawing Tony McKinney,
racing him second time in a row.
I just raced him in Ohio.
He kicked my ass.
We are sixth pair out.
Left lane for me.
Good luck. Be safe. Thank you!
It's time to get some revenge.
My car needs to start acting right.
We feel confident about today.
We've put a new motor in.
It's a little bit more spicier,
so we're gonna have to just tune for that
and, hopefully, make a good run against them.
[engines revving]
[spluttering]
[revving]
[roaring]
[pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Tony McKinney goes red.
Lizzy Musi's gonna take the win there.
He would have had it.
-Golly! -You gotta wait for it.
Man, these drivers need to wait.
We get on our two-steps...
it felt like forever before the light dropped and turned green,
'cause that's an automatic loss,
so I just held on as long as I can,
until the light was right, and left.
-[pistol fires] -[Lizzy] Right around 330 feet,
it shook the tire, so we got lucky this time.
If he didn't go right, I definitely would have lost to him.
Honestly, we think the motor's just hopped up.
It's fresh and it's, you know, new parts.
It's just got a lot more... oomph to it, you know?
So, we gotta just tone it down a little bit,
and, uh, get ready for the second round.
I was way behind.
And he just made a A-to-B run.
[Boosted] All right, folks, next pair, Battle of the Turbos,
we got Reaper going up against Dominator.
Hiya.
-I know. -Really?
-I know. -Of all people?
[Dominator] I know. I agree.
[Reaper] We've been struggling and trying to help each other all season.
Both of us. That's what I just told them.
-[Reaper] And now, we got to race each other? -[Dominator] Yep.
Well, it is what it is.
If you kick my ass, you're gonna earn it.
If I kick yours, I know I earned it.
Uh, how much you got on that scramble?
All of it.
It won't put no more in it.
That gate is 100-percent slammed shut.
[Reaper] So coming back this season,
I took some time, switched it over to turbos.
We're real close on the car, but we're not quite there.
We're going in with a semi-fast car,
and I have to draw Dominator.
He's one of my best friends, and I have to draw him the first round.
But that friendship ends when we bust that light.
[Dave] My 405 guy, Reaper...
Reaper's no dummy to racing. He's been doing it a long time.
He knows his car ain't 100 percent.
He even said that coming into the meeting, like,
"Hey, look, we ain't got it quite figured out yet,
but we're really close."
So, maybe "real close" means he's actually really close,
and he can make some fast passes.
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
-He tried. -Hey, he gave it his all.
-He gave it his all. -He tried. He tried.
[man] Whoo! Good job!
Ooh!
[Dominator] Yeah!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
I let go of the brake...
It started to shake about 60 feet out,
and then it started to pick the front end up.
His got a little nasty, about 330,
and he said "Take off, cone"
I hate it for him, but...
I'm gonna take the win, so...
It was a good lick.
We just gotta calm it down a little bit.
It was a little mad right there at 60 foot.
No, it still moved.
That's why I needed one more [bleep] on it.
-Yeah. -[bleeping] in the middle.
[Boosted] All right, folks,
next pair coming at you right now,
we got B-Rad going up against Kayla Morton.
We've been doing our... putting our 10 points in each week.
But we just can't get past first round.
Today, we're gonna get past first round.
I wanna put team points on the board.
I'm tired of just, like, going out first round.
It's just... it's tough.
So Round One, here at Maple Grove Race, we just drew Kayla Morton.
Uh, we actually raced her last race, first round,
and she beat me, so we owe her some redemption.
I had a couple of pistons messed up,
now we have all new pistons and new tires.
But she's got a really good tuner
and we've got me tuning mine,
so I don't know how good that is.
But we're gonna see what happens.
I guess there's stuff I'm gonna try and see if it works.
[Kayla singing] ♪ Please go straight♪
♪ Please, please, go straight ♪
♪ Hey, please go straight ♪
♪ Hey, please, Please go straight ♪
♪ Hey! Hey! Mmm You're gonna win ♪
♪ You're gonna win, mmm ♪
♪ You're gonna win Mmm-mmm-mmm, hey ♪
Team Daddy Dave is looking good for today.
The most important part is that we're all consistent,
and we get through a couple of rounds.
Last week, Paige and I carried the team.
This week, I need the boys to step up and do their part.
We're only a hundred points behind Kye,
and with double points and points-and-a-half coming into play,
we still have time to catch them.
We just gotta do our jobs.
[engines revving]
This girl is just so temperamental.
She is not cooperating right now.
We are absolutely on the struggle bus, 100 percent.
We're running out of time.
We're feeling the pressure to start doing well.
So maybe it's my turn today, and I really need to step my game up here.
[engines revving]
[engine roaring]
[pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Kayla Morton takes the win.
-[all cheering] -Yeah, that was a good race.
[Boosted] She had to drive that [bleep]. Damn.
-[Dave] It started shaking right there. -I know.
[Kayla] I wasn't gonna lose that one.
The pass was wild.
We took off and it wagged its tail down the whole way.
I was not letting out of that gas pedal.
And I threaded that needle right through,
and I came out with a win.
It was one of those things where...
I just decided I was gonna win no matter what.
That was a rough one.
-That wasn't the same track as yesterday. -[Kayla] Yep.
Not at all, was it?
[Kayla] I was all over the place.
-And that tree was like... I almost flinched 'cause... -Dude!
-...I'm like, "Ugh! No, no, no!" -So long!
[Boosted] All right, next pair,
that's gonna be Rich Bruder going up against Axman!
[man speaking]
[Axman speaking]
It's Invitational Day, and I drew a Rich Bruder.
They've been up and down all season.
Their car runs good one minute,
the next minute, they struggle.
I talked to him yesterday,
and, uh, they were having a wiring issue.
So going into this first round,
it'll be interesting to see if they get that car figured out.
[Rich] You got the bottles on or not yet?
Not yet. Can you put 'em on?
All right.
Last race, we had a mishap.
We popped the burst panels on the blower.
So, normally when that happens, there's a misfire,
you know, happening in the motor.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] The burst panel is a piece of thin metal
that's designed to protect the blower
or the intake manifold
in case the engine backfires.
[Rich] We put a fresh motor in, We got it all ready.
The car's ready, the crew is ready.
And like I said, we're gonna go up there,
and make a race out of it.
[engines spluttering]
-[engines roaring] -[pistol fires]
[Boosted] All right, next pair, over in that right lane,
that's gonna be Rich Bruder
going up against Axman!
[engines sputtering]
[engines roaring]
[pistol fires]
-Oh, man! -[Boosted] And Rich Bruder takes a stab on the tree,
-and goes green. -Hey, good job, buddy. Good job.
Aw, man, he gets the [bleep]
-Whoo! -[Boosted] Rich Bruder takes the win.
[laughing] Did you see that?
Oh, my God!
-Holy [bleep]! -He guessed it.
Hey, and then I thought, after all that...
you're gonna let him come around you at the end.
I thought for sure he was coming around.
I went, "Oh, no! Don't come around me."
[all laughing]
[Rich] Damn! Damn! Damn!
Oh, my goodness. [chuckling] Damn.
Going into racing Rich, I knew that car had been
giving them some trouble, and my car has been flying.
Especially after last night, they seen them passes,
I told myself, I said if I was Rich,
I'd take a shot at that light.
And that was in my mind thinking, like,
he was probably gonna do that.
-So as the green come on... -[starting pistol fires]
[Axman] ...I seen him going by the 60-foot mark, I said,
"Damn, he took a shot at it."
We crossed the finish line, he had me by a couple feet.
So apparently he caught that light. I got that loss.
That was a good guess.
-Guess? -[Axman] You're damn right that was a guess.
[laughs]
With all the problems y'all had, I said, he's gonna guess.
[Rich] I really didn't guess, bud.
-You're a lying son of a bitch. -[Rich] I promise you.
[Axman laughs]
[Axman] It was a good one, brother.
Damn it.
[Rich] I was up on the tree. I know I didn't guess.
They can say what they want.
Win light came on. We got some work to do.
We got to get back in the pit.
I got to change some burst panels on the blower
and get ready for the next round.
[Axman] He said he didn't guess.
Your bulbs were out before the green light came on.
-Oh, I thought that. -It can't be.
[Boosted] All right. Next pair.
That is gonna be Kallee Mills going up against David Gates.
What do you think, Adam?
I think I'm gonna take the run we made yesterday
when it was warm out,
clean it up, clean the engines up,
and run to the finish line.
Turn the sixth on in about three seconds.
-[Adam] Yes, sir. -About three sixths.
[Adam] Let her rip.
[David] We're gonna go out here. We got Kallee Mills.
I think we get down to the other end first
when we get past that first round,
and that's always the most nervous for me, is the first round.
Once I get past the first round, I'm good the rest of the day.
So, you know, Kallee's fast, but she's gonna have to
put a fast run together to outrun us in this car.
[engine revving]
[Kallee] First round chip draw, I drew David Gates.
I raced him last weekend.
He didn't make it down the track,
but I'm sure they've gotten their stuff figured out
and went and tested and things like that as well as we did.
So it should be a good race.
[engine revving]
[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] And David Gates takes the win.
What a drag race there.
Looked like it shook a little bit.
Gates able to pull off the W. Nice job.
Um, this is the spark plug.
Not good. You're not supposed to have pieces falling out.
Um, it actually started coming apart at about two seconds into the run.
[starting pistol fires]
[Kallee] Essentially there after that, I was running off seven cylinders.
I think I still gave David a pretty good run,
just being on seven cylinders.
I think, definitely if I would have had all eight,
it would have been no problem.
[David] Great always racing with y'all.
-For real. -I know. It's always a fun time, you know?
[David] Yeah.
[Boosted] All right. Next pair.
That is gonna be Brandon James going up against Bobby Ducote.
[Bobby] Damn thing has shook on me every pass
the last ten passes.
That [bleep] hurts, dude.
It's hard on you. It's hard on the car.
[Bobby] [bleep]!
It's hard on my fat ass in here, going...
Got a whole new car. Whole new hot rod today.
It's getting faster and faster and faster.
And whether people want to admit or not,
this car's a couple months old now,
but we're still having new car blues.
Gotta do what we got to do to keep them running and keep them together.
Getting here is half the battle.
Race is half the battle.
So whooping ass is another half the battle.
[engine revving]
[engines revving]
[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Brandon James takes the win.
Great drag race there between both those guys.
That was a [bleep] drag race right there, huh?
Good job, bro.
-Go get 'em. -[Brandon] Appreciate it, man. Good job.
We're getting better and better every weekend,
so we just got to
keep up the consistency
and hopefully we go several rounds today.
We kind of need to...
We're at the bottom of not having to race our way in like 24 or something.
24 is the cut off, so we're tired of
having to worry if we're in every week or not.
So it's time... time to make up some ground this weekend.
[Boosted] All right, next pair coming at you.
We got John Odom going up against Robin Roberts.
You know, Robin won the Great 8 last night,
so we know that car's fast.
We know this car's fast,
so it's gonna come down to driver on this pass.
We'll see how it goes, and may the best blue car win.
[engine revving]
[Robin] I'm coming off of the Great 8 win.
The car's running fantastic.
It's smooth and buttery, just the way it should be.
John and I have a history,
but you know, when he's up, he's tough to beat.
So if he makes a hero pass, we may be in trouble.
It's gonna be a hell of a challenge.
-[engine revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[boosted] John Odom will take the win there,
and something happens to Robin Roberts' car.
Hey, we got a win!
Don't matter. Let's go.
[Boosted] All right, next pair.
That's gonna be Larry Larson going up against Daddy Dave.
Larson, first round, 13th pair.
Winnable.
Don't say very, 'cause I'm gonna
-trip on my thing and then he beats me. -[man speaking]
[Daddy Dave] The last time I raced Larson, I got the win on that deal.
But in Vegas, he went to the finals,
so he's not a duck.
Like, the car's fast,
and we got a fast hot rod, so hopefully I can beat him again.
So last week, after hurting the motor,
we freshened the motor up, all new stuff in it,
I feel real good.
Like, we made a really fast pass last night.
The car's back to where it was.
I won Great 8 here a few years ago.
I'm hoping we can just
pull off an invitational win today.
[engine revving]
[Larry] We won this race here
five years ago, I think it was,
in 2018, so I'd sure like to do it again this weekend.
I just need to do my job, not be late,
get past first round, and move on.
-[engine revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] All right, over in that right lane,
backing up the Cadillac, that's gonna be Larry Larson
going up against Daddy Dave in that Audi.
-[engine revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] Daddy Dave gonna take the win there.
Driving it, car makes a hard move towards the center line.
Dave, driving that thing, takes the win.
-[Murder Nova] Got to drive it a little bit. -[Boosted] Nice job.
[Murder Nova] I mean, not that you can see
his marks out there over everybody else's.
-[man 1] I mean, you know... -[man 2] That looked horrible, but nice [bleep] job.
Yeah, yeah.
-[man 2] That looked terrible. -But he was worse.
[Daddy Dave] Round one curse, out the window.
[Boosted] All right, next pair,
battle of some blower cars here, folks.
That's gonna be Chuck 55 going up against Disco Dean.
-What's up, bro? -And we meet again.
-This is, like, three times, isn't it? -This is it.
It's a tie breaker.
And then we'll dodge each other
-the rest of the season. -[Chuck 55] There you go.
That's what we need to do.
-Good luck out there, buddy. -Yeah, same to you, bud.
[Disco Dean] I just ran Chuck 55 last week, first round.
He blew his [bleep] up, but he beat me.
So today, I hope we don't blow up,
but we're gonna try to get to win light, get redemption.
[engine revving]
[Disco Dean] Obviously, we haven't been doing good this year,
so we needed to test.
We stayed over Sunday at Dragway 42.
Unfortunately, the car got away from me.
I wrecked and hit the wall.
We got the car fixed.
We got the fiberglass done,
header, zoomie, lower control arm,
rocker panel, quarter panel, wheel tub.
Now that it's here and it's back together,
we need to turn some win lights on.
And I know it's late and we've been struggling,
but it's time to turn the season around.
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Chuck Parker gets the win.
Nice job.
All right, folks, next pair coming at you.
Battle of the teammates.
It's gonna be Jerry Bird against Ryan Martin.
[Jerry] It's a lot of pressure, man.
Not just racing the captain, but you're racing Ryan.
The good news is I made it in the invitational.
I'm on a new team, as you all know.
I'm on Ryan Martin's team and...
But I'm gonna go out there and try to put him on the trail.
Hope to turn a new page.
I hope my luck's changing and,
you know, we're heading in the right direction.
[engine revving]
[Ryan] As a team championship, we dropped to number five this week.
But we're ten points behind
the other three that are in front of us.
So it's a very close, tight race.
Problem, though,
I drew my teammate again for two weekends in a row.
Last weekend, it was Robin Roberts.
This weekend is my new teammate, Jerry Bird.
Jerry Bird's got a potentially brutally nasty fast car
that I can tell you that
probably 20 drivers here,
are smart enough to be scared of.
And I'm one of those.
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Jerry Bird goes red.
Gives the win to Ryan Martin
over in that left lane.
Jerry Bird
does not wait on the light. Goes red.
He didn't get the memo.
If anybody gonna guess, it's Jerry Bird. [bleep].
[Jerry] [bleep]!
[Ryan] Jerry.
You wanna [bleep] take a shot on me.
Get him on my team, fool takes a shot on me.
Why'd you take a shot for, man?
You didn't need to do it.
Not only did you not need to do it, but you hurt my feelings, too.
[Jerry] No, I was trying to red light.
Oh, okay, okay. Well, you did.
Jerry jumps against everyone.
But I didn't want the perception to the other teams to go,
"Oh, well, he gave it to him because he's on his team now."
I wanted to see, did we make any progress with his car or not.
It wasn't as fast as what we went,
so it probably would have went this way anyway.
But it doesn't matter.
It would have been nice to see a good, nice, close race.
[Jerry] I wasn't trying to beat you.
[Ryan] Why?
-[Jerry] Just... -[Ryan] You know I don't race like that.
-[Jerry] I know, but I mean... -[Ryan] I want you to try to beat me.
[Jerry] I know, but I mean,
I feel like you got a better car right now
to win this, to go further.
[Ryan] If that's what you did,
I'm a little upset with you because I never would ever,
ever, ever, ever want you to do that.
Sucks, yeah.
[Boosted] All right, next pair
coming at you right now. Over in the left lane,
that's gonna be Clay Cole
going up against Damon Merchant.
[engine revving]
[Clay] I got Damon Merchant.
16th pair to go down the track.
So that makes me feel a little better
'cause there's gonna be quite a bit of rubber down the track. So...
But Damon has a fast car, as everybody knows.
We got our hands full.
So we're gonna have to tighten up the ship a little bit.
We're gonna have to put a better tune up in it.
And we're just gonna have to go A to B.
[Damon] We drew Clay Cole and he's a tough draw.
The dude looks like he's been hauling ass.
He put Kye out first round last week.
So he is definitely somebody
to keep your eye on and not look past for sure.
Every round counts
and every race, how you start out counts.
So, you know, it's good to have four in.
No time like right now to get in there
and start, you know, kicking some ass.
Going some rounds
and gathering up some team points
'cause this thing ain't over yet.
[engine revving]
[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] All right, so Clay Cole takes the win there.
Damon Merchant, not sure what happened.
But ends up leaving before the tree drops.
[Damon] [bleep]!
[sighs] Being in this better air,
put more power into it today.
I went in, got the first bulb on.
He comes in, I get my second.
And it took him a little while to get that second one in.
So I came off the throttle.
And when I went to stick it again,
the car lunged forward and,
you know, the race was over by then.
I just rolled out. Try to make, you know,
do the walk of shame down the track.
And he makes a killer pass.
And it's day over for us.
-[bleep]! -[Clay] Sorry you had problems, brother.
I wish it would have been a race.
-I don't like taking a win like that. -Me too. No, no, no.
-I was really looking... -I'd like to get a good race with you.
[Clay] Oh, yeah.
-I'm sorry, brother. -[Damon] All good.
If you need anything from me, let me know.
-[Damon] Yeah. Appreciate it. -Thank you.
[Boosted] We saw a lot of big names go down in round one today.
Kye Kelly, Damon Merchant,
and Giuseppe Gentile, just to name a few.
Those guys are threats to win every weekend.
So having them out of the race is a big deal.
All right. We're gonna go ahead and draw chips now.
Ladies, please step forward.
-Okay. -[Boosted] Nice job. Nice job. Nice job.
Fellas, fellas, fellas.
All right. My number ones
are gonna be Rich Bruder versus David Gates.
All right. Number two,
gonna be Brandon James versus Justin Swanstrom.
Number three,
gonna be Jim Howe versus
-Lizzy Musi. -Jim.
All right. Number four
will be Dominator versus Daddy Dave.
Number five,
Clay Cole versus Ryan Martin.
Number six,
Chuck 55 versus Murder Nova.
Pair number seven
is gonna be Paige Coughlin and Kayla Morton.
-Damn it. -Which means our eighth and final pair
will be John Odom versus Nate Sayler.
All right, drivers. You know who you're racing.
You know what you got to do. Go back to the pits.
Get your cars turned around.
Bring them into the staging lanes.
We're gonna give someone $40,000 at some point today.
All right. Let's do it.
[Boosted] Coming at you right now,
that is going to be Rich Bruder driving the Jackal
going up against David Gates.
[man 1 speaking]
Ah, Bruder.
[man 1 speaking]
-I don't know. I ain't heard. -[man 2] But we're ready.
You know me. I don't like to be late,
and I like to sit here forever.
We, uh... Something's going on.
We're having some sort of electrical issue,
and it keeps misfiring the motor.
So, it's banging in and out going down the track with full boost in there.
So, it pisses the motor off.
First round, we popped the burst panels on the blower.
Get back to the pit,
rip the blower off the motor,
put new burst panels on it,
and got it ready for next round.
You know, they're waiting for us up there at the start line.
You know, it's a lot of work
between rounds to get ready for the next round.
[woman] Is that them?
[Boosted] I see Rich Bruder just got here in the burnout box.
Gonna get suited up real quick.
Get in the car, and then we will go racing.
[engine starts, revs]
[Ryan] Yeah, you know, my team, I've got another guy in.
I got Rich Bruder, which is awesome.
So, there's, you know, there's two of us in.
Which means we're making points.
We're getting our team points towards the team championship.
We're in a good spot.
Not that it's a huge move, but that's at least 20 points.
That's good for us.
[Rich] We're having some type of electrical issue.
The car goes out or starts misfiring.
So, that's the issue we're having.
So, we're doing our best trying to figure it out.
[Boosted] All right. So, they put it on a two-minute clock now.
Rich Bruder shut it off.
David Gates has put him on a two-minute clock.
He's got two minutes to the stage.
[engine starts]
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] David Gates shakes. Has to get out of it.
So, Rich Bruder will take the win.
[David] Bruder brothers.
I've been working on that car since I got here.
Go up there. They're ten minutes late to the call.
Sitting in the car, you know.
And then I do a burnout. And your [bleep] still ain't ready.
And we're having to shut the cars off.
The car's heating up.
They don't even tell us they're broke for however long,
over there [bleep] with it. Working on it.
[starting pistol fires]
[David] And then we go out here, and, you know,
the car's too damn hot to make the run.
And we're trying to make the run and...
Get your [bleep] fixed and get it out here.
If it ain't fixed, don't bring it to the lanes.
And I can tell you from this point forward,
no more nice guy for me.
I don't give a [bleep] who it is.
I don't care if it's my team captain, Kye Kelley.
[bleep] him. I'm here to win.
-[bleep]! -[Rich] What happened, bud?
[David] Blowed the [bleep] tires off.
[Rich] Dude, I'm sorry, bro. I appreciate you waiting.
[bleep] popped the blower again. Damn it.
We took the win light,
but we had the same issue we had the round before
and popped the burst panel on the blower.
Let's get the blower and valve covers.
There's a lot of oil. That one clamp I put on came off,
so that's why oil is all over the place.
[man] All right.
[Rich] We're gonna take the blower off.
So, we have a lot of work to do to get ready for the next round.
[Boosted] So, this pair right here, battle of the blower cars.
Justin Swanstrom going up against Brandon James.
Ready?
[Justin] Uh, we're going up.
Uh, we got Brandon James second round.
Let's see if we can get after it.
It's the hottest point in the day.
So, the track is gonna be the trickiest right now.
If we can get through this round,
these next couple rounds,
the track'll start cooling down.
The cars are gonna start going faster.
And we'll be able to start getting after it, too.
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] All right. Justin Swanstrom will take the win.
Nice job there. Doing a little bit of driving.
Swanstrom moving on to the third round.
Way to go.
All right. Next pair coming at you right now.
I got Jim Howe going up against Lizzy Musi.
Second round, and I end up drawing Jim Howe.
Definitely have to be on our game to run Jim.
His car is fast. And I feel like
it's a little warmer this round.
So, I wanted to get after it a little bit more
in the front half of the run, and my dad didn't.
He said it was too hot. But I felt like
now the air
is like a little bit worse than earlier.
And I felt like it's gonna need
that extra power
to leave the line.
So, just crossing fingers.
And hopefully, it's gonna make a run against him.
[engine revving]
[Justin] You know, three of us went into the second round.
Jim did well taking out Kye Kelly.
I mean, there's some heavy hitters that's already gone.
But there's still heavy hitters that's in.
Hopefully, we can, uh,
go ahead and gain some ground.
And figure out if we can go ahead and, you know,
pull up a couple spots. That's what we need.
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] Jim Howe will take the win. Nice job.
[man] Onto the next round.
-I've gone 204 on that pass. -Really?
I'm telling you, he's fast.
Sure enough, I was right about being too slow off the hit.
Light turns green. We both leave.
I felt like I had him just by a little bit.
I'd say 330 feet.
It's just kind of like all over, not happy.
And I'm not gonna take a chance of
getting crazy out there. So, I just, I lifted.
And Jim got the win.
[Jim] Good run, girl.
[Lizzy] Good race. You're hauling ass.
[Jim] I know. We're trying.
I feel like there's like a miscommunication or something.
But, like,
I know my dad's got this.
So, I don't know.
We're gonna figure it out the next race.
-[Jim] Just need a little luck. -[Lizzy] Yeah.
-Same. -[Jim] Yep.
[Boosted] All right. Next pair.
Dominator going up against Daddy Dave.
-[woman] Hey. -Hey.
-Be safe, baby. -Always.
All right?
Second round, invitational, got Dominator.
I hate racing 405 guys.
We've been together since day one.
It's just, it's hard putting your, you know, 405 guy in the trailer.
[Dominator] We have been battling with bending throttle blades.
We do the burnout.
The idle wants to go up.
The gas pedal dropped to the floor.
Throttle leakage! We got to push it back!
[bleep] I knew what it was.
I killed the car.
My daughter is running down there to line me up.
And I'm yelling for her to get help.
Dave being the racer that he is,
he's not taking a win like that.
I have two minutes.
He shut his off and never said,
"You got two minutes." Nothing. "Just get your car back here."
We got it back. Popped the front clip off.
Popped the throttle blade connector back on.
And we're in.
[Boosted] All right. Looks like Dominator is good to go.
[engine starts]
-[engine revs] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Daddy Dave takes the win.
That was a great drag race there.
-[Daddy Dave] Love you, Joe. -Love you, man.
[Boosted] All right, folks. Battle of the Hemi ProChargers.
Clay Cole going up against Ryan Martin.
[Clay] I drew Ryan Martin.
Got a lot of respect for him.
He has a fast car, and a good guy.
Um,
same combination as I have.
So it's gonna be a good race.
It's gonna come down to who gets who on the tree.
It's gonna be a good race.
[Ryan] Clay Cole has proved to be one of the faster guys this year.
He's on Kye's team.
But he's done the dirty work for us, taken Kye out a couple times.
So his car is fast.
[engine revving]
Do you feel the [bleep] air that comes out of there?
[Ryan] It's a very similar combination to this car.
I know it pretty well.
It has the potential to be a front runner.
It has the potential to win an event.
We can't take him lightly.
We got to give him everything we got.
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] All right, folks.
This next pair right here is gonna be a battle
of the ProCharger cars.
Over in the left lane, Clay Cole,
first-gen Camaro
going up against Ryan Martin in the right lane.
-[engines revving] -[starting pistol fires]
[Boosted] And Ryan Martin right down the broadway,
gets the win. Nice job.
Clay Cole
rattles the tires hard.
-You good? -[Clay] Yeah.
-Shook the tires. -Ah.
Where at?
[Clay] Uh, about 60 foot.
-It's not the way I want to lose to you, but... -[Ryan] Yeah.
-[Clay] Congratulations. -[Ryan] Not the way I want to beat you either.
[Clay] I know, brother. I know.
You know, we vowed to race the racetrack.
Not necessarily the guys. We're just gonna...
We're trying to go as fast as we can on this racetrack every round.
And that's what we did, and it paid off.
[Clay] I was hoping to give you a good race, brother.
[Ryan] I'm sure it would have been.
I've been worried you weren't racing yet.
-I'm sure your car is fast. -[Clay laughs]
On to round three.
[Boosted] All right, next pair.
We got Chuck 55 going up against Murder Nova.
[David] Man, hey. What's good
is we know what number it's gonna take.
It's whoever can get the number to stick.
[Murder Nova] I just don't know about the track, man.
Yeah. It's gonna be worse now
-than it was a while ago. -[Murder Nova] I know.
Both the cars are fast.
-We've talked about this all week, man. -I know it. I know it.
[Murder Nova] We've talked about this all week.
-[David] We know what we run. -Yep. Just got to be able to do it.
-Just got to be able to get it now. -[Murder Nova] Yeah.
So round two, it's bound to happen.
We get Chuck 55.
When you're teammates with somebody,
you share a lot of information.
I know what Chuck runs,
just like Chuck knows what I run.
So whoever gets more aggressive with the tune-up
and the track actually holds it,
that's who's gonna win this race.
[Chuck 55] So, not what we wanted.
Out of everybody, I mean, we drew each other.
Both of us made some pretty good hits.
We both know what number it's going to take to run it.
So it's going to be
whoever can get that number
down the track today.
We're going to put what we think
the track is going to handle
and see if we can pull this W off.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] And Murder Nova...
Murder Nova gets the win. He will move on.
[Murder Nova] We let go of the button.
[pistol fires]
[Murder Nova] They were more aggressive with their tune up
and the track didn't hold it.
Sucks nobody else on my team made it,
but when you race a teammate
like I just raced Chuck,
the good thing you can think about is
one of us is going on to get points for the team.
So I'm not sure where that's going to land us.
I haven't even looked to see what all teams made it in,
but hopefully we stay in third.
[Chuck] Roll on, man.
We'll see what we can do.
[BoostedGT] All right, next pair is going to be
Paige Coughlin going up against Kayla Morton.
[Kayla] Good luck, babe.
-Love ya. -Good luck.
-Be safe. -Okay, see you on the other end.
Alrighty, sounds good.
Round two, drew Paige. Hate that I drew her.
But no matter what,
one person from team Daddy Dave here advances
and continues to accumulate
points for our team.
[engine revving]
[Kayla] What can I say?
Me and Paige got strong shoulders
the last couple of weeks.
I believe in Paige.
Okay? She's like my little sister at this point.
But today is about determination and grit for me.
So I'm just refusing to lose today.
I'm just going to keep that mindset all day long.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] All right. So Paige Coughlin gonna get the win.
[tires screeching]
-[crashes] -[bleep]
[BoostedGT] Uh-oh.
[crew member speaking indistinctly]
[BoostedGT] Gonna need fire rescue down at the end of the track.
Looks like Paige Coughlin got into the wall down there
on the shutdown.
[Paige] No!
[bleep]
-[steward] You okay? -[bleep]
-[Paige] Yeah. -[steward] All right.
-[Paige] [bleep] Thank you. Sorry. -[steward] No problems.
[Paige] I had to get it out of my system.
Hey, no, it's okay. It didn't hurt.
-[crew member] All right. -It didn't hit very hard.
-[woman] Are you good? -[Paige] I'm good.
It did not hit very hard.
[Paige speaking]
-[woman] Yeah. -She was...
She was good.
-[softly] I won. -[woman chuckles]
[Paige grunts victoriously]
I get up there. She ended up going red.
[pistol fires]
[Paige] Car made an absolute beautiful lap,
but as soon as we crossed the finish line,
kicked the rods out of it, oil everywhere.
I felt it sliding.
We hit the wall.
-[crashes] -[bleep]
[Paige] Me as a driver,
hit the wall like that just breaks my heart
and I really want to get this thing fixed up
but we did turn on the win light,
so, um,
I'll take that win. [chuckles]
[Daddy Dave] You good?
[Paige chuckling] I'm good. I want to go race again.
What do you need?
I think we're just doing some cosmetic stuff
and put the...
[Paige chuckles]
Thankfully, we got a spare motor in the trailer
that Daddy Dave's been asking us to put in
every single race,
so he's getting his wish.
But we're okay.
I think this is fixable,
and we're going to try to go back up for third round,
because we really want to win this thing. [chuckles]
[indistinct chatter]
[Daddy Dave] I [bleep] love it.
I love it.
[BoostedGT] All right, folks.
Next pair, John Odom going up against Nate Sayler.
-[crew member speaking] -Your main's fine.
-[crew member speaking] -Okay.
[crew member speaking]
Okay. Let's go, babe.
And of course, I go to chip draw,
draw Nate Sayler.
He beat me last weekend.
I want some revenge.
So we got 500 bucks on it.
...make it up there
and just giving him a run for his money.
[crew member speaking]
Do your thing, sir.
[Nate] So going into second round here,
I'm the only one left on team Boddie,
so there's a lot of pressure on me
to keep going around so we can stay out there.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
-[BoostedGT] And Nate Sayler gets the win. -[bleep] yeah.
Moves on to the next round.
...and got him on the tree.
[up-tempo music playing]
All right, folks, we'll go ahead and start our...
invitational third round
drivers' meeting starts now.
We started with 32.
We are now down to eight.
We've got Team Ryan, Team Dave and team Swanstrom,
all standing strong with two drivers remaining.
Also a little fun fact.
Dave and Paige, if y'all can go to the finals,
you'll be within 20 points
of Team Kye Kelly for first place.
-Where's he at? -Good chance to make a comeback.
'Cause he is out.
-Out? -His team is out. All right.
All right. Well, hey, Paige, go ahead and step up.
Ladies first for drawing out of this bucket.
[BoostedGT] All right, gents.
[Rich] [bleep] Damn, dude, I got to stop this number one [bleep].
[bleep]
[Paige chuckles]
All right, number ones, step forward.
It's going to be Rich Bruder versus Jim Howe.
Number twos, Paige Coughlin and Daddy Dave.
At least one Team Daddy Dave driver
will move on to the semifinals.
That's one way to look at it.
All right, number threes.
Ryan Martin versus Murder Nova.
-Wow. -Be a fast race.
Which means our fourth and final pair will be
Nate Sayler versus Justin Swanstrom.
All right. Well, drivers, you know who you got.
You know what you gotta do, go back to the pits,
get your cars turned around,
bring 'em in the lanes.
Let's do it.
[BoostedGT] So, round 3 coming at you right now.
We got Jim Howe going up against Rich Bruder.
[crew member] Let's get the blower first.
[crew member 2] I tried popping the blower this time.
The gasket's out and the studs are broke.
[screwdriver whirring]
[crew member 3] Got it right here, right?
[Rich] Yeah.
Maple Grove, round 3.
We've been fighting some issues with the car.
We're going down the track
and the burst panel keeps popping.
Sometimes it just pops the burst panel,
but sometimes it can do more damage than that.
So we've been lucky to come back
and put new burst panels in the motor.
[crew member] We got to do that ground wire
for the cam sync.
[Rich] We have the crew over here working.
It's Robin's crew.
And Ryan's crew is there helping us out.
It was a team effort to get the car back up there
ready for the next round.
[Rich] All right, it shot off.
[Rich] Huh?
[engine starts]
[engine revving]
[Rich] I tried to do a burnout,
and the car just dies.
So I try it again...
and it did the same thing.
I've been racing for a while.
It ain't hard to do a burnout in a big tire with a blower.
So I knew there was some type of an issue.
[Rich speaking]
And somehow,
I guess from the blower popping every time,
the map sensor got unplugged.
So it was just a line.
So the extra boost came there and broke the fitting.
[BoostedGT] All right, so here we go.
Invitational round 3 coming at you right now.
I got Jim Howe in the left lane.
Rich Bruder, unable to make the call.
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] Woo!
[instrumental music playing]
[Jim] Well, that was probably the slowest winning pass
in the history of NPK.
I just decided to drive it down through there.
I mean, it doesn't do us any good
to go out there and make a killer lick
and hurt a part
or take a chance on tearing something up. So...
[sighs] ...on to the next round.
[BoostedGT] All right, our next pair coming up
gonna be Paige Coughlin going up against Daddy Dave.
-[crew member] Take your time. -[Paige] Okay.
-[indistinct conversation] -[crew member] Give us a second.
-You guys, take your time. -[Paige] Okay.
-[indistinct conversation] -[bleep]
-[crew member 2] Keep dropping, bud. -[Paige] Johnny.
[indistinct conversation]
[crew member] Hold on.
[Daddy Dave] Yeah.
Yes.
[bleep] deal.
That sucks.
Third round invitational, I draw Paige,
my own teammate.
On one hand, it sucks to draw your teammate,
but on the other hand, it's one of our teams
going on to the fourth round.
Paige just kicked the rods out of her motor,
spun the car around,
tapped the wall with it.
To swap a motor out and to be confident,
the tuner's just got to know what he's doing
to put a tune up in that thing and make it haul ass.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] And Daddy Dave
takes the long way
down to the finish line but gets the win.
All right, folks,
this pair right here is going to be a great one.
It's going to be Ryan Martin and Murder Nova.
That was a terrible draw...
-Always is. -...to let you know.
I can't draw, man.
And you know what?
I didn't even draw.
-You took the last one? -I took the last chip in the bag.
Oh, man.
And I looked directly at Ryan, and I went, and he goes.
-[softly] "Three?" And I went "[bleep]" -[chuckles]
Obviously, I'd have raced anybody else up there
before I wanted to race Ryan.
No, it wasn't his favorite draw either,
-I promise you. -Yeah. Yeah.
It's tough because we know what each other runs.
We test with each other.
We share all of our data together, you know?
But at that point,
you just got to put some fast stuff in it
and hope your lane holds it.
[Ryan] Unfortunately, my draw is Murder Nova.
I know how good his car runs.
He knows how good my car runs.
All we can do is do, you know, just do the best we can.
That's what we're gonna do.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] Ryan Martin takes the win!
What a drag race. That was close.
At the other end, my gosh.
Ryan Martin moves on.
[Ryan] We let off the button, and it was a drag race.
[pistol fires]
[Ryan] Couldn't have been any closer than what it was.
He made a good run. I made a good run.
And we got outran.
-Good job. -You was coming around me.
-It was [bleep] close. -I know.
We're off to the semis,
which is great for us 'cause we haven't...
we've only been to the semis one other time this year,
and it was at the qualifier.
What did you do? Did you give it a lot more engine?
Yeah, I fed it.
[BoostedGT] All right, folks, this will be the final pair
here in this third round,
and that's going to be Nate Sayler going up
against Justin Swanstrom.
When mine goes down the track,
-it's literally doing this, getting happy. -[crew member] Yeah.
-[Nate] I should bend that back up. -I'd be scared of that.
-I ain't gonna lie. -[Nate] Huh?
I'd be scared. I'd [bleep] ...onto the car or something.
I would have made that probably a little bit [chuckling] stronger.
Well, next year it will be.
Round 3, here in Maple Grove,
we got Justin Swanstrom.
I feel pretty good about it, man.
I really don't care who we got.
This car runs so good right now.
[engine revving]
[Nate] Track's getting hotter,
so traction isn't as good. It gets slimy.
So we're going to put a tune-up in it
that we know will go.
And we're going to go try and put that W
and keep gaining points.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
-[bleep] Hell yeah! -And Nate Sayler takes the win.
We'll move on to the semifinals
-of the Invitational Class. Nice job. -Good job, guys.
-[clapping]
-[man 1 laughing] Yeah. -[man 2] Woo!
[Justin] So going up against Nate Sayler,
listen, I knew we had to be on our game.
It was a good drag race.
He just put about a car on me at the other end.
He's running extremely fast right now.
But I'm happy with what we did.
We were able to get out of first round,
go into third round.
We're going to capitalize. We're going to get better.
Next track we're going to,
it's going to be a little cooler weather.
Let's see what happens.
Hopefully we can pull something off
and get a win there.
I ain't mad about it.
[BoostedGT] We are ready for the semifinals
here in Pennsylvania,
and this will be the first time
that Dave has made it to the semis since Kentucky.
And this will be Ryan Martin's first time
in the semifinals
the entire year.
It may have been a rocky start to the season
for Ryan Martin,
but look, he has turned it on here
in the last half of the season,
and he's trying to make his presence known
as a three-time returning champion.
All right, y'all, let's go ahead
and draw some chips,
see who's racing who.
Just like you drew it out.
-Yeah. -I like it. I like it.
[Ryan] Really wanted a surge at the end.
All right, where are my number ones?
Number one, step forward.
Going to be Jim Howe versus Daddy Dave,
which means
our last pair there will be
Nate Sayler versus Ryan Martin.
Look at that.
All right, folks, so that does it
for the semifinals drivers meeting.
All right, next pair coming at you.
We got Jim Howe going up against Daddy Dave.
[crew member] Hey.
You get Daddy Dave?
I got Daddy Dave.
Hell yeah.
First pair out, we're left lane.
Okay. Same lane you love.
So you know what that means.
Let's do our thing.
Go out and do your thing?
-Yep. -And then you and Ryan Martin in the finals.
Boy, that'd make a good day. I'd like it.
I'd like you and Ryan Martin in the finals.
Like nothing more than to be there.
I don't care who I'm with in the final.
I just want them in the finals.
You know, a lot of things go through our minds as racers.
And I was sitting up there like, you know,
who would I want out of this whole crowd?
The whole deal is
is that everybody up there is a killer.
You know, the one I want is the guy
that's going to give me the best opportunity
to get to the next round.
That's the guy I want.
So we're going to race Dave.
[Daddy Dave] Don't beat up on me, Jim Howe.
[Jim chuckles]
Why are you a big bully?
[Jim] If you listen to the internet.
[Daddy Dave] Big bully.
Going into the semifinals, it's anybody's race to win.
But just standing in a circle with all the fast guys
and all of us being that fast
and everybody worrying about everybody,
it says a lot for this whole sport
and this whole NPK series.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
One of my fabulous fans brought me
something called shoofly pie.
I don't even know what to expect.
But we'll crack it open.
Is this the proper way to open it?
What happens if this thing tastes like [bleep]...
-[man laughs] -...on national TV?
He goes, "Yeah, shoofly." What happens if you cook me a [bleep] pie?
What if this is actually like a [bleep] pie?
This guy's like doesn't like me or something.
-[man] Could be. -Let's see.
Okay.
Look at that.
Breadcrumb, that's like a ginger...
maybe like a...
Oh, [bleep]. Look at this thing.
-If we can get it out... Look at that. -[dog barks]
You see all that deliciousness in there?
It's...
I don't know.
Never tasted nothing like that before.
I'm gonna give it about a 7.2 out of 10.
Here, America, let's give you your final bite.
[BoostedGT] All right, next pair coming at you,
we got Jim Howe going up against Daddy Dave.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] All right, Jim Howe will take the win there,
move on to the finals.
-Nice job. -[woman whooping]
[BoostedGT] And there's one
for your final.
[Daddy Dave] I thought we was going to have a good drag race side by side.
Well, the car didn't make the one-two shift.
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] Instead, it went right on to third gear.
When it did, it was kind of under powered
and shot me over towards the wall.
He was still in my view, so I didn't lift.
I drove the wall all the way down through there,
and he got me about a car and a half.
Our night ends right here.
[Jim] It's like the weight of the world is
off my shoulder.
[Daddy Dave] Why?
Just been struggling all year, man.
-Oh, yeah. -I know.
-You know what it's like. -Oh, yeah.
[BoostedGT] All right, folks,
last pair here in this semifinals.
It's going to be Nate Sayler going up against Ryan Martin.
[Ryan] I just went over there. I was just curious.
And I talked to some of them. I said, "How fast is he?"
He goes, "Well, I put an 83 in it."
He's like, he caught me at 200 foot
and drove around me.
He said, so I would say he goes to 70.
He's like, "I don't know, 78 to 80 flat."
I'm like, "Yeah, okay."
Semifinals for me, pretty big this year.
Not the same story as last year, obviously.
It was like an old hat for me to go to the semifinals.
But goals change.
And this year, me getting to the semis is big
because the only other time I did it
was when it was a qualifier
and it didn't count for any points.
I'm, you know, behind in points.
Anything I can do
to make up is better off.
So as far as I'm concerned for points goals,
I need to win this race.
[engine revving]
[Ryan] We've picked this thing up every run before today,
and it's no different.
Made a pretty big move on the tune-up.
Kind of joke around, it's either going to go fast
or it may not go, you know?
But that's the kind of tune-up you got to run against Nate.
[Nate] The points, for me, mean a big deal
because all the rest of my team's been out for a couple rounds.
So we're trying to gain back up
so that we can try and win this $200,000.
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] And Ryan Martin gonna get the win.
Something breaks on Nate Sayler's car
here in the right lane.
-Took everything from him to keep it off the wall. -[bleep]
[BoostedGT] Wow. Nate Sayler has something break
over here in the right lane.
Ryan Martin cruises on to the win.
[steward speaking]
[Nate] Yeah, I'm good.
My car's never done stuff like that before.
We knew we had to have a hot tune-up in this thing.
-I leave on him. - [pistol fires]
And at about 60 to 100 feet,
the car just gets crazy.
Just flips the ass end out,
tries to shove me into the wall.
So I backed off just a teeny bit.
I got it straight,
and it swung around and nailed the wall.
You okay? Good?
-[Nate] I'm fine. -Good.
That's it?
Don't be mad about that.
It could have been a [bleep] lot worse, dude.
[tense music playing]
Got any inspirational quotes for me?
[Ryan] Yeah, don't [bleep] this up.
We spent a whole lot of money on this car this year.
We crashed it.
Well, we, I say I. I've crashed it.
I've had to rebuild the motor at least once.
So this will be a big help.
We're late in the season here at Maple Grove,
and I have made my way to the finals.
It's a place that I haven't been able to get to.
I've had a lot of parts failures lately.
We struggled with just the car
at the beginning of the season.
It's just been a bad season for us.
All we know to do is keep our head down
and keep pushing.
That mentality has got us to the finals
here at Maple Grove.
I got Jim Howe in the finals.
May the fastest car win.
You got this.
-[Ryan speaks indistinctly] -You're good, man. Yep.
[engine starts]
[engine revs]
[Jim] Ryan's been working.
Like, I mean, they've been testing.
You know, they crashed the car.
I know what that's like.
The way that we're going to do it is
just exactly what we've been doing.
We're going to race the racetrack.
Sun's down, track's good.
I promise you,
Ryan's coming to win, the same as we are.
So we just got to go up there and do our job.
[BoostedGT] You got Ryan Martin in the left lane.
Who got Ryan Martin?
[crowd cheering]
[BoostedGT] And you got Jim Howe in the right lane.
We're going to [bleep] burn them.
Hell yeah, we are.
[Ryan] I've won championships and I've won individual races.
And this year, it's like, I just can't make it there.
So, you know, just thinking about it,
I get a little emotional about the fact
that I'm in the finals
and I have a chance to win.
This year has proven
how competitive and crazy NPK is.
There is no easy draws
from first round to the finals,
but you got to get through everybody to do it.
[engines idling]
[tense music playing]
[yelling indistinctly]
Come on!
[engines idling]
[engines revving]
[pistol fires]
[Daddy Dave] Ryan Martin!
Amazing comeback
from crashing the car a few events ago
to winning the Invitational
here tonight in Pennsylvania.
[man laughs]
You did it! [laughs]
[whooping triumphantly]
-That was the gas. -[indistinct conversation]
-That was the gas. -[man speaking indistinctly]
[Jim speaking]
That man was asleep.
That [bleep] was not green when he let go of the button.
[Jim] I expected a red light to come on on that one.
You treed the [bleep] out of me.
Nah, dude.
-I'm gonna make you feel better. -Huh.
I'm not a liar or nothing like that,
and so I'm gonna be honest with you.
I let go of the button and went "[bleep]."
Like, I swear to God, I thought it went red.
I was like, I just, I got on the radio,
I was like, "He had to have guessed."
No, I would never...
-On our friendship, I would never guess. -No, no.
I 100% let go of the button and was like, "[bleep]."
But I saw the green light when I went by.
-And I gotta... -That's all right.
I know I left a little early on Jim.
And there's so many guys that won't admit that.
Look, I let go of the button early,
nervous enough that I thought
that, "Hey, I could have went red."
[pistol fires]
But when I did it and I hit it,
I legitimately felt bad
because I don't like to be doing that.
I don't like to do that to people,
whether it's an intentional or accidental
or whatever the case is.
That's just not my style.
[Jim] It's all right. You won, buddy.
-Good job. -I know. And hey, I...
-This is bittersweet for me... -Don't--
'cause I hate to do that to anybody,
-and I hate when people do it to me. -Hey.
[Jim] He is a true sportsman
because he didn't just say, "No, I seen green."
He admitted that he let off the button early,
and that happens.
He didn't guess.
He just let off the button early.
He didn't go up there with the intention of guessing.
But, you know, it happens.
And, you know, at the end of the day, we're in the final round.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
I got beat by the, you know,
the man that we all strive to be like.
And we'll go try again next week.
[Jeff] Hey, let's hear it for Ryan Martin and Jim Howe!
[whooping]
-Ryan Martin, everybody! -[man] Yeah!
[Cherish speaking]
I didn't think we'd be able to.
[man shouting]
[woman whooping]
[man 2 speaking]
-[man] Ryan. -That did surprise me. [clears throat]
You did it, man. Your first final for the season,
season 6,
and you won it.
Is it safe to say that you're back?
Oh, you know, I... [sighs]
I don't want to say that, right?
-'Cause I feel like that might... -[man laughs]
...accidentally put some bad juju on me.
But I do think we have a badass hot rod.
I'm stoked that we went to the finals
and were able to make it
as far as we did and come out on top.
But Jim Howell's car's badass.
He did fantastic.
That being said,
at least we got one.
We got four races left,
and it's four of the biggest races of the season.
It's all the ones that matter.
I don't want to be too optimistic, but like,
I mean, you know, you never know what could happen.
We got a double points race coming up.
We got a points and-a-half race coming up.
It's kind of anybody's game.
I see Kye. He's off in the distance,
but he ain't that far as he was.
So for us, the season is four races long.
We got to make our move right now.
-Good job. -Thanks.
Thanks, homie.
Congratulations, Ryan Martin and his team.
First invitational win and $40,000.
There you go, bro. You've earned it.
[man] That gray car is back for sure.
[Ryan] Yo, man.
[BoostedGT] And there you have it.
Three-time defending champion Ryan Martin has won
his first event of the season.
That moves his team
back into third place.
But the numbers in the middle of the pack are
extremely close.
Look, there's only 200 points
separating sixth place
from first place.
This competition is extremely tight.
[whooping]
-[BoostedGT] Next week... - Michigan,
how y'all doing today?
[whooping]
[BoostedGT] A little damp?
Yeah.
The weather makes racing conditions
trickier than normal.
[Murder Nova] It's really far north.
It's cold.
And a cold track...
could be worse
than a hot and greasy track.
[pistol fires]
[BoostedGT] But that doesn't stop the team captains
from making their biggest moves of the season.
There's a couple of teams
that know
they don't have a shot at winning.
So they're talking about getting rid
of their number one and number two picks
to higher-up teams
for money.
$10,000.
[people exclaiming]
-[man 3] What? -[man 4] What?
[people exclaiming]
[engines revving]
[BoostedGT] Here we go.