[narrator] This year on The Great 8...
Every Friday we had our top eight racers compete for points
and a 10,000-dollar prize.
[announcer] The person that has the most points
in the Great 8 will win a 100,000-dollar championship.
[narrator] After coming out of the gate strong,
Kye Kelley grabbed an early lead.
[announcer] Kye Kelley will take the win!
[narrator] But recently he's been going out in early rounds
letting Murder Nova, Nate Sayler and Ryan Martin catch up,
-You went out first round last week. -Been trying.
Don't suck, Kye.
[narrator] Then, last week he launched a comeback
by going all the way to the finals against Ryan Martin.
Ryan took home the $10,000...
-[announcer] And Ryan Martin... -Yeah! Let's go!
...takes the win over Kye Kelley.
[narrator] But now, as we head into our final event...
[man 1] This race is the most important of the whole year.
...everyone's eyes are on that 100,000-dollar prize.
No more mistakes. This is it.
[narrator] Put your hands together for the Great 8 drivers.
All right, uh, Texas Motorplex,
I want to say thank you so much for coming out here on a Friday.
-[audience cheering] -[announcer] Yeah!
We have made it to our final stop here on the No Prep Kings circuit.
It is Ennis, Texas, Texas Motorplex.
This track has been around since the '80s.
It is all concrete. It is a beautiful facility. It is a fast surface.
I love being here because it's only 30 minutes from my house.
And what's better than the great State of Texas? Nothing.
In this final race to the championship,
racers can earn double points as they go all out
looking for that 100,000-dollar championship prize.
[Boosted speaking through PA] This is your Great 8 drivers.
Top eight in points from the Invitational clash.
One of these drivers right here out of the eight will win $10,000 tonight.
Also, more importantly, The Great 8 is an individual championship.
So after tonight, one of these drivers will be crowned
The Great 8 champ of the individual championship.
Let's go ahead and draw chips.
Ladies... Ladies squared...
-Or ladies... -[woman 1] Yeah. [chuckles]
-Just... plural. -Go in together?
All right, here we go.
Gents.
Whoo!
Let me see.
All right, my drivers have their chips.
Let's see who will race who in this first round of the Great 8 class.
Number ones, please step forward.
Oh, man! Nate Sayler versus Ryan Martin.
First pair, fast, right off the bat.
[Ryan] So, first round Great 8, I draw Nate.
Nate's on my team now, but however there's no teams in Great 8,
so, um, you know, I turn this team thing
on and off essentially, and Friday night it's off.
There's no teams.
When we pull up at the starting line, it is what it is,
and I won't treat Nate any different.
Number twos.
Gonna be Giuseppe versus Murder Nova. Second pair in that Great 8.
[Giuseppe] So for first round, we drew Shawn, Murder Nova.
He's tough. He's been... He's won a couple of Great 8s and... and he's... he's fast,
so it'll be a tough round for us tonight.
Number threes.
Gonna be Damon Merchant versus Kye Kelley.
First round of Great 8, drew Damon Merchant
and I really feel like he's probably the fastest car in NPK, so,
uh, I feel I probably can beat him.
I've got a good chance of winning tonight.
Which means the fourth and final pair will be a battle of the females
as Kayla Morton goes up against Lizzy Musi.
All right, drivers, so go ahead and go back in the pits,
get your cars ready and bring them in the staging lanes.
One of these drivers is gonna go home with $100,000 tonight.
Put your hands together for the Great 8 class.
-[man 1 on phone] [bleep]. -All right.
-[man 1] All right. -Bye.
-[man 2] Making another one? -Yeah, just gotta make a little change.
Today's Great 8, um,
look, I came off a win from the last Great 8,
and as well as a double up for the invitational win last week.
I'd really like to keep this trend going.
It should still say "Ennis Great 8, he won."
-[man 1] Hang on. -Don't hit it yet.
Okay, now.
Yep.
-[Nate] You good? -Yeah, just got a cold beer.
-Just keep you ticked a little bit right, we'll be good. -Okay.
Tonight, we still have $10,000 to the winner, so we need that ten grand.
The eight of the fastest cars on the property.
We're just happy to be one of them.
Uh, we're gonna chase that $10,000 and see if we can win that.
-Good luck, homie. You too. -Stay safe, brother.
We drew our teammate, Ryan Martin.
We didn't want to do this. I'd rather do it at the end of the night,
but, uh, nonetheless, I got to beat everybody. So does he.
So we're... I truly believe that our two cars
are one of the two fastest cars on the property.
We're gonna... We're about to find that out.
I mean, first round won't be as good a track condition,
so we're gonna see who wants it more
and who swings for it more, and we'll go from there.
[Boosted] All right, here we go. Great 8 first round.
[engine roaring]
We are sitting in third right now, and I think he's in fourth.
Uh, so, realistically, if he beats me, he could come by me,
um, which I definitely don't want.
Uh, we want to win this thing tonight.
[Boosted] Over in the left lane, that is Nate Sayler
driving the procharged Nova, going up against Ryan Martin
in the procharged Camaro.
[engines sputtering]
[engines roaring]
[Boosted] And Ryan Martin gets the win.
He'll move on to the next round of Great 8.
Nice drag race there. Ryan Martin moving on to the next round.
So the green light drops. Nate and I take off, and I never see him.
I make a pretty good run. I think I get him on the tree.
I make a pretty solid pass, I don't look back till the end,
pull the parachutes, and there he is.
Um, I know he made a good run 'cause he was right there.
And I think the race was, for the most part,
one off the tree, which happens sometimes.
But for me, it's a W in the right column.
It's good data for me for tomorrow.
And I'm on the second round on the Great 8.
-[groans] -[Nate] He ain't running that car down. [chuckles]
-Good job, man. -[Nate] Thanks.
-Good job. -[Nate] You too, brother.
-Now, we need tomorrow. -[Ryan] We'll use that data for tomorrow,
-and as long as we don't draw each other... -[Nate] Yep.
Man, the race didn't go as expected. Uh, Ryan's fast.
I mean, both those cars are stupid fast.
Arguably, probably one of the two fastest cars on the property.
Um, we just didn't put enough in it.
-[man 3] Sucks. -Just didn't have enough.
And he just had more in it.
He started coming on me early and, uh, I had to go back and see if we left together,
and we left together, thank God,
'cause then I did my job, but it just, uh,
we didn't put enough in the car and, um,
we're gonna use this data for tomorrow, for that championship tomorrow,
and we're gonna work as a team and, uh, win that $100,000, but hopefu...
We're gonna go up and support Ryan,
hopefully he wins that 10 grand tonight
and, uh, gets some more data for us tomorrow and keeps climbing up that ladder.
Well, that sucks.
She was moving around good. I could feel her.
-[woman 2 speaking indistinctly] -Okay, babe.
Yeah, I know. I know. Love you.
-[man 4 speaking] -[Giuseppe] Yeah.
[man 4 speaking]
[Giuseppe] I'll put it on in a couple of minutes.
[man 4] Murder No... Uh...
-[Giuseppe] Yes. -[man 4 speaking]
[Giuseppe] Yep. We're left lane.
[man 4 speaking]
[Giuseppe] I'll try not to.
We're here in Texas, the last race of the season.
Um, we struggled in the... for the Great 8 a little bit in the middle of the season.
We fell out of the Great 8 We're back in right now.
Uh, we don't have a chance of winning it.
But we have a chance of finishing second in points
and winning $10,000 tonight, and that's our plan.
So we're gonna get after it and try to win, uh, some money
and, um, just try to take it home for bragging rights.
Try to get second in points.
[man 5] All right, here comes Shawn, right next to you.
-[Giuseppe] Yep. -[man 5] Shawn's coming in right now.
All right, cool, baby.
-[man 5 speaks indistinctly] -Okay.
All right, well...
let's go get this [bleep] win, man.
I mean, you know, it sucks to say that
because I don't have any confidence behind it.
Especially with this lane and the 136...
-We'll see. Yeah. -[indistinct]
Um, I don't... I don't mind the conditions.
It's a little cool, but that's fine.
Uh, Giuseppe's rolling right now. His car's faster than ever,
and we've got to put a tune-up in it that we think will outrun him.
Will the track hold it? We don't know. We're gonna find out.
[Boosted] All right, next pair coming at you right now.
[engine roaring]
[Boosted] Here in this first round of the Great 8
over in the left lane, that's gonna be Giuseppe
going up against Murder Nova.
Murder Nova in the right lane, Giuseppe in the left.
[engines roaring]
[Boosted] Here in this first round of the Great 8
over in the left lane, that's gonna be Giuseppe
going up against Murder Nova.
Murder Nova in the right lane, Giuseppe in the left.
[engines idling]
[engines roaring]
[Boosted] And Giuseppe able to nose him out, gets the win.
What a drag race there.
[Giuseppe chuckles] [bleep] yeah, baby.
I got out. I felt like we left together.
Saw just a little bit of him. I started to pull.
You know, didn't see him half track on.
Uh, we got the win light. We're excited about that.
Moving on to the second round.
-[Shawn] The car laid over. I don't know what happened. -Did you?
-[Shawn] Yeah. -Yeah.
-I made a pretty good-- -Procharger's not broke,
-It just completely laid over? -It just [bleep], [bleep], just [bleep] laid over.
About how far out?
Half track. Somewhere around there.
-[Giuseppe sighs] -[Shawn] I mean, it's like always.
-It was driving nice until then. -It was right there.
You were right there. I know. I can see.
-I can tell. I was like, "Bro." -[Shawn] Yep.
-[bleep] yeah. -Yeah.
-We left good. I think that was good. -[Shawn] Yeah.
-Sorry, Shawn. I'm gonna-- Yeah, man. -[Shawn] Ah, it is what it is.
I always like a good race and everything.
And fortunate enough, his car ain't too bad. He hurt it a little bit.
He's gonna fix. He'll be ready for tomorrow,
and we're moving on to the second round.
[man 6 speaks indistinctly]
Oh, he says he was shut off in the middle of the track, so I don't know.
But, I mean, I didn't... I couldn't tell he was there.
Yeah. Yeah. So I think it was good.
-[indistinct] -Yeah, left good,
It was good. It felt good. That felt good.
It was hook-- You know, It was a good run.
[Kye] So here we go. First round.
Uh, shooting from the hip. See how it goes.
Tonight we're racing for $10,000.
Uh, that's a lot of money. It definitely helps us get in here.
So, uh, we'd like to win it.
Go up there and give them all I've got.
-[man 7] Good luck, Damon. -Thanks, buddy.
[man 7] You're supposed to get there slow...
-Uh, red light. Try to touch the starting line. -[man 8 laughs]
And then, uh, like, if you just feel like you're in front of us,
just go ahead and kill your car. Save gas.
You don't need it, though.
[man 7] No, I kinda do.
-[Damon] Well... -[man 7] All right, for real,
-do good and... -Yeah, buddy.
We're on it.
Round one, Great 8 drivers meeting, we draw Kye.
Um, we went back-and-forth all season.
He beat up on me pretty hard the first part of the season,
and we caught a few wins on the second half.
I don't plan on things to be any different,
but I'm still hungry for that ten grand,
so, you know, he's not gonna get an easy race with us.
-[Kye] Hey, man. -What's up, [bleep]?
We're going... we're going straight up here? Is that what we said?
-[Kye] Yeah, long as you go straight up, I will. -[Damon] All right.
-[Kye] You good? -I like... I like seeing green.
Yeah, I'm good.
See green.
Since I'm so far out of the points situation right now,
we haven't been able to show up too much on Fridays.
It's been a big learning curve for us.
Um, tonight's gonna be about racing for $10,000 for me.
First round. Here we go.
Your Great 8 first round.
-[man 9] Do your thang, baby boy. -[Damon] Thank you, man.
[man 9] Be safe.
[engine roaring]
[Kye] I think if I could just clinch one of these Great 8 wins,
I can seal this championship up.
Matter of fact, I'm just... I gotta win tonight
just to get this whole deal over with and I can kind of take it easy
and I can try to help my team win the team championship
'cause we also got that championship that we're in first place for,
and we got everybody gunning for our backs there, too.
[engines idling]
[engines roaring]
[Boosted] And Damon Merchant pulls off the win.
Damon Merchant gets the win over Kye Kelley,
moving on to the next round here in the Great 8 class.
[Damon] [bleep]! Whoo!
What?
-[Damon speaks indistinctly] -[man 10 speaking]
[Damon] [bleep] oil everywhere.
It looks like it's on fire, but I don't see any flames.
[bleep].
Look at all this [bleep]. There's oil everywhere.
-Oh, yeah, no, it's everywhere. -[Damon] [bleep].
Swear to God.
Just set it over here by the four-wheeler.
[bleep], man.
We go up there, good clean line for both of us.
Pulled pretty hard on him through the 60-foot.
Get to the 330, still don't see him. Don't hear him.
On the big end, don't see him, don't hear him.
Turn on the win light...
Soon as I decel, uh, oil got on the engine somewhere, smoked like a freight train.
Car made a killer pass.
Made a killer pass, and I didn't hear anything
of knock or anything like that. It just...
It's just [bleep] oil everywhere.
It looks like it's out the top end.
Because it wouldn't make no sense for it to come out of the bottom.
It's almost like a [bleep] line came off or something,
as much oil as this is...
Supply line's on.
Well, there's intake bolts missing, so,
that's gonna be a problem.
Two intake bolts missing.
[man 10 speaking]
[bleep], man.
So we assessed what had happened.
Uh, we had two intake bolts pop out under pressure,
they shoot out, like, shoots oil out like a rocket.
So it made a huge mess.
But thankfully, it wasn't a rod or a crack in the block
or something, you know, catastrophic.
Everybody hates you when you oil down the track. [chuckles]
Yeah, you hate it when you oil down the track, too.
Yeah, I know.
Um, we made a really good pass.
Uh, nothing seems like it's hurt hurt.
We're gonna have to...
um, put some bolts in the intake and make sure that they're all good, tight,
silicone them in, and then we'll, uh, be ready for next round.
[Kayla] What are y'all doing?
The fuel driver that drives the fuel pump's jacked up.
Gonna take all the fluid back out of it again.
[Kayla] Okay.
Bolts shook down a little bit.
I can't get the bearing back in.
[Kayla] All right, well, uh, we have $10,000 to race for.
Oh. Cool.
-And no pressure today. -I'll just take mine in cash.
-Just... Oh, cash only? -Yeah.
[Kayla] So I think we should probably just swing for it here...
-[man 11 speaking] -...on the Great 8. We've got nothing to lose.
Great 8 and first round, I matched up with Lizzy.
It's always cool for the fans to see, um, the two girls...
the two top girls race each other.
Um, although she's my teammate, you know,
right now that doesn't really matter.
But she has a very fast car. I have a very fast car.
And I think it's the most entertaining mash up for the fans.
I'll tell you good luck.
Be safe. Hopefully, I don't shake my brains out.
-Like the last [bleep] -Yeah.
It's a tricky track, man.
It is, and then, they haven't...
They haven't had a big event here for weeks.
-So, like, there's nothing on there. -That makes sense.
-I'll see you at the end. -All right. See you there.
We are in Ennis, Texas, Texas Motorplex.
We are finally getting the last event in for the NPK season.
I'm happy to still be in it.
I've been struggling the last couple of races.
Trying to make a good run and get some data.
[engine roaring]
[Boosted] All right, folks, once again, this is the last pair
in the first round of the Great 8.
It's gonna be a battle of the females.
Over in the left lane, driving the procharged Mustang, that's gonna be Kayla Morton,
going up against Lizzy Musi in the right lane,
driving the nitrous-fed Camaro.
The winner of this race will move on to the semifinals for the Great 8,
and that much closer to $10,000.
[race start signals]
[Boosted] And Lizzy Musi gets the win.
Kayla goes red.
Lizzy will move on to the next round of the Great 8 class.
I told myself before I went in that I was gonna wait for green,
and sometimes as a driver, you just get anxious
and you feel like it's time to go.
And that's exactly what I did, and it was just a tad too early.
[Kayla sighs]
I knew I should have waited.
She probably didn't make a pass, did she?
I'm just a little disappointed in myself.
This is hard racing. The light is random.
Sometimes you guess, and it works out.
Sometimes... I mean, that wasn't even intentional.
I am a little sad, but we made a good hit and we're ready for tomorrow.
[people cheering]
It wasn't that big of a win. Come on, guys.
[man] It's a win, baby!
I hate winning like that, but, you know, it is a win.
[man speaking indistinctly]
Thank you, guys. Thank you.
I was about to let go, and Kayla left right ahead of me.
Her light turned red.
Fortunately, she left before the green light came on.
I get it, because it was a long light,
but I was able to make the run.
[race start signals]
It went straight, and then it was drifting
towards a little bit over to the right.
It was trying to steer it back over,
it didn't come back over, so I quit.
Either way, I had the win light anyway, so I didn't want to push it.
We got the win for round one of Great 8,
and we're moving on to round number two.
[indistinct chatter]
I know, but how do we know what gamble do we take?
I wasn't standing right behind the car.
-It was right? -We need to look at the video. You were against the wall.
[Lizzy] Yeah, I know.
[man 1] But it was making a run.
-[man 2] It was going to the left. -[Lizzy] It was making a run.
Went across the scales and he was quite a ways up there,
but we started hearing a clanking noise.
That's usually a good indication
that it's either A, a tranny or B, a rear end.
It sounded like it was coming more from the rear end.
Came back, confirmed that it was the third member.
Oh, [bleep]
-[man] Rear end? -[Damon] Yeah, it had a bad catch in it.
Right there. It's locked up bigger than [bleep].
[groans in frustration] [bleep].
In this car, I don't have a floater,
what they call a floater rear end,
so those are a lot easier to change the third member.
With mine, it takes a lot more time.
You gotta do the brakes, the axles.
Everything's gotta come out and come off.
Hey, we still gotta do the little things.
I said we still gotta do the little things.
Set valves, ProCharger...
[man] ProCharger tune-up...
[Damon] Spark plugs, tune.
It's a pretty catastrophic mess under there.
Do some sort of record time third member change if possible.
But I figure we can make next round.
Probably 30 minutes, maybe.
All right, folks,
we're gonna go ahead and do our Great 8 semifinals drivers meeting.
We started with eight drivers, we are now down to four.
We are that much closer to giving someone,
one of the four drivers here, $10,000.
-10 grand? -[Boosted] Sounds good, right?
-[Ryan] Pretty good. -[whistles]
All right, those four drivers are Giuseppe, Lizzy Musi,
Damon Merchant, and Ryan Martin.
All right. Well, let's go ahead and draw chips.
[groans] Okay.
-What did you do in there? -[Boosted] I didn't do anything in there.
Wait, is there... Wait. Oh, my God.
I didn't do anything.
They're spread out.
Like, I mixed them up.
-[Damon] What? -[Lizzy] Are you red?
[Damon] You know what, Lizzy, it's all a game.
I'm looking for...
What colors?
Gosh, I'm blue. It's me and [bleep].
Where are my number... ones?
Number ones.
-Damon Merchant, Giuseppe. -[bleep].
[Boosted] Damon Merchant and Giuseppe first pair,
which means my second pair will be Lizzy Musi
versus Ryan Martin.
Well, I don't wanna race you either.
No, 'cause you kick my butt every freaking time.
Why did y'all draw each other?
All right, drivers.
Go back to the pits, get your cars turned around,
and bring 'em to the staging lanes.
Somebody's gonna win $10,000.
Still leaking oil everywhere.
Which, when we started the motor,
everything up here gets warm, starts...
We dealt with this [bleep] before.
We draw Giuseppe.
You know, in this Great 8 deal,
not too many faces have changed,
and he's been one that's been around since the first of the season.
We're gonna do everything we can to get this win here.
Since we're close to home, I had a lot of buddies show up.
My dad's here.
We got quite the crew here and none of 'em are scared to jump in there
and do their part to get this thing cleaned up
and ready for the second round.
So we got the third member changed, we got the intake bolts fixed,
and then the normal maintenance that we do round to round,
we got it done, and here we go into the second round.
-Be safe, Damon. -See you on the other end, brother.
-All right, buddy. -Take care.
-All right, man. -I'll see you in a little bit.
[engine starts]
[Boosted] All right, folks, here we go.
Great 8 semifinals headed your way right now.
Great 8 semifinals.
First pair headed your way right now.
Over in the left lane, that's gonna be Giuseppe driving the Nova
going up against Damon Merchant in the right lane,
driving that ProCharged Camaro.
The winner will go on to the finals to race for $10,000.
[race start signals]
[Boosted] And Damon Merchant gets the win!
Giuseppe took a guess on the light, went green,
but then rattled the tires, had to get out of it,
and Damon Merchant...
Passed [bleep].
[Boosted] So Damon Merchant going to the finals here in the Great 8.
[laughing]
When it works out for you, it's good.
What a jackass.
We're up there in the staging beams,
and he takes a hell of a shot at the light.
I could not believe that he went green, though.
His car was out, probably a full car,
before the green light came on.
He took a shot at it, it went, but it didn't pay off for him.
What the hell, man?
I can't beat you.
Oh [bleep]. You don't need that big of a head start. I promise.
I couldn't wait no longer.
We went up, put a little bit slower tune-up back in
'cause the track was getting cold.
And my guys went up, said, "Oh, maybe the track's not too bad."
And I said, "All right, we'll put the other tune up back in it."
So it went back and forth, but I ended up putting the hot tune up in it.
Obviously, I left early.
I called it green, but the car went out and spun.
Damon drove right by us, and that's it.
Race is over. Got us again.
I can't believe I went green.
[Damon] I can't either, dude.
I was like, "Whoa, did he go red?"
He said, "Nope."
He said, "He guessed the [bleep] out of it."
-Like, damn, you're good. -No, I anticipated it.
I couldn't wait no [bleep] longer.
That tree was taking forever to [bleep] drop.
-Long one. -Good job, buddy.
What happened, did it kick the tire?
Yeah, it [bleep]. Spun and spun.
All right, Adam. Here we go.
[man] All right. Don't suck, Lizzy.
-Don't suck. Okay. -[man] Don't suck.
What do you think about... Is the lane about the same?
-The left lane's better. -Yeah?
-100% better. -Okay.
-The left lane is way better down track. -Okay.
However, it's too cold, what are you gonna do?
Cold. I know, that's the problem.
I'm not pushing it. I know that.
[bleep] hits the fan, going to bed.
-Shut the fan off. -Yeah, shut the fan off.
-You don't need me to do that. -No.
Okay.
We're going up for a round number two chip draw.
I end up getting freaking lovely Ryan again.
He's like my nemesis again. Here we go.
You know, when you're running Ryan,
you can't leave nothing on the table.
So we had to get a little bit more aggressive than we did the last pass.
Good luck.
-Hey, good luck, be safe. -You, too.
[Lizzy] Okay.
[Ryan] Second round, I got Lizzy.
Lizzy and I raced each other a couple of times at the last race
and I was able to come out victorious on that.
I think we went 2-0 at the last race.
So I know how she runs, I know how to outrun her.
But we've got to translate that over to this racetrack,
which is a little bit different
because it's not as good as where we raced it last week.
So I've gotta not overpower it,
but put enough in it to be able to outrun her.
[Boosted] And here we go.
Our final pair for the semifinals of the Great 8 class.
Over in the left lane, that is gonna be Lizzy Musi
going up against Ryan Martin in the right lane.
The winner of this race
will go on to face Damon Merchant for $10,000 here
in this Great 8 class.
[race start signals]
[Boosted] And Ryan Martin will take the win.
Lizzy Musi has to get out of it. Just before the 330.
Ryan Martin will go on to the finals,
where he will face Damon Merchant for $10,000.
The green light drops, we both take off,
and she's out in front of me. She got me on the tree.
I was a little nervous that I was early the run before,
although it did not go red, I did not want to be early in the second round.
And for some reason, it caused me to be even later.
So she got me on the tree really good.
She put about a half a car on me early.
She blitzed the tires and we drove around her.
I don't know how that race would have went,
but, for us, we made it to the other end first and that's all that matters.
Did you take a shot at it?
-No, I didn't, no. -You didn't? I was just slow?
-[Lizzy] I just had to, like, try to be on it. -No, you was on it.
Real [bleep] though, I was taking a nap before we were running.
So, just letting you know.
Hey, I was in my car with my head over like this.
-Who, me? -No, Ryan.
I don't know.
Me and Rick were like, "Man, Ryan probably thinks he's in deep,
-so he's, like, being chill." -Nah, I must have just sucked.
-Well, good job, you. -Good job, you.
One more for you. You got this.
We'll see. I don't know.
-Damon's car is fast! -Yeah.
I was out on him pretty damn good.
His car was still sitting when I left,
so I felt like I definitely had an advantage off the line.
The car was hauling ass until it got out there, shook real hard, shot me left.
Had to get out of it, really sucks.
It was like one of those moments like, "Hell, yeah!"
And then it was like, "Oh, no!"
Like, slow motion. Like, [bleep].
I finally had him leaving the line, you know?
He goes, "You took a shot at it, didn't you?"
-I said, "No." -No, he was dead late.
-Dead late. -Yeah, I'm like, "Uh, no."
That was the last race for the Great 8 of this season.
I didn't do so good in Great 8, but it is what it is.
I still remained in the Great 8, which is great.
I don't know. I feel good.
After everything I've been going through this year,
I'm happy with that.
I knew he was gonna go in double bulbs.
So I said I'm gonna string it out the longest I can on the last bulb,
we'll roll right in.
[Boosted] Ryan Martin will go on to the finals,
where he will face Damon Merchant for $10,000.
-[man] What's up, buddy? -[Disco Dean] All right. So.
We're gonna settle a dispute, okay?
You were obviously from Ohio, where I was from, right?
We're here with longtime racer, Birdman.
He's representing Texas through and through.
-What up, girl? -What's up, man?
All right, so we've been debating this.
And we're talking about chili.
From Ohio, we eat our chili with beans.
We have beans in our chili.
We put beans in our chili in Ohio.
-We always put beans in our chili. -Why?
We come down here to Texas, these people act like it's forbidden
to have beans and chili.
-How do you eat your chili? -No beans.
-How do you eat your chili? -Beans.
See?
Beans don't belong in chili.
Chili, onions, cheese, Fritos or spaghetti noodles.
-Beans. -No beans.
-No beans? -I'm a baked beans kind of guy.
Now how do you eat your chili? Beans or--
-With beans. -With beans!
So we got a Texas representative saying that he goes for beans.
-Yes. -All right.
I mean, that makes chili, right?
Makes chili better. Absolutely.
That's what I'm saying. Beans and a cigarette for you, right?
-Yeah, two cigarettes. -Two cigarettes.
Yeah, I don't know if we need you to or if this is smart or not.
-But it is gonna be faster, so... -Let's go for it.
Like if it's doing this little two number jig,
then it'll pick up two more numbers.
In the finals race, it's me and Damon again.
So me and Damon have been in at least three finals this year.
He has one of the cars that we all know runs very well.
In my opinion, one of the most impressive cars here for what it is.
Runs right there with all the rest of us.
But I have heard a rumor that he has had engine problems in testing.
And I've seen some smoke from the car and things like that.
But every run that I've watched previously, it looks fast.
Yes, it smokes a little bit, but it looks fast.
So we're not gonna go in there and think that he's any slower than he normally was.
I'm probably gonna go to the tune up that I outran him with
and use that to try to outrun him again.
Take the sumbitch apart tomorrow and clean it up again.
All that oil is just kinda draining and draining.
Like, down in them saddles and everything.
It's still just [bleep] full everywhere.
So the past two weeks,
we raced Ryan in the finals at GALOT, and beat him.
We raced him in the finals at Steele, and he beat us.
So part of me really wants to lay into this thing and really put a stamp on
"Yes, we're faster than Ryan Martin.
Yes, we do things."
We do what it takes to get done against a guy like him
being a reigning champ after the last three seasons.
But we're gonna have to do what's smart as well.
-Good luck out there man. -Yep. See you there.
See you at the other end.
We're gonna do what it takes, what we think will win this race,
but we gotta keep the car alive.
So it is what it is and we're just gonna have to do what we gotta do.
[Boosted] Here we go. This is the Great 8 finals right here.
$10,000 to win on this race right here, right now.
Your Great 8 finals is here, folks.
Over in the left lane, driving the ProCharged Camaro,
that is gonna be Damon Merchant.
And he is going up against none other
than Ryan Martin in the right lane,
who is also driving a ProCharged Camaro.
The winner of this race will win $10,000.
And at the conclusion of this race,
we will also name a individual champion
from the Great 8 series.
[race start signals]
-[Boosted] And Ryan Martin... -[bleep] yeah!
[Boosted] is your Great 8 winner.
Congratulations to him.
[Ryan] It was a good race, I know Damon's car runs good.
I shanked the light against Lizzy on the last run,
and so she killed me on the tree, and I was really late.
And I just told these guys, I said, "Look, I'm not gonna be late."
In that tree, they've been holding the light really long.
It's really hard to keep your thumb on the trans brake button.
But that being said, I saw a glimmer of green and I was out.
This thing made a perfect pass.
As far as the weekend goes, it was our fastest one that we've had.
That was the best looking data.
[bleep] I don't guess, man.
-Oh, hey. -[Damon] That's what I said.
That [bleep] light took forever.
[Damon] It's long.
[Ryan] For us to go down fighting
and turn around and pull off a second-place finish in the Great 8
when we weren't in three-quarters of them.
I was, you know, lucky enough to be part of the first one. I won it.
And then I didn't participate in...
I don't know the exact number. Seven, eight, nine. I don't know what it was.
But we've done good at the last few.
[man 1] Good job, boys.
-[man 2] Good job, Ryan! -Thanks, buddy.
-Good night. -Good night, sir.
Good to see you. Thank you.
-Good to see you. Good night. -[bleep].
Yeah, that's all right. Give me a couple of minutes and I'll find a marker
and I'll get it for you, okay?
Great 8's always a great test for Saturday.
And hopefully we put this car to work with these runs
to be more prepared for tomorrow.
What do you think? I was on it?
-You were on it. -Yeah.
I was on it.
Like, the perfect launch.
It was green. Green before I left.
[Boosted] So Ryan gets his second Great 8 win in a row.
But it was Kye Kelley, who is the big winner
as he wins the individual championship.
$100,000 in his pocket.
For those that were here last night,
y'all saw the Great 8 class.
That was the individual championship class.
We have crowned a winner.
Make some noise for your individual championship winner.
$100,000.
So if you need a loan, stop by this man's pit.
Mr. Kye Kelley!
[people cheering]
-Hey, man. -Hey, man.
Kye Kelley. Congratulations!
All I'm gonna say is... finally.
Finally, no more silver medals.
Gold medal, $100,000 worth, what do you gotta say?
Man, it's bittersweet.
I got my teeth kicked in by Ryan for, like, three years straight.
Finished number two.
Finally, I was able to finish number one, so it's been a long road.
A lot of sacrifice, gave up a lot of [bleep] to get this trophy.
Had a lot of great supporters.
All my fans. They always,
no matter how many times Ryan was running over me,
they just always said that you can beat him.
So I appreciate that.
And, yeah, this means a lot, man.
It's a lot of work, so thank y'all.
Congratulations, Kye Kelley!
[Boosted] Put your hands together for the Great 8 drivers.