[Boosted] Previously on The Great 8...
The top eight drivers raced in Las Vegas, Nevada,
for $10,000 and points toward the individual championship.
My first one. I'm already intimidated by everybody, you know.
[Boosted] In his first ever Great 8 appearance,
Murder Nova put the entire field on notice
as he took out points leader Kye Kelley.
[Boosted] And Murder Nova knocks off Kye Kelley in the first round!
Doing your racers a favor
by knocking out the number one guy in points, Kye Kelley.
[Boosted] Then he went on to win a close race against Kayla Morton.
[Boosted] And Murder Nova gets there first!
Great drag racing.
Going to the finals...
I mean, we're gonna try to get this win.
[Boosted] Nate Sayler had some good luck on his side,
as Damon Merchant's engine cut out
and gave him the win in round one.
[Boosted] And Nate Sayler gonna get the win!
Then he took out Axman in round two
to meet Murder Nova in the finals.
[Nate] Yeah, baby!
That's what I'm talkin' about.
Go get that money, baby.
Murder Nova gets the win.
[Boosted] Shawn won his first Great 8 event of the season
and collected points towards that individual championship.
To never be in the Great 8,
come out the first time I was in Great 8
and win it and beat all those people that are in the Great 8?
There's no feeling like it.
Now today we're in Ohio, where the top eight drivers will battle it out once again.
[opening theme music playing]
[Boosted] Put your hands together for the Great 8 drivers!
[Boosted] Ohio, how you doing?
[Boosted] We are here at Dragway 42, located in West Salem, Ohio.
This is our first time here.
It is a very beautiful facility.
This track opened its doors in 1957,
and it's just an hour south of Cleveland.
We're a lot closer to sea level,
which is a huge change after spending a few weeks in the mountains
and even in Vegas.
It's also cooler than the temperatures we've been dealing with.
Lower elevation and cooler temps
means the engines can breathe easier and produce more horsepower.
Every driver will have to make big adjustments to what they've been doing.
Right now, Kye Kelley is still sitting number one in points,
but last week, he went out in the very first round,
which means he gained no points whatsoever,
which allowed other drivers to make up some ground.
Here's how it works.
If you win the Great 8, you get 10 points.
Plus you also get $10,000.
If you're runner up, you get seven,
and if you make it to the semifinals, you will get three.
Those points go towards an individual championship
that will be worth $100,000 at the end of the season.
[Boosted] Here we go.
Great 8 driver's meeting starts now.
I would like to say Kye Kelley really [bleep] it up last weekend,
went out first round.
So, yeah.
Murder Nova was our winner. [bleep]
So you can do it again this weekend and catch up to him.
-Robin Roberts, welcome to the Great 8. -Thank you.
-[Boosted] I noticed you're-- -Missed you last time.
Yeah, I noticed you're not standing
-next to Nate Sayler, though. -[Robin] No.
-That's kind of a little bit of a surprise. -[Robin] It's all right.
So hopefully you all have mended the fences and are friends again,
I would hope.
-What happened? -[Boosted] Ah, they had a little-- Just a debate.
They had a debate, guys. It wasn't an argument. It was a debate.
[Nate] They measured it when they came and tech the car.
Nobody measured that, dude.
[Nate] That's why we put the other thing on the bottom of it,
when they measured it.
Because it was five inches.
[Nate] I can put three fingers under mine,
and I can put three fingers under yours.
[Robin] You cannot put three fingers under yours, dude,
I walked up and looked at it.
[Nate] Oh! [bleep]!
You guys [bleep] out of the [bleep] car when I [bleep].
[man] Whatever.
[Nate] I dragged his [bleep] ass.
Then we get to the end of the track,
and everybody, "Oh, you're cheating. You're cheating."
So they said the [bleep] fender on my car is too low.
Oh, [bleep] me!
-Oh! -[bleep]
[Robin] Good for you.
-[Nate] Hey, good for you. You guys [bleep] -Appreciate it.
-[Robin] Good for you. -[Nate] Neither is yours!
[Nate] [bleep]!
Well, was both cars legal or?
[Boosted] Uh, yeah, I don't-- Mmm. I don't know.
-Were they? -[Boosted] I don't--
-One was far off and one was just missing. -[Nate] Oh, yeah.
[Nate] So I cheated, but not a lot.
-I didn't cheat as much as the other guys. -[laughter]
I cheated, but I didn't cheat as much as this guy,
so I shouldn't be counted for it, right?
[indistinct conversation]
That's all I want to know. if you all were past it.
It sounds like you are.
You're both past it, of what happened last weekend,
and that's good.
[Boosted] All right, let's go ahead and draw chips.
[Lizzy] Stop looking at me, Nate.
Get the draw, too.
Are you ready?
[Boosted] All right.
Where are my number ones?
Damon Merchant and Lizzy Musi.
All right, that's gonna be a good one right off the bat. [bleep]
[Damon] Going into the first round, we drew Lizzy.
I haven't raced her in a while.
I'm not quite sure how Rogue stacks up against that new Bonnie.
So we just got to go out there and race our race,
do everything we can to get down the track as fast as possible.
Number twos.
Son of a bitch.
[Boosted] Murder-- Oh! Rematch!
Murder Nova and Kye Kelley.
[Shawn] Keep doing it. I'm gonna get you.
[Kye] Drew Murder Nova again, the one that took me out last week.
And hopefully we can break that cycle.
All right. Number threes.
[Boosted] Axman and Robin Roberts.
[Axman] I drew Robin Roberts.
I can't say that was my favorite pick.
He just put me out at the last race in the Invitational.
So going into this, I was kind of--
I know he's fast.
[Axman] We're gonna tune this hot rod up,
roll up there, and give it hell.
Which means our fourth and final pair
is Kayla Morton and Nate Sayler.
[Kayla] I've never even raced Nate,
so honestly, I'm kind of excited to see
where we stack up against each other
because we're so close in points,
so it should be a pretty even matchup
as long as both cars make the trip.
Y'all know who you're racing.
Go back into the pits.
Get your cars ready.
[Boosted] That's all I got, guys. Good luck.
[upbeat music playing]
Nastiness.
Maintenance?
Maintenance is nasty.
Sometimes a dirty job, you know?
It's a dirty job.
Somebody's got to do it.
We've had a long journey over here.
We had to detour back to Oklahoma.
Had to get some work done.
Made some changes to the car.
Changed rods.
Got it for the beginning of this eastern swing.
[Damon blows air] Damn. [bleep] [blows air]
[grunts] Everything's slick!
Even though we may not have exactly
an idea of how the car is gonna run in this air,
I think we can get a handle on it pretty quick.
Goddang. I made a mess, bro.
[Lizzy] It's probably gonna be like 900 on the bottles.
What is the air? Did we even look?
It's gotta be [bleep] killer.
[Pat] Probably. Now it won't got better.
[Lizzy] Forget it.
-[Pat] Twenty three. -[Lizzy] Oh.
[Lizzy] It's not even that bad.
Well, 2300 is pretty good.
Yeah, it's pretty good, but I thought maybe it was like 900 or something.
We came all the way back from the mountains.
Now we're back to, like, somewhat sea level,
which is nice for the nitrous cars.
But, you know, actually have Damon Merchant, first round, first pair out.
That's a rough draw for me.
-Congrats on the win, by the way, yeah. -[both laugh]
[Damon] I never really thought I'd get one of those.
Don't say that. Shut up! You're killing it.
-You're killing it this year. -You know, but to count me in,
-What? -like, after watching y'all run for so long,
[Lizzy] Oh, well.
[Lizzy] Hey, you worked your ass off to get where you are,
so, you know. [laughs softly]
[Damon] There was a lot of uncertainty, I'll say that.
-And then come in and do it. It was a weird feeling. -Oh. [laughs]
-Plus... -Well, I think it's badass.
-[Lizzy laughs] -Somebody told me that like the first one,
you'll never get that feeling again.
[Lizzy] Yeah, oh, it's huge.
It's-- It's-- Yeah.
Oh, it's definitely a cool feeling.
-[Damon] See you later. -Yeah. All right, good luck. Be safe. Okay.
[Lizzy] The weather has taken a little twist for us because it's cooler out.
We make a lot more power.
So we know the track is good, the air is good,
so I think we de-tune it enough to make a good run.
[Lizzy] But we just got to figure it out.
[Boosted] First pair here in this Great 8 first round race.
It's gonna be a good one.
Over in the right lane, that is Damon Merchant.
Damon Merchant in the right lane, going up against Lizzy Musi.
Lizzy Musi in the left lane.
[Boosted] Great 8 starts now!
[Boosted] And Lizzy Musi will get the win.
Damon Merchant goes red.
[man] Yeah! [bleep]!
Hey, that went in hard.
He jumped.
It went too hard in, yeah.
Man, it is deep.
He staged, and he double bowled real quick.
And I'm like, "All right, fine."
I go in finally and the light turns green.
I leave and come to find out he went red,
so I end up getting the win on that one.
It is what it is. It's racing. People go red. It happens.
[screaming]
Good.
I mean, it makes you feel like complete [bleep].
You're riding this high, coming off of the race that you dominate,
and you come here and you run really good.
But, man, I wanted to get two more rounds in and take home that $10,000
That's how I've been doing this, like...
Getting the money, winning money, and...
funding it through that,
which nobody thought we would be able to do coming into this deal.
It's our first year, like nobody gave us a [bleep] chance.
And we've proved them wrong, and we know we're killing it.
I mean, we know we've got a [bleep] hot rod right now,
and the team has been on point.
[sighs] It's hard riding this high from Vegas to here,
and then something like this happened, I don't know.
Dude. [laughs]
-I wish I had your luck, man. You won. -[Shawn] Aw, [bleep]
Hey, I've had nothing but bad luck the last three years.
You deserve it. You deserve it.
Yeah, I'm good with it, though.
like I gave, I let him pick.
-I took the trash and everything. -Yeah. [laughs]
Coming off the win last weekend, I feel confident, you know?
The car is fast.
I know now I can run with these cars.
But there's one guy that always shines, you know? Kye Kelley.
And who do we draw?
We draw him again first.
-I can't believe that. -Yeah.
Hey, we already know what can be done.
Yeah, no, we're gonna see.
But I'm telling you right now, he ain't gonna underestimate us again.
-No, no. He did the first time. -You know what I mean?
[Shawn] He did the first time,
and I'm telling you right now, I'll step it up this race, too.
It does kind of suck, the fact that last week,
whenever I outran him, I believe he underestimated me.
[Boosted] Oh, and Murder Nova knocks off Kye Kelley in the first round!
Dang, that was a good race.
And there's gonna be no more of that.
He saw how well my car ran.
He knows that I'm competitive with everybody.
And I think he's gonna be loaded for bear this time.
And we're gonna do the same.
-[Shawn] All right, brother. -See you.
-[Shawn] We'll see you in the staging lane. -Yeah.
Yeah, they are. [bleep]
Adam bled the brakes earlier and forgot to put that back on.
[bleep]
About hit the wall. [chuckles]
-I heard. -It needs a little bit.
Those went [bleep], and I was like, "No [bleep]."
[bleep].
I didn't even get a chance to see how mine and yours race was going.
I just took off and I sat back,
and all of a sudden it was like, poof. Hah.
Oh, he ran over there.
Oh, [bleep].
Yeah.
[Kye] We had a [bleep] test pass.
We had a cap come off the brake reservoir,
and it got a little brake fluid underneath the tire.
[Boosted] Kye Kelley has something break.
I can still see pieces flying across the track.
Got a little fluid on our tire, it went left.
We saved the car, so we're just gonna put the cap back on,
put some new brake fluid in it,
look at the data,
and make sure you go right down on the next pass.
[Shawn] Good?
[Kye] Yeah, we left the cap off the brake residue.
-Yeah, I know, I know. -[Kye laughs]
[Shawn] Did you change your pants over there?
[Kye] No, I didn't have a chance to.
-[Kye] It happened so quick. It was real fast. -[Murder laughs]
Yeah, they-- I heard them say, "There's parts everywhere," and I went, "Aw, man."
Yeah.
Look, I want to win, but I don't want you to [bleep].
[Shawn] We said it last week,
if you can't beat him now, you can't beat him in the finals,
so honestly, it doesn't really matter who I get.
I've said it a whole bunch.
We don't really race the person.
We race the track.
And we're gonna go as fast as we can possibly go.
[Dave] Ooh, it's gonna be a good one right here.
This it?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Well, you can fix this problem.
[Boosted] Next pair coming at you right here.
It's gonna be a good one.
Rematch from last week.
Folks, over in the left lane, that is gonna be Kye Kelley
going up against Murder Nova in the right.
[Boosted] And Murder Nova wins again against Kyei!
Yeah! [bleep]
Yes.
That's right, baby!
[bleep] yeah!
[Shawn] Who can't be amped
whenever you outrun Kye Kelley, you know?
Kai Kelley is on top of his game right now.
[bleep] yeah!
[Shawn] I let go of the button.
I know I've got a lead.
It is definitely not a comfortable lead
because I know the screw blowers make a lot of big end power,
and chances are that car is gonna out mile an hour me.
But I just kept on waiting for him to come around me, and he never did.
[Kye] Man, I made another good pass and you outran me again.
[Shawn] Hey, I made a good pass.
[both laugh]
-That was close, though. That was really close. -[Shawn] Love you, man.
Hey, I knew it was gonna [bleep] take a 82 to outrun you, man.
[Kye] Yeah?
[Shawn] Hey, so we had to shoot for it.
[Kye] I had my wheels up almost the whole way.
[Shawn] I know. I know.
No, trust me. I could see your car. Like, I knew it.
Hey and then there in the [bleep],
whenever I thought, "He's fixing to come around me,
"he's fixing to come around me." You didn't.
-Yeah. It was-- We were stuck. -Yeah.
-[Shawn] No, it was a good race. -I got to quit drawing you,
-where I don't lose a [bleep] Great 8. -[Shawn] Hey.
[laughs]
Just like last week, it was a hell of a race
between me and Shawn, but he just got me again.
So right now he's got my number.
Sometimes that happens.
Well, we're so close that I know he's not gonna beat me every time.
So next time we race, we're gonna swing for it.
Try to give him all we got.
So last time, whenever you said, "Man, we were stuck."
-Yeah. -We were stuck this time.
-Yeah, we were stuck. -We were stuck this time. Nice job, man.
[Kye] You, too.
[Axman] Oh, yeah.
[Axman] Nah.
The housing may not be bent.
It's just, usually the gears will last a while.
That's the other thing about a heavy car.
The gears don't last as long.
[Axman] Every weekend we knock a rear end out.
So we're here in Dragway 42 in Ohio.
We're going into the Great 8.
We have changed everything on this hot rod,
from pistons, rods, gears, stator, converter.
I mean, everything's changed.
The rear end's making it like a...
When we go back down pit road, you hear a knocking noise,
so we switch the gear.
Usually when that happens, the housing's bent.
So in Colorado, we had added compression to the engine,
and changed the stator, so, [clears throat]
We just ran the same stuff in Vegas.
Coming here, the air is a lot better,
so we're going back to our old setup.
And for some reason the car keeps knocking the rear gear out every race,
Because the axle should just slide right out,
so that's usually a sign something's binding up.
[Axman] Damn it!
Damn it, damn it, damn it.
It's like it starts from whining and knocking.
So each race, we have to put a new one in.
So we're going in hopefully fresh.
[Axman] So we got it to come out?
[Axman] So we're good.
[Axman] T he last couple of Great 8s have been going out,
like, second round.
I'm hoping this time I can pull off a win.
I want to move up in the Great 8.
Not stay still. I like moving up.
Robin put me out in Vegas.
Then I draw him first round in this race.
That's not a good feeling.
Hopefully, I can get a little redemption.
Okay, we good?
Fuel, air, we're good to go?
[Robin] Here we are. Dragway 42, Event 10.
For us, this is the business end of the season.
Like this is our chance to shine and rise up.
We've been chipping away at the points.
Now we've got to take it home.
Ready? Let's go show 'em.
The car's hauling ass. It's super smooth.
It's running the way it should.
We need to get just a little more power out of the backside,
and we talked about some things to do that, so I'm happy with our combo.
I'm happy with where we are.
Now is a good time to just go show that.
[Boosted] All right, this is the third pair here in the Great 8.
Another good one.
Over in the left lane, that's gonna be Robin Roberts,
going up against Axman, Larry Roach.
[Boosted] And Robin Roberts makes a great pass there, will get the win.
[Robin] Roll up in their lights,
and it just went straight as an arrow.
I never saw him, so I don't know if he had problems.
I don't know what happened,
but now we finally got some Great 8 points on the board.
Now we're trying to get more.
We're trying to get 10 tonight.
Close up on them guys.
Damn it, damn it, damn it!
Man, [bleep].
After everything, I felt like I had working against me,
I got real confident.
I said, "All right, we got this. We got this."
All we gotta do is kill a tree and down the track, get this win.
I let off the button and it pinned me to the seat.
I said, "Man, this feels good".
All of a sudden, begins to wobble the tires.
I went to pedal.
And then Robin goes. The show was over.
I've not had to abandon one pass,
and now I had to abandon two in a row.
[upbeat music playing]
Ah yeah, we got video, right?
Okay, yeah. I'll send you some video.
Yeah, it honestly was pretty--
I mean, I would have-- I would've been happy with that run.
[Nate] We came here and tested.
We put a tuner up in the car and we went straight down.
[Boosted] And Nate Sayler turns on the win light.
Nice job.
The car made just a little bit of a move there at the 330, stayed with it.
The only hiccup we had is on the gear change from 2-3.
It got a little squirrelly, tried to take me out of the groove,
but I steered her back quick and she went right through the traps.
No. Track temp was 94.
[Nate] So, but--
[Nate] I'll do it.
All right.
[Nate] First round Great 8 here in Ohio.
We got Kayla Morton.
We're pretty excited about it.
We got a good race car.
I know they do, too.
They run the same setup we do.
So we're gonna bring our A game
they'll have to do the same.
Let me go make sure the battery charger is hooked up.
And I need to get the fan on the transmission right.
We are in Ohio, obviously one of my favorite states,
for reasons like I won here, the very first race.
I drew Nate Sayler, we are friends,
but we've never got to race each other.
So I'm excited to race Nate to see kind of where we stack up.
Both cars are very fast.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, folks, this will be the last pair of the Great 8
first round over in the left lane.
That's going to be Nate Sayler going up against Kayla Morton in the right.
[engine revving]
Hey, Kayla Morton gonna get the win.
Nate Sayler goes red.
Are you kidding me?
Are you 100% sure?
[Boosted] That will do it for the first round of the Great 8.
[bleeps]
Let me pull my chute. You got mine?
[Nate] Who did they say won?
-Kayla won? Went red? -He went red.
[Nate] No [bleep] way.
-Good race. -It was a beautiful race.
I didn't see him go red.
So I was disappointed at first,
but they told me in my ears that he went red.
So final four, chipping away at those points.
I know Kai went out first round, so man.
Shawn's got his number on Friday nights.
And that does nothing but help us.
So, yeah, W for us, man.
We'll take it.
I didn't know he went red.
All right.
We're going to go ahead and do our Great 8 semi finals drivers meeting.
We started with eight drivers.
We are now down to four.
So for my four drivers here,
you're at least guaranteed three points
in the individual championship for the Great 8.
Uh, if you haven't noticed, points leader Kye Kelley is not in the race anymore.
Murder Nova, ended up taking them out in the first round again!
[Kayla] Again!
My gosh, are you Kye Kelley's kryptonite?
That is the question.
I don't think I'm anybody's kryptonite.
I don't know. We took a shot at it and it paid off.
Well, yeah, it sure did.
You put Kye Kelley on the trailer again.
So that means with Kye Kelley, the points leader,
not being in this race right now,
this is a chance for everybody else to make up some ground.
All right, so take advantage of that.
Let's go ahead and draw chips and see who is racing who,
here in this semifinal round.
[vocalizing]
I forgot. You're representing Lizzy, so you get to drill.
[all speaking indistinctly]
[Boosted] All right. Number one, step forward.
Robin Roberts and Murder Nova...
will be the first pair, which means my second pair
will be Lizzy Musi versus Kayla Morton.
Oh, boy! All right, y'all.
You know who you're racing. You know what you gotta do?
Go back to the pits. Get your cars in the staging lanes.
We got $10,000 to give away.
[upbeat music playing]
[man 1] You ready? [man 2] I'm definitely ready.
It's gonna be a tough one.
Yeah, he knows we are, too. He's gonna throw the house at it.
He's going to throw everything at it, which...
That may play in our favor, too.
Look, that's what Axman did last round and shook the tires.
Round two of the Great 8, and I drew Murder Nova, Shawn. Like...
This is the toughest straw.
When I looked across the crowd, I thought, "That's the one guy
I don't want drive. I want to meet him in the finals."
He struggled a little bit at first, now he's really come up.
He's doing incredibly well.
It's going to be a hell of a run.
I have a lot of respect for him.
I love Shawn, but we're gonna try and do our best to beat him.
We're gonna go on to the next round.
It's our turn to take one and come up with points.
I mean, just to be real...
If we get past Shawn, This might be our night.
[man 3 speaking]
I don't know.
You think I pay attention a little bit?
[man 3 speaking]
[Shawn] I drew Robin Roberts.
I'm not real sure we've ever got the win light against him.
Hey! Good luck, guys.
You, too, Robin.
Hey! Good luck, man.
You too, brother.
I told him, "Man, no, we've become good friends."
I said, "It was easier whenever I didn't like him."
You know what I mean? I was like...
I said, [bleep], no! I'm gonna try and knock his head off
just the same way he's gonna try [bleep]!
And then we're gonna [bleep] shake hands at the big end,
and everything's gonna be cool.
So good luck, man.
-Love you, man. -You, too.
Blower car or turbo cars.
He's always had our number, you know,
and I'm gonna change that tonight.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] Here we go! Over in the right lane.
That is going to be Robin Roberts
going up against Murder Nova.
[Boosted] Here we go! Over in the right lane.
That is going to be Robin Roberts
going up against Murder Nova.
[all cheering]
[bleep], yeah! [bleep], yeah!
[bleep]
-Hell, yeah! -[all speaking indistinctly]
[Shawn] Whoo!
I let go of the button.
She got out on me a little bit.
I start pullin' on him.
He didn't disappear. He was close, but we took the win.
The car rolled out on that path.
It run every bit of what we wanted it to run,
and probably a little bit more.
We have a competitive car.
So when you talk about, of who possibly has a chance at winning
from here on out...
I need Murder Nova to come out of people's mouths.
-It was killer running with you. -Thank you.
-You kicked ass. -Thank you, bro.
Thank you. I think that's the first time I've ever
turned a win light on against you.
Hey, pro-charger, turbo, anything!
I think that's the first time, so...
You got us pretty good though. Good run!
-Good race! -Great, bro.
Good for him. Great pass, man.
He just... He really just whooped this. So...
Man, he's running good.
We'll just have to get him tomorrow.
Hey, we are on the board for the individual deal. I mean...
Yeah.
-There's not many people on that board. -No.
No.
And tomorrow we've got to solidify our position.
Try and slide up a notch or two again.
Take the race, man. Take the 40,000. That'd be the big deal.
Take the payday so we can buy some more crap.
Keep blowing it up.
-[man] Did you put it in park? -Hey, I'll be right back.
Thank you, man. I appreciate it.
One more, right?
-One more. -You got it.
Thank you, brother. I thank you, man.
Thank you.
What? I got.
That's what I would do.
-If you think you're good, we're 100 percent behind you. -Good.
[Lizzy Musi] Second round, I ended up drawing Kayla.
Feeling a little sick today.
Normally a third day after chemo is my worst day,
but I'm making it and getting in this car and doing my thing.
I think we tweaked a little bit enough.
We took some rear steer out of the car...
kind of, maybe, hopefully it'll straighten it out on the pass.
Hi Lizzy.
So we feel good about it.
Hopefully we fix the issue and hopefully kick some ass.
Good luck, Lizzy.
Thank you.
Aw...
[man] I got it.
[man 2] Stan, the man! [woman] It's on now?
-Yeah. -Off.
-And on. -Staying on.
-Still on. -That's still on?
Turn your tail lights off.
So it's with my tail lights.
Okay.
And if it don't turn on while you're up there, I'll...
Yeah. Give it a knee.
-Knock the knee. -One swift knee
We ready?
Feel good.
Made a really solid pass round one.
Just chipping away at those little points.
And I would really like to see a final with Murder Nova today.
So we've got to get past Lizzy first.
I feel like [bleep]!
-What? -I feel like [bleep]!
[both speaking indistinctly]
The track is going to be a killer at this point.
She does very well on a good track.
So we got to be on our game.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, folks, here we go.
This will be the last pair of the semifinals for the Great 8.
Over in the left lane,
that is going to be Lizzy Musi.
Lizzy Musi going up against Kayla Morton,
in the right lane.
Nitrous in the left, pro-charger in the right.
Who will move on to face Murder Nova?
[woman speaking]
And Lizzy Musi gets there first, turns on the win light.
So your Great 8 finals will be
Murder Nova versus Lizzy Musi for $10,000.
After my burnout backing up, I hear the car.
It's like, it's just off.
Knocking a little bit.
And my dad's like, "It's a rock arm". And I was like "I know,
"I hear it, I hear it."
He was like, "Just run it. Just run it."
I'm like, "Okay, all right."
It's either gonna not make it all the way,
or it's gonna make it just right at the finish line.
So, uh, as I'm getting ready to stage, the light turns green,
I let go of the button.
The car is trucking down, and I'm like, "My God, it's gonna freaking make it."
Let's do this, you know, And all of a sudden,
right before the finish line, this freaking big ass ball of flame
sends my hood scoop up into orbit.
I'm like... [bleeps]
Not a good situation.
Yeah, and I couldn't see the scoreboard, honestly,
but like after, like, the whole explosion thing, I got sidetracked off that.
Kayla, she was like right next to me.
She was kind of close, coming in.
I think she got a little loose on that run.
But I didn't know if I won or not to be honest with you.
My guys had to tell me on top, and I'm like, "Holy [bleep]!" Okay, let's go.
I heard it. I was like, "I know that's me.
That ain't her." It sounds so bad.
-I'm surprised it made it down-- -Me too!
I said, Oh, we're... [bleeps]
I thought I was gonna make it right after the finish line, but...
[bleeps] Made it!
Without the rocker arm being in place, we'll be all out of sync.
So, It definitely throws the motor off.
And, yeah. Timing, everything,
Just... That's what you get
that big ball of fire pretty much backfires.
[man] Here it is. It's an exhaust. We can fix it.
No [bleep] way!
[man] Yeah, we're gonna fix.
[laughing] Okay.
We'd better strap the [bleep] in!
[Boosted] All right, here we go.
We're gonna go ahead and do our Great 8 finals.
Driver's meeting real quick.
First and foremost, Lizzy Musi,
you find yourself here in the finals for $10,000,
and it's your first Great 8 finals of the season.
So great job there.
But I have bad news.
You're going up against Murder Nova,
who is trying to make it two in a row for Great 8 wins.
[Lizzy] Pretty bad ass!
[Boosted] As you know, he won last week in Las Vegas.
Great 8 finals. $10,000.
We're gonna flip a coin for lane choice.
Are you gonna let Lizzy call it?
Absolutely.
-Okay. It's only the right thing to do, Lizzy. -Okay.
-Call in the air. -Heads.
Heads is the call.
It is.
Heads!
I actually changed it off the circuit.
Lizzy, it is your lane.
Um, left lane.
Left lane is the call.
-Good luck, y'all! -[Lizzy] Be safe.
[Boosted] Go ahead and get suited up.
Let's go racing, all right! 10,000 to win.
Let's do it.
Hey, what happened to you and Robin?
[man] Well, he lost by like a car and a half
and then decided to to protest the height of my [bleep] fender.
Oh, for real?
That ain't three inches.
Well, I don't know what to tell ya'.
They measured it when they came and checked the car.
Nobody measured that, dude.
I can put three fingers under mine
and I can put three fingers under yours.
You cannot put three fingers under yours, dude--
-I can now! -[all speaking indistinctly]
I wish I'd have been involved.
I would have won that. I could have won that race.
I ain't lying.
I think I could have won that race.
Oh, yeah, no, we won, and we won, fair and square, and we won by a lot.
So they found a technicality and they were trying to...
you know, get an opportunity off of it.
And it didn't work because he was telling me my was [bleep] too low.
And I was like, "Dude, yours is lower than mine."
-So y'all got arguing. -Yeah... [bleep]
...was lower, if I won.
What would you have done
if this big ass were to grab ahold to you?
Well... [bleep]
He might have kicked my ass, but he'd have noticed his jaw hurt the next day.
-You would have gave him a fight? -Oh, yeah.
A run for his money. That's what I was hoping.
Hey, hi!
-How are you? -Ah, could be better.
-I feel like I'm having a little rough time right now. -Yeah.
It's the third day. It's always rough for me.
That's why we're around Mallory a lot, you know.
And she's always-- Like she always says the third day is the day
-I don't want to get out of bed. -Yes.
It's weird, like hits me like a freight train.
-That's what she says. -Like, every run, I'm like,
I have to go like lay down because it's bad.
We got Shawn, Murder Nova in the finals.
He won the last Great 8.
And he's hauling ass. So...
You know, I'm a little tired, but I really want to kick his ass.
I'm ready. I'm ready for anything.
I don't know. My car was making a really killer run.
We looked on the race pack, and it looks killer.
So minus the fact of it,
you know, backfiring
and a frickin' ball of fire,
you know, we're not quite sure why it did what it did.
It could happen when it gets cold temperatures like this.
We replaced the rocker and the push rod in that side.
We decided to leave the hood scoop off
in case it decides to happen again in the finals.
The car is running good, so we feel good about it.
Hopefully, we fixed the issue and we're going to go up there for the final,
and hopefully kick some ass.
Trying, trying the best I can.
No, you're killing it.
-You're killing it. -Thank you.
You're hauling ass, too.
-Well, we'll see. We'll see. -You're running real good.
-The last time you drove out of my life, so... -Oh, whatever.
So we'll see... We'll see if it's any different.
Stop!
We're racing Lizzy.
Unfortunately, last time we raced her, she drove out of my life.
[Boosted] And Lizzy Musi gets the win.
Wow!
It was really close.
And then she locked it up and she just started kind of pulling away, man.
I was like, "Oh, no!"
It was pretty humbling in the car.
I felt like we were on a pretty decent pass.
But it wasn't the greatest air for pro-chargers.
Uh, it's a little bit favorable for the nitrous stuff.
But Lizzy's fast.
She goes to a lot of finals.
She wins a lot of races.
And it's just like anybody else in the Great 8.
We can't underestimate her.
She's going to go out there and Pat is going to do anything
he's got to do to win this race.
And we're going to try to do anything we can for them not to win it.
[car engines revving]
[Boosted] All right, folks, here we go.
This will be the last race of the night.
This is your Great 8 finals.
Over in the left lane, backing up that nitrous powered Camaro.
That is Lizzy Musi.
She is going up against none other than Murder Nova.
Murder Nova over in the right lane.
This race right here for $10,000.
And very important points towards that individual championship.
And Murder Nova...
...makes it two in a row.
Murder Nova. $10,000.
Congratulations to him.
[bleep] Damn, son!
This is the... [bleep] ...right here.
Two times in the Great 8 and two wins.
You know, the car's rolling. We have...
We've stumbled upon something, you know,
some sort of a magic tune that it's going down
and it's going down fast, you know, and the track is taking it.
Two in a row, dawg. You're like an old hat at this.
Like an old hat.
[Shawn] Damn, baby! Damn!
Good job.
Good job. Good job.
The car's working well.
The motor is producing all the power
and we're winning races, you know.
Couldn't be happier. This is...
This is what we strive for every time we work on the car,
every time we make a pass on the car,
every time we spend money on the car,
this is what we do it for.
It's been a long time since we've had this winning feeling and...
We love it, you know.
And we're not gonna sleep until we get an invitational win.
So tell me about the Great 8.
Is it pretty fun?
-[laughing] -Man.
I mean... [laughs]
Good job. Good job.
-Good job. Good job. Proud of you. -Oh, dude.
Thank you. But you guys know I couldn't have done it without y'all.
You know that.
-We help each other That's the way I look at it. -Huh?
Did you even have a chance to see her fireball?
-Fireball? -On that pass.
Did she-- Did she nuke it?
It went early. [imitates explosion]
[bleep]
That sucks. I'm gonna go back and talk to her.
Where's she at?
-Oh, is she up front? -[speaks indistinctly]
-Oh! -Yeah.
If it would've had a scoop on it,
that [bleep] would've been gone, too.
Hey, all I know is that we made a [bleep] killer pass and I didn't see her.
-Boom! -So...
Thank you.
I went in really fast.
She lit the top bulbs.
I went in with the other two. She was purging her car.
It was a really quick light, I was ready for it.
I'm not real sure she was.
So I let go of the button.
I knew I left out before her car.
Car 60-footed like we told it to.
And we made a hell of a pass.
I could see her for a little bit.
And then all of a sudden, she fell back and we took the win light.
I got blinded by the lights...
-It's all right. It happens sometimes. -I know.
I don't know what's causing it, but... That's crazy.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I leave that up to them.
Good job, Shawn.
Your crew is a class act, Lizzy.
[Lizzy] Okay.
[Boosted] At the end of the night, Shawn was able to win
yet another Great 8 event.
That is two in a row.
Plus, he took out Kye Kelley in round one,
which made it so where he could not extend his lead.
That landed him fourth on the leaderboard,
and there's plenty of races left for him to catch up.
Next time...
This is the Great 8!
Shawn, you've won two Great 8s in a row, man.
Kye's been struggling a little bit on Fridays.
If he's gonna struggle, we need to capitalize on it.
[man] We actually broke the transmission.
So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car.
I think we can change the tranny in an hour.
I just gotta worry about Murder Nova
on his little killing spree he's doing.
'Cause if he keeps winning every weekend,
he's gonna catch me.
At this point, we have to get points every Great 8...
if we're gonna catch Kye.