[Boosted] Previously on the Great Eight...
The top eight drivers raced at Dragway 42
in West Salem, Ohio, for a chance at $10,000
and points towards Individual Championship.
-[man] Son of a bitch. -[Boosted] Murder... Oh!
Rematch! Murder Nova and Kye Kelley.
Murder Nova was paired up with Kye Kelley for the second week in a row in round one,
and put Kye on the trailer again.
[engine accelerating]
Yes!
[Boosted] And then, beat Robin Roberts in the semis
to secure a spot in the finals for the second straight week.
[Murder Nova] Whoo!
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Lizzy Musi advanced to the semis
after Damon Merchant red lit in round one.
[all exclaiming]
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] And there were fireworks at the finish of Lizzy's semifinal race
versus Kayla Morton when her hood scoop blew off.
-[Stanley] I'm surprised it made it down. -[Kayla] Me, too!
[Boosted] This led to a Great Eight finals
between Murder Nova and Lizzy Musi.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Murder Nova won his second Great Eight race in a row
and collected ten points towards the Individual Championship.
-[all cheering] -[Boosted] And Murder Nova makes it two in a row!
Now, the top eight drivers head into Pennsylvania
will battle for another $10,000
and valuable points.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Put your hands together for the Great Eight drivers.
Hey, Maple Grove, how y'all doing today?
[audience cheering]
[Boosted] We are at Maple Grove Raceway,
located in Pennsylvania.
This track opened its doors in 1962,
and is one of the ten longest tracks in the country.
Today, it's hosting the Great EIght.
Here's how it works.
If you win the Great Eight, you get ten 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 the Individual Championship
that will be worth $100,000 at the end of the season.
All right, this is the Great Eight drivers' meeting.
As you can see, though, there are nine of you in this Great Eight meeting.
I believe Axman and Gates, y'all are tied.
So, are y'all gonna draw a chip out of the bucket,
or are we gonna figure out another way
-to decide who gets in the Great Eight? -I'll race.
[Boosted] Y'all are gonna race for the spot
-off the trailer. -I'll race.
Okay, so y'all are gonna race. You don't get a test pass.
The test pass is your race.
Whoever wins that will then be in the Great Eight.
All right?
-All right, ladies. -We wanna draw last this time.
Yeah, we're gonna change it up.
-Oh, wow. Really? -[Kayla] Yep. Yeah.
-[Axman] I wanted last. -[Boosted] Go ahead, pick one.
[Kayla] You can have the very last,
and me and Lizzy will draw right before you.
[Lizzy] Yeah.
Hey, that's a good, you know...
-[Lizzy] Yeah. -[Kayla] Is it? Oh. Okay.
Okay, that didn't work quite the way it was supposed to.
-[Boosted] You can still drew each other. -[Kayla] Well [bleep]
Ah, Christopher.
[Boosted] Okay!
-[both laugh] -Where are my number ones at?
Number one is Nate Sayler and Kye Kelley.
Oh, man.
[Kye] We drew Nate Sayler, first round.
I didn't wanna draw Murder Nova,
'cause I felt like he was in our heads.
We reached in there and drew a guy just as fast as him.
And we've beaten Nate Sayler all year,
so we know he owes us one.
So, that's one of the guys you don't wanna draw.
Nate, congrats on your win last week, by the way, Invitational.
Uh, number twos.
Robin Roberts and Lizzy Musi.
-Okay. -[Boosted] All right.
[Lizzy] First round, I end up drawing Robin Roberts.
Robin, he's been running real good,
but if you look in the Great Eight circle,
there is no one you wanna draw there,
so I can't really...
You have to be on your A-game, no matter who you draw.
Number threes.
-Lizzy, we're not doing that again. -Kayla Morton...
-[Lizzy] No, we're not. -...and Murder Nova.
We drew Murder Nova, it is a very tough matchup.
He's won the last two Great Eights,
and the last time we lined up, he beat me by just a smidge.
But the time before that, I beat him by just a smidge.
My fourth and final pair will be Damon Merchant
versus the winner
-of David Gates and Axman. -Good luck.
-Oh, wow. Oh, I thought... -[all laughing]
You know who you're racing. Go back to pits.
Get your cars turned around.
Y'all get one test pass,
except for Axman and Gates, who are racing.
So, how'd the tin car deal go?
[David] Axman, you know, I like.
He's one of my favorites. He's cool as hell.
[team member] He was straight off the trailer?
-Straight off the trailer, left lane. -[team member] Left lane.
And then, whoever wins that runs...
drew Damon, fourth pair, left lane.
Now, we're racing for the Great Eight
with Axman off the trailer.
Oh, okay.
The last time we was in the Great Eight
was in Brainerd, Minnesota, and we won it.
We beat Kye, we beat Axman,
and we beat Giuseppe in the finals.
We won the $10,000.
We're here today, we finally had some struggles
that got us out of the Great Eight,
but we're right there back at it.
We was one round away from securing it.
But 50-50 chance.
I feel lucky. I'm gonna go up there and grab it,
we're gonna come on back
and get this thing down through there.
You have to cut it hard, Kevin.
Track look hard?
The truck looks good and thick.
-Is it? -[team member] But it's also spotty.
My biggest concern is the water coming up.
-There's gonna be water coming up. -[Axman] Oh [bleep].
If you go over there, like it's dry.
But you go over there and sit there
and rub your foot deep down in it...
-[Axman] Yeah. -Water is gonna come.
-Dang! -It's gonna be [bleep].
-Dang. -Yeah.
Racing off the trailer is always the hardest,
'cause you don't know the track.
You use that first pass for all your data.
You can fit... You can see every bump in the track,
see where the car tried to spin when and when it didn't.
But I like the racing off the trailer.
It shows who can get down and who can't.
[Boosted] Again, folks,
this is an off the trailer race
for the eighth and final spot
in the Great Eight class tonight.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, so we've got David Gates on the left lane.
Axman, Larry Roach in the right.
These two drivers are tied in points.
The only way to settle it is to race for it.
[dramatic music playing]
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] And Axman takes the win,
so he will be racing in the Great Eight.
He will take that eighth and final spot.
[David] We raced it off the trailer, old school-style.
The best man won.
We're gonna go the rest of the night and figure this thing out
and be ready for 'em tomorrow,
so next week we'll be in.
So, we'll give us the rest of the night
to do our testing to get it lined out with everything we're doing.
And when we go to bed tonight, I feel like
we'll be real confident in the morning for first round.
You're gonna pull the data or you want me to?
[team member] I got it.
It feels like the front end is off the ground,
so you can move the steering wheel.
I'm thinking that, and then it'd be ready to go
one way or another, you know what I mean?
You know, we started off the season
running through everybody in the Great Eight.
We jumped way out in points.
In the last two weeks, we had first round exits.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Oh! And Murder Nova knocks off Kye Kelley in the first round.
[Kye] Murder Nova all of a sudden decided to start doing good.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] And Murder Nova wins again against Kye.
[Murder Nova] That's right, baby! [bleep] yeah!
[Kye] It really didn't affect us in points
'cause he's only got 20 points and I still got 47.
So, as long as we don't screw it up from here on out,
I think we've still got a pretty comfortable lead.
'Cause really, 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.
But just like normal Kye Kelley
drawing out of bucket fashion, I go up there and I drew
last week's NPK winner.
-[man] How you doing, man? -What's going on, man?
I got a tough draw going in the first round,
and that's pretty much the end of the story.
[Nate] Did you look at it?
[man on phone] I'm looking at it,
and I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it.
It felt like I broke a blower.
But it's not broke.
[man] Yeah, like it left good. Again, it was good
So, about six-tenths, and then it like, it just quits.
Like the motor didn't quit, the motor is running,
but the motor is banging up against the REV limiter.
Oh. Okay.
Well, the grudge match against John Odom,
we broke the transmission.
[engine accelerating]
[Nate] So, we left and the car went straight
and the transmission gave out, started banging off the REV limiter.
He said, it's just banging off the REV limiter here.
[team member continues indistinctly]
It comes up on there and does its nasty ass [bleep].
-[Nate] Yes. -[team member] There's transition right there.
It makes the shift I wanna do.
-[Nate] Yeah. -Second it cuts off there, it's dead.
[Nate] Yeah, tranny. Okay. All right.
All right, guys, we're gonna have to take the tranny out.
Broke a transmission in that grudge hit.
We just needed to focus on our Great Eight.
And here, I got greedy and we actually broke the transmission.
So, we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car.
We're gonna get started.
Set it right here, guys.
[bleep]
[dramatic music swells, fades]
[Nate] Just set it right here, guys.
[bleep]
Uh, we broke a transmission in that grudge hit.
So, we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car.
We're gonna get started.
I think we can change the tranny in an hour.
All right.
When you want a spare transmission, you...
nothing comes exactly the way you have to have it.
So, all the changes we've made to this car,
we've also made changes to transmission.
So, we had fittings that were wrong.
We had plugs that were wrong, hoses that were wrong.
So, we had to steal everything off of the old transmission,
put it on the spare.
Have you changed bearings in it in a while?
I have bearings.
I guess I could yank it apart, real quick.
You got somebody put on it and work in.
-[team member] -Huh?
[team member]
What are you talking about?
[Nate] What about this one?
[team member] It's like, different oil pan.
[Nate] This one's smaller, too.
[team member]
Hey, he was trying to get time,
but I don't think they're gonna let him have time, so.
I'm getting ready to get in my car and push up.
Nate comes over here and says that his transmission's bad in his car
and he's trying to change it.
Well, normally, that's a 20 or 30 minute job.
I'll just wait and see what happens.
[Nate] Somebody get under there and help him push that up down there.
-[team member] It's up. -Okay.
Where's he at?
Heard something?
[Kye] Burnt the transmission, so I don't know.
[Nate] Realistically, at least, 20 to 30 minutes.
[bleep]
[Nate] All right, fine.
Now, you can take your time, guys. [bleep]
-[team member] -Yep.
It sucks, but I mean,
there's no sense in crying over spilt milk.
I mean, it's broke.
I can't unbreak it.
We have a spare, we're gonna get it put in the car.
At the end of the day, my safety
and the safety of the guy in the other lane is more important to me.
Excuse me, guys.
Excuse me! Sorry.
And I can tell you this will be a learning lesson for me.
Uh, we're gonna take those transmissions out,
and they will have all the same fittings, all the same lines.
So, I can literally take one out and dump it in.
If I could have done that, we wouldn't have spent
a half an hour, 45 minutes swapping everything.
Uh, we'd have made first round Great Eights.
-[man] Did you-- -[Kye speaking]
[Nate] No, I tried. I got 20 more minutes, so.
-[Kye] I'm sorry, man. -[Nate] That's all right.
-[Kye] It sucks, man. -I appreciate you, man. Thanks, anyways.
I got it in. I just... There's no way I can get up here in time.
We get up there, we wait in the staging lanes for ten or 15 more minutes,
and he finally pulls up and said,
"Hey, man, I've still got 20 or 30 minutes left.
I'm not gonna make it. You get a competition bye."
So, I finally get some good luck.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, folks. Here we go.
Great Eight first round coming at you right now.
Kye Kelley getting a break
as Nate Sayler unable to make the call.
So, Kye Kelley getting a bye run here in the first round.
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Kye Kelley, nice pass there in the left lane.
So, he will move on to the next round of the Great Eight.
-Kye didn't wait for him? [bleep] -[Boosted] No.
I don't think they were close either.
So...
I raced myself, but I didn't cross.
I didn't red light, and done everything right,
and the car went fast.
So, my team's on top of it, I'm on top of it.
I felt like I cut a good light.
[engine accelerating]
I feel confident going in the second round
for the first time in three weeks.
We tried something we wouldn't have tried, and it took it,
so it's gonna make our car faster for the rest of the day.
So, it's all good.
Luck, starting off with luck.
Luck is always good.
[Lizzy speaking]
[Lizzy]
I mean, my helmet, that's everything...
[Lizzy speaking]
This race, I actually feel a little bit better.
The last race, I was not feeling so great.
I was sleeping a whole lot.
My treatment's really knocked me down on my feet,
but I kept going.
It wasn't the greatest of a race for us in Ohio,
but we're moving on to the next race.
I feel confident and think the car is gonna make a really good run.
So, we just go up there and run a race.
Okay. Thank you, guys.
-[man speaking] -What?
-[man speaking] -[Robin] Yes.
-I was in anyway. -Oh, you were, okay.
I got me... I got Lizzy.
Man, we worry a lot about Lizzy,
'cause she can run really good.
She's just really salty.
So, she's also really good on the tree.
And so, I want to do my job just right.
She's been killing it. She's won two races in a row.
She's pretty badass.
And then, she got a little bit inconsistent,
so we don't know which Lizzy Musi we're gonna see.
But if she runs good, it's gonna be super tough.
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, next pair.
His first round of the Great Eight,
over on the right lane, that is gonna be Robin Roberts.
Robin Roberts on the right lane
going up against Lizzy Musi in the left.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Robin Roberts takes the win.
Nice job!
Robin on the tree never looked back.
[Lizzy] I missed it by a hair on the tree,
but not enough for him to, like, come out on me like he did.
[engine accelerating]
[Lizzy] So, he was definitely [bleep] pulling ass.
I was probably right there with him,
but, like, a little past 60 foot,
he was, like, pulling real hard.
And he, like, stayed there, ad I stayed where I was.
I don't know, just sucks going out first round again.
We've been having... It's been rough last two races,
and I don't want to make it three.
We've still got Invitational coming up.
But we gotta get a little bit faster,
'cause apparently, Robin's flying.
Good job, Robin. You were on that... [laughs]
-Good job. -Thank you.
-Good race. -Good race. Yep.
-See you. -Okay.
[Murder Nova] Oh [bleep].
Thank you.
So, I've been in two Great Eights and I've won 'em both.
You know, so I don't know if that's a good thing
or a bad thing right now,
because in my mind,
there's a lot of pressure on me
to go out and do good again.
Right now, we're sitting in fourth.
We're still a long ways behind Kye.
So, at this point, we have to get points every Great Eight
if we're gonna catch Kye.
I think I... Yeah, I do gotta be pushed back.
-Here we go. -[team member] Got it.
[Kayla] We have a little problem that we can't find.
You know, I'm having a hard time right now balancing my life,
if we're gonna be honest.
A lot of people stayed and tested last week at Dragway 42,
and I would have loved the opportunity to do that.
But, you know, right now I'm struggling
with being a full-time mom and a full-time racer,
and I had to go home and watch my baby play baseball,
and you know, if I lose first round
because I made that decision, then so be it.
But I'm doing the best I can.
[engine accelerating]
[tires screech]
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, over in that right lane,
backing up the Procharger Mustang,
that is, Miss Kayla Morton,
going up against Murder Nova.
Murder Nova there in the left lane
who has won two Great Eight events in a row,
looking to make it three.
He's gonna have to get around Kayla Morton, though,
first here in this first round.
[engine whirring]
-[engine revs] -[starter pistol blows]
[Boosted] All right, over in that right lane,
backing up the Procharger Mustang,
that is, Miss Kayla Morton,
going up against Murder Nova,
who has won two Great Eight events in a row,
looking to make it three.
He's gonna have to get around Kayla Morton, though,
first here in this first round.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] All right, Murder Nova gonna get the win there.
Kayla Morton on a pass,
but the car made a hard move across the center.
That was abrupt.
[Kayla] My God!
[Murder Nova] I let go of the button.
I looked over and, of course, Kayla's there.
Her car 60 foots really well,
and it 330's really well.
It was pretty neck and neck.
And then, all of a sudden, she fell back.
I didn't know what happened.
-Are you okay? -Yeah.
-[Murder Nova] What happened? -Huh?
Did you not make one?
I took out all the cones and it got crazy.
-[Murder Nova] Oh, no. -[Kayla] Dude, like...
This thing is [bleep] wild.
We've been fighting this car for the past few rounds.
Um, she's just extremely temperamental right now.
Hard to control.
-Anyways, good job, babe. -[Murder Nova] Good job.
-Y'all will figure it out. -[Kayla] Mess.
It's all good. This thing's just being a complete bitch, honestly.
It's been that way since 42.
I'm just having to drive at every pass,
and like, she's not fun right now.
But we'll figure it out.
We'll get it back, get it up on the sands,
look underneath, and then, make a test pass.
But Shawn deserves that win, for sure.
But we were right with him until we weren't.
I'm gonna end up crashing this piece of [bleep].
I want to roll it back, get the motor out of the sun.
Put this back on that side like we usually do.
Hello. Can we just shoot real quick?
[woman speaking]
Please.
I gotta clean up all this [bleep].
We're gonna have to get on top of this car,
make sure that, you know, everything's right, everything's ready.
We slipped up a little bit last week,
but the car's hauling ass, it feels good.
So, I feel like we can get a handle on it and haul ass here.
All right, it's good.
About 200-250. I was somewhere through that.
You thought that chatter was in first. That's why it chattered a little.
And then, it started back strolling,
and then, I don't know, the last 100 feet,
it just calmed, it was calm.
But it probably... I don't know, you probably, you know?
I don't know if you'd set it like that or not, but--
Yeah, I was pretty conservative
on the fuel and timing tune up on it,
just to keep it alive.
We got to race all weekend.
Yeah, actually, I made a hell of a pass.
-I said-- -Good, I told him, "Sir, if I have to drive this truck
the rest of the year, and we can go test her in a week,
[bleep] me, man."
-That pays off. It just-- -Yeah, no, for the whole car to be new
and different engine, rear end,
converter, and then, roll off the trailer,
-and... -[team member] Yeah, I'll take it.
I'll take it.
Racing Damon, you never know.
The last time I raced him,
I outran him, time before, he outran me.
So, we're back and forth all season.
Most of us have hemis.
He doesn't have a hemi, so I give him props
for making that car so fast without having to go to a hemi.
It's gonna be tough.
[engine revving]
[Boosted] All right, folks. Last pair coming at you.
On that right lane, that's gonna be Damon Merchant,
going up against Axman.
Larry Roach there in the left lane.
And this will be the last pair of the Great Eight first round.
[dramatic music playing]
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] And Axman takes the win!
Nice pass from both cars, but Axman...
moving on the next round. Nice job.
[Damon] Son of a [bleep].
I took my time getting in, grab the button.
It rocked really hard, knocked out the top lock.
I let go of the button, didn't go red.
At the 330, was ahead of him.
He starts coming and clips me at the end.
Damn, it's hard out here.
These guys are [bleep] fast,
and we're losing by inches.
So, we're just gonna have to do something
to pick it up out back and, you know,
stay out in front of these guys.
It's that feeling when I let off the brake
and I don't see him, I don't hear him.
And then, like, we're coming right up on the mile an hour cone,
and it's like, I got this, and they [bleep] just clip us at the end, man.
That's...
I don't know how many races we've lost like that this year, and I don't...
[Damon] But the thing is, like it's hard.
That's what I was saying down there,
it's kinda hard to get all...
you know, down about it
because the car is running like [bleep].
Everybody's just [bleep] leaning on [bleep].
It's go time.
And that's...
Maybe that's where our lack of experience in this is gonna start hurting us.
I don't know, I mean,
I know we're competitive, but...
they're starting to really lay into their [bleep].
[Axman] Whoo!
That was an awesome race.
I mean, it's a Great Eight for a reason.
Shoot, I'm just glad to move on to the next round.
Hopefully, I can take somebody out.
I'm gonna try anyway.
Yeah, I'd seen it coming up to 330,
I'd seen it in a little corner of my eyes, like, "Uh-oh."
And then, all of a sudden I just see it...
-"See you later." -Pulled off from him.
[Kye] Hey, man, I made it out of first round.
[Boosted laughs] That's 'cause you didn't draw Murder Nova.
No, I didn't draw nobody. Probably come through the final.
-[both laugh] -[Boosted] I agree.
All right, we're gonna go ahead and start
our Great Eight semifinals drivers' meeting, folks.
We started with eight drivers,
we are now down to four.
Uh, first and foremost,
Murder Nova, still in the show.
Got his win there in the first round.
Murder Nova looking to make it three in a row for Great Eight wins.
Also, the current Great Eight points leader, Kye Kelley.
-Still standing. -Second round.
Made the second round. Good job, Kye.
-[Kye] It was tough, man. -It was a tough race for you there, man.
That other lane was empty. But you... [laughs]
You made a good pass nonetheless.
Unfortunately, Nate Sayler, unable to get his car
turned around after whatever he broke.
So, now, no free wins this round
as you've got some tough competitors standing next to you.
You've got Axman and Robin Roberts as well.
Two very fast drivers.
Well, hell, let's go ahead and draw chips.
See who's racing who here in this semifinals round.
My number ones, step up.
Kye Kelley versus Axman.
Which means my second pair will be Robin Roberts versus Murder Nova.
All right, y'all, you know who you're racing,
and you know what you gotta do.
Go back to the pits, get your cars turned around
and bring them up here to the staging lanes.
[Kye] I don't wanna draw none of y'all.
I wish... Yeah, yeah.
I like that competition bye deal I got last round. That was nice.
-[Murder Nova] Yeah [bleep]. -[all laughing]
[David] So, you gotta race Ax?
-Yeah. -Oh, he made two good passes.
Yeah, me and Axman decided we was gonna stand by each other,
so we wouldn't have to pick Murder Nova or Robin Roberts.
-And y'all picked each other. -Yeah, they told us, so.
Man, you're all full of [bleep].
That ain't gonna work. It worked. [laughs]
We wanted to race each other.
Feel like we've got a better chance with us
than them two fat [bleep].
[Axman] The quiet before the storm, man.
What do you think, Motor Man?
So, all season, Kye's been killing it with the JangALang.
I mean, he's been hurting everyone's feelings.
But the last race or so, JangALang's been breaking parts.
He popped the blower.
I mean, it's just been part failure.
About every time, it takes him out of the race.
But still, I'm not gonna underestimate him,
because I know he's gonna have that hot rod turned up to try to pit me out.
-So, he did make a good lick in left lane. -Yeah.
So, he's been in left lane, what, twice, three times?
Yeah, dang. He gotta be used to that lane.
Kye's number one in the Great Eight. I'm number three.
He's about 20 points ahead of me.
So, if I can take him out, that's just another point or two I can pull off.
And if I could pull the win off...
Hey, two wins and I've tied him.
So, that's actually the game plan.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Great Eight semifinals starts now.
We've got two pairs here.
First pair coming at you right now.
Over the right lane, that is going to be Axman, Larry Roach.
Axman there in the right lane.
Back in the Game Changer Mustang,
up and in the left lane that will be Kye Kelley.
Driving that Regal, third points leader in the Great Eight.
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[Kye] [bleep]
And Axman will take the win.
Kye Kelley breaks the blower belt right on the hit.
[Kye] [bleep] is that, man?
[Axman] Whoo!
That feels a lot better.
So, me and Kye roll in,
I knew I was gonna have my hands full.
The light turned green, I turned loose that trans brake.
The Game Changer set me back, I was like, "Dang!"
I get to the finish line, roll around,
I was amazed how fast the car ran.
I got looking, there was no Kye.
Then when everyone rolled up, I said, "What happened to Kye?"
They said, he broke a belt on the starting line.
So, the race was won right there.
Dang!
It sucks, man.
I can understand that if we was running them bitches
20 runs or something, but that sucks.
[team member speaking]
[Kye] When you buy a box of blower belts
you're supposed to get 12 passes out of a blower, at a minimum.
And the first belt we put on, it broke,
and it was, like, seven passes.
The second belt shredded in half at, like, six passes.
And then, that one just broke at nine passes.
So, we're gonna take that box of belts
and [bleep] the whole [bleep] box,
'cause that's stupid, man.
A $250 belt costs you ten grand, you know?
I really felt like, I had an opportunity
to be in the finals tonight,
and then some dumb [bleep] like that.
I hate that.
That is the hardest way to lose.
So, I probably [bleep] put some used ones in there. [laughs]
[Kye] Yeah.
[Robin] Hey, Brian.
Let's set the torque wrench up...
Hundred and five.
Man, I drew Murder Nova for the semifinals.
What a badass.
He's won two in a row.
He was in the finals last week in the Invitational,
like, he's just on a roll.
This is gonna be tough.
It should be good. I...
put one flat, and that ARB made it longer.
Let's see how that works.
Hopefully, it takes away that little...
Right off the hit, it just takes a little left move,
and let's see if we can get rid of that.
I think our cars are quite similar.
I mean, we've both got Pro Line MH7s,
so there's so much to say.
There's a lot of parity here. Our runs are neck and neck.
And so, let's just see.
-All right. -[Murder Nova] I'm gonna go ahead and get in.
We went up and we draw Robin Roberts.
You know, we've been here before.
Let's [bleep] go!
I raced Robin in the last Great Eight.
And it was actually the first time we ever outran him.
Everybody said he made a killer pass on his first one.
But, you know, every car up here is fast,
and you've got to take 'em out one at a time.
[engine roaring]
[Boosted] All right, folks. Last pair here in this Great Eight semifinals.
Over in the right lane, that is gonna be Robin Roberts.
Robin Roberts backing up that blue Firebird
there in the right lane.
And his competitor over in the left lane,
that is going to be Murder Nova.
Murder Nova in the left lane, looking to make it three in a row.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] And Robin Roberts gets the win.
-[all cheering] -So, your Great Eight finals
will be Robin Roberts versus Axman.
[Robin] That was a good race, dude.
[Murder Nova] That was a [bleep] killer race.
-[Robin] My God! -[Murder Nova] Nice job, brother.
That light was long as [bleep] Wasn't it?
Holy [bleep].
Nice job, man.
-Hey, that was [bleep]. -[Robin] Thank you.
-You did awesome. -[Murder Nova] I feel like I made a pretty good one
and I wasn't...
There was no... I wasn't catching you.
-Is that right? -Yeah. Yeah. You made a good lick.
-[Robin] Oh. -No doubt about it, man.
[Robin] The light was long.
I see a flicker of green and I'm off.
[engine revs, accelerating]
[Robin] So, we're rolling out, and we just edged him at about 60,
and it just stayed there the whole way.
And I quit paying attention, 'cause I wanted to go straight as an arrow.
I knew if we faltered or moved at all, he'd be around us.
And I thought he'd have a top end charge.
Just quite didn't have enough and we got lucky.
And I mean, it's big to beat him, 'cause he's on such a roll.
For us, though, to get into the finals of this Great Eight,
I just wanted to be in the Great Eight.
Now, we're in the finals of Great Eight.
Now, we're gonna win it.
-Every dumb thing? -Every dumb thing
Did you tighten the loose nut behind the wheel?
-I don't think we did. -[all laughing]
-Maybe. -Loosening up behind the wheels,
it always gets us.
I don't know, it's been pretty tight so far.
-Yeah, it's done good today. -[team member] Yeah, yeah.
It's on the level.
Not when you do that, that's when something little, you know?
-Yeah, right. -Really?
Hey, last week we got down. But this [bleep] is doing something different.
-So, it'll be good. -No, it's good.
It's good, real good.
-It's our weekend. -It's our weekend.
Hello, Mister Gates.
-Hey, man. -[man] I like the way you wake up your crew.
I just saw that video.
[David] Yeah.
Always.
We got to get 'em in, you know, the mood, man.
Quit laying around being lazy.
Rise and shine [bleep]!
It's race day!
[all laughing]
[David] It's time to [bleep] get it!
[woman] Oh, my God.
[Kye] That's gotta be on the intro of one of the shows.
-[all laughing] -[bleep] got no shirt on
and his toenails are painted red.
-Yeah. -[all chuckling]
[David] It's time to [bleep] get it!
[all laughing]
[Boosted] We're gonna go ahead and do our Great Eight finals drivers' meeting.
We started with eight, we are now down to two.
Yeah. Our two drivers are Robin Roberts and Axman,
who are gonna race for $10,000. Here we go!
-[audience cheering] -[both laugh]
The winner gets $10,000 and ten points towards the Individual Championship,
which, as you know, at the end of the season,
the driver with the most points gets $100,000.
So, a lot of money there for that.
What we're gonna do here is we're gonna have a coin toss
to decide who gets lane choice.
Robin Roberts, call in the air, sir.
-Heads. -[Boosted] Heads is the call.
It is tails.
-Axman's lane! -Ooh!
-You gonna let him know? -Yeah, definitely.
All right, so Axman is gonna let Robin Roberts know.
All right, folks, these two drivers are gonna put on a show for $10,000.
Make some noise for Robin Roberts and Axman.
-[audience cheering] -[Boosted] Good luck.
Most likely, that's gonna be left.
I'm just saying, I may [bleep] the lane up, I don't know.
Okay, that's fine.
Thanks, bud.
[man] How you doing, man?
-[Axman] [bleep] I'm good, brother. -I've seen you...
-Imagine that. -You never know about this [bleep] though, man.
-These guys are so fast, man. -They're unreal.
I always can't believe these cars will run that fast. Blows my mind.
Just do you think, baby.
-Yeah. -Go to the finish line.
-Okay. -Tell Alan, right.
Same thing you did last time.
-Go to finish and go. -Yep.
Man, I drew Axman.
Like, I haven't wanted to win anything like this in a long time.
We've kind of just edged at it this year,
and I've been on the edge in Tulsa and things like that.
Now, it's our time.
[engine roaring]
[Boosted] All right, folks, here we go.
Great Eight f inals.
Over in the right lane,
backing up that blue Firebird, that is Robin Roberts.
And in the left lane, driving the Game Changer,
Procharger Mustang, that is Axman.
Axman versus Robin Roberts,
10,000 to win right here, right now
on this Maple Grove surface.
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] And Robin Roberts gets the win.
Robin Roberts is your winner for the Great Eight tonight.
Ten thousand dollars richer and ten points towards the Individual Championship.
[indistinct conversation]
[Axman] Whoo!
Me and Robin, we left out of there.
I didn't see him.
My car starts moving to the left just a little.
I was trying to correct it, I kept holding left, left, left.
First time in my life I ever seen the wall,
I thought I could drive down it.
I was like, "I'm not letting out." Usually, I lift.
So, I just held my foot on the floor,
and all of a sudden I got the car come back to the right.
"Ah, we're off the wall."
I come off the throttle, throttle was stuck.
I said, "Oh, man, I go from one death trap straight to the next."
I get out, and we had a battle wound here before.
Like, riding in a trailer.
But then, I started looking closer,
and you can tell where it hit the wall here, here, here.
So, I actually did... I did hit the wall. I didn't really think I did.
I can't believe it didn't hit the headers, though.
[team member 1] No, you hit the back end.
[Axman] Oh, the back end.
[team member 1] Look at the back end.
[team member 2] You were driving it.
As far as we know, we've got to check out why the throttle was hanging.
But that's part of racing.
[all cheering]
Yeah!
Man, I'm so excited. Like, we've been looking forward to this.
We've been trying to just get in the Great Eight and stay there.
We thought we could win some if we could get in.
And here we are...
That just happened.
Like, I can't believe it, but it just happened.
Yeah, guys! Thank you.
Just winning in this Great Eight is so incredibly difficult.
There are eight of the best, eight of your top ones.
They're the best and there's no round that's easy.
It's hard to get through this deal.
This is probably the toughest...
It's tougher to win than the Invitational.
You might get a lucky round in the Invitational,
there's no lucky round in this group.
And we just won it.
-[cork pops] -Oh... [laughs]
Go on, get a sip, baby!
-[all cheering] -[team member] Let's go, Robin!
Rock and roll.
[Boosted] And that's it for the Great Eight here at Maple Grove Raceway.
Robin Roberts won his first individual event of the year
and is taking home $10,000,
and adding ten points to his overall, too.
That gives Robin 13 points,
but he has a long way to go to catch Kye Kelley,
who is in the lead with 50 points.
[engine accelerating]
[Boosted] Next time...
Kye, you may be in the lead right now.
That might not be the case much longer.
Y'all have messed up thoroughly
because you have let Ryan Martin into the Great Eight.
So, with you even being in this meeting,
Kye Kelley right now is very nervous, I can tell.
[Kye] I'm still number one on points.
I've been sucking the last three Great Eights,
so I'm trying to turn my luck around here.
[engine revs, accelerating]