[Boosted] Previously on "The Great Eight" --
Axman and David Gates raced off for the final spot,
and Axman ended up getting the win.
And Axman takes the win, so he will be racing in
the Great Eight.
Then he went on to take out Damon Merchant in round one
and points leader Kye Kelley in round two.
-[intense music plays] -[whoosh]
[bleep]
[Boosted] Kye Kelley breaks the blower belt right on the hit.
Robin Roberts advanced to the semifinals after a close
race against Lizzy Musi.
Robin Roberts.
And then took out the winner of
the last two Great Eight events, Murder Nova.
So, your Great Eight finals will be Robin Roberts
versus Axman.
And Robin won his first Great Eight race of the year,
collected $10,000 and 10 points towards that
individual championship.
-[pop] -[laughing]
Oh, get a sip, baby. Woo.
That's what I'm talking about.
Rock and roll.
[Boosted] And now, the top eight drivers heading to Michigan are set
to race for $10,000 and valuable points
towards the individual championship.
[whooshing]
Put your hands together for the Great Eight drivers.
[beeping]
We are here at US 131 Motorsports Park in Michigan.
This track was built in 1962 and completed $14 million worth
of renovations back in 2002.
Today, it's hosting the Great Eight.
Here in Michigan, it's been pretty rainy,
and we're racing against more weather.
So, the racers won't get their usual test pass before
we start running.
They did get to do some testing yesterday, but 24 hours
and a few rainstorms later, tunes will have to change.
Here's how it works -- if you win the Great Eight,
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] Hello, guys. -Hello.
[Boosted] And lady. Welcome to the Great Eight.
Guys, I'm gonna tell y'all, and I told the captains this
as well, y'all have messed up thoroughly because you have let
Ryan Martin into the Great Eight. -Thanks, Captain Obvious.
[Boosted] Yeah, I'm just pointing out.
I'm just pointing it out that he is in the Great Eight.
-[Boosted] Hi, by the way. -Just in time for points and a half.
[Boosted] Just in time. Thank you.
It's all part of the plan. You saw his dry-erase board.
It's on there. Right now, Kye Kelley's in the lead.
-[Murder Nova] How many points does he have? -50.
-[Murder Nova] 50? -And another note,
number two and three, which would be
Giuseppe and Axman, they're not in the Great Eight
no more. -Oh.
-[Boosted] At least for right now. -Who's number four?
[Boosted] Number four. Good question.
-Number four is Shawn. -How many points you got?
-[Boosted] And Shawn has...23 points. -23.
[Boosted] There's a little gap there, but it is still obtainable.
You can still beat him. You're his kryptonite anyways,
so with you even being in this meeting,
Kye Kelley right now is very nervous, I can tell.
Also, guys, Ryan came just in the nick of time because
starting next race is points and a half for the Great Eight.
And then the last race is double points.
So, Kye, you may be in a lead right now, but that might not
be the case much longer with the points and a half
and double points in the last race.
Let's go ahead and draw chips, see who's racing who here in
this Great Eight.
[music plays]
[Kye] Oh [bleep].
[Boosted] Number ones.
Nate Sayler and David Gates. First pair, all right.
You know, we got David Gates first round of the Great Eight.
I feel good about it. Our car's fast.
He's got a fast car, too. And I love David to death.
I think he's such a great dude.
But I think we've got a faster car today.
So, we'll find out after first round.
Number twos.
-Son of a bitch. -Uh-oh.
[Boosted] Lizzy versus Kye.
You know what the bad thing about having four people on
your team is? You're probably gonna draw.
Yeah, yeah it's gonna happen.
-[Boosted] Lizzy versus Kye. -And, of course,
I'm gonna be the one that has to race one of them.
I drew Lizzy in the Great Eight.
Didn't want to draw her, but I feel like my car is just
as fast as she is nowadays.
Plus, anybody in the Great Eight is fast.
So, whoever you draw, you got to beat them
all the way until you get to the final.
So, and I reached in the bucket in the Great Eight,
I don't care who it is. You got to race.
Number threes.
Kayla Morton and Damon Merchant, which means
our fourth and final pair will be Murder Nova and Ryan Martin. -Bleh.
-[Boosted] All right. -[Kye] Hey, man, I'm good with that.
Murder Nova is gonna welcome Ryan Martin to the Great Eight.
That's one of the best first round Great Eight-ers out here,
so I'm good with it. -OK, well, there you go.
[Kye] One more week, give me a little time, you know?
Yeah, you're good. You're good.
You know, you're gonna have to face them eventually,
so, you know. -[Kye] Yeah, I know.
All right, just letting you know.
All right, guys and lady, you know who you're racing.
Go ahead and get your cars turned around.
Let's go. Let's do it.
[music plays]
Should say E2.
This, today, is gonna be a tuner's game, period.
It's gonna be who can get down this [bleep] track
with the conditions that they are -- the fastest.
And I think that we can do that.
So we're gonna give him a run for his money.
-Hi. -Hey.
Go get this win, brother.
[Nate] Yeah, that's my plan.
I'm fixing to try.
Does that put you where in the points if you take
the whole thing?
Adds 10 points, and I'm at 13 -- 23,
so I'd be in, like, it'd go way up there.
[woman] I thought you were closer to Kye.
[Nate] Nah.
-Who's right behind Kye? -Ready?
Uh, two guys that aren't in.
[Jeff speaking]
Oh, my god. [bleep] Jeff Lutz.
I'm good. How are you, sir?
I'm good. Who are you racing?
Nate Sayler. First pair of the Great Eight.
Man, you [bleep] that deal, huh?
But, hey, if you want to be number one...
You got to beat the fastest.
Might as well go after [bleep] one of the top dogs.
I got to race Nate right off the trailer today because
we don't get any test hits because of the weather.
But, hey, I've raced Nate one other time, and I beat him,
and he's fast. He's got a great program.
He's a great competitor. He's a nice guy.
And it's gonna be, it's gonna be a drag race.
It's gonna be a dogfight when we get up there.
When we turn the top bulbs on and the bottom bulbs and it
goes green, we're gonna see who gets to
the other end first.
We get out, we're gonna shake hands and come on back
over here and cool these things down and hopefully we're
the winner and keep on going rounds today.
I think the track will be good.
[David] Once I get it --
Once we get to making runs down it and it dries out,
I think we'll be fine. If the rain will stay away,
but it's blowing right off that lake.
Track's gonna be really cold.
It's had a lot of moisture put on it the last two days since
we've been here. It's pretty much rain nonstop.
So, you know, you always are pretty sketchy about going out
on a track, you know, that's been cold,
especially been wet.
And when you're in these cars going this fast, you want it,
you know, planted to the ground because anything can happen.
It can really get tricky. But if we can go down the track,
I feel like we got a great chance
of winning it because it's going to be
definitely a tuner's game today.
[sputtering]
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, over in the left lane, nitrous-fed Camaro.
That's gonna be David Gates.
David Gates in the left lane going up against Nate Sayler
in the right lane. ProCharged Nova.
First pair of the Great Eight class.
-[sputtering] -[suspenseful music plays]
-[revving] -[gunshot]
All right, Nate Sayler gonna get the win there.
David Gates.
Car makes a move towards the center.
[Nate] Woo, it's a hot one.
We had a good run against David Gates.
Staged the car, leave, and it just [bleep] gets.
It's on the wheelie bars.
Third gear, it did a little, uh, sashay a little bit,
but nothing that we can't handle.
Pulled the chutes and turned on the win light.
I just stuck the spicy one in it.
I figured if we're gonna swing for it, I'm gonna swing for it
now, and so, yeah, it was good.
I had her spicy.
I need five round wins to seal the championship, and I hadn't
won first round in three races. -Are you serious?
Oh, my god.
Well, I've been going out first round
every freaking time.
You know what I go through every year?
[bleep] race, race, race, and then I start [bleep] up.
Well, we got good tracks coming up, too.
-We got a lot. -This is a good track, though.
I think this track will be good tonight.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
It's gonna get real cold, but how's your, like,
motors do, like, in this weather?
We had to crank it with racing gas a while ago.
It wouldn't crank. It was blah, blah, blah, blah.
-Are you serious? -We shot some C25, man, that bitch hiyah.
No way.
That's crazy.
But, yeah, I think...
Does it come alive, though? It's got to in the air.
Oh, right. It's pissed off.
-Yeah. -You know when I ribbed it?
Yeah, I heard it, yeah.
I touched the gas pedal like that.
-Oh, my god. -Yeah.
[Lizzy] So, today, we're racing the Great Eight.
This race, I really am not feeling too well.
I just had my treatment this past Tuesday, and they gave me
double dose of my medicine, so it's, like,
it's really taking a toll on me.
But, yeah...
Drew Kye first round, definitely not a guy I want to
draw, but Kye's been running good.
Actually, me and him have been struggling first round lately.
I don't know what's going on, but can't take him for granted.
-Don't beat me too bad. -[Lizzy] Shut up,
you're gonna kick my ass. That's what I know.
I'm gonna do a little shake and bake and take her on in.
I think me and you both have been having the same luck in
this Great Eight lately. -[Lizzy] I don't know.
[Kye] Whatever one of us win, we finally turned
our luck around. -Yeah, I agree.
Good luck.
Still number one in points.
I've been sucking the last three Great Eights,
so I'm trying to turn my luck around here.
I feel like it's my time.
I mean, she beat me one time already, so it's my turn.
We got to be on top of our game.
We have got to go as fast as we've possibly ever been
right here today if we want to get out of the first round.
[sputtering]
[revving]
-[sputtering] -[suspenseful music plays]
[Boosted] All right, folks, next pair.
Kye Kelley versus Lizzy Musi here in this first round of
the Great Eight class.
[sputtering]
[revving]
And Lizzy Musi takes the win there.
What a drag race between those two.
But Lizzy turns on the win light there.
[music plays]
We're getting ready to go out. We do our burnouts.
Get ready to stage. Light turns green.
I feel like I was a little bit behind.
Kye's always good on the light. I see him.
He's a little bit out in front of me.
And I don't know.
He starts losing it a little bit.
My car, I felt like it was going a little left
on that run. But I stayed with it
and get to the finish line first.
I wasn't expecting that because we had no data on our run.
And, you know, Kye, he's normally consistent.
Oh, man, I can't. I was not expecting that.
So, um, wasn't expecting that, but we got the win.
First round win in Great Eight, and, uh, moving on to
second round. -Hey, man.
We missed it. We missed it on the big end.
-[Lizzy] Yeah, I know that. -You started shaking it.
-You started trucking. -Oh, god.
Good run, though.
I thought I had you when I left.
-I was like, "I got it, I got it." -I know, I know.
I was like, "All right, I'm just gonna just take it
on in." -Yeah.
At about 500 feet, I just went, it was shaking and it
went right. I never lifted.
That's what they say, you were shaking.
Yeah.
[Lizzy] But if you weren't, you'd [bleep] pass me.
Them tires working now, damn it.
[Lizzy] [bleep], yeah, right.
If you didn't shake, you'd have been blown past me.
-Trust me. -[Kye] We made a pretty good pass, though.
-I'm good with it. -[Lizzy] Oh, god.
-Good luck. -[Lizzy] Thank you.
It is what it is. We just missed the tune-up.
The good thing is Lizzy does have a fast car today, so maybe
she'll win the Great Eight.
Because she don't have a lot of Great Eight points,
and that would really help me out.
The only thing I can hope is Kayla and Shawn, they need to
go out soon.
I got a pretty big lead, but coming into these races
with points and a half and double points, I got to
worry about Shawn. -It really wasn't shaking.
It's just moving around a little bit, probably spinning
a little bit.
-[man talking] -Thank you.
All right, let's go.
The weather, it's, the weather definitely has an attitude
today, and the track is gonna show that.
So in my opinion, this first round it's gonna be a tuner's
game, and I got the best one, so I feel good about it.
-Do cool [bleep]. -[Damon] Huh?
-Do cool [bleep], all right? -[bleep]. I'll try.
[Damon] The sun just popped out.
Hopefully it's gonna dry some things off.
We can get this first round out of the way with Kayla,
put her right fast back on the trailer,
let her sign signatures all day
and we'll get to racing and get some points into this
Great Eight deal.
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, next pair here in this Great Eight first round
over in the right lane, that's gonna be Damon Merchant.
Damon Merchant in the right lane going up against
Kayla Morton in the left lane.
[sputtering]
The winner will move on to the next round
to join Nate Sayler and Lizzy Musi.
[suspenseful music plays]
[sputtering]
[revving]
And Kayla Morton gonna take the win there, a lot of smoke
from Damon Merchant's car out of the vent.
Got a tid bit of car shake,
but other than that, it was pretty damn perfect.
The race was great for me, not so great for him.
The racetrack is super. It is tight.
It is ready. It is smooth.
It's our kind of racetrack.
We went lined up, I think he took off around the same
time, and then I was way out on him.
We got down to the end of the racetrack,
and I actually think he blew his motor up,
unfortunately, for him.
But the more important part is we made a fantastic pass.
We have our race car back, and I'm ready for round two.
I hate that whole [bleep] blower.
[man] [indistinct] blower?
-[groans] -[man] What's wrong?
[indistinct talking]
[man] Got to hate the blower.
Oh, yeah.
-[bleep] [bleep]. -[laughing]
We knew the car was gonna be making a lot of power
in this air and [bleep].
You know, it's a Great Eight deal.
Like, every weekend, it's the fastest people usually
on the property. So you got to,
you know, turn them up, make them run hard,
and that's what we did.
Seemed like everything was good up to about the 330,
and then it just laid over. A bunch of smoke came out.
It probably pinched some rings and stuff.
It probably beat the [bleep] out of the inside of the motor.
It laid over real hard.
She went by me and, you know, it was all she wrote.
Look at this.
[man talking]
[Damon] Oh no.
[man #2] That's in the engine, isn't it?
[Damon] Yeah, we're super [bleep].
[man talking]
Let's get in the air.
[man] Anything salvageable after something like that?
[Damon] I don't know. Probably not much, bud.
Because all them blades went in there
and it [bleep] just destroyed everything it got a hold of.
-[Damon] Yeah. -[man] That's crazy!
[Damon] Yeah, it almost busted out right there.
It's not the luck I need right now, especially going on to
a whole new team and [bleep]. So that's gonna suck.
We got team points to make up tomorrow.
And we're just gonna see if we can get it fixed.
That's the problem, which I've been upfront about
from day one.
We don't have spare motors and stuff, like...
So Kye jumping on this deal and getting us, he knew there
was gonna be some problems we had.
It won't be for lack of effort, though.
Me and the guys will jump on it and just hope for the [bleep] best
right now, see if we got the stuff to fix it.
It's gonna be costly.
[bleep] damn it. Son of a bitch, Mark.
That's not good.
[woman yelling]
[Ryan] Thank you.
I couldn't find you before I got in.
It's all good. Good luck, homie.
-We'll see you at the other end. -Yep.
You know, the track looks pretty good for the conditions.
It's been raining for two days. They got it dry.
It's pretty nice.
Yep.
[muffled talking]
[indistinct] tire pressure and burnout mark...
Do the best burnout you can, all right?
Just do it.
-You think we're good? -Yup, we're good.
[suspenseful music plays]
I know this is a dumb question, but we've checked the tires?
Everything's good to go?
I mean, the conditions don't bother me.
I really wanted another test pass.
If I'd have got a test pass today, we got to make one pass
yesterday, and then it rained all night.
It was very cold today versus what it was yesterday.
The conditions, everything changed.
I would have liked to have had one test pass
before we got first round.
A lot of people aren't making it down.
So we turned it down just a little bit, and we're gonna
go up and let off the button and see what happens.
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, here we go.
Last pair of the first round of the Great Eight
coming at you right now.
Over in the right lane, that is going to be Ryan Martin.
Ryan Martin in the right lane going up against Murder Nova
in the left lane.
-[sputtering] -[suspenseful music plays]
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, here we go.
Last pair of the first round of the Great Eight.
Ryan Martin in the right lane going up against Murder Nova
in the left lane.
[sputtering]
[revving]
And Murder Nova takes the win.
Nice drag race, Murder Nova.
Moving on to the next round of the Great Eight.
You were [bleep]
rolled out, you know, at first. [bleep] out on me.
Spun the tires, shook the tires, I pedaled it.
Mine did too. Mine did too.
But early, man, you jumped out on me hard.
It was a terrible pass. Terrible pass for both lanes.
We let go of the button and, of course, you know, drawing
Ryan Martin, you got to shoot for it.
So we shot for it.
We probably put a little bit too aggressive
of a tune up in the car for the track conditions right now.
And we let go of the button, and it just didn't make
a good pass. It was all over the place.
And, you know, he was all over the place, too.
He pedaled it, I pedaled it,
and I got to the finish line first.
-It is what it is. -[Murder Nova] Yeah.
Definitely ain't your fault. Don't take me being aggravated.
I'm not. Not at all.
[man] What was up with the pro turner?
-[man] Broke in the middle? -Yeah.
That's the gear drive.
[music plays]
All right folks, gonna go ahead and start our Great Eight
semifinals driver's meeting.
Starting with eight drivers, we're now down to four.
And all four of them are extremely fast, folks.
We got Lizzy Musi, Nate Sayler, Kayla Morton,
and Murder Nova.
All right, so one of these drivers gonna win that
$10,000 today.
If you notice, Kye Kelley is not standing with you, which means
the points leader right now is not up here.
This is your chance to make up ground on him, all right?
All right, let's go ahead and draw chips.
Ladies first.
All right, all my drivers have their chips.
Where are my number ones? Step up.
Gonna be Kayla Morton versus Murder Nova.
All right, which means my second pair will be
Nate Sayler versus Lizzy Musi. All right, y'all.
Go back into the pits. Get your cars turned around.
Someone's gonna win $10,000. Let's go.
[Murder Nova] Well, how do the plugs look? I got Kayla.
[man] The plugs were good, you know, besides that
one [bleep] broke.
[Murder Nova] But other than that, they look good?
So take that other plug, put 1% fuel in it.
Is the weather changing? It's a little bit hotter now, right?
-[man] What's that app that you use? -Here, I got it, I got it.
[man] Look it up.
I mean, it doesn't seem like it's changing, but...
Let me see.
I'll check.
I'll show you this weather app, and then that way you can
look at it, too.
Second round of the Great Eight. The first race,
it wasn't very good, so it's tough
to go off of that data.
We dropped a cylinder, so you can kind of take that
data and you can just kind of throw it away.
I mean, they said that Kayla just went faster
than she's ever went. -Yeah?
That's what he said.
I'm sure he didn't know that I was racing them next round,
but he told me that. -Yeah.
We got Kayla. She's running good right now.
Her car made a fast pass first round.
And, you know, we're not worrying about racing Kayla.
We're worrying about racing the surface that we have.
We just, I didn't think he was gonna have time to call.
So I went ahead and put the middle tune-up in it from
the other day, which is a little bit slower.
[person on phone talking]
Kayla.
[person on phone talking]
Yes, yes.
[person on phone talking]
OK.
Well, maybe we put that other one in it then.
We turned it down just a little bit, but bear in mind,
our turn it down just a little bit is probably still
a little bit hotter than most people's stuff.
[Kayla] Were you gonna talk [bleep] to me?
-Absolutely, but I choose not to. -Aw, thanks.
-Good luck. -I asked him not to.
-[Jeff] Yeah, he asked me. -[Kayla] I like that.
-[Jeff] He said, "Don't you do it." -I said, "Don't do it
because she's good." -What a sportsman-like racer, man.
You know me. I'm not the [bleep]talker.
I just won't do it. We're the same.
It's just not who I am.
-I don't talk [bleep] Shawn. -There you go.
I only [bleep]talk people I don't like, which is really
the majority of these people, you know.
Yeah, that's a big, it's a big group.
[Kayla] Round two of the Great Eight we drew Murder Nova.
Very tough draw, but I owe him one,
and I'm ready to get a little revenge.
I drew my favorite lane, and we're going in
positive attitude.
I clipped Damon's [bleep] first.
Ah, I loved it. Good job.
-[Kayla] Thank you. -You ready?
-[Kayla] Yeah. -Good job.
The first time, I beat him by a fraction,
and then the second time,
he beat me by a little frickin' hair.
So they're very comparable cars.
It's just gonna be who's better in that five-second
increment of their life at that particular point.
So I'm going back to it's a tuner's game,
and I think Chase has this in the bag.
[Boosted] All right, folks, here we go.
Great Eight, semifinals coming at you right now.
[revving]
All right, so Kayla Morton finishes her burnout there in
the left lane. Over the right lane,
gonna be Murder Nova.
Murder Nova tries to do a burnout, car dies,
trying to get it fired back up.
[engine coughing]
[high-pitched whirring]
[suspenseful music plays]
-[engine coughing] -[high-pitched whirring]
[revving]
[hissing]
[Boosted] All right, there we go.
Murder Nova gets the burnout done there in the right lane.
Kayla Morton waits patiently here in the left lane.
[sputtering]
[suspenseful music plays]
[sputtering]
[revving]
[hissing]
And Kayla Morton takes the win. What a drag race.
My god, that was close at the other end.
There you go, babe.
Me and Shawn always have a great race.
And honestly, it was just tit-for-tat.
He was ahead for just a split second, then I would.
And then, you know, I just got the tat at the end and clipped
him at the very end at the stripe.
And it's a great race.
We did exactly what these fans come to see and really put on
some entertainment for round two.
-Always a [bleep] drag race, ain't it? -Yep.
-Nice job. -[Kayla] You can't even be mad about that.
I'm not. I'm not upset.
-It was a good race. -And that was a great pass for that lane.
Good job, man.
It was a little bit upset, but, you know, it was
a good race. Yeah.
It got out there. It made one small move, and that was it.
And that was all it took.
-[Kayla] And then I was like, "Ooh." -How many times have
we said that, though? All you got is one little thing.
[Kayla] It's literally that I was better for that five seconds,
and the last time you were better for that five seconds.
Yep, yep. I'm good with it.
Thank you.
[Boosted] Here in Michigan, Lizzy and Nate are about to face off.
The winner will race Kayla Morton in the finals
for $10,000.
Ugh.
-Doing all right? -Yeah.
[bleep] nauseous feeling's constant, you know?
-I don't know, so I'm sorry. -I know, it's OK.
I can't wait to be done with this race.
-[Nate] Well, you're doing good. -I hate to say that.
-Trying. -You're doing good.
Trying the best I can. Thank you.
I don't know anybody that can do...
I know what it takes for me to do this.
-It's a lot. -[Lizzy] Yeah.
So, I mean, I couldn't even imagine.
It's just hard.
These back-to-back, like, freaking treatments
is like -- and then going right, it's just...
I don't know. I was doing good.
-OK. -Good luck.
Good luck. Be safe.
-See you on the other end. -Yep.
Round two, Great Eight, we got Lizzy Musi.
We got the right lane again, which is what we had last time,
so we're familiar with it.
Lizzy's fast, so we're not gonna take it lightly.
We're gonna put a tune-up in the car.
My tuner sent me two tune-ups the last time, and one was
spicy, one wasn't.
I picked the spicy one, so he knows what it'll take.
And the track just kept getting better, so we're gonna take
what we know and turn it into a hot rod run.
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, here we go. Last pair of the Great Eight semifinals.
Nate Sayler in the right lane, Lizzy Musi in the left.
Winner will go on to face Kayla Morton for $10,000
here in this Great Eight class.
Does anybody know what happened to Damon?
They said he blew up everything.
I don't know what that means, but it blew the blower up,
[bleep] blew the motor up, I don't know.
-[sputtering] -[suspenseful music plays]
[sputtering]
[revving]
[Boosted] And Nate Sayler
takes the win, having to drive it over there.
Lizzy Musi, looks like she had some issues there
on down the track.
So your Great Eight finals will be Nate Sayler
versus Kayla Morton for $10,000.
[Nate] [bleep] I think I left on her,
and it just [bleep] again. This thing just hauls ass.
On the top end of the track, it did get crazy.
The guys at the crew at the starting line said
they could see both sides of the car.
It was moving that much.
But I knew I was out on her, and I wasn't lifting.
And unfortunately, when you're --
when the car is out of control like that, you can't just dump
the gas, like you have to get the handle on the car first.
That's what we did.
I pulled the chutes, came around the corner,
collected our win light.
[man] That wasn't a bad lick.
No, that was pretty good. I didn't mind it.
We're catching points on Kye Kelley and the other two guys
that are in second and third that aren't in
the Great Eight right now. We're also gaining traction on them.
We get into these one-and-a-half and two-times
points and we go rounds. We have a chance at this.
Good job, Nate. Hell of a pass.
I leave, and my car, literally, it goes out there
and starts, like, goes hard --
I don't want to say hard left, but it starts drifting left,
and I'm trying to correct it, not coming back to me,
and I'm like, "I'm not...just gonna, I'm just gonna quit,
save it for another day." Normally, when the car doesn't
come back over to you, you gotta just quit because
there's no point of fighting it then, you know?
I have my fair shares of experience, so,
you know, you just don't want to take that chance, and, uh...
I don't know. Nate just blew by me.
Got the win.
We probably should have put some rear steer in it from
the first round against Kye, but it is what it is.
We're gonna make that change for next round
for the invitational.
So we lost second round of the Great Eight, which sucks,
but I'm not that good at the Great Eight.
I don't know.
Hopefully someday it'll change, but I don't know.
We're trying the best we can. We got new tires.
This air is like a whole curve ball.
And plus me not feeling the greatest this weekend.
I'm trying the best I can. So I'm pushing through it.
-Did you make a clean hit? -[Lizzy] It went left.
Did you see mine going towards the wall?
No, because I was having my hands going left.
-Yours was getting up, too. -Mine was going towards
the wall, and I was like, "Oh [bleep]."
-That was mine. -Oh, god.
-I couldn't lift.
And then I was so close to the [bleep] wall, I didn't dare
pull the chutes. -When you don't see someone,
and you're like, "Where are they at," you know?
If I just saw you in front of me, I'd probably lift it.
-Oh, no. -You guys see both sides of it?
-Yeah. -[Lizzy] Well, good job.
I'm not gonna [bleep] you, I puckered up a little bit.
-I know those feelings. -All right.
-Thanks, Lizzy. -[Lizzy] Good job, guys.
[Boosted] All right. Here we go.
We're going to do our Great Eight finals driver's meeting.
We started with eight drivers earlier today,
and you've battled through the field now.
There's only two that remain, and those two drivers are
Nate Sayler and Kayla Morton. All right.
Battle of the ProChargers, right?
-One of you drivers here is going to win $10,000. -Yeah!
The other is going to win $0. It's a great thing.
Have you already decided lane choice, or do we need to
flip for it?
We've already decided Nate's gonna take right,
and I'll be in the left. -Wow.
OK, so Nate Sayler's taking right lane.
Kayla will take the left lane. OK.
Well, look, there's really not much left to say.
I think the fans would love to see somebody
win $10,000 here, right?
[cheering]
-But who? -But who?
There's no way to know who's going to be unless y'all race.
No, who do they want to see win?
OK, real quick. Who thinks Nate Sayler's gonna win?
[sparse cheering]
-[Boosted] Yeah. -That's bad.
Who thinks Kayla Morton's gonna win?
-[loud cheering] -[Boosted] Oh, wow.
Well, I hope they're all wrong.
-Sorry, Nate. -I'm gonna prove all y'all wrong.
He said he's gonna prove all y'all wrong.
That's right. And then come by his pit
and get a shirt afterwards. All right, y'all.
Well, hey, go get in your cars.
Get suited up.
Let's see who'll win this $10,000.
Let's do it.
[Kayla] It feels so good to be back in the finals.
I feel like I'm home. It's where I belong.
The car is doing really great.
Nate, however, is very fast, so we're gonna have to put
Mona Lisa in this bitch for the final, and that's exactly
what Chase is doing right now. Yeah, Nate is very fast.
He's kind of a newbie, but I've known Nate for
a while, and he doesn't play.
He has a fantastic tuner, a fantastic program, loads of
money in it, and that's what it takes around here.
But I have a little fire under my ass right now because
neither Damon or Nate chose to come to Daddy Dave's team,
and I'm trying to make them regret it here.
I have no doubt in my mind that
we can go out there and kick his ass.
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, here we go.
Great Eight finals headed your way right here.
Over in the right lane, that is gonna be Nate Sayler
against the ProCharged Mustang in the left,
driven by Kayla Morton.
Kayla Morton in the left lane, Nate Sayler in the right.
One of these drivers is gonna win $10,000 right here.
[Nate talking]
[thumping]
[Kye] I was in this restaurant last night, and our waitress,
Clay Cole, said, "I bet you can't get her phone number."
I said, "Bet..." He said, "I bet $100." I said, "All right."
She walked up to me, and she said, "I got a question."
I was like, "What?" Did she want to come to the race Saturday?
VIP tickets to hang out with me?
And she was like, "Yeah." And I was like, "Well, I need
your phone number so I can turn your name in."
So she gave me her phone number.
I was over there like, "[inaudible] you, Clay," you know?
And I got here. Drove 10 minutes.
Got here, pulled in. She texted me.
She said, "Hey, I got one question." I said, "What?"
She said, "Can I bring my boyfriend?"
-[laughing] -[bleep].
-What'd you tell her? -[Kye] I said, "Well, I guess so."
-Bring him on by. -No, no.
-I tell the races. -Let me go.
Kye's cool with it. He doesn't care.
She clearly did not understand what you were trying to do.
No, but I did text her.
I told her, I said, "Look, if y'all get in a fight
before Saturday, just come without him." -Yeah.
[laughing].
[Boosted] All right, here we go. Great Eight finals headed your way right here.
One of these drivers is gonna win $10,000.
[Nate talking]
Sounds like a converter bolt hitting the block.
[Boosted] All right, so Nate Sayler, looks like the car died after
the burnout, stuck out there in the middle of the track.
[Boosted] Chase, y'all waiting, or does she want to put him
on a clock, or does she want to wait on him?
-[Chase] I'll wait a second. -[Boosted] All right, cool.
[Boosted] All right, looks like Kayla Morton's gonna wait,
see what they're gonna do with Nate's car over here
in the right lane.
You might as well push me back. It's not gonna start.
[Boosted] Sayler's crew asking for two minutes.
And Kayla's crew says, "No problem."
Take the nose off. [bleep].
Nate, what's going on, buddy?
Torque converter bolts are hitting the block.
I don't think I can get under there.
I can hear it clicking. It's like going.
[Boosted] Uh, OK.
-[Nate] I don't know. -[Boosted] Here's a question for you --
how long are you thinking? -Yeah, it's fine.
-[bleep]. -No, no, no, I mean, they're gonna
give you a little bit of time.
It's all right. Just let it run.
It's fine.
You need, like, what, 10 minutes?
[Nate] Just enough to put that in.
I don't know what that takes, so...
It's not a five-minute job.
[Nate] The torque-converter bolts are hitting the block.
All right, so report from down here on the starting line looks
like there's torque-converter bolts that potentially are
hitting the block.
[Kayla] OK, that's gonna be way longer than two minutes.
Let's go
[engine revving]
All right. So, unfortunately,
Nate Sayler not gonna be able to get it
fixed in time.
So Kayla Morton's gonna make the pass here.
[sputtering]
[revving]
[Boosted] All right, nice pass there for Kayla.
She will be your Great Eight winner.
$10,000 to Kayla Morton and team.
Nice job.
That was very fast.
[indistinct] chase drift hold.
It was a very anticlimactic race, and I hate to take
the win that way, but I'll take the win that way.
It's 10 points, it's 10 grand, and, you know, I'll win any way
I can get it. But I'll tell you what,
that bypass was a winning pass
no matter who was in the lane next to me.
We are not laying down yet for this individual championship.
We've only won one this season.
It didn't count for any points, so this Great Eight is so, so important.
We've closed the gap a little bit.
You know, before this race, I was kind of feeling down,
like, "Man, this individual championship is not obtainable."
But now, with this momentum, points and a half
and double points, I feel like we can do it,
and we're going to.
[Boosted] That was Kayla's first time winning the Great Eight.
That means she took home $10,000 and 10 points towards
her individual championship total.
Nate, Lizzy, and Shawn all earned points towards
the individual championship, but Kye is still in the lead.
Everybody else better catch up if they want a chance at that
$100,000 grand prize.
[suspenseful chord strike]
Thank you.
About damn time.
Everybody should want to be on our team, damn it.
-[cheering] -Thank you.
Thank you so much, guys.
[Boosted] Next time --
Right now, Kye in the lead.
So your goal for the rest of -- you, all seven of you,
other than Kye, is to get him knocked out in the first round.
I've already been doing that.
Yeah, you've been doing a great job.
Yeah, four races in a row.
[Boosted] Don't forget, points and a half.
That also helps.
[Kye] It's points and a half for these next two races.
And then the final race is double the points.
But I think if I could just clinch one of these Great Eight
wins, I could seal this championship up.
[Lizzy] We've been having motor issues, like freaking
blowing [bleep] up.
This first round hit is worth everything to me.
[revving]
-[cheering] -[bleep] yeah.
I just got to take a deep breath
and try to hold these boys off.
[revving]