[Boosted] Previously on the Great 8...
Galot Motorsports Park.
How are you doing today?
[cheering and clapping]
Right now, Kye is in the lead, so your goal,
for the rest of all seven of you other than Kye,
is to get him knocked out in the first round.
Everyone is trying to close the gap in points and to get that number one spot.
This is points and a half, so if we win tonight, that's 15 points.
That will put us at 35, then we're one Great 8 away from tying him.
[Boosted] Nate Saylor did everyone a huge favor by knocking Kye out
in he first round.
[announcer] Yeah, Nate Saylor!
Just got beat by Nate again. First round loser five weeks in a row.
There's one way to blow a championship.
Just watch what we're doing.
[Boosted] He went on to win the final race of the night.
And Nate Saylor will get the win!
Axman goes red.
[Boosted] That moved Nate from 6th place up to 3rd, just 15 points behind Kye.
I almost ran you down anyway.
[Boosted] And now the top eight drivers are set to race for $10,000
and valuable points towards the individual championship.
Put your hands together for the Great 8 drivers.
All right, Alabama International Dragway.
How are you doing today?
[crowd cheering]
We have made it to Alabama, and it's time for the second
to last Great 8 event of the season.
This track here in Alabama is extremely fast.
Look, these guys hold radio races all the time,
and this surface is sticky from the start.
This facility is 100 acres in size,
and their first race took place back in 1955.
And they're avid Alabama fans.
Roll tide.
Once again, we are at 1.5 times the points,
which means these drivers can make some big moves.
Welcome to the Great 8 drivers meeting guys and ladies.
There's only two races left.
So if you're in the hunt for points
or if you're in first place in points, I want to lock it up. Kye.
-Lock it up. -I've been trying.
You went out first round last week and the week before and the week before
-and the week before -And the week before.
Don't suck, Kye.
-Been trying, man. -No pressure.
Who do you want to draw?
I gotta race all y'all.
I mean, maybe I don't think anyone wants to draw anybody.
[Kayla] Nobody wants to draw nobody.
I feel like for y'all to draw each other first round,
-that would be good for me. -Who?
-Y'all two. -[bleep] if you don't lose the first one.
So going into this race Nate Saylor and Shawn.
They're the two I'm really worried about. 'Cause Axman's in 2nd place,
but he's not even in the Great 8 this week.
So Nate could, actually-- Tommy and Shawn could get really, really close.
So I'm leaving this race
even if I go out first round, nobody's gonna pass me.
The worst case scenario is I can be tied. What I really need to do
is draw Shawn or Nate first round and go ahead and take them out.
That way I can stop their run in this championship,
because if you're gonna be the champion, you got to beat all eight of them.
And that's what I plan to do.
Number ones.
Step forward, please.
Number unos.
Robin Roberts and Kye Kelly.
Everybody else in the Great 8 wants me to beat Kye Kelly
because he's sitting at the top in points.
So we need to knock him off here and hold him back.
Number twos.
-[bleep] Ooh. -Again!
-Damon Merchant and Lizzy! -We love our first round together.
Yeah, we do. We do.
[Damon] I got a lot of ground to make up, coming off of last week.
Killer race for us in Galot.
We got to ride that momentum into this week and, you know, bust some ass
Friday and Saturday night now.
Number threes.
Ryan Martin and Kayla Morton.
We're making a deal, you want to strike a deal?
-What's our deal? -I'm kiddin'. Absolutely not.
Yeah. There is absolutely a chance for us to still win the Great 8.
We are still in this fight and we are scratching
tooth and nail for this championship.
I believe in myself.
I believe in our team and it's still obtainable.
Kye has been doing a really good job losing first round.
So I'm hoping he just continues the streak and we can make it a show for Ennis.
Number fours. Nate Saylor and Murder Nova.
That's great. Good job.
Because they drew each other?
-Yeah, sorry. -[bleep]
I guess I was the only one who thought that was good.
[Nate] So we are right on Kye's feet.
If he goes out first round and we win it,
we'll tie it up so Texas will decide what's up.
We got fresh power. Fresh blower.
We're ready to do this.
All right. Well, there you go. You know who you're racing?
Okay. Good luck, buddy.
Okay.
-So we're good, then. -We're good.
-Did you tighten all that up? -It's been too tight.
-Because we've been prying on that
-When it's cold. -On the cold belt, I have not. On the little belt, I have.
-Seen 'em do it. -Really?
[bleep]. Because they take one of these and put it in here.
It's a half-inch extension.
Because I was just doing it like this.
Just pull out like that a little bit just to get the slack out of it.
But...
Honestly, it was...
That's probably how it was in Michigan, just like that.
So we're here in Alabama.
This is a-- This is a track that's kind of local to me.
About five hours from the house,
we actually drive over here to grudge race.
To me, in my opinion, this is this track,
and maybe Virginia is probably the two fastest tracks in the country.
So we're looking forward to really going fast here.
And, uh...
All week I've researched everything I can research about
how to keep this belt from breaking.
I really think we found the problem.
I think we were getting the belt too tight.
Them other spacers that was on the ground.
We need to save them so we can cut them for the other motor.
Send them.
Yeah, send them without.
I feel like we wouldn't have these belt problems,
bet we probably already had the championship sealed.
But it's just one of them things, man.
You know, it's a...
You're running the marathon, you know, you're not sprinting,
so it takes 16 races to get to the top.
And, you know,
if it had taken five or six, we'd have won it
because the first part of the year we were killing it.
And then we won Bandimere both days,
After that it's just plagued with belt problems.
This little lever right here broke in half one day.
[bleep] that we weren't prepared for, you know.
Five dollar parts.
You're supposed to get like 10-15 passes out of a belt.
Our plan is I bought enough belts.
We're gonna run them three passes and take them off.
And after that, I'll probably just test with them later or something.
But at this point, we can't afford for another belt to break.
So the belts are about 300 bucks apiece,
so every three passes it's gonna cost me 300 bucks.
But It's a lot better than losing the first round
and going in the toterhome and trying to figure out what I did wrong.
So we're just taking all precautions.
We're gonna give them the best run we can at this championship,
and, uh, we fail,
at least we know we gave it all we had.
-[car honks] -Behind you guys, yo!
Alabama International Dragway, Steele, Alabama.
This is gonna be a fast track.
It is stellar.
We're gonna fly.
All right, baby. Let's go get him.
So we got a super-fast, hot rod, just go on and do our program.
Yeah.
Just go in and do what you do. Like we do every time.
-Say. -Yup.
No worries.
I want to win this Great 8 so bad.
This Great 8 is a big deal to us.
So we're gonna go get it.
[engines revving]
[announcer] And Kye Kelley!
Turns on the wind light. Nice job.
He'll go to the next round.
[Kye] Hell, yeah! Round one down, baby.
Bears off my back.
The race with Robin Roberts, was just like always.
It was back and forth the whole way.
We were looking up at the wind light
and then we went through the finish line, so.
It was a badass race.
That was a hell of a race, wasn't it?
That was a good race.
Good job, man.
I had to look up and see the light.
[chuckles] For real.
-Yeah, you too. -I knew it was gonna be fast.
-Good job, man. -Thank you.
The good thing about it is I won that round,
so it gives me some points so nobody can tie me today.
So it buys me one more week.
I just need to go ahead and win this thing tonight.
I don't have to worry about it at all.
[upbeat music playing]
[Robin] Go up to race, Kye.
I let go. I look over, we're pretty even.
He just squirts out a little bit.
And then in the middle, I gained it back, I thought-- I didn't know who won.
So I had to look up the lights to even see who won.
It was a fantastic race.
I don't know how close it was.
Kye and I have these kind of races.
Like, one year we had four in a row.
I think the total of them all wouldn't have been a foot so...
Tough run. Great competitor.
Well, just check it out.
One test pass in the other lane and see what happens.
[Lizzy] Today, we are in Alabama.
Lately, we have been sucking, going out first round several times in a row.
I don't know what the hell is going on, but we don't have luck on our side.
We made a grudge hit and the car made a stellar pass.
[announcer] And Lizzy, with a nice pass there in the left lane.
[Lizzy] Come back and find out the motor was hurt.
We've been fighting this the last few races,
ever since we came back from Denver.
We've been fighting this issue and I don't know, we're chasing it
and we still can't figure out why?
For first round, I ended up drawing Damon.
I drew Damon first round in Great 8 in Galot
and first round at Invitational at Galot, so I don't know.
I keep drawing him for some reason.
He's definitely a guy I don't want to draw.
He's fast, kick my ass the last few times,
so I feel like I have a car that can beat him.
Um, I don't know.
We just got to be on our game and hopefully this motor stays together
and we make a fast pass.
[indistinct conversation]
Pushing up.
Drew Lizzy. No stranger to racing her.
Um...
She's been struggling a little bit.
Go up there
and try to bust her ass on the tree and go some rounds here today.
It's a point and a half, and I'm gonna need all I can get
if I want a shot at that individual championship.
-Good luck! Be safe. -You doin' alright back there?
Yeah, I think so.
I guess. We had a motor swap and...
-[bleep] I don't know how y'all do that. -I don't know, honestly.
Maybe this one-- I want to say the one but [bleep].
Kicked my ass with it. I'm in trouble.
-I'm out of this deal. -[laughing] I don't know.
I don't know. We need to stop drawing each other.
Last week. End of this week.
We've had Lizzy's number.
She's a great competitor.
She's not gonna lay down for anybody.
Let's go.
What we throw in should be enough if it ain't, more power to her.
But if it is, we just go round by round here and try to get that 10,000 tonight.
[engines revving]
[announcer] All right, folks. Next pair coming up right now.
We've got David Merchant in the right lane
going up against Lizzy Musi in the left lane!
And Lizzy Musi
turns on the wind light. Nice job.
Wow, What a drag race there!
That sucker had some mile an hour, girl.
-What the [bleep]? -That thing was fast.
[Lizzy] I thought I was not gonna get until the end.
Oh, God.
Light turns green.
I felt like we both left like pretty even.
And then a little bit faster in at 30 feet.
My car starts pulling away from him,
and it's pretty much like drive by.
And actually got the win.
I was pretty stoked about that.
Finally!
Oh, [bleep].
[laughs] Oh, man.
-[man] Good job. -Thank you!
[bleep]
-[man] Man, I thought you had it. -I did too.
[indistinct conversations]
I even walked out there with my hand and her light came on.
I was like, "What?"
That's kind of what my face said, too.
I didn't even see her. It's [bleep]
I'll say this, it's dark as [bleep] back there. I just-- I couldn't see her.
I couldn't hear her. I couldn't see her...
I don't know.
So to put it simple, I got Musi mile an hour-ed there.
It's nice to see that she's not struggling right now.
She made a hell of a pass against us.
Everything was hidden on all cylinders.
Um, we made a hell of a pass.
We didn't have mile an hour.
Ah, what the [bleep]?
-[man] Rick, flip that switch up real quick. Tell me-- -No, don't do that.
Okay, no.
[Ryan] All right, we are at second to the last racetrack.
Alabama International Dragway here at Steele, Alabama.
And it is race day.
It's Friday.
The track looks just right.
This should be a really good race.
You know we have--
If you could call it a comeback story,
I feel like we're on the comeback.
Last week, I went to the finals,
but unfortunately, I had parts failure
for about the third or fourth time this year.
So we're gonna do some extra maintenance this week.
Try to make sure that those things don't happen.
Replace parts a little bit more often.
That potentially could break and try to get our way to the finals.
Just a little slower on the-- But the racetrack is not there yet.
As soon as a couple of cars go by the time we get back up there, it'll be killer.
So, all the rest of it.
-After the first five-- After the first five feet, -[indistinct]
it's just like where we tested.
When we were in Galot, the little engine that could,
that MH6 was on its very last leg and we knew it.
But we went to Pro-Line, traded her for her big sister,
and now we have MH7 in and the playing field is even.
I'm gonna leave on them and it's gonna be over.
I just can't wait to get this first round over with.
[both] Good luck.
Good luck.
You know, I still got a chance at this.
Oh, I know.
Man, we drew Ryan Martin for first round,
and in my opinion, he is the grizzly-ist bear out here.
Um, he's the fastest one in the field, in my opinion right now.
But you gotta beat the best to be the best.
So here we go.
[engines roaring]
[announcer] And Ryan Martin will get the win
and he'll move on to the next round there.
Um, I slowed it down just a little bit
cause we wanted to make sure we made the trip,
but essentially we basically put the tune-up back in
that we ran her with the semis last week.
But we just put in what we knew was gonna go and it went fast.
I haven't been able to say this in a while,
but I'm on to round two in Great 8.
Weird, I know, but Great 8, for some reason, we've really struggled.
We won the very first one.
And then-- Yeah, and then we're out of it for 10 races
and then popped back in here at the last couple.
And and Shawn beat me on both of my last two first rounds.
So...
It is what it is, but we got a good car back, so.
Uh, we're gonna pick away at this and try to go faster
in the next run, see what happens.
All right, well, I'll pull data and see what it looks like.
[man over phone] Oh, yeah look it over.
Okay.
Alright, see ya tomorrow.
Thanks. See ya.
Are you ready for this?
[indistinct conversation]
Yeah, for real.
He is just really [bleep] unbelievably fast.
So I will be gassing if I draw him again.
Facts.
So I don't know.
I just-- I felt like super prepared going in that round
and went from, like, hero to zero super quick.
Made a fine pass.
It wasn't as good as the first one,
but even if we would have repeated,
we still wouldn't beat him.
So, he's got his [bleep] together.
He's my pick to win the Great 8.
We can do it again tomorrow.
[Shawn] I'm sitting fourth right now in the Great 8. So I still have a shot.
And I just don't know, man. There's so many fast cars.
It is, man, you've been running so good.
I've been running consistent, you know.
And we've-- Like-- Me and Phantom was just
talking about this this morning.
We've literally
aborted two passes all season is all.
So as far as that aspect goes,
we've been doing pretty good. But just the people that are
in the Great 8, man, is a bunch of killers, you know,
and you get one pass to figure out the track
and figure everything out and then right into it.
-That's right. -Great 8.
Everybody knows that Nate's been killing it this season.
And who do I draw?
Of course I draw Nate.
I've raced him four or five times this year
and the last two or three times, he's out ran me.
What we're trying to run now,
first round, would have been final round stuff last year.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Which just blows my mind, man.
So...
I know that I've got to go faster,
because right now I'm using my, what I would call,
a final round tune up in my first pass.
My test pass is picked up, you know?
And then after that, where do you go?
And that's my problem.
Tonight, we're gonna have to go somewhere we haven't been yet.
I tell people all the time, man, look, if you can't run a three second pass,
you can't run a three second pass.
Like if you don't know how to do it, it's tough to do it.
You have to do it in testing on a good track and then come here
-and have the data. -Absolutely.
So literally,
we got like three time slips with this car.
Our first full hit was the first race of MPK this season.
-Really? -Was our first full hit on this car.
Other than that, we 60 foot it a couple of times, and that's it.
Well, you figure it out quick.
[Shawn] It doesn't really matter who you draw.
Everybody's fast and you've got to get through those people.
Since Nate is one of the people that is still in this championship race,
it's not a bad deal for me to draw him first.
But I need to get this win, and I need to put him out.
Hey, Dan, pull this forward a little, will ya?
-What? -This bracket.
Just pull the whole thing forward.
There you go. Perfect. There you go.
It sits right on my broken collarbone.
[Dan] I know, I got one on this side.
We have Shawn, Murder Nova first round. Track's awesome.
I mean, the track, dude, you're gonna see some stupid fast passes tonight.
Yeah, buddy.
I believe I have a better car.
We have the same power plant, down to gear ratio.
So he's a Pro-Line powered car.
We're a Pro-Line powered car. Pro charger, pro charger.
I think it's all gonna be who wants it and gonna put the tune up in the car.
And what driver leaves on what driver,
I think is what it's going to end up at.
[engines roaring]
[announcer] All right, folks. Next pair over in the left lane.
That's gonna be Nate Saylor going up against Murder Nova.
Nate Saylor!
Oh, Nate Saylor into the wall down the end of the track!
Clear the starting line.
Clear the starting line out, Nate Saylor, into the wall on the top end.
Murder Nova will get the win and move on to the next round.
Nate Saylor into the wall.
I'm fine.
It felt like every normal run.
Wheel's up in the air and felt great,
and all of a sudden it's coming over and it's coming over
and I'm like [bleep].
And so it set itself down and you can't jerk the wheel.
So I'm bringing it over, bringing it over
and just ass end came around and there was sparks flying in the car
and smoking. I pulled the fire pin.
Uh...
And then whacked the wall.
It started eating the pavement.
I thought I had it saved.
It was super close and I didn't.
[Nate] I'm fine.
[Melissa sobbing]
It was hard to see that.
[Nate] It's okay. I'm okay.
The car can be fixed.
We're okay. It's all right.
It's fine. I'm good.
I'm just pissed like we were in a championship here.
And we had-- We had the car do it.
You know, this car has been solid ever since.
I've never had an issue with it.
Uh...
You know, I can fix that thing, so we'll be fine.
It slid for probably 200.
Oh, dude, it slid forever.
I thought-- It felt like it was a mile long, that it slid.
And I was like, "Oh, my God, is it going to stop?"
And it just...
It was on its side so hard, it was rubbing on.
It broke the car.
I heard it grinding this.
I was at the big end, putting my chutes up and I looked over
and I hear [screeches] I see sparks just shooting out the side.
I don't know if it was the zoomies, of if it was that.
I pulled the fire extinguishers
-because the engine was just sparks... -Smoke. Sparks and smoke.
And I was like, "I'm not gonna burn my car down."
-Yeah. How bad is the front clip? -Uh, front clip's...
I think most of it's I think we're gonna duct tape [bleep].
I'm gonna be ready tomorrow.
-Okay. -I just-- I have an extra set of tires.
I don't have a way to change them.
Okay, I have wheels and tires.
-Okay. -If they're the right bearings.
-I have wheels and tires. -Okay.
It's got a bent wheel.
It's got bent headers.
It actually pushed the body panel up here, right here,
so it shoved it up into the deal.
We haven't figured out what's exactly wrong with it yet.
We're gonna dissect it.
I'll be out here all night till it's done.
Oh, one way or the other,
-I'm going down that track tomorrow. -Yeah, yeah.
Hey, there's enough parts here.
We'll figure this out.
All right. Well, you go concentrate on your [bleep].
We'll get started.
Whatever you need. I got you.
Thank you.
Good job, bro!
[bleep] Kye.
And the rest of them.
-Yeah, no, I need to draw Kye. -So you can take this [bleep] championship.
I need to draw Kye this round.
We went on to the next round.
[Shawn] Kye did also, and then Ryan Martin and Lizzy Musi.
So we're the last four standing in this Great 8.
We need Kye to go out so that we have a chance at this championship.
[Lizzy] Oh, man. [chuckles]
[chuckles] Aw, man.
[indistinct conversation]
[Lizzy] Holy crap.
Hey, cause all the people you didn't want in the first round are still in.
-[laughing] Yeah. -Yeah. This gets no better here.
[Lizzy] No.
All right, folks, we're gonna go ahead
and do our Great 8 semi-finals drivers meeting.
Look, we are now having four drivers.
We started with eight.
Who are battling it out for $10,000.
You're one step closer now.
As we're now down to four drivers.
We've got Murder Nova, Ryan Martin, Lizzy Musi and Kye Kelley.
[crowd clapping and cheering]
Well, hey, let's go ahead and draw chips and see who's racing who.
There we go.
Okay.
[Lizzy] Good?
All right. Where are my number ones?
Gonna be Lizzy Musi and Ryan Martin.
Which means my second pair will be Kye Kelley vs. Murder Nova.
That's right, baby.
All right!
They're all gonna be good races.
All right, drivers. You know who you're racing.
Go back to the pits. Get your cars turned around.
We'll see you in the staging lanes.
Not much. Just right off the button, like 30 RPM,
and then where it rolls over like 30 RPM.
Not like--
I don't want to go back too far.
But...
[engine revving]
See if that says Steele Great 8 E2.
[man] Yep.
Fire in the hole.
Second round, I got Lizzy.
I just watched her run around Damon's car pretty good.
It ain't cold.
[Ryan] It is not cold.
[engine sputters]
Her car is fast and we all know it was fast.
They've been struggling a little bit,
but it looks like they got a handle back on it.
And that thing is tough on the big end, so.
We're going to give her something fast.
Try to go as fast as we can, try to stay out in front of her
and see who we can meet in the finals.
Going down.
[Lizzy] For round two, I end up drawing Ryan.
Didn't want to draw any of them, but
end up drawing Ryan.
Ryan's actually been running pretty freaking good here lately.
He made it to the finals at Galot.
So we gotta be on our game again.
Like, anyone in the Great 8 is pretty fast.
So we just gotta have our [bleep] together.
[engines revving]
[indistinct conversation]
We're both running good.
-We gotta make sure... -That's right. That's right.
Because, you know, everybody's swinging for that tree.
[Lizzy] I know.
Go on there and take number one place.
-Go on and do what you normally do. -[Lizzy] Yep.
Make him outrun you.
[Lizzy] Okay. Sounds good.
-I got faith in you. -Okay!
[intense music playing]
[announcer] Coming around the corner into the water box.
Right now, this is your first pair.
Gonna have Lizzy Musi here in the right lane.
Going up against Ryan Martin in the left lane.
Lizzy versus Ryan.
Gonna be a battle here.
Winner will move on to the finals and race for $10,000.
This is your first pair, Lizzy Musi going up against Ryan Martin.
And Ryan Martin
with a fast pass there, gets the win.
Nice job. He will go to the finals.
[Lizzy] That was a badass race.
[Ryan] That was close.
Close, close, close.
-[Lizzy] Good job. -Were you reeling me back in?
-Huh? -Were you...
Yeah. [laughs] Yeah.
Like, if I get out, [bleep].
Coming [bleep].
Man, badass race. That was good.
Good job.
Good job. Proud of you guys.
Thank you. Proud of you too.
It's good, man.
You know, we Lizzy always does something different in staging.
And hey, you cut--
You almost got me with your quick stage.
What the [bleep]? Yeah, I did. I was, like, I'm just gonna roll right in with you.
-You had it in mind, too. -I can't believe you did that.
I've never seen you do that before.
-No, I just changed it up. -You had me off-guard.
-I'm gonna say it right now. -Well, we both left.
It was fine because you were ready to go too.
So I was like, both...
I've never known Lizzy [bleep] like to go, "Bam, bam!" to both of them.
So I was like, "Holy, [bleep]!"
-You know what? I tried it. -Hey, it was good.
You almost got me just because of that.
That was good.
[indistinct conversations]
[Lizzy] It was like it was go time for both of us.
I roll in first, Ryan rolls in, and then, I just like, I rolled in
right when he rolled in, light turns green.
And we freaking leave,
he was charging through the middle pretty damn good,
but I was like, making ground up.
And I thought I had him at the end, but it was so freaking close.
He ended up probably catching me last minute at the finish line, and...
that was that.
I wonder how close it was on the big end.
It had been stupid, I know. I got him by a hair on the tree.
He even said it on top.
He said, "You [bleep] me up by going in like that."
I did it on purpose.
[indistinct conversations]
I did that on purpose because I knew he was gonna go double both.
It picked.
Thanks, guys.
[sighs] Made him put a new belt on, [bleep].
Y'all already changed the belt?
Yep.
Just trying to go 3 runs.
I didn't buy enough for that.
Andy said, "Let's just go ahead and get it as soon as you get done here."
I'd rather do it now than risk it later.
Yeah, we ain't got enough.
[Kye] I drew Murder Nova.
Not somebody you want to draw right now.
But it's who I needed to draw.
If I could put him out and stop him.
We gotta do it. We gotta put him out.
How bad did he beat Robin? I wonder what Robin was.
[Ryan] Eric was in the stands. He was like door to door.
He was like I did not know where Robin went.
I mean, look, I know what Robin usually runs and he's on a good run.
[Shawn] I think I can go faster than that.
I've outran Kye quite a few times this year.
We've got a hot rod and we're running good tonight.
Hey, good luck, guys!
I'm not nervous.
I don't feel like there's a whole lot of pressure on me.
I just know I gotta go up there and do my job
the same way I do against anybody else.
[Boosted] All right, folks. Here we go!
Last pair of the semifinal round for the Great 8.
Over in the left lane,
your Great 8 points leader currently, that's going to be Kye Kelley!
Kye Kelley in the left lane, going up against Murder Nova!
And Kye Kelley!
Kye Kelley with a great pass there.
Out in front of Murder Nova, turns on the wind light and will go to the finals.
He will face off against Ryan Martin for $10,000, folks!
Woo!
I was out on him the whole [bleep] way, man, clip me at the [bleep] end.
I go up, I let off the button
and I can see him the whole pass and we're out on him.
You know, we're making a pass and I start noticing
he's coming around me a little bit, and he's got mile an hour on me.
And he came around me and clipped me at the end.
-Nice job. -You know I had to do it.
I know. I know. Hey, it was a [bleep] race man.
So I finally beat Shawn.
That's huge.
He was in my head. He was kind of, you know,
you get these guys that's your kryptonite.
And when you draw them, you just, you know, your whole day's went to [bleep].
And that's how Shawn's been for me lately.
I mean, Shawn came out this year and turned this whole program around.
He's hauling ass this year.
You know, Shawn's a very honest guy, so I'm gonna be very honest.
Shawn's usually a duck.
I'm glad to draw him.
But now he's fast and he's very competitive and he's in the running.
He's in the top eight.
Yeah, man. Let me park this car. [chuckles]
And now I'm moving to the finals with Ryan Martin.
That was a-- That was a fast [bleep] pass right there.
That was four fast cars that just--
I mean, it was...
Everybody knows, just like Shawn, this year,
Ryan's been my kryptonite for four or five years,
and at some point I wanted the tables to turn.
I want Ryan to get nervous when he draws me.
[groans]
[bleep] I've never wrecked a car before.
-Yeah? -It's kind of [bleep].
Sets in a little later, doesn't it?
Yep.
I've never wrecked a car until I wrecked my '69 in Australia.
That's the first time ever.
Twenty-five... [bleep],
thirty years of me racing, twenty-five years of me racing.
Yeah.
-And mine was really similar. - [Nate] Yeah, it was.
[Ryan] Like, very similar. to the same way you did yours.
Like, almost the same.
The only difference was, I just let off the throttle and my car just goes.
-I watched that. -Like, what the [bleep]?
[announcer] Oh, no! Ryan [bleep] into the wall.
-An unfortunate incident. That's the best case scenario. -For sure, yeah.
You know, it's a big race for me.
Racing Ryan Martin in the finals of the Great 8.
I mean, it's just like old times, you know?
Me and old dad out there doing what we do.
[man] Let me know when you're happy with everything.
Check that belt, too.
All right.
These are good?
-Yes, yeah. -That's good.
[man] Good? Fire in the hole.
The last time Kye and I raced in the in the Great 8, I won,
But he broke a belt, so, you know, the pulley flies off his car,
he breaks the belt and I check out.
It's not really a race when it comes down to it.
So I wanted to see how fast is my car against Kye's.
There's a couple of people that I have my eyes on
during this season that I really wanted to measure up against.
Damon was one and Kye was one.
I missed Damon last week because we had a part failure.
This week I got Kye.
-You want the left lane? -We'll take the left lane.
All right, okay.
You'll be in the right.
I think you're about to beat me on the tree.
But I'm gonna be faster. [laughs]
-Do what? -Probably gonna beat me on the tree,
but it's gonna be faster.
-Yeah, fair enough. -[indistinct conversation]
Well, hopefully that doesn't show.
I've only been on the left, so hopefully that doesn't show its head for me.
Accidentally took that.
You did, you did. That's pretty good.
I wanted to go right.
-Did you? -I was hoping you were gonna pick it.
It's all good.
We are going right.
-Good luck, homey. -You too, man.
[Ryan] All my races have been really close.
You can lose and win every race on the tree right now.
[announcer] All right, folks. Here we go!
Great 8 finals headed your way right now!
[engine roaring]
This race right here is for $10,000.
For all the marbles in the Great 8 class here tonight.
Over in the left lane,
backing up that Regal that is going to be Kye Kelley!
Going up against Ryan Martin in the right lane.
Blower versus ProCharger.
Ryan Martin versus Kye Kelley.
The epic showdown that we have seen time and time again.
They're going to do it one more time here in Alabama for $10,000.
Here we go!
And Ryan Martin takes the win over Kye Kelley!
What a pass from Ryan.
Ten thousand dollars right in his pocket.
Just like that.
[bleep]
Put him in the beams and beat him on the tree just a teeny bit.
And I thought I had him. I looked over there and he was beside me
and I looked over there and he was pulling in front of me.
And then my car shifted to third gear and I started pulling back on him.
I don't know how tight it was at the finish line,
but all I know is I had to look at the scoreboard to see who won.
Could have been a fender.
Could have been an inch.
When you're going 200 miles an hour, it's really hard to gage
from the left lane.
Ah!
Hey, man, I wasn't gonna let you run from your pep talk.
I was gonna turn off there, but I had to come down here
just so you and I could have our chat.
I didn't know where you was.
I didn't want you to kick my ass.
So I told Javi. I said, "Hey, I'm going to the end.
-I need to have my pep talk with him. -[laughs]
So what I want to tell you was...
I did make a really good pass right there.
And I know that thing was fast and you was probably coming.
Yeah, I was there.
-Yeah, I figured you was. -It was a fast pass.
-Yeah. Good job, man. -Thank you, man.
This is a great confidence boost going in to the Invitational.
Just to know that your car is running how it is.
To not have had any parts failures.
And just to be able to go just stick a win under your belt and beat--
Look, I just beat the number one dude, you know?
So I feel great about it.
It has been a, if you could call it anything, a roller coaster of a season.
Maybe we can end on a high note.
Good racing. Good job, boys.
See what we can do tomorrow.
So Ryan Martin beats Kye Kelley in the finals.
For someone that struggled at the beginning of the season,
they have finished off strong.
Now we've got just one Great 8 race left
until we crown the individual championship
and hand over a $100,000 grand prize.
All right, Texas Motorplex.
I want to say thank you so much for coming out here on a Friday.
[crowd cheering and clapping]
[Boosted] Yeah!
We have made it to our final stop here on the No Prep Kings circuit.
One of these drivers right here out of the eight will win $10,000 tonight.
Also more importantly, after tonight,
one of these drivers will be crowned the Great 8 champion.
We need that 10 grand.
Go get the [bleep] win, man.