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00:00Previously on the Grade 8, the top eight drivers heading into Tulsa battled it out for $10,000 and points towards the individual championship.
00:10Kai Kelly, number one right now, man.
00:13Holding it down.
00:14Kai Kelly came in looking to extend his points lead.
00:17He beat Justin Swannstrom in round one and took down Giuseppe in round two.
00:25And Kai Kelly takes the win. Nice job.
00:30Damon Merchant was struggling with an oil leak all day.
00:33I don't know where the f***ing gold is coming from.
00:35But fought his way into the finals.
00:41Oh, and Damon Merchant heading to the finals.
00:46Holy f***ing, what a rush.
00:49It was a close race until Kai's parachute released early and Damon won his first Grade 8.
00:56And Damon Merchant will get the win.
00:58Who took home $10,000, 10 points, and moved into second place on the leaderboard.
01:05I mean, we just worked our ass off all day in the heat trying to get the f***ing done.
01:09And we made it happen.
01:10Like, homegrown, hometown.
01:13This is what you get.
01:17Kai still has a commanding lead over the rest of the field.
01:20But all these top drivers will race for points towards the individual championship and a chance to win $10,000.
01:30Ow!
01:31Put your hands together for the Grade 8 drivers.
01:33Hey!
01:44Firebird Raceway, how y'all doing today?
01:49All right!
01:50We're here in Boise, Idaho at Firebird Raceway.
01:54This track opened its doors in 1968 and has been run by the same family the entire time.
02:00This track is in the northwest and it sits at an elevation of almost 2,700 feet above sea level.
02:06The air quality at this altitude will make it harder for a lot of these cars to make power they're used to.
02:11Today, we're running the Grade 8.
02:14It's the sixth of 14 events spread across the entire country.
02:18And things are heating up.
02:19Here's how it works.
02:21If you win the Grade 8, you get 10 points.
02:23Plus, you also get $10,000.
02:25If you runner-up, you get seven.
02:27And if you make it to the semifinals, you will get three.
02:30Those points go towards an individual championship that will be worth $100,000 at the end of the season.
02:36Tonight, everyone will be eager to knock Kai out in round one to prevent him from opening up his lead.
02:41All right, guys and ladies, y'all are the top eight drivers currently in the Invitational Class.
02:47That's why you're racing tonight.
02:48We're going to go over our point standings for the Grade 8, right?
02:52First place, Kai Kelly.
02:54Baby, good job.
02:54Hey, man, you're in first.
02:56Yeah.
02:56Hey.
02:57Then there's a three-way tie for second between Axeman, Giuseppe, and Damon Merchant.
03:04All right, y'all got 13 points.
03:06Kayla Morton, you got 10 points.
03:08Nate, Saylor, you have got six.
03:10And then that's it for people that are standing here.
03:13Lady squared.
03:15Lady squared.
03:16Let's go.
03:17We two.
03:18Yeah.
03:19I really suck at math, but I knew what that was.
03:23What?
03:23Wait a minute.
03:25I knew what that was.
03:26Hold on.
03:27Okay.
03:28Color.
03:29That's why you f***ed up him.
03:31Shut the f***ing night.
03:32Number one, Scott Taylor and Giuseppe.
03:40Good luck, sir.
03:41Yeah, you too.
03:42Round one of the Grade 8 tonight, I drew Scott Taylor.
03:45We're consistently in the Grade 8.
03:47We're doing good.
03:48We've got to stay in there, so we've got to do good both days.
03:51Kai's got a pretty big league on us right now, and everybody's got like 25 or 27 points
03:55to our 13.
03:56So in the Grade 8, that's a pretty big gap there.
04:00He needs to go out early, and I need to win one to actually make a move on the points.
04:04All right, number twos.
04:06Number twos.
04:07Nate Saylor and Kai Kelly.
04:10All right, Nate, now is your chance to do the rest of the guys and yourself a favor.
04:15Knock Kai out in the first round, and then that leaves it wide open for people to catch
04:19up to him, all right?
04:19We talked about that.
04:20We need you here, bud.
04:20That's the strategy.
04:21We need you here.
04:21I like it.
04:22We have Kai Kelly.
04:23We need to take him out first round.
04:24I think I have the car to do that.
04:26We have a car that goes down great in these kind of conditions.
04:29He's been running really good, but I think with this new setup at this elevation, he hasn't
04:33done yet.
04:34I'm hoping that he doesn't get that figured out, so we're going to put a tune-up in it that
04:37we know will go A to B and quickly, and hopefully take Kai out this first round.
04:41If we do that, that gets us, obviously, some more points and into round two of the Grade 8,
04:45but it stops him from accruing points.
04:47He's got such a big lead right now.
04:49We need to put a stop to that.
04:50All right.
04:51Number threes.
04:52Team squared.
04:53Oh.
04:54Team squared.
04:55Team squared.
04:55Team squared.
04:56Same time, same chip.
04:57Lizzie versus Kayla.
04:59First round.
05:00My God.
05:00We drew Lizzie Musi.
05:02She's a tough contender.
05:03She won in Tulsa.
05:04I'm excited to see how close we are at the stripe, and I think it'll be a hell of a race.
05:08Goal today is to win the Grade 8.
05:09I think that's everybody's goal in the Grade 8.
05:11Like I said, it's to do or die.
05:13We need to close the points gap and put some pressure on Kai and Damon.
05:16Which means our fourth and final pair will be Axeman and Damon Merchant.
05:21Big.
05:21Hi, y'all.
05:22We're the Hemi-Killer.
05:22Hey.
05:23We'll see.
05:23Here we are at number two tied with Giuseppe and Axeman.
05:26This is a good opportunity for me to get Axeman out of that number two position, solidify myself in there,
05:32and see if we can really make up some points.
05:34Any questions?
05:34If not, I'll head on back to your pits, all right?
05:37Good luck, y'all.
05:46We got Giuseppe in the beautiful Nova.
05:50Yeah, that'll be hard.
05:51It is, um, seems like I run him or Nate Sailor every week, and they both have my number,
05:57and that's, that's why we did the upgrades, so that we can try to be more competitive.
06:01We've been right there, just like a few inches behind and did the upgrades, but looking at
06:06this, we made some right calls.
06:08It looks good until it didn't, so we just gotta, we gotta get in there and dig in and
06:12make sure, make it run good.
06:13It's not in me just to be okay losing, and we were losing by inches every week, and we
06:19decided to do an upgrade.
06:21When you do upgrades, typically, every time I've done one, there's always a minor setback,
06:27but I think, you know, if we get, if we play our cards right and we hit the tune-up right,
06:31we got a shot at it, but we gotta make a good pass out running, and that's gonna be tough
06:37in this air, so not only did we do an upgrade that changes the fuel drastically, we're in air
06:42that changes the fuel drastically, so we, we, you know, we got our work cut out for us
06:46as far as tune-up was.
06:48From where this thing come from last night, y'all wouldn't even be, you couldn't imagine
06:51even running today, I mean, it was literally a bare block in the car, 5 a.m. this morning.
06:59We're not gonna build a race?
07:01Can't get the gas in it.
07:03The strongest guy on the crew can't even get it off.
07:05Here, I'll get it, let me get it, let me get it.
07:07I just wanted to do it on TV, I wanted to be the one to get it.
07:10Hey, you broke it loose.
07:11Close it, no.
07:15That's it.
07:16So far with the car, we've been doing really good.
07:19Cars made almost every single run, except for the last run against Damon Merchant a couple
07:24weeks ago.
07:25We changed the front springs, we wanted to try something there, because we were having
07:27the front end was bottoming out on the top end, and upsetting the car through the lights.
07:31We've changed the tires, see if that can pick us up, hopefully that gives us that little
07:34bit of an edge there.
07:36You guys, I'm here, and they're changing this, changing their converter, loosening their converter,
07:39trying more rear gear, we're going to leave it the same.
07:42So let's see if that plays out the smart move, right?
07:45Either they're going to be faster than us, and we've lost a bunch, or we're smart, and
07:50they've, yeah, we've already known.
07:53We made one change, we changed the spring last weekend, and the car didn't make it.
07:56First run in 30 runs, and all we did was change the spring.
07:59Now we're changing the tires, changing the springs back.
08:02I mean, everything we do on this car is a gamble.
08:05So out here, the altitude's like 2,500, but corrected's probably going to be 4,500, which
08:10affects performance on these cars, brings the horsepower way down, but it brings everybody
08:15down.
08:15So it's really who compensates the most or the best for it, and whatever changes anybody
08:20decides to do.
08:21As of right now, we're going to try to just leave our combination alone that we know works,
08:26and try to win that way this weekend.
08:28Sorry, Scott.
08:29I can't beat this car, man.
08:30Giuseppe's going to sleep.
08:31Well, we'll see.
08:33I'm trying, I promise, but you've had my number, dawg.
08:36I can't beat this guy either.
08:38Well, look, it's just like a cycle.
08:39Yeah, I know.
08:40It's a cycle.
08:41Everybody's got somebody.
08:42Yeah, it's been really hard on Friday nights to come in, and you're racing the best, all
08:46the fastest, guys.
08:48All right, Scott, be safe.
08:49Good luck, bro.
08:49Good luck, guys.
08:50See you on the other side.
08:51So whoever really has it figured out here with the air, and see what we can pull off here,
08:55but it should be a good night.
09:05All right, over in the left lane, that is going to be Giuseppe going up against Scott.
09:11Scott Scooter-Taylor in the right.
09:13Beautiful Nova there in that left lane.
09:16Scott Taylor with the Camaro in the right.
09:20Pro Charger on Pro Charger Crime.
09:22All right, over in the left lane.
09:37And that is going to be Giuseppe going up against Scott.
09:41Scooter-Taylor in the right.
09:42And Giuseppe going to get the win there.
10:04Nice pass.
10:05Scott Taylor has some issues.
10:06Just past the 60-foot has to get out of it.
10:10Woo!
10:11Yeah, baby.
10:12So we go up there against Scott Taylor.
10:14We made some adjustments to the car.
10:16I threw a bunch of power right off the hit, which I normally don't have to do.
10:19Put a little bit more on the launch chip.
10:21Let go of the button.
10:23Car got up.
10:23Felt great.
10:24Went straight down.
10:25Didn't move around.
10:26Didn't do nothing.
10:26Made a great run to the finish line.
10:28Wind light came on.
10:31Damn, Scott.
10:32What happened?
10:33You spin, Shake?
10:34Yeah.
10:35Hey, we just kept pulling fuel off it.
10:37We finally found it.
10:38And then it gets too hot.
10:39Found too much.
10:39Hey, good job.
10:40Yes, sir.
10:41Good job.
10:42Night was huge on that first run.
10:43Now we'll have some data to base everything on, look at the fuel, air-fuel ratio, make some
10:47adjustments, and man, we need this win tonight.
10:51But hey, you've done a killer job.
10:52You've done better than I did.
10:53Oh, I appreciate it.
10:53Yeah.
10:53Made the lick.
10:54Yeah, we made it.
11:02Hello, you finna strap in?
11:05What's that?
11:06You finna strap in?
11:07Yeah.
11:07We're right here whenever you are.
11:09Okay.
11:10It's the first race of the Western Swing.
11:12All year, none of us look forward to coming way out here.
11:14Some beautiful scenery, some nice racetracks, but our engines hate this air.
11:19Just the prettiest country you'll see, but the air sucks over here.
11:23The elevation's high.
11:24Where I live, it's sea level, which is meaning zero.
11:27Where they live, it's like 5,600 feet.
11:29So it's way higher than we're used to being.
11:32Old Jane Lane's going to have some trouble breathing, but I think she's still got enough
11:35to get past these boys.
11:36How many more gallons of fuel will we use if we make a full pass?
11:39Oh, you'll be fine.
11:39Okay.
11:40This is our first time out west with a blower.
11:43You know, we always came out here with a nitrous car.
11:44I had that figured out pretty good.
11:46I mean, I could almost go just as fast out here as I could on the East Coast.
11:49On a nitrous car, you can make your own atmosphere inside the motor.
11:52On the blower car, all you can do is suck in whatever air you got.
11:55So it's going to be a little learning curve.
11:56Luckily, I got Jeff and Adam here, so I'm not going to have to learn much,
11:59except for they can go to Transbrake and ask them questions while they're making my car fast.
12:04We're taking this training career off.
12:06I'm training.
12:07We are in Boise, Idaho.
12:10This is as close to home track as I can get.
12:12We're about nine hours from here.
12:13We're feeling good.
12:14The elevation here is really similar to at home.
12:17We've been used to racing on the East Coast where you're below sea level.
12:20So this is going to be a lot to get through for a lot of guys.
12:23I feel we got an advantage because we're from up here.
12:25We've got a good race car.
12:26The track's a little sketchy, but other than that, we'll get through that.
12:39Next pair, Nate Sailor going up against Kai Kelly.
12:45Kai currently leading in the great eight points.
12:49This points championship for Friday night, $100,000 to the driver with the most points
12:54at the end of the season.
13:26Kai Kelly.
13:33What a drag race there, but Kai Kelly turns on that wind light side by side.
13:42Me and Nate take off.
13:44He beats me on a tree a little bit.
13:47Old Jane Ling rocks back, picks up the front tires, and goes to driving away from him.
13:50I beat him by about a car on the other end.
13:52He ain't no slouch.
13:53He made a hell of a pass.
13:54We just made a better one.
13:55Did Kai beat you?
13:56Yeah, he's close.
13:58But he got me.
13:59He's fast.
14:02I left on him, and it was side by side.
14:04It's probably the best race we've had.
14:06And the last one was close that we had.
14:07I mean, him and I are door to door.
14:10It's really hard to gain points when I lose.
14:12That was a good race, though.
14:13Yeah, it was.
14:14Did you have one parachute pin?
14:15Yeah.
14:16I'm wondering.
14:16Kai Kelly's the points leader right now, so for us to be door to door with him is something
14:21that's an achievement for us anyways.
14:23We got a hot rod.
14:24I got a good crew.
14:25We got a fast car.
14:26We got good parts in it.
14:27And we make solid runs.
14:28Unfortunately, he got the win.
14:30We're done for tonight, but we're going to come back strong for tomorrow.
14:34Good run, brother.
14:35Super nice.
14:35It was a good side by side.
14:37It was side by side.
14:39Good run, dude.
14:39Good luck.
14:43Good God.
14:44Did somebody grease the out of those?
14:46That's all you're doing.
14:47Did you douse someone WD-40?
14:51God bless.
14:54You don't have to do that, you know?
14:56They just slide right in there.
14:58They don't got to be greasy.
15:00We are in the grade 8 town, which I'm super thankful for.
15:02It is a huge accomplishment.
15:03However, we are getting to be like do-or-die time at this time.
15:07The points are spreading.
15:09We're not up here.
15:10We're more down here.
15:11And we need to do our very best to accumulate some points
15:14and get closer to that 1-2-3 spot today.
15:16Tulsa was an absolute train wreck.
15:18We got out of our groove.
15:20We kind of just lost control of our program and what we do.
15:25And Chase and I had a talk this week.
15:27We are back to routine, execution, doing what we know best,
15:31the little engine that could is back in.
15:34The MH6 is in, which we are familiar with.
15:36We've won a lot of rounds.
15:38We've done a lot of digging with this motor.
15:40So we're just going to go back to square one,
15:42just like how we started off the season.
15:44How you feeling, Lizzie?
15:46Feeling good.
15:48Just going to take it round by round.
15:49That's it.
15:53Come on.
15:54We need this one bad.
15:55All right.
16:18Next pair is coming at you right now over in the right lane.
16:23That is going to be Kayla Morton.
16:26She is going up against Lizzie Musi.
16:29Lizzie versus Kayla here in the first round of the Great Eight.
16:36Nitrous in the left lane.
16:37Pro Charger in the right.
16:38There we go.
16:40We're going to be trying to travel.
16:41Yes.
16:41We're going to be trying to travel.
16:41All right.
16:42Let's go.
16:43Let's go.
16:44Let's go.
16:44We're going to be taking theatres.
16:45Let's go.
16:47Let's go.
16:47Let's go.
16:48Let's go.
16:53All right.
17:00And Lizzie Musi is going to get the win there.
17:18Looks like some issues in the right lane for Kayla.
17:21Lizzie right down through there.
17:22Nice job.
17:23Did something get under her tire?
17:25I don't know.
17:26That looked bad.
17:27Freaking transmission broke.
17:31Never went out of first.
17:35Damn, that was rough.
17:37Backed up, everything was fine.
17:38And then it started idling real high.
17:40And as a driver, you just kind of know something's off.
17:44So I knew that it was going to be kind of a Hail Mary, if you will,
17:50and luck if it went down.
17:52But it did exactly what I anticipated.
17:54It fell on its face with the let go of the button.
17:56We're having a really rough time here the last couple of races.
17:59Coming over to you.
18:00This is the first time I ever won a freaking grade eight.
18:02Freaking transmission broke.
18:04Something must have happened.
18:05It broke.
18:06The transmission broke at the let go.
18:07Oh, .
18:08It was stuck at first.
18:09I knew something because I said, normally she's like right there with me.
18:11There's no way.
18:12I was just looking forward to like racing.
18:15Yeah.
18:16Yeah.
18:17Like to see where we were together.
18:18Yeah.
18:19And now that you got your .
18:20I know.
18:21That would have been a nice kind of.
18:22A boost line broke.
18:23So that automatically creates a vacuum leak, which creates the idle to go up and idle super
18:30high.
18:31And then when you let go of the button, it just literally has no boost.
18:34And if you know how a pro charger works, you have to have boost in order to make power.
18:38And we had no boost.
18:39So we had no power.
18:40We'll get it fixed here.
18:42Pick up our pouty faces.
18:44Go make a test pass and try to prepare for tomorrow.
18:47Yeah.
18:48We got stuff too.
18:49If you need anything.
18:50Okay.
18:51Whatever you need.
18:52This .
18:53I don't blame you.
18:54I hate losing like that.
18:55It's stupid.
18:56You want a good race.
18:57I know.
18:58I know.
18:59I just want a good race.
19:00I know.
19:01It's broken two places.
19:04Yeah.
19:05Like this far away from each other.
19:06Packed here.
19:07And I'm packed here.
19:08I mean, the problem is if that goes, it just eats up.
19:13So.
19:14All that with the shop.
19:15I don't carry none of that .
19:18I'm about to.
19:19.
19:20Damn it.
19:21So these things are ran off the crank.
19:23This hub hooks up to your crank.
19:26And then you put a gear on it and a gear here that runs your blower speed.
19:31The air here is pretty bad.
19:34We're down quite a bit of boost.
19:36So we're going to put more gear to it to spin it harder to create more boost.
19:39And in turn, while we were changing out the gear ratio in that,
19:44you always inspect your bearings and stuff just because of wear and tear.
19:48I found out that one's got two cracks in it right here and right here.
19:52Once it goes, it goes and it's a catastrophic failure from there.
19:56So we caught it.
19:59Was debating whether to run it.
20:01Nate come over and check us out and see what we were up to.
20:04Lo and behold, he has a F3, which a lot of people don't run.
20:07Everybody runs F4s usually.
20:09He had a plate for one.
20:10So all it contains is the bearings here, plate the bolts up to the block.
20:15And then, you know, all the magic happens and spins it and makes boost.
20:19So I'm going to clean his up.
20:21You can tell here he's had one come apart and been damaged before, but I'm not going to worry about that.
20:26We're just going to clean it the best we can, butt everything up and roll with it and go into some, you know,
20:31going first round with some more borrowed parts here.
20:36Oh, this thing is going to be fast this weekend I'm working on.
20:39Hey, man, are you getting ready?
20:41Yeah, we're getting ready.
20:44Two wins this weekend, rating and invitation.
20:47That's the goal there.
20:49Yep.
20:50That's the goal.
20:51We'll sell for either one or we're going to do two this weekend.
20:54But I truly, like, I know you went out on a limb to listen to me and keep the small motor in the car,
21:01and you want the big motor, but I like being the underdog.
21:03Like, this motor is not as big as the MH6, but I like it.
21:09I love this motor.
21:11We beat three sevens last race.
21:13Yes, yeah, yeah.
21:14So I gave what you wanted.
21:16Yeah.
21:17You gave me what I wanted.
21:19I feel like this one has more in it.
21:21And on this track, it's not nearly as good a track.
21:23Yeah.
21:24So we'll be able to manage the smaller motor better than they can manage the big one.
21:26Yeah.
21:27So it's going to be an advantage to have a smaller one right now.
21:29Yeah, it's awesome to drive this car.
21:31Next race, in altitude, you might be having a big motor in it.
21:36With no testing.
21:37Oh, we're testing.
21:38We're testing grade eight.
21:40So we used grade eight to test.
21:42Yeah.
21:43Swing four.
21:44I think that's a good idea.
21:46When I first got into grade eight, and I won my first ever grade eight,
21:50I was still thinking I wanted to win the Invitational more.
21:55Fast forward a race and didn't get into the grade eight, it kind of broke my heart.
21:58And I was like, I want to be in grade eight more than I thought.
22:01To be back in grade eight is awesome because I can build my points.
22:05I think I'm around third now in points.
22:07So maybe I can creep back up closer to Kai in the top.
22:10And you know Kai is talking trash on the internet about us.
22:13Is he?
22:14So basically coming from the last race to here, the air is going to be different,
22:17different altitude.
22:18So the car is going to have a little less power.
22:20So we're going to have to add a little more time and maybe spin the blower a little more.
22:23The shift's a little higher.
22:25The RPMs in the engine will make a big difference and all that.
22:27So we'll have to make up, I'd say two, 300 horsepower.
22:39All right, final pair of this grade eight first round over in the right lane.
22:43That's going to be Axeman going up against Damon Merchant in the left.
22:48And Axeman takes the win.
23:15Great drag race side by side.
23:18Axeman getting the win.
23:20Nice job.
23:26I turned loose at Transbrek.
23:28I didn't see him.
23:29330, I didn't see him.
23:30And all of a sudden my car pinned me in the seat even harder.
23:32I said, damn, this thing is riding.
23:34I said, if he comes around me the way it's running now, he's a bad dude.
23:38Got the finish line.
23:39Got that light.
23:40Going to round two.
23:41Mine didn't go in high gear.
23:42I only raced you in two gears, brother.
23:44I left in high.
23:46That's what he said.
23:47Oh, damn.
23:48Damn.
23:49The story getting worse.
23:50Everybody was like, who won, who won.
23:52We were looking for the lights.
23:53It was good.
23:54I seen him coming about the 330 and then I just watched him fool.
23:56And I was like, yeah, it's over.
23:57Okay, well, good job there.
23:58Yeah, yeah, good job.
23:59That was the one draw I didn't want with that car.
24:02All right, here we go.
24:03We're going to go ahead and start our grade eight semifinals drivers meeting.
24:07We started with eight racers.
24:08We're now down to four.
24:09I got bad news.
24:10Kai Kelly is still in and he's in first place.
24:12So he's just extending.
24:13He's gaining points.
24:14You know, we're supposed to knock him out in the first round.
24:16But he is in the lead in first place.
24:17Behind nobody.
24:18I like that, man.
24:19I'm going to keep saying it a couple more times.
24:20Kai Kelly is behind nobody in the grade eight right now.
24:22Can we start calling me gold medal.
24:23Gold medal.
24:24If you win the championship Kai, I will stop calling you silver medal and call
24:27you gold medal.
24:28Now, Giuseppe and Axeman.
24:29You're in second.
24:30You're tied for second now.
24:31Lizzy, congratulations.
24:32You got points.
24:33You're guaranteed at least three points tonight.
24:35Let's go ahead and get the chips out.
24:36Let's go ahead and get the chips out.
24:37Y'all are going to try again.
24:38finden.
24:39There's a lot of points.
24:41I mean, I don't have any more points.
24:42We're going to try again.
24:43You're going to try again.
24:44You're going to try again.
24:45The gold medal.
24:46I'm going to try again.
24:47You know, the gold medal, I'm not going to try again,
24:50go ahead and get the chips out and see who is racing who all right here we go elizabeth here
24:59we go christopher yep gents all right number ones please step forward kai kelly and axeman
25:10oh boy which means our second pair will be giuseppe versus lizzie musey all right
25:22all right drivers go back to pits get your car truck around put your hands together for these
25:25drivers folks be easy on me yeah
25:40all right so we're going in the semi-finals of grade eight i drew kai kelly this one bad dude
25:48so on my first pass in right lane that thing was rolling one of the fastest paths i've ever made
25:52in this car when i drew my chip i got left lane hard dropped just a little bit but then people
25:57told me left lane was good so i said well shoot we're gonna turn it up and swing it make it a
26:01little faster and uh hopefully take out out well the weather's great humidity's perfect you know
26:10got a little tailwind behind us all right man i'm gonna run x-man kick his ass win the grade eight
26:16next round all right then you can get the wind and then i'll be in the grade eight next week and then
26:20we'll be back yeah make sure to tell booster that it's a ten thousand dollar pot i'm going to car
26:25owner steven brindle he come over here trying to be tough to my mom at the t-shirt tent tonight talking
26:30about i got five thousand dollars if y'all want to grudge race in this past and i come from grudge
26:35racing i love betting money all you got to do is say the word and if i feel like i got half a chance
26:39i'm gonna lock you in and we're gonna race for it semi-finals winner goes to the finals also
26:54five thousand dollars a side winner of this race takes that entire pot let's see who it's gonna be
27:02right here right now if i can win five thousand from steven brindle ten thousand dollars in the
27:08finals it's a good night
27:23grade eight semi-final starts right now here is the first pair over in the left lane driving the game
27:29changer mustang that is going to be axeman and in the right lane current points leader in the grade
27:35eight that would be none other than kai kelly winner goes to the finals also five thousand dollars a side
27:44winner of this race takes that entire pot let's see who it's gonna be
27:59kai kelly moving to the finals once again in the grade eight and will take the pot ten thousand
28:23dollars total there five thousand aside kai kelly big winner here in this round so me and kai roll in
28:31turn loose the break about 60 feet out i didn't see him and a little bit farther i seen his little
28:35injector hat sticking in my windshield i think dang all the way up the track i have to stare in the
28:40corner of my eye that ejector hat then watch his light come on that's a hard feeling right there
28:44oh well that was a good one that was a good one it's a little better on your end though
28:55yes brendall was over there trying to handle me all hard he corner telling my mama i'll run in for
28:59five dollars no i mean we'll do it i told her don't tell me i don't want to get in my head
29:04love ax man but you being a that's a good race though damn hell yeah to be honest i get out tore
29:11up every time i lose i don't care if it's about a mile or inch i just hate it it's tough he done
29:16his job he got that win damn that was a good race it was car was unhappy at the finish line yeah
29:25either you out 60 to me or cut a better light one of the two i don't know i've been sucking on lights
29:31all day that's why we was kind of skittish about bed i ain't got my help yeah when i can see that
29:37blower hand i said that's not good it's all right in colorado uh we'll be all right we were glued
29:44together i said damn come on come on getting that win is the most important because that's more points
29:49toward the individual championship but taking five thousand dollars from brendall when he was handling
29:53me kind of rough is also cool i always try to stay humble everybody's seeing me throughout my whole
29:58career i like being humble when somebody is not being humble i like to try my best to humble them
30:03so hopefully tomorrow brendall respects my gangster a little more and uh he won't be talking with all
30:08that baseman for us get it
30:12oh excuse us sorry sorry i feel um the best i can after a treatment i guess
30:27i'm pushing through it pushing through it this one's a little rough on me so um i'm just trying to be
30:35strong here be safe lizzie all right all right take it easy on me no see why put some in it put some in
30:44it we'll see if it makes it yeah i'm gonna clear this really quick okay just put your ears on i'll be
30:52fine all right i'm definitely gonna have some drinks tonight if we pull it off that's for sure
31:01we need one we got to get by lizzie though one round at a time
31:18so we got some in it for our first round of uh grade eight car responded really good still soft in
31:24the middle so um and we went up against lizzie i put some more in the middle she's coming off a big
31:28win last week and tulsa it's definitely going to be a tough round for us
31:43all right this will be the last pair of the semi-finals here in grade eight
31:47over in that left lane that's going to be giuseppe going up against lizzie musy the winner of this race
31:55here will face off against kai kelly in the great eight finals
32:09and giuseppe gets the win giuseppe will face off against kai kelly in the great eight finals
32:29good race i don't know what's happened with mine because it was popping and banging like it was it yeah
32:33yeah i was like oh where is she at oh god i don't know what was going on but i just saying it's all
32:37good yeah good race yeah yeah you were still there it was still there it was just like pop pop i don't
32:43know what's going on that's all right oh yeah good race felt good let go of the button saw her a little
32:50bit in the middle of the car pulled good where i put some power to it we got out and we ended up getting
32:54the wind light yeah feeling good right now yeah you got to beat kai now all right let's get back
33:01let's hurry up we're not gonna have much time thank you good race guys
33:07guys yeah baby
33:19make us say uh huh i see about three quarters she was popping popping yeah she said it was popping
33:26bank she didn't live but it was popping
33:29but she wasn't out on us yeah no no yeah you got a great night yeah yeah it was good
33:35that's what we got to do so i liked it in the middle too so let's see what it picked up hopefully
33:39we're right where we need to be okay kai look fast larry yeah close it was close it's fast that's good
33:46yeah his top end's good hopefully we picked it up enough on that one yeah yeah let's do it
33:53all right let's get let's get the data out troy you get you're gonna do
33:56right there just a little bit of the tire yeah yeah right down
34:12man tire tracks are perfect no paddling no nothing all right we can we can give them more
34:17we gotta we gotta get one
34:23i think i raced here in season two it was season two
34:27we drove 40 hours to get here had all the kids with us and uh i got here and made test hits and
34:35i had drew dean karn's first pass stinky pinky and dean came up to me telling me how fast he was he's
34:41like man i just went this fast so it got in my head i went straight down there took a shot out of the
34:49tree missed it went red had to drive 40 hours back home on one pass
34:58and come to find that dean was just but he didn't even know that fast it got in my head
35:02all the muscles all them biceps he tried he couldn't hold that little button like that
35:10so he done his job hopefully i can redeem myself down there
35:17all right half so i put half i put it from early two i put it from from half a second on
35:25i mean we gotta get it we gotta get out on him we gotta get out on him we got to get out on him
35:32we got kai for the finals he's had our number and he's beat us three or four times i don't even
35:37know anymore but we haven't been able to beat him all year if we don't do something a little extra
35:41we're gonna get yeah we gotta try it we gotta get him i want to win i think i got his number
35:47tonight hopefully we can pull off this win and uh celebrate i want to win
35:51so four what is it how many what's that almost 700 feet better right now than the first pass
35:58earlier today oh yeah what do we have right now 46 still we're running really good though
36:07he better make a good run if we make it down cut a light he's he might be trouble tonight doesn't
36:12matter it's his altitude too yeah the same thing oh we're not slow though he's got to deal with it
36:17also we're not slow i got the working right now feeling great with the car you know
36:21the car gave us a couple issues which it normally hasn't done but we made some adjustments to get
36:25it to go straight and the car is going straight down the middle now you know kai is fast so i think
36:29this one's who's going to take a bigger shot at it and uh win this tonight
36:36you kicked this dude's ass in the dirt or what yeah yeah man i need you to get in the smart car though
36:41hey giuseppe's fast he's been running good i just need to keep chipping away i need to get this win
36:46tonight and give him seven points the least he can get and let him put his car up and wait for tomorrow
36:51oh yeah i'm sucking the finals huh been there what four times one one it feels great to be the
36:59finals it's the second time we've actually got to the finals now what you think you got enough
37:05i ain't seen this car make a pass we're just gonna give it all we think of the day
37:09thanks all right appreciate it
37:13all right thanks kai's still got a pretty big lead but it's gonna put us firmly into second place right now
37:19so either way whatever happens we just got to do what we got to do and win this tonight
37:35grade eight finals right here right now 10 000 to win over in the left lane that is going to be giuseppe
37:41going up against current grade eight points leader kai kelly in the right lane
37:45me and giuseppe's been pretty much running side by side the whole year i've had him about maybe a
37:51quarter fender or half a car sometime but uh he's fighting the same thing he's got a pro charge hemi
37:57i got a screw blown hemi they're both starving for air so there's no advantages in this race it's just
38:02going to be made the best man win winner of this race right here will be 10 000 richer here we go
38:32hey kai kelly takes the win kai kelly is your great eight winner wow what a drag race
38:46giuseppe was fast all day ron told me in the staging lanes that he didn't think i had enough to
38:49beat giuseppe so being able to beat him today that was badass hey man we had a little old tune-up
38:54in that fight good job beat you man good job though you hauled ass that's good good race man
39:02we'll get it we'll get one i don't know man maybe we might not we stage do our thing let go of the
39:07trans brake button see him a little bit see him and i'm like oh i got him in the middle usually i get
39:13something ahead of somebody it's usually over so i'm like i don't see him i don't see him and man
39:17right towards the finish line i'm looking looking for my life here he comes boom goes by you the real
39:22number two i know how you feel i know i'm just right there man i can't get it i know i know how
39:26you feel man i know yeah i know you got about three years experience right there yeah yeah i'll take
39:31it man we're getting there we're running good too we picked it up a lot you just ran a little better
39:35you're fast on that one my car gets loose loose at the finish line same with mine same thing same
39:40again when we race each other whatever happens i almost thought we'd try to yeah both was i wasn't i
39:45was trying not to look and pulls me in every time when we race the finish line with the shoots out i've done
39:49this so i think what's happened is we're pretty close so the shoots are both out and it sucks us
39:53in yeah because i'm like every time yeah badass man good job that was a good race though it was
40:03so tonight i showed up racing for 10 grand i'm walking away with 15. steven brindle donated us
40:08five thousand dollars then we took the ten thousand dollar win home so fifteen thousand dollars in one
40:13night with old buick hey that ain't a bad night oh just said he's mad at me again man
40:22and there you have it for the second time this season kai kelly wins the grading he's taking home
40:28ten thousand dollars and ten points towards that individual championship kai is now 17 points ahead
40:35of giuseppe who's in second place with 20 points next time this is the horsepower killer track
40:46so the higher you go up in air the less oxygen there is in the air so the less power it makes
40:54the top eight race in colorado's challenging high altitude
40:57blue that may be a car oh we gotta make a problem i want to find out how fast this nitrous car is
41:06no whatever everybody's talking about how fast lizzie is nobody's got a chance out here against
41:12nitrous cars giuseppe gentile goes after another grade eight finals while kai kelly does everything
41:19he can to add to his points lead damn kai with a guess like that what's the most powerball level
41:25what you think i guess that's what it is man we're making money
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