EP93 Championship Season: Travis Loew’s Red Cedar Takeover

On this episode of the Built2 Media Podcast, we sit down with Street Stock standout Travis Loew, fresh off winning the points championship at Red Cedar Speedway.

Travis shares how his racing journey began, the first days of getting behind the wheel, and what it took to climb the ranks in Street Stocks. We dive into the dedication, late nights in the shop, the support from family and friends, and the relentless work that goes into chasing a championship.

He opens up about what he loves most about racing, his family, the lessons the sport has taught him about life, and what it means to bring home a track title. And of course, we wrap things up with our signature Two Minute Questions segment — where the answers are random and come quick.

If you’re a racing fan, a weekend warrior, or someone who appreciates the grind behind the glory, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. 🏁🔥

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Transcript

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Hello, hello, hello.

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We're back. Ben's doing his TikTok live. I don't know if you guys have noticed, but he's a TikToker now.

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Throwing some old school with all the new school tricks. Come on.

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Hey, what's going on, everybody? How are you doing? Uh we're finally back, Ben. Took a couple weeks off. Had some busy stuff going on. That's for sure.

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It had to be done. It had to be done.

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Like you said, it is interview season.

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It is. It is interview season.

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I want to start this one off with a hello to Emma.

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Hello, Emma.

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Which Northern Lands? Like Arctic Circle?

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Bridgeland area. It's like Ridgland. Yeah.

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Yeah. Shout out to Justice 2. I told him I'd shout him out. And also Locks and Lashes by Lacey, who made this beard look phenomenal.

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I mean, it is a majestic beard.

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And then I got rid of the white that was hanging out the back. We don't talk about that.

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Oh no, you can't talk about the you're going gray. You're going white.

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I am. I'm trying to match your beard, but it's just the back of my head. Well, it's the it's the aesthetics of the show, right? Right. Right, right.

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All right, this episode of Built 2, we sit down with uh Travis Lowe to bring to break down his 2025 Wesota Street Stock season a year, defined by speed, consistency, and hard lessons learned. Travis reflects on opening the season with a win, leaving the points without stacking trophies, proving that consistency wins championships, navigating a full year of strong heat wins, tough, heartbreaking DNFs, and late season progress. We're gonna dive into the metal metal side, racing for points, the technical challenges that showed up between heat and features, and how those experiences are shaping his approach into 2026. Are we ready?

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That's what we're doing. This is your red cedar speedway street stock points champion. Yeah, and that's no easy. I don't know who you're thinking, but this guy needs a red carpet. Okay. He does. Like a literal red carpet.

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Should we like send one to his house with quality fragrance?

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I wish I had a thing that I could just roll a red carpet out when I bring him in. But instead, Ben's gonna do an intro.

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So let's let's let's So you have to settle for my intro. Let's onward. You gotta settle for my intro. All right, ready?

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, Bill2 Media is proud to present to you your 2025 Red Cedar Speedway with Soda Street Stock Track Champion. He comes to us from Baron piloting the cross country clearing number 40. Ladies and gentlemen, Travis Lo.

SPEAKER_05 6:20

What up, Travis? What's up, dude? Oh, hold on. There we go.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Blake and Ben, how you doing? Doing good, buddy. How are you? Not too bad. A little bit of a rush getting in here tonight, get everything set up, hang out with you guys for a minute.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Well, we appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule to join us here this evening. You got a beautiful home right behind you there, brother. That is, I mean, I've been to your house before, and that is the best, that is the best view right there. I love that. I love that. I've never spent the night there. Nor have I been there. Can we spend the night there? Yeah, can we come spend the night? Will Steph feed us? Will you feed us? Probably. Well, Trav, last year I would consider your 2025 season to be one of the better ones that you've had, obviously. In collecting the points championship at Red Cedar Speedway, no easy task. When at what point in your season did you think we got a shot here? At what point in your season did you start thinking that when you were racing down Monomani?

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Honestly, you know, the nights that I had there were good until failure. You know? The first night out, I don't know if I had an out-of-body experience, but the car just felt awesome. Racing, you know, next to the 20 car. I know he's an awesome racer and strong runner all the time. Talking about Andrew Hansen, right? To be clear. Yes, and Andrew, yes. And you know, I was like, wow, I'm hanging with Andrew. This is pretty cool, you know. And then I drive by Andrew, I'm like, what's going on here? Is he broke? You know, but I enjoy racing around Andrew, stand-up guy. You know, had a good heat race, and that was a lot of fun. We came out for the feature and thought I had a chance at actually possibly winning the race, and right rear tire goes down. They should have all flat tires. Right. Yeah. So uh, you know, that was a frustrating part, and still ran the rest of the race out best I could. But then, you know, we came back a few other times to to Cedar Lake, and you know, once again, I I just tried to run as consistent as I could, and you know, I had had a little bit of bad luck, but we're able to pull off, you know, some decent finishes. The the last race I had there that I felt like I possibly could have won, Parker Anderson ended up winning the race, finished second to him. You know, he's he runs strong. Not afraid to use the ramhorns, but you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Yeah, he's a he's a fan of the chrome horn, that is that's for sure. I mean, but you know, when it comes to your like your progression throughout the entire year, okay. This is what I'm referring to here. When it comes to your progression throughout the entire year, I mean there were times when you yourself had to throw a little a bit of an elbow every once in a while, right? From what I could tell, at least at Rice Lake, you know, it was it'd be like this, you know, just like that, right? And maybe you got yeah, maybe you got one back, maybe you maybe you didn't. But then what I saw throughout, like the faster you got, right, and the more consistent you got, the less you had to do anything like that.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Agreed. You know, and that's and that's part of the thing. A lot of these guys have sat in race cars or raced a lot more than I have. I mean I never competitively competitively drove a race car until I was 40 years old. So sitting in a car, you know, with the company that's out there, there's a lot of heck, there's a lot of good good racers out there. I mean, they they really have put a lot into it. And to know you're riding around with a company like that, to even be competitive with them with such a late start in life, you know, I I couldn't do this until I could afford to do it on my own. And it it really opens your eyes up. I remember one of the first nights I was out, Sam Feinkhauser. I said, Sam, I get one of them cars, you're gonna be in trouble. He's like, Okay, Trav. Well, you know what? I I I had a whole new realization after I went out there, and I said to Sam, I'm like, You weren't wrong. Man, this is not easy. So it gives you a whole new perspective sitting behind the steering wheel looking out of the race car instead of sitting in the stands looking down at the race cars. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_05 11:06

Which which that's a perfect question to ask now is so Red Cedar, your first time actually racing on it after watching or whatever. I mean, I've always said that Red Cedar races way bigger than it looks. What's your perspective on that, or what was your your first take at Red Cedar Speedway?

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Well, you know, I mean, the first time in the race car in Rice Lake, I hammer down, and Nick says to me, He's like, Well, you can enter however you want. I know how I did it. So wide open down taking the green at Red Cedar, and you're like, gosh, that wall looks like it turns fast.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

You know, so trying to figure out an entry on that track. I I've watched a lot of other guys do it, and you know, you you just kind of got to figure it out on your own and feel. And I've become to like the track, to be honest with you. I really like racing there.

SPEAKER_05 12:28

Yeah, it's it's weird going down that, you know, coming out of four going into one is a little easier, but when you come down that backstretch wall, it's almost like following that wall and then predicting where you need to be or to get to the bottom, it feels like you gotta drive all the way across the infield just to get to the apex.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Yeah, it feels like you're gonna run somebody's nose over truthfully.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

And and I don't, I mean, honestly, I I want to give the guy racing against me just as much of a chance. I mean, I know some people might disagree with that, but uh I don't want to be known as the guy that runs you over. I want to race with you. Many times, you know, I've I've raced with guys Vogel. I race with him and fun to race next to, you know. I mean, he'll race you, and that's what it is. It's racing. You know, I mean, it's good door to door. He might lean on you a little bit or you lean back a little bit, but you know what? He's not there, he's not gonna dump you purposely unless you've done it to him, just like anybody. And and you know, I I enjoy racing with guys. That's the funnest part about the whole sport is being out there racing door to door, trusting the guy next to you, hoping that each of you give each other the same respect.

SPEAKER_05 13:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you're 100% right on that. I mean, my favorite part is obviously racing with my friends too. And Ben, you know, we've we had some had some fun this year, but the way I see it is I'm out there with my buddies, and if my buddy fucking wrecks me or gets into me or accidental issues, like, yeah, just like you were saying, you might have one coming. Yeah, but it is the best being on track with them and putting on that show that you're just in your helmet or whatever, you're not really thinking about the show. You just want to beat that guy, but it's all like slider for slider. I could do it for 10 laps, 20 laps straight, and still enjoy it.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

It makes my when you guys put on a show, it makes my job a hell of a lot easier.

SPEAKER_05 14:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Yeah, you know, it's funny you say that because obviously everybody knows Nick and I are pretty good friends, right? It's hard racing with Nick because A, doesn't matter if they're you know, both of us are on the same page or whatever, but we're like right next to each other, and I don't want to bump into him just as much as he does of me, but we're still gonna race. Right, right. Yeah, and I've had some really fun racing next to him, and he always says to me, He's like, Trev, one minute you're going backwards, you see my car, and then you start trying to go forward. What's going on? Pork job, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:02

But then that's also that in the helmet moment where you're like, I don't want to hit him, but I'm getting there, I'm gonna do it anyways, you know.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

But you're you're just trying to hold it's all fun, you know. I mean, there's a lot of guys out there that I truly do enjoy being around and racing with, you know. I mean, there's you know, I haven't really had the chance to run on the tour much or anything like that because I have this thing called a job in a business, and you you you kind of gotta weigh each of them out, and then you've got your kids, which are more important than any of it, and that that's a big deal. And I want to give a shout out to my daughter who just went to state. I don't know if you guys seen that online at all, but I'm so proud of her. I mean, I could forget about all the things that I'm doing. Seeing her do that, I mean, that was just awesome. She would have seen what I didn't see it. I'm sorry. So she dances for Cameron, okay, and she is the first soloist as a sophomore last year who made it to state, followed it up back to back this year as a junior, made the all-state team, so she's gonna be dancing with the all-state having.

SPEAKER_05 16:09

Oh. Oh. Oh, that was fun.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

Travis low, everybody.

SPEAKER_05 16:14

Having hopefully he comes back again.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

He's almost he's almost as fast as Cody Simple.

SPEAKER_05 16:19

The way that disappears is gone, it didn't even glitch or nothing. That was sweet.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:23

So we'll take this moment and talk about real world life until we wait until real world life. We don't add it, nothing, just so you know.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Yeah, so and just so you guys know, here on my TikTok, uh I just realized you guys can't hear what our guest is saying, but you should be able to hear both of us if you can. If you can hear both of us, let us know. If you want to participate in any questions, we'll try and get them read as well. But we are yeah, we're just gonna wait for a little bit for Trav to come back. Yeah, we're waiting a little bit for Trav to come back in. Not sure what happened. Maybe his phone died.

SPEAKER_05 16:57

I hope not. I hope his phone did. That's gonna take like five minutes.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Yeah, and we're getting we're just building some traction there.

SPEAKER_05 17:04

There he is. All right, here we go. We'll wait until his camera comes back on. Okay, all right, so you were saying that she uh she's going to Allstate and all that, right?

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yeah, no, she made Allstate. She's gonna be dancing with you know the girls from all across Wisconsin in her division. And, you know, the the choreographing gets done by you know the the group that she danced with. I think it's WAP something. I don't know. My bad, but anyhow, she qualified going through state, got to it. I'm very proud of her, and you know, it kind of makes you think about what you're doing. Uh is it really as important as what they're doing? Right. You know, so that's part of being a dad.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

That's part of the that's part of the trend that's happening with racers, really, that we all grew up with, right? I mean, you know, great example, Kurt, right? Yeah, still, he can still bring it, he can still do it, right? But now he wants to focus on his kid, Eric Olson. Same thing. You know, he's still gonna race, but he wants to be able to focus on focus on Ryan. You Trav, I mean, you know, your your kids aren't racing yet, but still you want to be able to focus on them too. And you know, at the end of the day, you're I mean, we're local regional racers, right? You know, we're not doing this for a living, we're doing this because we love it, but you know, it's uh uh having your priorities correct like that. That's you know, you're leading by example in that way, too. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Well, and and that's ultimately it comes down to family and friends and everything else. But most of all, your your your kin are very important. It only happens one time. And honestly, that's why I wanted to race one time and try it, and then it gets like a extremely heavy book that sits on your shoulders, like, God, I love this. I want to open it again. You know, you you can't wait to take it back off the shelf, right? So, you know, with that being said, I mean, I enjoy racing, I love racing, but my kids are gonna come first always, and you know that that's the most important thing. I'm I'm very grateful for all the fans and and sponsors that have ever helped me even do this. Also, I mean, it it wouldn't happen with all these people sitting up in the stands not being there for any of these places, and I I think you know, people do need to realize that without them there, what are we doing? Just running around in a circle.

SPEAKER_05 19:29

Yeah, you know, I mean hanging out with your buddies without the phone, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Which is fun, don't get me wrong. I mean, you can only go so far though. Right.

SPEAKER_05 19:38

Well, I mean, Ben wouldn't have a job.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Yeah, I wouldn't have I wouldn't have anything to do if there's no fans in the stands. Right. Yeah, they're trying to talk to you guys.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

And and honestly, what got it, you know, racing. I remember used to go to the Rice Lake Speedway wearing the white pants and all of that stuff, and wanted to race so bad, but knew I couldn't do it because you know it was expensive then. Now it's crazy. But you know, my uncle raced, you know, that put a you know a big enhancement in me wanting to do it. And when I was able to do it, you know, it just it's it's awesome. And you you get you really come across a lot of cool people, and you know, I never would have met either one of you guys if it weren't for racing, you know. It it it's really awesome the the kind of people and camaraderie that you come across with guys that you meet out there, and yeah, people get mad at each other, but at the end of the day, it again, like you guys said, it's just racing, we're having fun, let's have fun and enjoy ourselves because you only get to do it one time. You go around one time, right?

SPEAKER_05 20:42

Well, I mean, I think that's a perfect segue for you to tell us how it all happened. I mean, I know you said you've already mentioned that you know you couldn't do it until you you could afford it yourself, but how did that white pants at the track, the kid wanting to race, how did it all get started? Where did it start? Just give us the give the listeners the the Travis Lowe story.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Well, I mean, after all of the white pants thing and the taste of racing and the watching the Dave Morgan's and you know, the you know, Dave Adams and you know your your 007 young and I mean all of those guys.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

You know, the legends, the titans of Rice Lake is what you're referring to.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Yeah, I remember all of that, you know, and and you know, riding to Menominee, you know, the track that you know I've won a points championship in Rice Lake and I've won a points championship in Red Cedar. I mean, hey, those are the two tracks that I remember going to as a kid, and I mean, I I truly can't believe it. And, you know, call it luck, call it what you want. But you know, at the end of the day, I I was lucky enough to make it to the end at both of them, and I love it. But you know, starting at 40 years old, you know, Nick had a lot to do with that. He's like, Trav, you need to do something to you know, use up your spare time that you have now. And so I would start, you know, helping him, and he's like, Well, I think I'm gonna make the car 40, Nick. And he's like, Why? I'm like, because if I can't drive it because I hate not being able to do something halfways decent, it's got your number on it, right? So you can just jump in it and race it. So, but after I drove it the first time. And I remember Buzzy saying, Well, we've established one thing, Trev. I'm like, What's that? He's like, You're not scared. So it was pretty cool just starting off and doing that. And as time went on, and you know, bringing a car out there that didn't handle worth crap. And I told Nick when we took it over to Eagle River, I'm like, you're driving it tonight. He's like, Okay, I'll drive it. Mike, that's why I wanted you to bring your stuff along. He drove it out there, he went to the first corner, spun out. Drove it down to the next corner, spun out. He came in and was like, Trev, I'm so sorry. This thing sucks.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Well, to be fair, Eagle River is not an easy track to get around either.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Right. I mean, that the car the car sucked.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Well, I believe you. I believe you. But Eagle River is a tough track to get around. I mean, that little triobal, it's like racing around your racing around your house, really.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

So as he brings it in and throws everything in the trailer at it to try to make it do something, goes out there and ends up winning the race. A few things happen, and he went to the back once and back to the front and changed a few positions. But we brought the car back over there again after I was able to sit in it a few times. And I went over there and won too on season championship night. That was my first win ever. And I'm like, oh boy, they're gonna love me.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

I'm surprised you made it out of there live, to be honest with you. Same.

unknown 23:43

Same.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

It really is. You get in that part of the state, man, and those, I mean, like three lakes, you know, they're good people over there. Tomahawk, you know, Eagle River. And boy.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

The pine trees whisper stories, I think, then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

Yeah, they do. Especially, especially they fear a guy coming around who cuts trees down for a living.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

I was coming with an axe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:09

Well, do you go to Brainerd the week before and win that too?

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Well, I mean, I don't know about all that.

SPEAKER_05 24:17

So basically, you're basically telling us that Nick Trainer talked you into it after a couple beers.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

So it's it might have had a couple conversations over that, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Yeah. So over a couple sessions of a couple beers is what you're trying to say.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

But no, him him and Allie were very supportive in the fact of me doing it and having something just to kind of have a time to be able to put something over my ears, you know, and just go out and do something away from all the white noise, so to speak. But you know, uh, it it truly is enjoying you know, something that's just it's so hard to explain until you do it, right? You really never get to experience and when I got to do it, it it's I it's I can't even explain it with words because it's that fun. I it's it's good timing. I mean, when I turn on the television and watch these guys running these late models or you know, any of them, it's just like wow, it's crazy the talent that is out there because I really have a respect for the fact of how these guys can wheel a race car and make it happen so much different than when I used to sit in the stance.

SPEAKER_05 25:41

Yep. And you and you saying talking about the white noise, I mean it's one thing putting the helmet on and waiting to get out there. Once the green flag's down, it's just you're yeah, it's on. It's just you and your there is no thoughts.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Nope, nope. The best therapy in the world is pushing that throttle down and and going with it, you know.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Yeah, well, I would Trav, I would also consider that you uh race against weekly some of the best street stock or stock car, if you will, talent in the country. I mean, yeah, everybody in the region, if you will, and probably in the country knows about the little dream, right? And look at the month of July, the amount of competition and talent that shows up at Race Lake Speedway, okay? And you have a competitive advantage because that's your home track, so you have a competitive advantage there as well. So, taking all that into consideration, what are your goals for being behind the wheel? Do you have a desire to move up classes? Do you want to just see where the street stock deal takes you? Do you want to sell your business and and move into a motorhome and go tour the country with a race car? What do you what's like what's your goal?

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Well, you know, selling a business and moving into a motorhome doesn't really sound all that bad, but I think further to the south would be really nice because it's warm, but I'm really getting sick of this cold weather. But I honestly, you know, it would be fun to hop into a car that is different than a street stock. I always said that I'd love to see a full-blown late model, but I always say I'd want to put Nick in it, you know. I mean the kid's talented, I you can't take it away from them. But I, you know, I haven't sat in a car nearly as much as Nick, and he's given me a lot of pointers, and I'd love to sit in the late model. Boy, don't get me wrong, that'd be fun. You know, I had the opportunity to go out to Rocket and visit their facility and talk with all them out there, and that was really cool. I you walk into a facility like that, and like these guys eat, sleep, drink, everything race car. Yeah, they do nothing other, and it's just amazing the cleanliness and how these guys have things, and it's just I like to think I'm pretty meticulous about things, but then you walk into that and it's like, oh my god, I'm a slob. Yeah, you know, it's crazy. And I'm not, but I'm just saying, like, it's phenomenal when you see that. It would be fun to get in something different, but then again, like I was saying, who knows what my future is gonna bring with my girls, you know, just gonna be done with school, and my youngest will be a freshman next year. I I don't know. I I want to spend some time with them before that's gone too. So it's it's kind of a situation where you got to weigh it all out. If they want to go racing, let's go racing. If they want to go do something else, well, maybe that was what we do. You know, I I've I've made a couple goals. Would I love to run the dream and win that? Boy, that would be something, but I think that's everybody's dream, yeah, you know. But yeah, I you know, who knows? I I guess I it just depends on where we go with things. I mean, I'm always looking to have extra help with the car. I think that's the biggest problem, is when you are out wrenching on it and everybody thought it was cool for you to get in racing, but when you say, Hey, in the shop and you hear an echo, kind of takes the fun out of it.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

Yeah, well, they had yeah, Nesbid taught me it's 40 hours worth of work for 40 minutes worth of fun. Yeah, not wrong.

SPEAKER_05 29:11

Yeah, yeah, still better in tractor polling.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

I mean drag racing. Yeah, I have to agree. I gotta agree. Let's talk a little bit about your consistency. Okay, yeah, we got you parked at one time last year, but you had some DNFs. What do you think was the key to finding that consistency within your program as far as you know your maintenance and and picking your marks when you're racing and all that stuff? Uh, like what do you think are a couple keys to that consistency? Because consistency won you the championship.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Well, I mean, honestly, the biggest thing again comes in with preparation. I mean, all your shops, anybody that you know races is gonna tell you that things happen at the shop. The luck plays a big factor also, you know, not getting involved in a wreck, not getting hung up with someone, you know, that you're racing against that, you know, just crazy stuff happens. But the biggest thing is just trying to pick your way through the the race as you're going and hoping that the prediction of the guy in front of you that he's done the same thing this many times does it the next lap when you're passing him on the bottom or taking the top of the you know track and trying to go past him. You hope that he does the same thing he did the lap prior. And you know, honestly, the Layla Chaplin, I mean, I got to race against her in Benomine. And look where she's came from as far as racing. I mean, she held some pretty consistent laps, and I felt comfortable passing and racing past with her because she held the same lap. She she held her line, and it you know, it made it comfortable to pass. Sometimes when you got people that are all over the place, you scratch your head and say, Is it worth it passing them? Are they gonna put me in the wall and end my night, my season? What you know, but you know, working on the car, checking things and really paying attention to the small detail, I've noticed has really made it the consistency level, and only changing one or two things rather than just throwing the kitchen sink at it and finding out that it didn't work, but you get lucky sometimes, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 31:29

Which would basically defy your heat race awesomeness. Those tiny little things that that that car's ready when it goes in the trailer. Yeah, and it's ready when it comes out at the track. Like your baseline.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Sometimes I just I I don't judge it right. I'm always I mean, I'm I'm asking him should I do this? Should I do that? Should I do this? Should I change this? And honestly, if I'd have left the damn thing alone, probably would have been just fine.

SPEAKER_05 31:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

You know?

unknown 31:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:59

Then you get Hunter Van Gilder over there chirping in your ear, and then all of a sudden you got a should have done that. Yeah. Why why didn't you do that?

SPEAKER_02 32:08

Contrap, huh?

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Right, right, right. Yeah, no, he you know, and it's funny, you know, you you look and you see guys changing this and changing that, and it's like, maybe I should be doing that instead of just leave it alone, you know.

SPEAKER_05 32:21

Well, do you hunt?

SPEAKER_00 32:22

I do.

SPEAKER_05 32:23

Okay. So if I tell you on Tuesday that you need to sit in this stand and you're walking to that stand, I can guarantee you you're thinking about going to the other one.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Happens every time.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

Yep. Well, it'll never it'll never be any different when you start racing or when you're racing. Yeah, every track, every lap, every yeah. The worst is mid-race when you're like, if I would have just put another turn in or just change the air pressure on that one.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

You know, it's funny too. It's funny too, from my perspective. I can because I know you, Trav, and I know you outside of racing a little bit, I can tell when you second guess yourself. I can tell. I can recall. I mean, you you know, when you're coming into the corner, and I'm not gonna I don't want to pick on Layla Chaplin, but I'm gonna use her as an example. But when you're coming into the corner, she's yeah, on the on your outside, and you're on the inside, you back off a little bit. You know, if you you know what I mean, you're second guessing, you're but everybody does that. You're not the only one. Yeah, he does it. All the time. I've done it, you know. I do it on the microphone all the time, you know. So and the further you get along in your career, you you feel your confidence. I haunted in the chat right now. Never heard of her. You should highlight that. I forgot we could do that. Yeah, so did I until I saw it before. But let's talk about your confidence, right? I mean, when I see you at the beginning of of the night, you know, you look around in the pits, where especially at Rice Lake, you look around to see people thrashing and stuff like that. You're just as cool as a cucumber, you know? You're just you're ready. And like, how you feeling, Trav? Ready, I'm good. Let's go, let's get it done, you know. And do you feel that confidence coming up more and more? I mean, with every season, every night, every lap. Talk a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Well, I mean, it's funny you say that because you know, when when the car first comes out, if you haven't got a chance to take it out and test it, you're like, Well, I hope I put everything together right. Yes, but I'm still gonna drive it in the same way that I do recall doing before and drive it in, you know, like you would normally. And that's where you know my partner, you know, and Nick, he's always said to me, he's like, Traff, stop driving in like a sissy. The car is you we've set it up. So then that runs through my head as I'm racing the car, and and I drive it in harder. And you know, and Allie said it to me a hundred times too, and Steph said it to me. She's like, drive it in, like you mean it. Like, don't just keep racing. That's how you get to the front, or that's how you maintain your position or move forward. Drive the car, you know. And I I constantly have to tell myself that because I start to back out of it because you know, I'm I'm doing okay. I don't see anybody next to me, or you know what, I'm catching them. I don't keep but if I keep pushing it harder, it does drive better, and that's something that seat time plays a factor, and I I don't get to do it a lot. And if I did it more, I think I'd be a lot better off. Yeah, it it's it's all about how much time you spend with it and what it gives you back when you do it, you know.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Well, it's just like anything else you get out of it when you put into it, right? You know, absolutely. I mean and by the way, I've for the record, I've been to your shop, it's very clean, it's very clean. No slobs. Well, thank you. No slobs there. It's very it's well lit, it's clean, it's you know, I would consider it to be on the upper end of racing shops, if I'm being perfectly honest with you. So well, I appreciate that. Well, and races are one of their shops, just like you said, you know, 100% are that's where they're won. You uh now that 2025 is behind you, what is the biggest lesson you're gonna carry from 2025 into 2026 when you fire up this year?

SPEAKER_00 36:15

You know what I guess the biggest thing is is I gotta learn to trust the the car that I've worked on and put time into and and race it hard, you know. The the hardest part is that first dent, so I should probably just walk around it and find the the spot that I want to have a dent and kick it because I think that would get that out of my system and then I'd drive it, you know? Yeah, but no realistically, I mean I would just like to have a good clean race and race with guys that are racing like the first night when they're out there and want to keep their car nice, you know. Yeah, but drive it hard, I guess. I I gotta drive harder.

SPEAKER_05 37:06

I definitely heard that a few times now that you're talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Right. That's way easier said than done, too. Like if you've never driven a race car, I would consider the hardest part is flooring it coming out of the corner, going wide frickin' open all the way down the straightaway. And when you think you should slow down, no, don't don't right when when you really think you should slow down and turn, don't. Yep, and when you think you're gonna end up like in the wall, upside down, okay.

SPEAKER_05 37:35

That's the place a little bit longer.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Yeah, just hold, hold, and then go.

SPEAKER_05 37:39

Yeah, kind of like running the top of three and four at Cedar Lake. It's like, oh yeah, I can burn it in on the top of three, but guess what? The apex looks like concrete, yeah, yeah. Ship ship.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

That backstretch wall does jump out every now and then.

SPEAKER_05 37:57

It leans too, man. It leans right at the end at Cedar.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

The worst I think the worst one that does that though is Ogilvie. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you may said Ogilvie, haven't you? I have right. You come out of two and like the wall's right there.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

Yeah, it it greets you if you're not paying attention.

SPEAKER_05 38:14

Jim Falls, turn four.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

Yep. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:16

Coming out of four, it's like, oh yeah, we're supposed to be going straight here. I'm still I'm still set.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Right. Right. No, that I'll tell you though, I mean, I I wish they wouldn't have cut you know races off down at Cedar Lake for the streeters as many shows, but because I do enjoy going there.

SPEAKER_05 38:36

That's where we first met, man.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

Yeah, it is. Absolutely. I I do enjoy going there, and and it it's a fun track. I I when it's not rough and it and they get you know Mother Nature to cooperate, man, is it fun.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

I mean it is a fun, yeah, it's a fun track to race on for sure.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

And you know what? You don't have to go far to get food. You're right in town. Yeah, if you happen to miss the concession stand, plenty of places to stop.

SPEAKER_05 39:04

Yeah, you know, yeah, the outpost. Yeah, the post.

SPEAKER_02 39:09

The post now, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:10

V Brock Post has got the best damn pizza.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

And there's another spot that's over that way too, the Laurel. So if you ever get over there and they cancel, go to the Laurel. Best primary you've ever had in your life.

SPEAKER_05 39:21

Oh, yeah. Oh, talk about stop it. I haven't neither one, me and Trav have not ate yet.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

Well, you're welcome. Guess what? You guys can meet in New Richmond and go to the Laurel.

SPEAKER_05 39:30

Tonight? Probably not even over there. We'll meet you there, Trav.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

Tonight. That'll be a struggle.

SPEAKER_05 39:33

Yeah, yeah. It would be. I'll be tired after this one. Yeah. Well, that uh I think you kind of led me to my next question. What is a bucketless track for you to race that street stock at?

SPEAKER_00 39:46

You know. I think it would have been fun to, you know, some of these tracks that have closed down, you know, down like Mississippi Thunder. Some of things like that. I've yeah, I've never even been to Mississippi Thunder, you know, and you hear about it, I'd love to go down there. I don't know. I I don't know. But it would sure be cool to take something out to Arizona and race it, wouldn't it? Yeah, it'd be fun. You know, in the middle of wintertime.

SPEAKER_05 40:19

You need help or what?

SPEAKER_00 40:20

Yeah, you need pickets? A stock car would be fun, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_02 40:23

Stock car would be a freaking blast. Yeah. I mean, that's that is my favorite class to watch.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

Oh, I I have a hard time not looking towards IMCA. I I'm I have a hard time not.

SPEAKER_05 40:39

Well maybe in the future.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

It should turn it should turn a street stock racer's head. IMC, you know.

SPEAKER_05 40:46

Oh, they're so fun to watch, man. Yeah. That's like the only class, like you know, you watch the late models or you watch the sprint cars and they got the stock cars afterwards. Yeah. I ain't leaving. I ain't moving at all.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

They're fun to watch. I mean, they're you know, it it's cool watching them things go into the corner, and how it comes through the corner so out of shape and fast, I don't get it. Right? The physics are mind-boggling with that. What those I I I mean, it's like somebody's riding a tricycle down the straightaway and wants to turn fast. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 41:22

Yeah, and you get east south, east south, they get them left fronts hanging at yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:28

Oh, for there for days, it's they might as well just take it off. Yeah, a lot of them guys don't even need a left front, you're right.

SPEAKER_05 41:35

And the right rear is like coming through the deck, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

Well, and you wonder, you wonder if they got skid plates on the right front or if they put really good uh skags underneath that thing and think it's a snowmobile and steer it that way.

SPEAKER_05 41:49

Yes, yeah, basically.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

I mean, it's pretty wild to watch, you know. And uh I just think that it'd be fun to hop in one and and see what it would be like. There's a there's a lot of learning that I would have to do, I think, because there's a lot more changes in those cars than there is in a street stock, and the street stocks have really they're they really came a long ways too since the first days when I used to see them when it literally was less than a peer stock.

SPEAKER_02 42:18

Right, right. Yeah, yeah. With with the new role changes that are coming into play now, now open engines are gone as I understand it, correct for you guys? Yeah, I'm just gonna put a big block in it. Oh, I would. Yeah, you know, yeah. I think that'll help. Yeah. Uh oh, hey, there we go. Hunter said, uh, buy a stacker, three stock cars. You, Nick, and Hunter go down to Arizona and go wheel.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

I don't like to lose. We can stay home.

SPEAKER_05 42:51

That was quick. Yeah, that was quick. Hunter, that's that's a no.

SPEAKER_02 42:55

Yeah, that's it's it's a it's a it's a no from Trav.

SPEAKER_05 42:59

Sounds like Ben will be racing his car with Drav. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 43:04

Yeah, it would be fun though.

SPEAKER_01 43:07

I don't like to lose.

SPEAKER_00 43:07

He'd kick my ass.

SPEAKER_05 43:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

It would be a good time, honestly. I mean, those guys are fun to hang out with. I mean, gotcha, Nick. Thanks. I I think the kid thing really has made Hunter a heck of a guy. I mean, people can have their own opinion about him, but I think he's really and I say it to him and I say it to his mom and all that. He's really become a pretty stand-up guy. I mean, as time has gone on, I I I really have grown to like Hunter. And you know, I and with Nick, I mean, it's obvious. Him and I are are buddies, and we always will be. I don't care if I got race cars or not. You know, I mean we hunt together, we hang out together. I I get to be Uncle Trav to you know, his baby girl Kendra. I mean, I love it. I love all that. So if I don't have a race car, it doesn't matter. You know, I mean, we're family, you know. I and and it goes beyond the racing. That's where it is, you know. It's all about hanging out with the people you like to be around.

SPEAKER_05 44:01

Yeah. Well, that's you've made that obvious. It's it's a hundred percent true. That's the best part about this sport, really. You know, I mean, look at us. We don't know fucking each other. Yeah, we are. Yeah, we don't even like each other. We're family for crazy. I mean, okay, perfect example. Me and Trav parked next to each other. I don't know him. He don't know me. I'm driving a friggin' sprint car. Dumb. I mean, maybe he's heard the podcast. I'm just an idiot. Who's pissed off that I had to park out of the spot I paid for?

unknown 44:28

Right.

SPEAKER_05 44:28

And then look at here's me and Trav. Like he called me today, you know what, when I was coming back from getting my haircut. It's like we never left. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's like we were still at Cedar Lake parked next to each other. I think you won that night, too.

SPEAKER_00 44:41

I did. I did. Son of a biscuit. The funny thing is, the funny thing is, I think you brought your good luck because I think you won the night before.

SPEAKER_05 44:50

I sure did, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

Yeah, yep. So you let me have a little bit of the taste of what it seems to be like to win. Yep. But I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm not certain how you find underwear big enough to wear because you must have sparkies hanging down there because I would not drive what you're driving.

SPEAKER_05 45:09

Pretty sure you might have told me that. I tried to get him to sit in it that night, but he wouldn't even do that.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

You wouldn't even sit in it? No. No. And it wasn't probably because a seat's comfortable, or you know, you could be missing your lower unit uh if the drive shaft went.

SPEAKER_05 45:24

But that's true.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

No, thank you. Good job. You can have it, but lower unit. I'm gonna remember that one forever.

SPEAKER_05 45:32

Oh, it's bad.

SPEAKER_00 45:33

I've had a drive shaft break once, and it's and and uh so did you have kids before that then? I would assume.

SPEAKER_05 45:41

No, this was way before kids. Oh that was uh that was actually the second night I was ever in it.

SPEAKER_00 45:47

Reconstructive surgeries came a long way.

SPEAKER_05 45:49

Yeah, yeah. I'm just glad I didn't break my damn ankles.

SPEAKER_00 45:55

Oh yeah, they've yeah. I give you guys all the credit in the world. Fun to watch. I just can't say it would be fun to do. Yeah, I mean, maybe it probably is fun to do. I mean guarantee it's fun to do, just not for this cat.

SPEAKER_05 46:07

I could teach you.

SPEAKER_00 46:09

I bet you you could.

SPEAKER_05 46:10

Yeah, Nick taught you how to drive a street stock. I'll teach you how to drive a sprint car.

SPEAKER_00 46:14

Yeah, just take about uh six of the plug wires off, we'll be fine. My biggest fear, honestly, what would be with a sprint car is climbing someone else's tire. That would be my biggest fear, and that's maybe why I just I nope.

SPEAKER_05 46:31

Yeah, ask Harry Hansen about that one. I did that, I stepped on mine pretty hard. They called me to go beat him, and that's what happened to me when I started catching him. I got a little antsy, yeah. And there I was on one wheel. I wasn't scared, I didn't let off till I hit the ground. So is that the one where you yeah, well, not that one, okay. This was up in Sand Rapids or Grand Rapids. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Christmas trees and turn one and two.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

I mean, maybe Jimmy Randall was onto something back when the dream came around when he had only like a third of a car left. Yeah. It brings a whole it brings a whole new respect. You know, I mean, you you probably don't want anybody to get into you.

SPEAKER_05 47:17

Yeah. It's not fun when you touch rubbers. And it doesn't matter if we're talking about spring cars or anything, right?

SPEAKER_02 47:24

And that sounds weird. Yeah, that's that's that's that's you your mind. It's fine. Yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_05 47:33

It's fine. Oh yeah, I got my G.

SPEAKER_02 47:36

Uh Trav, we're uh we got about 10 minutes left here. So uh two minute questions. We're gonna do a couple of two-minute questions.

SPEAKER_05 47:42

I got the first one. Give her give me your OnlyFans name. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

For example, for example, your buddy Nick Trainer. Yep, his OnlyFans name is Happy Meal. Oh my gosh. Josh Bach. Josh Bach. Oh my gosh. Uh his OnlyFans name is Big Mac. So you don't have to be McDonald's. We, you know, Josh just chose that one because Nick said happy meal.

SPEAKER_05 48:07

Hardwood. Hardwood trick.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

Right, right. You know, I guess Baron Hardwood. You you kind of caught me off guard on that one, but I guess um felt comfortable asking you. It's kind of weird. But yeah, I mean I gotta think of give me give me two seconds on that one. All right, we'll come back to that. Next question.

SPEAKER_05 48:35

No, we're just gonna keep giving you names till you give us two pine cones, one shrub. Uh Barron County's Mr.

SPEAKER_02 48:47

Twain. Little oak tree.

SPEAKER_00 48:51

Yes. There we go. There it is. There it is.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

All nuts, no glory. All right. You got anywhere? It's a working title. Yeah, it works. It's a working, it's a working title. Blog splitter.

SPEAKER_05 49:04

Yeah. Too much. Yeah. Okay, next question. All right. All nuts, all all nuts, no glory all guts, no glory. All nuts, no glory. All nuts. All nuts.

SPEAKER_02 49:14

All nuts on the old tree. All right. Next question. This is way more G-rated than the demon that's sitting next to me here. Twisted Oaks. There it is. There it is. There it is. Twisted Oak. I like that. That sounds good. Twisted Oak. That's it. That's going to be set on the microphone this summer, too, by the way. And then you want it on the back of your car. Yeah. Twisted oak. Uh all right. Next question. You are to build, you're building your favorite racetrack, but you're using elements of racetracks of which you've been to. For example, Cedar Lake's concession stand, Menominee's Racing Surface, Ogilvie's pit area.

SPEAKER_05 49:52

Eagle River's Way Station.

SPEAKER_02 49:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:55

Yeah, I'm not sure about that, but um. Honestly, no daddy. I I enjoyed I got to go out to I-94. Quite a spread. I like their I just like the way their organization is. Obviously, it must has to be that way because of you know the Wasoda 100. Ogovia is a top-notch place. I I love their concession area. I love when you're you can walk in there, you can watch races, see where things are at.

SPEAKER_05 50:28

Cedar Lake.

SPEAKER_00 50:29

I really enjoy that part of it. I really like the way that Cedar Lake races. It's a fun track to race at. You know, Menominee. I like the in-town feeling, like you're racing right in town in front of everybody that doesn't like it, and that's just too bad.

SPEAKER_03 50:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:48

You know what I mean? You become to like it because you're stuck there, and before you know it, you know, I I think if you put all that together, I think that's pretty cool. You know? Yeah. The nostalgic aspect of that being at a fairground still, I think that's cool. Um that's pretty neat. You know, and and and don't get me wrong, Rice Lake has came a long ways from where it used to be to where it is today. You know, all of them that are still alive, there's a reason for it. Right. You know, they each have a a a pretty cool thing about them. But I would say Ogil V concession stand, love it, like it, whatever. I I enjoy being there. You know, red cedar, the nostalgia of the where it's at on a fairgrounds, and Cedar Lake. I love the the the board at the end of the track where you can see the you know cars and you know you can watch some of the race up on the screen. That's cool too. So those are some of the cool things I'd probably do. That's a great, great, great track.

SPEAKER_05 52:07

I want to race on that track. I do too.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

Right now. Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 52:10

I liked everything you said.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

Yeah, that was good stuff. Let's see.

SPEAKER_05 52:14

Best best day on the job.

SPEAKER_00 52:16

Yeah. Good one. Best day on the job?

SPEAKER_05 52:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

When I'm walking out the door to get my truck to leave.

SPEAKER_05 52:25

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_02 52:28

It's good stuff. Let's see. I'm drawing a movie. Favorite movie. Favorite racing movie. Come on. You know what that is. It has to be. Yeah. Tell me. Days of Thunder. It has to be.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

You got it. It has to be.

SPEAKER_05 52:47

Okay, favorite movie outside of racing, then.

SPEAKER_00 52:50

Outside of racing? I like Tommy Boy.

SPEAKER_05 52:54

It's a great classic movie. My guy. Still, I quote it all the time. I knew we got together for a reason.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

Tommy. Absolutely. Tommy Montwingy.

SPEAKER_05 53:02

Side by side, boating, fishing, hunting. Give me your one through four.

SPEAKER_00 53:07

Alright. Well, I love to hunt. And mostly because I do it with my family and my daughter and all that. You know, she's a buck hunting machine. Love that. Yeah. The next thing I like doing is probably I really enjoy camping. Yeah. Fun just to sit, relax, talk smart, throw wood in the fire, and just chill out. Side-by-siding is fun. Snowmobiling, I'm getting too old and it's getting cold out.

SPEAKER_03 53:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

Yep. Great everything. And fishing, hey, everybody likes going fishing. Ice fishing is awesome when you can be in an ice shack that's heated. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 53:53

Yep. Just did that Friday. You bet.

SPEAKER_00 53:56

And you can have the television on watching football or dirt vision.

SPEAKER_05 54:01

You bet. Just did that Friday.

SPEAKER_03 54:04

Love it.

SPEAKER_05 54:05

Yeah. Jeremy. Jeremy wants to ask top or bottom at the track? Yeah, favorite groove. Top or bottom.

SPEAKER_00 54:14

You know, when the top is working, I like running up on the top. It took me forever to want to run towards the bottom. And Nick has forced me to the bottom of the track a couple times, and he says, I know you don't like running there, Trav, so that's where I'm gonna make you go. And honestly, it's helped me. So, but I like running the middle or to the top of the track just because most of the accidents keep seem to stay down towards the bottom, and everybody's fighting for the bottom.

SPEAKER_05 54:44

How do you cook your steak?

SPEAKER_00 54:46

On the grill.

SPEAKER_05 54:48

Well, rare, medium.

SPEAKER_00 54:53

Medium to medium rare, baby. That's the only rare. That's where it's at.

SPEAKER_05 54:58

He's getting good at this.

SPEAKER_02 54:59

Yeah, he is. He's quick witted, too. Golly. Okay. Racing hero. Pick three.

SPEAKER_00 55:06

Racing hero. Well, Dale Earnhardt, number one. Obvious. Racing died when he did. Yep. Ask for sure. Bloomquist is a big one. Brent Larson. Which one? Old Brent or current Brent? Old Brent Larson. Okay. I I remember him from when I was younger. Yep. So that's probably, you know, some of the my more favorite ones. You know, take it or leave it. Uh Dave Morgan and Dave Adams, two of the guys I really enjoy watching, and now we get to watch his grandson race.

SPEAKER_03 55:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:47

Um, you know, Buzzy is very fortunate to have a young man like that that loves racing, and that's pretty cool. You know, I don't have a son, but boy, if a guy ever had one, you would sure love that. My daughter, she she wants to race, but dad says, no.

SPEAKER_05 56:05

Yeah. It's a good choice, Dad. Yeah, no. Keep doing the dance things.

SPEAKER_00 56:11

She said, Dad, you were pretty good at racing before, and now you've kind of just, you know, you're whatever. I could show you what's up if I was out there. I'm like, oh yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_05 56:21

Yeah. Just like you told Nick your first day out.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and Sammy.

SPEAKER_02 56:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:26

And Sam. No, I told I told Sam, I'm like, boy, you're lucky. I don't, I'm not sitting in that race car. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 56:31

Sam. Jace wants to know what dirt track driver inspired you to start driving.

SPEAKER_00 56:39

Who wants to know?

SPEAKER_05 56:40

Jace. You got a chat. Traxer.

SPEAKER_00 56:43

Oh, Jason Traxler. You bet. Pecker Trax. Um actually.

SPEAKER_05 56:50

OnlyFans name.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

Right, you bet. No, I think that honestly, my uncle was one of them that truly wanted I wanted to do what he was doing. Lanny, Lowe. Started racing pickup trucks. And then graduated from racing with like Scott Eastman, the Solners, you know, all those guys. And went to a superstock race with, you know, like Gordy and Donnie Drew and you know, a lot of them. Yeah, that's kind of where it came from, is my uncle, and then Nick really pushed me right over the edge. When I got to watch Nick the very first time really race in Ogovie, and I said, You win that B feature, I will buy you a brand new tire. Because he says, Well, if I win, I ain't got a tire. I said, You win, I'll buy you a tire. That's when I watched Nick race, I knew that he was something special, honestly. I mean, the kid can drive. Yeah. No doubt.

SPEAKER_02 57:52

No doubt there. Vegan wheel.

SPEAKER_05 57:54

Final question, Ben.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Do you want me to do the final one?

SPEAKER_05 57:56

I'll let you have it.

SPEAKER_02 57:57

Wow. I'm honored, Blake. Travis Low. What are you built to do?

SPEAKER_00 58:06

I am built to be the best person I can be to set an example for people and try my very best and be as kind as I can and be the dad that I want to set a presence for my daughters to look for in somebody, hopefully down the road.

SPEAKER_05 58:27

Can't fit it on a t-shirt, but man, that is the way to that is a hundred percent accurate.

SPEAKER_02 58:32

That's a good way to end it right there. I love it. Love it. Traff, thank you so much for your time. And thank you so much for being here with us tonight. Look forward to having you back on, buddy. Uh after you're parking at the Little Dream, maybe we'll have you back on.

SPEAKER_00 58:45

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens. You know, I mean, that takes a lot of luck and uh the moon, sun, and stars all lining up the same way. So, but I appreciate you guys asking me to come on here. You know, I I don't I don't see myself as as you know anybody different than the people that are typing on their computers or sitting in the stands. I mean, I'm just fortunate enough to be able to do this and and I enjoy doing it, and I appreciate everybody that supports me and the and the people around me at the race. I mean, we couldn't do it without any, you know, the other people that and it honestly pushes people when you've got people that support you like that. It really does.

SPEAKER_05 59:22

Yeah. Well, congrats on the points championship, too, man. We'll probably see you at Red Cedar if we make it out there and just keep being you. Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_02 59:30

It's working. Yeah, it's working. Well, you got you got it going on, man. You got it going on.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Good luck, I really appreciate it. I do, I appreciate you a ton, and thanks for making me part of what you got going on.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Hey, thanks for being here. You bet. Thanks, buddy. You bet. Take care. All right, later.

SPEAKER_05 59:47

Travis Lowe, everybody. Travis Lowe. Good guy. What a great interview. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That punchline at the end. That was uh Oh, that was good. That was good. I don't like to lose. That was a good one. That was a great line. Yeah. And then the the OnlyFans name. Yeah. Twisted Oak. Twisted Oak. We're sticking with I think we gotta stick with Twisted Oak. I think we do. I think we do. Thank you guys for watching. Tuning in. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back. Get this sucker up on the airwaves for you. So you can listen at work or driving or wherever. I don't know, in the shower. On the toilet, wherever you choose to listen to it. Sledding. Bobsled team during the Olympics. Yeah. There's that. Would you ever write would you ever race a bobsled? Fuck yeah. Yeah, I would too. I absolutely loved Jamaican bobsled team. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:39

I would race a bobsled.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:40

Hey, Sankamon. You dead? No man. Ooh. You want to kiss my lucky egg? Kiss my lucky egg. Trav needs a lucky egg. I could see him being a lucky egg guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:51

Should we get him a lucky egg?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:53

Yeah, but get it at Quick Trip and buy 12.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:56

So he's got a lucky dozen? Yes. So when he breaks 11 of them? Just in case one breaks. Put him, just put hard-boiled eggs under his gas pedal.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:06

Good. I think we should mount a lucky egg on his dash. We could do that. Yeah. We can do that. I forgot to ask him what kind of truck he drives. Or what he did his first burnout in.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:16

Oh yeah. Damn it. He drives a really nice three-quarter ton shabby. Not a boy. Alright, well, that's it for us.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:23

Alyssa. Came to say hi. Amazing show guy. Thank you. That's nice of you. Thanks. We try. Thank you very much. When we can. Oh, look at your face with her face. Yeah. I had a blue. You're in a red shirt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:36

I know.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:37

Why'd you wear red?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:38

Because all my blue stuff is in the wash. Red. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:43

It's like the one color I will not wear. Well, because it it yeah. Well, highlights of red. Right. I understand. But it's a racing shirt, so I don't have a choice most times.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

Yeah. I don't really think I have any red racing shirts.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:57

Till next week.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:59

All right. Thanks, everybody. We'll be back next Tuesday. Stay tuned to uh Facebook and uh we'll keep you guys updated. We have guests lined up. Yes, we do. Can you believe it? It's gonna be a good one next week, I'm telling you. I'm telling you right now, right now for free. Thanks, everybody. All right, thanks. Good night.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:20

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