Hello and welcome everybody. I'm Jordan Bianchi. This is The Teardown. I am a motorsports reporter here at the athletic, normally joined by my colleague Jeff

Gluck.

However, this week, we have a special guest, Michelle Martinelli from USA Today for the win.

Jeff had a baby this week.

He and his wife, Sarah, welcomed Kayat Rose to the world.

So Jeff is on leave for the next few weeks, and Michelle was kind enough to join us.

Michelle, welcome.

Thank you so much. This is so exciting and huge congratulations to the Glock family. That's

very exciting. It sounds like everyone's happy and healthy, and that's just great.

Healthy, yes, happy. I don't know. I won't go into details too much because I don't know how much

Jeff wants me to share.

Let's just say the first couple nights, there wasn't a lot of sleep to be had.

And, yeah, let's just leave it at that.

But no, everyone is healthy, and it does seem like they're getting into a routine.

And we expect Jeff back sometime next month.

But we have lots to talk about today.

We had a NASCAR race today.

It wasn't much of a race. It didn't feel like for most of it.

Ryan Blaney won. I'm not really sure how, because Kyle Larson had that thing dominated from beginning to end until about eight laps to go, but Ryan Blaney ends up winning. Michelle,

what are your

thoughts? Honestly, I could have done without everything except the last 10 laps. That was just,

it was dull. There wasn't a lot going on, and you get that with a dominant car like I've had

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