Brent Crews: Quit Day One. Now a NASCAR Prospect
Stacking Pennies with Corey LaJoie
NASCAR
4.8 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Brent Crews joins the show to talk about his rise through the Toyota pipeline, competing against top talent, and what it really takes to make it to Cup.
From quitting racing his first day to winning on the world stage, Brent shares the mindset, pressure, and path behind becoming one of NASCAR’s most promising young drivers.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, friends, we're back, joined by a special guest this week. |
| 0:03.7 | First time, I believe, on stacking pennies in here, the nonsense garage. |
| 0:07.3 | This guy is taking the O'Reilly series by Storm Driver, the 19 Young Life Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. |
| 0:12.7 | Please help me welcome Brent Cruz. |
| 0:24.8 | Stacking them deep, selling them cheap. |
| 0:28.0 | I taste like gasoline, grubber, and victory. |
| 0:28.9 | Where's that here? |
| 0:29.7 | Stagging, Patty. |
| 0:33.5 | Good morning, buddy. |
| 0:34.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:34.8 | Thank you, guys. |
| 0:35.8 | Good run again. |
| 0:39.1 | I mean, top five is for you. Just, you know, you just unload. |
| 0:42.8 | I feel like you're going to be top five. And that's kind of what you've been doing the last couple weeks. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, that sounds easier than it's been. It's been fun. This weekend especially was tough. |
| 0:54.5 | No practice, no qualifying. The only experience I have on anything bigger than that is an archa test at Daytona. |
| 0:56.7 | So that doesn't get you very far. |
| 0:59.7 | But no, it's been good. |
| 1:01.5 | Obviously kind of heading into this year |
| 1:03.0 | watching how dominant JRM has been these past two years |
| 1:06.7 | was like a little bit more stress on me |
| 1:08.4 | wondering how good the cars were gonna be. |
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