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All right, everybody, welcome back to the first post-race podcast of the season on The Teardown.

My name is Jeff Gluck.

I'm along with Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports writers, The Athletic.

And if you're watching this on YouTube, you can see that Bowman Gray Stadium is right behind us.

We've just wrapped up the clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, the first NASCAR Cup series event here

since 1971.

The Madhouse is back.

And we're going to talk all about that.

Chase Elliott is your winner tonight to start off the season.

And let's just get right into our impressions, Jordan. First of all, how are you doing?

How does this, how this weekend go for you? Well, this was a home run. Naskar did a great job

with this weekend. A lot of questions coming into it, whether it could work, how it would work,

what the racing would be like logistically, et cetera. Across the board, from everyone I've talked to,

from what I witnessed, this was a home run weekend. It was an electric crowd. It was a fun

crowd. It was spirited. The racing was good. At times, it did resemble the typical Bowman

gray, you know, rock'em know rockem sock him stuff but you also

there was moments of really good classic short track racing as well i don't know how objectively

you could look at this weekend and say it wasn't a success maybe you know the the last 20 or 30 laps

in the main event maybe wasn't the most stirring, but it was still a really, really good

race. This is a home run weekend. I didn't hear one negative thing from anybody. And I mean,

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