Welcome to the Athletics Motorsports podcast.

I am Jordan Bianchi,

a sports reporter reporter reporter at The Athletic.

I'm usually joined by Jeff Glock,

but my colleague unfortunately was not with us today.

Well, yeah, depends. I am joined by the esteemed Jennifer Fryer from the Associated Press.

Thank you so much for your time.

Listen, I got to set the scene up for your people. First of all, Jordan and I are sitting in this

dark, sweet at Bristol and the lights aren't on.

There's a bar though.

Yeah, well, it's not stuffed or stocked.

And it's empty and it's dark and we can look out the only lights or the track lights

and we're getting ready and, you know, we're just sitting here in the dark and he's like,

three, two, one.

And welcome to the, and I'm like what who are you dude so this is like

our third start to get this rolling and here we are how much we got to talk about Jeff because

I mean Jeff has been dreading this race for yeah that's why I said he's fortunate he wasn't here

my glasses are so dirty I wish he was, because I would love to appear his reaction.

You were probably texting him.

I know I was texting him.

I know I know he wasn't excited by going into this.

I know he wasn't excited by what he saw today.

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