All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

I'm your host, Jeff Gluck, and it's 2018.

I'm back at a NASCAR track.

I'm here at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where there's an organizational test going on, where one car from each team is allowed to come out, take some lap, shake the rust off, see what they've got for 2018.

And speaking of which, it's time to make some predictions for the upcoming season.

It's coming up very quickly, Daytona just a couple weeks away now.

So I thought it'd be fun this year to not only make my predictions for the 16

playoff drivers and the champion, but also ask somebody else to do it with me on the podcast.

And, you know, there's no national media members here at the Las Vegas test.

So I figured maybe one of the drivers would be willing to do it. I don't know. Let's find out.

So I put in a request to Bubba Wallace because he seems to be like a pretty honest guy with

some blunt opinions at times. And to my surprise, actually, he said yes, he'd be willing to come on

and make some predictions, even though it could put him in a tough spot with his prognostications.

So I'm going to head over there to the number 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Haller now

and sit down with Bubba during a lunch break from testing

and see if I can get his predictions to go along with my 16

drivers for 2018.

All right, everybody.

I am here with Bubba Wallace, not Bubba Wallace Jr., by the way.

Everybody needs to get that straight, apparently.

He is on a break from testing here at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, chown down on some barbecue right now.

And we're going to run through our season predictions for who will make the playoffs in the Cup series.

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