All right, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Untitled jeff gluck podcast i'm your host

jeff gluck and today it is a post-raced version of the podcast we are here at ism slash phoenix

slash whatever you want to call it raceway and i'm here with matt weaver from auto week matt

how are you?

You know, since the last time I've been on the podcast, you've adopted a Bruce Michael

Buffer kind of intro there.

That's impressive.

That was a let's get ready to rumble kind of moment.

And we saw a rumble today.

Well, I was holding it a little extra long because I was more excited than usual.

Or, you know, I was especially excited today because, as you mentioned, we saw a good one today.

It was a pretty good race.

And I tell you what, there's some days when I look at this playoff format and I'm like,

oh, gosh, I don't know if this.

I don't know how comfortable I feel about this.

I don't know this is the best way to decide the champion. But today was not one of those days because this was pretty good. And I think

the playoffs elevated what we saw here today. Yeah, I've said from day one, the moment that they

tweak the format to include stage racing and stage points that it's the perfect blend between

entertainment and integrity.

I think being able to collect and pocket wins during the regular season each round of the

playoffs and be able to use them as a buffer if something goes wrong is a great benefit.

We saw it during this round.

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