Racing is Supposed to be Fun

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4.6 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Motorsports has always thrived off of the personalities of its competitors. On this episode of the Gluckcast, motorsports journalist Jeff Gluck takes a peek under the helmet and helps paint a picture of some of the most compelling driver-related stories in the sport today. On the heels of a grueling afternoon at COTA that saw him pass out from heat exhaustion, AJ Allmendinger chats with Jeff about his grit and fortitude, and not wanting to give up despite a cool shirt failure during the race. Ty Dillon joins the show to help listeners understand why Richard Childress Racing is taking a chance on the unproven talent of Cleetus McFarland. IndyCar driver and personality Conor Daly calls in to chat about the star power of Pato O'Ward and how it's helping the series rise to new popularity on an international scale. Finally, legendary film director John Dahl joins the show to talk about the importance of the NASCAR Full Speed series and how it helps to humanize drivers to race fans and viewers.

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0:00.0	The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.
0:05.0	Dirtymo Media. All right, everybody, welcome back to episode three of the Gluckcast.
0:46.0	My name is Jeff Gluck.
0:47.3	I'm a motorsport's very for the athletic and also here at Dirty Mo Media.
0:51.7	Listen, newsy week ahead.
0:54.8	I mean, we've had a lot go on already.
0:57.0	A lot of interesting topics to get into.
0:59.2	And so we will try to cover it all in this episode as well as have some guests.
1:05.6	Obviously, you guys saw the Cletus McFarland coming to Richard Childers Racing in the O'Reilly Auto Part series to do some
1:13.5	super speedways. So, you know, NASCAR's driver approval process is back in the spotlight.
1:20.0	We have Pottawa Award IndyCar's most popular driver talking about whether IndyCar should be
1:25.9	feeling bad about being a support series. He doesn't really love the idea of the about whether IndyCar should be feeling bad about being a support series.
1:28.3	He doesn't really love the idea of the NASCAR IndyCar double header this weekend at Phoenix.
1:34.3	We will be previewing Phoenix, of course, from the NASCAR standpoint and also talking briefly about a crazy situation at the dawn of the Formula One season, which starts
1:45.6	this weekend as well. But first, let's talk about wrapping up Koda and what some of these
1:50.8	drivers had to go through last week. I don't know if you saw, but I wrote this week on The Athletic
1:55.9	about Brad Kowalsowski, his grueling effort to finish the entire road course race, despite his
2:03.3	still healing broken femur.
2:06.3	After there was a chance he would never walk again and now has come back to race in such
2:10.2	a short time.
2:11.9	Finished the whole race, finished 20th, that was amazing.
2:14.7	We obviously know Alex Bowman was ailing in the car and had to be pulled
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