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The Teardown

Rarefied Airness

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

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4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Great American Race is officially in the books, and Tyler Reddick broke through to capture the biggest win in his career. Our resident reporters Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi were on the scene in Daytona, and they checked into the Teardown to discuss what was a relatively controversy-free race, what to do about fuel saving and how the points are looking after race one.

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0:00.0

The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.

0:19.4

All right, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of The Teardown. My name is Jeff Glock,

0:29.3

along with Jordan Bianchi. We're motorsports writers for the athletic, and we're here at Daytona

0:34.0

International Speedway, very rainy and stormy, Daytona International Speedway right now,

0:39.4

actually. And that's fine with us because the whole race got in before that stormy weather

0:44.4

came. No weather interruptions. Like, it feels like forever since the Daytona 500 was not impacted by

0:50.2

rain. Man. And kudos to NASCAR for moving it up by an hour by the way because if they didn't do

0:55.1

that oh that would have been a mess yes so anti-collar that was that was the early call of the year

1:01.4

right there moving this up an hour uh thank you for that one uh we could have still been here

1:07.7

or i mean actually originally jordan it looked like this was going to be a stormfront that like swept through and now it turns out it's like a thing that would have

1:14.2

parked it so that would end to the race it would been done yes there's no way they would have been

1:17.5

restarted this after it was an official race so had there been the lightning ahead of it had there

1:22.4

been the the raindrop started whoever was ahead it would have been a controversy it would

1:26.5

have been a mess to start off the

1:27.5

year instead there is actually a finish under green barely in regulation i know at that yeah a

1:37.7

Daytona 500 finish under green in regulation yes barely as you say we'll talk about that but

1:42.1

dare i say and maybe we don't disagree i don't think it was all that controversial of a race, maybe?

1:48.1

I don't, I mean, do you disagree?

1:50.3

No, well, I mean, there's going to be some sticky points that people want to talk about for sure, but I don't know if we'll agree with them, but we'll see.

1:58.7

Yeah.

1:59.2

But listen, in the most NASCAR way, you know, we always agree with them but we'll see yeah but listen in the most nascar way you know we

2:03.0

we always think that the most naskar thing to happen ends up happening and sometimes there's so many

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