Pub Table Racers

What do you do after winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday? You go on Pub Table Racers.

Join us when Kirk Almquist, Car Chief for race winner Austin Cindric, and Darin Russell, his Engine Specialist, along with our own Warren Brosel, Aero Fab Specialist, from Team Penske will all be on to talk about their Daytona 500 before, during and after the race.

We might need a bigger bucket.

Kelly Crandall hails from Spotswood, NJ and is a voice in the NASCAR Media Circles as a multiple-award winning writer for RACER Magazine, President of the National Motorsports Press Association, two-time George Cunningham Writer of the Year and can be heard on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. She has a great story of how she made it into the sport through persistence and perseverance.

This native of Tonawanda, NY has come from Street Stocks to Sportsman to Modifieds to ARCA and anything else with wheels. When not racing, Andy Jankowiak delivers pizza to make ends meet and help his racing. The 2021 Ken Schrader Real Racer Award winner, 2021 Eastern Motorsports Press Association DoY, ROC Race of Champions Mod champion, reigning Indoor TQ Midget Series Champion, Multi-Time Us Open champion at Lancaster Speedway, son of Modified Champion Tony Jankowiak and ARCA driver Andy Jankowiak (Andy J) is in town to join us for this episode on Pub Table Racers.

We have our first guest of the year, Crew Chief Luke Lambert joins us at the Pub Table to kick off 2022. Luke Lambert talks about his early racing days, being a crew chief in NASCAR and his new gig at JR Motorsports with Noah Gragson. Be sure to join us live on Facebook. We start taking your questions and comments.

We have a Christmas gift for all of you, and us, for this episode when America’s Crew Chief, the one and only Larry McReynolds joins at the Pub Table. After a year of attempts, we finally found a slot In his schedule. Please join us on this episode to hear about his days with Dale Earnhardt, Davey Allison and now FOX Sports.

Ryan Flores is a NASCAR pit crew member, fabricator, Championship Indoor TQ Midget driver and owner of Flo Coating. Hear his story how he got into racing, his driving start/achievements and the business he now owns doing powder coating.

Tonight, we have the one and only Shawna Robinson as our guest. We’ll talk about her early start racing big rigs, her path through the NASCAR ranks and what she’s doing today as an interior designer. Shawna will take your questions during the show. Look forward to you joining us at the Pub Table.

Tonight, it’s the Championship End of Season Show. We tried to get some guys off the championship teams as guests, but they all seem to be still partying or resting. So, it’s Warren and Tim talking NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series championships while getting your thoughts on them, as well. We’ll talk about Kyle Larson’s dominating and record-breaking season, plus the format for The Clash at the LA Coliseum came out today.

Get your questions and comments ready, we look forward to talking with all of you.

We’ve had a few requests for this character to be on as a guest. Tune in this episode and see why when the one and only – thank goodness – Bob Tracey joins us at the Pub Table. He worked for several NASCAR teams and now owns his own successful business. You want racing stories? This guy has them.

If you saw last week’s show, you know Dave Chenette was very vocal about some views regarding the Gen 7 car NASCAR is using in Cup next year. So, since he’s worked in racing all his life – with both Warren and Tim at Dale Earnhardt, Inc at one point – as a car builder for short tracks and big leagues, and drives, we’re having him on this episode as our guest. We’re coming to you live from the Rapid Removal Studios, courtesy of Darin Russell, so join in the fun.

We talk - and take your questions - about the Playoffs, Next Gen Test, Texas race, who's in and who's going to be out.

Get ready for some great insights this episode when the one and only legendary NASCAR team Hauler Driver Rick (Otis) Hodges joins us at the Pub Table. As a 20-year veteran of the sport, he went from the concrete business to driving for Dale Earnhardt, Inc and now Stewart Haas Racing. And Rick has some tales to tell.

We have had NASCAR husband and wife combos on before, but they worked on same team. LIVE from the Rapid Removal Studio, we have Lisa Smokstad, Tire Specialist at Hendrick Motorsports since 1999. And, her husband Craig Smokstad, Mechanic at Stewart Haas Racing, joining us at the Pub Table. We will hear from them what it’s like to work for different teams competing against each other, and what the conversations might be like on a Sunday night.

We are FINALLY going to have Aaron Brown on a guest this episode. He’s not only the owner of The Garage Shop, he’s also a land speed record driver, former NASCAR team member at Dale Earnhardt, Inc and a few other places. We’ll talk with Aaron about The Garage Shop, building iconic race cars and spinning out at 200 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Jason Trinchere is the Crew Chief for Kaulig Racing and driver AJ Allmendinger. Fresh off their Bristol win, and clinching the NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season championship, Jason will share his journey from Easton, PA to driving Modified to the NASCAR ranks. Oh, and what's it like to work with the ever-entertaining AJ.

Coming up, our guest is longtime NASCAR team member Charlie Brock. He is currently the car chief for Daniel Hemric of Joe Gibbs Racing in the Xfinity Series. He was a tire changer for years with DEI, Ginn Racing and other teams. And, this is the cool part, he’s the grandson of NASCAR Hall of Famer and member of the famed Alabama Gang driver, Red Farmer.

Get your popcorn and cooler ready for tonight’s show. Warren Brosel is in Daytona testing the new Gen 7 car with Team Penske. So, we’re going to have a special guest co-host when Jessica Nichols, wife of prior guest David Nichols (Mule), sits in Warren’s seat. The super special guest is Tina Yacano Bullins, wife of Team Penske Crew Chief Jeremy Bullins and former Miss Genesee (NY) Speedway. Each has a motorsports background of their own, and will share what it’s like to be the wife of a traveling NASCAR crew member.

You want to hear about SRX and the first season from their Director of Competition? Then tune in now when Ryan McKinney joins us at the Pub Table. We’ll hear about his road from Indiana to the NASCAR ranks with several team to now with SRX. McKinney talks about his NASCAR career and his path from Indiana to Roush, GMS, Niece and now the Director of Competition of the popular SRX Series.

We’re turning this episode into Ladies’ Night. Our new guest is no stranger to the NASCAR scene as a fan favorite who turned a dream into reality through hard work and dedication. That’s right we’re talking about the one and only Jennifer Calandrillo, AKA “Infield Jen.” She’ll share her story from being a fan in the stands from NYC to now working for NASCAR teams as a marketing, PR and crew member, now with StarCom Racing. Jen has set a new personal goal that she’ll share with us.

Tim and Warren are both back at the pub table to talk all kinds of racing - Bonneville, Indy and whatever topics you’d like to discuss. That’s right - YOU! Because you are the guests tonight. Join us for the info, fun and frivolity.

How would you like a LIVE show from the Bonneville Salt Flats? How about driver Aaron Brown talking about The Garage Shop and what we’re doing here? We thought so. Tune in to hear all the info, 200 mph runs and why the No. 71 Dodge Daytona and No. 27 Ford Talladega are involved.

Coming up, we have Tim Andrews, son of NASCAR champion Crew Chief Paul Andrews, who is the Truck Chief for Derek Kraus of Bill McNally Racing in the Camping World Truck Series. Tim learned a lot from his dad, tried the driving deal and is now using his knowledge gained on a team.

If you’ve been tire-d of the same guests, we have an awesome one for you this episode. Rob Lopes has been part of the NASCAR landscape for a “few years” as a tire specialist. He’s worked at DEI, RCR, to name a few, and is currently with Roush Fenway Racing. We’ll talk about his career, share some laughs and stories. And, we will DEFINITELY talk about food – both consuming and cooking.

We searched high and low for our guest on this episode (he lives just around the corner). Steve Wallace will join us to talk about growing up the son of NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Rusty Wallace, his own racing career and his current motorcycle business Southern County Customs.

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Coming up this episode, our guest is Road Mechanic for Team Penske, Dan Lynch. He surely has something to say in the comment section of all our shows. We’ll talk about how he got into NASCAR from his hometown in New York, what it’s like to work with Warren and his championship career.

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We have a very special guest coming on this episode. It involved beer and if it says Earnhardt on it, guess who's going to be on? Kerry Earnhardt hangs out with Tim and Warren, bringing his own beer.

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A couple weeks ago, we went Facebook Live for a special episode and now want to share it here as well. We're talking road courses, charters and meeting our No. 1 Fan – Tom Beatty – who drove down from NJ to be on the show.

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If you’re a fan of Alan Kulwicki, Rusty Wallace, Ryan Newman, Kurt Busch, beer and old school cool NASCAR racing, you won’t want to miss this episode of Pub Table Racers. Wally McCarty is our very special guest to talk about his days with Miller Racing, Team Penske and his decades in the sport with legendary and hall-of-fame drivers such as Rusty Wallace, Bobby Allison, Ryan Newman and Kurt Busch.

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Coming up, it’s the one and only Stephen Gonzalez, NASCAR team member with Stewart-Haas Racing on Pub Table Racers. As the son of Sammy Gonzalez, who we lost WAY to soon, the racing love started early. We’ll talk to him about his dad, family, time at R3 Motorsports, Richard Petty Motorsports and what he’s doing now. When not at the track, Stephen can be found motorcycle racing, Spartan running and spending time with his family.

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We have a TwoFer edition of Pub Table Racers when working-in-racing husband and wife Racin' Jason Houghtaling and Shannon join us. Jason is a Crew Chief at Rick Ware Racing and Shannon works as pit support. We’ll hear what it’s like for them both working in racing, what struggles a smaller team endures to compete in NASCAR and how they make it all work.

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Joining us at the Pub Table is the one and only Matthew Philpott.

He is currently a mechanic at Joe Gibbs Racing on the No. 20 Xfinity Series car, and - as you will see - quite the character. We’ll talk about his early days, working at Hendrick Motorsports and what he does now.

If you think we’re entertaining, wait til you meet Matthew.

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This episode, we have NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver/owner Cory Roper of the No. 4 Ford. We’ll talk to him about the small team struggles, his background and how he become involved in racing. In addition to being a team owner, he also own Preferred Industrial Contractors, Inc., which we’ll also learn about.

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This episode on Pub Table Racers, we have Clint Leatherwood, NASCAR crew member and avid iRacer, and the Pub Table Racer driver as our guest. He’ll talk about his current role at Kaulig Racing and the Signature E Sports league racing.

If you think you’ve seen our guest on before when you tune in this episode, you’re half right.

Kirk Almquist, twin brother of previous guest Clint, will join us at the Pub Table to talk about being Brad Keselowski’s Car Chief at Team Penske. His path to his current role also included stops at Richard Childress Racing, Robby Gordon Motorsports and Evernham Motorsports.

This week’s guest is NASCAR veteran team member, and current Team Manager with Team Penske, the one and only Jefferson Hodges. He’ll talk about his times as a Car Chief and Crew Chief with teams like Dale Earnhardt, Inc., Rev Racing, JR Motorsports and what he does now in the sport.

We were looking for a big guest to have on Pub Table Racers this episode.

And, we have one.

Big Ed Watkins from 23XI Racing, formerly of Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, is a multi-champion Jack Man and Gas Man, multiple-Daytona 500 Champion, owner of Ed Watkins Marine and former college football standout. Oh, he’s also a licensed coach and speaker.

It’s Open Mic Night. Warren Brosel is back in action and we will come to you live from the Honeysuckle Creek Loop studios.

Open Mic Night means you are the guests. Ask us questions about recent NASCAR races, news stories and give us any questions you’d like answered. In turn, we’ll give you our in-depth and unique responses. That should be entertaining for sure!

Also, we’re going to have a trivia quiz at 8:45 pm where the first correct answer will get a Pub Table Racers Tumbler for your favorite race-time beverages.

Our guest will be Team Penske member Kyle "KB" Belmont. In addition to being the son of ARCA legendary driver Andy Belmont, KB has worked for Tristsar, Andy Hillenburger and worked as a mechanic, marketer and PR person for his dad when he drove.

We're excited to have the one and only Frank Kimmel on this episode! We’ll catch up with the 10-time ARCA Menard’s Series champion to talk about his legendary career, and what he’s doing now with DGR Racing. We are honored to have Frank join us at the Pub Table.

Coming up is long-time NASCAR team member turned private business owner Clint Almquist. He will discuss his racing career and how many have kept going after leaving the sport. Clint will share his days at Germain Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing. We will also talk about what he’s doing now.

In honor of Women’s History Month, we are having championship motorcycle racer, pace car driver, PR person, student of Bill Simpson and Infiniti Actionwear owner Kelli McMahon as our guest.

It will be a Two for Tuesday with this week’s guest, Darin Russell from Team Penske.

He is the engine tuner on all those fast Fords for the team. He’s been in NASCAR for 22 years and has some great tales to tell. Maybe he’ll even tell what it’s really like to work with Warren.

Darin also owns a container company called Rapid Removal. They can put 20 yard containers in tight places for your home building, construction, remodeling or any projects you have where debris needs to be removed. He serves the greater Charlotte area, Lake Norman and Gastonia.

This week’s guest on Tuesday night at 8 pm ET has a 36-year history in the NASCAR world working for legendary teams such as Richard Petty Motorsports, Hendrick Motorsports, Team Penske and is now with JR Motorsports.

Billy Wilburn worked his way up the ranks and crew chiefed 196 NASCAR races. A large part of his career was spent with Rusty Wallace.

Join us to hear how Billy came from Tempe, AZ to Race City, USA and some great stories of legendary owners and drivers he’s worked with. He also owns a storage business.

You want the best guests, we have the best guests. Fresh off him spotting Michael McDowell to his Daytona 500 victory, we have the eye in the sky himself - Clayton Hughes. He’ll share his story about the big win, drivers he’s spotted for before and how he got into NASCAR.

Daytona is in the rear-view mirror giving us plenty to talk about on this episode. Our guests are Jordan Anderson, driver of the No. 3 Truck and No. 31 Xfinity Series race cars. He’ll talk about his second place finish, again, in the Truck race at Daytona. He’ll also talk about the heartache of missing the Xfinity race because of Mother Nature.

He’ll be joined by Arthur Haire, his Crew Chief, to talk about their team and what’s next.

Special show with very special guests this week.

Because the Busch Clash is Tuesday night at Daytona International Speedway, we don’t want to take viewers away from the broadcast. So, we aired this episode on Monday this past week.

As far as special guests, with this being our 50th episode (yeah, 50...no sh#t), we wanted to do kick off Speedweeks by having YOU as our guests for a “All About Daytona” show. Write down your favorite Daytona memories and moments to share with us during the show. Also, we’re coming up on 20 years since we lost Dale and we’d like to hear your favorite memories of him. Warren and Tim will share theirs, as well.

February is here and that means NASCAR season is upon us. The action kicks off at Daytona International Speedway with all kinds of racing next week.

With the Daytona 500 coming up, what better guest to welcome to the Pub Table than Daytona 500 champion Crew Chief, Kevin “Bono” Manion. We’ll talk to him about his days at Dale Earnhardt, Inc winning two Xfinity championships with Martin Truex, Jr., his Daytona 500 win with Jamie McMurray and how he’s now continued his winning ways for GMS Racing with Zane Smith.

Our guest in this episode is the pride of Shelburne, VT and NASCAR Cup veteran and Xfinity race-winning driver Kevin Lepage. He’ll talk about his days in the Busch North right through his NASCAR career and what he’s doing now. We’re not sure if he’s in real estate or a golfer, but we’ll get the answer right here.

It’s Ladies’ Night as NASCAR Tire Specialist, Mechanic and Tire Changer Elizabeth Prestella joins us at the Pub Table.

She’ll share her story from South Lake Tahoe to working at oil change places to the NASCAR garage. Currently with Gaunt Brothers Racing, Liz also started her own clothing line called Torq’d. She has a special discount for everyone on Tuesday night.

Don has 25 years of experience in the sport, owns the largest library of NASCAR and IndyCar photos going back to some great days. Don is also a marketing strategist who founded Smyle Marketing Group and will share his expert advice how drivers and teams from professional to grassroots racing level can improve their marketing efforts to obtain sponsorships.

Don also has some great stories about drivers and legendary photographers like the late Don Hunter.