Zach Brewer Memorial Winner Brandon Ward & Brayden Goddard
Episode 176 is on the scene with the winner of the SMART Modified Tour Season Opening Zach Brewer Memorial at Florence Motor Speedway, Brandon Ward. Brandon describes this win as the biggest win of his entire career and dives into the personal meaning of this win. We also discuss the growth of Kevin Powell Motorsports and having to fend off Jack Baldwin and Danny Bohn during Saturday's event. We also give our full review of the event.
We also welcome Brayden Goddard to the show. Brayden is looking to run the entire IHRA Stock Car Series this season while juggling being a college student, a firefighter, serving at his church and running his own screen printing business. The Tennessee native also takes you behind the scenes of how he started his career in racing which only spans less than five years and his days in the Southeast Super Truck Series.
We give a full review of the season opening event for the zMAX CARS Tour from Southern National Motorsports Park. Caden Kvapil made it back to back dating back to the finale from last year but this time he had to come from the 29th starting spot. We discuss the last restart which saw Doug Barnes Jr confront the winner after the race in victory lane. We also touch on Lee Pulliam and Chad McCumbee putting on a racing clinic at the front of the field, Mason Walters picking up a Pro Late Model win and some of the other stories coming out of Southern National.
Short Track Spotlight takes you to Hickory, Caraway for their season openers, the STAR Super Stock Tour's first double header of the year at Anderson along with the second stop on the 2026 SMART Modified Tour also at Anderson.
Tyler Reddick made history at COTA. Can he make it four for four at Phoenix? We discuss all the happenings coming out of COTA and St Petersburg as well as which driver desperately needs to dig out of an early season hole in points and which driver(s) have been a pleasant surprise after three races.
All of this plus winners, the news and more plus Jody is back this week on DLN!
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