House Calls With Doc Love

On this Episode of House Calls with Doc Love, Steve “Post Man” Post from MRN joined Doc live in Studio to serve as special Co-Host. The Post Man served as Pit Reporter for the Thanksgiving Classic at Southern National Motorsports Park on the Racing America Broadcast online. Post has a sincere love for the grass roots racing dating back to his youth growing up in Hallstead, Pa. and started announcing short track races at Penn Can Speedway in Susquehanna, Pa. Post Joined MRN in 2002 serving as Pit Road reporter plus serves as co-host of Winged Nation, with Erin Evernham & Ashley Stremme, a show covering sprint car racing on WingedNation.com and MAVTV.

We will hear from Josh Berry from Hendersonville, TN to hear about his victory in the Thanksgiving Classic at the Southern National Motorsports Park. Berry will leave the LMSC ranks in 2022 to race full time in the Xfinity series for Jr Motorsports.

Bradley McCaskill form Raleigh, NC will check in to share details about his racing weekend and winning the Limited Late Model Race at SNMP #ThanksgivinClassic and raced 3 wide to the checkered flag on the Limited LM

Gary Causey from Snow Camp, NC will connect with Doc & Steve to share with them what got him out of retirement to go racing again at the Caraway Speedway located in Sophia, NC. Causey is a former Limited LM track champion at Caraway and won the Limited LM event at the Original Thanksgiving Classic.

Eric Brennan aka Mr Modified will also be checking in with Doc & Steve. Brennen will break down the Turkey Derby from Wall Stadium located Wall Township, New Jersey. Brennan a transplant from Staten Island, NY has brought his Northern Modified Racing knowledge & expertise to the Carolina’s.

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Ty Majeski from Seymour WI connected with Jason & Doc to discuss his incredible victory in the 2nd Annual Charlie Powell Memorial South Carolina 400 at the Florence Motor Speedway located in Timmonsville, SC. Majeski for the 2nd straight year adds this marque LMSC event to his long list of victories in Super LM marque events. Majeski has won the Snow Ball Derby (2020), Governors Cup (3x) and the Rattler (4x) just to name a few. In 2020 & 2021 Majeski also competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on a part-time basis with championship-winning organization, ThorSport Racing.

Racings up’s and down’s have been fully defined within the past year for Late Model Stock Car and ARCA driver Derrick Lancaster from Christiansburg VA. Derrick suffered a fractured neck in an LMSC crash at Kingsport Speedway (TN) Aug 2020 bounced back in February 2021 to finish a career-high second at Daytona with NASCAR’s ARCA Series to being involved in a fiery crash at Talladega in the April 24, 2021, ARCA Series event.

Derrick shares with me in great detail about the crash and how it has affected his family as well as an update on his road to recovery following that horrific fiery crash.

Doc Love Makes a House Call with Rev Racing driver, Rajah Caruth originally from Washington DC, now residing on Concord, NC., and a student at Winston-Salem State. Caruth is a third-year participant of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity driver Development Program, driving the No. 6 Sunoco Toyota LMSC & ARCA East Series. For Rajah, a self-proclaimed “City Kid”, the path to victory lane has been different than most young racers today. Rajah didn’t grow up around racing at all. In fact, he didn’t discover IRacing until just 3 or 4 years ago but don’t let that fool ya, Rajah is a lifelong fan of racing and has been a student of the sport soaking it all in from a young age. Rajah's’ s raw natural talent and ability have shined thru since day one of walking on the scene of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity Development Program. In a very short time, he has accumulated three Late Model Stock Car victories and is a solid contender with the ARCA Series. Learn more about Rajah through his conversation with Doc Love as they discuss how Rajah discovered racing to how he approached learning about the car to help accelerate his learning curve to better his racing.

Doc makes a House Call with Bobby McCarty of Kernersville, NC, and driver of the #22 Toyota Late Model Stock Car. In this episode Doc and Bobby Covering all the hot topics from the tour race at Hickory on March 20, 2021, where Bobby was victorious by the slim margin of .135 sec’s over Hard Charger Tyler Matthews. They dive into the controversial incident between dominant driver Mike Looney, while leading made contact with Jonathan Shafer who was the last car on the lead lap at the time. You will hear from Mike Looney, Jonathan Shafer, and Series Director Danny Willard to put together all the pieces of the puzzle to that situation. Bobby also wanted to discuss how the post-race activity was handled by the series on social media.

Doc makes a House Call with LMSC star Bobby McCarty of Kernersville, NC, and driver of the #22 Toyota Late Model Stock Car. Doc and Bobby. talk about how he got started in racing, getting married, becoming a dad, and how he ended up with Nelson Motorsports. Sit back and learn a little more about Bobby McCarty.

Doc Love makes a House Call with Keith Graham, owner/promoter of the Carolina Pro Late Model Series based in Statesville, NC. Keith chats with Doc about his early days in racing, growing up in Florida watching Super Late Models and Pro Late Models. They also talk about how the series was created and officially started in 2020. Keith speaks openly about what he has learned during the first season and shares with Doc what he has done to make sure the process of a touring series will be much better moving forward. They also discuss the first race of the 2021 season for the Carolina Pro Series that took place March 13th at Hickory Motor Speedway.

Doc Love makes a House Call with Toyota Development Program Driver Gracie Trotter from Denver, NC to discuss her path that led to the opportunity with Venturini Motorsports to race in the ARCA Menards Series this year and LMSC's for Justin Carroll's Speedshop. Gracie and Doc Chat about her humble beginning in racing working at her Father's business and racing go-karts, Bandoleros & Legends. She also shares something that is close to her heart that she does away from racing.

Doc makes a House Call with Janson Marchbanks from Anderson, SC, to talk about the journey that led to him jumping into Late Model Stock Car racing in 2020. Janson tells Doc all about his victory at Grenville-Pickens Speedway and winning the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series South Carolina Rookie of the Year. They chat about Janson being selected as a Kulwicki Driver Development Program Semifinalist. They also talk about Janson being featured in a book written by a local author in South Carolina.

Doc makes a House Call to Will Cox III to chat about taking over the JR Motorsports Late Model Stock Car seat vacated by Josh Berry. Doc and Will talk about the various racing disciplines he has competed in and how quickly he has achieved success since he decided to go racing. Will is a proven winner, reaching victory lane twice on his first year in a full-bodied Stock Car. Will is a very smart, Intelligent young racer with big shoes to fill at JR Motorsports so let’s get to know him.