Martin Truex Jr won the Busch Light Clash on Sunday. He should be happy with his performance. Others, including the sport’s most popular driver, struggled badly. We’ll discuss it all and more on Talking in Circles!

The Busch Light Clash is here and will be run on Sunday night. I give a preview of tonight’s events and recap some of the events from Saturday including Ty Gibbs’ car fire. I also will give my pick to win the Busch Light Clash and give a couple of underdogs to choose from.

The Clash is here. I discuss 5 storylines I’m interested in heading into the Clash and talk about who to look at heading into this weekend’s event.

This weekend the NASCAR Cup Series will race at the LA Coliseum in an exhibition race. The race will be called “The Clash,” but let’s face reality. The Clash died long ago. I go through the history of the Clash and when the race officially died and discuss why it’s time to accept it!

On this episode I discuss what I think of the move replacing Ryan Preece with Cole Custer. Plus, I discuss what Ford needs in the future to have a successful crop of drivers.

Kyle Busch will drive a Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet for 2023 and beyond. I discuss my thoughts on that and where I think this signing lies in NASCAR history. Is this the biggest signing in the sport? I share my thoughts.

I give my take on the Noah Gragson hire and discuss Kurt Busch missing another race due to a head injury and how I think there needs to be some changes with the NextGen car.

It’s been almost 9 years since one of the darkest days in NASCAR history, SpinGate. We look back on that day, discuss the details and talk about the ramifications from that historic day.

An interesting article was written by Jordan Bianchi for The Athletic that discussion some of the rumblings of the silly season. I discuss some of those rumblings and the impacts, plus give some additional thoughts snd the silly season.

Brett Moffitt is out at Our Motorsports. It was expected that Moffitt would run the full season in the No. 02 Chevrolet but that is no longer the case as the team and driver parted ways after Indianapolis. Clayton Caldwell discusses his thoughts on the move and what needs to be done to try and prevent something like this in the future.