Track Schmak

NASCAR is back, which means we're back! For at least one more year. Ball's in your court, NASCAR. Err, anyway, we schmak the offseason news, Jeff Gordon's impending retirement, the NEW FANTASY HOO-HA at nascar.com - make sure to pick the Fantasy Live, and go to league "TRACK SCHMAK FANTASY HOO-HA" to join in.

Schmak picks for Daytona 500:

Coach: Matt Kenseth

Rob: Jeff "Single tear because I'm retiring" Gordon

In our final schmak of the year, we look at what happened at Homestead, and how the fantasy points played out.

In Yahoo Fantasy, Rob finished the playoffs and season in 1st, Coach finished the playoffs in 2nd and 3rd in the season.

In Schmak picks, Coach finished in 1st with 23 points vs Rob's 15 points.

We schmak the mostly boring race at Phoenix, talk about fight culture in NASCAR, and go through our feels regarding the possibility of each of the final four becoming champion. Also - yahoo fantasy is heating up for this final race.

Picks:

Coach: Kevin Harvick

Rob: Jeff Gordon

This week we schmak the schmaking that happened instead of a race at Texas. We apologize in advance for some audio quality issues - both of us had loud fans or A/C going in the background and noise removal techniques created a sub optimal sound.

Picks for next week at Phoenix:

Coach: Kevin Harvick

Rob: Brad Keselowski

Also, here is a picture that we talk about in the podcast:

An amazing race deserves an amazing schmak. Here is this week's schmak instead - topics include Newman's Silent-But-Deadly points racing, Brian "The Sheriff" Vickers laying down the law, and all of the racing, points-ing, and chase-ing that happened. Also, Dale Jr. seemed happy.

Picks for the Texas:

Rob: Jeff Gordon

Coach: Kyle Busch

We schmak the collapse of Jr. and Johnson at Talladega, the Newman inspection failure, and all the news thats worth schmaking this week, plus make our picks for Martinsville next week.

Picks:

Rob: Jeff Gordon

Coach: Kevin Harvick

This week, we schmak the wild ending of the Charlotte chase race, Tony Stewart's temper flare up, and make wild guesses for the unpredictable Talladega race. Will it be a snooze fest? Will desperation sneak in? Who knows!

Picks:

Coach: Dale Jr.

Rob: Matt Kenseth

Kansas happened. Well, life happened, and then also Kansas. Lots of non-Tony Stewart news this week, and a chase format that made an otherwise boring race interesting all the way through.

Picks for next week:

Rob: Jimmie Johnson

Coach: Kevin Harvick

It's a shorter show this week, because of the amazingly boring Richmond race. Never fear, the schmak livens things up, and we handicap the brackets for the chase elimination rounds.

Print out your own bracket here

Picks for Chicagoland:

Coach: Keselowski

Rob: Kyle Busch

Lots to discuss - Edwards to JGR, Fennig to retire, Stewart returning to the track, cause making or breaking scenarios, etc...

Picks for Richmond:

Rob: Matt Kenseth

Coach: Jeff Gordon