Track Schmak

This week's schmak covers Darlington briefly, the new multi-zone tire for Richmond, and all the news that's fit to podcast from the last two weeks.

Picks for Richmond:

Rob: Matt Kenseth

Coach: Kevin Harvick

The race was a day late, and so is the schmak. Topics covered include the stupid yellow/green start, changes to the Fox ticker, jet dryers damaging race cars, the new TiVo Roamio experience, Kevin Harvick's continued troubles, and more.

Picks for next week:

Rob: Matt Kenseth

Coach: Denny Hamlin

This week's schmak reviews the best race of the season (spoiler, it was good) at Martinsville, then tries to (mostly unsuccessfully) predict the Texas race top finishers.

And of course all the good things you've come to expect and love from the trackschmak podcast crew, including live listener feedback.

Picks for next week at Texas:

Coach: Jimmie Johnson

Rob: Joey Logano

This week we schmak the tire-gate of the Fontana race, the infection-gate of the Hamlin eyeball (including some of the popular Trackschmak Theatre), the camber-gate from Fox Broadcasting's "Department of Misinformation" (i.e. Waltrip), the Drive for Diversity program, Coach's absolutely terrible fantasy roster, and more...!

Picks for next week at Martinsville:

Coach: Brad Keselowski

Rob: Jamie McMurray

NOTE: we made an agreement to not pick Jimmie Johnson or Jeff Gordon because those two essentially own the racing at Martinsville, and we thought it'd be more fun to pick someone who fits the criteria of being not-Jimmie and not-Jeff.

What happens when a great race goes on a channel that very few people can see? Anger. Anger is what happens.

We schmak the race, the networks, the lack of online viewing options, a quick Danica update, and more! Lots more!

Also, a preview of the Fontana race and our picks:

Coach: Carl Edwards (why?)

Rob: Jeff Gordon

This week we talk changes to qualifying, news of the week, some stuff about Danica, and preview our fantasy picks for Bristol.

Picks:

Rob: Brad Keselowski (again)

Coach: Brian Vickers

Lots of rage this week, and none of it is directly related to the race.

Topics include Mark Garrow's new(ish?) podcast, qualifying format issues, NASCAR's implicit support of Arizona's proposed pro-discrimination law, and a whole host of other topics and rages.

Picks for next week:

Coach: Jimmie Johnson

Rob: Brad Keselowski

On this week's rant laden schmak, we talk about the awful pre-race farcical "human interest" stories, the smattering of news, our fantasy pick results (we did terribly), and picks for the Phoenix race.

Coach: Kevin Harvick

Rob: Carl Edwards

Hello all, and welcome back to Season 4 of the TrackSchmak podcast. We're now more of a preview show - prognosticating about what's going to happen so you can win your fantasy pools and have a more engaging race-watching experience.

In this episode, we go over NASCAR's lack of marketing, the new chase format, Daytona aero package rules, sprint car safety advancements, and the new yahoo fantasy group.

Picks for this week at Daytona:

Rob: Matt Kenseth

Coach: Jeff Gordon

Our final episode of the season has finally arrived!

No race to watch today? Hole in your schedule? Put us in your ear holes and get your weekly NASCAR fix!

We schmak the t-shirt pickup party, the schmak alternate reality chase elimination race, and layout the three things NASCAR needs to do to start growing again. Also, the race (kind of) at Homestead.

Coach wins the race by race pick pool, Rob wins the end of year championship pick pool.

So we're all winners!

Keep checking the site for updates and whatnot, or just put us in your rss reader.

Either way, we will see you soon.

Or, more correctly, you will hear from us soon enough.

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