Tristan Mckee

If you didn't think... that Junior Motorsports and Spire Motorsports are nothing more than Hendrick's backroom deals.

You'll be interested to know that Spire developmental driver Tristan McKee, who's been driving for Richie Waters on short track events, is going to drive for Junior Motorsports today.

partial schedule for the next two years because he's 16 years old and he has to, you know, he's ready.

I look at this kid, and I kind of compare him a little bit to Carson Brown.

August 3rd, 2028 is when he finally turns 18.

So that's why we got this one.

The Tristan McKee story, when he was at the ARCA race back in Madison, was talking to a bunch of people, talked to Carson Brown for a while that day too.

The biggest difference between the two is just how they were brought up.

Connor Daly, another ride in the colleague free agent number 25.

Tristan McKee back in the 77.

And we want to shout out our guy Frankie Muniz back in the 33 truck this week after taking a couple races off to go win the championship in the GT4 America Am Class sports car series.

He and his co-driver clinching the title in a Ford racing car.

He beats Ben Rhodes, puts me on top in the matchup contest.

And I am trying to settle this in the truck series again this week with some Spire teammates.

Tristan McKee back in the 77.

I'm taking him over Connor Mosak plus 120 via bet 365.

Christian Eckes, Ty Majeski, Ben Rhodes, all guys in the chase that should have some speed.

Some of the non-chase drivers I'll have my eye out, the guy we were just talking to, Landon Lewis, he's geared up for Phoenix, Tristan McKee in the 77, Jake Garcia in the 98.

Moving right along, the drivers to look out for, O'Reilly Series from Phoenix.

Jesse Love won this race last year onto his championship, and Love was second in the spring.

But this might be one of those poor kept secrets.

Tristan McKee.

will run an expanded truck series schedule for Spire next year.

He's been doing pretty damn good, and his select starts this year, so I can't wait to see what he does.

Jake Garcia, fresh off his maiden truck series win at Bristol, will drive for Front Row Motorsports next year, replacing Chandler Smith, who will drive the 21 for RCR in O'Reilly's next year.

And Tristan McKee will drive an expanded schedule in trucks for Spire Motorsports next year.

Remember, he's still only 16, so he can only drive on road courses and oval tracks under 1.25 miles in length next year, which does consist of 11 of the 25 events next year in the 2027 FedEx Freight Truck Series season.

Wow, it feels weird to say that.

He still has, uh, Phoenix and Martinsville to run, um- At least in the truck this year, and then we'll see how many truck events he runs next year.

But I wouldn't be surprised if he runs all 11 of the road course and short track events, which those 11 events are St. Petersburg, both Bristol races, North Wilkesboro, Lime Rock Park, IRP, Bowman Gray, Canadian Tire, New Hampshire, Phoenix, and Martinsville.

This is unclear if McKee will run another ARCA East or even full ARCA campaign, but regardless, this is definitely good for him and for his development, as it's widely rumored that Michael McDowell at Spire in the Cup side of things is going to retire and then hand his seat over to Tristan McKee.

But we still got a few years to get to that pipeline.

We'll have their qualifying for you over on RS2 tomorrow.

Red flag, actually, as well, because we've got a car off course at turn number five, and that's Tristan McKee, BSI Racing.

Now, that tells you that we're live better than doing the football results, doesn't it? So, up in London...

And a packed show tonight, Tim, partially presented from the Ford Racing Global Broadcast Centre.