Sep 16, 2026 · 41 min · 6 segments
Mini Tyrell is in his first Craftsman Truck Series season after winning his ride on a reality television show. While the show might be over, the reality of NASCAR racing has set in, and the…
Mini TyrrellGuestKelly CrandallHostAnd as I said, we'll just, we'll just let it flow and talk some racing because you guys get to race again this weekend at Bristol.
So I got back, back in the car, uh, this, this past weekend to try County in a late model.
It's been some off time, but it's good to have a little couple of reset weeks, you know, and think about what's going on and starting up.
So I'm excited and ready to get back into the number 14 Ram 1500 this Thursday.
You know, the truck schedule is obviously so sporadic, right? I mean, you know, a couple races here, maybe one or two, and then it's like one off or two off or a whole month off.
How has that been this year, adjusting to a schedule like that? And you mentioned it.
But just not being in the truck every weekend and kind of this start and go, start and go type of schedule, has that been an adjustment?
Yeah, I mean, I think I'm kind of used to the stop-and-go kind of stuff because, you know, I come from car store racing and late models for, you know, a lot of my career was stock cars.
And their schedule, it's not super jam-packed with certain times we could race a couple times a month or we could race twice a month and not race an entire month.
So I was certainly used to the stop-and-go kind of deal, which – I think it's helped because it's not like throwing me for a loop really.
But it certainly is, is tough to, you know, have multiple off weeks and not being in it regularly.
So, but I think it also is, it's, everything's got pros and cons and the pros to it.
Like I said, it's just, it gives you more time as a driver to study and figure out what you did wrong and work with the team, work with, you know, all the great employees of college racing, you know, work with our crew chiefs on a week in and week out basis of what are we planning on doing for this? What's our strategy, you know, studying the SMT, getting the SIM as much as we can, just trying to get as, as prepared as we possibly can for the next race.
And it's important to do that and have those off weeks and have that time to do that because it's tough to pack it all into the weeks that we're racing every weekend.
That's a really interesting point because as you said that, I think back to Corey Heim said something similar about how he's doing his part-time cup schedule is that he really likes the opportunity that he can digest the race that just happened.
And as I said, we'll just, we'll just let it flow and talk some racing because you guys get to race again this weekend at Bristol.
So I got back, back in the car, uh, this, this past weekend to try County in a late model.
It's been some off time, but it's good to have a little couple of reset weeks, you know, and think about what's going on and starting up.
So I'm excited and ready to get back into the number 14 Ram 1500 this Thursday.
You know, the truck schedule is obviously so sporadic, right? I mean, you know, a couple races here, maybe one or two, and then it's like one off or two off or a whole month off.
How has that been this year, adjusting to a schedule like that? And you mentioned it.
But just not being in the truck every weekend and kind of this start and go, start and go type of schedule, has that been an adjustment?
Yeah, I mean, I think I'm kind of used to the stop-and-go kind of stuff because, you know, I come from car store racing and late models for, you know, a lot of my career was stock cars.
And their schedule, it's not super jam-packed with certain times we could race a couple times a month or we could race twice a month and not race an entire month.
So I was certainly used to the stop-and-go kind of deal, which – I think it's helped because it's not like throwing me for a loop really.
But it certainly is, is tough to, you know, have multiple off weeks and not being in it regularly.
So, but I think it also is, it's, everything's got pros and cons and the pros to it.
Like I said, it's just, it gives you more time as a driver to study and figure out what you did wrong and work with the team, work with, you know, all the great employees of college racing, you know, work with our crew chiefs on a week in and week out basis of what are we planning on doing for this? What's our strategy, you know, studying the SMT, getting the SIM as much as we can, just trying to get as, as prepared as we possibly can for the next race.
And it's important to do that and have those off weeks and have that time to do that because it's tough to pack it all into the weeks that we're racing every weekend.
That's a really interesting point because as you said that, I think back to Corey Heim said something similar about how he's doing his part-time cup schedule is that he really likes the opportunity that he can digest the race that just happened.
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