(0:00) Welcome
(2:00) What's going on with Ross Chastain since Darlington?
(4:00) What's happened to Trackhouse Racing?
(7:00) The timing of Ross Chastain suddenly being managed more by the team
(11:00) NASCARs view of Ross Chastain
(13:00) Was the team too public?
(15:00) Rick Hendrick factor
(17:30) Denny Hamlin in the era of the driver podcast
(22:00) Do some drivers need to leverage their success into bigger platforms and voices?
(27:00) Should NASCAR penalize drivers retroactively?
(32:00) Resurrection of Kyle Busch as franchise driver at Richard Childress Racing
(38:00) Does Joe Gibbs Racing regret letting Kyle Busch go?
(40:00) Austin Dillon effect
(44:00) Car vs. driver through Next Gen lens
(48:00) Trying to assign percentage to driver's impact
(54:00) Next Gen culture shift in NASCAR
(1:00:00) Are penalties and fines dominating the Cup Series narrative too much in 2023?
(1:04:00) Stage of short-track racing in 2023
(1:10:00) Should future track scheduled feature more rebalancing to fit where the cars are delivering the best quality of action?

Nate Ryan welcomes Mike Forde, Jeff Bluck, Steve Letarte, and Pete Pistone for a panel debate and discussion about some of the hot-button topics in NASCAR, including lightning-rod stars Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch, the car vs. driver debate, whether drivers' opinions are becoming overexposed, the state of short-track racing, the Next Gen culture shift and penalty storylines, and whether NASCAR should rebalance its Cup Series schedule in the future.
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