NASCAR star says quiet part out loud about Europe, punches nearly thrown & get these ‘s—boxes’ off the track

It was good while it lasted.

I thought we finally broke the Shane Van Gisbergen spell somebody else He won on a road course last week, but completely wiped out the floor with us on Sunday in Sonoma.

Sure, Chase Briscoe tried to make things interesting at the end, but come on…we all knew SVG won this race. You could have put Jeff Gordon on the field and SVG would still have dominated Sears Point.

Side note: Remember when it was called “Sears Point”? Simpler times. When we were a decent country. Oh good. Sad.

Speaking of Jeff, SVG’s latest victory puts him just shy of Gordon at most road courses in NASCAR history. Gordon is now ahead by nine points. I assume Shane will get there before Halloween.

Anyway, that’s enough movie summary. I’m not here to talk about SVG all day. God knows you all don’t want this. What else should we discuss?

How about Noah Gragson saying last week that he was about to punch Kevin Magnussen, only to be told that if he did he would basically be fired? Wait until you hear This sound bite.

There’s also Carson Hocevar with Denny Hamlin, F1 and s—boxes with SVG, and Hooters Gianna continues her comeback tour in wine country.

Summer is heating up and so is Gianna. It’s nice to have it back.

Four tires, enough fuel to get us from Sears Point to Chicago, and maybe a belt for SVG so he can use it properly in the rest of the garage… Monday Morning Pit-Stop – ‘Another Australian ‘Whippin’ edition’ – LIVE!

Before we move forward, let’s quickly back up…

Look, we didn’t have a very good race yesterday. I’ll be honest with you. I am nothing if not an honest man. I’m not going to sit here and try to make lemonade when all Sunday gave me was a few lemons.

(No HINT if this analogy works, but I wrote this by accident and decided to stick with it).

Before we dive into Sonoma, I want to continue our discussion from last week. For those who missed the lecture, Noah Gragson and F1 driver Kevin Magnussen weighed in after the Navy Base race; Gragson berated the European with what I imagine was the rudest language he had ever heard on a racetrack.

This is America baby!

“What’s your problem?” Gragson said… Again and again and again and again after Kevin destroyed him.

“Get out of my way,” he said calmly.

Magnussen also had the nerve to poke fun at NASCAR in a separate interview and actually reveal the knowledge that Denmark has for us.

Noah Gragson walks onstage during driver introductions prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., on April 26, 2026. (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

“I’ve watched NASCAR before, so I know that’s how you play the game,” he said.

P-off, Kevin. If you attack one of us, you attack us all. I will be damned if we learn from the Europeans on our own soil.

Not on my watch. It is not on the eve of our 250th birthday. Kick the rocks!

Anyway, are we all caught up now? Good morning my baby! Now let’s check in with Noah to see what really happened during the post-race interaction:

SVG is right but also read the room

“You’re in our ballpark and you’re in our ballpark, and it’s frustrating to come in here in the 3rd, jam it inside, get into guys and drive it to their gate,” Gragson began, before saying the quiet part out loud.

“You see that a lot with guys in the past… I think they see (in NASCAR) how hard it is and how much contact there is. There’s kind of a zero-touch policy in F1. So I really wanted to fight and I was about to throw a punch, and right before I went there I was told there would be long-term consequences for my job if that was the case.”

Yes! Whenever we start our work week by giving up on F1, I accept it. This is the best. Noah is right, by the way. I know people don’t like him as a NASCAR driver for a lot of reasons – mainly because he’s not very good in the Cup Series – but he has a point.

Kevin Magnussen will make his NASCAR debut with Trackhouse Racing in the series’ street race at Naval Base Coronado. (Photo: Sam Bagnall/Getty Images)

These Europeans come and poke their noses at us like they’re from some holier-than-thou race. Nonsense. Don’t come here and ruin a regular series. This is a step too far.

Could you imagine for a moment that Kevin destroyed the late Kyle Busch? Kyle hated F1. He hated it. He always spilled it on himself.

God, I miss him.

Anyway, I know I said we’d be done with it, but… let’s get SVG’s thoughts on this:

Hocevar, Hamlin and Hooters Gianna, oh my!

“Our sport is really great because you don’t know who is going to win, whereas you watch F1 and there are three people who are going to win.”

I mean, yes, SVG is correct here. Frankly, there is absolutely no claim from me. I rambled about 500 words on F1. Frankly I agree.

That being said… SVG has won eight (!!!) road course races in the last three years. Eight. He won five times last season and has won seven of the last nine races on the road/street course.

This is SVG’s world on the road, and we’re all a bunch of “boxes of shit” living in it!

Unbelievable. Yes, I can come to SVG after yesterday. It bugged me for a while, especially since it completely ruined road racing, but Lordy is speaking my language now.

First he shits on F1, then calls the touring cars “s–boxes” after embarrassing the rest of the field? It’s turning American quite nicely!

Okay, a few quickies on the way out. First? Did Carson Hocevar add another victim to his list yesterday?

Yes, I’ll give Carson a heavy pass here. Today everyone is nervous about this and is quick to blame Hocevar, but this is just a product of road racing. I’ve seen this a million times. As DW says, “This is just one of those racing deals.”

Everyone gets stuck and turns left and right again. People are pushing, shoving and hitting bumpers. Sometimes you’re just stuck in the middle. This is life on the road course.

Denny… thoughts?

Let’s ask him one more time whether he is SPK or not, friends. He’s only told you 47 times that he hasn’t watched it yet, and that he needs to do it before blaming it. But yeah, let’s ask again if we can piss off Denny Hamlin.

Oh my god.

“I didn’t see it, Jeff. I know you wanted a reaction, but I didn’t see it. I’ll react when I see it.”

In other words: Watch the podcast this week!

Okay, that’s it for today and this week. Even though it wasn’t the best race in the world, we did the best. A quick PSA on the way out…

We have three night races starting in Chicago this week. The friends will then head to Atlanta and then North Wilkesboro. Green flags for all three were set after 6 p.m.

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No more Sunday afternoon naps for a while!

Take us home, Gianna Blaney. I’m glad you’re back.