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Carson Kvapil Wins at Martinsville | Homestead Picks

Carson Kvapil wins at Martinsville, Jesse Love finishes 30th, and Justin Allgaier takes a 22-point lead to the Homestead finale. Davey Segal and Mamba Smith break it down and make their Homestead picks.

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith· Founder, Queen City Garage
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Carson Kvapil won the National Debt Relief 250 at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, Oct. 31, 0.434 seconds ahead of Justin Allgaier. It was Kvapil's third win of 2026 and his first at Martinsville. Jesse Love finished 30th after a broken water line and a crash when he lost his brakes. Allgaier leads Love by 22 points in the Chase, the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series playoff, with one race left. Corey Day is 23 back, Kvapil 31 and Sheldon Creed 42.

Davey Segal hosts with Dylan "Mamba" Smith. They go through Love's night and Kvapil's win, with Kvapil in his own words from his winner's press conference, Allgaier's multiyear deal to stay with JR Motorsports starting in 2027, and Anthony Alfredo's Stage 2 win. Then the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday, Nov. 7: what the title would mean to each of the five drivers, Joel Steuben's clinching scenarios, and the picks and the tiebreaker. Mamba takes Corey Day to win and Love for the title; Davey takes Day to win and Allgaier for the title.

Chapters

00:00 Open
00:16 Welcome: Davey Segal and Mamba Smith
00:29 Five drivers, one race
01:09 Jesse Love's long night
04:00 Riding with Love when the brakes go
04:35 The standings
04:55 Carson Kvapil wins at Martinsville
07:23 Rodney Childers' first clock
07:58 Mamba is mad at Wilner
09:44 Justin Allgaier back with JR Motorsports
12:09 Rajah Caruth
13:14 Kvapil lurking, Creed a long shot
13:44 Anthony Alfredo wins Stage 2
15:23 Experience against Corey Day
18:03 Who has won at Homestead
19:16 What the title would mean
22:32 Last week's picks
23:23 Homestead picks
25:26 The tiebreaker
26:37 Flow state
28:14 The most compelling title fight
28:43 See you at Homestead

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith is a NASCAR analyst for TNT and B/R Racing. YouTube

Davey Segal is a SiriusXM NASCAR Radio host and producer. X

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The Grand National Show is a Queen City Garage production for Grand National Today. Episode 10 runs 30 minutes.

Topics: Carson Kvapil · Jesse Love · Justin Allgaier · The Grand National Show

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith

Founder, Queen City Garage

Dylan "Mamba" Smith is NASCAR's self-appointed Chief Hype Officer and the loudest voice in the room when it comes to stock car racing's next generation. His weekly column for Grand National Today brings the energy, the takes, and the unfiltered enthusiasm that the short track world runs on. If there's a driver making moves, a rivalry heating up, or a race that deserves more attention than it's getting, Mamba's on it.

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