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Kaden Honeycutt Wins at Phoenix | Talladega Picks

Kaden Honeycutt leads the last 53 laps at Phoenix and stretches his Chase lead over Layne Riggs to 39 points with three races left. Davey Segal, Mamba Smith and Chris Wilner break it down and make their Talladega picks.

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith· Founder, Queen City Garage
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Kaden Honeycutt won the Zero Carbon Bioethanol 150 Powered by POET at Phoenix Raceway, leading the last 53 laps and beating Christian Eckes by 1.556 seconds. It was his fourth NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win, all of them this season, and it stretched his lead in the Chase, the Truck Series playoff, to 39 points over Layne Riggs with three races left. His pit crew got him off pit road second on the final stop, first among the Chase drivers, and he quickly passed Stewart Friesen for the lead. Riggs led the first 43 laps from the pole and finished third, Ty Majeski swept both stages, and Eckes finished second for the third straight race.

Davey Segal hosts with Dylan "Mamba" Smith and Chris Wilner. They talk through a more grown-up Honeycutt and his crew's last stop, Riggs and the No. 34 team, where Honeycutt goes from here and Eckes' run of second-place finishes, then look at the Chase heading to Talladega. Dillon Welch calls in partway through. They score last week's picks (Mamba had the winner) and pick the Love's RV Stop 225 at Talladega Superspeedway on Friday, Oct. 23: Mamba takes Justin Haley, Davey takes Ben Rhodes and Chris takes Kaden Honeycutt.

Chapters

00:00 Open
00:16 Welcome: Davey Segal, Mamba Smith and Chris Wilner
00:56 Kaden Honeycutt wins at Phoenix
03:02 A grown-up Honeycutt and the last pit stop
04:47 Layne Riggs and the 34: good, not great
08:08 Dillon Welch calls in
11:13 Where does Honeycutt go from here?
15:44 Christian Eckes, second again
16:56 The Chase heading to Talladega
17:45 Scoring the Phoenix picks
18:19 Talladega picks
22:11 See you after Talladega

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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

Chris Wilner is a pit reporter associated with MRN, NBC Sports and IMSA. X

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The Grand National Show: Truck Series is a Queen City Garage production for Grand National Today. Episode 5 runs 23 minutes.

Topics: Kaden Honeycutt · Layne Riggs · NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series · Podcast · Stewart Friesen · Talladega Superspeedway · The Grand National Show · Ty Majeski

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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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