Grip Strip Podcast

Phil and Josh return for E193 of the GSP to recap Martinsville for NASCAR Cup and XFinity and much more.  Ryan Blaney earned a crucial victory and advanced to the Final 4 at Phoenix.  The guys cover YRB's clutch performance and the other playoff contenders while Denny Hamlin falls short of his proclamation of being the guy to beat.  Will Byron gets in on points while Hamlin, polesitter Martin True...

Phil and Josh are on during the 49ers Monday Night Football match-up versus the Vikings, which has Phil in his feelings throughout E192 of the GSP.  In spite of this, the guys get into the triple-header at Homestead and Christopher Bell coming in clutch to advance into the Final 4 in Cup.  Bell benefited from the error by Kyle Larson entering pit road behind Ryan Blaney, leaving Larson on the hook...

Phil and Josh return for E191 of the GSP to discuss Kyle Larson's busy and successful week which culminated with a dominant victory at Las Vegas.  Yung Money also earned a berth into the Final Four of the Cup Championship after passing his ROP for the Indy 500 and winning his High Limit Sprint Car title.  Chris Bell and Brad Keselowski were the other two key leaders in a relatively clean affair, w...

Phil and Josh return for E190 of the GSP for Charlotte Roval, Qatar GP, NFL talk and more.  AJ Allmendinger earned his first Cup victory in 50 starts last weekend along with his first win as a father.  The guys look at how The Dinger held the field off along with who advanced into the Round of 8.  On the XFinity side, Sam Mayer took a Hail Mary win to advance while the likes of teammate Josh Berry...

Phil and Josh return for another episode of the GSP to cover the carnage that is Talladega with Young Ryan Blaney earning a third photo finish victory over Kevin Harvick (prior to his DQ).  The guys get into the race which saw plenty of Ford's lead with Joey Logano leading the most laps and Blaney and Keselowski winning the stages.  The fans saw 70 lead changes among 24 drivers plus the usual wrec...

Phil and Josh return for E188 of the GSP to discuss Big Hat Byron sneaking through for his sixth win of the 2023 Cup season at the Texas dump.  Darrell Wallace, Jr. led the most laps after qualifying on pole but was brutal on himself after a late race restart ended up working against him.  The guys talk about Bubba, Byron and the stage winners (Yung Money & Reddick). Numerous yellows and wreck...

Phil and Josh return for E187 of the GSP to discuss the NASCAR triple-header at Bristol, where Dennis Hamlin trolled the crowd and finally closed the deal to advance into the Round of 12 after his third Bristol night race win.  The crew goes over all the action and who ended up on the wrong side of the cut line after 500 laps.  Justin Allgaier held off Daniel Hemric to start his XFinity playoff wi...

Phil and Josh return for a jam packed E186 of the GSP to discuss the IndyCar Series finale at Laguna Seca, which saw Scott Dixon close his 2023 season with his first win at the track while Alex Palou officially received his second series title in three years.  The guys talk about the carnage filled race, restart issues, the pace car running out of gas and Silly Season updates leading to the longes...

Coming off a holiday weekend, Phil and Josh were ready to go with E185 of the GSP.  Kyle Larson utilized a great pit stop late in the Southern 500 to take his first Cup victory at Darlington.  The guys look at Toyota's domination (specifically Dennis Hamlin), Christopher Bell's pit road issues and Kevin Harvick's missed opportunity to advance.  A review of the playoff drivers and their points stan...

Phil and Josh return for E184 of the GSP to lead into a busy Labor Day weekend of motorsports.  Phil returns from spending the majority of his cruise trip in an F1 simulator, wishing he could race instead of having to watch the current F1 product.  Josh was able to attend the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona and see the destruction and horrendous incidents for Ryan Blaney and Ryan Preece. Both Josh and fr...

Phil and Josh come back for E183 of the GSP interviewing the 2017 ARCA Series Champion and Maine House of Representative Member Austin Theriault.  The guys talk to Austin about his racing return at the Oxford 250 super late model race and his results at Oxford Plains and his involvement with the Travis Mills Foundation and how this race will assist in fund raising.  Phil and Josh also ask Austin a...

Phil and Josh return for E182 of the GSP to discuss all the racing at one of the motorsports capitals of the world: Indianapolis.  Scott Dixon does his best Danny Sullivan by spinning and winning the Gallagher Grand Prix over pole-sitter Graham Rahal and Christian Lundgaard amongst others.  Dixon takes the Ironman title over former teammate Antoine Kanaan and extends his streak to 19 consecutive s...

Phil and Josh return for E181 of the GSP to cover Kyle Kirkwood and Christopher Buescher's second wins of the 2023 season.  For the IndyCars, Kirkwood used strategy and speed to hold off Scotty McLaughlin and championship leader Alex Palou.  This race was the debut for defending Indy NXT champion Linus Lundqvist for Meyer-Shank Racing, with a Fast 12 qualifying and solid race till it was not.  Com...

After an interesting weekend of motorsports action, the GSP returns for E180.  With Josh on vacation, Phil brought back friend and contributor Joe Passero to co-host and discuss all things NASCAR.  Christopher Buescher locked himself and RFK into the Cup playoffs with a no nonsense performance at Richmond.  The guys discuss Buescher's effort and who could look back with regret.  XFinity raced at R...

Phil and Josh continue the summer swing with E179 of the GSP, reviewing Josef Newgarden's double victory at Iowa Speedway along with Denny Hamlin's 50th career Cup Series victory at Pocono with a controversial move on Larson.  The guys talk about Penske's dominance on short ovals along with the points situation for JNew and Alex Palou.  In the Cup Series, plenty of argy bargy went on and both Phil...

Phil and Josh return for E178 of the GSP to cover Christian Lundgaard's first career IndyCar victory at Toronto in an action packed event.  Alex Palou fades a broken wing to finish second after starting 15th and Colton Herta earned his first podium of 2023.  The guys go through the race and all the key players leading into the doubleheader at Iowa Speedway.  NASCAR raced at New Hampshire and it wa...

Phil and Josh return for E177 of the GSP to cover the weekend in motorsports along with the announcement that Daniel Ricciardo would replace Nyck De Vries at AlphaTauri effective at the Hungarian Grand Prix.  The crew goes over the British Grand Prix which had the usual winner, but plenty of action behind and a weekend aided by power unit/driveline issues for Kevin Magnussen's Haas.  Phil follows...

Phil and Josh spend part of Independence Day to record E176 of the GSP aka "1776, We are the champs!"  The guys get into the amazing shock result of Shane Van Gisbergen making his Cup debut for Trackhouse and Project 91 and winning at the Chicago Street Course.  Phil and Josh provide their takes on the race, the spectacle and whether it is a good or bad thing that the three-time Supercars champion...

Phil and Josh return for E175 of the GSP to cover NASCAR's tripleheader at Nashville, with Ross Chastain getting a home win for TrackHouse in the Cup race, with AJ Allmendinger and Carson Hocevar winning in XFinity and Trucks respectively.  The crew goes over the key players in each race and the points along with NBC's return to cover the sport thankfully.  The GSP Roundup went over MotoGP/Moto2 a...

Phil and Josh come back for E174 of the GSP talking about Palou and Verstappen...a common theme so far in 2023.  Alex Palou took the lead late at Road America for his third victory of 2023 in IndyCar with title rivals Josef Newgarden, Pato O'Ward and teammate Scott Dixon behind.  Polesitter and dominant presence Colton Herta lost out on fuel mileage.  Verstappen won the Canadian Grand Prix but the...

Phil and Josh return for E173 of the GSP with a special guest for 90 minutes of racing, inside stories, marriage advice and investing strategies from motorsports icon (and one of Phil's favorite drivers ever) in "Young" Tom Kendall (Bob Jenkins or any announcer voice from the late 80's/early 90's)!  The original TK finally made it on after two years of work from the executive producer and played a...

Phil and Josh return for E172 of the GSP with IndyCar, NASCAR and F1 coverage and more.  IndyCar raced on the streets of Detroit for the first time since 1991, with Alex Palou battling for his second win of 2022.  The guys get into who else stood out, the rough track and points leading into Road America.  NASCAR Cup and Trucks went to Gateway with Kyle Busch getting his third win of 2023 while Gra...

Phil and Josh come back on from a long weekend to recap the Greatest Day in Motorsports.  Combining the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600, race fans had over 1,260 miles of action without including all the preliminaries.  Josef Newgarden took advantage of a Green-White-Checkered in the 107th Indy 500 to deny Marcus Ericsson a repeat and the Borg-Warner bonus over $420,000. ...

Phil and Josh return for one of the best times of the year, leading into the Greatest Day In Motorsports.  The guys review Larson's demolition in the All-Star race and what can be done for short track racing with the Gen 7 along with his double in the Trucks.  Other argy bargy went on in the Open but not a whole lot otherwise; however, the Truck race was a cluster.  Indianapolis 500 qualifying was...

Phil and Josh come back for E169 of the GSP to cover IndyCar at the IMS Road Course, which saw Alex Palou take his first win of 2023 and the NASCAR tripleheader throwback weekend at Darlington along with thoughts on who made the Top 75 Drivers of all-time.  A busy Roundup looks at IMSA, MotoGP/Moto2, WRC, Extreme E, Indy NXT, Supercross, F2/F3, F1 Academy, Supercars and NHRA. The crew previews the...