For this year’s Frontstretch Happy Hour Christmas episode, NASCAR Jeopardy! is back for its third annual edition.
Bringing the Heat host Trey Lyle (Alex Trey-bek) quizzes Happy Hour cohosts Michael Massie and Dalton Hopkins and Frontstretch Editor-in-Chief Tom Bowles on various NASCAR-related topics. Massie is the returning champion, Hopkins returns for the first time since his season one triumph and Bowles seeks his first win in his third try.
The topics for this year are the NASCAR vs. 23XI/Front Row Motorsports trial, race teams, sponsors, playoffs and the Indianapolis 500. Plus, the Final Jeopardy! category is NASCAR movies. See which of the participants has the best racing knowledge and follow along to find out if you could beat them.
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Watch the whole show below or listen to the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.
Content Director at Frontstretch
Michael Massie joined Frontstretch in 2017 and has served as the Content Director since 2020.
Massie, a Richmond, Va., native, has covered NASCAR, IndyCar, SRX and the CARS Tour. Outside of motorsports, the Virginia Tech grad and Green Bay Packers minority owner can be seen cheering on his beloved Hokies and Packers.
Majority Owner and Editor in Chief at Frontstretch
The author of Did You Notice? (Wednesdays) Tom spends his time overseeing Frontstretch’s 40+ staff members as its majority owner and Editor-in-Chief. Based outside Philadelphia, Bowles is a two-time Emmy winner in NASCAR television and has worked in racing production with FOX, TNT, and ESPN while appearing on-air for SIRIUS XM Radio and FOX Sports 1’s former show, the Crowd Goes Wild. He most recently consulted with SRX Racing, helping manage cutting-edge technology and graphics that appeared on their CBS broadcasts during 2021 and 2022.
You can find Tom’s writing here, at CBSSports.com and Athlonsports.com, where he’s been an editorial consultant for the annual racing magazine for 15 years.
NASCAR At Track Coordinator at Frontstretch
Dalton Hopkins began writing for Frontstretch in April 2021. Currently, he is the lead writer for the weekly Thinkin’ Out Loud column, co-host of the Frontstretch Happy Hour podcast, and one of our lead reporters. Beforehand, he wrote for IMSA shortly after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2019. Simultaneously, he also serves as a Captain in the US Army.
Follow Dalton on Twitter @PitLaneCPT
Podcast Director at Frontstretch
A Graduate of Virginia Tech in Sports Media and Analytics, Trey Lyle has been covering NASCAR since 2021 as the producer of the Fast Lane with Ed Lane on VTRN Sports 93.3 FM in Lynchburg, Va.
Trey joined FS in 2023 to co-host Happy Hour and help out on the podcast front.
He now hosts Bringing the Heat with Trey Lyle and oversees the entire podcast operation for Frontstretch.





