{"id":196449,"date":"2025-10-08T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:42:08","slug":"the-life-of-a-nascar-playoff-driver-john-roberts-joins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196449\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of a NASCAR Playoff Driver + John Roberts Joins"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this week\u2019s episode of\u00a0Frontstretch\u00a0Happy Hour, hosts Bryan Nolen, Michael Massie and Dalton Hopkins are joined by John Roberts of SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and Trackside Live. <\/p>\n

The four guys discuss what\u2019s been the talk of the NASCAR community for several weeks: playoff formats and declining TV ratings. They also debate whether the fall weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway should continue on the ROVAL or return to the oval. <\/p>\n

The quartet also get into race manipulation and give their thoughts on if anything in Sunday\u2019s race (Oct. 5) crossed the line. <\/p>\n

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5 Points to Ponder: NASCAR Playoffs Make for Strange Bedfellows<\/p>\n

Despite not having as much speed this season, three-time and defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano<\/a> advanced to the Round of 8 by the skin of his teeth. The gang talks whether or not Logano is a threat for the championship this year. <\/p>\n

Watch the whole show or listen to the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n

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Content Director\u00a0at\u00a0Frontstretch<\/p>\n

Michael Massie joined Frontstretch in 2017 and has served as the Content Director since 2020.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of\u00a0Frontstretch\u00a0Happy Hour, hosts Bryan Nolen, Michael Massie and Dalton Hopkins are joined by John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-196449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}