{"podcast":{"title":"The Racing Writer's Podcast","slug":"the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362","podcast_index_feed_id":743362,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3228370/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-racing-writers-podcast","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54aa538559af053bdab4235955173f55.jpg","author":"JB15 Network","episode_count":353,"summary":"Racer Magazine's Kelly Crandall brings stories and interviews from drivers and personalities from NASCAR, NHRA, and more.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T20:17:27.505930+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 329 | Charles Denike","slug":"ep-329-charles-denike","published_at":"2025-04-07T09:00:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362/ep-329-charles-denike","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-329-charles-denike--65380054","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65380054/ep_329_charles_denike.mp3","summary":"Charles Denike has Bubba Wallace off to the best start of his NASCAR Cup Series career, and he’s done so as a new crew chief in the series. Denike dishes on settling in at 23XI Racing; how it feels to get off to a strong start this season; impressions of Wallace from afar and now working with him; why the time was right to make this career move; the positive reviews about him before the season even started; the adjustment from the Craftsman Truck Series to being in the Cup Series; if he’s been able to enjoy the fast start to the season or had the pressure that comes with it; finding the same structure in NASCAR as in the military; why he went into the military after high school; his background and experience in the military; going into racing as his second career; the crossover from military into racing; the engineering crossover from one to the other; his NASCAR start being in the K&N Series and then going Truck Series racing; memories from Truck Series racing and his unconventional first career win; seeing his former truck win at at Martinsville Speedway; things that translate from the truck to cup; the balance of how he wants to lead the team but not changing things to change them; what Charles wanted from Bubba and want Bubba wanted from Charles as they paired together; the No. 1 thing the team needs to have accomplished by the end of the year. Original music created by Tony Monge. Follow me here: https://linktr.ee/kellycrandall","meta_description":"Charles Denike has Bubba Wallace off to the best start of his NASCAR Cup Series career, and he’s done so as a new crew chief in the series. Denike dishes…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2248,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362/episodes/ep-329-charles-denike/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362/ep-329-charles-denike.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}