{"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. 343 | Casey Mears","slug":"ep-343-casey-mears","published_at":"2026-03-09T09:00:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362/ep-343-casey-mears","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-racing-writer-s-podcast-743362","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-343-casey-mears--70538809","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70538809/ep_343_casey_mears.mp3","summary":"Casey Mears had one of the best stories of the Daytona 500 when he qualified for the race in the single-car, underdog operation that is Garage 66 for Carl Long. A few weeks removed from the event, Mears shares how it has carried on; taking apart the Atlanta car to run in Daytona but that being the game plan; the visual of the torn apart car in the garage; comparing the moment to others from his career; choosing to come back so many years after his full-time career ended, and doing it with an underdog team; sharing this side of his life with his children who are now older to understand; the emotions of the first few races back in the NASCAR garage; the difference in being a driver today and living the full-time driver life; the realization that his full-time career was over; the feelings on what was his full-time career and any what if moments; things that almost happened in career such as getting to Penske; the impact of having raced for many big name car owners; managing to not have enemies or negative things said about him; anticipating the feeling of hitting 500 starts; the plans for the rest of the season. Original music created by Tony Monge. Follow me here: https://linktr.ee/kellycrandall","meta_description":"Casey Mears had one of the best stories of the Daytona 500 when he qualified for the race in the single-car, underdog operation that is Garage 66 for Carl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2478,"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-343-casey-mears/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-343-casey-mears.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}