Frontstretch<\/a> about filming NASCAR\u2019s The Bear-style Chicago Street Race spoof. \u201cWhen I was chopping things up, I think I threw something at Blaney. I don\u2019t really know if enough of that made the cut or not. You know what was wild about that place is you know it was nobody was really in there cooking, and so I couldn\u2019t imagine on a normal day it gets upwards of 100 degrees there. When they\u2019re cooking and slinging sandwiches, that\u2019s a lot of fun. Blaney and I, you know, we\u2019ve hung out a lot outside the racetrack, and I feel like you know when we do things like that, it kind of gets us both kind of rolling. Pretty good. So yeah, I had a lot of fun doing it.\u201d<\/p>\nThe spoof, a nod to The Bear and Saturday Night Live\u2019s \u201cSuperfans,\u201d featured Stenhouse, Blaney, and Ty Dillon as deep-dish-loving Chicagoans hyping \u201cDa Race!\u201d Reddit lit up, with locals raving about the spot-on delivery. Filmed in a sweltering kitchen set with no real chefs, Stenhouse was floored by the heat, joking about the 100-degree chaos of a real sandwich joint. His off-track bond with Blaney made the shoot a blast, their natural chemistry turning the parody into something fans could feel was real.<\/p>\n
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When asked, \u201cSo how long did it take to kind of get comfortable cussing this much or and to do that in a way where you\u2019re yelling it out in front of everybody,\u201d Stenhouse didn\u2019t miss a beat: \u201cYeah we did a decent amount of takes you know I would say to try to get comfortable with you know people watching. You know you\u2019ve got other PRs in there. You got you know people watching and I think that\u2019s more nerve-wracking than the actual cameras, you know, cuz like I said, the Apple film crew and the guys kind of coordinate and everything and you know executive producing or whatever you do but we have a lot of fun with it.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Apple-style crew kept things loose, but Stenhouse admitted the PR folks and onlookers made him sweat more than the cameras. Multiple takes helped him nail the loud, curse-heavy lines, and the fast-paced, chaotic vibe of the shoot gave the spoof its authentic edge that fans ate up.<\/p>\n
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NASCAR\u2019s media boom with Top Gun-like\u00a0trailers, Amazon tie-ins, and The Bear spoofs isn\u2019t just flashy marketing; it\u2019s the sport leaning into its stars\u2019 personalities to pull fans in. Stenhouse chucking props at Blaney in a sweaty kitchen set and Blaney clapping back at playoff doubters show drivers aren\u2019t just racing, as they\u2019re entertainers building a bridge to new audiences. The Chicago spoof\u2019s TikTok virality and Indy\u2019s dirt dreams prove NASCAR\u2019s tapping into cultural moments, from city pride to blockbuster vibes. With Stenhouse thriving in front of the camera and Blaney defending his grind, this new age of media is making NASCAR feel bigger, bolder, and more human than ever, keeping the sport\u2019s heart racing off the Ryan Blaney\u2019s take on the season<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney, Stenhouse\u2019s Bear spoof co-star, got fired up on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio about the 2025 season and the playoff format. The 2023 Cup champ pushed back hard on critics calling his title a \u201cMickey Mouse championship.\u201d \u201cWhat kind of bugs me a little bit is the people that are so diehard on, like, \u2018If you won a championship in this format that we have now, oh, it\u2019s a Mickey Mouse championship and it doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 It\u2019s like, man, everyone has the same opportunity as the guy who won it,\u201d Blaney said.<\/p>\n
His No. 12 team didn\u2019t dominate like Kyle Larson\u2019s 2021 run but clutched up with a Coca-Cola 600 win, a Talladega victory, and a Martinsville triumph to reach the Championship 4, sealing it with a second-place Phoenix finish. \u201cI look at our championship as like, we had a good year and we even had a better playoffs than everybody else,\u201d he added. \u201cWe rose to the occasion when we needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blaney\u2019s not sold on the winner-takes-all Phoenix finale, though, saying, \u201cDo I have my ideal like championship format? Yeah. Like my opinion on it, I was a huge fan of the initial Chase. Last 10 weeks of the year, you kind of have somewhat of a reset in points, and then you go 10 races, and whoever had the best 10 races was going to win the championship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defending his title\u2019s legitimacy, he fired back at the haters: \u201cIt gets under my skin a little bit when they\u2019re like, \u2018You guys didn\u2019t deserve that championship.\u2019 It\u2019s like, what are you talking about, man? Like we went through the grinder.\u201d Blaney\u2019s passion shows NASCAR\u2019s new media wave isn\u2019t just promos. It\u2019s drivers baring their souls, and it\u2019s making the sport feel alive and real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR\u2019s been on a tear in the media game lately, cranking out content that\u2019s more Hollywood than racetrack.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-97377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114926644418929775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}