(1:00) What Steve Letarte remembers about his first exposure to the Brickyard 400 and why it’s such a magical moment and place for NASCAR (3:30) What it’ll be like for the 10 full-time Cup drivers who will be racing on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval for the first time in NASCAR’s premier series (7:00) Why the Brickyard requires such a phenomenal skill set of technical precision (11:00) How the Next Gen might impact the action with potentially better racing (13:30) Why track position and holding the lead will continue to be so important (16:00) The importance of fuel conservation and strategy during the Next Gen era when changing four tires is much faster than filling a tank (18:30) How the fuel game impacted Denny Hamlin at Pocono (21:00) How do Cup teams keep track of the fuel consumption of every car they’re racing and how it’s different than the pre-Next Gen era (22:30) Why the Brickyard 400 always has been such a championship and playoff barometer (27:00) How it feels t