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Matt Weaver on Emerson Axsom's win, Kyle Larson's end, Cannon McIntosh's move, and Chili Bowl 2026! | Daily 1-18-2026

Emerson Axsom is now a Chili Bowl winner, and my guest on the show today was there to see it in person and he had a chance to chat with everyone involved, including Axsom, Kevin Swindell, Kyle Larson, and many more. Let's go!

It's Sunday, January 18th, I'm Justin Fiedler, this is DIRTRACKR Daily.

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The Chili Bowl for 2026 is in the books, we saw Emerson Axsom pick up the win in a very entertaining main event. Instead of me just talking about it though, I thought it would be fun to grab someone who was actually in the building last night and talked to all the major players. On this episode of the show, Matt Weaver joins me, you probably know him from Motorsports.com and shorttrackscene.com and his very active social media accounts following races all the over the place. He was gracious enough to hop on to talk about the week after a very early morning flight out of Tulsa and a quick nap. But we went through Axsom's win, Swindell SpeedLab, Kyle Larson, the event as a whole, and we even talked some sprint car stuff at the end. So please enjoy!