{"id":105004,"date":"2026-10-12T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/the-kid-returns-billy-hoskinson-heads-back-to-sct-nashville-to-defend-the-crown\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:44:06","slug":"the-kid-returns-billy-hoskinson-heads-back-to-sct-nashville-to-defend-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/the-kid-returns-billy-hoskinson-heads-back-to-sct-nashville-to-defend-the-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kid Returns: Billy Hoskinson Heads Back to SCT Nashville to Defend the Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock (or just aren\u2019t on the internet, in which case, congratulations), you\u2019ve seen the clip. Last October, on pit road at Nashville Superspeedway, Billy \u201cThe Kid\u201d Hoskinson left the line in the small tire final at Street Car Takeover Nashville. His twin-turbo, big-block Camaro launched up onto the rear tires and stayed up a lot longer than anybody in the grandstands figured it would. It had all four wheels in the air near the stripe, somehow stayed straight and won the $30,000. \u201cThat was the wildest pass I\u2019ve ever made,\u201d Hoskinson said afterward, and he admitted he didn\u2019t even know he\u2019d won until they called him. I believe him. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d have known what planet I was on.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the part of the story that tends to get lost under the wheelstand. The guy in the other lane was Ryan Mitchell, and by Hoskinson\u2019s own count Mitchell had beaten him six times in a row before that night. Six. If you grew up on Peanuts, you know the deal with Charlie Brown and the football, and that\u2019s about how I imagine the Hoskinson camp felt every time that \u201887 Firebird pulled into the other lane. Mitchell is a multi-time War in the Woods small tire champ and one of the most feared small tire hitters in the country, so the sixth loss wasn\u2019t anything to be embarrassed about. <\/p>\n

Still, Nashville is where Hoskinson finally got Lucy\u2019s football.<\/p>\n

So now it\u2019s a rematch, and it\u2019s this weekend, Oct. 16-17, a week later than Chase Lautenbach and the SCT crew had planned. The remnants of the hurricane rolled through last weekend and pushed the whole deal back seven days. I called Hoskinson on Monday to talk about it, mostly because I wanted to give Chase and SCT some love (I think Street Car Takeover is one of the coolest things happening in drag racing right now, and I\u2019m not shy about saying so). I figured the defending champ could make the case better than I could.<\/p>\n

My first question was about the surface. Mitchell had told me in a quick phone call earlier that he isn\u2019t worried about it, that his plan is to put roughly 2,000 horsepower to the ground there, so I asked Hoskinson if the surface was surprisingly good. \u201cNo, the surface is really challenging, especially early in the race and on the starting line,\u201d Hoskinson said. \u201cIt gets pretty good down track. Like it\u2019s really smooth, but you can\u2019t really apply a lot of horsepower until after like 300 feet. That\u2019s where the Camaro really shined last year, but it\u2019s really, really tricky early. You can mess up pretty easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoskinson has raced just about everywhere a guy can race a small tire car, from the backroads he built the Street Racing Channel on (closing in on 400,000 YouTube subscribers last I checked) to the no-prep and drag-and-drive deals he\u2019s moved into since. So I wanted to know what it\u2019s like to roll into a facility that hosts NASCAR Cup races. Let\u2019s be honest, opportunities like that didn\u2019t exist for small tire guys not very long ago. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s so cool being on the NASCAR pit road,\u201d he said. \u201cI never thought growing up that I\u2019d ever get a chance to race on a freaking NASCAR track. You know, you\u2019re under the lights, they\u2019ve got them all turned on. And I mean, it\u2019s surreal, the experience, like you feel like you\u2019re big time for sure. You pull into Nashville and you go under the tunnel, it says Nashville Superspeedway. And then you come out and you\u2019re in the infield. You can see the freaking leaderboard and everything. Like it\u2019s pretty neat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Camaro is coming back with the big wing, but it won\u2019t sit where it did last year. The Hoskinson crew addressed exactly the thing that made that final round famous, which was the front end that didn\u2019t want to come down. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe lowered the wing and moved it forward just a little bit because we were having wheelie issues last time we were there,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd at a certain mile an hour, it just couldn\u2019t, we couldn\u2019t keep the front end down. So we made a few changes, moved it down and moved it forward. Hopefully that gives it a little bit less leverage and we\u2019ll be able to go a little bit faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t make the mistake of thinking this is a two-car show, either. Hoskinson rattled off a list of hitters he expects on the property. One is Andrew Lavender, who\u2019s gone deep at the all-wheel-drive versus rear-wheel-drive shootouts. He also named Devin Grace, possibly Brian White and his own brother, Tommy Hoskinson, who\u2019s bringing the \u201cPossum\u201d S10. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be the toughest of the tough,\u201d Hoskinson said. \u201cThere\u2019s not going to be any ducks hardly at all. Everybody\u2019s serious. Like everybody knows what it takes to win there. So it\u2019s going to be tough for sure. It\u2019s not just going to be me and Ryan that are capable of winning this deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the small tire shootout is only one slice of the weekend. SCT is bringing its full circus to Lebanon, Tennessee: Street Racer, True Street and Daily Driver, roll racing, index racing, Lil Gangsta\u2019s, Junior Dragsters and the women-only 1\/4 Mile Queens class. Add in the first-ever SCT drifting event, a car show and a burnout contest. Weekend spectator tickets are $60 online at StreetCarTakeover.com (more at the gate), and kids 12 and under get in free.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on October 12, 2026. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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