Club 520 - Conor Daly & Jeff Teague talk racing in Indy 500, Daytona 500, Formula 1

Without the balls, just the court without the spirit. It's 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:08.400 only a game. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.039 So together with the fans, we bring our best. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.760 Henny C is excited to celebrate an intersection of basketball 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.680 with art, music, and fashion. Each of these elements of 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.160 culture represent the ways that players, fans and supporters all 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.200 pay how much of the game, both on and off 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:22.560 the court. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.360 Hennessey and Mitchell and ness came together for the ultimate 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.000 drop the show. They share love for basketball and the 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.160 coature look Man. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.400 Hennessy and Mitchell and Thats got together to do a 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.440 limited collab for both of them to share how they 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.040 love the game of basketball. 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We're not a studio today, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.840 but we're still on the West Side It recording live 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.959 from the Historic inenty five hundred. You know what I'm saying, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.520 I got a special guest with me to my right, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:40.600 a little bit switch up. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:41.880 You know what I'm saying. We in't your spi. You 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:42.280 know what I'm saying. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.040 We appreciate you having us in here. Just one of 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:45.840 a luxurias. You know what I'm saying home that you 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.760 stay in while you're trapping. So we got a little 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.360 bit different of a set up here. To my left, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:50.880 my dog, young Knoch, your young tig. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.400 How you what man, good man? 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.600 Honored to be here, like you said, were in a 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.120 luxury luxury apartment. You know what I'm saying, tour bus. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.440 I don't know what you want to call it, but 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:01.760 like tour of US two. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.440 That's good. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.480 Okay, So you know what I'm saying. Be here, my dog, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.600 bish about the pearlies. How you went nasty, got your 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:07.360 feet kicked up? 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.480 Yeah, you know what I mean. Shout out to CD 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.560 appreciate it. Yeah, let's pat nasty. Let's get to it. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.360 Hey, it's funny. No matter where we go, we know 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:17.600 you're gonna get comfort. You know what I'm saying. You 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:18.440 see that at the hind dog. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.600 I love the hospitalities. This has been my friend for 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.920 over a decade. We ain't never ain't never agreeted. I 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.440 ain't got a hand shake out the door. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.520 For show. We got a special guest to my right. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.320 Man drive extraordinary, one of the best things to come 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.320 out of Noblesville. He races in every single league you 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.720 could think of. Connor Daley appreciate you letting us come 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.240 to your home. You know what I'm saying, mobile home 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.120 while you trapping and pull up and appreciate you man. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.160 Hey, thank you guys. Honestly, it's really cool to have 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.640 you guys here. This is uh, this is our favorite month. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.959 This is our you know, this is our super Bowl, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.040 this is our NBA Championship, this is everything all wrapped 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.920 into one month. So so it's cool to share it 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.200 with as many people as possible as we kind of 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.440 get closer to the race for. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.600 Shure Man, like you said, historic race, one of your 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.480 favorite racists, you know what I'm saying. And it's crazy 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:04.040 for all of us. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.320 We all grew up in Indianapolis, all of us especially 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.560 grew up on the West Side, and it's crazy, like 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.560 you said, raising a rat in the or like such 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.280 an amazing event. We have millions of people who come 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.040 in town for the NY five hundred, but it's so 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.800 many people from the city who have grew up ten 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:16.600 fifteen minutes away. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:17.959 I have never came to this strike. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:18.240 I know. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.400 You know what's funny is I come across those people 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.760 a lot and they're like, you know what, I've never 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.400 actually been to that race. I was like, why not, 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.400 Like you guys have to come at least once in 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.120 your life, because this is its just it's just unique. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.959 I mean, it's the single largest attendance sporting event in 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.639 the world. I mean, it's we have it right here. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.560 In our backyards, you know, in Indy, and I think honestly, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.320 as a city, we do sports pretty well, Like we 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.920 did do these events well, and so I'm you know, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.440 I'm really proud of it because like this is my 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.360 hometown and like I'm the only driver on the grid 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.280 that's like from Indy. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.880 So I love to represent for the state and the 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:49.400 city too. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.640 For show Man, We're gonna talk about Choe Lenage in 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.200 a minute, but we always start off the episode with 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.600 a fun question obviously to you know what I'm saying, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.040 he started off Driver earlier. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.119 You had a question about that. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.800 Yeah, I was gonna ask you, man man, like what 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.520 was your video game growing up that you liked driving? 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.480 Like we all played Knee for Speed Grant what was 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:06.920 your game? 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.160 But I mean you listed some of the best ones. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.760 I mean I was a Need for Speed Underground two. Uh, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.960 there was also like Midnight Need for see Midnight Club. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.520 I don't I didn't play as much, but like Grant 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:22.400 Tismo three, Big one, Grand Trismo four was kind of 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.680 like after I enjoyed it, but like fors A Motorsport 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.440 was a big one. On X I was an Xbox guy, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.719 the Xbox guy exactly. So like when you know Halo 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.720 Halo two, that was the big Xbox guy. But but yeah, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.560 Project Gotham Racing two that was one of my favorite games. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.279 Of those those are like real racing nuts. We're into 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.440 that one maybe, but yeah, those are the ones. Those 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.360 are the ones I liked. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.080 In which one Grand Charismo so Grand Trisma three Ye, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.560 it was a card man. It was always the Nissan Skylines. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:51.200 That was a big nie. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.719 My favorite car of all times is a Nissan Skyline 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.280 R thirty four g t R so the one from 0:04:59.279 --> 0:04:59.800 two Fast Too. 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:04.839 For now, I'm gonna ask you another question. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.000 But before we get past, we gotta show respect to 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.480 one of the best racing games of all time, Mario Kart. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.080 There's no way we could get past this. And I 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.120 suck at Mario Kart. I understand that you're real drivers. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.200 I know the different simulations, but for some of us 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.320 civilians that Mario Kart sixty four. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.839 Was the bible. I still play it, dude. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:21.640 It's a great game. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.120 I suck at it and I don't know what about it. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.040 It's like this is my life, this is my career. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.440 Awful at Mario Kart. I don't know if I'm just 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:30.120 I don't know, I just don't. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:30.719 Get joy stick. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:47.440 Yeah, I gotta man, that's good. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.440 We're talking about games now, we gotta get to the 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.080 moll Park, even though it's probably ridiculous. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.440 What some of your favorite racing movies? 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.039 Oh? Great, good question, bro, for sure. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.719 Well, my favorite movies are The Fastening Fury one through four. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.720 I'm a big nerd over the Fast. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.279 And Furious even Wow, you like Tokyo Drift. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:07.040 Absolutely. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.360 I can quote every single line from every single Fast 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.240 and Furious maybe all the way through, like the sixth 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.080 one that the Tokyo Drift, the RX seven, the orange 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:17.960 and black car in that movie. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.960 Still I want that in my collection at some point. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.880 Respect So, look, I'm a big nerd. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.080 About Fast and Furious, But when it comes to like 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.200 actual I guess actual racing movies. Uh, there's a movie 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.560 called Grand Prix which is like very old, so it's 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:31.719 like a seventies eighties movie. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:32.679 That movie was sick. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.600 But honestly, Rush that came out not too long ago 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.039 with Chris Hamsworth and Daniel Brule and those like that 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.320 was a great movie about like Formula one racing. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.040 But yeah, those are kind of. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.159 I'm a little older man. I like Days of Thunder. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.240 Days of Thunder was awesome. I mean I still if 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.520 that's on TV, I'm gonna watch. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.360 Yeah, I don't watch that, mel Car, I don't think. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.280 No, you didn't even mention the greatest one. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.120 What do we got? 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.839 Big of Night? 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.520 That is an incredible story. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:05.520 First, you would. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.200 Actually shirt in the back that says that. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.680 Oh yeah, that's one of the best movies about father. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.160 You see what he did to get him back on 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:15.520 the truck. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.480 Yeah, the tiger you gotta would you drive with a 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:21.200 tiger in your car? 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:21.760 For sure? 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.720 For sure? I am the tiger cougar. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.280 Sorry, yeah, all right, Oh. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:35.800 I love it. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.880 But speaking of that, obviously his that's a factitious movie. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.720 But don't say, young Lindy is your driving? How was 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.600 it for you? Like when did you start dripping? Because 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.280 driving is not sported. You can just go see a 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:48.280 Y M c A it Tappy. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:49.480 Yeah, No, it's true. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.760 When I was ten years old, we actually had a neighbor, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.360 like I was in Noblesville. Growing up in Noblesville, I 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.240 had a neighbor that actually asked my dad. My dad 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.240 was a Formula one driver IndyCar driver back in his 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.240 before I was born, shout out to dad. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.640 Yeah. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.160 They actually asked my dad if if he could help them. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.600 They bought a go cart and they went out to 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.400 the racetrack and my dad asked me if I just 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.120 wanted to come along, And so when we got out there, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.040 he asked if I wanted to get in the cart. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.360 I got in because I was like, yeah, sure, of course, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.560 ten year old kid like yeah, get in a go cart. Absolutely, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.080 And so got out there and realized that right then, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.560 like I was like, this is something that I really 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.160 enjoyed doing. I didn't know was possible to do something 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.040 like this, like to drive something fast. It's ten years old, 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.760 you're feeling you know, you're doing thirty forty miles an hour. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:37.840 You feel like that's really fast. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.079 So so yeah, from then on, I asked my dad like, hey, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.280 like can we do this too? And so then from 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.040 from age ten on, you know, you kind of racing 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.000 is interesting because not a lot of people realize that, 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.160 like it's kind of like any other sport in the 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.040 years of progression, like I did racing when you know, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.800 when I was in middle school, when I was in 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.880 high school, and like, if you're going to basketball or 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.280 probably football. You're probably also going to play that sport 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.480 through those years. So we're doing the same thing, but 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.120 just in like smaller cards that are not quite as fast. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.719 And then there's a step up, and then there's a 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:11.760 step up slightly. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.240 Faster, slightly bigger, slightly faster, slightly bigger, and then you 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.079 get into cars kind of when you're in that fifteen 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.559 sixteen year old age. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.920 So that was kind of how it all started. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.400 Really, And that's crazy because, like you said, you go 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.040 through that progression, your pops and up sid did this 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.959 for a living, went crazy with it and let you 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.600 kind of naturally ask him to join the sport. Mister 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.480 Tige said, now y'all get in that jail. Nah My 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.760 pops had us playing basketball four or five. We ain't 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.160 had no choice. You're gonna play basketball. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.880 I don't think he's seen us going to the NBA 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.040 or anything like that, but you was gonna pick up 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:39.000 a basketball for sure. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.920 Well yeah, I mean that, and that's awesome. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.360 Like I I my dad was always just making sure 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.640 that I wanted to do it, which I respect because 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.480 like I wouldn't want to. I guess it's such a 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.040 weird sport, like it's it's not like the normalst like 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.440 it because it costs money, right, Like you have to 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.240 There's there's a lot of things that you know, you 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.480 could go out and get a basketball and just you 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.679 know shoot hoops like that's that's very like accessible, whereas 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.160 racing definitely it's it's not as accessible. And so we 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:08.640 had to work a lot at trying to you know, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.040 get these get the equipment, get the stuff, you know 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.079 what I mean. And I was very lucky to have, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:14.880 you know, help for my parents to do that first 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.360 initially and and and. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.520 Then once we get into. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.679 It, it's like you got to really be sure that 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.560 you want to do this because there will be a 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.920 lot of expense from both like myself, my family, like people, 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.240 people that are gonna support us, you know, to get 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.480 going down that road. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.760 For sure, and like I mean, we'll get it a 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.360 little bit later. But like even just now, you live 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.800 on the circuit. Like Yahoo, y'all got home games. They 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:39.720 don't got a home game. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.240 This is my home game, right they five hundred. But yeah, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.760 but other than that, the rest of the year is away. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.240 So like you're you're moving and shaking, well, I mean, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.199 we're traveling circus Essentially, you got all these teams, all 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.960 the all the crew guys. Everyone just kind of packs 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.880 up their stuff, moves on. Race weekend is three four 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.000 days in a row usually, and then that's it. But 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.720 then we've got them in the May, which is longer 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.320 than normal, it's two and a half weeks. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.640 But yeah, it's a it's a weird, weird lifestyle for sure. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.920 And obviously we can talk about set a five hundred, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.000 but you writing different types of leads. What's been some 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.439 of your favorite like moments, some different leagus to race 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.440 in because obviously different types of cars even though it's 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.760 still racing, but different types of adjustments you got to 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:18.160 get into. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.559 Yeah, I've been lucky for sure. I mean I've I've 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.800 lived a weird lifestyle in racing terms. You know, I've 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.920 kind of done like I've got to you know, I've 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.840 got to drive a Formula One car, which you know, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.599 feel very lucky to have got to do, and you know, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.680 racing the Daytona five hundred and the NASCAR, you know, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.280 Cup Series and Indy five hundred. So like I've got 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.320 to do almost everything, which is really cool. You know, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.000 sometimes you know your life pathway doesn't work you know, 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.480 I tried to be a Formula One driver when I 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.040 was younger, ended up coming back here, you know, through 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.440 situation out of my control, right. But but man, like 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.960 the Indiecar Series and the Indy five hundred, there is 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.480 nothing like this event like I've done. I've done the 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.720 Daytona five hundred, which is obviously everyone knows the Daytona 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:58.199 five hundred. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.800 It's like, hey, le NASCAR's biggest event. That's awesome. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.520 But you know, even I just add I just had 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.680 Dale and heard Junior on my podcast like last week, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.680 and he was like, look, I've done the day twenty 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.679 five hundred, but there's nothing like the five hundred like 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.480 when I went there and saw it, like this is 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.280 an incredible event, and so getting to do this will 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.960 be my eleventh to and DY five hundred. There is 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.640 nothing like this event and this is for sure my 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.160 best memory, like my best experience is just there's nothing 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:24.800 like this event. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.320 And what's crazy like age out there, but he's in 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:27.920 a lot of thirties. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.560 For you to be doing that, it will take it. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:31.959 But you do that that many time, I means you've 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.640 been in this events issue in your twenties, which is. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.800 Crazy twenty one was my first one. Yeah, just you 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.240 was that young lad. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:38.680 How was that your first time? 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:39.640 It was crazy? 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.560 Yeah, I mean honestly, at that age, I was kind 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.559 of it all just happened so fast. You're like, oh, 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.360 here's my opportunity, you know what I mean. And I 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.920 wasn't at that pro level yet to where I like that. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.360 That was the first time I got paid to race 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:52.960 a car. I was like, well, that's crazy, like I 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.120 can make money doing it, Like this is wild. And 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.600 I was racing still in Europe full time. So I 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.760 kind of come back to May did it, and it 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.040 was it was an amazing experience. Like I you know, 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.200 cried when I qualified for the race for my first 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.360 time because it was crazy. We were going up against 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.360 your guy Buddylaziir trying to qualify in the race back 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.120 in the day. Yeah, but it was. It was an 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.720 amazing But the thing is, it still feels like that 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.920 here every May, Like that feeling hasn't gone away, Like 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.240 that feeling of of like butterflies in my stomach when 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.199 I walk in this track and when we go out 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.839 to suit up for practice tomorrow or or when the race, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.360 you know, race weekend happens. It's this is the coolest thing. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:32.800 You remember what you placed? 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.760 I placed twenty twentieth or twenty first. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.280 I caught on fire two times, yeah, during the race, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.120 So it wasn't the greatest race my rookie year. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.760 But we did finish. We did finish, just slightly on fire. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.360 I actually did have a motor home, but they didn't 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.600 put me in this lot. I was actually in like 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.679 the less cool people a lot. Yeah, I had to work. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.240 I was like a little bit outside, which I was 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.200 kind of frustrated by. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.000 But someone did give me a bus to stay in, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.800 which I thought was the coolest thing ever. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.319 So when did you experience this life? When did the 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:06.679 after parties be after party? 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.120 Well that was twenty fifteen. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.480 Yeah, like I missed what the next year, So twenty 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.240 thirteen was my first five hundred. Twenty fourteen I was 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.040 actually racing in Monaco and Formula two, so like, actually 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.640 I didn't I didn't race in the Indy five hundred 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.240 that year because I was over there. But then twenty 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.760 fifteen I was back. So that was one of the 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.360 things I started to get started to. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.440 Get a little bit more real, like it was you know, there. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.960 Was a Wow, you know it pretty cool after party 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:31.400 after that year. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:31.920 I'm not gonna lie. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.520 That was That's what I care about. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.920 Yeah, yeah, the after game. Yeah, I was a good 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.680 year for me. Yeah, hey good Yeah, yeah, I had 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.560 a nice after party. Oh all right. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.320 What's crazy is like you said, at that point, you 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.120 started get into sponsorships. You know a little bit about 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.320 racing sponsorships yourself. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.120 Yeah, I do on a gym here called the Factor, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.720 and we, like you said, we sponsored Buddy and shout 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:56.800 to Buddy he wrecked. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:57.960 Yeah. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.880 What year was it was that? Twenty seventeen? 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.640 Yeah, I think it was twenty seventeen. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.280 I believe, so his first year of the factory whatever 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.040 that year that was. He Now, I might have been 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.840 twenty eighteen something like that. I don't remember, but I was. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:10.880 I do. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.560 I do remember seeing the factory on the car. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.200 So yeah, we've seen it. The last picture we seen. Yeah, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:18.800 they just said to. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.120 You wrote it. Indeed, Yeah, he fucked the vibs. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.640 I don't here the problem. I just said it, and 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.000 I hey go, Rune a treasure and. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.920 I ask you about this. And our culture is one 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.640 of the most important things to high school. Hosting your 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.120 same age group but like racing jackets was like the 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.160 absolute shit did. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.000 You rock with those two? 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:41.920 I you know what? I did not. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.640 I don't think. I don't think. I hadn't any when 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.480 I was a kid. But they are so like racing 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.480 jackets now are so back, like racing jackets are fully 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.400 fully back. I just got actually got a couple this 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.080 week and uh, and they're sick. But I didn't have any. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.160 I wasn't. I don't know if I was. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.040 I never thought of myself as like cool enough to 0:15:59.040 --> 0:15:59.920 wear racing jackets. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:00.840 I was just like a guy that. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:01.800 Was just trying to do my thing. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.440 You know, that was it, man, you was out here 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:05.920 building the car. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:06.920 It was more point. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.160 All of it was cool. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.680 I know I'm very self deprecated. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.080 I'm just like I just kind of say, I'm just 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.480 kind of do my thing, and I tried to be 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.560 the best that I could be silently. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.240 Who is your favorite NASCAR driver? 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.120 My favorite NASCAR driver? It's a great question. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.000 I well, my boss take like my podcast is under 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.880 Dale and Her Juniors Media shout Dale Junior, Jesus. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.320 He's obviously a legend. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.000 But oddly enough, my car number for this fire this 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:35.840 year is twenty four. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.480 Yeah. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.080 So I've got special shoes and gloves for this race 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.640 for the Rainbow Warrior. They got the flames on him 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:52.080 with the DuPont like paint schime. I've got full full 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.160 Jeff Gordon tribute shoes and gloves for this. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.480 That was my favorite driver because the name was Jeff. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.800 Yeah, there you go. Jeff Gordon's also very high up 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:02.240 on the list. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.160 That was the hardest NASCAR jacket ever. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:06.240 Yeah. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.280 Yeah, sure. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:09.600 He's gonna be out here. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.800 This may man help me set that up, Jeff gor. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.600 I would love to see that interaction on Jeff Gordon together. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.880 We needed sure unbelievable that pay per view. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.080 Yeah, sure had Now just from a simple standpoint, I 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.800 know you could smell upon in many ways, but like 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.600 for the average person, they don't understand how hard like 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:34.480 an actual race is. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.760 For one, you were in your car for how long? Yeah, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.760 I mean is about three and a half hours, five 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.800 hundred miles without a bathroom break, right, no bathroom break? Yeah, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.000 No food, no snacks, no nothing, nothing like that. We 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.160 do have a drink bottle that's like attached like through 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.640 the front of our helmet, but like that's usually boiling 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.960 by about like lap thirty, so it's kind of just 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.439 there to just wet your whistle a little bit, like 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.200 that's about it. So it's it's tough, it's it's a 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:01.959 lot harder than people think. We have no power steering. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.920 It's about one hundred and fifty degrees in the car 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.879 ish depending on the day, So you're you're sweating, like 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.160 I usually sweat around ten to twelve pounds of waterweight 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.440 during the race. And again our heart rate because you're 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.720 because there's no power steering, the steering is super heavy, 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.760 so you're you're fighting you know, three to three and 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.000 a half g's every corner, which is you know, there's 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.720 four corners. The lap is forty seconds, so every forty 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.080 seconds you're fighting at four times and then doing that 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.600 for you know, five hundred miles, two hundred laps. There's 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.600 just a lot more that's that that's in there that 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.960 than people realize, right because they're like, oh, you're sitting 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:38.920 in there driving, like a. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:39.439 Lot of people. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.480 That's the most common misconception is like we're just sitting 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.600 in there and we're driving because everyone. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:46.960 Drives right, like we're out on the street and you're 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:47.800 driving down the road. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.760 But this is like trying not to die for three hours, 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.280 because like it is very dangerous. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.200 Like what we're doing, Like we're doing two hundred and forty. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.520 Five miles an hour, you know, side by side with 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.359 a bunch of other idiots who are trying to you know, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.000 make his and racing too, and you are at your 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.080 absolute limit mentally and physically. So by the time you're 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.440 at the end of this event completely spent. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:09.679 That's crazy. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.919 And like Henna ask know, saying, like dude, y'all get 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.400 slightered as athletes because I am, like, there's no way 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:15.760 that somebody can tell me you're not an athlete. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:21.440 If you ever had a messed up car driving without hour, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.320 it's crazy. That's nuts, trying to turn to your drive without. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.320 Yeah, so it's it's we train. I mean we trained 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.960 twice a day like like people. The funniest part is, though, 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.240 is anyone who does say, like, oh, drivers aren't athletes. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.600 It's like as soon as you start to tell them 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.199 like these are not, Like I'm not like making any 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.399 of these things up. Like I wear a heart rate monitoring, 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.480 like we you can, like you can get in that 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.880 car and like try to turn it just when it's 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:47.320 off and you're like, oh, it is kind of heavy. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.320 It's like, well, yeah, that's it's no power sitting, you 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.760 know what I mean. So we train, you know, twice 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.000 a day. We use the sauna, ice, everything that we 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.240 can do to be ready because again, you got to 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.240 stay ahead of the car physically, because if the car 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.159 gets ahead of you, then you're like, if you make 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:06.080 a mistake, it hurts a lot. It hurts a lot. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.439 I've hit the wall really hard and it hurts Dan crazy. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.760 Yeah, like you said, you kind on fire your first 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.679 Indy five hundred, Like what's the procedure? 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:16.960 Like, I don't know what I'd do with my car. 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.920 I'm done. First fire is over. 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.840 So every time we pit right, we get the refueler 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:27.160 goes in, but you're trying to do it as quick 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.280 as possible. And sometimes it's eighteen eighteen point six gallons 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.080 of fuel that goes in in about seven seconds. So 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.760 when you plug in and the guy maybe fumbles coming out, 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.920 some fuel spills and the engine'es on and the exhaust 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.679 a right there and they're shooting fire essentially out. So 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.280 if there's a bit of a miscommunication there, for me, 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.080 like it literally bursts into flames and I'm sitting there 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.359 and I feel it that's kind of hot, but like 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.120 you just have to go because that will then put 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.800 out the fire. So there's usually a guy that sprays 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.520 a bit of a fire extinguisher, but my guy my 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.199 first year wasn't there apparently, and so I just had 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.000 to go and basically let the wind like they put 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.480 the fire out. But that happened twice, so it was 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:07.000 an ideal. 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.080 And listen, you mean some baking sod on it. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:12.920 Something like that. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:18.480 You should to rerock on that crazy sposh my snowfall. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:24.479 Yeah, what's crazy is like the Car series fire department. 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:35.720 If he's trying to save a lot, different sport's gonna. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:41.399 Try to twist the metal. Yeah, the lead cargain. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:46.159 Yeah, And like you said, like with the athlete, you 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:47.920 have et a team, like you got your coaches, training, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:49.920 the staff and y'all sport. But for y'all y'all pit crew, 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.000 it's so important because they make a word of a 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.520 difference in that second, like you said, half a second 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.359 pulling out pause that could have went real crazy for 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:58.040 you with the fuel. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:03.440 Yeah, to say, races are won and lost on pit lane. 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.840 And like people don't realize that as well, like when 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.440 when you see the results page, it's driver names, right, 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.000 but like squad, each driver got there with their team, 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:15.439 or if someone made a mistake in the pits, like 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.800 they got they were further down because of it's a 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.399 team effort, right, so everyone has to be on it. 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:24.120 And and like my guys, you know, the last three 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:25.800 weeks we've been in the shop, but we have a 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.600 race shop in Zions built dry rainbows up there, and 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:32.679 you know, we have a practice car with an electric 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:34.360 motor in it where we can reverse it and then 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.359 go right back into the pit lane. And the team 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.440 actually built a pit stop area with the exact same 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.040 pavement that is out here in the pit lane to 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.639 try to, you know, emulate what that is going to 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.480 be like. And those guys work every day of the 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.720 week practice pitstop, practice pit stop, seven seconds, six seconds, 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.200 seven seconds, like just trying to get it right, because 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.520 that's what it's all. It's all about, every tenth of 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:55.800 a second to be perfect. 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:56.400 It's crazy. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:58.680 We had some of those guys training at my gym, 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.120 a peer called de Factory, and I just watched them 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:05.480 carrying forty five pound plates like it's crazy. 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.600 Yeah. I was like, yeah, workout. I was like, what 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:11.320 are they doing their crew? I was like, oh. 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:15.720 Shit, it's tough man. Yeah, But it's you know, to 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.560 when when you have a good pit stop, it feels 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:20.639 so good because you're like, oh my guy, Scott, you 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.359 know what I mean it was, But when you have 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:24.760 a bad one, you're like, oh, now I got a 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:25.760 lot more work in front of me. 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:26.480 So it's just it. 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.199 It's there's six pit stops during the five hundred, so 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.760 there's so many opportunities for there. You can take advantage 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:34.520 of it or you have to come back from it. 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:34.960 You know. 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:36.760 I gotta ask you a question, because, like you said, 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:38.480 it's a high intensity, very fast. 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.560 Everybody's trying to win. Hey, y'all be squabbling alright. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:43.639 Them drivers, they get up, they be having beef, Like 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.440 I'll be punching people through helmets. Like I can imagine 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:48.080 when you prepare so long for a mob like this 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:50.280 and somebody's driving not the safest and nicks, you are 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:50.880 ruined old. 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:53.520 I could see why it's so much frustration behind that. Now. 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:57.040 Well, yeah, there's so there's a lot of professionals out here, 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:00.520 but they're also idiots. So like they're fun of people 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.720 that you know, as soon as you're around them on track, 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.600 they're they're gonna make a stupid decision. Now there Again, 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:09.800 everyone out here is very talented, but there's also people 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.399 that just are not. There's always dumb people when you're 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:15.000 doing stuff and it doesn't matter, like the're just people 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:18.240 who don't make efficient decisions. There's people that you know, 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.919 don't really don't really care, but like he gets an 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.400 ego thing, right, So yeah, there's plenty of people who 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.080 hate each other, as is in every sport, right, you 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:29.119 have your rivals, you have your uh, you know, people 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:30.560 that you don't like. There's people that I don't like, 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:35.320 but but yeah, I mean what's interesting about the five 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:39.879 hundred though, is that like those there's those rivalries, but 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.280 it's also so dangerous that a lot of those don't 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:45.480 play up as much as like when we're racing on 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:47.160 the road course. Like there was a road course race 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:49.000 that just happened over the weekend right the ad GP, 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:51.880 so that there was a bunch of cars hitting each 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:54.080 other like just bounce like bouncing off each other, a 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:57.000 lot of lot of anger. But at the five hundred, 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.320 if you do that, like you're literally either gonna be 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.520 in the hospital or like you know, it's a tough 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.040 so so thankfully that doesn't play up as much or 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:07.720 it doesn't look like it does. But there are much 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.639 more subtle movements at two hundred and thirty that like 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.240 make a big difference and that can make you angry. 0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:14.399 Like even all of. 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:17.640 Practice this week, you're gonna have guys running together and 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:19.600 like someone just tries to block you a little bit, 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:22.240 and like, I just want to punch that guy. Because 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.040 when you're when you get this dirty air, like the 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:26.639 air changes in front of you all of a sudden, 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:30.399 your car then has this massive reaction. So there's plenty 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:32.159 of people that hate each other, which is great for 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:32.639 the sport. 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:35.600 And I am happy to always be honest too about 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:37.600 who I think is an idiot. So it's good. 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:40.520 Yeah, Like, listen, I get pissed off if somebody cut 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:43.560 me off at the gas. Imagine road rage is real 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:43.960 out here. 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:46.440 It's true, It's true. 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:48.480 I mean if someone I have said a lot of 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:51.400 horrible words on the radio, when I have talked, when 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:54.720 someone has Yeah, when someone has crosspaths in the wrong. 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.320 Way, not gonna ask. Obviously, you drive for a living. 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.360 What do you drive in real life? Yeah, so. 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:03.560 Our contracts are not as great as they used to be. 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:06.320 But I my first car was a two thousand and 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:08.840 four SuPAR U STI so in President STI. So I 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:11.880 still have that. It's broken in my garage currently. But 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:13.880 but I have a portion of my con s now. 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:16.520 So that's what I uh, that's what I have as 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:17.440 my daily driver. 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:18.240 Slight. 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:20.199 But I do have a great idea for what I 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:22.359 want in the future. I want on Nissan Skyline R 0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:22.840 thirty four. 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:24.440 I need one of those for sure. 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:26.680 And I was furious. I'm a Lamborghini guy at the heart. 0:26:26.920 --> 0:26:27.919 I want a Lamborghini song. 0:26:28.000 --> 0:26:28.960 Okay, you're a car guy. 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.960 I am a car guy. Okay, someday, I don't know when. 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:33.879 You don't have to detach, I had to get you 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:38.400 a van or something. Slow down, I want to film out. 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.119 When do you think my last speeding ticket was? 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.240 I was just about to ask you that. I was 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:47.720 about to actually, do you drive like you drove on here. 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:48.360 On the rail road? 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:49.960 So I don't. 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:53.639 I have not had a speeding ticket since twenty seventeen. Wow, 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.600 I I can completely switch off like what goes on 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:01.800 here because I just like, it's not it's really weird 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:05.000 because some drivers, like Marco Andretti for example, Yeah, he's 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:06.960 at one hundred and fifty miles an hour all the time, 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:09.439 like we're getting to dinner at one thousand miles an 0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:12.959 hour like full attack. And my girlfriend says that I 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.199 drive kind of like a granny. So I don't know 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:17.359 what that means. But I'm just gonna get us there. 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:19.800 And whenever I get there, I say, Okay, so you 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:21.000 detached from the Super SiO. 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:24.920 That's crazy, though, I wouldn't, like I mentioned in the cars. 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:27.040 I can't even imagine you're driving the Lambo. 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:29.879 I think there's yeah, well there's some I mean some situations. 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:32.480 I will drive fast, but yeah, I just don't want 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:33.840 to deal with tickets. 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:36.040 And yeah, that's good that you could detach for real, 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:37.920 because I wouldn't be able to do it. 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:39.680 I'll be driving like watch out. 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:41.879 Yeah I do get angry. 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:44.960 Yeah, having the manual going, I'll be going well. 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:46.960 And if I get pulled over, No, if it's anybody, 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:48.200 you should be telling high drive it ain't me. 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:50.320 Yeah, that's a lot of you should be giving it 0:27:50.840 --> 0:27:51.119 ain't me. 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:51.680 Man. 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:52.760 I know what I'm doing. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:55.400 Exactly. 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:57.960 I want to take it back to high school though. 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:00.159 You have to hear it this Christian Yep, yep, you 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:01.879 was growing. I mean you went to school during the 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:03.040 Kelly Faerris days. 0:28:03.119 --> 0:28:04.600 Yeah. Actually it's a great record. 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:07.520 Key how was that man going to school with her? Was? 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.719 Did they treat her different in school or was she 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:12.960 a superstar? I led her on her high school. 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:15.639 Career, Kelly Fair. Yeah, we thought she was the you know, 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:17.720 the biggest. She was our Kaitlyn Clark right like she 0:28:17.920 --> 0:28:20.439 was like like we we were. So we went to 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:23.800 the you know, girls basketball state championship like every year. 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:25.800 Like it was so cool for us as as because 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:28.080 like she was one year older than me maybe or two, 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:29.840 and so we thought it was the coolest thing that 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:33.480 we had this amazing basketball team girls basketball team for us. 0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:38.680 Was was so fun to watch and cheer four. So yeah, 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:40.440 that's that's really funny. She actually came out to the 0:28:40.440 --> 0:28:42.840 track here last year. I saw her and her family 0:28:42.840 --> 0:28:43.360 comes out here. 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.000 So yeah, that's a superstar. I remember I'm tapped in 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:48.000 with high school, but I remember her for sure. She 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:49.320 was really a superstar back. 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.280 Yeah, those were good years. One A couple of state championship. 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:55.160 H Speaking of basketball, you said your first love was basketball. 0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:55.680 It was. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:56.080 Yeah. 0:28:56.080 --> 0:28:59.520 I even we had at our school. We had a 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:02.520 fourth grade tournament each class and the fifth grade tournament. 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:03.160 No big deal. 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:07.880 We did win the fifth grade tournament. That's well, yes 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:11.960 we were. That wasn't as competitive as fifth grade is 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:17.680 more important, but but yeah, man, I I loved playing basketball. 0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:20.120 I was at the Indiana Basketball Academy for like three 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:23.240 or four years in a row. I got the IBA shirts, 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:26.360 you know what I mean. Todd Abermanthew obviously he was 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:27.320 there helping us out. 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:29.400 Yeah, so it was. 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:29.880 It was. 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:32.960 It was such a joy for me to play, and 0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:35.479 it still is now, Like I'm still not good at it, 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:36.240 but like it was. 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:39.640 It was a really fun, uh you know, fun fun 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:41.320 sport to learn and to cheer for. 0:29:41.520 --> 0:29:44.400 Like I was a Pacers guy from day one, so 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:45.440 it was really cool. 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:46.880 Position did you play? 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:49.600 I played person who just tried to shoot the ball. 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:51.960 A celebrity game. 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:59.560 Yeah. Well I was the C team on the celebrity team. 0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:01.760 I know, big deal to rebounds one assist, No, no 0:30:01.800 --> 0:30:06.440 big deal. I was in the paint. 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:10.920 Michael, Yeah, my actual position you play? You have to 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:11.760 name positions. 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:15.240 You can't say I was not the power I was 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:17.480 not the point you shut guard. 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:19.760 I was a big. 0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:21.440 Defensive guy because that was the only chance that I 0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:24.120 thought that I could have made a difference, because the 0:30:24.240 --> 0:30:26.760 team didn't really have faith in my shooting. 0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:29.920 So you're a value shooter exactly. 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:34.520 But I really tried. I was an effort guy. I 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:37.880 was in a for effort, a big effort guy hoops 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:38.320 growing up. 0:30:39.080 --> 0:30:41.040 Man, So I I had I wrote a book, which 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:42.400 I did share with you guys. 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:44.120 I didn't write a book. I drew a picture. 0:30:45.320 --> 0:30:46.200 It was a children's book. 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:46.840 It was a shoulder. 0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:47.120 Yeah. 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:49.560 We were asked when I think we were in kindergarten 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:52.840 to like, uh write a like, draw a picture of 0:30:52.840 --> 0:30:54.600 what you wanted to be when you grew up. And 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.080 I did not put race car driver. I put the 0:30:57.120 --> 0:31:00.920 Pacers court. And I put Jalen Rose on my picture 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:04.080 of basketball, not even sure why like I did. I 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:06.080 don't remember if I was like a Jalen Rose fan. 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:08.120 Obviously I grew up to like in the Reggie Miller 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:10.440 eras like Reggie Miller was. He was like, it was awesome. 0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:14.360 I have Regi Miller jersey. But but I just love 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:16.920 the Pacers. Like, we went through all the eras. You know, 0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:20.160 Jeff t. G Earra boy hib Or you had, Paul George, 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:23.640 you had so many There were so many names that 0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:29.000 we could follow growing up. Austin Krozier was actually I 0:31:29.080 --> 0:31:32.440 grew up in Uh. He owned the house my parents 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:35.200 owned before us, So I like I knew of Austin 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:36.120 krozer Like that's. 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:36.920 A really random name. 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:39.360 But uh, but yeah, there was. There was a lot 0:31:39.360 --> 0:31:41.640 of guys that it was just it was really fun 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:42.640 to follow growing up. 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:44.840 And we went through the downtimes too. We went through 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:45.480 the downtimes. 0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:48.360 But yeah, back up now, we're back up, back up, baby, 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.240 episode plays. We would have beaten the Nicks. You feel me? 0:31:51.640 --> 0:31:56.240 Destroyed the Knicks. Yeah, ran steam, ran them out of gas. 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:58.479 He was with us what happened last? He was doing 0:31:58.480 --> 0:31:58.720 it with this. 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.160 I'm back with the pace. I've not played for the 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:02.240 past time I played for the Nicks. 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:03.400 I'm bat there you go perfect. 0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:08.000 I bet that's crazy. I'm a Celtics. 0:32:08.200 --> 0:32:10.440 Oh my god, I do have a I do have 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:11.880 a futures ticket on the Celtics. 0:32:11.880 --> 0:32:13.480 No big, yeah, I have I did. I did bet 0:32:13.520 --> 0:32:15.760 on the Celtics win the champions but I also have 0:32:15.760 --> 0:32:18.400 a plus twenty six thousand pacers ticket to win the championship. 0:32:18.440 --> 0:32:22.600 So you know, now this might be pocket No Dante 0:32:22.680 --> 0:32:24.440 Porter y'all, bet On y'all Sales and racing. 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:25.360 Is that out of pocket? 0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:28.480 That's definitely legal? Yeah, super legal. 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:31.960 So only only only box I could do that. Okay, 0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:33.640 oh yeah, the only box could do that. 0:32:33.760 --> 0:32:36.160 Yeah, we u but that the whole sports family thing though, 0:32:36.360 --> 0:32:38.040 this is really random, but for racing, like I think 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:40.800 it's it's it's become such a big thing for like 0:32:41.040 --> 0:32:42.760 motorsport that we got to have more of that in 0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:44.640 Indy Car for our fans to do because people love it, 0:32:44.640 --> 0:32:48.200 like people love following their guy, following whoever they're you know, supporting. 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:50.800 So who knows, maybe someday we can get more and 0:32:50.800 --> 0:32:52.800 more IndyCar, you know, Indy. 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:56.920 Cars sports for Yeah, I was about to ask you 0:32:56.960 --> 0:32:58.200 do people get on you like. 0:32:58.480 --> 0:32:59.880 You messed up my partlay I have? 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:02.400 Yeah, so yeah, Michael will come up to me and 0:33:02.440 --> 0:33:04.959 be like, man, you roll this, roll that? Do they 0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:06.280 come up to you like that and be like, man, 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:08.080 you're supposed to have a top ten finish. 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:10.280 I've had a couple of people every year. They're like, well, 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:11.720 we bet on you to win every year, so like, 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:13.960 when are you going to do it? I'm like, I 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:16.960 don't know, try every year. 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:21.520 Yeah, it's definitely certainly more over the last two or 0:33:21.520 --> 0:33:23.600 three years, right, because it's been you know, the huge 0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.840 sports gamblers boom, right, So yeah, there's definitely a lot 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:32.560 of people. I remember there was one twenty twenty one 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:34.760 there was like one of those sports books I think 0:33:34.840 --> 0:33:39.000 put up a like a when when Barstool had their 0:33:39.040 --> 0:33:41.320 sports book or whatever they had put up one of 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:43.480 their guys is from Indie, Jeff Webber, and he put 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:46.840 up like some uh special bet like if I let 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:49.400 a lap, Like what are the odds for me? I 0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:51.560 had never let a lap before the speedway. I led 0:33:51.560 --> 0:33:54.200 the most laps that year, and so it was like 0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:56.600 I saw a bunch of people afterwards like. 0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:58.959 Oh, yeah, like it cuts our guy like and I 0:33:59.000 --> 0:34:00.280 was like, Okay, I didn't even really this is a 0:34:00.320 --> 0:34:02.320 real thing, but apparently there was a bet for me 0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:04.400 to like lead a lap and uh and I led 0:34:04.400 --> 0:34:05.360 the most laps that year. 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:07.840 Yeah, I'll tap issue. 0:34:08.280 --> 0:34:09.440 I don't know if it's gonna be one like that. 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.279 Don't worry about I'm I'm not encouraging anything. Can't do it, 0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:13.040 not a part of it. 0:34:13.120 --> 0:34:16.719 But no, no, no, you. 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:16.920 Know I'm going to let you know that I am 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:18.160 going to try to lead every last. 0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:20.560 Yeah, I'm gonna tap it on my own order, but 0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:22.359 I'm taking overall city this year. 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:27.719 The over Yeah. 0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:30.319 What's my favorite words you've been part of so far? 0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:32.439 Like individual? What's one to sit out to you the most? 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:36.239 So the twenty twenty one five hundred that I just 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:40.080 that I just mentioned that was my first like that 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:44.160 that race was a time where I thought I had 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:45.640 a car to win for the first time, Like I 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:49.240 thought that feeling when I got to the front, finally 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:52.040 led the led the race for the first time, and 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:53.799 I was like, I can win this race because I 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:54.760 had like I've had. 0:34:54.640 --> 0:34:56.960 Some tough times here, like this is. 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:58.680 This place hasn't been really good to me for my 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:01.319 first few years. I had a couple of crashes and 0:35:01.360 --> 0:35:03.279 I just like there'd be a couple good moments, but 0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:06.840 I just it hadn't really clicked and nothing had fallen 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:11.240 into place. And twenty twenty one was a big moment 0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:13.520 for me, and I was like, I'm going to win 0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:15.600 this race, and like I thought that I could win 0:35:15.640 --> 0:35:19.280 this race, and we were leading, we were leading, everything 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:22.240 was in the right position, and then a car crashed 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:24.600 in front of me, and the tire flew off the car, 0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:27.439 and as I'm avoiding it, it hits my front wing 0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:32.440 and it didn't do enough damage to like really take 0:35:32.520 --> 0:35:35.040 us out, but it fully broke the front wing. So 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:36.920 I basically had to finish the race with a broken 0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:40.000 front wing, which is wildly important. 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:42.600 So like we because if we pitted. 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:44.400 And changed the front wing, it would put us all 0:35:44.400 --> 0:35:46.200 the way to last anyway, and we were already running 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:49.239 at the front. So sadly that kind of ruined our race, 0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:51.279 and we finished the race with the front wing that 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:53.759 was all off, which that's the most important part of 0:35:53.760 --> 0:35:55.920 the cars, are the wings because they produced all the grip. 0:35:57.239 --> 0:35:59.080 So that was a really tough one to kind of 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:01.480 get taken away from me. But the feeling of that, 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:03.840 and the feeling like we still finished thirteenth, which is 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:06.640 not awful, but like we had no front weighing nothing. 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:10.279 So afterwards though, seeing all the people, like seeing the 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:13.399 videos of like fans reacting to when I took the lead, 0:36:13.480 --> 0:36:15.200 like that made me cry. It still makes you cry, 0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:17.480 like every single time because it was like such a cool, 0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:21.400 like emotional sports moment like that. I like, I'm a 0:36:21.440 --> 0:36:23.879 big emotions guy, so like if there's a cool sports moment, 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.239 doesn't matter if it's basketball, football, if like there's a 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:28.880 cool story that like like, hey, that's sweet, like that 0:36:28.920 --> 0:36:31.319 makes you feel good, Like I love that stuff. And 0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:33.200 that was a really that was that was the biggest 0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:35.120 year I think for me, which was which is just 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:36.839 feeling that for the first time here. 0:36:37.320 --> 0:36:39.279 Oh for sure, And as a fellow patients fan, we 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:42.040 all know about crying because of sports. That's not a 0:36:42.120 --> 0:36:44.400 comment for us. But you talked about like the cars 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:48.800 and how important they are. These are million dollars constructed 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:50.759 vehicles and for you to have, you know what I'm saying, 0:36:50.840 --> 0:36:52.320 a little bit of an issue is still finished like that, 0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:54.919 it's crazy. But just talk about how expensive the motor, 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:56.600 like the breakdowns of the car, because I don't think 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:58.879 our average person knows what goes into that and why 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:01.160 these these companies are so invested in those vehicles. 0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:02.160 Yeah, it's interesting. 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:06.440 I mean, so for us, the if you buy a 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:09.560 tub it's called it's basically just the cockpit that we 0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:10.040 sit in. 0:37:10.200 --> 0:37:11.640 So it's basically our safety cell. 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.000 They design this tub of the car to have all 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:18.000 the pieces put on it because our cars are designed 0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.520 to if you crash, they're designed to explode and all 0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:24.120 the pieces to fly away because that's safer. Like, you 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:26.160 don't want it to all just crunch. You want it 0:37:26.200 --> 0:37:29.160 to hit and kind of explode into a thousand pieces. 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:34.000 That disperses the impact in a better way. So when 0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:35.800 you buy the tub, that's like a three hundred and 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:38.960 fifty thousand dollars like just safety cell. Yeah good, that 0:37:39.040 --> 0:37:42.040 ladbar right there there you go, that's it, but all 0:37:42.120 --> 0:37:44.000 those other pieces around it. So now you put on 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:46.840 the suspension, the radiators, the engine itself. We're not actually 0:37:46.840 --> 0:37:49.319 allowed to own the engines. So you know, we're part 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:51.920 of Chevrolet for this month of May, so Chevrolet. We 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:55.080 lease an engine from Chevrolet. We're not allowed to run 0:37:55.120 --> 0:37:57.719 it unless there's a Chevrolet Tech there at the shop 0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:00.000 or here at the track. We're not allowed to get 0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:02.399 in the engine. It's sealed by them. So because it's 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:05.560 all all there, you know, all their stuff, and you 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:08.399 know those those engines are about seven hundred fifty horse power, uh, 0:38:08.480 --> 0:38:11.600 twin turbo charged engines, which are you know, they're they're 0:38:11.640 --> 0:38:16.200 great for speed, but but then you know they're all 0:38:16.200 --> 0:38:19.239 the suspension pieces, all the the bodywork, you know, for 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:21.160 the five hundred alone, we we have the cars in 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:23.680 the wind tunnel for the last three weeks, like making 0:38:23.719 --> 0:38:26.960 sure every piece of the body work is as efficiently 0:38:27.560 --> 0:38:29.719 uh you know, basically just it's called a body fit 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:33.520 because if you're traveling through the air with as little 0:38:33.640 --> 0:38:36.360 drag as possible, the car is going to go the fastest. 0:38:36.360 --> 0:38:38.759 And here that's the most important thing. Ever, So if 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:40.520 you're if your piece of body work is a little 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:41.959 bit off, that could cost you half. 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:42.479 A mile an hour. 0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:45.000 So like you you can't have that. So they they 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:48.319 spend millions of dollars. Like the budget for an Indy 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:50.560 five hundred, like just to run a car at at 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:53.840 a high level is basically one point one million dollars 0:38:53.840 --> 0:38:56.480 per car essentially, So when you got thirty three cars 0:38:56.520 --> 0:38:58.799 out here, that's almost probably forty million dollars worth of 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:03.600 budget that's on the track essentially. Y'all blow through tires 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:06.719 like cigarette so yep, we have thirty seven sets of 0:39:06.800 --> 0:39:09.759 tires for this month of May. So like a couple 0:39:09.719 --> 0:39:12.480 of days of thirty seven sets of tires that we 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:14.880 got to kind of ration out per day, Like we 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:16.839 can run usually like three to four sets per day 0:39:16.840 --> 0:39:21.080 of practice. But like in Indiana, the rain comes very randomly, 0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:23.640 so like if it rains, we might have to save 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:26.640 a set or two. And as long as we end 0:39:26.719 --> 0:39:28.520 up with like six or seven sets of tires for 0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:30.800 the race, then we've used our tires efficiently. 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:34.000 Damn Yeah, I want to ask you about the pregame, man, 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:36.080 what are you listening to? Well, what are you doing 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:37.640 to get geared up for the race? 0:39:37.920 --> 0:39:38.800 You know, it's a good question. 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:41.360 Honestly, a lot of people think like they used to 0:39:41.360 --> 0:39:43.160 ask me what music I listened to? And I did 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:46.520 enjoy listening to music at one point, but now I've 0:39:46.520 --> 0:39:49.520 actually enjoyed taking in the atmosphere more like what's going 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:52.880 on and like all the people the beause, like my 0:39:52.920 --> 0:39:55.280 friends and family are here too, so like so feeling 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:58.400 that is really cool. But my Indy five hundred tradition 0:39:58.520 --> 0:39:59.880 is to go to the snake pit for the ra 0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:03.080 like I actually legitimately go over to the snake pit 0:40:03.200 --> 0:40:06.040 the massive ADM concert in turn three, I don't know 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:07.560 if you guys know much about that, but there's thirty 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:09.880 five thousand people inside of turn three. The morning of 0:40:09.920 --> 0:40:12.560 the race, the party starts at eight am and there's 0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:15.319 a bunch of massive adm artists that are performing from 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:17.000 eight am till about one thirty. 0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:18.759 Like right after the race starts. So I go over 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:21.279 there from nine to fifty to ten fifteen am, get 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:23.719 up on stage, do a little bit of raging, and 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:26.000 then go to the driver intro. 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:27.719 So music as you go to it. 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.680 Is, Yeah, for the for that concert, it's crazy. Yes, 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:35.319 that is a fun experience out the car Day. Yeah, 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:37.360 Carb Day two, I mean Carb Day will because we 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:39.920 practice CARB Day and thankfully the concerts afterwards, so we'll 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:41.200 go over and check it out. We'll go over and 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:43.239 check out what's going on over there too, check out 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:43.640 the viobs. 0:40:43.680 --> 0:40:45.520 What's your best year at carb Day? We don't got 0:40:45.560 --> 0:40:47.279 to go into details, but when it was Carb Day 0:40:47.400 --> 0:40:50.480 really lit. 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:55.000 There's a couple of memories on car Day as a 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:58.960 young man, I might revert some things that I saw 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:03.480 for the first time. It might have been female anatomy 0:41:03.520 --> 0:41:05.520 that I had only the scene for the first time 0:41:05.520 --> 0:41:06.240 at card Base. 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:11.800 Yeah, that's live. There was definitely some things that you 0:41:11.920 --> 0:41:13.960 might never see again, and you might see for the 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:14.439 first time. 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:20.359 I've seen a lot of Car Day. It's been kind 0:41:20.360 --> 0:41:23.879 of crazy. But my favorite part is, you know, since 0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:27.520 we stay here, it is seeing the last people who 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:29.080 leave the track on card Day. 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:32.600 They're in bad shape. 0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:33.920 They're in bad shape. 0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:35.840 So we called the last leg. 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:41.719 Get spokey, I got one more question before we keep 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:44.120 going on or get out of here or whatever. I 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:46.960 watched this movie Grant Turismo, Yes, and it was about 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:50.040 a guy who played the video game ended up going pro. 0:41:50.560 --> 0:41:52.080 And I was the one that asks you, like, do 0:41:52.160 --> 0:41:55.040 you think the simulators and all those things can help 0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:56.120 a person really go pro? 0:41:56.239 --> 0:41:58.120 On race car racing, we. 0:41:58.160 --> 0:42:03.640 Are certainly getting to an era of technology that it's 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:04.920 pretty cool, and it is. 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:05.880 It is getting close. 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:10.200 Like we've got like video games that are so good 0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:12.840 that people think that they're actually real racing drivers. 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:14.160 Now a lot of the times that's not true. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:17.840 But what Grand Trismo did and what the Grand Trismo story, 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:21.880 it's totally true. Like that guy literally was in Europe 0:42:21.960 --> 0:42:24.120 racing the year after I was kind of leaving, and 0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:26.360 so like I knew, I knew the story, and we 0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:28.080 kind of all thought it was wild at the time, 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:30.480 but but then when he started racing and like producing 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:32.520 results and like, oh, this guy's he knows what he's doing, 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:36.359 like he's got it and so so pretty cool to see. 0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:38.799 I don't I think we will see more of it 0:42:38.840 --> 0:42:41.480 in the future. I do think that as the racing 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:45.080 games and the simulation technology grows, I do believe that 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:46.919 you're going to see more and more people at least 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:47.920 get a chance. 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:48.920 To try to drive. 0:42:49.200 --> 0:42:52.239 There are several people I remember a few years ago 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:55.400 there was like a really good gaming champion and this 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:58.160 is back in like twenty eleven, so not even this 0:42:58.239 --> 0:43:01.839 is like before the Grand Trismo story. One kid got 0:43:01.840 --> 0:43:04.000 a chance to test a real race car, like after 0:43:04.040 --> 0:43:05.759 he won it, and he got in the race car 0:43:05.840 --> 0:43:07.880 and like did one lap and was like throwing up everywhere, 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:11.600 Like couldn't physically handle it because it's a much you know, 0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:14.080 sitting at home and doing that, Like there's a lot 0:43:14.120 --> 0:43:17.719 of mental stuff, but physically is that's the hardest part 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:20.839 of like adjusting to a real race car. So I 0:43:20.880 --> 0:43:23.520 think in the future we could see more stories like 0:43:23.560 --> 0:43:26.319 the Grand Trismo story. But still for now, you got 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:29.880 to get in in like the raw racing cars go 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:32.960 karts and be able to do it better than anyone else. 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:35.200 Still, And that's so crazy because that's just like somebody 0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:38.399 playing two k and going to the NBA, which is impossible. 0:43:38.000 --> 0:43:39.920 Possible, bro. That's why I couldn't believe that it was 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:42.440 a true story. He really did that. That's crazy. 0:43:42.760 --> 0:43:43.560 It's pretty wild. 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:46.400 And you said twenty eleven that time period, shit, all 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:47.759 the cars had passed it and then he got in 0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:48.960 that car and didn't know what. 0:43:49.120 --> 0:43:49.759 Well, that's the thing. 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:50.239 Yeah, it was. 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:52.600 It was a It was a very funny story. Poor 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:56.080 kid was definitely a fish out of water for sure, 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:56.959 but it. 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:59.680 Was wildly imagine. Absolutely, we love city. 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:02.000 We appreciate you having us in your wonderful place, man, 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:02.759 inviting us out here. 0:44:02.800 --> 0:44:05.680 We appreciate you man. Best of love coming soon. Man. 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:06.160 You know what I'm saying. 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:06.880 We taken overroll. 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:07.319 You know what I'm saying. 0:44:07.320 --> 0:44:08.520 You ain't got nothing to do with that, but we're 0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:10.680 gonna hold you down anything you want to tell people, 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:12.440 telling people about their podcast too, what you got going 0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:12.919 on as well. 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:15.840 Really appreciate you guys being here. Honestly, this is super 0:44:15.880 --> 0:44:19.239 cool for me, especially like Jeff. Obviously I watched you 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:21.360 play for years. This is like a very cool moment 0:44:21.400 --> 0:44:24.640 for me to not go crazy fanboy. But I respect 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.239 what you've done in your career. What you guys are 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:29.480 doing now with this podcast is really cool because I've 0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:32.400 started a podcast too, and like it is, it's fun, 0:44:32.440 --> 0:44:34.080 but it is a lot of work too. But it's 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:36.879 amazing that you can create a great product for people 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:38.960 to consume and like people love to hear it. So 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:42.040 for sire, that's that's awesome. I appreciate you guys. But yeah, 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:45.520 I have a podcast called speed Street. It's on basically 0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:48.879 any podcast platform YouTube as well my YouTube channels Connor 0:44:48.880 --> 0:44:50.840 Really twenty two. I'm Connor really twenty two on basically 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:54.680 all the social platforms. So if you want to follow along, please. 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:57.480 Do tap being with my guy exactly. So I this 0:44:57.560 --> 0:44:58.000 is awesome. 0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:00.560 I appreciate you guys coming and I and wait to 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:04.400 see you guys get in the race car too. 0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:06.239 Coming before before we get up out of here, I'll 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:07.960 take a ship, like do I got to put on 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:09.600 some equipment because yeah. 0:45:09.680 --> 0:45:11.520 You get a full race, full fire shit. 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:14.240 Okay, because I don't wear clothes on the my office. 0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:17.080 Well man, some I don't have to write with him 0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:19.520 on that to get out of here. 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:21.680 Like share, subscribe, get you some march withs you get 0:45:21.719 --> 0:45:23.720 to that be here shop club. 0:45:24.400 --> 0:45:25.600 You don't even know what to tell you because you 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:26.440 don't want to wear the clothes. 0:45:26.520 --> 0:45:32.320 So up great in that race card for sure, shop 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:34.959 club five twenty dot com for sure. Man the show, 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:41.000 Like share, subscribe one of the hats. Yeah yeah on brother, 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:42.439 perfect show. 0:45:42.560 --> 0:45:44.040 We out all right, thank you,