1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: Looking forward to catching up with Keller Hedge. When he 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: was last year, he was coming off the back of 3 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: winning the Porsche Career A Cup and being the Formula 4 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: Regional Americas champion, so he headed off to Indy Next 5 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: the developmental series of course for Indy Car. Halfway through 6 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: the season. He's currently fourth and he's back for a 7 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: mid season break, so he is with us. Very good 8 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: morning and. 9 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: Good to see you, money make thanks for having me on. 10 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: Are you loving it? 11 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: Absolutely as a dream come true to the racing there 12 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: a part of the big IndyCar circus and going around 13 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: to all these races and having a blast. 14 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: Did you know what you were getting into versus what 15 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: you're experiencing now or not? 16 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: No. I was very very underprepared, coming from obviously the 17 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: Porsche background, not being able to do the preseason testing 18 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: at the start of the year, so I went into 19 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 2: the first weekend just kind of like, Okay, I don't 20 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: really know what's to expect here, so you go out 21 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: learn been learning consistently over the course of the year, 22 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: and the results have been getting better and better and 23 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: better as the year's gone on. 24 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: Fantastic. So the difference between for people who don't necessarily 25 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: follow motor racing, and a description from yourself the difference 26 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: between a production car, even though it's a race car 27 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: as a Porsche, versus this which is custom built. What 28 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: is it? How big? Is how big a leap? 29 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: Well, it's actually surprisingly of like a very very fast 30 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: car if you put into perspective, there's only four race 31 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 2: cars on the Earth which are actually faster than an 32 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: Indie lights car, which would be probably a Daytona prototype, 33 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 2: a Formula one car, an Indy car, and a super 34 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: Formula car. Other than that, we're right there. So to 35 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 2: get acclimated with a car like that, especially coming from 36 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 2: a background with not a lot of single seater experience, 37 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: has been quite a challenge. And then we go and 38 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: race on ovals as well. So I've been learning that 39 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: new game as well. 40 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: I was going to ask. We had Scottie Mack on 41 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: the program a couple of weeks ago ahead of Indy, 42 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: and I watched a lot of I haven't watched a 43 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: lot of Indie racing, but on that oval, the speed 44 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: that you do and the line between that and disaster 45 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: must be so fine. 46 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, at that speed, I haven't had any moments 47 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: or anything really on the overlope, been taking it quite cautious, 48 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 2: quite steady, just trying to learn and grow my experience 49 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 2: before I really start to push the limits of the 50 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: car and start to get it a bit loose and 51 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 2: really free. But I do feel that as soon as 52 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: it gets away from me slightly and that speed, there 53 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: is no coming back from her. You just go in 54 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 2: the wall. You don't really have any other option. 55 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: Exactly what are the expectations of you? Do they say? Look, 56 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: you know, we know you'll hit the speed, or you'll 57 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: do this, or we think you'll come fifth, or you're 58 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: still do What do they tell you for the oval? 59 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,839 Speaker 2: I don't really think there was any expectation or any 60 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: pressure on me to perform. I think at the start 61 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: of the year for the road courses was very similar. 62 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 2: Just trying to go out learn and do all my 63 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 2: learning on a race weekend was really really challenging. So 64 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: to get the good results we had and then go 65 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 2: into an oval. I actually found it easier than I 66 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 2: did learning the road course because I didn't have any 67 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 2: bad habits from driving other cars that I had before. 68 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 2: So I went out. I did my first test day, 69 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: which I kind of sucked but I needed this. I 70 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 2: needed this piece of trim on my helmet to stop 71 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: my head from lifting up, so I was actually looking 72 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 2: at the sky before I was turning in. So I 73 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: went to the next one with this, with this piece 74 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: of trim on my helmet, and I watched the guy 75 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,399 Speaker 2: from last year, and I said, Okay, if this guy 76 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: can do it, I'll just go and do exactly that. 77 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: And that's how it was. 78 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: And there it was. What I like about is you 79 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: do you do track oval and of course road? Do 80 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: you favor one over the other? Does it matter or not? 81 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 2: No? I didn't think so. I actually probably had some 82 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: of the most fun I've ever had in a race car. 83 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 2: Doing the Iowa race about three weeks ago was really 84 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: really awesome. 85 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: How sophisticated are the cars themselves in terms of tech 86 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: and speed and all that. 87 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: Quite quite sophisticated in some ways, but also in other 88 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 2: ways odd as much like the aerodynamics package is there's 89 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: really really big wings, lots of power. The floor isn't 90 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: very powerful, but there's a lot of power. That's probably 91 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: the biggest thing to get used to. It's got five 92 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 2: hundred horsepower and weighs about six hundred kilos. It's a 93 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: really really grunty car and you've got big tires. There's 94 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 2: a lot to learn with it. 95 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: How limited by budget are you in terms of tie 96 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: usage and spear parts and new engines and all that. 97 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, budget's been tight for us all year. We've been 98 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: really scraping the barrel trying to make our way through 99 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: the season. But we've been going really well. I've been 100 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 2: really fortunate to have the support of Honda, the Tony 101 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 2: Quinn Foundation, Giltrap Group, and a whole bunch of other 102 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 2: people that have come on board to help me out, 103 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 2: especially Steve Horn as well. I know he's listening right now, 104 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: So thank you to everyone that's got me here. Yeah, 105 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 2: it's been an absolute. 106 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: Blast, fantastic. So the team itself explain who they are, 107 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: how good they are, and where they project themselves to be. 108 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 2: So HMD Motorsports is the team I'm driving for. They're 109 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: relatively new and into the whole motor racing scene that 110 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: come on come about about five or six years ago 111 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 2: with their with their now IndyCar driver David Malucas so 112 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: his father Henry owns it owns the team gave them 113 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: a little bit of money to start up and ever 114 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: since then, the guys at the top, Mike Marini, Henry 115 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: aj and Luke Valley, they've all put together a really 116 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 2: good package, got a big new shop and ended up 117 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 2: with ten cars in Indie next. 118 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: Wow, So where do you are you with the team? 119 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: Do you stay with the team or you don't know? 120 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: Where do they go next year? They don't know? Is 121 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: there a plan? 122 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 2: Yeah? So I guess their their goal is to get 123 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 2: an IndyCar team. For me, like they they really want 124 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: an IndyCar team. They've got the people to do it. 125 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 2: They've got the expertise, they've got the brains to do it, 126 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: and they've got the facility to do it as well. 127 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 2: And I do think that should they get an opportunity 128 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 2: to go IndyCar racing, they'd be able to do really 129 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: great things. 130 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: You've got four races to go, You've done a bunch 131 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: of races. You've done. I don't want to dwell on this, 132 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: but you've come fourth a lot. Yeah, I know, tell 133 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: me about it is I mean, obviously fourth is better 134 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: than fifth, but it's not as good as third, is it? 135 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: Like the podium? 136 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: No, I had a little taste of the podium at 137 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 2: Detroit and it wasn't enough. I want more than that. 138 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 2: I'm really not content with coming third and fourth. For me, 139 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 2: the goal is to go out there and be fighting 140 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: for wins. 141 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: How much of it is on the day luck. So 142 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: I look at some of your results, So you're fourth overall, 143 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: I mean you've got to be pleased with that for 144 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: a start. 145 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that it's kind of exactly where I 146 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 2: expected myself to be. I didn't expect to be fighting 147 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 2: for the championship. I was in experience commared to the 148 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 2: guys ahead of me, had a lot to learn and 149 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: had a lot to develop both on and off the track. 150 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 2: But fourth, I'm relatively pleased with. 151 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: How many people that you race have raced there before. 152 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: Therefore are veterans, if you like, business, guys like you 153 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: were in their first season. 154 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: So there's there's quite a lot of rookies in the 155 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: in the championship this year, but a lot of them 156 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 2: have a lot more experience than a single seater, so 157 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 2: they have the full what was called the Road to 158 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: Indie program which is now USF Pro Championships, which young 159 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: Liam Skeets and a couple other KIPI guys have come 160 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 2: through so that program can last four or five or 161 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: six years. Even so, some of the guys might be 162 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,119 Speaker 2: coming into their first Indie next season, but have raced 163 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 2: in this paddock and on these tracks four or five 164 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: years already. So to come in and try and catch 165 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 2: up my learning has been really difficult. 166 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: Okay, four races remain in the season for you. Can 167 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: you do much with your fourth place with good results 168 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: in those four races? 169 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 2: I think so, I think with if the overs continue 170 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: to go the way they do, I'd really like to 171 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 2: put some pressure on Collette and third he's he's quite 172 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 2: a few points ahead of me. But if I can 173 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: put some pressure on him towards the end of the year, 174 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: maybe I'll be able to close that gap down and 175 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 2: get the Rookie of the Year. But the gap to 176 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: the other cars behind me is fairly comfortable. So the 177 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 2: goal is to definitely consolidate fourth and try and put 178 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: some pressure on those guys in front. 179 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: What about the other guys Scotty Mack and Dixon and 180 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: Armstrong and I mean it's the paddock is festooned with 181 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: kiwis these days, isn't it. Do you run into them 182 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: a lot or not? 183 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: You see Keyi's everywhere in this paddock, so it's quite 184 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: cool to go around and rub shoulders with guys that 185 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 2: are from where I'm from and have been there for 186 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 2: ten twenty years. 187 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: Something I saw on a documentary not so long ago. 188 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: I can't remember where, but it was on Indy and 189 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: the number of New Zealanders behind the scenes that we 190 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't realize our news is extraordinary. How many news. 191 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: At not just drivers, pitt crew, engineers, people that are 192 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 2: living in Indy who did some indie car stuff and 193 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 2: started up a life there and never came back in 194 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 2: the end. 195 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: Fantastic. So do you write they? Are they helpful as 196 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: what I'm asking you know, Dixon, Scottie, Mac and stuff. 197 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 2: I haven't really asked too much advice from any of them. 198 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 2: I tell a funny story like I was telling you 199 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: just before I met my racing one of my racing 200 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 2: heroes Scott Dixon and ma Andi's while I was in 201 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 2: the ice bath at Pittford Training, which is where a 202 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 2: lot of the Indy cars and Indie next guys train. 203 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 2: So it's cool to be in there doing similar all 204 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: the same workouts as they are and been able to 205 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,559 Speaker 2: benchmark myself against. 206 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: That fantastic that you never get used to an ice bath, 207 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: do you? 208 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 2: No, never gets better, That's so true. 209 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: So you're not sure you finish off the season, you're 210 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: not sure what next season holds for you yet or 211 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: you do. 212 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 2: Well. For me, the goal is to try and come 213 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 2: back to Indy next and race with HMD Motorsports again. 214 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 2: For me, that that's a big thing is to be 215 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 2: able to come back in year two. Not a lot 216 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: of guys have managed to come through in year one 217 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 2: and actually put together a championship run. And for me 218 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:07,319 Speaker 2: it was it was no different. I had a lot 219 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 2: to learn, a lot to develop or the testing that 220 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 2: I missed at the start of the year. I'll be 221 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 2: able to build on my season, hopefully get a slightly 222 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 2: better preseason and come out swinging next year. 223 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: Because that was it was append of scientist. Was it 224 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: was appendix Was it? 225 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? 226 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's appendix y and that that caused your problems. 227 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: Did you see the F one yesterday? George Russell tell 228 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: me he got he got the position taken away. He 229 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: won the race, right, Yeah, he got the position taken 230 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: away because the car came in underweight. Put yourself in 231 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: that position for a moment. You've just won the race. 232 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: It's the greatest race of your life. You've just won it. 233 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: They weighed the car and it's underweight. What do you do? 234 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 2: Not a lot you can do. I'd pack a sad 235 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: I would I would be pretty pretty grumpy. But there's 236 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 2: nothing really you can do. 237 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: It is what it is, and that's just how it is. 238 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: Good luck with the final four races. You love America, 239 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: by the way you and doing America. 240 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: America has been a blast. You get to see so 241 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 2: much stuff that you wouldn't be able to see back 242 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: home in New Zealand. It's so different. I don't I 243 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 2: think the first time I saw a beach in the 244 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 2: last three months was in New Zealand here, so it's 245 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: been it's been a quite an adjustment. But loving it 246 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 2: over there, Love in the place, love in the racing. 247 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: Good well, lovely to catch up with you. Good luck 248 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. We'll get you in 249 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: again soon. 250 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 2: Just make good to see you kill them. Here. 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