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Speaker 1: But Kirkwood was.

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Speaker 2: So strong on the breaks coming into fourteen on the

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Speaker 4: That is the lead, unbelievable one the little contacts as

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Speaker 2: Kyle Kirkwood's will win on the streets of Arlington, perhaps

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Speaker 1: Lee, What a day, what a weekend, What a drive from.

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Speaker 1: points leader. You heard Kyle Kirkwood's pass in our open.

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Speaker 1: And you heard from Kyle Kirkwood winning the Grand Prix

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Speaker 1: of Arlington, the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is track side Kirk Cavin along with Kevin Lee

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Speaker 1: and it's a monday of travel, travel hell for Kevin.

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Speaker 1: He is I don't know in parts still unknown as

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Speaker 1: You would think that'd be a direct flight, Kevin, but

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Speaker 5: to say about Kirkwood. He said, no, I trust him.

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Speaker 5: That was that past was all good. Great job by

442
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 5: him and we got what we had. He was just

443
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 5: simply faster than us today. But excuse me, Alex Below

444
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 5: is still the favorite. He's still the favorite, but that

445
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 5: doesn't mean that he's going to win.

446
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: So the other driver, Kyle Kirkwood, being one that has

447
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 1: finished in the top five in the first three races.

448
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: It's a little trivia question, but I'm sure you know

449
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: the answer, Otto Pato. That's right. Ottoto's got to have

450
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 1: He's got to have some good vibes as we head

451
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Speaker 1: into the next part of the schedule. He has, you know,

452
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: he's as we were talking about in the office today,

453
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: just you know, he's he's kind of feast or famine,

454
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Speaker 1: you know, or he has been and to start the

455
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: season with some consistency. This is how you hang in

456
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Speaker 1: there and contend for a championship.

457
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Speaker 5: I don't feel like they have been awesome in any

458
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 5: of the three events, and he's top five in each event.

459
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Speaker 1: So that's what you have to do, because there are going.

460
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Speaker 5: To be weekends where we're going to say, yeah, there

461
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 5: McClaren cars are the best, and a lot of them

462
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 5: are going to be on OVAL's coming up, but they'll

463
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 5: have that package on road courses as well. So No,

464
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,679
Speaker 5: Poddle's very much still in the game. I think he

465
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,959
Speaker 5: should be pretty happy with the way this season has started.

466
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Speaker 1: So we heard in the open that incident involving well

467
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: it involved Nolan Siegel and Rabant Grojean with some help,

468
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Speaker 1: a lot of help perhaps from Kevin Simpson, impacting the

469
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Speaker 1: rear of Nolan Siegel's car, and I felt bad for

470
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: Siegel because, yeah, I mean obviously being collected, but it

471
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: looked like, you know, at first blush, you know that

472
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: was his his crash, and it wasn't. He took the contact.

473
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Speaker 1: But more importantly, that ended the race essentially under caution.

474
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Speaker 1: And the one driver that kind of bore the brunt

475
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: of that was Felix Rosenquiz too. Because of the way

476
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: the track layout was and when the restart rules were

477
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: in place, he actually passed just ahead of the proper zone,

478
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Speaker 1: and though he finished sixth on the racetrack, I think

479
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Speaker 1: he is credited with twentieth, A big blow for Felix.

480
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Speaker 5: That's tough and that's the way the rules ridden and

481
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 5: everyone needs to know that. But it's one of those

482
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 5: you just wonder, well, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

483
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: Why are we going?

484
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Speaker 5: You know, the leaders are going green there, but if

485
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Speaker 5: you're further back, what do you do if the guy

486
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Speaker 5: in front of you doesn't go? So that's unfortunate. I

487
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 5: guess that's the way it needs to be ruled. It

488
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 5: just seems awfully harsh to lose fourteen spots if indeed

489
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 5: somebody in front of them didn't go, but I guess

490
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 5: you have to know it. That is just hard. That's

491
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 5: why I kind of wish you just free started at

492
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Speaker 5: the line. Let's don't start before turned fourteen. Let's start

493
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 5: at the start line and make things really simple. But

494
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 5: that's the way it's been done in most motorsports. Yeah,

495
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 5: Nascardo starts at the line, makes it pretty simple. But

496
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 5: they're also going really really slow.

497
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I did speaking of just speed and how it felt.

498
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: You know, there is that sense when you're you know,

499
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Speaker 1: going around buildings and the track as close to you

500
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Speaker 1: as it was just outside your broadcast booth. While that

501
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 1: was a slow part of the racetrack, street racing feels fast,

502
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: and this one some of the camera shots really emphasized

503
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: how fast this racetrack was.

504
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 5: It looks fast and it's not just us glowing over

505
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 5: a new event. But when we talk to drivers off

506
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 5: air on air, they were, yeah, this is cool. It's

507
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 5: hard to make a street race really entertaining and fun

508
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 5: for drivers, but I think they thought like they did

509
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 5: this well. I'm sure there'll be suggestions there are things

510
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 5: that we could do even a little bit better. But

511
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 5: when you have something that's a little bit racy, and

512
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 5: you have the ability to make it the commercial success

513
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 5: that what it was makes you wonder what else was possible.

514
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 5: I keep hearing these rumors about Denver, same kind of template,

515
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 5: most likely around a football stadium in the future.

516
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Speaker 1: I think I think it was a.

517
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Speaker 5: Local television outlet in Denver that said that there's been

518
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Speaker 5: some discussions about that. We've been hearing that for a

519
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 5: year and a half or so, and I would think

520
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 5: that's kind of the same kind of template, and you

521
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 5: try to get the Broncos involved in that and use

522
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 5: the power and strength of the NFL.

523
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Speaker 1: You mentioned you, Joe. You've talked a lot and we

524
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Speaker 1: have over the last few weeks about the Dallas Cowboys

525
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: and how impactful you know, their presence in this event

526
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: was having Jerry Jones on the pre race show, his enthusiasm,

527
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: his knowledge. I mean, sometimes we get people who are

528
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: partners of the event don't really know much about the event.

529
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: He's dialed in sounds like it. Yeah, I mean, I'm

530
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: not saying it's surprising, because that's not I don't know

531
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and maybe you know everything he does from

532
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: a business standpoint is all in and we see that

533
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: with his football team, But that guy's in on this one.

534
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a close relationship with Roger Pinske

535
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: and he's probably the single biggest influencer in making this go.

536
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: And I would.

537
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 5: Imagine he has a relatively close relationship with Eric Shanks

538
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 5: as well. You know, their partners in the NFL, and

539
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 5: Eric is very involved in this, along with Jacob Bowman

540
00:27:58,480 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 5: and the other executives at.

541
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: So that's part of it. And they've decided.

542
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 5: That this is there's possibility here, and Jerry likes to

543
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 5: do things big and he likes publicity, and you know

544
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 5: this was honestly.

545
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: We're promoting Jerry throughout the weekend. So that's all good. Yeah,

546
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: everything's bigger in Texas, including Jerry Jones and the Java House,

547
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: Grand Prix of Arlington and Kevin Lee's travel schedule home

548
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: from running on the plane. I'm not going to miss

549
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: another one, all right, So you do that. We will

550
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: take a break and come back and see what else

551
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: we need to talk about. Cover a couple of weeks

552
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: still till we go to Barbara Motorsports Park, but there's

553
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: time to get into that and we'll do so and

554
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: many other things here. Just a minute on track Side. Hi,

555
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: this is Kyle Kirkwood and you're listening to track Side.

556
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Trackside on a special Monday night edition.

557
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, must be a pacer game tomorrow night. I

558
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: didn't look obviously, no Butler, So it must be a

559
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 1: pacer game tomorrow night. Here on three five and one

560
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: of seven to five to fans. So Eric Smith joins us,

561
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: filling in as a relief pitcher for Kevin Lee, who's

562
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: now on a flight. Eric, it's you know, Kevin and

563
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: I talked a lot about, you know, just kind of

564
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: the the interesting aspects of a first time event and

565
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: how well it seemed to go and how well it

566
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: was promoted. One thing Kevin couldn't speak to was just

567
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: the access to get around. How easy was it. This

568
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: is a very long racetrack covered I don't know, more

569
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: than a mile because that's how long that straightaway was.

570
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: Was it easy to get around in enough hotel space

571
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: for people to walk to the racetrack?

572
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was, there was, But it kind of reminded

573
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 6: me a little bit of Nashville when we race on

574
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 6: the streets there.

575
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 7: Everything was kind of spread out a little bit.

576
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 6: So if you're going to walk, There's there's a distance

577
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 6: to walk to get from one end to the other

578
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 6: from where our hotel was was bought between the old

579
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 6: Arlington Ballpark for the Rangers and a new one, and

580
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 6: as you said, I shared, it was point nine miles.

581
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 6: The LA Media Center was sitting at and T Stadium

582
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Speaker 6: on the other end, so it was a healthy walk,

583
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 6: but you could do it. It was accessible, there were bridges,

584
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 6: There was never any issues getting anywhere, I should say,

585
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 6: so it was really well, there's plenty of signage to

586
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 6: guide you in the right direction. There was a lot

587
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 6: of people there, but it didn't feel like it was

588
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 6: like overly crowded to get to where you wanted to go,

589
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 6: because it.

590
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 7: Was just why, there's just plenty of space.

591
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 6: But that's obviously probably by design to host thousands of

592
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 6: people going to Cowboys games.

593
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 7: So yes, it did.

594
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 6: Take a while to get where you needed to go,

595
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 6: just because the distance, but it was accessible.

596
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: Let's talk about maybe who should be most excited after

597
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: this three week break. Obviously Kyle Kirkqui's got to win,

598
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: Alex Poalow's got to win, and who we miss and

599
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: started to say rast but he didn't get that one.

600
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Rossie, I would say his teammate Rossie should

601
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 6: be feeling pretty good. He was on the media call

602
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 6: last week kind of setting up the Arlington weekend, and

603
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 6: he talked about like, well, the oval, we knew they

604
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 6: would be probably good in Phoenix, but they also he

605
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 6: qualified last in Saint Pete and climbed to sixteen, seventeen

606
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 6: somewhere around there. But he said they they they worked

607
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 6: and figured out what they were missing in Saint Pete

608
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 6: and expected a better Arlington weekend and he was right

609
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 6: there top ten and qualifying top ten in the race,

610
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 6: which I think he's got to be feeling pretty good

611
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 6: after three races to be sitting tenth in points right now.

612
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 6: I'd say Marcus Armstrong, he had a flat tire early,

613
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 6: I think he ran over something went off strategy, still

614
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 6: gets another top ten. He's sitting their top ten in points.

615
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 6: And one guy I know, we were kind of our

616
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 6: guy team. We were kind of talking around the office

617
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 6: here that team Penske. That was one of the bigger

618
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 6: question marks coming in the season, as could they rebound

619
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 6: from that season they had last year, And I think

620
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 6: they got to be feeling pretty good to have what

621
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 6: four or five, six and points right now or three.

622
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 6: I guess Joseph's fight for third with Potto, but they're

623
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 6: kind of hanging around. I know Arlington didn't go great

624
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 6: for him, but they're kind of entering this off week

625
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 6: and getting get the Barber and then Long Beach in

626
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 6: the month of May, and they're in the hunt.

627
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 7: So I'd say that those are kind of.

628
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 6: Some teams or drivers that are in the mix that

629
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 6: should be feeling pretty good after three races.

630
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: Potto as well. Potto, Yeah, he hasn't had one of

631
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: those weekends where he stands up and commands attention, but

632
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: he you know, he's he's within striking distance and I

633
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: would think he has to feel good. Obviously, Joseph Newgarden

634
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: was the Phoenix winner. That's the one that I didn't mention,

635
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: but yeah, you had a stat this morning and we

636
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: kind of talked about it and maybe doesn't have a

637
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: lot of relevance, but it does seem noteworthy that the

638
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: rail team had had some good pit stops over the weekend.

639
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: In particular, I thought that was a good that that

640
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: maybe will get overlooked a little bit in the fact

641
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: that they weren't maybe in the hunt for a win

642
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: or a podium finish kind of relay that status to h.

643
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I was talking I noticed in our Firestone

644
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 6: pit performance the chart that Graham ray Hall was he

645
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 6: entered the week and fourth, so he was in the

646
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 6: bullpen Friday, and it's kind of talking about that because

647
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 6: they were ninth last year and then historically the ray

648
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 6: Hall teams and Graham's always pretty open about, yeah, they

649
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 6: could do better on pit stops and pitch strategy, and

650
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 6: they've had an overhaul kind of in that department in

651
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 6: the off season, and they brought in Kyle Sagan who

652
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 6: was previously with Chip Ganassi Racing and Alex Plow and

653
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 6: his early championships and then the last couple of seasons

654
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 6: with Aaron McLaren, and they kept Echem closer to the

655
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 6: top of that performance pit stop performance. And Graham was

656
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 6: talking about how basically how speaking very highly of Kyle

657
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 6: of how much he's improved that program. And Graham told

658
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 6: me I looked it up and he's right that in

659
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 6: the first race of the season and then he had

660
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 6: the second quickest I guess pit stop performance, and then

661
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 6: Louis was there and then Graham is now first or

662
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 6: Loui was there in Phoenix and the Graham's first and

663
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 6: out of everybody in Arlington. So that's three straight races

664
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 6: that a ray Hall car was either first or second.

665
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 6: As far as pit performance, which in this series, when

666
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 6: everything's dictated by basically milliseconds, that makes everything granted, you

667
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 6: have to have speed in your cars. And Andretti Globals

668
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 6: a prime example. They had issues in the all three

669
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 6: cars on Sunday and they all three and up in

670
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 6: the top four. But that's something that you need to

671
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 6: have cleaned up for a whole season's worth. And at

672
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 6: least ray Hal's in the right trajectory as far as

673
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 6: their pitstop performance. And I asked him what the difference was, like,

674
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 6: what's Kyle do differently and he said, it's just more

675
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 6: of a focus of he sends.

676
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 7: Videos and hit your.

677
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 6: Marks right and this is where you need to be

678
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 6: entering your pit box, and this is where you need

679
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 6: to stop in your pit box, and this is how

680
00:34:59,440 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 6: the crew.

681
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 7: Needs to be.

682
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 6: And he said that's just the focus. It's something that

683
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 6: they talked about in the past, but he goes this

684
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 6: is his full focus and this is making us across

685
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 6: the board better and it's clearly showing.

686
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: Eric Smith joins us. So how do we explain or

687
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: how does Andretty Global speak to the pit stop problems

688
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: that they continue to have.

689
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's something that you just you know, Jay Query,

690
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 6: no friend of ours always said a team and sticking

691
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 6: ball sports when they don't win a championship, So they

692
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 6: got to lose the last game of their season, usually

693
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 6: the Achilles heel kind of steps up in that seat.

694
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 7: That's what keeps you from winning it.

695
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 6: And that's the thing right now, if I'm Kyle Kirkwood,

696
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,959
Speaker 6: I know he's leading the points, it's across the board

697
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 6: all three of those cars, But is that going to

698
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 6: be an issue that's going to keep him out of

699
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 6: a championship later in the season? Can Andretti get their

700
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 6: pit stop performance? U? Because it feels like we talk

701
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 6: about this almost every season. Something happens on Pitt Road

702
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 6: with that team could be byproduct of bad lucks times,

703
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 6: but like and even we'll we'll I talk to him

704
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 6: after the race and and he mentioned that when like, well,

705
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 6: how much of that cost you? When Louie was pulling

706
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 6: in and you had to stop? And I know Hinch

707
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 6: was pretty book on the broadcast, So that's not bad

708
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,479
Speaker 6: luck that's on the team and will say it didn't matter.

709
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 6: He wasn't gonna there's no way he was going to

710
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 6: stop Kirkwood or Below. But but that could affect future races.

711
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 6: So that's something that team, the organization as a whole,

712
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 6: they're gonna have to figure out because you can't just

713
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 6: keep giving away time on track because again that that

714
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 6: could be the difference of Road America down the road

715
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 6: or something where Kirkwood enters second, comes out seventh and

716
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 6: he doesn't make it back up and that point stuff

717
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 6: is it. You just don't want to keep giving something

718
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 6: to Alex Below, right, I mean, we just got to

719
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 6: figure that he's in he's in it for the long haul.

720
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 6: Again this season, he's got two top two finishes in

721
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 6: three races, and you just don't want to give that

722
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 6: guy anything. And if and that's Pitt Road included, I'm

723
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 6: on Pitt Road time coming off Pit Road. So yeah,

724
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 6: that's something they're going to have to get really address

725
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 6: coming in the rest of the season.

726
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: Well, that's the experience part of the lineup. Let's talk

727
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: about the inexperienced group, and that's the rookie class. And

728
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: we had talked to last particularly a couple of races,

729
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: first two races of the season about Dennis Hauger. I

730
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: thought Kyle Kollett looked like look like a look like

731
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: he belonged. Yep, all weekend. Did you get that sense?

732
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: Did you have a chance to speak to him? I did, YEP.

733
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 7: I talked to him Saturday and Sunday.

734
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 6: I went found him after the race and he just

735
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 6: seemed like he just has his cool, calm, veteran presence.

736
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 6: He just I was talking to him Saturday and he's like, yeah,

737
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 6: we just missed it a little bit, but I'm confident.

738
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 6: I feel like we can we get close to a

739
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 6: top ten tomorrow. And then then talked to him Sunday.

740
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 6: He was he was right there, and he said a

741
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 6: couple more laps, he had the speed that he felt

742
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 6: would have got there.

743
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 7: Granted that's all the gips and butts.

744
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 6: I'm sure every race car driver will say that same

745
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 6: thing after race if I could have had a few.

746
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 7: More laps, but he was there, he had a chance.

747
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 6: And he notices what the car feels like on the

748
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 6: different compounds and what they need to fix and where

749
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 6: there is and that's just a pretty impressive three races

750
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 6: in that he didn't have that in another racing series.

751
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 6: Coming through with the alternate tire or what is Carnings

752
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 6: to handle on a primary tire. He's already speaking that lingo.

753
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 6: He just felt like he belonged. He felt like the

754
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 6: best rookie last weekend. And it's I think that bodes

755
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 6: well moving forward, because like I told him yesterday or

756
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 6: Sunday and evening, I talked to him after the I

757
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 6: guess afternoon after the race, I was like, well, you know,

758
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 6: other than Long Beach coming up in the Indy five hundred,

759
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 6: you've seen most of these tracks now this early started.

760
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 6: You you've been to Saint people, but you've never been

761
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 6: to Phoenix before, and Arlington's new for everybody. And if

762
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 6: you're already figuring this out now, does that bode well

763
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 6: for later? And he felt so He's like, yeah, I

764
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 6: at least know what those tracks and how to attack

765
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 6: those corners. Granted, then Indy carn Indian next machinery is

766
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 6: a little bit different from each other, but he at

767
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 6: least has seen the breaking zones or the apexes, and

768
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 6: he has some confidence and I expect some more results

769
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 6: like he had an Arrolanson moving forward.

770
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: The driver that probably welcomes the break, the one week

771
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: break here more than anybody's. Mick Schumacher didn't get to

772
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: race at at Saint Pete do to that first lap

773
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: incident in front of him that collected him. You know,

774
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: Phoenix goes reasonably well. I think he had to be

775
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: happy with with Phoenix qualifies fourth. It just didn't seem

776
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: like Arlington suited him. Did you get that, sat Us?

777
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: I assume you have that sense as well, same sense.

778
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 6: And I even asked him that he was also in

779
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 6: the bullpen Friday, and I was like, this was curious

780
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 6: of He's obviously never been to the first two races,

781
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 6: and I asked him, nobody's been to this one. Does

782
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 6: does that kind of close the gap for you? Is

783
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 6: it kind of level the playing field? And he's like, no,

784
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 6: the guys that are usually good on street that you

785
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 6: give him enough laps, they're going to figure it out.

786
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 6: And this, I think what he's struggling with kind of

787
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 6: mentioned as the evolution of the weekend went on, is

788
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 6: the bumpiness of the street circuit. And he said, even

789
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 6: like overseas when they raced in streets that they're usually.

790
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 7: A little more smoother, but he likes smooth.

791
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: Yeah.

792
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, he liked the character.

793
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 6: He liked the style that he's like, it's fun because

794
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 6: it's it does put it in the driver's hands. It's

795
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 6: not just a smooth street circuit. It's it's bumping. You've

796
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 6: got to maybe adjust the line. It's not just straightforward

797
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 6: down the street. So he liked it. He was intrigued

798
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 6: by it. But I yeah, he just you just got

799
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 6: the sense he was just never comfortable and practice qualifying

800
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 6: or even yesterday's race.

801
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: You think he feels like a duck out of water

802
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 1: at this point.

803
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 6: I do you get that sense he's he just doesn't

804
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 6: know what he doesn't know. He just needs time as

805
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 6: all as you just need time.

806
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 7: In this car.

807
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 6: And I know he's looking forward to the next month

808
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 6: when we're on the Oval for the five hundred Open Test.

809
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 6: He's really said it's it's as all the drivers have

810
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 6: told us over the years of the Open Test. Doesn't

811
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 6: just laughs at the Indianapolis Motor speedle it's multi day

812
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 6: tests of learning the team, just sitting.

813
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 7: And just learning each other what you need from each other.

814
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 7: They need that. I think just three straight weeks for them.

815
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 6: As you said, I think they need this break to

816
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 6: just kind of talk to each other, what do you need,

817
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 6: what can we help you with, and just let them

818
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 6: absorb it for a little bit.

819
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: Eric Smith joined us, and we'll spend this week kind

820
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: of taking a refresher and getting our sea legs a

821
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 1: little bit. From the first three races in three weeks

822
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: are what are maybe give me two, what are your

823
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: two biggest takeaways from from the season to date.

824
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 6: Well, I would say I'm kind of burying my inside line,

825
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 6: but McLaren.

826
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: That's all right. I mean it happens, people will really it.

827
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 6: We talked about this this morning and they've been really

828
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 6: quiet to start with. I mean for a team that

829
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 6: had two of the top five points finishers last year,

830
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 6: and you look up and right now Potos third and

831
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 6: ling Guard seventh, But you also look at and think, man,

832
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 6: I don't feel like I've talked a lot about Christian

833
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 6: Linguard and he's two top sevens and three races.

834
00:41:58,800 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 7: One was a podium.

835
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,959
Speaker 6: He's just kind of right there. And Potto just four

836
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 6: or three top fives. Him and Kirkwood the only two

837
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 6: with top fives every race.

838
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 7: This season.

839
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 6: These aren't strong tracks for them coming out of the gate,

840
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 6: and we've got some better tracks ahead. So I feel

841
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 6: like it's a surprise maybe we're not talking about him,

842
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 6: but it also I wouldn't be surprised if by the

843
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 6: time the end of the month of May we're really

844
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 6: talking about him again. And I'd say the other one,

845
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 6: I'm a little surprised, I guess that Kyle Kirkwoods.

846
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 7: Leading the points. It's I think I'm surprised it's not.

847
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 6: Alex Flow just because we're about use hoals, yep, it's

848
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 6: just it's just weird that two races in a row

849
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 6: that Alex Plow is not leading the points. So I

850
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 6: think that'd be my kind of my second surprise is

851
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 6: Alex but he's still right there. I mean, who would

852
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 6: have thought that Alex Plow would have two top two

853
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 6: finishes and three races and he's not leading the points.

854
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 6: So that's and Kirkwood's never led the points before until

855
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 6: this weekend, this past weekend, so I think that's kind

856
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 6: of a surprise, and it'd be and I guess more

857
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 6: intrigued is.

858
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 7: How long does that continue? How long can we keep

859
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 7: this guy down?

860
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 6: Because we know his strengths of alex flow and he's

861
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 6: the fact that Andretti.

862
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 7: Has been kind of improved. But it's also is it

863
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 7: the street circuits.

864
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 6: Potto was telling me yesterday, just he knows those cars

865
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 6: are rocket ships on street circuits, and he's just trying

866
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 6: to manage his finishes right now, and he wanted a

867
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 6: quiet start of the season and he has. He's done

868
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 6: exactly what what he wanted to do, and it speaks

869
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 6: to what Andretti has been able to do. So it's

870
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 6: been a little bit of surprise. But I'm also curious

871
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 6: now moving forward once we get to a natural road

872
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 6: course next week and what that's going to look like.

873
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Speaker 1: Last saying, and only about a minute left here in

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Speaker 1: this segment, Team Penske's what four five six in points

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Speaker 1: I think, And you know they've each had kind of

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Speaker 1: a moment Mclock Clinton, you know, looked really good over

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Speaker 1: in Arlington, and Malucas won his poll and New Gardens

878
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Speaker 1: want to race if he if who should be happiest

879
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Speaker 1: right now after three races on that team, I'm going to.

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Speaker 6: Say David Milucas only because I think the biggest comparison

881
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Speaker 6: of the season is we're comparing him to will Power,

882
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Speaker 6: and he didn't want that, and.

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Speaker 7: He's still ahead of will Power.

884
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Speaker 6: Granted, will did finish better than him in Arlington, but

885
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Speaker 6: he's got his pole. He led the most laps in Phoenix.

886
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Speaker 6: He seems what we thought maybe he could become. I

887
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Speaker 6: still think he obviously needs to get a win this

888
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Speaker 6: season to get that monkey off his back. But I'd

889
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Speaker 6: say Malucas because he's just kind of quietly sitting there

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Speaker 6: doing what we expected and I'm curious to win him

891
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Speaker 6: in that car on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval what

892
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Speaker 6: he can do. But I'd say David Lucas just for

893
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Speaker 6: the standpoint. He's he's still kind of flying under the radar,

894
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Speaker 6: and I think that's a good thing for him. We're

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Speaker 6: not talking negatively about him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's shown well enough, and yet he's still

897
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Speaker 1: you know, I hadn't really done anything that's upset the

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Speaker 1: apple cart yet. It's just everything's gone pretty well for him,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a poll and I think a win

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Speaker 1: will come soon. Okay, Eric, I'm glad you're back. Kevin

901
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Speaker 1: is not back, but he's going to come back after

902
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Speaker 1: this segment and throw something together. Just clean up what

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Speaker 1: we missed hopefully or it might be me, So we'll

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Speaker 1: see how it goes. Eric, We'll see you soon and

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Speaker 1: enjoy a weekend off. Thank you apprecia having me track

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Speaker 1: side ninety three to five one oh seven five of

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Speaker 1: the Fan. This is Alex below and you're listening to

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Speaker 1: truck Site.

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Speaker 5: All right, final segment, breaking news. Back home again in Indiana,

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Speaker 5: and as I kind of checked the news a little

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Speaker 5: bit more, I feel pretty fortunate to only have had

912
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Speaker 5: a twenty seven hour travel day or so from yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: At love Field that's where I was at.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how, but there were fewer options that

915
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Speaker 5: kind of came by mistake. But good to be back home.

916
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Speaker 5: And apparently there was a lot of snow in Minneapolis,

917
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Speaker 5: so good to go through there and spend a little time.

918
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Speaker 5: And I think I got four cities in about twelve

919
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Speaker 5: hours and others are still working their way home. Best

920
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Speaker 5: of luck, it's laundry, pack and head to Sabring for

921
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 5: the twelve hour race coming up this weekend. Switch shirts

922
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Speaker 5: from Fox to NBC and the entire race this year

923
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 5: is on Peacock, so make note of that. Now that said,

924
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Speaker 5: if you have YouTube TV or some other outlets. A

925
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Speaker 5: lot of Peacock is now available on NBCSN. They've resurrected that,

926
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Speaker 5: so if you have YouTube TV, I think the evening

927
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Speaker 5: starting at like five or five thirty is going to

928
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Speaker 5: be there. I found that really handy. It's just on

929
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Speaker 5: my television channels. That's how I watch most of the

930
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Speaker 5: offerings that Peacock has, but all that on Peacock, including

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Speaker 5: qualifying on Friday afternoon. I'll be working the Michelin Pilot

932
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Speaker 5: Challenge race on Friday afternoon as well. Jackson Lee will

933
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Speaker 5: be racing for forty seven Motorsports in Lamborghini Supertrafeo that

934
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Speaker 5: airs on Peacock, and I think that also airs on

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Speaker 5: the Lamborghini YouTube channel as well. I believe the Thursday

936
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Speaker 5: race is at six pm and the Friday race is

937
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Speaker 5: around four point thirty or something like that. He'll be

938
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Speaker 5: in the number three California Closets and Browning Chapman Lamborghini,

939
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Speaker 5: so we will hope for good things there as well.

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Speaker 5: What else Darlington. Oh, by the way, there's a bunch

941
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Speaker 5: of IndyCar drivers that are still participating, so it's a

942
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Speaker 5: weekend off for IndyCar. But there's a lot of teams,

943
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Speaker 5: a lot of drivers that are going to be there,

944
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Speaker 5: so I hope you can join as Seabring is a

945
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Speaker 5: really really big time and cool event with a lot

946
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Speaker 5: of history and Roger Penske is the Grand Marshall Darlington

947
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Speaker 5: For the NASCAR side this weekend, the Cup Races Sunday

948
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Speaker 5: coverage starts at one thirty three o'clock on FS one.

949
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Speaker 5: Oh something else I wanted to mention. Kurt and I

950
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Speaker 5: were talking about the Rose and Quist penalty. I just

951
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 5: saw a video highlight of that and I'm reminded of

952
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 5: something so on street courses. This is something I recall

953
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Speaker 5: in our conversations with race Control that they implemented a

954
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Speaker 5: few years ago and understand and why you just have

955
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Speaker 5: to be a stickler to the rule now should you have.

956
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Speaker 1: To go all the way to the back?

957
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 5: I don't know, but the reason that they started saying

958
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Speaker 5: no passing at all until the line is because at

959
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Speaker 5: certain tracks, and it may even be more than just

960
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 5: certain street races. Laguna Seka, I think, was one of

961
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Speaker 5: them where that it's kept piling into each other into

962
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Speaker 5: the final corner. It's happened at Long Beach and other times,

963
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Speaker 5: so that's the circumstance there. It's something maybe we'll chat

964
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Speaker 5: about as we move forward. I saw a lot of

965
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Speaker 5: good Twitter questions. Will the Freedom two fifty be an

966
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Speaker 5: exhibition or points race? From Charlie mco five, No, it's

967
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 5: points race. It's definitely a championship race. John Day asked

968
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Speaker 5: if there any plans to go back to a two

969
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 5: hour format TBD not immediately, so maybe stay tuned, but

970
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Speaker 5: it's not going to happen. But we are planning daily

971
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Speaker 5: shows in the month of May once again, and I'll

972
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Speaker 5: be able to join most of them except for the

973
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Speaker 5: week of the actual practice on track. Snarky Moose says,

974
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Speaker 5: with Ganassi sell Polo to the factory Honda team.

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Speaker 1: I kind of doubt it. There's always a price, but

976
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Speaker 1: I think it'd be a really big number. So I

977
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Speaker 1: just don't think Polo is going to go anywhere. We're

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Speaker 1: out of time.

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Speaker 5: I know there are more questions. We'll try to get

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Speaker 5: to him next Tuesday night at seven o'clock. Thanks for

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Speaker 5: joining us on track side.