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Speaker 2: What we're trying to build here, Aaron McLaren, since I've

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Speaker 2: you know, winning, winning the championship, all the things that

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Speaker 3: The intention of running that car.

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Speaker 2: To me, it was like, I need a winner. I

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Speaker 2: win the five hundred, and there's not many guys that

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Speaker 2: are available right now. And I call Ryan and today,

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Speaker 2: you and I we are going to negotiate you and

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Speaker 4: That's Aaron McLaren. Team principal Tony Kannan on the confirmation

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Speaker 4: of Ryan Hunter Ray joining their lineup in a fourth

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Speaker 4: car for the Indianapolis five hundred and Ryan will be

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Speaker 4: on the show in just a few minutes, so what's

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Speaker 4: left will discuss. There's more sports car news for Indy

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Speaker 4: car drivers and teams. Ten of them we're testing at

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Speaker 4: Daytona over the weekend, and your Twitter questions from the

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Speaker 4: Xbox all coming up. Hello, Welcome, Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 4: landon Coons is in our studios downtown, Kevin Lee, Kurk

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Speaker 4: Cavin ready to chat.

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Speaker 5: For just a little bit. Let's get into it.

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Speaker 4: We've got a lot to cover in the second before

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Speaker 4: Ryan joins us. Confirmation one of those where sometimes I

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Speaker 4: common sense. I thought Aera McLaren was probably ready to

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Speaker 4: Ryan Hunter Ray.

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Speaker 1: It does help in several different forms. I do think

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Speaker 1: they probably explored some other options, but Ryan made good sense.

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Speaker 1: I think he helps most of all. He helps Poto Award.

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Speaker 1: Potter war that you know Potto didn't have last year

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Speaker 1: think we can discount this. I think Hunter Ray could

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Speaker 1: So you like your chances whether or not he holds

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Speaker 4: It just he just looked happy. I haven't talked to

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Speaker 4: I heard your predictions and I wanted to tell you.

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Speaker 4: This is kind of the selling point that is not

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Speaker 4: I think this is best for the organization. They have

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not Alexander Rossi's second cousin.

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Speaker 1: it's a great idea. I'm sure Zach Brown was approached

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Speaker 4: And I know in past years. I don't know that

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Speaker 4: Congratulations Ryan, Thanks, Kevin, appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: of the tour since it started in the middle of

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Speaker 4: last week. And I'm curious about the timeline because when

435
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 4: we've been talking and I just love to throw things

436
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 4: against the wall, and I could have just simply texted

437
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 4: you and asked you and you probably would have told me,

438
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 4: but I didn't. And I've been saying, this just makes sense.

439
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 4: They've gone with the Star route and NASCAR driver things

440
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 4: like that, but I kind of felt like they needed

441
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 4: to go find the best driver available and that was you.

442
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 4: When did this all come together.

443
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 3: In pieces kind of?

444
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 6: But then all of a sudden, a massive just just.

445
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 3: Rushed at the end.

446
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 6: I mean it came together, you know, it kind of

447
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 6: really organically started. After the race, after coming so close

448
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 6: with Ryan Rainbold to winning, I was just dejected, exhausted

449
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 6: mentally and physically. After the race, I was in the

450
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 6: parking lot of the bus lot kind of moped my

451
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,160
Speaker 6: way back to the motorhome, and.

452
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 3: TK and Dario we're out there, you know.

453
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 6: Talking, and they're, you know, just one leg up on

454
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 6: the golf car tire just one of those kind of conversations,

455
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 6: and Dario and TK were like because they you know,

456
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 6: they've both had long careers as well, Tony's career very

457
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 6: similar to mine, and he's like, ry, what do we

458
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 6: how really are like what are you going to do?

459
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 6: Like what do you really need to do?

460
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: This?

461
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 6: You know this, that and the other DA, And I'm like, man,

462
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 6: it just means the world to me, means everything to me,

463
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 6: and and and I. It was obvious to me again

464
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 6: because I know it's all I think about, but it

465
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 6: was obvious to me even after the fact how important

466
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 6: it was to me, because of how much of it

467
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 6: impacted me. You know, I didn't sleep for days afterwards,

468
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 6: very little, I should say, I haven't watched one replay

469
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 6: the race since because yeah, it's it's a it's a

470
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 6: fresh wound. But that's when it started, and just nothing

471
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 6: happened from there. We talked, I think maybe late in

472
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 6: the season, before the end of the season, before Nashville

473
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 6: kind of and said, hey, what's your deal?

474
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 3: What are you doing?

475
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 6: You know, I told him my status Da da da da,

476
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden, a few weeks later

477
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 6: or two weeks later something like that, it was just like, Hey,

478
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 6: this is happening, Let's get this done. And then Tony

479
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 6: and I just worked it out on the phone, just

480
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 6: between him and I because you know, we have a

481
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 6: massive amount of trust and we just worked we worked

482
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 6: everything out on the phone and got it done in

483
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 6: a few days. And you know, I want to express

484
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 6: my gratitude as well, you know, to Zach, Tony, Kevin,

485
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 6: everybody at the team. Everybody kind of just pushed in

486
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 6: the right direction, like full throttle, and it was it

487
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 6: was unique in the case that I don't think I've

488
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 6: ever had a deal come together that quick.

489
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 4: Ryan Hunnarray is joining us, would you have considered a

490
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 4: full time opportunity? Is that still something you would do

491
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 4: in the right circle stance? And granted those are few

492
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 4: and far between with someone that doesn't bring budget with him,

493
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 4: but is that was that even on the table at

494
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 4: any time? Or is it No, I'm going to just

495
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 4: look for the right Indy five hundred program at this point.

496
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 3: That's a good question.

497
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 6: I mean, I've just been focused on, you know, just

498
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 6: doing the Indy five hundred kind of like the model

499
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 6: I've been doing with Ryan Reinbold, right, so that that

500
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 6: could kind of fit, just fit into this fourth car.

501
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: It was never really it was relative, never.

502
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 6: Discussed as a full time deal. Never say no, it

503
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 6: would have to be you know, stars aligning everything perfect,

504
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 6: perfect for I think for me to consider the full

505
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 6: time deal on it.

506
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 3: But this just this just fits really well.

507
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,959
Speaker 6: You know, I've I've worked with Tony as well in

508
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 6: a massive and a really big organization, right and over

509
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 6: my years at Indie and work at different teams. This

510
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 6: is my tenth IndyCar team, believe it or not, that

511
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 6: I've worked with and you know, I can apply that,

512
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 6: I can apply that here and I have a lot

513
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 6: of experience with working with big groups and different personalities

514
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 6: and that's a big deal.

515
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 3: You know, an.

516
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 6: IndyCar in competition competitive sports, especially motor racing's it is

517
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 6: a team sport and it matters, right that atmosphere and

518
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 6: the chemistry that you have working within that environment, not.

519
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: Only on the car that you're on, but the entire.

520
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,719
Speaker 6: Outfit as a whole, and how that works and how

521
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 6: efficiently it works over a weekend or a week.

522
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 3: Preparing for Indy.

523
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 6: So you know, I look forward to hopefully having an

524
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 6: impact in that regard as well.

525
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 4: Do you like working with young drivers. I have to

526
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 4: believe that's one of the incentives.

527
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 6: Is.

528
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 4: Yes, they've got Potto who's nearly almost won the thing

529
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 4: a few times, but loom Guard is relatively young and

530
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 4: Noland is still very young.

531
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it depends, right.

532
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 6: It's not a scenario where I come in and say, hey, guys,

533
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 6: this is how you have to.

534
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: Drive turn two.

535
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 6: It's more of a big picture mentality working together as

536
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 6: a team. When you have strength and numbers, it can

537
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 6: really work well if you use it effectively and efficiently.

538
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: Right if you if you if you.

539
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 6: Can develop a setup and you you kind of divvy

540
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 6: up you know who does what on what day, and

541
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 6: then you start combining those changes and a ba ing

542
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 6: in them as we call amongst different different guys. Everybody's

543
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 6: going to have their bit of an offset on setup.

544
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 6: But if you can and we've done it successfully at

545
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 6: Andretti before on occasion wasn't every year.

546
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 3: But if you can.

547
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 6: Effectively and efficiently pull that that maximum potential out of

548
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 6: everybody and actually work together, you have an advantage strengthen numbers.

549
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 3: Especially on the other side of it.

550
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 6: You got a lot of guys that you know come

551
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 6: from Europe, and their mentality immediately is my teammate is

552
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,479
Speaker 6: my number one enemy, and I am. That's what I'm

553
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 6: focused on, is just making sure that he gets as

554
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 6: little information as possible. If I make a change on

555
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 6: track and it's better, I'm going to do whatever I

556
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 6: can to give him misinformation on it. That is a

557
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 6: short sighted approach. I've seen it happen many times. I've

558
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 6: watched it work. I've watched it. I should say I've

559
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 6: watched it not work.

560
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: At Indy.

561
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 6: You want to be in a position where you're fighting

562
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 6: your teammates at the end, because that means you guys

563
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 6: have all worked together to give yourselves the best package

564
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 6: possible to be in that shootout at the end. So

565
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 6: I don't necessarily would say that it's working with young

566
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 6: drivers that I like. I really like working with drivers

567
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 6: that have an open mind towards being better as a

568
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 6: cohesive unity.

569
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 4: And I would just say, what you can bring to

570
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 4: them is one more car that's going to be sorted,

571
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 4: one more knowledgeable input and gathering data. So that's just

572
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 4: executive to the entire program. Right then a raise joining us.

573
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 4: I'll ask you this because I get to ask this

574
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 4: a lot on the account of people like you, why

575
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 4: aren't they doing more sports car racing? And my answer is,

576
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 4: it's not like it used to be. Early in your career,

577
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 4: it seemed that most of the time when in Indy

578
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 4: car driver raised his hand, they could find to see,

579
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 4: certainly in the endurance races and maybe full time when

580
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 4: they transitioned out of full time IndyCar racing. How hard

581
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 4: is it to find a sports car seat?

582
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 3: Now, you're a great point, Kavin.

583
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it is such a unique time with

584
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 6: that because for years, I think I did, I did

585
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 6: thirteen or fourteen Daytona twenty fours, twelve hours of cebring

586
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 6: one that one. Overall, you know, these teams would just

587
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 6: pluck IndyCar drivers. You had probably eight or nine sitting

588
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 6: on the grid in the top category being that let's

589
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 6: call it prototype or Daytona Prototype.

590
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 3: Or whatever you want, DPI, LMDh.

591
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 6: I don't know how many renderings have gone through of that,

592
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 6: but it shifted with this new the hypercar, since it

593
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 6: went to the HyperCard deal. A lot of these manufacturers

594
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 6: that came in they have their own you know, they

595
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 6: have their own network of drivers that they bring up

596
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 6: their own farm system. So to speak, and they bring

597
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 6: them up either from the GT category or for whatever categories.

598
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 3: They had in Europe.

599
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 6: And now if you look at it, like in the

600
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 6: Hypercar Closs, if you just aside from the accurate entry

601
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 6: that has Polo Dixon.

602
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 3: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't. I don't.

603
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 3: Maybe Colton in the BMW, I don't think there's.

604
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 4: Colton's in a Cadillac. He's in a Wayne Taylor Cadillac.

605
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 4: All okay, all right? Is running with Shank again?

606
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 3: Yeah? I thought that was.

607
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 6: I mean, they've been they've been together for so long. Yes,

608
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 6: back together, but it is not the same as it

609
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 6: used to be in that regard. You know, I had

610
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 6: a really good home. I had my time at Wayne Taylor.

611
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 6: I had a really good home at Mazda. And when Mazda,

612
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 6: you know, for so many years Maza was terrible and

613
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 6: they did a lot of work, spent a lot of money,

614
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 6: and then we started really firing and we were doing

615
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 6: well when the races. That's how we won the twelve

616
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 6: hours of Sebring overall. And finally, you know, they did

617
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 6: it and it was just like wow, we outspent ourselves

618
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 6: here and left and then I went to Ganassi with

619
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 6: the Cadillac and had a good home there and then

620
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 6: you know, they split the team in two. Cadillac did

621
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 6: GM and sent one to WEK and the other one

622
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 6: stayed home and Dixon had my seat and that obviously,

623
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 6: you know, and as expected. So yeah, it's you know,

624
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 6: it's just been one thing or another, and now the

625
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 6: category has changed.

626
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 3: There's there's not many indie car drivers in it.

627
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 6: I see McLaughlin and new Gardner in what the Tower,

628
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 6: pietzfew maybe again.

629
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 4: You know, they're they're testing the Porschapinskey Prototype, but they're

630
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 4: not confirmed for the race, and I honestly think they're

631
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 4: going to be asked by Porsche because of what you said.

632
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 4: Porsche has their people, They're going to have to prove themselves.

633
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 4: Roger and Jonathan Dogood don't just get to say there

634
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 4: are drivers they're in. They're going to have to be

635
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 4: better than the other people that have been in the

636
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 4: Porsche program for a long time and are on their spot.

637
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 3: That was the same thing with Rayhull and BMW.

638
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 6: And in that case, BMW wasn't even trying out any

639
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 6: car drivers. They were just they had their network of

640
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 6: guys and that's you know, they're under contract. They came

641
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 6: through their system. The guys same thing. Porsche, like you mentioned,

642
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 6: Porsche is one of them. That's that's done that for years.

643
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 6: So yeah, limited opportunities there for sure. And to be

644
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 6: honest with you, I really haven't been after the Ganassi

645
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 6: Cadillac deal. I really haven't been shopping in Well, you're

646
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 6: coaching football.

647
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 4: We got bigger and better things to do, right.

648
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 6: Football, and you know when in you know pee wee

649
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 6: Football Championships.

650
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 3: Priority.

651
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 4: That's right. I'm glad you got your priority straight. I

652
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 4: wasn't sure if I wanted to bring this up, but

653
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 4: I'm going to last year's five hundred because it didn't

654
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 4: get the coverage that it should have.

655
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 5: It's one of those things.

656
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 4: There's so many things going on and I think it

657
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 4: slipped under the radar. But you could have should have

658
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 4: won the race. We're not going to focus on that part,

659
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 4: but we're going to focus on the success story that

660
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 4: it was your pit stop practice car that you almost

661
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 4: won the ND five hundred with. This would have been

662
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,919
Speaker 4: a bigger story maybe I think it would have been,

663
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 4: or a more unlikely story than the Allens are nineteen

664
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 4: eighty seven show car that we always talk about so much. Well,

665
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 4: that show car wasn't brought out on Saturday morning. That

666
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 4: show car was there for the entire month being prepared.

667
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 4: That team replaced a burned down car, and you were,

668
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 4: I think going to be ahead. You're going in your

669
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 4: last pit stop leading and you're going to be ahead

670
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 4: of Ericsson and Polo and the two ray Hauls that

671
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 4: were right in front of them that were a lap down.

672
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 4: So you don't have to talk about the heartbreak again,

673
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 4: but let's go up to that point of did you

674
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 4: really think there was any kind of a shot to

675
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 4: be competitive in that race?

676
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 6: You know, I've been I've been in so many unique

677
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 6: scenarios and racing over the years. I've learned to you know,

678
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 6: a lot of is mental right. And if you get

679
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 6: into the car with an ounce Let's say it's been

680
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 6: dry all weekend, all of a sudden it starts raining

681
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 6: right before the race, you haven't had a lap in

682
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 6: the ring. You can either go into that with the

683
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 6: right mentality you better get it right real quick, or

684
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 6: you can go into it with some doubts, any bit

685
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 6: of negativity.

686
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: Oh my last race.

687
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 6: Maybe I locked the tire and got into the barrier.

688
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 6: I better not do that again. You start focusing on that.

689
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 6: Just like as they say, you know, you go where

690
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 6: your eyes are right. If the car starts to turn

691
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 6: on you and you're looking at the wall, you're gonna

692
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 6: end up at the wall. But I just knew that

693
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,959
Speaker 6: I had to focus on, you know, going one hundred

694
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 6: and twenty percent. I knew it was going to be

695
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 6: something where I had to adapt to the car a

696
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 6: little bit as it went, and we might have to

697
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 6: add some front wing, take some out, whatever it was.

698
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 6: But I was talking to the guys when I went

699
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 6: over at Dryan Rabal, but when I went over to

700
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 6: go pick up my seat, even this morning when I

701
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 6: dropped off a helmet that unless you're embedded in the situation,

702
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 6: nobody really has a real feel for what actually went

703
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 6: down there.

704
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 3: It was absolutely I agree with you.

705
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 6: I think it would have been one of the most

706
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 6: remarkable stories, and I think it deserves even like a

707
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 6: documentary on what happened.

708
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 3: Because it burned down. We didn't have a backup car.

709
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 3: There was no backup car.

710
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 6: They were lowering it out of the truck in the

711
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 6: in the in the lot, and I was going buy

712
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 6: my golf cart and I jokingly said to them as

713
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 6: it was coming down, like my god, that's.

714
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: Not our race car, and they laughed.

715
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 6: They laughed and they said, I think it is, and

716
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 6: I thought they were joking, and then I see it,

717
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 6: you know, a half hour later, being rolled into the garage.

718
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,479
Speaker 3: It had an electric motor in it still for the you.

719
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 6: Know, for being in the in the in the just

720
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 6: like these guys do here at Aaron McLaren doing the

721
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 6: pitstop practice in the shop.

722
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: So it was wild.

723
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 6: I went through one corner basically in an install check,

724
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 6: and then I went into the biggest race in the world,

725
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 6: having no idea what the balance was, any idea that

726
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 6: the underwing, the you know, the tunnel in the car

727
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 6: was efficient and how that would he react in traffic.

728
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 6: And it was wild. Honestly, it was completely wild, and

729
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 6: it did go unto the radar. That's unfortunate, because I

730
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 6: talked about this earlier on the press conference, is that

731
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 6: the hardest thing for spectators to follow Indy car, to

732
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 6: follow Indy the Indy five hundred, to follow even I

733
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 6: think sometimes on a street circuit is pit strategies. When

734
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 6: you have an early yellow and Indy five hundred, and

735
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 6: then you have it followed by another yellow within it

736
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 6: with that didn't completely go the full stint on tires.

737
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 3: Right, Let's say it's twenty laps.

738
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 6: You're going to have a split field at that point

739
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 6: on strategies, and then after that you're going to have

740
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 6: guys picking to short stint or long stint stretch it,

741
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 6: and it's going to continue to kind of migrate from there.

742
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 6: And at that time, I'm not blaming it on you

743
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 6: or Fox or anything else, but because you guys can't

744
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 6: possibly be watching every different scenario in every different strategy.

745
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 3: But they were filming.

746
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 6: They had a shot a plow and I said, and

747
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 6: here's the effective leader. Meanwhile, you look on the leaderboard

748
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 6: over on the top and there's you know, P one

749
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 6: is a car twenty three hundred. Ay, we were actually

750
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 6: the effective leader at that point. It's just that it

751
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 6: was so hard to follow the strategy. We were just

752
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 6: on the other side of the racetrack. We were running

753
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 6: with cars that had been running in the top ten,

754
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 6: top seven, that were on the same strategy as me,

755
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 6: like Connor Daily and stuff that we just weren't with

756
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 6: the polo ericson group, right, So we're rotating like that,

757
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 6: and like you said, we would have come out right

758
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 6: in front of the two lap cars and then Polo

759
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 6: and Ericson would have been behind them, So I would

760
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 6: have even had a little bit of a buffer to

761
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 6: work with and try and use those guys as you know,

762
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 6: as a wedge between us, kind of as a block.

763
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: But yeah, it could have been, should have been, would

764
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: have been.

765
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 6: That's why INDI's cruel and it's the most rewarding place

766
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 6: on Earth at the same time.

767
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: But.

768
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 6: The story that that would have been unbelievable. I mean,

769
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 6: it doesn't happen. It doesn't without anything happening, without any issue.

770
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 6: I mean I was in the garage at the middle

771
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 6: of the night doing seat fittings. These guys did not

772
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 6: sleep for forty eight hours straight building the car, so

773
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 6: you would think mistakes would happen.

774
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: Then, right, they're all tired. Mistakes happen. It's a new car.

775
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 6: This doesn't fit the same Da da da unbelievable five

776
00:39:58,280 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 6: hundred mile race and we were one of the quicker

777
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 6: cars track.

778
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, second fastest lap I think. And you mentioned didn't

779
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 4: sleep after you didn't see any name, but Friday night

780
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 4: before I saw you on Saturday evening and you say,

781
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 4: I looked like two hours, So.

782
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 3: It was a zombie. I was a zombie going.

783
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 4: That was remarkable, and that's why we're back again, and

784
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 4: we'll go for one more time in twenty six. I

785
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: hope you still have time to join us in the

786
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 4: Fox Indie Next booth.

787
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 6: Well, I hope so too. I had a really good

788
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 6: time with you and Jack. I learned a lot. I'd

789
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 6: love to do some stuff on the Indy Car side.

790
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 6: I know that's less flexible you guys, don't. You know

791
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 6: on the Fox deal. You guys don't just plug in

792
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 6: folks there. But it was a tremendous opportunity with the

793
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 6: Indian Next deal because I had I had never kind

794
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 6: of done done the in the booth, you know, live

795
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 6: action throwing it back and forth. I'd always done kind

796
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 6: of you know the pit lane thing or whatever where

797
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 6: you can cueue up your thoughts right down. But I

798
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 6: learned a lot from you and from Jack on it,

799
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 6: and it was a great opportunity, and I think I've

800
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 6: got I've got a lot of experience to fall back

801
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 6: on that can come naturally in the form of information

802
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 6: on a broadcast and it's a matter of applying that

803
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 6: in a smooth in a smooth manner like, Yeah, how

804
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 6: you do reading those intros and stuff is just wild

805
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 6: to me, but we get there.

806
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 4: Well, you help me get Jack to do some of

807
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 4: those because he's still reluctant, so that's going to be

808
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 4: out for twenty six.

809
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 6: Absolutely make him do the baseball with the super complicated

810
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 6: last names.

811
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 3: That's the hardest part.

812
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 4: Well, next summer, we'll hopefully introduce you as two time

813
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 4: Indianapolis five hundred winner when you join us in the broadcast,

814
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 4: and then you can ask for a raise in that circumstance. Congrats, Ryan,

815
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 4: this is super cool. Looking forward to seeing you more

816
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 4: and Papaya in twenty six and we'll see it at

817
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 4: racetrack soon.

818
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 3: All right, thanks my friend, I appreciate it.

819
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 4: I have a good one, Ryan Hunter. Ray will be

820
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 4: in the number thirty one is original champ Car IndyCar

821
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 4: number back in the day for Aerol McLaren Indy in

822
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 4: twenty twenty six for the Indianapolis five hundred. We'll see

823
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 4: what we missed and more coming up next.

824
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 6: On track side, Hi, this is Felix trosen Quist and

825
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 6: you're listening to track side.

826
00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 5: Okay, what we missed.

827
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 4: I was going to into all the IndyCar drivers there

828
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 4: were a Daytona and what their prospects are for sports cars.

829
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 4: Ran out of time, but I will notice and mentioned

830
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 4: that Nolan Siegel was back in a sports car in.

831
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 5: A P two car, Louis Foster in a P two car.

832
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 4: We had wondered if Graham ray Hall might be in

833
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 4: the ray Hall Letterman Lanigan McLaren and one report said

834
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 4: that was a plan and was being explored. They may

835
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 4: have found some other options, one being Max Esterson, who

836
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 4: was really quick. He is an American kid who's been

837
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 4: racing in Europe, and you're a hips who I talked about.

838
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 4: Callum Ilot was in a Porsche GT three car, So

839
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 4: we'll talk more about that as we move on. Also,

840
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 4: the NASCAR start times came out this week, and that

841
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 4: tells us a couple of things. CODA on March first

842
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 4: is three point thirty, so I think that tells us

843
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 4: Saint Pete is going to be twelve twelve thirty. And

844
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 4: the NASCAR Cup race on Fox is two pm the

845
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 4: same day as Long Beach, so I would think I

846
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 4: think that means that's a good lead in for Long Beach,

847
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 4: probably at five pm easternichhe two pm West Coast time.

848
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 4: So there you go, all right. We'll see you again

849
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 4: next Tuesday night at seven on track Side