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Speaker 2: I'm very excited to start the season, to see what

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to get back on track. I think I've

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Speaker 4: To me, we're in a very good position and it's

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Speaker 3: Be improved upon from last year. Like you already a

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Speaker 4: Everything they're doing and have done, to me, that will

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Speaker 4: I believe the team will be the best team in

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Speaker 4: building to what we've been able to accomplish, you know,

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Speaker 4: Like we don't want to stay static. We always want

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Speaker 3: To do every single year.

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Speaker 4: I believe that we've come to a point where with

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Speaker 3: We're right there. And that little extra step, I.

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Speaker 3: We just have to get it done. So that's what

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Speaker 3: Like I said, this is the most prepped and most

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Speaker 3: Alex Pullo, will Power Pot of Award David Malucas. We

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Speaker 3: news of another driver you may know making a NASCAR appearance.

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Speaker 3: an eighteenth race that should present one of the best

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Speaker 3: opportunities for visibility the sport has ever seen. Hello, and

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Speaker 3: we welcome thanks for joining us. Trackside ninety three to

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Speaker 3: five one oh seven five the fan in Indianapolis. That's

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Speaker 3: where Landon Coons is there. My name is Kevin Lee.

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Speaker 3: Kurt Cavin is with us as well. We're going to

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Speaker 3: call this high heat, Kurt, because there is a lot

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Speaker 3: Kevin Lee twenty three. All Right, Washington, DC was announced

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Speaker 3: say this had this does not have to be at

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Speaker 3: the detriment of Ryan Hunter Ray. If it goes well,

434
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Speaker 3: I got to think they're going to invite him back

435
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Speaker 3: to keep going in twenty twenty seven, and it is.

436
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Speaker 1: It is going to go well with Ryan Hunter Ray,

437
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: regardless of how he finishes. He would be if you

438
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Speaker 1: were going to go start an Indy five hundred program,

439
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: we've never really had this kind of maybe we have.

440
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Speaker 1: If you were going to start an any five hundred

441
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Speaker 1: team and it was going to be like drying Ryan Bold,

442
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: you'd be hard pressed to come up with three people

443
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: that would be more impressive and important to the program

444
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: that Ryan had to Ray on your program. He just

445
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: he's a team player, he's a smart guy. He's very talented.

446
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: He probably should have won in twenty thirteen as well.

447
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: He won in fourteen. He probably should have won in

448
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: thirteen had the late restart Canan gets him. You know,

449
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: if Dario doesn't crash how to, Ray is going to

450
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 1: have a run on him to get back to the lead.

451
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Speaker 1: So and the way they drafted that year, I mean

452
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Speaker 1: it's very likely he could have been a back to

453
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Speaker 1: back winner, and he's had other good runs as well.

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Speaker 3: I'll be interested. So Ryan is not doing this to

455
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 3: be coach. He's there to drive the race car and

456
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 3: he will be available and answer questions when asked. But

457
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 3: I'll be interested to hear from someone who is honest,

458
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 3: like Poto at the end of this who's already great

459
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 3: at the end five hundred. I'm going to guess there

460
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 3: some things at the end of this month that very

461
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 3: subtle things that Poto has learned, And what might he

462
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 3: do for a Nolan Siegel and a Christian Louinguard long

463
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 3: Guard's close. Nolan Siegel is twenty twenty one years old,

464
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 3: has a lot to learn and can learn it from

465
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Speaker 3: a Tony Kanan, but Tony's got a lot of things

466
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Speaker 3: to do as well. But being able to talk to

467
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: another savvy veteran who is in the seat for that month,

468
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 3: I think will pay big dividences. All you mentioned Dario Frankaty.

469
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 3: He's back. He finished business in NASCAR. I always said

470
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 3: this was when I see and read that Dario failed

471
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Speaker 3: at NASCAR, I think that's unfair. I think he had

472
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 3: an incomplete He broke his ankle and just said, this

473
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 3: isn't any fun. It's not going great. And I'm not

474
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 3: going to say it was going awesome. But I still

475
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 3: think if he would have wanted to stick it out,

476
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 3: he would have figured that out. And he may not

477
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 3: have been a champion, but he would have been solid.

478
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 3: Oh and he's not restarting a career. He's just doing

479
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 3: something fun. Wants to do some fun things with Jimmy Johnson.

480
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 3: So I think he's basically driving the same truck that

481
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Speaker 3: Jimmy is driving in the special event at San Diego.

482
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Speaker 1: I think it'll be an interesting watch. I'm surprised. I'm

483
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: surprised that he wants to do it. Honestly, I mean,

484
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: you know, well, I'm surprised that he's going to do it,

485
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,239
Speaker 1: not that he wanted to do it, that he is

486
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Speaker 1: doing it. I don't know.

487
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Speaker 3: St people the surprise would be because he retired because

488
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 3: of too many concussions and fear of injury. So I

489
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 3: trust Dario is a smart guy. I trust that he

490
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 3: has been given some assurances that there are some certain

491
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Speaker 3: things that he can do. He's been driving historic cars

492
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 3: at a pretty fast paced Now, maybe maybe he's just

493
00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 3: been ignoring the doctor's advice, but I doubt that. But

494
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 3: he's been driving fast cars for a while and he

495
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 3: just raced a GT three, an endurance race, and when

496
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 3: you talk about risk factor, I would rate those historic

497
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 3: cars at a higher rate of speed and a higher risk.

498
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: Let's face it, at Saint Pete, he's going to be

499
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 3: driving behind the pace car most of the race because

500
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: it's going to be a crash fest with concrete walls

501
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 3: and twenty five of the drivers that have never done

502
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: a street race before. I think Dario will be upfront

503
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 3: because he's in a really good piece of equipment. He's

504
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: in the championship team from last year. He can win

505
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 3: this race along with I am aware. I think there

506
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,959
Speaker 3: are a couple of other people that I know that

507
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 3: are going to be added to this race in the

508
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 3: future that I also think will have a chance to

509
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 3: win that are not NASCAR regulars. And there may be

510
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 3: people that I don't even know about, but I don't

511
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 3: think he's going to be going that fast. Yes, you

512
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 3: can get hurt in anything, so I'm going to trust

513
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 3: that he's been giving the assurances that in a stock

514
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 3: car on a street race, you are as safe as

515
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 3: you were in twenty twelve driving the thing. So he's

516
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 3: an adult. He's made the decision and it's going to

517
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 3: be cool. Because we didn't get to say goodbye to Dario.

518
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 3: We all thought he was going to drive sports cars

519
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 3: whenever he finished IndyCar racing for several more years. He

520
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 3: loves the sports that's why he's still around it. He

521
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 3: loves everything about it. So here's part two. I don't

522
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: know if this has been officially as we chat late afternoon,

523
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 3: I've not seen this come across my Twitter, but I

524
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 3: was told he was going to be announced today, and yeah,

525
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 3: we're just going to go ahead and share it and

526
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 3: we'll deal with it if something happened. Because so if

527
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: you don't see this on Twitter, don't tweet about it.

528
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 3: This will just be something amongst ourselves and we will

529
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 3: break news on our own program. Jackson Lee will also

530
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 3: be driving in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. At Saint

531
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 3: Petersburg in the number twenty two Browning chapman Ford with

532
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: Team ray Onme. So this is it's been called Rayon

533
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: Brothers Racing. Josh Rayom is one of the owners and

534
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 3: he drives much of the time, and I think he's

535
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: going to drive the Saint Pete Weekend as well. California

536
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 3: Closets is also a big partner in this, and we

537
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: have worked with the Tampa office and they really wanted

538
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 3: to have Jackson drive in something at this event. And

539
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 3: two years ago they were running GT fours when he

540
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 3: was running a GT four. So we got him in

541
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 3: the VP Challenge race in and asked in Martin that

542
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: he had never driven before that weekend started, and he

543
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 3: had the fastest lap of the weekend and led a

544
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 3: bunch of laps, finished second in both races. Could have

545
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 3: should have won the second race, but a more experienced

546
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: pro driver just shoved him out of the way at

547
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: the end. All fair, but just his lack of experience,

548
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 3: he's kind of caught him off guard in the last restart.

549
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 3: So while he is, as they like to say, going

550
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 3: to be drinking from the fire hose, essentially he's doing

551
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 3: his test with concrete walls on national television. We tried

552
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 3: to work out a way to get a test, but

553
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: it got snowed out. He has been in Charlotte the

554
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: last two days to do pitstock practice at least to

555
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 3: get it in first gear and launch. Well, the snow

556
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: started melting in the parking lot. He was do what

557
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 3: They couldn't do that either, So the first time he

558
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 3: moves in the car, he has sat in the car.

559
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 3: The first time he moves in the car will be

560
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 3: that practice one in three weeks, and he at least

561
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 3: knows the track, but does not know the car and

562
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 3: does He's been warned that they don't break in the

563
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 3: truck series in NASCAR, they use the car in front

564
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 3: of them or the truck in front of them to break.

565
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 3: So we'll see how it goes. He may have to

566
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 3: qualify if they have more than thirty six, he may

567
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 3: have to qualify because the team is they been at

568
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 3: the back of the points. So when it comes down

569
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 3: to that, I think they were like full time entries,

570
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 3: last next to last and twenty ninth or something like that.

571
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 3: But I love what they had to say. And after

572
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 3: we started talking with a few teams, this was the

573
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 3: team that seemed most interested in, Oh, maybe we can

574
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 3: develop a relationship here and yeah, maybe he can be

575
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 3: our road course ringer. So this is a one off situation,

576
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 3: but if it goes well, maybe more opportunities. And the

577
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 3: way his business manager looked at it, Kurt, this is

578
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: a good commercial opportunity. This race is on Fox. It's

579
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 3: going to promote promote it heavily by Fox in combination

580
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 3: with IndyCar. I think it'll have a million viewers. And

581
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: with that, it's a rolling billboard. We've got room if

582
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 3: you want to join in with Browning Chapman in California closets.

583
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 3: You can even buy the on board. We have an

584
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 3: onboard that is available with Fox that if you want that,

585
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 3: I'll give it to you for what they're saying, because

586
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 3: it'd be good for Jackson to get some extra visibility

587
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: with guaranteed looks. So there you go. I can't announce

588
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 3: the other drivers because but I think there are some

589
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,719
Speaker 3: others that are going to be doing this race. From

590
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: what I was hearing at the Rolex. People that we've

591
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 3: heard of, yes, yes, one. I don't know that everybody

592
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 3: would have heard of, but they probably should. It's somebody

593
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 3: who's really really good is one of the other names

594
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: that I've heard that, you know, one of the road

595
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: course ringer types should be fun.

596
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm excited for Dario, and of course I'm excited for Jackson,

597
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't watch a lot of truck

598
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: races these days, but I'll be glued into.

599
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 3: That one Saturday afternoon, the twenty eighth at noon, so

600
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 3: this will be before IndyCar qualifying. So it's by the way,

601
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 3: suites are fully sold out. I need more sweet tickets

602
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 3: because we've got a lot of guests, So if anybody

603
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 3: wants to sell some of their sweet tickets that they

604
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 3: have some, I can find a home with some of

605
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 3: our sponsors, and I've talked to some other people that

606
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 3: could use some as well, So if you got any extras,

607
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 3: we can find a good home for those. At this point,

608
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 3: all right, Tim Sindric is back with Team Penske. We'll

609
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 3: get into that more next. On track side.

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Speaker 2: This is Alex below and you're listening to Truck Site.

611
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Speaker 3: Well, the surprises haven't really stopped over the last few weeks.

612
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 3: We've got Dario Franketi returning to racing driving a NASCAR truck,

613
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: we've got a surprise announcement for an extra race in

614
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 3: a major city, and we've got Tim Sindrick who was fired.

615
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 3: Is that the right word. He was dismissed. Yeah, dismissed Yeah,

616
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 3: at before the ND five hundred last year. After leading

617
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 3: Team Penske for twenty plus twenty seven ish years. He

618
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: started in ninety nine, I think right, yep, yep is

619
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Speaker 3: one of his first tasks was to hire el e

620
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Speaker 3: oh for no, it' had been two thousand.

621
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Speaker 1: We two.

622
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 3: First season was two thousand, so would have been in

623
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Speaker 3: ninety nine. But at some point when Tim started, he's back.

624
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,719
Speaker 3: We learned this last last week, and you know, if

625
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 3: you kind of read some of the comments, some of

626
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 3: those that are not Penske fans haven't been super supportive

627
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 3: of this news, thinking it's all charade, that it was

628
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 3: planned from the beginning. I doubt that. I also, though

629
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 3: don't doubt. I don't think it's a coincidence that this

630
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 3: was announced today after content day. They didn't want their

631
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 3: three drivers asking answering a lot of questions about this.

632
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 3: They'll be asked about it at some point, but it

633
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 3: will be older news. At this point. My first thought

634
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 3: is I'm happy that Tim is back, and he is

635
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 3: the one of the three with Ron Razuski and Kyle Moore.

636
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 3: Year I have said, I don't know if they'll come back.

637
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 3: You know, he was already looking to scale back a

638
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 3: little bit as it is. I think he's done pretty well.

639
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: He'd been pretty smart. He has a home on the

640
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 3: other side of the country. Maybe he's content. But what

641
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 3: came out of this is that you know, he probably

642
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 3: wondered the same, but it sounds like from the racer story.

643
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 3: By the end of twenty he decided I'm bored. And

644
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 3: I've said this before. He is, in my mind still

645
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 3: very young and has a lot of years ahead of

646
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,479
Speaker 3: him if he wants to work, and I thought maybe

647
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 3: he might sit out for a couple three years and

648
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: find a new projects. One my guess is his phone

649
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: was ringing and he had offers, and two he decided, yeah,

650
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 3: I'm bored. I want to do something. So he called

651
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 3: up his replacement, Jonathan Dogood, and just said, hey, I

652
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 3: want to let you know some people are interested. I

653
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 3: don't think you have anything, but just want to let

654
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 3: you know. I'm going to go back to work, And

655
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 3: he probably was allowed to start to go back to

656
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: work January first, just like Ron Razuski was. So Tean

657
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 3: Penske is probably looking at this like, Huh, we're already

658
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 3: competing against Kyle Moyer and Ron Razuski. Do we want

659
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 3: to add Tim Sindrick to that list. And while there

660
00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 3: are proprietary things you can't take with you, they and

661
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 3: stop you from sharing the things that you know and

662
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 3: the processes. So to me, this seems like Tim may

663
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 3: have simply forced their hand a little bit. I'm either

664
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 3: going to work with you or I'm going to work

665
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 3: against you, and I am happy to come back and

666
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 3: work with you in a different role. So he's still

667
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 3: suffered from this. If indeed he wanted to work more,

668
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 3: he's no longer the president, he's no longer the boss.

669
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: I can't imagine he's making the same salary, may not

670
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 3: be the same benefits. Probably ultimately is more like what

671
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 3: he wants to do work weekends, be able to compete,

672
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 3: impact the race, and do one of the things he's

673
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 3: really good at, and that strategy. And this is a

674
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 3: huge boost for Scott McLaughlin. And when I asked Scott

675
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: to content days, who's your strategist? He said, Uh, I

676
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 3: don't think I can say, And then was said the

677
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 3: next day. So this is big. It is big, and

678
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: it's big. You're right.

679
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: The beneficiary here is is Scott McLaughlin.

680
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: Uh.

681
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: You know, I could have I could have predicted that

682
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: Tim would if he wanted to do something. It would

683
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: be just competitive in nature and race weekend in scope.

684
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: And this fits this to a team. I mean, he

685
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: comes into a program where he knows virtually everyone. I mean,

686
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how many new people they have in

687
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: the building, but it's very few compared to when he

688
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: left in May, so he knows almost everyone. It's going

689
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: to be a seamless transition for him. Be interesting, you

690
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: know when he doesn't lead the meeting, but he was

691
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: a good delegator anyway, So you know, I think it'll

692
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: be be fine. What's fascinating is when you just mentioned

693
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: and I had thought about it, but not really gave

694
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: it a lot of thought. Now I'm going to give

695
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: it a lot of thought. Who might be the competition

696
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: for his services in this in this sport, you know,

697
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: who wanted to hire him? And you know, because a

698
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: lot of teams have already made big, big splashes during

699
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: the off season, so.

700
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 3: Just something yeah, right, I'll just you know, they've hired

701
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 3: Jay Fry in that role. I'm going to guess, kind

702
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: of like with will Power, I think it's possible that

703
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 3: many teams called without offering a specific role, you know,

704
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 3: and they may have called, like ANDRETTI may have called

705
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 3: and said, you know, we've already got Ron running the organization,

706
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 3: but would you be interested in being a strategist something

707
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 3: like that there might have been And if he came

708
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 3: and said no, I want to run the whole operation

709
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 3: or I'm not coming, that might have ended some some conversations.

710
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 3: You know, McLaren is not shy about hiring people and

711
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 3: creating roles. Could they have created something for him? Tony

712
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 3: Kanaan is still asked to do an awful lot of things.

713
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 3: So I think there's a lot of teams that would

714
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 3: have been interested in his services if he were to

715
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 3: make himself available agreed it. All it takes is one.

716
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 3: All it takes is one with a firm off for

717
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 3: him to go to Team Penske and say, I'm going

718
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 3: to go back to work. They've got an offer. I'm

719
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: going to take it unless you want me. Because I've

720
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 3: been with Team Penske most of my adult life, and

721
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 3: that seems comfortable.

722
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think you've nailed it. But it

723
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: is just interesting to think about what kind of opportunities

724
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: might might have been available to him. And the race

725
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: weekend part I think was key. He's got out other

726
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: business ventures and so just being a fly in, flyout

727
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: guy for the races is probably very attractive to him.

728
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 3: Okay. Next on the docket, Mick Schumacher tested on an

729
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: oval at Homestead yesterday for the first time, and by

730
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 3: all accounts it went well. What I took out of

731
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 3: this was nobody's been there for a while, so nobody

732
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 3: really had a setup under the current conditions. Yes, the

733
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 3: same car has been around since twelve twelve, but did

734
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 3: not have the extra weight of the hybrid. It's a

735
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 3: different tire, a lot of things have changed. The balance

736
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 3: is different, so one thing I read on racer was

737
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 3: that the balance was way off right. Height was very

738
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 3: high and made the car feel very loose, So that's

739
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 3: a positive. That's by the way, I'd have been pretty

740
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 3: worried if I'm Mick getting in and oval for the

741
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 3: first time and he was. I was ideally and saying yeah,

742
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 3: we're not sure the car is going to handle. You

743
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 3: need to figure this out. So that's a lot of trust.

744
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 3: Ideally you'd have had Graham Ray Hall in the car first,

745
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 3: but there are probably rules against that because the other

746
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 3: teams are not. They're going to say, now you're trying

747
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 3: to learn some things here, you're getting the extra test

748
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 3: day out of this. So sometimes there is that allowance

749
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 3: to put a veteran driver in, sometimes there is not.

750
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 3: I don't know what allows it or not, but presumably

751
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 3: if it would have been allowed, they would have had

752
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 3: Graham to shake it down. But Mick figured it out

753
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 3: pretty quickly and then they brought it down and then

754
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 3: it's got comfortable pretty fast. That track also eats tires.

755
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 3: Oh so they didn't get to run as much as

756
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 3: they would like, I think ninety seven last, but still

757
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 3: felt pretty good. So big positive. They're happy, happy to

758
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 3: hear that he felt good, and not that they're going

759
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 3: to immediately tell us it was awful. But he seems

760
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 3: like a pretty honest guy that he might say, whoa,

761
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 3: I had big eyes for a little bit, but well

762
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 3: he did have.

763
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: It got better, he did have, and that's what he said.

764
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: He said, you know, it was. It shook my confidence.

765
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: It was.

766
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: It was not a good experience initially, and you know

767
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: then they started figuring things out. You're right, they didn't

768
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: have a lot of notes to go buy. That car

769
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: was not in play in twenty ten, the last time

770
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: they raced there. Ryan Briscoe is the driver coach now,

771
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: so that was helpful. Graham Ray Hall was on site,

772
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: so that was helpful. But they're not driving the car.

773
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: I can tell you it was. You know, his best

774
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: lap was nearly twenty miles an hour, slower than the

775
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: pole speed back in twenty ten. But as you mentioned,

776
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: virtually everything about the sport, you know, in the equipment

777
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: is different than it was then.

778
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 3: So hard to say, yeah, I would bet they're going

779
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 3: to be they would be slower, and what is it?

780
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 3: Absolutely wasn't it Phoenix. Weren't they way slower than they

781
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 3: were last time? The regulars like the Dixon and the company.

782
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 3: So it's just a kind of a different product of

783
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 3: the car and the tire and everything else that is

784
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 3: involved there. Oh, Dale a coin racing. So I said

785
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 3: last week on the show, I heard a driver is coming,

786
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 3: So I'm going to guess an announcement is coming as

787
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 3: of taping time, has there been an announcement? No, no, okay,

788
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 3: so I will. As has been reported in other outlets,

789
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 3: TBA was in attendance at IndyCar Content Days, did not

790
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 3: go to all of the rooms, but was ad in

791
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 3: the back of some selfie pictures that some drivers put

792
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 3: out there, so you could go find who that is.

793
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to say who it is because

794
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 3: TBA came into our room and chatted with us a

795
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 3: little while and I said, so, by the fact, and

796
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 3: by the way, it was not Rogue was there with

797
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 3: the dale Coin Racing representative and among our chatter. I said,

798
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 3: you know, I'm assuming since you made the trip and

799
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 3: it was not just for media stuff and pictures in

800
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 3: a blank fire suit, which several drivers had, but you'd

801
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 3: take a physical, you know. So if I'm going to

802
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 3: take the physical, I might as well come over and

803
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 3: get some more things done. But confirmed that, Yeah, I

804
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: wouldn't have done this if I don't think it's going

805
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 3: to happen. You know, it's expected to happen, but expecting

806
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 3: something to happen and happening are a different thing. And

807
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 3: every day that passes, I think you know the answer

808
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: is always money. We're waiting for some money to change

809
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 3: hands that will allow this to happen. So until that

810
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 3: so we said that content day was a deadline. We

811
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 3: obviously didn't meet that deadline. The next deadline is testing

812
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: at Sebring on Monday and Tuesday. Maybe but maybe not

813
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 3: because Dale Coyn is a smart businessman and just because

814
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 3: he would like to have things settled by Monday morning.

815
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 3: If he is, if there is some money that will

816
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 3: allow a driver to receive the salary they want and

817
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 3: fund the car, and if that is not finalized, then

818
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 3: it again is a bit of a game of chicken.

819
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 3: But there's a good chance. He just says no, there

820
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 3: are other drivers that are out there. So the list

821
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 3: of drivers still includes Roma. Rojean Connor daily has said

822
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 3: he has significant budgets and said on his podcast last

823
00:44:55,680 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 3: week there is still a chance I'm racing at Saint Pete.

824
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: Uh.

825
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 3: Just deducing through some of the things Connor said and

826
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 3: what I think, you know, I know he's trying not

827
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: to say too much. I think there is a possibility.

828
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 3: So one thing I wondered if Connor would be announced

829
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 3: with Dryer and Rhinebold for the five hundred that has

830
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 3: not happened either. Maybe it's been signed, maybe it has not.

831
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 3: I do not know whether that is happening. But I

832
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 3: could see a scenario where Connor does the NDY five

833
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 3: hundred for Dryer and Rhinebold and does extra races for

834
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 3: another team. So if Prema does not answer the bell,

835
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 3: and it seems highly unlikely to me, it seems virtually

836
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 3: impossible to me that they are running two cars full time.

837
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 3: Do we agree with that?

838
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think we can see a car,

839
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: but not highly.

840
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 3: I think it's highly unlikely that they're running one car

841
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 3: in every race.

842
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: Agreed, I still agree with that.

843
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 3: I think I think it's better than fifty percent we

844
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 3: see a car in some races. So as long as

845
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 3: two are not running in every race, someone else can

846
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 3: roll out an extra car anytime they want and will

847
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 3: be guaranteed to make the race. And I wondered if

848
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 3: it might be drying Rainbold, So just kind of listening

849
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 3: to the way Connor was speaking, and also just use

850
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 3: any of my common sense, Like what I said last week,

851
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 3: it's really hard to do something that you've not been doing.

852
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 3: They are, even though they're very good. I don't know

853
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 3: that they don't have a road street course engineer on

854
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: the program. Maybe they could run the ovals. That would

855
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 3: be the most plausible thing, But if they wanted to

856
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 3: do something else, I think unfortunately you're running at the back.

857
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 3: So do you take the budget you have? And is

858
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 3: there another team? And I wonder about the team that

859
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 3: he ran for last year, who goes houling or racing?

860
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 3: Might they be open, especially if it's paid for, if

861
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Speaker 3: you've got sponsorship. So now it's also possible he could

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Speaker 3: just run in an extra car for them in the

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Speaker 3: INDY five hundred. But the good thing and what I

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Speaker 3: would sell about Dryer and Reinbold is if you do

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Speaker 3: well there, that's something that you can do every year.

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Speaker 3: It's good program. I would like the longevity possibility there

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Speaker 3: to do that worst case scenario. I know, and I

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Speaker 3: get it. Connor really wants to be a full time

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Speaker 3: INDI car driver again, but he might make a decision

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Speaker 3: at some point. I just want to be a race

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Speaker 3: car driver that's getting paid, or use the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: take my partnerships and get paid out of that and

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Speaker 3: do sports cars, do NASCAR, do whatever, but make it

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Speaker 3: centered around the NDY five hundred, in a good program.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know anything for certain there, but those

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Speaker 3: are I think some of the scenarios. I don't know

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Speaker 3: anything new about Prema other than the clock is ticking.

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Speaker 3: If they are not at Seabring, I think they could

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Speaker 3: still show up to Saint Pete without going to the

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Speaker 3: Sebring Test with Calami Lot and be successful. If they're

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Speaker 3: not at the Phoenix Test, then they shouldn't go to

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Speaker 3: the Phoenix Race. That would not be a good idea.

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Speaker 3: That's what I got.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with it.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll see what we missed and more coming

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Speaker 3: up in a moment. Trackside ninety three five and one

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Speaker 3: oh seven to.

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Speaker 4: Five fan, Hi, this is what Power and you're listening

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Speaker 4: to Trackside final segment.

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Speaker 3: What we missed? Next week's show is on Monday night

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Speaker 3: at seven o'clock. Make notes so it won't take us

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Speaker 3: long if we miss something. A lot of twitter x

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Speaker 3: questions about the political nature that obviously, when the president

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Speaker 3: has an executive order for your event, that becomes a

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Speaker 3: part of it, and I'm not getting into it. What

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Speaker 3: I often read or hear is sports fans don't want

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Speaker 3: to hear sports commentators offer political opinions and that's what

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Speaker 3: that would become. You know, this is kind of the

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Speaker 3: toy store. We like to get away. It's fun. And

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Speaker 3: I also know I'm not really qualified to know all

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Speaker 3: sides of the issues. This is about fun and entertainment,

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Speaker 3: and I try to stay in my lane and I

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Speaker 3: will here. I am excited to celebrate my country's two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth birthday. I don't want to live anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: I like it here, and I think this is a

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Speaker 3: great opportunity for IndyCar And I'm going to leave it

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Speaker 3: at that, and I'm excited. A question about Carbon Day bands,

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Speaker 3: that's Doug Bowles question. It's not going to be announced

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Speaker 3: for a while. They announced that a little bit later

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Speaker 3: on and other stuff we will get to coming up

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Speaker 3: next Monday night. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll

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Speaker 3: see you in have a good weekend, and thanks for

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Speaker 3: joining us on the fan.