Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fast Track, a production of I Heart Radios,
Speaker 1: How Stuff Works. Hello, and welcome to the fast Track.
Speaker 1: I'm your co host, I guess Scott Benjamin, and I'm
Speaker 1: joined by Kurk Garn who is the normally just a
Speaker 1: producer on the show, and I shouldn't say just but
Speaker 1: normally the producer on the show. And we've brought Kurt
Speaker 1: Gotta behind the mic recently and uh and it's worked
Speaker 1: out pretty well, So we're gonna We're gonna stick with
Speaker 1: a Kurt if that's all right with you, That's fine
Speaker 1: with me, Okay, good. Well, We've got one today that
Speaker 1: I think is going to pique your interest and hopefully
Speaker 1: the interest of a lot of our listeners as well.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about a very specific event, a
Speaker 1: very um it's kind of I think it's one of
Speaker 1: a kind. I don't I've never heard of an event
Speaker 1: like this any other place in the world. Really, it's
Speaker 1: it's different than a drag race, but it's called the
Speaker 1: Texas Smile, and it has a lot of similarities to
Speaker 1: a drag race. But there's there's variations to this whole thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a very this is a unique
Speaker 1: competition of speed and and uh and it's worthwhile for
Speaker 1: us to dig into this. And I do want to
Speaker 1: tell you, Kurt Um just so that you're not not
Speaker 1: taking off guard by this, but um we we have
Speaker 1: done a previous episode of this on the Car Stuff program.
Speaker 1: Uh So you know that that was the other podcast
Speaker 1: that I worked on for many, many years. So you know,
Speaker 1: this archive goes back all the way to two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight and back in August of two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: Uh so this is seven years ago. We did a
Speaker 1: full episode with with my co host at the time,
Speaker 1: Ben Bowling, and myself. We did a an episode that
Speaker 1: really was kind of the ins and outs of the
Speaker 1: Texas Smile and kind of what it's all about and
Speaker 1: where it was and everything and the record holders that were,
Speaker 1: you know, the current record holders and how some strategies
Speaker 1: I guess too to get the best time, and you
Speaker 1: know whatever. We just had a whole bunch of topics
Speaker 1: that were we covered in there. Of course, all of
Speaker 1: that's changed now since since two thousand twelve, and I
Speaker 1: mean it's seven years later. You can imagine that not
Speaker 1: only is technology grown and leaps and bounds, you know,
Speaker 1: since then, Uh, you know, the guys building the cars
Speaker 1: are learning a lot more and they're and they're they're
Speaker 1: going faster and faster every year. Uh, there's been some
Speaker 1: notable events that are things I guess events, you can
Speaker 1: call it events. I guess it happened. And uh, there's
Speaker 1: even been a change of venue since then. I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot different And that's right, that's the reason
Speaker 1: I guess that we are covering this one more time
Speaker 1: on the fast track, and of course the fast track.
Speaker 1: How could you not cover something like the Texas Smile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an actual fast track like the Nerburgring from last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing. It's it's just just real quick and
Speaker 1: I want I'll be honest with you. We're gonna jump
Speaker 1: into the topic a little bit later. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of other stuff that I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about before we start here. But I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you just just a second about what you
Speaker 1: what's your gut feeling about the Texas Smile. I mean,
Speaker 1: just just like a general when you first heard about this,
Speaker 1: initially I compared it to a drag race. Um, but
Speaker 1: as I looked into it a little bit more, I
Speaker 1: drew vast differences between this particular type of racing and
Speaker 1: a drag race. First of all, it's a time trial,
Speaker 1: all types set up. It's not two cars aren't competing
Speaker 1: against each other. It's more like a qualifying event, and
Speaker 1: a drag race would be more than a head to
Speaker 1: head race. But but what I mean getting we'll get
Speaker 1: to the specifics I think, But but getting to like specifically,
Speaker 1: what you thought when you first saw like maybe a
Speaker 1: car going I'm gonna say I'm above two hundred miles
Speaker 1: per hour. That's not the record, by the way. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you what the record is later in the show.
Speaker 1: But let's see the first time you saw a car
Speaker 1: achieve two hundred miles per hour in one mile, you know,
Speaker 1: from standing still? I mean, it's it's it's crazy, isn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is crazy. I'm used to seeing drag races in
Speaker 1: a quarter mile, very different types of cars. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not over in a few seconds. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of factors that come into play. Um, cooling is
Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah. Um, we saw some interest in
Speaker 1: cooling tactics, didn't we. Yeah. Normally they would cool the
Speaker 1: car with air flowing through holes in the car. That's
Speaker 1: not the way to go fast. You want to make
Speaker 1: the car as slick as possible. So there's other techniques
Speaker 1: that they used, the cool engines down. That's a good
Speaker 1: way to put it. I like how you said that,
Speaker 1: because like you can't have a ton of openings and
Speaker 1: vents and I guess full face of a vehicle that
Speaker 1: you normally would have. You're trying to minimize that because
Speaker 1: these are modified cars we'll talk about, and there's there
Speaker 1: are different tactics that these racers employ to go and
Speaker 1: do what they do on these Uh. Well it's two
Speaker 1: weekends a year. And again, all of this we're gonna
Speaker 1: get too, I promise, because the Texas Smile is is
Speaker 1: definitely an interesting and unique event in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And I you can see my notes are crazy again
Speaker 1: today I have a pile of notes in front of me,
Speaker 1: and and for new listeners or listeners that aren't familiar
Speaker 1: with with my note system, I I'm very analog. I've
Speaker 1: got I've got printed notes in front of me. Of course,
Speaker 1: Kurt just has his laptop. He's he's very high tech. Um.
Speaker 1: I have just gone with you know, pen and paper
Speaker 1: and I've got tabs, and you know, notes on the
Speaker 1: tabs that you know, point me to different places, and
Speaker 1: notes that lead me to other notes. And it's just
Speaker 1: kind of a mess. And Kurt laughs at me, but
Speaker 1: it works for me. And you'll you'll hear the kind
Speaker 1: of paper shuffling through the whole thing. That's me. I'll
Speaker 1: try to keep it to a minimum. But before we begin,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a couple of questions, and
Speaker 1: one is just kind of you know, neighborly chit chat.
Speaker 1: I guess, did you do anything at all automotive related
Speaker 1: over the last week or so or last weekend? Just
Speaker 1: curious because I know you're kind of a car guy yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not really. This past weekend I did take a road
Speaker 1: trip to Augusta, Georgia for an arts festival. That's cool. Um,
Speaker 1: so I was in my car straight, shot down and back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. Is how long is it drive from here? Um?
Speaker 1: About two hours and fifteen minutes. It's not bad, not bad,
Speaker 1: So just a day trip really? Yeah, that's cool? Alright, cool,
Speaker 1: I see what did I do? I did some uh
Speaker 1: oh gosh, this sounds real boring right now, but I
Speaker 1: mean I did some just polishing and you know, um,
Speaker 1: scuff removal and that kind of stuff. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got a kind of a bang upfront bumper in
Speaker 1: my car and it's gotta crack in it right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking to do something that's called this. This
Speaker 1: is the term I've seen used for it, called the
Speaker 1: drifters I think it's called the drifters stitch. And it's
Speaker 1: something that people have done, is that with zip ties
Speaker 1: okay before okay? Yeah, and you know what, It's surprisingly
Speaker 1: easy to do and surprisingly holds well really well. Um,
Speaker 1: I've done it already on this repair, just in a
Speaker 1: minor way, but I did it in a very not
Speaker 1: haphazard I mean, it looks good. You can't even see
Speaker 1: them hardly that that's there. It makes the makes the
Speaker 1: crack and the bumper disappear really and holds everything together.
Speaker 1: It's it's just you drill a couple of holes on
Speaker 1: each side of the crack and then run a zip
Speaker 1: tie through and you do that a couple of times.
Speaker 1: It looks like like stitches that you would put in
Speaker 1: somebody's you know body, you know, head arms, wherever you
Speaker 1: get to cut um. It's it's a lot like that.
Speaker 1: Um ohm, I've always cracked it. It's kind of funny, yeah,
Speaker 1: like anybody would go and get stitches at the doctor.
Speaker 1: It's it's very similar for your bumper, and it's it's
Speaker 1: a low cost, easy way to do repair. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it depends on the color of
Speaker 1: the vehicle. I've got a dark, dark blue vehicle, so
Speaker 1: I'm using black zip ties, and uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: wound in the in the umper pretty much disappears. It's
Speaker 1: it's really nice. And I think I need um maybe
Speaker 1: at the most, like two more stitches to make this
Speaker 1: whole thing working here and there at the moment right now,
Speaker 1: I've got three, um three, and I mean I need
Speaker 1: two more. I've I've just discovered that, you know, the
Speaker 1: the supporting structure behind it was jostle just enough that
Speaker 1: it's not quite holding up in the corner. So I
Speaker 1: need to add some to the corners. I know this
Speaker 1: is all very uh specific to to me and my
Speaker 1: my car, but I wonder if anybody else out there
Speaker 1: has has either done you know this this drifter stitch,
Speaker 1: or has heard of it or anything like that. If
Speaker 1: you haven't look at it online, you look at some
Speaker 1: photos online and you'll see some good versions of it,
Speaker 1: some bad versions of it, and it looks kind of neat.
Speaker 1: It looks like like a Frankenstein kind of repair made
Speaker 1: to a car. But um, it works in a pinch,
Speaker 1: and it definitely is not going to cost you a
Speaker 1: whole lot of money. Makes makes a huge improvement in
Speaker 1: the way the car looks after you know, a minor
Speaker 1: a minor incident. I've had a minor incident my car,
Speaker 1: and they employed this technique a lot up north, I believe,
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, what what do you mean? Well,
Speaker 1: that's where I've seen it, Okay, Well, like where last
Speaker 1: time was in Boston. It snows a lot there, so
Speaker 1: maybe there's they you hit things a little more often.
Speaker 1: The one I saw last was I didn't count, but
Speaker 1: it looked about like forties stitches in the corner of
Speaker 1: a bumper. Yeah, no, dint. It was just a straight crack.
Speaker 1: It's weird. It's about forties sometimes holding it it almost
Speaker 1: looks like a decal that somebody's put in the car.
Speaker 1: Doesn't close to appreciate it completely. Yeah, it's interesting, and
Speaker 1: that's a great theory behind behind why maybe you would
Speaker 1: see this more in the North. I guess that's true.
Speaker 1: It goes a new bumper every time you know a
Speaker 1: little something happened, Scott, what happened? Tellful, I will tell you,
Speaker 1: you know what, And I'll have to do this and
Speaker 1: I hate to do this. I've already promoted our other show,
Speaker 1: car Stuff, but I'm gonna have to promote my other show,
Speaker 1: which is Insomniac. And uh, the full story of that.
Speaker 1: You know, that incident is there and exactly what happened,
Speaker 1: but there's a there's a good long story behind and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you off air, but I think I'll just
Speaker 1: refer listeners to Insomnia. It comes later in the season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I had, um, yeah, I had a little
Speaker 1: incident here in the office area in the parking structure.
Speaker 1: Bumped the wall just to put was one of the columns.
Speaker 1: And now you're gonna make me tell the whole story.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to know. It wasn't it wasn't a
Speaker 1: column now it was on one of the ramps. But um, anyways,
Speaker 1: there's so much damage on those columns down there, and
Speaker 1: I'm wondering who's doing it. All that was that was
Speaker 1: a first for me and hopefully, hopefully now it's been
Speaker 1: the last but okay, okay, I do I do know
Speaker 1: that we have to get to our topic today. There's
Speaker 1: one other thing that has been just bugging me, and
Speaker 1: not bugging me, but but intriguing me. I suppose for
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks since you mentioned this, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we are going to get a Texas smile.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. I see you're getting ready. You get anxious. Yea,
Speaker 1: you're getting jump you over there. Um, I want to
Speaker 1: talk just a slight bit about your brother's cars because
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by this. You said your brother is one
Speaker 1: of these types of personalities that like to both upgrade
Speaker 1: and downgrade. Um, you know, it doesn't matter. It seems
Speaker 1: like it's not like he's like not focused on one
Speaker 1: type of car because of the types of cars that
Speaker 1: you've told me he's owned. And I'm just fascinated by
Speaker 1: this because I often will find, as probably a lot
Speaker 1: of other listeners do, You'll find a used car. Lots,
Speaker 1: you know, relatively new cars, maybe even the same model
Speaker 1: year that you're in right now. You know, somebody bought
Speaker 1: them the previous year as that model year, low mileage,
Speaker 1: Like they look pristine. They look brand new, very low mileage.
Speaker 1: But you're wondering why the heck would somebody buy, you know,
Speaker 1: this brand new car, this w R X S T
Speaker 1: I or whatever and and dump it off in the
Speaker 1: used car lot, you know, six or seven or eight
Speaker 1: months later and then trade up to something else or
Speaker 1: you know, what's the story behind that? And I think,
Speaker 1: and maybe just tell me a little bit about like what,
Speaker 1: like how many cars has he owned? And like what
Speaker 1: are some of the crazy ones? What does he owned now?
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. Yeah, I would just be speculating
Speaker 1: the number. Um, I really I think that he really
Speaker 1: enjoys a sports car. Well, what's the driving now? I
Speaker 1: believe it's a Honda Accord. I don't know the year model, um,
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen it that it was Toyota Prius. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was a hybrid okay. And then um, before
Speaker 1: that it was a Ford Focus. Yeah. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: just any focus as I as I hear it now,
Speaker 1: was it? I wasn't it a focus r S? You
Speaker 1: said it was a topic, So I think Focus may
Speaker 1: have been the st I'm not sure if it was,
Speaker 1: but it was still it was still pretty decent even so,
Speaker 1: even if it's the st still a wonderful car. But
Speaker 1: going from the ST and I'm sticking to say down
Speaker 1: to a Priest and someone's a completely different type. Well
Speaker 1: it is, yeah, And I shouldn't say, you know, it's
Speaker 1: downgrading or anything like that. I just mean it's it's
Speaker 1: a strange switch. You know. It's like somebody going from
Speaker 1: a Corvette to a station wagon or a minivan and
Speaker 1: then going back again to a Camaro or you know whatever,
Speaker 1: the sports car. Maybe it's like it's it's just intriguing
Speaker 1: to me to find somebody who switches cars so often
Speaker 1: because I I don't do that myself. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hold onto him for a decent amount of time. But
Speaker 1: people do have limits, you know, either it's a year
Speaker 1: limit or just maybe a condition limit. Could be my ledge,
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, a hundred thousand miles, two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles, whatever, the limit for them is a
Speaker 1: lot of people are comfortable with a car up to
Speaker 1: a point and then they move on. But some people
Speaker 1: change it like they change their shoes, you know, like
Speaker 1: feeling is it's kind of like a hobby. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got a I've got a younger brother who changes cars.
Speaker 1: But they're not new cars. It's always used cars, and
Speaker 1: they're always a little you know, on I don't know
Speaker 1: their lower end vehicles, I guess, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: he may end up with like a like I think
Speaker 1: right now he's driving a bmw M three, but it's
Speaker 1: fifteen years old or you know whatever the ages. I
Speaker 1: don't remember right now. Um, it's a little rough around
Speaker 1: the edges, but it's a great car and it's running
Speaker 1: fantastically and everything, and so it's it's a good car
Speaker 1: for him. But you know, he went from a Ford
Speaker 1: Explorer to that, and then he'll go back to a
Speaker 1: pickup truck and then he'll like, he'll move around, but
Speaker 1: not new vehicles and top of the line vehicles like that,
Speaker 1: or they were top of the line but ten fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. So it's just a it's a strange thing
Speaker 1: that some people do. And I've just always been fascinated
Speaker 1: by people switching cars so often, you know that can't
Speaker 1: find myself doing. I would kind of want to be
Speaker 1: that person, but I don't think I have the guts
Speaker 1: to uh to continually trade. I feel like I'm getting
Speaker 1: somebody else's problems. Maybe I drove my cars until they're
Speaker 1: useless basically, so they're like the trade in value is
Speaker 1: almost nothing and then pretty much Yeah, you get over
Speaker 1: two fifty thousand miles and then maybe even more than that.
Speaker 1: It's impressive, it's very good. Something about it that's good.
Speaker 1: I try to hold on the mind as long as
Speaker 1: I can. They stay in pretty good shape outside of
Speaker 1: my banged up bumper on this one. That's that's upset
Speaker 1: to me. This is like, this is really personally upsetting
Speaker 1: because I try to keep them looking almost new inside
Speaker 1: and outside as long as I can, and I've been
Speaker 1: pretty successful with it my whole life. This little minor
Speaker 1: incident with the front end is really really upsetting to me.
Speaker 1: And you know, I know, you can take it to
Speaker 1: the body shop and just be done with it, but
Speaker 1: it's expensive. And I don't know, maybe it's too much
Speaker 1: inside baseball about my own vehicle, but but I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people find themselves in the same position
Speaker 1: and look into that. Um you know that the drifters stitch.
Speaker 1: If you want to for a for a simple answer,
Speaker 1: an inexpensive answer, it's uh, maybe try it yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an option, it's an option. Maybe you could even
Speaker 1: practice on you know, a Junkyard bumper or something if
Speaker 1: you wanted to. But it's very easy to do, very
Speaker 1: very simple to do. And uh and a lot less
Speaker 1: money than taking into a body shop. A lot less
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah. Okay, well listen, I I probably have
Speaker 1: wasted more than enough time. I think maybe it would
Speaker 1: be a good time to take a break and we
Speaker 1: can come back and then finally begin our talk about
Speaker 1: the Texas Smile. And we're back and you were listening
Speaker 1: to the fast track, and I'm your host, Scott Benjamin,
Speaker 1: and across from me is Kurt Garren. Now you're doing Kurt,
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, Scott, still hanging in there. I'm okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep checking in with you, just make until finally,
Speaker 1: you know, one day I'm gonna say, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Scott Benjamin. Then one day you're gonna I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna jump. You're gonna be like, and I'm Kirkcaren
Speaker 1: and today's a beautiful day or whatever out or now
Speaker 1: something like that. It's a really beautiful is it's a
Speaker 1: really nice day, you know, And you know what, now
Speaker 1: that we're talking about beautiful days, I guess we probably
Speaker 1: should mention that it will probably be a beautiful day
Speaker 1: in late October in Texas, just guessing when they are
Speaker 1: running the next edition of the Texas Smile. This is
Speaker 1: an event that runs twice a year. They running in March,
Speaker 1: which is no problem for them. There's gonna be no snow.
Speaker 1: Of course, you might have some rain issues. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they ever have or not. Between March and
Speaker 1: then there's another one in October. So it's a It's
Speaker 1: run twice a year every year, and this year they
Speaker 1: are running it at a new place. Actually they have
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now called the Victoria Regional
Speaker 1: Airports in Victoria, Texas. And they've completed this race since.
Speaker 1: And I keep calling a race. I don't mean to
Speaker 1: do that. It's we should just say event maybe and
Speaker 1: just call it an event or yeah, and it's weird
Speaker 1: they call it as. The funny thing is they put
Speaker 1: it in the in the genre of auto show, and
Speaker 1: it's not an auto show by any means, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know why they did that, but I see
Speaker 1: it more as like a contest or even a test
Speaker 1: of your vehicle, or an exhibition, an exhibition of speed
Speaker 1: maybe um approving ground. Yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people do look at it as a test event. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I think that's how they view it. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a chance for them to go out and just show
Speaker 1: what they can do, show what they can put together.
Speaker 1: It's not a show in the traditional sense where you
Speaker 1: walk around the car and peek in and look at
Speaker 1: the interior, but you can see it run down the track,
Speaker 1: which is nice. Yeah, I mean, it's it's nice to
Speaker 1: be able to do that because a lot of times
Speaker 1: you don't see cars in motion. You go to a
Speaker 1: car show and you see all these fantastic vehicles, but
Speaker 1: they're all parked. You know, you might get to hear
Speaker 1: them start off or watch them pull onto a trailer
Speaker 1: or something like that, but this is one where you
Speaker 1: get to go and see them actually run. It's it's
Speaker 1: like you know, going to the drag races, like where
Speaker 1: it's amateur and pro and you know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: a big mix. And yeah, I guess any day at
Speaker 1: the track really, but you don't get quite as up
Speaker 1: close and personal when you're at the typical racetrack unless
Speaker 1: you spring for the optional pit pass and you know,
Speaker 1: get go and walk around the vehicles and get a
Speaker 1: little more hands on or not not hands on, but
Speaker 1: just you know, closer to them and talk to people.
Speaker 1: Let's just kind of go through some real simple basics
Speaker 1: of this whole thing, and then we'll move on to
Speaker 1: some specifics, because there's some interesting specifics. I guess. The
Speaker 1: most notable change, I guess is the change in venue.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is its third home since two thousand three.
Speaker 1: It's been run since two thousand three. It began in
Speaker 1: a place called Goliad, Texas, Goliad, and I looked at
Speaker 1: how to pronounce Goldiead. That's that's correct, uh goal Yead.
Speaker 1: It was ran there until about I think March of
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, so it ran there for a good
Speaker 1: long time, around eight years. The funny thing about this
Speaker 1: is that it started with only about thirty five people.
Speaker 1: It was began by a couple out of the Houston,
Speaker 1: Texas area, a guy named Jay Maddis and his wife
Speaker 1: Sharon Madis, and they had a company I think that
Speaker 1: they called J and S. Maddis Motorsports Incorporated. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure that that's still around. I think I think it
Speaker 1: is in some way of course, a couple still still
Speaker 1: around there. They're still running this thing. It started again
Speaker 1: third five participants and almost no spectators because no one
Speaker 1: really knew about the event. It wasn't, how you know,
Speaker 1: heavily promoted. I guess the people that participated probably told
Speaker 1: friends maybe and that was about it, but very few
Speaker 1: people showed up to that. It's a lot different today,
Speaker 1: is I mean, we've they've changed venues three times. The
Speaker 1: second move after they went from Goliad, they went to
Speaker 1: up the town's name is Beville, Texas, and the forum
Speaker 1: or the actual venue because Chase Field Industrial Complex. Then
Speaker 1: they finally relocated just in sen to the new place
Speaker 1: that they're running, which is the Victoria Regional Airport, which
Speaker 1: is in Victoria, Texas. Now these are all kind of
Speaker 1: around the Houston area, which makes sense, you know, from
Speaker 1: where the couple began, and they don't want to move
Speaker 1: it too far, I guess because it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a regional specialty event. But the number of
Speaker 1: spectators has gone up immensely from this. The number of
Speaker 1: participants has gone up incredibly from from the first days.
Speaker 1: Just it's become a huge, huge thing. It's one of
Speaker 1: the only places you can go and and or your
Speaker 1: car and test it out in an event like this.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's regional drag strips that you can go
Speaker 1: to every Thursday night or whatever and see what you
Speaker 1: can do. But to get on a mile in a
Speaker 1: straight line, have professional timing equipment and medical staff and
Speaker 1: just everything there for you to do this. It's it's
Speaker 1: rare that you find out how much is it to
Speaker 1: to sign? You know, I was looking at number I
Speaker 1: might have an average person can't do it? Do it anymore? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I wouldn't be so sure
Speaker 1: for an event like this because once like they try
Speaker 1: to keep it somewhat open. Let me just I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna just let it out here. Why not? I why
Speaker 1: hold back on this? But here's the here's a just
Speaker 1: an idea of what you're paying for these. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a high dollar event like you
Speaker 1: would think. I'm looking right now. It's information that came
Speaker 1: from the Texas Mile website, which is um Texas Mile
Speaker 1: dot net. So if you want to go there and
Speaker 1: look up all this information, you can, but just so
Speaker 1: you get an idea of how low dollar this whole
Speaker 1: thing is tickets for it's a three day event, it's
Speaker 1: a whole weekend. If you're just a spectator, twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars per person for all three days. You just get
Speaker 1: a risk band for twenty five dollars. It gets in
Speaker 1: for three days of activities. And not only that, you
Speaker 1: can even if you if you wanted to, you could
Speaker 1: stay on site. You can camp there, I guess on
Speaker 1: the on the on the property, which is really cool
Speaker 1: for a very low price. I mean, I know it
Speaker 1: sounds well. Just compare this to to renting a hotel room.
Speaker 1: But one night is only sixty bucks. If you want
Speaker 1: to want to stay two nights is hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: three nights is a hundred and sixty dollars. And that's
Speaker 1: if you want to set up you know, a motor
Speaker 1: home or a camper on site and stay there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they allow tents. Uh. You know, the
Speaker 1: information wasn't specific about that. You can contact them and
Speaker 1: find out. And I'm not trying to sell tickets for
Speaker 1: them or anything like that, I promise, But it says
Speaker 1: they do not sell out of tickets, but I guess
Speaker 1: they never run out. But the number of spectators here
Speaker 1: and you know, oh, I should say this, kids under
Speaker 1: twelve are free, so that's a bonus too. I think
Speaker 1: that there. Yeah, so twenty five dollars or free is
Speaker 1: really the price point for something like this. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the registration is for the driver. It can't
Speaker 1: be a whole lot of money. There's there's shaded seeing,
Speaker 1: there's bleachers, but they say you probably should bring a
Speaker 1: folding chair if you want to just kind of hang
Speaker 1: out and you know, one of the grassy areas and
Speaker 1: watch and catch everything because it is a long day.
Speaker 1: I mean they start in the morning early, goes all
Speaker 1: the way until dusk. I would guess, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not sunset but dusk, so it's um. It seems like
Speaker 1: a good mix of cars, to a good mix of
Speaker 1: shops that are really into the speed, and then just
Speaker 1: average folks with nice cars. I'm just want to go
Speaker 1: out there and run the mile. There's a healthy mix
Speaker 1: of both amateur and I would call him professional. There
Speaker 1: are these people that do the high speed runs are
Speaker 1: professional race shops, professional engineers. Absolutely, yeah, they're they're in
Speaker 1: shops building cars to specifically run in this event. And
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about one car and specific that's
Speaker 1: what was built the record holder. Of course we'll get
Speaker 1: to that later in the podcast. To promise. Gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: all over the place. I apologize Kurtin and listeners because, um,
Speaker 1: I'm just skipping all over the place. But I feel
Speaker 1: like there's just that there actually is a lot of
Speaker 1: new information. You know that the spectators and the number
Speaker 1: of of entrance is something we should talk about, because
Speaker 1: I just kind of breezed over that a moment ago,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, back in two thousand three
Speaker 1: in Goliad, they had thirty five participants and almost no spectators,
Speaker 1: So there are very few people there outside of the
Speaker 1: timing individuals and you know, the staff that operates it
Speaker 1: and the participants. There were very few people there outside
Speaker 1: of that. Well, now as of two thousand eighteen, or
Speaker 1: at the two thousand eighteen event, I think it was
Speaker 1: the March event, they had something like twenty hundred spectators
Speaker 1: at this thing. So it's really grown in popularity. I
Speaker 1: can only assume that it will go up. You know,
Speaker 1: with social media, you know, reach and all that, you
Speaker 1: know that they're kind of able to garner more attention
Speaker 1: from this community and from you know, people that are
Speaker 1: interested in this sort of thing, and not just from
Speaker 1: the United States, but everywhere. People come from, you know,
Speaker 1: from Mexico, from Canada, from Saudi Arabia, from France. They're
Speaker 1: from all over the world now participating in this thing,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. And the number of participants they
Speaker 1: went from thirty five again in two thousand three, it's
Speaker 1: climbed steadily. Now they allow something like two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty or more participants in one. Thing about this particular
Speaker 1: event that peaks people's interests when you throw it back
Speaker 1: to the beginning of spectator type racing, which I guess
Speaker 1: goes back to the beginning of the car um the
Speaker 1: fact that you can watch these cars do this thing
Speaker 1: and maybe it's something that you can go and watch
Speaker 1: with that hope of maybe one day you can get
Speaker 1: your car out there and do it. Unlike going to
Speaker 1: a professional sports car racer INDIECR NASCAR, you can't really
Speaker 1: dream of doing that if you're just the spectator the fan. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: like you you said earlier that this is a nice
Speaker 1: healthy mix of people that have built a car in
Speaker 1: their garage and want to bring it out and try it.
Speaker 1: It could be a really like kind of a hot
Speaker 1: street car that they have just never been able to
Speaker 1: really push to the maximum, to the limit. And it
Speaker 1: also could be like these shops that specifically build cars
Speaker 1: for this event with the one mile run in mind,
Speaker 1: and that's the main goal, and that's all they do.
Speaker 1: They just do that with that one car, and you know,
Speaker 1: they might have a customer that comes in and says,
Speaker 1: I want to be in this. Here's my budget, here's
Speaker 1: the car I want to start with, here's you know whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, they have lots of sponsors and all that is.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like professional racing would be for some people.
Speaker 1: But you don't What you don't see is you don't
Speaker 1: see like a Formula one team pull up with their
Speaker 1: F one car and run this mile. You don't see
Speaker 1: and and honestly, they would probably be beaten by some
Speaker 1: of the guys that build cars in their own garage,
Speaker 1: which is unbelievable to me. And it's it's such a
Speaker 1: strange contest and maybe maybe we should talk about just
Speaker 1: like I hope him saying this right way, the right way,
Speaker 1: but some of the uniqueness of this event, because there's
Speaker 1: so many things about it that are different. So, first
Speaker 1: of all, it's a full mile run. It's not a
Speaker 1: quarter mile like you would find in a dragstrip. It's
Speaker 1: not a long distance run either. It's it's a full
Speaker 1: I guess a mile is a long distance. But you
Speaker 1: start a standing start, standing start, not a rolling start
Speaker 1: as a speed record would be, for example, land speed record. Generally,
Speaker 1: they want to get up to a certain speed before
Speaker 1: they start the Yeah, so okay, so when we start
Speaker 1: talking about times and they're not times rather because that's
Speaker 1: another thing I want to talking about. But when we
Speaker 1: started talking about start talking about like top speeds in
Speaker 1: this one mile, you gotta remember it's a car that's
Speaker 1: going zero miles per hour. The clock starts as it
Speaker 1: crosses that one mile mark. That's the all their measuring
Speaker 1: is just the speed, not the time. And that's unique
Speaker 1: in that if you're going for a top speed run
Speaker 1: typically like if you're out in Utah and the Salt
Speaker 1: Flats or you know, any desert run or anything like that.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about the thrust SSC and you
Speaker 1: know the land speed record attempts, and we'll probably talk
Speaker 1: many more times about stuff like that. But they have
Speaker 1: the advantage of having this kind of a ramp up.
Speaker 1: I guess a long long run. It could be miles
Speaker 1: long to ramp up to the speed. Then there's like
Speaker 1: a timed mile, and then they have a long way
Speaker 1: to to shut down. Well, this one is just that mile.
Speaker 1: So you don't get to start at a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty miles an hour and then try to get to
Speaker 1: you know, two fifty miles an hour. You have to
Speaker 1: start at zero and try to get to two fifty
Speaker 1: miles an hour in that short amount of space. The
Speaker 1: speeds are measured um along the way and displayed to
Speaker 1: the spectators. So there's great big boards that have led
Speaker 1: readouts that you know, show the speeds at I believe
Speaker 1: it's a quarter mile, and then another at a half
Speaker 1: a mile, and then they give them the final mile speed.
Speaker 1: I don't think they bother with three quarter mile speed.
Speaker 1: If they do, I haven't seen it in any of
Speaker 1: these videos. Um. But one of the things that strikes
Speaker 1: me is like even the quarter mile speeds are about
Speaker 1: what you would expect from a dragster. Like you watch
Speaker 1: you watch like the you know, the private teams at
Speaker 1: drag strips, and you get about what you would think
Speaker 1: out of that, the half mile speed goes up considerably.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're going really really fast, A lot of
Speaker 1: them are at this point. Then you have the mile speed.
Speaker 1: And what's what's shocking to me a lot of times
Speaker 1: is the difference in speed. As you you said this
Speaker 1: to me off air, the difference in speed. You would
Speaker 1: not expect it to jump up so much between the
Speaker 1: half mile and the full mile, but it does well
Speaker 1: even between the quarter mile and the half mile. I
Speaker 1: look at it as the first quarter mile they try
Speaker 1: to get the car to hook up as as opposed
Speaker 1: to drag race, you wanted to to hook up right away.
Speaker 1: So the first quarter miles kind of getting everything stable
Speaker 1: because they're gonna start going much faster, and in cars
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily designed to go that fast, or at
Speaker 1: least from the factory. So and I guess one of
Speaker 1: the point I'm getting at is from the half mile
Speaker 1: to the end, that's when they're really applying the power
Speaker 1: and trying to keep everything stable. And just interesting how
Speaker 1: how how much you could trying to hook up all
Speaker 1: that power to the pavement in a half a mile.
Speaker 1: Is interesting to watch that increase in So I agree,
Speaker 1: and and what we're accustomed to seeing from the production
Speaker 1: car speeds when we watch these record attempts from whether
Speaker 1: it be Bugatti or Lamborghini or whoever is running the
Speaker 1: Earth Ferrari or any of those that running these top
Speaker 1: end speed records or KNA SAG or any of those.
Speaker 1: Once you get to a certain pointing at in those cars,
Speaker 1: they relatively slowly increased speed after about I think it's
Speaker 1: like after right around two hundred miles an hour. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, like that's when things starting to get get
Speaker 1: a little dicey. I think, yeah, well, especially between like
Speaker 1: two fifty and three hundred, I mean, super incredible. Again,
Speaker 1: watching one of the one of the production cars do
Speaker 1: it attempted in a very professionally made YouTube video you
Speaker 1: know that is done in Germany. And again I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get to it, but we kind of have already talked
Speaker 1: about it. The guy says, and this is the way
Speaker 1: he put it out paraphrase. He says, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people, or most people will at some point
Speaker 1: be able to achieve a hundred and fifty miles per
Speaker 1: hour in their life in a car. And I don't
Speaker 1: know about most, but a lot. And again this is
Speaker 1: the guy from he's a German race car driver, so
Speaker 1: he probably has a skewed view of what people can do.
Speaker 1: And let's say a few people are gonna go a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty. But then he says, you push it a
Speaker 1: little bit more and you go a hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: miles an hour. And that's a lot different than going
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty miles an hour. There's a big difference.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't expect it. He said, if you go from
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty to two hundred miles an hour, that's
Speaker 1: like a whole different world, they said, Like it's it's
Speaker 1: something that you only can get through experience, Like you
Speaker 1: don't know what that feels like until you've done it.
Speaker 1: And then he said, once you go from two hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour to three hundred miles an hour, it
Speaker 1: becomes like this ridiculous, just I don't know, just a mess,
Speaker 1: Like it really messes with your head, is what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's not things that aren't aren't happening when
Speaker 1: you would normally perceive them to happen. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: much much faster, and it just doesn't make sense to
Speaker 1: your brain. You can't even comprehend to what's happening because
Speaker 1: you know, everything is flying past. It's such a great
Speaker 1: rate of speed. And you know, we're not talking about
Speaker 1: being in a desert area where these runs are made,
Speaker 1: these production car runs are made. They're made on a
Speaker 1: track in Germany that has trees near it and guard
Speaker 1: rails and you know, cameras and everything all over the place.
Speaker 1: It's and lines on the road. It's a lot different.
Speaker 1: You get that real sensation of speed getting back to
Speaker 1: the Texas Mile. It's not just cars, because we're just
Speaker 1: talking about cars right now. It's uh, it's car, sports cars,
Speaker 1: it's motorcycles, it's truck's purpose built race cars that come
Speaker 1: out and do it. And electric cars electric cars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of category. They have this electric car
Speaker 1: that is the fastest. I need to make sure I
Speaker 1: phrase this right because I'm sure there's nuances, don't one
Speaker 1: the world's fastest accelerating modified road car zero to sixty
Speaker 1: miles per hour and one point seven nine one point
Speaker 1: seven nine seconds. It kind of makes sense for electric
Speaker 1: I guess, to be the fastest because it has instant torque,
Speaker 1: like every bit of the torque is available the second
Speaker 1: you push that accelerator. However, I'm surprised that they're measuring
Speaker 1: zero to sixty speeded. That must be just kind of
Speaker 1: their own thing probably, But the top, I think I
Speaker 1: know which one you're talking about. The this is a
Speaker 1: this is an older car that they've retrofitted with model
Speaker 1: Mustang sixty eight Mustang fast Back, and they call it
Speaker 1: the Zombie too. And I wonder, you know, okay, because
Speaker 1: they's called the two. I wonder if that's their goal,
Speaker 1: if that's what they're shooting for. That one actually has
Speaker 1: the electric vehicles need record in the in the Texas
Speaker 1: mile at a hundred and seventy eight miles per hour,
Speaker 1: and I did that back in March off and it
Speaker 1: hasn't been beaten since. UM. Hundred and seventy eight miles
Speaker 1: per hour is pretty darn impressive for as six. Think
Speaker 1: about the aerodynamics of a sixty eight Mustang fast Back.
Speaker 1: Imagine pushing that up to a hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 1: in just one mile. I mean, that's that's impressive. That's
Speaker 1: that's the impressive part. If you had ten miles, maybe
Speaker 1: you could get it up to that speed. Maybe you know,
Speaker 1: you have to have a safe area to do it,
Speaker 1: and all the testing and everything you know to go
Speaker 1: along with it. But I think the one mile thing
Speaker 1: is probably the most important or the most I don't
Speaker 1: know that the most maybe the most important number in
Speaker 1: this whole thing. I ever run the Texas kilometer. I
Speaker 1: don't think they know not in Texas. I think you
Speaker 1: get shot if you even if you even mentioned the
Speaker 1: kilometer in Texas. But you know what we should you
Speaker 1: know we should say this though. And I know we've
Speaker 1: been just doing miles per hour here because we're a
Speaker 1: US based show. But I guess for anyone who's interested
Speaker 1: the top speed, if you if you're talking about going
Speaker 1: in three miles per hour, three miles per hour or
Speaker 1: something like four hundred and eighty three kilometers per hour,
Speaker 1: and the distance we're talking about here would be if
Speaker 1: you're doing four and you're you're getting in a vehicle
Speaker 1: to four hund an eighty three kilometers per hour in
Speaker 1: just one point six kilometers of roadway, if you want
Speaker 1: to look at it that way. So it's those are
Speaker 1: the types of distances and speeds we're talking about. If
Speaker 1: if you've been confused by the mile per hour thing
Speaker 1: or you know, having to go to your your conversion
Speaker 1: chart and rapidly, you know, punching numbers. Before we take
Speaker 1: a break, I want to say one more thing, and
Speaker 1: I only want to do this because I don't like
Speaker 1: to end on a sad note, and I think we
Speaker 1: should talk about something a little bit sad. Well it
Speaker 1: was sad, but it's not breaking news sad. I guess
Speaker 1: it didn't happen just now, something a lot of people
Speaker 1: probably already know about. And we'll come back with some
Speaker 1: happy news in just a moment. But one of the
Speaker 1: guys that we talked about in the previous podcast, in
Speaker 1: the car Stuff episode in two thousand twelve, we were
Speaker 1: talking about him just breaking the record, you know, he
Speaker 1: had he had just achieved a record of something like
Speaker 1: two and seventy eight point six miles per hour at
Speaker 1: the at the Texas Mile and he was the current
Speaker 1: record holder. He's he was on a motorcycle. His name
Speaker 1: was Bill Warner. Of course, we were talking about him
Speaker 1: in the present tense. He was still around doing what
Speaker 1: he was doing. But unfortunately Bill Warner died not much
Speaker 1: later the very next year in a motorcycle accident. Um doing,
Speaker 1: of course, doing what he does or what he did,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, achieving land speed records. So
Speaker 1: he broke the record again. He broke the three mile
Speaker 1: per hour barrier in two thousand eleven at a different event,
Speaker 1: I believe. And then that is when actually, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's when we had our podcast right after the three
Speaker 1: hundred eleven so we were you know, owing and nine
Speaker 1: about the you know, getting past three d eleven miles
Speaker 1: per hour on a motorcycle on pavement at that time
Speaker 1: and against some specifics I can go into in just
Speaker 1: a second, But just after that in July is when
Speaker 1: when he died. Um. Again, not breaking news by any means,
Speaker 1: but I think that we need to mention it because of,
Speaker 1: you know, the the focus that we had on him
Speaker 1: in the first podcast that we did. This bike at
Speaker 1: the time that he was riding, it's up in like
Speaker 1: six and fifty horsepower on a motorcycle. It's a Hya
Speaker 1: busa and they call that a conventional motorcycle, you know,
Speaker 1: where the rider's exposed. It's a traditional motorcycle. I supposed. However,
Speaker 1: when you look at it, I mean it's modified because
Speaker 1: it did have a turbo, did have panels put on it. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of like I guess the street modified
Speaker 1: Hyabusa with with a turbo Streamliner record is a lot faster.
Speaker 1: It's like another seventy eight miles an hour faster than this.
Speaker 1: So you know, once you enclose, the rider becomes much
Speaker 1: more aerodynamic. But this he was in an open bike
Speaker 1: and again he passed away. UM. I believe it was
Speaker 1: in July of two thirteen, and it was well he
Speaker 1: was trying to break, um, break a record in I
Speaker 1: think he was in Maine, only forty four years old.
Speaker 1: But we've heard of land speed record people that's how
Speaker 1: they die. Um. They kind of know the the risks
Speaker 1: and the dangers involved in that and they accept that.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm sorry to hear that. You know he passed,
Speaker 1: but I figured we should just mention it. Um, you
Speaker 1: know that that that somebody who we've lost along the way.
Speaker 1: I want to get into some happier news, so let's
Speaker 1: let's let's finish up by talking about the current record
Speaker 1: holder at the Texas Smile in just a minute. After
Speaker 1: we take a break, and we're back and you're listening
Speaker 1: to the fast Track, and I'm your host, Scott Benjamin,
Speaker 1: and I am Kurt Garin, Oh you gotta Kurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you called me off guard just a little quick. I
Speaker 1: had to run over to the mic from the from
Speaker 1: the computer. Y'all out there, couldn't see that. Fantastic. Well
Speaker 1: you're quick, quick on your feet. Good work, good work,
Speaker 1: And I didn't mean to catch you off guard than
Speaker 1: the four GT we're about to talk about. Yeah, maybe right. Alright,
Speaker 1: So so here's the deal. All right, the current record
Speaker 1: was just broken recently. This now, this is um. We're
Speaker 1: doing this podcast in twenty nineteen. We are in between
Speaker 1: events in twenty nineteen, so there's already been the March
Speaker 1: of nineteen event, and there's going to be the October event.
Speaker 1: We're doing this in September, so right before this, and
Speaker 1: it's always for the last weekend in March and the
Speaker 1: last weekend in October. Yeah, So if you want to
Speaker 1: plan for it and you're in your schedules or you
Speaker 1: want to look up, you know, maybe a time when
Speaker 1: you can travel down to the Houston area and maybe
Speaker 1: catch this thing live. Definitely do that. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's a worthwhile thing. And you can go to you know,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the websites you can go and look
Speaker 1: at it. What was it Texas Texas? Yeah, Texas mile
Speaker 1: dot net was the site, So check that out if
Speaker 1: you want to. Again, we're not selling tickets or anything,
Speaker 1: so it's just an awesome event. Go see it if
Speaker 1: you're in Texas, if you want to. I don't care
Speaker 1: either way. I don't care either way. If you go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't mean to be flipping about it,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't care. Yeah, you'd like to go,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go. I personally would love to be
Speaker 1: there and witness one of these because I think it's
Speaker 1: just it's just awesome. I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: been there last March. Yes, okay, so last March something
Speaker 1: incredible happened, right right, Okay, So what happened? Um, well,
Speaker 1: a four GT broke the three mark through and the
Speaker 1: Texas Smile three hundred miles per hour. Now it's three
Speaker 1: I think the actual record. I mean, just it's just
Speaker 1: barely above it. It's three hundred point four three point four.
Speaker 1: And I know that's nitpicky, but when you get to
Speaker 1: those speeds, that's going to be important because someone might
Speaker 1: go three hundred point five next year and and that
Speaker 1: will matter nine. It is not three hundred. That's just
Speaker 1: that's that's how it is. This is a current record
Speaker 1: that's held at the Texas Texas Mile, and it's by
Speaker 1: a company that built this car specifically for a customer
Speaker 1: that that wanted to do this or for themselves. I
Speaker 1: don't know if them selves are customer, not sure, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the focus has always been on the company. Anyways. The
Speaker 1: company's name is M two K Motorsports and the car
Speaker 1: itself is a is a first generator, I should say first.
Speaker 1: It's a version of the the g T, the four
Speaker 1: GT that was put out back in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1: So it's a two thousand six four GT, not the
Speaker 1: current one, not the not the you know, four thousand
Speaker 1: dollar ones. It had a Gulf livery which I think
Speaker 1: is really cool. You know, the blue and orange. The
Speaker 1: number on the car is significant, you know, the number
Speaker 1: in the car, just by the number on the car
Speaker 1: that they ran this year is to was their previous
Speaker 1: record that they had made back in I want to
Speaker 1: say it was two thousand seventeen. So the two seventeen
Speaker 1: is when they ran two miles per hour and they
Speaker 1: were thinking, like, we are so close to this. We're
Speaker 1: really really close to this. And I saw an interview
Speaker 1: that was done by the owner of this company on
Speaker 1: a local channel. It was it was done on k
Speaker 1: pr C. They interviewed the owner of the shop and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, back when we started this whole project,
Speaker 1: the goal was something like two hundred and thirty five
Speaker 1: miles an hour. That was like the record, and that's
Speaker 1: what they wanted to beat. They wanted to go two
Speaker 1: and three five, he said, three hundred miles per hour
Speaker 1: is it was never even a dream at that point.
Speaker 1: But as the years progressed, they decided that we've got
Speaker 1: to keep up with you know, exactly what's going on,
Speaker 1: and and keep up the speed with the current records,
Speaker 1: and and if we tune this and tweak that, and
Speaker 1: you know, re engineered this part and make this a
Speaker 1: little bit more, are dynamic underneath the car or you
Speaker 1: know whatever. They did a lot of work on the vehicle,
Speaker 1: and I'm I know, I'm just paraphrasing this in in
Speaker 1: a horrible way, simplifying what they did exactly. But they
Speaker 1: brought the car back just two years later, and they
Speaker 1: ended up topping three d miles per hour. And they
Speaker 1: did it in a series of several runs, and I
Speaker 1: kind of see it as as I think the Texas
Speaker 1: Mile people that have confirmed, Uh, these were kind of
Speaker 1: like shakedown runs for them. They knew that they could
Speaker 1: get close to three hundred or three hundred. They were
Speaker 1: hoping for it. Of course, big celebration when they did
Speaker 1: hit it, but the early runs were nowhere near that speed.
Speaker 1: The earlier runs were relatively low speed, and of course
Speaker 1: they weren't sandbagging, because there's nothing, nothing to be gained
Speaker 1: from that. But over the course of a three day weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, they ran and I think I want to
Speaker 1: say it was four runs. The first run was something
Speaker 1: like a hundred and seventy five miles per hour somewhere
Speaker 1: near there. The second run they really they amped it
Speaker 1: up at this point two hundred and forty miles per
Speaker 1: hour in the next run, and that puts them already
Speaker 1: in an elite group, I guess, because the two hundred
Speaker 1: mile per hour club is a big deal at the
Speaker 1: Texas Mile. If you can get your car to go
Speaker 1: two hundred miles per hour, that's that's pretty impressive by
Speaker 1: any standard. Really, I mean, I think that's cool. So
Speaker 1: they're already in that and they had been before with
Speaker 1: their two ninety three or whatever. Um the next run
Speaker 1: they say the third and final run, but I think
Speaker 1: there was a fourth run. I think there was another
Speaker 1: one and stuffed in there somewhere that you know, maybe
Speaker 1: didn't go so well that they didn't even report the
Speaker 1: third and final run. I which that they're claiming as
Speaker 1: the third and final run was the one that they read.
Speaker 1: They finally reached the three point four mile per hour mark.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this. I I learned this along
Speaker 1: the way, and this is so impressive to me. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about the difference between quarter mile, half mile,
Speaker 1: and full mile. At the half mile mark on the
Speaker 1: three per hour run, they were already going two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty miles per hour and a half mile, so
Speaker 1: that's incredibly fast. Already they're already topping you know, what
Speaker 1: a lot of cars do in the full mile at
Speaker 1: the half mile. And then not only that, they gained
Speaker 1: sixty miles per hour in between the half mile and
Speaker 1: the full mile. And to gain that, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: in just a minute why that is so impressive to me.
Speaker 1: But to gain sixty miles per hour in that in
Speaker 1: that relatively short amount of space. And I know that
Speaker 1: time doesn't come into this, but we're only talking about
Speaker 1: a run that can you know, from beginning to end
Speaker 1: is like maybe twenty two seconds, one seconds somewhere around there.
Speaker 1: That's the full length of time it takes them to
Speaker 1: go one full mile. So really really impressive. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just unbelievable that they were able to do that.
Speaker 1: But but again, it took them two years of engineering
Speaker 1: and refining and you know, changing things around to be
Speaker 1: able to get that extra seven miles per hour out
Speaker 1: of this vehicle. And you know, they were just working
Speaker 1: at it all the time, you know, trying to really
Speaker 1: amp this thing up to get it to uh, you
Speaker 1: know that three per hour mark. Because that's a huge
Speaker 1: milestone for them. They're always going to be in the
Speaker 1: record books as breaking that and doing that. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of infamy for them, I suppose. And uh, one
Speaker 1: interesting thing to me is that it isn't necessary I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a race car, but it's not necessarily a purpose
Speaker 1: built dragster type car. No, it's a say standard two
Speaker 1: thousand six four GT if you can call it standard, right,
Speaker 1: What I mean, what you're saying, is the car's body
Speaker 1: itself is not engineered like a dragster would know. It's example,
Speaker 1: it's a road going car and and so therefore it
Speaker 1: has these built in limitations that overcome, such as holes
Speaker 1: for the production car would have for cooling and things
Speaker 1: like that. I would even imagine tire width. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they mess with anything like that. I think
Speaker 1: that they had to the I want to tell you
Speaker 1: just a little bit more about the car itself. You
Speaker 1: know about the about the engine, and just a tiny
Speaker 1: bit more because I don't know a whole lot about it.
Speaker 1: Just a little bit. And then I want to like
Speaker 1: make this comparison between the production vehicles that are trying
Speaker 1: to achieve three and miles per hour and then what
Speaker 1: this company has done. But it's important to remember that
Speaker 1: the car that's hitting the air is basically the four
Speaker 1: g T. It's not designed from the ground up to
Speaker 1: go fast. It's it was built upon an already existing car.
Speaker 1: Engine block is I think of stock engine block as well.
Speaker 1: All that stuff, to me is cool because it's not
Speaker 1: completely customed exactly that completely custom. It's modified, its modified.
Speaker 1: I think it's in a tasteful way. I guess we're
Speaker 1: not trying to get it, you know, it's the car
Speaker 1: is a classic. Yeah, oh yeah, it's cool to see
Speaker 1: this classic cargo three miles an hour. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's you've said a mouthful here. I
Speaker 1: don't even know where to begin. It's fascinating to me
Speaker 1: that they can take that design and push it to
Speaker 1: that extreme. We were talking about the Bugatti, the just
Speaker 1: the production car that three miles an hour, and it
Speaker 1: was designed with this in mind. Yeah, the body reshapes
Speaker 1: itself at certain speeds. Doesn't happen on this car. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: And and there's so many little nuances to what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here, And I know we're not going to
Speaker 1: do it justice by having this. Just maybe we can
Speaker 1: have a different discussion. I think we should someday about
Speaker 1: these modified versus auction car requirements standards, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: the arguments against and four and all that. I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot there that we can talk about
Speaker 1: a ton and I know we've already mentioned a few,
Speaker 1: but yeah, when you start talking about like tires that
Speaker 1: have to go three hundred miles per hour, you're not
Speaker 1: going to go down to the General tire store and
Speaker 1: pick those up. Now, it is a and it is
Speaker 1: an extremely sleek looking car. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: the two thousand six four g T and it's it
Speaker 1: has the appearance of a race car. It really does.
Speaker 1: But it's not a custom built dragster. It's not a
Speaker 1: car that was built to go three hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean. I'm gonna spit ball here.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna even begin to know the actual number.
Speaker 1: But let's say that the car was designed to go
Speaker 1: a hundred ninety miles per hour. That was the top
Speaker 1: speed and that's what they thought would be maximum on
Speaker 1: this They didn't test the aerodynamics beyond that for this
Speaker 1: thing to take off in the air at a certain speed,
Speaker 1: because that's what happens. You know, when when you mess
Speaker 1: around with the aerodynamics of a vehicle, you know, it
Speaker 1: becomes a wing and it be you know, you become
Speaker 1: airborne at a certain point. I mean small airplanes and
Speaker 1: well large airplanes can fly at these speeds and do
Speaker 1: fly at these speeds. So keeping the car on the
Speaker 1: ground is a huge issue. There's so much that goes
Speaker 1: into these cars and the modifications that they have to
Speaker 1: make in order to do this. But a couple of
Speaker 1: things that m K two Motor Sports did to the
Speaker 1: four g T to keep it stock, if you want
Speaker 1: to put it that way. And I I'm laughing when
Speaker 1: I say this, because when I read this next paragraph,
Speaker 1: I'm reading from an article that came from a site
Speaker 1: called The Drive, and it was written just after the
Speaker 1: record was broken on March nineteen. If you want to
Speaker 1: go and look at this article, you can do that.
Speaker 1: It's on the Drive. It's all about the three point
Speaker 1: for mile prior run. And it says, and I'll just
Speaker 1: read this one paragraph directly here, but it says, well,
Speaker 1: the m two K Motorsports prepped for GT retains the
Speaker 1: stock five point four leader V eight from the previous
Speaker 1: generation for g T. So you're right. It is a
Speaker 1: stock block and it's stock stock engine size. I guess
Speaker 1: it's been well, they say, seriously amped up to deliver
Speaker 1: stratospheric horsepower that not even a dine O can handle.
Speaker 1: The guests on this car is five hundred horse power.
Speaker 1: Five hundred horse power in that car that originally I
Speaker 1: don't know what it had. Probably I'm gonna again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess. I don't have the stats in front of me.
Speaker 1: Maybe five hundred, six hundred horse power at the most,
Speaker 1: there's somewhere around their ballpark to put you know, to
Speaker 1: put undred in there. And this is only a guess,
Speaker 1: by the way, because when they said on a Dino,
Speaker 1: it's hard to strap a car down in a way
Speaker 1: in such a manner that you can test it beyond
Speaker 1: somewhere roughly around two thousand horse power. So it does
Speaker 1: exceed two thousand. They think it goes up to about undred,
Speaker 1: but it's nearly impossible to keep it on the Dino
Speaker 1: at that point. I mean with chains and everything. I
Speaker 1: mean it's chain straps. We've all seen, you know, those
Speaker 1: Dino videos of cars breaking the straps or breaking the chains,
Speaker 1: and you know cataculus, big failures that happened, horrifically expensive
Speaker 1: accidents that happened, you know, in shops, and you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be those those people. You know
Speaker 1: that that you own the car or hook the car up.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be either one of those on
Speaker 1: on either side of that. Horsepower is an estimate, and
Speaker 1: of course, you know, reaching three hundred, and we've talked
Speaker 1: about kind of them, you know that it's quite an achievement. Tight,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we can all agree, right. The
Speaker 1: question that was posed by the author of this article
Speaker 1: is a good one, and he says that typically these
Speaker 1: types of records that are set by private companies are privateers,
Speaker 1: I think is what they call them. Typically the manufacturers
Speaker 1: don't get too rattled by these. They don't say, like, well, chiefs,
Speaker 1: we were building five hundred thousand dollars supercar. You know,
Speaker 1: why can't we get ours to go three miles? They
Speaker 1: don't say that to themselves. It's like a different sphere
Speaker 1: that they're operating in because they know they're not going
Speaker 1: to create horsepower car. You know that it is specifically
Speaker 1: built for one event in order to break that one record,
Speaker 1: and then that's it. And a car company, a big company,
Speaker 1: just think about the money that they would have to
Speaker 1: unload on a project like that, and the teams and
Speaker 1: the testing, and it becomes a logistical nightmare for them
Speaker 1: to do that. Bugatti has done that in a sense.
Speaker 1: The question here at the end of this article is
Speaker 1: kind of funny because they're saying it's it's an impressive
Speaker 1: feat to reach three hundred miles per hour anyway, and
Speaker 1: to do it in one mile is even more impressive.
Speaker 1: And then just that it's a private company that was
Speaker 1: able to do it out of some and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say a little shop, but it was a motorsports shop.
Speaker 1: Will they take any notice of this? Will Bugatti take
Speaker 1: notice of it? Will Kona Seg take notice of it?
Speaker 1: Will they? Will they be kind of ruffled by this one?
Speaker 1: And again this is written in March of nineteen, will
Speaker 1: in August of en and August two, that's when Bugatti
Speaker 1: made the three per hour run. And I know they
Speaker 1: were working on it long before that. It doesn't just
Speaker 1: happen in a couple of months like that. It doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. And it was a production car well,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't in a mile? Yeah and yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: The tires, so their tires are really specific and that
Speaker 1: remember they were X rayed before they even put them
Speaker 1: on the car in order to make sure they're free
Speaker 1: of imperfections, and they're not. I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: doing that with these, you know, these tires on this
Speaker 1: this four GT. I just don't think that it's happening
Speaker 1: that way. I know that they're they're extreme quality and
Speaker 1: everything's well balanced and and you know, broken in and perfect.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely perfect. But they didn't go as far as
Speaker 1: to X ray the tires before they made the run.
Speaker 1: And well, these are tires. They have to glue onto
Speaker 1: the rims. Apparently tires don't hold up very well at
Speaker 1: these speeds for very long. So we're talking you only
Speaker 1: have a short amount of time on a set of
Speaker 1: tires at these speeds until they just become obliterated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's just one element of this, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many things that we mentioned. You know,
Speaker 1: they are dynamics, and we mentioned that how the shape
Speaker 1: of the body of the Bugatti changed, you know, as
Speaker 1: it went faster and faster it was on a track.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. Okay, So Cash, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going crazy or something. I got so much
Speaker 1: to get out and out and learning out or I am,
Speaker 1: I really am. I I feel like, you know what,
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen. Here's what's gonna happen. As soon
Speaker 1: as we're done. And I say, you know, thanks for
Speaker 1: listening and all that to our listeners, and you know,
Speaker 1: I send them on their way and they're out, you know,
Speaker 1: doing their own research and digging up all the stuff
Speaker 1: and looking at the Texas Mile and buying tickets and
Speaker 1: all that. I'm gonna remember about ten things I didn't
Speaker 1: say in this podcast, even though I've been going mile
Speaker 1: a minute, just mile a minute. It's funny that would
Speaker 1: be really slow at this at this comfortition be sixty.
Speaker 1: That's not good at all. Um Alright, anyway, So I
Speaker 1: was thinking back and I was thinking, Okay, what's so,
Speaker 1: is this a response to the Texas Mile record? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I think the timing is
Speaker 1: a little strange. I think it's a little suspicious that,
Speaker 1: you know, they decided, all right, now is the time
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go do it. I just feel like
Speaker 1: the three mile per hour mark for a car, it's
Speaker 1: that number nowadays, well nowadays it's like a two hundred
Speaker 1: mile an hour number. Was I don't know when I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, years ago maybe or more. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just a nice round number that takes a
Speaker 1: lot of fine tuning to get there. And we should
Speaker 1: talk about someday soon is four coming? But I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean, well, technology the whole talk
Speaker 1: about tires, that's a limiting factor and um in all
Speaker 1: of this and as technology gets or I'm sure that
Speaker 1: we'll be looking at four you know. I mean right
Speaker 1: now you mentioned the electric car, the Mustang. It's interesting
Speaker 1: they chose a Mustang from the sixties to do it
Speaker 1: because the combustion Mustang in the sixties, it would be
Speaker 1: interesting to know how fast they could run the Texas Smile. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like now electric cars they're where combustion
Speaker 1: engines were in the sixties. Where are they going to
Speaker 1: be sixty seventy years from now? Where the combustion engine
Speaker 1: is going to be? Where where rubber compounds going to be?
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, you know, boy again I'm
Speaker 1: skipping all over the place. But going back to the
Speaker 1: Mustang that you just mentioned, you know, the the sixty
Speaker 1: eight Mustang, the the electric version that did this Texas
Speaker 1: Smile run the record run. They give it an equivalent
Speaker 1: horsepower rating, you know how they can kind of extrapolate
Speaker 1: what it would be in horse power eight hundred horse power.
Speaker 1: So that's far far above what the sixty eight Mustang
Speaker 1: fastback had of course, um, so it would be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what the you know, internal combustion engine version
Speaker 1: of the sixty Mustang could could muster you in the
Speaker 1: one mile run. And maybe maybe it's been run there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, out of all the cars out
Speaker 1: of two, probably twice a year for sixteen years, I
Speaker 1: would guess that somebody has run a Mustang you know,
Speaker 1: fast back at some point maybe maybe alright, so back finally,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we're gonna steer exactly. Yeah. So you know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this, this Bugatti thing and how
Speaker 1: they ran. They did a three four mile per hour
Speaker 1: run in August of two thousand nineteen, so not long
Speaker 1: after the Texas Smile. Uh, you know, it was achieved
Speaker 1: at three hundred point four. I was watching these and
Speaker 1: trying to draw comparisons and you know, contrasts, and you
Speaker 1: don't figure out what's happening here. But now, I remember
Speaker 1: I said the GT had horsepower, and that's an estimate.
Speaker 1: It might be more, might be a little less. The Buggatti,
Speaker 1: of course, had Sharon had so many MONI had lots
Speaker 1: of modifications to it, and of course I'm sure that
Speaker 1: the GT does as well. But the big difference here
Speaker 1: is that this is a road going production car tech chnically.
Speaker 1: I mean it can be sold to the public, it
Speaker 1: can be driven on the roads, and that's one thing
Speaker 1: that Buggatti has to deal with. The builders at M
Speaker 1: two K Motorsport don't have to deal with They don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about mass production of this not mass,
Speaker 1: but limited production of this one vehicle. It's a one
Speaker 1: of a kind, it always will be. But they're dealing
Speaker 1: with just that one event, that one record, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like we run it, we're done with it,
Speaker 1: and then maybe improve it for next time. But that's it.
Speaker 1: The other thing that about this is that Bugatti had
Speaker 1: a quad turbo W sixteen that was tuned up to
Speaker 1: like sixteen hundred horse power, so it had almost a
Speaker 1: thousand and had like nine hundred less horsepower to get
Speaker 1: up to the speed. But one thing that is most
Speaker 1: the most striking about this to me, and the most
Speaker 1: maybe the most impressive about the Texas Mile and the
Speaker 1: four gt s attempt or that the four GTS record run,
Speaker 1: is that it did it from a standing start and
Speaker 1: it only went you know those what it's a mile
Speaker 1: five thousand two feet. I think it went that distance
Speaker 1: and achieved three hundred point four miles per hour and
Speaker 1: that short amount of time that I mean, just imagine
Speaker 1: the force on the human body and the vehicle at
Speaker 1: that at that time. When you look at the Bugatti
Speaker 1: run and again all the specifics the altered body and
Speaker 1: the tires and the engineers and the teams and everybody involved,
Speaker 1: find maybe maybe there's some of that going on with
Speaker 1: the GT. But here's the other thing. That they did
Speaker 1: it at the special track, you know, under very controlled,
Speaker 1: such a very controlled conditions that they were able to
Speaker 1: enter the track at one hundred and eighty miles per hour.
Speaker 1: That's where they start at when they enter the straight.
Speaker 1: Then it takes them the entire five miles straight to
Speaker 1: get to three hundred and four miles per hour. When
Speaker 1: you watch the way that the speed grows, and I'll
Speaker 1: be specific here because remember the half mile speed for
Speaker 1: the four GT it was two forty miles an hour
Speaker 1: and then it got up to three hundred. If you
Speaker 1: watch the speed grow on the dials, the readings or
Speaker 1: whatever they give you on the YouTube videos for the
Speaker 1: Bugatti run, once they get to you know, if they
Speaker 1: let's say, you could even started at two forty. The
Speaker 1: way that the miles per hour count up is like
Speaker 1: it's like this, it's like two forty one to forty
Speaker 1: two to forty. The four g T didn't have that luxury.
Speaker 1: It was like going leaps and bounds up to three
Speaker 1: miles per hour. It was accelerating so fast after the
Speaker 1: two forty mark that it's just unreal to think about,
Speaker 1: I mean, considering when you look at the Bugatti and
Speaker 1: what it's intended purposes. You know, it's intended to go fast.
Speaker 1: That's what it was built for, go fast, and to
Speaker 1: break this three in a mile per hour run. This,
Speaker 1: this particular model, the run was built for this, this test,
Speaker 1: and it will be sold, of course. But the way
Speaker 1: that it grows from two forty to three D and
Speaker 1: four is much much slower, still impressive. These are all impressive,
Speaker 1: still impressive, but much much slower than the four GT.
Speaker 1: This is a completely different race or test. The Texas
Speaker 1: Mile seems like a strict power test. It's a brutal test.
Speaker 1: It's a brutal brutal test, isn't it. I mean, and
Speaker 1: the footage from it is incredible to be able to
Speaker 1: see it now. You don't get a lot of um,
Speaker 1: a lot of shots of like the car at the
Speaker 1: finish line and go and buy a three miles an hour.
Speaker 1: You don't see that because it's already in the distance.
Speaker 1: It's gone in the spectator area where all the filming
Speaker 1: and everything's happening. I wish they had more cameras on
Speaker 1: the track watching the cars go buy at that speed,
Speaker 1: but you kind of reliant on, you know, the GoPro
Speaker 1: cameras that are in the vehicle, you know, by the
Speaker 1: drivers themselves, and you know, of course that gets into
Speaker 1: wait and aerodynamics and all that. Then you're also dealing
Speaker 1: with the spectator views people that are there with them
Speaker 1: on the team to film the event. You don't get
Speaker 1: a whole lot of like sensation of the cars passing
Speaker 1: you at the top speed. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: that is. Maybe it's because they don't want anything on
Speaker 1: the track that could damage or harm the driver or
Speaker 1: you know, if there's something went terribly wrong, which sometimes does.
Speaker 1: You know, anytime you're talking about these speeds, you don't
Speaker 1: want any obstructions in the way. You want to be
Speaker 1: able to have plenty of room. They've got a half
Speaker 1: mile slowdown area that they know run off area with
Speaker 1: sand at the end and everything. Um, But I just
Speaker 1: I find this whole thing fascinating. But there are other
Speaker 1: mile events. The Arkansas Mile, the Arkansas Mill. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. That's another one, you know what. I'm going
Speaker 1: to immediately look up the Arkansas Mile as soon as
Speaker 1: get out here, I really am. The Colorado Mile is
Speaker 1: another One's color Arkansas Mile, the Colorado Mile. Alright, alright, well,
Speaker 1: I'm finding out new things every moment here um. But
Speaker 1: if you don't know anything about the Texas Mile, or
Speaker 1: you know a little bit about it now, you you
Speaker 1: don't know everything, of course, because we we're just kind
Speaker 1: of scraping the surface on this thing. And it's fascinating
Speaker 1: to watch. Really if you're into that type of racing,
Speaker 1: it's it's really really cool. If you just like speed,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of nuances that you
Speaker 1: can kind of dig into and and find out about,
Speaker 1: and you know specific drivers and types of vehicles that
Speaker 1: are run there, and you know current records and all
Speaker 1: that and what the people are up to in I
Speaker 1: guess the off season for the Texas Mile, if you
Speaker 1: want to call it that, they've only run two a year.
Speaker 1: But you know, of course drivers that are competing in
Speaker 1: this are sometimes competing in other events as well. You know,
Speaker 1: might make a run to uh, you know the desert
Speaker 1: and run uh you know another top speed run there
Speaker 1: or something, or you know, go up to Maine and
Speaker 1: run something. But it's always fascinating to see what the
Speaker 1: drivers are doing elsewhere as you know as well, you
Speaker 1: can look into their shops or whatever. The M two
Speaker 1: K shop is is very interesting, very neat car coming
Speaker 1: out of that, you know when and I won't I
Speaker 1: won't say anything more about this, but in in that
Speaker 1: interview that I saw, you know, the breaking news that
Speaker 1: I was, I was talking about, you know, a new
Speaker 1: car they're making. They are making a new car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it was under wraps when they did the report
Speaker 1: from the shop just after the record was broken. In
Speaker 1: the corner of the shop, they zoomed into a shot
Speaker 1: of a car that was under a tarp and completely covered.
Speaker 1: You couldn't see what was going on there. If they
Speaker 1: got something going that they call Project X. And Project
Speaker 1: X will make an appearance they say in the October
Speaker 1: Texas Mile. Yes, so they say it will be Project
Speaker 1: X will appear from M two K Motorsports in the
Speaker 1: October events. So if you're out in that area, or
Speaker 1: if you just keep your eye on the news if
Speaker 1: you can't make it there, keep your eye on M
Speaker 1: two K Motorsports and see what they're up to with
Speaker 1: Project X or maybe who knows, maybe maybe they'll bring back,
Speaker 1: you know, the the two thousand six for GT. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw somewhere that they may not be considering the
Speaker 1: new car for the mile run. It maybe a longer
Speaker 1: run or maybe a different type of run that they're
Speaker 1: going to try. No, kid, they might be making us
Speaker 1: sulf Light's run or something maybe just to be a
Speaker 1: fantastic way for them to kind of, as we said before,
Speaker 1: a shakedown or just test test this vehicle in a
Speaker 1: mile and see what it does. And what a fantastic
Speaker 1: place to do it too. I mean, they've got, you know,
Speaker 1: this amazing facility. Um we want to you know, make
Speaker 1: several runs there at the Victoria Regional Airport and and
Speaker 1: have a chance to make what five or six runs.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a great opportunity for them to
Speaker 1: be able to do something with this Project ACT. So
Speaker 1: so watch for that. Anything else, Kurt, that you want
Speaker 1: to add before we wrap up today's show. Uh, I
Speaker 1: think you got it all right. I think I've got
Speaker 1: it too, But like I said, I've probably neglected to
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