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Speaker 1: From Fuldro Media and PRX. It's let you know, USA.

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Speaker 1: I'm Marie no Josa Today Mexican born NASCAR driver Danielle

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Speaker 1: Swatrez on his long race to making history. That's the

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Speaker 1: sound of cars zooming around a racetrack in Sonoma, California,

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Speaker 1: last year. Danielle Suarez is focused. He's in car number

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. More than thirty other cars are racing with him.

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Speaker 1: Danielle Zoom's past them all. He's raised many many times before.

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Speaker 1: But this time, Oh, this time He's about to make history.

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Speaker 2: Daniels daniel s a NASCAR Colleen been dominating stuff.

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Speaker 1: Last June, Danielle became the first Mexican born driver and

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Speaker 1: only the second Latino to win a NASCAR Cup Series race.

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal considering NASCAR has been around for

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Speaker 1: more than seventy years and remains predominantly white. After his

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Speaker 1: win in Sonoma, Danielle climbed out of the window of

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Speaker 1: his car with a large flag on it, red wind

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Speaker 1: Numero Uno with the colors of the Mexican flag green,

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Speaker 1: white and red in the background. He then jumped on

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Speaker 1: top of his car very excitedly and waved the flag

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Speaker 1: in celebration. Moments later, he was interviewed by Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: on the track, I have.

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Speaker 3: So many thoughts in my head right now though it's

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Speaker 3: been a robbed journey in the Cup series. NA, do

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Speaker 3: you guys believe in me?

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Speaker 4: Everyone that helped me to get to this point, my family,

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Speaker 4: you know, they never.

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Speaker 3: Then give me.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people did so He's very happy that

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Speaker 3: To mega work.

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Speaker 1: Danielle also addressed his fans, the so called Danielle's amigos

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Speaker 1: in Spanish.

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Speaker 3: Se care cemmas. Here's the first one of many.

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Speaker 1: Danielle, who is thirty one years old, began his racing

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Speaker 1: career in Monterrey, Mexico, and raced go karts. Years later.

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Speaker 1: He moved to the US when he was nineteen. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: Danielle would join a NASCAR diversity program that helps develop

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Speaker 1: and train ethnically diverse and female drivers. The program helped

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Speaker 1: propel his career. Danielle has gone from team to team

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Speaker 1: throughout the years, but in twenty twenty one, he joined

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Speaker 1: track House Racing for next season.

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Speaker 4: A new team takes its first steps into the history

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Speaker 4: of the sport, open to changing what NASCAR means.

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Speaker 1: For a new generation of fans because change either laps you,

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Speaker 1: runs you into the wall, or defines the size.

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Speaker 3: Of the did you leave in the universe.

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Speaker 1: This is track House and one of the partners of

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Speaker 1: the company is none other than No No, I know you,

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Speaker 1: you know what I want. Our producer Ronaldo Leanos Junior

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Speaker 1: recently met up with Danielle Souirez in Concord, North Carolina

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Speaker 1: at track House headquarters to talk about breaking barriers in

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Speaker 1: NASCAR and about the role his family played along the way.

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Speaker 3: Here they are, how are they good? How are you

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Speaker 3: doing today?

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Speaker 5: Can you just explain? Like, where are we at today?

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Speaker 4: This is where the magic happens. This is where that

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Speaker 4: we'll hear us leave. You know, all my mechanics, my engineers, my.

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Speaker 3: Crew chiefs, pig cool.

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Speaker 4: If we want to be successful, we have to come

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Speaker 4: here every single day and world very really hard.

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Speaker 5: And as daniel says, there's a lot that goes into

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Speaker 5: being successful and racing, and it's not just about how

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Speaker 5: much effort you put into it. Car racing can also

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Speaker 5: be a pretty expensive sport, which is why professional drivers

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Speaker 5: need to work with sponsors, and in Danielle's case, he

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Speaker 5: says that he couldn't be happier than to be a

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Speaker 5: part of the track House Racing team.

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Speaker 4: The name says that this is my house. This is

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Speaker 4: exactly what I'm looking for, you know. I We'm looking

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Speaker 4: for that team that believe in me, that team that

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Speaker 4: allowed me to make adjustments in my team to make

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Speaker 4: it better, and that team that really wanted me.

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Speaker 3: To be successful.

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Speaker 5: Today, Danielle is wearing a white track House shirt with

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Speaker 5: some black pants and athletic shoes, and a tiny white

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Speaker 5: dog follows dan yell around shoes. Dog is a it's

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Speaker 5: so cute.

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Speaker 1: Your dog is so cute.

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Speaker 3: Going on.

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Speaker 5: Danielle and I walked down a flight of stairs towards

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Speaker 5: the first floor because he wants to show me something.

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Speaker 1: So this the young.

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Speaker 3: Yard race cars.

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Speaker 4: These are just all cars that eventually they're gonna go

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Speaker 4: to some other divisions in NASCAR.

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Speaker 5: And just up ahead, Danielle shows me more cars. There's

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Speaker 5: dozens in the room.

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Speaker 3: Right now, you know, there is cars everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Oh really, we haven't started to raise yet, so everything

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Speaker 4: is kind of like in the process of getting built.

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Speaker 4: This is actually the car I'm gonna be driving in

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Speaker 4: La in a cyclist.

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Speaker 5: We're in this massive floor space that kind of looks

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Speaker 5: like a big shiny warehouse. There's lots of blue and

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Speaker 5: white around the room, the colors of track house. And

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Speaker 5: the car we're standing in front of looks like it's

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Speaker 5: not done being built the.

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Speaker 3: Way you're seeing it right now.

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Speaker 4: This is the chassis and the body right now that

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Speaker 4: are gonna work in this In the front suspension are suspension,

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Speaker 4: engine transmission, and they start taking it from there.

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie. I don't know a lot about

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Speaker 5: cars or car terminology, but it's also fascinating to see

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Speaker 5: and learn more about. Daniellen stops and points to glass

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Speaker 5: window offices on the second floor above us.

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Speaker 4: All all all these that you see above here are

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Speaker 4: the officers from the engineers, cruise chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Here is what we call the shop floor.

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Speaker 4: This is where the action happens, where we put the

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Speaker 4: cash together, but where the speed is made is up there.

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Speaker 3: Those are the smart people.

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Speaker 5: Danielle says. There are a lot of people involved in

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Speaker 5: the process. It's a tight knit team.

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Speaker 3: And in racing it's the same thing. Like my crew chief.

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Speaker 4: I mean I track probably the same amount of time

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Speaker 4: with my cruise chief during the racing season then with

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Speaker 4: my girlfriend. You know, you have to have good chemistry,

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Speaker 4: you have to have good relationship, and you have to

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Speaker 4: be able to build because when you win, everyone is happy, right,

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Speaker 4: But when you lose what that's when the real team

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Speaker 4: and personal attitude and mentality start to show up. So

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Speaker 4: it's very important just to go through those faces with

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Speaker 4: somebody that that you can go work out through that

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Speaker 5: Danielle mentions his girlfriend his fiance. Actually they rese got

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Speaker 5: engaged and she's with him today.

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Speaker 6: My name is Julia Pique. We've had like a lot

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Speaker 6: of highs and lows, and it's been quite a journey

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Speaker 6: to be by his side and to see him day

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Speaker 6: in day out work as hard as he has and

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Speaker 6: really really proud of him of everything he's done, you know,

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Speaker 6: and how dedicated he is and how much work he

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Speaker 5: If you wanted people to know like one thing about Danielle,

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Speaker 5: you know what would that one thing be.

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Speaker 6: He's a jokester, you know he and I think people

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Speaker 6: see that. I mean, he always has a smile at

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Speaker 6: his face on his face at the racetrack. But he's

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Speaker 6: he's like that behind the scenes too. You know, He's

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Speaker 6: just he's very funny. He's always messing with me. Sometimes

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Speaker 6: he he like messes with me too much. I'm like,

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Speaker 6: all right, take it down a Nutch. But he's always

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Speaker 6: in a good mood and we both uplift each other.

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Speaker 5: But as Julia said, Danielle's journey in this sport has

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Speaker 5: been anything but easy. It's come with a lot of sacrifices.

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Speaker 5: Now here's the nielsat is in his own words.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So most kids that are in racing, not a

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Speaker 4: lot of them, but they come from some kind of

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Speaker 3: For me, it wasn't the case.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know anyone in racing and my family doesn't

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Speaker 4: have any athletes. So my father has a reservation shop,

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Speaker 4: so essentially he works on classic cars for living. You know,

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Speaker 4: his father, my grandpa, which is a very very special

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Speaker 4: person to me. He was a photographer and then my father,

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Speaker 4: when he was fifteen years old, he got a classic

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Speaker 4: grandpa for a loan. He put that loan into a

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Speaker 4: little arrow parts store and then he got a restoration shop.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, my father, he could have easily go into

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Speaker 4: the direction of my grandpa and do something with the photography,

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Speaker 4: but he didn't. He did something different, and I feel

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Speaker 4: like maybe that played a huge role on me. And

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Speaker 4: since I was very little, you know, I got that

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: I used to love working on engines and mission suspensions.

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Speaker 3: Building my own little beetles.

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Speaker 4: At the time. It was a lot of fun. So

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Speaker 4: that's how I got in love with cars. My dad

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say he didn't care, but I

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Speaker 4: I'm building cars, building engines, learning and then going to racing.

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Speaker 4: I think that in the very beginning, he never thought

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Speaker 4: my father doesn't have a lot of money from a

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Speaker 3: You cannot be rich.

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Speaker 4: So it requires a lot of money to be in

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Speaker 4: this sport, especially in the beginning, and my father sold

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Speaker 4: I was around fifteen. My dad just wanted to get

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Speaker 4: me into the into a NASCAR series in Mexico. That

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Speaker 4: The thing about racing is not like soccer that you

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Speaker 4: and you can go play can train racing you need

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Speaker 3: You need a team, you need.

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Speaker 4: Car few you retired, you need that racetrack, and all

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Speaker 4: these things cost money. So you need a sponsors or

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Speaker 4: for me, you know, I didn't have the family I

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Speaker 4: can support those things. So we're looking for sponsors. You know,

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Speaker 4: my entire life, I've been looking for sponsors. And sometimes

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Speaker 4: I'm going to give you an example. If our raise was,

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Speaker 4: you know, five thousand dollars and my dad was finding

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Speaker 4: three thousand dollars of sponsors. Guess who was paying the

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Speaker 4: other two thousand dollars. You know, that's just one example

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Speaker 4: of a hundred that I had through my career.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I keep signing up.

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Speaker 4: My dad deserves all the credit with having said my

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Speaker 4: that if my dad was not making a lot of money,

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Speaker 4: but if you were making ten dollars, seven of those

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Speaker 4: other three we're going to house mom, two sisters, schools, food.

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Speaker 4: So there were several years I feel very bad because

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Speaker 4: We we have brought thousands of Latinos to a racetraw

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Speaker 1: Daniel Suadrez is scheduled to compete in thirty more races

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Speaker 1: circuits beginning in April. This episode was produced by Rinaldo

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