1 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:10,400 You're listening to the back home network, presented by home 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:21,800 field apparel, welcome back to Crimson, Cask ale and clavius 3 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,900 cot Caulfield joining me. Here it is Memorial Day weekend 4 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:29,800 even though it's only Thursday Scott, I don't know. 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,300 Know that there's another week that's quite, like, Memorial Day 6 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:37,900 week, leading in because it of all the holidays. 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,800 I feel like, regardless of most of the places you work, there 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,000 are certainly exceptions. This one starts, the earliest 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,800 and feels like it lasts the longest and in a good way, you 10 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,800 know, because Fourth of July always moves around, you never 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,200 know, example, sometimes it's on like a Sunday and that kind of 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,500 ruins everything and you get that with most other holidays, 13 00:00:55,500 --> 00:01:00,200 but Memorial Day being a fixed date at essentially, the Genin 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,000 of Summer, it's always on a Monday. 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 You're guaranteed, a three day weekend. 16 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:06,700 It's not like Labor Day where everybody's back in school. 17 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:10,700 It feels like, I mean, you almost feel compelled to take 18 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:14,400 two or three extra days off before to really stretch it out. 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,100 And especially we're in the midwest here you get weather 20 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:20,900 like this and you're like, well yes, I'd like to spend as much 21 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:24,500 time outside doing something other than work as much as I 22 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:26,900 possibly can. And that's certainly I think 23 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:30,000 where I'm at right now with things about you Yeah, I mean 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,300 it's just it's too bad if you haven't seen the story in the 25 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:34,800 Indy star today. It's like, you know, the see 26 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,400 Indianapolis in the state of Indiana needs five more 27 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,400 Memorial. So we can lift the black out of 28 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,600 Memorial Day so it's like I really would love to celebrate 29 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,400 it but we can because they're blacking out the holiday until 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,000 we get five more Memorial lifting. 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,300 No, it's no, it's great. This is the like we've talked 32 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:55,600 about before this is kind of the end of just an epic run every 33 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:00,300 year of sports that goes from you know, the Super Bowl or the 34 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:04,300 the NFL playoffs to the Super Bowl into college basketball 35 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,000 into March Madness into, you know, the Masters and start of 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,500 the NBA Playoffs into the IndyCar, you know, month of May 37 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:14,800 and Indy 500 and then, and then you get to the point now, where 38 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,400 it's like, after this, it's kind of like, all right, now we're in 39 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,400 summer and now I can kind of, you know, a little bit NBA 40 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,700 finals and I can check out and then, you know, pick back up in 41 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:24,900 the fall. Yeah, that mean it is. 42 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,400 The, as you mentioned, it's the tail end of what I've always 43 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,100 considered my favorite stretch. Sugar of sports. 44 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:35,000 And and it's funny because it almost is the end of the NBA and 45 00:02:35,008 --> 00:02:39,100 NHL playoffs this year too. Because, you know, two of the 46 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:40,700 series of already ended in sweeps. 47 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:43,900 A third one is probably going to end in five. 48 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:47,400 So we're gonna have this huge break self-imposed because of 49 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,100 the television schedules for both of those. 50 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:53,400 So this really does kind of feel like we're pushing off from the 51 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,000 shore and getting into the lake of Summer. 52 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,900 And this is like the last late spring thing that will perience. 53 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:03,400 And we got such a positive reaction to the last podcast we 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,300 did about doing something on the Indy 500. 55 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:08,500 Granted, we just kind of you know, complained most of that 56 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:10,600 podcast. So we wanted to come back and do 57 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,800 another one where we weren't complaining instead talking 58 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,400 about the Indy 500, which is coming up this weekend, you 59 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,700 know, big race and really should be a secret. 60 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:25,200 Well, I mean well but you know I think for some of our audience 61 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,200 it's just kind of this thing that happens but you know this 62 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,700 Here in particular and this is something that we want to talk 63 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:35,400 about. It is looking like everybody has 64 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,400 also decided that this is a big race and they're going to be 65 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,800 participating as Spectators really fascinating time. 66 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,300 We're looking forward to going both of Scott and I are not 67 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:47,300 going together but we're both going. 68 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:48,500 So we're going to talk about that. 69 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:50,700 We're going to talk about what to expect as far as what's in 70 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:53,000 the race If You're Expecting IU content in this. 71 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:54,600 I'm sorry. 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So Scott Indy 500 this weekend 112 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,200 and we had an interesting qualifying set up this past 113 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:02,900 weekend as You know, one of the rarer things we've ever seen no 114 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:07,500 crashes in practice last week. No, crashes during qualifying 115 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,200 that unfortunately, our luck ran out big time this week, which 116 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,100 we'll talk about in a minute, but this was actually a really 117 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:18,100 good qualifying weekend. I thought you had some really 118 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,100 good speeds. You have an incredibly tightly 119 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:22,700 packed field. You had, you know, what, I 120 00:06:22,707 --> 00:06:25,600 thought was some compelling drama with the fast 12 and then 121 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,600 the Fast 6, and then you had a bump day. 122 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:34,300 Bump our, I guess it was that also had a lot of drama. 123 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,100 Graham Rahal ends up kind of stranded in his car at the end. 124 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,900 While Jack Harvey goes out and qualifies on a last-ditch 125 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:46,300 attempt and you know, that ended up capturing a lot of compelling 126 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:48,700 visuals and just being a really fascinating thing to watch all 127 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:50,400 the way around. What was your impression of what 128 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,400 we saw on qualifying days? Both one and two. 129 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,700 Yeah, I joked with you before that, it's like my son who's 130 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:00,200 into IndyCar. Which I don't know if I'm doing 131 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,400 the right or the wrong thing by getting him into a sport like 132 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,900 this, that is so unique, but it's like, he's like, asking 133 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:08,700 what's the format, Mike, we'll figure it out. 134 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:10,400 We're going to figure out together because, like, they 135 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,200 continually change the format every year and I was joking. 136 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,500 Like, it's for something as easy as like, hey, we're just going 137 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,300 to, you know, who are the fastest, 32 33 cars. 138 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:20,000 It's like they make this very confusing. 139 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 This goes back years where it was like you know, sometimes the 140 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,300 pole sitter was on the fastest car in the field for the way 141 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,300 they did it. All that said, someday was if 142 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:30,900 you're a race fan An IndyCar fans something was actually 143 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:33,300 really good. Like I left being like that was 144 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:37,300 a great, like three and a half hours of going from the fast 12 145 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:40,500 to break it down to 62, then straight into bump and then 146 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:42,600 straight into the Fast 6. It was like, wow, this is 147 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,500 really, it made sense. It was well put together, I hope 148 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:49,900 they keep this setup again, but I agree with you. 149 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:54,100 It was a, it was wild. It was, it was also interesting 150 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,000 seeing, you know, not only Graham Rahal get bumped. 151 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,700 But by his own teammate, which Was just interesting and, you 152 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:04,300 know, Jack Harvey doing the back-to-back runs and, you know, 153 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:07,400 we you and I were joking to. It is funny when they're like, 154 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,900 you know, it's like, man, you know, Harvey got it out of the 155 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:13,100 car like Grandma's got, it's like, we're talking about like 156 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,500 1/10 of one second. Like, it's like, these are 157 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:21,800 really small small different sizes, but unfortunately, I said 158 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,400 in the end, it doesn't matter because G real still in the 159 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:28,500 almost like that's a bizarre change to go from a different 160 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:30,700 team to a Manufacturer like I'm not. 161 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:33,700 Well seen that before. No, I haven't either. 162 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:37,400 I'm sure it's happened. And but I'm sure everything but 163 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,299 but part but but Sunday was great. 164 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:43,500 Yeah, no Sunday was great. I mean, and congrats to, I mean, 165 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,800 there's a lot of I guess there's a lot of congrats to hand out. 166 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,100 I mean, certainly congrats to ganassi who ends up. 167 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:52,500 Climbing the pole. Barely Alex pulao. 168 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:55,900 I mean let's talk about a guy who looks like he is in the 169 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:58,400 absolute early Prime of his career. 170 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:00,900 You know what, pal? Lo has done over the course of 171 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:03,200 the years that he's been an IndyCar, that's really been 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,900 impressive. But look, you know, Ed carpenter 173 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:08,500 racing almost puts a car on the pole. 174 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:10,000 They get, you know, they get the middle of the front row, which 175 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 kind of ECR, kind of reminds me a little bit of those Menard 176 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,500 teams from back in the day, except they're actually 177 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:19,300 competitive during the races themselves, you know? 178 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:22,800 And that's for a relatively small outfit. 179 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,700 I think they really punch above their weight McLaren, gets it. 180 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:27,900 And I would say, I would say, for that, I think it's mostly 181 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 VK. I mean, like your Like, you look 182 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,900 at a guy who is also a man, his starts and into your 43-32. 183 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:36,800 I mean, that's, that's a guy who has qualifying speed. 184 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,000 He hasn't taken in two finishes. Yeah. 185 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,300 But that, that's somebody you, I would agree with you on pillow, 186 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,500 but it does feel like VK is coming into his own as an indie 187 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:49,300 driver, and might just need to find a better team than gonna 188 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:51,600 ask for your arrow McLaren, which will probably, which will 189 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,200 probably happen. I mean, you know, this is 190 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,400 something we're seeing I think where there's just such a 191 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,100 Wellspring of really talented drivers and the machinery. 192 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,200 Is all good enough and relatively even enough at the 193 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,400 top. And you know, I the two teams 194 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,800 that really I think though, deserve special note, our first 195 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,800 of all, McLaren who ends up with the 3rd 6th and 7th qualified 196 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,600 drivers. And look it's I mean no one 197 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,200 would ever accuse McLaren of being an underdog but it is 198 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,500 after all of these years it's been really fun to watch another 199 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:28,300 team, kind of formed together and figure out a way to be this 200 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:30,900 competitive. And have this sort of a stable 201 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:34,200 of drivers. I mean, rosenquist paddle award 202 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,600 and Alex Rossi. That is a dynamite combination 203 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,800 of guys, all who all of them do something, really good at 204 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,800 several several things, sometimes, different things, 205 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,400 really good. But the other one Scott and 206 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,500 probably the one I think that needs to get the most mention is 207 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,800 for tracing. I mean, to get Santino, ferrucci 208 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,500 who certainly had a bit of a checkered history, thus far with 209 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:55,400 with racing in general, let alone IndyCar. 210 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,200 But, you know, he looked like he was going to be on the front 211 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,600 row. And then Benjamin Peterson, who 212 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,100 I don't think anybody expected to be a competitor ends up in a, 213 00:11:05,108 --> 00:11:08,400 pretty good qualifying position. What is he middle of roof for? 214 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:12,400 You know that's a great showing for a four-team that frankly has 215 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,500 been less than an afterthought when it comes to the actual race 216 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:17,600 itself. Now we don't know how that's 217 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,300 going to translate but I didn't see anything in what they were 218 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:22,400 doing that. Led me to think that that 219 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,900 wouldn't translate to the race itself. 220 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:27,600 I think that that's a team now with two drivers in the top 221 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,600 fifteen that He has a shot at being in the mix as the race 222 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,300 goes along and that's for that team. 223 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:35,800 I think that's a great accomplishment. 224 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,200 Knowing that team has had, you know, they had Sato as a driver 225 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,300 and they've had good drivers. It seems like a team that can't 226 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:45,600 put it together and to me this is what I think is interesting 227 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,700 about this year's. I also I really like ferrucci. 228 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:50,700 I've liked him for a while he is. 229 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,000 You look at his, he's been in the series since 2018 and just 230 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:57,100 he's kind of unfortunately bounced around some of the 231 00:11:57,100 --> 00:11:59,000 bottom end teams like he's gone from Dale Coyne. 232 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:01,900 Coin to Rahal Letterman to dryer Reinbold, to hunt ghosts. 233 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:04,700 Now, to a.j. foyt, which is kind of like, that's normally. 234 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:06,900 Like, you Circle the Drain and then you're out of Indy car. 235 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:11,100 When you hit those five teams, but he's had some strike, it was 236 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:13,100 One race. I think it was Texas, like two 237 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:16,400 or three years ago where he just was not, you know, not driving 238 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,500 and then it's hopped in the car and finished ninth or something 239 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:20,400 like he's had a couple of good runs. 240 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,600 He also has kind of been mid-pack but he had a ton of 241 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,200 speed at indicate. He was the fastest for most of 242 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,400 the day on Saturday. He came in with a ton of Speed 243 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,500 and know. It's it's great to see AJ for 244 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:35,800 tracing and it's wild to think that foyt put two cars up there 245 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,100 and Penske is like nowhere to now found in this. 246 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:41,800 So yeah. No, it's great. 247 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,100 And the larger point is, it does feel like, you know, you and I 248 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:49,500 are big fans of watching the races, from the 70s, and the 80s 249 00:12:49,500 --> 00:12:53,500 and the 90s on YouTube as we get, ready for the 500 and 250 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:56,700 watching those knowing how people's careers, turn out, you 251 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:59,800 kind of see this like, the mid-80s Where you have this, you 252 00:12:59,808 --> 00:13:02,200 know, you have like, you know, Johnny Rutherford and, uh, a 253 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,000 Foie and Mario Andretti, kind of the Old Guard and you start 254 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,800 seeing them, you know, get pushed back in the field and you 255 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,000 see young people, like, you Al Unser jr. 256 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,700 And, you know, Michael Andretti. And at the time young the time 257 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:16,500 and you kind of said, oh this is the we're changing over now 258 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:18,700 here. Bobby rahal's like in like 83 is 259 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:20,100 like you know qualifying the top three. 260 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,200 You see that? It feels like we're definitely 261 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,100 in that mode. Now where you have guys like 262 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:28,800 pulao VK rosenquist for Ruchi padow award, you know, even 263 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,300 Ross. To an extent kind of these 264 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:34,300 younger generation of guys up at the front and then you know it 265 00:13:34,300 --> 00:13:36,100 feels like it felt like in the mid 80s. 266 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:39,100 You have a lot of these, you know, more experienced drivers 267 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:42,500 like you know willpower but you know like Castroneves Simon 268 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,500 passion o like former winners. A lot of experience kind of in 269 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:47,200 the back. End of the feel that it does 270 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,600 feel like we're, at that point where were kind of resetting 271 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,800 IndyCar, where you're getting a lot of these younger drivers, 272 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,700 who will take the sport forward for the next 15-20 years? 273 00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:58,900 Yeah. Well, and there's something. 274 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,900 I mean, historically, and even I think to some degree in a lot of 275 00:14:03,908 --> 00:14:06,200 the races, the last 10 to 15 years, like there was always a 276 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:11,000 shelf of teams that could legitimately compete for the 277 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,900 race. I mean, qualifying the separate 278 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:15,500 bird and that's something that I think a lot of people who are 279 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:19,400 relatively new to Indy car and and the 500 don't always grasp 280 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,100 like going fast in qualifying, is not. 281 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,200 It's one piece of the puzzle. I mean, you have to have that 282 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,000 sort of speed but race trim and setting the car. 283 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,200 The actual race is very different and yes, you mentioned 284 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,000 Penske like they didn't, they did not qualify well, they 285 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,600 barely get willpower in the fast 12 and he ends up being the 286 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,400 slowest of those cars. And then their next qualifier 287 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:48,100 is, you know, got McLaughlin but Penske, we know, even though the 288 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:51,600 Machinery wasn't great for qualifying, has such an airtight 289 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,300 operation in terms of the pits and every year, we see a lot of 290 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:57,900 teams that do qualify well who don't have a great operation in 291 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,700 terms of their pits and there's Strategy. 292 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,600 Just not as we worry about with foyt. 293 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,800 Like yeah, absolutely fruit. You going to be great and then 294 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,600 like have like a stop or they don't have the tires out or 295 00:15:06,608 --> 00:15:09,700 something, but it's also the so much of this race is about luck, 296 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:10,900 you know? It's like the Graham Rahal 297 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:12,200 thing. What was it? 298 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Was it last year or two years ago where he's looking like, one 299 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,200 of the favorites is the race is going on and I just randomly 300 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,500 gets hit by a tire and and he's out of the race. 301 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,800 And you know, there's a couple of things that we've seen you 302 00:15:23,808 --> 00:15:27,800 know, Conor Daly as been up front and then things will fall 303 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,000 apart. Some of that. 304 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:35,500 Is just luck and as much as we try and sports to you know 305 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:40,300 basically assign credit based upon results. 306 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,200 I don't think that you can watch IndyCar over the course of time 307 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,200 and honestly say that the quote-unquote best driver won 308 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,100 every race or the best team won every race. 309 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:53,100 A lot of times, it's just who was in the right spot at the 310 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:55,200 right time. Who avoided the accident? 311 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,200 Who-who's pit strategy that they just randomly decided upon Not 312 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,700 randomly, but decided upon an on lap 50 based upon what was going 313 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:04,700 on actually ended up working out. 314 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:08,200 Because there's this, there's this entire sequence of events. 315 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:15,000 The Indy 500 is essentially, the race itself plays out like, it's 316 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:18,700 it's just a random number generator is really the best way 317 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:21,200 to think about it. Like you do not know what the 318 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,500 next thing is that's going to happen and so you make the best 319 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:28,800 decisions based upon what you see at the time and even taking 320 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,300 stuff, Pit Crews and and stop times and stuff like that. 321 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:34,000 Out of it. It's something sometimes. 322 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,500 It's as simple as where were you on the track when a yellow flag 323 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:39,400 came out, you know, we're you did you get into pits before 324 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,600 they close them? Did did somebody in front of you 325 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,900 check up and you end up having to go and, you know, the wrong 326 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:46,700 direction and it scrubs your speed off. 327 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:49,000 Or does it hurt your tires? There's just so many random 328 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,400 variables that, you know, you all you can do is put your car 329 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,200 in a position where if you can survive and not crash and not be 330 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,100 in a position where you have a mechanical failure, Or to be in 331 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:02,300 a spot to do something towards the end of the race. 332 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:05,200 We've just seen that time and time again and so it's cool to 333 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,599 watch these qualifying results and I thought the drama was 334 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:10,200 sufficient. Shall we say on Saturday and 335 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,599 Sunday? But it is something, go ahead. 336 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:15,200 No. And back to that like any, I'm 337 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,400 assuming most people who are listening to us or relatively, 338 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,300 you know, in to Indy cars. So I'm not going to talk down. 339 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:24,000 But, you know, this is where I think, you know, this is where 340 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,900 ganassi has been doing, has had so much has been able to do. 341 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:32,300 So well in the race I think for them and arrow McLaren is going 342 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:36,100 to have a good Sunday because you know ganassi does a great 343 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:38,000 job of like they bifurcates our strategy. 344 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,800 So as you said like you know you get to a point in the race for 345 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,200 it's like 70 laps left. It's like all right do we stop? 346 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,400 You know the yellow flag and it's like it's almost like a 347 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,300 Choose Your Own Adventure. Like all right do we pit here 348 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,200 and hopefully you know, you know that's kind of how Rossi were 349 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:54,800 not how he won but like in 2016 when he won the hundred, that's 350 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,400 like a lot of teams were not doing fuelsave. 351 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,900 He did fuel-saving, it turned out You'll say was the right 352 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:03,800 answer. We're ganassi has this this this 353 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,100 great pieces like they have so many cars up front that you can 354 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:08,900 basically take a couple of FrontRunner make. 355 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:10,700 All right, pillows, get to know when you Choose Your Own 356 00:18:10,700 --> 00:18:13,100 Adventure at that point said, all right, we'll do pulao one 357 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:15,600 side and do Dixon the other and it's like they kind of are 358 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,600 covered on both faces. That's where it hurts teams like 359 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,400 Carpenter and weird to say Penske because it's like you 360 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,600 don't have that many cars up front. 361 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,500 You only got one dice and so you got one shot. 362 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:27,400 It's like willpower is going to take our one strategy and we'll 363 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,900 see where it goes and everybody else. 364 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,200 I kind of have to go with it and so that that's what I think is 365 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,000 interesting is how this broke is you basically have two teams and 366 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,700 ganassi and arrow. McLaren were it's like all 367 00:18:36,708 --> 00:18:39,400 right. We each team has a couple of 368 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,800 fast cars and they can basically start breaking up strategies and 369 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,100 cover. All you basically put bets on 370 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:47,000 the entire crap table. It's like no matter what 371 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,200 happens. We'll have one of those cars on 372 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,400 that strategy. Let's talk a little bit about 373 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,800 the incident that happened this week. 374 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,300 Obviously unfortunate incident all the way around a chain 375 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:01,600 reaction of checkups, and and things like that. 376 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,900 Leads to Stephen Wilson, having to get into the brakes, which 377 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:09,200 leads to Katherine Legge to end up, hitting Wilson in the back 378 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,100 and Wilson ends up breaking a vertebrae and has to go in for 379 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:15,400 surgery. The surgery was successful just 380 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,600 happened yesterday. So Wilson, not going to be 381 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,900 racing, they end up putting G. Rahal in the car which you 382 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:24,600 mentioned earlier. First of all, just you just hate 383 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,400 to see that for Stephen Wilson, you know all the guys you know 384 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:34,100 his brother passes away in a IndyCar race was at 66 years ago 385 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:40,100 I think it was now and you know he's kind of been on the fringes 386 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:44,900 of competing with teams and you just you hate to see that be a 387 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:49,700 factor in anything and it's not that usual you know, to have a 388 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:52,300 driver knocked. Like that the week before the 389 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:55,800 race after qualifying happens. It does happen occasionally, but 390 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,300 certainly, our thoughts with him, and hopefully his recovery 391 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:00,700 is Speedy is able to get back in the car at some point soon. 392 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:03,100 It's all so weird with these, I've always found it. 393 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:05,400 Interesting with these wrecks were like, you know, it looked 394 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,000 like both the cars had the same impact that's like the capitol 395 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,500 leg walks away. And Stephen does it. 396 00:20:10,508 --> 00:20:13,400 And that that's just, that is IndyCar, but I'm always amazed 397 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,400 at that. We're both cars, just smack the 398 00:20:15,408 --> 00:20:18,000 wall, and it's like that, you know, we're kind of accustomed. 399 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,600 Like everyone is getting up and walking out, and it's weird that 400 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:22,400 That anyway, you know, I agree with you. 401 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,400 There's no other way, it sucks, but it is, it was odd with like 402 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,200 I joke with you. Like well, you know, because you 403 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,700 know when grammar hell didn't make us a car? 404 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:32,700 Well, he's gonna take Katherine Legge spot because they're on 405 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:36,500 the same team, you know. It's like I said earlier it's 406 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:40,300 just I've no I can't remember a situation where a driver changes 407 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:43,100 teams and changes in your engine, manufacturers. 408 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:45,300 That's something again. If you're not initiated this a 409 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:48,500 lot of these guys and I don't know exactly the affiliation but 410 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,700 I know a lot of these you know to misato Is a Honda driver. 411 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:54,800 Like he'd he has, you know, connections with Honda that he 412 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,000 will not drive a Chevy and so sometimes the engine 413 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,200 manufacturer connection is even deeper than the team connection. 414 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:06,000 So to see Graham Rahal do all that and also leave the team 415 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:11,700 that he's like, oh oh yeah the namesake of its it is it is what 416 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,200 the way he's been talking look. It's like the first step in a 417 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:20,800 journey he was already planning on taking but yeah, it's The 418 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:21,600 end. It's interesting. 419 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,600 We can talk about it now. Like this will all lead to 420 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,300 nothing because he was slow and you know, unfortunately just he 421 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:30,200 was having a rough go of it. And it's not like Stephen 422 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,700 Wilson's car was like he's not going into the pole sitting car 423 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:35,500 like that was like probably gonna be that. 424 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,500 So yeah, yeah, but just to clarify because I wanted to get 425 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:40,400 the day try. Justin Wilson's accident was in 426 00:21:40,408 --> 00:21:44,400 2015 which It seems impossible that it was eight years ago, but 427 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,800 here we are. But yeah. 428 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,000 No, the real thing is fascinating, I mean, you know, 429 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,500 there was something Walk. After Rahal was bumped it. 430 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:56,500 First of all, we need to talk about that because you and I 431 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:59,400 went back and forth on this on text, we're watching The Bump 432 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,200 Day broadcast and you know there's that our where you've 433 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,000 got the four cars trying to qualify and you know the all 434 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,500 four cars go out and make an early attempt and Jack Harvey is 435 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:13,300 in last. And they make the the 436 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:15,900 broadcasters are really focused on these comments like well you 437 00:22:15,908 --> 00:22:19,100 know, you can't just take the car back out again, the car's 438 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:22,400 got a cool down and You've got to get the Machinery where it's 439 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,600 at and if you don't, you're just not going to get the speed and 440 00:22:25,608 --> 00:22:28,400 this is something that they're repeating consistently over the 441 00:22:28,408 --> 00:22:31,200 course of the next 30 minutes because there's nothing 442 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,500 happening. And then right Harvey gets in 443 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,300 his car goes out, doesn't qualify on that attempt, brings 444 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,800 it in and then his out three minutes later for a final shot 445 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,200 and does qualify. And I'm just, I'm still a little 446 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,300 bit baffled because as much time as they spent talking about the 447 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:52,200 need to cool the car down. They made no mention of it. 448 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,500 When Harvey takes a hot car back out on the track and qualifies 449 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,600 and it's kind of like, I mean, you do need that, we know that 450 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:04,100 you have to cools, cool, the cars down but I'm fascinated. 451 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:07,300 How that went from being a key plot point of the broadcast to 452 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:10,100 being a non plot point of the fact that Harvey went out and 453 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:13,200 qualified now they got all consumed obviously with the 454 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,500 grammar, a whole piece of this. But I mean, do you have any 455 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,700 clear sense now than you did at the time? 456 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:22,500 Scott about, like, Like why that's suddenly became less of 457 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:25,400 an issue than they claim that it was no and did. 458 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,300 You're the one who teaches broadcasting say this is more 459 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:30,000 you. But it I've often thought about 460 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,700 this too. Like I've been at the Indy 500 461 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,300 where they red flag the race, they stopped the cars, and then 462 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:36,600 they restart the cars, and then they go. 463 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,000 And it's like, it's funny because like I was telling you, 464 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,900 it's like they they treat quiet and again, I understand 465 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:45,000 qualifying Trim in the cars are set up differently in the race, 466 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:48,900 but it's not like their qualifying jeeps and racing and 467 00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:52,500 Ferraris like they actually Like the qualifying car is this like 468 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,800 unbelievably High tune piece and it's like, you know, next week 469 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,400 these cars are going 500 Miles, there's going to run the hell 470 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,900 out of these things. It's like, but no, from a 471 00:24:00,908 --> 00:24:02,700 broadcasting point. It was interesting because 472 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:04,700 they're building this up at you can't do it. 473 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:05,800 You can't do it. You can't do it. 474 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,600 And then he does it. And like I said, there's no 475 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,600 mention, not even like a point where like, oh my God, he's 476 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,700 doing this on a hot car. Like you think that at some 477 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:15,100 point Townsend Bell would yell like it's a hot car. 478 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:16,700 This is amazing. We never see this. 479 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:20,500 That's like oh yeah, like he did it like way to go, like the guy. 480 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,500 The gut and then it all becomes about the gut and the guile and 481 00:24:23,508 --> 00:24:26,900 it's like, I don't I think he just probably like to hit the 482 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:29,800 corner right one time better than he did last time. 483 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,300 Like you're talking about. Tiny differences. 484 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:36,300 Yeah, but then it's also wild. It was like, 30 years after 485 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:39,100 Bobby Rahal. Yeah, didn't didn't make the 486 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,900 race, which I was a Bobby Rahal fan. 487 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:44,000 That the first race I went to was 86. 488 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,300 And so that was kind of just like, oh, that's my guide. 489 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:48,700 Little did I know I should have picked. 490 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,600 Somebody else was gonna smell like, I, I remember just 491 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,500 distinctly going to the race of my dad 93 and there were cut out 492 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:57,900 like real. Had a huge campaign that you're 493 00:24:57,900 --> 00:24:59,700 think that's his first year in the Miller Lite car. 494 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:02,100 He had just won the series the year before and like they were 495 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,800 cut outs of him with like I'm Bud, Lotto Miller light displays 496 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,600 everywhere and the people were just putting stickers, like, not 497 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,500 making it or like, with a speech bubble, I, where Emma is, I 498 00:25:10,508 --> 00:25:12,100 remember that. It's just wild the, the 499 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,900 connections that do kind of happen were 30 years. 500 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:18,000 After his dad doesn't make it g, doesn't doesn't make it but then 501 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,500 makes it. Yeah, I mean, I mean it's it's 502 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,900 so the whole thing plays out in this kind of interesting way 503 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:30,100 where you've got. Now, a situation where the you 504 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:34,300 know, gray a lot of thought was rails going to buy his way in 505 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,600 Allah, Ryan hunter-reay, a decade ago. 506 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:40,000 And a lot of people were looking at Catherine legs car and is 507 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,200 like yeah that's probably gonna end up being real Scar and do 508 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,600 rails credit. He said I'm not going to do that 509 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:47,200 and then it ended up not mattering. 510 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,600 But as you mentioned, kind of unprecedented the way that all 511 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,800 this came together In terms of transferring got a lot of people 512 00:25:53,800 --> 00:26:00,600 I don't think fully grasp how proprietary these relationships 513 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:06,100 are in terms of sponsors in terms of engines and 514 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:10,200 manufacturers and whatnot. It's it is very unique, you 515 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,100 know, look it's good that you get Graham Rahal in the race 516 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:18,700 obviously even if he's going to be in a backup car that hasn't 517 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:21,900 seen action in quite a while, It might end up being a better 518 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:24,100 thing than the car that he was driving, because that car 519 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:28,700 clearly was not up to par, but it is kind of a weird scenario. 520 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:33,500 And I'm not sure that we'll see something like that again, in 521 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:38,500 the future simply because it's, at some point, manufacturers, I 522 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:41,000 will just get to a point where it's like, Well, we'd rather not 523 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,300 but that said, there really weren't a lot of other options 524 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:46,300 because the interesting thing was, you know, Jr. 525 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,700 Hildebrand was getting talked about quite a bit as a potential 526 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:50,900 replacement, but because he hadn't run any Pop's. 527 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,400 He was going to have to go do essentially a Shakedown set of 528 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,200 laps to even demonstrate that he was able to handle the car. 529 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,300 I mean, I think it would have been fine, but who's going to be 530 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:04,800 really complicated to try to get all that in before Carb Day? 531 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,400 And so, this ends up being the best solution. 532 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,800 I'm glad they were able to figure out a way to make it 533 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,900 work. The last thing I'll say on this 534 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:15,000 and I mention this in one of our discourse, it's like think this 535 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,100 is what I love IndyCar because little things come out. 536 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,000 Wait, what? Wait, like I wish there was more 537 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,900 explanation like they're Going to the Dreyer & Reinbold about 538 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:24,300 that, you know, the backup car that g going to be racing in 539 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:25,600 there. Like oh yeah, we gotta set it up 540 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,300 like we had it in the shop. We just had a go-kart engine in 541 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:30,900 it and like that that was it. That was the whole quote. 542 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:33,900 It's like wait why do you have a backup Indy car with a go kart 543 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:34,900 has? I guess maybe you're just like 544 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:37,800 see if it can move around. That's like that's like the 545 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,200 difference between go-kart engine and the Indy car engine. 546 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,000 Like it's just like I'd love to know more like what are you 547 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,700 doing with these backup cars? Are you digging around on a 548 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:48,500 go-kart track? Like well you know I mean 549 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,900 looking at Lewis Hamilton out there talking about how To drive 550 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:53,600 a vintage Indy car. Maybe this is like a preliminary 551 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,400 plan for that for like twenty thirty six or something, I don't 552 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,400 know. But now, look, I mean, I think 553 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,200 what he's thinking vintage is not thinking of Dreyer & 554 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,300 Reinbold backup car. But yes, yeah, you know, I mean 555 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:05,600 anyway, so I'm glad that everything worked out and I'm 556 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,000 glad that that real ends up being in the race. 557 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,100 It'll probably be the last time we talked about Graham further 558 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,900 for the day so now we can go back up to the front of the 559 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:17,000 Rhino kidding. So so anyway, let's let's let's 560 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:23,100 talk about the race itself. I don't really know what to 561 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,800 expect out of this. I mean, I think clearly, you 562 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,200 have to look at either the ganassi or McLaren teams and say 563 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,600 the likelihood is the winners probably going to come from one 564 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,100 of those two teams because both of them are running really well 565 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:41,100 right now and just in general, in the series, both of them 566 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:43,500 ganassi, especially has, you know, really fine-tuned 567 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:48,400 operation. And when you look at what, 568 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,400 you're likely to see is the race. 569 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:54,500 Goes long. I think that, you know, the cars 570 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:57,500 out of those teams that are in the top 12 and then you got six 571 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:02,500 total out of those two. You got pulao Dixon Erickson, 572 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:06,900 rosenquist actually got seven. I'm sorry, award Rossi and then 573 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:09,100 Tony kanaan who people are kind of forgotten about is on the 574 00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:13,100 outside of Row 3. Like that is a tremendous 575 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:17,500 collection of drivers, you know, you've got Sato trying to, you 576 00:29:17,508 --> 00:29:20,400 know, pull off the weird kind of Bobby Unser ish. 577 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:24,200 You know, three wins sort of thing you've got can on trying 578 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,600 to pull off a second one. You've got two completely 579 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,400 different setups there. In terms of, you know, of engine 580 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,800 manufacturers, obviously ganassi running Honda's. 581 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,900 You've got McLaren running, Chevy's, we haven't really seen. 582 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:38,200 I didn't notice a whole lot of difference, at least in 583 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,100 qualifying, trim between those. But, you know, Scott, I think 584 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,600 the thing to me, that's overriding just how close this 585 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,300 field is in terms of demonstrated speed thus far. 586 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,500 Yes, I think the little details will probably But I don't know 587 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,500 that there's, like, a clear honest to God. 588 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:59,600 Like, you know, bet your farm on, you know, a particular 589 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,200 driver option here. Not because I don't think pulao 590 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,300 or, you know, one of these other teams is likely to win. 591 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,400 But with the cars all this close, I really do have some 592 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,900 questions about like we may get a really unexpected winner out 593 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:17,900 of this simply because there's not a whole lot distinguishing 594 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,300 these teams in terms of what their cars can do. 595 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:24,200 Do at their top end. No and it's been that way for a 596 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,400 couple of years and it does seem to come down to like last year 597 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,100 it's like Scott Dixon. Just misses the pit speed 598 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:31,300 limiter. It's like that. 599 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,100 Opens it up for Marcus Eriksen. I want it real quick hit on 600 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,800 cannot and Sato because I think they're interesting because 601 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,500 obviously everybody's trying to win the 500 but you do get these 602 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:45,000 scenarios where it's like you know to you know the definitely 603 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,200 always a Penske thing like two teammates are going for. 604 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,400 It's like they go for it but as also like even ten laps left, 605 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,600 you kind of see Team. Happening. 606 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,300 Like all right. Like, you know, you know passion 607 00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:57,900 was our best shot, you know. Pageant is gonna go for it. 608 00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:00,500 Kind of thing. It's interesting that you have 609 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:04,000 a, you know, normally you have the guys like the former winners 610 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,100 race in their last time or kind of like in the Elio passion of 611 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:09,500 Kapoor, they're kind of in a third-rate team. 612 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,100 So, two speakers kind of off to the side. 613 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:15,000 Like you have kanaan and Sado with two of the top teams it, 614 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,400 you know, ganassi at Arrow McLaren, but, you know, they Try 615 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,500 to think of the right way to say this, but like those two guys, 616 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,700 it's going to be interesting if they're in it near the end 617 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:27,600 because not that like people do team orders and just you know, 618 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,500 let somebody else win the 500. But those guys are gonna be 619 00:31:29,508 --> 00:31:31,800 like, who cares? If you're can on like one of the 620 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,800 best audios from his win in 2013, was when it's like the 621 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,000 last lap and he's just like, hey man, I'm going for. 622 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,500 It's All or Nothing. Like okay Tony but it sounds 623 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,700 good. Like if your toe if your earring 624 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:44,700 with Claire and you're like, hey like you know you and Rossi. 625 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:46,800 You're like if I'm Tony has turned the radio off like I 626 00:31:46,808 --> 00:31:48,800 don't care what you have to say. Like, I know. 627 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:50,900 What I have to do and I don't give a shit. 628 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:53,300 If feeling broken rosenquist is on the strategy. 629 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:54,500 Like I'm doing what I got to do it. 630 00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:57,200 So I think that's really interesting that I think they 631 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,300 they could go Rogue in an interesting way where it's like 632 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:03,700 Sato and kanaan don't care about the season, they just care about 633 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:06,800 winning a 500. Whereas again rosenquist wants 634 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,900 to win but he's also got like a full-time ride this year. 635 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,700 Yeah I find that really interesting. 636 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:16,800 You know you sent out a there's a Google doc that's on the 637 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,000 Reddit that's just fascinating with just like That's it's funny 638 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,700 like there's not a lot of places to go get IndyCar staff. 639 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:25,000 Well yeah, this is and palm. Yeah, of Indy car. 640 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,200 But you know when you look at the winds by Rose, you know, it 641 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,000 drops off pretty quick but the fourth row, you know, you get 642 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,400 ten wins in the first row obviously, although it just 643 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,400 never feels like that really ever happens even though it 644 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,100 happens a lot. But like the fourth row has the 645 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,300 most number of wins outside of the front row. 646 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:47,100 So if you look at the fourth row this year, you have sorry. 647 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,600 It's a yeah. Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter, 648 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,900 Scott McLaughlin. Oh, I'm sorry, Marcus Marcus 649 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:57,400 Ericsson Benjamin Peterson, and willpower and willpower, you 650 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,900 know, so you look at that as like, it's weird because I just 651 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:03,900 did maybe power because of the team with Penske if you're 652 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:06,500 looking at Row 4. But I'm with you, I think this 653 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,800 is going to. Here's my thing with the 500 is 654 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,200 that, unfortunately, it's gotten to a place where, you know, we 655 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,600 don't want to see, Rex, I'm not there to see Rex, but if there's 656 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,500 not a yellow in the first five or six, Apps. 657 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,100 Unfortunately what happens is it? 658 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:23,800 Kind of turns into. All right, we're through that. 659 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,400 Now, let's wait to lap 160 to do anything and that's 660 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,400 unfortunately we're this is kind of gone. 661 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,600 Is you get a lot of Follow? The Leader for 150 laps, and 662 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,100 then everyone kind of figures it out with 60 to go but you know 663 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,200 and what you'll have is a couple people will drop out because of 664 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,500 mistakes, things like that. Unfortunately, it always seems 665 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:46,900 to be like the rinas VK is the ferrucci based on, you know, the 666 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:50,700 team's not able to execute pit stops correctly and then guys 667 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,600 get shuffled back so that that's right. 668 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000 But then it's also happy. It also happened like Scott 669 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,200 Dixon where it's like yo he couldn't figure out the pit 670 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,300 speed and you end up with a situation where a guy who 671 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:03,300 probably should have won the race. 672 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:06,200 Didn't what I think is fascinating alongside of all 673 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,300 that. We've had four different teams 674 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:14,000 win the last four races, you know, in 2019 the last precoded 675 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,100 race Penske wins with passion. Oh Sato wins. 676 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:21,900 The Laid race in 2020 and he's driving for Rahal Letterman 677 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:25,000 Lanigan. Then obviously two years ago, 678 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:28,400 Elio wins and he's driving for Meyer shank and then last year 679 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,199 Erickson wins with ganassi, you know? 680 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,000 So this is where the McLaren things really interesting to me 681 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 because it would be fascinating and I think maybe the first time 682 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000 in a while that we would have five different teams winning at 683 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,699 500 in a row, you know, I mean, I think it happened a lot more 684 00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:49,500 back in like the, the 70s and 80s, but You look back. 685 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:53,400 I mean, you go back to 2004 it's like it's real, then and ready. 686 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,400 Then Penske then and ready, then can ask you then Penske, then 687 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,700 get a d then you get a c then heard up / and ready, then 688 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:05,600 ganassi, then KV racing which was cannons Andretti Penske and 689 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,100 ready and ready Penske Penske. But that beauty that lasts pesky 690 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:11,800 is where we get this run of different teams and so I am 691 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,300 going to be really fascinated, you know, in the team seems so 692 00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:18,700 close. Especially those top three top 693 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:20,800 Four teams in terms of what they've been able to do in 694 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,400 qualifying. But this is where I look at foyt 695 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,300 and I'm like, well on the one hand, you can say voice. 696 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:29,000 Probably, you know those those two drivers probably are able to 697 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,700 measure up for the whole race, but I don't know that anybody 698 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:34,900 would have gone in, you know, and said for, you know, yeah, 699 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:37,200 sure. Meyer Shanks, going to run 200 700 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,700 laps and be able to successfully hold off Penske at the end. 701 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,100 And yet that's exactly what happened that. 702 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:46,300 So your comment about like it is not an early yellow, I'm also 703 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:50,300 really fascinated to see, you know, Know what exactly does 704 00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:56,000 happen in terms of how the climate of the day affects the 705 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,500 race cars in the first that first stretched before the, the 706 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,200 pits that happen, which will Norm. 707 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,600 I think it normally happens like like between iCloud left, 30, 708 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,200 and 35, when we're going to have different climatological 709 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,900 conditions for this particular race. 710 00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:13,600 I mean, right now, I think it's going to be a little bit 711 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,800 overcast, which will certainly help in terms of track 712 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,500 condition, but we don't totally know. 713 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,600 We know the temperature is going to be in the low. 80s which 714 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,400 isn't ideal in terms of fast. So, does that actually 715 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,500 disadvantage some of the top teams whose biggest advantages 716 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:29,700 that they have? A slightly better amount of 717 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:32,200 speed on the straightaways? Does that bring everybody down a 718 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,100 little bit to a little lower level. 719 00:36:34,100 --> 00:36:35,700 That's going to be a really interesting thing to watch. 720 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:38,600 And that's where I think some of the teams that haven't won races 721 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,000 so far, either an indie or this year, might have a puncher's 722 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,900 chance where they might not have otherwise. 723 00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:47,200 Yeah, it's interesting. As your mentioned, the team's 724 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,700 there it is. It is interesting, the team. 725 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,500 We haven't talked about yet and it's kind of fallen into this 726 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,800 weird middle spot is Andretti, Autosport, whatever. 727 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,000 It's just like they're not bad, they're not good. 728 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,300 They're just, they're kind of eating up laps, which is wild 729 00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:03,800 because Colton, Herta has been unbelievably fast because he's 730 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:08,100 started fifth tenth seconds and now he's starting 25th and it 731 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,500 just feels like Andretti. Autosport is just like they're 732 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,300 they're not anywhere. There's right in the middle and 733 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:16,600 you it doesn't feel like they're even going to be a threat to be 734 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,700 bad or good on Sunday. Yeah. 735 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,600 That is, it's not a surprise given what's happened with 736 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,200 Andretti? I mean you know what are we on 737 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:29,800 now the last time and ready one of 500 was Sato in 2017 you 738 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,800 know. And they had one at that point, 739 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:35,800 three of the last four races with with hunter-reay and of in 740 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,000 14 and then Rossi with the fuel strategy win and 16. 741 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,800 So I do Wonder a little bit like, you know, do they have 742 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,100 something up their sleeve because you know, the one thing 743 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:51,100 you can say About 180 is that they do know how to run. 744 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:54,400 Indie, like, they, they probably more so than Penske even though 745 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,700 it hasn't shown up in the winds have at least been competitive. 746 00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:00,100 They've managed to figure out a way to get their cars in the top 747 00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:01,900 10. And this might be the race where 748 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:05,900 that ends up being a worthwhile approach as opposed to trying to 749 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:07,600 lead and trying to get yourself out there. 750 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:10,200 I need to update the weather forecast because it's got two 751 00:38:10,207 --> 00:38:12,300 changes. Every time I check the weather 752 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:19,100 app so now that no no 77. Now the projected high with And 753 00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:21,900 East Northeast East Wind at 8 miles an hour. 754 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:25,500 Gusting to 15, we have not had a race day like this in quite a 755 00:38:25,508 --> 00:38:29,000 while where there's a breeze of note and the temperatures under 756 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,100 80 degrees that'll be a cooler track, especially when the race 757 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:36,600 starts, then when it finishes because, you know, it's probably 758 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,400 not going to get into the upper 70s until the latter stages of 759 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,900 the race, which is going to throw some other monkey wrenches 760 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:45,200 into the process in terms of you know, not Nest, not just Tire 761 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,100 degradation. But the cars are going to 762 00:38:47,100 --> 00:38:50,400 legitimately change the way that they A handle on the track as 763 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,800 the track gets warmer over time and then you got the wind along 764 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,100 side of that. You know, that's, that's always 765 00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:59,100 a little bit of a challenge, especially in the back of the 766 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:01,300 pack where you have a bunch of drivers, who haven't necessarily 767 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:03,600 gotten a lot of experience racing it in the, in those 768 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,000 conditions, I have a question for you. 769 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:13,400 This is something, you know, for a while there in the mid 2010's 770 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,600 you had a spot where like Dario was winning a lot. 771 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,300 Dan Wheldon had one, unfortunately passed away, but 772 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,700 One of the races there was only like two former winners or three 773 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,900 former winners in a race just because everything was like 774 00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:27,900 Dixon and Dario as like the same guys were winning and then like 775 00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:30,100 guys like Sam Hornish jr. Would win and leave. 776 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:34,700 This is, I don't know the most number of former winners in a 777 00:39:34,707 --> 00:39:36,400 field, but this has got to be up there. 778 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,900 Pretty close. You have nine former winners in 779 00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:42,400 the field. I'm curious to ask you, do you 780 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,600 think that's like, almost a third of the field? 781 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,000 Do you think we see a repeat winner or a new winner this 782 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000 year? I would put money if those are 783 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,400 my binary options, I would put money on a new winner, you know? 784 00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:00,100 I you know, the the drivers that I am, I think most attuned to 785 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:04,000 our pulao, it feels like everything's kind of coming 786 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,600 together. I felt the same way about 787 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:10,700 passion o back in 2019 it's just got that a similar sort of vibe. 788 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,700 You know I think Pat award is another driver that I really 789 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:18,100 feel like the vibe is there for him. 790 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,300 You know, honestly I think rosenquist is, is the third one. 791 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:26,200 And I feel like to some degree Erickson winning last year, has 792 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,900 kind of made people forget that rosenquist is also a really good 793 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,400 driver. You know, if you're going to 794 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,700 compare like you know Nordic drivers in IndyCar, I almost 795 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:38,600 feel like he's kind of Fallen under the radar a little bit as 796 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,300 much as one can sitting on the outside of Row one. 797 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:46,800 But look I also think you know if you wanted me to grab a 798 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,100 driver from the last two, Two-thirds of the field. 799 00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,800 I'm really fascinated with Kyle Kirkwood's chances in this race 800 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,700 that mean that's a guy who's had a really good season so far. 801 00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:00,000 He is kind of young enough that I don't think he knows what he 802 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,800 doesn't know and that often times you watch enough IndyCar 803 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,600 over the years it's almost easier to win when you're not 804 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,000 overthinking the track and I think he's still young enough 805 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,200 that he's in that mode and you know, frankly he's probably the 806 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,600 best I would say he's maybe the best option of that. 807 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,700 Gaming group of race car drivers. 808 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:24,800 I was I was really thinking that grosjean might be a good choice 809 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,400 here, but it just doesn't feel like the month has gone. 810 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,800 Well for him and bad vibes. Rarely do do drivers and teams 811 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,100 that are having that bad vibes do particularly well in this 812 00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:37,700 race. Bad luck, seems to follow you 813 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:40,400 around and good luck seems to do the same. 814 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,200 So those are kind of what I'm thinking, but I, you know, I 815 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,600 wouldn't, I certainly wouldn't be shocked if we saw Dixon or 816 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,500 Rossi or Sato, or cannot or Erickson win or willpower for 817 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:54,100 that matter if we're looking at the, the top four rows, but I 818 00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:56,300 just had a sneaking suspicion that we're going to get a new 819 00:41:56,300 --> 00:41:58,900 winner this year. I would agree with you. 820 00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:01,300 I think you hit all the targets. There's not much more to say the 821 00:42:01,300 --> 00:42:02,600 other. This is what I do best on. 822 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,800 This podcast is take all of Scott's material. 823 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,200 So yeah, so let me, let's talk about Christian long guard, a 824 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,100 little bit. Give me some David malukas 825 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:13,300 thoughts, come on. I was actually looking at 826 00:42:13,308 --> 00:42:14,600 malukas, I went to the race in St. 827 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,500 Louis last year with my son and malukas like finished third, 828 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:20,500 like he's been really good. Nobles, but this gets us to 829 00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:23,000 another binary discussion. You have an Indy car is Honda 830 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,600 versus Chevy and outside of ganassi the rest of the field 831 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,400 that's Honda is in the back of the field. 832 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,500 Yeah. Like there's definitely an issue 833 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:35,600 with Honda unless you are a ganassi team and so as I was 834 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,800 looking at malukas, like I think there's a world where he has the 835 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,100 talent to do really well on an oval and he's been fast on these 836 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:46,900 ovals but I just don't know if a Honda team that isn't ganassi is 837 00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:49,500 going to be able to get there and so You look at like her to 838 00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:51,600 like I think heard is good, but it's just, you the back half of 839 00:42:51,607 --> 00:42:56,200 the field, you go to row, you know, six on it's all Honda's 840 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,600 except for Graham Rahal on are seeing Orson and that's not a 841 00:42:58,607 --> 00:43:00,200 good thing. Well, and that's that's the one. 842 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,100 That's why Kirkwood was the one that I spotted because I mean he 843 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:06,900 was the one that qualified his Honda best and I don't know. 844 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:11,600 I mean, I would, I would probably lean, you know, like I 845 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,200 said, either a ganassi car or somebody driving a Chevy. 846 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,300 I mean, if you're looking down the road, this is where Penske 847 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,300 Has a bit of an advantage in that your they're running, 848 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:23,100 they're running Chevy, so I wouldn't be shocked. 849 00:43:23,100 --> 00:43:26,600 If they were able to put something together, that we 850 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,200 aren't necessarily expecting based upon their qualifying 851 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,700 position, but I will do that. I will look at all look at like, 852 00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:37,200 you know, New Garden because I think New Garden has run. 853 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,700 Well, here, it feels like he's hitting a bit of a lull in the 854 00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:44,400 last two years where he was, he was starting front row for a 855 00:43:44,408 --> 00:43:47,300 couple of years there and then he's kind of got falling off. 856 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:49,000 Pace. He is the, you know, 857 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,000 third-highest Penske, I think McLaughlin is run pretty well 858 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,100 too, but New Garden is kind of in that point is when he's won a 859 00:43:55,107 --> 00:43:57,100 championship, he's won some races. 860 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,000 You know, the last thing on his bucket list is kind of Indie and 861 00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:04,400 I think this is a race that he obviously that he that he wants. 862 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:09,000 But you know I would look at that McLaughlin newgarden combo 863 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,700 as you know they're going to have that Penske machine behind 864 00:44:12,700 --> 00:44:14,100 him. But the thing is that new Garden 865 00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:17,100 is kind of their their number one driver even though power. 866 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:18,900 Race. The fastest, you know, New 867 00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:24,000 Garden is kind of the number one driver on that team most years 868 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,900 in and out. I think it was got the guys 869 00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:28,800 always pissed. And so I would, I would look at 870 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,500 New Garden to is just somebody who's interested. 871 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:33,400 You know, go for it, by the way, gambling on the 500s fun. 872 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,500 Like just go ahead and bet on like three or four different 873 00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:37,600 winners. There's sometimes FanDuel have 874 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,400 like you can bet the different thirds and you can normally find 875 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,400 a couple of things where the odds are definitely in your 876 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,300 favor, especially some like you know, this driver that. 877 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:49,800 There's a lot of ways you can bet it but a lot, you know, it's 878 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,000 fun. Just to throw a couple bucks on 879 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,600 a couple guys to win and see what happens. 880 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,400 Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, and odds wise, if you 881 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,300 are of the gambling disposition, I mean, if you think Alex below 882 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:03,000 is the option, you're still getting. 883 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000 I think plus 600 odds on polo right now, despite being the 884 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,100 pole sitter. And that's, I mean, that's 885 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:13,000 pretty good. I mean, if you look at Value and 886 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,100 this is again where the spreadsheet that this gentleman 887 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:17,500 put together has been of immense help because I certainly, We 888 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:21,800 didn't calculate any of these things myself, but be a pulao, 889 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,500 followed by a ward, followed by Dixon, followed by VK or kind of 890 00:45:25,508 --> 00:45:31,300 considered the four best values of everybody in the field pulao 891 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:37,700 at plus 600 award at plus 750. And that to me if I was looking 892 00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:42,200 at like, the best combination of value and real, read it 893 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,800 reasonable chance of winning. He'd probably the one I'd go 894 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:50,700 with but Dixon's plus 800. And what vk+ 1,000 you know so 895 00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:52,500 that you've got a lot of options there. 896 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,400 And again yeah it's like you don't have to bet a lot of money 897 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,000 on any of those but it would it's fun to have something 898 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,500 writing on it. It's just such a this is the 899 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:04,300 thing and I having bet on Indy car a couple of times like it 900 00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:07,400 just it this race especially it just kind of feels like you're 901 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,100 just playing roulette with things. 902 00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:11,800 Yeah, there's but at least you've got a little bit of an 903 00:46:11,808 --> 00:46:14,200 idea of what the weighted odds are with some of these teams, I 904 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,300 do think that that's, that's a good thing to evaluate well, 905 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,100 That's what's so funny. It's fun and probably immensely 906 00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:23,000 frustrating about this race is that, you know, the reason that 907 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,900 you want to qualify up front is because yeah there's a wreck in 908 00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:28,300 the first lap normally. It's just it can take out just 909 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,700 like a wide swath of Road 428. But if there's not then it's 910 00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:32,800 like, all right. Well that doesn't matter. 911 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,900 And now it's like a car from her awaken win. 912 00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:38,300 It's like, if if this happens then this is good or bad. 913 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:41,600 And that's what's Wild is like all the things we're talking 914 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,800 about. Like New Garden could easily win 915 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,800 this race but if they're, you know, if let's say, you know, 916 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,600 Benjamin You're still a rookie just gets into it with you and 917 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,900 Carpenter and turn one. It takes out new Gardens like 918 00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:54,200 well, yeah, of course that's my new Garden couldn't win because 919 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,600 you're in the back and that's what's it's like so much of this 920 00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,000 is dependent on other things happening or not happening. 921 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,400 And that's what I love about the race. 922 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,200 But it's also immensely frustrating. 923 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,500 I'm sure for teams and drivers. It does feel like I don't want 924 00:47:08,500 --> 00:47:12,200 to jinx it, but it feels like we've had a good number of 925 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,900 years. Whereas not been a turd, a lap 926 00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:16,900 one incident. It feels like we're getting 927 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,200 Really close to do for it, but I'm not sure because when you 928 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,300 look at the top starting four or five rows, you only have one 929 00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:28,700 rookie you have gosh, three, four, five, six, former winners 930 00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:31,500 in the first four rows. Like it does feel like there's 931 00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:34,600 enough experience there that nobody is going to have any 932 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,100 issues. Yeah well and there's also I 933 00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:42,000 mean outside I guess of the ray whole cars there's just there's 934 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,100 not a situation where you feel like somebody's so entirely off 935 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:49,500 the pace that they're going to Any problems, even those drivers 936 00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:51,800 in the back, I think of acquitted themselves pretty 937 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,400 well. Overall this season, you know, 938 00:47:54,408 --> 00:48:00,300 no one's been a danger on the track and look what I think has 939 00:48:00,300 --> 00:48:03,900 been fascinating from my perspective, is it feels like 940 00:48:03,900 --> 00:48:09,200 the professionalism level of the drivers in terms of how they 941 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,100 handle this race, like top to bottom is so much better than it 942 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:15,800 was 10 15 years ago where it felt like, in some cases, there 943 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,200 was a legitimate concern about whether People really understood 944 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,300 what they were doing and how they should handle themselves. 945 00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:25,000 And also, you'd have some relatively not safe, moves by 946 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,500 people in front, trying to, you know, over like, do more than 947 00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:32,400 they should. And it does feel like I feel 948 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,200 about his good about this collection of drivers as I felt 949 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,300 about an Indy race in a while, just in terms of, I don't look 950 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,200 at anybody in the race right now and think, well, gosh, that's 951 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,000 gonna be a problem as the race goes. 952 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,100 Along, I'm laughing because I agree with you. 953 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,600 Your percent and this is going to lead to a lack. 954 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,700 Now, turn one right now. It's just this is the way the 955 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,900 Indy 500 is like I'm just I'm waiting for that first lap for. 956 00:48:55,900 --> 00:48:58,200 It's like eight Carter and I shouldn't have said anything. 957 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,900 I'm sorry. Do you like, but do I agree that 958 00:49:00,900 --> 00:49:03,700 sitting here? I everything you said makes 100% 959 00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:06,600 sense but it never seems to work out that way. 960 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,600 And Indie like it just doesn't and you are right, like bad luck 961 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,100 follows teams. And then again, it's all looking 962 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:15,400 back. But when you look back and 963 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,200 stuff, it's like oh that makes sense like that. 964 00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:20,600 As passion has year in 2019, like he won the Triple Carrillo 965 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,900 won, the Grand Prix, won the pole won, the 500. 966 00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:26,900 Think that was his that was his weekend and it will feel that 967 00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:31,400 way, looking back now. But I'm with you, you know, it's 968 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:36,800 hard to pick winners but it does feel like pulao is writing some 969 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,000 some high here in. Like this is kind of his coming 970 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,900 out moment, where it's like, this guy is legit. 971 00:49:41,900 --> 00:49:46,700 This guy is really good and people are going to take note of 972 00:49:46,700 --> 00:49:47,200 it. It does feel. 973 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,700 That way I'm being I would again, it's all the guys that 974 00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:53,700 you mentioned like, I'd love to see Santino ferrucci win. 975 00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:56,600 I have a really hard time seeing an AJ foyt team. 976 00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,700 Just put it together for an entire race. 977 00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:03,800 Unfortunately, same thing with VK like they that Carpenter team 978 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,300 has really good speed but it seems like they they lose the 979 00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:10,200 ability to keep their speed throughout the race just time 980 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:11,900 and time. Again it's a carpenter has been 981 00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:15,400 up there and then it's like oh he's not good in the last 15 982 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,300 laps like this don't make the adjustments that At some of 983 00:50:18,308 --> 00:50:20,100 those other teams that are winning do. 984 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,400 Yeah. This is, you know, I know with 985 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:27,300 arrow McLaren what I'm very curious to see as you have a lot 986 00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:30,200 of talent you have, you know, former winners on that team but 987 00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,500 are they able to you know, make those adjustments or they able 988 00:50:34,500 --> 00:50:37,000 to actually you know seal the deal and win a race? 989 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:38,900 And that's that's going to be very interesting as it looks 990 00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:40,500 like they're a well-oiled machine. 991 00:50:40,500 --> 00:50:43,100 Looks like they have it all together but we've seen that 992 00:50:43,100 --> 00:50:46,400 before from teams kind of like in the end ready you know elk 993 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,000 where they Great, that he gets the race and suddenly it's like, 994 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,600 they're just falling off and they're not able to keep it 995 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,500 going throughout the race. I'm getting very curious to see 996 00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:57,500 if are okay because of Arrow, McLaren comes in and kicks ass 997 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,300 on Sunday and like they win, maybe, you know, get to, you 998 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:02,700 know, get 1st and 3rd or 1st and 4th and 6. 999 00:51:02,700 --> 00:51:05,300 It's going to be like, wow, this is this is a real team that is 1000 00:51:05,300 --> 00:51:08,800 now like competing for ganassi to be the number one team in the 1001 00:51:08,808 --> 00:51:10,800 series. Yeah, 100%. 1002 00:51:12,700 --> 00:51:15,500 Anything else on the race itself before we move to the stuff 1003 00:51:15,500 --> 00:51:17,500 surrounding the race, in our last 10 minutes, Here. 1004 00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:20,700 Let's go surrounding the right. So we mentioned the weather. 1005 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,400 We also need to mention. There was just a tweet from 1006 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,900 Jennifer, I right before we started that there's only five 1007 00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:28,600 thousand reserved seats remaining. 1008 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:30,600 We're not going to get into black guys. 1009 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,400 Like extortion, feels like it's extortion. 1010 00:51:33,300 --> 00:51:34,900 We're not gonna do blackout talk. 1011 00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:36,400 This time. We're going to keep it positive 1012 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,000 but still Scott. We're gonna black out the 1013 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,300 blackout talk. There you go. 1014 00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:45,500 You know the the 100th running back in 2016 was a big deal. 1015 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,800 And everybody came and Really felt like an event. 1016 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:53,000 This is going to be essentially the same number of people going 1017 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,500 to this race and you want to tell me we'd already talked 1018 00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:57,900 about the weather. This looks like a. 1019 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,200 If Speedway had a chamber of commerce, I'm sure they do. 1020 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,700 Actually, this would be a chamber of commerce day. 1021 00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:05,800 This is exactly the kind of conditions you would like, for 1022 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:11,000 the Indy 500. This is, I think this good. 1023 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,100 This is the kind of thing that India needs like they need these 1024 00:52:14,100 --> 00:52:16,000 sorts of races with this type of weather. 1025 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,300 With this competitive of a Filled with several different 1026 00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:21,800 drivers and teams that people can get behind and I'm really 1027 00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:25,100 excited. I'm also really fascinated to 1028 00:52:25,100 --> 00:52:27,600 see. I mean it's fascinating to think 1029 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,900 that the three races ago there was nobody in the stands you 1030 00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:33,100 know? Because it covid and then you 1031 00:52:33,100 --> 00:52:36,600 had half the number of people in the stands and now we're back up 1032 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,400 to around three hundred and twenty-five thousand. 1033 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,500 I mean as much as we have talked about the need to grow new fans 1034 00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:45,700 and I still believe that in terms of not, you know, not 1035 00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:48,100 having the blackout. The fact that they keep 1036 00:52:48,100 --> 00:52:52,500 attracting this number of people is is obviously a great sign. 1037 00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:55,300 I think for the series and for the race itself and I'm really 1038 00:52:55,300 --> 00:53:00,500 excited to see how that affects the energy in the speedway 1039 00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:02,900 because I think it's going to be pretty amped, and it's going to 1040 00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:06,300 be a like from about 10:00 in the morning as people really 1041 00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:08,700 start filtering, and what are you looking forward to? 1042 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,800 I've said this before, I'll say it every year, like honestly, 1043 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,100 one of the favorite 45 minutes of the year for me. 1044 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:24,600 Me is from like 12 15 to like 12:45 like that period, where 1045 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:28,800 it's when I went to the Kentucky Derby, ten years ago and I was 1046 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,200 excited because he only had they have the call to post and think 1047 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,200 My Old Kentucky Home and it's funny, you go there. 1048 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,100 It's like they do the call to post. 1049 00:53:34,100 --> 00:53:36,800 She's seeing My Old Kentucky Home and then you wait for 45 1050 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,000 minutes and it's like, this is a bit is just like Dead considered 1051 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,600 obscene of their deal with horse and stuff. 1052 00:53:42,100 --> 00:53:45,600 There's a, there's kind of a cycle 2nd, where once, you know, 1053 00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,000 they walk the military On the backstretch. 1054 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,500 It's like, all right, we are on like, it's from there to God 1055 00:53:50,500 --> 00:53:53,500 Bless America to Taps, which gives me goosebumps every time 1056 00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,700 straight into the, you know, national anthem, the flyover. 1057 00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:57,600 And I'm a sucker for all of those things. 1058 00:53:57,700 --> 00:54:02,100 But again, to me, it feels like we are in, we're kind of turning 1059 00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:04,500 over Leafs were now. You're at a point where, you 1060 00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:07,600 know, they have, you know, we're no longer doing the balloons on 1061 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:08,900 back home. Again in Indiana, but they did a 1062 00:54:08,908 --> 00:54:11,000 flyover last year that was unbelievable. 1063 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,400 Like just, you know, the Thunderbirds, you know, doing 1064 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,100 the the arrow thing you have now Jim Cornelia. 1065 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,200 I said, who's like he is are back home again. 1066 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,500 Guy for the next 15-20 were selling bobbleheads of him in 1067 00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:24,700 the gift shop when we went last Friday. 1068 00:54:24,700 --> 00:54:26,900 Yeah, it's amazing. No, he spent what it's it but 1069 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,900 it's amazing. You think 10 years ago they're 1070 00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:32,100 showing a video of Jim Nabors doing it because it's like they 1071 00:54:32,100 --> 00:54:33,600 just didn't. And again that was a tough 1072 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:37,400 transition but it, it does feel like we're kind of solidifying 1073 00:54:37,700 --> 00:54:40,100 what the field as we were saying is going to look like for the 1074 00:54:40,100 --> 00:54:43,400 next 10 or 15 years of pulao and VK and, you know, rosenquist 1075 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,500 guys like that. But it does feel like we're kind 1076 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:48,100 of solidified, all right. Like now if your To the 500. 1077 00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:50,200 Like it's not like oh you know used to be neighbors and now we 1078 00:54:50,207 --> 00:54:51,100 don't know. It's like no, this is 1079 00:54:51,100 --> 00:54:52,600 cornelison. Like he's doing it. 1080 00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,900 You have a good I think Jewel will do great on the national 1081 00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:57,400 anthem. I'm always excited for that 1082 00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,600 period. I still remember Jewel singing 1083 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,000 the Super Bowl national anthem before the Broncos Packers game. 1084 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,900 It's weird and it's good for her that she's still Braille event. 1085 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,500 Almost what 20, 26 years later now? 1086 00:55:09,500 --> 00:55:10,800 I mean that's wild anyway. Sorry. 1087 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,200 Go ahead, Ellen. And again merging, you know, 1088 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:14,500 things that I love with the Pacers. 1089 00:55:14,500 --> 00:55:16,000 It's kind of like. All right, Tyrese Albert and 1090 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,300 like the city is yours. URS like last time we did this 1091 00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:20,700 we gave they let Victor Oladipo drive the pace car and that 1092 00:55:20,700 --> 00:55:23,100 didn't go out. So hopefully Tyrese isn't like I 1093 00:55:23,100 --> 00:55:27,000 want to go to Miami look after he drives the face car but no 1094 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:32,400 that 45 minutes of pre-race ceremony I'm excited for but it 1095 00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:36,700 is cool that it it you know it feels like we're getting things 1096 00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:39,300 solidified like this is going to be our church you know 1097 00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:41,500 traditions for people coming years fast and it. 1098 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,900 So I have a couple friends who the first time they're going to 1099 00:55:43,900 --> 00:55:46,600 be going is this year and it's like, I'm excited to tell him 1100 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:48,700 like you're gonna love. Like get in your seat early. 1101 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,900 If you're going for the first time, you know be in your seats 1102 00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:54,700 by like 11:30 you start hearing you know cars to grid and the 1103 00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:58,300 driver introductions you'll you should be there get there. 1104 00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,100 So for me that's what I'm excited for the thing I would 1105 00:56:02,100 --> 00:56:05,100 love to see is you know, unfortunately it's like I said 1106 00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:08,000 before it's just there comes a point where as 100 laps we're 1107 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,200 kind of just becomes all right like as much as excited I am 1108 00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,300 it's like I love the beginning and then it's like all right we 1109 00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:15,700 get to the last 15 laps because this is like just follow the 1110 00:56:15,700 --> 00:56:18,500 leader but What I'm excited for. What about you? 1111 00:56:19,700 --> 00:56:22,500 Well, I mean, all of the things you just mentioned, certainly. 1112 00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:26,600 I mean, it's so it's funny. We had someone and I'm trying to 1113 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:30,600 find the Tweet but someone tweeted at both of us asking if 1114 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,200 we had parking recommendations because I guess they're normal 1115 00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,500 parking location had fallen through and I'm afraid to give 1116 00:56:36,500 --> 00:56:39,200 any recommendations this year because of how many people are 1117 00:56:39,207 --> 00:56:41,600 going to be going. My one recommendation is to get 1118 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:46,700 there like earlier than you think you need to because it's 1119 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,300 unless you have a spot that you know for sure You're going to be 1120 00:56:50,300 --> 00:56:52,900 able to park in, I wouldn't count on it. 1121 00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:56,000 And the last thing you want to do and I say this from having 1122 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,600 been in this experience, you do not want to get caught in 1123 00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:02,600 traffic on like 30th Street hoping that you're going to find 1124 00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,700 a parking spot somewhere down the road there because it's 1125 00:57:05,700 --> 00:57:08,200 probably not going to materialize in the way that you 1126 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,900 think but now I mean look I am I think I'm the most excited for 1127 00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:17,700 the build-up like you said that that to that hour and a half or 1128 00:57:17,700 --> 00:57:22,100 two hours leading into To when they do all of the pageantry and 1129 00:57:22,100 --> 00:57:25,800 then they get the cars fired up and on their way, the thing I 1130 00:57:25,808 --> 00:57:30,200 will, I guess try to pass along for anybody that's planning on 1131 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:35,200 going that hasn't been before this is without question. 1132 00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:40,800 In my mind, the most physically demanding Fan Experience in 1133 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,100 sports. So true, it's and it's always 1134 00:57:44,300 --> 00:57:46,200 always gets underrated. I don't care where you are, you 1135 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,900 can be in the infield, you can be in the snake pit, you can be 1136 00:57:48,900 --> 00:57:51,500 in a And you can be after the, you know, maybe the pagodas, 1137 00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:55,400 well, said, the one exception, but like so, you know, I'm going 1138 00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,500 my wife's going, my wife's family's been going since the 1139 00:57:57,500 --> 00:58:03,600 late 60s and they have a whole pattern down and I respect their 1140 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,300 pattern and it's a great pattern, but it requires us. 1141 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:12,700 You know, getting up driving up getting to the parking spot at 1142 00:58:12,700 --> 00:58:16,100 like, 7 a.m. tailgating for three hours and then walking 1143 00:58:16,100 --> 00:58:17,700 over. And that's up, you know, it's a 1144 00:58:17,707 --> 00:58:20,400 15 20 minute walk your walk. I'm through neighborhoods, I 1145 00:58:20,408 --> 00:58:21,600 could probably do it blindfolded. 1146 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,400 Now I've done it so many times, then you're in the speedway and 1147 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,400 you're just in the speedway. There's nowhere to go. 1148 00:58:27,700 --> 00:58:30,300 If it's too hot, if the sun's too bright, if you didn't bring 1149 00:58:30,300 --> 00:58:33,000 enough to drink, I mean you can go buy stuff at the concession 1150 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,000 stand. But you really have no outs and 1151 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:39,100 then it is it kind of used to be a little bit easier because when 1152 00:58:39,100 --> 00:58:42,700 the race started at 11, a.m. what you did for many, many 1153 00:58:42,700 --> 00:58:46,200 years, you know, you'd have obviously a very early morning 1154 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,900 but the race would be over by 2:30 now with the Green flag 1155 00:58:49,900 --> 00:58:55,200 dropping at 12:45, like you're there till 4:00 and maybe a 1156 00:58:55,207 --> 00:58:58,900 little bit later and it is just there's so much exposure to the 1157 00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:01,100 elements that you don't think of you like, oh, it's a beautiful 1158 00:59:01,100 --> 00:59:02,800 day. It's going to be 75, whatever 1159 00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:04,800 degrees will be a light Breeze. I'll be fine. 1160 00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,400 And unless you work outside for a living, you're probably not 1161 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:12,900 condition it to that experience and so bring more water than you 1162 00:59:12,900 --> 00:59:18,100 need, don't wear short sleeves. Only if you do bring some kind 1163 00:59:18,100 --> 00:59:21,000 of backup or you can cover, were up your arms at some point where 1164 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:25,500 a hat wear sunglasses, and just realize that this is absolutely 1165 00:59:25,500 --> 00:59:30,300 a marathon and not a Sprint or a middle distance race because you 1166 00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:32,800 really don't want to have to check out early. 1167 00:59:33,100 --> 00:59:36,500 Because as you said, yes you've got that long kind of flat 1168 00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:38,900 period of the race where unless you're really into the strategy, 1169 00:59:38,900 --> 00:59:41,300 it's not going to resonate quite as much, but there's a big 1170 00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:44,000 payoff at the end and we get that pay off every year now 1171 00:59:44,100 --> 00:59:46,400 because the races are tight. And that's the one thing about 1172 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,800 India. Now, that wasn't like, it wasn't 1173 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:52,000 like that. Years ago where it was a shock. 1174 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,300 If it car was on the lead lap with that was or the car that 1175 00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:57,300 was winning. Now it's a shock if there aren't 1176 00:59:57,300 --> 01:00:00,700 15 cars on the lead lap at the end all of them vying for at 1177 01:00:00,700 --> 01:00:02,800 least you know, a better spot than they might have been 1178 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,300 otherwise. So it's got you hit that on the 1179 01:00:06,300 --> 01:00:07,000 head? It's perfect. 1180 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,100 It's, it's funny. I've been, you know, my 10 year, 1181 01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:11,900 old son has been in 2nd car, I take him to the Grand Prix, he 1182 01:00:11,900 --> 01:00:15,000 wants to go to the 500, I'm thinking for next year but it's 1183 01:00:15,100 --> 01:00:19,100 no you if you haven't gone, like the thing that I keep telling my 1184 01:00:19,100 --> 01:00:21,500 son, One is like you got to be prepared and like there comes 1185 01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:24,100 points, you know, whether it's we're going in or were in 1186 01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:27,400 traffic or like if you're there when the race ends, like I don't 1187 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:30,200 care if your arm is off and you're bleeding like we're not 1188 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,100 getting home for two and a half hours like there is. 1189 01:00:32,100 --> 01:00:34,400 No like let's just duck out and beat the track. 1190 01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:36,100 Like there is none of that their lunch. 1191 01:00:36,100 --> 01:00:38,400 There is no be to your chance. Yeah, the gears. 1192 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,900 Just your head and like it if you I guess if you left in the 1193 01:00:40,900 --> 01:00:43,200 middle of the race you could probably beat traffic but 1194 01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,400 there's there's points where it's like if you're there, 1195 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:49,000 you're there for nine hours like whether you want to or not like 1196 01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,400 that's Going to be a full day and I'm just not sure my son's 1197 01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,500 ready but no it's yeah. And the other thing is fun too. 1198 01:00:53,500 --> 01:00:55,500 If you're going for the first time like I was talking with 1199 01:00:55,500 --> 01:00:59,100 another friend, yesterday who sits out near you on Turn 3, 1200 01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:03,000 it's like there is no perfect place to watch the race like you 1201 01:01:03,300 --> 01:01:05,700 there, every place has advantages and has 1202 01:01:05,700 --> 01:01:08,400 disadvantages. And you have to kind of figure 1203 01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:12,300 out what what you want to see, what's important to you and what 1204 01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:14,700 you're okay, not seeing because that's that's the point with the 1205 01:01:14,700 --> 01:01:17,800 track being so big. Yeah, I'm weird. 1206 01:01:18,100 --> 01:01:21,100 It's always a fun day. Day on Sunday because I'm always 1207 01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:23,200 pushing to leave earlier. My wife's always like, we can 1208 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,900 make it a little later. I will let you know, I'll see 1209 01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:28,000 how this goes. I, I have a way out of the track 1210 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,700 that I've been very proud of finding. 1211 01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:32,300 It's all about for me. A couple little ways where, 1212 01:01:32,300 --> 01:01:35,100 like, I know you can turn left on one street and then it's 1213 01:01:35,100 --> 01:01:37,500 like, for me, it's a getting away from 465. 1214 01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:41,500 I actually drive under 465 and then go in the back roads. 1215 01:01:41,500 --> 01:01:45,900 Like I'm at least moving. I'm gonna try the way in because 1216 01:01:45,900 --> 01:01:49,200 I you normally take for 65 down and then I get stuck on the 1217 01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:53,000 Tenth Street, exit and it's just, it's a slog to get like 1218 01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,100 half a mile and so I'm debating changes. 1219 01:01:56,100 --> 01:01:57,800 This is probably bad advice for myself. 1220 01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,900 I'm, I'm thinking of coming in a different way and just driving 1221 01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:05,200 back roads and not even hitting 465 to come in and do came in on 1222 01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,200 21st Street. Hi, I'm going to, I'm going to 1223 01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:12,000 say, do this on the condition that you get a camera mount in 1224 01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:16,600 your car, and you record a vlog of yourself doing this and then 1225 01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,300 you post it on the account because I predict Rarity for the 1226 01:02:20,300 --> 01:02:23,500 rest of us watching you get pissed off at deciding to take 1227 01:02:23,500 --> 01:02:27,400 the back roads and ending up in like a four hour traffic jam. 1228 01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,000 I feel like I need the video from this. 1229 01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:32,000 If this is actually I understand, I just go the route 1230 01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,400 that I know Works where, I know, I'm looking at a 30-minute 1231 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,400 traffic jam. Anyway, if we weren't expecting 1232 01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:40,100 325,000 people, I would say, yeah sure. 1233 01:02:40,100 --> 01:02:43,700 Scott, try something different. But I mean, the number of people 1234 01:02:43,700 --> 01:02:46,200 who aren't going to know where they're going, who are going to 1235 01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,200 have the same thought process of his you as I better not take. 1236 01:02:49,300 --> 01:02:51,400 The main roads, I better go this other direction. 1237 01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,700 I just, that's the worst kind of jam to get into and that's what 1238 01:02:54,700 --> 01:02:58,600 I'm concerned about. Knock out. 1239 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:00,400 All right. Not now I'm thrown off. 1240 01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:01,500 I'm off. I'm off kilter. 1241 01:03:01,500 --> 01:03:11,500 I'm embracing right now. My I will say My Philosophy. 1242 01:03:11,500 --> 01:03:13,900 In general. Has been to just avoid 465, it 1243 01:03:13,908 --> 01:03:16,800 all possible, but there are other ways in that aren't back 1244 01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,300 roads that but a lot of it just really depends on. 1245 01:03:20,300 --> 01:03:22,100 Like, how early are you getting there this? 1246 01:03:22,100 --> 01:03:25,300 I mean, I was watching, I was looking at the IndyCar subreddit 1247 01:03:25,300 --> 01:03:27,400 and someone was like, so how I really should I get there? 1248 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:32,000 8:00 a.m. and like no no no no. That's did you try to get if 1249 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,000 specially if you're going to park immediately around the 1250 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,600 speedway. Getting there at eight is a 1251 01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,400 great recipe for being in your car till 10:45. 1252 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,700 You know, I think if you're you're trying to park near and 1253 01:03:41,700 --> 01:03:44,300 you don't 100% know where you're going, leave even earlier than 1254 01:03:44,300 --> 01:03:48,900 you think you need to because it look worse comes to worse, like, 1255 01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,600 you know, pack some breakfast, and some drinks and find a place 1256 01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:56,300 to park early and then chill. If you don't have you too. 1257 01:03:56,500 --> 01:03:58,400 TV. You can put TV on your phone and 1258 01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,400 take it with you and watch it wherever you go. 1259 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,500 Except that this is kind of like going to a huge music festival. 1260 01:04:05,700 --> 01:04:09,700 I mean this is in you know the speedway itself will be the 1261 01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:14,300 second largest city in Indiana from about 8:00 in the morning 1262 01:04:14,300 --> 01:04:18,500 until 6:00 7:00 at night and I would Echo the same thing if 1263 01:04:18,500 --> 01:04:21,200 you're trying to leave unless you have an ironclad, exit 1264 01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,900 strategy and you know, where to go and how to get out, don't be 1265 01:04:24,900 --> 01:04:28,200 in a rush to leave. Go down like walked out, you can 1266 01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:32,900 they're not going to stop you like walk down to, you know, to 1267 01:04:32,900 --> 01:04:37,300 the pit area was like, you'll find things to do, you'll find 1268 01:04:37,300 --> 01:04:38,900 drivers. Occasionally, they're just kind 1269 01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:41,600 of walking around. You'll, these are the kinds of 1270 01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,300 experiences. I think, if you try to treat 1271 01:04:43,300 --> 01:04:48,600 this like, don't be like, you know, every every Gen X or, and 1272 01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,800 early, Millennials parents, who that, you know, they're well, we 1273 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,700 got to beat traffic. So we gonna do this or that, 1274 01:04:53,700 --> 01:04:55,700 don't do that. Like, you're not going to beat 1275 01:04:55,700 --> 01:04:58,600 traffic. If you try traffic will beat you 1276 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,400 like a drum. Okay. 1277 01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:03,900 It will, it will absolutely pulverize you so true. 1278 01:05:04,500 --> 01:05:07,400 So just, you know, do not think that you can like, you know, 1279 01:05:07,500 --> 01:05:11,800 tame the tiger here, accept your position and just take it all in 1280 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:13,800 because especially if you've and if you know we're preaching to 1281 01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,600 the choir people who have been before but he's never been 1282 01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:18,300 before. You really do want to soak up 1283 01:05:18,300 --> 01:05:23,300 the enormity of the speedway and honestly I have done this a few 1284 01:05:23,300 --> 01:05:26,200 times half the time against my will but half the time on 1285 01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:31,000 Purpose being inside the track after the race is over. 1286 01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,800 It's really kind of this fascinating Vibe like it almost 1287 01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:40,100 there's this catharsis that happens after the race and the 1288 01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:43,000 watching people Shuffle out and watching the sun like slowly 1289 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:44,900 start to descend a little bit on the horizon. 1290 01:05:44,900 --> 01:05:48,300 There's always this kind of weird orange glow that settles 1291 01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:50,300 in over the speedway. Scott knows what I'm talking 1292 01:05:50,300 --> 01:05:52,600 about. Those are those are the things 1293 01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,100 that I actually think about. As I think about my time at the 1294 01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,100 Way over the course of the, you know, 20 or so years that I've 1295 01:06:00,100 --> 01:06:03,100 been going, and that's what I would recommend you do. 1296 01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,900 Especially if it's your first time like, so call that in, you 1297 01:06:05,900 --> 01:06:08,700 may wonder why you're doing it at first, but you won't wander 5 1298 01:06:08,700 --> 01:06:11,900 or 10 years down the line. No, and I can't stress enough. 1299 01:06:11,900 --> 01:06:15,500 We like to get there early and just chill and like, what we 1300 01:06:15,500 --> 01:06:17,200 normally we can leave our house at. 1301 01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,900 Like I try and leave it, like 7:15, we're normally parked by 8 1302 01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,900 and then we're normally in in the IMs by like 9:00, you know, 1303 01:06:23,900 --> 01:06:27,500 950 we park pretty far. We have a bit of a Walk but I 1304 01:06:27,500 --> 01:06:29,300 love it all. Like I love walking with people 1305 01:06:29,300 --> 01:06:32,100 and it's like I love walking through Speedway the area that 1306 01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:34,200 we walk through because like I've stopped at houses and you 1307 01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,500 people got come out of use the bathroom like you you Parker 1308 01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:37,800 people and they're like I'm from New York. 1309 01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:41,300 He just it is like you said this when we were there on Friday 1310 01:06:41,300 --> 01:06:43,100 it's like it's like the world's largest county fair. 1311 01:06:43,100 --> 01:06:47,400 But everybody is so nice and friendly and one year, I 1312 01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:51,800 distinctly, remember my wife, I just sat in the infield and we 1313 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:54,400 just sat there and like, we're by the pits, but we weren't in 1314 01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,300 anywhere special. And it's like, Saw Graham Rahal 1315 01:06:57,300 --> 01:07:00,200 drive by we saw Bobby Rahal, we saw Emerson fittipaldi and then 1316 01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,600 we like a guy sat next to us and was like, showing us like he 1317 01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:06,400 princess his own spotter guy which he laminates, which I now 1318 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,400 do every year. It's just like the people 1319 01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,600 watching his great. You'll see, you'll see random 1320 01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,300 stuff like it especially if you're in. 1321 01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:16,200 We like to walk inside the track Before the Race, just kind of 1322 01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,100 bounced around, you'll see stuff like the, you know, the the 1323 01:07:19,100 --> 01:07:22,300 marching band that plays the bagpipes after the winter. 1324 01:07:22,300 --> 01:07:26,500 Like they're just walking around play, like, you will see Cool 1325 01:07:26,500 --> 01:07:27,600 stuff. So you haven't been if you've 1326 01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:29,700 been you, this is all preaching to the choir, but you haven't 1327 01:07:29,700 --> 01:07:32,200 been do your best to kind of check it out. 1328 01:07:32,207 --> 01:07:35,100 But just know if you're like, hey, I got a buddy sitting in 1329 01:07:35,100 --> 01:07:37,800 turn four, and we're in turn to. It's like, that's, that's a 1330 01:07:37,808 --> 01:07:40,900 tough putt. Yeah, it's a, it's a 45-minute, 1331 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,400 the diversion and you're going to be stuck, like, even on a day 1332 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,900 like Friday Gail and I were there, it's like only 10,000 1333 01:07:46,900 --> 01:07:49,000 people are there. It's like, we beat the 1334 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,600 landmarks. Like, where's the big 1335 01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:51,600 inflatable? This? 1336 01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:53,400 That's like 80 people in there. Is this. 1337 01:07:53,700 --> 01:07:56,100 I wish I wish everybody had heard Scott, my trying to find 1338 01:07:56,100 --> 01:07:58,800 each They're in a very small space. 1339 01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:00,400 We could not find each other. It was away. 1340 01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,900 I will say this. It get yours that you're like. 1341 01:08:02,900 --> 01:08:04,800 Where is he? I'm actually Apache helicopter. 1342 01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,100 I don't see it going there it is. 1343 01:08:07,700 --> 01:08:10,500 There is something to be said for getting there early and 1344 01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:13,400 walking around because that cuz look a lot of times I'll do 1345 01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:14,100 that. I'll get out. 1346 01:08:14,100 --> 01:08:16,600 We'll get in there at 10:30 and it's like, well, the race is in 1347 01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:18,800 two hours and 15 minutes. What are we gonna do? 1348 01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:22,800 Sit in the stands. And so, you know, walking 1349 01:08:23,100 --> 01:08:25,700 walking under the tunnel getting inside the track. 1350 01:08:25,700 --> 01:08:29,700 Yes, it's a A lot of walking but you're going to be sitting for 1351 01:08:29,700 --> 01:08:32,399 the whole race. You might as well go see some 1352 01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:34,399 stuff while you're there is My Philosophy. 1353 01:08:34,399 --> 01:08:36,800 Anyway, we've gone over. We need to go ahead and wrap 1354 01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,399 things up, any final thoughts. Got no man, we hit it all. 1355 01:08:39,399 --> 01:08:41,100 It's great. It's one of my favorite days of 1356 01:08:41,108 --> 01:08:42,000 the year. It's a Christmas. 1357 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,300 I look forward to it and we'll chat after the race. 1358 01:08:45,300 --> 01:08:46,300 Sounds good. Yes. 1359 01:08:46,300 --> 01:08:49,399 And we hope that those of you who are going, have a great time 1360 01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:55,300 and you probably won't see us because there's three 325,000. 1361 01:08:56,399 --> 01:08:59,600 The straightaway being gay wasn't turned three wave at him 1362 01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:04,700 will wave back but whatever you do before during after the race, 1363 01:09:04,700 --> 01:09:07,399 be safe. Be you know, watch out for 1364 01:09:07,399 --> 01:09:09,700 yourself, watch out for the people who you're with, watch 1365 01:09:09,700 --> 01:09:11,800 out for strangers because they may not be watching out for 1366 01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:15,000 themselves and just have fun should be a great weekend. 1367 01:09:15,399 --> 01:09:18,300 Always my favorite part in Memorial Day Weekend whether I'm 1368 01:09:18,300 --> 01:09:20,800 watching on TV from a distance or whether I'm going to the race 1369 01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,399 up close. So for Scott I'm Galen our 1370 01:09:23,399 --> 01:09:26,200 thanks to our friends at the back home network or thanks. 1371 01:09:26,300 --> 01:09:29,500 To our presenting sponsor home-field apparel, we will be 1372 01:09:29,500 --> 01:09:33,000 taking a weekend break and we'll come back next week. 1373 01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,700 Maybe some I use sports news, maybe some Indy 500 rap, we'll 1374 01:09:35,700 --> 01:09:37,600 see what happens. Anyway, we'll catch you folks on 1375 01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:27,399 the flip side, so everybody To our presenting sponsor 1376 01:09:27,700 --> 01:09:31,500 home-field apparel, we will be taking a weekend break and we'll 1377 01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:34,300 come back next week. Maybe some I use sports news, 1378 01:09:34,300 --> 01:09:36,300 maybe some Indy 500 rap, we'll see what happens. 1379 01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:39,800 Anyway, we'll catch you folks on the flip side, so everybody