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New Street, New Drama: Markham Debut at the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy · Fast Cars Fast Girls

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  Welcome to Fast Cars, Fast Girls. I'm Abby Meyer. I'm Sarah Proctor.
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  And we've got just a little bit of an update this week. We've got the Ontario
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  Honda Dealers Indy at Markham. Yes, we do.
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  Which, brand new location, brand new layout.
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  I mean, it's still Canada, but it's not in Toronto anymore. So it's in Markham.
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  So yeah, I'm excited about it. Race weekend is this weekend,
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  and it's another street course. So, brand new street course. Yes.
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  I bet Kyle Kirkwood's going to do great. I think so, too. Or,
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  you know, maybe a willpower.
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  But let's be honest. Everybody's in the back of mind. Alex Pillow.
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  Right. Just take points away from below. Can we all be on board for that?
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  Oh, so well, let's get into it a little bit. So it's the Street to Markham.
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  It is a 12 turn, 2.19 mile temporary street course. Yes.
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  And the Indy race is going to be 90 laps or 197.1 miles, or if you're Canadian, 317.2 kilometers.
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  There we go. It almost sounded like when you said if you're Canadian,
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  like you were like, if you're Canadian. No, I have nothing wrong with that. I'm like, go.
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  I know you go, which is why it was funny, but it kind of sounded like that.
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  Well, but side quest here. The past couple of days has been rough for me.
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  A lot of people in central Indiana have been dealing with insane flooding right this second.
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  And my hometown of Muncie also is where I work, has been dealing with incredible flooding.
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  The river is the highest I've ever seen. It's almost breached the levee.
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  The town of Yorktown that's right next to Muncie got hit very, very hard.
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  Also, if you've listened to,
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  the podcast beforehand, I've talked about the Wreath Ladies flower shop.
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  It might be underwater. Oh, I hate to hear that.
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  She's a little bit up on a hill, but the Yorktown Public Library is right there.
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  And then her shop is like catty corner from it so i reached out to them actually
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  to see if they were okay but they never responded to my dm but so so yeah it's very wild,
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  newcastle got hit as well connorsville now the river quested at 18.9 uh,
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  feet so much so all the water so no if i'm a little bit slow it's because i've
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  been working like driving to work trying to get around floodwaters making sure
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  my parents basement thank god has been dry but also like making sure,
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  the water hasn't um reached the levee so guys please keep everybody in.
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  Central Indiana in your thoughts, prayers. And unfortunately,
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  as the river winds down and it's cresting, it's going down to where it flows.
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  So all these other places like Anderson, Connorsville, Noblesville,
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  and Pendleton are getting hit with all the floodwaters now as well.
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  Yeah, because that water is just going to keep on flowing. And yeah,
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  it's got to go somewhere. No, no. That's why. No.
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  Gotcha. So nothing against Canadians. No, no, no, just truly like, I'm tired.
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  I'm sure you are. I'm sure you are. So, yeah, and our thoughts and prayers and
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  vibes go out to any of our listeners who are dealing with any of that.
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  Not fun. Yeah, no fun. No fun at all. Not fun.
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  And they still get, back to the racing, you still get 150 seconds of push to pass. So that's good.
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  Yeah, love that. Maximum time of 15 seconds per activation.
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  And then the hybrid energy deployment parameters, unlimited activation with
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  a maximum deployment of 360 kilojoules per lap.
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  And then everybody gets five primary sets of the wonderful Firestone tires.
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  They sure do. And five alternate sets to be used during the event weekend.
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  Rookies may also use one additional set of primaries, and teams must use at
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  least one set of primaries and one set of new or sticker alternate reds for
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  at least two laps in the race.
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  Last year's winner was Pato Award, and you got to remember this was in Toronto.
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  And last year's poll winner was Colton Hurta.
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  That's right. I miss having Colton Hurta in our series. I'll say it. I miss him.
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  Same. And he was just...
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  God, he was a fucking gem on the radio. He says the F word as much as I do on
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  the radio. And it was just, it brought me so much joy.
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  It brought me so much joy. I love listening to him, especially when his dad
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  was his crew chief. It was because, you know, there's just the dynamic between
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  like parent and child when your parent is also a coach.
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  It's the same no matter what parent and child mix it is, no matter what sport
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  it is. That dynamic is just timeless. And having a parent who was a coach,
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  I just thoroughly enjoyed the radio back and forth.
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  So anyhow. All right. So our hashtags and things.
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  It is hashtag IndyON for Ontario, hashtag IndyCar, obviously.
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  And then at Ontario Indy and at IndyCar on all of the things.
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  And there is no qualifying record because this is a brand new circuit.
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  So. Sure is. More than likely it will be below. Fingers crossed it's not. Yes, but just saying.
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  Fingers crossed it's not. But, all right, well, what you've got coming up as
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  far as when to watch and where to watch.
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  Practice one is at 3 p.m. Eastern time on Friday on FS2. Well,
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  wait, wait, wait, but that is if the track is built.
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  Oh, yes, let's not forget that. So the track's not done yet. Yeah.
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  You know, I didn't think that Nashville with, like, not having stands built
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  could have been outdone, but not having the track done,
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  that's a whole new level of fuckery well i just looked on twitter before we
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  got on here there is somebody at the track right now watching them put barricades
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  up but yes was this on my bingo card this year,
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  absolutely not but absolutely but also this is a first year track it is a first
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  year track but at the same time.
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  They've got race organizers that have put together a street course before.
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  So it's not like it's everybody's first time doing this that's involved with
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  this race. Yes, and the organizer for this one definitely has done races before.
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  So I'm a little surprised. But stranger things have happened.
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  That is true. But yeah, so will there be a race? We don't know.
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  Will there be a racetrack? We don't know. Stay tuned. Exactly.
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  So, also, there are 12 drivers still mathematically eligible for,
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  the championship, and it is Alex Pillow, Kyle Kirkwood, David Malukas,
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  Christian Lungard, Patoa Ward, Felix Rosenquist, Joseph Newgarden,
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  Scott McLaughlin, Marcus Erickson, Renis VK, Will Power, and Scott Dixon.
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  And any driver who trails the points later by 216 points or more following the
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  race will be eliminated from contention.
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  Well, that is pretty cool. And this is a fun, interesting fact, too.
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  Since 2008 IndyCar Series Racing unified under the NTT IndyCar Series banner.
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  The eventual series champion has.
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  Won the 14th race of the season six times.
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  The most recent occurrence occurred last year with Alex Blow's win at Laguna Seca.
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  He also won the 14th race in 2021 at Portland.
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  Other drivers who have won the 14th race and the champion seasons were Ryan
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  Hunter Ray in 2012, Frank Keady in 2009 and 2010, and Dixon in 2008.
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  That's fascinating. Huh. I like that.
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  From 2009 to 2019, the eventual IndyCar Series champion won the Toronto race six times.
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  Dario won in 2009 and 2011.
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  Ryan Hunter-Rey won in 2012. Dixon swept both races in 2013 and won the single race in 2018.
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  And Joseph Newgarden won in 2017.
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  Seven other drivers have claimed the IndyCar Series championship in the same
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  season that they won at Toronto.
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  Bobby Rahal in 86. Al Unser Jr. in 1990. Michael Andretti in 91. Alex Zanardi in 98.
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  Cristiano De Mata in 2002. Paul Tracy in 2003 and Sebastian Bourdais in 2004
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  and if they would have listened or if they wouldn't have listened.
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  Sorry guys this is late when we're recording if you guys would have played our
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  trivia the Michael Andretti was an answer this week woo oh yes.
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  The 110 points that separate Alex and Kyle Kirkwood are the second largest points
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  margin since the IndyCar series racing was unified in 2008.
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  Before this season, the average lead with five races to go since 2008.
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  Was 48.8. Wow, that's huge. That's a huge difference. Kyle Kirkwood needs to
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  qualify on the pole to take a point away from Polo. Get that race win.
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  Get them points. Very much so. We love it. We want to see it. Very much so.
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  So, who do you think will be the podium? Who's your podium?
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  Okay, so I'm going to say Kirkwood, for sure.
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  I'm going to say...
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  Power. Okay. And...
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  I don't know, for third. Or for to round out the podium. Not necessarily in that order, but...
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  Maybe Malukas will have a good week. Let's throw Malukas in there. That's a safe one.
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  What about you? I like your Kirkwood, but I'll switch it out for Lungard.
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  Ooh, okay. I'll switch it out for Lungard. And then...
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  I'm going to go with Felix being up there again. Oh, that's a great choice.
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  So Kyle, Lungard, and Felix.
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  That is a great choice. So we'll see. We shall see.
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  It'll be exciting. I mean. It'll be an exciting weekend. And you've got all
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  kinds of things to watch from 3 to 4.30 on Friday as our practice one,
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  which there's 40 minutes for everybody.
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  The All Skate, and then followed by two groups for 12 minutes each.
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  That's on FS2 or TSN Plus in Canada.
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  On Saturday, August 15th, Practice 2 is from 10.05 to 11.30 a.m.,
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  40 minutes as an All Skate, followed by two groups for 12 minutes each,
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  also on FS2 or TSN Plus in Canada.
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  Saturday from 2.25 to 4 is qualifying And that is on FS1 or TSN5,
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  slash TSN Plus in Canada Sunday, August 16th, 8.40 to 9.10 is the IndyCar warm-up on FS2,
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  Noon is when Fox, TSN1, and TSN4 are on air At 12.15 p.m.
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  Is when we get the command for driver start your engines And 12.22 p.m.
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  Is green flag I'm excited.
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  I am too. It's always exciting to see a new track. Yeah, I'm excited to see
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  the new track because this track is going to be new.
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  Next week's track is going to be new. So...
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  It shall be interesting. It will be. It'll be an interesting end of the season
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  as we are wrapping things up. I hope they get the track done.
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  Yeah, you know, no big deal. But that'd be great.
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  IndyCar is being very IndyCar right now.
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  Yeah, yeah, they are. Oh, well, I'm going to think good thoughts.
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  I'm going to manifest good things. They're going to get the track built.
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  We're going to see a great race this weekend. Yes, yes, please.
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  Please, please, please. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. Well,
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  I think that about wraps it up. Anything else we need to chat about,
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  sir? Nothing I can think of.
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  So you guys, like I said, please keep thoughts and prayers and vibes for all
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  the everybody with the flooding in East Central Indiana and people following
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  the way over there, too. Yeah.
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  A lot of power outages, too, which...
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  The state is under emergency, so...
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  Yeah. Yeah. So, oh.
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  And if if you are okay then we're glad that you're okay but yeah look out for
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  your neighbors and everybody so don't drive through deep floodwaters yes do
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  not do that it's really stupid,
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  it's really dumb don't do that so all right well that's it for me and sarah,
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  have a great week and we'll see you at the racetrack.