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Pit Stops and Podiums: Celebrating the Season's Champions · Fast Cars Fast Girls

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  Welcome to Fast Cars, Fast Girls. I'm Abbey Meyer. I'm Sarah Proctor.
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  And we'll be your host this week.
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  Per usual, we've got all kinds of things to talk about. We, of course,
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  had our season finale for IndyCar this past weekend, so we're going to talk about that.
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  There were other races and other things happening, and it seemed to be kind
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  of like the weekend of crashes.
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  We'll talk a little bit about that.
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  Dreyer and Reinbold, our newest full-time IndyCar team for 2027,
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  announced their driver.
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  Couldn't be more excited to talk about that The Pit Crew Performance Award And
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  Rookie of the Year All those things were sorted out And of course the championship,
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  Although that was sorted in Milwaukee It wasn't fully celebrated until this past weekend,
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  And then we had an opal test with the IR-28, so we'll give you our thoughts on that.
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  We've got some Honda news. We've got a new partnership with Parkside Cards and
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  some exciting news as far as that goes.
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  And I think that's about it. Yeah, it was a busy week. It was.
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  So let's get right on into it.
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  Weekend of crashes. Tell us all about it, Sarah. Oh, man.
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  If you saw Laguna Seca, you know that practice and practice was postponed for
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  a little bit due to a crash, a Porsche. Look at it.
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  It's been all over. Trigger warning. It is very violent.
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  Yeah. Crashed. And luckily the driver was okay.
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  Like, was moved to the hospital. And the last I know, he is still in the hospital,
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  but he's awake and alert. Oh, that's wonderful to hear. So, yes.
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  That's great. And then there was another one in China. Oh, my goodness.
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  And the car caught fire and another driver got driver out.
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  Wow. The marshals there didn't get there quick, which I never,
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  like, yeah, talk bad about marshals.
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  But, yeah, that was a little. You know, you never want to see any kind of a
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  delay with the marshals. And, you know, and I don't know the circumstances,
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  so I'm not going to talk bad about anybody.
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  You know and I know you aren't either but I will say I'm glad that because there
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  was a delay for whatever reason that that driver stepped in and helped get the
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  other driver out yes definitely definitely definitely yeah I mean,
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  that's a true sportsman right there like,
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  Yes, you sacrifice your own race to save somebody's life.
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  Like, that's absolutely what
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  you do. I would honestly say that's the drive of the week, in my opinion.
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  Agreed. Move of the week right there is, yeah, being like, hey,
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  you know, my mate over here doesn't have anybody helping him out of this car
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  that's on fire. So let me let me just go ahead and do that. Yes.
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  And then a very surprising crash in the F1 world. And I know we don't talk at
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  F1 a lot, but I still follow it from time to time.
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  Mr. Charles Leclerc decided to crash out. Sure did. And I was like, what the heck?
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  Sure did. Very unusual.
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  Yeah, very uncharacteristic. Yes. Yes, very uncharacteristic.
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  But also, shout out to Antonelli for being awesome at 19 and killing it. Yeah.
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  Winning in his home country. Oh, just makes it even sweeter. Yes. Yes, yes.
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  And at 19, I mean, just way to go. Yes. You still got, the world's your oyster, you know? Yes.
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  Like, you've already accomplished so much and still have so much to go.
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  Yes. I mean, the podium, I mean, him, George Russell, and then Verstappen, I mean. Yeah. Crazy.
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  Yeah. Great drive. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
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  Great drive.
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  Well, Dreyer and Reinbold is who purchased the third charter that RLL dropped. Yep.
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  And to not many people's surprise, they picked hometown hero Connor Daly to
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  be their full-time driver.
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  I couldn't be more excited. Yeah. All right.
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  I know it's kind of controversial. There's like people that really like him
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  being in there. And then there's a lot of people are like, no, Connor.
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  I don't know because they think somebody else should be in there.
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  Connor has proven himself time and time again. Connor has gotten excellent results
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  in some of the shittiest cars in the paddock.
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  He I agree. He has proven himself time and time again. So he's plus I just love the guy. Yeah, I just do.
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  It's yeah. So, I'm excited.
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  They're also changing.
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  When Dreyer and Reinbold ran before, they were a Chevy team,
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  and now it's sounding like it's going to be a Honda team, though. Oh.
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  Yes. Interesting. Very interesting. Yes.
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  Well, either way, I'm buying merch. Chevy, Honda, I'm buying merch regardless.
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  Oh. Well, on into the finale. Well, wait. We also have another person,
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  too, that got signed. Oh, McSchumacher. That's right.
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  That's right. I forgot about that. Mick Schumacher got signed to Meyers Schenck
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  Racing. Yes. Which I think is a great thing.
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  Oh, I think it's awesome. I think that he's going to like it there.
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  I think that he's going to grow there.
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  And Meyers Schenck has a lot of loyalty with their drivers. And they're very
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  invested in growing their racemanship, their race craft, etc.
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  And it's a pseudo-Ganassi car. Mm-hmm. It is. You got that tech partnership.
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  So you've got all that extra data, which is wonderful.
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  Now they are changing Armstrong's number because the 60 is the number reserved
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  for the more senior driver.
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  And so Mick's going the 66.
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  That's what I'm saying. So Marcus Armstrong is going in the 60,
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  and then Mick is going in the 66. But fun fact, both of them were teammates prior. Really? Yep.
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  Back in the Ferrari ladder series back in the day. Oh, that's fun.
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  Aw, back together again. Oh, Ferrari Drivers Academy.
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  I missed my note. Well, that's cool. That'll be nice. Hopefully they already
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  kind of have a good rapport that should make team building a little bit easier.
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  They were also there with Schwartzman as well. So it's kind of a,
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  you know, all three of them have been in IndyCar.
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  They have. But only one was a rapper. That is true.
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  Oh, oh. All right. Anything else I forgot before we move on to Laguna Seca?
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  Nope. We're good for Laguna Seca. All righty.
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  So final race of the year.
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  It was a good race.
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  It was a good race. It was an especially great race for Scott McLaughlin. Yes, he needed that.
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  He did need that, but still a fun race to watch. Yeah, I mean,
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  it wasn't like the most exciting race.
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  No, you weren't on the edge of your seat the whole time, you know.
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  I love Laguna Seca because it's so classic. It's done everything,
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  been everything exciting, you know, Zanardi.
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  And the Herd of Battle and all that good stuff. But I don't know if it needs
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  to be a championship ending race. Oh, girl, I have talked about this ad nauseum,
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  and I'm happy to talk about it some more.
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  I don't think it should be our ending race. Like, it's a great race. Like, I love it.
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  It's one of, like, you have Long Beach and then Laguna Seca. Like, they're great.
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  Why don't we just take, like, a West Coast swing? I know it's hard because Long Beach is always...
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  In the spring. In the spring, but. Laguna Seca is prettier in the spring than
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  it is at this time of year. So, I don't know.
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  It's such a great track.
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  It is, but also part of me feels like it should, the finale should also be at
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  a track that's more centralized so that more fans can go.
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  Well. Because the majority of IndyCar fans are populated in and around the Midwest.
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  And I feel like you'd have a lot more people come to a finale.
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  Well, do we go back to Nashville? But if Nashville goes back to the road course?
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  Well, I don't know. Because that's, I mean, I would call that more south than
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  Midwest. Chicago. Do we bring back Chicago? I would love that.
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  Or do we bring back Homestead, Miami?
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  I mean, that would be. But that's going to be as polarizing as Laguna Seca as
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  far as getting people to come.
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  Honestly, I would say do the Indy road course again.
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  I loved in 2020 when they did, like, the Harvest GP in October. Yeah, but...
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  Well, yep. Very true. Or end in Milwaukee. Yeah. Yeah.
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  But Miami also, if you wanted to, you know, have a big celebration,
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  you're in Miami, the nightlife there.
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  And yeah, I just think that you're not going to get if you're if your goal is
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  to gain fans and make it more accessible, Miami is not going to do that.
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  Start and finish in Florida.
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  Sunshine to sunshine. It's still be cool. Yeah. I don't know.
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  Like, that's the thing. We're not we're not track owners we're just giving our
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  thoughts right or bring back michigan,
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  oh yeah now that i'm on board for and honestly i know it'll never happen but
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  i miss pocono i really enjoyed pocono,
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  i'm neutral that's fair neutral there are definitely some improvements and something
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  some changes that need to be made i have very i have some very strong opinions
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  about that but i did enjoy the track yeah i'm neutral just because yeah fair enough
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  fair enough so all right on to laguna saka so
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  of course our race winner scott mclaughlin won the poll won the race yes and
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  he gets to bring his little daughter a trophy back
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  sure does it was his first race win in 36 races,
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  so he needed that congratulations scott he did need he needed a win he did he
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  definitely did and then in second we had kyle kirkwood kyle kirkwood has really
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  become quite the powerhouse driver i agree yeah.
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  Yeah, and I'm really enjoying watching him grow as a driver. Yeah, no, I, yes.
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  Could he be my next favorite for a 500 winner?
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  Ooh, it's a possibility. Maybe, I know it's Earl, but.
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  But still, I think he's probably got a 500 win in him.
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  Yeah. I could see that. And then Rossi finishing up on the podium. Ooh, about time.
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  Yes, he looked good. I'm very happy to see that. He looked good. Mm-hmm. Yes, he did.
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  Yes, he did. And then Felix finishing out his Meyers Schenck racing career,
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  finishing fourth, just off the podium. Yep, just shy.
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  Yep. Love to see that. And then Dave. Starting fifth, finishing fifth. Yep, Chef Dave.
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  I hope he just doesn't overthink the offseason.
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  I hope so, too. Just, you know, like, just train. Just do your thing.
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  Train. Just do your training. You know, don't get in your head. Yes. Like, it'll come.
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  It'll come. Yes. It'll happen. He's too good of a driver for it not to happen. Like, it's coming.
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  And then in six, we had Christian Lungard. The highest finishing McLaren.
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  Yeah, he was. And his last race at McLaren. Yes, it was.
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  And it's not been officially announced, but it's been heavily speculated that
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  he's going to end up in the nine car at Ganassi.
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  So, which I can't wait to see how he does. I think he'll do stellar. Yeah.
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  So. Seventh, we had Marcus Armstrong. A strong finish for Meyers Schenck,
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  actually. Great finish for Meyers Schenck. Yeah.
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  Two top tens gotta love it and then a nice easy sunday drive for alex polo he
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  just came in eighth hey he,
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  he had the championship wrapped up i mean why go out there and risk tearing
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  up a car you know yep and then we had he doesn't have anything to prove yep
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  and then marcus erickson finishing ninth yeah,
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  which was good not a bad finish for him and then good old kiff finishing 10
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  yeah kiff is just quietly getting better and better,
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  and yes and i mean he's been in the top 10 a couple more than a couple of times
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  this year so that's that's what i'm saying he is consistently just always,
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  right there and i think he's just gonna keep getting better and better yep pato
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  finishing 11th oh yeah he was on my fantasy team yep
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  and then ferruci finishing 12th out just starting from 21st which he got the
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  top mover award for the whole season and i am not surprised by that one bit
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  and then finishing 13th was willpower all right i hope he just,
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  he's got all of his overthinking out of the way in next year. I hope so.
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  I mean. Because he's had some great finishes this year. Yeah,
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  but I want. We need more. I want him to get a win.
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  Yeah, I want more. I want more for Will.
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  I'm with you. Finishing 14th, we had Louis Foster. Yep. And finishing 15th,
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  Joseph Newgarden. A little bit surprised.
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  Yeah, but I feel like we've said that a lot of weeks about him.
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  It's been an interesting season for Joe.
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  Well, maybe next year he'll take the offseason, fix his injury,
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  and come back. Oh, I bet so.
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  I bet so. I think a lot of it probably has to do with that because he was changing
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  which foot he was breaking with, and it's, yeah, been a whole thing.
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  So, yeah. 16th, Renis VK.
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  Which I was really sad. He's done really well. And then to finish 16th, I was like, oh, man.
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  I know. Oh, but that's okay.
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  He's still had a really awesome season. Do you think he should have had the
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  nine car? I would have loved to see that.
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  Absolutely. Because I feel like he does have all the pieces.
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  Because he is great on opals. But he also can do road and street courses.
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  I don't know. Pretty sure, like we said, the rumor is pretty much Lengard's
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  going to the nine. But yeah.
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  But, you know, like VK always says, a fast car is a fast car.
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  So you put the man in a fast car and he's going to have a good result.
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  It doesn't really matter to him what team he's driving for.
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  So, love that confidence. Finishing 17th in his last race at Ganassi was Scott
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  Dixon, which I kind of felt sad. I was like, dang it. I was hoping for like
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  a Scott Dixon come out of nowhere win.
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  I was, this is the first season in the last like 21 or 22 years that Scott Dixon
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  has not had one win. Yeah.
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  So I really wanted his last race to be a win or, yeah.
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  It'll be interesting to see him at McLaren, but, you know, he's,
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  you know, Bruce McLaren was a New Zealander as well.
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  So go in there and, you know, if he rides it out until he retires at McLaren,
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  I would say, hey, pretty good choice. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I mean, definitely not a bad idea.
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  I just hope that McLaren is as loyal to him as they should be. I think so.
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  I don't know. I don't know. I
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  don't always trust them to be super loyal to their drivers. So we'll see.
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  Yeah. I just, yeah, I hope that's not an issue with Scotty. I love Dixie.
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  Finishing 18th, Romain Grosjean. Yep. No here, no there. Just 18th. Yep.
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  Finishing 19th, Graham Rahal. Kind of the same. Yep. Same there,
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  too. But he did get podiums this year, so.
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  He did. He had a pretty good season, honestly. Yep. And he had some flashes
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  of brilliance in races. Finishing 20th, Caio Collette. Yep.
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  Which he had some brilliance. I wish it would have, you know,
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  less crashes, but I see it in him.
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  He just hasn't figured out how to like put it all together at the same time.
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  And then we're close. He's close. Yeah.
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  And then Rasmussen finished 21st, which have you noticed with ECR guys,
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  it's like somebody's up here and then somebody's like way down there.
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  Yeah. They're not close. Yeah.
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  It's interesting. It is very interesting. Yeah, I have noticed that. And then Mish.
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  If they are close, it's because they're both at the bottom, not because they're
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  both at the top, which is also interesting. Yeah.
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  And then Mick finishing 22nd. Womp womp. Yep. Stingray Rob finishing 23rd.
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  Yep. I will shout out that he had a new sponsor, Oikos. Oh. Yeah.
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  And then Nolan finishing 24th at his last ride at McLaren. Yep.
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  Possibly his last IndyCar race. And then Dennis Hauger finishing last,
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  but he's also the Rookie of the Year.
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  He did, in fact, win Rookie of the Year. So unfortunately, that result did not
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  really reflect how good of a season he's had.
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  So yeah, but shout out to the Wolf Pack with Scott Dixon.
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  They won the Pit Crew Performance Award for best pit stops for the whole season.
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  Yep. And then like the championship standings, it was Alex Pillow,
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  then Kirkwood, then Lungard, then Pato.
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  Dave Malukas, Scotty Mack, Marcus Erickson, Joseph Newgarden,
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  and Felix Rosenquist finishing ninth in the championship.
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  And then Renis VK finishing 10th in the championship. Wow. VK finishing 10th
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  in the championship in a Hunkos Hollinger car. Yeah. I mean, that's awesome.
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  That is awesome. I hope that Hunkos keeps him on because he has been very good
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  for them. Yes. I mean, that's a pretty good thing. Well, and then we go back to Christian Lungard.
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  He finished third, and they're saying that. Right? This is what I'm saying about the loyalty, dude.
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  That's what I'm saying. So just picture this.
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  Ganassi will have next year, if it's true, a person finishing first in the championship,
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  somebody finishing third in the championship, and somebody finishing 13th in the championship. Yep.
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  Yes, they will. Everything's coming up, Chips. Yes.
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  It's still very cool. And do you think he's going to knock off Penske as the best team owner?
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  I mean, I think he is always trying. So time will tell because the Penske cars,
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  have had some irregular and inconsistent results, whereas Polo is just the most
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  consistent thing on earth.
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  Yes. If I hadn't looked in the man's eyes myself, I'd say he's a robot.
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  That's how consistent he is.
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  And before we stop talking about Laguna Seca, we do have to say they did name
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  the corkscrew after Alex Zanardi this weekend.
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  They did. It's now the Zanardi corkscrew and they painted Chow Alex on the side. It was perfect.
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  It was perfect. I loved that. Love that. Love that. Love that. Yeah.
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  And you got in Palo's paint scheme with the lightning bolt after Zanardi's car.
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  Yes. Oh, that was great. And they showed the clip of Zanardi,
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  you know, overtaking Herda.
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  Yeah. It was very, very cool. I liked it. I wish the lightning bolt would stay
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  on, but I know. Yeah, they do. It was very cool.
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  All right. Well, speaking of Polo, he drove today and Thursday,
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  and Rossi drove Wednesday around the Oval with the new IR-28.
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  So we've seen the road course test on the car, and now we've seen the Oval test on the new car.
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  And they both seem like they really enjoyed it. So that's a good thing. It is.
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  They didn't go crazy fast today or yesterday. It was right around 218,
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  220, which isn't that hilarious that we say that's not crazy fast.
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  Like, that is crazy fast.
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  Objectively but for you know they weren't they weren't trying to lay down qualifying
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  laps the car is just really
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  really cool like we've talked about in our other podcast the new car is really
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  neat i really like it it's awesome so yeah it's very cool looking yes very cool looking
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  so love that well and no shade to plow or alex but i do hope change up the drivers
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  the next time around. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
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  And not because I don't think Rossi and Polo are great. It's just give the other,
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  give everybody else a chance to.
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  Yeah. And there are other drivers' opinions who I would like to hear.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm with you.
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  But there's also probably a method to their madness, and we just don't know
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  that. I'm sure. There's always a method to the madness, always. There is.
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  We're not always privy to it, but I'm sure, yeah, there are reasons that they
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  do things, like how they do them.
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  So, well, let's see. You want to talk about the Honda news? Yes.
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  So, Honda has a new president.
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  President david salters is stepping down or okay and we are now,
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  um yes and now um the new president of,
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  hrc us is kevin helvin foo so that's that's gonna be very cool that is very cool well,
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  best of luck on your future endeavors to the our the previous president and
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  yeah i'm excited for the new person coming in,
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  oh i mean honda is always class act so always gonna be a hard act to follow but,
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  sounds like this new president is going to be fabulous yeah it certainly does
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  it certainly does so that's wonderful,
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  and fun things for our listeners.
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  And so Sarah already had a great idea this week and had a scavenger hunt yesterday
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  And our winner, Hannah, took home a hangar pack. Heck yeah. And some Fast Cars Fast Girls stickers.
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  And tomorrow is actually the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
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  Which is very crazy to me. It's wild to me that it's been that many years.
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  Super crazy. Yeah. Do you remember where you were? I do.
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  So my story is kind of different. So I was a junior in high school and there
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  were these two days early in the school year,
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  where they would have or maybe it was just one day where the seniors would go
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  downtown to like the city county building.
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  And sit in on a couple, you know, court cases and things and just do stuff like
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  that. It was like a field trip.
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  But the juniors would have different speakers come in to talk about different
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  jobs, professions, vocations, et cetera.
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  And so, and it was usually different people's parents, you know.
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  And so I remember, you know, a guy in my class, Kevin, his dad was an electrician.
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  His dad came in and talked. And, you know, there were all these different people
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  coming in. And so you got a little bit of everything. You know,
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  somebody who was an attorney, you know, and then we had an electrician.
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  And then you had somebody who was a teacher. And so, you know,
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  just a little bit of everything. And you could ask them questions and all this business.
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  So, as everybody recalls, the towers got hit not long after 8 o'clock.
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  However, since we were, the juniors were all sequestered in the library away
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  from the rest of the school, they made the decision to go ahead and not tell us.
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  And so they had all of the speakers who knew what was going on still present
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  in front of us and tell us all about their jobs, etc., etc. Etc.
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  And then right before we broke for lunch, they were like, by the way,
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  this is what happened. It happened three and a half hours ago.
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  Like we were like, what the fuck? What do you mean it happened three and a half hours ago?
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  So the rest of the school knew and we didn't until close to lunchtime,
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  which was just kind of weird.
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  So, yeah. So that's where I was. I was in the seventh grade in Mr.
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  Hill's math class. And we were getting ready to do like state testing at the
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  time because it was in the fall at that time. That was exactly. Yep.
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  And they came over the loudspeaker and they told us that there was an attack.
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  And then I didn't know what had happened. And then I remember going to lunch
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  and wanting to talk to one of my gym teachers. And I said, hey,
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  what happened, Mr. Frank? And he told me and I was like, holy cow.
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  And nobody around me really seemed to understand why I was kind of freaking out um,
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  But I have an aunt who is in journalism, and she had just quit from working
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  at Barron's, but she was always up in the World Trade Center towers,
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  and so she wasn't there, thankfully.
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  Oh, my gosh, she wasn't there. Oh, my gosh. But she lost a lot of people she knew and stuff.
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  But we had gone to New York City six months prior on spring break,
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  and we had actually gone up in the World Trade Center towers.
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  So I was freaking out because I was like uh I've been on that building yeah
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  and it has been eerie feeling eerie feeling and it was just so crazy and then
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  later that day um my dad and I took our dog um.
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  Out for a walk that night and we could usually hear planes and it was totally
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  silent like no jet Trails know nothing in the sky. And it was just eerie.
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  Yeah, that was eerie. So eerie. Yeah, where my mom's house is,
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  it's right under a lot of flight paths. And so we hear planes all the time at
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  her house. And yeah, for a couple days, it was just nothing.
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  And it was so crazy. And then, yeah, it was just wild, wild.
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  And just remember how everything changed after that. So many things changed after that.
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  Well, and we actually, the rest of the school day, I mean, we just had the TVs on in every room.
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  I mean, we just watched the news the rest of the day. Nobody,
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  I mean, I don't think anything was even taught.
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  They never turned it on for us in the middle school, but... Which that kind
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  of makes sense. I mean, yeah.
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  I mean, I was glued to the TV when I got home, but it was just very eerie.
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  If you get a chance to go to the 9-11 Museum in New York City, highly recommend it.
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  I haven't been to the one in Shakespeare, Pennsylvania.
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  I have. My parents went to it, and they said it was very well done and very neat.
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  It is very well done, and it's very moving.
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  One of the coolest parts of it to me, very cool, but also very sad,
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  like tearjerker, is they have one section of the museum there in Pennsylvania on the grounds.
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  And it's got a couple of different phones that you can pick up.
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  And when you pick it up, it plays voicemails that passengers left for their
• 28:25
  loved ones from the plane. Yeah, those always get me.
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  At this time. Oh. Always. So, yeah. It was, yeah.
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  No, I picked up one, and it was, I mean, it just hit home, because it was somebody
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  calling their sister and,
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  And, you know, saying I love you and like tell, you know, so-and-so,
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  so-and-so, like the, you know, nieces and nephews that aunt so-and-so loves them.
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  And yeah, yeah, no, it got me. I mean, immediately it was, it was very,
• 28:55
  very moving, but, but definitely worth the trip to go.
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  It's just a crazy day. Just so crazy and feeling so helpless. Oh my gosh. So helpless.
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  And yeah, airports changed forever after that. Yep.
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  We used to walk all the way back to the gate. Yes. To take family to the airport.
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  Yes. And it was fun to take my grandparents to the airport.
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  Yeah, we'd park. We'd all walk in together. It was a whole evening outing.
• 29:25
  Well, and they had a little observation deck.
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  Yes. And you could go watch all the planes. Yeah. Yes.
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  Yes. I remember that. It was just very, yeah.
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  Which, in retrospect, was never very safe. So that was going to happen once,
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  eventually, one way or another. I always think about this time,
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  all the men and women that we lost and all the brave first responders.
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  I actually, I'm going to say a shout out to Carl Asaro, who is one of the firefighters
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  who passed away that day.
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  His wife, after he passed away,
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  started a scholarship fund in his name for children of first responders.
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  So police, fire, medic, EMTs, and ASPCA.
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  And I actually won a scholarship from the Carl Asaro Foundation,
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  or I don't know if it's a foundation, but from that scholarship fund.
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  So thank you, Carl, for your sacrifice. And thank you, Mrs. Asaro, for...
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  We're starting that scholarship fund. Make sure to keep everybody and their
• 30:34
  thoughts in Paris tomorrow. So crazy. 25 years. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it is. So, yeah, the 25-year anniversary happens to be the same year as
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  our 250th anniversary of being a country. It's just kind of,
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  yeah, it's a weird dichotomy. Yep.
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  Very weird. Very weird. So, all right. Well, sorry to end kind of on a somber
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  note, but. We felt it was necessary. Yeah.
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  Yep. So, yep.
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  Keep anybody who might still, you know, have lost loved ones,
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  you know, big anniversaries like that are hard for them. So definitely keep
• 31:07
  them in your thoughts and prayers.
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  Give people a little grace if they were alive when it happened and you weren't.
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  Also, it's the first weekend of NFL football. Heck yeah, it is.
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  Sarah, see, I didn't want us to end on a somber note.
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  I like that. I like it. And you know what else we can talk about?
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  A great Indiana football game last weekend.
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  Oh, they came out. The Hoosier, the bison, came out in an IndyCar. Love it. Yes.
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  Love it. Oh, and something else. Okay. So, Sarah, you're going to come with me next year.
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  I don't know that we've talked about this, but my mom is from Frankfurt, Indiana.
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  The mascots in Frankfurt are the Frankfurt hot dogs. So, like,
• 31:48
  little wiener dogs. That's their mascot.
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  And they have a hot dog festival every year. And this year, one of the Wienermobiles
• 31:56
  was there. Oh, that's cool.
• 31:57
  I know. So we're going next year, if for nothing else than to see the Wienermobile.
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  But also, the hot dog festival is just absolutely ridiculous.
• 32:05
  I mean, it's ridiculously amazing. So I recommend that. But I would like to
• 32:08
  say on the college football front, Western Michigan got homered badly.
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  Badly, badly, badly. If you know, you know, with Michigan.
• 32:20
  So, just like to say that. Sorry not to tick off the Michigan fans, but that was a bad call.
• 32:27
  That was a bad call. And Ball State was a sacrificial lamb to Ohio State.
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  Oh, God. Yeah, that was, I couldn't even watch that.
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  And my Irish did well, so. They did do well. I was excited about that, too.
• 32:41
  It's weird. I'm not ready for football. It feels like it's still a little too
• 32:44
  warm for football because it's still hit 90 degrees this week.
• 32:48
  And football, I just associate with fall. So, like, I'm ready for some crisper evenings. Yeah.
• 32:55
  I mean, I'm not ready, ready for them. It's just if it's football,
• 32:58
  like, it goes in my mind with crisper evenings.
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  It's more hot. Yeah. That's what I meant to say. Yeah. I, yeah.
• 33:06
  I just, I love the Colts. I trust Carly Ursae.
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  It's just ever, I just, I'm a fan, but I'm very lukewarm.
• 33:14
  And everybody's like, well, you're not a fan. No, I am. It's just,
• 33:17
  it's been really tough ever since the Andrew Luck thing. And they're getting
• 33:21
  there, but it's just. I'm not a Colts fan, so you don't have to justify it to me.
• 33:26
  I have tried and they broke my heart.
• 33:29
  They like to build their team around one player and just, you know,
• 33:33
  I don't know, Build a line that stops your quarterback from getting hit,
• 33:37
  and maybe they won't get injured all the goddamn time, and then they won't have
• 33:40
  to leave and retire. Right. I don't know. Just a thought. Yes. Just.
• 33:44
  I'm hopeful. It's just really hard after that, but it's okay.
• 33:50
  It is. Well, it's, yeah. I just remember sitting in the St. Louis,
• 33:54
  St. Louis was back around this time of the year, and hearing that Andrew Luck was retiring from.
• 34:03
  And I broke it to everybody around us. So it was weird. It was weird.
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  I remember being at that race. Yeah.
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  You and your former podcast host was sitting behind us. I was going to say,
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  I was like, I think you broke the news to me.
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  I was like, we were sitting together, if I recall correctly.
• 34:20
  Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. It was crazy. And it, like, traveled all the way down. Yeah.
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  It was wild. Wild. And news spread like wildfire. It was wild.
• 34:30
  It was wild. I think we just said wildly too many times. And you know what?
• 34:34
  If somebody had made that a drinking game, they'd be feeling great right now.
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  Yes. I don't know what we're going to do. No IndyCar.
• 34:41
  It's going to be weird. I know. Although we've got IMSA coming up at IMS next weekend.
• 34:49
  So not this coming weekend, but next weekend. So there's the IMSA Street Fest
• 34:52
  on Thursday, Wednesday or Thursday. Hell, I got to look that up now.
• 34:56
  But yeah, we've got the Street Fest. And then there's all kinds of racing and qualifications.
• 35:01
  Practices, races all weekend long. The EMSO race itself has been shortened to
• 35:07
  a street race, but there's a couple other races going on on Friday and Saturday.
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  It'll be a great weekend, and it's a great weekend to bring the kids out.
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  It's a great weekend to hang out on the mounds, bring a chair,
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  bring a cooler, because at IMS, you can still bring in things, just no glass bottles.
• 35:22
  Ah, so. And no super huge. Nope, it is a 14 by 14 by 18. And the Street Fest starts 5 p.m.
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  On the 17th in Speedway. The 17th, which. Is Thursday. Okay,
• 35:35
  I was like, is that Thursday? Yeah, it is. Okay, really good.
• 35:39
  I was like 95% sure, but then I thought if I say Thursday for sure,
• 35:44
  it's going to be Wednesday.
• 35:45
  So make sure to check it out. Usually I'm out there with my niece and nephew.
• 35:49
  So if you see me, come up and say hi to the little Rugrats. They're pretty cute. So, all right.
• 35:54
  Well, I think that'll do it for this week.
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  You got anything else to add? Nope. Be safe, y'all. Well, that's it. Yeah.
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  That's it for Sarah Proctor. I'm Abby Meyer. And we'll see you at the racetrack.
• 36:05
  Welcome to Fast Cars, Fast Girls. I'm Abby Meyer. I'm Sarah Proctor.
• 36:09
  We'll be your hosts tonight.
• 36:10
  And we've got, as usual, a lot to talk about.
• 36:14
  Yes, we do. Yes, we do. So we wrapped up the IndyCar season.
• 36:18
  So we've got to talk about the finale race.
• 36:21
  It was also like the weekend of crashes at races all over the place.
• 36:25
  So we're going to talk a little bit about that.
• 36:27
  We've got a full-time, a new full-time IndyCar team who announced their driver
• 36:33
  we're going to talk about.
• 36:35
  We have the Pit Crew Performance Award, Rookie of the Year, our championship winner.
• 36:42
  We're going to talk about the Oval Test with the IR-28 because that happened today and yesterday.
• 36:47
  And, of course, Polo winning the championship.
• 36:51
  And then we've got some Honda news.
• 36:54
  And we've got an exciting partnership with Parkside Cards that we're going to talk about.
• 36:59
  So it's going to be a good show. Buckle in. All right. So Weekend of Crashes. Yeah.
• 37:05
  So trigger warning, if you guys haven't seen the video of the Porsche at Laguna Seca, that was wild.
• 37:14
  As far as I know, that person is still in the hospital.
• 37:19
  And then a crazy one in China, car burst into flames and another driver stopped
• 37:25
  and pulled the driver out and was putting that fire out.
• 37:29
  Wow, man, that's awesome that that driver stopped to help get them out because
• 37:33
  like fire moves fast. And that's got to be the scariest feeling to be trapped
• 37:39
  in a car that's on fire, you know?
• 37:40
  It was like it made me nervous. Yeah.
• 37:43
  Oh, I'm sure. After hearing about those two wrecks, it made me nervous for the
• 37:49
  race, but we were good. Yeah.
• 37:53
  I'm with you. I'm with you. We were good, though. We were. So were there any
• 37:57
  other crashes this weekend? Not that I can sing ray, I believe.
• 38:03
  That's more than enough. A sing ray, I believe. Oh, that's true.
• 38:06
  Yeah. Yeah. Well, and we did have some people going off in the group a couple times.
• 38:11
  In the Monza F1 race, Charles Leclerc, which was very surprising.
• 38:16
  That is true. Yeah. It is surprising, actually.
• 38:20
  Not a typical move from him. no not at all shout out antonelli for being a beast
• 38:26
  heck yeah yeah yeah 19 i mean that's that makes it even more impressive yeah
• 38:31
  well and it was cool because an italian won at monza,
• 38:34
  it wasn't right it's always cool when that was no i mean you know you can't
• 38:39
  always have everything you wish for but but it is cool when stuff like that works,
• 38:43
  out i do always applaud i love when everybody gets to go onto the track and then walk
• 38:49
  towards the podium it's very me too i love that it's pretty cool but
• 38:53
  i yeah i absolutely love that all right are you still there i can't hear you
• 38:58
  sarah i'm hearing something and can you hear me okay yeah i don't know what
• 39:03
  happened me it was very weird so okay um,
• 39:07
  i think we were done with well do you want to like just restart or yeah that
• 39:09
  way you don't have to edit sure yep let me stop this and.