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Speed, Family, and the Fast Lane: Angelle Sampey's Racing Journey and a Look at the 2024 Mazda3 · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am central.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: This is the award-winning In Wheel Time car talk show Just ahead, champion drag racer Angel Sampay who reviews about her trip into the 2024 season.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Less than a week away, you'll hear my thoughts on a week driving the Mazda 3 and Jeff has what's on automobile TV this week.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Do you have that?
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a little bit.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, very good, just ahead on this episode of the In Wheel Time car talk show, howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: We always need more, jeff Zeekin.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, glad that you could join us today.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Well, here she is, angel Sampay, and looks like the cat's out of the bag.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Last time you talked to us, we were all waiting and hoping for great news and I think that we kind of got it and the weekend is now here upon us next weekend.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sure is.
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: Can you guys hear me?
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: okay, we hear you loud and clear it's great and it's good to see you, and thanks for joining us again today.
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: Great, no problem.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Speaking of no problem.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: No problem.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: No problem, Raceway.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: That's where my first race will be.
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: It's right here near home, about 45 minutes from my home.
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be there.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: I haven't been to the racetrack.
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I've been to the track as a fan, probably about five years ago, but I haven't driven down that racetrack in many, many years, so I'm excited to be there.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: We have some local sponsors that are going to be amazing for us the Range Kubota and Case dealership, which is only about 15 minutes from the racetrack.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: The owner is my neighbor, billy Lawson.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: It was kind of a funny story.
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you.
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: So when I built my house here, there was no homes on either side of me.
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: There's a railroad track on my right and there was an empty lot on my left and I have two acres of land.
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: So my house is right in the middle.
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: It's an acre, two acres deep, and so I had lived here for several years with nobody.
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: Here, I ride motorcycles, I have lots and lots of animals, and I want to say I had lots of animals at this time.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: I had a pig, a goat, rabbits, ducks, chickens, they were everywhere.
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: And then, all of a sudden, I saw that this house started coming up right next door and I'm thinking oh gosh, who's going to move in there?
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: It's going to be somebody who hates motorcycles, or fast cars.
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: There's chickens, they're going to hate my animals, we're not going to get along.
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: This is what I'm thinking.
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: So Billy builds his home next door with his family and he's thinking, oh I wonder who lives in that house.
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: I hope he likes motorcycles, I hope she likes animals because, come to find out, billy is a hot ride guy.
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: His son's rode motorcycles in the yard all day long and his family owns the feed store that I buy all my stuff from for my animals.
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: So we were a neighbor match made in heaven.
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: And when he realized that I race, he told me that it would be a dream of his one day to sponsor me.
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: And it was kind of just like fun talk.
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: And then here we are.
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: Billy with his range Kubota and case dealership in Donaldson, louisiana is my major sponsor for the no problem race nitro on the buy, on the buy you, and I'm so excited about it.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, did you name your animals?
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: Of course I did.
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: Pig was Hamlet Hamlet Yep, I like that.
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: And the chicken Our goat was named chip chocolate chip because he had brown spots all over him, so yeah, Well, I just wanted to make sure that we're on the same page here.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: Chicken's name is Omelet Omelet.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: So tell everybody what you're driving.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: I am on.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: I went from two wheels to four, dropped the whole motorcycle deal, all because of Antron Brown, who I know you've spoken to recently.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: So what happened was I was trying to plan a way to make my exit from drag racing and I wanted to have a couple of more races under my belt.
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: That was all me no team, no major sponsor, just me on a motorcycle having fun at a few races.
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: And then I was going to walk away with my head held high.
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: So I called Antron and I said who should I rent a bike?
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: From?
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: Which team should I do?
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: You know, I had considered owning my own motorcycle.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: We talked about buying my own pro-cycle motorcycle.
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: So I was asking Antron for advice and he told me I don't think you should race a motorcycle anymore, I think you should drive a dragster.
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: And I'm like I just laughed at him.
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: I'm like that will never happen.
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: So I told him I'm never going to drive a dragster.
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not a car girl, I want to race bikes.
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: Well, lo and behold, about five months later.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Now he has been telling me this for at least five years, but he really started pushing me about five months before this conversation, or when this conversation happened, to just try it on Gell.
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: So he's like I want to help you, we're going to do this together.
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: And one of the things he said is why don't you want to do it?
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: And I said well, I'm scared.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: He said scared of what I said, I'm scared of how fast it goes.
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: And he said well, when's the last time you've ever seen someone fall off of a dragster?
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: And he reminded me that.
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: I'm 100 miles an hour on two wheels with no protection.
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: So a couple of months go by and we ended up leasing Jasmine Salinas' A-Fuel Dragster.
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: I got in that car, did some laps, got my license to compete and here we are, only a half a year later and I am teamed up with the Mahalak Brothers Racing team, who I love.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: They are so amazing.
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: I got to race with Tony Samsell as well, who I love.
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: I found out that the people in A-Fuel Dragster class are fun, they're amazing, they're friendly.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: Most of all, they're competitive.
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a wonderful, wonderful class.
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: I felt like I was thrown into the car and within no time I was racing.
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: But we did really well, started off the race year last year with the Mahalak Brothers, ended it with Tony Samsell, but ultimately this year we're going to do a full season with the Mahalak Brothers Racing.
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: We start here at no Problem Raceway, then we'll move on to the Gators and we have a full schedule.
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: I have that posted on my website, on my Facebook page.
• 6:35
  Speaker 3: If I don't, I'll make sure I'll do that again.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: But we are going to do, I think, 10 national events and we hope to do three or four regionals and we're going to go for a championship.
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of quite going from the bikes into the car.
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: Is it easier to get the licensing or do you kind of bypass some of the steps, or do you have to go A to Z to get that license?
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: I had to do it as if I had never, never written or drove anything before.
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: So, from the full physical to the moderate half passes, moderate passes, full passes.
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: Got to have someone sign off the license, which of course I had.
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: Ann Trine Brown.
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: I have to think about who else was who.
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: I signed off on me, but I think poor we may have.
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: But anyway it was very nerve-wracking Because I think the hardest part for me I thought the hardest part was going to be confined in the cockpit and strapped down so tightly and covered in an oven mitt, because you're covered in an oven mitt from head to toe, but actually that became a comforting feeling for me.
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: The hardest part for me was judging the car where it's, at staging it.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: Several times when I was learning and getting license Bye over, you know, I went over the staging beam and then I they had to push me backwards and that was so humiliating and embarrassing because I'm like, oh my gosh, I look like such a rookie but I'm used to being on this short wheel but you know a little bitty motorcycle where I can see the staging beam right in front of me.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: I know exactly where I'm at.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: You know you move the vehicle back and forth with your feet and your hands and it's so easy to do.
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: You need to make a correction.
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: You do it.
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: No one even knows you did it.
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: But this car, if you don't get it lined up right in the first time, then everybody's waiting on you and that was what I was the most nervous about.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: But got that down packed.
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: We're good now, and I absolutely so.
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: I went from saying I've never drive one, have no interest in it, to I wish I would have done this 10 years ago.
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: And of course Antron says I told you so.
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course he does.
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: Antron is a special human being.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: He helps a lot of people.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: He's got a big heart.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's a good friend of this show and we love to have him on, just like we do you, so tell everybody this is a 270 mile an hour car.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: So what powers it?
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: What kind of motor is it?
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: 500 cubic inch.
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: Are you asking the wrong person?
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I just kind of figured, you'd know.
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: I should have had Corey and Kyle on the show with me.
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: I have absolutely no idea anything about that car yet.
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: I am learning very slowly because first of all I just wanted to learn how to drive it and what to do and what to expect what to feel Like.
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: I had no idea.
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: What does tire shake feel like?
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: What does tire spin feel like?
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: You know what if we drop a hole?
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know what this is supposed to feel like.
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: So that was where my main focus was at first, and now I'm starting to learn how it works.
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: You know they're showing me things on the car, but very slow.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: I mean I literally guys.
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: I got in the car for the first time in August and so, as far as the mechanics of it, I didn't know a whole bunch about the motorcycles.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: I learned over the 26 years.
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: I learned a lot about them, but I don't know nothing about cars.
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: So only thing I know is that we use more nitro methane than Antron does.
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: And the reason I don't go faster than him is because I don't have a blower.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: That's what I know.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Ah, so it's naturally aspirated.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: That's the difference between the cars.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: So it's the same wheelbase.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: Basically it's the same car, yeah yes, actually, tony's car that I drove in Vegas and Pomona is a top-fuel dragster.
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: It was Morgan Lucas's old car, so I got some good experience of what an actual car that top-fuel feels like.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: The Mahalek Brothers car is a purpose-built A-fuel dragster, so it's not far off.
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: It's a little different very comfortable, beautiful car.
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to get back in it.
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: I just posted pictures on my Facebook page if you guys want to see it, with all the new details on it.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: But I think the only difference between the two cars was a little bit smaller.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: The cockpit was a little tighter, felt a little different going on the racetrack Tony's car I compared it to.
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: I said it was a Cadillac Just real smooth, I guess because it was built for 330 miles an hour.
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: We're doing 270 in it.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: It just went down the track really smooth when Corey's car was, you know Corey and Kyle's is a little different, felt a little bit more I think.
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know if this was a setup between the two, but I remember feeling more tug on the starting line in the Mahalic car that I did in Tony's, but I actually liked that.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: That's my favorite part.
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: When you turn the field to the high side, take your foot off the clutch, put it on the dead pedal and then you have to bump in the way that engine kicks in, because it's like it just settles down and starts to rumble real hard.
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: It's time to go and you're holding it back at the break.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: That's the most exciting part.
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: I absolutely love it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Because you're pumping in all of that fuel, you're kind of choking it off.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: It wants to go.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: My whole workout routine has changed.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: I used to do certain exercises for the motorcycle, lots of core exercises, because you really need that on a bike.
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: Now I'm really working out my right arm to pull the brake back.
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: I'm working out my left leg to hold that clutch in doing some toe raises to get that throttle pedal down.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: So it's crazy how it doesn't seem like a really athletic sport but we all treated as one and we do the best we can to be the best person or the best racer we can be in every way.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: When is the last time you've been this excited?
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: Look, when I first did my interview about telling everybody that this was happening, ali, my publicist I told her I feel like I've been reborn in drag racing and that is exactly what it's like.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: It's like starting all over again.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: So if you go back to 1996 when they told me, ok, we're going to put you out at an NHRA drag race on a pro-sci motorcycle, that's how I feel.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Last year I was so nervous and scared, just trying to get used to the car and learn how to drive it.
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: This year I'm so excited because I know what to do.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: I know what to expect and know how it feels.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to get in it.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: We didn't even know.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: We tried.
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: We wanted to do three races last year so we had to come up with a funding for it, but we didn't know if it was going to happen.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: This year.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: We know it's happening.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: I know I'm going to be out there for a whole season.
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: There's not enough words to tell you how excited I am.
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I was supposed to be going away.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: I was supposed to be finding my exit into drag racing.
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: Here I am starting all over again.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: You've got to glow about what it looks like.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I'm excited guys.
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: I really am.
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: This is totally different for me.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: One of the things that makes this race so special that's coming up, which is why I'm so excited right now, is my mom and dad are going to be there, and my dad and I hope he doesn't I probably I don't know how much I should say my dad's going to be dealing with some health issues coming up and there's a good chance that he's not going to make it to many races this year.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he will get through what he's got to go through and he'll be able to come out to some races towards the end of the year, but we don't know that for sure.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: So he will get to be at the no problem raceway.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: My mother has not seen me race in seven years.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: So, this will be the first time she gets to come out to the racetrack and see me, my brother, my nephews, my father-in-law's coming every, probably every single cousin and aunt.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: Heck yeah.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: And neighbor and the whole state of Louisiana.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: I just got to say the whole state of Louisiana is going to be there.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I've sometimes been called Karnak the Great too.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: No, he hasn't.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: And so I'm thinking this is kind of a warm-up to top fuel under the Antron Brown flag.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Am I thinking the right way?
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely Well.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: He scared the heck out of me the other day and told me that he and Brian Karate had a conversation about putting me in his car for testing sometime this year.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: So, he's planning on when that's going to happen, and they were discussing what they had to do to the car to get it ready for me to drive it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's the plan.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: The ultimate goal is for me to race a second car for Antron Brown Motorsports and be his teammate, so that's where we head.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: But of course I'm not trying to, or I'm trying to not get myself too excited about that, because that's all going to depend on funding and how this year goes and if I'm ready and can I do it.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of ifs for that to happen.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: But that is definitely our goal.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Well, how about a million-dollar sponsorship to start off from the in-wheel-time car talk show?
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a car.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Let's do it Car testing immediately.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely Well.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: We are so excited for you and happy for you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And just to let everybody know, Anjel's a little tiny thing.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: You can't tell on TV how tall are you.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Are you five foot?
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: I thought I was 5'1 and then I went to the doctor recently and they made me take my shoes off to measure me, and I was only 5'1.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: I was like a little, tiny, tiny bit over 5'1.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I'd get a second opinion, yeah second opinion.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: You know, the last time we talked to her, your daughter had dental surgery.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I think the last time.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's actually so excited right now because she's getting braces next month.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know what kids love that.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know what prompted me to remember that.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's had several things done lately, but she's getting her braces on next month, so we've been dealing with that also, and I have a 9 year old who's fortunately very healthy right now.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Nothing's going on bad with either one of them.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: They're hopefully both going to be out of the race track this weekend, which they haven't seen me race in a couple of years, so that's going to be exciting too.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: What's going on with the crawfish?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we got to have some crawfish, we got to have some crawdads and some gumbo, and you know.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: There's crawfish right now.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: We're getting to be right in the middle of crawfish season, hoping the prices come down soon.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: We haven't got any for home yet, but usually during crawfish season we have several crawfish boils.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: We're always looking for a reason to do it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: So if you guys want to come on down to New Orleans, it'll give us a good reason to do it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: My husband's one of the best boilers there is.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: This is his crawfish is my favorite.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: So where can we follow you next weekend?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: At no problem raceway.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: What's the easiest way for us to follow you?
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: So all my social media channels will be posting several things.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: My cousin, I mean I'm sorry my nephew is majoring in I don't know the exact name of it, but he does the hype videos for LSU.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: He's been hired to go to the Final Four basketball game and you know he does a lot of coverage for that stuff.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: So he's going to get the racetrack doing a lot of footage for me photos, videos, stuff like that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: One of our PR girls will be there doing some footage and putting it all on my social media pages so you can catch little snippets and stuff here than how I'm doing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: But I'm not sure if no problem raceway is going to have anything live.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: But they do have a website.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I should know it right now.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: But if you just Google no problem raceway, it'll come up and they also have social media channels.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I'm sure the range website or the range social media pages will have some stuff going on so you can catch up with it there.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But if I can find out any way that someone can watch everything that's happening as it's happening, I'll definitely post that on my social media pages at Angelle Sampay is where my Facebook page, twitter page, instagram, everything is.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I did want to mention really quickly.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I do have some other wonderful sponsors.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I don't forget anybody, but we have some coming back from last year FVP.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited they're going to be with us again.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Hank Stifers, you know I love those guys.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: They're going to be with us again.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Igtg is going to be with us this year.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Mission, of course, is back on board, not as big as last year, but definitely with me, and I am still the mission spokesperson for the Too Fast, too Tasty Challenge.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: So even if I'm not competing at a drag race this year, I'll still be there working with Mission and being the one in the track, you know, helping hoist the trophy with the winner of that event.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: So not only am I racing, I'm a spokesperson and a mom and a business owner.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So I don't know how I'm going to handle this year, but I'm going to do my best to do it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And you got a whole bunch of us that are so thrilled to go on this journey with you and so happy for you, and we love you and wish you the best of luck.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I forgot one, I don't forget Protec, one of our local sponsors in Houma, louisiana, is going to be with us as well, and, of course, my business, champion Aquatics.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: We do custom saltwater aquariums and now we build swimming pools.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I told you guys that oh wow, no, I look good in a swimming pool made for fish.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: No, you don't Love you, angelle.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much again for joining us and good luck.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you, guys, for having me.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: You're back.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Alright, angelle Sanpe, jeff has what's On TV.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: There's some things going on.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: We're talking about the Motor Trend TV channel.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You've got new episodes of Wheeler Dealers.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: You've got Graveyard Cars has new episodes.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Roadkill has some new ones on there.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: It's a good favorite and, of course, one I like the best would be Full Custom Garage with Ian Good show.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: One of the things I found out yesterday I was looking for this Kevin Hart's Muscle Car Crew is a show that comes on.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: It was on last year.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: It was supposed to debut the new season yesterday I couldn't find it, so I'm thinking it is a subscription for now.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Going to get back on to Motor Trend.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And of course, tv tonight or today is Xfinity Racing and then tomorrow the day tone to 500, just to mention that again.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Alright, thank you, sir.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Time now for this hour's car review.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I had a chance to drive the 2024 Mazda 3.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they still make the Mazda 3.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You know, especially Mazda.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're a major car manufacturer, japanese, and they have tons of models, but they still make the Model 3.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They make them in these trim levels Select Sport, preferred Carbon Edition, carbon Turbo and Premium Plus.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I got to drive the premium plus sedan, all-wheel drive.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: This is a compact car.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: That's what they call it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I wait, what's compact about it?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure it does seat five passengers, including the driver.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Exterior changes from last model year Well, it's part of the fourth generation Mazda 3 and this particular one was introduced in 2019.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: They've had some, you know, slight changes to the grille and the back end and the usual stuff that you would see on a fourth gen Mazda 3 that started off in 2019.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Exterior features swoopy long hood, short deck with a laid-back windshield, very aerodynamic, aerodynamic headlights wrap around the front fenders.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Rear styling is Mazda-esque with recognizable lighting and dual exhaust.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Silver or black wheels, depending on your trim level.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I like the aero.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I liked how Fast it was.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Fast-looking, fast back styling.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Nothing sharp-looking highway sedan.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Interior highlights include a sleek dash With infotainment screen atop the dash, not built in, you can see it there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Instrument cluster is not overcrowded with controls easy to maneuver through.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The HVAC is above the center console basic stuff there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Infotainment controls are on the center console as well.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Personally, I like touch screens.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That's my preference.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Trunk room it has a small trunk lid that limits the size of suitcases, but once it gets in there there's room.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So pack lots of small suitcases.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I guess what I liked about it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: The quality of the interior is top-notch.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Well, as I mentioned, the infotainment Screen doesn't have a touch screen function to its control by that push knob.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Too many pages to drill through to get where you want to be and too difficult overall.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: That is my take on the infotainment screen.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: But I will say this that there are other automakers that are similar.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But we're talking about the Mazda 3 here.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Engine the optional 2.5 liter turbo for 227 horsepower, 310 pound-feet of torque through a six-speed automatic transmission.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Here's what I liked about it, that engine.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Not only is it peppy and torquey, 23 miles per gallon city is what it's rated, 32 on the highway for combined at 27 I got 29 miles per gallon over 362.1 miles.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: What I liked, the instant power, and there's plenty of it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: It's matched perfectly.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I will say this those Mazda engines rocket.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Great gas mileage a bonus there.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Ride and handling, sporty ride quality I don't know how else to put it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It can turn quick into into corners.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I think that they've taken the Mazda Miata, the MX-5 and and kind of taken that knowledge over the years that they've made that car and brought it into this car.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It's a fun little car.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: It could be a little stiff for some, but it hits the marks for sportiness.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So there's a compromise to play out there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: And if you like a sporty little sedan, I think that this is a great one.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Base trim price 35,450.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Price is tested 37,210.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Base model price you can get in one, a stripper, as we call them 24,170.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Now that competes well with the Honda Civic.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: That starts at $25,050.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The Kia Forte for $20,190.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And the Honda Elantra starts at $20,950.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Overall, I think it's a great car.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of their infotainment operating system.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I think that it could be better.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Now as far as the touchscreen is concerned.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Obviously that screen that's in this car is too far up on the dashboard.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: You have to really stretch to get up there.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: That's why they have that control knob down at the bottom.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I think that it would be a good thing for them to think about changing that up.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of these infotainment screens that sit on top of the dash.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: There is room if you redesign the thing and maybe in the next generation they can build it into the dash, because it is part of the system, the dashboard Right, it's a driver, so don't cheat it and make it an afterthought, because that's what it kind of looks like to me.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: But I did like it Great motor and I like the sportiness of its ride and handling.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, shoot us an email.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: The address is info at inwheeltimecom.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Did I miss the spot again?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing which one you're gonna do.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's do the Pro-Am, the start one.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Which one?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna be which one.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Wait, tell me which one.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: It is Pro-Am.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to stall you so he can get there?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I think he's there, okay, all right, we're gonna take a quick break here on the In Wheel Time Talk Show and I'm gonna continue to lose my mind after this presentation.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: You're allowed, it's okay.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's a small loss.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: It would be a very small loss.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Pro-am Auto Accessories has been serving Houston's auto enthusiast since 1984, providing world-class products for sports cars, european sedans and American muscle.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is known as the place to go to find exclusive and hard to find parts of accessories.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is one of the very first distributors in the USA for brands such as Rekaro, redline, momo Corbo and Simpson.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Located in the heart of Houston's premier retail and service corridor, the Galleria area, pro-am's walk-in storefront includes an 8,000 square foot warehouse, showroom and installation base.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Pro-am not only sells parts and accessories, but also offers installation and service.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is now reaching a worldwide audience through pro-amcom, taking its local reputation to the rest of the world.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: At Pro-Am Auto, you'll be dealing with a small group of professionals who truly wanna help you with your automotive needs.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: If you don't see what you're looking for on the website, call and pro-am will lend you a hand.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Pro-am Auto 6125 Richmond at Green Ridge in Houston's Galleria area.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Call them at 713-781-7755.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Wanna feel good about something special you did for some one special Inwheel Time and the original Loupi Tortilla Group of Tex-Mex restaurants have joined together to help a very worthy cause God's Garage, a Christian based 501C3 charity.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: We know there are lots of places and organizations out there where you can donate a car, truck or SUV, but we're asking you, our car enthusiast family, to consider donating to God's Garage.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Visit godsgarageorg and learn about its mission, the women that have been helped, how each one is screened and about their Restore you program.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: A car donation is an easy way to make a difference in the lives of others.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: God's Garage needs good operating vehicles but will take all types in working and non-working condition.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Make your heart and soul feel good by donating your gently used vehicle and help support single mothers, widows and wives of deployed military at godsgarageorg.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: That's it for this podcast episode of the Inwheel Time Car Show.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am, central on Facebook, youtube, twitch and our InwheelTimecom website.
• 28:51
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• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Keep listening and we'll see you soon.