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Drive Thru News #35 - Our European Summer Vacation · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Recording in progress.
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  I mean, we're back in the studio.
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  Can you believe it?
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  It feels like it's been forever.
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  I feel like I never left the studio.
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  It was a good vacation.
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  I think our fans are happy to see us back.
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  For our fans that have been living under a rock and may not know, did
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  you know that Eric went to France?
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  Benvenue, right?
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  Is that what they say in French?
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  Benvenue.
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  Welcome to drive thru episode number 35.
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  This is our monthly recap where we've put together a menu of automotive,
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  motorsport, and random car adjacent news.
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  Now, let's pull up to window number one for some automotive news.
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  Cause back the streets, back, alright!
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  Well, we are going to talk about a little bit of world travel.
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  Not only did I go to France, I went to a couple other places as well.
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  And Tanya joined me on part of this epic adventure.
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  I think you joined me on the epic adventure.
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  That's true.
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  But we would be remiss if we didn't talk about The Great
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  Race, the 100th anniversary of...
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  I thought you were going to say the great race, the Canadian, you know, F1 race.
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  So we're going to get to that in a little bit.
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  So did you guys watch Le Mans?
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  What's what's that?
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  I watched Le Mans.
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  A significant portion of it.
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  I did not stay up all night.
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  I watched about two or three hours.
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  Of the 24 hour race, but I have a toddler and I was very busy going to
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  swim lessons and being a good father.
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  He's not old enough to understand the races yet.
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  So I had to do other things.
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  Lamar is my annual father's day gift from my family.
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  I asked for two things.
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  Be able to watch the race and to be able to watch the race in peace.
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  My father's day gift was to go to Baltimore for a concert.
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  So I chose music over cars, which music is my number one cars are my number two.
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  So you did some traveling, like you went to Baltimore.
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  That's like a foreign country from where you live now.
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  It's going to a third world country, not France.
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  It's like going to Somalia.
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  Yeah.
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  Driven in Paris.
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  That's all I got to say.
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  Holy smokes.
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  Can't be as bad as driving through Baltimore.
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  It's worse.
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  Actually picture it.
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  Paris 2023.
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  I'm doing my best to still get here.
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  It is like Dante's Inferno.
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  Paris itself is like nine inception rings of hell.
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  And it's like one beltway after the other, I guess their districts or
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  rings or whatever they call them.
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  And I'd heard rumor about what it was like to drive in France.
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  And you guys have heard me DMV before, but nothing.
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  Is like driving in Paris.
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  Nothing is like driving in Paris in a Fiat that you weren't supposed
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  to have in the first place.
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  So it all sort of goes wrong from the very beginning when I showed up
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  at the enterprise counter and they said, well, sir, your car is not here.
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  What was your original car?
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  Was it a Chevy Impala?
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  No, no, no.
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  I was supposed to get a Twingo and I was super excited about that.
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  Even smaller.
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  Wait, that's the electric car, isn't it?
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  No, the Twingo is like this classic Renault that kind of replaced the
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  R4 and some of the other people movers that have been around forever.
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  It's sort of like the new beetle, right?
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  The size of your shoe, Brad.
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  Yeah.
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  I thought I've sold them on Top Gear a lot.
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  They're small.
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  They're like a PF 500 size.
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  You say Twingo, all I think is Oingo Boingo.
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  My car wasn't there when I was waiting to pick it up.
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  So I had to wait like 45 minutes and then it finally showed up.
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  I don't know where they drudged this car up, but it was a Fiat
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  500 E hybrid, not electric.
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  So it was a E H it was a 500.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's sort of how it drove too.
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  It was a manual, but it was a three cylinder non turbo hybrid.
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  I will say that 70 mile an hour happens.
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  Eventually.
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  And when you add two other full size adults in said vehicle plus luggage,
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  yeah, it got a little suspect.
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  So was it any different driving a manual hybrid versus a manual dice car?
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  It was exactly the same.
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  Basically what it did was it had RPMs.
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  It still had like the engine shutoff capabilities and all this kind of stuff,
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  and so it was really designed for short stop and go, especially in the French
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  traffic where it took us over an hour and a half just to get outta Paris
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  onto the main highway to go to Lama.
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  So at that point it was consuming electricity instead
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  of gas, stuff like that.
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  What I learned though was with the manual transmission ev, unlike the
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  Honda CRZ hybrid and some, and this new super that we talked about last
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  time, we got together, the fiat.
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  If you didn't disengage the auto shutoff, the car would like freak out
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  and stall, especially if you tried to do like a rolling second gear takeoff.
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  So I've actually figured out how to disable the system partially.
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  And so then it was a lot more drivable because otherwise it would sort of
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  like Buck, it was really annoying.
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  And I kept telling David from MIE racing, who was my travel
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  companion over this trip.
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  I was like, it's not me.
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  And he goes, no, I can tell it's a car.
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  It's doing something weird.
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  And, you know, it's like, I drive a manual every day.
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  It's it's a Fiat.
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  It's easy.
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  Once we got out of Paris, then it's just country roads.
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  It's like any other highway, that sort of thing.
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  And Lamar is in the middle of nowhere, but I will say this to sort
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  of wrap up the thought about Paris and your comment about Baltimore, at
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  least in Baltimore, when it rains.
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  The water doesn't create a waterfall from 1 overpass to the other overpass
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  and the 3rd overpass underneath it and then slam on the roof of your car
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  where it's nearly impossible to see.
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  And then when you get out from underneath the waterfall, your windshield is
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  covered in cigarette butts and trash.
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  Because Paris is filthy.
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  So you're saying you've never been under, in the tunnel, you know,
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  going into or out of Baltimore?
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  The tunnel doesn't leak, at least as far as I know.
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  No, no, but I've been in situations where just that, you know, happens.
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  There was some sort of clog in the drainage system and you
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  basically drove through a shower to get into the tunnel and out.
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  I am not one for driving in the city anymore anyway, although I don't
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  mind the European driving etiquette.
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  They still have one, at least, you know, passing is very easy.
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  Everybody's moving at very good speeds.
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  They're situationally aware.
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  You're not looking over seeing somebody eating a bag of Doritos on their cell
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  phone and not paying attention to driving.
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  Hardly any Teslas I saw when I was there, you know, the typical BMWs,
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  Renaults, Volkswagens, all that kind of stuff you come to expect.
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  The aggressiveness in Paris is unparalleled.
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  They change lanes, whether you're there or not, they push against you.
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  I mean, you could reach out and basically smack somebody in the face.
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  That's how close they are.
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  They will just cut in wherever they feel like it, whether you're going
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  fast or going slow, turn signals, might as well not even have them.
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  Absolutely insane in the city when you get back out on the highway, not a big deal.
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  It is what it is.
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  It's just typical European driving at that point.
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  But in Paris proper, it's nuts.
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  Yeah.
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  It sounds like driving in New York, basically a hundred percent.
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  If they're an inch ahead of you, they have right away.
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  A hundred percent.
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  Yes.
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  A hundred percent.
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  It's not how many Peugeots were driving.
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  You know, there were a lot.
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  I got to tell you, I got to spot the new 208.
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  Like all over the place, the new 208 GTI specifically is a really good looking car.
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  Like if I lived over there, I'd be considering buying one of those right now.
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  It is really nice, very well equipped, very well appointed.
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  I got to see one up close in the interior and stuff.
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  I also got to see some Sciroccos, including a Scirocco R.
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  So that is still at the top of my list of things to buy while I was
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  playing car spotting over there.
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  But there's a lot of neat stuff.
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  You get super jealous really quick driving around over there.
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  Because you realize there's so many cars that we're just never going to get.
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  Speaking of the Scirocco, not to go off on a tangent.
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  When did that first come out?
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  The newest model, the one you Mark five timeframe.
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  So 2008, 2000s.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  So 25 year rule sometime in the 2030s, you can, that's right.
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  You should be able to import one.
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  I just got to wait a little bit longer.
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  Just a little bit.
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  That 208 is pretty hot though.
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  That is, that is a hot car.
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  You get to Lamont, Le Mans, and the way we came in, because we came in
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  from Paris, we're going east to west and we drop in right behind Tetrerue.
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  It's like the famous restaurant that's right there at turn,
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  I guess it's like turn five.
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  You don't know, really know what to expect because you're skirting the
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  outside of the track and the track is comprised mainly of country roads.
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  And so it's chaos.
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  There's no organization.
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  The other thing I learned about France is they pretty much expect
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  you to be an adult, and they'll give you pointers to a certain point.
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  And then after that, they're like, well, you're on your own.
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  We got tired.
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  We're not putting up any more signs.
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  And we must have run out of money because there aren't any more signs to put up.
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  Anyway, you get lost really quickly because the level of
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  caring kind of seems to stop.
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  And Le Mans is huge.
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  I never understood how grandiose it was.
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  Until I got there, like we look at tracks like V.
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  I.
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  R.
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  and the Glen and Laguna Seca and the ones in Texas and even some of the
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  biggest NASCAR tracks at Talladega or even Indianapolis, you're like, these are
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  coliseums of greatness and you get to Le Mans, you're like, these are turns three
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  and four and five and that's basically it.
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  I mean, it's just, it's so big, just massive.
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  And I was tracking all of our walking that we were doing.
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  And regrettably my decision not to get a scooter or whatever, some other
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  alternate form of transportation, because moving around by car was near
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  impossible, we ended up clocking.
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  Could you not almost.
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  80, that's eight zero miles of walking in five days.
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  I mean, my calves look like your calves now, Brad.
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  That's what I'm saying.
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  Well, they'd probably come down now.
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  The track is just massive, right?
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  Eight and a half miles and change Bugatti.
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  The inner circuit, the one we play on forces sometimes
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  is actually a lot smaller.
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  And we walked most of that too.
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  And you're like, Oh, this is really cool.
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  Motorcycle track, HPD track, go karting.
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  You can do a lot of stuff with it, but it seems bigger.
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  Until you see it in context of everything else at Lamar, it's just, it's huge.
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  The other thing you don't realize is the amount of elevation change there is at
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  Lamar, like in all the video games, just like any other video game or simulator.
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  It seems really flat and it's not, not at all.
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  Pretty interesting.
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  You know, it's in the rolling countryside and all that kind of stuff.
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  Before I went, you know, we talked about different vantage points around the track.
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  Where would you guys think would be probably the best place to watch?
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  On your TV in the tent.
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  I like the way Tanya thinks.
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  Because then you get to see everything.
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  I'll put it this way.
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  I had high hopes.
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  Tetra Rouge was a disappointment.
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  It's really tight back there.
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  There's not a lot of room for people to stand.
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  But what you do get.
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  Especially at night is this overwhelming sense of how fast those cars are
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  because they're coming down the hill already at full tilt and getting on
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  the Mulsanne, prepare for launch speed at 200 miles an hour kind of deal.
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  And it's just absolutely bonkers.
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  And some people come through there flat out.
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  Some will set up the brakes just to nose the car in a little bit.
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  And away they go, like, just absolute warp drive.
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  That was kind of cool, but to stand there all day with no grandstands, shoulder
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  to shoulder with other people that don't know the boundaries of personal space.
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  Yeah, I was like, we need to move on from that.
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  Another one that was super disappointing was actually the Porsche curves.
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  And you see it on TV and it looks super cool with the Porsche thing
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  written out and all this kind of stuff.
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  You're sitting on a hill and you can only sit on the inside of the turn.
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  And you got to hike through two campgrounds to get there.
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  It's not close, you know, like anything is around there, but the vantage point
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  kind of sucked and the cars are just buzzing by and it's sort of the same
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  effect you get at road Atlanta and turn six and seven, where they just sort of
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  come into the corner out of nowhere.
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  And then they disappear because they're off at a million miles an hour.
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  Although I will say it was one of the.
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  Best places to hear the cars other than the front straight.
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  If you really wanted to be up close to them.
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  And we'll talk more about the garage 56 car as we go along, but I mean,
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  talk about a car beyond the level of any Corvette of the past, that the
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  sound just ripples right through you as it's going through Porsche curves,
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  we went down to Ford chicane, which is where the Ferris wheel is and at three
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  o'clock in the morning, when you're extremely tired after many days, it is.
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  Absolutely gorgeous up there.
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  I highly recommend it.
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  You do have to pay to go on the Ferris wheel.
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  It's a whole separate thing.
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  It's not too expensive.
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  Some of the video and the pictures we took were just absolutely unbelievable.
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  And you can see really far out, especially onto the backside of the track, coming
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  from the direction of like Arnage when you're up in the Ferris wheel.
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  So that was totally worth it.
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  The front straight is pretty awesome during non race time, because
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  otherwise you can't get there.
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  It is so jam packed with people and security guards and like all this stuff.
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  It's really not a fun place to be.
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  But what I learned through the process is.
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  Lemans is a week long thing.
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  It's a week of sleepless nights.
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  There's a lot of stuff going on and being at the front straight, especially
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  during night practice, which I don't think many of us knew was a thing
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  because they don't televise it.
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  So ACO 18, the Porsche boxes.
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  That was a great place to watch off the main street, your high upgrade
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  pictures, all this kind of stuff.
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  We went there at night during one of the practice sessions because it was open.
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  It's called a tribune, is what they call their grandstands.
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  And you have to have special passes to get up there and you have to be part of the
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  Porsche box and all this kind of stuff.
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  But because it wasn't race day yet, we could get up there.
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  So we went up there like late at nights, David and I were chatting, we're taking
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  pictures down into Glickenhaus and Toyota, and we're kind of, you know, using the
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  binoculars and seeing what they're doing.
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  And by the way, we found out there's a curfew in the pit boxes.
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  They're only allowed to work to a certain point.
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  They got to shut it down.
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  So we're just sitting there chatting, you know, taking it in, talking
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  about the experience at that point.
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  And there were security guards like looming up there.
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  Right.
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  We had asked him, is it okay if we come up here?
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  Yeah, yeah, sure.
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  We're going to take some pictures.
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  We're going to hang out.
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  Yeah, yeah, no problem.
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  We're we're open all night.
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  Okay, cool.
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  It got really quiet.
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  It's like two in the morning, I guess, at this point.
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  And David's like, man, I gotta pee.
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  And so he disappears and he comes like right back.
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  And I'm like, what happened?
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  He goes, they're locking us in.
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  What?
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  He goes, they're leaving.
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  They weren't going to say a damn thing.
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  I pack up all, you know, my stuff, my camera, whatever.
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  And we run out and they're like, Oh yes, we were, we were going.
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  And I'm like, we were still out there.
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  It's okay.
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  Not our problem.
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  Like, you've got to be kidding me.
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  How would you have gotten out?
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  Like, is there a way to have gotten out?
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  I think we would have set off a bunch of alarms and stuff.
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  They were locking us in.
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  And I'm like, well, we're going to go over the front of the
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  balcony and like, rappel down?
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  Like, spelunking?
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  That's the other thing.
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  The track is live all week.
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  For almost all day, every day, there's only a few hours where it gets quiet and
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  it gets disturbing because you're like, there's all that ambient white noise of
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  the cars, constantly something going on.
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  And so that's a little strange Dunlop's pretty awesome.
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  Not going to deny it.
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  It's probably 1 of the most fun places to watch.
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  There are grandstands there, but it gets packed very, very quickly.
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  It's hard to get in and out.
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  The bridge is really narrow.
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  There is an advantage.
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  If you're an ACO member, which we'll talk about in a little bit, where
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  you can be on the backside of Dunlop, where I took a lot of pictures from,
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  and so did some of our other guys, and that's a great place to be the downhill
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  S's are also awesome, hard to get to.
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  You have to climb these really tall banks to get up there, to be
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  able to see, and it's jam packed.
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  And people are getting these spots during the race on average, three to
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  five hours before the race even started.
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  So if you didn't pick where you wanted to be.
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  It was already packed, so absolutely insane.
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  The only part of the track where we didn't get to go was Arnage and Indie,
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  which are the two slowest corners.
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  You know, after you come off the Mulsanne, it's the hard left and then the hard
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  right, and then they make their way back.
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  The French guys from Bosch that we were hanging out with Thibaut and
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  that whole team, Max and all those guys, Hey, if you're listening.
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  They made the trek to Arnaz and Indy, and would you guys like to
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  guess how long it took to walk there?
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  A year.
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  Well, this is like our what should I buy guess.
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  Like two hours.
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  Three and a half hours one way.
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  Because it is the furthest point away from everything, and you have to walk through,
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  like, the town of Arnaz to get there.
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  It's super far, and...
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  I regret not going, but I'll do that next time because that takes a lot of planning
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  and I would love to have a scooter or something to be able to do that.
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  Cause it's just too much for you to be scootering or yes, or something else.
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  Yes.
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  Bikes and scooters were all over the place.
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  And every time I saw one buzz by me, I'm like, I'm super jealous right now.
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  I'm a feet hurt and yeah.
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  I thought you were going to buy a scooter and do the whole I was!
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  And so you know what I Buy a boat ship there and My inner cheapness as a racer
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  came out, and you know what I did?
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  I ended up buying a really nice pair Did you get Heelys?
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  You got a pair of Heelys.
• 17:21
  No, I got Hokas.
• 17:22
  These European, like, three sizes too big for your feet running shoes.
• 17:26
  And I will say that saved me because of all this walking I did.
• 17:30
  But yeah, it would have been nice to be mobile and be able
• 17:32
  to get around a lot faster.
• 17:33
  You should have just taken rollerblades.
• 17:35
  They sell Hokas here.
• 17:36
  Oh, I bought them here.
• 17:37
  Oh, okay.
• 17:39
  You know what I like to talk about.
• 17:41
  I know.
• 17:41
  Everywhere I go.
• 17:43
  We hungry.
• 17:44
  We hungry.
• 17:45
  We always hungry.
• 17:46
  I wasn't gonna bring up food.
• 17:48
  I wasn't gonna bring up baguettes.
• 17:49
  So let's talk about the food situation.
• 17:51
  Brad's a foodie.
• 17:52
  As in I like food.
• 17:54
  That's about it.
• 17:55
  Hanging out with a gentleman named Ty White.
• 17:57
  Hey, Ty, if you're listening, by the way, fun fact, he is the White House.
• 18:02
  You see in every video game at the Nürburgring, that's where he lives.
• 18:06
  He lives at the track there.
• 18:07
  So that's actually super cool.
• 18:08
  So he's been to Le Mans many, many times, and he was very much our yogi on
• 18:13
  this trip because he's like, go here, go here, do these things, whatever.
• 18:16
  And he told me years ago in the not too recent past.
• 18:19
  Lamont was like a food desert.
• 18:21
  There was nothing you had to fend for yourself.
• 18:24
  Can you imagine being there camping for a week?
• 18:27
  Right.
• 18:27
  And you didn't plan ahead.
• 18:28
  Well, you starved.
• 18:29
  So now they have these, especially for the hundredth,
• 18:32
  they built a lot more facilities.
• 18:34
  There's a lot more like food trucks.
• 18:36
  There's this really cool brasserie that we ate at twice because it
• 18:39
  was actually a really good deal.
• 18:41
  And there weren't a lot of lines.
• 18:42
  Cause people were like, I don't want to sit down dinner.
• 18:43
  I just want a hot dog or, you know, whatever they could find.
• 18:46
  But since we were, as the French guys liked to make fun of us
• 18:49
  repeatedly, we were glamping.
• 18:52
  Food was provided in the morning, at least breakfast, and they had a lounge and stuff
• 18:55
  like that near where our campsite was.
• 18:57
  Which by the way, if you're gonna do Lama, do the glamping, it is totally worth it.
• 19:02
  Considering how close we were to the track and all that kind of stuff,
• 19:04
  you get to breakfast, especially the first day and I'm starving.
• 19:07
  I don't even know what time zone I'm in.
• 19:09
  I'm like, I just want to eat something.
• 19:11
  And I'm thinking crepes and I'm thinking fresh fruit and brie and all
• 19:16
  this stuff is running through my head.
• 19:18
  And I walk in and You left all that stuff in Paris.
• 19:20
  Apparently.
• 19:21
  Cause when I walked in, I looked at the table.
• 19:23
  I looked at Ty.
• 19:25
  I'll look back at the table and he said, Oh, I guess there's bread for breakfast.
• 19:29
  There was literally piles of baguettes, couple croissants,
• 19:32
  more piles of baguettes.
• 19:33
  And I kid you not a three gallon bucket of Nutella, which I was like, I'm not
• 19:38
  really sure what to do with all this.
• 19:40
  You put the Nutella on the bread.
• 19:43
  It puts the Nutella on the bread, but you don't double dip.
• 19:46
  You don't double dip.
• 19:47
  You don't double dip your chip.
• 19:49
  This would have been easy to accomplish had the baguette not
• 19:53
  been a weapon of mass destruction.
• 19:54
  It was a guillotine.
• 19:56
  It was made out of concrete.
• 19:57
  I could have beat it on the table and it still wouldn't have broke.
• 20:00
  It was so hard.
• 20:01
  You know, afterwards I was like, Oh, maybe the, you know, that's the stale baguettes.
• 20:04
  You can make a cafe au lait or something like that.
• 20:07
  But no, if you ordered coffee, what did you get?
• 20:09
  A little teeny.
• 20:10
  You know, with your three fingers out, not even your pinky espresso.
• 20:13
  And I'm like, give me a freaking cup of coffee.
• 20:16
  You American.
• 20:17
  I know.
• 20:18
  America, you glamper, you know, such a, such a, just a, I don't know.
• 20:23
  So what's better that food or the lunch at Watkins Glen for a hook
• 20:28
  on driving event, man, you know, don't make me make that decision.
• 20:32
  Cause it's a tough one.
• 20:36
  Shout out to HOD.
• 20:38
  And then the second day I watched the guy.
• 20:40
  Make eggs for people that were there waiting, hungry, again, staring at
• 20:44
  bread in a walk and burn them because there's nothing like waking up in the
• 20:49
  morning to the smell of burnt eggs.
• 20:51
  Burnt eggs, stale baguette, and Nutella.
• 20:53
  In a country where they invented the crepe and the omelets and all this stuff, you'd
• 20:58
  think they would know how to do this.
• 21:00
  You know, somebody told me afterwards, it's because they don't know how
• 21:02
  to cook en masse like we do here in America, like for armies and stuff.
• 21:06
  You know, they cook in small quantities.
• 21:08
  I'm like, okay.
• 21:09
  Because they use our army.
• 21:10
  Even here, they cook a crepe one crepe at a time.
• 21:14
  Could you imagine cooking crepes for a crowd of people at a race?
• 21:18
  It would take longer than the race to cook the crepes.
• 21:21
  And there were crepe places, and you could get crepes, and they looked super good.
• 21:25
  But I was like, you know what?
• 21:26
  I'm lip lumping.
• 21:28
  I would like my breakfast, right?
• 21:30
  Now, I will say, The ice cream was super good as it always is in Europe
• 21:33
  because it's gelato based and, you know, all that kind of thing.
• 21:36
  They had fast food pasta, which was actually really good and I saw how
• 21:40
  they made it and that was pretty cool.
• 21:42
  But what got me is one of the evenings, and I don't remember which
• 21:45
  one it was because it all blurs together, we were joking about how
• 21:48
  Mexican food would be this atrocity.
• 21:50
  You'll like never find it in France.
• 21:52
  It's like complete sacrilege and whatever.
• 21:54
  And we're walking down by the go kart track to head towards where David's
• 21:58
  camp was, which by the way, was a 45 minute walk from my campsite.
• 22:02
  Okay.
• 22:03
  So we're walking down there.
• 22:05
  And we see these two young guys sitting on a scaffolding and they
• 22:08
  got these burritos in their hand.
• 22:10
  And we literally stopped dead and turn first words were
• 22:13
  German at a David's mouth.
• 22:14
  Wondering if they spoke German, don't ask me why he did that quite a bit.
• 22:18
  And they're like, no, no, no.
• 22:19
  And we're like English.
• 22:20
  Like, yes.
• 22:21
  Where did you get the burrito?
• 22:23
  They're like, not burrito.
• 22:26
  And by the time the word kebab got out of his mouth, David was in a full sprint.
• 22:31
  Like I was like, I'm looking around going, what the hell just happened?
• 22:35
  And there's this food truck and it's a kebab truck.
• 22:37
  And then I meet up with him and he's like, dude, you don't understand.
• 22:40
  European kebabs.
• 22:41
  This is like legit that I'm buying like six of them or whatever.
• 22:44
  I'm like, uh, okay.
• 22:46
  They were unbelievably good.
• 22:48
  It was probably the best meal I had at the track.
• 22:51
  I mean, I can still taste them in my mouth right now.
• 22:53
  I thought of you, Brad.
• 22:54
  So better than New York street meat.
• 22:55
  Dude, it was so good.
• 22:57
  So good.
• 22:58
  But thinking about the food situation, Le Mans, it's a, it's a small French town.
• 23:02
  Do they have markets and grocery stores and stuff where you can leave
• 23:06
  where they're running the race to, can you, as a camper or a glamper,
• 23:11
  can you take a cooler, fill it with some ice or something and get your
• 23:15
  own provisions and do it yourself?
• 23:17
  Yes and no.
• 23:18
  So we met these very nice Canadians that were team Corvette all the way.
• 23:22
  I'm sorry for team Corvette.
• 23:24
  And we'll talk about that more in a minute.
• 23:25
  They were going into like Arnage or going into Le Mans and then there's
• 23:30
  these tiny little grocery stores.
• 23:31
  You have to imagine though that these grocery stores are selling out quickly.
• 23:35
  They're only really designed to sustain the people that live there
• 23:39
  during the off season, during the non race season because Le Mans is
• 23:42
  built around the French countryside.
• 23:44
  There's not a lot out there.
• 23:46
  There's a lot of farms.
• 23:47
  There are like two little markets, you know, none of the, the little farmettes
• 23:51
  or the farmer's markets are open.
• 23:53
  There's like a couple of restaurants.
• 23:54
  The Tetra Rouge was closed as far as we could tell.
• 23:57
  That's poor planning of all those businesses.
• 23:59
  They can't support it.
• 24:00
  Right.
• 24:01
  And so that's why Le Mans proper had to do something on campus.
• 24:05
  Cause otherwise, how do you feed all these people?
• 24:07
  How long did it take you to get from Paris to Le Mans?
• 24:10
  Three hours.
• 24:10
  Okay.
• 24:11
  So you could technically get your provisions.
• 24:14
  In a surrounding city, there was a grocery store between Paris and Lamont.
• 24:18
  Yes.
• 24:18
  Yeah.
• 24:19
  You can get your provisions.
• 24:21
  There's a lot of nothing between Paris and Lamont when you get on that highway.
• 24:26
  And I don't remember the highway number right now.
• 24:28
  It looks like those wonderful Fellini films where it's just someone
• 24:32
  on a train looking at farmland and there's one little house.
• 24:36
  It's like Chateau Picard and then you pass Chateau Picard and
• 24:40
  then there's nothing for another.
• 24:42
  30 minutes.
• 24:43
  And then there's another vineyard, right?
• 24:44
  It's like zero.
• 24:46
  And when we came back from Lamont, we went off the highway.
• 24:50
  We took these back roads zipping through.
• 24:53
  And the Fiat was great, right?
• 24:54
  Narrow little farm roads.
• 24:55
  And you're just blasting through there.
• 24:57
  And I'm watching Mark, like grabbing the door handle.
• 24:59
  And David's in the back, laughing.
• 25:01
  The wheat was as tall as the Fiat was.
• 25:03
  There was nothing.
• 25:04
  You're just like, okay.
• 25:06
  And typical of European highways too, if you miss your exit, you're
• 25:10
  going to go another 20 minutes before you can turn around.
• 25:13
  So it's one of those situations too.
• 25:14
  Things are really spread apart.
• 25:16
  There's not that like road Atlanta where you're like, well, we're
• 25:19
  going to drive to, you know, Buford or whatever and come back.
• 25:22
  And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 25:25
  So basically what you're saying is.
• 25:26
  The reason the French people are so thin is because all they do is drink wine and
• 25:32
  smoke cigarettes and eat stale baguettes.
• 25:36
  Yes.
• 25:37
  When I go on a diet, I'm going to go to France.
• 25:39
  French diet.
• 25:40
  Yeah.
• 25:40
  French diet.
• 25:41
  Well, on the other side of the race, you know, things you don't get to see on TV.
• 25:44
  Checkpoints everywhere.
• 25:45
  It was the 100th of Le Mans.
• 25:47
  They were on full alert, constantly scanning your badge and your wristbands.
• 25:50
  And you had to have different color things, you know, depending on what you
• 25:53
  had access to and all this kind of stuff, because apparently the eco friendly
• 25:57
  protesters wanted to stop the race.
• 25:59
  And they had attempted to actually during Practice before we even got there.
• 26:03
  So they were all on high alert and all this kind of stuff.
• 26:05
  And apparently they've done this at other races too, because they're
• 26:07
  protesting motorsport and all this kind of thing, luckily, none of that happened.
• 26:11
  As you guys know, the race went off without a hitch, no, no issues, no
• 26:15
  protesters or anything like that, but they were definitely concerned.
• 26:18
  Something was going to happen.
• 26:19
  Didn't really affect us considering we're like, well, if we go to
• 26:23
  this quarter of the track, we're, you know, three hours from.
• 26:26
  Whatever's happening at the start, finish line.
• 26:28
  So it doesn't really matter.
• 26:29
  The big debate was who was going to win.
• 26:31
  I asked you guys before you saw the race, you know how it ended.
• 26:34
  Who did you think was going to win?
• 26:35
  The number 56 car, the Toyota garage, 56, 56.
• 26:40
  I don't know.
• 26:41
  It could have been anyone.
• 26:42
  I went in with low expectations.
• 26:44
  Lowered expectations.
• 26:46
  The Ferrari looked like it was going to be the fastest.
• 26:50
  Although I always root for Jackie Chan, but I don't think the
• 26:52
  Jackie Chan cars were in there.
• 26:53
  No Jackie Chan.
• 26:54
  No Jackie Chan.
• 26:55
  I was hoping that Peugeot would win.
• 26:57
  You know, secretly, they were my dark horse.
• 27:00
  They were my underdog because the car is Legit hot.
• 27:04
  It is a sexy car.
• 27:06
  It has no arrow like the rest of them.
• 27:08
  It's designed specifically for that track.
• 27:10
  Like I wanted Ferrari to win, but I also wasn't going to be upset if Peugeot won.
• 27:15
  Well, there's a lot of politics.
• 27:16
  People want to see Toyota dethrone, Porsche's back,
• 27:19
  Ferrari hadn't won in 50 years.
• 27:21
  What looks better on the cover of the magazine, right?
• 27:24
  And in some respects, we all know the last few years with Toyota, it's been a joke.
• 27:28
  They'll sacrifice a lamb from LMP2, like Rebellion or somebody else, even the
• 27:33
  Glickenhaus cars, you know, whatever.
• 27:35
  And they'll put them up against Toyota and they don't stand a chance.
• 27:38
  This year, Toyota had.
• 27:39
  Real competition.
• 27:40
  I mean, I literally had this debate for an entire week with people about who
• 27:45
  was going to win, listening to them.
• 27:47
  And I, and my final word was always basically the same.
• 27:49
  I think it's going to be Ferrari and you guys can't count out Cadillac.
• 27:53
  And they're like, Oh, what does Cadillac know?
• 27:55
  And I'm like, Cadillac's been to Le Mans before, but the car
• 27:57
  they're running has been proven.
• 27:59
  Time and time again at Rolex and other races, it's an older
• 28:03
  car, but it doesn't matter.
• 28:04
  It can do it.
• 28:05
  And in the same way, they were laughing at the garage, 56 Camaro,
• 28:08
  like, Oh, it's never going to make it.
• 28:10
  It's going to run out of tires, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 28:12
  And we got really close to that reality.
• 28:14
  It was really close there for a moment.
• 28:16
  It was Ferrari first Cadillac second.
• 28:18
  Toyota and the squirrel and all that's whatever, you know, but I think at the
• 28:24
  end, the bigger disappointment was.
• 28:28
  Porsche.
• 28:28
  There were a lot of Porsche people there.
• 28:30
  I'm a Porsche fan myself.
• 28:31
  But I was also playing devil's advocate during this whole debate to
• 28:35
  say, well, it's not really a Porsche.
• 28:36
  And that would get under people's skin.
• 28:38
  Sorry, Ty.
• 28:38
  I'm still telling you it's not a Porsche.
• 28:40
  Why?
• 28:41
  It's a Dallara chassis.
• 28:42
  It's an Audi engine.
• 28:43
  It's all this other stuff.
• 28:45
  It's sort of like the Formula One car.
• 28:46
  They're going to slap their badge on it and we'll call it a Porsche.
• 28:49
  I was telling people, I think the 963 is short lived, especially with that debut of
• 28:54
  the 9X that came out during Le Mans, which looks a lot like the Lambo, looks a lot
• 28:59
  like the Bugatti that has been previewed.
• 29:02
  They're moving in that direction of car.
• 29:05
  This 963 isn't going to make it to the next Le Mans.
• 29:07
  They're going to have something else.
• 29:08
  The only reason it would be on the roster next year is if the new car isn't ready.
• 29:12
  Which is a pure Porsche.
• 29:14
  Maybe this was just to get their foot in the door.
• 29:17
  I think so.
• 29:18
  I just to get that because they had to be at the hundredth.
• 29:21
  Yep.
• 29:21
  They did not want to miss the party.
• 29:23
  So they brought whatever they could slap together, knowing they're
• 29:26
  still working on something better.
• 29:28
  My sentiments.
• 29:29
  Exactly.
• 29:29
  So again, I am proud for Ferrari.
• 29:32
  That 499 is an amazing car.
• 29:36
  It sounds good.
• 29:37
  It looks good.
• 29:38
  It's hella fast.
• 29:39
  It's qualifying times for the hyper pole.
• 29:41
  We're just.
• 29:42
  Unbelievably good.
• 29:43
  And, you know, people, you should have heard that.
• 29:45
  Oh, it's going to burn up like the formula one car.
• 29:47
  And they're going to, and then at the end, all the memes suddenly changed.
• 29:52
  What's too bad.
• 29:53
  The formula one cars can't be like the four nine nine.
• 29:55
  Why can't the formula one get their shit together?
• 29:58
  I'm like, come on guys talking out of both sides of your mouth.
• 30:01
  But that's, that's racing, right?
• 30:02
  I mean, we get it.
• 30:03
  We have our loyalties.
• 30:04
  We have our fans.
• 30:05
  I was really happy to see Ferrari win.
• 30:07
  And Toyota finally get beaten by a legitimate manufacturer.
• 30:13
  But I do have some rich people thing.
• 30:16
  If you are a true hardcore Ferrari fan, you could still get
• 30:20
  VIP access to the Ferrari boxes.
• 30:22
  I mean, Porsche was like giving them away after two hours.
• 30:25
  They're like, y'all can just come on in here.
• 30:27
  Have a good time.
• 30:28
  It's all good.
• 30:28
  Would you like to guess?
• 30:30
  How much?
• 30:30
  Too much.
• 30:31
  More than 50.
• 30:33
  More than you can afford, pal.
• 30:35
  8, 000.
• 30:38
  What do I get for my 8, 000 stale baguettes?
• 30:40
  I don't know.
• 30:41
  A baguette?
• 30:42
  Yeah, I stopped when they said 8, 000.
• 30:45
  I was like, nope, don't need to know anything more.
• 30:47
  Too rich for my blood.
• 30:48
  A hundred percent.
• 30:49
  Do I get a baby Bugatti?
• 30:51
  Yeah.
• 30:52
  Baby Enzo.
• 30:53
  Yeah, do I get a baby Enzo?
• 30:54
  For a whopping 50 euros, you could have become a member of
• 30:58
  the Automobile Club of the West.
• 31:00
  The ACO has started their own U.
• 31:03
  S.
• 31:03
  region.
• 31:03
  Pretty awesome.
• 31:04
  They have lounges all over the track, especially behind Dunlop.
• 31:08
  There's one at ACO 18, which are the Porsche grandstands are and a
• 31:11
  couple other places in the track.
• 31:12
  You get a 40 percent discount on swag and other things.
• 31:16
  And food was discounted.
• 31:17
  If you're an ACO member spent 50 euros, 60 bucks or whatever came out to us.
• 31:21
  Actually worked to our advantage.
• 31:23
  Now I will say the schwag at LeMans was kind of want, want, I was getting all
• 31:27
  the emails from the ACO before the race.
• 31:30
  And a lot of the stuff I wanted either wasn't available, it was
• 31:34
  cheaper originally online, or.
• 31:36
  What I wanted didn't look the same when I saw it in person.
• 31:40
  So what I ended up doing was ordering the stuff either while I was there where
• 31:44
  I really wanted, or I ordered it when I got back and they're still actually
• 31:47
  running clearance sales on selected sizes and stuff that's left over from Lamont.
• 31:50
  You can actually save a boatload, especially if you're an ACO
• 31:53
  member on any of the schwag.
• 31:56
  So that being said, I got an opportunity to spoiler alert, meet
• 32:00
  with the new president ambassador of the ACO USA, David Lowe.
• 32:04
  And he's coming on the show in a little while to talk about the new club, why
• 32:08
  you should become a member, what the benefits are going to be to the American
• 32:11
  audience, things like that, including access to the race commercial free.
• 32:16
  For those of us here in the U S instead of having to wonder
• 32:18
  how the heck we can watch it.
• 32:20
  I did have breakfast with one of the Lamont's legends, Margie Smith Haas.
• 32:24
  She was the first American woman to run at Lamont's about
• 32:28
  four years prior to Lynn St.
• 32:30
  James.
• 32:31
  And she did that in a Porsche on 935.
• 32:33
  So we hope to have her on the show as well.
• 32:35
  I got some lowered expectations as well.
• 32:39
  So I posted two memes on social media.
• 32:41
  You can find it at Grand Tournament of Sports on Instagram and everywhere
• 32:44
  else that we have social media.
• 32:46
  And people were saying, well, where'd you get that picture of the guy in the hat?
• 32:50
  And I'm like, I took that picture.
• 32:52
  I have the original.
• 32:53
  I zoomed in on him.
• 32:54
  He didn't see me taking his picture, but I could not.
• 32:57
  Pass up the opportunity to have a Burt Reynolds SNL Jeopardy moment.
• 33:02
  But it looks like, what's his name from Top Gear?
• 33:04
  James May.
• 33:05
  Yes.
• 33:06
  It does look like James May.
• 33:07
  But that hat was Burt Reynolds big hat.
• 33:10
  Like, it was so funny.
• 33:12
  And he had an all red Ferrari suit.
• 33:14
  He's a British guy.
• 33:15
  We actually talked to him.
• 33:16
  Very nice.
• 33:17
  But I could not pass up the opportunity.
• 33:19
  to post that meme.
• 33:20
  And the second one came by way of Mark Schenck, who caught this guy
• 33:26
  while he was taking photographs.
• 33:28
  Apparently on your checklist of things for Lamont, you need to remember your hat,
• 33:33
  your radio headset, and your radar gun.
• 33:35
  He's got like a hundred tattoos and they're all Lamont.
• 33:39
  They're all Christopher Walken.
• 33:40
  No, he's got like the Dunlop tire arch across his back.
• 33:45
  It's like Jackie Ickx and Tom Christensen on there.
• 33:48
  He's got a Porsche and the Porsche symbol.
• 33:50
  He's got so many men's heads.
• 33:52
  I thought it was Christopher Walken, the one on the right shoulder.
• 33:55
  It looks like Christopher Walken.
• 33:57
  So when Mark showed me this picture, we had this whole discussion about,
• 34:00
  apparently he was down by pit out and he's radar gunning the cars on pit exit.
• 34:05
  And we're like, Is he going to radio the officials?
• 34:08
  Is he like the clandestine undercover pit marshal?
• 34:11
  Like, what's the point of bringing a radar gun to Lamont?
• 34:15
  And how did he get it through security?
• 34:17
  I mean, there's so many questions.
• 34:19
  This is like a French Florida man.
• 34:21
  He hit it in his butt crack.
• 34:23
  Was there actually security?
• 34:24
  Were they checking stuff?
• 34:25
  Yes.
• 34:26
  They were looking through your bags.
• 34:27
  Maybe he's an authorized radar gun.
• 34:30
  He definitely didn't hide it in his wife, Peter.
• 34:34
  Hey, it's tie dye though, okay?
• 34:36
  That makes it classy.
• 34:38
  Is that tie dye, or he's just, he had a Bic that blew up?
• 34:41
  Or he murdered a Smurf, I'm not sure.
• 34:43
  Now, I, I'd say this guy was from America, but unfortunately
• 34:49
  I don't think that's the case.
• 34:51
  No, I think he's German.
• 34:52
  I was going to say the same thing.
• 34:54
  He's definitely German.
• 34:56
  He spreckens the Deutsch.
• 34:57
  He spreckens the radar gun.
• 34:59
  We're going to do a little lit hug here, because one of my biggest
• 35:03
  pet peeves about being at Le Mans.
• 35:06
  Tell us what really grinds your gears.
• 35:07
  Oh boy, oh boy.
• 35:08
  Oh, you mean the baguettes?
• 35:12
  No, it's just never going to let me live that down.
• 35:15
  The baguettes were terrible.
• 35:17
  What really hardens your baguette?
• 35:21
  Oh man.
• 35:22
  Well, you know, it's a, it's a cultural thing, right?
• 35:25
  So it was like, I don't know, a red nose on a clown.
• 35:28
  You could tell the Kiwis, the Canadians, the Aussies, the Americans,
• 35:33
  Germans from everybody else.
• 35:35
  Because you know why?
• 35:36
  We know how to queue up in the line when we want to wait for something.
• 35:40
  I mean, we might not be the most pleasant people.
• 35:43
  We might not be the most patient people, but we know how to get in
• 35:45
  the line to wait for something.
• 35:47
  The French and some of the others.
• 35:49
  I mean, no offense.
• 35:49
  We love them all.
• 35:50
  There are brothers in arms, especially in motorsport, but this first come
• 35:55
  first serve, I'm at a bar trying to get the bartenders attention while
• 36:00
  I'm smoking a cigarette three inches from your ear and shouting in French.
• 36:05
  As obnoxiously as you possibly can just got on my nerves,
• 36:09
  like you wouldn't believe.
• 36:10
  And I couldn't believe that smoking was still as openly public and
• 36:14
  rampant as it was over there.
• 36:15
  It's just, we're so used to now, you know, people change the vaping,
• 36:18
  which is, you know, neither.
• 36:19
  You haven't been to Europe in a while.
• 36:21
  Jesus Christ.
• 36:22
  I guess I don't know, but it was evident from the cigarette
• 36:24
  butts and everything everywhere.
• 36:26
  But it was just like, I never realized maybe even it's a post
• 36:29
  COVID thing where it's like.
• 36:31
  I need my elbows worth of space.
• 36:33
  Please back off.
• 36:34
  Get in a line.
• 36:35
  I was here before you.
• 36:37
  It was super irritating and it's cultural.
• 36:40
  Right.
• 36:40
  And you're like, Oh, okay.
• 36:42
  Uh, all right.
• 36:43
  The other thing I learned, thanks, David, was you don't tip in France.
• 36:46
  And if you do, it's like super low.
• 36:47
  It's like a dollar or two, because apparently everybody over there
• 36:49
  is salary and tipping is very taboo and all this kind of thing.
• 36:54
  And tipping is like an American don't really tip in Europe in general.
• 36:58
  Yeah, it was, it was weird.
• 37:00
  I don't know.
• 37:00
  It was a culture shock that I was pleasant to learn and I will remember that, but
• 37:04
  the whole, the way you fight to the front to get the attention of somebody.
• 37:09
  And it's just like, Oh, whatever.
• 37:10
  And don't lie to me.
• 37:11
  Y'all know how to speak English.
• 37:12
  I feel like I would have gotten into a lot of fights.
• 37:15
  You know, I needed a body guard.
• 37:16
  That's for sure.
• 37:17
  Freedom fries.
• 37:18
  That's all I'm going to say.
• 37:20
  So after I left France, I went to Denmark and I joined my family
• 37:24
  because we decided we were going to take the kids to of all places.
• 37:27
  The home of Lego, which is Denmark.
• 37:31
  I won't go into all the details of Denmark, but I will say this.
• 37:34
  It's sort of like Hawaii.
• 37:35
  It's a chain of islands.
• 37:36
  You know, they get bigger, all this kind of thing.
• 37:38
  Copenhagen, the capital is on the smallest and it's within an hour of Oslo, Norway.
• 37:43
  end of Stockholm, Sweden.
• 37:45
  It's beautiful.
• 37:46
  It's super clean.
• 37:47
  It's very modern.
• 37:48
  I kept joking that that's where all the German hippies were exiled
• 37:50
  to, you know, stuff like that.
• 37:52
  It's amazing.
• 37:53
  It was very different.
• 37:54
  It was a stark contrast to being in France and really enjoyed it.
• 37:58
  Had a great time.
• 37:59
  And one of the things I learned while I was over there is by 2025.
• 38:05
  Mass transit vehicles, especially taxis and buses and things like
• 38:08
  that, will be all EVs in Denmark.
• 38:11
  It's the law.
• 38:12
  We didn't rent a car while we were there, so no more Fiat 500 stories.
• 38:15
  But we did take the trains, which were amazing.
• 38:18
  And then we took some cabs, which in our case were mostly Mercedes.
• 38:22
  And so I got to ride in some of these new Mercedes EVs that
• 38:25
  we talk about on the show.
• 38:27
  Fit and finish.
• 38:28
  Was nothing less than exquisite, even though we've always joked that
• 38:32
  Mercedes are just European taxi cabs.
• 38:34
  They are, in fact.
• 38:35
  But the interior was plush.
• 38:37
  It was luxurious.
• 38:38
  It was German.
• 38:39
  It was what you expected from a Mercedes.
• 38:42
  But if you had blindfolded me and threw me in the trunk, other than
• 38:46
  having no noise, would I have known that it wasn't an ICE powered car?
• 38:49
  Probably not.
• 38:50
  It was very nice.
• 38:51
  It was just interesting to even talk to the cabbies.
• 38:54
  Everybody in Denmark is very friendly.
• 38:55
  It's known as one of the happiest places in the world to live
• 38:58
  and work and things like that.
• 38:59
  And so people are very friendly and they all do speak English in Denmark.
• 39:02
  Admittedly, they do.
• 39:04
  It was great.
• 39:04
  It was good to learn from all those folks.
• 39:06
  We actually went and visited some car dealerships while we were there.
• 39:10
  And we got a guided tour of the new ID7 and the ID3 at Citi
• 39:14
  Volkswagen in Copenhagen, which is just outside of Tivoli.
• 39:16
  And I know Tanya got to see these cars while she was at the CES show.
• 39:20
  We reported about that on an earlier drive thru.
• 39:23
  But I actually spotted XPeng dealership across the street
• 39:27
  from the Volkswagen dealership.
• 39:29
  So I thought that was interesting because we joked about like, Who's this?
• 39:31
  But where are these guys?
• 39:32
  These Chinese EV manufacturers?
• 39:33
  Where'd they come from?
• 39:35
  They got a dealership.
• 39:36
  In Copenhagen.
• 39:37
  Of all places.
• 39:38
  Right?
• 39:38
  Now, I do want to quickly talk about the Legoland experience, and I don't
• 39:42
  want to talk about amusement parks and things like that, but I want to mention
• 39:46
  that Legos are not just for kids.
• 39:48
  All right?
• 39:49
  Our generation is in charge at Lego.
• 39:52
  There is a lot of car stuff going on, as evidenced by the Speed Champions,
• 39:56
  the Technic stuff, all things you can buy on the shelf here in the U.
• 39:59
  S.
• 39:59
  There's some really cool stuff overseas that we won't get, but I will say the
• 40:03
  Ferrari Experience Center at Legoland.
• 40:06
  All petrol heads were all just, just doing the church nod right now.
• 40:09
  It was like a holy church of Ferrari.
• 40:11
  You just walked in there.
• 40:12
  It was amazing.
• 40:13
  Bunch of stuff on display.
• 40:15
  All these activities.
• 40:16
  My girls were into it.
• 40:17
  We did it for a while.
• 40:18
  Took some pictures by a life size 599 that they built completely out of Legos.
• 40:22
  Other than the wheels.
• 40:23
  Absolutely gorgeous.
• 40:24
  You know, stuff like that.
• 40:25
  But I will say there's a video you guys got to check out.
• 40:27
  If you haven't seen it, we captured the infamous.
• 40:30
  Legendary long running Lego land traffic school.
• 40:34
  And it is the cutest and most hilarious thing you have ever seen.
• 40:38
  So cannot recommend that enough.
• 40:39
  I got deeper into the world of Lego upon returning home and I
• 40:43
  learned some new things, some new techniques while I was there.
• 40:45
  Lots of really interesting stuff while we were in Denmark
• 40:47
  and I learned about a website.
• 40:49
  Maybe in more detail than I knew before.
• 40:51
  And that's rebrickable.
• 40:53
  com.
• 40:53
  And that allows you to take some Lego sets and turn them into some other really cool
• 40:57
  things without having to buy new parts.
• 40:59
  And I mentioned before that, you know, under some rich people things, there was
• 41:02
  some kits that you could get from like the block zone to build, you know, different
• 41:06
  kinds of automotive models that are out.
• 41:08
  I found the best of the best.
• 41:11
  At least in my opinion, you take Dom Toretto's charger from fast and furious.
• 41:16
  And did you know, you can turn it into the 1989 Batmobile,
• 41:20
  the Michael Keaton Batmobile.
• 41:22
  It is the hotness.
• 41:23
  And so I went ahead and did it.
• 41:24
  I have some pictures on doing the conversion.
• 41:27
  Just a lot of fun.
• 41:28
  And so that kind of reignited some stuff for me, where it's just like a
• 41:32
  good way to spend time with the kids.
• 41:33
  They're interested in, you know, building their little towns, but also in the
• 41:36
  engineering side with the cars and stuff.
• 41:38
  So that's been a lot of fun.
• 41:39
  So if you're out there looking for maybe a different hobby,
• 41:42
  something new, don't discount Lego.
• 41:44
  That's for sure.
• 41:45
  And then to round out our showcase here of world travel, Tanya and I, I
• 41:50
  guess she was right, I went with her to the great French colony of Quebec
• 41:55
  in Canada, to the city of Montreal.
• 41:57
  So I couldn't get away from the French this summer if I tried.
• 42:01
  But we had a better baguette.
• 42:03
  Oh, we did.
• 42:04
  And we had poutine, and we had some brisket, and we had
• 42:07
  all sorts of fun food, Brad.
• 42:08
  The food in Quebec.
• 42:10
  It's better than the food in France.
• 42:11
  Well, it's better than the food in Le Mans.
• 42:14
  My dinner in Paris wasn't that great either.
• 42:16
  But I did sit down for a moment with Jensen Button and Jordan Taylor.
• 42:20
  It was a great conversation, especially after them completing
• 42:23
  the race with the Garage 56 car.
• 42:25
  So that was pretty cool.
• 42:25
  Wait, how did, wait, how did you end up having dinner with them?
• 42:28
  We were at the hotel and I'm sitting there chatting with David from MIE Racing
• 42:32
  and I wasn't even paying attention.
• 42:34
  And then he kind of looks over his shoulder and he goes, you
• 42:36
  know who those two are, right?
• 42:37
  And I said, yeah.
• 42:39
  He goes, let's go over and talk to him.
• 42:40
  Okay.
• 42:41
  That's literally how it went down.
• 42:43
  But then you had a whole meal with them or?
• 42:44
  No, we, we chatted with them for like five or seven minutes.
• 42:48
  They were just kind of hanging out.
• 42:49
  They were done eating.
• 42:50
  They were just kind of sitting and drinking.
• 42:52
  And then we went back to our table.
• 42:53
  So we sort of abandoned our meal, went and talked to them before they disappeared.
• 42:57
  So yeah, it was great.
• 42:58
  I mean, got to meet him.
• 42:59
  We didn't do the whole, can I take a selfie with you?
• 43:01
  Can I that type of guy.
• 43:02
  Neither is David.
• 43:03
  It was really great to have that memory to be able to talk to them.
• 43:06
  So you didn't invite them on the show?
• 43:07
  Cause I've been trying to get Jordan Taylor on the show.
• 43:09
  I mean, I think Jensen button would be pretty cool too.
• 43:12
  So anyway, I, we, we've gone off the rails somehow.
• 43:15
  Did you know I went to France?
• 43:16
  Oh, wait, Canada.
• 43:17
  We're talking about Canada.
• 43:19
  That's right.
• 43:19
  You went to France and then little France, little France, exactly.
• 43:22
  Quebec.
• 43:23
  Petit la France.
• 43:25
  Petit la France.
• 43:26
  In preparation for this trip, I decided, you know what, I should
• 43:30
  probably do a service on my Jeep.
• 43:33
  And I looked at my records and I realized I hadn't changed oil in a year, but
• 43:36
  I also hadn't done 10, 000 miles yet.
• 43:38
  I was very close though.
• 43:39
  So I was like, Oh crud.
• 43:40
  So I went through, did all the service.
• 43:42
  And at this point I decided, you know what, now is the time we're going
• 43:45
  to go on in this long journey to Montreal from the DC area and back.
• 43:49
  I'm going to put it evolve in the diesel and see how it does.
• 43:52
  Does it match the hype?
• 43:53
  Does it match everything we talked about on the episode?
• 43:56
  Granted, I had already put it in the Pacifica and we
• 44:00
  already noticed the change.
• 44:01
  It runs cooler, you know, this kind of stuff.
• 44:02
  But the hybrid's different because the engine doesn't run all the time, right?
• 44:05
  It wants to be an EV more than it wants to be ice powered.
• 44:08
  So the one thing I noticed right away, and I think Tanya probably noticed it
• 44:11
  too, the engine is noticeably quieter.
• 44:14
  Immediately, like as soon as I put the oil in and fired it
• 44:16
  up, it was definitely quieter.
• 44:18
  I was like, huh.
• 44:18
  I mean, and diesels are loud, right?
• 44:20
  So you're just like, oh, okay.
• 44:21
  The telltale sign here is, and this is where the numbers are
• 44:24
  sort of interesting, right?
• 44:25
  They talk about MPGs being higher.
• 44:28
  They talk about horsepower being greater, all this kind of stuff.
• 44:31
  And it has to do with the composition of the oil and all these things you can learn
• 44:34
  about on the Evolve Lubricants episode.
• 44:36
  What I boiled it down to is.
• 44:40
  The oil itself runs significantly cooler than what I had in it before.
• 44:45
  And on average, it was six to 12 degrees cooler, depending on load,
• 44:49
  than the oil I was running previously.
• 44:51
  So if your engine is running cooler, it's going to be more efficient.
• 44:53
  You're going to waste less fuel, you know, all these kinds
• 44:55
  of things, blah, blah, blah.
• 44:56
  So it all sort of adds up in that way.
• 44:58
  What I didn't see Was the four to five more miles per gallon or
• 45:04
  anything like that, but dot dot dot what I got out of this was
• 45:08
  overall higher cumulative average.
• 45:12
  So with mixed city driving my maximum of 33 miles per gallon, which we
• 45:17
  already proved at the Green Grand Prix using my near year old oil.
• 45:21
  I was getting 32 point whatever miles to the gallon during that event.
• 45:25
  And so I didn't get better than 33, but I was able to hold it there longer.
• 45:30
  I was able to keep my average higher.
• 45:32
  So maybe my MPG is higher, but I don't see a huge spike.
• 45:37
  When I do the math at the end of the day, right?
• 45:39
  It's like, okay, well, I'm getting 32, but I'm getting 32.
• 45:43
  Much longer than I was getting it before.
• 45:44
  What I guess what I'm trying to say is the numbers sort of add up.
• 45:47
  Now the bigger question comes in return on investment.
• 45:51
  Is it worth the cost?
• 45:52
  Because it is significantly more expensive.
• 45:54
  I've sent my oil off to Blackstone to have it tested.
• 45:57
  I'm going to go maybe a service interval and a half.
• 45:59
  So I'm going to try to put 15, 000 miles on the oil.
• 46:02
  That'll take me like two years, obviously.
• 46:03
  Test it again and see where we're at.
• 46:05
  Did the turbo torch it?
• 46:07
  Did it break down?
• 46:08
  How did it hold up?
• 46:09
  If it comes out as clean as it went in.
• 46:12
  To use that phrasing, then it's probably worth it.
• 46:14
  If you can go to X, the oil change with these higher results, the engines running
• 46:19
  cooler, you're seeing a higher cumulative average, all that kind of stuff.
• 46:22
  So for me going to Montreal was this really awesome experiment,
• 46:26
  real life testing with this new technology, this new oil by evolve.
• 46:32
  So I think I'm satisfied so far and we'll check back in.
• 46:36
  as we go along.
• 46:37
  So other cool things we saw in Montreal, right, Tanya?
• 46:40
  Oh my gosh.
• 46:41
  We saw a VinFast dealer in the mall.
• 46:44
  Another oddball, what, Vietnamese EV company or something like that?
• 46:49
  We also saw they were building a VinFast dealer and service, well,
• 46:55
  I guess maybe more service center, uh, somewhere out kind of in the
• 46:58
  middle of nowhere off the highway.
• 47:00
  So it looks like VinFast is making a move to be in Montreal of all places.
• 47:04
  So that was kind of cool.
• 47:05
  Like, again, we read about these and sometimes maybe we chuckle like, or
• 47:08
  who is this brand, but Xpeng, VinFast and others showing up in some of these
• 47:13
  other countries, if, and when they'll ever come to the U S we don't know.
• 47:16
  Right.
• 47:16
  They were at CES.
• 47:17
  They had a huge display there.
• 47:19
  So there were some annoying things about being in Montreal, like the traffic laws.
• 47:26
  Admittedly, some of their traffic signals made no sense, like the
• 47:31
  stoplights didn't make sense.
• 47:34
  As weird as that is to say, there would be like double colors sometimes.
• 47:40
  Which you could interpret to be like no turn on red kind of thing, but
• 47:45
  then there'd be like double green.
• 47:47
  I think at one point, like, what does that mean?
• 47:49
  And then there was a delay, like, part one of the greens would
• 47:52
  come, but then the other wouldn't.
• 47:54
  It was a green arrow pointing forward.
• 47:56
  Yeah.
• 47:57
  I've never seen that before.
• 47:58
  And then so people wouldn't move, and you're like, the light's green,
• 48:01
  and then the other light would turn green, and then they would go.
• 48:05
  It's like, I don't understand.
• 48:08
  I've never seen we only have three choices and you couldn't tell when you were in
• 48:13
  the city limits or out of the city limits because apparently there's no right turn
• 48:17
  on red anywhere in the city limits of Montreal but then one of the times we went
• 48:21
  out we thought we were still and then I'm sitting at the light Trying to be nice.
• 48:25
  I even changed my speedometer over to kilometers, you know, stuff like that.
• 48:29
  I'm trying to follow their rules.
• 48:30
  And this lady's behind me, hawking at me.
• 48:32
  And I'm like, I didn't think I was supposed to turn, but it was one of
• 48:34
  those stupid lights where it had a straight arrow and a right arrow.
• 48:37
  And I'm like, I don't know what to do anymore.
• 48:39
  Diagonal arrow and a back arrow.
• 48:42
  And it was like 18.
• 48:43
  Symbols so confusing.
• 48:46
  It was weird.
• 48:47
  Unlike Canada, Denmark, the traffic lights, they did something
• 48:51
  really, really interesting.
• 48:52
  When it's about to switch from green to red, they flash the yellow in both
• 48:57
  directions, so you know that it's about to change, and so you get this anticipation
• 49:00
  like, oh, the light's gonna change.
• 49:02
  That's pretty cool.
• 49:03
  I found that to be like delightfully refreshing.
• 49:05
  It's like, oh look, the light's gonna change.
• 49:07
  Pay attention.
• 49:07
  Sucker . Oh look, the light's gonna change.
• 49:09
  Floor it.
• 49:10
  Yeah.
• 49:10
  What's your reaction time?
• 49:12
  Do you go on the yellow?
• 49:14
  They do drive slower in Canada, although they are situationally aware, like they
• 49:19
  are in Europe, like passing is easy.
• 49:21
  People stay in the right lane, zipper merging, all the things
• 49:25
  you expect when you're over there.
• 49:26
  It's just some of the stuff is just, I don't know.
• 49:28
  It's just a little bizarre.
• 49:29
  And you're like, okay, zero parking in the city too.
• 49:32
  That was finding a, you know, a white fly, but in France.
• 49:37
  All the cars are obviously small.
• 49:39
  Every once in a while, there's like an X5 or a Cayenne or something like that.
• 49:43
  We saw one guy with a pickup truck, American, like Dodge Ram.
• 49:46
  You're like, Oh, he's got to be military.
• 49:48
  Cause there's no other reason for that to be here.
• 49:50
  But when I went to Canada, I was like the Jeep in Montreal.
• 49:53
  I was like the biggest thing on the road.
• 49:55
  It was really weird because I am the largest thing here and parking.
• 49:59
  It was fun.
• 50:00
  This is interesting.
• 50:01
  But I also found that a lot of their cars were older up there too.
• 50:04
  Not a ton of new stuff, new, new stuff.
• 50:06
  Like in the last couple of years on the roads, maybe that has to do with the
• 50:09
  fact that the Canadian dollar is like in a weaker than ours, it's like a 25
• 50:13
  percent discount hashtag chips, but we did get to do something really cool.
• 50:17
  Tanya's suggestion.
• 50:18
  What was that?
• 50:19
  We went to the circuit.
• 50:23
  The F1 track in Montreal.
• 50:25
  Because apparently the entire island is basically a public park and the track
• 50:29
  is just open all the time to anyone.
• 50:31
  They put cones down, they split the track lane.
• 50:34
  The right side gets to be public traffic that can just at a slow speed
• 50:38
  and they got lots of stop signs up so you really can't do anything crazy.
• 50:41
  Do as many laps as you want I guess.
• 50:43
  I don't think they'll ever kick you out.
• 50:43
  You could go all day.
• 50:44
  The place is open like literally from sun up to sundown.
• 50:48
  And then on the left hand side, bicyclists.
• 50:51
  Joggers, walkers, bladers, anything you can do outside of your vehicle,
• 50:56
  you get the lane next to it.
• 50:58
  And we measured, it's about two and a half miles.
• 51:00
  Just under something like that, which...
• 51:02
  I will say the speed limit was suggested at some points.
• 51:04
  We were going a little quicker than the speed limit.
• 51:06
  We did take video of it, it's available on our club YouTube channel.
• 51:10
  I've always joked that they're driving around a potato because,
• 51:13
  you know, it's on an island.
• 51:14
  I can understand why it's so difficult to get.
• 51:17
  on and off of that track as a spectator.
• 51:21
  There's very little grandstands because there's just not a lot of...
• 51:25
  What's the word, Tanya?
• 51:26
  Talking about space, the track itself, like, I don't know, I didn't
• 51:29
  appreciate it when you watch the races, but that sucker is narrow AF.
• 51:35
  There is no space.
• 51:38
  And no runoff.
• 51:39
  You have no room for error.
• 51:42
  If it's three abreast at its widest, it's wide.
• 51:46
  That's it.
• 51:46
  But it is super narrow.
• 51:48
  The turns are really tight.
• 51:50
  It feels like when you drive it, you're just doing like what we would call
• 51:54
  an autocross to one cone turnarounds.
• 51:56
  It's like a really narrow oval track.
• 51:58
  Almost.
• 51:58
  It's just, I would love to drive a Miata there at full bore or something
• 52:02
  small, you know, like a little cars, I think would be a lot of fun there.
• 52:06
  Something high horsepower, like Corvette or 911 and you screw up.
• 52:10
  It's going to be a bad day for you.
• 52:12
  But we did it.
• 52:13
  We can say where we do like four laps, something like that.
• 52:16
  Yeah.
• 52:17
  We just, we're like, oh, let's just keep going.
• 52:19
  Just keep going.
• 52:19
  Just keep going.
• 52:20
  If I lived there, I would be biking that all the time.
• 52:23
  The problem is it takes forever to get there.
• 52:25
  Yeah.
• 52:27
  And I don't know where you'd park.
• 52:29
  How do you get to it?
• 52:30
  Like, is there a ferry?
• 52:31
  Is there a bridge?
• 52:32
  No, there's a bridge.
• 52:33
  Two bridges.
• 52:34
  There's like one on one end corner of the island and one that comes
• 52:37
  in the middle of the potato.
• 52:38
  Because at the top of the island is Six Flags Montreal.
• 52:41
  Yeah.
• 52:42
  Oh god, that's a terrible design.
• 52:44
  You have to get to the island to go to Six Flags.
• 52:47
  Can you bike or walk across the bridge?
• 52:50
  Like, is it safe for that?
• 52:51
  I didn't pay attention when we were driving across it.
• 52:54
  There were people walking.
• 52:55
  There's a sidewalk.
• 52:55
  I mean, Montreal as a city is generally pretty walkable.
• 52:58
  The problem is the area right before you get to the track is like
• 53:03
  being at the wharf in Baltimore where all the sea containers are
• 53:06
  and stuff or like Long Beach, you know, where all the boats come in.
• 53:09
  So it's sort of the same thing.
• 53:10
  And you're like, I don't know that I want to be hanging out
• 53:12
  down there as a pedestrian.
• 53:14
  I didn't see too many hotels.
• 53:16
  There is a casino on the island, which is in sort of the middle of the track.
• 53:20
  It looks like a giant aviary.
• 53:21
  So there's a lot of stuff packed into a small space when you get there.
• 53:25
  And again, this is why they have to shuttle you in and out of that
• 53:29
  place, if you go to spectate.
• 53:30
  Now that I've been there, my want to go to the Canadian Grand Prix in person.
• 53:36
  I'm sort of like Tanya.
• 53:36
  I'm like, I'll watch this from the comfort of my couch.
• 53:39
  It would be hectic to go like that would be.
• 53:42
  Frustrating, I think.
• 53:43
  You would probably have to park on the other side.
• 53:46
  Beware, because there's no parking, like, anywhere.
• 53:49
  Next to the shipping containers.
• 53:51
  You're a mile away or more at that point, for sure.
• 53:54
  Somehow they figured it out.
• 53:55
  They don't want to go out there.
• 53:56
  But that's also why there's a limited number of...
• 53:58
  Seats and tickets and everything to get that sells out so fast, because
• 54:01
  again, you don't realize how small it is until you see it in person.
• 54:04
  So it was a neat experience.
• 54:06
  Summer's not over yet.
• 54:07
  And we do have some other travel in store and we'll talk about
• 54:10
  that as we go along here, but that sort of wraps up our showcase.
• 54:13
  Brad, what did you learn?
• 54:14
  Do you think you want to go on a European vacation?
• 54:17
  Actually, I'm going to turn your question to me into another question for you.
• 54:22
  Oh boy.
• 54:22
  It's inception time.
• 54:23
  You've been to several different professional races now.
• 54:28
  One, would you do it again?
• 54:30
  And two, is this now your favorite experience in a professional race?
• 54:35
  I've heard that the Nürburgring 24 is also a spectacle and it's pretty awesome to
• 54:41
  go to, so I got to reserve judgment, but I think this race and the Nürburgring 24
• 54:46
  are sort of in a category unto themselves.
• 54:49
  It's hard to compare the experience.
• 54:52
  That you would get it petite or at Salins or any of the other races,
• 54:56
  even the Indy 500 for that matter.
• 54:58
  And those are great races.
• 54:59
  Don't get me wrong.
• 55:00
  Le Mans is just so over the top.
• 55:02
  It's so different.
• 55:03
  330, 000 people spread across, you know, it doesn't seem like it's
• 55:08
  that many people, but it's packed.
• 55:09
  It's the history, all the extra things that were going on, even when they pulled
• 55:13
  all the cars out of the museum, ran them on track, all the stuff that just.
• 55:17
  It was unbelievable.
• 55:18
  Part of it was because it was the 100th.
• 55:20
  And I don't know that every Le Mans is like that.
• 55:22
  It's all that, you know, pomp and circumstance that
• 55:24
  was going on for this one.
• 55:25
  I think the 101st is going to be a big deal because of all the
• 55:29
  cars that didn't come for this one are going to be there next year.
• 55:32
  So I think next year is going to be really exciting.
• 55:34
  Would I go back?
• 55:35
  Yes.
• 55:36
  I've already planned to in nine years.
• 55:39
  For the second hundredth, which is the hundredth running of Lamont's not
• 55:42
  the hundredth anniversary of Lamont.
• 55:44
  So I'm really curious to see how obviously things evolve over the next decade.
• 55:48
  I'm going to be a fan for life for sure.
• 55:50
  It was an unforgettable experience.
• 55:52
  It was completely surreal.
• 55:53
  It's still even thinking about it, looking back, it's like,
• 55:56
  wow, we did all these things.
• 55:57
  And there's so many things I even forgot because you're operating on
• 56:00
  very little sleep and only baguettes.
• 56:02
  I needed.
• 56:03
  Denmark just to decompress from Lamar and then come home from that.
• 56:07
  It was just a whirlwind kind of thing.
• 56:08
  So in answer to your question, yes.
• 56:11
  I mean, I have always loved Lamar and I think I will continue to do so until
• 56:14
  the day they don't race there anymore.
• 56:16
  Well, we do have some light fare for our drive through fans out there.
• 56:22
  So we are going to talk about.
• 56:24
  Porsche Audi and Volkswagen news really quick.
• 56:26
  There's a video link we want to share with you guys narrated by Patrick McDreamy
• 56:31
  Dempsey himself about Porsche at Le Mans.
• 56:34
  It probably ends with him crying.
• 56:38
  We all know how this story ended.
• 56:39
  Okay guys, right Ty?
• 56:40
  We know, we know how it ended.
• 56:42
  One of the things that happened during Le Mans, people ask
• 56:45
  me, were there support races?
• 56:47
  Was there this?
• 56:47
  Was there that?
• 56:48
  And there are some support races.
• 56:49
  There's a Ferrari challenge race, which, you know, I took videos of.
• 56:52
  They wrecked in the first corner, which is fantastic, on the first
• 56:55
  lap, you know, because cold tires.
• 56:56
  And there's a Porsche challenge race, and that's super cool
• 56:59
  and all that kind of stuff.
• 57:00
  The things you would expect that you've seen at an IMSA race before.
• 57:02
  As I mentioned, they pulled all the cars out of the museum, driven by a
• 57:06
  lot of the legends of Le Mans, and that was like 20 30 minutes of just
• 57:10
  pure awesomeness to see cars from the early 1920s all the way through up to
• 57:16
  the cars of last year out on track at full song, 917s, Audis, Peugeots, BMWs,
• 57:22
  Bugattis, Bentleys, you name it, right?
• 57:24
  Amazing.
• 57:25
  But Bugatti, that was the name that was missing from the roster this year.
• 57:29
  I mean, it's the great race.
• 57:30
  It's the hundredth.
• 57:31
  Where's the pinnacle of French automotive engineering?
• 57:34
  Where's Bugatti?
• 57:35
  Peugeot was there.
• 57:36
  That's Stellantis.
• 57:37
  Let's be serious now.
• 57:39
  They brought out the new Bolide during one of the lunch breaks,
• 57:43
  and they had it out on track for like 20 minutes doing hot laps.
• 57:47
  And I tell you what, You're looking at the lineup for 2024 with the new Lambo
• 57:51
  and the Porsche 9X and everything else.
• 57:54
  The Bolide is like the Batmobile.
• 57:56
  Absolutely amazing.
• 57:59
  Ballistically quick.
• 58:00
  And it was quiet too.
• 58:01
  So you weren't sure what was going on.
• 58:03
  You thought the track was cold.
• 58:04
  And then there's just this blue and black blur that just, Whoa, rockets by.
• 58:08
  Right.
• 58:09
  And you're like, Whoa, I can't wait to see a Bugatti.
• 58:12
  Back on track, especially at Lamont.
• 58:14
  So I am super hopeful for this.
• 58:16
  And I'm hoping that that test session was really to get everybody revved
• 58:20
  up and tease us for the 2024 entry.
• 58:23
  As I stated before, Lambo has unveiled their GTP prototype for next year.
• 58:28
  And it also looks fantastic.
• 58:30
  If that car's coming out, I'm telling you, there's going to be a
• 58:33
  Porsche that's very similar to it.
• 58:34
  I still think the Ferrari looks better.
• 58:36
  499 is gorgeous.
• 58:37
  I mean, don't get me wrong.
• 58:38
  It's awesome.
• 58:38
  The Lambo looks like what you would think a Lambo would look like.
• 58:41
  The angles and all that stuff.
• 58:43
  Yeah, I'm still the Ferrari guy.
• 58:45
  The 499, that paint livery.
• 58:48
  Throws back all the way to the three 30 P four from the late sixties,
• 58:53
  which was basically the last time they won at Lamar, especially overall,
• 58:57
  I got to see that car in the museum is out on track, all that stuff.
• 59:00
  I mean, just absolutely amazing.
• 59:02
  And those old Ferraris are just.
• 59:04
  Absolutely fantastic.
• 59:05
  Since we mentioned the Peugeot and just a little bit of student news,
• 59:08
  not only did push out, come out with their new car, which we've been
• 59:11
  talking about for basically a year now, the nine X eight, like I said
• 59:15
  before, it is fire aesthetically.
• 59:17
  It is a beautiful car at the Peugeot booth.
• 59:20
  Which we were at several times for multiple reasons, they had this big Lego
• 59:24
  box sitting next to one of the cars.
• 59:26
  And I'm like, what is this all about?
• 59:28
  David jokingly said, ah, they're probably going to bring out like a life size one
• 59:31
  or something like that at some point.
• 59:32
  Cause there's like this countdown timer.
• 59:33
  And I said, what are they going to build it here while we're waiting?
• 59:36
  Like all the parts can't be in that box.
• 59:38
  So at one point they shut the whole thing down, you know,
• 59:41
  put up the curtains, whatever.
• 59:42
  And then they unveiled a full size replica Lego Technic version of the 9x8, which
• 59:47
  is an upscale version of the Lego Technic that you can buy today in the Lego store.
• 59:53
  And it is absolutely awesome.
• 59:54
  The stuff that the guys at Lego can do is just brilliant.
• 59:57
  I got all sorts of pictures of the car from different angles and stuff like that,
• 1:00:00
  but there was something else that came up.
• 1:00:02
  So we're in the booth and we're actually talking to the founder, CEO
• 1:00:05
  of Playseat, like having a good time.
• 1:00:07
  We're trying out their simulator, all this kind of thing.
• 1:00:09
  I see all these people working the booth, got their Peugeot swag on.
• 1:00:12
  And on the back, they have this Lego Technic Peugeot t shirt thing.
• 1:00:15
  I'm like, I want one of those.
• 1:00:16
  So I go into the store and I'm looking at some stuff.
• 1:00:18
  I was like, Oh yeah, they got this really nice looking hoodie.
• 1:00:21
  I love me some black hoodies.
• 1:00:23
  And they got this lime green and silver accents.
• 1:00:25
  I want to get one.
• 1:00:27
  I want to get this Lego shirt, right?
• 1:00:28
  Cause I think it's really cool.
• 1:00:29
  It's a good way to kind of bridge the two worlds.
• 1:00:31
  So I go up to the counter sort of in French.
• 1:00:33
  Do you speak English?
• 1:00:34
  And like, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:35
  Okay.
• 1:00:35
  English.
• 1:00:36
  I told the guy, I said, I would like this hoodie in American XL.
• 1:00:39
  And he never been so off put in my life.
• 1:00:41
  He goes, yes, you are XL.
• 1:00:43
  And I'm like, Oh, Oh, Oh, okay.
• 1:00:46
  All right.
• 1:00:47
  Bye.
• 1:00:48
  So he comes back, goes, we don't have it in that color.
• 1:00:50
  We only have it in gray.
• 1:00:51
  Well, I'm like, I don't wear gray.
• 1:00:52
  So that's fine.
• 1:00:52
  So I said, what about this Lego technique t shirt that your guys
• 1:00:55
  are wearing over on the floor?
• 1:00:57
  He goes, we do not sell this year.
• 1:00:59
  You must go to Lego.
• 1:01:00
  And there's a Lego store at Lamont.
• 1:01:02
  So I was like, okay, cool.
• 1:01:03
  I tell David, after we wrap up, we go over there, the Lego store.
• 1:01:06
  And I said, I took a picture of it just because I thought it was cool anyway.
• 1:01:09
  And I show the lady and she goes, I don't know what you're talking about.
• 1:01:11
  You need to go to push it out and get it from them.
• 1:01:13
  I'm like, all right, I've had enough.
• 1:01:15
  We've been through this already.
• 1:01:17
  It's not happening.
• 1:01:18
  So I gave up.
• 1:01:18
  I'm still looking for that t shirt.
• 1:01:19
  So if anybody sees it, I want it.
• 1:01:21
  You didn't take your XL ass back over to Peugeot and say,
• 1:01:24
  where's my fricking t shirt?
• 1:01:25
  Yeah, right.
• 1:01:25
  You are XS.
• 1:01:27
  Oh, okay.
• 1:01:27
  I wonder what he would have said to me.
• 1:01:30
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• 1:01:34
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• 1:01:37
  Chevy, Ford, or Mopar vehicle.
• 1:01:39
  We heard the bad news, right?
• 1:01:40
  Brad, I mean, you've had a big crying in your Wheaties this whole time.
• 1:01:43
  It's sad, but I, I haven't been excited about team Corvette since the C7R.
• 1:01:48
  So it's been what, two or three years now that I've just been kind of mad on them.
• 1:01:52
  It's sad, but Ford did the same thing with the Ford GT not too long ago.
• 1:01:56
  What was that two years ago, they dropped it and opted for privateers instead.
• 1:02:01
  So for those of you trying to figure out what Brad's talking about, GM's Team
• 1:02:04
  Corvette Racing is no longer a thing.
• 1:02:07
  They have announced Corvette's retirement this year.
• 1:02:09
  They announced it at Le Mans and they are moving to a privateer
• 1:02:12
  model, which is what Ferrari and Porsche have done for many years now.
• 1:02:15
  So this is not uncommon.
• 1:02:16
  So they're going to supply the teams.
• 1:02:18
  With the cars and the parts and everything else, but it's up to the
• 1:02:21
  teams to figure out what they're going to do with those cars and how they're
• 1:02:24
  going to campaign them, who's going to drive them and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:02:27
  So after what didn't it start with Dale Earnhardt with the C five with the C five.
• 1:02:32
  Yeah.
• 1:02:32
  So that was early two thousands late nineties.
• 1:02:35
  Yeah.
• 1:02:35
  So let's say almost 25 years for sure.
• 1:02:37
  It's sad to see team Corvette go.
• 1:02:39
  Yes.
• 1:02:40
  We mentioned it before.
• 1:02:42
  Garage 56.
• 1:02:44
  People were laughing.
• 1:02:45
  They were laughing hard.
• 1:02:46
  They were making fun of the NASCAR special.
• 1:02:48
  Oh, this and that.
• 1:02:49
  That car's never going to make it, as I mentioned.
• 1:02:51
  But against all odds, they kicked ass.
• 1:02:54
  Blue passes for prototype cars.
• 1:02:57
  I tell you what, seeing it in person, their closing speeds and
• 1:03:01
  their ability to walk away from other cars was unbelievable.
• 1:03:06
  It didn't click until we were on the Ferris wheel and we could see in the
• 1:03:10
  distance as they would get on the straightaways and you would just watch
• 1:03:15
  the garage 56 car, not walk, but run away from an LMP two car unbelievably fast.
• 1:03:21
  It's trap speeds were ridiculous too.
• 1:03:23
  I mean, it's just unbelievable.
• 1:03:25
  I got to hand it to the team though.
• 1:03:26
  I mean, you look at it and you go, how much of this is really NASCAR?
• 1:03:29
  How much of it is modified?
• 1:03:31
  It's really a Camaro GT three, you know, stuff like that, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:03:34
  All the elements are there.
• 1:03:36
  We don't really see NASCARs go for that length of time.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah.
• 1:03:40
  They do 500 laps at Daytona or Talladega or whatever.
• 1:03:43
  And that's what four hours with 24 hours.
• 1:03:46
  Plus imagine.
• 1:03:48
  They only ran one car and they had to do all the practice sessions,
• 1:03:52
  all the qualifying sessions.
• 1:03:54
  They did more than 24 hours.
• 1:03:55
  Those cars, that's the other thing people don't realize.
• 1:03:57
  They don't run for just 24 hours.
• 1:03:58
  They run for like nearly two weeks by the time they're done
• 1:04:02
  because of all the different things that they're doing with them.
• 1:04:05
  Unbelievable accomplishment by that team and by the car itself.
• 1:04:08
  So I'm excited to see where that goes.
• 1:04:11
  If they do anything with it next time, I'd love to see it back next year.
• 1:04:14
  Every time it went by though, I was like, that's.
• 1:04:17
  Dollar bills and eagles and freedom coming out that exhaust pipe.
• 1:04:20
  I mean, it was just unreal.
• 1:04:22
  That's the sound of America.
• 1:04:25
  America, right?
• 1:04:26
  I mean, it was just like, you wanted to wave a flag every time it went by.
• 1:04:31
  It was unreal.
• 1:04:31
  It was just like, wow.
• 1:04:33
  And I will say this, the crowds at Lamar were different than they
• 1:04:37
  are like in an American race.
• 1:04:38
  You go to the Indy 500 people doing the wave and you think
• 1:04:40
  you're in a baseball game and it's like a whole thing over there.
• 1:04:42
  It was like being at a golf match and there was like light clapping and then
• 1:04:46
  you would hear people get excited.
• 1:04:48
  Like if a car, like let's say it's spun and went into the gravel trap or you get
• 1:04:51
  this big, like just like a golfing match.
• 1:04:53
  Ooh, like if somebody went off track, it was really bizarre.
• 1:04:58
  But I tell you what, when.
• 1:05:00
  The garage 56 car finished the race and cross the checker people exploded.
• 1:05:05
  It was just like, ah, you know, it was, that was cool to see the appreciation
• 1:05:10
  for that car when it finished.
• 1:05:11
  So can you explain the garage 56?
• 1:05:16
  Isn't that like a Le Mans thing?
• 1:05:18
  It is.
• 1:05:18
  It is specific to Le Mans.
• 1:05:20
  It is a one car class.
• 1:05:23
  It is designed for experimental, like, super prototype cars.
• 1:05:27
  It's garage number 56, because there's 55 other garages.
• 1:05:30
  Some of the other garage 56 cars you might remember, let's say
• 1:05:33
  the front wheel drive Nissan.
• 1:05:35
  Jerd.
• 1:05:35
  That is the worst Le Mans car ever.
• 1:05:37
  It'll go down in the history as such.
• 1:05:38
  The DeltaWing car, do you remember that one?
• 1:05:40
  Turd.
• 1:05:41
  Yeah.
• 1:05:42
  So they've been all weird stuff like that.
• 1:05:45
  And so the garage 56 car, that's where they stuck it.
• 1:05:48
  Right.
• 1:05:48
  It's an unlimited class.
• 1:05:49
  I can do whatever they want.
• 1:05:51
  As long as they didn't break, they were going to win their class
• 1:05:53
  because they're the only car in it.
• 1:05:54
  Is there always a garage 56 car?
• 1:05:57
  No, it is hit or miss.
• 1:05:59
  So this is the first garage 56 car, I think, since that Nissan,
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  probably since the front wheel drive.
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  And then has a garage 56 car ever won outright?
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  No.
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  No.
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  No.
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  No.
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  Okay.
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  Not in my recollection because they've always broken.
• 1:06:12
  So is this the first one in a long time to actually finish the race?
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  Because I don't think the Nissan finished.
• 1:06:16
  No, the Nissan didn't make it, but like, I don't know, the first
• 1:06:18
  three hours or something like that.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah.
• 1:06:20
  Fun wheel drive.
• 1:06:21
  Not very fun that day.
• 1:06:22
  They have that car on display at the museum.
• 1:06:24
  It's outside in a glass box next to the EB110 Bugatti for some weird reason.
• 1:06:29
  But yeah, they don't even want it in the museum.
• 1:06:31
  It's like, I think so terrible.
• 1:06:33
  We'll put it out there and they don't drive it around anymore.
• 1:06:35
  Cause it's got broken axles.
• 1:06:37
  What a bad design.
• 1:06:38
  That was, I would say out of everything that you've experienced and explained
• 1:06:42
  about going to Lamar, the garage 56 car is what I have FOMO about like missing that.
• 1:06:48
  We got to see it up close in person, all that stuff, really kind of
• 1:06:51
  take a look at it and everything.
• 1:06:53
  I mean, sort of once in a lifetime, I mean, unless they go back, but
• 1:06:56
  I don't see that happening again.
• 1:06:58
  Although I would like to see it spawn a Camaro GT three.
• 1:07:01
  To go against Ford, because that's the other big reveal at Le Mans
• 1:07:05
  was Ford unveiled the GT three Mustang while we were there.
• 1:07:08
  And the only thing I heard from people was it's huge.
• 1:07:14
  The S six 50 is big.
• 1:07:16
  It's bigger than the S five 50 Mustang.
• 1:07:19
  But I mean, it just looked aggressive.
• 1:07:21
  It looked mean wide body to fit the bigger tires and everything.
• 1:07:25
  You know, it's going to sound amazing.
• 1:07:27
  It's going to be fast because the Mustang up until this point, the GT four
• 1:07:31
  Mustangs, as we learned following around world challenge, they're pretty limited.
• 1:07:36
  They were pretty neutered compared to a lot of the other cars in GT four.
• 1:07:39
  So I think moving up to GT three allows them to really stretch out
• 1:07:44
  that Shelby motor and everything else and go for gold there.
• 1:07:48
  Again, the hundred and first Lamont's next year's Lamont's
• 1:07:50
  is going to be awesome too.
• 1:07:52
  We'll see how it plays out.
• 1:07:53
  A lot of representation from America.
• 1:07:56
  America.
• 1:07:57
  Yeah.
• 1:07:57
  As I mentioned before, Toyota's number two car was taken out by a squirrel.
• 1:08:03
  It was funny and sad at the same time.
• 1:08:06
  And it was really stressful there for a while because there was a big battle back
• 1:08:11
  and forth between Ferrari and Toyota.
• 1:08:13
  It all came down to pitch strategy.
• 1:08:15
  You know, who is using less.
• 1:08:17
  Fuel and all this kind of stuff, tire management, all these kinds of things.
• 1:08:21
  I know that Ferrari was like doubling down on their tires to try to stretch
• 1:08:25
  out and all this kind of thing.
• 1:08:26
  If you looked at race speeds versus qualifying speeds, they were way down.
• 1:08:30
  Lap times were significantly down.
• 1:08:32
  You could tell the strategy was totally different during the race, but when that
• 1:08:35
  squirrel took out the Toyota, Oh my God.
• 1:08:37
  And then that Cadillac.
• 1:08:38
  On like the first lap coming into the Molson chicane.
• 1:08:42
  Oh, what a disaster.
• 1:08:43
  I mean, how do you cause a wreck like 90 seconds into the race?
• 1:08:47
  You know, they still had two other cars.
• 1:08:49
  The odds were in their favor.
• 1:08:50
  They had one more car than everybody else.
• 1:08:53
  You don't count the Joda 963 for Porsche.
• 1:08:56
  And those last couple hours there for Toyota.
• 1:08:59
  Once they had that big screw up where he missed the braking zone.
• 1:09:03
  That was it.
• 1:09:03
  It was Ferrari's race to lose.
• 1:09:05
  And you could tell they were backing way off.
• 1:09:08
  To conserve the car, Toyota almost a lap behind at that point.
• 1:09:11
  There's no way they were going to make that up in an hour, not without
• 1:09:14
  potentially breaking the car.
• 1:09:16
  I feel bad for them, but I don't at the same time.
• 1:09:20
  Well, let's move on to random new EVs and concept cars.
• 1:09:24
  A name I never thought I would hear associated with an EV.
• 1:09:27
  Right?
• 1:09:28
  Caterham.
• 1:09:29
  Famous for taking over production of the Lotus Super 7 in 1962.
• 1:09:35
  If someone just showed you a picture of this, you would never
• 1:09:37
  associate it with a Caterham.
• 1:09:39
  It looks similar to the Alpine.
• 1:09:40
  Which I'm glad you brought that car up.
• 1:09:43
  The A110, those things are all over the place in France.
• 1:09:46
  That's another car I would buy, no questions asked.
• 1:09:49
  And they have that new electric R5 looking thing that Tanya has talked about
• 1:09:53
  before, talking about EVs and concepts.
• 1:09:55
  That's going to be the hotness.
• 1:09:56
  Two cars we're never going to get.
• 1:09:57
  Womp womp.
• 1:09:58
  That is womp womp.
• 1:09:59
  Enjoy the single seater backseat with the split headrest that's
• 1:10:03
  built into the back wall of the car.
• 1:10:07
  Continuing from the last drive through, we mentioned how Toyota
• 1:10:11
  leadership has said that they are not interested in building pure EVs, they
• 1:10:15
  are sticking to the hybrid model.
• 1:10:17
  And you know what?
• 1:10:18
  I got confirmation of that while I was at the race.
• 1:10:21
  Combustible hydrogen is the new tech of choice.
• 1:10:25
  While we were at Ligier Unveiled their new, one of the first combustible
• 1:10:32
  hydrogen powered race cars that they developed in house sort of looks like
• 1:10:36
  a Ferrari 550 Maranello or 575 LM.
• 1:10:39
  If you look at it in pictures, we recorded the whole session,
• 1:10:42
  really interesting information from their vice president about it.
• 1:10:45
  That is the way of the future.
• 1:10:46
  We've been hearing that from some other people and Toyota is.
• 1:10:49
  Also moving in that direction, moving away from their fuel cell
• 1:10:53
  technology to combustible hydrogen.
• 1:10:55
  And the advantage to combustible hydrogen is, and this is information I understand
• 1:10:59
  from some folks at Bosch that I talked to, is they need to figure out how to
• 1:11:03
  store the hydrogen in the vehicle safely.
• 1:11:06
  The rest of the motor stays the same.
• 1:11:08
  The injection system basically stays the same, except for the nozzles.
• 1:11:13
  The fuel injectors that they're using and ECU, all that stuff gets reflashed.
• 1:11:17
  And they're basically keeping the ice cars, the way they were always
• 1:11:22
  built, making a few modifications and solving the hydrogen delivery problem.
• 1:11:27
  And now we can breathe a whole new life.
• 1:11:29
  Into our ice power cars and funny that we're talking about that this week
• 1:11:34
  as we're recording Goodwood is going on and Rowan Atkinson, famous Mr.
• 1:11:38
  Bean, who also happens to be a petrol head was interviewed at Goodwood because he was
• 1:11:43
  showcasing the new combustible hydrogen H2 Toyota GR Yaris at the hill climb.
• 1:11:49
  And he gives a really long talk about it and the technology and what it's like
• 1:11:53
  to drive and all this kind of thing.
• 1:11:55
  And he says right then and there.
• 1:11:56
  It's direct injection, you know, dah, dah, dah, all this stuff that even
• 1:12:00
  Bosch and Ligier were talking about.
• 1:12:02
  So that now is making me excited for the future.
• 1:12:05
  That's going to breathe new life into old cars if we can figure
• 1:12:09
  out how to retrofit that stuff.
• 1:12:10
  Sounds no different than people retrofitting their
• 1:12:12
  diesels to run off biofuel.
• 1:12:14
  Exactly.
• 1:12:15
  Very similar thought.
• 1:12:16
  It's a similar concept, and it's, it actually, it's a kind
• 1:12:19
  of a genius idea to not scrap.
• 1:12:22
  In concept.
• 1:12:23
  Yeah, well, yes, of course.
• 1:12:25
  Again, the same thing they haven't solved yet is how you onboard it, and
• 1:12:30
  how do you have a hydrogen fuel station.
• 1:12:33
  With these prototypes, they're handling that in house.
• 1:12:36
  They're able to construct their hydrogen containment unit, all that.
• 1:12:39
  But the proof of concept.
• 1:12:41
  is now been basically satisfied to say it can be done.
• 1:12:45
  Can you imagine all I see is the early scene in Zoolander where everyone's
• 1:12:51
  flinging the gasoline on each other to whams wake me up before you go go
• 1:12:56
  and then somebody goes to light their cigarette and the whole place blows up.
• 1:13:00
  They need to solve that problem because you can't have somebody willy nilly
• 1:13:06
  hydrogen into the air while they're fucking smoking their cigarette.
• 1:13:09
  At the fuel station.
• 1:13:10
  Since we're talking about breathing life into new cars,
• 1:13:13
  Brad, it's time for Lost and Found.
• 1:13:14
  What have you got for us?
• 1:13:16
  Oh, the usual.
• 1:13:19
  Nobody wants this turd of a Cadillac DeVille at Gray Chevrolet.
• 1:13:23
  Is it still for sale?
• 1:13:24
  It is still for sale.
• 1:13:26
  I'm starting to think there's no actual car.
• 1:13:28
  They just want you to call and then come in.
• 1:13:31
  And then there's a couple of Volkswagens.
• 1:13:32
  There's the 2000 Volkswagen Jetta, 2000 Volkswagen Jetta, GLS VR six.
• 1:13:37
  Ice not listed.
• 1:13:38
  And then that four GT is still out there.
• 1:13:40
  2008 Jetta, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:13:43
  2012 Fiat 500.
• 1:13:45
  You sure your browser isn't cached from two months ago?
• 1:13:48
  I mean, Nope.
• 1:13:49
  I literally just.
• 1:13:51
  Did a search.
• 1:13:52
  They're saying people are holding onto their cars longer.
• 1:13:54
  Maybe that's why there's nothing good for sale, right?
• 1:13:57
  The whole point of this segment right here is to find the turds.
• 1:14:00
  There are plenty of turds out there, but the turds are all the same.
• 1:14:03
  no, no new turds.
• 1:14:05
  . Although you, you can get a 2016 Dodge Viper ACR for $800,000.
• 1:14:10
  Hey, that's a bargain.
• 1:14:11
  Let's get two.
• 1:14:11
  Andrew Bank.
• 1:14:12
  This is calling your name.
• 1:14:14
  He needs a second one though.
• 1:14:15
  You know how it works.
• 1:14:15
  He needs to rob a bank is what he needs to do to do that.
• 1:14:19
  Speaking of old cars and things for sale and whatnot.
• 1:14:21
  I went to my first auction.
• 1:14:23
  I have interviewed plenty of auctioneers and auction companies on this show.
• 1:14:27
  If you haven't caught those episodes, just go back into our 200 million
• 1:14:30
  episodes that we have online.
• 1:14:32
  But I'd never attended one before.
• 1:14:34
  I was going to say, were you on sale?
• 1:14:36
  Was this someone was bidding for your, like for a date
• 1:14:38
  with Eric or what was this?
• 1:14:41
  This was a motorsports legends auction at Le Mans.
• 1:14:45
  My original question stands.
• 1:14:49
  Yeah.
• 1:14:50
  Actually, if you weren't paying attention, you would have missed the Sotheby's
• 1:14:53
  building altogether because they had not a ton of signage and they kept.
• 1:14:57
  They close most of the time because obviously you don't want to get
• 1:14:59
  any of these cars dirty, but in the lineup, you had things like Ferrari,
• 1:15:04
  Daytona, GTB fours, you had things like XG two twenties, you had a rolling
• 1:15:10
  chassis of a Porsche nine one nine.
• 1:15:13
  You had the silk cut, jag, Lancia, LC two, like all sorts of stuff from
• 1:15:18
  back in the day that were for sale.
• 1:15:20
  We're not talking 50, 000 car.
• 1:15:22
  We're not talking 500, 000 car.
• 1:15:24
  We're talking 5 million.
• 1:15:26
  50 million dollar car, you know, kind of situation.
• 1:15:28
  And so as I've referred to it before, it was like quiet chaos.
• 1:15:33
  And it was everything you expected it to be like you've seen in like the
• 1:15:37
  movie, the red violin, you know, the guys with their paddles and the guys
• 1:15:40
  on the phone and the brokers and the internet, and it's getting out of control.
• 1:15:43
  And You know, we stayed for the Ferrari bid because that
• 1:15:46
  was the car we wanted to see.
• 1:15:47
  And when we unfortunately had to go away because we had somewhere else, we
• 1:15:50
  had to be, and we left and it was at 4.
• 1:15:54
  2 million euros, which is substantially more than that car is generally worth.
• 1:15:59
  But because that was a legitimate Le Mans race car and like all this kind
• 1:16:03
  of stuff, it ended up closing at 5.
• 1:16:05
  2 million euro.
• 1:16:06
  Unbelievable.
• 1:16:07
  It was an experience.
• 1:16:08
  Like nothing else, because again, I've never been to an auction before.
• 1:16:11
  So I'm hoping it doesn't sour me to some of the other events that I
• 1:16:15
  might be going to in the near future.
• 1:16:17
  If you've never been to a car auction, and I'm not talking about like going
• 1:16:21
  to Mannheim auction in Pennsylvania, like going to a Mecham or a Sotheby's
• 1:16:26
  or a broad arrow, or, you know, the events that happen at like pebble and
• 1:16:29
  things like that, do it, just go in, pay the a hundred bucks or whatever,
• 1:16:34
  and just sit and soak it all in.
• 1:16:36
  It is unbelievably stressful.
• 1:16:38
  But you also feel like you're sitting in the dentist's office.
• 1:16:40
  It's bizarre.
• 1:16:42
  And I write about it in an article that's linked in the show notes, if you
• 1:16:45
  can get more of my take on all of that.
• 1:16:47
  Other things historical, as I mentioned before, the Lemans
• 1:16:50
  Museum is right there on campus.
• 1:16:52
  It's at the main gate of the track.
• 1:16:55
  If you get the opportunity to go and a few people that I had spoken to before
• 1:16:59
  going recommended that I check it out if I had missed it, that would have
• 1:17:03
  been my phone though, Brad, because as you probably saw from the pictures,
• 1:17:06
  which we have links to the whole vault of pictures, unbelievable vehicles.
• 1:17:11
  In the museum, cars that you've only heard about rumored about
• 1:17:15
  that are legend are in this museum.
• 1:17:18
  Not all of them are there.
• 1:17:19
  Some of the Le Mans winners are at Simeone as an example, like the 57G, the 917
• 1:17:27
  hippie car, you know, things like that.
• 1:17:28
  So not all of them there.
• 1:17:29
  So there were as many as they could muster up for the hundredth
• 1:17:32
  and other cars of significance.
• 1:17:34
  From the a hundred years of Lamont's so super cool.
• 1:17:36
  And then, like I said, they pulled them all out of the museum and took them out
• 1:17:39
  on track for some parade laps and whatnot, but just absolutely incredible to see
• 1:17:43
  those cars in person cars that, you know, I had only seen on television or, you
• 1:17:46
  know, dreamed about drooled over, so just absolutely awesome, totally worth it.
• 1:17:51
  And during race weekend entrance to the museum is free.
• 1:17:54
  So why not go?
• 1:17:56
  And a little bit of vintage motor sports, the VRG or vintage racers group is
• 1:18:01
  pushing really hard on social media to attract Miata drivers to their series.
• 1:18:06
  For those that don't remember the Miata celebrates its 33rd birthday
• 1:18:10
  this year and qualifies for the famed vintage racing series.
• 1:18:14
  I guess they're getting tired of seeing 16 year olds drive and stanced
• 1:18:18
  out NA Miata's all over the place.
• 1:18:20
  No, it's.
• 1:18:21
  Because there's probably not enough MG or triumph guys anymore.
• 1:18:25
  You know what I mean?
• 1:18:25
  So they got to open it up because that's part of their social media
• 1:18:29
  thing is they class the Miata's to be able to run with some of those
• 1:18:33
  older British roadsters and stuff.
• 1:18:34
  So I actually think that'd be some exciting racing to see that.
• 1:18:38
  So maybe we'll find ourselves at a VRG event later this year.
• 1:18:40
  Yeah.
• 1:18:41
  Anybody that's seen a spec Miata race would know that that'd be pretty exciting.
• 1:18:44
  Although I don't know if I want, if I was a, an MG.
• 1:18:47
  Driver.
• 1:18:48
  I don't know that I'd want a bunch of wreck pinata cars out there
• 1:18:52
  with me on track at the same time.
• 1:18:54
  If you want to learn more about what you should be doing with your retired
• 1:18:58
  spec Miata, and if maybe you want to do something different than run SCCA with it,
• 1:19:02
  check out the vintage racers group at www.
• 1:19:05
  vrgonline.
• 1:19:07
  org.
• 1:19:08
  It's that time again.
• 1:19:10
  What time is that?
• 1:19:11
  We would be remiss.
• 1:19:12
  Wouldn't we?
• 1:19:13
  Because it's time to talk about Teslagate.
• 1:19:16
  I don't follow this kind of stuff.
• 1:19:18
  I don't even know.
• 1:19:19
  I had to look up what Threads was.
• 1:19:22
  The war with Elon continues.
• 1:19:24
  It's Zuck versus Musk in Twitter versus Threads.
• 1:19:27
  Did they ever fight yet?
• 1:19:28
  Not yet.
• 1:19:29
  Dude, I want to see it.
• 1:19:30
  It's on pay per view, I heard.
• 1:19:31
  Yeah, I'm not paying for that trash.
• 1:19:33
  Elon's mom said no.
• 1:19:34
  So Elon's mom said, no, that's true.
• 1:19:37
  It's true.
• 1:19:38
  I'm not making that up.
• 1:19:40
  I feel like it would be less celebrity death match and more pillow fight.
• 1:19:46
  No, it's like when we would make the paper footballs in school.
• 1:19:49
  That's like, no, I feel like it would be slap boxing.
• 1:19:52
  It would be.
• 1:19:52
  But Zuckerberg is actually technically legitimate, says people.
• 1:19:57
  He's paid to say that.
• 1:19:58
  Well, wait a minute.
• 1:19:59
  Are you trying to say that Elon is illegitimate?
• 1:20:01
  Like he's Jon Snow or something?
• 1:20:02
  No, she, she, she's saying that Zuckerberg actually trains in like
• 1:20:06
  jujitsu and mixed martial art and stuff like that, which I've seen
• 1:20:09
  pictures and stuff, I'm, I'm joking.
• 1:20:10
  I'm sure he's, he's good at it.
• 1:20:12
  He actually competes, I believe.
• 1:20:14
  So like, he's not like Elon.
• 1:20:16
  It's that picture of him on the yacht in flabby, pale, never seen the light
• 1:20:21
  of day skin, where he's just like that blob standing there on the yacht.
• 1:20:26
  Have you seen that meme where they redid his body as the Cybertruck?
• 1:20:31
  Is that what I'm getting for my a hundred bucks?
• 1:20:34
  Isn't there a meme where he's like Crank?
• 1:20:38
  Yeah, that's another good one.
• 1:20:39
  Oh, there's so many good ones, but in all seriousness.
• 1:20:43
  Talking to so many people, if Twitter isn't dead yet and just gets
• 1:20:47
  absorbed into the Tesla operating system, I would be surprised.
• 1:20:51
  Threads is here.
• 1:20:52
  If you haven't converted over, it's as easy as opening Instagram and clicking
• 1:20:56
  a button and it says import your profile and then you're on Threads.
• 1:21:00
  Threads looks like Twitter, sort of acts like Twitter.
• 1:21:03
  I think it's everything people wanted Instagram to continue to be, but
• 1:21:07
  it's not anymore because Instagram is sort of turning into TikTok.
• 1:21:10
  All this to say, guess what?
• 1:21:12
  We're on threads to at grand Torrey motorsports, follow us.
• 1:21:16
  Let's get more followers on threads than we have on Instagram.
• 1:21:19
  Let's make that our goal for the remainder of 2023.
• 1:21:22
  Shall we use?
• 1:21:23
  And our loyal listeners can help us get there.
• 1:21:25
  Mark Hewitt.
• 1:21:26
  Join us on threads and Patreon.
• 1:21:29
  I can't remember his Facebook password.
• 1:21:33
  There's a nifty little forgot password button.
• 1:21:36
  Goes to an email that he doesn't have access to either.
• 1:21:40
  Stop using AOL.
• 1:21:42
  He's got a, a hotmail account.
• 1:21:46
  Hey, those still work.
• 1:21:48
  No, I know my dad has one.
• 1:21:49
  My dad, Mark, my dad has one.
• 1:21:54
  He's almost 70.
• 1:21:58
  That's awesome.
• 1:21:59
  What are we talking about now?
• 1:22:00
  Tesla charger?
• 1:22:01
  Everyone is adopting a Tesla charger?
• 1:22:02
  Basically, that's, that's all the news.
• 1:22:04
  Is this like adopt a highway where you just, you tell them I
• 1:22:07
  want to adopt a Tesla charger.
• 1:22:09
  So wait a minute.
• 1:22:09
  I thought there was like the J 1792 protocol that everybody was using
• 1:22:15
  except for Tesla because Tesla is the equivalent of Apple, the
• 1:22:19
  lightning charger and all that.
• 1:22:21
  stuff.
• 1:22:21
  Now all of a sudden, we're going to go all Tesla chargers?
• 1:22:25
  So whatever their charging standard connector is, everyone's jumping on board
• 1:22:31
  to basically be able to connect to it.
• 1:22:33
  Oh, okay.
• 1:22:34
  So you're going to be able to buy something to plug into
• 1:22:36
  Tesla's charging station.
• 1:22:38
  Because they have the network now, the charging network.
• 1:22:41
  So how are we going to pay for that?
• 1:22:43
  Well, they say they're expected to adopt the Tesla plug.
• 1:22:46
  So I don't know if it's more.
• 1:22:48
  The plug will be the same or if it's an adapter.
• 1:22:50
  Well, what about all the other EVs?
• 1:22:52
  It's got like two different gas pumps.
• 1:22:53
  I guess it's diesel and gasoline, right?
• 1:22:55
  Here we go again.
• 1:22:56
  I would think they would probably start retrofitting or start using the plug now,
• 1:23:01
  but for the older EVs, probably create an adapter that allows you to use both.
• 1:23:05
  I mean, because also like ChargePoint is going to now have this Tesla
• 1:23:09
  NAX plug, but they say they also have the other types of chargers.
• 1:23:12
  So to that end, it's like having...
• 1:23:14
  The two different style pumps.
• 1:23:16
  I just realized what this is.
• 1:23:17
  You guys watch black mirror?
• 1:23:19
  No, I haven't seen past the first like four or five episodes.
• 1:23:22
  Okay.
• 1:23:22
  In the first four or five episodes of season one, do you remember the
• 1:23:25
  episode with the meow meow beans?
• 1:23:27
  That's a reference to community by the way, where they're like rating
• 1:23:30
  other people and it's like five stars.
• 1:23:32
  You got to keep your five star rating.
• 1:23:33
  It's all like social media and all this stuff.
• 1:23:35
  There's a scene in there and she drives up and because her rating is so low,
• 1:23:39
  she ends up with the piece of crap Evie that there's only one charger
• 1:23:43
  on like This random lot that she can only go there with that car to like,
• 1:23:48
  and get another one or whatever it is, that's, what's going to happen there.
• 1:23:51
  It's going to be like that episode of black mirror.
• 1:23:53
  This sounds like the guy in Canada who bought the slow
• 1:23:55
  charging or whatever it was.
• 1:23:58
  Yeah.
• 1:23:59
  My expectations are once again, lowered.
• 1:24:06
  Lowered expectations.
• 1:24:06
  There's all sorts of new car related shows on television.
• 1:24:09
  We've listed a number under lowered expectations and no one's watched any of
• 1:24:13
  them, so we don't know that they're bad.
• 1:24:16
  I actually spent the time and I watched today the first episode of Tex Mex.
• 1:24:20
  And the first episode of Downey's Dream Machines.
• 1:24:22
  I didn't have that kind of time in my day.
• 1:24:24
  Ditto, ditto.
• 1:24:25
  We, we don't have to go into an office.
• 1:24:27
  I did.
• 1:24:28
  You can put it up in the background.
• 1:24:29
  What's up?
• 1:24:30
  I get my office life.
• 1:24:31
  I live vicariously through Tanya and everything she posts in
• 1:24:34
  our private water coolers chat.
• 1:24:36
  Because she posts some wild shit in there.
• 1:24:39
  I will tell you.
• 1:24:40
  Shut
• 1:24:44
  up my shirt.
• 1:24:45
  I got some mustard on my shirt and I've changed it.
• 1:24:47
  In the middle of the room, but there's a conference going on.
• 1:24:50
  Doesn't matter.
• 1:24:52
  See the hotdog and got busted.
• 1:24:54
  Shirt?
• 1:24:55
  You can't see me because I can't see you.
• 1:24:58
  My back is to you, . I just got pulled on my new Izod.
• 1:25:04
  Oh.
• 1:25:05
  So, anyway, Netflix, Tex Mex Motors, this show is exactly
• 1:25:11
  the same as all the other shows.
• 1:25:13
  It is 100 percent a rip off of Car Masters.
• 1:25:17
  Which is 100 percent a rip off of Fast and Loud, and...
• 1:25:21
  But it's to the point where the cast is almost the same.
• 1:25:24
  They almost look the same.
• 1:25:25
  They rearranged them a little bit.
• 1:25:27
  I only saw the trailer for it and I had kind of watched it in the episodes, but
• 1:25:31
  I was getting strong car master vibe.
• 1:25:33
  They even use the same animations.
• 1:25:35
  Like when they're building the car, you know how they do those sketches
• 1:25:38
  and the parts like fly in and it's all goofy, cartoony, the same,
• 1:25:42
  like the music's the same, they have guys named Scooter and Rabbit.
• 1:25:46
  Like it's like, whatever.
• 1:25:48
  And it's a 250, 000 payday, right?
• 1:25:50
  It's the same basic principle.
• 1:25:52
  And I'm wondering if it's because Car Masters got canned.
• 1:25:55
  Did it?
• 1:25:56
  I haven't seen it come back.
• 1:25:57
  It's been like a year.
• 1:25:58
  Car Masters is the one where they were bartering.
• 1:26:01
  Upgrade and trade.
• 1:26:02
  Yeah, the upgrade and trade.
• 1:26:03
  Rust to riches.
• 1:26:04
  You see they're all the same.
• 1:26:05
  Gotham Garage.
• 1:26:06
  The Gotham Garage.
• 1:26:06
  Correct.
• 1:26:07
  Car Masters.
• 1:26:08
  They're all the, yeah.
• 1:26:09
  Tex Mex Motors, their differentiator.
• 1:26:12
  Is that they are trying to exclusively go into Mexico and buy cars for dirt
• 1:26:18
  cheap, because apparently the people in Mexico don't know anything about cars.
• 1:26:22
  So they go down there, buy them for dirt cheap, and then bring them to the U.
• 1:26:25
  S.
• 1:26:26
  to try and flip them for big money.
• 1:26:28
  Surprise, surprise, in the first episode, they have a run in with
• 1:26:31
  the Mexican Federales because of the non numbers matching car that
• 1:26:36
  was numbers matching after all.
• 1:26:39
  That seems a little staged, too.
• 1:26:41
  A little.
• 1:26:42
  Just a little.
• 1:26:44
  And then the shady transporter who was gonna pick up the Mustang for free.
• 1:26:51
  Uh huh.
• 1:26:51
  And then stole the parts.
• 1:26:53
  And dropped off the car on blocks.
• 1:26:56
  I mean, Jesus Christ.
• 1:26:57
  If that stuff was not staged, how fucking dumb are you at Tex Mex Motors?
• 1:27:02
  Yeah.
• 1:27:02
  For all that shit like that to happen.
• 1:27:04
  And the lady that they tried to sell that Opel GT.
• 1:27:07
  Which, by the way, that was a cool car.
• 1:27:09
  I liked what they did with it, though.
• 1:27:10
  I like the paint job.
• 1:27:12
  I like the seats.
• 1:27:13
  You know what I said when they put up the paint job?
• 1:27:15
  I was like, I did it first because my GTI has the same paint scheme.
• 1:27:19
  It does.
• 1:27:20
  It does.
• 1:27:20
  You don't have the honeycomb, though.
• 1:27:22
  Looked awful, actually.
• 1:27:23
  They should have left that off the car.
• 1:27:24
  I liked it.
• 1:27:25
  I liked it.
• 1:27:26
  Anyway, and then the Baja bug that they turned into, surprise, surprise.
• 1:27:30
  A Baja bug.
• 1:27:31
  Whatever.
• 1:27:32
  The best part of that was when they wrecked that Polaris.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah, that was fun.
• 1:27:36
  That was good.
• 1:27:36
  Overall, I would probably watch the whole thing just to see how it all
• 1:27:40
  turns out, but it feels a little bit more contrived than Car Masters.
• 1:27:45
  And Tanya, this is where it really crosses the line.
• 1:27:48
  They have another female engine builder.
• 1:27:51
  However, comma, asterisk, parentheses.
• 1:27:53
  Her backstory seems a lot more legit than Constance's.
• 1:27:58
  She grew up, they show pictures of her working with her dad in the shop
• 1:28:01
  and whatever, and she seemed to know legitimately what she was doing and
• 1:28:05
  doing that Mazda swap on the Opel.
• 1:28:07
  You know, that was no small feat that Ecotech and the Beetle,
• 1:28:10
  that was pretty complicated.
• 1:28:11
  So I'm like.
• 1:28:12
  Okay.
• 1:28:13
  I mean, not this, my fingernails look like I'm in a Revlon commercial, but I
• 1:28:17
  work on motors, you know, kind of thing that's going on with the other show.
• 1:28:20
  So it's like, whatever.
• 1:28:21
  I mean, again, I'm not trying to discount anybody's experience,
• 1:28:24
  but it's the exact same formula.
• 1:28:27
  Yeah.
• 1:28:27
  It is this carbon copy.
• 1:28:29
  Exactly.
• 1:28:30
  Now, did you watch Downey's Dream Machines?
• 1:28:32
  I did not.
• 1:28:33
  I was too enamored by the stupidity of Tex Mex motors.
• 1:28:37
  I'll give you Downey's Dream Machines really quick.
• 1:28:39
  Basically, Robert Downey Jr.
• 1:28:41
  has more money now than he knows what to do with.
• 1:28:42
  He's paring down part of his collection and he's taken on...
• 1:28:46
  A conscience, I guess, because of the whole footprint coalition thing that he
• 1:28:50
  started about, you know, climate change and all this stuff, making greener world.
• 1:28:53
  And what he wants to do is basically turn part of his collection of muscle
• 1:28:57
  cars and exotics and whatever he has, and he wants to turn them into EVs.
• 1:29:00
  And you're like, okay, cool.
• 1:29:02
  The whole thing is sort of shot like kiss, kiss, bang, bang in those scenes
• 1:29:06
  where they're behind the camera and, you know, talking through the fourth wall.
• 1:29:09
  And Robert Downey is very.
• 1:29:11
  Non scripted and non sequitur throughout the whole thing and he's a little crazy,
• 1:29:15
  but that's what makes it entertaining.
• 1:29:17
  And it makes him charming as a person to where you're kind of like, well,
• 1:29:19
  what the hell is he going to say next?
• 1:29:21
  I mean, it starts out literally with him in a Blackhawk helicopter.
• 1:29:25
  Like, where the hell is it?
• 1:29:26
  Where's this going?
• 1:29:27
  And he literally turns to the camera and he's like, This is a
• 1:29:29
  show about cars, I assure you.
• 1:29:31
  We're gonna get there.
• 1:29:32
  And then it does like this, and we go backwards and like
• 1:29:35
  how we got to that point.
• 1:29:37
  You know, whatever.
• 1:29:37
  It has its cinematics with it, but the very first episode he takes a k10 pickup
• 1:29:42
  truck square body that was Beautiful.
• 1:29:45
  He called it the Thanos thumper.
• 1:29:47
  It's dark purple and all those kinds of supercharged LS making ungodly
• 1:29:52
  horsepower, all this noise and whatever.
• 1:29:54
  He's like, I want to turn it into an EV.
• 1:29:56
  So he partners with electric garage up in New Hampshire.
• 1:29:59
  They retrofit a Tesla into it.
• 1:30:01
  They maintain the all wheel drive, all this kind of stuff,
• 1:30:03
  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:30:04
  And there's sort of a.
• 1:30:06
  gimmicky challenge at the end where they have to tow something
• 1:30:10
  with it, and they want to, you know, see how it all turns out.
• 1:30:12
  Is it going to blow up?
• 1:30:13
  Is it going to work?
• 1:30:14
  Etc.
• 1:30:14
  I'll leave it up to your guys imagination to check it out.
• 1:30:17
  I'm actually really curious to see where the rest of it goes.
• 1:30:20
  I've had a couple other people tell me that they've watched the whole thing.
• 1:30:23
  It's only about eight episodes, and they said it's fantastic, and...
• 1:30:26
  They're sort of like, yeah, that'd be really cool to retro and EV.
• 1:30:29
  And I know we've talked about this and some of the cars on his list,
• 1:30:32
  he's got like a C2 Stingray Corvette.
• 1:30:34
  He's got some other stuff on there where you're like, would I really swap that car?
• 1:30:38
  It's worth a mint as it is, you know, that kind of thing with what
• 1:30:41
  we talked about earlier with the H2E platforms coming out, you know, that
• 1:30:44
  combustible hydrogen, I wonder if.
• 1:30:46
  Robert Downey gets to the end of this journey of converting
• 1:30:49
  his collection to EVs.
• 1:30:50
  And he goes, well, how hard would it have been to convert them to hydrogen?
• 1:30:54
  Right.
• 1:30:54
  And leave them alone.
• 1:30:55
  I'm wondering if people are going to have that regret as the
• 1:30:58
  manufacturers may be moving in that direction here in the near future.
• 1:31:01
  Well, that's not going to make him millions of dollars with a TV show.
• 1:31:03
  No.
• 1:31:04
  Changing some, uh, injectors in a fuel tank?
• 1:31:07
  Not at all.
• 1:31:07
  How environmentally friendly is it flying around on a black hawk?
• 1:31:11
  Yeah, I know, but his truck is saving the world.
• 1:31:13
  One ev at a time.
• 1:31:16
  I'm not gonna get on that soapbox.
• 1:31:17
  On the complete other side of that.
• 1:31:19
  Rutledge Wood is back.
• 1:31:20
  Famous for being on Top Gear USA and doing One Lap of America
• 1:31:25
  in a modified Toyota Sienna.
• 1:31:26
  He's got a new reality show, which a couple of our members have watched.
• 1:31:30
  That's the Hot Wheels Build the Dream or whatever the heck it's called.
• 1:31:33
  It's a reality show, restomod, building life size Hot Wheel cars.
• 1:31:37
  Oddly enough, the show debuted before I went to Le Mans.
• 1:31:40
  And a couple of these cars were at Le Mans.
• 1:31:43
  I don't know if they were the ones from the TV show, but they had a booth and
• 1:31:45
  they had three or four cars out front and they are life size Hot Wheels.
• 1:31:49
  And I got to say, they're pretty cool.
• 1:31:51
  So that gave me at least a little bit of, I should probably watch this show.
• 1:31:55
  And then a couple of people have confirmed that it's everything you
• 1:31:58
  don't expect it to be, but it's a lot of fun because it's a creator show.
• 1:32:02
  It's reality television, but it's for car people.
• 1:32:04
  So.
• 1:32:05
  Unlike British Bake Off or the repair shop or what's that one with Amy Poehler
• 1:32:11
  that she's got, you know, making it.
• 1:32:12
  This is for us.
• 1:32:13
  This is for car people.
• 1:32:14
  So there you go, Hot Wheels.
• 1:32:15
  What's funny about Hot Wheels, he's building the Hot Wheels
• 1:32:18
  that I never want to buy.
• 1:32:19
  I want to buy the Hot Wheels that are like production cars.
• 1:32:22
  I don't buy the ones that look like fucking clown shoes and
• 1:32:25
  shit that don't actually exist.
• 1:32:27
  They already sell those, Brad.
• 1:32:28
  Those are called production cars.
• 1:32:29
  Yes.
• 1:32:30
  You know what?
• 1:32:31
  I can't afford production cars.
• 1:32:33
  I can afford 1.
• 1:32:35
  18 Hot Wheels.
• 1:32:36
  They've gotten expensive.
• 1:32:37
  I will buy all the 1.
• 1:32:38
  18 Porsche 911s I can find.
• 1:32:41
  There you go.
• 1:32:42
  Well, Tanya's got one that we should watch.
• 1:32:44
  I already came out last year, but I'm just reminding you of it.
• 1:32:47
  If you're now on a kick to watch all the reality car programs that are out
• 1:32:51
  there, you have to go back and watch on Netflix, Drive Hard the Maloof Way.
• 1:32:55
  I think I tried to watch this.
• 1:32:57
  I didn't get past the first episode, much like I didn't get
• 1:33:00
  past the first episode of FUBAR.
• 1:33:03
  And I still need to watch the Schwarzenegger documentary
• 1:33:05
  because it's all shmay.
• 1:33:06
  The Schwarzenegger documentary is good.
• 1:33:08
  If you're a fan of Schwarzenegger, you should watch his documentary because
• 1:33:12
  you get to see so much about his Mr.
• 1:33:14
  Universe days, all his training and all that, and all that happened,
• 1:33:17
  and how he actually came over here to this country, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:33:21
  So it's very interesting.
• 1:33:22
  He is one of my most favorite comedians.
• 1:33:25
  Ever.
• 1:33:25
  Did I try and watch Drive Hard the Maloof way?
• 1:33:28
  I don't...
• 1:33:29
  The one about the dude and then his daughters, and his
• 1:33:31
  daughters are stunt drivers.
• 1:33:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:34
  I couldn't get past the first episode.
• 1:33:36
  It was hard, a little bit, but...
• 1:33:39
  I'll stick to watching reruns of Deep Space Nine.
• 1:33:41
  Quark's Bar is where I belong.
• 1:33:43
  I started rewatching Seinfeld from the very beginning.
• 1:33:45
  Just wait till you get to the Parking Lot episode.
• 1:33:50
  Oh, yeah, I know that one.
• 1:33:51
  You know, I was watching that on whichever one it was on, and it was like
• 1:33:55
  in the middle of the pandemic, and I was like, I've never watched Seinfeld.
• 1:33:58
  Like, I'd seen an episode here or two back in the day, but like,
• 1:34:00
  I'm never a fan of it, right?
• 1:34:02
  So I was like, I'm gonna sit and I'm gonna watch Seinfeld, because what else
• 1:34:05
  is there to do when you can't do anything?
• 1:34:07
  How many episodes did you get through?
• 1:34:08
  Okay, so like, I was powering through, forcing myself through these things,
• 1:34:14
  because I am clearly not a Seinfeld...
• 1:34:17
  No, she's a Frasier fan.
• 1:34:19
  Yes, Frasier me all day long, but like, Seinfeld, like, this is so effing dry.
• 1:34:23
  Like, I don't, I don't know.
• 1:34:25
  Like, and the characters are all obnoxious.
• 1:34:27
  Most of them, I don't know.
• 1:34:28
  Anyway, so I'm like powering through this thing.
• 1:34:31
  And then suddenly it's like, this show is exiting in two days.
• 1:34:34
  I'm like, shit.
• 1:34:36
  And I'm like calculating.
• 1:34:37
  I'm like, I don't have enough time to like finish.
• 1:34:39
  So I don't know.
• 1:34:40
  I didn't watch.
• 1:34:41
  I fast forwarded basically to the final episode.
• 1:34:43
  And then I was like, what the F just happened?
• 1:34:46
  Oh, the Good Samaritan episode.
• 1:34:48
  Yeah.
• 1:34:48
  The final episode, what happened is exactly what happened
• 1:34:51
  throughout the entire show.
• 1:34:52
  Nothing.
• 1:34:53
  Absolutely fucking nothing happened.
• 1:34:55
  They are right back where they started.
• 1:34:57
  Pretty much.
• 1:34:57
  By the way, it's on Netflix right now.
• 1:34:59
  Yes, it is back on Netflix.
• 1:35:01
  I was like, oh, I could go catch up the season or whatever I miss.
• 1:35:04
  I'm like, no, I'm good.
• 1:35:06
  Do you watch Seinfeld for the jokes?
• 1:35:08
  But the jokes that other people know like the inside jokes not for the
• 1:35:11
  because it's really funny or anything.
• 1:35:13
  Yeah, sure Normally at this part of the episode we would be going
• 1:35:18
  down south to talk about alligators
• 1:35:36
  But I think we need to talk about stale baguettes and brie well I put
• 1:35:39
  this one in just for you, oh Did you so this guy did started this
• 1:35:44
  already like several years ago.
• 1:35:46
  He's a carpenter.
• 1:35:47
  He's a cabinet maker.
• 1:35:49
  Oh, and he built a two CV out of wood.
• 1:35:54
  No, is this like that other guy that and it runs Ferraris.
• 1:35:58
  It runs because he put the motor from another to CV in it.
• 1:36:03
  And he sold it for 224, 000.
• 1:36:07
  How slow is it?
• 1:36:08
  It's gotta way more than the real thing.
• 1:36:10
  It gets up to 50 miles an hour.
• 1:36:12
  Isn't that what the real one does?
• 1:36:14
  Off a cliff like those cars in Alaska that they've been throwing off the
• 1:36:18
  side of the mountain every year.
• 1:36:20
  No way it gets to 50.
• 1:36:21
  Allegedly.
• 1:36:22
  Honestly, this is how the original 2CV should have been built.
• 1:36:26
  It should have been wood.
• 1:36:27
  Well, it would have been biodegradable that way.
• 1:36:29
  The termites would have gotten to it.
• 1:36:30
  It would have been amazing.
• 1:36:32
  I don't know.
• 1:36:32
  It alleges capable of hitting 50.
• 1:36:35
  Now you can read into capable.
• 1:36:36
  Lies.
• 1:36:37
  Lies.
• 1:36:38
  But he's a very young looking 74 year old.
• 1:36:40
  I will give him that.
• 1:36:41
  Listen to this.
• 1:36:44
  He looks like Charles Manson.
• 1:36:45
  What are you talking about?
• 1:36:47
  He whittled it from one piece of wood.
• 1:36:49
  Yeah, he was in jail.
• 1:36:51
  You know, he whittled it out of.
• 1:36:52
  The main body is made from apple and pear fruit trees.
• 1:36:57
  The front and back are walnut.
• 1:36:59
  The base for the doors and trunk are cherry wood.
• 1:37:02
  Wow.
• 1:37:03
  That is an expensive vehicle.
• 1:37:05
  Does it run on moths?
• 1:37:06
  It took him 5, 000 hours and over five years to build.
• 1:37:11
  Who's going to do the math?
• 1:37:12
  5, 000 hours divided by 250, 000?
• 1:37:15
  224, 000.
• 1:37:16
  224.
• 1:37:18
  What does that come out to?
• 1:37:19
  44 an hour.
• 1:37:20
  44 an hour.
• 1:37:23
  Well, 224, 000 divided by 5, 000.
• 1:37:26
  Yeah.
• 1:37:26
  That does not seem hardly worth it.
• 1:37:29
  I feel like that's not very profitable for the amount of time he put into it.
• 1:37:35
  He would have spent less time just restoring a 2CV.
• 1:37:38
  It was a labor of love, I guess, of passion.
• 1:37:41
  He was putting his carpentry skills to use.
• 1:37:44
  I'm not going to begin to try and understand.
• 1:37:45
  So the bigger question is, how many times did he piss in the corner of his garage?
• 1:37:49
  Probably many, cause...
• 1:37:51
  He used it to soften the wood.
• 1:37:56
  It's seasoned.
• 1:37:57
  Why does my car smell like piss?
• 1:37:59
  Because it's French.
• 1:38:01
  Apparently, this is a thing in France.
• 1:38:03
  And I was warned about this, that guys will just randomly
• 1:38:06
  pee while they're on the street.
• 1:38:08
  I didn't believe it until I saw it myself.
• 1:38:11
  And then you sort of like started to ignore it.
• 1:38:13
  You became desensitized to it.
• 1:38:15
  Except for this personal French man story that I have to share with you guys.
• 1:38:19
  I'm walking down the road with Ty.
• 1:38:21
  We're coming back.
• 1:38:22
  from David's campsite.
• 1:38:23
  So imagine we have a 45 minute walk ahead of us.
• 1:38:25
  We're going down, minding our own business, dimly
• 1:38:28
  lit sidewalks and whatever.
• 1:38:29
  And these two fine French gentlemen decide that they're going to hide
• 1:38:34
  themselves by standing next to the only light pole on the street, facing away
• 1:38:39
  from each other because they didn't want to see each other peeing, but facing
• 1:38:42
  the people that were walking on the sidewalk as they urinated in public.
• 1:38:47
  And it's like, Are you serious?
• 1:38:51
  I mean, I understand that there aren't very many port a johnies and stuff.
• 1:38:55
  They were lacking in a lot of things.
• 1:38:57
  Trash cans and other things around there, but I'm just like...
• 1:39:02
  This is unreal.
• 1:39:02
  And the worst part is there's the streetlight right there.
• 1:39:05
  They're obviously inebriated, but there was a fence, like, I don't know, 12 feet
• 1:39:11
  to the side of where they were standing.
• 1:39:13
  They could have gone to the fence, but nope, we're going to hide ourselves
• 1:39:16
  because nobody can see us if we stand.
• 1:39:19
  By the label.
• 1:39:20
  Wow.
• 1:39:20
  And then in the article here, or in the little snippet, it says public
• 1:39:23
  urination is a problem in most big cities.
• 1:39:26
  That's why I will never live in a big city.
• 1:39:28
  So I didn't actually post that as a Florida man type subject.
• 1:39:32
  It's actually like an investigative news reporting on why this
• 1:39:37
  is so prevalent in France.
• 1:39:39
  It's for real.
• 1:39:40
  So is she telling you and they show you everywhere where there's
• 1:39:43
  just urine running down a sidewalk and they're interviewing people.
• 1:39:47
  They're like so disgusting and they're talking about how they've been trying
• 1:39:51
  to like fix this situation that's been going on since like 18 something.
• 1:39:58
  I don't think it's gonna change.
• 1:40:00
  Nope.
• 1:40:00
  We do have a Florida man story though, don't we?
• 1:40:03
  Well, this is just a kind of a cute one.
• 1:40:05
  This Polk County man called Sheriff's office to report a crime because he
• 1:40:11
  goes out to his black Jeep Cherokee that's covered in all this white paint.
• 1:40:16
  Side of the door is covered in all this white paint.
• 1:40:18
  So Sheriff comes out to investigate.
• 1:40:20
  And it was bird poop.
• 1:40:25
  But I will say from the photo that the bird must have like downward
• 1:40:29
  dogged at the side of the car because the spray is quite extensive.
• 1:40:37
  Was it a pterodactyl?
• 1:40:40
  I don't know, in Florida, maybe it was like some sort of heron.
• 1:40:43
  I don't know.
• 1:40:43
  Albatross.
• 1:40:44
  I mean, that is a lot of bird poop.
• 1:40:48
  Oh, there's a swarm of them and they all, maybe it was like a goose or a swan.
• 1:40:52
  No, goose, they had that little green poop.
• 1:40:55
  This one had diarrhea.
• 1:40:57
  It was an emu.
• 1:41:00
  And bird poop is terrible for your paint.
• 1:41:02
  Can you imagine?
• 1:41:03
  Then you have this big stain on the side of your car that won't come out.
• 1:41:07
  Uh, I'm gonna wash my car next time it rains.
• 1:41:10
  Obviously, wasn't there one minute, and then it was there the next for
• 1:41:13
  him to call the police, right, so.
• 1:41:16
  Jellicoe says, the culprit was Avion.
• 1:41:18
  I've been vandalized!
• 1:41:20
  By an eagle!
• 1:41:22
  She enticed me.
• 1:41:24
  Uh, the substance was what birds tend to do.
• 1:41:27
  Or do.
• 1:41:28
  Ah!
• 1:41:29
  Ah!
• 1:41:29
  Ah!
• 1:41:29
  Get it?
• 1:41:29
  That's a bad dad joke.
• 1:41:32
  But you know what?
• 1:41:33
  We've had Canadians in our Florida Man stories before.
• 1:41:36
  We don't have any this time, and that's fine.
• 1:41:38
  I looked.
• 1:41:38
  I tried.
• 1:41:39
  I couldn't find.
• 1:41:40
  I tried to find better content, but actually, it was very disturbing,
• 1:41:44
  the content that was coming up.
• 1:41:45
  There was a lot of road rage going on and other very negative things, so there
• 1:41:50
  wasn't anything good, unfortunately.
• 1:41:52
  But you know what we've never seen in a Florida Man segment?
• 1:41:55
  We never see Danish man.
• 1:41:58
  It doesn't happen.
• 1:41:58
  Denmark.
• 1:41:59
  Because I think the search would have to be Danish man bicycling or something.
• 1:42:04
  So many bicycles.
• 1:42:05
  So many bicycles.
• 1:42:06
  Unbelievable amount.
• 1:42:07
  More than Holland, I think.
• 1:42:08
  Whoo!
• 1:42:09
  Well, with that, it's time we go behind the good wall and since we talked
• 1:42:15
  a lot about Le Mans, what about the Canadian Grand Prix, which finished
• 1:42:20
  right before we went to Montreal?
• 1:42:22
  What's happening in Formula One land?
• 1:42:25
  Max Verstappen is winning.
• 1:42:27
  You know, it's getting so old.
• 1:42:29
  Like, now he's started this thing, like, I feel like after every race,
• 1:42:33
  when they post interview him, Cool Tard down there interviewing him.
• 1:42:37
  And it's like, this was a really tough race, it was like the
• 1:42:40
  last race that they just did.
• 1:42:41
  Where you won by like, how many seconds?
• 1:42:44
  Silverstone, and it was just like, this was a really tough one for us, you know,
• 1:42:47
  it was really hard, we're gonna have to go back and, and understand what happened.
• 1:42:51
  I'm like, you jackass, you didn't lead for five laps, wow, that was really tough.
• 1:42:57
  What happened is you Fucked up the start.
• 1:42:59
  That's what exactly you slipped on the start and he got ahead of you.
• 1:43:03
  And then it took you five laps until DRS opened or whatever.
• 1:43:06
  And then you got around him and then you weren't 45 seconds ahead of everybody.
• 1:43:10
  Whoa, is you get out of here?
• 1:43:14
  I think the big news.
• 1:43:16
  And Formula One right now is Honey Badger's back!
• 1:43:22
  Oh no!
• 1:43:23
  Honey Badger's back!
• 1:43:25
  The smile, the smilest man on the grid is back in a Formula One car.
• 1:43:30
  You're heartthrob, Danny Rick.
• 1:43:32
  Oh, my man crush, Danny Rick.
• 1:43:34
  It's hard to decide between Danny Rick and Toto Wolf.
• 1:43:40
  That's a hard decision to make.
• 1:43:42
  It's a stale baguette decision, but yes, Danny Rick is back in AlphaTauri
• 1:43:47
  cause they got rid of Nick DeVries, DeVry, DeSmallFry, DeNotDrivingF1 again.
• 1:43:56
  Denied, Nick, Nick Denied is what it is.
• 1:43:58
  Nick Denied.
• 1:44:00
  Which is like, I don't know, I guess, sure.
• 1:44:02
  But at the same time, it's like been like two races, but okay.
• 1:44:06
  Can I just say that I was seriously thinking it was going to be.
• 1:44:11
  Sergio and not Nick DeVry.
• 1:44:14
  I thought Danny was going to take Sergio's seat.
• 1:44:16
  Especially the way he's been performing the last couple
• 1:44:18
  weeks, or the last couple races.
• 1:44:19
  There's still time, right?
• 1:44:20
  Because isn't his contract up for renewal still?
• 1:44:23
  Like, he's not locked in for future years, I don't think.
• 1:44:27
  I know.
• 1:44:27
  Or did they finally do that?
• 1:44:29
  Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if this is a way to try and kind of
• 1:44:32
  snap Sergio out of his funk, too.
• 1:44:35
  You know, sitting there with a former race winning driver waiting to take your seat
• 1:44:42
  has got to put a lot of pressure on you.
• 1:44:44
  Like, now that Dan Enrich has a seat, I would think it would free up Sergio to
• 1:44:48
  kind of, to take some pressure off of him.
• 1:44:50
  I mean, he's still got to go out there and perform.
• 1:44:52
  But it's like having, you know, a starting quarterback or a starting
• 1:44:56
  pitcher or something, and you've got an all star starting pitcher
• 1:44:59
  sitting on the bench behind you.
• 1:45:00
  It puts a lot of undue pressure on you.
• 1:45:02
  I think Sergio comes out and starts driving better for his sake, I hope,
• 1:45:06
  but I'm happy to see Danny Rick back.
• 1:45:08
  I'm happy for you.
• 1:45:10
  Unlike Formula One, there's a bunch of WRC news that we're
• 1:45:12
  not going to cover this month.
• 1:45:14
  I'm going to talk about it next time.
• 1:45:15
  And there's some drama with Terry Neuville, so I'm
• 1:45:18
  gonna leave you in suspense.
• 1:45:19
  I don't think anybody cares.
• 1:45:21
  Oh, but Tanya has some NASCAR news.
• 1:45:25
  Well, I didn't watch it, but the street race in Chicago did happen.
• 1:45:29
  NASCARs do street races now?
• 1:45:30
  Yes.
• 1:45:31
  Is it like RC cars that just put a body on top of the Indy car and we're
• 1:45:35
  gonna make pretend it's a NASCAR?
• 1:45:36
  No, it's like the garage 56 car.
• 1:45:38
  Well, then maybe it's possible.
• 1:45:40
  I, I, you know, we got to stop poking fun.
• 1:45:42
  These NASCARs have come a long way since the days of the Conestoga wagon
• 1:45:46
  suspension that they were based on.
• 1:45:47
  It was over the 4th of July weekends.
• 1:45:50
  Nobody watched it.
• 1:45:51
  Was.
• 1:45:52
  Did not happen.
• 1:45:52
  So, but however it did happen and I don't know any of the people in nascar.
• 1:45:57
  So the person who won means nothing to me.
• 1:45:59
  But I believe it was like, this guy's a New Zealander who won Shane Van Bergen.
• 1:46:04
  That does not sound like a NASCAR name.
• 1:46:06
  Wow.
• 1:46:06
  He was brought in just for the street race.
• 1:46:08
  I was gonna say . Anybody who, a non-American sounding
• 1:46:12
  name for the street race.
• 1:46:13
  Right?
• 1:46:14
  Yeah.
• 1:46:14
  We'll get some guys from touring car.
• 1:46:16
  Come over here.
• 1:46:17
  We're going to try to keep it light, but I want to remind people that our
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• 1:46:53
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• 1:46:55
  Arkett Singer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Motorsports Dinner.
• 1:46:59
  On September the 16th, they're doing a center conversation titled
• 1:47:02
  Brumos, an American racing icon with author Sean Cridland at 1 p.
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  m.
• 1:47:07
  On September 30th, they're holding the 25th anniversary party for the IMRRC.
• 1:47:11
  More details on that are still to come.
• 1:47:13
  November the 2nd.
• 1:47:14
  International Real Wheel Film Festival celebrating historical
• 1:47:19
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• 1:47:21
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• 1:47:22
  which is on the eve of the Argett Singer Symposium on International Motor Racing
• 1:47:27
  History on November the 3rd and the 4th.
• 1:47:29
  And we will be there.
• 1:47:30
  For those November events at the Glen.
• 1:47:32
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• 1:47:33
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• 1:48:02
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• 1:48:07
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• 1:48:11
  On August 5th and 6th, the SCCA WDCR Western Maryland Chapter is
• 1:48:16
  hosting the Polish Mountain Hill Climb in Flintstone, Maryland.
• 1:48:19
  On August 17th through August 19th, the MECA Monterey Auction, which I believe
• 1:48:26
  Eric is going to be out in Monterey, California for Car Week out there.
• 1:48:30
  This is held at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey Hotel and Spa.
• 1:48:34
  I am confirmed to be at this event.
• 1:48:36
  So I will see people there if they're there for car week.
• 1:48:39
  There you go.
• 1:48:40
  Two events that I want to highlight just because I like these types of cars.
• 1:48:44
  Both of them are August 19th.
• 1:48:45
  The first one is the Rev Up for Rotary event at Adventure
• 1:48:48
  Park in Monrovia, Maryland.
• 1:48:51
  And then the VW Meet at Mason Dixon Dragway in Boonesboro, Maryland.
• 1:48:55
  August 24th, the Audi Club North America Northeast region is hosting a summer
• 1:49:01
  concert social event at the Train Concert at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts.
• 1:49:06
  And August 26th, the Maryland Auto Detailing Car, Truck, Jeep, and
• 1:49:11
  Motorcycle Show, that looks like it's an all inclusive show, at the Mount
• 1:49:15
  Pleasant Ruritan Club to support St.
• 1:49:17
  Jude's Children's Hospital.
• 1:49:19
  And August 28th through August 30th, Ferrari Club of America is having
• 1:49:23
  their annual meet in Bend, Oregon.
• 1:49:25
  And tons more events like these and all their details are available
• 1:49:30
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• 1:50:11
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• 1:50:14
  on the late summer fall schedule.
• 1:50:16
  September 1st through the 4th, they're at Lime Rock for the Historic Festival.
• 1:50:20
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• 1:50:28
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  Be sure to check out some of those VRG events if you're interested in
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  Just to name a few of the events we're going to be at.
• 1:51:09
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• 1:51:24
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• 1:51:30
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  I've had all day thinking about this episode.
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  Like it's got to be like the Backstreet Boys.
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  Be like, break, fix this back.
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  All right.
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  Exactly how that goes.
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