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Thunder Road Late Model driver Taylor Hoar · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: Nice to have you with us. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for tuning in this morning. The daughter of eight time
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Speaker 1: American Canadian Tour Champion Brian Whore is with us thunder
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Speaker 1: Road late Model driver and second generation driver Taylor Horror.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. I am so thrilled that you are here.
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Speaker 1: This is so cool.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Wow, you just drove how far to get here now?
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Speaker 2: An hour?
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Speaker 1: About an hour? Thank you for doing that. There's so
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Speaker 1: many people that are thrilled that you're with me here
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Speaker 1: this morning. You started racing just a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: You're how old are you? Twenty two?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And you started racing at thunder Road in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Are you okay?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of a lot of young
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Speaker 1: women your age who are not doing this. This is
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Speaker 1: a this is primarily a male dominated sport. I think
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Speaker 1: you got the memo on that though.
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Speaker 2: You know this, Yes, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: Wow, look at what you've done already. The recipient of
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Speaker 1: the Ed Carroll Memorial Scolar or Sportsmanship Award and the
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Speaker 1: first Vermont resident to be selected as a finalist in
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Speaker 1: the Cooliki Driver Development Program. What is that all about?
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Speaker 1: I've thought I read up on this a little bit
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Speaker 1: last night. This is really like a this is serious.
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Speaker 1: This is a prestigious accomplishment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's very cool. You know, drivers from all
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Speaker 3: over the country and even Canada have applied to it,
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Speaker 3: and uh, to know that I made it with all
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Speaker 3: the drivers with really great stats and everything. Was very
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Speaker 3: cool just because you know, my stats aren't where I'd
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Speaker 3: like them to be, but to know that, you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe my social media and my work in the community
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Speaker 3: kind of got me there. So very cool and very
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Speaker 3: prestigious and such an honor really, and you're going to.
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Speaker 1: Try to get the Kolviiki Cup.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yep, that's.
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Speaker 1: The main thing. So what is the I mean, like,
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Speaker 1: what is it? I mean, what is it? You're you're
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Speaker 1: you're going to be put to the test.
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Speaker 3: Wh So it's kind of a weird point system that
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Speaker 3: we haven't really learned about because they changed it for
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Speaker 3: this year. But you're trying to raise money for community,
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Speaker 3: the people in your community or local charities. But it's
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Speaker 3: also about your on track performance. But it's not necessarily
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Speaker 3: about winning.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: They just want to help us. So they want to
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Speaker 3: help us learn how to be the best drivers. And
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Speaker 3: you know, I know we're going to be talking about
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Speaker 3: nutrition and how exercise helps in you know, pr and
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Speaker 3: social media. So they're going to kind of help us
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Speaker 3: in a whole all around way as us drivers. So
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Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see how that can help me
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Speaker 3: grow and learn.
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Speaker 1: I'm just looking here and again I was reading this
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Speaker 1: last night. Created in twenty fourteen by Alan Kovici's family
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Speaker 1: to perpetuate the NASCAR Hall of Fame member and nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety two NASCAR Cup champions legacy, the program has had
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Speaker 1: forty six drivers from seventeen states, and like you just said,
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Speaker 1: two Canadian provinces compete in the North American initiative. It
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Speaker 1: is awarded just under a million dollars so far. That's huge. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: in nine classes have competed in fourteen hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: eight races, produced two hundred and thirty victories, seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and nineteen top five, just over one thousand top ten finishes.
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Speaker 1: Time at Jeski twenty twenty four NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion.
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Speaker 1: He was the inaugural winner of this.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been some really great drivers that have come
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Speaker 3: from this program or been in the program. So it's
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Speaker 3: really cool to see my name kind of alongside those drivers.
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Speaker 1: How did you get that? What did you have to do?
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Speaker 3: So there's a pretty good application that you have to
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Speaker 3: fill out and I had done it last year and
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Speaker 3: they choose semi finalists, so I believe last year was
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Speaker 3: seventeen semi finalists and then they had seven finalists last year,
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Speaker 3: but this year they did thirteen semi finalists and five finalists.
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Speaker 3: So it's an application process and then if you make
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Speaker 3: it to the semi finalist, you have to do a
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Speaker 3: few interviews with their board and it's quite a stressful process.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I was very exciting and rewarding to get
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Speaker 3: the call that I made it.
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Speaker 1: In So throughout the season, five finalists going to compete
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Speaker 1: each other for the thirty k in monies, Yeah, goods
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Speaker 1: and more. Yeah, Yeah, are you nervous about that?
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Speaker 3: I mean yes and no. I think that where I'm
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Speaker 3: at now, no matter where I finish in the program,
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Speaker 3: it's just going to be such an experience and such
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Speaker 3: a great experience to be a part of, and going
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Speaker 3: to take what I can learn from it. You know,
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Speaker 3: there's more than just your driving stats that go into
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Speaker 3: the points system, which we're actually going to learn more
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Speaker 3: about tonight. So I'm excited to see where we.
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Speaker 2: Can lay up.
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Speaker 3: But I think, no matter what, just going to take
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Speaker 3: what I can from it, and super thankful that I
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Speaker 3: got to be a part of the fists.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's what you've got to compete in a
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Speaker 1: minimum of like fourteen I think thirteen or fourteen races, right, yep.
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Speaker 3: So that was pretty easy for us to check off
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Speaker 3: because I believe thunder Roads points counting races are seventeen
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Speaker 3: or eighteen races. So we've got that covered at just
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Speaker 3: thunder Road alone.
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Speaker 1: Damn late model debut in twenty twenty four. Yeah, last season, yep,
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Speaker 1: And I see that you're spiling because you kicked ass.
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Speaker 1: You did very well. Twenty two races, five top five, ten,
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Speaker 1: top ten. Yeah, it's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like for a twenty two
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Speaker 3: year old, I mean it definitely we have plenty of
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Speaker 3: downs and plenty of ups. I don't honestly know if
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Speaker 3: those stats are one hundred percent right, and I could
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Speaker 3: be so wrong because I feel like I had a
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Speaker 3: lot of downs, but I think that just comes with
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Speaker 3: your rookie season. But we'd obviously had plenty of highs
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Speaker 3: and like little winds were big wins for us, So
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Speaker 3: that was very exciting to, you know, try and take
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Speaker 3: the most out of little things. But sure, you know,
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Speaker 3: I would have liked to have done better, but I'm
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Speaker 3: just I'm probably my worst critic, so yeah, I also
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Speaker 3: have to remember, I'm learning it was a rookie and
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Speaker 3: made a big jump and it wasn't going to be easy,
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Speaker 3: and that is very correct.
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Speaker 2: It was not easy.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's a high. Last year. You were the first
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Speaker 1: female to record a podium finish at thunder Road in
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Speaker 1: more than a decade. Yeah, I would say, that's where's
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Speaker 1: my belt? That's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that was very exciting for our team and for
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Speaker 2: myself for sure.
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Speaker 1: Uh the Milk Bowl, you qualified without the use of
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Speaker 1: a provisional twelve of the Milk Bowl out of forty eight. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what are you saying about that?
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Speaker 2: Now? That was really cool.
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Speaker 3: You know, we had had a lot of mechanical issues
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Speaker 3: going on with the car, so we weren't really sure
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Speaker 3: where we were gonna line up too, so to come
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Speaker 3: out and do really well. I tried first attempt, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and I've never time tried before and I actually pulled
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Speaker 3: the second pill so her chip. So I was the
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Speaker 3: second person out on person out on the track after
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Speaker 3: Stephen Donahues. So it was very stressful. Didn't really get
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Speaker 3: time to think about it, but I think that was
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Speaker 3: good for me. Mentally to just kind of have to
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Speaker 3: go out there and do the best I can. But
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Speaker 3: it was fun. I ended up time trying faster than
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Speaker 3: my brother, but slower than my dad, So it would
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Speaker 3: have been fun to time trial faster than both of them.
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Speaker 3: But it was still a fun experience and we made
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Speaker 3: the best of it.
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that dad, Brian Hohorer, was foaming at the
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Speaker 1: mouth on the other side of the fence.
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing yes.
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Speaker 3: I was excited to meet him when he came into
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Speaker 3: the in field, so it was fun.
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Speaker 2: I was hoping that I could get him.
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Speaker 3: I think he was just a teeny bit faster than me,
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Speaker 3: so but it was fun because you know, he's time
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Speaker 3: tried many times, so you know he's got that above me.
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Speaker 1: What is what is your dad saying that about the
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Speaker 1: fact that you're the first female and over a deck
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Speaker 1: kate to qualify for the Milk Bowl and grab the
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Speaker 1: podium at Tea Road. Yes, got to be on top
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Speaker 1: of the moon, man.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think so. And he's very proud of me,
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Speaker 3: which is is nice. And you know, I feel like
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Speaker 3: when I can make him proud, which he's often very
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Speaker 3: proud of me, it means a lot, just because he
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Speaker 3: obviously accomplished so much in racing. I try to not,
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Speaker 3: you know, make such a huge deal of like the
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Speaker 3: third place and the qualifying just because you know, obviously
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Speaker 3: so many guys have done that. But he wants to
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Speaker 3: make sure I know that it was cool, and so
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Speaker 3: he doesn't let me downplay it, which is a very
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Speaker 3: supportive dad role.
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Speaker 1: That is so amazing. Tell me you were just you
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Speaker 1: were just on the air with Dave Moody, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just just recently.
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Speaker 2: Yes, for the Kola key driver development.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and I've got a quote here from Dave. Dave
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Speaker 1: wasn't able to join us this morning, however.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: The first woman to earn the title of King of
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Speaker 1: the Road, Tracy bell Rose, tell me about Tell me
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Speaker 1: what Tracy. You look up to her, by the way,
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Speaker 1: that was twenty five years ago.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I look up to Tracy, and I feel like
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Speaker 3: she was such a trailblazer, especially at the time because
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Speaker 3: you know, we don't see too many females in the
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Speaker 3: sport now, but twenty five years ago, you definitely didn't
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Speaker 3: see any females or woman in the sport. So it
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Speaker 3: was really cool that she was able to be so
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Speaker 3: successful and capture the King Queen of the Road honors.
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Speaker 3: So it's really cool. And she's been in my corner,
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Speaker 3: so it's been very nice to have her there. And
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Speaker 3: she'll always say, you know, reach out if you ever
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Speaker 3: need advice. And you know, one of the first things
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Speaker 3: she said is she's like, don't let those guys push
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Speaker 3: you around. So I take that to heart, and you
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Speaker 3: know know that she was able to do well with
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Speaker 3: that advice, and so I definitely love having her in
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Speaker 3: my corner and wish I could have been there to.
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Speaker 2: See her race.
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Speaker 1: Tracy, do you have any advice for Taylor?
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Speaker 4: Oh, but I love tell her right now she's gonna
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Speaker 4: relax a little bit.
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Speaker 2: She's looks a little too uptight. You tricked me.
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Speaker 4: First of all, congratulations Tyler on the quirky development program.
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Speaker 4: That is awesome. Top five. That's something I wish was
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Speaker 4: around when I was racing. Yes, that's phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: So much you Tracy, you remained the only female track
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Speaker 1: champion yeap.
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Speaker 2: For now?
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Speaker 1: For now? Do you think that that Taylor's in contention
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Speaker 1: of of of maybe getting this The.
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Speaker 4: Biggest thing that I see with Taylor versus My career
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Speaker 4: is Taylor her rookie year. She's got a phenomenal team
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Speaker 4: built around her. She's got phenomenal family sponsors. When I
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Speaker 4: was a rookie starting off in the late Models, I
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Speaker 4: was my own team, my family, my father, We didn't
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Speaker 4: really have the chassis people that she's got. Right now,
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Speaker 4: I see Taylor doing matching me or doing a lot
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Speaker 4: better than me.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Any any other advice for Taylor.
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Speaker 4: She knows what I told her before this, This Alan
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Speaker 4: Quickie development program is awesome, but she's gonna put that
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Speaker 4: on the back burner. She's gonna worry about thunder Road itself,
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Speaker 4: her development. This is our second year. She knows what
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Speaker 4: she's done wrong, she knows what she's done right. She's
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Speaker 4: gonna capitalize on the good points and everything that went
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Speaker 4: wrong last year. She just gotta slip out under the run,
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Speaker 4: just start the year all over. I see big, big
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Speaker 4: things from her this year. I mean I've I've watched
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Speaker 4: a lot on Facebook, I've watched a lot on the podcast.
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Speaker 4: I just see Taylor having a breakout year this year.
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Speaker 4: And I'm I'm gonna try to make some races this
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Speaker 4: year to watch her live. But I just I really
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Speaker 4: really feel if there's any female female out there, of
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Speaker 4: course it's gonna be Brian Horst. Taylor is gonna go far.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tracy. I remember like it was yesterday when
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Speaker 1: I was working at WDEV and I was running the
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Speaker 1: controls for Dave Moody on that Thursday night race for
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Speaker 1: the famous Tracy Belrose shot out of the cannon cannon.
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Speaker 4: And had to bring it up.
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Speaker 1: And you ended up in the parking lot. What the
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Speaker 1: hell happened? What was that? I just remember sitting there
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Speaker 1: in the studio listening to Dave Moody calling that race,
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Speaker 1: and just I was stunned. Stunt well, believe it or not.
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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty three, we had two thousand and three, Actually,
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Speaker 4: who I'm really aging myself. We were actually having a
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Speaker 4: better year than what we had in two thousand. We
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Speaker 4: had a chance for another championship and that was a
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Speaker 4: points heat race I was going up against. It was
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Speaker 4: Phil Scott and Jammie fish Share and Jamie Fisher was
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Speaker 4: behind me and I was not gonna let him go
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Speaker 4: by me.
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Speaker 2: The car in front of me, I was.
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Speaker 4: I was patiently waiting for them to get by him
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Speaker 4: and I when I went to go around him on
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Speaker 4: the outside. Joey Becker ended up breaking something in his
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Speaker 4: right front tire was a link or something, and his
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Speaker 4: tires just shot at just shot right, and it acted
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Speaker 4: like a ramp, and when I hit him, it.
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Speaker 2: Just as all.
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Speaker 4: I remember, shut my eyes and hoping for the best.
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Speaker 1: It's it's a miracle that you got out of that
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Speaker 1: car and that you were okay. I mean everyone I
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Speaker 1: remember being in me.
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Speaker 4: What I didn't know was the parking lot upside down,
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Speaker 4: and I was just pulling myself up because I knew
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Speaker 4: better to undo my buckles because I was going to
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Speaker 4: land on my head, and I could just see feet
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Speaker 4: running around my car and just nobody was helping me.
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Speaker 4: I didn't realize I was fans that had come out
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Speaker 4: of the grand stands, and I could hear nobody dared
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Speaker 4: to look under because I thought I was dead. And
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Speaker 4: finally the EMTs got there and they crawled under, and
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Speaker 4: the first thing out of my mouth is about freaking time.
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Speaker 2: My blood is rushing to my head.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, they unbuffled me, and when I get out, I
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Speaker 4: looked around. I looked at the lady that was on
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Speaker 4: the EMT, and I said, where the hell am I?
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Speaker 4: She says, You're in the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: Unreal.
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Speaker 4: The next thing I said is, oh my god, somebody
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Speaker 4: find my mother.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and and let her know that I'm all right,
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Speaker 1: h exactly. I you know, you are such a still
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Speaker 1: a fan favorite, and we're looking forward to you, uh
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Speaker 1: skipping over the other side of the Connecticut River and
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Speaker 1: coming to to some of these races and act Racis
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Speaker 1: that that Taylor is going to be sharing the track with.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is really something this this season. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be amazing.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I definitely plan on going to opening Day
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Speaker 4: the Sunday. I plan on going to that for sure,
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Speaker 4: and then you go from there. But I'm definitely gonna
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Speaker 4: go support her and and hopefully watch her get some
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Speaker 4: good finishes this summer.
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Speaker 1: Tracy, thank you so much for coming on with us
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Speaker 1: this morning.
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Speaker 2: Oh my pleasure. Yes, thank you for all those kinds. Welcome,
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Speaker 2: good luck, get out. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: She said something what a great lady.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, an icon absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And she's she's I mean, there was something in that
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Speaker 1: woman's eye that you could see. You could see it,
18:52
Speaker 1: and I've seen some video of you driving. You've got
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Speaker 1: that that crazy look in your eye too, just like
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Speaker 1: you're you're you're you're you're, You're kind of relaxed, You're
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Speaker 1: you're kind of fun, you have you have a great personality,
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Speaker 1: thank you. But when you get buckled in, you you
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Speaker 1: know what's what's coming, and you know, you know who
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Speaker 1: who you're going to be sharing that track with, which
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Speaker 1: is a lot of a lot of men who really
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Speaker 1: don't really give a ship that there's another woman out
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Speaker 1: there on the track. They want to win.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not going to race you any differently, No, and.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't want them to, you know, I like what
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Speaker 3: you said. I try to be a very bubbly person
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Speaker 3: outside of the race car, and you'll probably hear me
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Speaker 3: say I'm stressed twenty times a race day. But I
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Speaker 3: absolutely love my team and you know, they keep the
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Speaker 3: spirits high. But the second I get in that race card,
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Speaker 3: my team kind of knows. It's like the second that
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Speaker 3: helmet goes on, it's like maybe one or two people
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Speaker 3: can talk to me. Otherwise it's just a quick little
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Speaker 3: good luck And you know, I'm very in the zone
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Speaker 3: and focused and trying to you know, visualize what I
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Speaker 3: need to be doing or you know, breathe through the
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Speaker 3: anxiety or the nerves or whatever it is, because you know,
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Speaker 3: I think all of us racers get butterflies still before
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Speaker 3: we go out. So but yeah, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 3: I hope that the guys wouldn't treat me any differently.
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Speaker 3: I kind of like to think that my car doesn't
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Speaker 3: know whether I'm female or male, and especially when you
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Speaker 3: put that helmet on, no one should be able to tell.
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Speaker 3: So you know, I wouldn't want them to race me
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Speaker 3: any any differently, and I don't think anyone really has,
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Speaker 3: so I'm very thankful for that.
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Speaker 1: I was chatting with Dave Moody early this morning, and like,
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Speaker 1: like we said, you were just you were just on
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Speaker 1: the air with him a short time ago. He's not
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Speaker 1: able to join us on the air by phone, but
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Speaker 1: he did send me something that I'm going to read here.
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Speaker 1: It says Taylor has always been willing to jump into
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Speaker 1: the deep end of the pool competitively, taking on the
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Speaker 1: best drivers and teams in the business. She's a quick learner,
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Speaker 1: She's going to go a long way in the sport.
20:58
Speaker 1: She's a racer from a racing family, and her resume
21:02
Speaker 1: has a lot of chapters to be written yet that's
21:05
Speaker 1: pretty cool.
21:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very cool. Definitely.
21:08
Speaker 3: You know he's seen some of the best of the best,
21:10
Speaker 3: and obviously you know he's in the NASCAR industry and
21:13
Speaker 3: really had whatever you say, deep into the motorsports world.
21:16
Speaker 3: So means a lot coming from him, because you know
21:19
Speaker 3: he's seen everything at thunder Road and been a big
21:22
Speaker 3: supporter of mine, So definitely means a lot coming from him.
21:26
Speaker 1: We have a few veteran Warrior drivers that are graduating
21:35
Speaker 1: this year into into the Streets and they're they're pretty
21:41
Speaker 1: excited about it.
21:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would be too.
21:44
Speaker 1: There's there's some some pretty cool changes that are coming.
21:47
Speaker 1: Tyler Watley, Jason Kirby I think is also wonderful. It's
21:55
Speaker 1: pretty cool.
21:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very exciting.
21:57
Speaker 3: I mean I got to experience the Warrior community firsthand
22:01
Speaker 3: with my brother Justin, and so you know, even before
22:04
Speaker 3: I started racing, that community back there is just so
22:06
Speaker 3: awesome and there's such a tight knit group and willing
22:09
Speaker 3: to help each other out. But then you know, the
22:11
Speaker 3: street Socks are the same way, and I absolutely love
22:13
Speaker 3: my time in the street Sucks And you know, I
22:15
Speaker 3: kind of like to say his little family, I'm you know,
22:17
Speaker 3: behind the Eddie Carroll Memorial Highway, and so you know,
22:21
Speaker 3: I'd be excited for them and excited to see how
22:23
Speaker 3: well they do because it's such a fun little group
22:26
Speaker 3: over there in the street socks, and I definitely miss
22:28
Speaker 3: the community that they have because you don't really find
22:30
Speaker 3: that in the late models as much.
22:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, your brother, he's also a late model driver. Yes,
22:36
Speaker 1: how's he compared to you?
22:38
Speaker 3: He's you know, he's got he's got experience on me,
22:43
Speaker 3: and you know he's raised you know, he raised tigers,
22:45
Speaker 3: so I think, you know, he's just got a little
22:48
Speaker 3: bit of experience. But he really did start racing when
22:50
Speaker 3: I did too, so we're still both learning a lot.
22:54
Speaker 3: And I think he has a lot to show for
22:56
Speaker 3: thunder Road this year. So I think it's going to
22:58
Speaker 3: be a pretty good battle between him and I a
23:00
Speaker 3: few times this year.
23:02
Speaker 1: You haven't traded paint with him yet, not yet.
23:07
Speaker 3: And he's my car chief, so you know, I think
23:10
Speaker 3: he doesn't want to do anything bad to me. Yeah,
23:16
Speaker 3: I mean, I think if it's you know, we all
23:18
Speaker 3: kind of put in on the car and put our
23:20
Speaker 3: time in together, but certainly not what we want to
23:24
Speaker 3: do to each other and put more work for each other.
23:26
Speaker 1: So last summer, you guys did something together, you and
23:30
Speaker 1: your product, justin for Camp to come to yep, tell
23:33
Speaker 1: us about it.
23:34
Speaker 3: Yes, So we got invited to bring our race cars
23:36
Speaker 3: to Camp to come to for their Red their Engines week,
23:39
Speaker 3: and it was really fun because there was a few
23:41
Speaker 3: drag racers dirt cars and I think just show cars
23:44
Speaker 3: and then are too late models. So it was really
23:46
Speaker 3: cool to meet the kids there and actually was kind
23:49
Speaker 3: of full circle because I believe for my sixth or
23:51
Speaker 3: seventh birthday, I didn't ask for presents. I asked for
23:54
Speaker 3: people to bring a donation so I could bring teddy
23:56
Speaker 3: bears to camp to come to and leave them on
23:58
Speaker 3: all their beds. So it's it's really cool to get
24:00
Speaker 3: to go back there, being well twenty one at the
24:03
Speaker 3: time or maybe twenty two depending on what month of
24:05
Speaker 3: the summer. But it was very cool and very inspiring
24:09
Speaker 3: just because you know some of these kids, you wouldn't
24:11
Speaker 3: never know what they've gone through, and just to see,
24:13
Speaker 3: you know, they don't want to be treated differently and
24:16
Speaker 3: you know how much they're persevering in their everyday life
24:19
Speaker 3: is really inspiring.
24:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, you drove away from that experience with something that's
24:26
Speaker 1: going to stick to your bones for a little while.
24:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:29
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I you know, I went there hoping to kind
24:31
Speaker 3: of be able to bring some joy and inspiration to them,
24:35
Speaker 3: but you know, they inspired me more than anything, just
24:38
Speaker 3: you know, knowing what they go through on the day
24:39
Speaker 3: to day and or what they've gone through, and knowing
24:43
Speaker 3: how much how hard that was mentally, I'm sure, and
24:46
Speaker 3: just how much you have to persevere in life and
24:48
Speaker 3: push through no matter what.
24:50
Speaker 1: How many how many cars do you have? And I
24:53
Speaker 1: want to know if if your dad, Brian, if he's
24:56
Speaker 1: turned in some wrenches for you.
24:58
Speaker 3: Yes, So we have three like models in our shop
25:00
Speaker 3: right now. One is his, one is my primary thunder
25:04
Speaker 3: Road car, and we're fortunate enough to have kind of
25:06
Speaker 3: a backup car or a car that my brother can
25:09
Speaker 3: play in, or if I want to go to another
25:12
Speaker 3: track other than thunder Road, I'll drive that car. So
25:14
Speaker 3: very fortunate in that aspect to have that amount of cars.
25:18
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, my dad, he's turning wrenches. I think
25:20
Speaker 3: that this whole jump from being a driver his whole life,
25:24
Speaker 3: and you know he did work on his cars when
25:25
Speaker 3: he was you know, big time racing but I think
25:28
Speaker 3: not in the extent that he is now so and
25:31
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, so sorry, dad, But it is
25:35
Speaker 3: fun to see him working and learning on the cars
25:37
Speaker 3: because I think we're all trying to just be able
25:39
Speaker 3: to learn, so you know, if we need to be
25:40
Speaker 3: able to do it all ourselves one day, we can.
25:44
Speaker 3: And it's also just exciting to be able to learn
25:45
Speaker 3: everything about our cars and see how everything works.
25:48
Speaker 1: Sure. So yeah, I art you say other other tracks.
25:53
Speaker 1: There are going to be other tracks other than thunder
25:56
Speaker 1: Road for you this summer. You're gonna head to SEACONK.
25:58
Speaker 1: You're going to head to Oxford Why Mountain yep.
26:01
Speaker 3: So we're definitely going to be at the two Oxford
26:03
Speaker 3: races with the American Canadian Tour, and then we're going
26:06
Speaker 3: to do two of the three Walls Platinum four Series races,
26:12
Speaker 3: I think right, I think we are realizing that my
26:16
Speaker 3: dad is out of town for that, okay, and I
26:18
Speaker 3: think he's traveling with my crew chief, so I fear
26:22
Speaker 3: I'm out of luck with that. But we're gonna try
26:25
Speaker 3: and hit other races when we can, just to expand
26:27
Speaker 3: my development as a driver. But obviously the main focus
26:30
Speaker 3: is thunder Road. And White Mountain is a really fun track,
26:33
Speaker 3: so we're excited to go there, and you know, just
26:36
Speaker 3: build the books with our race cars and obviously just
26:38
Speaker 3: keep getting seat time for myself to learn.
26:42
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Little Taylor Whore. How old were you?
26:51
Speaker 1: What what you remember being at thunder Road with your dad?
26:59
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know how young I was, but
27:01
Speaker 3: I definitely remember. I feel like I have two like
27:05
Speaker 3: core memories of when I was younger.
27:07
Speaker 1: Do you remember being in your mom's womb at the
27:10
Speaker 1: thunder Road?
27:11
Speaker 3: No, not that far back, but definitely like he was
27:15
Speaker 3: just such a dominant driver, especially when I was younger.
27:18
Speaker 3: I mean, he's pretty dominant no matter what. And so
27:21
Speaker 3: I remember just basically always watching him win. That's my
27:24
Speaker 3: memory of him. And I even remember sometimes he would
27:27
Speaker 3: win and no one likes a winner, so you know,
27:29
Speaker 3: people would boo him, and I remember just being to
27:32
Speaker 3: my mom like, why are people booing dad? Yeah? Yeah,
27:35
Speaker 3: And you know, I think that's just a real thing,
27:37
Speaker 3: especially at under Road, when you win so much people
27:39
Speaker 3: don't really love it.
27:40
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:40
Speaker 3: So but I just you know, especially when I got
27:44
Speaker 3: into the sport in the street socks, I remember just
27:46
Speaker 3: being like, you made it look way too easy. That
27:49
Speaker 3: this is a large piece of humble pie. So it's
27:54
Speaker 3: a very hard sport and he made it look easy.
27:56
Speaker 3: So big kudos to his accomplishments and racing.
27:59
Speaker 1: And you got older at some point, what happened there
28:04
Speaker 1: was a switch that went off for your like, yeah,
28:08
Speaker 1: I might want to do this.
28:10
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:10
Speaker 3: So we It wasn't even because of my dad necessarily,
28:13
Speaker 3: because we weren't really allowed to go to the race
28:15
Speaker 3: track once he had retired, or wasn't not allowed. It
28:17
Speaker 3: was just kind of a no no because obviously it
28:20
Speaker 3: was a hard decision for him to retire. So it was,
28:22
Speaker 3: you know, kind of bittersweet for him to be going
28:24
Speaker 3: back to the racetrack when I think he would still
28:26
Speaker 3: have rather been behind the wheel.
28:29
Speaker 2: But in twenty twenty, my brother justin.
28:31
Speaker 3: Hopped behind the wheel of a Warrior car and I
28:33
Speaker 3: had started going to the track with some friends and
28:35
Speaker 3: you know been like, oh, my brother's just racing. So
28:37
Speaker 3: you know, that next week I ended up going to
28:39
Speaker 3: the pits and you know, pretended to play crew chief
28:41
Speaker 3: we'll call it, and a kind of got the bug.
28:44
Speaker 3: I would, you know, drive his car to line up
28:46
Speaker 3: and had so much fun that the rest of the
28:49
Speaker 3: summer kind of spent begging for a race car and said,
28:52
Speaker 3: you know, I had just retired from gymnastics, so you know,
28:55
Speaker 3: needed something new in life and definitely found the passion
28:58
Speaker 3: and the bug for racing. And that's for sure.
29:01
Speaker 1: I wonder what's more expensive as a sport, gymnastics or
29:05
Speaker 1: stock car driving. It's close, it's close. I don't know.
29:12
Speaker 3: I think even at the highest level, I don't think
29:15
Speaker 3: you could ever compare to racing.
29:16
Speaker 1: To tell me it is so so as a young girl,
29:23
Speaker 1: you got upset because your sister was allowed places you weren't.
29:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember being mad at my dad when he
29:35
Speaker 3: retired in twenty fifteen because I was thirteen and thunder
29:38
Speaker 3: Road and a lot of racetracks.
29:40
Speaker 2: The pit age for kids to.
29:41
Speaker 3: Come in was fourteen, and my sister is twenty two
29:44
Speaker 3: months older than me, so she was able to start
29:47
Speaker 3: going in. So just like it was that sister jealousy
29:50
Speaker 3: of like, you know, pictures of her working on the car,
29:52
Speaker 3: pushing the car around, and I was like, I want
29:54
Speaker 3: to do that. And I just remember being so mad
29:57
Speaker 3: at my dad when he retired because I was like
29:59
Speaker 3: I was gonna be able to go of the.
30:00
Speaker 2: Pits finally.
30:02
Speaker 1: In a thirteen year old girl who's angry. That's that's
30:06
Speaker 1: that's not good. That's not good.
30:08
Speaker 3: I mean, I will say I look back on it now,
30:10
Speaker 3: and he retired to be with us girls. We were
30:13
Speaker 3: getting bigger in gymnastics and my sister with horses, So
30:17
Speaker 3: he obviously was making the right decision for the family.
30:19
Speaker 3: And so I look back and I'm like, I can't
30:22
Speaker 3: actually be mad at him because he was doing that
30:24
Speaker 3: for us, and that was a hard decision for him
30:26
Speaker 3: to do for us. So definitely still look back and
30:29
Speaker 3: I'm like, darn it, I didn't get to on the pits,
30:30
Speaker 3: but obviously I'm very fortunate to where things have turned
30:33
Speaker 3: out now. So were you crewing for him, No, not really,
30:39
Speaker 3: kind of maybe in the stands supporting right here. Yeah,
30:43
Speaker 3: definitely was just too young and Rick pay I had
30:46
Speaker 3: quite the operation going for him, especially with the thirty
30:49
Speaker 3: seven crew, and I definitely don't remember the forty five
30:53
Speaker 3: crew that.
30:53
Speaker 2: Well just because I was so young.
30:55
Speaker 3: But I definitely have fun when he races now, getting to,
30:59
Speaker 3: you know, help for him and be there to support him.
31:01
Speaker 3: And I even got a chance to spot for him.
31:03
Speaker 3: So it's really exciting to be able to do that now.
31:06
Speaker 1: Stacey just sent a text here, sayan, I remember when
31:11
Speaker 1: I was hauling cars. It would find him in the
31:14
Speaker 1: shop working on the number forty five and Grandpa's number
31:18
Speaker 1: forty six, both Lopars.
31:20
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so actually a third generation race car driver
31:24
Speaker 3: with my grandfather Doug. So very cool.
31:27
Speaker 1: So did Dad crew for you?
31:30
Speaker 2: Yes?
31:31
Speaker 1: Still?
31:32
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep, he cruis from I mean he's always there.
31:35
Speaker 1: He's running around though, he's running around the country.
31:38
Speaker 3: Yes, he travels for work and pleasure a lot, but
31:42
Speaker 3: you know, he's always there to support me. I think
31:45
Speaker 3: he's missed two races in my entire life, and I'm
31:48
Speaker 3: a wreck without him there, I'll say that. But luckily
31:52
Speaker 3: in the late Models, I now have my crew chief, Rickpea,
31:54
Speaker 3: who is kind of like another father figure to me
31:57
Speaker 3: at this point. So I now am a to be
32:00
Speaker 3: comfortable like milk bowl, you know, my dad race so
32:03
Speaker 3: I didn't get to have him in my ear, but
32:04
Speaker 3: having wreck there, I was totally fine because you know,
32:07
Speaker 3: Rick's like another dad to me, so very supportive and
32:10
Speaker 3: happy to have him there.
32:12
Speaker 1: I have met over the last couple of years since
32:16
Speaker 1: I started this podcast six years ago. A few drivers
32:23
Speaker 1: who want absolutely nothing to do with even holding a wrench.
32:30
Speaker 1: They just want to drive, that's all they know. And
32:33
Speaker 1: others who by default have to kind of learn how
32:39
Speaker 1: to adjust the car. Where where do you fall in
32:43
Speaker 1: all that?
32:44
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm very fortunate that my brother does a
32:47
Speaker 3: lot and he's been able to learn from Rick and
32:50
Speaker 3: you know, Charlie and so many brilliant people in the
32:53
Speaker 3: races are in the world of racing. And I love
32:56
Speaker 3: to work on my car. Makes me feel cool, and
32:58
Speaker 3: you know, I'd love to just be able to see
33:00
Speaker 3: how things work. And I was really involved in my
33:02
Speaker 3: street stock because it was really simple and still learning
33:05
Speaker 3: the late model, but I definitely love working on it,
33:08
Speaker 3: and especially like you know, I have my own little
33:10
Speaker 3: tasks that I do, and you know, everyone on our
33:13
Speaker 3: team kind of has their own little jobs, especially once
33:15
Speaker 3: we get to like the weekly you know, routine. But
33:19
Speaker 3: I really enjoy working on my own stuff. I think
33:21
Speaker 3: everyone probably, you know, like looking down South, dreams of
33:24
Speaker 3: being able to just show up with your bag. But
33:27
Speaker 3: I think that's not how us Northerners work. You know,
33:29
Speaker 3: we got to work on our stuff.
33:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, Well, set are there other drivers in
33:36
Speaker 1: the late model division that you might quietly be thinking
33:45
Speaker 1: about as I don't want to say a concern or
33:50
Speaker 1: a worry, but just other drivers that you might have
33:54
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind where when they're getting
33:57
Speaker 1: up close to you or you're getting up close to them,
34:00
Speaker 1: that there's some maybe some rivalry.
34:05
Speaker 3: I mean, no one I've experienced yet, And I mean
34:09
Speaker 3: I think that I look at that question and I say, Okay, Jason.
34:14
Speaker 2: Gorelis is coming. He's a great driver.
34:17
Speaker 3: He's probably gonna pass me at least where I was
34:19
Speaker 3: last year. And I think that in my mind, I
34:21
Speaker 3: looked at that and said, okay, let's learn from him,
34:24
Speaker 3: watch what he does, and really try and follow him.
34:28
Speaker 3: I don't really feel like rivalries, how do I say
34:33
Speaker 3: this nicely, are worth my time because I don't think that,
34:37
Speaker 3: you know, in the sports, stuff happens, and especially last year,
34:39
Speaker 3: you know, I made mistakes and I owned up to them,
34:41
Speaker 3: and you know, I think that just comes with racing.
34:45
Speaker 3: But I don't think that, you know, you need to
34:48
Speaker 3: dwell on things for too long, because you know, we're
34:50
Speaker 3: all there to do one thing, and it's when and
34:52
Speaker 3: I think if your head's in another space thinking about
34:54
Speaker 3: another competitor, then it's just gonna take away from how
34:57
Speaker 3: well or how bad you're driving.
34:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at some of these young drivers, Walker Fitch,
35:04
Speaker 1: Cayden Fisher, Yep.
35:07
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, No, it's really cool. You know.
35:10
Speaker 3: It's one of those things I look back and I
35:12
Speaker 3: wish that maybe I started earlier just to see where
35:14
Speaker 3: I could have gone or where I could be at
35:16
Speaker 3: this point in my life. Yeah, obviously thankful for where
35:19
Speaker 3: I am from where I started. But you know, Caiden
35:22
Speaker 3: has a great resume, and you know it was one
35:24
Speaker 3: of the kids with a great family behind him. And
35:27
Speaker 3: same with Walker. I mean, I from what I know,
35:29
Speaker 3: he doesn't necessarily come from a long line of racers,
35:32
Speaker 3: but he's a really great kid in his family. I've
35:34
Speaker 3: enjoyed watching him at White Mountain and especially thunder Road.
35:37
Speaker 3: I think he's I think he's got some success coming
35:40
Speaker 3: his way for sure.
35:41
Speaker 1: I can't wait to He's been on the air a
35:43
Speaker 1: few times here and I can't wait to happen back.
35:45
Speaker 1: He's a good kid.
35:46
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
35:48
Speaker 1: We have this sixty sixth season that's kicking off Sunday,
35:52
Speaker 1: May fourth, the twenty seventh Annual Community Bank and a
35:57
Speaker 1: one point fifty the full scale ual thunder Road vt
36:02
Speaker 1: dot com. But that car show is going to be amazing.
36:06
Speaker 1: It's from nine till noon with the open practice running
36:10
Speaker 1: until five pm. You must be so anxious to get
36:13
Speaker 1: out on that track. Yes, it it's been a long wish.
36:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
36:18
Speaker 3: So we're gonna end up actually being at Oxford the
36:20
Speaker 3: week before and I'm a little nervous thinking about that
36:25
Speaker 3: week because I have finals week that week before that
36:29
Speaker 3: opening weekend. But I'm always excited for the car show.
36:31
Speaker 3: Get to show off our car, but also meet all
36:34
Speaker 3: the fans and you know, even just get a chance
36:36
Speaker 3: to catch back up with other drivers. And it's just
36:39
Speaker 3: such a fun place to be a part of. And
36:41
Speaker 3: I'm excited to get back at thunder Road specifically.
36:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I can't. I can't imagine what you
36:50
Speaker 1: are feeling being out on the track and it's you know,
36:55
Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so curious to know what drives a driver,
37:02
Speaker 1: like what, how how far do you want to take this?
37:07
Speaker 1: What do you want? What do you what do you
37:08
Speaker 1: aspire to do? What are you dreaming about?
37:12
Speaker 3: I think I would love I mean I would love
37:14
Speaker 3: to do what Tracy's done and win a championship at
37:17
Speaker 3: thunder Road, but I think just kind of try and
37:20
Speaker 3: do what I can and see what is given and
37:23
Speaker 3: you know, or where life can take me. I'd love
37:27
Speaker 3: to run the tour one day and you know, maybe
37:29
Speaker 3: secure a championship like my dad did. But you know,
37:32
Speaker 3: the competitors at thunder Road and the American Canadian Tour
37:35
Speaker 3: are so strong and there's so many equal drivers that
37:38
Speaker 3: it's not an easy task. So I give kudos to
37:41
Speaker 3: anyone that's won championships or even one races. I would
37:44
Speaker 3: definitely love to go win some races at thunder Road
37:46
Speaker 3: and you know, just go do well and have fun.
37:49
Speaker 3: I mean, just being on the track is exciting for me.
37:52
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're going to be all over the place
37:56
Speaker 1: this season. As we said, Oxford seaknk thunder Road an a.
38:03
Speaker 3: C T driver now kind of not not necessarily just
38:09
Speaker 3: I think we're going to do a few starts with
38:11
Speaker 3: the American Canadian Tour, but again mostly a thunder Old driver.
38:16
Speaker 3: That's because that's just where our main focus.
38:18
Speaker 2: Is going to be.
38:19
Speaker 1: Damn, I'm so impressed. You have a lot of fans,
38:25
Speaker 1: have a lot of things for all of them, and
38:27
Speaker 1: you're you You've earned it, you really have. I'm glad
38:31
Speaker 1: that Becky has reminded me that the Vermont Motorsports expos
38:36
Speaker 1: is this weekend, justin Saint Louis. I mean, what a
38:40
Speaker 1: what a guy?
38:41
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, No, I'm excited to go there. We were
38:46
Speaker 3: there last year, got to do a big reveal with
38:49
Speaker 3: my car and my new sponsorship with east Rice Credit Union,
38:52
Speaker 3: and got to talk with Tracy Uh last year. So
38:55
Speaker 3: I'm excited for this year to show off the new
38:58
Speaker 3: car this year, and you know, just get a chance
39:01
Speaker 3: to reconnect with the fans and get back into the
39:03
Speaker 3: racing mode.
39:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're all ready for the most part. What
39:09
Speaker 1: needs to be done?
39:11
Speaker 3: I think we're just working on my dad's car right now.
39:14
Speaker 3: My car is pretty ready for thunder Road and just
39:16
Speaker 3: got to finish some vinyl up for this weekend, and
39:19
Speaker 3: but otherwise our focus is heading towards my dad's car
39:21
Speaker 3: and then I think the car for Oxford. So we
39:24
Speaker 3: still have some work to do, but very excited, that's
39:28
Speaker 3: for sure.
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Speaker 1: Year number two over at Champlain College. Yes, how's that going?
39:35
Speaker 2: It's quite good?
39:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what's the what's the major business. Okay, that's
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Speaker 1: that's that's pretty remarkable that you're able to to do
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Speaker 1: all of this. I understand you're twenty two, you're driven,
39:52
Speaker 1: you're motivated, you got all that, but that's still that's
39:56
Speaker 1: still a lot.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's definitely a lot.
39:59
Speaker 3: And I am not the biggest fan of school, but
40:02
Speaker 3: stay in school kids, and but you know, I think
40:07
Speaker 3: it pushes me to keep going with what I'm doing,
40:10
Speaker 3: just because you know, I think I just look forward
40:12
Speaker 3: to race season and I say, you know, because I
40:14
Speaker 3: have finals week that week before opening weekend of thunder Road.
40:17
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I just got to get through and
40:18
Speaker 3: then I'm in race mode, and you know, so I
40:22
Speaker 3: just try and get through. And I definitely like to
40:24
Speaker 3: focus on racing a little bit more, but have to
40:26
Speaker 3: remember that the real world is still very real and got.
40:29
Speaker 2: To get through my schooling. Are you working to part time?
40:32
Speaker 3: I coached gymnastics here and there, and I over the
40:36
Speaker 3: summer started working for my father. I got stage, but
40:40
Speaker 3: only could really do that on my school breaks, But
40:43
Speaker 3: excited to get back into that for this summer.
40:46
Speaker 1: What other kind of racing, if any, do you pay
40:52
Speaker 1: attention to anything with a with a carburetor.
40:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I definitely watch all the NASCAR races
40:59
Speaker 3: or pay attention to them. I've started getting in getting
41:02
Speaker 3: into F one and the Indie Next Series too, since
41:05
Speaker 3: Haley Degan has stepped into that just to kind of
41:08
Speaker 3: expand her roles, and I've been excuse me, I've been
41:13
Speaker 3: interested in watching her in the Indie Next Series because
41:15
Speaker 3: I haven't really ever been into that type of racing,
41:17
Speaker 3: so I have fun watching that, but very much racecar oriented.
41:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, you ever you ever pay any attention to to
41:26
Speaker 1: rally at all?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, A little bit here and there. I've been in
41:30
Speaker 3: connection with Connor Martel from Vermont sports Cars, so it's
41:34
Speaker 3: been fun to follow him along and he's been pretty
41:37
Speaker 3: supportive of my career, so it's been a kind of
41:41
Speaker 3: fun little circle, especially just from such a big team
41:43
Speaker 3: here in Vermont.
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Speaker 2: So oh yeah, god.
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Speaker 1: Man, that's that's so Connor something.
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Speaker 2: Yes, very good.
41:53
Speaker 1: I love that sport so much. Motorcycle really, okay, that's
42:01
Speaker 1: probably seriously very happy to hear that, you say, not really, Yes.
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Speaker 3: Well, my grandfather had always said I and I could
42:09
Speaker 3: be messing this up. He had always said, if you
42:11
Speaker 3: showed up on a motorcycle to his house that you'd
42:14
Speaker 3: be written out of the will. So it was just
42:17
Speaker 3: like a I've just not shown interest, but also just like,
42:21
Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a good reason because they can
42:23
Speaker 3: be very dangerous, but I'll stick to my role.
42:25
Speaker 2: Caage Race Wow.
42:28
Speaker 1: Wow. Let's throw some some love at some of your
42:33
Speaker 1: sponsors here. Obviously first on the list. Here is a
42:38
Speaker 1: Coviki Driver Development Program yep. Yeah, Cotton Candy Connection Yeah,
42:46
Speaker 1: Brown's River Maple Yeah, Regal Gymnastics.
42:49
Speaker 2: Where's that out of Essex Junction? Vermont?
42:52
Speaker 1: Okay? What is it? Twelve twelve twenty Auto yep? Okay?
42:59
Speaker 1: And Fix yep. Do they do your car?
43:02
Speaker 2: Yes? Yep. Brandon Tinker is awesome.
43:05
Speaker 1: The plants, plumbing and heating, gost Dodge, east Rise Credit Union.
43:11
Speaker 2: Yes ye wow Yeah.
43:13
Speaker 3: East Ries hopped on last year as my primary sponsor
43:16
Speaker 3: and has been very amazing to me and signed on
43:20
Speaker 3: for this year as well, and definitely one of the
43:23
Speaker 3: best sponsors you could ask for. They're very supportive of
43:25
Speaker 3: me and you know, had me be in all their
43:27
Speaker 3: new commercials and ads, so makes me feel pretty famous
43:31
Speaker 3: when I see myself on TV. But just very thankful
43:35
Speaker 3: for them and the opportunity they've given me.
43:38
Speaker 1: I love this time of year. I love approaching April
43:43
Speaker 1: when I'm able to chat with a few drivers before
43:48
Speaker 1: the real chaos kicks in. And I always get this
43:54
Speaker 1: time of year people that have survived the winter and
43:58
Speaker 1: love thunder road and they're like, you got to get
44:01
Speaker 1: this driver on, you got to get that driver on.
44:06
Speaker 1: But I had a lot of people saying you got
44:08
Speaker 1: to get Taylor warn on. It was a couple of
44:12
Speaker 1: years ago that you were here. Tell us about your boyfriend,
44:16
Speaker 1: because I think he was with you last time you
44:18
Speaker 1: were in the air with me.
44:19
Speaker 2: I was here with Shae Wheeler.
44:20
Speaker 3: Actually yep, yep, he and then Tanner came at a
44:24
Speaker 3: different time. He was here where they believe his sister
44:26
Speaker 3: and dad. But okay, yes, it's quite the dynamic to
44:31
Speaker 3: race against him.
44:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't we imagine.
44:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we don't race like we've only raced
44:39
Speaker 3: against each other a few times because he's done different
44:42
Speaker 3: things than I have, so works out in that way.
44:45
Speaker 1: But was there a fight afterwards?
44:48
Speaker 3: I've I mean no, I mean we've started near each
44:52
Speaker 3: other and I've made some rookie mistakes but nothing intentional.
44:59
Speaker 1: And Becky's saying that you're you're also involved with Race
45:04
Speaker 1: to Read, which I forgot about, and I'm I'm so
45:06
Speaker 1: glad that and Hillary is Hillary Scott's incredible.
45:11
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's such a great program and it's just so
45:14
Speaker 3: fun to be a part of and get to meet
45:16
Speaker 3: the kids each week, and especially when we get to
45:18
Speaker 3: go to the schools. It's really fun to you know,
45:20
Speaker 3: kind of bring a little bit of fun to reading
45:23
Speaker 3: because I think a lot of kids don't enjoy reading,
45:26
Speaker 3: but also just you know, bringing race cars into it,
45:28
Speaker 3: I feel like is a great way to trick them
45:30
Speaker 3: into it. So but it's really fun and inspiring to
45:33
Speaker 3: get to meet the kids and just see how excited
45:34
Speaker 3: they are because they look at us like we're NASCAR driver.
45:37
Speaker 3: So it's really cool to know that, you know, they
45:40
Speaker 3: look up to us like that.
45:41
Speaker 1: Who is your NASCAR driver? Who's who's your favorite?
45:45
Speaker 3: I feel like I would be silly to not choose
45:48
Speaker 3: Kyle Larson. I think he's just not necessarily not just
45:52
Speaker 3: in Nascar, but he's just such a great driver and
45:54
Speaker 3: anything that he hops in, and I think that versatility
45:57
Speaker 3: within himself is pretty impressive.
46:02
Speaker 1: What's that that one race in twenty twenty five that
46:10
Speaker 1: you just gotta win. And Stephen Donahue is going to
46:13
Speaker 1: be coming in here by the way on the ninth,
46:17
Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask him the same question. It
46:19
Speaker 1: was the Milk Bowl for him, right, well, what is
46:22
Speaker 1: it for you?
46:24
Speaker 2: Anything? Any race?
46:27
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, I think anyone would look at any
46:30
Speaker 3: of the ACT races and say that'd be cool to win.
46:32
Speaker 3: But I would be more than happy to win a
46:36
Speaker 3: thunder Road points race or weekly race. So anything I
46:39
Speaker 3: can get, any good finishes I can grab them, I'm
46:42
Speaker 3: gonna be happy with it.
46:44
Speaker 1: It is really, and I mean this sincerely, a real
46:49
Speaker 1: honor for me to sit down with you this morning
46:54
Speaker 1: and chat with you. I mean, I say this and
46:59
Speaker 1: I know it's it's going to be very difficult, but
47:02
Speaker 1: I still I would love to say this right now.
47:07
Speaker 1: I would love to have you back mid mid season
47:11
Speaker 1: if you're able to. Of course, I know you're going
47:14
Speaker 1: to be crazy busy, but man, it would be great
47:16
Speaker 1: to chat with you mid season, you know, somewhere around there.
47:20
Speaker 1: If you can come back, that would be so cool.
47:22
Speaker 2: Definitely time for that, all right.
47:24
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold you up to that you said.
47:26
Speaker 2: It all right, Thanks Taylor, thank you.
47:30
Speaker 1: And you know, I know it's it's kind of cliche
47:34
Speaker 1: to say good luck, but man, I just wish the
47:38
Speaker 1: best for you this coming season.
47:40
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
47:41
Speaker 1: And thanks to to Dave Moody for sending us a
47:43
Speaker 1: quote this morning, and Tracy bell Rose hopping on with
47:47
Speaker 1: you a little surprise.
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Speaker 2: Yes, thanks Tailing, Thank you all right, Sha