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The IndyCar Report with Elijah Poe & Michelle Garmon: Racing in D.C. (2.163.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, Indie Car fans of the Central Indiana Sports Report with Elijah Poe and today guest Michelle Garmin, the sports editor at the tip of the review and L. Wood Plout Leader and we gather here this week with some early big news.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nick Schumacher did some laps on an oval, this but now I'm just kidding.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Indie cars are going to be racing on the streets of Washington, DC and whatever your politics, this is really cool.
• 0:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's it's pretty unbelievable.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: All this happened, you know, so quickly.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: It feels like just a couple weeks ago we were talking that, you know, it was maybe going to happen, but we weren't sure it could happen logistically.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think some of those questions are still there.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but, but we for sure do have a race in DC and like you said, politics aside, I do think it is cool, but.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, today, I think politics are just in everything, so it'll be interesting to see the PR and stuff that happens off this race for Indie car.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a cool thing, Michelle, but with as quickly as they're throwing this thing together in a really complicated situation, maybe Manhattan would be the only thing more complicated.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: This could really be a disaster.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it could be, but I think it will all work out.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: These discussions have taken place for a little bit.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: The rumors are out there, but I don't, they wanted it to happen.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they'll find a way to make it happen.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's, I think it's neat.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like it's just going to be a one off, which that's all right, special circumstances.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I do think you will end up
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that you people are kind of excited about it and I know politics isn't the political climate isn't always so great right now, but sometimes there are certain things that can smooth or lower the hot temperatures with the political climate and this race may do that.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: But at least for a couple weeks.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, really, but really Elijah and we lost Michelle, she's driving so not a surprise she might be back.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: really allows you, it should be nothing but excitement.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't paper, yeah.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: you have a addition for race.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just think a lot of fans are now are polarizing, you know, I can't blame them for bringing politics into sport because this is a political move.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when you have an executive order being signed in the presence of the president's obo office, you're going to have some good PR and bad PR.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just really interested to see the logistics of this.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: We don't have a track layout.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we have a track layout.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It can definitely be a disaster.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the thing that I am worried about.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can go there and have a successful race and still have maybe some bad PR from the political side of things, but if you go there and have a bad race and a logistically just a complete mess, that's just really embarrassing for the series because now this is a huge huge event.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is being sent out by Fox.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is being sent out by White House accounts.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is being sent out by really, really major networks.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So this is a really pivotal point in the car where they have to nail this, and it's a little concerning that there's a lot of unknown, but you know, if they all put their heads together and then make it something great, that'd be great because they're they're going to need to nail it.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I have a question for you, and is this going to be like a points racer, are they going to treat this like an all star race?
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's just going to be a full points race.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's the third to last race in the season.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be a big race if it's a close championship.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And have we confirmed that Milwaukee is going from two races to one Elijah?
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'm pretty sure that Milwaukee is staying a double header.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is 18 to 19.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: of standing.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: At least via any car website, I'm looking at the schedule now, um, which honestly, I love Milwaukee.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know some people don't like the idea of tuning into a different race on a different day, but as an any car fan, I personally enjoy it.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you really need more ovals.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and having back to back ovals is one of the solutions.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it really does and it puts more parity in the calendar and I and Milwaukee last year we had some really great attendance numbers.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe that first race wasn't as strong as the second or maybe it was the opposite way around, but regardless, it's a good market and it's the oldest track in the world.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you should have cars race in there anyway.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know doubt about it.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get back to DC real fast.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: You said there's no track
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you can really imagine something that's going to be just the coolest layout we've ever seen in racing, right?
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they definitely have to nail it.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be interested to see what they're able to do with the National Mall as people are on this race.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do think the one positive thing about it is that it's going to be free to for people to go and watch.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: is you know regardless of the political aspects of this race the fact that this is a free race is so good for the sport and you know a lot of races arguably you can't argue that they should be free but just imagine what it would do for the sport if even one or two races on the calendar had not maybe free admins but really really cheap tickets I think it's what the sport needs.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: specialized and everything else is free to very cheap.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've been saying it for years.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: What you want is to get people in the gates.
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You put your ticket prices at whatever gets people in the gates.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, couldn't agree more.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think this race that, you know, if they're able to really pull this off, I think we can have some of the coolest camera work that Fox does because, you know, just the national mall itself.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I haven't been to DC since I was maybe eight years old, but man, I still remember like it was clear today because it is so strikingly beautiful.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, so they're if they're well, they really pull this off.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm excited to see what they're going to do.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, because there's just so many unknowns.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like it's gaining a lot of hype right now.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I wouldn't be surprised if we see a track lay out, maybe within the next week or two, but just because there are, there is so much hype around it.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And any car really needs to capitalize on it.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Most of my life Michelle and yours.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Organizations like you sack and car and IRL and they would not have been capable of this at all.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I am more confident that Roger Pinsky and this new organization can pull it off.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you, Greg.
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: The problem was all those other organizations kind of used to battle amongst themselves.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Instead of uniting for something, I think sometimes it could be a greater product.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, competition is good, but not if you don't think it's the product that you're putting out on your doing is you don't put that at the top of the list and I, I agree, I brought your PISC, he's going to want this and these guys are going to want this to work and to be good because, um, you know, it is.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: to 50.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a special race.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: And when you do special events, you want them to work out all positive because if it does, then it makes more special events possible in the future.
• 8:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Elijah, you know, it'd be a really cool addition of this with the 250 celebration is to actually put the race on the fourth of July.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: What year's?
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you think you think and it's going to be interesting to see as well because, you know, just seven days before they're going to be they're doing a new street course in Ontario and Markham.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they've got now five races in the month of August.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a stretch for these teams.
• 8:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Michelle, I'm muted you just so you know.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it'll give a lot of indie car fans a reason to go to the race.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, what are the dates August, August 21st through the 23rd with the race being held on that 23rd?
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It'll give a lot of indie car fans and it's used to go to DC, but I'm guessing that if you're going to DC to sight see this is probably not the weekend for you.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be interested to see how they're able to do it, um, even security wise.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: If it is a free event, uh, it.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, I just keep on saying it.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know I sound like a broken record, but there is so much stuff that needs to happen that we just don't know.
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think I heard you guys talking about security wise.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I had a cousin that was with the FBI for a lot of years and he did a lot of security.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: He went to the winter Olympics when they were in Salt Lake City.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I have another cousin that's in the Marines and one of his jobs was that they before the president went anywhere, he that unit would go in and check for bombs and all sorts of stuff.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not so much worried about security, heightened
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to be trained for this.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a lot of free.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: At least 90% free tickets at how do you screen people when you're expecting a walk up crowd?
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that city.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, here's the thing.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: My guess is they're going to do it kind of like how they do the tickets for the White House.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever done the White House tour?
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: You have to go.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's only certain times that you and you have to go and you get your ticket, you know, and when they run out of tickets or certain time and that's how they do it and they do it ahead of it's usually, you know, and head of some my guess is they'll do it something like that they'll set up places where you're going to go get a ticket ahead of schedule ahead of the race.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: in a time thing.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so it's not going to be like just show up at the race, get in free.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're going to have to have a ticket.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is not going to cost you anything, but you're going to have to buy that ahead of time or not.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: I should say, you're going to have to acquire that ahead of time.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It'll definitely be interesting to see because I know that the
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it really has to go well for Indie car.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Other than the 500 and the Winnie 500, I can't imagine there's gonna be a more viewed race.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely number three.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, honestly, so this is a really, really big opportunity and I'm just gonna be really interested to see how they're able to spend this and get it done because the season starts in two and a half, three weeks.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Elijah thoughts on mixed shoe mucker turning some oval apps pretty cool to have a shoe mucker and Indie car.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it was.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: He did his first oval test that homestead.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was nice that RLL actually put a camera on the back of his car and release some video on that.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're social media feeds, so people could see him in the car.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just good publicity all around to see make in the car.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I don't think it's really going to
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: hit me and realize that makes you Maccar is driving in any car until we're on the grid in a St. Pete, but man, it is so cool.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's in this series.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to agree 100% the widget is I think it's something great.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's great when you recognize a name and then they do something different and it just brings more excitement to something and draws more attention to.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Indie car and I'll be honest this podcast during this podcast this last year made me become a lot bigger Indie car fan and more in tune with the races and I really enjoyed it so anything that can bring more attention to Indie car and get more people watching it is a great thing Yeah, I lies to the product on the track deserves more eyeballs
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it does.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've been saying that this past year and, you know, seeing even though the championship was an absolute blowout, the races were just so entertaining, so entertaining and I hope they can keep that product up for this year, because it's a big year for any car.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is a big year for IndyCar.
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much, Elijah.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much, Michelle.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks everybody for listening.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Always appreciate it.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be here in a lot more from Elijah coming up and Michelle too on our IndyCar reports.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll also do race previews and reactions with Elijah.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it'll also be on my podcast.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: As Michelle has often been, I daily podcast break in a French talk sport where I bet you'll never guess what I do, Elijah.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I talk sports with my friends and it's about the point that there are things that we're in today.