Cooper Chun; Is there anything he can't do?

Sorry.

I already apologized.

There we go.

What's up?

Just another beautiful day in sunny South America.

I'm so excited.

Just another beautiful day in sunny St. George, Utah.

Yeah.

We were just talking backstage.

This winter, what's supposed to be winter weather has been pretty nice, man.

I think it's going to start raining again here in a couple of days, but I've been enjoying the sun.

I cleaned the pool.

I vacuumed the pool yesterday.

Already getting ready, huh?

I'm going to start cold plunging.

Oh, nice.

Wait till you see me in June.

I'm going to be chiseled.

You think I'm handsome now.

I thought Mr. Christmas was already ready for summer.

No, man.

We took our youngest and middle daughter to a carousel place in Albany, which is a little town about 30 miles from here.

And downtown is still all Christmas-ed out.

They still got snowflakes and Christmas lights.

And it was nice.

I was like, all right, guys.

This is my kind of place.

You're the Christmas year-round.

Yeah, man.

I've been in the 60s here in the daytime.

And I'm wearing short sleeves.

It's January.

Wearing short sleeves.

I'm just waiting for it to get back to cold again before it warms up.

We've been getting big swings, like high 50s in the day and then low 30s at night.

A lot of fog.

Socked in in the morning.

It burns off.

Kind of a weird year so far.

I'm going to be taking off for sunny Kentucky on Friday.

And it's going to be cold there.

So I was looking at the weather.

It's going to be like 15 at night.

Why don't you tell the people what you're doing in Kentucky?

Race TB Promotions.

Brian Whitworth, Tyler Bohannon's outfit, kicking off their season.

I believe this is the sixth annual Derby City practice tree race.

They kick it off 5k to win practice tree race out there in Kentucky.

And, you know, I'm just going to, I can't, I can't talk about it without breaking the news.

I was kind of going to let them do their thing.

And we're keeping this West Coast anyway.

So they'll still have their chance.

I'm going to be coming on board the TB Promotions crew this year and joining their announcing team at all of their events.

So I'll be flying all over the country this year on the mic at all the TB Promotions races and figure this was a good opportunity to just get out there.

I've met Brian a couple of times at the summer doorcar shootout.

But haven't ever met Tyler in person, never met PJ in person and never met Steve Pointer or Jeb or their whole crew.

I just, I've just met Brian like once or twice.

So figured it was a good opportunity to get out there and get to know their crew a little better and how they get down before we kick things off in May.

So super stoked to get out there and hang out with them guys.

I'm sure I'll put an entry into the practice tree race.

I don't expect to make it very far, but we'll, you know, we'll give her hell when we were out there.

So looking forward to it.

That's one heck of a way to kick the show off just some breaking news.

I don't know how many people.

That's pretty exciting, right?

I'm excited for you.

I'm a, I'm excited to hear you calling more than just the Seattle national event on the live feed.

So we get to hear you more on some motormania.

That's pretty dang cool.

I'm stoked for it, man.

I've been, you know, watching those guys.

They've been building that brand now for, I mean, I don't know, six, seven, eight years.

I think Brian was doing it before they became a team.

And you watch the product that they're putting out the races that they're, they're putting on.

And it's hard to argue that they're not, you know, maybe the top promotion out there.

I kind of put the flings in their own category.

They got their own kind of setup, but I love what I love what those guys are doing.

And even from a distance, you see the high level that they, that they, you know,

operate out in the product that they're putting out.

And I just feel super lucky and honored to be a small part of it this year.

So we'll see how many races I make it before they fire me.

You'll make it through the whole year.

At least this whole year.

One of the things that I think we got going for you are going for us with you calling the shots is maybe,

just maybe you could convince them to bring a race out on the West coast.

What do you think the odds are of that?

You know, I'm sure that, that they, something like that would excite them.

They've got a pretty awesome market out there running kind of through the rust belt,

a market that's been kind of underserved over the years.

And so them and Tom Gall with Gall Star have really kind of capitalized on that Midwest market.

And, you know, I don't know how far they want to bring it.

Traveling, traveling circuses can get, can get tough.

And there are long ways from the West coast,

but would love to see them continue to expand the brand.

And if they can keep ancient it out here out West,

I know there's a lot of folks that would probably go there and try their hand at some big money.

So we'll see how it goes.

Well, in other news, we had the D7 banquet down in Vegas this last weekend.

Just want to give a quick shout out to all the champions again.

Job well done. We're excited to take our crack at you again here in a couple months down in Phoenix.

I know D6 had theirs, what, two weeks ago.

They did.

All the division championship will always have been passed out and ready to start telling and points up again for this next season.

Yeah, man, look like everyone had a good time.

You know, a cool way to kind of close out last year and also kind of kick off, you know, this season.

I think that probably gets everybody pretty primed up, gets the juices flow and the conversations happening.

So everybody I talked to that went, I did not go.

But everybody I talked to that went had a great time and that seems to always be the case.

So shout out to my teams and everybody who put that together for our D6 racers.

Well, the comment section is going off the wits.

You do it would, man.

Guy Gainer is ready to harass.

Front row seat to Cooper Chun tonight.

Where Cooper at?

Man, we're, we got quite the show coming for us with with Cooper.

We're going to actually find something that Cooper can't do tonight.

I don't think there's very good odds of that.

Let's see if he'll admit to it right and if he won't, maybe Casey will tell on him.

So let's not keep him waiting man.

We're up against the national championship game.

Go Hoosiers.

Hoosier daddy and we'll bring on the million dollar man right now.

Cooper Chun.

We've been wanting to have this conversation for a while.

We built up some subscribers, built up some energy around the show and seemed like a perfect time to bring you on.

So thanks for taking some time to join us.

No problem guys.

Yeah, we're super excited to have you.

We got quite the list of questions from a one person panel.

One person panel.

One person panel gave us some good questions.

Me and Troy got some good questions, but why don't you kick it off Troy?

Let's let's get dive deep into this.

Well, you know, we've all been kind of sitting around twirling our thumbs, pulling motors freshened up transmissions, but you've been racing still.

You just came back from a mockery a little bit ago, got a chance to go down and hang out for that.

Tell us a little bit about that experience.

I know a little different for you and the long ways from home.

How was a mockery?

It was a long ways away.

You know, I kind of got close with Dylan guy throughout the year, racing back East on the back East trip I went on.

And as I find you come out, come out to Florida and come race for two weeks.

And I kind of was him and on.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to go and he eventually got me talked into going.

And, you know, I was only going to drive the Camaro.

We broke the car with second day in.

Luckily, he's like jumping the dragster and I ended up standing in the dragster for most of the most of the trip.

But yeah, mockery super fun.

It sucks that it that's going away.

But you know, there's a casino three minutes away.

It pretty much is the casino.

You go to the same breakfast spot every morning that everyone goes to.

And yeah, it was just a great time in Florida when it's raining back home.

Were you coming off the bottom in the Camaro or coming off the top in both cars?

No, as Ty alluded to a little bit ago, I cannot hit the bottom to save my life.

I was only off the top bulb and I managed to semi one of the 40 granders and I was was about it from there.

Hey, that ain't bad though.

No, got got some of the top paid for.

Yeah, thanks.

Nice.

Are you are you doing any offseason maintenance on your own program?

We've been talking to people and they got in and getting fresh.

And what's what's Cooper doing this offseason to get ready for the next?

I actually left my car in Vegas after the Thanksgiving race and Jeff Taylor shop.

So there's nothing, nothing changing for next year.

To that should be tuned up and ready for for the fling though.

You got it.

You got a crown to defend.

I do.

Oh, go ahead, Park.

Are you planning on racing any of the divisionals down in Phoenix or or just going to go to the Southwest showdown and then hit up the fling?

What's your plans?

So I initially was going to start at the Phoenix National.

But I think I decided I'm going to go to Phoenix next month and start there and then kind of leave it there and come back for the National Tucson Vegas and go from there.

Okay, so I won't and I'm going to any of those to race super car.

Glad we got that out of the way.

So I know what not to race.

He knows how to win in that, that old car of yours.

I do.

Well, someone's got to win in it.

We know that I couldn't turn on any wind lights.

So I'm glad that coupe got it and that he sweet talk into some wind lights.

Well, and are you attached to that thing?

Man, after April happened, I was like, I was like, I figured you'd be smart with your with your cheddar.

But I did expect you to find like a, I don't know, 2013 something go drop 4050 on a on a new hot rod.

But looks like you're sticking with old reliable.

Any plans to get something new?

Are you just going to keep rocking that thing till the wheels fall off?

I mean, I'll never sell it.

It'll sit in the corner corner of the shop before I ever do anything with it.

No, I kind of thought about getting a new car or getting a different motor or something.

But I wanted to go racing instead.

So we, we hope we're raised every weekend possible and paying for school.

Now put some money away and try to be smart with it instead of Sunday going to put 50 grand on a new car.

Yeah, I like it, man.

And, you know, you've been traveling a bunch and kind of kind of branching out on your own a little bit.

I know you've made some trips without your family.

You went out to Amakali up to Edmonton.

Talk a little bit about kind of that, that transition, how, you know, you're, you're kind of branching out.

That's probably somewhat unfamiliar territory for you.

What's it like racing without, without your normal family crew?

It's different, you know, like my dad will always always go back and forth on, on down ideas.

And my mom's always making sure I'm, I'm set on whatever it may be.

My brother's there watching, which luckily a lot of these races have live streams that they can, they can watch from home.

And then just, you know, everyone I go and race for just to mention a few like pleasures for sure.

Chris Sullivan and the guys like everyone I go race for it's like a family atmosphere.

So I'm not necessarily ever really racing by myself per se, which, which helps a lot.

I can take it man. One thing as I've, as I've watched you as I, as I've watched other people that race out there that are pretty tight with family.

I'm impressed at the way you guys have been able to balance that I know that in any sport or hobby whatever it is if you grow up doing something with your pops.

There can be tension.

And sometimes it can be tough there can be pressure.

And sometimes people, people aren't able to keep it going.

Eventually someone wants to spread their wings and fly and do things their own way.

How have you balanced, you know, learning, growing, being a part of that family atmosphere but also kind of growing and developing into your own man into your own style of racer.

How do you, how do you balance that?

You know, I think, I think my parents make it real easy on me in terms of balancing.

Like there's no real, I don't know the best way to put it, but there's no real pressure per se.

Like, I don't know.

That's a good question. I'll have an answer for it.

Well, I admire the way you guys have been able to do it.

I know there was a lot of things my dad and I used to love to do together and eventually the last person I wanted to do any of it with was him, because I wanted to do it my own way.

I don't know if that was the right decision or not, but it's been, it's been impressive to watch how you guys have handled that and good on them.

They've done such a great job with you and your brother raising two good young men.

And believe it or not, Cooper isn't the only chun that can turn on wind lines.

I know his little brother can smoke him in the junior street class.

Oh yeah.

Talk to us a little bit about your little brother and how he's coming along.

He's always been there. He's always my number one fan, you know, cheering me on wherever I go.

That sucks. I'm not 25 because I'd love to ride with him in junior street, but he got to be 25.

So that's reserved for the dad.

But yeah, I know he's always there, always asking me, you know, how I'm doing and always watching.

It's pretty cool, man.

And as, you know, as a parent myself, I can't imagine how proud that that your parents feel to watch you too.

I want to go to something.

I kind of just want to get it out of the way.

So much has been made about your battle as you after you were diagnosed with cancer and how that took you down and how you were able to kind of come back from that.

It's, and with good reason, right? It's certainly notable and impressive the way that you were able to fight and come back. But I wonder, are you, is that something you're trying to move past?

Is that something you hold on to as motivation or as something to bring gratitude? Did you, did you feel like it was starting to define you?

Like, what's that thought process been like and what kind of headspace have you been in as you, you know, you acknowledge where you've been the battles that you that you've had to fight.

But also like trying to move forward and keep going.

You know, I think it put a lot of perspective on life. You know, like every weekend I was going to the racetrack, like I was there for fun.

But I wanted to win a lot prior.

And now, you know, anytime I go to the racetrack, when lose, what doesn't matter, like I'm there to have fun with my friends.

And that's probably the biggest change it had was just at the end of the day, like as long as you're able to go racing and can live and live a good life.

That's all that really, really matters.

And like, I'm not, I'm not the biggest, like I'm not the biggest one to talk about it the most. My mom is more like that.

But no, I definitely is with me in good ways.

The positive job for sure.

It's a good segue into, you know, question I've had that that year in Vegas and when you couldn't go yet to make the decision to immediately, you know, start your treatment program start your recovery.

Does that still nag at you as, you know, you've kind of, you've moved past that kind of track champion.

I mean, you've still winning them.

But, but you've, you've went to heights that many would say are far above winning, winning that race.

Is that still something you want to get back to those?

That's still something you want to chase in a box you want to check?

That'll always be one that kind of sits there because like my dad grew up, my grandpa's favorite race was ET Finals.

I grew up watching, you know, Steve Kelly win, going to Pomona, Maddie Kiehlman going to Pomona.

Like that's always been like my thing was the one ROC and to go at least race for it.

So yeah, that one, that one's for sure still there and I'll still be chasing that one for for sure.

I hope you get there, man.

I was, I was down there in Vegas for that race and remember passing around the big giant Cooper head that we all had and, and, you know,

you weren't able to be there, but, but you were there with, with all of us who were down there.

And I can't wait till you get down there again because I'm, I'm pretty positive that at some point as long as you chase it, you'll get there for sure.

It's 100% happening again.

I don't know why, why there's a question mark behind some of those, these questions, but I think that you'll be back to that race sooner than later.

And if you, especially if you keep driving the way you have been and shown up to those local races.

It's, it's, it's not a matter of if it's when kind of more on the serious side.

We know that you've been going to college and one of the questions that we've talked about is, are you going to start a career in racing is going to take like a backseat, or are you going to try and pursue racing for a living and and going that direction.

You know, I think, I think I'm focused right now and on school and once I finish school in a year and a half, I'll kind of focus into a career more than anything.

You know, I think if you race for a living, especially on your own dime, like it's not, it wouldn't be, I don't think it'd be as fun because if you're worried about winning to pay bills and I think it turns into more of not a hobby that way.

So yeah, I think this next year and a half when race as much as I can and we'll go from there.

What, what are you going to school for?

If you don't mind us asking some of the business major, but it's focused in accounting.

Nice.

Accounting, you're going to need that all them big checks that you cash and you're going to need to know how to balance those books, brother.

Yeah, I had to go through taxes with Nick Shepard two weeks ago.

That's fun.

That's not fun.

Well, Nick just finished his master's.

He's a master of taxation.

So he was probably able to school you up pretty good on that.

Nick's another one that I'd like to get on the show at some point.

So if you're out there, Nick, we want to get you on here one of these times.

All right.

We got a, we need to know about an Uber story.

Ty Gainer's alluding to.

Oh, you asked this last night.

I was hanging out with Ty and JD last night for reference.

So when I was leaving Michigan, I went to Michigan for the two fifth the earlier this year.

And Sunday night we had like rain and we finished late Sunday.

And I was flying to Edmonton Monday morning.

And like the race track was like an hour away.

And I was hoping to get it done like eight o'clock and get an Uber to the airport.

And then I had a hotel at the airport and I was going to fly to Edmonton in the morning.

And Casey had bought the flag.

I didn't have the flag.

I was like, I have to get there to get this flight.

Well, we ended up racing until 10, 11 o'clock at night.

No one will pick up at the race track.

I sat at the front gate for like 40 minutes, nothing.

And then I was like, I couldn't get, I couldn't even get a ride to the casino that's nearby.

Cause I was like, I'll get the taxi there.

So then luckily Chris got out of bed, borrowed a car, got me to the casino.

And then from the casino, I like called like five taxi places.

Finally got, got someone, like the last guy left.

He drove me 45 minutes from the casino to the hotel.

I think I got to the hotel at one shower, got back up at five, got on a plane to go to Edmonton.

And like I had this realization of like before Chris got back up or whatever.

I like called my mom freaking out.

I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do if I, if I don't get a ride.

Cause I didn't buy the plane ticket.

Like I got to get to the airport.

But, but yeah, luckily, luckily we made it.

Getting Ubers from a race track.

Both times that I've went to Vegas, I've either stayed with a friend or I've stayed at that like super eight or motel six, whatever it is, right by the track.

And an Uber to and from the, to the airport.

And it's a pain, man.

They don't want to come, they don't want to come out.

They don't want to get you.

It's not a, it's not a place where they can pick up other fairs and it's rough, man.

I sat out at the front gate at Vegas during the ET finals race a couple of years ago for probably over an hour.

Just, just waiting for someone to pick me.

But they're like, they have no motivation to drive out there.

They sit downtown and stack, you know, stack rides all day and, you know, I'm 40 minutes away out at the track.

Thank God they deliver pizza because had there not been pizza delivery this last April at the fling.

I'm pretty sure I would have been buried under the bleachers.

I've never been so hungry as I was at the spring fling million this past year.

My God.

Hey, I fed you.

I know, man.

It was like, I know, like I needed that had it not been for you guys.

You know, Parker just made me like some regular old sandwich, but it was like the tastiest thing that I've ever eaten.

I could feel the nutrients like going in my blood.

If you've never been to the spring fling million, they shut down all the concession stands.

There is no food.

So unless you got a total.

There's nothing.

There is nothing.

So you got to know somebody with something in there cooler and thank goodness I was rolling with a strong crew.

It's not going to go live down there.

It's rough.

All right, we got another question from the chat.

And then this has come up.

Skip that.

You're not going to go there.

I'm going to go.

Okay, how about this one?

I'm asking you that question.

The first time I see you.

I'm going to need to know.

My favorite toe clients is white and you can thank Casey pleasure for that.

Does he like his toes painted white too?

Yeah.

Nice.

He has a thing for toes.

It's word on the street, Casey.

I don't know, man, your secrets aren't very safe with your friends, brother.

Well, we got some questions from Mr. Casey pleasure himself.

He wants to know.

Who is a better driver?

Casey or you and why?

Me.

It's pretty obvious.

I don't know why.

Like 450 grand.

Or just pick it.

He can do both.

He can only Lucas race.

You can't bracket race.

He's not.

He's not multi.

When Josh Pickett didn't have to lay over in the final.

That's true too.

We didn't hear that year.

Yeah.

What is the greatest impact that Casey has had on your life is also another

question he wants to know.

What does he want me to know?

How do I want to answer this?

No way or not a good way.

Whatever way you think he wants you to answer it.

You should do it the opposite way.

Let's say not not girls.

That's how it goes to Celeste.

Celeste is the only thing keeping Casey together at this point.

Yes.

She's she's a saint.

I got to get something I get back from last week.

I heard from two weeks ago at the banquet.

Oh yeah.

For what you got.

Well, let's go.

Back to April, right?

Right now.

That's that's the thing when people think Cooper Chun,

I think that's the thing that probably comes first to mind.

The most recent winner, the 10th anniversary spring,

spring fling million.

I felt so fortunate to be able to to be there to watch you.

Me and a couple of buddies had a big plan to get three rigs down

there and race when all that fell through.

I wasn't going to go and and Steve kind of poked and

proud and said come hang out.

My wife hooked me up with a plane ticket for my birthday to come

hang out and one of the outside of the food lack of food.

One of the best decisions I ever made.

What a special moment you come off the runner up on the 30 grand

or the year before.

You know, I know that probably if you didn't think already that

you could get it done, go in that deep in that race,

which has more cars, I think more,

at least probably two or three more rounds than than the million

itself.

You had to know that you had a chance.

You come back in 2025.

Work us through that day just a little bit man.

It was so impressive.

It's impressive to win on a Saturday when you got to go five

or six rounds and keep the focus for six or seven hours.

That was like 1617 hours of grinding and I've never seen

somebody keep it so cool as what I saw you talk a little bit

about how you worked your way through that day and kept

yourself ready for that final round against Josh Pickett,

who is no slouch.

No.

So I guess we'll start.

We'll start on the weekend.

So, you know, you can only single there in the week at the

fling now.

Unless you can double, but you can double in two ways.

So I doubled with Steve and his Camaro.

Didn't have a lot of thing, a lot of success in that,

but still fun to do wheelies.

And JD came down to drive the other side of my car.

And I was going to single that million.

I wasn't going to double, but he got down to six in the first

30 grander.

And, you know, I got like 1500 or something from him for 50%.

I kind of rolled that into the million.

So if JD gets to say that if he doesn't run,

doesn't win, then I don't have the million.

So, or twice.

So you can have that claim to fame.

So I guess it starts there.

I had three people back home by my second one, I think.

So, Jeremy McGee, JD's dad, and Tapers who do our motors.

They bought second entry.

And then, you know, we just, I will finish second in the run

for the money deal.

Start the day off as four total.

So that helped a lot.

I had gotten one inch of your back,

at least gotten the 500 back for people that bought me in.

And then I was just letting go like I hadn't let go before and

making smart decisions the rest of the day.

I don't know you.

The first split I was in was the 30 grand of the year before.

And like, I think we had like a $6,000 round difference.

And I was like, wow, this is, this is different.

This isn't Lucas.

This isn't like anything else.

I'd never been anything like that before.

So I guess it just comes with experience of,

and the 20 grander.

I went in St. Louis and 24 to that was no split at all.

It was 18.

It was 20 grand to win three grand to runner up.

Wow.

Yeah.

Listen for the flyer.

I like it.

So,

Was that your call?

No.

I was ready to split it.

Like,

And the same guy called no split the whole entire race.

That's fun.

The biggest thing was just the,

the experience of having to be in some kind of situations like

that.

And then you make it to the split.

And they're like, yeah,

you're getting 10 grand to lose here.

And it's like, sweet.

I've covered,

I'm up money.

So whatever,

whatever happens from now on,

it doesn't really matter.

I get that point.

I just,

you're trying to win for,

for the success and the glory of winning a million rather than,

than the money at that,

at that point.

Well, I guess,

I guess it would have been when you dropped your first entry.

Maybe it was on a different day.

I don't,

I don't remember that whole,

that whole week's kind of a blur in park.

I don't know if I've ever told you this story,

but,

but coupe makes a run and he's,

I think you're three red.

You come back around and,

and we're all standing in the pit and you pull it up.

And he looks at his ticket.

You know,

most people are rolling 10,

probably rolling 10 in the next time.

And,

and I remember either Tracy or,

or David asked,

what are you going to do?

Maybe I asked him,

he goes, well, it's three red.

If I put three in,

I ought to be perfect next time.

And I don't know what you actually rolled in,

but like,

in that moment,

I think,

I think that was on million day because in that moment,

like,

that's when it hit me.

I'm like, this dude's on a mission.

That was,

that was a,

those are five cars and five cars and made a single.

And my uncle Jim told me,

he's like, don't count singles.

I was three red on the single.

And I'm like,

I have to add,

but I'm not like,

I usually throw singles up and I'm like,

I can't throw this one out completely.

So I'm like,

I'm just going to cut it,

not adding anything more.

And I came back around.

I was seven in the summers.

Like that,

that's stones.

Like that is your three red at five.

I'm going to roll three in and go up there and be perfect the next time.

Like,

like for me,

that was the moment where I was like,

this dude's going to do it.

Like he's going to,

because nobody else,

nobody else does that.

Everyone else has put an eight,

10,

12 in that thing.

And then going up and crushing it,

covering three to be perfect.

Man,

like it was one of the sickest moments.

Just as sick as anything I saw on the race track,

because the way,

the way you were focused,

cool as a cucumber.

It was something that it was something to watch, man.

Thank you.

Well, as good as he was hitting the tree that day,

he knew he was going to crush it either way.

So he was confident that three red wasn't going to be three red

again.

So that's,

that's awesome.

It was wild.

So here we are two in the morning.

Oh, yeah.

I've had the pleasure to see Josh Pickett race multiple times.

He can wheel that as 10 as good as anybody in the country.

And he was on a mission of his own that day.

You had to sit.

I'm not think he's probably dialed.

What was he down?

You probably know.

Five,

40,

six,

10 or six,

10,

six,

oh,

eight,

something like that.

High four nineties.

Yeah.

So I'm,

when I made the single,

me and Steve decided that I,

that I needed to make the single at five in case there was a door

cart left.

I was fairly confident on what it could go against the dragster,

but I didn't,

didn't have a,

have a full run in a few runs.

And so I made the single at five in case I got the door

car.

I think it moved 2000 from that single to the final.

And I was,

I was dialed honest for the final and then I lifted,

which was dumb, but,

but I had the game plan in the final was to let go and,

and make a time run.

Dude, cause I don't drive,

I don't drive door cars particularly well either.

Well,

and you got to sit there for what it had to felt like an

eternity for,

for what was on the line,

watching him put that thing on the bumper.

Like,

cause that thing pulls sick wheelies.

And so you're looking over and you see that thing packing

them out there.

It lets go.

It stays green.

Didn't change the plan.

Just kept it to the mat until the very end.

And then,

and then what made you,

what made you switch it up at the end?

Were you just so far ahead or?

It's just weird.

Like,

like most time I drive a door car, I make decisions late.

That's why I don't,

that's why I dial honest or if I'm holding,

I'm holding very little because I don't see it till it's too

late to really do anything on that run.

Like,

I just lifted before like I was going around and

I noticed it way early and I was,

I kicked it before I like it even thought,

thought about it.

And I was like, if this one, the better come on.

Cause I know I didn't just mess this up.

And it came on and I was like,

start going crazy.

And like,

when I took the corner,

I got out and kind of took my pants off and kind of took,

took it to myself for a minute.

And I'm just like,

you could have really messed that up.

Man,

give it to think about the difference of,

cause I've never seen people more proud than your

parents were and the rest of us on the starting line.

When you did that,

to think about the difference between how we felt in that moment

versus how we'd have felt if you to gave it back three.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

That had been a rough night.

And like,

I went through and I was like,

I was like,

I don't think you were in front by that much.

Like why,

why did you lift?

Like it wasn't like it was obvious.

And I go in front eight thou and I killed.

I think six or seven,

like thou,

like it wasn't a ton.

Like.

Yeah.

So,

so what,

what were you above?

It was 13 thou above.

Okay.

So you weren't,

you were definitely going to go dead on then.

Yes.

I like it.

I'm dead on.

There's no reason to lift.

Well,

the cards fell in the right direction for you.

And we're so excited about it.

Uh,

let's,

let's relive some of these pictures here.

You got your family.

You got the whole gang there.

Huh?

They all stayed up.

Which funny enough,

none of them were on the starting line.

It was, it was cold.

It was cold that night.

So Riley, Tye, Luke,

Ryan and daylight,

and they were on the starting line, but JD,

like they were all in the motor home.

Cause at like round six, they weren't,

they went to the motor because it was cold.

And then I won around.

So they stayed in there.

And like, I get to the split.

I'm like,

I haven't really split the million and none of my buddies are.

Like,

where'd they go?

And JD walks by after the split run.

He's like, we're watching or just in the motor home.

I'm like,

okay.

Like, at least you're here.

But I have a video that tied to or not.

I,

a lane took them coming out of the motor home when I won.

And it's like a minute long of them driving to the staging lanes.

And yeah,

it's pretty sweet.

It was sick and it was cold.

It was freezing cold.

Um,

and,

but like everybody who's standing behind you there,

we all felt like we won the million too.

Uh,

it was the coolest thing, man.

Um,

and late boy,

it was late.

I think I finally,

you know,

they do all the interviews, the pictures, a million pictures,

they make them take all these pictures and they set up to set up

the banners,

then move the banners,

take some more.

And then we go to the pit and we're talking and the limo dude

sitting there.

You guys made that guy wait forever.

Forever.

He's just standing there and it's freezing,

but everybody's hugging and hanging out and laughing.

And,

um,

and so they go to go and like,

I was staying with a buddy who lives on the other side of

like, you know,

an hour from the track.

And I'm like, I gotta get home and there's no way I'm getting an

Uber at 430 in the morning.

Yeah.

So,

so David and,

and Wayne were,

were cool enough to let me hop in the car.

Uh,

but they had to go to that casino that you were going to,

right?

Uh,

so,

so I get to the casino.

I'm starving by this.

I mean,

I had eight,

eight hours to go over there by this time.

It's like time for another meal.

There's a Denny's across the street from that,

that casino.

So I walk over there, eat some food,

finally get an Uber.

I got back to my buddy's house in Vegas and it was a light out,

but he lives in a gated community.

So I had to like break and enter into place.

And I'm like, dude, I'm going to get arrested.

I had like some shopping bag with like a shirt in it or something.

I mean,

I would nobody would have believed me if I had,

you know,

if I'd have got caught.

And,

so I had to hook over this like 12 foot fence.

I had these pokey iron,

like iron things on the top ripped my shirt.

So here I am walking through this subdivision because he's at the

back of the subdivision.

It's a daybreak with a ripped up shirt and a shopping bag with,

I guess,

with a fling hat in it, you know, but it was, man,

what a night, man.

What a night.

After a million dollar race win,

what is the go to meal in the hotel?

And why is it not vodka crayon?

I believe we ordered room service and it was like pizza.

And then we bought a,

got a bunch of red clone vodka or rebel vodkas and it,

the pizza was terrible.

And I believe JD started a food fight at one point.

And then that's about when I went to bed.

I was so tired.

So like JD starts a food fight.

They run around for a little bit.

And I was like, I'm going to bed.

No, you're not gonna stay up party at this point.

It's five AM.

I asked around pro bracket the next day.

And I think they went back out or something.

I mean,

I slept for like two and a half hours and then seven 30 came

real early.

I had big plans to go to the track the next day.

I did not make an appearance.

It was like,

I ain't going out to that place for another minute.

What was the crash like?

Like a lady who's like a hunter, right?

You go out and you stalk your deer and you have this crazy

adrenaline rush.

And if you get one,

it ramps up again, even higher.

And then you just nose dive.

Did you hit that?

I mean,

was it just from being tired or like when it all finally

wore off where you just, you were just toast, right?

The adrenaline was pretty good.

Like it lasted the whole,

whole limo ride, the whole, you know,

room, look at the room, order whatever we ordered. And then it

died crashed. And they're like, you're not going to party. I was

like, I don't think I would to make it down there without falling

to sleep.

Yeah.

Yeah, man. So like, so spent in hindsight, I would, I would

have not race the next day. But in the moment I wanted to do

was race the next day.

I bet man. I bet you were you mentioned something, you

know, you were able to see it earlier than what you normally

are able to see him or what you expected to. And that that tells

me that that it's becoming a little more automatic from you,

right? The looks that you're starting to see, you're being

you're able to process them now quicker than ever make

decisions quicker than ever in the moment. And so I want to go

there just a little bit. I mentioned in my Facebook post

today, it wasn't that long ago that you were, you know, a young

kid with promise. And within just a few short years, you have

proven yourself to be one of the best in the world. What do you

credit? Like, were you just born with something? How does

that happen? Because it's pretty amazing, man.

I think seat time is a huge thing. And I think I've had

the privilege to make a ton of laps down the racetrack and tons

of different cars and, you know, my parents equipment and so on

and so forth. And I think that has a lot to do with it. I think

my parents, you know, whether it's letting me go drive or, you

know, always, I may not be the fastest or not, but, you know,

we always, we always were able to go racing whenever I went

to and I raced it. I raced at Portland. When I turned turned

eight, whatever, once I started racing, I raced Portland on

Wednesdays and I went to Woodward on Saturday and Sunday at

every opportunity from eight to 15 into junior at least. And my

first two years, I red lit 90% of the time went down the

racetrack. Like, I knew when we left the house, I was going

to red light round one. And we still went over and over

and over.

That gives me help. Because that's the idea.

This is that bottom bowl.

I think I think a lot of it is seat time.

Yeah, man. Well, and you traveled to get your seat time

this last year. I was talking to your mom 35,000 miles of

travel in 2025 to race.

A lot was on an airplane, but yes, yes.

Unreal.

When you talk about seat time, you know, I think about guys

like you and Maddie and Hayden, you guys race more in one

season than I've still raced in all of my seasons combined.

And it's it's just crazy, man. I don't think I like it that

much. Like, even if I could go that much, I don't know if I

like it enough to go that much. What what keeps you coming

back? Is it just that's what you do now? Or do you still

just love it just as much every time?

I just love it as much as as as anyone can, I think I mean, I

just usually like my my window is like three to four weeks I

can be on the road. And then I got to go home for like a week.

And then once I'm home for a week, ready to go back on now

like if we were racing home and I was able to go home

throughout the week, I could probably go forever. But at

some point, you know, you on the road get stuck and you

want to go have some sort of home.

Yeah, man. Love it. Well, we always knew, let's say

like, everyone knew you do big things someday. I don't know

that anybody realized how soon that day would come. Nobody

wants to see 6465 in the other lane, man. Unless Parker was

in it, they didn't mind seeing that orange scoop when Parker

was no, no, I don't want to see it anymore.

I was a duck. That's why he has so much success. They all

thought it was me the first couple of years is just wearing

them out because they expected the duck. I talk a lot of shit

for a guy who's never been in the final round. You're gonna

get there. What do you got Parker? I was just getting

to Cooper being crew chief of the year. And I'm not talking

just Casey, he's working on stockers. He's working on

super comp top dragsters. He's got it all nitrous. You say you're

not a mechanical guy, but these pictures show otherwise. Look

at that.

If you tell me what you need to be done, like put ice on the

intake, I can do that. Now, if we're pulling doll covers or

doing anything else, I'm not not not a guy.

Well, I think I think you got the hold of this this top

dragster thing. Is it true that you dialed Casey the remainder

of the 2025 season? I dialed him from top dragster from Boise

to everywhere. Boise throughout.

So let's be real. Casey wouldn't be a top dragster

world champion without cool. I mean, I'm gonna say no. I

don't know what he'll say, but

he'd probably say the same man. I know he is a lot of love

and respect for what you're able to do to. And Parker and I

saw that we admired it so much. We started doing AI renderings

of our cars. We want to be part of Steinke and Chun. Like we

want to be on the team. I got graphics ready to go. So you let

me know when the team is going to get bigger, when you're

ready to add some cars. Park and I were ready, baby. You

could dial me.

That two months with him and Aaron and Celeste and all of

them was probably one of the one of the best two months of

my life. I mean, I didn't do much of anything racing wise

myself, but there's all the fun we had and being able to help

him and ultimately achieve a world championship is something

I'll never forget.

It's pretty awesome, man.

I don't want to call it a once in a lifetime opportunity

because I have a strong feeling that you'll be doing it

yourself. But do you think that chasing it with Casey

has given you some insight on how to do it in your own car and

and do it for yourself?

Yes. Yeah. I mean, I realized you got to go. You know, we we

sat around and we went to Seattle was like, Hey, if you have a

good Seattle divisional, like, we've got a chase. And, you

know, I finished third in 23 and I skipped Dallas, didn't

go to Dallas. I kind of regretted it, but not not all

the way. And you know, we go down to a final race in Pomona. If

he doesn't go to Dallas, he doesn't qualify to get there.

Like we only got 30 points in Dallas, but it was the 30 points

he needed. So I mean, that that enlightened me that like, if

you have if you have a shot, you go.

But yeah, and comes out on a weird Thursday. They went

from not getting a time run being laddered off points

to getting a time run. And it's just crazy.

Are you having aspirations of chasing a national championship

this year? Yes, that that is the thought process and least in

going to D seven to start is I'm going to chase Supercompany

seven and TD in six. I love it. And we'll see how the first

through Boise in May and kind of go from there.

Sweet. You mentioned top dragster in D six, you were

able to get a win in your car in your own car in top dragster

this year. That was pretty fun to watch. Certainly not. If you

were to line up all the cars and someone were to ask to pick

which one's going to win top dragster. I don't think they

would have picked your hot rod. No, we were last

qualifier. Yeah. And we put the seven we put the seven point

belts in like the Wednesday before I remember we went to the

shop and I ordered them. I was messing we went to Montana and I

went to Edmeth and with Casey in case he's like just run top

dragster and would burn. I was like, I don't have my license

like I don't have seven points. I don't have a 15 suit. He's

like, I think we're you're getting we're in Montana. He's

like, you're gonna do it or not because you're gonna do you

need to order everything now. So it's like, okay, so I

ordered it. And we didn't get the seven points in my car.

And I don't have my car's not fast enough for a 750 license. So

I could have got my top dragster license, but I wouldn't

have gotten my advanced. So luckily, he let me make three

rounds and his on Wednesday, I get my actual license. And then

actually my first ever my first ever top dragster is I ended

up winning.

It was never in top dragster again. Just clear one one

for one.

Yeah, buddy, retire on top. It was funny to like in the

staging lanes, because I mean, especially like the blower cars

like in with the big wings like top dragsters are big. Your car

looked like a hot wheel park next to some of those things.

I was running Supercop and TD and I brought me, Casey and

Ty all right up dead last for TD. And we're looking or trying

to count back because like there's two full lanes. And

we're like, is there gonna be 50 cars? I mean, I'm not

going to qualify. Like, and all of a sudden we're like, wait,

there's golf carts, there's wheelie bars are all 270 inches

like just I think they're gonna be in like 43 or something.

Yeah, still a lot. But like it wasn't as close as we thought

it was going to be.

Yeah, those cars are huge, man. And it was that was that

was a neat divisional. It was a pretty impressive top

sportsman in top dragster field at that divisional in

particular. And it was fun to watch, man. It was cool to

see you park. What were you down? 780? 60, 64. Yeah. Funny

story a little dig on Ty since he had a dig on me earlier

here. Me in case you're both one for one in top dragster

divisional, like our personal event, and I believe he

run it up. So it's just he's almost there.

Got work to do, Ty.

Come on, Ty. Can't just win your first top dragster

national event or something.

Divisional have a national because that's what this

kind of is. He's about to make a comment about me not

having. Yeah, there's like 18 comments.

Here's one of them.

This is a big who is one person that he can't beat and

why is it Luke in a junior dragster?

I believe I believe me and Luke ran once in juniors and I

believe I was 100 and was up and on the train. I think he

was 80 on the tree and I did not win.

And I'm like, this is like we like I left school early. It

was a Friday night at Pacific. I got out of school like

dad picked me up with the junior hanging out the back

of the truck. He's like, we're gonna go to Pacific for

like this night race and drive home. I remember I was

swimming 2015 or 2016 because I had Ashley's car because

my car was broke. I remember I got Luke and I was like, my

dad's like, this is a far kid like he's gonna be good. And

I'm like, yeah, I like I know like, I know, I know who Luke

was. I was like, that's fine. I remember late got back. We

were both not great loaded up and drove all the way and I

didn't run Luke ever again in the junior.

These guys are taking every opportunity they got to take

here because there's no other place they can take shot. They

can't take them on the track. So they're getting these licks in

right here.

They're, they got to dig way back in the archives.

We got to bring up old stuff.

JD won't bring up anything because I don't think he's

beat me in a junior.

How about a big car?

Think we're five and one.

I don't know if I should post this or not, but what is your

favorite maple syrup brand?

See, I'm glad I made that comment now.

How about your this is this one comes from Casey. It's a

it's not controversial.

Top three race cars you've driven in your career. Best or

favorite whichever way you want to go with it.

I hate to do this.

Jenny is number one, which is his dragster.

Jenny, he knew that he just wanted to hear you say yes,

like fours and gump, then a yes.

And then my car would be second and I don't third is

probably Dylan guy's diamond dragster is probably third.

That's really smooth.

It's really smooth. I just I don't know if I can put it

over minor cases.

Hold on. Chris Sullivan's calling me. I think he wants

me to drive his car. He wants me to drive his cars now.

So you're a big dragster guy.

Big dragster guy.

So you're going to let me drive the Mustang at a

Troy's race in if it's together.

It's not together currently.

Well, we know you can't mechanic.

So who do I need to talk to about finishing it?

Barry, Barry needs to finish the roll bar in it.

All right, Barry.

Putting James Green on blast. Come on, Barry, don't let

Parker down. Well, Ty probably be in that thing.

Maybe he'd drive his dragster now knows.

I'm sure. I'm sure Ty will be driving something.

You let him drive that thing a little bit.

Yep.

And that's your Portland car, right?

That's your.

Yeah. Yeah.

And it's together when it's together.

Although I wasn't home last year, so it

wouldn't really matter to anyways.

Because we took a part last

last spring and was like, I'm going to do this on

cheaper side, like he's just going to get a roll bar

or no front end stuff or anything because we got a 406

for it.

And then I'd won the one the million and then it was

like, hey, we're going to do suspension stuff.

We're going to do this and that.

And then it's just as all project cars go, there's

nothing that happens quick.

Always when you have a running one.

Yeah.

I've been dreading taking mine apart.

I've still got like I could go race it tomorrow.

It's on jack stands.

I haven't touched anything.

It's fire up and race tomorrow.

I'm dreading taking it apart because

I haven't touched it really since I put it together.

And there were some things that I didn't quite get

how I wanted them.

You know, I got them good enough to get to the track

that weekend and then I didn't want to take it apart.

I wanted to keep racing.

And I know that this I've raced it enough now

and there's certain things that I'm tired of enough

that I know that the minute I take it apart this time,

I'm going to take it way apart.

And I don't know how long it'll take me to get back together.

So it's there she sits.

But yeah, I don't know, man.

It's it's one of those things that it's snowballs pretty quick.

Once you, you know, once you get going down the road

and there's so many nice shiny parts out there.

Or while having a part, we'll do this too.

We got to know that the story behind this.

Cooper is the only person to run her up a race

and get more money than the winner.

Do you know what this is about?

Yeah.

What Lane, what event was this at?

They'll show up in the comments.

Oh, was it I was when I ran him in the final, I think,

and we did it like a 15 percent or 10 percent kickback.

And we did a 10 percent or 15 percent kickback.

And with the runner up money and the kickback included,

I had like more money than he did.

That's I don't think we realized like the

because they add like bonuses on top, like cash bonuses.

And we didn't factor that in when we made the deal.

And I think like the cash bonus was like six hundred bucks

to two hundred bucks or something.

And like, I ended up with more money by a little bit after the fact.

That's funny.

See, Coop knows how to will and deal.

Yeah, man.

You've you've answered this question before.

And I think you picked.

I think you picked that 90 racing when someone asked you.

Which what you like better,

class racing or bracket racing.

Now that you've had the kind of success you've had

on the bigger stages in big money bracket racing.

What do you what do you like to do best, man?

You like you still like the the dot 90 stuff or

do you do you see yourself shifting more towards chasing the big checks?

I know you're going to chase a championship this year, but.

Dot 90 stuff for me, like, until I won a national,

you don't feel like I've done enough, like.

But is that necessarily like more fun?

I don't know. That's a tough question, because they like I like both of them

because they both have a different pace of speed, like bracket racing

and making a ton of runs and dot 90 stuff.

Like there's more there's more thought that goes into it.

You have more time to hang out with friends.

Like there's there's pluses and minuses to both that we're using

while I come probably evenly.

So one thing I wonder about with people who have cars

that are that are on the slower end, right?

You're you're still running dot 90, but you're on the stop less.

Right? You're off to stop quicker, usually, than your competitor.

So it turns it turns it almost into a bracket race

for you driving as the slow car, which is something

you're very comfortable with over the years, often been the slower car.

Do you hesitate to to maybe get something faster?

Do you feel that look?

Does it does it feel like a bracket race to you

because you're off to stop and gone and then back and into everybody all the time?

Yeah, I mean, because they're essentially the same thing,

but the only difference, the main, the biggest difference is like

in bracket racing, like you can have a good idea of how much someone's holding

and if you pay attention to that, there's none of that in the 90.

Like you're going to be going eight eighty, you have no way of knowing.

Yeah, and that I don't know.

That's that's probably what my answer to that, like.

You have no basis on what someone's doing

because they're typical, what they do, but that doesn't mean they do.

Like there's no there's no math behind that.

Yeah, that is one of the things I love about super class racing, where.

Nobody knows how much you're holding.

You can hide it all in your timer number, really.

It's not going to show up on the dial and board.

And just figuring out the throttle stop settings

is another challenge in itself.

I think it's fairly easy anymore with as good as the parts

are that you can buy to make a good racquet car.

But to make a good super comp car and be a good super comp

driver is another thing.

And I think you've got that pretty well nailed down as well.

Well, I got a good super car to start with, so.

I don't know about that.

You make it better than I ever did.

How do you, especially in the super class racing coupe, like as someone

who's not, you know, super into the mechanical side of things,

who's responsible for that for you?

How do you keep that thing dialed in and run in the number

as someone who doesn't like to turn the screws and and stuff?

I mean, a super comp, at least, at least from what my setup is,

like the converters are a loose, like it's not you said, really,

you really got to know weather for the most part.

Like it's not like a super shoot car or a super gas car

that they'll move eight hun.

They don't work to 60 like super.

I don't know how partners of this with super comps way easier to set up.

And it's essentially rack arrays with a little bit more variable

because eighth mile and wind.

But in terms of dialing wise or setting up, it's not.

Once you have a good setup, it's not.

You don't change it everywhere you go, per se, at least from my mic for my car.

Parker, you were talking about him turning the wrenches.

I've seen converter swaps talking about coupe being a crew chief.

I've seen mad dashes to swap out a converter.

I think one time there was a flex plate, maybe with something busted.

Everybody all hands on deck.

Cooper got clean hands, baby.

Down there like a real like a real crew chief.

I got a really good picture of his dad shoved up in their arms,

deep in their JD's arms, deep in there.

Everybody covered in grease to the elbows.

Coupe looking like he just got out of the shower.

Hey, when when you know what you're supposed to do, like Cooper,

you keep if I try and help there.

It's going to be it's going to be longer.

I'm going to get yelling for trying to back up.

Are you a good tool finder, though?

Hmm, I'm OK. That's always my job.

Whatever you do.

If if Casey ever needs like screws to like screw in

or you're screwing in the vent on the trailer.

Don't ask me. I'll grab the wrong tool.

All right. No, sorry. Sorry.

In his ways, I grabbed I grabbed what would work.

But I didn't grab the correct one.

Mm hmm.

He wanted one magnet on the end, and I didn't grab that one.

We were talking to Kathy and Cal last week, and she was telling us how

that the trailer was far enough away last time they were on a mattress here.

She had time to Google what the tools look like.

So she knew it's the right one to grab.

I don't think Coop is quite that level, unless he confesses.

I'm not not to that level, but.

You got to be specific on what you asked for, because he didn't.

OK, Wayne, how old was I in that, though?

I was not recent.

I've also got.

I would have stared at you for that, too, for for having a 12 point.

Well, we know what it is now, huh?

Yeah.

He's that was not a couple of months last weekend.

Coop, so you're going to chase a natty.

Does that mean you're going to deprioritize big money stuff?

I mean, I know you've got the Tucson race sprinkling million on the calendar.

Everything after that just kind of figuring it out.

Or you got you got anything else that's on your calendar for sure this year?

I've kind of I've kind of planned out through through August.

So I go to Boise in May or on the summer showdown and kind of run

some all the other trace stuff kind of comes to us in that in that sense.

I'll go back up to Edmonton over July for the other 25 granders

and then kind of see like this this Tucson, Vegas, you know, those two weeks

in Vegas, you could be out six grand if it doesn't go well.

So I kind of got to see how that goes.

If I'm going to be planning a thing to go back,

he is whether it's flying in or or whatnot,

I kind of got to see how that goes before I make my mind on up on what I've done.

Are you are you going to go up to the Sports Nationals and Mission this year?

Yep. Excited about that one.

That's probably probably top three. Very excited for this year.

I'm pretty stoked for that, too.

I got the call from my teams a couple of weeks ago

asking me to come up and be on the mic.

So going to be fun.

I haven't been to Mission since before you had to had to.

You didn't have to have a passport back in the day, you know.

So it'll be it'll be interesting to get across the border

and going to be a lot of fun, man, looking forward to that event for sure.

What what goes into crossing the border nowadays is you have to.

I know like my friends from Mexico,

they have their trailers searched and all sorts of stuff.

So is it quite as detailed?

The few times I've gone back and forth this year

hasn't been too bad, like coming into Montana

when we went to Yellowstone with Casey,

like I had to go in the trailer.

I turned my check around.

So like if they did open the trailer, they didn't see it.

But they grilled us pretty good.

Well, you went to Dallas.

They made us open the trailer, the agent walked through the trailer.

Then he came in the motorhome, walked through, checked the fridge.

And like we've never had deep search.

Like I've never been deep searched like that before.

But yeah, it's just weird.

Like if you get a good agent and get a bad agent, just kind of depends.

They have nothing going on.

It's not busy.

You're probably getting by opening up and looking.

Sounds like that agent was just 100 if he was looking in the fridge.

I've been told that the best thing you can tell him is you're just going to watch.

You ain't going to work.

You ain't going to race.

You're going to spectate.

Yeah, you don't you don't tell them you're going to work.

That's for sure.

Yeah, they've grilled me pretty hard.

Like when I go to Speedway next week, it's going to be like.

Are you here for work?

No, just just visiting.

And I was like, well, you visit already before.

Like I grilled me pretty last time or two times ago.

They're like, well, what do you what do you do?

Or where are you going to school for when I told him I was going to school?

And I'm like, that has no basis on why are you asking me what I'm in for school

in school for?

Like it wasn't like a oh, they want to know kind of way.

It was like it was a serious question.

Well, they got to see if you keep it up, right?

Because it's like you could say that and get through the next time.

But then but then you got it.

They got to see how well developed your story is, man.

And if you had a stumble there and been like, well, you know, they would have known they would have known.

We got to we got to ask this question.

Maybe maybe you can answer this one.

What is the Sorenson method for when you're nervous?

This is about my mother.

I'm not I'm not going to answer that.

That'd be a banquet.

So what would you normally say at the start of a banquet to make you not nervous?

Just picture everybody naked and include my mother in that.

That would be what Sorenson and Casey did last week at the banquet.

Gorgeous.

Oh, man.

It's a good question.

I just got good questions.

Who needs enemies when you got buddies like that?

Is there any questions you want to ask us maybe to maybe to get back at your buddies?

No, no, I think I'll all it outside this time.

No, we're getting high road, high road, baby.

Nothing but class from Cooper Chung.

Cooper is way more classy than I'll ever be.

That's why he's D6's most eligible bachelor.

Yeah, that's it.

That's why I probably heard that five times after Casey made his speech.

It was in Tori's speech.

It wasn't someone else's.

And well, it's clear that you're part of the family, you know, across the race and world out here.

Everybody knows who who you are on the other side of the Rocky Mountains, too.

You know, you've hinted a little bit about some of the people that have been important to your journey.

But you know, who do you want to shout out while you've got this platform for.

For what they've done and what they mean to you as you've been on this journey.

No, I think it starts with, you know, my family, all my buddies,

trying to mention them all Dalton, JD, Ty.

Oh, God, this is why I shouldn't have started this.

No, forget somebody else.

If you lose someone out, you're going to be on the high list.

You already lost one of your Jags to rides this year.

Oh, no, he we're mad at him right now.

That was that was a that was a personal leave out now.

It's now ruined it.

My bad, you know, Eric Bowman, Dylan Guy from back East, everyone.

I don't know.

Just I'm meeting a lot of a lot of cool people this year.

Pleasures for sure.

So when I go back and race for him and.

I don't know.

I'm going to pleasure in two weeks for a week.

So that'll be fun.

That will be fun.

You know, one one guy who doesn't forget who to thank every single

pass you make is your dad, my dad.

And I love it's like it's become one of the things I love

about his live streams as you go up there.

If you have any question about what kind of breaks, tires, all of it, valve

stem caps, you want to know anything about Cooper Chum's car?

Just watch one of David's live feeds and and he will get every

single manufacturer every single time.

And I used to laugh at it and now it's something I've grown to love

man who's your racing tires, land brakes, Tabor automotive

598 I used to kind of have the whole thing and I love it and

I love that he that he appreciates the brands and the people that

support you that much.

It's fun to watch.

Have a pretty good support system behind me, whether it's people

or companies for sure.

All right.

What else you got, man?

I got I got one final question for you Coop before we wrap

this thing up.

What are you looking for in a girlfriend and how can girls

get a hold of you?

Nice.

This is a casey question.

If you were wondering, I knew this was a casey question.

Oh, they got to be able to go to the racetrack.

That's a good one.

Let's name three.

Three.

That's three qualities one three qualities.

Put me on the perfect girl.

The perfect girl.

She goes to the racetrack.

Is she a racer also?

Yeah, because that's only what we probably really understand unless

you get really lucky.

I got pretty lucky.

That's true.

I do not like these questions.

I hate these questions.

Oh Chad Simonton said she got to have a booty.

Sure.

We'll go with that one.

You got it.

You got to love going to the races.

You got to be a racer and you got to be packing heat.

That's I think those are pretty good qualities myself.

I mean, that's a I think that's a pretty good a pretty good

picture that you're painting.

Coop.

Man, just really appreciate again you taking some time.

Anybody who's watching, of course, we've all been watching

you and it's been it's been a pleasure, man, and it's been

cool to see like I said, you go from somebody who everybody

knew had promised to literally being one of the best in the

world and you've done it with class and you've done it

with grace every single step of the way.

And I think I think that's something that just elevates

your standing even more.

There's a lot of people that are really good, but their

assholes and you're not one of those guys and and it's

something I think that the larger community appreciates.

It makes you approachable and and it makes you somebody

that that we can all aspire to to be like man and you

know, young fella like yourself.

There's a whole lot of us out here that all we want to

do is be like Coop and I appreciate you and congratulations

on all you've accomplished not only this year, but along

the way in your career.

Well, thank you.

I enjoyed coming on tonight and look forward to the race

with all you guys this year.

All the boys owe you like everybody owes you something.

See, when they're on these shows, I hope that they'll

do the same, but I'll be in the chat and I'll make it

I'll make it hell for them with no with no repercussions.

Only guy that wins is Casey and that was because of you.

So I don't know if they'll any we'll have any of them on.

I want to add a fourth.

Like a fourth quality.

White toes toes toenails toes.

Race car driver who loves to go to the races big old booty

and white toenails.

Oh and number five Giovanni said likes maple syrup.

Sure.

Perfect.

All right.

How do they get at you?

Follow him on Facebook Instagram slide into his messenger.

There you go.

I haven't seen Coop post like especially for your generation.

It's funny like I don't like you take a long time to scroll

through Facebook before you found a post on his page

that was actually from him.

I don't post very often.

No just gets tagged like it's a pretty active Facebook page

but it's just everybody else tagging him so they can be

associated with with the greatness of Cooper Chun.

Super Cooper Chun.

Thank you so much brother.

I can't wait to see you this year.

I wish you all the best of luck and I know you're going

to do some great things and we'll all be watching.

We'll all be cheering for you man.

No problem and I look forward to listen to you wherever

we are whether it's on YouTube or where it's at.

Yeah brother and I'm sure I'll see partner in a month.

Oh yeah we'll see you in Phoenix Phoenix.

Thanks again Coop.

We'll see you next time.

Yeah everybody.

Cooper Chun; Is there anything he can't do?

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seven point belts

blower cars

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