NASCAR is a type of car racing that happens mostly on circular tracks. It's famous in America and has many fans who watch the races and follow the drivers.
A go-karting track is a place where people can race small, fast cars called go-karts. It's a fun activity for kids and adults, and the tracks can be simple or have lots of turns and features.
The F4 series is a beginner racing league for young drivers. It helps them learn how to race in open-wheel cars, which are cars without bodywork around the wheels, like those seen in Formula 1.
Formula 1 is a top-level car racing series where teams compete in fast, single-seat cars. They race on different tracks around the world, and it's known for its high speeds and advanced technology.
Circuit of the Americas is a famous racetrack in Texas where many big car races, including Formula 1, take place. It's designed to be exciting for both drivers and fans.
A road course is a kind of racetrack that has lots of turns and hills, making it different from a flat, oval track. It's where cars can race in a more exciting way.
Las Vegas is a famous city in Nevada known for its fun activities and events, including car races. Many people go there to watch or participate in racing.
The San Paolo Grand Prix is a car race that is part of the Formula 1 series, taking place in São Paulo, Brazil. It's an exciting event where drivers compete for points in the championship.
The Autódromo José Carlos Pace is a racetrack in São Paulo, Brazil, where Formula 1 races are held. It's known for its hilly layout and exciting atmosphere.
CVT means Continuously Variable Transmission, which is a special kind of car transmission that allows for smooth acceleration without shifting gears.
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Hudson was a car company that made vehicles until 1954. They were known for their unique designs and performance, but they stopped making cars after that year.
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The center of gravity is the point where a car's weight is balanced. If it's lower, the car is more stable and handles better, especially when turning.
American Motors Corporation was a car company created when Hudson merged with another company in 1954. They made various cars, including some that were quite popular.
The Chevrolet Impala is a car that was first made in 1957. It was a fancy version of another car called the Bel Air and is known for its stylish look with fins and shiny parts.
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Mars has this week in auto history
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Yeah
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Mars yeah, well refrigerator running. Let's go to California. Okay, let's do it. Okay, go ahead
There he is good morning good morning ladies and gentlemen
Truly Adams a 15 year old racing phenom live from Riverside, California. Are you do you live in Riverside?
I live in Merino Valley, Merino Valley. Okay, did you know you you're not old enough to have ever gone to Riverside
You've heard of Riverside. I'm sure no, I actually own we own a track in Riverside called Adam's Moser's Park
Which I'm actually at right now. Oh
Really there they still have a track in Riverside. Yes, it's been here for 65 years
Oh my god, was it a competitor to the Riverside?
Race track that NASCAR and all rayon around on back in the day. That's I understand some neighborhood now
Yeah, but no not really. It's it's more of a go-karting track. So where we all
Before you start going into NASCAR and all that stuff
Got you. Are you are you really 15 years old?
Yes, I am really 15 years old
Now that green looks 15, but he doesn't sound 15 and he doesn't look no and he doesn't act at you
That's why I hold you are Mike. Yeah. Yeah, don't ask
Yeah, well Mars is really old. So we don't have to worry about that. So you you're at the track right now. Yes, I am
What do you got on the agenda today?
Today's agenda we were we were testing for Supernats, which is the biggest race of the year
so that's in two weeks, so I'll be driving a little bit today and
Just hanging out and what will you be driving? I'll be driving a KZ cart, which is the fastest in a
Fastest fastest motor in a go-kart. So okay, is it a shift? Is it a shifter cart?
Yeah, it's a it's a pro class
Pro-clash, so pro-class all of them have shifters
Yeah, pro-class is either shifters or a cart name X 30
So it's it's a direct drive and in and it's clutch driven. So it's more of a
It's easier than I'd say easier than a shifter, but it's it's almost like an automatic then yes. Yes
Yeah, so how fast are we talking here? I've hit around
92 to 93 miles per hour
And this and this is like a road course. Yeah, it's it's a road course probably around
Half a mile or a little bit more
How many turns?
Can range probably like 14 I think 14 or 15
So you really have to be on your game to do this and your butt sitting what an inch off the ground
Probably less less
Yeah, I am absolutely fascinated and you know
I was looking at your
All of the information on you and I'm going this guy is really really impressive
Can't be 15. He's done too much. Yeah, exactly
So
Who is it that is behind is it your dad your mom?
Who is it that supports you in all of these efforts? Because let me tell you something as a volleyball parent
we spent a
Fortune on club volleyball. I can only imagine the expense that goes into your upbringing, sir
Yeah, it's a little bit different than that
Yeah, to say the least. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's my mom helps a lot my my dad does too. He's a pretty good coach sometimes
So sometimes you know what he's talking about. We'll see in the future, but it's most parents are that way. Yeah
All right, so how what propelled you to get into this sport?
More of that I wasn't good at any other sport and this is kind of my my future as where
I've been racing for now 11 years and it's it's something that I love to do
So you started when you were four. Yes
And what what was it that you drove it four years old?
Well, I have four years old. I started racing key carts and and it was it's been a journey since there
Look, there you go tilt it down just a little tilt it down. No, no tilt it down forward
Helmets as big as he is
Bigger than he is. Yeah, exactly. That's a cool picture. Yeah, it is
So where are you in school at 15 you in middle school? No, I just went to high school
So it's it's a pretty different type of experience. I'm I'm all homeschooled. So that's the only fun part
I guess about the school right now, so
So and so it gives them an advantage. Is there is there a grade level that you are?
I'm ninth grade ninth grade. Okay. Yeah, so you would be entering high school, you know here locally
Yeah, nevertheless. Yeah, but to me I could see some advantages to that in your profession
Because it gives you a little more flexibility, but you never get away from it because if you go to France to race
Then your teacher come with you
I have an online teacher, so oh, it's not your parents. I thought your parents were might be doing it
I thought you'd never get away from school
No, no, I have an online teacher, but she kind of travels everywhere with me
You know I bring my computer so she can experience the the
Where you're at the thrill of victory in the agony of defeat world traveling. Yeah
So you're based out there in California and how often do you travel every weekend during racing season?
During racing season. Well really racing season never ends. So we're always traveling all all year. So testing
Yeah, yeah, so like next week. I might be testing a car and then the week after that
I'm racing a go-kart so it's every everything is we're all out all the time
So either if we're in France or we're in Texas or back at home racing, so
Wow, so you're doing the F4 series you're going to get in the F4 series
Yes, we're trying to get in the F French F4 series. So we'll see we'll hear about that in the next couple weeks
All right, we'll explain that to me because I'm not familiar with it cars or is it
Cards French F4 is just moving into the open open wheel right of cars
So it's like the entry level to the road a formula one
So you have for the F3 the nephew the net one
So it's kind of the open level and every kind of every country has it
So you have Italian F4 French
European so you have a lot of different kind of series
That that you can run but any series you want to run you always want to win it
Now that you say the difference here are the cars the same and all that know obviously the French F4 is it a different car than the
European F4 versus German F4. I mean is the car the same, but it's just different
location locations
So how it works is there's one company that makes all the cars which is a status and
Some of them are kind of different or it's either
It's
French F4. Let's say it's made by it's made by the same company, but have different parts on them
so it's kind of
Regulated towards the series
French F4 is an academy
So they don't let a lot of drivers into it
So it's more of a like a regulated base where it's all stock and they don't change anything
And then some series where they have what what I call an open setup
So the driver can change things on the car to worry what he feels you ever been to an F1 race
No, I have not and I've been trying to go for a long time
Yeah, we just had one here at Kota circuit
The America was just here for a few weeks ago. Yeah, and if you ever get an opportunity to visit Texas
You must you must go to circuit of the Americas
I have just a regular plane Corvette and I went to a Corvette event one time where we got to ride
Actually drive our car Corvettes on the road course. It is truly phenomenal
With elevation changes all of the turns you'll have to look it up and you'll go wow
Yeah, I definitely want to race this. Let me ask you this
You're one of six drivers that was selected from a whole bunch of folks like 62 or 65 65 drivers
You're you're one of six selected. Yeah, I was one of the six selected to
run it and run up front which is
Kind of very very cool to be up front and to be the only American to ever get
Third or actually ever get into the finals of feed racing
So that's a it's a pretty cool thing that I've been able to accomplish and
I just I'm so grateful that I could be a part of that legacy
That's awesome. What's your driving style like are you are you do you push the limits you put them in the fence?
Rubbin's racing. How do you do that?
More of a Robbins racing kind of guy. Yeah, there you go. Yeah
Use the whole track
How tall are you? How much do you weigh? I'm about six foot and I weigh 170. What's your girlfriend's name?
I don't got one. Oh
Got time. Yeah, you don't have time for one yet. Yeah, cuz they'll all come running up to you going. Yep. Hi
Go after the babes on the podium. That's what you want. That's the one you want and Mike knows. Yeah, Mike knows Mike doesn't know
No, Mike Mike Mike watched a lot. They watched a lot. That's that's what it was. Yeah
All right, so what did you say that your next event is good? Is it gonna be there in California?
No, my next event is gonna be in Nevada in Las Vegas
So it's called supernats and it's the biggest one of the biggest car races in the world
So it's it's a big race and there's a lot of drivers either from Europe or all over the world come into race
Now is is it a is it a track built for go-karts? No, it's actually a parking lot. Oh
Okay, seriously a big parking lot. Yeah
In an event that I know that there is a facility out in Perump, Nevada that I had the opportunity to go to out there
for
it was
alpha
It was an alpha event and they took all these alphas out there and
It was a great time, but that track was as flat as a board
And you had to really perfect your driving skills with this car. It was a souped up alpha
But it wasn't really about all of that. It was about driving skills and how you get around the corners and I I know that
From from watching go-karting I
You know did the rental thing
for a number of years before my back went out, but
I know that doing that it's all about entering turns getting out of turns and then
You put in a bunch of other carts next to you and all around you
Even if you're at the lead you wind up getting to the back end of the front pack
And it's it's driving skills and it's also how you handle the cart itself and obviously you're very good at it
Yeah, it's it's crazy how you can have 60 to 70 drivers on one track
And we're all battling for the same thing and most of the time we're either
One tenth off of each other in the top 30 and then two tenths off of each other in the top
One tenth let me ask you that are all the drivers that when you rate are they all the same age?
It were within you know a few years of you are they're older folks that are are driving as well
There's a couple of my age and then there's a couple in their 20s and so it ranges got you me
I'm a little young
I've 15 which you should probably enter that class at probably 16
So I'm I'm a little young for this class, but
It's because I'm a little taller than everyone else. So it's a kind of kind of works out
You're one of those ringers on the baseball team. Yeah. Oh look at it. Look at little johnny over there
Oh, he's only five foot five and here comes
Here comes truly six foot tall and smacks that ball all the way out of the parking lot out there out of center field
That's good
So obviously all these guys are about the same
Caliber as you since y'all all pack up that tight
I mean that's got to be kind of even a little more pressure on you knowing these guys were good too
Yeah, it's crazy how all these guys have been racing since they've been kids
And we all kind of grow up
to become
The best we can be and all all of these drivers
I have tons of respect for because
It's it's hard to do what they do at at such a high level and
at this point
In this carting career that I've had it's it's been really
Cool. I've made a lot of cool relationships and all these guys are just
Much better than you do you think if they went into a car and they didn't have enough money to
To be on a top team. I still think they could go win races
Very good
Well, so
Go ahead mike
Yeah, so so you're basically in a feeder system up to get up to f1
Have you looked at nascar or anything else or you just really focused on that on the open wheel?
I've done. I've driven a legend car. I've done oval stuff. I'm not great at oval
I do not turn like turn and left and and turn right at the same time. So that's not really my thing
And it's not that I wouldn't try it. It's more of a
I'm not that great in it and I like it great
But you haven't had a lot of experience in it either. I would imagine you know
Listen, if you're a race car driver, you're ready to race and drive anything in my book anyway
And if and if if you see something in your career down the line, you could be you could be a team principal
You could you know get into the engineering aspect so that your doors are wide open
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm into doing anything
Anything I could went in I say so
Yeah, you got it's the same kind of thing when you get into pro sports of any kind
There is a certain drive
That to be competitive in whatever it is that you choose
You've got to be very good very focused and you got to have a little attitude and we know we're athletic
Oh, yeah, you're athletic. You can tell by looking at us. Yeah, that's for sure. Well, listen, man
It is a real pleasure to talk to you
Where can where can we go online to find out more about you and follow you?
So you could go on truly underscore the truth on instagram, which is truly underscore the truth. Okay. Yes
Okay, and you post lots of stuff on there and you have a lot of supporters
Yeah, I think I've about right now 10,000 followers
Nice nice on instagram. Yeah, so send us a couple of them. Yeah
Yeah, we'll borrow them for a couple of days. Yeah, and if nothing else
I mean you could say hey
We were on that award-winning in wheel time car talk show out of houston. You could do that
I'll do that and then no unfriend you
Yeah
Yeah, just only tell your close friend. Yeah, truly Adams. It's a it's a true pleasure to be with you this morning
Thank you very much for joining us. It's saturday morning. Get to it. My friend. You got lots to do today. Yes. Thank you
We hope to talk to you again and kind of keep up with your career
Yeah, let's do we definitely will yeah be in touch with us. Let us know how things are going truly Adams our guest this morning
from riverside france
France no riverside california
There you go
Magni
Coors france very good. I don't know where the races are, you know, yeah, well, whatever the case may be
Yep, it doesn't make any sense. If it needs help with french, uh
I know a retired french teacher. So yeah, yeah, who's that jenny?
You're my son-in-law's mother. Yeah, there you go. Whatever. David. Whatever. Got his name from never mind. Thank you truly
Yeah, thank you very much. We appreciate you. Okay
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Thank you for that since we're talking about f4 formula 4
We're going to go with starting out with formula 1 the san paolo grand prix. It is the 9th
11 a.m central standard time this one is going to be broadcast
It's going to be at the autodrome jose carlos pace in san paolo
It's a 71 lapper and there's only two more races. You know, jose querba was a friend of mine. Yeah, and the uh the
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Uh craftsman truck series champion was crowned last week and I didn't write down who won
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I was finishing overtime. I believe nevertheless, uh, november 1st
Which is today
The Xfinity series is in phoenix. That is tonight on the cw local channel
And then tomorrow you've got the other nascar boys the big boys in phoenix at 3 p.m on nbc
What it's the alabama game tonight lsu in alabama at brian denny stadium tuscalusa alabama
This is in phoenix roll tide. Well, okay
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And then uh, the seamah show opens tomorrow years ago when the houston
I believe houston race was going on the next race after was vegas
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Loading area of the plane and in the same area there and they were throwing dice in the corner
Of the airport him and his crew and i was talking to him and i said how much to get in the game because it's not what you get in
Is how you get out
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Speaking of which time now for mr. Mars this week in auto history. You got it queued up there, mic
Yes, sir. Got a few things that we found that we thought were pretty interesting this week in auto history. All right
Uh, starting with this week in 1909 general motors acquired the carter car company now
What's significant about this? Uh, they were in michigan
And but they were experimenting with a friction drive transmission
So they took and replaced the gears with a variable friction disc drive for smooth gearless
Operation know what that sounds like a so they marketed it as the car of a thousand speeds
Which is basically a precursor to the cvt's
So
William Durant with gm bought it up going to use it and wanted access to all the patents
And by 1915 the car was gone and gm kept all the patents on it
Moving on into 1954 the last real Hudson automobile rolled off the assembly line
Now he had been a symbol of innovation and performance
And and it had it stepped down what they called their step down design in 1948 because it lowered the car
Made it easier to get in out for one thing, but it also improved the center of gravity for improved handling
So they became excellent in nas car during the 1950s until they merged with nas calvinator in 1954 to take
Their worship refrigerators. They did. They did. Yeah. Yeah
And uh, they that but that's how they got to become the american motors corporation
So that's where it came from from Hudson looks like a lead sled almost that almost. Yeah. Yeah, and
Yeah, and uh 1957 was that on there. I don't know
Do what?
Never mind
Okay
So 1957 the chevrolet impala was introduced as the top trim of the bel air
I did not realize that it was a
A trim level when it first came out with this the tail fins and all the chrome and everything
It had the optional 283 that you could get in it for the v8 and it became a model of its own and uh
All kinds of impalas grew up until I had one in 1965 even that I really loved and wish I still had but uh
Didn't work out quite well or in a shot color. I'm telling you now. I was holler too up and down the drag
So then in 1970 the toyota silica made its debut at the 17th tokyo motor show
Motor show now. This was definitely targeting younger buyers and I remember when it came out everybody was oh, here's a little
Corolla hot rod is what it amounted to because they had rear wheel drive
1.6 liter four-cylinder engine and it was basically trying to tap into the pony car market at the time
And it gave toyota their performance reputation and uh, it was a really a big success for them over the years
In fact when they quit making it that they brought it back here a few years ago
Then in 1982 it's very significant because the honda manufacturer honda motor company
Became the honda of america manufacturing with a plant in mariesville, ohio
They started building the honda cord inside the united states
Now this is the first step in the japanese automakers actually becoming part of the u.s
Automotive industry. I mean they were importing before but now they're actually building cars here
And uh, of course their deal was you know efficiency quality and you know honda in particular was known for being a very reliable vehicle
And um, so that was just a few things that we saw this week in automotive history
All right. Well, thank you very much gm slashing production
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About this episode
Fifteen-year-old racing talent Truly Adams shares his journey from karting to competing in French F4, highlighting his recent podium finish. The discussion covers his experiences at the Riverside karting track, the challenges of balancing racing with school, and the dynamics of competitive karting. Truly also reflects on his aspirations in motorsport, the support from his family, and the unique aspects of racing in different series. The episode is filled with insights into the life of a young driver on the rise.
A 15-year-old American podiums in France, trains on a historic family kart track, and preps a KZ shifter for SuperNats—this conversation with Truly Adams puts you trackside with a teen who’s chasing F1 the hard way: one tenth at a time. We dive into how karting sharpens the instincts that matter—trail braking, rotation, race starts, and battling through 60-kart grids where the top 30 can be separated by a single tenth. He shares how he balances homeschooling, constant travel, and year-round testing while keeping the physical and mental edge to jump between karts and formula cars.
We unpack the ladder from French F4 to F3, F2, and ultimately F1, highlighting why an academy series with spec cars levels the field and spotlights driver skill. Truly explains differences between spec and open setup environments, how tire management and car feedback decide outcomes, and why selection to the Feed Racing finals was a crucial step. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to hit 93 mph an inch off the ground, or how temporary SuperNats circuits change strategy, this is the inside line.
Beyond the interview, we hit key motorsport beats: Formula One’s late-season stops, NASCAR championship weekend, and NHRA in Las Vegas. We add perspective with quick auto history snapshots—from friction-drive transmissions that paved the way for CVTs to the first Honda cars built in the U.S.—and check current industry headlines, including shifts in EV production. It’s a fast, informative ride for fans who love the craft, the calendar, and the deeper stories behind the stopwatch.
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