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Hello, welcome to CarCast.

I'm that promoter, D'Andrea, here with Bill Goldberg.

How are you?

You don't really know when we went through off-camera.

Sometimes it's a little bit of a debacle.

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All right, we've got some exciting things to talk about today.

We have Alexis DeGioria, a funny car driver coming on the show.

I want to talk about the bring-a-trailer auction that we have up.

That's kind of cool.

That's exciting as well, because we've been talking about that for a while.

And I know it's your first bring-a-trailer listing.

Yeah, I'm freaking out over here.

And I have some thoughts on that, too, like the bidding process.

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I was still working out regularly and turned 50.

I know, 50.

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And the other thing is, as I was working out, I don't feel like I was lifting heavy,

but I was sore more.

I was getting injured more.

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I don't know if you hit like diminished returns where it goes from there,

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I'd like to talk about my journey on this as well as have you guys on as part of the show.

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I've seen just about every fad throughout the last 59 years of my life.

Oh, I could imagine.

But as my father would say, when I went to chiropractor and actually helped my

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So let's bring her on and then we'll jump into it.

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Alexis DeGiorgio, welcome to the show.

Getting ready for a big drag race season.

I know you've got some very interesting news, big announcements as well.

So hopefully you're doing well.

Are you guys, you're already testing, you're getting ready, right?

It's coming up.

We tested all week last week.

We tested Tuesday through Friday and made 13 runs, three runs every day.

The last day we ran, we made four runs.

And yeah, we've got a couple more test sessions coming up on this next Tuesday and Wednesday

before the race.

And then of course we don't race Thursday or test Thursday because, you know,

they're going to be running sportsmen cars.

But yeah, we're getting ready for the very first race of the season.

I'm very excited.

If I remember it correctly, it would usually start with the Winter Nationals in Pomona.

But because we've, you've seen rain out there several times, I think it's kind of flipped.

It's like Florida, Arizona, and then Pomona.

Which it makes more sense for the schedule, you know what I mean?

Because originally we, yeah, we'd always start and finish in Pomona.

We'd go from Pomona and then all the way across the country to Florida and then all the way back.

But ever since COVID hit, you know, California was shut down for a way longer.

Florida opened up.

So they were like, come on over here.

We'll start the race here.

And it's been like that ever since, but it really does make more sense,

obviously financially for all the teams and the people have to drive across country.

Yeah, right, right.

Okay.

One of the other things we wanted to talk.

So we were just talking a minute ago off the air about cars, cars that we have.

And Bill's got his Porsche 911 up on bring a trailer.

We've been talking about it for a while now.

I love that.

I love Porsches.

And bring a trailer.

I've gotten two cars off of bring a trailer.

So it's one of my favorite car spots to get, get things off of.

So this is a Spirit Jackson guy, right?

And so I've never done, I've never done the bring a trailer experience.

And we had them on the show a number of times.

And I, through, you know, being the car freak that I am,

I've been watching it over the past year.

And I'm really impressed with what they do.

And so that's why we threw this thing up there.

And how fun that is, is that, I mean, the car, it's a beautiful car.

I, as a collector, want to give someone else the opportunity.

If they've lusted over this car, like I've been lusting over,

like Hemmy Cooters and stuff, my entire life,

then they deserve it more than I do.

And, and, you know, the, you know how it goes.

I mean, you got cars and some of them sit.

And this thing sat for four or five years without, you know, a mile put on it.

Yeah, that's, that's depressing.

I've got, I've got a lot of cars too.

And they're spread out all over the country.

And, you know, it's like, you hate to see it go,

but at the same time you want it to be, you know,

you want someone who's really going to be able to have the time

to really appreciate it and, and get to drive it.

You know, that's a great car.

That, and, and, and honestly, and I don't want to, you know, be the,

I don't know, be the sentimental guy, but, you know, what if,

what if a guy has wanted this his entire life

and he doesn't have any other aspirations

to have any other cars but this one.

And I've got it shoved in the corner, you know, of the garage.

So I don't know.

I mean, I hate to see it, you know, deteriorate over the years,

but I also would greatly, I would feel much better as the car guy.

If I could get someone else that experience, you know.

Exactly.

Also, it's a little snug for, for you.

Well, then there's that, you know.

What are you, what are you tall or something?

A little bit bigger than the normal moron, but, you know,

I gave it to my wife and, you know, as I see her driving her F-250

every 15 minutes, she, she doesn't drive the car.

Yeah. Well, you guys are in San Antonio or outside of San Antonio?

I don't know.

Yeah, we're outside of San Antonio.

And the backstory is, you know, I just, I'm going to bring this up in passing.

I, I was on the way to pick up a motorcycle at the aforementioned Jesse James's.

And I had a twin turbo and I pulled up in the twin turbo.

He falls in love with it.

I ended up trading it to him for one of my choppers and some money.

And then to replace that car, that's why I bought this, this 92.

Nice. Very cool.

More analog, you know, old school, no traction control, all that stuff.

And it's just, it's time to get rid of it.

Time to move on.

They're still fun, the manual shift.

I mean, if you have a Porsche, you've got to go through the gears.

I mean, there's nothing like it.

And then the way that they steer and handle around the corners,

they're the best handling sports cars.

I personally believe like a European sports car,

I think they're the best handling driving around anything really.

The different thing that I have experienced since I started prepping this car for sale

in driving it a little bit more than I have ever is the sensation that you're literally

on the road and the windshield is so open and the car is so low and everything's set the way

that it is that you feel as though you're riding right between the front two tires.

It's just a cool experience compared to these 1100 horsepower chargers and

challengers on drive every freaking day.

Yeah, those are big cars.

They're all big cars.

All the muscle cars in the collection are, you know, right.

Physically just big cars feel the weight.

59 Biscayne.

I got big monster cars and it's just the total other end of the spectrum.

But it's cool.

Yeah, I love it.

You've got to balance it out there, you know?

Yeah, but I mean, I'm a little, you know, larger than the average person.

Makes it difficult.

Yeah.

Alexis, what's in your garage?

What's part of your collection?

Oh, gosh.

Okay.

Well, I just sold, which I'm not happy about.

But again, I don't have the freaking space for it.

And I know someone was just like you said about the Porsche.

Someone out there has been dying to get this car, but I had an E63 wagon.

S class wagon.

Yeah, it was a black edition slam down.

It was like this really cool, like magnetic flat gray, you know, all blacked out windows.

It had all the carbon fiber, you know, pieces on it, front clip, rear and everything.

But that car is so badass.

I love it.

I miss that car.

People are like, oh, you have a Mercedes station wagon?

I'm like, no, it's not what you think.

Yeah, it's a little different.

They're like, yeah, it's a little, it's more a little bit more than a grocery getter.

But I sold that one recently.

I have a 1967 Chevelle SS that I've had since I was 17.

A little bury me in that car.

I'm never selling that car ever.

I got a 1959 Impala two door hardtop.

Nice.

No post.

Beautiful.

I have a 1971 Mercedes two, what was it, 93?

I forget the number sometimes.

I don't rate, I don't drive it very much.

Another one.

I've got a Range Rover supercharged autobiography.

Yeah, nice.

Oh, I've got a Toyota TRD Sequoia.

Okay.

That I raced for Toyota for a very long time.

And as a parting gift, they gave me the company card that I had requested.

So that was really nice.

That's nice.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's it for now.

That's good.

For now, for now.

For now.

So it's a good collection.

And then you, I think last time you were on the show, you were in California,

but now you're kind of based out of Texas, right?

So that's your home base.

That's where you keep most of the cars there.

You kind of have them scattered over.

No, actually, I have them mostly in California and Rhode Island.

On the farthest ends of the coast.

Yeah, it could be further apart.

No, no, I pulled everything out of Texas because I'm currently selling one house

and building another one out there.

So right now I've got my whole fleet, most of them out in Rhode Island and the Newport,

Rhode Island.

And then, of course, the classic, you know, the Chevelle and the Impala,

those are both in California right now.

Yeah, okay.

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Now, the big announcement for this year is you've joined John Force Racing.

And I think the first female outside of the family to join the team.

And I don't know that any of the families racing this year, right?

They're- That's it.

That's it.

This is the first season in quite a long time that Force actually ever.

What am I talking about?

John Force, yeah.

This is the first time in the history of John Force Racing

that a family member has not been racing for John.

And I am the first female.

Yeah, I am the first female that doesn't have the last name Force that's racing for John.

This is a new era for JFR.

Yeah, so it's pretty crazy to be a part of this.

And at this point in my career, it's like come full circle.

I mean, he signed my license, my nitro license.

That's right.

I won my very first round of pro competition against John Force in Gainesville, Florida.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's so much, so many things that just really connect it.

And it's a blessing.

And I feel incredibly grateful.

Yeah, it's huge.

When you were getting started and he signed off on your license,

no one would have thought we'd ever get John out of a car.

Like, we just thought he was going to be doing that forever, no matter what.

Like, he was just going to-

Yeah, that's like my dad.

He's never going to retire from working and running the family company like the same thing.

To take an act of God to change that.

And I was there when Force had his really bad accident.

I was actually next.

I was in the water box getting ready to go.

It was Sunday in Virginia, Sunday race day.

And John was right in front of me when that happened.

So that was a scary day.

You know, when the track goes silent, they turn off the jumbo tron.

And they're not saying anything for a good half hour.

You tend to, your mind tends to wander and think that, you know,

maybe he's not coming back from this.

So that was a really tough one.

But thank God, we saw him sit up on the gurney and he was like waving.

And we're like, oh, thank God.

All right, get back in the cars, guys.

We're doing this.

This is like, oh, Jesus, talk about a roller coaster of emotions, my God.

But that's the sport we are in.

And, you know, these cars are a lot safer than they used to be.

Sometimes it takes catastrophic events like that

to implement safer, you know, safer things on the car.

And so I've been through that myself

when my parachutes ripped off the car in English town

back in the day when I raced out called Funny Car.

And now they have a tether system

and they're not just welded to the rear end of the car.

Yeah, I'm friendly with Melanie Troxel and she, her story was that the car,

like I think the car shut down.

She shut it down at the end of the Pomona and then when they come over

and they grab like the ATV and they push it next to it, something happened.

And when they started back up, it fired it back up, right?

So it was still getting, I guess, some sort of spark.

And it turned it over.

And she went through the fence and through like a building.

And her thought was, oh my God, somebody's in this building.

It was like a mobile home type building.

She's like, somebody's in there, somebody's in there.

And I think, thank God, nobody was in there.

But she was just like, what?

Like the craziest stuff can happen.

Really?

I mean, it's not over until the car is shut down

and you are off the track, out of the car.

That's it.

I mean, now we have kills.

We have kills that shut that down.

It is.

Definitely.

Yeah.

And you're right.

And it goes off like a loaded gun.

Even just pushing it and firing it up.

100%.

It launches.

So yeah.

So it happens.

It's just like a projectile that you're not in fully control of.

So yeah.

Six G's off the line.

And then a negative six G's when we hit the parachute.

So it's pretty violent.

How does the process go when you get offered a seat

on John Force Racing Team?

Does he just send you a text and be like,

what are you doing next season?

Or because you know him already?

Or is it?

He's not a texture.

That man, he calls.

He calls a lot.

And I am like, every time I see his name come up on my phone,

I'm like, oh, it's John Force.

He seems like a very hands-on guy.

Yeah.

I just instantly go back to like child mode.

I'm like, yes, yes.

So he gives you a call.

That's how it starts.

He gives you a call.

Or is he like, hey, do you want to come out and visit?

I want to talk to you about some?

Or is you just do it right there over the phone?

So I had spoken with Robert Height over a year ago

when John had already had gotten out of the seat.

And they were talking about bringing on a third funny car.

And Austin Prok was driving already.

But they wanted to bring on a third.

They were talking about bringing on a third funny car.

And I already had a JFR chassis that I had tested with Dell

when I was racing with Dell.

And I loved it.

I mean, their chassis are just they perform the best of the best driving cars

that I've ever experienced in my career so far.

I mean, they just stick and shoot.

I mean, those cars are just are very straight.

And, you know, we talked about it.

The crew chiefs were all on board and everything was good.

And then I think John wasn't quite 100%.

So they pumped the brakes a little bit because he was up and down about,

oh, I don't know if I want to add a third car, you know, because

at some point we're all going to be in the semifinals

and we're going to have to race each other.

And then you end up taking each other out.

And he's like, I've been through that before when I had three cars.

Or yeah, and it was just a lot.

So we'll just pump the brakes for now.

So luckily I was able to join Joe Maynard's team, JCM Racing,

and I got to work with Mike Neff.

And one of the guys from my old team came with me.

He's been with me since day one, Phil.

And so I had a familiar face.

And I've always wanted to work with Mike Neff.

So that was a great deal.

And I got that opportunity working with JCM.

And then it came back, you know, again,

it was like that towards the end of last year.

You know, I got the call again.

And it was like, hey, you still want to do this.

We're ready.

All right, let's pull the trigger on this.

And that's the call.

That's the opportunity to offer that when John Force asks you

if you want to be a part of the team, you say yes.

When you have been racing Nitro Funny Car from day one

and your goal is to win a championship, you say yes.

That is a dream come true.

And I know there's a lot of drivers out there

that would love this opportunity.

And I'm incredibly grateful and honored

to be a part of this team.

So you get the call, you get the offer from John Force.

Who's your first call?

Do you call team members?

You call your dad?

Who's your first call?

My dad, for sure.

My dad was like, oh, no way, really?

That's fantastic.

He's like, oh my gosh, that's amazing.

I mean, obviously my dad's been out there to races.

And he's been very supportive throughout the years.

And we've all obviously seen John Force

and all his team cars win more races than most.

And obviously he's won more championships

than anybody in Funny Car.

I raced against Courtney Force, his daughter.

I've been very familiar with his daughters and we're friends.

And so it's a family over there.

And he's a dad.

And one of the first things that John said to me

was that he's going to put me and the safest race car he can,

just like he would his own daughters.

My dad loved to hear that.

And he goes, tell your dad.

He goes, we'll do our best over here.

And at the end of the day, yeah, they're just 300 plus mile

an hour race cars.

And they're going to sometimes do what they want to do,

no matter if you're staring at it or not.

Right.

Yeah.

So when you check out now, obviously you

are familiar with the John Force racing operation,

but now sort of being invited there and sort of behind the scenes,

there's got to definitely be some differences that are happening

back there to make that team, a successful team,

but a legacy team.

And he's building not just a winning team

like everybody's trying to do, but something that is sustainable

as a team for generations.

It's not just going to be the family forever,

but having so much of the family still behind the scenes,

running a business.

Was it different?

Was it different to go and kind of see it and check it out or?

Yeah.

I had never been to John Force's race shop in Brownsburg, Indiana.

I had never been to his shop in Yoruba Linda,

which is also a museum.

I've never been to either one of them.

Oh, OK.

Yeah.

So going in there was a wide-eyed event for me.

I was like, man, just act like you've been here before.

Just keep your cool.

Like pinching myself.

I'm like, yep, this is real.

It's not a dream.

Walking through there and just seeing all the trucks lined up

inside the shop, the machine shop,

all the bodies stacked up on these lifts.

And it just goes for a frickin' ever.

Just incredible.

And like I said, I had run John Force chassis this last year,

so I got really familiar with it, and I love driving them.

And I came in with these two chassis,

and John was like, nope, we're building brand new stuff.

Everything's going to be brand new.

So that's just a testament to how they run their stuff.

And everything is set up exactly the same.

Obviously, different crew chiefs,

but they all try to make them exactly alike.

There's going to be little nuances,

like different pedal setups, and the drivers obviously,

like we are different.

We'll pull different brake pressures or leave different.

Just there's little funky little things

that come with different cars.

You could set them up exactly the same.

They're not always going to run exactly the same.

But the brain trust that they have is unparalleled.

When you started testing the past week or so, a couple of weeks,

I know you were in that chassis already,

but even the past couple of weeks testing with John Forrest Racing,

is that process has been different?

Are you already finding out things

that you've never even seen before, or is it?

Yeah, it is a little different the way they have the reverser handle.

So in all the cars I've ever run before,

the reverser, when it's back, that's forward.

And when the reverser is forward, that's back.

In the Forrest cars, back is back, forward is forward.

So that was a little different.

I had to get used to that.

It doesn't sound like much, but with a drag racer,

it's like the Princess and the P.

You change one tiny little thing,

and we're going to be like, oh my god, this is a big deal.

It's like rotating the earth.

So I had to get used to that.

They do run their cars a little bit differently.

They have them on the high side all the time.

I'm not trimming the fuel like I've done in the past.

Shorter burnouts, backing up a lot quicker.

I'm racing a Chevrolet SS body,

which is something I've never raced before in competition.

I raced on the street.

I like how you end that.

Legally, I've never enough.

Never got paid to race one.

Well, if you win, you get paid on the other one.

I have always loved Chevy.

So this is just really perfect.

It's amazing, honestly.

It's like it's just come full circle.

It feels right.

Yeah. Okay.

This is going to be exciting.

I was out a few years ago.

You were on a car cast a little while back.

You came into the studio, came out to the races,

and thanks for the invitation.

And it's always so active in the pits over there.

I remember meeting your dad briefly,

and I don't know what his role was other than just to be dad,

but he was buzzing around and as active as anybody on the team.

He seemed super into it.

Usually he's got more energy than anybody else.

I know, no matter what their age is.

I don't know how he does it.

He does these things where if he has a moment,

it'll take like a 20-minute power nap, not 25, not 30, 20 minutes.

20 minutes is like the magic number.

And he gets his little like, I don't know.

If I had a fraction of that energy,

I'd be cutting like oh, 10 lights every time I go up there.

It's amazing.

But he's out there helping me.

Speaking from a older man perspective,

if you do 25 on the nap, you get tired after 20,

but if it's not been 20, then you're fully energized and you're ready.

Is that it?

You do it, too, huh?

100%.

I'm 15, though.

Line's 50.

15?

Nice.

Well, yeah, it's like, you know, he's 82,

but he's out there helping me pack my parachutes when he's in town.

When we went to the first race of the season last year with that new team,

we went to the semifinals, and he was there helping my teammate, Eda,

like fill the other car up with fuel.

He was like, he was doing everything,

and he just loved to be a part of everything,

pushing the car forward into the water box.

He just was, he just loves it.

That's where you got your passion.

Because for him, it's not a job, it's a passion.

And then therefore, you never retire from it, it's your life.

And that's why we raised us with very strong work ethics.

But if you can make your passion a profession,

then you're definitely winning at life.

And I feel like I'm winning, even on the bad days.

It sounds like you're on the right team.

Somebody who's super energetic, somebody who turned his passion into a job.

I mean, I don't know who's got more energy out there as well

than someone like John Forrest.

And I imagine he instills that into everyone on his team as well.

The pep talks are pretty incredible to be a part of that.

It's just like, oh.

Yeah, it's one of those situations where I would imagine,

yeah, whenever he's doing his pep talk, everything comes from experience.

There isn't anything that's really happened in a car yet

that hasn't probably happened to John Forrest, right?

Good and bad.

And all of it, on fire, crash, burn, broken bones, knocked out, all of it.

And then when other people crash, he's definitely at the front of the line going,

we need to reinvent the safety systems.

We need to reinvent this.

We need to build better chassis and more safety features.

Like he's, you know, that's how we're going to keep this sport alive

as we need people to be safe in doing this.

He was first on scene, actually, when I had my accident in English town.

Him and Melanie Troxall were down there.

And I was like, I'm fine.

I don't need to go in the ambulance.

I don't need to go to the hospital.

And John's like, you just just go.

He's like, trust me, you go.

You're adrenaline's running.

You're numb.

You know, you're like, you're just buzzing.

He goes, you don't know if you have some internal things going on.

You hit that fence or you hit those barrels so hard.

And he goes, you have no idea.

He goes, just just go.

I was like, all right.

Evelin is one hell of a painkiller.

Adrenaline.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I bet.

Yeah, you know.

Hello, WWE.

Yeah, not in the car, but how many times have you finished the match or stayed on the field?

And then, you know, hours later or the next day, you're like, oh, man.

Well, when I put my arm through the limousine window on live television.

Yes.

I got a hundred and nine stitches.

And I went through the window and I knew something happened.

But I was so jazzed up.

I looked at it and I went berserk.

It didn't, I couldn't feel it until five, 10 minutes later after we went off air.

But, you know, in a microcosm, that's nothing comparatively to you risking your life in a car.

But I can, I can understand for sure.

I don't know.

Those flips and stuff you guys do.

Those crazy jumps.

Oh, man.

It goes a standing backflip at his size.

Amazing.

Is it's, it's still, it's, it's around everywhere in memes and social media,

because he's just a beast of a guy doing, doing that backflip.

But remember, remember in, in today's world, Tom Brady says the professional wrestlers aren't

athletes, right?

Oh, he said that?

I think, you know, here's my prediction and I'm going to come out live on our,

on our podcast right now.

My prediction is that they're doing that just to mess with the universe because the

WrestleMania is in Vegas.

And I'm predicting that Austin comes out and beats up Tom Brady in Vegas.

That's all I'm gonna say next.

I don't have any proof.

I have no proof.

I have nothing except for the fact that that's what I'm thinking.

If I'm, if I'm the, the, the creative for wrestling right now, that's.

You're probably right.

It's your setup.

You bring Steve Austin out for that.

Yeah.

I love that.

I would, I would agree with you, but you know, Steve, Steve's an off-road racer now.

Like that guy's in his racing Kawasaki side-by-sides in me.

You know, he's, he's racing in the dirt now.

I love that.

That's all my bucket list.

That's all I would definitely want to do.

But see me on the other hand as a car guy, I want to have nothing.

I mean, I'm, I'm into the off-road stuff in the four-wheelers and the UTVs and the RTBs,

whatever, but don't get me in sand rails because you can dump hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We've had this conversation before, Matt.

I ain't even touching that one.

Yeah.

So he's not doing the sand rails.

He's doing, and I forget the term.

I guess it's a UTV that maybe that's the, the category.

ATV, UTV is a utility vehicle.

I'm wearing, I know it's so much fun.

Yeah, ATV is a, yeah.

But he's, he's, he's having fun.

He's doing what we're all doing.

He's doing so much fun.

That's cool.

You know, it was a passion that he has.

So it's really good.

That's the way it should be.

He's having fun with it.

He's got his ranch out there.

He's got his cats and which are famous now.

Instagram, Macho and Poncho are his cats.

Cat man.

He's a cat man.

And he, he drives the, the haulers, the utility ones

around the ranch.

And then he's got his racing rig.

And he trailers it out there and he's got us.

Yeah.

He's got his crew together and he's having a great time doing it.

So maybe, maybe this whole drag racing thing

doesn't work out for you.

There's a,

Oh, it's going to work out.

It's working out.

I don't, I don't quit.

I don't quit.

That's why I'm still here.

That's why you're still there.

And I would imagine, uh, you know, your family background

and, and the team you're on now, uh, I don't, I don't think,

I don't think, uh, quitting is, is an option there.

Oh no.

Not even their vocabulary.

Very excited for this next chapter in your racing career.

I can't wait to go out and see you guys out in Pomona.

Bill and I do the podcast with a, with a friend of ours,

a, an English gentleman named Alistair Weaver.

He's the editor-in-chief of Edmunds.com.

And, um, of all the racing he's done in documentaries

and been involved with Formula One and, and everything.

He's never been out to an, to an NHRA drag racing event.

Oh my gosh.

I can't wait.

I hope you come back on your show and Pomona

and talk to you guys.

That'd be awesome.

If you, are you guys going to do it out the track?

I'm going to bring him out there to Pomona.

I don't know if we're going to record it in live.

Oh, just just guessed.

Okay.

I'm just going to drag him out there and, and because, you know, every,

every pass is a bit past, right?

That's what we love about it.

Yeah, exactly.

And even when you fire up the car,

even at Pomona, like you hear what's going on

on the other side of the grandstands,

but soon as you walk around and see it from the grandstands,

you see it, you feel it.

It's, it's, it's such a,

it, everybody that I've ever brought

has gone for the first time, has no idea what they're in for.

And every time I tell him that, he still has no idea what he's,

what he's in for.

It's, it's, it's cool.

It's fun.

And that's one of the things I love about NHRA is it's,

it's, in my opinion, one of the most fun, like family oriented

racing environments.

Like I, every time I go, there's tons of kids and families are showing up.

And it's a, it's a great, great weekend.

And if you go out even just for a day for qualifying or for the races,

it's super fun to go and check it out and see everybody and shake some hands

and meet some drivers and see the team.

Really the only motor sport that still does that,

because NASCAR used to be like that, but it's not.

And so the access that the public can get in, in NHRA is unrivaled by any other sport,

I believe, and that's, that's y'all's ace in the hole to get these,

these people to come, you know, fall in love with the event.

Oh, it really is.

Cause they get that one-on-one with the drivers at one-on-one,

they can go walk right up and see the cars get broken down and rebuilt in a matter of 45 minutes.

They can see, you know, their drivers, they can walk around, they get good food,

they can get some cool merch, they can check out different things.

And it's, it's really cool that the whole environment is definitely family friendly.

I, I, one of the things that I, I love about drag racing as well,

and I've mentioned this before, is it gets very competitive,

but there still seems to be a lot of camaraderie among the teams,

because there's a lot of like, I don't just shared information,

not just shared love for the sport, but it's not like people don't talk to other people.

Like you said, even on the safety equipment, going, you know, as, as an entire sport,

we need to, we need to get our heads, you know, aligned at the table and say,

this is how we make it better. This is how we make it faster.

You know, you, you know, you crash and the first people there are other racers,

you know, Melanie and John. And, you know, we, we spoke to Ron Capps, who I love Ron Capps.

And Ron's bringing in, he's bringing in a, an amazing-

an enthusiastic, just eyes wide open, just adorable.

She is so cute. I mean, she's getting in that like badass dragster.

She's getting in the dragster.

Yeah. She was an alcohol funny car girl. She ran an alcohol funny car with her dad,

who I used to race against Doug Gordon when I race alcohol funny car. And then he,

our daughters all were about the same age. And now she's driving a top fill dragster.

It's pretty cool to see that.

She just, uh, she just finished the testing and the license and super excited.

And, and, and you would appreciate this because you know her as well. And Ron Capps is,

she is doing everything for the first time. So like her first, you know,

magazine cover and her first interviews and her, you know, like, like, like mainstream stuff is,

is she's just like, no overwhelm to going, that's what I love. And, you know, and, and looking at

her and going, you know, that's a young generation, the future of drag racing. I like what's

happening. And if you can get somebody that enthusiastic to be a part of it, I think that's

great. No, you can't. That's the wholeheartedly. That's all her. Tony Stewart is going to be

out there again. Matt Hagan, he's probably somewhere eating a protein shake somewhere,

but he's going to be out there as well. He's built. That guy eats so much meat. I think he

has his own cattle ranch just for himself. He does. He actually does. He does because he's

been on a lot about that. Yeah. And he's just like, I'm just all cattle these days racing,

cattle and racing. And yes, Leo's back. Love racing as well. So it's going to be,

it's going to be a great, great lineup. I'm sure you guys are going to have a blast out there.

It's going to be fun. It's going to be a great season. I'm rooting for you. I think there's

a championship there. There will be. 100%. All right. Thank you.

Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Great lineup in the background.

Are those all your cars? Are those just display? No, those were all of mine. Some of them have

been sold off. Yeah, some of them sold off. I didn't have the warehouse and then we were

putting together, putting together a new business. And along with that comes with selling stuff off.

I do have the Black 95 Lightning back there. That one I still, I do have a couple of other ones.

But yes, thank you for that. Yeah. I'd love to get them all back one day, but not going to be today.

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