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This is off track.
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Hey, Benny boy, what happen buddy?
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It's off track with Hinch and Rossie. Hello?
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There you go. Not the first. Oh, look at him. Look at him.
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He's a natural. He's a natural on the
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microphone. Incredible.
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And looking, looking away from it. Just like his
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dad.
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It's a noise pal. Makes him noise buddy. Go.
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Oh, he's, he's floored by this, this new toy.
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Mm. He sure
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Is.
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What a piece of technology.
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Well, I'm glad that Ben could join us
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on our first show of 2026.
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It sure is. We're not gonna, we're not gonna get a new year
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'cause we're gonna do that on Thursday.
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Um, which we're definitely
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doing at a totally different time.
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Wait, Alex, turn your head around backwards. Turn your head
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Around backwards. Sorry. Sorry dude.
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My bad. Yeah. So yeah. Totally different
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day than the Thursday episode.
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Uh, welcome everybody. What?
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Uh, and given that it is the new year,
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we didn't wanna bug anybody to try
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to interview anyone fresh off coming back from Right? Like,
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No one wants to go back to work.
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No. Yeah,
Exactly. It's just, yeah.
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So don't, don't wanna start asking. No, we don't.
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Yeah, exactly. We don't wanna be here.
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We're not gonna ask anyone else to be here. Ben doesn't
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Wanna be here.
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Ben is furious. Yeah, absolutely furious.
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So we figured we would take .
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We figured we would take this opportunity
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to preview 2026 in the racing sense,
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uh, across kind of the four major championships
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that we pay attention to
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in some way or not. We're previewing
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It or making predictions. We're
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Gonna make predictions.
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Oh. In a preview style.
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'cause like we don't know enough to preview everything.
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I mean, do you wanna preview it?
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Would you rather just preview
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it or do you wanna just make some
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I, I think think we should make predictions.
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I think we should just funnier. Should put some bets on 'em.
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Not money. Just dumb things.
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Super legal. Can't do that.
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Recently said not money, dumb things.
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I also just recently made a dumb bet with Alex
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that I already, you hear
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Gray
You on Thursday and you'll hear all about it.
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Late and Thursday's episode
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and I'm, I'm, dude, I'm literally like,
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I'm seeing my chair shaking. I'm like, oh
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No, this is
So you have to go first. That's the deal.
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It bad that I was like, wait,
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what bet. Even though we just
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Recorded that 45 seconds ago.
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No we didn't. That was last week. No, it's a different day.
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It's a totally different day.
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Sorry, we haven't done that yet with
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Yeah.
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And look at the worst.
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Ben was not here, will not be there.
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I mean on Thursday. Damnit,
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Right?
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Like Ben, Ben wouldn't be in the the room over.
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There's no way. No, he's
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On
SI missed the memo on the hats. Is this better?
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We know that's better. We know that on Thursdays,
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Ben has jazzer size so he will not be recording with us.
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Mm. Um, okay, so
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Well let's start with Im za 'cause it comes up first.
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I like that. That's a good start. Okay. Okay.
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Um, in the IMSA world,
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Yes.
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You start off with the Rolex 24 Daytona.
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We can, I mean we could talk about the championship.
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We could even just talk about predicting Daytona.
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I don't know enough about the championship
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to predict the championship.
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So let's just do Daytona. Let's
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Just Daytona I'm
Gonna go first.
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Okay.
Um, Wayne Taylor racing returns to Victory Lane
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because quite frankly it has been,
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they have been absent from not only the championship
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but from Daytona, which is their bread and butter.
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Um, ever since the switch back home to Cadillac
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to gm, which I think came as a surprise to everyone,
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including them because, you know, they were ultra successful
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with the previous generation of prototype when it was, um,
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the first DPI, uh, that came out with Cadillac,
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I think they won a, like a couple in a row
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and then they switched to Acura.
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And while Acura wasn't as plug
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and play for them, um,
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I can speak firsthand with the experience.
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It wasn't as plug and play and,
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and didn't really suit their setup
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and Ricky's driving style as well as the Cadillac.
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Um, they still won a a 24 hour.
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They won four Daytona's in five years
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and the past two years they've been nowhere.
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Um, even with the return to Cadillac, as I said.
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So I think 2026 is the year that Wayne tail racing
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is back in Victory Lane with, it's not a bow tie.
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What is it? It's a, it's a
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Shield of sorts
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With a, with a Chrome shield. Let's call it that.
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Chrome Shield. Okay.
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I think that's a, that's a pretty solid, solid bet.
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Solid guess. Um, I'm gonna go a different route. Okay.
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They have not been absent as long,
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but it's been a couple years since Meyer Shanks won.
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Uh, they had their back to back wins in 22 and 23,
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but it's been back to back for Penske 24 and 25.
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And then like you mentioned, it was three in a
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row for Wayne Taylor before that.
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So there seems to be like trends and this race
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and I think that, you know, that organization is strong.
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They got a cool driver lineup
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and they have um, an exciting driver coming in for the 24,
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I should say returning in AJ Alman Dinger.
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Cool. So that's cool aj? Yeah. Super cool. Cool story.
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AJ ran with Mike for years
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and years in that, uh, in that race
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and was there when they won their first one,
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I think back in like 2012.
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Mm-hmm . Uh, back in the Daytona prototype,
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the original DP era.
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So yeah, I'm gonna predict for uh, top class overall winner.
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That's gonna be a Mike Sha Meyer Shank racing, uh, victory.
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All
Right. And GTD Pro,
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obviously it's gonna be the number nine. Faf. Oh Lord
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Lamborghini,
What are you gonna say?
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It's not, are you gonna say it's not?
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No, I'm gonna say it's insane to try
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and predict a gt winner with how many of you there are
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and how much happens.
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It's also pronounced gtd. There's also like eight
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cars
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That's true. That's true.
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It is a much harder class to predict.
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Uh, both in pro
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and GTD, probably even more so GTD. Alright, so
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Separate of, of winners or anything else.
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Is there just something unexpected
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that you guys are expecting to happen? Well
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Then it wouldn't be unexpected would it? Tim?
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Well, unexpected by most, but not you
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That we expect to happen in at Daytona. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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let's make a weird prediction now.
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Let's make a bold prediction.
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The predictions, uh, an obscure prediction is
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that Mm,
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Mine is it doesn't rain once.
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Not during the roar, not during qualifying, not
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during practice, not during the race. I love
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I would love that. Yeah. If we're doing predictions like
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that, I'm gonna say the temperature will never be below
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68 degrees for the entire two weeks
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Night.
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Why wouldn't you have gone 69 night?
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I mean, I don't dunno. I was just
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being, I was just trying to
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Number, I was just gonna say, um,
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Ferris wheel's gonna break down.
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Someone's gonna get stuck there for two hours.
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Someone's two hours. Okay. Two
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Hours on the Ferris wheel.
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Say I think that Connor Zi will have the fastest lap
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of the race and throw that out there as a random one.
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That is a, that has a very interesting
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prediction that I think Right. Could be correct
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Because like you gotta beat some pretty good guys in
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that class to, to have that lap. Yeah,
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Well you do and you don't.
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You do because you have to beat some pretty good guys.
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But most of the pretty good guys, all those guys
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Pushing
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Connor so's gonna be hell bent on going as fast
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as possible at all times.
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I like it. I look forward to reading the big
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pillar data afterwards.
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Uh, okay, so after that next we have Daytona 500.
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Yes. Yes.
So I'm going to,
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okay, I'm all, okay, let's do it.
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Let's do 500 predictions.
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And I think for NASCAR we should make a like a Hail Mary
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championship prediction too.
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For 500. I'm gonna say Kyle Larson
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Boring.
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Boring but
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Boring.
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Why is it boring? Because you're choosing like
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the best driver in the field. But he's never
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Won the Daytona 500.
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Right? So he's got multiple championships now.
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He is won a lot of stuff, but he is never won Daytona.
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So it's like, it's like,
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you know when Joseph hadn't won Indy, right?
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It's like the, one of the best guys who have not won it.
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So I like Larson for Daytona.
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And then along the almost exact same lines,
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I think Denny Hamlin wins the championship.
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My bold prediction is Denny Hamlin wins the championship
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after halfway
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through the season while leading the championship.
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He announces his retirement.
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Ooh, really a that's your bold prediction. I like that.
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Mm-hmm I like that. Okay. Okay.
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So we both have Denny win the championship.
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Uh, I think it's just a weird sort
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of karmic poetic justice thing.
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Everything that he's been through personal life obviously,
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you know, so sad what happened to him and his family
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and condolences to them for the loss of his dad And wish
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that his uh, mother's recovery continues.
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Everything that happened with the court case.
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Everything that happened in the championship last year,
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you know, uh, this is Denny's year
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and the universe is gonna gonna shine upon him.
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I think I also think I'm gonna throw out like
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here's my really bold one.
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You, okay, so yours was Denny wins,
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but you're like out there is
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that he's gonna announce his retirement.
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My out there one is gonna be, uh, guess what?
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It's gonna be a similar theme till my last one.
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Connor Zi will be in the championship four.
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I think he'll be, he'll go down to the final.
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I wonder how you can get Connor into IndyCar
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and F1 predictions too.
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I just wanna see how you can make it all work.
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I do think my bold prediction for the future
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of the Indy 500 is
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that Connor Zi will run it within the next three years.
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Okay.
And then I predict that
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Cadillac F1 will hire him
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as a sim driver in the next three years.
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So there you go. Connor Zi
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is involved in everything that we're talking.
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So speaking of F1, 'cause that starts
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before us. What's your F1
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Impression?
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I think it does actually, I think we start before that.
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No, because St.
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Pizza at March 1st, I think we actually win that war.
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Wow. First time
Ever their testing starts. Yeah.
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I mean they only finished racing
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like three weeks ago, but Yeah,
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No, I just figured they would still beat us back to being
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Play .
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All right. Indie car predictions.
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Champion 500 winner. Go.
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I'm not gonna go that route. Okay.
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Don't go that route. I didn't want you to go that route
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anyway.
, I'm gonna go.
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Kind of feels like you did wanna go that route.
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No, no, no. I just, I thought it was fine.
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Supposed to say that because
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You expressly asked it, you
Told me to say
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We are, we already
Oh yeah, you listen to
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Mes ago a couple episodes ago, we covered the fact
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that we thought Palolo was gonna win the championship again,
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just because nothing's changed, so, right.
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I don't really want to keep beating that into the universe.
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Okay, . So just go back to previous, go back
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to previous episodes.
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I don't feel comfortable trying to predict a 500 winner
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because obviously it's gonna be
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me and I don't wanna talk about that.
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That's fair. So, um,
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Who's gonna win Long Beach ?
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Uh,
Also you
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Probably willpower. Mm
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Oh yeah.
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Willpower and an andretta at Long Beach. Yeah. Yeah.
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I so yeah, so bold prediction.
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I was chatting to a, a colleague of mine who, I'll,
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I'll leave nameless in case he wants to say this
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for himself, but he was like,
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I predict a willpower win at St.
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Pete. 'cause Andrei cars are very good at St. Pete.
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Will's got like more polls than every,
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like everyone else has one poll.
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He has like 10 there, right?
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He has owns half the poles in the history of that race.
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He's won it a bunch of times.
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We know how good those cars to be.
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Colton probably should have won
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that race last year if it wasn't for a bad pit stop.
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So, and he's in the car. He's in that car.
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That's an interesting pick
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that I, I don't hate the sound of,
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Um, my prediction is
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before the end of the season,
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we have an international race added to a calendar. Oh,
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And wait, you mean
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For next year they're gonna say announce
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it or It will be this
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Upcoming season for 2026.
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But for 2027,
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Just make it
And my uh,
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next prediction is the 2028 car will be
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delayed.
.
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Oh no. Oh, I hate that. He is probably right. .
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I don't even, I don't even wanna comment on this.
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I don't even wanna talk about this right now. Yeah, you do.
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No, I don't, I don't.
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'cause I, again, you're putting it in the universe
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and I don't want it to be true. It's not gonna be true.
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I don't want it to be true either.
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2028 car's happening, Alex,
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it's happening and it's gonna be
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great. Yeah, it's gonna be great.
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The 28 28 car will be sick in
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2031.
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Well, at that point we might as well call it like the 2024
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car or whatever it was originally designed.
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Yeah. Oh man. No.
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Okay, so let's, uh, how about, how about, I'm gonna go
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with a, um,
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I'm gonna go with a mixed Schumacher
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podium for the end of the year.
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I'm gonna go, this is my final one. Honda stays. Oh, I
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Hope so.
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Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
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also just put that in the universe.
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I like that one a lot. Let's, uh, let's bank on that. Um,
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And finally, Dixon into coin Happens.
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Dixon the coin is finally happening. We know that.
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We've been singing for years. Sorry,
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Sir Dixon.
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Sir Dixon, how about that?
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Pretty cool. I'd clap but my hands are full. Yeah,
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You got a kid there.
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That's, I mean guys,
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how many indie car drivers have been knighted? I assume,
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Assume how
Many assume PJ Chessen.
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Don't think so.
Ignited by
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who?
,
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I mean, yeah,
That's anybody at this point. Yeah. .
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It's probably still a pretty small list.
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Uh, super impressive, well deserved. Congratulations Scotty.
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Yeah, super cool honor to get All right.
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F1. Okay, final
F1
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Final series.
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Um, my, I have two predictions. Okay.
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One is Max wins the championship.
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Number two is a first
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time race winner.
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Well, a person who will be winning the race
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for their first time wins that set race
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before Lewis wins a race next year.
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So you think there will be a new first time winner
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before Lewis wins his next race
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For, for example, Haja wins a race before Lewis. Right,
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Right, right.
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I'm trying to think of what those options are.
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Actually, I'll, I'm gonna go with you on that
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because like you've got Antonelli
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and a Mercedes who are touted to be pretty strong.
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You've got Haja in a red bull always good.
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Who knows, who knows what hos could be? Who knows?
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I dunno. Yeah. Yeah.
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I mean, Williams,
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you could have Alban winning a race
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if Williams nail it. If,
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If as if Aston is as good as they say they are
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and there's a weather race, Lance could win. Yeah,
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Yeah, yeah.
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We've seen weirder stuff. All right, I like that.
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That's a good one. Um,
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My, my F1 prediction,
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Fernando Alonzo continues to not retire.
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I'm not sure That's a good one actually, pal.
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I think if, uh, I feel
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Like he's permanent.
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I think if the first four races aren't good, he,
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I don't know if he'll make the end of the
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year.
.
.
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Yeah. It's a shame. Dragovich finally
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gave up that reserve driver role.
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Yeah. Because he might be getting half a season, uh, whoever
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that person is now,
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but, um, okay, so my, I'm gonna go championship.
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I'm gonna, you're gonna love this.
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Uh, I think George Russell's got a shot
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because here's the thing.
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Boring
If Mercedes, how's that? Boring?
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He's won like five races.
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First time champion.
Yeah. First time champ.
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Boring. Oh, okay. Just
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Because he's so boring. He said
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Max for staffing. Dude, he's
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So boring.
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Okay, so it's not me.
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My, it's not my prediction that's boring. It's, you thinks
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Boring him as a person. Got
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It. Okay.
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Like, it infuriates me
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how good he is at driving a race car.
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He is very good at that. That is an undeniable fact.
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And if Mercedes kill it with the engines,
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they've got that advantage.
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But then you've gotta out develop McLaren, right?
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'cause they've got the same engines
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and they're obviously hitting on pretty,
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pretty well right now.
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So, I don't know.
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I think it's gonna be between like Lando Oscar and,
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and and Jorge. But you
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Don't think Max, you don't think Max
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is even gonna play? I
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I don't know if I believe that the engine can do it.
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I just dunno. I just dunno.
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You know, they hired an aggressive amount of people from
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Mercedes specifically
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And there's already been like a scandal about the engines
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and how both Mercedes
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and Red Bull have found like a pretty massive loophole.
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Yes. So yeah, if that doesn't get closed, then yes.
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You, you might be onto something there.
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You might be onto something there, but yeah.
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Dude, what if Aston Martin's just amazing?
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'cause you got Newey and Honda just kills it. It's
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Well, they very much, they very much could be.
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Which would be, it would be cool.
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It would be, it would Cool. Cool to see
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Fernando one more time.
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Yeah. Winning races in a competitive
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In contention. Yes. I agree.
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'cause he, he has been on the wrong side
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of like the team swing for a decade and a half, right?
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Yes. Yeah. Like just missed it
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by a couple years on either end.
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And it'd be really cool for it to come right
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for him at the end.
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Like I just feel like that would be a cool story.
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I don't disagree. I think that'd be awesome.
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I don't think it's potential. Like I, my,
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my bold one could be Fernando Alonzo wins a race in 2026.
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Cool. I think that could be pretty cool. There you go.
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So those are, and
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I think my boldest prediction for 2026 off track turns a
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Profit.
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I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go one higher.
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I am gonna bet you, Tim, that I can find a way to get James
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to ride a hundred miles on a bicycle .
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If you did that, I'd run a half marathon.
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I so would I if I did
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That, I would get, I would get Alice
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to run a half marathon.
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If, if if I can get him to ride a hundred miles on a bike,
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I'll run a half marathon .
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No, we agreed that you gotta run first.
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That was, now you're giving away the whole point
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of listening to Thursday.
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God damnit . Oh man.
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There's no point in listening to Thursday's episode.
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We're still heavy in the off season.
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Oh, here's a bold prediction for 2026.
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Tim actually does his job and we have some live shows. Let's
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Talk about it on Thursday. Let's set one up.
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Let's do that.
Tune in Thursday.
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