Reese's, Towels, & St Pete

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What's your, what's your, what's your guys take on Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Forum?

Generally Pro. Yeah. Yeah. They, but I think they're inferior to Reese's Pieces.

I disagree Reese's Pieces.

I completely, this is exactly where I was going with this. Peanut butter cups.

Terrific. Is that a mini one or did you just become a giant

One of those two things?

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Um, I, to still eat while recording this dude. Once again. Wait, Are you saying you prefer pieces over cups?

Yes. I like the candy shell and I like the movie et both of those things eat m to make. Yeah. But I like the Reese's Pieces more than the m and m. You guys are all wrong. Peanut

Butter. M and Mss are better than Reese's Pieces.

Completely agree. experience with peanut butter m and ms to have an opinion on that. Peanut and Pretzel m are pretzel We're just, let's be clear here. Honestly, all m and are ese pieces, peanut Reese's Pieces is like a Temu version of m and m.

Disagree, disagree. I think, I think Diet M Reese's Pieces is better than a regular m and m. No,

But peanut butter cup might Is probably regular. One of the best. Probably one of the best candies out there.

It's one of the best chocolate inventions. Yeah. I think

Out there a hundred percent. It's

The, the But this, but you can't mess with the ratio. They, they did well with the thin ones. The thin ones still maintain a good chocolate to peanut butter ratio. Mm-hmm . But the whole like, double stuff ones, it's too much.

The OG still, I think the best. I've never seen the like condensed little mini not thin version.

Oh. Like what? I just had like,

It still had the girth, but it wasn't as Yeah. Yeah. You

Know, it's like a, I think it's IH ween version.

I don't love using girth when describing stuff that we're talking. I don't know. It just, it just felt weird.

But it's stuff that what that you're, that

Youre putting in your mouth.

Mouth. I going? This is a family show, Tim.

Is it? God, it's your mind.

Why do you have to take it that way?

I've never heard Girth used in a different context.

Do you know? Well, something I noticed the other day,

Girth.

I know that you raced a new car race, and we'll talk about that in a second. ,

You talked about an IndyCar race.

I did. I did. At that. We actually have a in car shop to talk about. I did, but we'll get there. I am. He did because he was texting me questions. He was like, is this good for Alex or bad for Alex ? Yeah. That's most of the questions I get from Tim. Thanks Tim.

Yeah. That's so nice.

He's like, I don't understand what's happening. Is this good or bad? Yeah.

I don't pretend to know what the fuck I'm talking about on here.

No, you're very public about the fact that you actually know very little about racing for someone that's been largely immersed in it for the better part of a decade now. Yeah.

We've been doing the show forever. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. Um, I was, I was showering the other day and it's where most of my best thoughts happen. Hmm.

Speaking of Girthy, Tim, what's wrong with you? ? It was

It wasn't, and then I realized that I have like such a specific towel off like choreography. Mm-hmm . Do you notice that like when you grab a towel and you're toweling off if you get outta the shower? It's like the exact same movements.

Yeah. A hundred percent.

You just, you just like completely FreeWheel it. You're just shooting from the hip.

Yeah. See, 'cause I was having, 'cause I'm like, man, is there other things that you do every day that that's exactly just, and I'm like brushing my teeth. I alter it. I, you know, there's maybe different strategies I use on different days or whatever, but if I get outta the shower, it is the exact same series of movements. I mean, I could time it down. I'm sure I do. It is plus or minus two seconds every time. Really? It's the exact same. Yeah.

Mm-hmm . I do my hair. I do my head first.

I do hair first. Yeah. But that anything that happens after that is the same on

The hair. Then it goes like around the neck. You do the one

Arm. Don't do that at all. Top bottom

Armpit thing to the other arm, top bottom. Then you like do the chest, then you roll it down the back. Do like the back dry til it's around your waist. Never

Done that.

Oh, I, I, no, I just dry my face and then I get dressed. That seems, yeah. Very uncomfortable.

Yeah. I'm just a little moist,

Constant, constant state of swamp ass with your wet on. Terrible. That's just awful.

No, I don't do that. You have to do your, your privates last and then the towel forgets by the next day. Well

Your privates but you don't want start with that. You don't want start there. Didn't go face. No, No, no, no. That's true. The towel will forgets by the next day. Oh, man.

How often do you wash your towels?

I try and do it once a week. it sounds three days, probably three, four days. Yeah.

I pray once a week probably. Sounds right. Probably

Should be. I mean, you're never home enough, James. So it's like, yeah, that's true. You only shower three times a week anyways in your house.

How often do I do my towel whenever housekeeping comes in?

Right. . I will say I predominantly don't, I, I opt out of housekeeping pretty much everywhere I go. Now, if I'm, if I'm there for interesting, like four days, like it's a Thursday to Sunday, IndyCar weekend, I will not get housekeeping. Why? Not by me every day. I see

Why Saving, saving towel energy and water and are

You kidding me? You do it for the environment.

It's probably for the environment and partly just like, I don't know. I don't need people in my stuff, you

Know? What do you have that you're protecting? I don't.

No, it's not, it's just, it's just, I don't know. It's just strangers coming in your bedroom.

Dude, that I'm I think this is the thing that I'm going to disagree with you more than anything that we have discussed in our entirety. Anything of our friendship, anything. Anything. I don't know. We had like, anything, four episodes about hot dogs. . So like

I, if you have the opportunity to get your room cleaned and freshened up with new towels and tight sheets and dusted and all this sort of thing, water's replenished. Coffee pod's replenished. I am taking that every single time. It's not even a discu. They, there was a period of time where they were offering like points if you didn't get your room clean. I was like, no, keep your points. Yeah. I want my room clean.

So it, it obviously all kind of like, started with Covid, right? And then I was just like, yeah, yeah. I don't need it. Like, if it's one person and it's four days, there's at least two towels, sometimes four towels. I could still use a brand new towel every day.

I feel like they, most of the hotels have the sign where they're like, if you want fresh towels, you know, leave on ground or whatever. If you don't want to waste the water, you can hang 'em up. Your cows up hang up. Yeah. Yeah. I do that. But like, I very much like how tightly they make a bed. See,

The first thing I do when I get into a tightly made bed is rip the sheets out from under fence

Because I love it. I hate that feeling. It. I love it.

Dislike, man. This is yet again, yet again I, does Becky agree with you?

No, not, not. She's not as strong on this one.

So this Isano, this is another thing that you and Kelly are the same. And me and Becky, the

Oh is Kelly. Like that.

Which is which is why, which is why we all, it all works in our respective little arrangements. You work,

We work and we all work. But it's just a perfect symbiotic balance between us all. Yeah. No, Becky definitely prefers having that, uh, having that.

But also she likes, does she like tight sheets?

Yeah, yeah, Kelly immediately pulls sheets out from the bed and I'm like tucking them in harder.

I have two follow ups from last week's episode one. What

We talking about last? I got a facial

Last week. I got a facial. Oh. After Alex talked about it. Big fan. Gotta make that part of my monthly routine. I enjoyed it. I don't know if it did anything for the skin on my face, but I just kind of like, it's having somebody

Rubbed my face. If you go to the gym once, it's not gonna improve anything. It's like you gotta what?

I've been wasting my time at the gym. Oh. Never doing that again. Um, other follow up, I got a box of a bunch of Java House stuff, but I'm not convinced Alex didn't just send me that.

Hang on, hang on. We are not just, we are not just leaving the facial thing at that. We are not just stopping. That was not a one sentence update. Why? I need specifics. Where did you go? Did you go on your own? Did you get a recommendation from someone? What kind of facial was it? How long did have a group on walk me through the process? I don't

Know. I did have a group on, I did get a group on.

No way. You know, like , I'm not gonna commit full tilt if I don't know what it's like.

That's so good. Oh. Oh, that is, I can't believe you called that man. That's so good.

I got a Groupon for a place around the corner. It was, uh, it was this.

So it was, it was suggested to you by Mr. Groupon?

Yeah. I went Groupon map, walkable copy. Found a place. Incredible. It was awesome. Incredible. I was a big fan of it. , you

Went by yourself. Yeah.

Yeah. they do? I mean, how did you know what this was

In it? You don't go with someone else to a facial?

Yeah. That would be weird. I

Know. It's a one person show. I don't know. Maybe a couple facial. Well,

I suppose you could. She, she had a real job. So , like I was texting her like what she was up to during the day. And uh, she's like, oh yeah, work's been a bitch. I was like, yeah, me too. I'm getting a facial. She's like, didn't you get a massage earlier today? I was like, yeah, but that was the morning. This is the

. She's like, this is research for the show. Alex talked about facials and now I need to know what it's all about. Um, so what, so is it like a I, what is it? How do you do it? I what?

I don't even know. They like just put stuff on my face. They did a mask. They did like a roller thing with some spikes or whatever that she said was like getting rid of the top layer of skin. And she's like, be careful of direct sunlight today. I was like, well I walked here so that's gonna be a problem. Uh, ,

I like all the layers of my skin. I don't know if I want to get rid of the top one. She

Said, she said it looked like I needed it. She said I, um, yeah, I don't know. It was okay. Well, alright. It was relaxing. I'm gonna start doing it once a month I think. There you go. Is that that How often you go Alex? No,

I'm probably once every seven, eight weeks. So two months.

Okay. All right. Alright. Okay. Now the other part though, I got a box of Java House stuff. It came in which the morning, it's hilarious. Episode was released. Which the episode was me talking about not getting a box. Alex, I have to ask, did you just send me that or did it come from the team? Because there was no like, note that it came from ECR. It was just very clearly from Amazon. So I kind of feel like Alex just sent me that .

Oh, you for Amazon? Yeah. That was definitely Alex Mine came from the team and had a nice letter, handwritten note from Ed.

Yeah. Okay. So Alex, thank you. I like all of them.

. Mm-hmm .

You know, It was totally, it was totally worth it. Just for the moment where you sent the text to the two of us being like, ah, man. Sorry. I was talking all that smack on the podcast, . I just got a box of stuff. It was totally worth it. Just for that moment of you feeling like trash for being so mean. Uh, the white peach tea though. I like it. Mm-hmm.

What's important to remember in all this, Tim was fundamentally you were not sent a box.

You know what though? I still got a box. Right? Mm. Okay.

So for part that was was about the thought of it. Yeah. It's just the actual stuff. Yeah. Good. Good to know. You're very materialistic. Materialistic that I thought you, you've

Seen my place. You see how much stuff I have stuff. I'm obviously very stuff. Yeah, yeah, you do. Big

Fan of it. Word stuff.

There's a, I think Diamond Rio has a song about this. Just big fan of stuff.

Mm. I mean, stuff's neat. Stuff's cool. But meaning behind the stuff is also pretty Well, it doesn't matter.

You know what? Okay, cool. A team sent you something 'cause you work for Fox. My friend sent me multiple things because he thought I was upset. That's a pretty good meaning. Outta of my own. Outta

His own, outta my own bank account.

Yeah. I don't know. That feels a little more meaningful to me. Mm.

It was. Sure does. Just to make you feel

. No, it wasn't. You know what? I felt bad He didn't get anything. Take Yeah. I'm a nice again, nice person. People don't believe it. Nice guy. Anyways.

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I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We should probably cut that. We should probably that. Um, you know, you should, should just, you should just, uh, I just,

Just bleed today. Yeah.

We we did it guys. We really did it here. We went and did it. We did racing.

We did racing and we did racing. Um, well from a event success standpoint, we did it well from a, from a TV success standpoint, we did it exceptionally well. Thank the sweet Lord, baby Jesus. Um, from a racing product standpoint, not so well, not the best. Um, and we can talk about why that happened and it's just, it's um, it's, it's comical. It's typical. It's typical IndyCar. Everyone's heart is in the right place, I think when these decisions are made.

So are we talking about the new soft compound tire?

We are, we are, we are talking about that.

So for a little bit of background

And it's not new, Oh, it's like 2023 or whatever. Yeah. Okay. I wouldn't say new. Different from last year,

Different from last year. Mm. So it was, it was kind of put on Firestone to intentionally bring a soft that was a little bit softer so that way it was a little faster, but then also had higher deck because,

Well, what was, what was put on Firestone was not that what was put on Firestone was they wanted a, they be an IndyCar wanted a larger separation between the compounds. So they wanted more of a pace difference, right. Um, between the a green, which Wiley Tire

Do we, Do you agree with that Um, I, because on the outside looking it sounds like a good idea. Yeah, I, I agree with the pace difference. Here's, here's where it all fell apart. Um, and I just, I struggle to understand, I think, um, the decision because there are very smart people at Firestone. Uh, there are very far smart people, uh, at IndyCar on the competition side. And let, let me take this a step back.

But, but I feel like everyone knew there was going to be a caution on lab one. Like it's just, that's just St. Pete race one IndyCar 50 chance

The first, the first three laps or whatever.

It's, yeah. So wait, but if that's the case, and sorry if this is like an insensitive question, why didn't you start on the Softers so that you would be able to come in and pit

No, that's a fair question. Um, because I would've been 15th on that strategy versus fifth on the alternate. And if that first caution doesn't come out and the predicted stint length that people were gonna get outta the tires was the five to 11 laps, we were gonna have a huge advantage and got it. Hopefully be able to build on that throughout the race. Instead, all those guys essentially got a free pit stop and the people that started on the primes had to make up the 28 and a half seconds.

Yeah. Makes total sense. Yeah. And you end up with <crosstalk>.

I was, I was, I was incredibly surprised though. And I'm just, I, I'll, I'd be interested in hearing your opinion, James. How many cars in the top six started on primes? Insane. And the fact that the MSR cars didn't even split strategies. They qualified fourth and fifth and both are on primes. Why wouldn't you put one on the alternate fourth whatever. Yeah. Like how do you both do the same thing?

It was like, it was like five in the top six I think. I know.

And that was the wrong strategy. I thought, I thought when I saw that tire declaration, I was like, oh, Colton's gonna win this by a fricking country mile.

And as soon as the, as soon as the yellow came out and turned one and he pit he came out 10th. He was 10th with his first stop done. Yeah. Like it was, it was game over. If he hadn't had a, a bad second stop and then a, an a unnecessary third stop,

Let's happened in the pits for that car. But that was his race. I mean, it was his race they called it. Right. And he was quick, whatever. And I remember speaking to him after the declaration came out and I was like, dude, what's going on? He goes, I don't know what we're missing, but we're either gonna look really smart or really dumb. They, they were missing anything like that was, I was stunned with how many people up there floored were, were on. Yeah,

I figured, I I figured there was an outside chance without the, ignoring the logic that you just said, which a lot of people would have to take into account if you're outside the top 15 or whatever Right. You're gonna <inaudible> outside the top 12, you're probably gonna look at being the first driver on the alternate strategy sort of thing.

Yeah.

So first time at St. Pete with the hybrid, just in general, did it feel any different? Was anything different? I mean, obviously we saw some issues in turn three in practice. Is

That just because, I mean, mine broke in the race, so I don't, I don't know. I didn't really race with it. Um, so that's cool. That's awesome. At least you had that extra weight just carrying around a hundred pounds for no reason. So that's just, yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you want ballast that costs 300,000 pounds, $300,000? Like why wouldn't, why wouldn't you want that? Like it's, it's the best kinda way. I mean now we have so much, much more like weight distribution to, to play with anyways.

Come up with wasn't track specific last year.

Y yes, but this, it was still much higher than anything that was last year. Okay. So like, alright. Yeah. Their, their goal is to

Increase it. The range has moved up,

Right? Yes, exactly. It was supposed to be even higher than it was, um, in St. Pete. But Christian, my teammate had a failure in Sebring, which kind of caught everyone by surprise. 'cause they had done like 3,500 plus miles on the dyno at this increased energy limit level and had no problems in this sort of thing. Obviously, thankfully something popped up in testing, didn't ruin anyone's weekend, but they backed it down.

When did yours go? I don't know off the top of my head. Somewhere in the 20 to 30 Okay. Range. Um, is it, Is it, is it like just super second nature now? Like you get to St. Pete, you know, your Yeah. You know, your spots on track where you're supposed to deploy it, it regens automatically and it's now just like muscle memory, you don't even think about it kind of thing.

Yeah, I mean the only thing that you're kind of managing, um, is especially in St. Pete. Uh, so whenever you have these kind of fuel saving races, so the number one way that you save fuel, um, as we've talked about on the show a lot, is you do what's called lift and coast. You lift off at the end of the straightaway have a coast phase and then you hit the break. Whereas in qualifying, it's just immediate throttle to break in the coast. Phase it.

So when you're doing that, is that something that you as the driver are just sort of feeling out? Like, okay, you're, you're starting to lift into turn one at St. Pete mm-hmm . So, you know, through experience that that amount of lift to get the same amount of regen in that longer amount of time you pull it back X amount Or do you have to like do a couple laps and sort of see where the state of charge is by the end of a given break zone?

So you can, yeah, you can certainly feel it if it, if it reaches a full state of charge in the middle of the breaking zone, um, you kind of have in, in like your pre-event meeting, you'll have, all right, if we're hitting a 95, you're gonna want to be in YX. Got it. If you're hitting a 90, you're gonna wanna be in white it and then you can got it adjust the, the finite gain up or down based on that.

And so as the driver, do you just know all that? Or like when the team says, Hey, we need this amount of save go to white two, like is that part of the message or are you like, I know this amount of save is in that setting range.

So I It's both, but the big thing is, so it, it is a powerful tool because it does affect the balance, so mm-hmm . Sometimes what you'll want to do is you'll want to have, you know, you won't want to reduce the, because it, it helps slow down the car, right? Right. So it gives you braking depth the more regen you have. So there might be a white or whatever rotary, it's different for every team. There might be a regen offset that is the most efficient way of doing it.

That's fascinating. That's cool. It because it, it does, it makes you think a little bit, it's not what I think one of the big fears of the hybrid, um, has always been, well, sorry, before it was introduced, was that everybody would find how to optimize it and then everybody would just be doing the exact same thing at all times. And there was no differentiation and it was just sort of there. But the

Way you're describing it, I think that's certainly the case in qualifying. Um, but in the race there's a, there's much more windows to, to play with to make it more useful for Right. For

Yourself for, for single lap optimization, you know, to, to deploy X percent here, X percent here, x percent there and that's your lab. Right? Yep. Interesting. Okay. So, so your race, you know, we talked about it, you started on the, on the hards, uh, to try to do that alternate strategy. Mm-hmm. The yellow sort of boned, you spent a bunch of laps up front. It was you and lard, right. Kind of were the leaders on that strategy.

I texted , so my old engineer, uh, is still on the seven car and I texted him after the race and I was like, there was no worse car for me to stare at the backup for a hundred laps . I was so annoyed that I was just looking at this <inaudible> papaya number seven for my entire day. I was like, why couldn't it have been literally anyone else? Like, title would've been fine. Why did it have to be that car?

I did have that thought. I didn't mention it on air, but I did have that thought that I'm like, yeah, he probably probably don't love that .

No, I didn't. I didn't like that at all. Um, but no, I just to give a quick summary of our, our weekend, um, it was a, it was an uphill battle, uh, through some of it, um, poor execution qualifying. Um, but ultimately, and it's kind of what I explained to you after, after Sebring, there's some really, really good underlying foundational properties of an ECR IndyCar, like some really nice things that bring me back to like the 20 18 19 andretti car feel feedback standpoint.

Yeah. More, more positives to take away the negatives from the weekend. Certainly. Yep. Have you watched the race back?

I have not watched the race back because I, no, I went to every effort

Yeah.

To record it on YouTube tv 'cause there's no peacock anymore. Right, right. I to record it on YouTube tv and I've tried three different times to record it or to watch it and it says playback is unavailable. Uh,

Well it's, I'm actually kind of glad that you brought this up, Alex, because I've been hearing from a few people similar that, you know, we don't just have a streaming platform you can log onto and watch a replay like in years past, but very shortly after the race, um, uh, Indy car on Fox YouTube channel actually has the whole broadcast on there. So they did it like

Immediately, right?

Yeah. It's, it's to be like a window of time between Checkered and when it would be on YouTube and now like Right, it's like 24 hours or whatever and yeah. Um, but there's, there's a, there's a 15 minute highlights reel or there is the full like two hour, uh, broadcast. There's, you know, all sorts of stuff. There's interviews, there are, um, onboard labs qualifying stuff.

Who did watch it. Uh, well done James, you and the team did a very good job. I know you said it was a little chaotic being the first one room to grow room to improve, but I thought you guys did a great job and hell of an audience, right? 1.4 million people watched. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, look, it was, it was a weekend from, from the old TV compound. Lemme tell you, um, the, the viewership number is obviously fantastic. It's a great place to be, to start this relationship. Um, you know, peaking at 1.8 million, um, average 1.4 is huge. Um, it's the, the promotions worked. Everything, you know, leading up to it obviously is going well. So that's, you know, a 45% increase over last year. The largest non Indy 500 audience since 2011.

I thought he was amazing. I I, and this is not, not at all a dig on Lee, 'cause I think Lee is also amazing. It was crazy like how different they were in their styles, but I truly enjoyed both like diff Oh that's just diff is just gonna be Yeah, diff is diff yeah,

Diff is diff and we'll go down into the Sports broadcasting Hall of Fame as an absolute legend. Uh, but the, the, the point was always kind of that it was supposed to have a bit of a different feel, right? Mm-hmm . And, and Will was always kind of a bit of a different vibe. And, and I thought it was great. I thought it sounded great. His preparation was off the charts. I mean, he was, he was so committed to making sure he knew his stuff and, um, apologize for the dog barking in the background.

We haven't had that in a while. Teddy, you wanna add in

To this broadcast Haven's a that's off track. Stable we need to bring back. Yeah. Um, so yeah, will did a great job. And then, and then Jack, I mean man, what a, what a trooper. I know if you were, hopefully you guys listened to the, to the Tuesday show and we got a chat to him about that first day on the job , uh, on the broadcast side of things. But I thought he did a phenomenal job as well. So look, I can't thank everyone who tuned in enough and we hear your feedback.

So I have one question. Um, obviously everyone's talked about like the drivers are Cartoonized or animated Cartoon Eyes. Yeah, cartoon.

Yeah. No, no. I've had a few people ask if they did that for the three of us and, and I have not to my knowledge. Bummer.

Kind of bummer on Off Track's logo.

Well, yes. Yeah, I'm talking about

Podcast, but but off track logo doesn't give him abs. That's where there's Fox. That's true. Give abs. Yeah. They

Okay. Can we all agree everyone's got abs on a Fox Sports broadcast ,

Right? That's

Agree. Scotty Maxx was the worst.

Scotty Maxx was not great. Um, yeah, uh, Nolan looks like, uh, beavers and Butthead character, someone about the mouth just didn't look right there. Colton's tweet about Scotty Max picture was pretty funny. that, that one got me going. Um,

Alright, so, so you, you talked about all of the, the good things that have come about it. You talked about like first weekend, like there's obviously gonna be, there's gonna be the Hits fan at different points, all this sort of thing. Was, has there been feedback at this point that you've heard from Fox? Like corporate

Commandments from on High?

Yes. Yeah, I think, I think the, uh, I think the overall feeling of it was very, very positive. Okay. You know, and, and they were all there like a lot of the, a lot of the big guys were there. It was great to have them on. Did they like site for it? Forget,

Forget the, the results of the T TV numbers. Forget, you know, the quality of the broadcast or whatever was good, bad, indifferent. Did they like the event? Like I am sure it was the first time for some of 'em being to one for

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. For, for some of them it was first time at St. Pete, first time at IndyCar Race. And I mean, look man, nobody leaves St. Pete as a first time attendee and thinks, ah, that like fair.

It's so many levels and for so many reasons and in so many ways. Um, but no, they had a, they had a great time, um, very, again, very proud of the whole group. 'cause again, there was just fires being put out, left, right, and center. It's gonna be infinitely easier for everyone in the production truck next, knock on wood, next time out and thermal if ev all these little things kind of get fixed. Um, 'cause 'cause you guys had some issues with timing and scoring in pit lane as well, right?

And that's, and that's, again, that's not a, it's not a shot at any car. Look, you're, no, you say everything, everyone's doing it again for the first time in six months. It's a temporary circuit. It's hard to get stuff moved around and wired and like the, the logistical effort of getting all that stuff up and running is a nightmare. Um, but yeah, as a result there's just, there's lots of cool stuff that we weren't able to do that we have coming that's, that's on the cards already. So

Again, I mean, I, I imagine you guys missed my onboard so badly. Like it didn't work. And you must have been like, man, this race would be so much better if I could talk about Alex and just show people the magic that he's doing inside the car.

Just watch him tickling the controls of that Java house rocket.

Just, That, my buttons and my, uh, Using my buttons, and and tickling those buttons. My, uh, my wheel is very phallic every time. Every time. No, like, people come by like the grips, right? So people come by. Your grips are weird, man. They're weird. They're weird. So everyone, everyone comes by and I'm so self-conscious about it now 'cause everyone's like, oh, I wanna see a steering wheel, right? And so I just hold, Hey Christian,

Can we borrow your wheel I just hold the tops of the grips so that they can like, look at it without hopefully smart pudding two and two together. Yes. Yeah, no, that's, that's fair. Um, but yeah, look, congrats, uh, obviously to Pallo, I mean on just whatever the most palolo like win and then

Do I know it's phenomenal. Like he wasn't fast. I'm not saying he didn't do a great job. I'm not saying that the team didn't do a great job. I'm not saying he's not deserving, but like, he was not fast in the race.

Do you wanna know what's interesting is he, he was only fast in that final stint. Like I I I'm gonna say this in a way that, and you might, you might want to combat it a little bit, but like, he was fast when he had to be. That's because that's, you know, how hard it was to pass, right? Yeah, that's fine. And so, but like when he was out front, he was, he was quick and he pulled away from guys and he was fast. I do feel for Dixon, well

I feel for Joseph because Joseph was the fastest car on track and okay, the only reason quite frankly, in my mind Joseph didn't win is 'cause the team missed the fuel. Like they, they didn't get his,

Is that what happened? They short fill him on the stop.

I dunno if they short fueled him or if they just thought that he, they could cut him loose and he could do whatever fuel number he wanted or not. But like, regardless the last two laps, they were like, you're outta fuel, you're posed sort of thing.

Yeah, but it's, look, it's, again, it's tough to pass. I know Polo caught traffic and so Joseph closed up five seconds or whatever, but then it's still tough to actually get by a guy. That's fair.

Yeah. when Dixon came out of the

Pit, 'cause like 50 lapsed in, I was like, Scott's gonna win this race. Once Colton had his problem, I like was doing the math and everything, I'm like, oh my God, he's gonna do it. Nixon's finally gonna win at St. Pete. And then that last stop and they're like, and here's, here's the blend with Polo. And we were like, where the fuck did he come from? We hadn't even mentioned him. Like was, we had no eyes on Polo. It was incredible.

You like, I don't care I thought you loved Barbara Anyways guys, I think, uh, I think that's gonna do it for this week. Um, yeah, I am speaking of Barbara. I am testing there next week, so Cool. We get to talk about that on next week's episode. We get to hear about how, yet again, we have another new tire. Who knows if we're gonna test on it, but we're gonna have one, so should be cool

Guys. Thanks for listening, watching YouTube for watching. But thanks for watching. Thanks

For watching Fox. Yeah, we love, thanks

For tuning in. Do not forget about practices on FS one. Do not forget about qualifying. The warmup show was something totally different. Alex, I want you to check that out. Tell me what you think about

That. I actually, I actually, our good friend Steven Bi mm-hmm . Was harping on about warmup. He loved the couch set up. He heard that that came from Wheel Boxton. He loved the interviews. Yep. He loved that whole sort of thing. So I actually have seen warmup, uh, cool. Because he said that it was like some of the greatest warmup TV he's ever watched. And I have to agree it was the

Best warmup TV for sure.

I I have to agree. It was warm. It was at six eight was pretty for me, was pretty, it was pretty good. It was pretty good.

We can go watch it on Fox YouTube.

It sounded like you guys knew what you were talking about, which is shocking to me. But it's

A nice rarity. It's a, you know, it's a rarity thing. That's, anyway, thanks again guys. We'll see you next week. We'll talk Barbara pre Sebring and whatever other good stuff happens between now and then. This has been off track with Hinch and Rossi. Off Track is part of the SiriusXM Sports Podcast Network. If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more, please give a five Star rating and leave a review. Subscribe today wherever you stream your podcasts.