Club 520 Podcast - Club 520 - Conor Daly & Jeff Teague talk racing in Indy 500, Daytona 500, Formula 1

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

We’re back with Season 2, Episode 69 of Club 520 where Jeff Teague and the guys are joined by IndyCar driver Conor Daly. Conor tells stories about how racing in the Indy 500, Daytona 500, Formula 1 have been life changing experiences. Conor explains how racecar drivers ARE athletes with how much their bodies endure while out on the track. The guys discuss their favorite drivers growing up, favorite basketball players, best racing movies, and much more! #Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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name is dj wells we not in studio today but we still on the west side did it recording live from the historic indy 500 you you know what I'm saying? Got a special guest with me to my right. Little bit switch of a season. You know what I'm saying? We in your spot, you know what I'm saying? We appreciate you having us in here. It's one of the luxurious, you know what I'm saying, home that you stay in while you're trapping.

So we got a little bit different of a setup here to my left. My dog, young Nacho, young Teague. How you doing, man? Good, man. Honored to be here. Like you said, we in a luxury apartment. You know what I'm saying? Tour bus. I don't know what you want to call it but no it's like tour bus sounds good okay you know i'm saying be here my dog bishop out the pearlies how you were nasty got your feet kicked up yeah you know i mean

shout out to cd appreciate it uh yeah let's party nasty let's get to it hey it's funny no matter where we go we know you're gonna get comfortable comfortable You know what I'm saying You see the hen dog I love the hospitality This has been my friend For over a decade He ain't never He ain't never greeted I ain't got a handshake

At the door or nothing For sure We got a special guest Tomorrow right man Driver extraordinaire One of the best things To come out of Noblesville He races in every single league

You can think of Connor Daly Appreciate you letting us come to your home, you know what I'm saying? Mobile home, while you're trapping and pull up and appreciate you, man. Hey, thank you guys. Honestly, it's really cool to have you guys here. This is our favorite month.

This is our Super Bowl. This is our NBA championship. This is everything all wrapped into one month. It's cool to share it with as many people as possible as we kind of get closer to the race for sure man like you said historic race one of your favorite races you know what i'm saying and it's crazy for all of us we all grew up in indianapolis all of us especially grew up on the west side and it's crazy like you said raising the rent or something like such an

amazing event we have millions of people who come in town for the n500 but it's so many people from the city who have grew up 10 15 minutes away have and have never came to the Stryke. I know. You know what's funny is I come across those people a lot, and they're like, you know what? I've never actually been to that race. I was like, why not? You guys have to come at least once in your life because it's just unique. I mean, it's the single largest

attended sporting event in the world. I mean, we have it right here in our backyards in Indy. And I think, honestly, as a city, we do sports pretty well. We do these events well. And so I'm really proud of it because this is my hometown, and I'm the only driver on the grid that's from Indy. So I love to represent for the state and the city too.

For sure, man. We're going to talk about your lineage in a minute, but we're going to start off the episode with a fun question. Obviously, T, you know what I'm saying? You started off driver early. You had a question about that? Yeah, I was going to ask him, man, like, what was your video game growing up that you liked driving? Like, we all play Need for Speed, Gran Turismo.

What was your game? I mean, you listed some of the best ones. I mean, I was Need for Speed Underground 2. There was also like Midnight, Need for Speed Midnight Club. I didn't play as much, but like Gran Turismo 3, big one. Gran Turismo 4 was kind of like after I enjoyed it, but like Forza Motorsport was a big one. I was an Xbox guy.

I'm still an Xbox guy. Exactly. So like Halo, Halo 2, that was me. I was a big Xbox guy. But yeah, Project Gotham Racing 2, that was one of my favorite games. Those are like real racing nuts. We're into that one maybe. But yeah, those are the ones.

Those are the ones I liked. What car did you pick though? And which one? Gran Turismo. So Gran Turismo 3? Yeah. What was the car, man? It was always the Nissan Skylines.

That was a big Nissan Skyline. Who said he was going to say Nissan? A big Nissan Skyline. My favorite car of all time is the Nissan Skyline R34 GTR. So the one from Too Fast, Too Furious. I was going to say Shadow of the Fast and the Furious. Shadow of the Fast and the Furious. Now, I'm going to ask you another question, but before we get past,

we got to show respect to one of the best racing games of all time, Mario Kart. There's no way we could get past this. I suck at Mario Kart. I understand that you are real drivers. I know there's different simulations, but for some of us civilians, that Mario Kart 64 was the Bible. I still play it. Dude, it's a different simulation, but for some of us civilians, that Mario Kart 64 was the Bible. I still play it.

Dude, it's a great game. I suck at it. I don't know what about it. It's like, this is my life. This is my career. I am awful at Mario Kart. I don't know if I'm just, I don't know.

I just don't get it. That joystick week, Paul. Yeah, exactly. That's it, yeah. That's great. I'm not a joystick guy. I need a wheel. Yeah, yeah.

Me neither. I'm not a joystick guy I need a wheel I got a shield man That's a good one We're talking about games Now we gotta get to the Full part Even though it's probably Ridiculous What's some of your

Favorite racing movies Oh great question That's a good question bro For sure Well my favorite movies are The Fast and the Furious 1 through 4. I'm a big nerd over the Fast and the Furious. Even the one with Bow Wow? You like Tokyo Drift?

Absolutely. I can quote every single line from every single Fast and the Furious movie all the way through like the sixth one. The Tokyo Drift, the RX-7, the orange and black car in in that movie still i want that in my collection at some point respect so look i'm a big nerd about fast and furious but when it comes to like actual i guess actual racing movies uh there's a movie called grand prix which is like very old so it's like a 70s 80s movie that movie was sick um but honestly rush uh that came out not too long ago um with ch chris hemsworth and uh daniel

brule and those like that was a great movie about like formula one racing but uh yeah those are kind of i'm a little older man i like days of thunder days of thunder was awesome man i mean i still if that's on tv i'm gonna watch yeah i don't want that malibu car i don't think no You didn't even mention The greatest one What do we got Tell a day goodnight That is an incredible story Yeah great story If you're not first You what Last

I actually have a shirt In the back that says that Oh yeah I should have wore it That's one of the best movies About fatherhood You see what he did To get him back on the track

Yep There you go The tiger Would you drive with a tiger in your car for sure for sure i am the tiger a cougar sorry but speaking of that obviously his that's a fictitious movie but you know what i'm saying your lineage is driving how was it for you like when did you start driving because driving is not a sport you can just go to your ymca and tap in yeah no it's true um when i was 10 years old um we actually had a neighbor like i was i was in noblesville growing up in noblesville

um had a neighbor that actually asked my dad my dadblesville growing up in noblesville um had a neighbor that actually asked my dad my dad was a formula one driver indy car driver back in his before i was born shout out dad yeah um they actually asked my dad if if if he could help them they bought a go cart and they went out to the racetrack and my dad asked me if i just wanted to come along and so when we got out there he asked if i wanted to get in the cart i got in because i was like yeah sure of course um 10 year old kid like yeah get in a go-kart absolutely um and so got out there and and realized that uh right then like it was like this is something that i really enjoy doing i didn't know it was possible to do something like this like to drive something

fast at 10 years old you're feeling you know you know, you're doing 30, 40 miles an hour. You feel like that's really fast. So, so yeah, from then on, I asked my dad, like, Hey, like, can we do this too? And so then from, from age 10 on, um, you know, you kind of racing is interesting because not a lot of people realize that like, it's kind of like any other sport in the years of progression. Like I did racing when, you know, when I was in middle school, when I was in high school. And like, if you're going to play basketball or probably football, you're probably also going to play that sport

through those years. So we're doing the same thing, but just in like smaller carts that are not quite as fast. And then there's a step up and then there's a step up slightly faster, slightly bigger, slightly faster, slightly bigger.

And then you get into cars kind of when you're in that 15, 16 year old age. So that was kind of how it all started, really. And that's crazy, because like you said, you go through that progression, your pops, you know what I'm saying, did this for a living, went crazy with it,

and let you kind of naturally ask him to join the sport. Mr. Teague said, nah, y'all getting in that gym. Nah, my pops had us playing basketball four or five. We ain't had no choice. Yeah, there you go. You gonna play basketball.

I don't think he seen us going to the NBA or anything like that, but you was gonna pick up a basketball for sure. Well, I see. I mean, and that's awesome. Like, my dad was always just making sure that I wanted to do it, which I respect because, like, I wouldn't want to, I guess. It's such a weird sport.

Like, it's not like the normal, because it costs money, right? Like, you have to, there's a lot of things that, you know, you could go out and get a basketball and just, you know, shoot hoops. That's very, like, accessible. Whereas racing, definitely it's not as accessible. And so we had to work a lot at trying to, you know, get the equipment, get the stuff, you know what I mean? And I was very lucky to have, you know, help from my parents

to do that first initially. And then once we get into it it's like you got to really be sure that you want to do this because there will be a lot of expense from both like myself my family like people uh people that are going to support us um you know to get going down that road for sure and like i mean we'll get a little bit later but like even just now you live on the circuit like y'all who y'all got home games they don't got a home game this is my home game right here the indie 500 but yeah but other than that the rest of the year is away so like you're you're moving and shaking well i mean we're a

traveling circus essentially you got all these teams all the all the crew guys um everyone just kind of packs up their stuff moves on race weekend is three four days in a row usually and then that's it but then we've got the month of may which is longer than normal it's two two and a half weeks but yeah it's it's a it's a weird weird lifestyle for sure and obviously we can talk about you know instead of 500 but you race in different types of leagues what's been some of your favorite like moments from different leagues to race in because obviously different types of cars even though it's still racing but different types of adjustments you got to get into yeah i've been lucky for sure i mean i i've i've lived a weird lifestyle in racing terms um you know i've kind of done like i i've got to

you know i've got to drive a formula one car uh which you know i feel very lucky to have got to do and uh you know i've raced in the daytona 500 and the nascar you know cup series and indy 500 so like i've got to do almost everything which is really cool um you know sometimes your life pathway doesn't work you know I tried to be a Formula One driver when I was younger ended up coming back here you know through situation out of my control right but uh but man like the IndyCar series and the Indy 500 there is nothing like this event like I've done I've done the Daytona 500 which is obviously everyone knows the Daytona 500 it's like hey that's NASCAR's biggest event like that's awesome but you know even I just had I just had Dale Earnhardt Jr. on my podcast like last week and he was like look

I've done the Daytona 500 but there's nothing like the Indy 500 like when I went there and saw it like this is an incredible event and so getting to do this will be my 11th Indy 500. There is nothing like this event. And this is for sure my best memory, like my best experience. It's just there's nothing like this event. And what's crazy is I ain't going to throw your age out there, but you know what I'm saying? He's in the low 30s. For you to be doing that many times. That's okay. 32.

Yeah, we'll take it. For you to do that many times, that means you've been in this event since you were in your 20s, which is crazy. 21 was my first one, yeah. How was that? Just a young lad. How was that, your first time? It was crazy. Yeah, first one yeah just how was that a young lad how was that your first time it was crazy yeah i mean honestly at that age i i i was kind of it all just happened so fast you're like oh here's my opportunity you know what i mean and i wasn't at that pro level

yet to where i like that was the first time i got paid to race a car i was like whoa that's crazy like i can make money doing this like this is wild. And I was racing still in Europe full time. So I'd kind of come back to May, did it. And it was an amazing experience. Like I, you know, cried when I qualified for the race for my first time because it was crazy. We were going up against your guy, Buddy Lazier. Trying to qualify in the race back in the day. But yeah, but it was an amazing experience.

But the thing is, it still feels like that here every May. Like that feeling hasn't gone away. That feeling of butterflies in my stomach when I walk in this track and when we go out to suit up for practice tomorrow or when the race weekend happens, this is the coolest thing. You remember what you placed? I placed 20th or 21st. I caught on fire two times

During the race So it wasn't the greatest race My rookie year But we did finish We did finish Just slightly on fire Were you living like this? I actually did have a motorhome

But they didn't put me in this lot I was actually in like The less cool people lot Outside the track Had to work your way up Yeah I had to work my way up I was like a little bit outside Which I was kind of frustrated by But Someone did give me a bus to stay in which i thought was the coolest

thing ever so when did you experience this lifestyle when did the after parties be after party well that was 2015 yeah like i i'd missed what the next year so 2013 was my first 500 2014 i was actually racing in monaco in formula 2 So like That's fine Actually I didn't I didn't race in the Indy 500 that year Because I was over there But then 2015 I was back So That was when things I started to get

Started to get a little bit more real Like it was You know there was a Wow you know Pretty cool after party after that year I'm not gonna lie That was fun You know that's what I care about

Yeah yeah Yeah The real game first after the game is Yeah yeah I think 2015 was a good year for me too Yeah Hey good Yeah yeah I had a nice after party

Oh alright Hey what's crazy is Like you said At that point You started getting the sponsorships You know a little bit about Racing sponsorships yourself Yeah

I own a gym here Called The Factor And we Like you said We sponsor Buddy Shout out to Buddy He wrecked He did

Yeah What year was was that 2017 or yeah i think it was 2017 i believe so his first year at the factory whatever that year that was and he wrecked no it might have been 2018 something like that i don't remember but well i was in it wasn't a great memory i do i do remember seeing the factory on the car so yeah when we seen it the last picture we seen, it just said, Turi. You wrote it, indeed. Yeah. He fucked the vibes up.

He was the problem. I just said it, and I ain't going around a treasure center. And I got to ask you about this. In our culture, it is one of the most important things in high school. We host in the same age group. But racing jackets was the absolute shit. Did you rock with those two? You know what?

I did not. I don't think I had any when I was a kid. But racing jackets now are so back. Racing jackets are fully, fully back. I actually got a couple this week. And they're sick. But I didn't have any. I never thought of myself as cool enough to wear racing jackets jackets i was just like a guy that was just trying to do

my thing you know i mean that was it man you was out here building the car it was cooler than i know i'm very self-deprecated i'm just like i just kind of stay i'm just kind of do my thing and i try to be the best that i can be silently. Who is your favorite NASCAR driver? My favorite NASCAR driver? Yeah. That's a great question. Well, my boss, my podcast is under Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s media company. Shout out to Dale. Shout out to Dale.

Dale Jr., Dale Jesus. He's obviously probably a legend. But oddly enough, my car number for this Indy 500 this year is 24. Oh, my God. I just know what. That's 24. Oh, my God. I had this in the pot. There you go. You got your jacket. So I've got special shoes and gloves for this race for the Rainbow Warrior.

They got the flames on them with the DuPont-like paint scheme, 24. So I've got full Jeff Gordon tribute shoes and gloves for this month of May. That's dope. That was my favorite driver because his name was Jeff. Yeah, there you go. Jeff Gordon's also very high up on the list. That was the hardest NASCAR jacket ever, bro. That leather DuPont.

The DuPont rainbow. Yeah, bro. For sure. I'm going with our heart. He's going to be out here this May. Man, help me set that up. All right. Jeff Gordon, man.

We would love it just to take five minutes of his time. Yeah, yeah. I would love to see that interaction, honestly. Me and Jeff Gordon together? Yeah, we take five minutes of his time yeah I would love to see that interaction be him and Jeff Gordon together we need it we have to have it

unbelievable damn pay per view yeah for sure that's hard now just from a simple standpoint

I know you can expand upon it in many ways but like for the average person they don't understand how hard like an actual race is

for one you were in your car for how long yeah I mean the Indy 500 is about three and a half hours 500 miles without a bathroom break right no bathroom break yeah no food no snacks no no nothing nothing like that we do have a drink bottle that's like attached like through the front of our helmet um but like that's usually boiling by about like lap 30

so it's kind of just there to just wet your whistle a little bit like that's about it so it's kind of just there to just wet your whistle a little bit. Like that's about it. So it's tough. It's a lot harder than people think. We have no power steering. It's about 150 degrees in the car-ish, depending on the day. So you're sweating. Like I usually sweat around 10 to 12 pounds of water weight during the race. And, again, our heart rate, because there's no power steering, the steering is super heavy.

So you're fighting three to three and a half Gs every corner, which is, you know, there's four corners. The lap is 40 seconds. So every 40 seconds, you're fighting it four times and then doing that for 500 miles, 200 laps. There's just a lot more that's in there than people realize, right? Because they're like, oh, well oh you're sitting in there driving like a lot of people that's the most common misconception is like we're just sitting in there and we're driving because everyone drives right like we're out on the street and you're driving down the road but this is like trying not to die for three hours because like it is very dangerous like what we're doing like we we're doing 245 miles an hour

you know side by side with a bunch of other idiots who are trying to you know make history in racing too and you are at your absolute limit mentally and physically so by the time you're at the end of this event completely spent that's crazy like hannah asked no saying like do y'all get slighted as athletes because i am like there's no way that somebody could tell me you're not an athlete. First of all, if you ever had a messed up car, driving without power steering at 40 miles per hour is crazy. That's nuts. Trying to turn into your driveway without power steering is crazy.

Yeah, so it's, we train, I mean, we train twice a day. Like people, the funniest part is though, is anyone who does say like, oh, drivers aren't athletes. It's like, as soon as you start to tell them, like these are not like i'm not like making any of these things up like we i wear a heart rate monitor like we you can like you can get in that car and like try to turn it just when it's off and you're like it is kind of heavy it's like well yeah that's it's no power steering you know what i mean so we train

you know twice a day we use the sauna ice everything that we can do to be ready because again you got to stay ahead of the car physically because if the car gets ahead of you then you're like if you make a mistake it hurts a lot it hurts a lot i've hit the wall really hard and it hurts damn crazy yeah like you said you caught on fire your first indy 500 like what's the procedure like I don't know what I'd do if my car catch on fire. Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm like, I'm done. I'm done. First fire, it's over.

So every time we pit, right, the refueler goes in, but you're trying to do it as quick as possible. And sometimes it's 18.6 gallons of fuel that goes in in about seven seconds. So when you plug in and the guy maybe fumbles coming out, some fuel spills and the engine's on and the exhausts are right there and they're shooting fire essentially out. So if there's a bit of a miscommunication there, for me, it literally burst into flames and I'm sitting there and I feel it. That's kind of hot, but you just have to go because that will then put out the fire. So there's usually a guy that sprays a bit of a fire extinguisher but my guy my first year wasn't there apparently and so i just had to go and basically let the wind

like they put the fire out but that happened twice so it wasn't ideal and listen you need some baking soda on that seriously yeah something like that you trying to re-rock on a NASCAR you crazy sponsor my snowfall yeah what's crazy is the IndyCar Series Fire Department right there I love it for sure

I'll be on CD yeah if he's in charge of saving lives it's going to be a different sport giving him a big day thanks buddy my god he's going to turn into

Twisted Metal yeah great elite elite car game great game elite car game yeah Thanks, buddy. My God. He's going to try to twist the metal. Yeah, great. Elite. Elite car game. Great game, man. Great game, man. Elite car game. Yeah.

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And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. And like you said, like, with the athlete you have on the team, like, you got your coaches, the training staff, and y'all support. But for y'all, y'all pit crew is so important because they make a world of a difference in that second. Like you said, half a second, pull it out, pause. That could have went real crazy for you with the fuel yeah that saved your life races are won and lost on pit lane and like people don't realize that as well like when when you see the results page it's driver names

right but like squad each driver got there with their team or if someone made a mistake in the pits like they got they were further down because of it's a team effort right so it everyone has to be on it and and like my guys you know the last three weeks we've been in the shop but we have a race shop in zionsville dry rimbles up there um and uh you know we have a practice car with an electric motor in it where we can reverse it and then go right back into the pit lane. And the team actually built a pit stop area with the exact same pavement that is out here in the pit lane to try to emulate what that is going to be like. And those guys work every day of the week. Practice pit stop, practice pit stop.

Seven seconds, six seconds, seven seconds, like just trying to get it right. Because it's all about every tenth of a second. To be perfect, it's crazy. We had some of those guys training at my gym up here called The Factory. And I just watched them carrying 45-pound plates. It's crazy. Tires are heavy. Yeah, I was like, that should work out.

I was like, what are they doing? They was like, oh, they're pit crew. I was like, oh, shit. It's tough, man. Yeah, but when you have a good pit stop it feels so good because you're like oh my guys got me you know what i mean like let's go it was it's but when you have a bad one you're like oh now i got a lot more work in front of me so it's just it's there's six pit stops during the 500 so there's so many opportunities for either you can take

advantage of it or you have to come back from it you know i gotta ask you a question because like you said it's a high intensity, very fast. Everybody's trying to win. Hey, I'll be squabbling. Them drivers, they get out. They be having beef. I'll be punching people through helmets. I can imagine when you prepare so long for a moment like this and somebody's driving out the safest and nicks you and ruins the hell.

I can see why there's so much frustration behind that now. Well, yeah. So there's a lot of professionals out here but they're also idiots so like there are plenty of people that you know as soon as you're around them on track they're either gonna make a stupid decision now they're again everyone out here is very talented but there's also people that just are not there's always dumb people when you're doing stuff and it doesn't matter. Like they're just people who don't make efficient decisions. There's people that, you know, don't really,

don't really care, but like it's an ego thing. Right. So yeah, there's plenty of people who hate each other. As is in every sport, right? You have your rivals,

you have your, you know, people that you don't like. There's people that I don't like. But, but yeah, I mean, what's interesting about the 500 though,

is that like those, there's those rivalries, but it's also so dangerous that a lot of those don't play up as much as, like, when we're racing on the road course. Like, there was a road course race that just happened over the weekend, right, the Indy GP. So that, there was a bunch of cars hitting each other, like, just bouncing off each other a lot of a lot of uh anger but at the 500 if you do that like you're literally either gonna be in the hospital or like you know it's a tough so so thankfully that doesn't play up as much or it doesn't look like it does but there are much more subtle movements at 230 that like make a big difference and that can make you angry like even all the practice this week you're gonna have guys running together and like someone just tries to block you a little bit like i just want to punch that guy because when you're when you get this dirty air like the air changes in front of you all of a sudden your

car then has this massive reaction so there's plenty of people that hate each other which is great for the sport and uh and i am happy to always be honest too about who i think is an idiot so oh yeah it's good. Listen, I get pissed off when somebody cut me off at the gas station. I can imagine. Road rage is real out here. It's true. Definitely.

It's true. I mean, if someone – I have said a lot of horrible words on the radio when I have – Talking shit. Yeah, yeah. When someone has crossed paths in the wrong way. Now I got to ask, obviously obviously you drive for a living. What do you drive in real life? Yeah.

So our contracts are not as great as they used to be. But my first car was a 2004 Subaru STI, so an Impreza STI. So I still have that. It's broken in my garage currently. But I have a Porsche Macan S now. So that's what I have as my daily driver. Some slight. But I do have a great idea for what I want in the future.

I want a Nissan Skyline R34. I need one of those. For sure. So furious. I'm a Lamborghini guy at the heart. I want a Lamborghini someday. Oh, okay. You're a car guy.

I am a car guy. Someday. I don't know when. Connor, you'll have to detach. I'll have to get you a van or something. You might slow down. You might forget. What are those lights?

When do you think my last speeding ticket was? I was just about to ask you that. I was about to ask you, do you drive like you drive on here on the regular road? So I don't. I have not had a speeding ticket since 2017. Wow. I can completely switch off what goes on here because i just like it's not it's really weird because some drivers like marco andretti for example he's at 150 miles an hour all

the time like we're getting to dinner at a thousand miles an hour like full attack and i and my girlfriend says that i drive kind of like a granny so i i don't know what that means but i'm just gonna get us there and whenever i get there i'll say granny so I don't know what that means but I'm just gonna get us there and whenever I get there I'll say okay so you detached from the superstore that's crazy though I wouldn't like I wouldn't be able to do that in them cars I can't imagine you driving the Lambo I mean there's yeah well there's I mean some situations I will drive fast but yeah I just don't want to deal with tickets and I don't know that's good that you can detach for real though yeah because I wouldn't be able to do it.

I'd be driving like, watch out. I mean, I do get angry. Yeah, I'd be having a manual going. I'd be going, wow. And if I get pulled over, hey, dog, if it's anybody you should be telling how to drive, it ain't me. That's a lot of people you should be giving instructions to. It ain't me, man. I know what I'm doing for sure.

Exactly. I want to take it back to high school, though. You went to Heritage Christian, right? Yep, yep. You went to school during them Kelly Ferris days. Yeah, actually, that's a great reference. How was that, man, going to school? Did they treat her different in school,

or was she a superstar later on in her high school career? Kelly Ferris, yeah, we thought she was the biggest. She was our Caitlin Clark, right? Yeah. We went to the girls basketball state championship every year. It was so cool for us because she was one year older than me maybe or two, and so we thought it was the coolest thing ever that we had this amazing basketball team.

Girls basketball team for us was so fun to watch and cheer for. So, yeah, that's really funny. She actually came out to the track here last year. I saw her, and her family comes out here. So, yeah. She's a superstar. I remember I'm tapped in with high school, but I remember her for sure. She was really a superstar back then.

Yeah, those were good years. Won a couple state championships. Yeah, speaking of basketball, you said your first love was basketball. It was. Yeah, even we had at our school school we had a fourth grade tournament each class and the fifth grade tournament no big deal we did win the fifth grade tournament that's a fourth grade champion right well yes we were that wasn't as competitive as fifth grade fifth grade is more important um but uh but yeah man i i loved playing basketball i was at the indiana basketball

academy for like three or four years in a row i got the iba shirts you know what i mean uh todd abermathy obviously he was there helping us out um yeah so it was it was it was such a joy for me to play and it still is now like i'm still not good at it but like it was it was a really fun uh you know fun fun sport to learn and to cheer for like i was a pacers guy from day one so yes sir it was really cool what position did you play i played person who just tried to shoot the ball celebrity yeah well he was on a business i was the a I was the C team On the celebrity team No big deal

Two rebounds One assist No big deal Nah Keep your stance I was in the paint Michael Parsons Was hating man

Yeah For the future When somebody asks you What position you play You have to name A position CD You can't say I was not the point guard

I was not the point guard You was playing the two You were shooting guard i was a big defensive guy because that was the only chance that i thought that i could have made a difference because the team didn't really have faith in my shooting so so you were a volume shooter exactly exactly yeah but i really tried if i was an effort guy i was an a for effort big effort guy. What were your favorite Hoopers growing up?

Man, so I wrote a book, which I did share with you guys. I didn't write a book. I drew a picture. That's crazy. It was a children's book. It was a children's, yeah. We were asked, I think we were in kindergarten, to draw a picture of what you wanted to be when you grew up. And I did not put race car driver. I put the Pacers court and I put Jalen Rose on my picture of, of basketball.

Not even sure why. Like I, I don't remember if I was like a Jalen Rose fan. Obviously I grew up to like in the Reggie Miller era. So like Reggie Miller was, he was like, it was awesome. I have Reggie Miller Jersey.

Um, but, uh, but I just love the Pacers. Like we went through all the eras, you know,ff teague era boy hibber you had paul george you had um so many there were so many names that we could follow growing up uh austin crozier was actually i grew up in uh he owned the house my parents owned before

us so i like i knew of austin Crozier. That's a really random name. But yeah, there was a lot of guys that it was just really fun to follow growing up. And we went through the down times, too. We went through the down times. Y'all back up now? We're back up now. We back up, baby. My son's episode plays. We went beating the Knicks.

You feel me? Destroyed the Knicks. Yeah, yeah. We ran them out of steam. Ran them out of gas. Hey, he was with us. What happened? Your last recap, you was doing it with the team. I'm back with the person. Okay, just yeah. Get them out of the paint. We ran them out of steam. Ran them out of gas. Hey, you was with us. What happened? Last recap, you was doing it with the Saints.

I'm back with the Pacers. Okay, just making sure. I played for the Pacers. I didn't play for the Knicks. So I'm back. There you go. Perfect. Yeah, I'm back.

That's crazy. I'm a Celtics through and through. Oh, my God. That's nasty. I do have a futures ticket on the Celtics. No big deal. I did bet on the Celtics to win the championship. Okay.

But I also have a plus 26,000 Pacers ticket to win the championship. So, you know. Now, this might be out of pocket. Hey, Dante. No, Dante Porter. Hey, y'all bet on yourselves in racing? Or is that out of pocket? That's definitely legal.

Yeah. It's definitely legal. It's super legal. So, only I can only. Only boxing could do that. Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, only boxing could do that.

Yeah, we. But the whole sports gambling thing This is really random But for racing I think it's It's become such a big thing For like motorsport That we gotta have more Of that in IndyCar

For our fans to do Because people love it People love following their guy Following whoever they're You know supporting So who knows Maybe someday we can get More and more IndyCar

You know IndyCar sports betting Do you have a question for him About the betting Yeah I was about to ask you, do people get on you? You messed up my parlay? I have, yeah. So, yeah, people will come up to me and be like,

man, you ruined this, you ruined that. Do they come up to you like that and be like, man, you're supposed to have a top 10 finish? I've had a couple people every year that are like, well, we bet on you to win every year. It's like, when are you going to do it? I'm like, I don't know. I'm trying every year. year yeah so it's definitely

certainly more over the last two or three years right because it's been you know the huge sports gambling boom right so yeah there's definitely a lot of people i remember there was one uh two 2021 um there was like one of the sports books i think put up a like a when barstool had their sports book or whatever they had put up one of their guys is from indy jeff vibra and he put up like some uh special bet like if i led a lap like what are the odds for me i had never led a lap before at the speedway i led the most laps that year and so it was like i saw a bunch of people afterwards like oh heck yeah like the cuts are guy like and i was like okay i didn't even know this was a real thing but apparently

there was a bet for me to like lead a lap and uh and i led the most laps that year yeah i'm gonna go ahead and tap in this year i don't know if there's gonna be one like that don't worry about it i'm not encouraging anything can't do it not a part of it but no you know no no no you know but i'm gonna let you know that I am going to try to lead every lap. I'm going to tap in on my own. Don't worry about it. I'm going to take it over on CD this year. The over, yeah, I love it. Made for this mountain is a podcast that exists to empower listeners to rise above their struggles, break free from the chains of trauma and silence the negative voices that have kept them small through raw conversations, real stories, and actionable guidance, you can learn

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early and ad free with exclusive content subscribe to lava for good plus on apple podcast what's been your favorite race you've been a part of so far like individual what's one to set out to you the most so the the the 2021 indy 500 that i just that i just mentioned that was my first um like that that race was a time where i thought i had a car to win for the first time like i i thought that feeling when i got to the front uh finally led the led the race for the first time and i was like i can win this race because i had like i've had some tough times here.

This place hasn't been really good to me for my first few years. I had a couple crashes and there'd be a couple good moments, but it hadn't really clicked and nothing had fallen into place. And 2021 was a big moment for me. And I was like, I'm going to win this race. And I thought that I could win this race. And we were were leading we were leading we were everything was in the right position uh and then a car crashed in front of me and the tire flew off the car and as i'm avoiding it it hits my front wing and it didn't do enough damage to like really take us out but it fully broke the

front wing so i basically had to finish the race with a broken front wing, which is wildly important. So like we, because if we pitted and changed the front wing, it would put us all the way to last anyway, and we were already running at the front. So sadly that kind of ruined our race, and we finished the race with the front wing that was all off, which that's the most important part of the car are the wings

because they produce all the grip. So that was a really tough one to kind of get taken away from me but but the feeling of that and the feeling like we still finished 13th which is not awful but like we had no front wing nothing so afterwards though seeing all the people like seeing the videos of like fans reacting to when i took the lead like that made me cry. It still makes me cry every single time because it was such a cool emotional sports moment. I'm a big emotions guy, so if there's a cool sports moment, it doesn't matter if it's basketball, football,

if there's a cool story that hey, that's sweet, that makes you feel good. I love that stuff and that was the biggest year, I think, for me, which was just feeling that for the first time here. For sure and as a fellow patrons fan we all know about crying because of sports that's not uncommon for us but you talked about like the cars and how important they are these are million dollars constructed vehicles and for you to have you

know i'm saying a little bit of an issue it's still finished like that it's crazy but just talk about the how expensive the motor like the breakdowns of the car because i don't think your average person knows what goes into that why these these companies are so invested in those vehicles yeah it's interesting i mean so for us the if you buy a uh a tub it's called it's basically just the the cockpit that we sit in so it's basically our safety cell they design this tub of the car to have all the pieces put on it because our cars are designed to if you crash they're designed to explode and all the pieces to fly away because that's safer like you don't want it to all just crunch you want it to hit and kind of explode

into a thousand pieces that disperses the the impact in a better way so when you buy the tub that's like a 350 000 like just safety cell yeah there go that landmine right there there you go that's it but all those other pieces around it so now you put on the suspension the radiators the engine itself we're not actually allowed to own the engine so you know we're we're part of chevrolet for this month of may so chevrolet we lease an engine from chevrolet we're not allowed to run it unless there's a Chevrolet tech there at the shop or here at the track. We're not allowed to get in the engine. It's sealed by them because it's all their stuff.

And those engines are about 750 horsepower, twin turbocharged engines, which are great for speed. But then all the suspension pieces, all the, uh, the body work, you know, for the 500 alone, we, we had the cars in the wind tunnel for the last three weeks, like making sure every piece of the body work is as efficiently, uh, you know, basically just, it's called a body fit because if you're traveling through the air with as little drag as possible, the car is going to go the fastest. And here, that's the most important thing ever. So if your piece of body work is a little bit off, that could cost you half a mile an hour.

So you can't have that. So they spend millions of dollars. The budget for an Indy 500, just to run a car at a high level, is basically $1.1 million per car, essentially. So when you got 33 cars out here, that's almost probably $40 million worth of budget that's on the track, essentially. And y'all blow through tires like cigarettes, so. Yep, we have 37 sets of tires for this month of May. So like you have a couple days of practice.

37 sets of tires that we got to kind of ration out per day. Like we can run usually like three to four sets per day of practice, but like in Indiana, the rain comes very randomly. So like if it rains, we might have to save a set or two. And as long as we end up with like six or seven sets of tires for the race, then we've used our tires efficiently. Damn. I want to ask you about the pregame, man.

What are you listening to or what are you doing to get geared up for the race you know it's a good question honestly a lot of people think like uh they they used to ask me what music i listened to and i did enjoy listening to music at one point but now i've actually enjoyed taking in the atmosphere more like what's going on and like all the you know the people the because like my friends and family are here too so like so so feeling that is really cool. But my Indy 500 tradition is to go to the Snake Pit for the race. I actually legitimately go over to the Snake Pit,

the massive EDM concert in Turn 3. I don't know if you guys know much about that, but there's 35,000 people inside of Turn 3 the morning of the race. The party starts at 8 a.m., and there's a bunch of massive EDM artists that are performing from 8 a.m to about 1 30 like right after the race starts so i go over there from 9 50 to 10 15 a.m get up on stage do a little bit of raging and then go to the the driver intro so edm music is your go-to

it is yeah for for the for that concert it's crazy yeah it's fun that is a fun experience shout out to carb day yeah carb day too i mean carb day will because we practice carb day and thankfully the concerts afterwards so we'll go over and check it out we'll go over and check out what's going on over there too check out the what's your best year of carb day we don't got to go into detail but when was carb day really lit when he was eight there's a couple memories of carb day as a young man i might have discovered some things that i saw

for the first time you know there might have been all about growth you know some female anatomy that i had only just seen for the first time at carb day this is you know back when i was young yeah there was definitely some things that you might never see again and you might see for the first time let's show the real cd exactly yeah there's i've seen a lot of carb day it's been kind of crazy but uh my favorite part is uh you know since we stay here right yeah is seeing the last people who leave the track on carb day they're in bad shape they're in bad shape leaving the track so we caught a last leg get spooky i got one more question before uh we keep going on or get out of here or whatever um i watched this movie gran turismo yes and it was about a guy who played the video game end up going pro and i was the one that asked you like do you think the simulators and all those things can help a person really go pro in a race car?

We are certainly getting to an era of technology that it's pretty cool. And it is getting close. We've got video games that are so good that people think that they're actually real racing drivers. Now, a lot of the times that's not true. But what Gran Turismo did and what the the gran turismo story it's totally true like that guy uh literally was was in europe racing the year after i was kind of leaving and so like i knew i knew the story and we kind of all thought it was wild at the time but but then when he started racing and like producing results and like oh this guy's he knows what he's doing like he's got it um and

so uh so pretty cool to see i don't i think we will see more of it in the future i do think that as the racing games and the simulation technology grows i do believe that you're going to see more and more people at least get a chance to try to drive there are several people i remember a few years ago there was like a really good gaming champion and this is back in like 2011 so not even this is like before the gran turismo story yeah um one kid got a chance to test a real race car like after he won it and he got in the race car and like did one lap and was like throwing up everywhere like couldn't couldn't physically handle it because it's a much you

know sitting at home and doing that like there's a lot of mental stuff but physically is that's the hardest part of like adjusting to a real race car so i think in the future we could see more stories like the gran turismo story but still for now you got to get in in like the raw racing cars go-karts and be able to do it better than anyone else still yeah and that's so crazy because that's just like somebody playing 2K and going to the NBA, which is impossible. Impossible, bro. That's why I couldn't believe that it was a true story.

I'm like, he really did that. That's crazy. It's pretty wild. And you said 2011, that time period, shit. All the cars had passed there and then he got in that car and didn't know what to do. Well, that's the thing. Yeah, it was a very funny story. Poor kid was definitely a fish out of water for sure, but it was wild.

I can only imagine. Absolutely. Well, look, CD, we appreciate you having us in your wonderful place, man. Inviting us out here, we appreciate you, man. Best of luck coming soon, man. You know what I'm saying? We're taking the overall. You know what I'm saying?

You ain't got nothing to do with that, but we're going to hold you down. Anything you want to tell people, tell people about your podcast too, what you got going on as well. Really appreciate you guys being here. Honestly, this is super cool for me, especially like jeff obviously i watched you play for years this is like a very cool moment for me to to not go crazy fanboy but i respect what you've done in your career what you guys are doing now with this podcast is really cool because like i've i've started a podcast too and like it is it's fun but it is a lot of work too but it's it's amazing that you can create a great product for people to consume and like people love to hear it so appreciate it that's

that's awesome i appreciate you guys but yeah i have a podcast called speed street it's on uh basically any podcast platform youtube as well uh my youtube channel is connor daily 22 i'm connor daily 22 on basically all the social platforms so if you want to follow along please do um tap in with my guy exactly so i this is awesome i appreciate you guys coming and i can't wait to see you guys get in the race car too before we get up out of here i'll take a shit like do i gotta put on some equipment because uh yeah you get a full race suit full fire suit and okay so i because i don't wear clothes under my outfit so well man some wrong what i'm happy i don't wear clothes under my outfit. Well, man, something wrong with him.

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