Ep.285 – DINNER BITES: Cole Pearn’s Indy 500 Experience

Dinner with Racers

Automotive, History, Sports, Leisure

5.0 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In the latest installment of “Dinner Bites,” we talk with the legendary Cole Pearn, one of NASCAR’s greatest Crew Chief’s in the modern era. A NASCAR Cup Series champion in 2017, Cole walked away from the sport at the end of 2019, opting to focus on home and family life in his native home of Canada. Here in the month of May, however, Cole received a random opportunity to try his hand at INDYCAR racing and the Indianapolis 500, taking over the one-off entry of Conor Daly and Ed Carpenter Racing in 2020. In this episode of “Bites,” we learn just what differences exist between NASCAR and INDY, as well as what it’s like to move barrels of frozen poop.

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0:00.0	This is a bad job.
0:01.1	In the winter,
0:02.2	like the poo tower,
0:05.0	because the poo freezes and everybody poops in one spot
0:09.0	and it creates like a mountain.
0:11.2	So you've got to knock that over.
0:12.9	The barrels will fill more evenly.
0:15.0	Right.
0:15.7	Get a shovel and knock that over.
0:18.6	That's not a fun,
0:19.6	fun one.
0:22.0	And now, Dinner Bites, a new spinoff of Dinner with Racers, presented by...
0:27.0	Hot Nental Tire.
0:28.5	With your host, Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman.
0:32.4	Welcome to Dinner Bites.
0:33.9	Dinner Bites.
0:34.8	I'm Ryan Eversley.
0:35.8	I'm Sean Hickman.
0:37.0	And welcome to the short form version of the traditional dinner with racer shows.
0:41.3	Dinner Bites is in an initiative, as we've said before, with Continental Tire in which we bring you sort of a higher volume, shorter version of the series, mainly done through remote interviews.
0:50.7	And so we thought, since we're doing more short-form stuff, what's this weekend, Ryan?
0:55.2	It's the Indy 500. That's right. The Indy 500 is this Sunday, unless I jinxed it with Rain.
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