Ep.327 – RE-HEATED: Rick Mears, Pt1
Dinner with Racers
Dinner with Racers
5.0 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The latest of our RE-HEATED series, where we re-issue episodes that might share something with racing stories in the news… Episode 106 featuring Rick Mearsi. With the month of May upon us, we figured it was a good episode to re-visit. It’s Rick Mears, do you really need a description? He grew up in Bakersfield as an amateur off-road racer… then somehow he became a driver for Roger Penske’s IndyCar program…. then somehow won the race 4 times. How did that happen? Well we have the story in two parts. Dinner courtesy of Palomino in Indianapolis, IN.. Thanks to Continental Tire for all of their support!
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| 0:00.0 | All right. So public speaking specialist. |
| 0:05.0 | Not brain surgeon. Not brain surgeon. And flip-flop connoisseur. Yep. |
| 0:11.4 | Rick Mears. Yes, I just said that. Rick Mears. If you could describe this dinner with racers in one word, what would it be? |
| 0:21.6 | Diet. Diet. Diet. |
| 0:22.6 | Diet. |
| 0:23.6 | Because we starve you today? |
| 0:25.6 | Well, you know, it's just, it's just, you guys do such a good job. |
| 0:30.6 | You make it interesting and it's fun to do. |
| 0:32.6 | You don't want to take time to eat. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, that's a compliment. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, that's not what Tony Stewart said. |
| 0:38.2 | No, no. |
| 0:38.9 | You guys ate. |
| 0:44.0 | And now for dinner with racers presented by Continental Tire. |
| 0:47.9 | With your host, Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman. |
| 0:50.7 | Played Holder Radio. |
| 0:52.1 | Oh. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm a driver. I'm very angry. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm the sound of a driver on the radio during a race. I'm Ryan Eversley. Hey, it's yet another episode of Reheated. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm Sean Heckman. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm Ryan Eversley. |
| 1:14.9 | And we put one out a couple weeks ago because it's the month of May. |
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