This is Off Track.

Hello and welcome to Off Track with Hinge and Rossi.

It is a Tuesday show that both of us showed up to, a rare and amazing thing.

And it's because last week we teased, we were going to have Dale coin on the show.

Couldn't get Dale.

So we got the next best thing, which is the soul...

Dale's wife.

The sole announced full-time driver for DCR so far for 2025 NTT IndyCar series.

Mr. Jacob Abel is joining us today.

Hello, Jacob.

What's up, guys? Thanks for having me on.

I'm happy to be here. I'm a listener of the show. And, yeah, just pleased to be here.

First guest, that's been a listener. Yeah, for sure, without a doubt. So I'm just going to ask the

hard question first.

Announced Dale Coin Driver in January.

Like that's a pretty big deal.

It was tough.

To be honest, it was tough.

But the biggest thing that was able to get that done is we had Media Day. and we just use that as we need to get everything done by then and dale was saying it's like you know for whatever reason he just really wants to be done by this this media day I'm like no it's like I could honestly kind of care less about the media day but if it wasn't the media day day, then the next best deadline is St. Pete. And I'd like to at least have some sort of idea what's going on. Because, I mean, you guys know how it is. It's very, very hard to prepare for something when it's not all

set in stone. It's not all done. You know, I couldn't be talking to the engineers and all of that.

And it's like you're kind of training and doing everything without a purpose.

So to at least have it done with a month and a half, two months to spare is super comforting.

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