All right, everybody, welcome to the FXR one-on-one podcast.

Thanks for listening, appreciate it.

Thank you to FXR racing. Malcolm Stewart, of course. The quadlock guys wearing FXR racing, Puppamex 30 Co. To save with those guys. And they got fishing stuff now as well. If you're into that, mountain biking, of course, is a big part of the FXR line, snowmobile as well. I've heard there's a lot of good snow out there, not that we would know anything sitting here in beautiful Daytona Beach, Florida. But yeah, thank you to FXR Racing for making this happen. Maxis Tires, Firepower Parts.com as well. And I'm sitting here across from a gentleman who's way too busy to be doing this, but I appreciate he's also made my Daytona super cross.

Much nicer the last few years. It's the president of Daytona Raceway. Frank Kellaheur. Frank,

what's going on, man? How are you? I'm doing great, man. Thank you for this opportunity to sit and chat.

Yeah. Appreciate you making the trip to Daytona. I'm getting here a little bit early for Media Day.

Yeah. And I'm feeling good. The team is feeling good. I am feeling good. And we are ready for bikes to be on the track in just a few short hours. First of all, thank you for helping me the last few years. Justin Brayton, a great guy. Yes, he is. He has put us in touch. And you've made my Daytona better. For years, we had, as a media guy who doesn't shoot film and doesn't do cameras, doesn't shoot photos or anything, there really was no spot for years at the Speedway here other than go sit in the media center. And, you know, you couldn't get access. I got, I snuck my way into the Rolex Tower a couple times with some different Toyota passes. And that was good. And, but for the most part, you know, for a guy that just wants to watch the races and interview the racers, there wasn't a great way to go here. So I skipped it for a number of years. I complained about it on some of my podcast shows. And you've made it better, Frank. But honestly, the press box wasn't even open for years. Yeah. We've had that open, too. You know what I mean? So it's gotten better for, and there isn't a lot of us. There is only literally three or four of us that go to every race that do not shoot film and just do, you know, journalistic jobs. Journalism is, journalist is a hard sell word.

But, so thank you.

Appreciate it.

Hey, um, Justin was, he's been so kind to me.

Um, I'm five years into this role.

And we introduced a grand marshal position for Supercross.

And he was our first pick and so through that

engagement we had a chance to kind of just unpack who we are how we grew up where we came from

you know his path to being a professional athlete rider and me on the business side of motor sports

but i think he kind of saw like i i really love this and i really really professional athlete rider and me on the business side of motorsports.

But I think he kind of saw like, I really love this. And I really enjoy this opportunity of being the president of Daytona, as well as love motorcycle racing.

So when he's like, hey, there's a guy.

You need to meet him.

I was like, cool, dude.

Like I'm all in. He's very vocal. Well, I grew up in Blue

Colour Roots, family gas station service garage to where it was, you know, it's still open today,

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