How Kyle Larson Took on the Memorial Day Double

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Indianapolis 500 is a sacred tradition in the racing community. But so is the Coca Cola 600, NASCAR’s longest race. And both of these events just happen to fall on the same day. So when a brave driver decides to tackle all 1100 of these miles — a challenge affectionately known as the Memorial Day Double – the eyes of the race world fall on them. This year, NASCAR champion and IndyCar rookie of the year Kyle Larson took his shot, battling: the logistics; the tracks; and, most of all, Mother Nature. And our good friend Ryan McGee was there to chronicle the attempt. So today, McGee shares the history of folks trying to tackle The Double, and explains how the people who dare to get behind the wheel are built differently from the rest of us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Ryan McGee, what is the furthest you have ever driven in a day?
0:07.0	All right, so I was the college student that if the roommate decided, hey, let's go to the Tennessee
0:17.7	Texas game.
0:18.7	Okay, let's get in the car.
0:19.6	We would do it.
0:20.8	I think about 600 miles.
0:25.1	You know what it's like when you get a flight canceled, right?
0:27.1	So I was at an Ohio State at Indiana football game, and I was supposed to be in Norman, Oklahoma the next day
0:35.8	and all my flights were canceled. I just got the rental car and drove from
0:40.2	Bloomington to Tulsa, which is about 600 miles.
0:44.4	So I want to go with 600 miles.
0:47.0	Which is a pretty big day, but it sounds like still
0:49.3	less than 1100 miles in a single day.
0:53.0	Half, yeah, not quite half.
0:55.0	Yeah, they were a little more than half, but yeah, it's not, it's, it was a lot.
0:59.4	And I was also, as far as the local Highway Patrol's know, I was doing probably, I was doing about 65
1:07.0	miles per hour as opposed to, you know, 240.
1:12.1	Which as you know, Elisa Rone, because you just spent a lot of time with race car drivers you are a
1:16.8	race car driver and so you understand they're just built differently than we are. Insane speeds here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
1:26.0	and it is faster than this driver has ever gone in any race car.
1:30.0	This driver just happens to be NASCAR Cup series champion Kyle Larson in the
1:37.0	Hendrikcars.com arrow McLaren Chevy. What a month of May it's been for Kyle.
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