This is Off Track.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to OffTrack with Hinch and Rossi on another rare Tuesday episode

we both are here.

And as I say that, Alex is currently not actually here.

He's coming.

He'll be here in a second.

He's tending to some householdly duties.

But very excited to have a special guest on the show today.

Mr. Lockheed Hughes is joining us. Welcome to us welcome to the show bud yeah thanks for having me i yeah james i'm here i well i know i wasn't i was i was

saying that you're here you just weren't there you know what it anyway um lucky yeah welcome to show

thanks for uh thanks for coming on um we have a lot of IndyCar fans that listen.

We have a lot of fans that aren't necessarily racing fans, which is weird, that listen

because we talk about travel and soup a lot.

But for the fans, look, I think we can both agree, Indy Next doesn't get quite as much

attention as it probably deserves, given

the quality of racing and caliber of driver. So for those that don't know Lockhees,

obviously not from around these parts, as we say in North America. So why don't you walk people

through a little bit about your kind of racing journey, how you got into it, and ultimately what led you on to the road to Indy?

Yeah, so I have, you know, kind of a interesting racing background, I guess, you know,

don't come from a racing family or anything like that. So kind of fell into it somehow,

just, you know, driving rental carts as a kid on some holiday.

So it wasn't like no one in your family raced anything. It was literally just you're at the, yeah,

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