Today on the Marshall Prupp podcast and your week in IndyCar guest episode,

who do we have?

Boy, do we have a great friend.

Simone D. Sylvestero calling in from your lovely homeland,

Hey, I've heard a rumor pal.

Somewhere around May, you might be doing something kind of sort of cool.

Tell us about how this deal with Beth Peretta, Roger Penske, Bud Denker, Chevy, this amazing opportunity that's come your way.

Yeah, well, thanks for having me.

I think it's definitely pretty exciting to come back to the Indy 500 and, you know,

especially how it happened.

It was quite surreal.

I think it was a couple of months ago and Beth actually texted me and saying, oh,

you know, there's something about the 500 and

and I was like, you know, okay, I'll listen into it. And when I got on the call with her, she was

telling me about the opportunity. And then she said, oh, can we talk to the team as well in an hour?

And I was like, okay, yes, sounds good. good and yeah definitely when she said it was going to be

Roger Panthe and Bud Thanker was it was it was really incredible and pretty surreal to be honest

especially to be on a Zoom call in Roger's office to to get this news and and yeah get the kind of this this this opportunity and

and what they were thinking and I'm yeah super stoked that that that it's happening I'm super

stoked that the Porsche is also giving me the green light to participate in the race so I'm

yeah I'm I'm really happy and I really can't wait for the month

of May to arrive. I so wish that when you got on that Zoom call with Roger and Bud, you said,

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