I believe on the other end of the phone, I have a guy by the name of Doug Bowles, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, fitting, considering this is our week in IndyCar guest episode brought to us by Cooper Tires, The Justice Brothers in Toronto Motorsports.com.

How are you this fine Thursday, Mr. Bowles?

I'm hanging in there.

Yeah, we've got the Vax Clinic started again at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,

so we're excited to be getting some of our Hoosiers vaccinated and getting them ready for May

and continuing to count down to the 105th running of the 500.

Well, I know you might be surprised to learn this.

A lot of our listeners, a lot of questions.

I want to know a lot about the end of 500.

So I know you probably can't answer everything.

Not everything's been announced and formalized.

But as always, you are very generous with us and trying to be a really great source of insight whenever you can join us.

So why don't we just kick things off and do that with our pal, a Hoosier himself.

He and his wife, Jeremiah Morrell, says, when should we expect, Doug, a full month of May

calendar, fan attendance numbers, details on garage area bronze badge access.

He's got about 19 more questions here, kind of sort of speaking for the fans.

So why don't we just start with the first couple and I'll roll in a few more.

So calendar, uh, is there a limit to fans number you think?

And we've certainly got a lot of folks

curious about badges and access. No, I definitely hear him. And, you know, one of the things I think

you know this, I call customers every night on my way home and don't block my cell phone number.

So the number of text messages that I'm getting a day right now from numbers that I don't

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