MP 1107: The Day At Indy, May 24, with Charlie Kimball

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

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🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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It's the short-form Day At Indy show where we catch up someone from the Indy 500. Our guest is Charlie Kimball, who missed making the field of 33 in his No. 11 A.J. Foyt Racing Chevy, and shares the experience with us, how he feels the morning after, and where he goes from here with his sponsors and loyal supporters. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0	Charlie Kimball, I think you've learned over the last decade plus, but I love our conversations.
0:10.1	You bring great humanity, insight, thoughtfulness, so many things to your role as an NTT IndyCar series driver.
0:22.6	Normally when we speak about such things, maybe on a day at Indy podcast like this,
0:28.6	even last week, and you were helping me to understand some of the nuances of drafting and trying to pass.
0:36.4	It's wonderful stuff, high-level stuff, filled with smiles and joy.
0:41.7	I hate the fact that we are talking about something that is in your profession,
0:48.8	a driver's worst nightmare, going through a lot of days of effort, a lot of risk, engaging key partners and
0:57.4	sponsors in not having the result that you want or deserve. Tell me about this, Charlie, because
1:06.8	you never wanted to know what it was like, but you've woken up this morning knowing what it is like to not be part of your favorite race.
1:16.7	It hurts.
1:18.7	I said it when I got out of the car yesterday.
1:21.5	The reality is still sinking in.
1:25.9	I will admit it's still sinking in, and it hurts. It hurts a lot.
1:30.3	And it wouldn't hurt so much if it didn't mean so much. And I think that really leads me to the perspective that I have started to develop and grasp onto and embrace since about
1:52.0	225 yesterday is that I had this year, if we talk about this year, a little bit in a vacuum, I had the most incredible opportunity to go out and try and perform to get a car into the Indianapolis 500.
2:10.6	There are only 35 people in the world that can say they attempted to qualify for the 105th running the Indy 500. Now, I am not one of the 33
2:21.0	drivers taking the green flag for the Indianapolis 500, and that really hurts. That result is
2:30.0	profoundly disappointing. Having said that, I am, no, sorry, I think I just misspoke.
2:40.2	The result is disappointing, yes, but I am not disappointed in myself, in my mechanics, in my
2:49.2	engineers, in my partners, in my sponsors, in my family.
2:55.6	And in the effort we put in from long before we showed up at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the GMR Grand Prix,
3:06.1	but from the first, the first time I met with
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