Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in IndyCar guest episode brought to you by Cooper Tires, The Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com, and our young Formula One driving brother, Pato Award.

I swear I saw a guy that looked like you just a couple of days ago

at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with a smile that was so wide, it actually extended like

three feet off of your face. Man, wow. Like, I'm still in awe about that race car I mean it's it's a proper racing machine like it's

honestly if if it's not the best it's very close to it the best the best experience I've ever

had in a race car.

I mean, you were there to witness it.

It was the best.

And the thing that I loved, even though we only got two on board laps because McLaren's GoPro flew off the car into the gravel trap.

And luckily, we called in a favor and the track was able to find it.

But what folks did not get to see was your full run, but as someone who was able to see the whole thing,

at least in the front straight and coming down the hill and listen elsewhere,

that's the fun part, Pata, listening to your lap to lap to lap progression of pushing this corner and picking up the throttle earlier and breaking later here.

Got a lot of folks wanting to know about that.

So let's see.

Why don't we go to Brian Rice, who says I was lucky enough to have been trackside at Laguna on Sunday to watch your run.

I'm curious for you having now driven both an IndyCar and the 98 World Championship McLaren F1 on the same circuit.

What's the one thing about the F1 car that was most different from behind the wheel to your

number five, Aaron McLaren SP Chevy? He says from his viewpoint outside of turn four, I was

blown away by the abruptness of the McLaren's change of direction on corner entry. So why don't

you crack open what it was like pushing lap after lap and exploring the limits pato,

but also you weren't able to go 100% maximum attack?

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