Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in IndyCar guest episode.

Who do we have?

Making, you know, your appearance here matches Ryan Hunter Ray's longstanding indie car number.

Mike Hall, managing director of Chip Canassie Racing, appearance number 28 on the good old

podcast here. Thanks for, thanks for joining us. What do we do when we get you to 50? Do I owe you a watch?

What do we do? Well, I don't know. That depends on, you know, the value of watches is going up,

Marshall. I don't think that you should probably talk about that. Well, I can find a plastic, a plastic one somewhere. Maybe if I win an arcade game. Yeah, maybe a Cassio. Hey, there we go. I'll get you a retro one with a little calculator on it. That'll help you on the timing stand, for sure. Yeah, that quartz movement was quite the thing when it came out, wasn't it?

As if I know what that means. Do any of us know what that means? I don't know, but hey,

let's say, as usual, a quick thank you and a hearty thank you to Cooper Tires, the Justice

Brothers, and Toronto Motorsports.com.

Before we get rolling here, my couple of newsy things,

and we won't dive too deeply into them.

I'll save that for next week's listener Q&A show.

We have Paul Tracy confirming he will not be returning to the booth.

No big conspiracy theory.

I have read plenty of them, gone back and forth with some folks who are

citing it as cancel culture and all kinds of other pure nonsense. Paul telling me in a text exchange

yesterday, he and NBC were unable to come to terms on a new contract.

Paul, who said he has loved returning to racing, did that last year in the SRX series,

will be returning to SRX in 2022.

He's also working on returning to sports car racing as well.

So where we have his booth mate Townsend Bell, Mike, who's been... on returning to sports car racing as well.

...