Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in IndyCar listener Q&A show.

Recording this on a Monday evening, sun is still up here in Northern California.

There is rain on the window.

Been pretty wild the last couple of days, which you may have read about or seen on the good old

television or whatever with weather going wild out here it's like most of it has moved on

moved south to southern california so oh boy not a whole lot of fun there spoke to our friend

brian herda earlier today and said,

wasn't quite swimming yet, but he was having to think about it at least based down

there.

Got to say a big thanks to y'all for the great questions you have sent in.

We're going to open the show here in a moment with a little bit of a wider scale conversation talking about Indy

500 charter system guaranteed entries a little bit of a nothing burger of a topic but

we'll get into that here shortly big thanks to our friend Jerry Sidduth for putting together the questions each week.

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