Welcome to the Marshall Proop Podcast in your week in IndyCar listener Q&A show.

And guess what?

We finally get to go IndyCar racing, y'all.

How long has this offseason been?

Nine years?

I feel like I might be pretty close to accurate on that one.

Genuinely excited to be headed to St. Petersburg site of round one.

Activities kick off this Friday, late afternoon, I think 2.45 or so Eastern.

Then head into regular format from the rest of the weekend on.

Practice Saturday morning, qualifying Saturday afternoon.

And a race on Sunday that doesn't start too, too late.

So that's great.

Have spent, I don't't know a lot of time over the last three or four days cranking out season previews and other stories other features uh spent time today on the phone

with i don't know i think about eight different people from

the indycar paddock some of these being stories some of these being insights on other

things have been working on and yeah so i think i did about 14ish hours per day, Saturday and Sunday.

A lot of it was either here in the office or the couch,

and hopefully not all of it, it's complete trash.

So,

big thanks to y'all for the great questions you sent in,

our friend Jerry Sudath,

who gathers all those questions off of my

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