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

A great weekend ahead of us here.

The Accura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Cannot wait to get there.

Imson, the Weather Tech Sports Car Championship, 27 cars, GTP and GTD, IndyCar with 27 entries, the Historic

Motorsports Association, vintage series, Robbie Gordon, Super Stadium trucks, SRO, GT of some

sorts, Formula Drift, and I might be forgetting forgetting another series but it's going to be a

blast as always driving down Wednesday morning and then driving back Sunday night about six

hours each way so woo-hoo coffee and fueling up as best I can both ways.

I want to start off the show here,

and then we're going to swiftly move into your questions,

but I'm going to start off the show saying a massive thanks to all of y'all.

Got a email from our podcast host this morning, Podbeanbean saying congratulations on 10 million downloads.

So thanks, y'all. It's a crazy, crazy number. Started this thing, I think May 8th of 2016.

First couple years had very limited traction. just new podcast. I've never had any kind of big

network partner or otherwise. Just been a effectively a one person show, at least from the

putting it together and producing it and whatnot side, have some great co-hosts and partners over the years.

This week in IndyCar show started off with my late friend and colleague, Robin Miller.

Our dear friend, Graham Goodwin, been my co-host for many years with the Week in sports cars.

And Stephen Kilby helps out there sometimes when I can't do the show.

I can't even count how many guests over the years, many of them, super return, return friends. So nonetheless,

to all of y'all who've helped get the show to 10 million downloads for this little thing we do,

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