Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast in a weekend Indy car interview series.

Who do we have?

We have our friend Karun Chanda, Karun.

I got to admit, I didn't pay close enough attention to my socials,

and I wasn't aware you're going to be at your very first Indy 500 natural

assumption he would be in Monaco covering Formula One's most prestigious race but indeed you said

no I'm going to go and just as a fan attend America's most prestigious race for the first time.

What led to this, brother?

Because it was a delight to see you out of nowhere.

But at the same time, I wasn't sure what led to this.

Well, the question I got asked the most, and not just by you, was what on earth are you doing here?

Not so you can be the consensus everywhere, especially when I popped up in the Turn 1 grandstand, and there's a bunch of F1

fans there who look completely confused for Carb Day on Friday. But listen, I think in life,

we all put things on our bucket list and most people like me, you know,

the list gets longer and longer when we don't really tick things off because work and family

and commitments sort of get in the way and you just, you know, you just tend to put things off,

especially when traveling the F1 circus and, you know, I've been to

Monaco, as you say, most of the time when it clashes with the Indy 500. So I just decided that

this year two things happened. One, I turned 40 in January. And two, my mom sadly passed away

the last year when she was only 65 so quite young and

both of those events were sort of catalysts for me to start thinking you know what realistically

I'm not going to go off and do all of the things on my bucket list but I'm going to start doing

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