Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast.

In a weekend sports car special edition, we're looking back, 20th anniversary of a very special

LaMalle victory.

I have a couple of dear friends here in York Bergmeister, and the, all caps, Patrick Long.

He is infused with air, water.

He is just made of all the great, great things, like the magical unicorn that he is.

Guys, thanks for joining us here.

We find ourselves at another point in time heading into LaMont.

Tell me about this overall, just looking back on this 20-year anniversary, that number 90 Westward Ho Casino, Portia of yours.

What comes to mind before we get into some of the particulars, but 20-year milestone of

getting that big first Lamal win as teammates. I'll jump in there. I mean, first I'll say

thanks for the entry. Yerg would say I'm mostly full of air and hot air at that, but always great

to chat with you. Always great to chat with Ber always great to chat with burghie um you know

that period 2004 obviously i have my own personal story it was i think my second or third endurance race

ever and first year as a factory driver for portia i was definitely the late ad the liability and, and Yerg was hard on me. I remember that

showing up and it was a welcoming environment, a small team, a family-based team, but every single

player in that team led by Yerg's intensity, I had big shoes to fill Sasha Mawson as our third

driver. But what really kind of came to, well, he was our first driver.

I was the third driver.

But what really came to mind when you sort of opened it up was it was a period in sports car racing that was so pure.

And it was kind of an amazing transitional phase.

For us as a single car entry and the style of racing in 2004, it was still about getting the car home.

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