Welcome to the Marshall Proop Podcast near Weekend IndyCar listener Q&A show.

Recording sooner than I have in recent weeks doing this on a Tuesday evening.

Getting ready to head back to the city tomorrow and enjoy the delight of chemotherapy.

So I'm going to fire in as many of your questions as I can.

And then rock and roll.

I have a Rodent Track magazine feature that is due in the morning that I've been working on intently,

uh, boy, since Monday morning.

And it is about a tale from the 1998 Indianapolis 500, which, this was a yarn that was spun to me by a race engineering friend about a year, year and a half ago.

And I've been sitting on it and told my editors at Road and Track about it a long, yeah, a good while ago.

And they reached out in June and said, hey, that story, you still got it?

Meaning, have you used it anywhere else?

We just said, nope.

They said, we want it.

Let's get that going.

So obviously, I'm going to keep that.

I'm not going to spill the beans on it because that's what I get paid to do, produce content for clients.

So can't give that away yet, but I do look forward to, I don't know when, next month or two,

next issue of Rodent Track Magazine coming out with a, what I think is one of the crazy,

I shouldn't say think, I know it's one of the craziest stories I've ever heard

about something done at a racetrack and it certainly falls into the category of spying and

stealing of information. This from the 1998 Indianapolis 500, where the team that I helped run and engineer Thomas Knapp

Motorsports slash general racing qualified second in lead, I don't know, 10, 15, 20 laps,

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