Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in IndyCar, listener Q&A show.

Ah, we got a little bit of a break, y'all, coming out of a pretty crazy start to the year.

Lots of busyness, but also thankfully for everybody involved in the series, especially those who work on the cars, make the series happen, administer and run, folks who've just been going nonstop for well more than a month.

So happy for all of them.

And also, I am smiling like a fool because, indeed, first weekend off and I don't

know how long.

So hope y'all, indeed, are able to take a quick breath here next week, getting

on a plane, I think, on Friday to head out to good old st louis uh w w t r aka

gateway for some sunday night oval racing and then hopping on a plane the next morning to

buffalo driving down to wakins glen will be there from Monday through I think I got a 6 a.m.

flight out Saturday morning fly out to good old Road America Indy car and then come home after

that.

So yeah, three tracks in whatever that is, 9, 10, 11 days.

Pretty lucky guy.

So why don't we say a very, very huge thanks to y'all for the questions you sent in,

of which there are many, almost 2,000 words.

And, yeah, a dozen or two questions in here for sure, all assembled by our friend Jerry

Sudath.

Great to see Jerry, Jerryerry and his wife and so many

of you at indianapolis little prudea meetup on race morning which was just phenomenal um and also i

guess if there's a perk uh of being a member of that group friend ralph hibbard saw him at the

indie member of beelia show show and said, hey, bought a

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