Well, welcome along to a very special edition of the Marshall Pruitt podcast.

It's me, Stephen Kilby, recording an episode of Twist, but not with Graham Goodwin, not with Marshall Pruitt, but with a very special guest.

I've got alongside me none other than Ben Keating.

Ben, how are you, sir?

It is an honor to be on the Marshall Pruitt

podcast without visiting with Marshall Pruitt. Well, what we're going to do is a very special

Ask Me Anything. So we put out the call for questions the other day and got a huge response.

We had to fill them down a little bit.

Ben, it's fair to say you're a pretty popular man.

There's a lot of questions here.

People are very keen.

That's great.

I focus on the fact that I do racing for fun.

It's important to me that I'm having fun at the racetrack.

And as a general rule, that that means being a good guy around the racetrack.

And I think that people often get that vibe from me

which helps make people feel comfortable.

So I think that's great.

Before we get going, describe yourself in your career

in a couple of sentences, people who don't know you.

Okay. I am 54 years old now. I started racing when I was 35.

But you're only 37 now. Yeah. I thought you'd been racing for more than two years, no?

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