Welcome to the Marshall Proop Podcast and your week in IndyCar listener Q&A show.

We have a heck a bunch to cover here with the opening practice session of the season.

Just a few days away.

First race of 18 coming up on Sunday.

Good old St. Petersburg just adjusted my travel, was meant to fly out

on Wednesday, pushing that to Thursday, just share this up front. And this is, I realize, a

public podcast, but meant for listeners and just sharing this among us, please keep it here.

But we are back in the good old fight at home. meant for listeners and just sharing this among us, please keep it here.

But we are back in the good old fight at home.

So, yeah, just going to have to focus on getting through the important things here and getting back Sunday night.

Basically going to see the checkered flag.

Try and file a race report as quickly as I can.

Do some sort of quick little video and then run.

And make sure that I catch the last flight home and indeed get home because we're going to have a busy week next week with some

important appointments and then head off to Phoenix and all the other fun things ahead.

So, but yeah, just sharing that sometimes much more important things in life.

Say, hey, you're going to focus over here. So that's what we are

going to do. And then also try and play IndyCar and race car. So big thanks to y'all, as always,

for the many questions, almost 2,000 words worth of questions. Realize that I'm overdue and

getting the audio Q&A show done here. So

I'm going to fire right into that right now. Big thanks as well to our pal Jerry Slyth for putting

everything together and our show partners in The Justice Brothers, makers of really amazing automotive

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