Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast.

Going to talk about St. Petersburg, put that to bed here.

Dive into some Phoenix coming up this weekend, cover off a couple of newsy items,

Washington, D.C., Prima Racing, one or two other quick things.

Share a little personal update at the end and then get ready for 250 laps of racing here in Arizona on Saturday.

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So why don't we dive into good old St. Petersburg, good old Alex Palo,

just wrote a long, long breakdown of how he won the race. Put that on racer.com, so you might

visit there and check that out if desired. But one thing I just wanted to drill home about

Alex's super power is why the guy has won 20 races from 99 starts. He'll have his 100th start this weekend,

which is pretty cool. But the reason the guys won effectively won out of every five races he's been in,

keep in mind that opening season 2020 with Dale Coin Racing, a rookie in a team that wasn't

really super capable like his Ganesi team is.

You subtract those races in the win ratio, the percentage of how often he gets to Victory Lane, it gets even more ridiculous.

But his superpower, Road and Street courses in particular also applies on ovals, but really it's the road and streets.

Tires.

Pushing this DLAR DW12, especially in its heaviest ever version that we have right now with the hybrid system in it,

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