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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 1690: Robert Wickens on The Weight of Speed Documentary, Start of IMSA Season

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Robert Wickens joins us to discuss the new documentary led by actor/producer Mark Wahlberg about his life and recovery from the devastating crash at Pocono in 2018, Robby's second season of IMSA racing with the DXDT Corvette GTD team that's set to begin at Long Beach, and his ambitions to race in more series with the compact hand-control system developed by Bosch. NEW show stickers and retro racing memorabilia: ThePruettStore.com EVERY episode is graciously supported by the Justice Brothers and TorontoMotorsports.com. If you'd like to join the PrueDay podcast listener group, send an email to pruedayrocks@gmail.com and you'll be invited to participate in the Discord chat that takes place every day and meet up with your new family at IndyCar events. Play on Podbean.com: https://marshallpruett.podbean.com/ Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast [WTI]

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0:00.0

Robert Wicken, so awesome to see you, my friend.

0:08.2

So we're going to Long Beach and you're going to get to drive race cars.

0:12.4

You are a professional race car driver, my guy.

0:15.3

And insight provider, coach, just all kinds of great things. Really cool thing happening at Long Beach.

0:24.3

A little bit of a private screening coming, but the unveiling of a project you've been in the

0:28.8

middle of, had your life under a microscope here for more than a year. The Weight of Speed,

0:34.8

a documentary about your life.

0:38.3

Tell me about this.

0:39.4

Mark Wahlberg, this has been a big production going on behind the scenes, but it's

0:43.7

time for that to come to light.

0:46.7

It is.

0:47.3

Yeah, it's exciting.

0:48.2

You know, we're finally in the final stages of post-production.

0:51.2

And yeah, it's kind of out of my hands.

0:53.8

And I get to see it like everyone else

0:55.6

for for the first time it's uh my wife and I have seen kind of a rough cut and they've done such

1:02.7

an amazing job you know I was always a little weary more so nervous of like what if I don't

1:07.6

like it because it's it's my life obviously, I'm protective of my life and my

1:11.0

story. I think I have a pretty unique story and one that, you know, maybe I'm, you know, too

1:18.4

close to it. But I felt like it deserved to be told. And we're, yeah, we're just grateful for the

1:23.4

opportunity to share the journey. It's been quite quite the path.

1:29.3

Tell me about the interest coming in because as you mentioned, it's not as if you've always

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