Welcome to the Marshall Proop Podcast in our set down, looking at all that happened here,

the actor Grand Prix of Long Beach, a little bit of a snoozer, can't argue about that,

but indeed there were plenty of things that happened that are worthy of diving into a little bit

of analysis and introspection and we have our awards as well to hand out as we've been doing

all year so big thanks to y'all for tuning in subscribing into our great partners at the

justice brothers and trinamotoresport.com Before we get into the event, figure just share,

this is usually my second or third busiest event every single season.

Rolex 24 with the roar before the 24 that rolls in prior.

That often is the craziest event of the year for me.

The Indy 500 is usually P2 when I was going and covering the 24 hours of Lamont every year.

That definitely stacked right up there.

But Long Beach has just become this weeks of planning type thing, and I love it.

Drive down most of the time.

Did that this year. Covered between

IndyCar, IMSA, also some fun historic content got coming. Did in-car sessions with Zach

Brown's five-cylinder turbo Audi Transam car, I think just about every single session. So got to pick through those, some technical

issues with the car. But anyways, great time. Just run through what a wild event it was. It concluded

with driving home Sunday, was up at about 5.30 Sunday. I think by the time I got home and got to bed, it was about

2.30. So yeah, about a 21 hour day, big long day, motor racing and all that kind of fun.

And then a six and a half to seven hour drive home to cap it off. So it was pretty wiped out

on Monday. But anyways, kind of back and among the living

here so uh but how did this whole thing start well drove down on wednesday uh was hired to host a

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