Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your weekend IndyCar listener Q&A show.

Heading into this weekend's Sancio Grand Prix, good old Indianapolis road course.

What, two days off Sunday and Monday.

And then on Tuesday, we jump right into opening practice for the 110th,

Indianapolis 500, y'all. So the appointment here Friday morning, so I won't be at the good

old fun on Friday, but will indeed indeed be flying out basically last flight out

Friday. I think I get in at one, I don't know, 1230, 1 o'clock, something like that, Saturday morning

and we'll head to the track however many hours later after I wake up. So look forward to seeing many of y'all.

Plenty to get through. Ask for your questions coming out of last week's Indy Open Test.

Had a couple developments since then. Just dive into that, the open of the show here.

Myself, everything brought to us by our amazing friends

at the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com, and all put together by our awesome friend,

Jerry Sudath. Before we get into your questions, when I jump into some of the things that have

happened or developed since the last episode,

I lost just an a friend to so many, the amazing Alex Zanardi.

I feel stupid to say that this one hit me hard because I think they all hit me really hard.

So I don't know if that's unique to me, but I do know that Alex is somebody who,

like a Dan Weldon, Dan really comes to mind, maybe the closest driver that I can think of who had as deep a connection with so many people.

And that's not said to compare any disrespect to any other dear friends, obviously, Justin Wilsons and others.

But just knowing dan really uh was not just

extremely popular but also just seemed to make really deep connections with people in a lot of

people to the point to where folks who never met him felt like he was a friend,

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