Today in the Marshall Proop podcast, we have your 2020 NTT IndyCar series season preview.

I'm adding a note ahead of the actual intro that we did when this was recorded on March 11th with Lee Diffy, lead commentator for NBC Sports IndyCar's content.

This was done with the full expectation that the season would begin as intended at St. Pete

and continue moving forward.

This conversation, a little bit more than an hour and a half, runs through every team

and a variety of insights.

Many of them, pretty darn awesome from our pal, Mr. Diffy.

This is all pre-coronavirus.

And I figured rather than go through and do a lot of edits and or re-record it,

figured, you know, might just be interesting to hear insights on the season as we expected it to happen.

The insights still apply, just knowing that indeed we are kicking off the year.

Saturday night in Texas with a Genesis 300.

So let's get going with the original intro and start to the conversation with our man, Mr. Diffey, here looking at the upcoming, now abbreviated, NTT car series season.

Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast, brought you by Cooper Tires, the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com, Bell Racing Helmets USA, and the finest,

somewhat new American citizen with an exquisite Australian accent. Is this Lee Diffie? Is this my brother,

Lee Diffy on the other end of the phone?

What are you talking about a new American?

I've been a proud American for nine years, Marshall Pruitt.

Well, I'm older than you, so therefore it feels a little bit new.

Well, that could be representative of us going up the scale in years on the planet so yes

in in relative terms that is quite new so i stand corrected but see that is something

that i do appreciate the fact that you proud son of australia but you have indeed made your

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