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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 870: The Week In IndyCar, July 1, with Mike Shank

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

NTT IndyCar Series team owner Mike Shank returns to The Week In IndyCar show to answer listener questions that range from silly to serious.  Episode Time Stamps For Select Topics: How has Meyer Shank Racing survived financially during COVID-19? (starts at 2m02s) When will AJ Allmendinger drive an MSR Indy car? (14m16s) Eating 'Hardcore' Jack Harvey's baked goods (19m10s) Favorite SiriusXM channels (19m35s) More tales from failed 2012 IndyCar entry attempt (22m40s) Changes to doing B2B deals in a lockdown (27m06s) Should all Indy 500 entrants be given a pass in qualifying during a compromised year? (32m06s) Mike's favorite Acura and Honda products (36m47s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

Today in the Marshall Pro podcast, we have your week in IndyCar guest episode,

0:08.5

brought to you by Cooper Tires and the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com,

0:13.7

and Bell Racing Helmets USA.

0:15.7

We have one of your favorite guests, one of my favorite guests,

0:19.6

was here about three months ago, just as the

0:22.6

corolla virus was turning our lives upside down in racing. So I thought it'd be perfect to have

0:28.8

our man, Mike Shank, co-owner of Myershank Racing back. About three months later, as we're getting

0:36.8

a roll here at the GMR Grand Prix at

0:39.8

Indianapolis get some thoughts about how things are going in your world returning to racing

0:44.9

not just an Indy car now round two Mike but also you've got the very first imso round post

0:51.3

coronavirus shutdown and the first time myershank racing will be competing on the same day in two different series I don't know this week might be a bit of a stressful one for you my brother I'm glad to be back as always you know what we've had a lot of time to prepare for this honestly so i feel like

1:13.6

our guys are like well ahead of the curve right now we have a plan we just went through our

1:19.6

engineering meetings for the ems race today actually um we we know what we're up against there

1:26.5

in all forms and everyone's spirit's pretty good everyone's

1:29.5

really anxious to go back to work i'll tell you it's going to be like an oven at both tracks this

1:33.8

weekend so uh we'll get our stamina tested for sure drivers and crew and um i'm excited about doing it

1:40.7

i'm going to be able to do a small group of us are going to do both they're going to to do the Indygarampri and then immediately get on a plane and head to Daytona for the start of the

1:48.7

Empson race. Looking forward to it. Drivers are definitely ready. No fans, really, to speak of this weekend,

1:56.5

but certainly socially we'll be getting the word out there and trying to stay connected with

2:01.5

everybody.

2:02.6

Well, let's get rolling with the fine questions sent in by our listeners, and it's pretty

2:09.2

clear through most of the questions.

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