Today in the Marshall Pruitt podcast, we have a dear friend, an awesome friend.

Someone, though, Kara Adams, the woman who leads Firestone Racing's, race tire development

and engineering, I'm embarrassed to admit it's been a little more than a year since I've had you on the week in IndyCar.

So you've been kicking, but I've been failing there, pal.

Oh, well, thank you for my friend for having you on.

So you're running around mad, trying to be a good co-worker team member, make racing tires happen happen keep things clean and safe within the

firestone production facilities there oh and by the way we go racing here and what 48 hours

or it feels like at i.o with a double header so why don't we make good use of our time and get

to your questions here many of them the usual assortment of great stuff that cover a gamut of topics.

We'll say thank you quickly to our partners at Cooper Tires and the Justice Brothers,

Toronto Motorsports.com and Bell Racing Helmets, USA.

So let's get going here, actually, a little bit of a pre-topic.

I know that you are very close pals, as am I, with one Catherine Legg, who did not have the best day in motor racing.

I don't know if you've had a chance to text with her.

I was trying to keep her spirits up a little bit, but I know your heart's a little bit heavy here too.

Yeah, absolutely.

The nice thing about WhatsApp is it's easy to communicate that way.

So I'm just trying to keep in contact with her family and friends, and she's very much to my heart.

I warned her to not sign any contracts or loan any money while she's on heavy drugs there.

I did tell her though. Hopefully she has those good things going. Yeah, I told her she could get that

$300 back to me anytime though. So at least she laughed at that one. What don't we kick off with our

pal Lance Snyder. He says, Kara, how did the plan for the Texas tires come into being?

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