Mike Alessi, pretty good day today, 4-1.

Without having race for a year, probably the best you could imagine.

For sure, I mean, like I've told everybody, I mean, the first

motto I was really tight, really nervous, got a little bit of arm pump right off the bat.

You know, I just, I never really found a good flow because I was really nervous.

Second mode I came out,

really relaxed, calm, and did work, smoked the guys, and had a really good race, man.

Whole shot it and one, pretty much, I had a 15 second lead and about halfway into the

motor I got the pit board saying plus 15 and I'm thinking, why am I racing this hard? I mean,

there's no point to be pushing

this hard if I got that big of a lead. So I pinned it down and, you know, I kept everybody in check

and I saw Millsaps there and ended up winning the race and it felt great. You know, he answered a lot

of questions about the 350 and the starts ability and the bike on the track, I mean, I think we shut a lot of people up today. Yeah, myself included.

I mean, not that I thought it was going to be bad, but I didn't know, and the thing looks strong.

Are you telling me a guy like you that's done 8 million motors and won 8 million races gets nervous?

Well, I mean, it's different, kind of nervous when you haven't raced at that level for so long, I mean, you kind of, I mean, you don't forget, but you kind of,

you don't know where you're going to stack up against everybody, especially in a new year.

So I think, obviously, it wasn't really a shock to me.

It just, I wasn't, I mean, I was prepared, but I wasn't, I didn't feel like the first

couple laps, I was prepared to go that fast right off the bat and second

motor I adjusted really good and I was way faster so and like this like I said I mean it was good

for us to come out here and do good because we shut up a lot of people up and prove that the

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