I had zero real-life experience. I just said, hey, I raced rental co-carts at an indoor place in Maryland and just sim race and that was it. And that was good enough to get a tryout, you know, at the combine in March of 2019. What's the combine look like? Going race, I guess it was Rotex carts maybe or maybe KAs and that was my first time in an actual cart ever. Ever. I thought that that was my shot and I blew it and I didn't do good enough.

Got the message a and that was my first time in an actual cart ever ever i thought that that was my shot and i blew it

and i didn't do good enough got the message a couple weeks later that they had picked me to run a

legend car that summer the following is a production of dirty mode media hey everybody's

dale junior back again for another episode of Dale Jr. Download.

And this guest today is Roger Akeruth, the race car driver of the number 71 in the truck series for Spire going for an opportunity to race in the championship final at Phoenix.

I've known him for several years and had some communications and text messages and conversations and

been kind of watching this young guy work his way through the ranks and really getting a bit

of a late start but you know fast forwarding through late models arca and the truck becoming a winner at

the truck level,

showing what he's capable of, and I think the ceiling is still way up there.

There's still a lot of growth to be had.

Next year, he's going to drive here at Junior Motorsports, so we're going to have a lot of fun

getting to know him even more over the next 12 months. And we're excited about that.

But let's get him in the room and see what this is all about.

So what's going on?

Nothing much.

Just still being salty about Sunday.

Why? The football game. Oh, my gosh being salty about Sunday. Why?

The football game.

Oh, my gosh, yes.

Yeah.

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