Hello and welcome to the WTF1 podcast. I am your host, James Coker, and along with me is a very new co-host, my good friend, hopefully your good friend soon to be. Ash Van der Leigh, Ash, thank you so much for being here.

Hello, I'm so excited for being here. Hello.

I'm so excited to co-host with you.

It would be fun.

Yeah, I'm super pumped.

Ash and I have known each other, I guess, on the internet for, like, the last two years.

I don't think we've ever met in person.

Ashley Kalita, you might know her as Ash Vandlea on social media. She is a motorsport Twitch streamer who has worked with NASCAR, GT World Challenge America,

Red Bull Racing, Ford and everything else you can think of.

She was a creator for Oracle Red Bull Racing for a number of years.

You have also done work with IndyCar.

I know you were one of the in-house content creators at the Thermal challenge last year. Is that correct?

Yep.

One of the most knowledgeable people I have met in the motorsports space, so passionate, but also,

like, very, very funny. And I am so excited to get to host this podcast with you this year.

You've talked me up so well that it's only down from here for me now.

So I cannot live up to anything you just said.

Oh, that's absolutely not true.

But I'm like, I'm so curious how you got into motorsporties.

Is this something you grew up watching?

Not, well, grew up age of 13 years old. So my family immigrated from Poland to the United States

and the first Polish driver, Robert Kubitsa, came into racing for Formula One, 2006 time.

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