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Off Track with Hinch and Rossi

TEASER: Tony Stewart and his Days of Thunder moment

Off Track with Hinch and Rossi

SiriusXM

Formula One, James Hinchcliffe, Society & Culture, Leisure, Indianapolis 500, Nascar, Alexander Rossi, F1, Indycar, Racing, Autoracing, Indianapolis500, Indy500, Automotive, Openwheel, Ntt Indycar Series, Formula 1, Sports, Indy 500

4.9963 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Hosts James Hinchcliffe and Alexander Rossi interview Tony Stewart, the only race car driver to ever win Indycar and Nascar (three times) Championship, about the first time he got into a team-owned car. To hear more from Hinch and Rossi, including the full Tony Stewart episode, tune into the show on March 22nd. Subscribe to the podcast on Castbox or wherever you listen to podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

I am James Hinchcliffe and I'm Alexander Rossi. This is off track with Hinch and Rossi.

0:05.5

Hey everyone, check out an awesome clip from our upcoming episode of off track with Hinch and Rossi featuring Tony Stewart.

0:11.5

It is classic smoke. The day that I went for the for the

0:16.0

test I got there around noon the next day after I got the flight and watched

0:21.4

Eddie Cheever finish out the rest of the first day and Eddie looked at me like I was the devil.

0:26.6

Wouldn't come talk to me looked at me like he hated my guts. I never met the guy.

0:32.0

So he finished testing the first day, then he

0:35.3

tested the first half of the next day, and it was just like the opening scene of Days of Thunder.

0:42.0

He got out of the car, climbed over the wall, and he goes,

0:47.7

if you crash this, I'll kill you. That's what he said. That's what he said to me.

0:51.1

Did the first time you got into a car on an oval did somebody look at you and say if you

0:55.8

crash this will kill you kind of yeah me too yeah it would be one thing if the car

1:01.2

owner said that to me. But here was Eddie.

1:03.8

And so I'm scared to death at this point.

1:06.4

I'm like, man, if I screw up and even scratch this thing, I'm going to die.

1:10.1

Eddie doesn't even stick around.

1:11.8

I mean, he went, as soon as he got out of the car he told me that change

1:14.3

clothes and he left so I'm like well the good news is he's not going to kill me for at least a day or two

1:18.0

I got a head start right so luckily for me I didn't scratch anything and I ran a tenth and a half faster than him and he can kiss my ass now.

1:27.0

Boom.

1:28.0

Off track with Hinch and Rossi is a cast box original.

1:31.0

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