All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

I'm your host, Jeff Gluck, and today it is a Rolex 24 version of the podcast, actually today and tomorrow,

because here we are. I'm on the grid at the Rolex 24. Never been here before, never done much sports car racing,

actually, so I don't even really know what to expect but uh i'm

going to give you some observations record one minute of this podcast every hour hopefully it'll be the

24 minutes of daytona by the time we're all done trying to stay up all night i got three five-hour

energies i got some ice coffee already jacked up on some caffeine driver intro is ongoing now, so we'll give you some observations

as this goes along, huge crowd, and let's get started. Okay, so hour one wrapped up, and I watched

the start with my friend Holly Kane from the NASCAR wire service. Holly, you've done the upper end of 20-something

of these. Walking around before the race, I was kind of blown away, and even along the fence we were

watching, there's so many people here. I think that was something that caught me off guard.

I just because I didn't realize there was that many people that come to this. Who are these people?

Are they indie car fans, NASCAR fans, just sports car? That's the great thing. There are a lot of

pure sports car fans, but because of this race and the people that are competing in it, you have

Indycar fans that want to come and see their favorite drivers. You have, you know, Rubens Barakello

and Fernando Alonzo in to make all the F1 fans happy. And certainly there's always NASCAR guys in it as well. So it's really

kind of this wonderful collection of sports car purist and then perhaps people that like other

forms of racing but are excited to see their drivers. Yeah, it's really unbelievable how close you can

get to the cars themselves, whether they're on the track or before the race on the grid. I mean,

the grid is crazy. It's really, I mean,

it's a very fan-friendly experience, it feels like. It is. And I'm glad you got to go out there on

the grid before the race because you can't even hardly move. And it's a wonderful chance because

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