Speed, Dirt, and Rivalries: Inside American Racing Culture

The battle between dirt and asphalt tracks, the delicate ecosystem of regional racing, and the high-stakes fall racing season take center stage in this revealing conversation with motorsports commentator Rodney Rodriguez.

As Texas transitions into fall, circle track racing enters its most exciting phase with championship battles heating up and big money events drawing competitors from across state lines. Rodriguez highlights the SuperTex 600 at Rocket Raceway Park—a minimal-rules competition offering a potential $25,000 prize—as an example of grassroots racing at its finest, where "you can damn near run anything you have" from bombers to modifieds.

Behind this excitement lurks a troubling industry trend: historic venues like Devil's Bowl Speedway closing permanently, forcing racers to travel greater distances while remaining tracks fail to coordinate effectively. The podcast reveals how personal rivalries and business pressures prevent track operators from collaborating on schedules, ultimately hurting car counts and fan attendance. As Rodriguez explains, "Tracks intentionally scheduled on top of each other...that cuts your car count down, that cuts your fan count, it divides the racers."

The conversation expands to critique both NASCAR's Next Gen car for being "too smart" and diminishing competition, and IndyCar's abbreviated season that causes the series to "fall off the map" despite having exceptional racing. These industry-wide challenges reflect a motorsport landscape at a crossroads—balancing tradition with innovation while fighting for audience attention.

Whether you're a dedicated race fan or simply curious about the culture of American motorsports, this episode offers invaluable insights into the passion, economics, and challenges shaping racing's future. Ready to experience the thrill of fall racing season? This conversation is your perfect starting line.

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Transcript

Show Introduction and New Studio Setup

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning at 8 to 11 am Central it is the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show award-winning, I might add Just ahead, roundy round know-it-all Rodney Rodriguez and fall circle track events Plus.

Speaker 1 0:18

Jeff has the crews in and events calendars and I'll bring his stories making automotive news headlines this week. Howdy, along with Mike, out of this world. Mars. We always need more Jeff Zekin, chief Engineer David Ainsley, who is in the house this morning yeah, he is Sitting over here yelling at us don't do this, do that. You've got it all jacked up. I'm Don Armstrong and it's all my fault. That's pretty much what he said.

Speaker 3 0:40

I've been well-trained after numerous wives and mess-ups, don't need to go into that in much detail.

Speaker 4 0:47

Come on now, all right? Well, we won't.

Speaker 1 0:50

Good morning, mr Morris, howdy Again.

Speaker 2 0:53

So for those that are just now joining us and going, wait a minute, they don't have the license plates on there and it works.

Speaker 1 0:59

They don't have the muscle car thing on there. No, we don't. It's a new setup. It's a new day. We're doing this from a new studio and we're trying out something new. Mr Mara has championed this Yep, and so far, so good. Mr Ainsley, over there, these gentlemen did a fantastic job. Just mentioned the fact that it seems to be running pretty well.

Speaker 4 1:20

And if you see the background info at inwheeltimecom, send a picture of your hot rod and send it to Mike and maybe he can put it up at a future date.

Speaker 3 1:28

Behind us, yeah we'll show it off.

Speaker 4 1:30

Info at inwheeltimecom. Send us your hot rod. Is Rodney with us? Yes, sir.

Rodney Rodriguez Joins the Conversation

Speaker 1 1:35

He's ready, he is. Oh my God, ladies and gentlemen, here he is, mr Dirty Air himself. Ladies and gentlemen, rodney Rodriguez, when in the world are you? Why is it so dark in there? Is it nighttime where?

Speaker 4 1:47

you are. Is it so blocky? Pretty much.

Speaker 2 1:51

This is actually my home studio, but I don't have any lighting on. It's a little calmer man, look at you guys, man, that's some fancy stuff you got. Yeah, what do you have like multiple suites there, or something? What do you have like multiple suites there, or something?

Speaker 1 2:03

Yes, we do Multiple suites. Mr Mars has the Neaterville suite.

Speaker 4 2:10

You'll see sheep and goats running by in a minute.

Speaker 1 2:13

That's right, right there on the beach where Mr Mars is Not.

Speaker 2 2:17

Congratulations, how you been brother, I've been good man, Just kind of trying to get through the summertime into the fall and just enjoying life. You know.

Speaker 1 2:27

Well, I have to tell you that you know the fall, and on the calendar anyway, because it's certainly not the temperature. The fall in Texas is a great time for circle track racing, in my opinion, because the Saturday nights are a little bit cooler as a rule and we're winding up the season and the competition is hot and everybody's wanting to win the big trophy at the end of the year, yeah, and that's when the big money's on the line.

Fall Circle Track Racing Events

Speaker 2 2:53

So that's when you get a lot of folks that will travel from the invaders that come from other places to try to knock off the hero. And I remember when we were younger it was like racing season ended when, when football started, yep, that was it. But now it's just really getting cranked up. I mean, tonight, for example, uh, the the lone pavement track in texas. There in hmp you've got a thousand dollar to win outlaw race 75 laps. So that's a huge thing. That's coming up. 105 is still going out in cleveland and and I'll tell you guys what probably the coolest one of them all, it's called the SuperTex 600. And that's going to be at Rocket Raceway Park coming up on October 3rd and 4th. And what that is? It's about a page and a half of rules. You can damn near run anything that you have. You look out there and you see like bomber type cars. You see IMCA modifieds Anything with fenders. There's no engine rules, there's no tire rules.

Speaker 2 3:50

Yeah, baby, that's what I'm talking about yeah, run with the brunt, and it's two, because it's two nights, so it's called the 600. So you've got 300 laps the first night, 300 laps the second night, and if you win and if you happen to win them both, which has been done before you can take home 25K.

Speaker 4 4:09

So we could actually go to Hertz and run a car and take it up there.

Speaker 3 4:12

I was thinking Don's Corvette, but I can see where the Hertz car might be better.

Speaker 2 4:17

Yeah, just rag the heck out of it and take it back. Wash it and take it back. It's truly one of the most unique races in the country. It's where is it? That's a. It's in petty and petty Texas, which is up North. I think it's North of Dallas, maybe I don't know Northeast or West, I get all turned around, but it's called rocket raceway park and it's a very pristine, small, I think it's a quarter mile. No, maybe it's a little larger than a quarter mile track. They used to do this race at Devil's Bowl Speedway in Mesquite, which was one of the most renowned tracks there Is it closed.

Speaker 1 4:54

now it closed.

Speaker 2 4:56

No, it closed. See, this race used to be called the. What was it called? Oh, the Lone Star 600. And it had run for a bunch of years at Devil's Bowl and they invited me to come do PA. And I'm like, all right, this was about four years, three or four years ago. So I go rolling up there and I do the race for two days and then at the end of the last night they say this historic track is closing down for good. I'm like, man, I should have stayed home. Look what I did today. Man, I should have stayed home. Look what I did today.

Speaker 1 5:23

Man, I am so sorry to hear that, and you know that seems to be the trend these days. So what does a racer do? I mean, you know, once you're a racer, you're always a racer and you've got that in your blood. And now you have to pull your car. You know, halfway across the state of Texas it could be 1,000 miles to get to a track.

Speaker 2 5:43

That's where we're fortunate here that there are so many, so many dirt tracks, and to get them all in the same rules package is the other problem, to where you would think that that would be a simple concept and be really good for business.

Speaker 2 5:53

But you've got probably two different sanctioning bodies and then you have one classic car that's just exploded and it's got three or four different sets of rules to where guys can just and that's these five $10,000 factory stock shows that I was talking about the last time to where these guys come in and it's if they could get on the same page, because what you have now you have a nice balance with everything up in DFW and then you kind of have the isolated central tracks which I would call like 105 out y'all's way and and cotton bowl speedway and page which is closer to me, and then you've got the stuff further down south with Corpus Christi and Pleasanton and Edna to where, and then Waco, right in the middle, to where there are enough tracks to do that, but still they get in their own way, guys, and it's like I just I just don't understand.

Speaker 4 6:41

Do these tracks coordinate the events? They have, like you just mentioned, waco corpus and and out by you. Do they look at each other's calendars and say, okay, you're going to take this race, we'll take the next one? Do they rotate them like that or are they just free for all? Hey, I'm running a race, they they try to.

Speaker 2 6:58

there is a little bit of cooperation. Now to where, in the past I think, tracks intentionally scheduled on top of each other. And what does that do I mean? That cuts your car count down, that cuts your fan count. It divides the racers, you know for one thing. But I think they're trying a little harder.

Speaker 2 7:12

What you actually do see now is that you let's just say, for example, out here, my way, let's say that the track in Edna, let's say that the Texana Raceway Park has a big factory stock race scheduled on I don't know, pick the date, april 14th, corpus Christi, you know, which is about 100 miles down south, and then I-37, 150 miles east, in Pleasanton. They'll say, okay, well, we're not going to run the factory stocks that night. If we have a race night, we'll give those cars the night off so they can maybe go race with you. So you see a little bit of that, but it's still. When you lose tracks, it just it gets extremely tough. But there's an influx to where pavement is different. Because, like I talk about Houston tonight, I mean, if you're not going to run Houston, there's a big over in Alabama, at South Alabama Speedway, which is literally in the middle of nowhere. They call it the town of opportunity, opp, and I'm like opportunity for what? Farming Loneliness? You've got a big pavement race there, and then Pensacola, you know, or Mobile.

Speaker 1 8:17

But hell, how close is that? Well, and let's face it, I mean from my experience, you've got the asphalt racers and you've got the dirt racers. Yes, there is a little bit of cross traffic there between the two racetracks, but it's a lot of work and a lot of money to be able to switch off and be able to be well able to do both of them.

Speaker 2 8:37

Yeah, it's impossible. Anybody that's going to try to do it. There's a kid that's racing out. He'll race atston tonight in that outlaw, uh, thousand dollar race. His name is jared moppen and that's a guy to where that? That guy is actually so good that he has the fortune. To where? I mean he? He has his own car but he doesn't have to drive it because he drives for other people. And that guy I mean there's probably four or five different cars that you'll see him in, based on whatever you know dirt or asphalt, but based on what he's going to be trying to do that night, and it really is. There's not the easy swap over that that there used to be. You know, back in the older days you could do it, you could do it and you could be competitive. But if you, if you just try to change tires and change some springs and change some shocks and go from one discipline to another, you're going to get lapped on lap two. I mean, that's just the way it is now.

Track Coordination and Cooperation Issues

Speaker 1 9:37

Why is there no cooperation between these tracks? Cooperate with each other and say, okay, I'll take this Saturday night, you take this one, you take that one, and have some sort of a rotation that the drivers know what you got coming up, and same thing with dirt.

Speaker 2 9:52

Yeah, I would say purely business, you know, because I think the biggest part of it is most most racetracks, at least the majority of the dirt tracks the track operator doesn't own it. It's a leased type thing. You know where you've got a monthly lease that's due and and all of that. And when it comes to and pavement has gotten into the situation as well on short tracks to where you've got three or four organizations that run the bigger races, you know, with late models and stuff and they are, I mean it is a bitter, it is a very bitter situation to where it's like they will butt head to head and change rules and do stuff to prohibit people from racing with the other, prohibit people from racing with the other, and that I think what it all comes down to with with our sport, with short track racing, is that so many of the people that are that are running organizations or running tracks or running a series, they have left one track series, whatever to go operate their own.

Speaker 4 10:49

So it's probably personal Rodney, which has the most fan base or which is the most popular? The dirt or the asphalt for Texas?

Speaker 2 10:59

In Texas. Definitely dirt, definitely dirt. Dirt is the king around here. To where it's very regional, to where up, I would say about where you find some of the equal would be in the northern parts of the country, to where dirt and pavement are both extremely popular and extremely a different environment guys where they they race. You know, here in texas we struggle to get a good crowd on a friday and a saturday. These guys race on tuesday and wednesdays and the place is full and they start at five o'clock, you know, and it's like damn well friday friday night football kind of hurts some of that.

Speaker 3 11:32

Yeah, because that same region that the dirt tracks are coming up in, that's part, that's part of the culture there to get out on Friday night. And I also think that the tracks run on pretty tight margins, so it gets really competitive there. You know you've got to offer a big purse and you don't know for sure the crowd's going to show up so that you can make it.

Speaker 4 11:49

Yeah, and the equality of the dirt and the asphalt. Up in the Northeast, as he said, they've got another avenue, they've got the ice racing too. Up in the Northeast, as he said, they've got another avenue, they've got the ice racing too. They've got all the snow. Let's do that. That is popular up there.

Speaker 1 12:01

Hey, let's shift gears for a minute. Let's talk about NASCAR before we wrap things up here. What in the world has happened with NASCAR? What's happened with IndyCar?

Speaker 2 12:12

Let's talk about.

Speaker 1 12:13

NASCAR first, you know NASCAR. There was a little bit of a hesitation on your part. How?

Speaker 2 12:17

long do we have? We're going to have to have the Jerry Lewis telethon, that's right. But it's, like you know, nascar with and I get the diversity with what they're trying to do, with schedule changes, and I'll tell you, I totally understand the reason of going to this car, this next gen car, gen seven, whatever it's called but it has totally destroyed the competitiveness of the Cup Series because the car is just we talk about this on Revved Up all the time to where the car is just too smart and the car is too good. Whatever, there are very small adjustments that you can make to it, but the car will absolutely run well on any track that you put it on. I mean, it's a sports car. I mean this is a sports car. What they're doing and the hot topic right now is is the point system.

Speaker 2 13:04

You know yeah joey lukano that wins last year and actually got his way into the playoff space of somebody else's misfortune and wins another championship. And now it's like change the playoff system back, or or a lot of people want it to go back to the 36 races. Whoever's at the end of this is the champion, and that's a great way to do it. The playoffs, I think, builds a little bit of intrigue to it as well, but I mean the bottom line is to it. I was talking about this to somebody the other day to where I just think with the Cup Series there's just too many races right now and I get that markets want this product, but when you look at it, what is football? 20 weeks, 24 weeks, whatever it is basketball's long? Baseball is losing momentum because there's too many games. They're talking about shortening seasons, um cup racing with now streaming and different things to exactly Yep. People just don't need to see it every week and there's no personality and the competition's not good.

Speaker 4 14:00

And then you've got all these infighting with the cup teams. Heck, you've got Jimmy Johnson's coming back to run again. You know, you retire, you retire, and what's the back and forth, is it?

NASCAR and IndyCar Discussion

Speaker 1 14:13

just my stupid perception, or is IndyCar actually gaining audience and becoming more popular? Is it just me being stupid?

Speaker 2 14:22

IndyCar, and this is my, my stance on IndyCar. Indycar is done for the season and IndyCar, I think, has been done for four weeks. I think it's been a couple. Yeah, okay, a couple weeks and I totally get the shorter season, but you are done way too early. You fall off the map.

Speaker 1 14:38

I agree.

Speaker 2 14:39

And what happened to them was they finished up their season and then you have the dominoes start falling with. Colton Hurd is going to go be an F2 test driver.

Speaker 4 14:46

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 14:48

Will Powers going to Andretti. That happened two days after the season, so it's like that's big news but boom, it's done and we're not going to hear nothing about them until March. And what's even more frustrating to me about IndyCar is that now that's a competitive form of racing and they have one hell of a driver roster. That's look at top to bottom, and I wish they'd run more ovals. I get that that's dangerous, but I wish they'd stretch the season out. And that's Penske thing. This year, with the mess with the cheating and the disqualifications and Penske being an owner, it didn't help, but they seemed to have gotten by.

Speaker 1 15:28

I'll bet you Roger was livid. Oh my God, I wouldn't want to be within 100 miles of him.

Speaker 2 15:37

It was a really weird time where I'm sitting here looking and it's like when I think of Roger Penske, I think of IndyCar and I think of CART and all those great Indianapolis wins and so forth. But it's like at that point when you think of Penske, you thought of NASCAR because it's like the only thing that they were doing well at the time and Will Power leaving Penske is pretty heavy and pretty massive, kind of like a staple right there.

Speaker 1 16:02

Willpower's a previous champion Rodney it is always great to talk to you, my friend. We need to do this more often, on a more regular basis.

Speaker 2 16:11

Hey man, you guys just let me know, because if I'm on the road I can take this crap show with me and travel. I do this in hotels a lot where I'm doing these kind of things. And a funny story before you guys cut me loose. So a few months back, where was I? I don't remember. I was up in DFW somewhere and I was sitting here and I was talking and whatever. So it was about a 30-minute hit and I go walking out of the hotel room and one of the ladies there that's working, she kind of peeks her head out from the door of the room next door and she's like is everything okay in there? I was talking to myself Cool, I love it, we're going to send you a flashlight there, you go.

Speaker 1 16:50

That's it, roddy. It's great to talk to you, my friend. We love you. Thank you so much for joining us today and take care. Let's talk to you before the year ends. Absolutely, you guys be well, take care. Thank you, appreciate you. Hey coming up, Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars and I'm going to have the stories making automotive news headlines this week. Stay with us on the award-winning In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.

Speaker 1 17:10

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Speaker 1 18:10

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Upcoming Events and Show Announcements

Speaker 1 19:05

Thank you, david Ainsley, for coming out here a dozen times, and Jeff, and Mr Mars is doing a fantastic job. We still have some little glitches here and there. Still have some little glitches here and there. One of them a big one was mine and I apologize for that, but we're getting through it All. Right time now for the cruise-in and events calendars. Jeffrey Hicks.

Speaker 4 19:22

Super Cruise-in Sillsby. It's September 27th, 8 to 4. It's at the Kirby Memorial Football Stadium at 1005 North 7th Street in Sillsby. Be there, be square. I haven't been to Sillsby in a long time. This event is set to offer spectacular car show experience, with all proceeds going to benefit local charities which we are all proud to help out with. It includes a variety of classes, sponsored awards, free t-shirts provided for the all-registered cars, array of food and all that good stuff. So check it out. It's down in there, sillsby, the next one we have. Don, you'll like this one, and David you particularly fun buns. Fourth Saturday cruise fun buns.

Speaker 1 20:02

Does that have a man bun? Well, jeff, you're not alone, I'm out.

Speaker 4 20:06

Yeah, 27th, from 11 to two. So fun buns is a 15,000 Texas 46 in spring. Branch fun buns Fourth it's the fourth Saturday. Welcome to automotive branch fun buns fourth. Uh, it's, it's the fourth saturday. Uh, welcomes automotive enthusiasts. Food lovers enjoy the showcase of cars, trucks and hot rods. So it is a reoccurring event. So take your buns out there and have fun with them. Brazoria, county cars and coffee. September 28th it's a sunday, 9 am to 11 am at 221 parkway parking way street, jackson, texas Parkingway, not far from here. It's a nice place. So it's Missouri County Cars and Coffee set to take place in Lake Jackson. Attendees are invited to gathering at 9 to 11. There you go. I feel like I need to hunker down here with you.

Speaker 1 20:51

I got one more you want?

Speaker 4 20:52

to read this one. This one is Hallettsville, on September 27th. It's down the road comes from, uh, our folks at a hot rod tour of Texas. Uh, bobby posted this. It is a Kalachi car show, Kalachi fest, so ours that's your alley.

Speaker 3 21:08

I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I was thinking though the fun run wieners in it.

Speaker 1 21:12

That would be you, wieners and Buns.

Speaker 4 21:13

That's next week, but anyways, check it out. It's in Hallisfield. It is a kolache festival going on down there.

Speaker 3 21:20

So, on the Fun Buns Don, you can get your assless chaps out and fit right in.

Speaker 4 21:27

Oh, he said the word ass. Like chain mail, chaps Chain mail.

Speaker 3 21:54

All right, I think we ought to go ahead. Don's doing some headlines, all right.

Speaker 1 22:53

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Speaker 1 23:51

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Speaker 3 24:20

Alright and we're back again. I think we've got our little sound problem corrected and we're working on that. So jeff and don will be right back with us. David ainsley's over there working on it trying to get them resolved, get that problem resolved. I want to tell you about what we got coming up in the rest of our show and coming up in the next hour. We've got, of course, we're going to have our In Wheel Time segment and this is where we're going to talk about the story of the week. We're going to be doing the Hemmings what it sold for. We've got a lot of cars that we're going to go through on that and hopefully we'll get everybody's input on how we can figure out what these cars sold for. Hopefully we'll get everybody's input on how we can figure out what these cars hold for. And then we've got coming up after that Andy and Mercedes Lilienthal. The Lilienthals are back and we're going to be talking about their recent event, the Alcan 5000. 5,000. And then from there we're also going to have some features like the.

Speaker 3 25:31

Let me give David a quick message here. We're going to be talking about our features. Jeff's going to have the racing calendar coming up and then we're also going to have, which is sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge. Now they're coming up to the end of their season, their racing season here in the near future, and so we're going to be talking to them. I believe in three weeks we're going to be talking to the president and he's going to be telling us about their year and how they're wrapping things up into their championship event.

Speaker 3 26:01

From there we've also Don's going to have some more news headlines and we're also going to be talking about auto history and we've got several things in auto history. We kind of go through that each week, kind of get a view at. You know, the car industry's changed a lot in the last 100 and 200 years or so and it moves pretty quick. Some of the things that we find that we've gone we talk about in one week, like Henry Ford, very popular person in the automotive world, but he would do things and then it might show up a year later. So it falls into the calendar quicker, like the Model A phasing out, the Model T coming in, some of the racing and stuff that they do. It all turns out pretty quick and so sometimes it kind of seems kind of repetitive. But we hope you enjoy it because we kind of keep up things going as we go through the automotive history. Also coming up in a few weeks, we've got some guests coming up that Let me get out the magic book here. Yeah, I'm old school, I got to write stuff down. So, coming up next week, one of the guests I'm really looking forward to is a guy, the CEO of autofixitcom.

Speaker 3 27:18

Now, this is an app Everybody's going to, an app where you can go in. You can actually send them some pictures of your car, a little bit about the information you've got it and you can get bids on getting your car repaired collision repair primarily and they've got a network across the country of different companies that they've vetted and partnered with to, I guess, make referrals. We haven't tried it yet, fortunately I haven't needed it, but it can kind of give you an idea of what it will cost to get your car fixed. You go into the body shop. You really don't know and it's not exact, but it's a good estimate to kind of help you get started on figuring out what you're going to do as far as getting that car repaired.

Speaker 3 28:03

And a couple of instances just personal stuff Granddaughters driving cars have an accident, so is it worth getting it fixed? It's an older car, it's a school car, you know. Do you want to spend several thousand dollars getting it fixed or do you want to say, OK, I'm going to file it myself, I'm going to fix it myself, I'm not going to file it on the insurance and take the chance on the insurance going up? A lot of things that you got to kind of figure into it and I think this could be a tool. We're going to check it out, but this could be a tool to help you do those kind of that kind of decision-making process. And then what else we got coming up? Oh, in a few weeks we're also going to be talking with the crew from the spring branch high school museum foundation.

Speaker 3 28:51

Now, this is a remote that we're going to do. We did it last year out at the high school and they actually have a museum there in the spring branch that it's in the school, one of the school buildings, and it's pretty amazing when you walk in there and realize that this is 30, 40 years worth of history. They've got their old band uniforms, they've got newspaper clippings for students that have gone off, and it really didn't mean anything personally to me as per se. I didn't go to school there, but I happen to think, well, what if my school would have done that, my grandkids coming up through school now? What if they had a chance to go see some of these things from?

Speaker 3 29:25

You know the state football championship back in the fifties and, uh, you know some of the bands, the band students could look back and see what the old band uniforms look like and how things kind of changed over all the years, as well as all the awards people have won. So it's kind of a, it's a unique deal and it's a fundraiser. It's kind of a weekend thing. We're going to be there for the car show Saturday morning and that's on October the 18th, and you're going to get more information. We'll have the flyers up next week and start helping them to get ready for that show.

Speaker 3 30:02

And I don't think that we need any of that. Well, maybe not.

Speaker 1 30:05

I know, well, we're back, mr Mars, and sorry, we had a computer issue here. David has fixed that, but it's time for us to start the second hour. If you don't mind, are you ready to do that?

Speaker 3 30:17

Let me flip the page here. Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 30:19

All right. Well, anytime you're ready, let's start it.

Speaker 3 30:23

All right. Well, you got the magic button. I do have the magic button.

Speaker 1 30:28

That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show. I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, youtube, twitch and our InWheelTimecom website. Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, spotify, stitcher, iheart Podcast, podcast Addict TuneIn, pandora and Amazon Music. Keep listening and we'll see you soon.