July 11, 2025
Beyond the Finish Line: Finding Balance in Speed and Life with Karyl Bell
Send us a text Karyl Bell's motorsports journey is the perfect blend of family legacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and unwavering determination. From her earliest memories at Lebanon Valley Dragway in upstate New York, where her mother serves as assistant track manager and her father races, Karyl has turned a childhood passion into both a competitive career and innovative business ventures. Beginning in junior dragsters at age eight, Karyl quickly proved her talent by capturing a track cha...
Karyl Bell's motorsports journey is the perfect blend of family legacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and unwavering determination. From her earliest memories at Lebanon Valley Dragway in upstate New York, where her mother serves as assistant track manager and her father races, Karyl has turned a childhood passion into both a competitive career and innovative business ventures.
Beginning in junior dragsters at age eight, Karyl quickly proved her talent by capturing a track championship in just her second year. Today, she competes at the highest levels of bracket racing, seamlessly switching between Super Pro and Super Comp divisions - sometimes within the same weekend. Her mechanical knowledge runs deep, working alongside her father to maintain their race cars and understand every aspect of vehicle performance.
What truly sets Karyl apart is her response to adversity. After surviving a dramatic barrel-roll crash that destroyed her Nova, she returned to racing with renewed perspective rather than fear. This experience directly influenced her decision to establish KB Performance Center, a trackside business at Lebanon Valley Dragway selling essential safety equipment from helmets to fire jackets. This brilliant innovation means racers who fail technical inspection can purchase required safety gear immediately rather than missing competition.
Perhaps most remarkably, Karyl balances her racing life with owning a dance studio - two worlds that couldn't seem more different yet complement each other perfectly through their seasonal schedules. This diversity in her professional life reveals a multi-faceted woman who refuses to be limited by conventional expectations.
Throughout her career, Karyl has encountered gender discrimination but transformed these challenges into motivation. When a professional racer once dismissed her with "girls don't race," she responded by proving him wrong repeatedly on the track. Her racing philosophy combines strategic planning with mental discipline: "Don't overthink" and "Always have plans A, B, and C" for each run down the quarter-mile.
Follow Karyl's continuing journey on Instagram @buckwild198 or Facebook as she pursues her passion for racing while building businesses that support and strengthen the motorsports community. Her story reminds us that with dedication and perseverance, we create our own definitions of success both on and off the track.
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00:00 - Welcome to Women's Motorsports Network
02:35 - Meet Carol Bell: Family Racing Legacy
09:17 - From Junior Champion to Super Pro
14:56 - Business at the Track: KB Performance
18:01 - Finding Balance Between Racing and Life
22:48 - Women in Racing: Breaking Barriers
31:38 - Race Day Memories and Strategies
37:58 - Social Media and Future Racing Plans
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Hello everyone, this is Melinda Russell with the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, and my guest today is Karyl Bell.
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Karyl, I want to welcome you to the show and, first of all, what I always ask my guests is to tell us a little bit about yourself so we can get to know you better.
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So tell me about your family, your past, whatever you want to share pass whatever you want to share.
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Well, first off, thank you for having me.
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It is a great honor to be able to share the stories, share backgrounds and just get whatever information out there, especially about women in motorsports.
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So my name is Karyl.
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I live in upstate New York.
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My home track is Lebanon Valley Dragway.
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I've been there basically since I was born.
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My mother is the assistant track manager there, my father races and works there, my sister used to race and now has two little kids of her own who will eventually grow up to be junior racers, and my boyfriend also races along with us.
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So it's just like a really, and so does his family actually.
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So it's just like a really big family community that I've been really happy to get involved with and my two cats, keiko and Grapes.
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Keiko is a small one, she's six pounds, and Grapes is 14 pounds.
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He's oh yeah, he's massive.
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Yeah, and I was gonna say they're crawling around my feet currently.
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Oh yeah of course I have a.
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I have about a 15 pound Shih Tzu dog, so my dog and your cat are about the same size oh, absolutely.
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And he's like super long, like when I adopted him.
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We're like ah, he's just like a really big cat.
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No, we swear.
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He like kept coming out and just kept stretching.
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We're like are you ever going to end?
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That's.
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That's cool.
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I've seen some big cats that that could take on my dog for sure, so no surprise, yeah.
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So, Karyl, thank you for sharing that.
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Now tell me.
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You said you know everybody's involved at the track, so you started going to the track when you were born, when you were little.
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Tell me your story.
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Yeah, I started to go.
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I was only a few months old.
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I was born in the winter, so I was a few months when my parents started to bring me and my dad was racing and my mom was helping him at the time and also racing because or also working there, because that's how they met.
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They met at the track.
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She was at the top end and my dad comes through balls of-bleezing.
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Something happened and that's how they met.
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Okay.
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And my grandparents used to race as well.
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So it's been a few generations.
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Started with my grandparents, my cousin raced juniors until he just decided he no longer wanted to.
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My dad, and then me and my sister.
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Okay.
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And currently it's me and my dad left so far, but we have I have two nieces that one of them is definitely going to do it Like.
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That is, without a doubt, the other one who knows?
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Yeah, there's usually one in the family that kind of you know, it seems like it's one that carries it on, and then the other one does something completely different, like dance or softball or something else.
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Well, the funny part is, is I actually just purchased a dance studio.
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Oh, okay.
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That's a whole other life of mine is dance Awesome.
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So they're both currently in dance and one's like whatever I do, she's going to do.
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And then the older one is more, she's just going to dance or do artsy stuff.
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She's not really into racing and that's okay, Sure it is.
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That's the crafty one Exactly.
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She'll be doing all of my flyers later on in life.
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She'll do your hero cards and the graphics on your car, and that's all important too.
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So there you go.
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You got everything covered.
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Exactly so.
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I can't wait to see what they come up with as they grow up.
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But I started at the track really young and I started in junior dragsters at the age of eight, my second year.
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I was track champion in the junior division and then it kind of went downhill from there.
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But that's OK, we live and we learn.
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Yeah, I've won a couple, uh, local races.
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I was actually the runner up in the inaugural 1.1 million sfg race in the women's race.
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Um, that was like one of my bigger accomplishments recently.
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um, that I'm really proud of yeah, so where did you win the track championship when you were young?
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Lebanon Valley Dragway.
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Okay, all right, is that?
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That's your home track?
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Yeah, I bounced between there and Naperville uh and Canada.
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Oh, okay, is it hard to go across the border?
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No, they're honestly more, at least when we go through.
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Okay, is it hard to go across the border with your car?
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They're honestly more, at least when we go through.
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They're more curious to see what is in there than, like, what we actually have.
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Like yeah, they're like the one time we had brought my dad's dragster, my dragster.
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So they were both in there and they're like how do you do that?
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So can we see it.
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So they're both in there and they're like how do you do that?
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So can we see it?
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There was more interest in the engineering of putting things in there than actually like a list of items.
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Yeah, that's interesting because, you know, nascar just went to Mexico a couple weekends ago and, from the people I know and things I've heard, the logistics of all of that was a nightmare yeah, that I can understand, yeah so interesting.
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Okay, so that's junior dragsters.
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You moved up to.
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What are you driving?
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What class do you drive now?
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So now I'm in our super pro bracket program.
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I also used to have a Nova and I wrecked that two years ago on Father's Day.
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My mom had actually just gotten out of the hospital two days prior from a really big, traumatic incident.
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She came to the track.
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They were watching, they left and went to go home and I was later on in the rounds and something let go and I don't even know how many times I barrel rolled.
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All I know is people saw white and then they saw green in the air and they knew it was just like over from there um wow but I was fine.
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I had no concussion, no broken bones, just really sore and a couple of um bruises.
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But I was like really thankful like that all the safety equipment had worked Um.
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So that car is somewhere, who knows, in a scrap yard somewhere.
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Yeah.
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Um, so we're building a 71 Pontiac LeMans Okay, no 68.
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I lied 68 LeMans.
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Um, currently, and that's a process, it it's been two years and that will be in Super Street.
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Okay, so, and my current dragster is, like I said, bracket and Super Comp.
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Okay, all right.
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So what do you like the best?
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I like it all.
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I just like seat time.
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Um, it's, it never seems to fail, like at one point I'll be like yes, I'm all into this bracket racing, I'm doing great, and then it goes downhill.
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But then when it starts going downhill, it's about the divisional time, and then I do really well.
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And then when that starts to go downhill, it goes back to bracket.
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Yeah, um, so like I did really well.
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And then when that starts to go downhill, it goes back to bracket.
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Yeah, um, so like I did really well this weekend in our bracket program.
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I got to the quarterfinals on sunday, this past sunday, and now this weekend I race tomorrow night at our night of fire, which is a bracket program.
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Saturday, I'll put it in super comp trim and do some testing.
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Sunday, I'll go back to brackets, and then next week thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, I'll be in super comp wow, so you got to be good at both to go back and forth like that yeah for sure and, like I usually, except for the past couple years, have run two vehicles at like the divisional, so jumping back and forth for me like honestly helps my brain.
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I feel like sometimes, when I'm stuck doing one thing, yeah, you get a little lackadaisical about it, yeah, and I feel like I forget something when I know I'm not forgetting something.
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Right Right, that's very cool, and is this something you want to keep doing for a long time?
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Do you love it?
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I do, I definitely love it, and I can like in the winter it's harder.
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You kind of I get like depressed, but at least, like right now with the project car, I can go out and be like, okay, I can see what we're doing, I can continue to do it and like, when it comes to you know, the summer stuff, it's like I look forward to getting back in the car and taking my brain away from the business aspect of the dance studio and just being like, okay, need to focus on this.
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It's and it's like an outlet and I feel like I'd be lost without it well in your dance studio, isn't that busier, like through the school year, fall to may, you have your recital and then you know you may do some summer stuff.
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But they kind of blend well together, I, I would think.
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Yeah, no, they definitely do, because they're on opposite schedules and then, I actually own another business for racing.
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It's called KB Performance Center and we sell.
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We're actually a Zamp dealer.
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Okay.
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And we do also Lucas Oil products.
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All right so, and we've gotten into selling some spark plugs, some safety um, other safety stuff.
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We have basically anything.
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You would need to have your nine second license.
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Okay, we it's at the track, um, at lebanon valley dragway, ready to sell and for you to literally, the business is at the track.
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Yeah, so it's in a, in a building there yeah, it's right in the office area with the merchandise wow so you come in, you can look at the merchandise and if you need something um a quart of oil or oh, I need a jacket, I went a little too fast.
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Um helmets we sell a lot of helmets really um neck collars.
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We even do the zamp head and neck restraints for sale um okay yeah well, and because it's there, they don't worry about having to go somewhere to get something you know, they just know.
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Oh, I can get that at the track when I go to the race exactly, and, like a lot of people, it used to be oh well, you didn't have this.
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Through tech, you can't race.
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Yeah, oh, you don't have this.
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Go to the office, they have it for sale, yeah, so we're actually keeping a lot more racers daily, yeah, Having, daily, yeah, having all these products there in at their disposal yeah, you know what a smart idea, because more tracks should do that.
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I mean, I realize they gotta have the manpower of somebody to run it.
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But, um, you know you're.
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You're selling to the choir, as they say, right.
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Absolutely yeah.
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And like the cool thing about like where we have it it's you get your merchandise right there, you get your payouts right there, and now you have all of your safety equipment at there as well.
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And I'm very thankful that, like my mom is the office and she does the payouts and everything else.
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She has office staff that help her.
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And then, of course, when I'm not there and I'm out racing my dad's in there, yeah, or like in between rounds, like I'll come in and I'll do it.
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So it's like all in one area.
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Yeah.
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Okay, well, here's the merchandise.
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Oh, you have to go over there for payout, and Wayne, literally, has recreated this office area to be a multi-purpose.
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That's great.
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Other tracks should go.
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Look, you know, even if they sub it out to somebody else to run, you know like they do concessions or whatever, that's still a great idea to have.
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You know the especially the basic necessities gloves and things that are easy to forget to take to the track.
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You know and you don't, you're, you know, three hours from home, or whatever.
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So how cool is that?
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Yeah, this year has been.
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We've been selling stuff that, like hasn't been a big item either.
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A lot of people are looking for open face helmets cool, really, we've got them.
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A lot of people either have holes in their gloves, forget their gloves in another vehicle, so we've been selling gloves like crazy, like um last night.
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One guy doesn't need a fire jacket.
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He wanted, wanted one, so we bought it.
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Yeah, and it's there.
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They can try it on.
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Yeah, see the size.
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If we don't have the size and they want it, we order it and it comes the next week.
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Yeah, wow, Karyl, you're quite the business woman, for sure.
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Trying to be Trying to keep myself pretty busy.
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There you go, so let to keep myself pretty busy.
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There you go, so let's let's go back.
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Do you work on your car or or does somebody else help you with it?
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Uh, my dad and I do all of the maintenance on um all of our vehicles yeah, and that's better.
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And because then if something goes wrong, you know, or you're driving it, you're like, yeah, this doesn't feel right.
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Then you, you're involved and you kind of know, you know what it is that you need to do.
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Do to it for sure oh absolutely.
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This is a great question for you, because you're super busy.
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Um, how do you, how do you find balance?
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How do you take care of Karyl?
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I make sure to set a specific amount, or I try still working on it, uh, during the day, like where I go work out, um, or I just do something for me, like I'll go get my nails done.
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Right now that is not happening.
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That's more of a winter thing yeah, yeah, because working on the race car and nails don't always go together no, so I save that like for a winter thing.
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Um, you know, but I take some time.
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I'll go hang out with my nieces, um, just do something that I normally wouldn't.
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I don't want to say wouldn't do, but like that I don't need somebody else to do with me.
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Yes, um, like I'm not gonna lie, going to get my oil changed today was my 45 minutes to me, yeah, you know.
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And like tonight I'll probably go drop my rig off at the track, get ready for a night of fire.
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Depending on what time we do that, I'll probably go to the studio and paint some more but, like I, there's always something to do and if I didn't need to sleep I probably wouldn't.
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There's like that much to do, yeah, and I've created, or I'm trying to create, where it's like 9, 9, 30 at night and I stopped responding to emails, I stopped doing stuff for the dance studio or anything besides for myself and taking the night to enjoy watching TV, watching a show, going to bed early, like yeah, absolutely.
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And you, you have to always remember that.
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You know you do have to take time for yourself, you do have to get your rest and, yeah, I don't sleep well, and so you know there's times that I'm wide awake at two o'clock in the morning and sometimes I think, well, I should just get up and do whatever because I'm not sleeping.
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But I normally put a podcast on and put my earphones in and you know they kind of can lull me to sleep.
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But you have to be conscious of your health and taking care of yourself when you're so busy.
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Oh, absolutely, and especially in my past, like I was really sick.
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I had allergic reaction in 2009.
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So my body had to like learn how to do things again and I can get.
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I can have a day where I'm perfectly great, nothing hurts, everything's fine.
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The next day, I probably walk like I'm 90 years old.
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Oh, I get it, and it's every day and I don't know what type of day I'm going to wake up to.
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And I'm still working on and trying my best to figure out what can I do to help prevent or tone back those days.
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Yeah.
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Where I'm not overdoing it enough, to where I'm debilitating myself for a few days.
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I, I have the same issues and I'm a lot older than you, but I have a bad back.
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I had a knee replacement, I'm gonna have to have back surgery again and and so you know, I still think I'm 40 and not almost 70, because there's times that I just pick up the tub, pick up this, do that, and then I'm like, oh, I shouldn't have done that.
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So I totally get that.
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And you know, the weather has a lot to do with it.
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I live in Michigan, so there's humidity and um, and you know, this week we've had 95 degree temperatures.
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It makes a difference.
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And you, you, you have very similar weather to what we have here in Michigan.
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You live in New York, so, um, yeah, that's, that's all part of it for sure oh yeah, and that's what happened, like this weekend.
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Sunday it rained in the morning, a storm came through and, wayne, by all mighty god, we got racing in.
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We started at noon instead of 9 30, but we got it in but, it was so humid we were all like if the sun was out we would be dead yeah and oh it's been miserable here, for sure and moving into monday and tuesday.
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It was just we keep sending all that your way, you know.
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Yeah we really do.
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It goes right across the country.
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So, um so, Karyl, every day is not a good day at the racetrack, unfortunately.
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When something bad happens, how do you handle that?
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What do you do?
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Um, do you ever think, okay, I'm done, I'm not going to do this anymore?
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You know, you had that wreck.
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How do you handle bad days?
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