Aug. 23, 2025
Dirt, Fire, and Determination with Angelique Bell
Send us a text Passion burns brightest when tested by fire—both figurative and literal—as sprint car driver Angelique Bell reveals in this powerful conversation about perseverance in motorsports. From the moment 12-year-old Angelique first sat in a quarter midget race car, she was hooked. Now at 31, this Sacramento-based IT professional has built a remarkable racing career piloting 410 sprint cars on dirt tracks throughout California, Oregon, and Washington in the NARC King of the West serie...
Passion burns brightest when tested by fire—both figurative and literal—as sprint car driver Angelique Bell reveals in this powerful conversation about perseverance in motorsports.
From the moment 12-year-old Angelique first sat in a quarter midget race car, she was hooked. Now at 31, this Sacramento-based IT professional has built a remarkable racing career piloting 410 sprint cars on dirt tracks throughout California, Oregon, and Washington in the NARC King of the West series. Her journey stands as testament to overcoming barriers that would have stopped many others.
As one of the few women—and even fewer people of color—in sprint car racing, Angelique faced discrimination from competitors, crews, and even other women in the racing community. "When I went from outlaw carts to sprint cars at 17, there were things about my race, things about my gender that were really difficult," she shares candidly. Yet these challenges only strengthened her resolve, ultimately leading to championship victories at Silver Dollar Speedway and Petaluma Speedway.
Perhaps most remarkably, Angelique returned to racing after surviving a terrifying fire at Southern Oregon Speedway that left her with internal burns affecting her voice. Her pink tail tank has become a beacon for young girls at the track, where she delights in discussing their dreams—much as fellow female racer Shauna Hogue once mentored her.
Racing with her father as crew chief and honoring her late cousin with car number 551, Angelique embodies the spirit of grassroots racing: competing with one car and one motor against better-funded teams, driven by pure love for the sport. "I can't explain the feeling of hitting the gas in a 410...it feels like an airplane taking off and everything's shaking. It's the best feeling in the world."
Follow Angelique Bell Racing on Facebook and Instagram to witness how determination, resilience and passion can triumph over adversity on dirt tracks across the West Coast.
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00:00 - Introducing Women's Motorsports Network
00:56 - Meeting Angelique Bell
02:51 - From Motocross Dreams to Sprint Cars
09:51 - Racing Against Prejudice
15:42 - Championship Victories and Proud Moments
22:38 - Surviving a Racing Fire
29:42 - Finding Joy and Mentorship in Racing
35:46 - Closing Thoughts and Gratitude
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Let's hit the track.
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Hello everyone, this is Melinda Russell, with the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, and my guest today is Angelique Bell.
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And Angelique, I know it's warm where you are.
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It's also warm where I am here in Kalamazoo.
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We've been having some extreme heat for our part of the country and humidity, and so it's summertime, but we are in the race season, which you and I both love for sure.
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So I want to first welcome you to the show and would you share a little bit about yourself.
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Thank you for having me on.
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So I live in Sacramento, california.
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It's pretty warm out here, for sure.
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I work in IT at a hospital and I really like doing that work.
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I have a dog who I just love.
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His name's Teddy.
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He's a little multi-boo, he's adorable.
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And then I have two sisters I'm the oldest, so two younger sisters.
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And yeah, just a little bit about me.
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So do.
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Are you originally from California?
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Yes, ok, so your sister still live close, close there and your family is close by?
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Yes, oh, that's nice.
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That's that's nice that you're all there, and don't we just love our little dogs?
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I have a little dog as well, and his name is Crew, like Pit Crew, and I don't know what we did before we got that little dog.
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We just love him to pieces.
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Yeah.
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So, angelique, tell me you know what's a pretty girl like you doing in motorsports?
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How did you get started?
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Yeah, I got started because my cousin raced motocross and I wanted to race with him and my dad was like, absolutely not, you need at least a roll cage on there.
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So we ended up going out to a quarter midget track that my dad had been to when he was a kid and he's like I don't even know if it's still here Like we could just drive by and see.
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And when we went out there we happened to, um, that there was a family practicing.
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So when we went and talked to them they told us about like training days where you can, you know, try out, you know, in like the club car and you know there's like a trainer on the back with you and all that stuff.
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So we gave that a try and I fell in love and that was it.
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Didn't take long, did it.
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No, no.
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First time.
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How old did you say you were?
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I was 12 when I started.
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Well, okay, all right, and can I ask how old are you say you were I was 12 when I started.
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Well, okay, all right.
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And can I ask how old are you now?
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I'm old for a race car driver?
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No, you're not.
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You're 21?
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31.
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31.
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You're 31.
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No, that is not.
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Oh honey, that's not old.
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I interview women that are way older than you and some of them don't even start racing until they're maybe their kids are grown it.
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It's funny how women kind of put themselves on the back burner sometimes because they raise their children in that and they, they watch their friends or their husbands or different people race and they always have that little itch to do it, but they don't.
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And then you know, when they're 50 or older, they're like I'm going to try it and and I just love that.
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So you are not old to be racing, that's for sure.
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So tell me now, where do you race and what do you race?
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Yeah, so.
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I race sprint cars on dirt.
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I race their 410s.
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It was always my dream to run with the World of Outlaws like frustrating, difficult, you know, painful thing.
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But I'm really happy I'm doing it and it's still like me and my dad.
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You know we've done, we've raced together.
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You know my whole career.
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So I love working on the car with him, spending time with him, that as well.
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So so your dad's a racer as well he never raced um.
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Oh, he never raced okay but he um, he's my crew chief so okay, all right.
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So are you the first one in your family to actually race yeah, so my cousin uh raced motoc, so we kind of like ended up racing at the same time.
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But like as far as like my family of five, yes, Okay, so what do your sisters think about you racing?
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They love it.
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So they're, they do really cool things as well.
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So I have one sister who's a semi-pro wrestler and my other sister's a singer in a band.
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So we all kind of have really cool things that we love and we're very supportive of each other that's a very wide range of occupations for three sisters.
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Yeah, isn't it?
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Yeah, and so your sister's a semi-pro wrestler.
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Is she ever on television, or is it just in california or?
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um, they televise their things on youtube, I think really yeah well, that's very around to wrestle and stuff as well okay, yeah, and that's um, I mean it's kind of is that kind of like being a race car driver?
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That's not really like what you make your money at, because I know you said you work in IT, or is that what she does more of a career, as far as that's what she does for a living.
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No it's kind of the same, where she has another job as well.
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Yeah, I figured, well, that's so fun and so, um, you can go to the bar on the weekend, or you can go to the wrestling, or they can come and watch you race.
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You've got lots of options, yeah, yeah.
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So what are your parents?
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How did how you know your dad's involved?
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How's your mom?
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How's your mom, um, handle having her daughter be a race car driver?
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She really likes it.
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She said her favorite part of the night is on the starts, so she's into it yeah.
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Yeah, that's good.
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And where do you normally go to race?
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Do you travel?
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around, or do you have a home track With this division that we're running now?
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We travel around a lot.
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Okay, and is that a?
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series that you're traveling with.
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Yeah, so we're running the the narc king of the west series.
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Okay, california, and then it travels from california or it goes up to oregon and washington as well so, okay, those are probably beautiful and a little bit cooler areas to be able to race in yeah.
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That sounds like a beautiful you know series places to go to race for sure.
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Instead of you know, I talked to people in Texas and Florida and even here in Michigan it's pretty hot at times, and so, yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.
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So are there other women that race with you?
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Is there a number of women or not very many Not very many.
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We have one other woman.
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She's a rookie this year, who's racing, who I've gotten to know a little bit and so you know it's really cool to see people you know at the beginning of their careers and just careers and just all the places that they can go and everything.
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Has she looked to you as a mentor and asked for advice and things from you?
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No, not really.
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We're still kind of building that friendship.
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Okay, all right, because it is different for women.
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You know when they, especially when they get started, you know sometimes the guys think they can push them around and and they push them around to see how much they're going to take, and so sometimes they lean on those women who've been in it before to kind of pave the way.
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I guess you could say.
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So what kind of challenges did you face when you went from?
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You know you raced quarter midgets, I assume, for a while, and then when you got in the sprint car, what would you say was your biggest learning curve or challenge?
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Yeah, so we went from quarter midgets, we did outlaw carts for a year and then we went to a wingless sprint car and I ran that for 10 years before we got into the NART 410 series.
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And so when I went from the outlaw carts to the sprint cards, I was 17 and there was just I was one of the only women out there and I'm also mixed, so I'm half black things about my race, things about my gender that were really difficult to deal with because I was also just really young, you know, and learning about that for myself, just, you know, outside of racing, right.
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So it was really tough when I started, like really tough, and was it from the other drivers or, like the crew, the people that came to watch, or just kind of a little bit of everything?
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It was all of it.
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It was a driver's crew.
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It was like people's moms and sisters and girlfriends and you know all kinds of stuff.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That is just so heartbreaking Because, first of all, I would have never known that from you, know, looking at you, talking to you, so that wouldn't have been something that I would have even thought of at first, and then you would have thought that the women would have been more supportive instead of not as supportive.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And and so you've really, you've really had to, you know open the trail for the women behind you, no matter what color they are or how old they are or how experienced they are, because you had all of that against you at the time and you just kept pursuing what you loved, and I admire you for that.
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I think that's something you should be very proud of yourself for thanks, yeah, yeah, I really am and it you know it really just, you know, taught me to persevere.
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And then, when we did have some success, it just felt so much, you know, like even better than just the success, right, it's like right, we made it through all these hurdles and we're still here and we're successful and you know, it's definitely a really good feeling.
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Yeah, absolutely so.
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Oh gosh, I'm just thinking about that and some of the things you must have gone through, and it's just so sad that people have to be that way.
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What happened to the phrase be kind?
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You know, be kind to everybody.
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So would you have any advice for younger girls getting started?
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So, would you have any advice for younger girls getting started?
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Um, because you've really had to overcome some big challenges.
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What are some things you would tell a younger girl who was getting started?
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And maybe quarter midgets or any any series of racing?
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yeah, I mean, I think I would tell him that you, you really have to be mentally tough and and try not to let um things get to you.
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Um, I would also say don't read into social media.
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I got off social media for a long time and you know.
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Another thing is just stay true to who you are and and yeah, you know, work hard and you got this, you know.
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Yeah, don't let people try to change, change you into somebody that you're not, because that'll never work in the long run, for sure.
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So what?
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What has been your proudest moment so far?
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Was it a win that you had?
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Or you know, you had a really tough race and you came out on top any anything like that?
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Yeah, I've got um.
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Three moments that I'm um, three moments that I'm super proud of um.
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I won the championship um in 2016 at silver dollar speedway in the non-wing car and I was the first women to um win a championship in that division.
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So that was really exciting and that night it was like I ended up winning by one point.
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So every like, every moment, every race mattered and it was like a lot of pressure, but it just was really really special yeah, I guess so yeah and then, um, I got my first win at Petaluma Speedway and that was just really exciting and I ended up beating one of my really good friends and so we you know we talk about that and it was just a really special moment.
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And then I also won a track championship at Petaluma Speedway.
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And that was really special.
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So, yeah, that is amazing.
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So that shuts people up, doesn't it?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Luckily I'm at a place now where you know I have enough friends and enough people that that I care about and I care about me.
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I don't really have to deal with any of the nonsense anymore.
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You know, it happens occasionally, but not not as much.
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Much as when I first started and I didn't really know anybody, right.
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And I was also, because now they know you for who you are, not for what they thought you were.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's great.
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So what?
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What are your goals for your racing?
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I know you know you said World of Outlaws.
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That's so hard, it's you know.
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You just look at even Tony Stewart and Donnie Schatz just parted ways after 18 years.
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There's just no, there's no guarantees, and it's just so hard.
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But what are your goals?
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What do you hope to do in five or 10 years?
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Do you still want to be racing?
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Are you having fun?
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yeah, so my goals, um.
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So moving up to the, the narc series, um has been quite a learning curve, and we are, you know, we're running in the back, we're getting better, but we still have quite a ways to go to, you know be, successful.
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So, for me, I'm looking at success as like a top 10.
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I'm just like that's my next goal, right, I just need to get a top 10.
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Um, as far as um, as, as far as, like worlds of outlaws I'm not, I'm not going to be on the outlaws or anything, but like just the fact that I'm running those type of cars and, you know, maybe we'll run with them once they come to town.
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Like for me, that's like me living my dream.
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You know, I'm, I'm good, I'm happy, that was, you know, that, was it?
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So, um, that's kind of where we're at right now.
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We're really, really underfunded.
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Um, you know, we have one car, one motor and we're running against guys that have, you know, three motors and four cars in their trailer.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, I do.
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We're kind of a tiny budget and tiny team, but we're trying to make it work and go up against, you know, go up against those guys.
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Well, and you know what, Angelique, you are not in the minority, you are probably in the majority.
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I mean, when you go to the track, yeah, you see all those guys with three or four cars and all the extras and whatever and um, but there's a lot of people all around the country who are low budget teams and are racing because they love it and they're not going to let that stop them.
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They do what they can do, the best that they can do, and as long as it's still fun and you're still enjoying it, then that's really what matters.
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You know, I I like to say winning that trophy, those championships, that's a big deal, but if you never win another one and you're still enjoying what you're doing and you're having fun on the weekend with people that have become family, that's a win right there and that's maybe a bigger win than the trophy.
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And so as long as you can keep doing that, then nobody can take that away from you ever.
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Yeah.
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I mean it is, my problem is I'm too competitive.
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You know, I still want to win.
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Yeah, I get it.
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Well, everybody wants to win, don't get me wrong.
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But in the reality of things, more people lose than win, and so you know you can't be really heartbroken over that necessarily, or you wouldn't be racing, because that's just the way the sport is.
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You, you lose more than you win.
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But there's so many other things that we can take away from racing that we are winners at that maybe aren't on the track.
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That that's what we have to remember is, you know there's there's a lot of good about being involved in the motor sports um industry, for sure, for sure.
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So do you race pretty much every weekend Like what's your race season look like?
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I wish we don't.
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Um, we don't have the money for that.
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We race, we try to race about 20 times a year.
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Yeah, this year we've raced, I think, eight races.
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Um, we've had the motor, we've had motor issues twice where we had to take it out and send it to ohio, so we kind of had to wait, you know, to get our motor back and everything kind of slowed down our season.
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But yeah, we're going to get the motor back pretty soon, right now.
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So hopefully we can, you know, hopefully we worked out all the bugs, you know.
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Yeah, Well and hopefully finish out the season.
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When does your season end in California?
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Our season usually ends like November 2nd.
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Okay.
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But we're going to.
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I think our season's going to end a little earlier.
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Okay, all right, that's quite a long, that's, you know, about a month or a little more longer than here in Michigan, because it'll start to get cold, or sometimes it does, you never know for sure.
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So what is a weekend, a race weekend, look like for you?
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Do you have, you know, any superstitions or anything that you always do before you, you know, race or go out on the track?
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You know, how do you, how do you kind of prepare for your, for mentally, physically, all those things, to go out on the race trackack on a weekend?
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What's it look like for you?
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Yeah, so I'm very superstitious and my dad likes to mess with me, so he'll say something, you know, oh yeah, we're gonna do well this weekend or something.
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And so then I've got to like go find wood to knock on.
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Also, as far as, like you know, know, prepping mentally, I usually will meditate before, like the, the morning before, just to kind of like clear my head and, you know, get ready.
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Um, I also work out with a personal trainer twice a week, um to get like my physical you know physical part ready.
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And yeah, and how far do you like if you go to Oregon?
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You said you went to Washington and Oregon or right there in California.
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Sometimes you have to travel a little ways.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, luckily, most of our races are in California, so it's, you know, traveling here we do like a week long, like travel throughout Oregon and Washington.
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So we did that this year where it was.
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You know, we race every night and go to different tracks every night and, yeah, it was, it was really cool, it was really fun for sure.
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And yeah, it was really cool, it was really fun, for sure.
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That sounds like a lot of fun, and are most of the same people at all those races?
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I mean, every race probably has a few different ones, but is it mostly the same people?
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that you race against every night.
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Yeah, it's mostly the same group yeah.
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That makes you get closer as far as friendships and that, for sure when you're doing that, yeah, yeah, that makes you get closer as far as friendships, and that, for sure when you're doing that, yeah, yeah, this season.
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So I got hurt last season, I was in a fire and I got to go back this season.
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I got to go back to the track where I was hurt at and you know I finished the race and I it was really like it was a really special moment for me to, you know, kind of go back and conquer that.
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So, oh, absolutely.
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Do you want to share what happened, or would you rather not?
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Oh yeah, I could talk about it.
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Okay, yeah, I was racing.
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