June 27, 2025
From Figure Skater to Drag Racing Champion: Dina Parisi's Journey
Send us a text Former IHRA Pro Mod World Champion Dina Parisi shares her journey from professional figure skater to drag racer and advocates for prioritizing safety in motorsports. • Dina discusses her unusual career path from Ice Capades figure skater to drag racer, noting surprising parallels between both performance careers • Racing fans get direct access to drivers in drag racing, creating meaningful connections unlike other motorsports • Dina emphasizes the importance of proactive safet...
Former IHRA Pro Mod World Champion Dina Parisi shares her journey from professional figure skater to drag racer and advocates for prioritizing safety in motorsports.
• Dina discusses her unusual career path from Ice Capades figure skater to drag racer, noting surprising parallels between both performance careers
• Racing fans get direct access to drivers in drag racing, creating meaningful connections unlike other motorsports
• Dina emphasizes the importance of proactive safety measures, including proper protective gear regardless of rule requirements
• Critical safety equipment like neck protection, gloves, and proper helmets are non-negotiable regardless of your racing class
• "Fire burns at zero miles per hour" - accidents don't just happen at high speeds
• Common safety oversights include crews turning their backs to moving vehicles and excessive personnel on starting lines
• Junior racers need consistent safety education from parents and race organizers throughout the season
• Complacency is a major safety risk even for experienced racers
• Dina recommends walking the racetrack before races to familiarize yourself with exits and turnoffs
• Understanding proper fire suppression system preparation and chute packing is essential knowledge for all racers
Find Dina Parisi on social media: @DinaParisi or visit DinaParisiVentures.com to learn more about racing safety.
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00:00 - Intro to Women's Motorsports Network
02:27 - Meeting Dina: From Skates to Racing
09:44 - Life in Professional Drag Racing
13:26 - Safety Above Speed: Critical Precautions
24:36 - Common Safety Mistakes and Solutions
30:44 - Teaching Safety to Young Racers
36:49 - Closing Thoughts and Episode Wrap
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Hello everyone, this is Melinda Russell with the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, and my guest today is my friend Dina.
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Dina has been involved in drag racing and some other very interesting careers, and she's also very passionate about safety in motorsports, and so I wanted to have her on so we could talk about that a little bit.
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So first, Dana, dana, dina, I want to welcome you to the show, and would you just tell us a little bit about?
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yourself.
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Melinda, thank you so much for having me on.
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It's been a hot minute since we have spoken.
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Yes, it has.
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Yeah, so hello to the listeners.
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My name is Dina Parisi.
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I am a former pro figure skater turned pro drag racer.
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I know that sounds odd, but it actually makes sense in my head.
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I am a drag racer, I run Pro Mod, so I have a 3,000 horsepower Cadillac.
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Her name is Stella, named after my grandma, who never had a driver's license.
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That's so hilarious and sorry, I lost my train of thought.
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I am, I was 2015 IHRA Pro Mod World Champion, and that's about it.
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I mean, that's pretty much me in a nutshell.
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And before drag racing, though, you did some interesting things.
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Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
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Because transitioning from that career to drag racing still is am amazed about that.
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So go ahead and tell us what were you doing in your 20s.
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So in my in my 20s, I was, uh, I was a professional figure skater for the ice capades.
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Um, unfortunately, some of the younger set may not know what that is, uh, but um, kind of like a disney on ice.
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But we were a little bit more.
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They called us a variety show instead of we didn't have just characters.
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Um, I did that for about four years and it's funny because I do tell people that, you know, skating in the ice show and and drag racing in a series, they're actually more parallel than people would think.
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Um, you know, when we were skating in the show, of course we were putting on a show, we were entertaining, and it's the same thing with drag racing, it's totally entertainment.
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Um, we went from city to city to different venues and, uh, many times we would see the same fans.
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We would see the same workers, you know, like the locals as we call them.
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And same thing with the drag racing we go to different tracks.
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We see a lot of the same track workers.
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We'll see a lot of the same fans.
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That will, you know, come and see us and come to our pit area.
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And it was an amazing way to spend part of my 20s.
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You know, I got to travel the United States, skate in an ice show and, you know, feel like a megastar every night.
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I wasn't, but it made you feel that way.
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It was just, it was, it was just super cool and I enjoyed.
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You know, sometimes we would do autograph signings after the show, kind of by the door of the arena, much like we'll sign autographs in our pit area.
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And that's for me, that's my favorite part is the fans just getting to hang out with the fans, because you, you know, drag racing, every ticket's a pit pass.
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So all of our, all of our fans get to come in and, you know, hang out with us and ask us questions.
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And the good thing for our marketing partners is they get to see our marketing partners up close and personal and we actually get to discuss what their products are about right to people, face to face right that's.
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That's so much better than a lot of the other kinds of sports.
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But you know, a NASCAR driver doesn't have a chance to talk to you really face-to-face about what's on his car, even though you can buy a pit pass and go in the pits.
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But there's you and 100 other people you know.
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So, yeah, so much.
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Because gratitude builds great tracks.
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I definitely feel like drag racing.
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It's not a knock to NASCAR, but you know we in drag racing you buy that one ticket.
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You don't need the golden ticket to be able to go back into the garage area or the pit area, as we say.
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You know we have everything is right there and it's hands on and you know many times they can, you know, for certain things touch and feel and really get a hands on experience things, touch and feel and really get a hands-on experience.
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right, right, so much better, and it makes them come back for sure.
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I think so.
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Yeah, I think so too.
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So you got into drag racing.
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Was that because of your husband, or how did that happen?
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I got into drag racing, much to my husband's dismay, but it was his fault.
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Uh, he, he had built where we were married in April, 25 years.
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So it's been, it's been a minute.
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Um, he had built a 1967, uh, camaro.
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Uh, it had a blower on it, just like our cars have the whole entire time.
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That's, that's what we like to run.
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And, um, my very first race that I went to with him was I'll never forget it was Mabel Grove.
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It was a super Chevy and I watched.
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I got to stand on the line and watch that car go down the racetrack and I was.
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I was hooked from that moment on.
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I had never.
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I was in my early 30s, I actually had never been to a drag race.
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I'd been to other types of races, I'd never been to a drag race and I absolutely fell in love with it.
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I fell in love with, of course, the fast cars, the sounds, the smells and the people, the camaraderie.
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The people are amazing, from the fans to our fellow racers.
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It's, it's just, it's a great community all the way around it's.
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It's just, it's a great community all the way around.
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Yeah yeah, you can't.
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You know the people and and just it's like going back every weekend to hang out with your family, and sometimes it's more fun than hanging out with your real family.
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So there you go Exactly, exactly.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So you've been out of racing for a little while, but you're going to get back into it.
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Do you want to share about that a little bit?
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Absolutely, I appreciate it.
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Yeah, we've been out for I'm going to say since like right right around COVID-ish time 2020 was COVID.
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Yeah, I think it was about 2019.
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We wound up in COVID.
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We wound up, we sold, we got rid of the rig and everything.
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It was a big nut and we didn't know how long it was going to be to pay for it and not use it.
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So we said, well, we'll just have to start over, which that's what we're doing now.
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It's been about two years.
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We purchased a new to us, but not new, it's actually a 2001 ultra comp trailer.
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It was, uh, it was an old nascar trailer.
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Um, jason hogan was his name.
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He lives near up near our shop and um we purchased, uh, the trailer and a truck for it, and andrew actually remodeled the whole inside of the trailer.
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He, um, he gutted the lounge and put in a bathroom and a shower and, because this girl needs a shower, on those race days.
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I don't care what anybody says, sometimes I just hop in there just to cool off and um and so it's, it's pretty much done and pretty much ready to go.
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It has been a process In the interim of these last couple of years.
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Life has been lifing like it does and you know throwing some monkey wrenches in here and there.
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So you know my husband had an illness and he's still kind of battling with that, but he, he is the energizer bunny, he keeps going.
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And you know we've had other things with, you know, my parents and then my mom passing away.
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So you know, just life stuff.
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So we are, we're definitely pushed behind in schedule due to these things, but we weren't planning on testing in the summer.
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You know, when it's a gazillion degrees and quite frankly, this sounds very off, but you know that's, that's swamp ass city yeah, because it's so hot.
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But you know what we're gonna do, what we have to do.
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If we have to test in the summer, we will, and so I've been just putting some feelers out for that to see.
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Now, where will you go to do that, do you know?
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We, I'm not, we're not certain just yet.
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Okay, um, and we, you know, at this point we, uh, you know we need data.
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Uh, we've made changes, we had made changes to the motor and then we had not gone back out, so we made some changes and, um, it's gonna it's gonna be definitely a learning curve, um, and, and you know, just getting myself comfortable back in the seat again, um, we just talking about safety.
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We actually just did a new poured in seat, which it actually is mandatory.
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But I would say, for anybody, um, who wants to feel safe and kind of snuggly in their race car, I highly, highly recommend a port and seat.
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It definitely makes a difference.
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If, god forbid, something happens, it is going to absorb a lot of the shock, so you know it's going to keep your body from getting too, too beat up.
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Right.
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Well, let's talk about safety a little bit.
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You posted a couple things on Facebook and and it kind of pushed me to reach out to you and have you come on and and talk about the importance of safety.
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I think it's something we don't talk about near enough.
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And then you know, I know you've got a couple stories about people who don't think it's as important as you and I do.
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So why don't you go ahead and just share about safety and why it's so important?
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Yeah, thank you, I appreciate that.
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And you're right, it is.
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Safety is something that for some reason, is so overlooked.
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I find that people will want to spend a gazillion dollars on their motor to go faster, but yet they don't want.
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They're going to complain about the price of safety equipment to keep them safe and alive.
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Right, you know, god forbid, something happens and it's not like, and I think sometimes people are like oh, you're doom and gloom.
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I'm not doom and gloom, I don't want to see anything happen to anyone.
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But, being an experienced racer for 20 years, I've seen things.
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I've experienced things on my own that have really led me to want to say to people look, you need to be proactive, not reactive, because that's what happens Everybody.
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You know when there's that corner in your town where there's a million car crashes and then finally you get somebody to put a light, you know you get the powers, that be to put up a stop sign or a light.
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You know that you're being reactive.
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Just be proactive and do it and take care of it before something else happens.
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So I think that people, people, forget that your head is very heavy, god forbid.
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You're in a crash.
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How your head is heavy and then with the helmet on it, it's heavier.
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So you want to make sure that you have that neck protection, whether you know whether it be the neck ring or whether it be, you know, like a hybrid of some sort, hans, whatever neck device.
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And who cares if it's mandated?
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That's one thing people like.
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Well, it's not mandated, who cares?
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Right, it's not mandated that you wear underwear either, but you do, don't you?
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So I'm just saying, right, so, if, right, so, if it's, who cares if it's not mandated?
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You know, we, we, when we ran um in the beginning, the 67, camaro andrew was building his pro mod and I had stepped into the 67 and then eventually we had two pro mods, we got rid of the 67 and had two promotes.
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But when I ran the 67, that car ran 890s.
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And I'm going back 20 something years, right, right, I actually wore a Hans device and I had some guy in the in, like, in the staging, like I was.
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Oh what do you think?
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You're a John Forster.
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And I said, well, I said, if, god forbid, something happens, I hit the wall, something happens.
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I said I happens.
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I said I'm going to be safe, I'm going to be protected, and then I can get out and make my cougars a sandwich for lunch.
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So this way I'm safe and nobody misses lunch.
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It's a win-win if you ask for lunch, right, yeah, so these things.
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It just makes me crazy that people will spend so much on their program.
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But safety is an afterthoughtthought.
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We really need to get people to understand, especially now, because cars on different levels, they're just getting faster and faster and we need to, even if it's not mandated.
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We need to keep up with what the car is doing, not what the rule book's doing yeah even at that point.
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So and this, this is not a hate to anybody the total observation.
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So let me preface this with that JJ the boss from Street Outlaws.
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He had at one point he had had a pretty nasty crash and I think he crashed into his wife's car.
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I believe they crashed together at, you know, on a street race.
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And the fact remains that young people watch this and everybody thinks it's so cool, which is great.
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It is cool when he, when they showed he was pretty banged up, he had on a cut-off shirt, jeans and he his helmet.
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I think he got it from Evel Knievel in 1975.
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Yeah, because it had and it had no, no face shield.
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You know, his face was all banged up and and I just don't understand.
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I get the street racing thing.
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It's you got to be cool, I get it.
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But there's the flip side of that, where you have all these kids and everything that are that are paying attention to what you do, you know, and it's it.
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It just you know.
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We have kids coming up in the ranks and I want them to be able to take the safety aspect of it seriously.
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Well, and you know, like you say, yeah, you have to be cool, you know, but you're not cool if you die or if you're permanently damaged and you can't race again what it's not worth it.
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It's, it's not.
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And I I also will watch some, sometimes in car videos.
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People will post in car videos and I'll see someone that's in a relatively fast car.
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No gloves, yeah, visor up.
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You know, if you have fire and your visors up, your face is gonna get burned, you know you're.
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You're gonna inhale more smoke than you may if your visor was down and locked, not to say that you're not going to inhale it, but maybe less than you would.
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And as far as the gloves I had, we were selling safety equipment at one point and a gentleman wanted to buy a jacket and he said, well, I'll wear my jeans.
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And I said, well, okay, I said you may as well, just get the whole suit.
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Just, you know, get the suit, get the shoes, do what you need to do.
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And he didn't want gloves.
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I was like you really don't want to pair no, and I said, well, I asked him.
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I said what do you do for a living?
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So he tells me he's a plumber and I said okay, because he was a hobby racer, and I said okay, I said you are aware that fire burns at zero miles per hour?
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Right, and it stopped him for a second and I said I'm going to say it again yeah, fires burns at zero miles per hour.
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You don't need to be going anywhere to be on fire.
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Yeah, so I've seen it happen at the line, I've seen it happen in pit areas with a startup.
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I've seen it happen over the last few years.
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I've seen crazy things happen and you just you never know right.
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A little bit of a spark and there it goes.
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So I said to him, I said, said, just think about if something were to happen, a spark and a fire, your hands get burnt, how are you going to go to work?
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And he looked at me, he didn't really say much.
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So he did.
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He left without the gloves, which, yeah, I my my brain couldn't, I couldn't even wrap my brain around that yeah, but two.
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But two weeks later he came back and he said he said I made the mistake of telling my wife what you said and for the last two weeks she was on him for that.
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That two weeks she was on him every day, why, you know cause?
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His thing was I don't need gloves, I don't go as fast as you, which is why I, in turn, said to him fire burns at zero miles per hour.
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You know, it doesn't.
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It doesn't matter how fast you could be going, tense, something could happen, it doesn't matter.
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I just wish, I just wish that, and I always tell people, feel free to reach out to me.
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You know, if you have questions about safety equipment and I've have had from some of the videos that I've made I have had people reach out and I've pointed them in the right direction.
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Yeah, um, you know our for for my class, for pro mod, nhra rules now require, uh, fresh air, which I'm really excited about because I'm a migraine sufferer, so I'm excited that I have a little air in my helmet.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So that's, that's a whole nother.
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That's a whole nother deal.
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And it one of the racers I forget who it was one of the racers this weekend the pro mod races in NHRA.
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It's funny cause I was just.
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I was just editing a video about this Cause we use safe craft for our fire suppression system and there's a pin that goes to lock the lever of the fire suppression system.
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It's just a little like clip.
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So very first thing that we do in the morning, right before the first startup, is we pull that pin, because for the rest of the day I need that fire suppression system to be active not active, but able to be enabled.
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Yes, so this driver, his run was disqualified because he left the fire pin in.
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And yeah, and I'm sure it was a mistake, but and for us we would never have gotten to that part of, and I but, and for us we would never have gotten to that part of and I speak for us we would never have gotten to that part of the day that far into the day with the pin still in it just would never have happened.
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But, um, you know things get overlooked, I get it and um, but you don't want to be and I don't know how other, uh, other different series like dirt track, and that I don't know how their fire suppression works.
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But I know for us it's a lever and I couldn't think of having to reach out and having, if you were on fire, and having to reach and pull that pin out before I could pull the lever to let this fire suppression come out.
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I don't.
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I don't know if you would even be able to think about it, exactly, exactly, and that's the point.
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