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Hello everyone, this is Melinda Russell with the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, and I have a very special guest and, honestly, presley.
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All my guests are special, but I love talking to the younger kids who race, and so my guest today is Presley Hall and Presley, first I want to welcome you to the show and then I want you to share a little bit about yourself, your family, your pets, whatever you want to share about.
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Okay, go ahead you want to share about?
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Okay, go ahead, I have.
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I'm nine years old.
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Okay, I live in Deloge, missouri.
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Okay, I have four dogs.
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Okay, do you have any brothers or sisters?
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I have a sister and a brother.
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Okay, and are you the oldest, the middle or the youngest?
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The youngest, oh, that's the best.
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I'm the youngest and I had two older sisters.
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I think being the youngest is the best for sure, especially Presley.
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When you get older, you can always say, oh, my sisters are older than me, I'm the youngest.
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So when you get older, that'll be an even better deal.
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Do you go to school or are you homeschooled?
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I go to school, you go to school.
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And do you have any other sports that you're involved in?
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Or just racing?
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Just racing?
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Okay, that's enough, isn't it?
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It takes a lot of time and energy, for sure.
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And what's your favorite subject in school?
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Reading?
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Oh, me too, I love to read.
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You're right up there with me Something you can do the rest of your life, so that's a good thing.
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Reading and math were my two favorites when I was in school.
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So, presley, you're nine years old.
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How many years have you been racing?
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Two years, two years.
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So you started when you were seven.
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How did you get interested in motorsports?
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So?
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my dad started racing and then I asked if I could start racing, and then we both started racing.
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But then he sold his race car so I could race.
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Well, that's a pretty good dad, isn't it, if he sold his stuff so he could help you.
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That's what dads do, though I think a lot that's what they do Now.
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Are your brother and sister interested in racing, or just you?
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My older sister, but she doesn't race.
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Okay, all right, and your brother could care less about racing.
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He likes football and some other sports.
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Oh yeah, that's what brothers like is some of those other sports.
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So that's good, well-rounded.
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So you kids, keep your mom and dad hopping, don't you?
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Between everything that you do for sure, yes, so, presley, what is the first memory you have of like going to a racetrack?
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Or how did you know that you liked motorsports?
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Probably Kyle Larson.
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Oh yeah, he's a good driver, isn't he?
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Did you watch him on TV?
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Yes, so, presley, how did you know that you liked motorsports?
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What got you interested?
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Watching Kyle Larson and going to Peveley.
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Okay, and Peveley is a racetrack close to you, um sort of Okay, all right, and so did you do a try and ride, or what did you do so that you knew that you wanted to drive and not just watch?
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I just, um, I just started watching and then I just liked it and thought it was cool.
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Yeah, so what do you drive?
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What kind of a car or cart?
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What is it that you race?
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I race a Driven.
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Okay, you'll have to tell me what that is.
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A Junior Sprint and a cart okay, a junior sprint and a cart and is driven a series that you race in, or it's the kind of car that you drive, because that's new to me.
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Uh, the kind of car, okay, okay, so I haven't heard it called that before.
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That.
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Is that a missouri thing or is that?
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I don't know?
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Maybe, no, not really.
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Okay, all right, well, I'm gonna learn something new today.
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So, um, tell me about your car, your cars or what you drive.
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What color is it?
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What number is it?
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Tell me about it.
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My junior sprint is red, black and white and the number is 25P.
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Okay, and then what about your cart?
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My cart is purple, white and black and my number is 25P.
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Oh, that's good, you kept the same number for both.
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Now is 25, just your favorite number.
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Was that your dad's number or how did you choose that it was my dad's number?
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I figured as much.
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And P for Presley Mm-hmm, right, okay, yeah.
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So where do you go to race?
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Do you go to different tracks or do you always go to pretty much the same track?
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Mostly we go to different tracks, but we're mostly at Coles.
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County?
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Okay, all right that I've heard of Coles County.
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Yeah, and how often do you race?
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Do you race every weekend?
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Yes, about racing.
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You know there's a lot of little girls that might be playing softball or doing other things, but you go to the racetrack.
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So what is it about going to the races that makes you want to do that instead?
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Just hanging out with my friends.
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Yeah.
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So are they friends that you already knew before you raced, or these are new friends that you made through racing you raced, or these are new friends that you made through racing?
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Both, both, okay.
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So there were kids that you already knew that raced at coles county.
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That probably helped to get you interested.
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Would you say, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
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And are there very many girls that race where you race?
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Um?
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Were you race?
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Um?
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No, not really.
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No, it's still mostly boys.
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Huh, okay.
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And when you said you wanted to race, I imagine your dad was excited.
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But what did your mom say?
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Was she like, oh no, not my little girl.
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Or was she like or was she?
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like, yeah, let's do it.
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Yes, yes, she said yeah, let's do it.
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Yes, yes.
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She said yeah, let's do it.
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So she must love racing too.
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Yeah, yeah, she does.
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Well, what are your friends that don't race?
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What do they think about you going to the racetrack?
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Do they think that's kind of fun, or they don't understand it or what?
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Some don't really understand it.
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Yeah, that's pretty normal, presley, because I hear that a lot, even from teenagers.
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You know, they say their friends don't really understand what the big draw is to go to the racetrack on the weekends, but maybe they should come and visit.
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They would see how exciting and fun that it is, for sure.
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Yeah, so what's your favorite thing other than you know I get about being with your friends, but what else do you love about racing?
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Why do you want to drive a race car?
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I'm going fast.
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You like going fast?
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Yeah, it's pretty cool, isn't it?
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Yeah, you can't do it out on the road, but when you can do it around the track it's pretty fun.
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Now, do you race dirt or asphalt?
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Dirt, dirt, okay, do you like that?
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Have you ever raced on asphalt?
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No, but my mom did.
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Oh, your mom raced.
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Well, you didn't tell me that.
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So what did she race?
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Drag race, oh, she drag race.
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So that's a whole different kind of racing, yeah, yeah.
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And does she still drag race?
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Or she quit because you're racing?
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She quit a long time ago, okay.
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So she raced when she was younger, like you, probably.
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Yeah, yeah, okay.
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And did you ever have any interest in drag racing?
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Or you always wanted to do carts and I always wanted to race on dirt.
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I didn't really like drag racing okay all right, you know, if I had to choose one kind of racing, I'm kind of an asphalt lover, just because where I grew up that's what we had, we didn't have a dirt track.
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But after you go to a dirt race or a couple of dirt races, I can see that I would really, really love going to the dirt track.
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And where I live I live in Kalamazoo, michigan where I live we really only have one dirt track.
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That's even within an hour of me.
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The rest are all asphalt and so I've kind of stuck with that, just because of where I live.
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But I love going to see the sprint cars Like I've been to Kokomo, indiana, and some sprint week races, and then I watch him on flow racing.
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So, yeah, that's a lot of fun.
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So I can see why Kyle Larson is probably your favorite driver.
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Yeah, have you ever met him?
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Yes, you have.
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And where did you meet him?
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At Tulsa, oh, the Tulsa shootout.
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Yeah, so you raced at the Tulsa Shootout.
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Or did you go to watch?
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Yeah, you raced.
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And how did you do there?
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My car broke down, but I did good on some of the other races.
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Oh, that's good.
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That's one of the places I would really like to go.
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I want to go to the Tulsa Shootout and what's the other big race?
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That's that I want to do both of those.
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They're on my bucket list, so maybe I'll see you there.
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That would be fun.
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Are you going to go back and race there again?
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Yes, yeah, this year you're going to, all right, maybe.
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Maybe I'll see you there, because I do have that on my list of places.
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I want to go for sure.
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Yeah, so there were a lot of girls, I think, at the Tulsa shootout, weren't there?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I interviewed some other girls that were there.
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I love seeing that that there's a lot more girls getting involved.
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Do you think motorsports is a good sport for girls to be involved in?
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Yes, yeah.
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So when you first started racing, did the boys treat you okay, or the parents, or did you feel like maybe you didn't belong there?
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They treated everyone the same.
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That's good.
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That's good.
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And you know, a few years ago it wasn't like that.
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The girls didn't always get treated very well.
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But I think girls have kind of showed the boys and the men and the parents that they can be just as good on the track as anybody else, right?
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Yes, yeah, for sure.
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So when you go to the races, do you have any like superstitions or anything that you always do like?
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Do you always wear the same socks or the same?
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You know, I always braid my hair or anything?
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like that or do you or not.
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I don't wear green on race day because it means bad look but you got green on today.
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No, I don't eat, you don't eat peanuts.
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I don't eat chicken okay, and why is that?
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What's it?
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What's about the chicken?
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I don't eat chicken on race day because?
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because my dad said your dad said it's not lucky, yeah, and you don't wear green.
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And somebody told me which I didn't know this, but I now I've heard it more than once that, um, something about peanuts.
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You don't eat peanuts at a at the racetrack if you're racing.
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Have you ever heard that?
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No, I haven't either.
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I'm gonna have to look that up and see what that whole thing is about, because, yeah, I had never heard that before, but somebody told me that.
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But I have heard about the green for sure.
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And you don't ever want to have green on a race car, although, if you look at NASCAR, a lot of times they have green because of their sponsors.
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So I don't know about that.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So does Jason Fager in Turbo?
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Yeah, right, exactly.
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So I don't know.
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We'll see about the green deal.
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So do you work on the car with your dad?
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I'm sure your dad's the one that works on it, maybe, yeah, I'm helping yeah so what are some of the things that you've learned?
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Um, I do some, I do tires sometimes and I put bullets in sometimes.
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Okay, so that's a start.
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Yeah, that's good, because you have to start somewhere, and the more you learn about your car, the better race car driver that you're going to be for sure.
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Yeah, so is racing something you think you're going to want to do for a long time?
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Yeah, yeah, what's what would be like the most the best thing that could happen as far as like racing.
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Do you want to race in the world of outlaws or or um high limit, or do you want to be a cup nascar driver?
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What's your what's kind of your dream about racing?
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The World of Outlaws Midget.
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Okay, the World of Outlaws Midget, that sounds like so much fun.
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You know, I went to Eldora probably maybe about four years ago now, and I was thinking, oh, I'm going to meet all kinds of women and interested, and when I walked through the pits, the only women that were there were a few wives or girlfriends, nobody working on the cars, nobody driving the cars.
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And I was really disappointed because I think we need some women in that series.
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So you need to work hard and get up there so that you can race in that series.
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Have you ever been to Knoxville to see the races there?
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Knoxville, iowa Not yet, not yet.
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That's a great, that's a.
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That's a great little vacation spot and if you're in Missouri you wouldn't be too awfully far to go to Knoxville and that's a lot of fun.
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I highly recommend that you talk your parents into going there.