July 24, 2025

Presley Hall: What Happens When Dad Sells His Car So You Can Race?

Presley Hall: What Happens When Dad Sells His Car So You Can Race?

Send us a text Nine-year-old racer Presley Hall shares her journey in motorsports, from her father selling his race car so she could race to her dreams of competing in World of Outlaws Midget series. Despite flipping her car five times in one race, she was back behind the wheel the next week, demonstrating remarkable resilience and passion for the sport. • Racing a Junior Sprint and a cart for two years since age seven • Inspired by Kyle Larson and introduced to racing by her dad • Competes ...

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Nine-year-old racer Presley Hall shares her journey in motorsports, from her father selling his race car so she could race to her dreams of competing in World of Outlaws Midget series. Despite flipping her car five times in one race, she was back behind the wheel the next week, demonstrating remarkable resilience and passion for the sport.

• Racing a Junior Sprint and a cart for two years since age seven
• Inspired by Kyle Larson and introduced to racing by her dad
• Competes primarily at Coles County Speedway and other dirt tracks
• Raced at the prestigious Tulsa Shootout where she met Kyle Larson
• Flipped her car five times during a race but escaped with only minor injuries
• Maintains race day superstitions including not wearing green or eating chicken
• Races with RS12 Motorsports team as the only female driver
• Values the friendships made at the track as one of her favorite aspects of racing
• Has learned patience and forgiveness through her racing experiences
• Currently working on consistency to achieve her first win after coming in second
• Passionate about getting more girls involved in racing with the motto "Get the girls to the front"
• Has an impressive list of sponsors supporting her racing journey


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00:00 - Introduction to Women's Motorsports Network

01:54 - Meet Racer Presley Hall

04:20 - Racing Journey and Vehicles

07:57 - Racing Life and Track Friends

13:45 - Race Day Rituals and Superstitions

19:40 - Racing Goals and Memorable Moments

26:50 - Sponsors and Growing Women in Racing

32:19 - Podcast Closing

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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?

00:15:51.961 --> 00:15:54.764
What's your what's kind of your dream about racing?

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The World of Outlaws Midget.

00:15:59.505 --> 00:16:03.032
Okay, the World of Outlaws Midget, that sounds like so much fun.

00:16:03.032 --> 00:16:28.666
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.

00:16:28.666 --> 00:16:30.490
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.

00:16:33.878 --> 00:16:38.254
Have you ever been to Knoxville to see the races there?

00:16:38.254 --> 00:16:41.809
Knoxville, iowa Not yet, not yet.

00:16:41.809 --> 00:16:43.895
That's a great, that's a.

00:16:43.895 --> 00:16:53.157
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.

00:16:53.157 --> 00:16:56.225
I highly recommend that you talk your parents into going there.

00:16:56.225 --> 00:16:58.971
That would be that would be pretty fun.

00:16:59.032 --> 00:17:01.436
For sure, that's my favorite.

00:17:01.436 --> 00:17:05.829
Yeah, there you go my mom's favorite is it?

00:17:06.210 --> 00:17:13.710
yeah, yeah, I love, I love that track and all the things and the food and the vendors and just everything about it.

00:17:13.710 --> 00:17:16.155
It's kind of like a big carnival or a big fair.

00:17:16.155 --> 00:17:17.566
It's just so fun to go there.

00:17:17.566 --> 00:17:23.698
So, presley, everybody has a bad night at the racetrack.

00:17:23.698 --> 00:17:26.269
I'm sure you've had a bad night at the racetrack.

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Nothing, all nothing, goes perfect.

00:17:28.815 --> 00:17:33.211
When you do have a bad night, how do you handle that?

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Do you cry?

00:17:34.432 --> 00:17:35.756
Do you throw your helmet?

00:17:35.756 --> 00:17:38.087
Do you just what do you do?

00:17:38.167 --> 00:17:45.871
What do you say, say, I usually just take a break in my trailer okay, because we know.

00:17:46.250 --> 00:17:50.519
We know that in racing we're gonna lose more than we're, then we win.

00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:51.909
That's just how it is.

00:17:51.909 --> 00:18:00.251
And so going into the sport knowing that that makes it kind of hard and yet that makes winning all the better, doesn't it?

00:18:00.251 --> 00:18:08.259
Yeah, yeah, when you know that there is just so, so hard to do but yet so rewarding and fun to do.

00:18:08.259 --> 00:18:13.512
So what's been your best finish as far as racing?

00:18:13.512 --> 00:18:17.599
Second Second, wow.

00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.107
And was that in your cart?

00:18:19.107 --> 00:18:20.611
Or your sprint?

00:18:20.611 --> 00:18:21.593
In junior sprint?

00:18:21.593 --> 00:18:24.939
My cart, okay, all right.

00:18:24.939 --> 00:18:28.692
So your goal is to get in the winner's circle, right?

00:18:28.692 --> 00:18:31.277
Yes, everybody's goal.

00:18:31.277 --> 00:18:33.587
What is it going to take for you to do that?

00:18:33.587 --> 00:18:43.906
What are some things that that are hard for you or that maybe have kept you out of there and that you're working on so that you can get in the winner's circle?

00:18:45.289 --> 00:18:51.160
um consistency oh yeah, that's so hard.

00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:56.049
One day we're great and the next day we're at the back right, and that's just how.

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That's just how it goes.

00:18:57.271 --> 00:19:06.271
So, yeah, trying to do the same things on the track, run the same line, all those things, right, yeah, yeah.

00:19:06.271 --> 00:19:16.744
Or you know, some girls say, oh, passing was really hard for me to learn, or this, or that everybody has something that they have to work at to learn to be better.

00:19:16.744 --> 00:19:22.244
So consistency is a, is a, is something that I know you're going to get better at.

00:19:22.244 --> 00:19:22.726
For sure.

00:19:22.726 --> 00:19:25.311
The more you race, the better you're going to get at it.

00:19:25.311 --> 00:19:30.248
So on the weekend, on race day, you said you don't eat chicken.

00:19:30.248 --> 00:19:35.125
Do you have something that that you always eat, like I always go?

00:19:35.125 --> 00:19:47.161
I had one girl say we always go to McDonald's drive-thru and I get a sausage biscuit meal, and so do you always like have the same thing that you eat on race day, or or do you like track food?

00:19:48.124 --> 00:19:48.424
what do you?

00:19:48.424 --> 00:19:54.420
I usually get um a walking taco from the track okay those are pretty good.

00:19:55.682 --> 00:20:03.038
And do you eat before you race or not till you're all done, both sometimes Okay.

00:20:03.038 --> 00:20:05.652
So it doesn't bother you to eat before you race.

00:20:05.652 --> 00:20:09.951
Some girls can't can't eat till after they race because it makes them too nervous for sure.

00:20:09.951 --> 00:20:29.935
So you know, when you first started racing and some of the kids you knew, some you didn't, but now you've made friends with, probably the girls and the boys, yeah, you know, and I know you're only nine, so it's hard sometimes when you're nine to figure some of these things out.

00:20:29.935 --> 00:20:36.198
But what do you think that being involved in racing how has it changed you?

00:20:36.198 --> 00:20:39.266
Or maybe it hasn't, you know?

00:20:39.266 --> 00:20:44.308
Has it helped you learn things that maybe you wouldn't have learned if you hadn't been in racing?

00:20:44.308 --> 00:20:45.230
Do you know?

00:20:45.230 --> 00:20:47.736
Yeah, yeah, what?

00:20:47.736 --> 00:20:49.740
Oh, patience.

00:20:50.261 --> 00:20:58.109
Well, sometimes I have to struggle with patience yeah anything else that you think you've learned from being in motorsports.

00:20:58.109 --> 00:21:05.515
Forgiveness oh, I love that, presley, that's a great answer.

00:21:05.515 --> 00:21:26.259
Forgiveness, because people, you know some people might mean to wreck you, but some people don't, and you know things happen on the track, right, and so we have to be willing to give people some grace and say I know, you know, and we're going to race better the next time, right, yeah, yeah for sure.

00:21:26.259 --> 00:21:38.095
So if somebody came up to you and your mom and dad you were at the track and they said you know, a mom might say to you Presley, my little girl or my little boy wants to race.

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They want to be just like you.

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What would you, what?

00:21:40.230 --> 00:21:40.856
What would you?

00:21:40.856 --> 00:21:44.751
What advice would you give them about getting involved in motorsports?

00:21:46.174 --> 00:21:51.424
um would you say oh yeah, you should do it.

00:21:51.424 --> 00:21:52.046
What would you?

00:21:52.086 --> 00:21:59.875
say it takes time and you should do it yeah, it takes learning, doesn't it?

00:22:00.696 --> 00:22:03.099
yeah, yeah, we call that seat time.

00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:03.980
Have you ever heard that?

00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:06.810
Yeah, yeah, take seat time.

00:22:06.810 --> 00:22:23.060
Somebody told me one time it takes 10 000 hours of, or 10 000 laps, maybe in racing to really get your seat time, and so that's pretty interesting you know, that we think of it that way.

00:22:23.060 --> 00:22:28.037
So do you have a favorite memory from all of your racing?

00:22:28.037 --> 00:22:29.431
Could be good or bad.

00:22:34.707 --> 00:22:36.875
Getting back in my car whenever I flipped.

00:22:38.126 --> 00:22:39.332
Oh my gosh, you flipped.

00:22:39.332 --> 00:22:45.705
Tell me about that whenever I flipped.

00:22:45.726 --> 00:22:46.326
Oh my gosh, you flipped.

00:22:46.326 --> 00:22:46.827
Tell me about that.

00:22:46.827 --> 00:22:48.731
So me and my friend were right next to each other.

00:22:48.731 --> 00:22:59.093
We were going down the straightaway, and then we it was green, and then my friend, he came right down on me, and then I slipped.

00:23:00.054 --> 00:23:01.076
Oh, how many times.

00:23:01.076 --> 00:23:02.758
Five times.

00:23:02.758 --> 00:23:05.161
And were you hurt at all?

00:23:06.365 --> 00:23:09.351
Um no, my knee kind of hurt though.

00:23:10.073 --> 00:23:13.558
Yeah, but you didn't break an arm or really get hurt at all.

00:23:13.558 --> 00:23:19.189
No, isn't that something that you could flip five times and not get hurt?

00:23:19.189 --> 00:23:21.373
What does that say about your safety equipment?

00:23:21.373 --> 00:23:21.933
Okay?

00:23:22.999 --> 00:23:23.540
A lot.

00:23:23.954 --> 00:23:25.719
It worked pretty good, didn't it?

00:23:25.719 --> 00:23:31.339
Yeah, yeah, wow, five times.

00:23:31.339 --> 00:23:34.761
That's amazing to me.

00:23:35.715 --> 00:23:37.002
And it was on Dirt Vision.

00:23:38.076 --> 00:23:40.599
It was on Dirt Vision, oh gosh.

00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:45.386
So people, all kinds of people, saw it happen, yeah, yeah.

00:23:45.386 --> 00:23:49.736
And how long did it take for you to say, okay, I'm ready to get back in the car?

00:23:51.439 --> 00:23:52.441
the next week.

00:23:52.441 --> 00:23:55.425
That you right see.

00:23:55.526 --> 00:23:56.487
So you're pretty brave.

00:23:56.487 --> 00:24:02.938
So when I say you have a bad night, you kind of, you kind of overcome those obstacles pretty quickly, don't you?

00:24:02.958 --> 00:24:04.519
yeah, yeah Quickly don't you?

00:24:04.538 --> 00:24:05.700
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:13.664
So do you think that race car driving is entertaining?

00:24:13.664 --> 00:24:25.373
I mean, I know it's entertaining for us because we love racing, but do you think it's something that you could invite some people who've never been to a race and they would think that it's entertaining?

00:24:25.373 --> 00:24:28.863
Probably, yeah, we always.

00:24:28.863 --> 00:24:45.823
We always say that if you can get somebody to the track once they'll come back, and especially especially when, like a younger person like you, invite somebody to the track, you know a sponsor or you know your teachers or whatever.

00:24:45.823 --> 00:24:51.144
Once they come and see what you're doing, then they're more likely to come back.

00:24:51.144 --> 00:24:51.997
And that's how we grow.

00:24:52.037 --> 00:24:56.186
The sport, too is inviting people who aren't already fans for sure.

00:24:56.186 --> 00:25:04.227
So do you use social media, or does your mom use social media to help promote you in your racing?

00:25:04.227 --> 00:25:07.400
Yeah, and what does she use?

00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:08.824
Or does your mom do it?

00:25:08.824 --> 00:25:12.221
Yeah, okay, and our where?

00:25:12.221 --> 00:25:13.763
What social media are you on?

00:25:13.763 --> 00:25:16.548
Do you know facebook and tiktok?

00:25:16.548 --> 00:25:20.666
Okay, and is it under your name or how would we find it?

00:25:20.666 --> 00:25:23.917
Presley hall motorsports?

00:25:23.917 --> 00:25:32.489
Okay, so if we look that up on Facebook or TikTok, we'll be able to find where you're racing, how you're racing ended up, all those things, right?

00:25:32.489 --> 00:25:36.262
Yeah, okay, so tell me about the background.

00:25:36.262 --> 00:25:41.086
Do you always have it set up like that, or is that special for the podcast?

00:25:41.086 --> 00:25:43.423
It's special for the podcast.

00:25:43.423 --> 00:25:47.066
Well, I appreciate that because that is just so cool.

00:25:47.066 --> 00:25:52.987
It looks like there's a trophy, a helmet, your race suits hanging there.

00:25:52.987 --> 00:25:57.958
You did a really, really good job of putting everything back there.

00:25:57.958 --> 00:25:59.721
That's super cool.

00:25:59.721 --> 00:26:02.228
Is there anything special you want to tell me about?

00:26:03.215 --> 00:26:05.422
This is my wing whenever I flipped.

00:26:06.325 --> 00:26:17.828
Okay, that's your wing from when you flip looks like you got a t-shirt very, very cool, so you saved that to remind you that you walked away from it.

00:26:17.828 --> 00:26:23.428
Everything was good, and you're going to be back racing and and you're going to go to the top.

00:26:23.428 --> 00:26:26.583
I know you're going to get that first place finish really, really soon.

00:26:26.583 --> 00:26:28.027
I just know you are for sure.

00:26:28.027 --> 00:26:34.428
So who would you say are your biggest fans?

00:26:34.428 --> 00:26:36.603
Do you have anybody that always comes?

00:26:36.603 --> 00:26:40.642
Now, I know mom and dad, so we can't count them.

00:26:40.642 --> 00:26:45.807
Do you have any other really big fans that you want to say hello to or thank you to?

00:26:51.055 --> 00:26:52.798
big fans that you want to say hello to or thank you to.

00:26:52.798 --> 00:26:59.454
I want to say thank you to my Aunt Shannon and my Uncle Wimp, and I also want to say thank you to my friend, my friends Lincoln and Hattie.

00:26:59.454 --> 00:27:02.059
They drove three hours to watch me race.

00:27:02.540 --> 00:27:06.548
Wow, now that's some good friends that did that for sure.

00:27:16.596 --> 00:27:19.340
Wow, now that's some good friends?

00:27:19.942 --> 00:27:20.883
that did that for sure.

00:27:20.883 --> 00:27:23.207
Yeah, and do you have sponsors that you have on your car or not?

00:27:23.207 --> 00:27:24.048
So much A big list.

00:27:24.048 --> 00:27:28.295
Okay, do you want to mention a couple, or are you afraid you'll leave somebody out?

00:27:28.295 --> 00:27:29.436
I want to mention all of them.

00:27:29.497 --> 00:27:30.640
Okay, you for it, I want to hear them.

00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:37.174
Rs12 motorsports coles county speedway, spartan transportation driven midwest.

00:27:37.174 --> 00:27:42.419
High caliber graphics plus power wfo tv.

00:27:42.419 --> 00:27:44.500
Dirt dirty right rear.

00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:48.203
Dirty Right Rear Podcast.

00:27:48.203 --> 00:27:52.548
Chemstream 37 World of Dirt.

00:27:52.548 --> 00:27:56.412
357.

00:27:56.412 --> 00:28:01.000
World of Dirt Xello Addicted to Dirt Resinwork.

00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:05.246
Demon Racing Chassis, kirby Lost Photos.

00:28:05.246 --> 00:28:08.211
Extreme Fabrication.

00:28:08.776 --> 00:28:10.807
Wow, you do have a long list.

00:28:10.807 --> 00:28:12.055
That's awesome.

00:28:12.055 --> 00:28:15.865
You mentioned, yeah, that's awesome.

00:28:15.865 --> 00:28:19.105
And so how did you get those sponsors?

00:28:19.105 --> 00:28:21.281
Did you go visit them?

00:28:21.281 --> 00:28:22.780
Are they friends and family?

00:28:22.780 --> 00:28:26.865
Did they see you race and reach out and say I want to sponsor that little girl?

00:28:26.865 --> 00:28:28.557
How did you get so many sponsors?

00:28:28.557 --> 00:28:34.285
All of the above, All of that, yeah.

00:28:34.285 --> 00:28:36.147
I raced for a team.

00:28:36.147 --> 00:28:39.537
Oh, you raced for a team, so what's the name of your team?

00:28:40.417 --> 00:28:41.659
RS12 Motorsports.

00:28:42.579 --> 00:28:44.461
RS12 Motorsports.

00:28:44.461 --> 00:28:46.784
Okay, and so who else is on your team?

00:28:49.165 --> 00:28:55.412
Xander LaRose, and the person that wraps my cars is High Caliber Graphics.

00:28:55.412 --> 00:29:07.143
Okay, so is it just you and Xander on the team together and Harrison Robards and Cruise Person.

00:29:07.963 --> 00:29:09.325
Okay, so there's four of you.

00:29:09.325 --> 00:29:12.809
Yes, and you're the only girl, mm-hmm.

00:29:12.809 --> 00:29:27.038
Okay, so Xander is an unusual name, but my grandson's name is Xander, so that's interesting that Xander is a race car driver as well.

00:29:27.038 --> 00:29:35.329
So, presley, what have I not asked you about that you want to share, about your racing, or anything at all?

00:29:35.329 --> 00:29:38.944
Is there anything that we haven't talked about that we should?

00:29:39.026 --> 00:29:42.101
have who's my favorite race car driver.

00:29:42.501 --> 00:29:44.527
Oh, okay, go ahead, tell me.

00:29:46.676 --> 00:29:47.903
Ricky Thornton Jr.

00:29:47.903 --> 00:29:49.573
Oh okay, go ahead, tell me, ricky Thornton Jr.

00:29:49.573 --> 00:29:55.720
Oh yeah, jade, avedisci, avedisci, yeah.

00:29:55.720 --> 00:30:02.941
Zach Whaley, my dad, Rob Neubauer, turbo and Jason Fager.

00:30:03.435 --> 00:30:07.904
Okay, yeah, so on Plow I can watch Ricky Thornton Jr.

00:30:07.904 --> 00:30:15.406
He's on a lot and some of those others I maybe haven't heard of, but maybe it's because I wasn't paying attention.

00:30:15.406 --> 00:30:18.744
I'll have to look those names up and see if I can follow some of those.

00:30:18.744 --> 00:30:33.538
For sure, one of these days somebody's going to ask Ricky Thornton Jr who his favorite driver is, and he's going to say Presley Hall, at least I think he will Ask Ricky Thornton Jr who his favorite driver is, and he's going to say Presley Hall, at least I think he will have you met him before.

00:30:33.558 --> 00:30:35.806
Yes, Multiple times.

00:30:36.930 --> 00:30:40.259
Okay, we've raced at the same track.

00:30:40.259 --> 00:30:40.742
That's another reason.

00:30:40.742 --> 00:30:48.709
Okay, all right, so that's a good reason to be you know, to be a fan of his when you race at the same track, for sure.

00:30:48.709 --> 00:30:53.005
So, presley, anything else that you want to share?

00:30:53.414 --> 00:30:56.244
I want to get more girls into racing.

00:30:56.875 --> 00:30:57.840
Oh, that's a good idea.

00:30:57.840 --> 00:30:59.622
How are we going to do that?

00:30:59.622 --> 00:31:01.983
What should we do to get more girls into racing?

00:31:02.214 --> 00:31:04.683
My mom said put girls up front.

00:31:05.278 --> 00:31:05.640
I lost.

00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:06.444
You Say that again.

00:31:06.444 --> 00:31:07.148
Get the girls to the front.

00:31:07.148 --> 00:31:08.075
Get the girls to the front.

00:31:08.454 --> 00:31:09.739
Get the girls to the front.

00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:13.642
Yeah, that's right, it gets more exposure.

00:31:13.642 --> 00:31:19.545
And when you race, do the announcers give you any special attention?

00:31:19.545 --> 00:31:36.589
Or just the same as everybody, emma, they do, emma, they do Because you know you're the minority there's not as many of you girls and so a lot of times the girls get more attention just because of that and and that also then will get more girls interested to do that for sure.

00:31:36.589 --> 00:31:49.917
And you know, sometimes there's other things you can do, like take your car to your school you know, have permission on whatever day and take your car and let kids sit in it and talk to them about racing.

00:31:49.917 --> 00:31:56.759
You know there's a lot of things that we can do to encourage girls and boys really, but we're all about the girls, aren't?

00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.776
We get the girls involved in racing this podcast is great for that, presley.

00:32:01.057 --> 00:32:02.459
I don't have any other questions.

00:32:02.459 --> 00:32:06.605
Unless you want to share anything else, I don't have anything, okay.

00:32:06.987 --> 00:32:13.144
No, okay, well, I want to thank you for being on the show.

00:32:13.144 --> 00:32:19.643
You're welcome, and if you just hang on until the recording's over, I have a couple questions for you at the end.

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