July 29, 2025 • 20 mins
On this episode of Throttle Therapy, Katherine checks in after her double duty weekend in Indianapolis at the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity races. Katherine literally gets boiled alive and grabs her second top-20 finish in five Cup starts this year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legg is an iHeart women's sports
production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You
can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to this
(00:21):
week's episode of Throttle Therapy with Me Katherine Legg, and
this week we are looking back at a very cool
weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway IMS for the Brickyard Race.
This weekend was my first ever doing double duty at
a NASCAR event, so I did the Affinity Race and
the Cup Race.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was busy, but it wasn't too hard.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Actually, I thought it was going to take it out
of me a lot more than it did, but I managed,
We got through it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It was fun doing both.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
One of the things that made this weekend a lot
easier than it would have been is that I was
provided with an r which was super cool, so I
had a base, so I had somewhere to go after
each session. I had one place where I could keep
all of my staff instead of keeping it in haulers.
And also my sponsors and my partners and my dad
(01:15):
had somewhere to go as well, so it made it
super easy. We set up the coal Plunge from the
Cold Plunge Studios in Indianapolis right outside the RV, so
every time I would get out of a session or
whenever I fancied it, I could jump in the coal
plunch and I think a few other people did the
same thing. I think it's a really good idea. I
think it may become a staple at the races because
(01:35):
when you're at these places and it's over one hundred
degrees and it's over one hundred and fifty degrees in
the car, it was brutal, and we'll get to that.
It was kind of nice to be able to just
jump straight into the coal Plunge and having the RV
there was super nice because you just go in. You've
got everything that you need in the fridge, you got
your clothes laid out, and.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was really nice and it was really comfortable.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It was actually a Fleetwood IRV and it was like
one of the ones that's super easy to drive.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Think it's called a Class C.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Not really up on my RV knowledge, but I am
starting to learn. So instead of having to go back
to each individual halo, we were right there and I
could just go to the garages, which is unusual for
race treckses that you have the garage there and not
the haul that you're not working out of it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I should say, well, maybe it is usual in NASCAR.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm thinking about it and I'm like, so conditioned to
sports car racing and indy car racing, and then I'm
thinking about all the different places we go and I'm like, oh,
they work out of a garage thirty oh and there,
So my bad. Anyway, I digress. So we'll start with
Exfinity qualifying. We actually got practice for Exfinity, which was nice.
(02:43):
The Cup practice got rained out and then moved to
the following day, which was just before qualifying on Saturday.
So we were thinking, Yay, we're going to get so
much practice as we can. It's going to be awesome.
We don't normally get this much practice in NASCAR events
and so I need every and then it got rained out.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Which is typical.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I feel like the the weather gods have not been
kind to us this year, but we had a great
Expinity qualifying. I was actually texting with Connor daily and
he said it's flat out and after practice there was
no way. I was like, is he having me on,
like is this for real, Like there's no way it's flat.
He said, yeah, honestly, like it's faster than you think
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it is. And I am so grateful that he told
me that, and I'm so grateful for him giving me
that info because in practice on older tires, when I
was kind of getting up to speed, you're nowhere near flat.
And you don't think that in qualifying you go flat
because you're so far off of it. He's like, no,
when it's taped up, when you got new tires, like
it's flat in a good car. So I went out, okay, Connor,
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I got this, and my foot quivered in turn three.
And we do an alternate start finish line between ten
three and four, so we go out of the pits
straight onto the track and we literally start our lap
after ten three, so we do I don't know, like
two thirds of the track. And so I got on it.
I was almost flat and turned one almost car could
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have gone flat. My right foot did not agree with
my brain. And then I was on such a good
lap that in my head I'm like, okay, don't screw
it up, leg, like you got this.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
This is a great lap.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And then obviously my foot came off the accelerator pedal
and instead of being five or six tenths off the pace,
we were a second off the pace. But we're still
peaked twenty four behind my teammate Jeb Burton, and so
I felt like that was probably the best qualifying we've
had in cup ore Exfinity to date this year, and
I was pretty happy starting it. And then we practiced
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and qualified or Cup the following day and I really
wasn't happy. I felt like there was something wrong with
the car. They were like, you got to drive it
in harder because I know it's going to feel weird
until you drive it in harder, and I'm thinking, okay.
I think they think then I'm stupid. I don't know,
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but it doesn't feel like that to me. It feels
like it's something broken. And the only other time I
can compare this to was when I was first driving
sports cars and I got picked up and I was like,
there's something broken on the car and I came in
and they're like, no, it's pick up and I felt stupid.
So ever since then, I've been very wary of saying
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there's something wrong with the car and let's say no,
catacorrectly what it was, and I was like, no, it
feels like there's a wheel loose. And I know there's
not a wheel loose, because they kind all the wheels
up and they took them off and they put them
back on in and all the things. But that's how
it felt to me. And so we did qualifying merely
as a form of function, really just to we We
knew we were in.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We didn't have to qualify in.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So we did the lap and I didn't do it
at speed because I didn't want to risk anything in
case there was something broken. So did that bit disturbed
by that because I was worried what was going to
happen on Sunday for the big race. And then we
went and we raced the Xfinity car and it was
all going relatively well. I would say I messed up
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a couple of times in a small way by just
not getting a run in the right place so a
car could get a run on me. So we were
trading positions in the mid twenties for the first couple
of stages or the first stage, and then the voltage
alarm was flashing at me and the voltage kept dropping
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and it would drop like a half. I don't know
what it reads, actually, I just know that it says
like eleven and a half or ten or whatever it is.
Maybe that's Falts, it's probably Vaults. Thinking about it, a's Falts.
So it was dropping. I was losing power, and then
the dash would shut off, and then it would bump
start itself, and then it just completely shut down. So
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we had to park it, and we tried changing battery,
and then we had to park it. And because I
had no battery, no, the alternator wasn't working. There was
also no helmet blower, so I was really hot in
the car, so I was thinking, Okay, I didn't have
a call suit in the Exfinity car. I was thinking
that sucked, But hey, in the cup car, I have
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a call suit and a helmet blower, and so I'm
going to be a okay if I can do it
without either of those. In the Exfinity car, I was
bummed that we didn't get to finish because I was
actually really enjoying it and I was still learning a ton.
I made a couple of mistakes that I learned from
a pit lane, Like, there's still things I haven't I
didn't make the same mistake twice I did on track.
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There's a couple of times where I was too impatient
getting to the power, and when you get to the
power to impatiently, then the car starts to push and
then you can't finish it, and then the car behind
can get a run on you. And that was definitely happening,
and I had to be like super cognizant of it
because we were a little bit down on power because
the alternator, so lesson learned, kind of grew from that, adapted,
(08:17):
and tried my best to go into Sunday with an
open mind, thinking everything is going to be hunky doory.
The Live Fast guys found a couple of issues with
the car that they fixed, and so I was hoping
that it was going to be good. I was trying
to think that it was going to be good, and
I was committed to go into term one like it
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was good at the start, and that's basically what we did.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I let Denny go.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It seems weird because he's he started about the last
few races that I've been in and every time I've thought,
if I can just stay with him for as long
as possible, this will be this will be great, and honestly,
I've learnt so much from him it's super impress of
what he's been able to do from the back of
the field. So let him go and then tried to
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find my feet. And in the first stage we really
kind of we were ahead of one other car, I
think the sixty six car, and then we were barely
hanging on to the back of the field because I
was trying to ascertain what was wrong with the car,
trying to tell the crew like how to fix it,
trying to learn how to drive it, because again I
had maybe like six or eight that's in practice. So
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first stage done, We did our stuff under yellow and
made some changes to the car, went back out and
we were more mixing it with I would like say,
the last five cars after the yellow came out for
the start stage two, so a little bit better. We
were never fast during the indie race, but we were consistent.
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And what we didn't have, which was very strange, was
we didn't have any drop off. Really, like the lap
that I could do when I was on new ties
was the same as a lap I could do on
old tires. Because my car was so understeery, so pushy,
it was on new tires, I couldn't get to power.
But when the tires wore off and it started to
(10:11):
rotate a little bit better, then I could get to
power just as well as I could on new tires.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So it was bizarre.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But we could do the same lap time first lap
or fortieth lap, it didn't matter. So we were consistent.
We had great strategy. The guys kept me out there,
and we got lucky with the yellow where we trapped
a bunch of cars a lap down, which was great.
And then we tried the same strategy all over again,
(10:39):
and I think the middle stint we just kept like
banging out the laps. I don't know who I was
sat behind. I think it might have been Dinger, I'm
not really sure. For like thirty laps or so, and
I was just keeping the keeping the gap maintained. I
was in the bubble, so I learned a bit about
drafting in these cars as well. When you're coming from
a restart or when you get a big kind of
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on somebody and you go through what they call the bubble,
which is about four or five car links back, then
you can move around in it. If you're about four
or five car links back. You kind of stool there
and you can't get a run on them because it
takes away the air on the front of your car.
And I was already super pushy, so I just kind
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of stayed in that bubble for that thirty laps. But
we were doing decent enough lap times average that we
just kept consistent and we had good strategy, and so
we were able to move up a bunch of places,
and by the end we had made more.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Changes to the car. It was better.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Still not fast because they think we were too high
on the front of the car, which is what made
it person also made it a little bit slower in
a straight line, but it was safe, and what we
didn't want to do is have any of the problems
that we'd had the previous day. So they kept it
like that, which was probably smart, but race ser Catherine
(11:58):
wanted everything that she could get. Oh then I boiled
my brains out because then it rained, and so they
bought a dampit lane and they had us all sat
in the car for like twenty minutes, which would have
been fine had my cour suit been working. However it
was not, and so there was hot water cursing through
my cool suit. Which was no longer a cool suit.
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It was a boiling suit and literally cooking me. And
I think a lot of other drivers had the same thing,
because the ambient temperature and the temperature inside the car
got so hot that the cool suit didn't work right,
like the cool box that feeds the cool suit has
a fail safe and I think it quit. And so
we're literally cooking, like literally cooking as the water is
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getting hotter and hotter running around us. And so I
called the official over actually, and I was like, I'm
about to pass out. I do not complain or I
try not to complain about anything physical in a race
car because I've been conditioned like you're the girl. You
can't complain because everybody will say it's because you're the girl.
So I called them over and I'm like, I'm really sorry.
I want to finish this race and I'm about to
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pass out, So you need to let my crew give
me some cold water pour over myself, or give me
some ice and get a fan on me or something.
And he's like, GINI medical. I said, no, please don't.
I don't want to get out of the car. Don't
take the net down. I just need water and ice.
So then they eventually let the crew come and give
us water and ice, and they put a fan on
(13:21):
a leaf blower on us, and I felt normality returning
because I was kind a bit loopy. And my crew
chief said, yeah, at least you were talking normally again
after that. So then once I've called down, they explained
the procedure about how we were going to restart, and
we were going to pit, and we were actually in
really good shape because we pitted and we got four
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tires for both three starts, which is super handy. So
they send us back out after being cooled off, ready
to go Green White check in, and one of my spotters, Pepper,
he says, hang back, but make sure you're there to
capsule on it, like hang back off the field so
you're not going to get caught up in any schunts.
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But then make sure that you're not too far back.
And like, I don't know what that means, how far
is too far? What am I doing with my hands?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But we did.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We there's a group of about four or five of us.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We hung back.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
We waited through turn one and two for the crash
to happen and didn't, but it did happen in three.
So then we were going back to a second attempt
at Green White Checker, and this time they put the
lap cast to the back, so this time I was
actually racing the people on the lead lap that I
was around, so it was go time, right, and there
was another car then on the lead lap as well
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because he'd got the wave around. I don't know who
it was, so that being said, he's like, don't hang
back on this on this.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
One because we were halfway through the pack.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You've got to go for it, but just be aware
that something's probably going to happen and turn turn one
or two or something. We're on the inside at the chews.
I'm not sure whether I would had shows in the
inside anyway, I was kind of tempted to because I
just felt like it was a safer option. And some
of them were like going through wide and I didn't
really want to be through white middle or three white
top going around there because in the gray there it
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can get kind of marrably and it can suck you
into the wall, especially in an Indy car, so I didn't.
I kind of kind of thought better on the bottom,
and so we started on the bottom, and I was
cautious through one and two because I wasn't sure what
was going to happen. And then when nothing happened through
one or two, I knew I had to get the
hammer down and we started to push a little bit,
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and I think somebody ran out of fuel and we
overtook a car. We ended up piece seventeen, which I
felt like was a win because I didn't make any mistakes.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I hit the limit on that that once, damn it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So I did make a mistake, but didn't make any
significant mistakes, and the crew did an impeccable job. The
pit stops were great. We didn't get any speedy pit lane.
We made improvements at every stop like it just it
just worked. It was a great day. I was a
bit worried during the pit stop because my little round
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side mirror that's on the.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Door fell off.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Literally I was just sitting there and it fell into
the car and fell off, and I was like, uh, oh,
is that seven years? Bad luck?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Did it break?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I couldn't find it with my foot, so I still
don't know whether it broke. I asked Davy and he
said they haven't found it yet, but he said green
car is supposed to be unlucky too, so maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I hope it hasn't broke. Even if it has, I
hope he lies to me and says it hasn't broke.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I was kind of blind on the left side. It's
nice to have comforting knowing, like if somebody's getting a run.
But my spotters, Tommy, Joe and Pepper were awesome. It
kind of took me through the whole thing. My spotter
for the Expinity Race Tray is also awesome. Like I
cannot tell you how much we rely on them, especially
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being new, Like it's almost like they're helping me drive
the car. They are coaching me through it. They are
seeing what everybody else is doing, They're seeing what I'm
doing differently, They're telling me what's going on. And I
appreciate them so much. Like I don't know whether any
of you guys listen to the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You can.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You can go on the NASCAR app and then you
can tune into which you have a driver radio you
want to, But it is fascinating, and they are so
talented at what they do, and a good spotter makes
such a big difference, and they're as important, if not
more so than the driver room in a lot of cases,
and they keep us out of trouble and they see it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
There are eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So yeah, the whole crew did a great job droplight
my sponsors. And there's Nuda tequila, which I did not
enjoy after the race, so this is this is bad.
After the race went back to the RB and my
sponsor hands me Todd.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
He's also like, we're all friends now. He hands me
the bottle of tequila and he's.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Like, shut because they're all happy too, because we had
such a great day. And I'm like, I got I can't.
I'm so dehydrated right now, Like I just boiled my
brains out. I can't even do a shop to Kill
with you. So Todd, I'm doing a shop to Killer
tonight now that I'm rehydrated and I've got my electrolytes
in and of course it's Desnuda. And thank you to
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whoever put the Repisado in my suitcase, because I now
have it with me and I'm looking forward to doing
it a dayly. So anyway, having boiled my brains, I
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am reflecting on the weekend, A really good weekend from
all accounts. All in all, I need to make notes.
I need to sit down and make notes now that
I have cooled down. Although my whoop still says that
I'm one point one degree is above average, I am
coming back to normal and I'm very much looking forward
to going to the SIM next week and then getting
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back in the car at Watkins. I feel like a
lot of momentum helps with the like repetitive nature of driving,
Like the more you're in the car, the better you get.
So next weekend is not this weekend, but the following
weekend is Watkins, Glenn and I'm super excited about that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I know most of the corners there.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
NASCAR cut it a little bit kind of short, and
they don't do the what we call the boot, but
I know the track pretty well for the most part,
and I'm excited about that. And I'm excited to keep
rolling off this momentum and hopefully keep gaining experience, keep
getting better, and keep showing people what we can achieve
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when everything goes our way. Thanks for listening to Throttle Therapy.
We'll be back next week with more updates and more overtakes.
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Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legg is an iHeart women's sports
production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You
can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to this
(00:21):
week's episode of Throttle Therapy with Me Katherine Legg, and
this week we are looking back at a very cool
weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway IMS for the Brickyard Race.
This weekend was my first ever doing double duty at
a NASCAR event, so I did the Affinity Race and
the Cup Race.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was busy, but it wasn't too hard.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Actually, I thought it was going to take it out
of me a lot more than it did, but I managed,
We got through it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It was fun doing both.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
One of the things that made this weekend a lot
easier than it would have been is that I was
provided with an r which was super cool, so I
had a base, so I had somewhere to go after
each session. I had one place where I could keep
all of my staff instead of keeping it in haulers.
And also my sponsors and my partners and my dad
(01:15):
had somewhere to go as well, so it made it
super easy. We set up the coal Plunge from the
Cold Plunge Studios in Indianapolis right outside the RV, so
every time I would get out of a session or
whenever I fancied it, I could jump in the coal
plunch and I think a few other people did the
same thing. I think it's a really good idea. I
think it may become a staple at the races because
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when you're at these places and it's over one hundred
degrees and it's over one hundred and fifty degrees in
the car, it was brutal, and we'll get to that.
It was kind of nice to be able to just
jump straight into the coal Plunge and having the RV
there was super nice because you just go in. You've
got everything that you need in the fridge, you got
your clothes laid out, and.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was really nice and it was really comfortable.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It was actually a Fleetwood IRV and it was like
one of the ones that's super easy to drive.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Think it's called a Class C.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Not really up on my RV knowledge, but I am
starting to learn. So instead of having to go back
to each individual halo, we were right there and I
could just go to the garages, which is unusual for
race treckses that you have the garage there and not
the haul that you're not working out of it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I should say, well, maybe it is usual in NASCAR.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm thinking about it and I'm like, so conditioned to
sports car racing and indy car racing, and then I'm
thinking about all the different places we go and I'm like, oh,
they work out of a garage thirty oh and there,
So my bad. Anyway, I digress. So we'll start with
Exfinity qualifying. We actually got practice for Exfinity, which was nice.
(02:43):
The Cup practice got rained out and then moved to
the following day, which was just before qualifying on Saturday.
So we were thinking, Yay, we're going to get so
much practice as we can. It's going to be awesome.
We don't normally get this much practice in NASCAR events
and so I need every and then it got rained out.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Which is typical.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I feel like the the weather gods have not been
kind to us this year, but we had a great
Expinity qualifying. I was actually texting with Connor daily and
he said it's flat out and after practice there was
no way. I was like, is he having me on,
like is this for real, Like there's no way it's flat.
He said, yeah, honestly, like it's faster than you think
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it is. And I am so grateful that he told
me that, and I'm so grateful for him giving me
that info because in practice on older tires, when I
was kind of getting up to speed, you're nowhere near flat.
And you don't think that in qualifying you go flat
because you're so far off of it. He's like, no,
when it's taped up, when you got new tires, like
it's flat in a good car. So I went out, okay, Connor,
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I got this, and my foot quivered in turn three.
And we do an alternate start finish line between ten
three and four, so we go out of the pits
straight onto the track and we literally start our lap
after ten three, so we do I don't know, like
two thirds of the track. And so I got on it.
I was almost flat and turned one almost car could
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have gone flat. My right foot did not agree with
my brain. And then I was on such a good
lap that in my head I'm like, okay, don't screw
it up, leg, like you got this.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
This is a great lap.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And then obviously my foot came off the accelerator pedal
and instead of being five or six tenths off the pace,
we were a second off the pace. But we're still
peaked twenty four behind my teammate Jeb Burton, and so
I felt like that was probably the best qualifying we've
had in cup ore Exfinity to date this year, and
I was pretty happy starting it. And then we practiced
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and qualified or Cup the following day and I really
wasn't happy. I felt like there was something wrong with
the car. They were like, you got to drive it
in harder because I know it's going to feel weird
until you drive it in harder, and I'm thinking, okay.
I think they think then I'm stupid. I don't know,
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but it doesn't feel like that to me. It feels
like it's something broken. And the only other time I
can compare this to was when I was first driving
sports cars and I got picked up and I was like,
there's something broken on the car and I came in
and they're like, no, it's pick up and I felt stupid.
So ever since then, I've been very wary of saying
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there's something wrong with the car and let's say no,
catacorrectly what it was, and I was like, no, it
feels like there's a wheel loose. And I know there's
not a wheel loose, because they kind all the wheels
up and they took them off and they put them
back on in and all the things. But that's how
it felt to me. And so we did qualifying merely
as a form of function, really just to we We
knew we were in.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We didn't have to qualify in.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So we did the lap and I didn't do it
at speed because I didn't want to risk anything in
case there was something broken. So did that bit disturbed
by that because I was worried what was going to
happen on Sunday for the big race. And then we
went and we raced the Xfinity car and it was
all going relatively well. I would say I messed up
(06:26):
a couple of times in a small way by just
not getting a run in the right place so a
car could get a run on me. So we were
trading positions in the mid twenties for the first couple
of stages or the first stage, and then the voltage
alarm was flashing at me and the voltage kept dropping
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and it would drop like a half. I don't know
what it reads, actually, I just know that it says
like eleven and a half or ten or whatever it is.
Maybe that's Falts, it's probably Vaults. Thinking about it, a's Falts.
So it was dropping. I was losing power, and then
the dash would shut off, and then it would bump
start itself, and then it just completely shut down. So
(07:10):
we had to park it, and we tried changing battery,
and then we had to park it. And because I
had no battery, no, the alternator wasn't working. There was
also no helmet blower, so I was really hot in
the car, so I was thinking, Okay, I didn't have
a call suit in the Exfinity car. I was thinking
that sucked, But hey, in the cup car, I have
(07:32):
a call suit and a helmet blower, and so I'm
going to be a okay if I can do it
without either of those. In the Exfinity car, I was
bummed that we didn't get to finish because I was
actually really enjoying it and I was still learning a ton.
I made a couple of mistakes that I learned from
a pit lane, Like, there's still things I haven't I
didn't make the same mistake twice I did on track.
(07:55):
There's a couple of times where I was too impatient
getting to the power, and when you get to the
power to impatiently, then the car starts to push and
then you can't finish it, and then the car behind
can get a run on you. And that was definitely happening,
and I had to be like super cognizant of it
because we were a little bit down on power because
the alternator, so lesson learned, kind of grew from that, adapted,
(08:17):
and tried my best to go into Sunday with an
open mind, thinking everything is going to be hunky doory.
The Live Fast guys found a couple of issues with
the car that they fixed, and so I was hoping
that it was going to be good. I was trying
to think that it was going to be good, and
I was committed to go into term one like it
(08:39):
was good at the start, and that's basically what we did.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I let Denny go.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It seems weird because he's he started about the last
few races that I've been in and every time I've thought,
if I can just stay with him for as long
as possible, this will be this will be great, and honestly,
I've learnt so much from him it's super impress of
what he's been able to do from the back of
the field. So let him go and then tried to
(09:05):
find my feet. And in the first stage we really
kind of we were ahead of one other car, I
think the sixty six car, and then we were barely
hanging on to the back of the field because I
was trying to ascertain what was wrong with the car,
trying to tell the crew like how to fix it,
trying to learn how to drive it, because again I
had maybe like six or eight that's in practice. So
(09:28):
first stage done, We did our stuff under yellow and
made some changes to the car, went back out and
we were more mixing it with I would like say,
the last five cars after the yellow came out for
the start stage two, so a little bit better. We
were never fast during the indie race, but we were consistent.
(09:51):
And what we didn't have, which was very strange, was
we didn't have any drop off. Really, like the lap
that I could do when I was on new ties
was the same as a lap I could do on
old tires. Because my car was so understeery, so pushy,
it was on new tires, I couldn't get to power.
But when the tires wore off and it started to
(10:11):
rotate a little bit better, then I could get to
power just as well as I could on new tires.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So it was bizarre.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But we could do the same lap time first lap
or fortieth lap, it didn't matter. So we were consistent.
We had great strategy. The guys kept me out there,
and we got lucky with the yellow where we trapped
a bunch of cars a lap down, which was great.
And then we tried the same strategy all over again,
(10:39):
and I think the middle stint we just kept like
banging out the laps. I don't know who I was
sat behind. I think it might have been Dinger, I'm
not really sure. For like thirty laps or so, and
I was just keeping the keeping the gap maintained. I
was in the bubble, so I learned a bit about
drafting in these cars as well. When you're coming from
a restart or when you get a big kind of
(11:00):
on somebody and you go through what they call the bubble,
which is about four or five car links back, then
you can move around in it. If you're about four
or five car links back. You kind of stool there
and you can't get a run on them because it
takes away the air on the front of your car.
And I was already super pushy, so I just kind
(11:21):
of stayed in that bubble for that thirty laps. But
we were doing decent enough lap times average that we
just kept consistent and we had good strategy, and so
we were able to move up a bunch of places,
and by the end we had made more.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Changes to the car. It was better.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Still not fast because they think we were too high
on the front of the car, which is what made
it person also made it a little bit slower in
a straight line, but it was safe, and what we
didn't want to do is have any of the problems
that we'd had the previous day. So they kept it
like that, which was probably smart, but race ser Catherine
(11:58):
wanted everything that she could get. Oh then I boiled
my brains out because then it rained, and so they
bought a dampit lane and they had us all sat
in the car for like twenty minutes, which would have
been fine had my cour suit been working. However it
was not, and so there was hot water cursing through
my cool suit. Which was no longer a cool suit.
(12:19):
It was a boiling suit and literally cooking me. And
I think a lot of other drivers had the same thing,
because the ambient temperature and the temperature inside the car
got so hot that the cool suit didn't work right,
like the cool box that feeds the cool suit has
a fail safe and I think it quit. And so
we're literally cooking, like literally cooking as the water is
(12:39):
getting hotter and hotter running around us. And so I
called the official over actually, and I was like, I'm
about to pass out. I do not complain or I
try not to complain about anything physical in a race
car because I've been conditioned like you're the girl. You
can't complain because everybody will say it's because you're the girl.
So I called them over and I'm like, I'm really sorry.
I want to finish this race and I'm about to
(13:01):
pass out, So you need to let my crew give
me some cold water pour over myself, or give me
some ice and get a fan on me or something.
And he's like, GINI medical. I said, no, please don't.
I don't want to get out of the car. Don't
take the net down. I just need water and ice.
So then they eventually let the crew come and give
us water and ice, and they put a fan on
(13:21):
a leaf blower on us, and I felt normality returning
because I was kind a bit loopy. And my crew
chief said, yeah, at least you were talking normally again
after that. So then once I've called down, they explained
the procedure about how we were going to restart, and
we were going to pit, and we were actually in
really good shape because we pitted and we got four
(13:42):
tires for both three starts, which is super handy. So
they send us back out after being cooled off, ready
to go Green White check in, and one of my spotters, Pepper,
he says, hang back, but make sure you're there to
capsule on it, like hang back off the field so
you're not going to get caught up in any schunts.
(14:04):
But then make sure that you're not too far back.
And like, I don't know what that means, how far
is too far? What am I doing with my hands?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But we did.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We there's a group of about four or five of us.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We hung back.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
We waited through turn one and two for the crash
to happen and didn't, but it did happen in three.
So then we were going back to a second attempt
at Green White Checker, and this time they put the
lap cast to the back, so this time I was
actually racing the people on the lead lap that I
was around, so it was go time, right, and there
was another car then on the lead lap as well
(14:38):
because he'd got the wave around. I don't know who
it was, so that being said, he's like, don't hang
back on this on this.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
One because we were halfway through the pack.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You've got to go for it, but just be aware
that something's probably going to happen and turn turn one
or two or something. We're on the inside at the chews.
I'm not sure whether I would had shows in the
inside anyway, I was kind of tempted to because I
just felt like it was a safer option. And some
of them were like going through wide and I didn't
really want to be through white middle or three white
top going around there because in the gray there it
(15:12):
can get kind of marrably and it can suck you
into the wall, especially in an Indy car, so I didn't.
I kind of kind of thought better on the bottom,
and so we started on the bottom, and I was
cautious through one and two because I wasn't sure what
was going to happen. And then when nothing happened through
one or two, I knew I had to get the
hammer down and we started to push a little bit,
(15:36):
and I think somebody ran out of fuel and we
overtook a car. We ended up piece seventeen, which I
felt like was a win because I didn't make any mistakes.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I hit the limit on that that once, damn it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So I did make a mistake, but didn't make any
significant mistakes, and the crew did an impeccable job. The
pit stops were great. We didn't get any speedy pit lane.
We made improvements at every stop like it just it
just worked. It was a great day. I was a
bit worried during the pit stop because my little round
(16:10):
side mirror that's on the.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Door fell off.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Literally I was just sitting there and it fell into
the car and fell off, and I was like, uh, oh,
is that seven years? Bad luck?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Did it break?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I couldn't find it with my foot, so I still
don't know whether it broke. I asked Davy and he
said they haven't found it yet, but he said green
car is supposed to be unlucky too, so maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I hope it hasn't broke. Even if it has, I
hope he lies to me and says it hasn't broke.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I was kind of blind on the left side. It's
nice to have comforting knowing, like if somebody's getting a run.
But my spotters, Tommy, Joe and Pepper were awesome. It
kind of took me through the whole thing. My spotter
for the Expinity Race Tray is also awesome. Like I
cannot tell you how much we rely on them, especially
(17:00):
being new, Like it's almost like they're helping me drive
the car. They are coaching me through it. They are
seeing what everybody else is doing, They're seeing what I'm
doing differently, They're telling me what's going on. And I
appreciate them so much. Like I don't know whether any
of you guys listen to the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You can.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You can go on the NASCAR app and then you
can tune into which you have a driver radio you
want to, But it is fascinating, and they are so
talented at what they do, and a good spotter makes
such a big difference, and they're as important, if not
more so than the driver room in a lot of cases,
and they keep us out of trouble and they see it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
There are eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So yeah, the whole crew did a great job droplight
my sponsors. And there's Nuda tequila, which I did not
enjoy after the race, so this is this is bad.
After the race went back to the RB and my
sponsor hands me Todd.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
He's also like, we're all friends now. He hands me
the bottle of tequila and he's.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Like, shut because they're all happy too, because we had
such a great day. And I'm like, I got I can't.
I'm so dehydrated right now, Like I just boiled my
brains out. I can't even do a shop to Kill
with you. So Todd, I'm doing a shop to Killer
tonight now that I'm rehydrated and I've got my electrolytes
in and of course it's Desnuda. And thank you to
(18:20):
whoever put the Repisado in my suitcase, because I now
have it with me and I'm looking forward to doing
it a dayly. So anyway, having boiled my brains, I
(18:44):
am reflecting on the weekend, A really good weekend from
all accounts. All in all, I need to make notes.
I need to sit down and make notes now that
I have cooled down. Although my whoop still says that
I'm one point one degree is above average, I am
coming back to normal and I'm very much looking forward
to going to the SIM next week and then getting
(19:05):
back in the car at Watkins. I feel like a
lot of momentum helps with the like repetitive nature of driving,
Like the more you're in the car, the better you get.
So next weekend is not this weekend, but the following
weekend is Watkins, Glenn and I'm super excited about that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I know most of the corners there.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
NASCAR cut it a little bit kind of short, and
they don't do the what we call the boot, but
I know the track pretty well for the most part,
and I'm excited about that. And I'm excited to keep
rolling off this momentum and hopefully keep gaining experience, keep
getting better, and keep showing people what we can achieve
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when everything goes our way. Thanks for listening to Throttle Therapy.
We'll be back next week with more updates and more overtakes.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
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