May 18, 2022 • 31 mins
On this episode of Cooks and Cars RaceDay Nation edition Rob D'Amico and Michele Rahal talk with special guest and world champ Juan Pablo Montoya about the Miami GP. How can it stand the test of time, how weather will impact the race, where the greatest passing opportunities will come from, can F1 withstand another GP in the US and will Andretti ever get a team in F1.
He gives a corner by corner description of the track as he saw it from the cockpit of a McLaren P1 supercar.
He drops some major advice for parents trying to get their kids into racing.
Plus why he loves cooking pizzas and smoking briskets on the Big Green Egg.
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He gives a corner by corner description of the track as he saw it from the cockpit of a McLaren P1 supercar.
He drops some major advice for parents trying to get their kids into racing.
Plus why he loves cooking pizzas and smoking briskets on the Big Green Egg.
www.CooksandCars.com
www.RaceDayNation.com
#f1 #miamigp #juanpablomontoya #cooksandcars #racedaynation #racing #mclaren #ferrari #redbull #mercedes #amg #haasf1 #robdamico #michelerahal
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Welcome to Cooks and Cars Race StayNation Edition. I'm Rob Damiko alongside Michelle
Rahul. Michelle, welcome to theprogram, and that's great to be here
every week. And I'm delighted tobe here with our special guest, which
you will announce, and looking forwardto this coming weekend, man, I
really am. Yeah. This isgonna be a big, big weekend for
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the US, for Miami, forf one and for racing fans everywhere.
But first, before we get intothat, this segment is brought to you
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it's Big green Egg dot com.All right, now let's get into
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it. We got a big racein Miami. Now, we talked about
this before, how the residents wantedto get rid of this race, didn't
want it to happen. All theKens and Karen's down there were bitching and
moaning at the it was gonna physicallyhurt their hearing. I mean, seriously,
come on, but now we haveit. It's this weekend finally,
I'm so damn excited. I wishI could be there, and I hear
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it is the people that have beendown there so far. Yeah, it's
an electric everybody is there. Theintroduction of the drivers and the party,
I think even the drivers themselves werejust kind of taking the back because,
well, you know, a lotof them are very young, have not
really experienced something is exciting as theMiami atmosphere, and when they were introducing
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them, it was they really lookedtaken aback. It's like, oh,
wow, this is America. It'skind of America. South America is what
it is. Yeah, there's nodoubt. And I will say it's been
cool to watch all the drivers,you know, throwing out baseballs at the
baseball games. I saw Lois Hamiltonplaying golf with Tom Brady obviously the champions
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with the bucks and all that stuffin uh Rayhol's backyard right there in Tampa.
But all great stuff. So wehave a guest who's down there live
in Miami right now. We're gonnabring him on and one of our favorites
to bring on the show here,Juan Pablo Montoya, joins us live from
the Miami GP in this car readyto go and you are on the track
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today and talk about that. Whatis the track like for these guys when
they get out there and start hittingit? So yes that was Actually we're
doing the first laps on the truckyesterday. And I gotta say the guys
that the Miami GP did an amazingjobs. It's crazy. They've build a
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hell of a race truck and ahell of an event. As you know,
as you guys said the party lastnight, you know, we stayed
there where they were announcing all thedrivers and you know, the funds are
so into it. It's it's amazing, you know. I mean, I
think it's great to see. It'snot one of the cooler things there is.
Not only how cool the event is, but the truck itself. I
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was talking to some of the guys, you know, my kind guys and
everything, and I was telling,man, this is it tricky. It's
like there's a lot of long blindcorners that is gonna be like if you
don't commit, you're gonna be reallyslow. And if you commit, you
guys hit something. We watched wewatched the you know, the not the
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animated but the CG version, thecomputer generated version, and you know I
was a little I was surprised youhad long straits, but then again you
had a lot of turns. AndI'm curious with the three DRS zones that
they have, you know, thelong straits. From what I understand,
one of the DRS zones is goingto start to start finish line. I
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could be wrong, but you knowthat's a long straight. I mean,
if people have got DRS from thebeginning of that straightaway everybody else has gone,
it could be a congo line.I hope not na the stuff finish
line. It's actually pretty short,so if you get a d RS,
there is not a long the RRS. There are two older straits, especially
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last straight before the last corner thatis a very long straight. Like a
very very long straight. I thinkit's and you come out of a slower
corner that it's much easier to followand be closer to people. I think
they really did a good job designingthe track where you can actually pass.
I mean, like like the otherlong straight, you come out of a
difficult corner and I think you won'tbe as close as you want. But
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I think the straight is going tobe long enough that when you opened that
DRS is going to make a massivedifference. So it's kind of interesting because
it's kind of a place where youwanted to have probably a ton of downforce,
so you're really good through the cornersand the brakings, but then you're
gonna be, you know, sittingso slow in the straights. So you
know, the teams will have tocompromise with a setup a lot here,
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and I think that's gonna be cool. It' gonna be cool to see,
you know that you start on Fridaywith really high down force and just run
the high down for us the firstday when the truck's really new and dirty,
just to be you know, onthe smarter side, on the safer
side, or do you just gowith whatever you think you need to run
and just get comfortable with it,you know. I mean, it's there's
a lot of unforgiving corners that Ithink is really cool. You know,
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there's a really tight chicken like yougo up to like a like an exit
ramp and then you just turn reallytight left and right and it's like tight
left eye right, and then thatit agrees into the backstraight. But that
tight it's really tight. Like Ithink if you in qualifying it. They
try to overcommit to that and theyget over the curb and the exit,
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they gonna go too into the tires, you know, they're gonna hit the
wall there. And it's and it'sa genuine street course, you know what
I mean. Most I mean there'sa lot of the eight Texes are walls,
and I think that is really reallyreally cool. Yeah, I mean
it's like a lot of places,like with the Indy car when you got
to the street courses, they keptmoving the walls away and putting curves.
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But the beauty of a street coursewas the the you know, the the
inside barrier. It was the apexand you were driving through the wall and
if you did it well, youwere right on the wall. You were
not on a curb, and youcouldn't write the curb. You either bounce
up the wall. You did itright. That was really cool. That's
it's different when you don't have curbsand you've got a wall sitting there.
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That's a whole other animal. Youcould there's no riding curbs, You're just
yes, there's not Oh, Ijust bounce off the curb. If you
bounce of the curb and the wayin the old world. You were like
putting the fence. Oh, weneed to give drivers more more of a
view where they're going. I mean, I don't know, you sound upset
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on this one. It's like,come on, guys, man up,
yeah, yeah, exactly what doyou think that? What do you think
the track is going to do?Because it's a new asphalt. I mean
in the heat that that was theone big question I had in this heat.
We all both you and I bothknow zam in Tampa. You're in
Miami. The humidity and the heat. A lot of these drivers are absolutely
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just not used to that kind ofheat and humidity. The first stoppings U
LaClair these guys that you know,Australia was one thing, but it's not
Miami. It's not that kind ofhuman Australia. Honestly, Australia when we
go to Australia, we used togo to Australia was hugging and it wasn't
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that hard, you know, atthe time of the year we went in
Melbourne. He wasn't crazy odd,he was only pretty too. But like
Bahrain when they went to Barrain washard when they did, you know,
Saudi was hard. I know thatthey even raised a night of Saudi,
but it was very hot. Ithink, what this is more like a
Malaysia weather. I was talking tosome of the engineers and the older stuff
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on turning and said, it doesn'tremind you of Malaysia and they were laughing.
I mean, because it is justthe same weather. And and the
crazy thing with Miami right now aboutit. Two weeks ago the started,
you know, the humidity, rainseason started, and and yesterday was a
great example, like he wasn't rainingon the truck and we left and a
mile away it was pouring raining.So we might get some of that.
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I don't know what the pocos is, but you know, with Miami,
it's very hard to predict because it'snot the weather. It's not like a
weather front coming. It's just youknow, it just comes up, pops
up, rains and it goes away. Yeah. The daily shower, it's
the daily thing. Like we gethere in Tampa, same thing. Yeah,
and it's a prime in the shower. And then the scheme comes off
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the track and it's like but exactlythe problem. The raining so narrow.
He might get half of the truckweather and half of the truck drive mean,
I think it's I think it's reallycool. You gotta give like a
billion thumbs up. And I thinkyou know as Rops that at the beginning
of the show, you know,I think the impact on Miami, the
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city, the culture, I thinkit's huge. I think people are starting
to realize how much everyone can doimpact worldwide, you know what I mean.
It's such a big boots for thecity. You understand the people that
live near there that you know,they're used to football games and you know,
fifty thou people la da la dala to un event this big where
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they've been working on it and trucksand things. I think through the years
it's going to get better because thepayment is there, there's a lot of
things there already that are going tobe much easier to put together. I
think the truck this year will bevery good with the grip level. It'd
be interesting to see through the yearshow how the degradation of the payment goes
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sitting in the sun, you knowhow you know, Miami really cooks every
payment. So I think it'll bea surprise for them every year they come.
Like the operation of the truck,it'll be different. And the degradation
will be higher, so it's gonnabe fun to watch. I mean,
they're there's so many trinket corners andlung corners and blank corners, and that
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it's fun. I guess I gotto drive. I'm a client p one
around oh, rubbing it in.Well, keep rubbing it in. You
know what I did. I'm notgonna lie to you. When I got
out of my client p one Iwent my Client p one prize. I'm
like, oh, I'm not gettingone. That's pretty amazing, and uh,
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you know I haven't. If youhave a question, yeah, it's
a beautiful car. I have aquestion for you. You were bringing up
the fact that the residents there,and you think behind the scenes or any
of those lawsuits that maybe they bringto the table after race has gone to
try and stop it for next year, or do you think now that it's
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in place, it really has ait has a home there, and I
think it's scheduled for the next tenyears. It's supposed to be on the
calendar. You think they can fulfillthat contract. I do think so.
I think they, As you said, the lawsuits are always going to be
there. Somebody's willing to you know, finding ways to either complain about noise,
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complain about anything, because that's youknow, people can do that here
in the States. But I thinkthe city and the state and the government
will realize, you know, Imean how big of an event it is.
It's like yesterday was Wednesday, andwhere they were doing the party,
it was packed like a night.That place was packed with people. We
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don't believe how many people for thecontent and everything. It's unbelievable. I
mean, this place, the racesold out in a day. I have
a body of mine who tried toget tickets for a client and literally for
two tickets, paid about two thousanddollars. I mean the yeah, I
know, no, no, no, I am serious. It's like if
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you yeah, general mission, generalmission just to walk on the grounds.
It was you know, I meanpeople were for nearly a thousand bucks because
there's no tickets, that's what hegot his general tickets. Yeah, so
twenty two thousand dollars for like forhospitality for one of the suits. Yeah.
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The thing is what people don't realizeis yes, it's a lot of
money, but in f one whenyou're used to maybe to like an Oscar
suite or IndyCar suite did you cometo froma one suite is a different animal,
Like the show is bigger, thesuits are bigger, everything is bigger
and better. Question real quick,I'm sorry. One is that you know
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we have obviously Austin, we nowhave the Miami GP and coming next year
the third race Vegas. Is theUS a market that's big enough for those
three races or could it actually bringmore to the table. But if you
think about it, who would havethought Kata would succeed with it? Yeah?
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Yeah, in the beginning they didn'tand they didn't, but they have.
They sold out. They sold thatin a day too, So this
is what happens. It's like alot of people in Mexico where I go
maybe to the US and see theAustin race that is closed because to get
tickets in the Mexico race is verydifficult. So they say, oh,
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you know, we go and we'llgo shopping. That's how you know,
That's how we lived in Colombia.That's how we saw it. People.
You have people like from Palm Beachand New York. You know, people
from the North that have houses inPalm Beach and everything. They want to
come to the race, and yougot people from South America, I want
to come to the race. Thenwhen we go to Vegas, is going
to be a different crowd again.You got the locals and then you got
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people from San Francisco, La.You gotta remember a lot of the tech
companies are involved in F one,Yeah, and a lot of the US
companies are involved in AS one.So if you can bring three races to
their market is huge. And Ithink that's where I think Liberty is gone
an amazing job with it. Imean, they really understand where they need
to go, and they're growing,you know, they keep growing. They
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understand. You know, in mytime, we used to do more miles
testing than racing, Like we wouldraise on a Sunday and then Monday,
like FUSA was the thurday Friday.We're in a truck testing now. I
mean, instead of spending all thatmoney testing, you know, let's just
go and raising more places. Doyou think one, do you think that
it can actually take a fourth race? Because Pinsky is meeting with the head
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of F one, the new CEO, and that just happened, and everybody's
wondering, why is he meeting withyou know, meeting with him, and
they're being very tight lipped about it. I mean, this is a big
market and obviously there's explosive growth inthe US. Bloomberg the Investment in Investment
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publication, they came out and theysaid that it's the Americanization of F one.
Now Zach said he didn't. ZachBrown, he said that he didn't
really believe that the Americans of Fone should take place. What do you
think I agree with that? Iagree with Zac. I think there's no
but I don't think I think everyoneunderstands that they cannot go the American way
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and just do racist in America.But they understand it's an important market,
as you know, the mainstream racesin Europe. You know, they understand
that the British Grand Prix is reallyimportant, and they understand that Monaca is
really important, that Months is reallyimportant. They understand, you know,
figure out how we keep a racein Germany because you know the Mercedes,
you know what I mean. Theyreally do understand, but they understand.
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You know, by doing raised inthe US, you cover a lot of
the Americas as well, but youknow you need to expand you know what
I mean, It's like South Americaor the Caribbean doesn't have a race,
for example, and they're talking aboutit, and I think that will be
another cool place to have. Youknow, when you're raising Europe, do
you like like if you look atwhere the French Grand Prix is, there's
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the facilities, I mean, thelazy is unbelievable, but there's no hotels
nearby. There's not much like Iwas there no longer ago with my kids
testing and you go, why areif one's racing there? You know what
I mean? I understand that therace is really important than everything. But
you can hear my wife from theback, Yes we can, and she's
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going, she's gonna and she's gonnaopen the door. Yes, we're in
the middle of it. I don'tblame him, say hello, Hey,
she's no my wife, she's myfriend, my wife's friend. My wif
is here. Okay, fucker's guy. You can't do that too. It's
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one you know that, all right? So one you were talking about your
kids, Bashan talk about what he'sgoing on, because that's you know,
you talk about next generation and theseother kids that are coming up. As
a father, obviously you have someconnections and you can work him through the
systems. But you know, forthose dads out there that are trying to
do that, talk about what yourson's gone through and what he's trying to
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accomplish, and where do you thinkhe's gonna end up. He got more
talent than the old man. Um. So so let's start with all the
order. The order that you askme is why would I tell the parents?
And the first thing I would tellhim, don't spend the money in
karting as much as you're spending Ithink carting is really important, but don't
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help your kid win spending money andon't go on by the better motor,
don't go by the more things.Don't. He's got to figure out himself
and he needs to have enough equipmentthat when he's on his a day and
those everything right, he might havea shot at winning because he needs to
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learn to work for it, becausemost of the people want to win with
money, and when you win withmoney, it's gonna get to a point
in your career that your money doesn'treally matter. And when your money doesn't
really matter, you're gonna struggle.Yeah, and the other part, ah,
yeah, it's difficult, um.But you know, on the other
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side of the coin. You know, my kid. I think it's hard
because it's my kid. But atthe same time, I tell I try
to tell people and I'm i'm andit's the truth. I'm really hard on
him. You know. I've talkedto you, Robbie Bore and like,
I don't, I don't. I'mnot nice to him when we're raising I'm
I'm an you know, an asshole. I'm I call it how I see
it. And and the bloody kidis very good. It's like we run
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together and she bring and it's unbelievable. How good he is right now is
crazy. It's just he and andhe's learning to be his own self.
Critics like I looked at the qualifyingin months and he said, hey,
you did a good job and Iused crew up one corner, but other
than that, you put a hellof a lot together. And he goes,
no, I sucked. I'm like, okay, now you didn't,
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Yes, I did. I shouldhave done better. And that when you
when you do it in a constructiveway, I think it is very good
because it means that you're paying attentionto the details. And when you pay
attention to the details, you're gonnaget better and better, a lot quicker.
We're talking to one Pablo Montoye.It's Michelle Rail. I'm robbed Amiko.
This is Cooks and Cars, theRace Day Nation Edition. I appreciate
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everybody twud in getting ready for theMIAMIGP this weekend, which is going to
be a spectacular event for the worldof racing. And when we say that,
we mean that. You know,when you have the success of one
sport, it's also bringing up thesuccess of other sports as well, especially
open wheel, and we all knowIndyCar could definitely use that help right now
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because they're they're struggling a little bit. We see the crowds, but we
know that they have a good product. It's great race. So how do
you think, you know, withthis type of race in the US will
help open wheel here in America.I think the timing of this race is
great because you know, Indie Car'son track next week, and they were
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on track last week and then wegot the five hundred and two or three
weeks. I think the time peopleare paying attention and and you know,
Indie puts a hell of a showto have a hell of a product,
so you'll be exciting I'm kind ofexciting to see what they can bring this
year, and you know, I'mexcited to take part of it and and
see what happens. Well, they'regonna try. I mean, they're they're
talking about the model being more Ovals. How do you feel about more ovals
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and that being their identity because thatseems to be where they're Hensky's gravitating towards
UM, the more Ovals. Thepromise used to be like four or five
street courses, four or five roadcourses, and four or five ovals and
now it's like you got two threeovals only. So do they need to
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expand on the ovals? Absolutely,I do. I'm one hundred percent agree
with that, with that that theythey're missing out. Yeah, I mean
a championship that it's always been verycool on basic everything that you raise UM
and I think they got to doa better job, you know. I
mean they've done a great job inthe series. The series is definitely on
the up. That is great,but it's I do agree that it's missing
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ovals. Yeah, I mean,I don't know if they cannot go to
the novels or NASCAR goes or howdid that work out? You know,
I mean that's very political. I'mnot sure how it works, but I
mean, we used to go toCalifornia's fun, you know. I mean
they went to Vegas, we usedto go Homestead. There's a lot of
places, you know. I mean, I know it's I know they want
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to go to places where the promotersare excited to happen, but I think
it's important to go places where peoplewatching are excited to watch it too.
I'll switch gears a little bit.Obviously, you used to race nask are
as well. NASCAR is doing abunch of different things. They did the
Colosseum deal, They've done, youknow, some dirt racing at Bristol.
What do you think of the youknow, some people call it gimmicky or
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whatever. How do you see that? Because it is to me. I
love that the fact that now theyactually do more road racing, which is
awesome. But the problem is,I love to see at a street race.
I'm not a big dirt guy.I feel like it's a little gimmicky,
but listen, it adds to thechampionship, and they seem to pack
the stands for it. So yougot to remember that people that raise NASCAR
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came from dirt. Yeah. Allthe good old boys and all the young
guys there, they all raise dirt. So when you raise dirt all the
time, and you grew up indirt and you look at a guy like
Larson that every week and he wasraising dirt, you know, the dirt
guys and the kids, you know. I mean, it's it's a good
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way of connecting the career that youknow. It's kind of telling now you
know what was the thing they calledthe NASCAR route to the NASCAR you know
the local truck Yeah, the roots. Yeah. Yeah, it's like going
back to the local trucks. It'skind of showing people this is the way
of doing it, don't you knowif you want to come to NASCAR,
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don't don't waste your time carding godirt grating from when you're young. Hey,
real quick before we head out here. I know you're busy. You
get family in the car and you'reenjoying the weekend down here in Miami.
Uh. Some of your hobbies youstill do in the RC planes and all
that stuff. Putting together some models. Um, I love doing that.
I was doing that promise. Imoved to Europe and I have nowhere to
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do them at the moment, andI have all my plates here planes here
in the state, so I haven'tdone it. I would love to do
it again. It's just just notime at the moment. I'm sure in
a couple of years, I'm goingto be flying again. The promise it
is right now, you know,I'm running around like crazy, and you
know, I mean, it's it'shard because, you know, working really
hard to help my kid raise andeverything, and I selled my career and
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and everything. So we just nonstop and then uh, still cooking on
your big green egg. I'm waitingfor my big green egg. By the
way, I knew I was alittle afraid to answer that question. But
Yo, it's coming, you knowthat. I know, I know it's
coming. And it's perfectly because rightnow it's finally starting to warm up.
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And I'm really excited, you know. I mean, I found a place
in Italy that they sell the brisketsand they sell Wagle briskets. I'm pretty
excited about that one. Oh yes, I know you guys are passing recipes
back and forth, right. Ilove it. I'm really lucky because like
we do a lot of pizza,we used to do a lot of pizzas
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and a friend of mine works ona restaurant, an Italian restaurant, and
the past three department was doing thedoll for us and like proper one spectacular
man. All right, what dowe what do we expect on Sunday for
this race? What do you thinkwe're gonna see here? I think you're
gonna see an amazing race. Ithink you might see some people getting a
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run. Um, but I thinkyou're gonna see a lot of passing back
and forth because if you look atyou know, people are gonna pass you
in the back straight and then youhave one, two, three, four
or five corners for the other longstraight. So I think you might get
passed, and then two or threecorners. Letty, you can keep up,
you're gonna get a hell of arun, and you're probably gonna be
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able to pass again. And thenif they have that third the third son
and they start finished nine, youmight even fight back again. So I
think it's cool. And as yousaid, you know this trade is so
long that if the DRS opens earlyenough, you could see you could be
passing two people like the guy withan NODRS is gonna struggle. Yeahs into
that end the question whether or notone opens and then dr and then he
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opens the DRS and that is right. Yeah, that's exactly a shop.
And in Leclair the last time theywere complaining, I thought it was great.
Oh they always complain, you know, everybody everybody complains. You know,
we'll you know, we're racing drivers. You wouldn't complain. We're not
doing our job. Do we expectthe same as a Ferrari Red Bull kind
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of deal? We we think McLarencould get up on that podium. I
don't think Mercedes really has much herebecause all the issues they've had this year,
but uh, is it the samekind of group that we're looking at.
It'd be interesting to see with thelow down force if Mercedes can lower
the car and get away from thepurposing by taking a lot lower downforce approach,
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and if they do come I cometo life. Yeah, you know,
I mean, it'd be interesting tosee because if you have less purposing
year, then no one with thelower era package, in a lower downforce
package in my in might come tolife. Some cars that you go,
what, But I would assume thatthe Ferrari and the Red Bull are going
to be upfront for sure. Yeah, and and real quick with the andready
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thing going on with f one puttinghis U you know, putting them on
notice. I got the money.We're ready to go. You think having
the three US gps in the Stateswith another American team if we can.
You know, we got Hoss obviously, but listen, beat team with Ferrari
all that stuff. It's great,but we'd like to have a competing team
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here in the US that can goagainst the conglomerates of Red Bull and Ferrari
and things like that. I thinkit's possible. I think has done a
great job, and I think howhis approach was the right one to start
the team. I mean, throughthe years he might get better. I
might find an engine deal through theyears. But if you don't, yeah,
I mean, if you'll probably lookat what ANDRETTI was thinking. It
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would be probably like a rental engineor something. So he would have been
in the same picture of a houseor somebody else. I'm not sure.
But it's not easy, you know. I mean it's not easy, and
I'm not sure it will happen,you know, from where you here.
At least the rumor wise is thatthey kind of turn him away, so
I don't know. I'll see allright one Pablo Montoy alive from the Miami
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GP this weekend. Uh. Youknow, a champion driver, you've won
Monaco, the Indie five hundred,you name a race you've been there.
It's one of those races. Ithink it was Lamar that you're trying to
get for that triple crown. Youever gonna make it back to the track
and try to get that win.But we won last year in class.
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I mean, it's kind of funnybecause in the class we run, we
had nine cars and the class foroverall had three cards or four cars.
So yeah, it's kind of crazy, you know what I mean. It
is very political and everything, butyou know, I was happy to get
the Laman win in class and it'sfriended, you know. I mean,
if you ask me, it's verysimple. If you ask anybody, if
I want the mom I actually did, whether you like it or that's right,
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all right, man, we appreciate. Yeah, I seriously, I'm
honored for you to come on theshow during this special weekend. I thought
you were gonna say, I'm suregetting your egg. Don't worry about it,
you know, Hey, I'll getthe text. You know that one
will be like, damn, Robget to I will. I did him
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like three or four weeks before Igo back to Europe. So okay,
so we'll handle that off air.But yes, thank you very much.
I appreciate it. You get mein trouble. Thank you guys. All
right, man, we'll see you, thank you, all right. Man
wa Pablo Montoya so glad he couldcome on with us. Man, very
cool. He's such a down toearth guy. And I think you even
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said to me one time that youknow, everybody you've talked to that's dealt
with one on a team or youknow, anywhere in a garage, and
it's just a nice guy. Hejust he's down to earth. He's one
of us. He's just like everybodyelse. And you know he puts his
pants on the same way we do. Right, it's just stet just tell
of a lot faster. Yes,exactly, like a fireman. I love
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how his family started getting in thecar. He's like, hey, come
on, let's go. We gottago. All right, us asked him,
was your friend in the back seatmarried? Yeah, she's single,
all right. For Michelle Rayhall,I'm Rob Demiko, Thank you so much
for watching today. We do appreciate, don't forget. You can follow us
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h E l E R A ha L. The number nine where that
came from? Still don't know.Nonetheless, that's where you can find I
think I knew where the nine camefrom. So I was in the post
office the other day and I sawthe ten most wanted. You were number
nine on that, and I wantto be number one. I mean the
hell of number nine? Yeah?Like I don't like odd numbers, Rob,
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I like even numbers. You knowthey'd have chosen eight. I'ld have
going, okay, well that wasone of the numbers on my race cars.
I could handle that or ten orsomething like that. I have no
idea. You get nine and youlike it, you got it all.
I've got no choice. All right. Berg isn't gonna allow anything out of
the ordinary. That's right. It'sall right for Michelle Rayhall, I'm robbed,
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Amiko, thank you so much forwatching. I hope you enjoyed this
weekend for the Miami GP
Welcome to Cooks and Cars Race StayNation Edition. I'm Rob Damiko alongside Michelle
Rahul. Michelle, welcome to theprogram, and that's great to be here
every week. And I'm delighted tobe here with our special guest, which
you will announce, and looking forwardto this coming weekend, man, I
really am. Yeah. This isgonna be a big, big weekend for
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the US, for Miami, forf one and for racing fans everywhere.
But first, before we get intothat, this segment is brought to you
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it. We got a big racein Miami. Now, we talked about
this before, how the residents wantedto get rid of this race, didn't
want it to happen. All theKens and Karen's down there were bitching and
moaning at the it was gonna physicallyhurt their hearing. I mean, seriously,
come on, but now we haveit. It's this weekend finally,
I'm so damn excited. I wishI could be there, and I hear
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it is the people that have beendown there so far. Yeah, it's
an electric everybody is there. Theintroduction of the drivers and the party,
I think even the drivers themselves werejust kind of taking the back because,
well, you know, a lotof them are very young, have not
really experienced something is exciting as theMiami atmosphere, and when they were introducing
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them, it was they really lookedtaken aback. It's like, oh,
wow, this is America. It'skind of America. South America is what
it is. Yeah, there's nodoubt. And I will say it's been
cool to watch all the drivers,you know, throwing out baseballs at the
baseball games. I saw Lois Hamiltonplaying golf with Tom Brady obviously the champions
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with the bucks and all that stuffin uh Rayhol's backyard right there in Tampa.
But all great stuff. So wehave a guest who's down there live
in Miami right now. We're gonnabring him on and one of our favorites
to bring on the show here,Juan Pablo Montoya, joins us live from
the Miami GP in this car readyto go and you are on the track
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today and talk about that. Whatis the track like for these guys when
they get out there and start hittingit? So yes that was Actually we're
doing the first laps on the truckyesterday. And I gotta say the guys
that the Miami GP did an amazingjobs. It's crazy. They've build a
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hell of a race truck and ahell of an event. As you know,
as you guys said the party lastnight, you know, we stayed
there where they were announcing all thedrivers and you know, the funds are
so into it. It's it's amazing, you know. I mean, I
think it's great to see. It'snot one of the cooler things there is.
Not only how cool the event is, but the truck itself. I
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was talking to some of the guys, you know, my kind guys and
everything, and I was telling,man, this is it tricky. It's
like there's a lot of long blindcorners that is gonna be like if you
don't commit, you're gonna be reallyslow. And if you commit, you
guys hit something. We watched wewatched the you know, the not the
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animated but the CG version, thecomputer generated version, and you know I
was a little I was surprised youhad long straits, but then again you
had a lot of turns. AndI'm curious with the three DRS zones that
they have, you know, thelong straits. From what I understand,
one of the DRS zones is goingto start to start finish line. I
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could be wrong, but you knowthat's a long straight. I mean,
if people have got DRS from thebeginning of that straightaway everybody else has gone,
it could be a congo line.I hope not na the stuff finish
line. It's actually pretty short,so if you get a d RS,
there is not a long the RRS. There are two older straits, especially
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last straight before the last corner thatis a very long straight. Like a
very very long straight. I thinkit's and you come out of a slower
corner that it's much easier to followand be closer to people. I think
they really did a good job designingthe track where you can actually pass.
I mean, like like the otherlong straight, you come out of a
difficult corner and I think you won'tbe as close as you want. But
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I think the straight is going tobe long enough that when you opened that
DRS is going to make a massivedifference. So it's kind of interesting because
it's kind of a place where youwanted to have probably a ton of downforce,
so you're really good through the cornersand the brakings, but then you're
gonna be, you know, sittingso slow in the straights. So you
know, the teams will have tocompromise with a setup a lot here,
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and I think that's gonna be cool. It' gonna be cool to see,
you know that you start on Fridaywith really high down force and just run
the high down for us the firstday when the truck's really new and dirty,
just to be you know, onthe smarter side, on the safer
side, or do you just gowith whatever you think you need to run
and just get comfortable with it,you know. I mean, it's there's
a lot of unforgiving corners that Ithink is really cool. You know,
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there's a really tight chicken like yougo up to like a like an exit
ramp and then you just turn reallytight left and right and it's like tight
left eye right, and then thatit agrees into the backstraight. But that
tight it's really tight. Like Ithink if you in qualifying it. They
try to overcommit to that and theyget over the curb and the exit,
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they gonna go too into the tires, you know, they're gonna hit the
wall there. And it's and it'sa genuine street course, you know what
I mean. Most I mean there'sa lot of the eight Texes are walls,
and I think that is really reallyreally cool. Yeah, I mean
it's like a lot of places,like with the Indy car when you got
to the street courses, they keptmoving the walls away and putting curves.
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But the beauty of a street coursewas the the you know, the the
inside barrier. It was the apexand you were driving through the wall and
if you did it well, youwere right on the wall. You were
not on a curb, and youcouldn't write the curb. You either bounce
up the wall. You did itright. That was really cool. That's
it's different when you don't have curbsand you've got a wall sitting there.
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That's a whole other animal. Youcould there's no riding curbs, You're just
yes, there's not Oh, Ijust bounce off the curb. If you
bounce of the curb and the wayin the old world. You were like
putting the fence. Oh, weneed to give drivers more more of a
view where they're going. I mean, I don't know, you sound upset
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on this one. It's like,come on, guys, man up,
yeah, yeah, exactly what doyou think that? What do you think
the track is going to do?Because it's a new asphalt. I mean
in the heat that that was theone big question I had in this heat.
We all both you and I bothknow zam in Tampa. You're in
Miami. The humidity and the heat. A lot of these drivers are absolutely
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just not used to that kind ofheat and humidity. The first stoppings U
LaClair these guys that you know,Australia was one thing, but it's not
Miami. It's not that kind ofhuman Australia. Honestly, Australia when we
go to Australia, we used togo to Australia was hugging and it wasn't
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that hard, you know, atthe time of the year we went in
Melbourne. He wasn't crazy odd,he was only pretty too. But like
Bahrain when they went to Barrain washard when they did, you know,
Saudi was hard. I know thatthey even raised a night of Saudi,
but it was very hot. Ithink, what this is more like a
Malaysia weather. I was talking tosome of the engineers and the older stuff
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on turning and said, it doesn'tremind you of Malaysia and they were laughing.
I mean, because it is justthe same weather. And and the
crazy thing with Miami right now aboutit. Two weeks ago the started,
you know, the humidity, rainseason started, and and yesterday was a
great example, like he wasn't rainingon the truck and we left and a
mile away it was pouring raining.So we might get some of that.
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I don't know what the pocos is, but you know, with Miami,
it's very hard to predict because it'snot the weather. It's not like a
weather front coming. It's just youknow, it just comes up, pops
up, rains and it goes away. Yeah. The daily shower, it's
the daily thing. Like we gethere in Tampa, same thing. Yeah,
and it's a prime in the shower. And then the scheme comes off
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the track and it's like but exactlythe problem. The raining so narrow.
He might get half of the truckweather and half of the truck drive mean,
I think it's I think it's reallycool. You gotta give like a
billion thumbs up. And I thinkyou know as Rops that at the beginning
of the show, you know,I think the impact on Miami, the
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city, the culture, I thinkit's huge. I think people are starting
to realize how much everyone can doimpact worldwide, you know what I mean.
It's such a big boots for thecity. You understand the people that
live near there that you know,they're used to football games and you know,
fifty thou people la da la dala to un event this big where
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they've been working on it and trucksand things. I think through the years
it's going to get better because thepayment is there, there's a lot of
things there already that are going tobe much easier to put together. I
think the truck this year will bevery good with the grip level. It'd
be interesting to see through the yearshow how the degradation of the payment goes
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sitting in the sun, you knowhow you know, Miami really cooks every
payment. So I think it'll bea surprise for them every year they come.
Like the operation of the truck,it'll be different. And the degradation
will be higher, so it's gonnabe fun to watch. I mean,
they're there's so many trinket corners andlung corners and blank corners, and that
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it's fun. I guess I gotto drive. I'm a client p one
around oh, rubbing it in.Well, keep rubbing it in. You
know what I did. I'm notgonna lie to you. When I got
out of my client p one Iwent my Client p one prize. I'm
like, oh, I'm not gettingone. That's pretty amazing, and uh,
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you know I haven't. If youhave a question, yeah, it's
a beautiful car. I have aquestion for you. You were bringing up
the fact that the residents there,and you think behind the scenes or any
of those lawsuits that maybe they bringto the table after race has gone to
try and stop it for next year, or do you think now that it's
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in place, it really has ait has a home there, and I
think it's scheduled for the next tenyears. It's supposed to be on the
calendar. You think they can fulfillthat contract. I do think so.
I think they, As you said, the lawsuits are always going to be
there. Somebody's willing to you know, finding ways to either complain about noise,
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complain about anything, because that's youknow, people can do that here
in the States. But I thinkthe city and the state and the government
will realize, you know, Imean how big of an event it is.
It's like yesterday was Wednesday, andwhere they were doing the party,
it was packed like a night.That place was packed with people. We
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don't believe how many people for thecontent and everything. It's unbelievable. I
mean, this place, the racesold out in a day. I have
a body of mine who tried toget tickets for a client and literally for
two tickets, paid about two thousanddollars. I mean the yeah, I
know, no, no, no, I am serious. It's like if
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you yeah, general mission, generalmission just to walk on the grounds.
It was you know, I meanpeople were for nearly a thousand bucks because
there's no tickets, that's what hegot his general tickets. Yeah, so
twenty two thousand dollars for like forhospitality for one of the suits. Yeah.
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The thing is what people don't realizeis yes, it's a lot of
money, but in f one whenyou're used to maybe to like an Oscar
suite or IndyCar suite did you cometo froma one suite is a different animal,
Like the show is bigger, thesuits are bigger, everything is bigger
and better. Question real quick,I'm sorry. One is that you know
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we have obviously Austin, we nowhave the Miami GP and coming next year
the third race Vegas. Is theUS a market that's big enough for those
three races or could it actually bringmore to the table. But if you
think about it, who would havethought Kata would succeed with it? Yeah?
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Yeah, in the beginning they didn'tand they didn't, but they have.
They sold out. They sold thatin a day too, So this
is what happens. It's like alot of people in Mexico where I go
maybe to the US and see theAustin race that is closed because to get
tickets in the Mexico race is verydifficult. So they say, oh,
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you know, we go and we'llgo shopping. That's how you know,
That's how we lived in Colombia.That's how we saw it. People.
You have people like from Palm Beachand New York. You know, people
from the North that have houses inPalm Beach and everything. They want to
come to the race, and yougot people from South America, I want
to come to the race. Thenwhen we go to Vegas, is going
to be a different crowd again.You got the locals and then you got
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people from San Francisco, La.You gotta remember a lot of the tech
companies are involved in F one,Yeah, and a lot of the US
companies are involved in AS one.So if you can bring three races to
their market is huge. And Ithink that's where I think Liberty is gone
an amazing job with it. Imean, they really understand where they need
to go, and they're growing,you know, they keep growing. They
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understand. You know, in mytime, we used to do more miles
testing than racing, Like we wouldraise on a Sunday and then Monday,
like FUSA was the thurday Friday.We're in a truck testing now. I
mean, instead of spending all thatmoney testing, you know, let's just
go and raising more places. Doyou think one, do you think that
it can actually take a fourth race? Because Pinsky is meeting with the head
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of F one, the new CEO, and that just happened, and everybody's
wondering, why is he meeting withyou know, meeting with him, and
they're being very tight lipped about it. I mean, this is a big
market and obviously there's explosive growth inthe US. Bloomberg the Investment in Investment
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publication, they came out and theysaid that it's the Americanization of F one.
Now Zach said he didn't. ZachBrown, he said that he didn't
really believe that the Americans of Fone should take place. What do you
think I agree with that? Iagree with Zac. I think there's no
but I don't think I think everyoneunderstands that they cannot go the American way
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and just do racist in America.But they understand it's an important market,
as you know, the mainstream racesin Europe. You know, they understand
that the British Grand Prix is reallyimportant, and they understand that Monaca is
really important, that Months is reallyimportant. They understand, you know,
figure out how we keep a racein Germany because you know the Mercedes,
you know what I mean. Theyreally do understand, but they understand.
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You know, by doing raised inthe US, you cover a lot of
the Americas as well, but youknow you need to expand you know what
I mean, It's like South Americaor the Caribbean doesn't have a race,
for example, and they're talking aboutit, and I think that will be
another cool place to have. Youknow, when you're raising Europe, do
you like like if you look atwhere the French Grand Prix is, there's
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the facilities, I mean, thelazy is unbelievable, but there's no hotels
nearby. There's not much like Iwas there no longer ago with my kids
testing and you go, why areif one's racing there? You know what
I mean? I understand that therace is really important than everything. But
you can hear my wife from theback, Yes we can, and she's
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going, she's gonna and she's gonnaopen the door. Yes, we're in
the middle of it. I don'tblame him, say hello, Hey,
she's no my wife, she's myfriend, my wife's friend. My wif
is here. Okay, fucker's guy. You can't do that too. It's
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one you know that, all right? So one you were talking about your
kids, Bashan talk about what he'sgoing on, because that's you know,
you talk about next generation and theseother kids that are coming up. As
a father, obviously you have someconnections and you can work him through the
systems. But you know, forthose dads out there that are trying to
do that, talk about what yourson's gone through and what he's trying to
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accomplish, and where do you thinkhe's gonna end up. He got more
talent than the old man. Um. So so let's start with all the
order. The order that you askme is why would I tell the parents?
And the first thing I would tellhim, don't spend the money in
karting as much as you're spending Ithink carting is really important, but don't
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help your kid win spending money andon't go on by the better motor,
don't go by the more things.Don't. He's got to figure out himself
and he needs to have enough equipmentthat when he's on his a day and
those everything right, he might havea shot at winning because he needs to
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learn to work for it, becausemost of the people want to win with
money, and when you win withmoney, it's gonna get to a point
in your career that your money doesn'treally matter. And when your money doesn't
really matter, you're gonna struggle.Yeah, and the other part, ah,
yeah, it's difficult, um.But you know, on the other
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side of the coin. You know, my kid. I think it's hard
because it's my kid. But atthe same time, I tell I try
to tell people and I'm i'm andit's the truth. I'm really hard on
him. You know. I've talkedto you, Robbie Bore and like,
I don't, I don't. I'mnot nice to him when we're raising I'm
I'm an you know, an asshole. I'm I call it how I see
it. And and the bloody kidis very good. It's like we run
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together and she bring and it's unbelievable. How good he is right now is
crazy. It's just he and andhe's learning to be his own self.
Critics like I looked at the qualifyingin months and he said, hey,
you did a good job and Iused crew up one corner, but other
than that, you put a hellof a lot together. And he goes,
no, I sucked. I'm like, okay, now you didn't,
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Yes, I did. I shouldhave done better. And that when you
when you do it in a constructiveway, I think it is very good
because it means that you're paying attentionto the details. And when you pay
attention to the details, you're gonnaget better and better, a lot quicker.
We're talking to one Pablo Montoye.It's Michelle Rail. I'm robbed Amiko.
This is Cooks and Cars, theRace Day Nation Edition. I appreciate
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everybody twud in getting ready for theMIAMIGP this weekend, which is going to
be a spectacular event for the worldof racing. And when we say that,
we mean that. You know,when you have the success of one
sport, it's also bringing up thesuccess of other sports as well, especially
open wheel, and we all knowIndyCar could definitely use that help right now
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because they're they're struggling a little bit. We see the crowds, but we
know that they have a good product. It's great race. So how do
you think, you know, withthis type of race in the US will
help open wheel here in America.I think the timing of this race is
great because you know, Indie Car'son track next week, and they were
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on track last week and then wegot the five hundred and two or three
weeks. I think the time peopleare paying attention and and you know,
Indie puts a hell of a showto have a hell of a product,
so you'll be exciting I'm kind ofexciting to see what they can bring this
year, and you know, I'mexcited to take part of it and and
see what happens. Well, they'regonna try. I mean, they're they're
talking about the model being more Ovals. How do you feel about more ovals
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and that being their identity because thatseems to be where they're Hensky's gravitating towards
UM, the more Ovals. Thepromise used to be like four or five
street courses, four or five roadcourses, and four or five ovals and
now it's like you got two threeovals only. So do they need to
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expand on the ovals? Absolutely,I do. I'm one hundred percent agree
with that, with that that theythey're missing out. Yeah, I mean
a championship that it's always been verycool on basic everything that you raise UM
and I think they got to doa better job, you know. I
mean they've done a great job inthe series. The series is definitely on
the up. That is great,but it's I do agree that it's missing
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ovals. Yeah, I mean,I don't know if they cannot go to
the novels or NASCAR goes or howdid that work out? You know,
I mean that's very political. I'mnot sure how it works, but I
mean, we used to go toCalifornia's fun, you know. I mean
they went to Vegas, we usedto go Homestead. There's a lot of
places, you know. I mean, I know it's I know they want
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to go to places where the promotersare excited to happen, but I think
it's important to go places where peoplewatching are excited to watch it too.
I'll switch gears a little bit.Obviously, you used to race nask are
as well. NASCAR is doing abunch of different things. They did the
Colosseum deal, They've done, youknow, some dirt racing at Bristol.
What do you think of the youknow, some people call it gimmicky or
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whatever. How do you see that? Because it is to me. I
love that the fact that now theyactually do more road racing, which is
awesome. But the problem is,I love to see at a street race.
I'm not a big dirt guy.I feel like it's a little gimmicky,
but listen, it adds to thechampionship, and they seem to pack
the stands for it. So yougot to remember that people that raise NASCAR
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came from dirt. Yeah. Allthe good old boys and all the young
guys there, they all raise dirt. So when you raise dirt all the
time, and you grew up indirt and you look at a guy like
Larson that every week and he wasraising dirt, you know, the dirt
guys and the kids, you know. I mean, it's it's a good
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way of connecting the career that youknow. It's kind of telling now you
know what was the thing they calledthe NASCAR route to the NASCAR you know
the local truck Yeah, the roots. Yeah. Yeah, it's like going
back to the local trucks. It'skind of showing people this is the way
of doing it, don't you knowif you want to come to NASCAR,
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don't don't waste your time carding godirt grating from when you're young. Hey,
real quick before we head out here. I know you're busy. You
get family in the car and you'reenjoying the weekend down here in Miami.
Uh. Some of your hobbies youstill do in the RC planes and all
that stuff. Putting together some models. Um, I love doing that.
I was doing that promise. Imoved to Europe and I have nowhere to
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do them at the moment, andI have all my plates here planes here
in the state, so I haven'tdone it. I would love to do
it again. It's just just notime at the moment. I'm sure in
a couple of years, I'm goingto be flying again. The promise it
is right now, you know,I'm running around like crazy, and you
know, I mean, it's it'shard because, you know, working really
hard to help my kid raise andeverything, and I selled my career and
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and everything. So we just nonstop and then uh, still cooking on
your big green egg. I'm waitingfor my big green egg. By the
way, I knew I was alittle afraid to answer that question. But
Yo, it's coming, you knowthat. I know, I know it's
coming. And it's perfectly because rightnow it's finally starting to warm up.
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And I'm really excited, you know. I mean, I found a place
in Italy that they sell the brisketsand they sell Wagle briskets. I'm pretty
excited about that one. Oh yes, I know you guys are passing recipes
back and forth, right. Ilove it. I'm really lucky because like
we do a lot of pizza,we used to do a lot of pizzas
(24:45):
and a friend of mine works ona restaurant, an Italian restaurant, and
the past three department was doing thedoll for us and like proper one spectacular
man. All right, what dowe what do we expect on Sunday for
this race? What do you thinkwe're gonna see here? I think you're
gonna see an amazing race. Ithink you might see some people getting a
(25:07):
run. Um, but I thinkyou're gonna see a lot of passing back
and forth because if you look atyou know, people are gonna pass you
in the back straight and then youhave one, two, three, four
or five corners for the other longstraight. So I think you might get
passed, and then two or threecorners. Letty, you can keep up,
you're gonna get a hell of arun, and you're probably gonna be
(25:29):
able to pass again. And thenif they have that third the third son
and they start finished nine, youmight even fight back again. So I
think it's cool. And as yousaid, you know this trade is so
long that if the DRS opens earlyenough, you could see you could be
passing two people like the guy withan NODRS is gonna struggle. Yeahs into
that end the question whether or notone opens and then dr and then he
(25:56):
opens the DRS and that is right. Yeah, that's exactly a shop.
And in Leclair the last time theywere complaining, I thought it was great.
Oh they always complain, you know, everybody everybody complains. You know,
we'll you know, we're racing drivers. You wouldn't complain. We're not
doing our job. Do we expectthe same as a Ferrari Red Bull kind
(26:21):
of deal? We we think McLarencould get up on that podium. I
don't think Mercedes really has much herebecause all the issues they've had this year,
but uh, is it the samekind of group that we're looking at.
It'd be interesting to see with thelow down force if Mercedes can lower
the car and get away from thepurposing by taking a lot lower downforce approach,
(26:41):
and if they do come I cometo life. Yeah, you know,
I mean, it'd be interesting tosee because if you have less purposing
year, then no one with thelower era package, in a lower downforce
package in my in might come tolife. Some cars that you go,
what, But I would assume thatthe Ferrari and the Red Bull are going
to be upfront for sure. Yeah, and and real quick with the andready
(27:03):
thing going on with f one puttinghis U you know, putting them on
notice. I got the money.We're ready to go. You think having
the three US gps in the Stateswith another American team if we can.
You know, we got Hoss obviously, but listen, beat team with Ferrari
all that stuff. It's great,but we'd like to have a competing team
(27:26):
here in the US that can goagainst the conglomerates of Red Bull and Ferrari
and things like that. I thinkit's possible. I think has done a
great job, and I think howhis approach was the right one to start
the team. I mean, throughthe years he might get better. I
might find an engine deal through theyears. But if you don't, yeah,
I mean, if you'll probably lookat what ANDRETTI was thinking. It
(27:49):
would be probably like a rental engineor something. So he would have been
in the same picture of a houseor somebody else. I'm not sure.
But it's not easy, you know. I mean it's not easy, and
I'm not sure it will happen,you know, from where you here.
At least the rumor wise is thatthey kind of turn him away, so
I don't know. I'll see allright one Pablo Montoy alive from the Miami
(28:11):
GP this weekend. Uh. Youknow, a champion driver, you've won
Monaco, the Indie five hundred,you name a race you've been there.
It's one of those races. Ithink it was Lamar that you're trying to
get for that triple crown. Youever gonna make it back to the track
and try to get that win.But we won last year in class.
(28:32):
I mean, it's kind of funnybecause in the class we run, we
had nine cars and the class foroverall had three cards or four cars.
So yeah, it's kind of crazy, you know what I mean. It
is very political and everything, butyou know, I was happy to get
the Laman win in class and it'sfriended, you know. I mean,
if you ask me, it's verysimple. If you ask anybody, if
I want the mom I actually did, whether you like it or that's right,
(28:57):
all right, man, we appreciate. Yeah, I seriously, I'm
honored for you to come on theshow during this special weekend. I thought
you were gonna say, I'm suregetting your egg. Don't worry about it,
you know, Hey, I'll getthe text. You know that one
will be like, damn, Robget to I will. I did him
(29:21):
like three or four weeks before Igo back to Europe. So okay,
so we'll handle that off air.But yes, thank you very much.
I appreciate it. You get mein trouble. Thank you guys. All
right, man, we'll see you, thank you, all right. Man
wa Pablo Montoya so glad he couldcome on with us. Man, very
cool. He's such a down toearth guy. And I think you even
(29:42):
said to me one time that youknow, everybody you've talked to that's dealt
with one on a team or youknow, anywhere in a garage, and
it's just a nice guy. Hejust he's down to earth. He's one
of us. He's just like everybodyelse. And you know he puts his
pants on the same way we do. Right, it's just stet just tell
of a lot faster. Yes,exactly, like a fireman. I love
(30:07):
how his family started getting in thecar. He's like, hey, come
on, let's go. We gottago. All right, us asked him,
was your friend in the back seatmarried? Yeah, she's single,
all right. For Michelle Rayhall,I'm Rob Demiko, Thank you so much
for watching today. We do appreciate, don't forget. You can follow us
(30:29):
on our website raced Nation dot com, Cooksoncars dot com. You can follow
me at Rob Demico R O BD A m cl Michelle. You can
find me on Facebook just Michelle mI c h E L E Ray Hall
r A h a L. Nottoo many of us on Facebook with that
name. And you can find meon Instagram at Michelle Rayhall m I c
(30:51):
h E l E R A ha L. The number nine where that
came from? Still don't know.Nonetheless, that's where you can find I
think I knew where the nine camefrom. So I was in the post
office the other day and I sawthe ten most wanted. You were number
nine on that, and I wantto be number one. I mean the
hell of number nine? Yeah?Like I don't like odd numbers, Rob,
(31:14):
I like even numbers. You knowthey'd have chosen eight. I'ld have
going, okay, well that wasone of the numbers on my race cars.
I could handle that or ten orsomething like that. I have no
idea. You get nine and youlike it, you got it all.
I've got no choice. All right. Berg isn't gonna allow anything out of
the ordinary. That's right. It'sall right for Michelle Rayhall, I'm robbed,
(31:37):
Amiko, thank you so much forwatching. I hope you enjoyed this
weekend for the Miami GP
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