November 7, 2025 • 31 mins
A 15-year-old American podiums in France, trains on a historic family kart track, and preps a KZ shifter for SuperNats—this conversation with Truly Adams puts you trackside with a teen who’s chasing F1 the hard way: one tenth at a time. We dive into how karting sharpens the instincts that matter—trail braking, rotation, race starts, and battling through 60-kart grids where the top 30 can be separated by a single tenth. He shares how he balances homeschooling, constant travel, and year-round testing while keeping the physical and mental edge to jump between karts and formula cars.
We unpack the ladder from French F4 to F3, F2, and ultimately F1, highlighting why an academy series with spec cars levels the field and spotlights driver skill. Truly explains differences between spec and open setup environments, how tire management and car feedback decide outcomes, and why selection to the Feed Racing finals was a crucial step. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to hit 93 mph an inch off the ground, or how temporary SuperNats circuits change strategy, this is the inside line.
Beyond the interview, we hit key motorsport beats: Formula One’s late-season stops, NASCAR championship weekend, and NHRA in Las Vegas. We add perspective with quick auto history snapshots—from friction-drive transmissions that paved the way for CVTs to the first Honda cars built in the U.S.—and check current industry headlines, including shifts in EV production. It’s a fast, informative ride for fans who love the craft, the calendar, and the deeper stories behind the stopwatch.
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SPEAKER_05 (00:00):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
(00:07):
This is your place for allthings automotive, the
award-winning In-Wheel Time CarTalk Show.
Just ahead, a 15-year-old podiumfinisher.
What?
In the F4 finals in France.
Mars has this week in autohistory.
Jeff has the racing calendar,and I'll get you caught up on
the stories making automotivenews headlines.
(00:28):
Howdy, along with Mike Out ofThis World, Mars.
We always need more Jeff Zeken.
Chief Engineer David Ainsley,I'm Don Armstrong.
Glad that you could join us andglad that we could be found on
the internet and around theglobe.
SPEAKER_04 (00:44):
Or just down the street.
SPEAKER_05 (00:45):
Yeah.
Where's that?
You know, we had we've had uhsome technical issues uh this
morning.
We were all pumped up thinkingwe're gonna be ready to go this
morning.
Good to go.
And guess what?
We went all right.
SPEAKER_04 (00:58):
The power went out chatting, down at one side of
the room, I'm at the desk doingit.
And everything goes dark, doingall my greatness, and the
everything just lights went out,everything was scary.
SPEAKER_05 (01:10):
And now I've got a refrigerator over there that
says power outage.
And I'm going, okay, so how doyou reset that?
Beep.
SPEAKER_03 (01:19):
Yeah, it keeps beeping.
Yeah.
Computer, so hopefully unplugand replug.
SPEAKER_05 (01:23):
Yeah, well, it it is a refrigerator, so you just
don't do that very easilybecause you gotta roll it out
and do all this other becausehis refrigerator is running.
It is.
Did you ever catch it call callthe grocery store?
SPEAKER_03 (01:34):
No.
SPEAKER_02 (01:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (01:36):
Did you do that, Mars?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You got Prince Albert in thecan?
Yeah.
Well, you better let him out.
SPEAKER_05 (01:41):
Yeah, because he might suffocate.
SPEAKER_04 (01:42):
Well, there's one thing we did do and then hang up
at uh where we'd be at Kathy'shouse, and around she a couple
of two like three houses off acorner, and on the corner around
around the corner was apizzeria.
And her Kathy's phone number wasone number off from the
pizzeria.
So they would call, miss thenumber, I would answer the
(02:03):
phone, and I would take theirpizza order.
When they'd show up over therebecause we would use the pizza
place too.
I have the menu, I'd all that inyou know, 45 minutes.
That's great.
So they'd show up and there's nopizza.
Pretty much.
Those were the those were thegood old days.
Beat your Prince Albert in acan.
SPEAKER_03 (02:21):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:23):
Mars.
Yeah, refrigerator running.
SPEAKER_03 (02:25):
Let's go to California.
SPEAKER_04 (02:27):
Okay, let's do it.
SPEAKER_05 (02:29):
Okay, go ahead.
There he is.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, trulyAdams, a 15-year-old racing
phenom, live from Riverside,California.
Are you are you do you live inRiverside?
SPEAKER_00 (02:45):
I live in Merino Valley.
SPEAKER_05 (02:46):
Merino Valley.
Okay.
Did you no?
You you're not old enough tohave ever gone to Riverside.
You've heard of Riverside, I'msure.
SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
No, I actually own we own a track in Riverside
called Adams Moswers Park, whichI'm actually at right now.
SPEAKER_05 (03:01):
Oh, really?
There's they still have a trackin Riverside.
SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
Yes.
It's been here for 65 years.
SPEAKER_05 (03:08):
Oh my god.
Was it a competitor to theRiverside racetrack that NASCAR
and all ran on back in the day?
It's a I understand it's aneighborhood now.
SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Yeah, but no, not really.
It's it's more of a go-kartingtrack, so where we all see
before you start going intoNASCAR and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_05 (03:27):
Gotcha.
Are you really 15 years old?
SPEAKER_00 (03:31):
Yes, I am really 15 years old.
SPEAKER_03 (03:34):
Now that Grin looks fifteen, but he doesn't sound
fifteen and he doesn't look it.
SPEAKER_05 (03:39):
No, and he doesn't act it either.
That's why I asked.
How old are you, Mike?
Yeah.
Yeah, don't ask.
Yeah, well, Mars is really old,so we don't have to worry about
that.
So you you're at the track rightnow?
SPEAKER_00 (03:51):
Yes, I am.
SPEAKER_05 (03:53):
What do you got on the agenda today?
SPEAKER_00 (03:56):
Today's agenda, we were we were testing for
Supernats, which is the biggestrace of the year.
So that's in two weeks.
So I'll be driving a little bittoday and uh just hanging out.
SPEAKER_05 (04:08):
And what will you be driving?
SPEAKER_00 (04:09):
I'll be driving a KZ cart, which is the fastest in a
fastest fastest motor in ago-kart.
So is it a shifter?
SPEAKER_05 (04:18):
Is it a shifter cart?
SPEAKER_00 (04:20):
Yeah, it's a it's a pro class.
SPEAKER_05 (04:22):
Pro class, yeah.
So pro class, all of them haveshifters.
SPEAKER_00 (04:27):
Yeah, pro class is either shifters or a cart named
X30, so it's it's a direct driveand in and it's clutch driven,
so it's more of a it's easierthan I'd say easier than a
shifter, but it's it's almostlike an automatic then.
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_03 (04:46):
Yes, how fast are we talking here?
SPEAKER_00 (04:49):
I've hit around 92 to 93 miles per hour.
SPEAKER_05 (04:54):
And this and this is like a road course?
SPEAKER_00 (04:56):
Yeah, it's it's a road course, probably around
half a mile or a little bitmore.
SPEAKER_05 (05:02):
How many turns?
SPEAKER_00 (05:05):
It can range probably like 14, I think.
14 or 15.
SPEAKER_05 (05:10):
So you really have to be on your game to do this,
and your butt sitting what, aninch off the ground?
SPEAKER_00 (05:15):
Probably less.
SPEAKER_05 (05:17):
Less.
Yeah.
Um, I I am absolutelyfascinated.
And um, you know, I I waslooking at uh your all of the
information on you, and I'mgoing, this guy is really,
really impressive.
He can't be 15, he's done toomuch.
(05:37):
Yeah, exactly.
So who is it that is behind isit your dad or your mom?
Who is it that supports you inall of these efforts?
Because let me tell yousomething.
As uh a volleyball parent, wespent a fortune on club
volleyball.
I can only imagine the expensethat goes into your upbringing,
(06:01):
sir.
SPEAKER_00 (06:02):
Yeah, it's a little bit different than that.
SPEAKER_05 (06:04):
Yeah, to say the least.
SPEAKER_00 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah.
It's it's my mom helps a lot.
My my dad does too.
He's a pretty good coachsometimes, so sometimes he knows
you what he's talking about.
We'll see in the future.
SPEAKER_03 (06:17):
But most parents are that way.
SPEAKER_00 (06:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (06:20):
All right, so how what propelled you to get into
this sport?
SPEAKER_00 (06:26):
More of that I wasn't good at any other sport,
and this is kind of my my futureas where I've been racing for
now 11 years, and it's it'ssomething that I love to do.
SPEAKER_05 (06:40):
So you started when you were four.
SPEAKER_00 (06:43):
Yes.
SPEAKER_05 (06:45):
And what what was it that you drove at four years
old?
SPEAKER_00 (06:50):
Well, at four years old, I started racing kick
carts, and and it was it's beena journey since there.
SPEAKER_05 (06:59):
Look, there you go.
Tilt it down just a little tiltit down.
No, no, tilt it down forward.
Yeah, the helmet's as big as heis.
It's bigger than he is.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a cool picture.
Yeah, it is.
So, where are you in school at15?
You in middle school?
SPEAKER_00 (07:17):
No, I just went to high school, so it's it's a
pretty different type ofexperience.
I'm I'm all homeschooled, sothat's the only fun part, I
guess, about the school rightnow.
SPEAKER_05 (07:28):
So So and so it gives them an advantage.
Is there a grade level that youare?
I'm ninth grade.
SPEAKER_03 (07:37):
Ninth grade, okay.
Yeah.
So you would be entering highschool, you know, here locally.
SPEAKER_04 (07:42):
Yeah, nevertheless, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (07:43):
But to me, I I can see some advantages to that in
your profession because it givesyou a little more flexibility,
but you never get away from it.
Because if you go to France torace, then your teacher come
with you?
SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
Uh I have an online teacher, so Oh.
SPEAKER_03 (07:57):
It's not your parents.
I thought your parents weremight be doing it, and I thought
you'd never get away fromschool.
SPEAKER_00 (08:03):
No, no.
Is I have an online teacher, butshe kind of travels everywhere
with me.
You know, my I bring my computerso she can uh experience the the
where you're at.
SPEAKER_05 (08:13):
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
SPEAKER_00 (08:16):
Exactly.
SPEAKER_05 (08:17):
Yeah.
Um, so you're based out there inCalifornia, and um how often do
you travel?
Every weekend during racingseason?
SPEAKER_00 (08:26):
During racing season.
Well, really, racing seasonnever ends.
So we're always traveling allall year.
So we're testing, yeah.
Yeah.
So like next week I might betesting a car, and then the week
after that I'm racing a go-kart.
So it's every everything iswe're all out all the time.
So either if we're in France orwe're in Texas, or back at home
(08:49):
racing.
SPEAKER_04 (08:50):
So Wow.
So you're doing the F4 series.
You're going to get in the F4series.
SPEAKER_00 (08:55):
Yes, we're trying to get in the F French F4 series,
so we'll see.
We'll hear about that in thenext couple weeks.
SPEAKER_05 (09:01):
Alright, well, explain that to me because I I'm
not familiar with it.
Cars or is it carts?
SPEAKER_00 (09:09):
French F4 is just moving into the opening of cars.
So it's like the entry level tothe road of Formula One.
So you have F4, then F3, thenF2, then F1.
So it's kind of the open level,and every kind of every country
has it.
(09:30):
So you have Italian F4, French,European, so you have a lot of
different kind of series thatthat you can run, but any series
you want to run, you always wantto win in.
SPEAKER_04 (09:41):
Now you say the different series are the cars
the same and all the now.
Obviously, the French F4, is ita different car than the uh
European F4 versus German F4?
I mean, are is the car the same,but it's just different location
locations?
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
So how it works is there's one company that makes
all the cars, which is Alcatus.
And some of them are kind ofdifferent, where it's either
it's French F4, let's say it'smade by it's made by the same
company but have different partson them.
So it's kind of regulatedtowards the series.
(10:20):
French F4 is an academy, so theydon't let a lot of drivers into
it.
So it's more of a like aregulated base where it's all
stock and they don't changeanything.
And then some series where theyhave what what I call an open
setup, so the driver can changethings on the car to where he
what he feels.
SPEAKER_05 (10:39):
You ever been to an F1 race?
SPEAKER_00 (10:42):
No, I have not, and I've been trying to go for a
long time now.
SPEAKER_04 (10:45):
Yeah, we just had one here at Coda.
Circuit of the America was justhere a few weeks ago.
SPEAKER_05 (10:49):
Yeah, and if you ever get an opportunity to visit
Texas, you must, you must go toCircuit of the Americas.
Um, I have uh just a regularplane Corvette, and I went to a
Corvette event one time where wegot to ride, actually drive our
car Corvettes on the roadcourse.
It is truly phenomenal.
(11:10):
With elevation changes, all ofthe turns, you'll have to look
it up and you'll go, wow, yeah,I definitely want to race this.
SPEAKER_04 (11:17):
Let me ask you this you're one of six drivers that
was selected from uh a wholebunch of folks, like 62 or 65,
65 drivers.
You you're you're one of sixselected.
SPEAKER_00 (11:27):
Yeah, I was one of the six selected to to run it
and run up front, which is kindof very, very cool to be up
front and to be the onlyAmerican to ever get third or
actually ever get into thefinals of feed racing.
So that's a it's a pretty coolthing that I've been able to
accomplish.
(11:48):
And I just I'm so grateful thatI could uh be a part of that
legacy.
SPEAKER_04 (11:54):
That's awesome.
What's your driving style like?
Are you uh are you did do you doyou push the limits, you put
them in the fence, uh rubbin'sracing?
How do you do that?
SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
Uh I'm more of a rubbin's racing kind of guy.
Yeah, that there you go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Use the whole track.
Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER_05 (12:10):
How tall are you?
How much do you weigh?
SPEAKER_00 (12:12):
I'm about six foot and I weigh 170.
SPEAKER_04 (12:16):
What's your girlfriend's name?
SPEAKER_00 (12:18):
I don't got one.
Oh.
Don't got time.
SPEAKER_05 (12:21):
You don't have time for one yet.
Yeah, because they'll all comerunning up to you going, hi.
Go after the babes on thepodium.
That's what you want.
That's the one that you want.
Mike knows.
Yeah, Mike knows.
Mike doesn't know.
No, Mike, Mike, Mike watched alot.
He watched a lot.
That's that's what it was.
Yeah.
Uh all right.
(12:42):
So what did you say that yournext event is gonna is it gonna
be there in California?
SPEAKER_00 (12:47):
No, my next event is gonna be in Nevada in Las Vegas.
So it's called Super NATS, andit's the biggest, one of the
biggest car races in the world.
So it's it's a big race, andthere's a lot of drivers either
from Europe or all over theworld come and race.
SPEAKER_05 (13:04):
Now, is is it a is it a track built for go-karts?
SPEAKER_00 (13:08):
No, it's actually a parking lot.
SPEAKER_05 (13:10):
Oh, okay.
Seriously.
Big parking lot.
SPEAKER_00 (13:13):
Yeah.
Yep.
SPEAKER_05 (13:15):
I know that there is a facility out in Perump,
Nevada, that uh I had theopportunity to go to out there
uh for uh it was uh alpha, itwas an alpha event, and they
took all these alphas out thereand um had it was a great time,
but that track was as flat as aboard, and you had to really
(13:37):
perfect your driving skills withthis car.
It was a souped up alpha, but itwasn't really about all of that,
it was about driving skills andhow you get around the corners.
And I I know that from watchinggo-karting, I I you know did the
rental thing for a number ofyears before my back went out,
(13:58):
but um I know that doing that,it's all about entering turns,
getting out of turns, and thenyou put in a bunch of other
carts next to you and all aroundyou, even if you're at the lead,
you wind up getting to the backend of the front pack.
And uh it's it's driving skillsand it's also how you handle the
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cart itself, and obviouslyyou're very good at it.
SPEAKER_00 (14:25):
Yeah, it's it's crazy how you can have 60 to 70
drivers on one track, and we'reall battling for the same thing,
and most of the time we'reeither one tenth off of each
other in the top 30, and thentwo tenths off of each other in
the top 70.
SPEAKER_04 (14:41):
One tenth.
Let me ask you that are all thedrivers that when you rate are
they all the same age or withinyou know a few years of you, or
are there older folks that areare driving as well?
SPEAKER_00 (14:51):
There's a couple my age, and then there's a couple
in their twenties, and and so itit ranges.
Gotcha.
For me, I'm a little young.
I've 15, which you shouldprobably enter that class at
probably 16.
So I'm I'm a little young forthis class, but it's because I'm
a little taller than everyoneelse.
So it's a kind of kind of worksout.
SPEAKER_05 (15:14):
You're one of those ringers on the baseball team.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, look at it, look at littleJohnny over there.
Oh, he's only five foot five,and here comes here comes truly
six foot tall and smacks thatball all the way out of the
parking lot out there out centerfield.
SPEAKER_04 (15:31):
That's good.
SPEAKER_03 (15:32):
So obviously all these guys are about the same uh
caliber as you since y'all allpack up that tight.
I mean, that's gotta be kind ofuh even a little more pressure
on you, knowing these guys weregood too.
SPEAKER_00 (15:44):
Yeah, it's it's crazy how all these guys have
been racing since they've beenkids, and we all kind of grow up
to become the best we can be.
And all all of these drivers Ihave tons of respect for because
it's it's hard to do what theydo at at such a high level, and
(16:04):
at this point in this cardingcareer that I've had, it's it's
been really cool.
I've made a lot of coolrelationships, and all these
guys are just much better thanyou.
You'd think if they went into acar and they didn't have enough
money to to be on a top team, Istill think they could go win
races.
SPEAKER_05 (16:23):
Very good.
Very good.
Well, uh so Go ahead, Mike.
SPEAKER_03 (16:27):
Yeah, so so you're basically in in a a feeder
system up to get up to F1.
Have you looked at NASCAR oranything else, or are you just
really focused on that?
On the open wheel?
SPEAKER_00 (16:37):
I've done I've driven a a legend car, I've done
oval stuff.
I'm not great at oval.
I do not turn like turning leftand and turn right at the same
time, so that's not really mything.
Uh it's not that I wouldn't tryit, it's more of a I'm not that
great in it.
And I like great.
SPEAKER_05 (16:56):
But you haven't had a lot of experience in it
either.
I was don't imagine that, youknow.
Listen, if you're a race cardriver, you're ready to race and
drive anything in my book,anyway.
SPEAKER_04 (17:06):
Yeah, and if and if if you see something in your
career down the line, you couldbe you could be a a team
principal, you could, you know,get into the engineering aspect.
So they you your doors are wideopen.
SPEAKER_00 (17:16):
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm into doing anything.
Anything I can win in, I say.
SPEAKER_05 (17:21):
So yeah, you've got it's the same kind of thing when
you get into pro sports of anykind, there is a certain drive
that to be competitive inwhatever it is that you choose,
you've got to be very good, veryfocused, and you gotta have a
little attitude.
And we know we're athletic.
SPEAKER_03 (17:41):
Oh yeah, we're athletic.
You can tell by looking at us.
SPEAKER_05 (17:45):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Well, listen, man, it is a realpleasure uh to talk to you.
Uh, where can where can we goonline to find out more about
you and follow you?
SPEAKER_00 (17:55):
So you can go on truly underscore the truth on
Instagram, which is Trulyunderscore the truth.
SPEAKER_05 (18:01):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (18:01):
Yes.
SPEAKER_05 (18:02):
Okay.
And uh you post lots of stuff onthere, and you have a lot of uh
supporters?
SPEAKER_00 (18:08):
Yeah, I've I think I have about right now 10,000
followers.
SPEAKER_05 (18:12):
Nice.
Nice on Instagram?
Yeah, sit send us a couple ofthem, will you?
Yeah, we could we'll borrow themfor a couple of days.
Yeah, and if nothing else, Imean you could say, hey, we were
on that award-winning in-wheeltime car talk show out of
Houston.
You could do that.
SPEAKER_04 (18:27):
I'll do that.
And then they'll unfriend you.
Yeah, then they'll unfriend you.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (18:32):
Yeah, just only tell your close friend.
Yeah.
Truly Adams, it's uh it's a truepleasure to uh be with you this
morning.
Thank you very much for joiningus.
It's Saturday morning.
Get to it, my friend.
You got lots to do today.
SPEAKER_00 (18:44):
Yes, thank you.
SPEAKER_05 (18:45):
We'd love to talk to you again and kind of keep up
with your career.
Yeah, we definitely will.
Yeah, be in touch with us.
Uh let us know how things aregoing.
Truly Adams, our guest thismorning.
Very nice from uh Riverside,France.
France, no?
Riverside, California.
SPEAKER_04 (18:59):
There you go.
SPEAKER_05 (19:00):
Uh Magni Cours, France.
Very good.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (19:05):
That's where the races are, you know.
SPEAKER_05 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, whatever the case may be,it doesn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_04 (19:09):
And if he needs help with French, uh I I know a
retired French teacher.
So uh my son-in-law's mother.
SPEAKER_05 (19:19):
Yeah, there you go.
Whatever.
Never mind.
Thank you, Truly.
Yeah, thank you very much.
We appreciate you.
Okay.
Uh, just ahead.
Jeff has the racing calendar.
Mars has this week in autohistory, and I'll bring you some
of the stories making automotivenews headlines.
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the folks who make freedompossible.
Bastrophone Heroes and Hot Rodsis rolling in for Veterans Day
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Friday night, downtown cruise.
Saturday, 400 of the coolestrides in Texas.
Proceeds help veterans,shelters, food pantries, and
(20:57):
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Sponsored by Craig's Jewelry,November 7th and 8th, Main
Street, Bastard.
Don't miss it.
SPEAKER_04 (21:07):
That's the best part at the very end.
We just can keep playing thatcommercial all the rest of the
year.
SPEAKER_05 (21:12):
Yeah, we just have to edit edit the data.
SPEAKER_04 (21:14):
Yeah.
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We'll do that.
Okay.
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SPEAKER_04 (21:46):
Since we're talking about F4, Formula Four, we're
going to go with starting outwith Formula One.
The San Paolo Grand Prix, it isthe 9th, 11 a.m.
Central Standard Time.
This one is going to bebroadcast.
It's going to be at theAutodrome Jose Carlos Pace in
San Paulo.
It's a 71 Lapper.
And there's only two more racesin the world.
SPEAKER_05 (22:05):
Yeah, Jose Cuerbo is a friend of mine.
SPEAKER_04 (22:07):
Yeah, and the uh the uh clear and also the dark.
I I like the reposado.
Yep, yeah.
But there's only two more raceson the Formula One.
Uh Craftsman Truck Serieschampion was crowned last week,
and I didn't write down who won.
Uh, but you got Xfinity.
There's the car that was leftover from the race right there.
Do you see it?
That's the truck.
SPEAKER_03 (22:25):
The last place finisher.
SPEAKER_04 (22:26):
They were.
They were at Martinsville.
I think it was Martinsville.
There was a lot of racks.
Oh, finishing overtime, Ibelieve.
Nevertheless, uh November 1st,uh, which is today, the Xfinity
series is in Phoenix.
That is tonight on the CW localchannel.
And then tomorrow you've got theother NASCAR boys, the big boys
in Phoenix at 3 p.m.
on NBC.
Wait a minute.
What?
SPEAKER_05 (22:46):
It's the Alabama game tonight.
LSU in Alabama at Bryant DennyStadium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
This is in Phoenix.
SPEAKER_04 (22:53):
Roll tie.
Well, okay.
Okay.
That's that's okay.
I ain't watching that.
Calm down.
Uh, but you can watch tomorrow,so it's out of three o'clock in
NBC.
And then you got drag racingthis weekend, October 30th
through the second, which istomorrow, NHRA Nevada Nationals,
the strip at Las Vegas MotorSpeedway.
So there you go.
SPEAKER_05 (23:10):
Uh it's always a big deal because it's Halloween
weekend, and then uh the SEMAshow opens tomorrow.
SPEAKER_04 (23:18):
Years ago, when the Houston Houston race was going
on, the next race after wasVegas.
And uh I was flying out withATD, we're going to an event,
and of course the race had endedwith this Monday travels, and uh
Bernstein was in the same uhloading area of the plane and in
the same area there, and theywere throwing dice in the corner
(23:39):
of the airport, him and hiscrew.
And I was talking to him and Isaid, How much to get in the
game?
He goes, It's not what you getin, it's how you get out.
That's it.
Yep.
Um racing.
Awesome people.
Uh November 28th is the openingfor the Iditarod, Mike, in case
you're interested.
I got it noted.
SPEAKER_05 (23:58):
Dash hound races are coming up and everything.
Absolutely.
Well, we need we don't want tomiss those dash hound races.
Uh speaking of which, time nowfor Mr.
Mars this week in auto history.
SPEAKER_03 (24:09):
You got it queued up there, Mike?
Yes, sir.
Got a few things that we foundthat we thought were pretty
interesting this week in autohistory.
SPEAKER_01 (24:16):
All right.
SPEAKER_03 (24:17):
Uh, starting with this week in 1909, General
Motors acquired the Carter CarCompany.
Now, what's significant aboutthis, um, they were in Michigan,
and but they were experimentingwith the friction drive
transmission.
So they took and replaced thegears with a variable friction
disk drive for smooth gearlessoperation.
Know what that sounds like, eh?
(24:38):
So they marketed it as a car ofa thousand speeds, which is
basically a precursor to theCVTs.
So William Durant with GM boughtit up, going to use it, and
wanted access to all thepatents.
And but then by 1915 the car wasgone and GM kept all the patents
on it.
Moving on into 1954, the lastreal Hudson automobile rolled
(25:00):
off this image line.
Now it had been a symbol ofinnovation and performance, and
and it had it step down, whatthey call their step-down design
in 1948 because it lowered thecar, uh, made it easier to get
in and out for one thing, but italso improved the um center of
gravity for improved handling.
So they became uh excellent inNASCAR during the 1950s until
(25:21):
they merged with Nash Calvinatorin 1954 to take uh their
washing.
SPEAKER_04 (25:27):
They did.
SPEAKER_03 (25:28):
And uh they be that but that's how they got to
become the American MotorsCorporation.
So that's where it came from,from Hudson.
Looks like a lead sled almostthat the roof is.
Almost.
SPEAKER_04 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah.
And yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (25:40):
Then uh 1957.
SPEAKER_05 (25:43):
I don't know.
Do what?
Never mind.
SPEAKER_03 (25:47):
Okay.
So 1957 the Chevrolet Impala wasintroduced as the top trim of
the Bel Air.
I did not realize that it was aa a trim level when it first
came out with this the tail finsand all the chrome and
everything.
And it had the optional 283 thatyou could get in it for the V8,
and it became a model of itsown, and uh all kinds of
(26:09):
Impala's grew up until I had onein 1965 even that I really loved
and wish I still had, but uhdidn't work out.
SPEAKER_05 (26:16):
Holler and a shot collar.
SPEAKER_03 (26:18):
I'm telling you, I was holler too, up and down the
drag.
So then in 1970, the ToyotaSilica made its debut at the
17th Tokyo Motor Show MotorShow.
Now, this was definitelytargeting younger buyers, and I
remember when it came out,everybody was, oh, here's a
little Corolla hot rod, is whatit amounted to, because it had
(26:38):
rear-wheel drive, a 1.6-literfour-cylinder engine, and it was
basically trying to tap into thepony car market at the time.
And it gave Toyota theirperformance reputation, and uh
it was a really big success forthem over the years.
In fact, when they quit makingit, then they brought it back
here a few years ago.
Then in 1982, it's verysignificant because the Honda
(27:02):
Manufacturing Honda MotorCompany became the Honda of
America manufacturing with aplant in Marysville, Ohio.
They started building the HondaCord inside the United States.
Now, this is the first step inthe Japanese automakers actually
becoming part of the U.S.
automotive industry.
I mean, they were importingbefore, but now they're actually
(27:22):
building cars here.
And uh, of course, their dealwas uh, you know, efficiency,
quality, and you know, Honda inparticular was known for being a
very reliable vehicle.
And uh so that was just a fewthings that we saw this week in
automotive history.
Perfect.
SPEAKER_05 (27:37):
All right, well, thank you very much.
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SPEAKER_04 (00:44):
Or just down the street.
SPEAKER_05 (00:45):
Yeah.
Where's that?
You know, we had we've had uhsome technical issues uh this
morning.
We were all pumped up thinkingwe're gonna be ready to go this
morning.
Good to go.
And guess what?
We went all right.
SPEAKER_04 (00:58):
The power went out chatting, down at one side of
the room, I'm at the desk doingit.
And everything goes dark, doingall my greatness, and the
everything just lights went out,everything was scary.
SPEAKER_05 (01:10):
And now I've got a refrigerator over there that
says power outage.
And I'm going, okay, so how doyou reset that?
Beep.
SPEAKER_03 (01:19):
Yeah, it keeps beeping.
Yeah.
Computer, so hopefully unplugand replug.
SPEAKER_05 (01:23):
Yeah, well, it it is a refrigerator, so you just
don't do that very easilybecause you gotta roll it out
and do all this other becausehis refrigerator is running.
It is.
Did you ever catch it call callthe grocery store?
SPEAKER_03 (01:34):
No.
SPEAKER_02 (01:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (01:36):
Did you do that, Mars?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You got Prince Albert in thecan?
Yeah.
Well, you better let him out.
SPEAKER_05 (01:41):
Yeah, because he might suffocate.
SPEAKER_04 (01:42):
Well, there's one thing we did do and then hang up
at uh where we'd be at Kathy'shouse, and around she a couple
of two like three houses off acorner, and on the corner around
around the corner was apizzeria.
And her Kathy's phone number wasone number off from the
pizzeria.
So they would call, miss thenumber, I would answer the
(02:03):
phone, and I would take theirpizza order.
When they'd show up over therebecause we would use the pizza
place too.
I have the menu, I'd all that inyou know, 45 minutes.
That's great.
So they'd show up and there's nopizza.
Pretty much.
Those were the those were thegood old days.
Beat your Prince Albert in acan.
SPEAKER_03 (02:21):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:23):
Mars.
Yeah, refrigerator running.
SPEAKER_03 (02:25):
Let's go to California.
SPEAKER_04 (02:27):
Okay, let's do it.
SPEAKER_05 (02:29):
Okay, go ahead.
There he is.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, trulyAdams, a 15-year-old racing
phenom, live from Riverside,California.
Are you are you do you live inRiverside?
SPEAKER_00 (02:45):
I live in Merino Valley.
SPEAKER_05 (02:46):
Merino Valley.
Okay.
Did you no?
You you're not old enough tohave ever gone to Riverside.
You've heard of Riverside, I'msure.
SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
No, I actually own we own a track in Riverside
called Adams Moswers Park, whichI'm actually at right now.
SPEAKER_05 (03:01):
Oh, really?
There's they still have a trackin Riverside.
SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
Yes.
It's been here for 65 years.
SPEAKER_05 (03:08):
Oh my god.
Was it a competitor to theRiverside racetrack that NASCAR
and all ran on back in the day?
It's a I understand it's aneighborhood now.
SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Yeah, but no, not really.
It's it's more of a go-kartingtrack, so where we all see
before you start going intoNASCAR and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_05 (03:27):
Gotcha.
Are you really 15 years old?
SPEAKER_00 (03:31):
Yes, I am really 15 years old.
SPEAKER_03 (03:34):
Now that Grin looks fifteen, but he doesn't sound
fifteen and he doesn't look it.
SPEAKER_05 (03:39):
No, and he doesn't act it either.
That's why I asked.
How old are you, Mike?
Yeah.
Yeah, don't ask.
Yeah, well, Mars is really old,so we don't have to worry about
that.
So you you're at the track rightnow?
SPEAKER_00 (03:51):
Yes, I am.
SPEAKER_05 (03:53):
What do you got on the agenda today?
SPEAKER_00 (03:56):
Today's agenda, we were we were testing for
Supernats, which is the biggestrace of the year.
So that's in two weeks.
So I'll be driving a little bittoday and uh just hanging out.
SPEAKER_05 (04:08):
And what will you be driving?
SPEAKER_00 (04:09):
I'll be driving a KZ cart, which is the fastest in a
fastest fastest motor in ago-kart.
So is it a shifter?
SPEAKER_05 (04:18):
Is it a shifter cart?
SPEAKER_00 (04:20):
Yeah, it's a it's a pro class.
SPEAKER_05 (04:22):
Pro class, yeah.
So pro class, all of them haveshifters.
SPEAKER_00 (04:27):
Yeah, pro class is either shifters or a cart named
X30, so it's it's a direct driveand in and it's clutch driven,
so it's more of a it's easierthan I'd say easier than a
shifter, but it's it's almostlike an automatic then.
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_03 (04:46):
Yes, how fast are we talking here?
SPEAKER_00 (04:49):
I've hit around 92 to 93 miles per hour.
SPEAKER_05 (04:54):
And this and this is like a road course?
SPEAKER_00 (04:56):
Yeah, it's it's a road course, probably around
half a mile or a little bitmore.
SPEAKER_05 (05:02):
How many turns?
SPEAKER_00 (05:05):
It can range probably like 14, I think.
14 or 15.
SPEAKER_05 (05:10):
So you really have to be on your game to do this,
and your butt sitting what, aninch off the ground?
SPEAKER_00 (05:15):
Probably less.
SPEAKER_05 (05:17):
Less.
Yeah.
Um, I I am absolutelyfascinated.
And um, you know, I I waslooking at uh your all of the
information on you, and I'mgoing, this guy is really,
really impressive.
He can't be 15, he's done toomuch.
(05:37):
Yeah, exactly.
So who is it that is behind isit your dad or your mom?
Who is it that supports you inall of these efforts?
Because let me tell yousomething.
As uh a volleyball parent, wespent a fortune on club
volleyball.
I can only imagine the expensethat goes into your upbringing,
(06:01):
sir.
SPEAKER_00 (06:02):
Yeah, it's a little bit different than that.
SPEAKER_05 (06:04):
Yeah, to say the least.
SPEAKER_00 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah.
It's it's my mom helps a lot.
My my dad does too.
He's a pretty good coachsometimes, so sometimes he knows
you what he's talking about.
We'll see in the future.
SPEAKER_03 (06:17):
But most parents are that way.
SPEAKER_00 (06:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (06:20):
All right, so how what propelled you to get into
this sport?
SPEAKER_00 (06:26):
More of that I wasn't good at any other sport,
and this is kind of my my futureas where I've been racing for
now 11 years, and it's it'ssomething that I love to do.
SPEAKER_05 (06:40):
So you started when you were four.
SPEAKER_00 (06:43):
Yes.
SPEAKER_05 (06:45):
And what what was it that you drove at four years
old?
SPEAKER_00 (06:50):
Well, at four years old, I started racing kick
carts, and and it was it's beena journey since there.
SPEAKER_05 (06:59):
Look, there you go.
Tilt it down just a little tiltit down.
No, no, tilt it down forward.
Yeah, the helmet's as big as heis.
It's bigger than he is.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a cool picture.
Yeah, it is.
So, where are you in school at15?
You in middle school?
SPEAKER_00 (07:17):
No, I just went to high school, so it's it's a
pretty different type ofexperience.
I'm I'm all homeschooled, sothat's the only fun part, I
guess, about the school rightnow.
SPEAKER_05 (07:28):
So So and so it gives them an advantage.
Is there a grade level that youare?
I'm ninth grade.
SPEAKER_03 (07:37):
Ninth grade, okay.
Yeah.
So you would be entering highschool, you know, here locally.
SPEAKER_04 (07:42):
Yeah, nevertheless, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (07:43):
But to me, I I can see some advantages to that in
your profession because it givesyou a little more flexibility,
but you never get away from it.
Because if you go to France torace, then your teacher come
with you?
SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
Uh I have an online teacher, so Oh.
SPEAKER_03 (07:57):
It's not your parents.
I thought your parents weremight be doing it, and I thought
you'd never get away fromschool.
SPEAKER_00 (08:03):
No, no.
Is I have an online teacher, butshe kind of travels everywhere
with me.
You know, my I bring my computerso she can uh experience the the
where you're at.
SPEAKER_05 (08:13):
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
SPEAKER_00 (08:16):
Exactly.
SPEAKER_05 (08:17):
Yeah.
Um, so you're based out there inCalifornia, and um how often do
you travel?
Every weekend during racingseason?
SPEAKER_00 (08:26):
During racing season.
Well, really, racing seasonnever ends.
So we're always traveling allall year.
So we're testing, yeah.
Yeah.
So like next week I might betesting a car, and then the week
after that I'm racing a go-kart.
So it's every everything iswe're all out all the time.
So either if we're in France orwe're in Texas, or back at home
(08:49):
racing.
SPEAKER_04 (08:50):
So Wow.
So you're doing the F4 series.
You're going to get in the F4series.
SPEAKER_00 (08:55):
Yes, we're trying to get in the F French F4 series,
so we'll see.
We'll hear about that in thenext couple weeks.
SPEAKER_05 (09:01):
Alright, well, explain that to me because I I'm
not familiar with it.
Cars or is it carts?
SPEAKER_00 (09:09):
French F4 is just moving into the opening of cars.
So it's like the entry level tothe road of Formula One.
So you have F4, then F3, thenF2, then F1.
So it's kind of the open level,and every kind of every country
has it.
(09:30):
So you have Italian F4, French,European, so you have a lot of
different kind of series thatthat you can run, but any series
you want to run, you always wantto win in.
SPEAKER_04 (09:41):
Now you say the different series are the cars
the same and all the now.
Obviously, the French F4, is ita different car than the uh
European F4 versus German F4?
I mean, are is the car the same,but it's just different location
locations?
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
So how it works is there's one company that makes
all the cars, which is Alcatus.
And some of them are kind ofdifferent, where it's either
it's French F4, let's say it'smade by it's made by the same
company but have different partson them.
So it's kind of regulatedtowards the series.
(10:20):
French F4 is an academy, so theydon't let a lot of drivers into
it.
So it's more of a like aregulated base where it's all
stock and they don't changeanything.
And then some series where theyhave what what I call an open
setup, so the driver can changethings on the car to where he
what he feels.
SPEAKER_05 (10:39):
You ever been to an F1 race?
SPEAKER_00 (10:42):
No, I have not, and I've been trying to go for a
long time now.
SPEAKER_04 (10:45):
Yeah, we just had one here at Coda.
Circuit of the America was justhere a few weeks ago.
SPEAKER_05 (10:49):
Yeah, and if you ever get an opportunity to visit
Texas, you must, you must go toCircuit of the Americas.
Um, I have uh just a regularplane Corvette, and I went to a
Corvette event one time where wegot to ride, actually drive our
car Corvettes on the roadcourse.
It is truly phenomenal.
(11:10):
With elevation changes, all ofthe turns, you'll have to look
it up and you'll go, wow, yeah,I definitely want to race this.
SPEAKER_04 (11:17):
Let me ask you this you're one of six drivers that
was selected from uh a wholebunch of folks, like 62 or 65,
65 drivers.
You you're you're one of sixselected.
SPEAKER_00 (11:27):
Yeah, I was one of the six selected to to run it
and run up front, which is kindof very, very cool to be up
front and to be the onlyAmerican to ever get third or
actually ever get into thefinals of feed racing.
So that's a it's a pretty coolthing that I've been able to
accomplish.
(11:48):
And I just I'm so grateful thatI could uh be a part of that
legacy.
SPEAKER_04 (11:54):
That's awesome.
What's your driving style like?
Are you uh are you did do you doyou push the limits, you put
them in the fence, uh rubbin'sracing?
How do you do that?
SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
Uh I'm more of a rubbin's racing kind of guy.
Yeah, that there you go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Use the whole track.
Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER_05 (12:10):
How tall are you?
How much do you weigh?
SPEAKER_00 (12:12):
I'm about six foot and I weigh 170.
SPEAKER_04 (12:16):
What's your girlfriend's name?
SPEAKER_00 (12:18):
I don't got one.
Oh.
Don't got time.
SPEAKER_05 (12:21):
You don't have time for one yet.
Yeah, because they'll all comerunning up to you going, hi.
Go after the babes on thepodium.
That's what you want.
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Mike knows.
Yeah, Mike knows.
Mike doesn't know.
No, Mike, Mike, Mike watched alot.
He watched a lot.
That's that's what it was.
Yeah.
Uh all right.
(12:42):
So what did you say that yournext event is gonna is it gonna
be there in California?
SPEAKER_00 (12:47):
No, my next event is gonna be in Nevada in Las Vegas.
So it's called Super NATS, andit's the biggest, one of the
biggest car races in the world.
So it's it's a big race, andthere's a lot of drivers either
from Europe or all over theworld come and race.
SPEAKER_05 (13:04):
Now, is is it a is it a track built for go-karts?
SPEAKER_00 (13:08):
No, it's actually a parking lot.
SPEAKER_05 (13:10):
Oh, okay.
Seriously.
Big parking lot.
SPEAKER_00 (13:13):
Yeah.
Yep.
SPEAKER_05 (13:15):
I know that there is a facility out in Perump,
Nevada, that uh I had theopportunity to go to out there
uh for uh it was uh alpha, itwas an alpha event, and they
took all these alphas out thereand um had it was a great time,
but that track was as flat as aboard, and you had to really
(13:37):
perfect your driving skills withthis car.
It was a souped up alpha, but itwasn't really about all of that,
it was about driving skills andhow you get around the corners.
And I I know that from watchinggo-karting, I I you know did the
rental thing for a number ofyears before my back went out,
(13:58):
but um I know that doing that,it's all about entering turns,
getting out of turns, and thenyou put in a bunch of other
carts next to you and all aroundyou, even if you're at the lead,
you wind up getting to the backend of the front pack.
And uh it's it's driving skillsand it's also how you handle the
(14:22):
cart itself, and obviouslyyou're very good at it.
SPEAKER_00 (14:25):
Yeah, it's it's crazy how you can have 60 to 70
drivers on one track, and we'reall battling for the same thing,
and most of the time we'reeither one tenth off of each
other in the top 30, and thentwo tenths off of each other in
the top 70.
SPEAKER_04 (14:41):
One tenth.
Let me ask you that are all thedrivers that when you rate are
they all the same age or withinyou know a few years of you, or
are there older folks that areare driving as well?
SPEAKER_00 (14:51):
There's a couple my age, and then there's a couple
in their twenties, and and so itit ranges.
Gotcha.
For me, I'm a little young.
I've 15, which you shouldprobably enter that class at
probably 16.
So I'm I'm a little young forthis class, but it's because I'm
a little taller than everyoneelse.
So it's a kind of kind of worksout.
SPEAKER_05 (15:14):
You're one of those ringers on the baseball team.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, look at it, look at littleJohnny over there.
Oh, he's only five foot five,and here comes here comes truly
six foot tall and smacks thatball all the way out of the
parking lot out there out centerfield.
SPEAKER_04 (15:31):
That's good.
SPEAKER_03 (15:32):
So obviously all these guys are about the same uh
caliber as you since y'all allpack up that tight.
I mean, that's gotta be kind ofuh even a little more pressure
on you, knowing these guys weregood too.
SPEAKER_00 (15:44):
Yeah, it's it's crazy how all these guys have
been racing since they've beenkids, and we all kind of grow up
to become the best we can be.
And all all of these drivers Ihave tons of respect for because
it's it's hard to do what theydo at at such a high level, and
(16:04):
at this point in this cardingcareer that I've had, it's it's
been really cool.
I've made a lot of coolrelationships, and all these
guys are just much better thanyou.
You'd think if they went into acar and they didn't have enough
money to to be on a top team, Istill think they could go win
races.
SPEAKER_05 (16:23):
Very good.
Very good.
Well, uh so Go ahead, Mike.
SPEAKER_03 (16:27):
Yeah, so so you're basically in in a a feeder
system up to get up to F1.
Have you looked at NASCAR oranything else, or are you just
really focused on that?
On the open wheel?
SPEAKER_00 (16:37):
I've done I've driven a a legend car, I've done
oval stuff.
I'm not great at oval.
I do not turn like turning leftand and turn right at the same
time, so that's not really mything.
Uh it's not that I wouldn't tryit, it's more of a I'm not that
great in it.
And I like great.
SPEAKER_05 (16:56):
But you haven't had a lot of experience in it
either.
I was don't imagine that, youknow.
Listen, if you're a race cardriver, you're ready to race and
drive anything in my book,anyway.
SPEAKER_04 (17:06):
Yeah, and if and if if you see something in your
career down the line, you couldbe you could be a a team
principal, you could, you know,get into the engineering aspect.
So they you your doors are wideopen.
SPEAKER_00 (17:16):
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm into doing anything.
Anything I can win in, I say.
SPEAKER_05 (17:21):
So yeah, you've got it's the same kind of thing when
you get into pro sports of anykind, there is a certain drive
that to be competitive inwhatever it is that you choose,
you've got to be very good, veryfocused, and you gotta have a
little attitude.
And we know we're athletic.
SPEAKER_03 (17:41):
Oh yeah, we're athletic.
You can tell by looking at us.
SPEAKER_05 (17:45):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Well, listen, man, it is a realpleasure uh to talk to you.
Uh, where can where can we goonline to find out more about
you and follow you?
SPEAKER_00 (17:55):
So you can go on truly underscore the truth on
Instagram, which is Trulyunderscore the truth.
SPEAKER_05 (18:01):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (18:01):
Yes.
SPEAKER_05 (18:02):
Okay.
And uh you post lots of stuff onthere, and you have a lot of uh
supporters?
SPEAKER_00 (18:08):
Yeah, I've I think I have about right now 10,000
followers.
SPEAKER_05 (18:12):
Nice.
Nice on Instagram?
Yeah, sit send us a couple ofthem, will you?
Yeah, we could we'll borrow themfor a couple of days.
Yeah, and if nothing else, Imean you could say, hey, we were
on that award-winning in-wheeltime car talk show out of
Houston.
You could do that.
SPEAKER_04 (18:27):
I'll do that.
And then they'll unfriend you.
Yeah, then they'll unfriend you.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (18:32):
Yeah, just only tell your close friend.
Yeah.
Truly Adams, it's uh it's a truepleasure to uh be with you this
morning.
Thank you very much for joiningus.
It's Saturday morning.
Get to it, my friend.
You got lots to do today.
SPEAKER_00 (18:44):
Yes, thank you.
SPEAKER_05 (18:45):
We'd love to talk to you again and kind of keep up
with your career.
Yeah, we definitely will.
Yeah, be in touch with us.
Uh let us know how things aregoing.
Truly Adams, our guest thismorning.
Very nice from uh Riverside,France.
France, no?
Riverside, California.
SPEAKER_04 (18:59):
There you go.
SPEAKER_05 (19:00):
Uh Magni Cours, France.
Very good.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (19:05):
That's where the races are, you know.
SPEAKER_05 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, whatever the case may be,it doesn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_04 (19:09):
And if he needs help with French, uh I I know a
retired French teacher.
So uh my son-in-law's mother.
SPEAKER_05 (19:19):
Yeah, there you go.
Whatever.
Never mind.
Thank you, Truly.
Yeah, thank you very much.
We appreciate you.
Okay.
Uh, just ahead.
Jeff has the racing calendar.
Mars has this week in autohistory, and I'll bring you some
of the stories making automotivenews headlines.
The in-wheel time car talk showcontinues right after this
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SPEAKER_01 (20:37):
Time to fire up those engines and pay tribute to
the folks who make freedompossible.
Bastrophone Heroes and Hot Rodsis rolling in for Veterans Day
weekend.
Friday night, downtown cruise.
Saturday, 400 of the coolestrides in Texas.
Proceeds help veterans,shelters, food pantries, and
(20:57):
scholarships.
Sponsored by Craig's Jewelry,November 7th and 8th, Main
Street, Bastard.
Don't miss it.
SPEAKER_04 (21:07):
That's the best part at the very end.
We just can keep playing thatcommercial all the rest of the
year.
SPEAKER_05 (21:12):
Yeah, we just have to edit edit the data.
SPEAKER_04 (21:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (21:14):
So we can just keep okay.
We'll do that.
Okay.
Time now for the Racing Cow.
But before you get into that,I'm going to remind you that uh
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All right.
Now the racing calendar,sponsored by the Texas Muscle
Car Club Challenge.
Thank you for that.
SPEAKER_04 (21:46):
Since we're talking about F4, Formula Four, we're
going to go with starting outwith Formula One.
The San Paolo Grand Prix, it isthe 9th, 11 a.m.
Central Standard Time.
This one is going to bebroadcast.
It's going to be at theAutodrome Jose Carlos Pace in
San Paulo.
It's a 71 Lapper.
And there's only two more racesin the world.
SPEAKER_05 (22:05):
Yeah, Jose Cuerbo is a friend of mine.
SPEAKER_04 (22:07):
Yeah, and the uh the uh clear and also the dark.
I I like the reposado.
Yep, yeah.
But there's only two more raceson the Formula One.
Uh Craftsman Truck Serieschampion was crowned last week,
and I didn't write down who won.
Uh, but you got Xfinity.
There's the car that was leftover from the race right there.
Do you see it?
That's the truck.
SPEAKER_03 (22:25):
The last place finisher.
SPEAKER_04 (22:26):
They were.
They were at Martinsville.
I think it was Martinsville.
There was a lot of racks.
Oh, finishing overtime, Ibelieve.
Nevertheless, uh November 1st,uh, which is today, the Xfinity
series is in Phoenix.
That is tonight on the CW localchannel.
And then tomorrow you've got theother NASCAR boys, the big boys
in Phoenix at 3 p.m.
on NBC.
Wait a minute.
What?
SPEAKER_05 (22:46):
It's the Alabama game tonight.
LSU in Alabama at Bryant DennyStadium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
This is in Phoenix.
SPEAKER_04 (22:53):
Roll tie.
Well, okay.
Okay.
That's that's okay.
I ain't watching that.
Calm down.
Uh, but you can watch tomorrow,so it's out of three o'clock in
NBC.
And then you got drag racingthis weekend, October 30th
through the second, which istomorrow, NHRA Nevada Nationals,
the strip at Las Vegas MotorSpeedway.
So there you go.
SPEAKER_05 (23:10):
Uh it's always a big deal because it's Halloween
weekend, and then uh the SEMAshow opens tomorrow.
SPEAKER_04 (23:18):
Years ago, when the Houston Houston race was going
on, the next race after wasVegas.
And uh I was flying out withATD, we're going to an event,
and of course the race had endedwith this Monday travels, and uh
Bernstein was in the same uhloading area of the plane and in
the same area there, and theywere throwing dice in the corner
(23:39):
of the airport, him and hiscrew.
And I was talking to him and Isaid, How much to get in the
game?
He goes, It's not what you getin, it's how you get out.
That's it.
Yep.
Um racing.
Awesome people.
Uh November 28th is the openingfor the Iditarod, Mike, in case
you're interested.
I got it noted.
SPEAKER_05 (23:58):
Dash hound races are coming up and everything.
Absolutely.
Well, we need we don't want tomiss those dash hound races.
Uh speaking of which, time nowfor Mr.
Mars this week in auto history.
SPEAKER_03 (24:09):
You got it queued up there, Mike?
Yes, sir.
Got a few things that we foundthat we thought were pretty
interesting this week in autohistory.
SPEAKER_01 (24:16):
All right.
SPEAKER_03 (24:17):
Uh, starting with this week in 1909, General
Motors acquired the Carter CarCompany.
Now, what's significant aboutthis, um, they were in Michigan,
and but they were experimentingwith the friction drive
transmission.
So they took and replaced thegears with a variable friction
disk drive for smooth gearlessoperation.
Know what that sounds like, eh?
(24:38):
So they marketed it as a car ofa thousand speeds, which is
basically a precursor to theCVTs.
So William Durant with GM boughtit up, going to use it, and
wanted access to all thepatents.
And but then by 1915 the car wasgone and GM kept all the patents
on it.
Moving on into 1954, the lastreal Hudson automobile rolled
(25:00):
off this image line.
Now it had been a symbol ofinnovation and performance, and
and it had it step down, whatthey call their step-down design
in 1948 because it lowered thecar, uh, made it easier to get
in and out for one thing, but italso improved the um center of
gravity for improved handling.
So they became uh excellent inNASCAR during the 1950s until
(25:21):
they merged with Nash Calvinatorin 1954 to take uh their
washing.
SPEAKER_04 (25:27):
They did.
SPEAKER_03 (25:28):
And uh they be that but that's how they got to
become the American MotorsCorporation.
So that's where it came from,from Hudson.
Looks like a lead sled almostthat the roof is.
Almost.
SPEAKER_04 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah.
And yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (25:40):
Then uh 1957.
SPEAKER_05 (25:43):
I don't know.
Do what?
Never mind.
SPEAKER_03 (25:47):
Okay.
So 1957 the Chevrolet Impala wasintroduced as the top trim of
the Bel Air.
I did not realize that it was aa a trim level when it first
came out with this the tail finsand all the chrome and
everything.
And it had the optional 283 thatyou could get in it for the V8,
and it became a model of itsown, and uh all kinds of
(26:09):
Impala's grew up until I had onein 1965 even that I really loved
and wish I still had, but uhdidn't work out.
SPEAKER_05 (26:16):
Holler and a shot collar.
SPEAKER_03 (26:18):
I'm telling you, I was holler too, up and down the
drag.
So then in 1970, the ToyotaSilica made its debut at the
17th Tokyo Motor Show MotorShow.
Now, this was definitelytargeting younger buyers, and I
remember when it came out,everybody was, oh, here's a
little Corolla hot rod, is whatit amounted to, because it had
(26:38):
rear-wheel drive, a 1.6-literfour-cylinder engine, and it was
basically trying to tap into thepony car market at the time.
And it gave Toyota theirperformance reputation, and uh
it was a really big success forthem over the years.
In fact, when they quit makingit, then they brought it back
here a few years ago.
Then in 1982, it's verysignificant because the Honda
(27:02):
Manufacturing Honda MotorCompany became the Honda of
America manufacturing with aplant in Marysville, Ohio.
They started building the HondaCord inside the United States.
Now, this is the first step inthe Japanese automakers actually
becoming part of the U.S.
automotive industry.
I mean, they were importingbefore, but now they're actually
(27:22):
building cars here.
And uh, of course, their dealwas uh, you know, efficiency,
quality, and you know, Honda inparticular was known for being a
very reliable vehicle.
And uh so that was just a fewthings that we saw this week in
automotive history.
Perfect.
SPEAKER_05 (27:37):
All right, well, thank you very much.
GM slashing production at itselectric vehicle plant in
Detroit, affecting more than3,000 jobs there, and at two
joint venture battery plants inresponse to a slowdown in EV
demand.
GM dropping one of two dailyshifts at Factory Zero, which
makes the GMC Hummer EV andelectric versions of the Chevy
Silverado, GMC Sierra, CadillacEscalade, according to a person
(28:00):
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