the biggest problem in races is very expensive to go racing you can have all the talent in the world and love it more than anything but if you don't have the backing you know you're probably not going to make it there's a lot of talent sitting on the sidelines that could have been champions and to have a program like evo it's it's huge for a young true talent there are two guys in this top four who we've won in recent years evo came about through the dead of one of our drivers ryan norman his fa
ther john ryan has had driven for us and won races for us in nd lights and so we got very close to john and you could always tell he'd be there in the pit lane thinking you know he was always thinking what could he do and i think he's a very successful businessman and what he does he came and presented the idea and i just immediately thought wow i think you're on to something good here i need to show it to michael and our commercial team i'm really excited about the partnership with andretti bec
ause now we're going to have access to all of the data and information that they already have on up-and-coming drivers they focus not only on what happens on the track but also what happens off the track and i think the longevity that andretti's been able to have in this business it's because they know how to build champions evil's filling a very unique void getting miles under your belt having the budget to be able to go and do testing testing is very very important they need more time behind t
he wheel all the things that drivers always say they need more of even in the lower levels to to run a race car and those numbers are you know approaching the seven figure mark a program like this that existed in my day it could have been a game changer and made that path a lot smoother i think it'll make the show that much better being able to cheer for your guy not only just because you like him and you're a fan but now you're invested in that person i think it really engages the fans it's rea
lly something that's very unique and very cutting edge you have vested interest in somebody's career and hopefully you could be a small part of helping that guy get to being an indycar champion there's so much talent out there of people that don't have the funding and to have something like evo is awesome for our team it'd be great because there's been times where we've seen real talent they didn't have the budget to do it you know and i love it now that we can go pick the best of the best you
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