Discussing Race Car Inventory and Crew Chief Responsibilities

pioneering data acquisition of engines and motorsports back in the 80s. I asked Larry about this while I was editing and he said that they were one of the first teams to have live data acquisition for test sessions. I thought, dang, that's really cool. I wish he told us that while we were filming it, but figured I just add it in after the fact here. Uh Ron Armstrong also raced hydroplanes in the 70s. We did a video at the Hydroplane Museum in Seattle. You know, motorsports is a small world. This is pretty cool. How many cars did you have out there? Oh, back then we probably had we may have had seven to eight. We had our two speedway cars. We had a road course car and then we would maybe have one short track car and maybe maybe three to four intermediate cars, you know, for the Charlottes, the Atlanta, the Darlington's, the Michigan, tracks like that. You know, we didn't run a near the extensive schedule that they run now. Is your ex handle or Twitter handle Stapleton 42? Yeah. Somebody on on X, I still call it Twitter. When I talked about doing this race shop deal today at King Racing, somebody said, "Are you doing that with the Stapleton42?" I I said, "It's got to be." His name's Stapleton and it's got to be it. Yeah. Yeah. So, guy used to work for iRock called me this morning. He said, "Are you going to the King Racing shop today?" I'm like, "Yeah." How did you know that? I said Larry Max said it on the radio. You were okay with that, I guess, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. That was cool. It is cool. I haven't really looked out here. Th This here simply was employee parking. Um, let's see your parking spot. Yeah. Where'd you park? You know, honestly, I always cheated. I pulled up right to the office in that the main there. So, I always kind of cheated. But one thing as a crew chief that I always prided myself in is is I