Early Career as Crew Chief and Learning from Mentors

season is hard. I always have always got tickled at people go, "What do you do during the off season?" Well, you actually work harder during the off season than you do probably the regular season. You're just not traveling, but means you're at the shop a lot. So we had the double whammy cuz again we didn't have 50 75 100 150 people had to get up here and hire people. So not only are we trying to build race cars to get ready for the new season, we're trying to build put a shop together. And that was it just it was double time. It it was night and day. It was all we could. The greatest feeling in the world was when finally we loaded that truck to go to Daytona in February and closed that door and I went, "At least that's done. At least that's done." The second race of the year was Richmond. I know when we left to go to Daytona for speed weeks. It was speed weeks back then. About a week and a half. Our poor Richmond car, it wasn't much more than a frame and a road cage and maybe some of the body starting to be put on it. So yeah, we we we were playing catch-up probably for a good 3 or 4 months till we finally I think okay, the shop's good to go and we got some race cars built now. Did you ever uh street test cars out here? Oh yeah. Every week. Every week. Not not from a standpoint of speed, but just is it steering? Is it stopping? Is it going? Is it shifting? Just Yeah. This this pretty much we would come out that that gate over there and this culde-sac. I wished I had just a dollar for every time we drove a car up and down it, but that's that's how we just made sure at least called it a leak check, making sure nothing's leaking. But yeah, that