Critique of Modern Racing and Financial Barriers

Oh, is that the Eldora truck? Yeah, that was half the outdoor qualifying race and every team except Clay Greenfields of course was over there working on that truck and Mike Hillman is one of the best crew chiefs there are was underneath that truck fixing it. And I remember, you know, I was doing a bunch of interviews and Kenny Schrader came over and put his arm around me. I'm doing this for you. And you he finished and he said, "Norm, I know you're enjoying all these accolades, but have you looked at your truck and he laughed and he said, "I'm taking it with me. We're going to take it down the haller and I guarantee you it'll be ready for the race." And I'll I'll never forget that. I mean, Richard Childress was over there. Steve Turner had all three of the crews working on my truck after that qualifying race. Wow. So like everybody was determined to everybody in that infield wanted to see me in that race and there was a lot of damage that you know the rear end housing was bent, the right front frame rail was bent. There was a lot of damage but they fixed it as best they could and I went out and ran the race but I'll never forget that. That's really cool. Like I said, Mike Kilman jumped underneath it. They My guys couldn't even get near the truck. There were so many people working on it. They were just standing there in awe and I was standing there in awe cuz I I raced like that a lot on dirt and late models and stuff and I I never got that kind of response before. But I guess it was because it was Aldora and it was I remember Tony Stewart was the first one of the truck. He stuck his head inside before he even got out. He said, "Norm, doesn't matter what happens the rest of the night, you just made this show a success." So that was pretty cool. And that truck is now in his museum up there at Eldora. Really? Yeah. Like is it still in its after the race form? Like exactly. Never cleaned it, nothing. Did he buy it from you after the race or something? Well, that's kind of a funny story, too. Everybody wanted to buy it. I put it on eBay. I was getting all these offers to for this truck and then uh his manager, can't think of his name, up there at Aldor, he called me up. He said, "Norm, you can't sell that truck." I said, "Why not?" He said, "It's history. It's a part of history. You need to get it over here. Tony wants it. So I I took it over to Aldora and it's, you know, Tony owns it now. So you donated it to the museum? Well, no, he helped me out. He did buy…