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And Alex Palou snakes
around Marcus Ericsson.

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In Indiana, speed is more than sport.

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It's an engine for the economy.

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It's where tradition meets innovation.

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Drivers, start your engines
At 230 miles per hour.

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But the real story goes beyond
the checkered flag, the teams, the

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technology, the thousands of high-tech
jobs, and a supply chain that stretches

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from Main Street to the world.

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It's a multi-billion dollar industry
that helps drive the Hoosier economy.

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Welcome to Business at the
Brickyard, presented by LiUNA.

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From Indiana's business news leader, this
is IBJ Media's Inside Indiana Business

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with Gerry Dick, presented by Elevate
Ventures, Indiana University, LiUNA,

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and the Indiana Association of Realtors.

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Hello,

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and welcome to Inside Indiana Business.

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I'm Gerry Dick, coming to you this
week from the world's greatest race

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course, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Preparation's underway
now that May is here.

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It's May in Indianapolis, and we are
going to be here all month long for our

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annual Business at the Brickyard series.

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Four weeks of reporting on the impact
of motorsports on the Indiana economy.

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And Alex Palou could be on for
his first oval and his first Indy

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500 as he comes off turn two.

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We'll go behind the checkered
flag to take a look at the impact

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because it is more than speed.

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It is an industry, an identity, and
it's a story that is an important

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part of the Hoosier economy.

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Caution is out.

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Palou will win.

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Motorsports fuels jobs, investment,
tourism, and technology statewide.

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It's estimated the Indianapolis
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generates more than a billion dollars
annually in economic activity.

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The month of May alone accounts for
more than $560 million of that total.

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More broadly, Indiana Motorsports
generates an estimated 7 to $8

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billion in impact, supporting as
many as 40.000 jobs statewide.

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That includes racing,
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R&D, and the full supply chain.

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Every 2.000, 2.500 miles, we take
the engine out and rebuild it

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and put the en- the new engine,
the rebuilt engine back in.

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More than 500 motorsports
companies are located in Indiana.

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Roughly 80% of IndyCar teams are based
in the state, many within a short drive

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of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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And I'm pleased to be joined n- now
by the president of the Indianapolis

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Motor Speedway and IndyCar, Doug Boles.

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Doug, great to see you, as always.

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Good to see you.

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Getting set up here for open tests.

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We're ready to go.

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Yes.

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May's right here.

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May is here.

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An exciting time, uh, to be sure.

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We're doing a lot on the economic
impact- Yeah ... which a lot of

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people understand the Indianapolis-
Yeah ... Motor Speedway, the impact there.

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But as you look more broadly about
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it continues to grow in Indiana.

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Yeah, we did an economic impact study
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over a billion dollars of economic
impact, that's really driven by the

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fact that the Indianapolis Motor
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And people know ticket sales and the
things that happen here, but all the

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teams, all the support s- you know, the
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that economic impact number up, and
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Now, I know you mentioned ticket sales.

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I gotta ask you, everybody's wondering
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uh, a few weeks ago, you thought a sellout
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Any update?

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Yeah, I think it's, uh... So last
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the Tuesday leading into the 500.

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I definitely think we get it ahead
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sometime in the next couple weeks.

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But we actually had to add seats
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to really, uh, deal with the
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So I definitely think our grandstands
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knows about GA. Just depends on when
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Uh, a- as you look at the investment
in this facility, which is amazing, you

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look at the, the age, the longevity,
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That comes with, uh, uh, continual upkeep,
and I know you've got some big projects.

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Yeah, so we have a six and a half
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gonna take us a couple years to
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done a little of that last year.

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We did a bunch of it this year, uh, on the
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allows our fans to hear the PA better when
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to balance when there aren't cars running.

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You don't wanna blast somebody out.

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So a lot of, a lot of work there, and
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We've done some railings, handrails for
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We've done some work on just
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and, and B and A penthouses.

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So we've done some work down on
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The golf course, uh, is a
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Is there a possibility that
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a future high-profile event?

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Well, one of the things that we've really
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that golf course is as good as it can be.

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Uh, Roger's really allowed
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Mark Miles plays golf and is really
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And what we wanna do is make sure that
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have a big event here, that there's
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They can come in and plug and play
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So we are definitely looking forward
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As always, thanks very much.

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Thank you.

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It is time for

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the Indy 500.

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Well, certainly one of the highlights of
a trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.

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It is, by all indications, a brand new
speedway, marking its first year since

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a massive $60.5 million renovation.

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When you talk about economic impact, the
museum tells us nearly a quarter of a

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million people from all 50 states- And
more than 25 countries have visited the

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venue in the first year post-construction.

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The museum is now viewed as a
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and the state of Indiana.

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And includes a focus on education.

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Some 20.000 students have attended
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We constantly have, uh, schools coming
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and family day, and this new renovated
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And so there's really something for all
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get an understanding of it, and for, you
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what goes on in the pits, and how a
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any of those different, uh, attributes.

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It's, it's always
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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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It was founded 70 years
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Well, coming up.

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This is the

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first Indy 500 season the Arrow McLaren
is in its brand new racing center.

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We'll show you how it's shifting
their training into higher gear.

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And welcome back to the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Well, how do you turn a
mechanic into an athlete?

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That's the goal of the Arrow McLaren
pit crew that is now training at the

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team's new headquarters in Indianapolis.

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Business of health reporter Kylie
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Thanks, Gerry.

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May is certainly a spectacle in Indy,
but it's also a grind for racing teams.

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We're at the brand new McLaren racing

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center to see how the team keeps
their fitness routine on track.

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For Indy car mechanics, this is
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you look up and down pit lane, especially
on, on even on our team, they, they

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don't all look like they're in shape.

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Not like every firefighter looks
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the pin-up calendars, right?

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They're all, come in
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The pit crew workout at the brand
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helping Ryan Harber lead a shift
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It's been a, a mentality change over,
over the years, trying to get them

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to view themselves as athletes and
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From anywhere from, you know, sleep,
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recover from, from event to event.

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So it's really been a,
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This is his second season training
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performance, health, and wellness
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The new headquarters means a brand new
on-site fitness center for mandatory

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workouts, plus pit stop practice in a
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There's a b- a practice pit stop
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pit box and- Have the, have the,
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plug in, air jack, and send it.

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But really it's more about having
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ability to, to handle that pressure,
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in when the chaos is around you.

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That's why I have them work out.

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Beyond the body, it's training
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pressures of pit lane.

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Some of them grew up carting.

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There are very few that actually played
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up, which has been really eye-opening.

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Um, so I've really had to, you
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been in those pressure situations.

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You know, they haven't learned
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deal with that sort of stuff.

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If you have a bad pit stop, you know,
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The next play mentality is,
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All right, now what?

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You know, so what, now what?

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How do we move on?

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Uh, so that's really more of a,
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necessarily the physical aspect.

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The Super Bowl of street races,
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Just no place like this on the schedule.

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And life on the road, as IndyCar
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to back weekends, means recovery
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Inhale.

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So they're really industrial athletes,
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'cause they're constantly bent
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Uh, so I see a lot of chronic
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But May is more of a mental than
physical load, as teams fight for one

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Sunday to be the best in the world.

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I try to tell myself and I try to tell
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can control," because the month of
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But obviously everybody's got
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And the team is certainly
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He's been working in IndyCar
athletic training for 20 years.

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Gerry, back to you.

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Okay,

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Mary.

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Kylie sits down one on one with Tony
Kanaan, uh, for a look at how his intense

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workout routine has taken him seamlessly
from the driver's seat into his new

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role as team principal at Arrow McLaren,
and he has no plans of slowing down.

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They started 33rd the last two years.

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Last year we watched him
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Well, that is a very familiar
face and voice for race fans

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and television viewers alike.

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Dave Calabro's amazing career has spanned
decades as a sports journalist, and as the

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voice of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
manning the public address system here

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at the world's greatest race course.

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And we are lucky to have Dave
as part of the IBJ Media team

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with his Playmakers podcast.

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Dave recently sat down with
a real playmaker, both on

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and off the track- Alex Palou

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If you can get Erickson, get him.

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This is as close as he's been.

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He'll take a look to

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the inside, and Alex
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Ericsson.

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Just one year ago, life
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Caution

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He has won the Indianapolis 500.

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You just won the Indy 500, man.

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Spaniard led 40 laps to grab the
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Indy 500 champion, and that moment is
forever etched in his heart and soul.

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As humans, we, we, we wanna be
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And it just exponentially
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So I was super happy, and I
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to share it with someone else.

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So when I got out of the car and I saw
my team running towards me, how happy

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they were, uh, these big mechanics
crying, that you're like, "Dude, I

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did not think that you would cry for a
race," but it just like, that love for

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the race and how happy and proud they
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that's what stands out for me the most.

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One,

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two, three.

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He recently sat down at the Hall of Fame
Museum to talk about his rise to the top.

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He's now a marked man, the driver
to beat again this race day.

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You always have pressure.

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Like we, we, at the end
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We, they pay us to win.

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That's it.

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That's our only job.

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It's, it's, it's our only job.

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They're, all the rest doesn't matter.

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It's all about winning.

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The pressure is still there.

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Yeah, I won in 2025, but who cares?

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Because, I mean, in tw- I
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Um, Indy 500 is different.

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Uh, it's the only race that
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earn a spot at this trophy.

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But still, I need to win again,
otherwise, um, yeah, it's, I

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w- I won't be doing my job.

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Despite the very public demands of
his job, Palou is a private person.

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He escapes the limelight just being
a husband and a dad, and he says

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his two-year-old daughter helps
him keep it all in perspective.

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When I have a, a bad race, I remember
Phoenix this year, I had a bad race,

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and you're down, and you're like,
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life is so hard," blah, blah, blah.

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And then you just go with her.

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She just wants to play with you.

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She doesn't care- Yeah ... if
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Like, who cares?

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Unconditional love.

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Yes.

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And, uh, that part has,
has helped me a lot.

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And joining me now is the
man himself, Dave Calabro.

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Dave, great to see you.

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Hi, Gerry.

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Alex Palou-

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... 
is, uh, quite a, quite a guy.

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Isn't

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he amazing?

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Yeah.

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This guy has a chance to
be a generational talent.

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I'm talking like A.J. Foyt
and- Wow ... Mario Andretti.

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Yeah, he's won three out of
the first five races this year.

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He's won 11 out of 22 races.

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Wow.

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That's 50% of his races, Gerry.

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That's crazy.

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Yeah.

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Guys don't do that anymore.

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So he, and he's a great kid.

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Very humble.

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It's gonna be fun to see what
he can do this May once again.

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What, what makes him special in your-

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Well, he's very comp- all these guys
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Um, but he has this switch that goes on.

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He knows how to be there
at the right moment.

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Think about it, he only led 14 laps
last year, but he, he knows how to be

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in the right place at the right time.

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Mm-hmm.

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And he never makes any mistakes.

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Yeah.

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May is here.

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Yeah.

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Dave, special for you.

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How many years

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now?

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Oh, gosh, Gerry, this is so much fun.

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I'll be on the microphone
here at the speedway.

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My 41st year- Wow ... goes way back to
the '80s when Tom Carnegie, the legend-

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Yeah

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... 
asked me as an intern if I
would help out a little bit.

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I skipped my finals at, at Butler.

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Sorry.

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And, and I did graduate eventually.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, and- It's worked out, yeah ... and
here we are all these years later.

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That's

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awesome.

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What makes May special for you,

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Dave?

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Well, I grew up in the west side, just-
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I used to ride my bike here as a kid.

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I, I parked cars here, came here,
ate the fried chicken, and now I-

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Yeah ... get to be a small part.

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It's a blessing to be a part of

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this.

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Oh, it's great to have you as
part of the IBJ team as well.

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Yes.

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Dave, we look forward to seeing you
the rest of the month and beyond.

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Yeah.

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Check out Playmakers wherever- Of course

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you get your podcasts.

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It's hard to ex- explain, uh, a
vibe, but Old Red is a, a... When

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you walk in and it's kinda, it's
kinda got its own state of mind.

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Trucks running

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them

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red dirt roads out, kicking up dust.

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Well, coming up, a big name country
artist has big plans for Indiana.

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That and much more news happening
outside of the Indianapolis

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Motor Speedway when we return.

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You get nervous before, but the
second the event begins, the stress

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just goes away and it becomes just
pinpoint focus on the job at hand.

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Well, fans of IndyCar may not know
his name, but Aaron Likens has one

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of the tallest tasks in the series.

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Likens is the chief starter for IndyCar,
known for his fancy flag work and

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role of directing drivers traveling
around 200 miles per hour beneath him.

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He has also shared his journey with
autism through his 2024 book, Playing

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in Traffic, which we featured on
our Business at the Brickyard show.

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Filming is currently underway on
a documentary with the same name,

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highlighting Aaron and his journey from,
uh, that diagnosis to the flagstand.

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It's expected to release next year.

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If you look up at the flags of the
track, I hope you see that there's

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one little flag nerd's dream.

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Well, it is a powerful visual display
at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Hundreds of flags flying
around the perimeter and

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throughout the grounds at IMS.

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An Indianapolis company is the
official flag supplier of the

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Flags For Good launched in 2020.

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Founder Michael Green tells us
when he moved to Indianapolis, he

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was really moved by seeing so many
checkered flags on businesses and

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homes throughout Indianapolis.

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It really helped him fall
in love with the city.

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Green says his company had been an IMS
licensee for a number of years before

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being approached about a partnership-
And now it is the official flag supplier.

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It seems like a giant event, but the
IMS is made of local people like me and

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like all the team here at the track.

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We're, uh, just Indy natives trying
to put on one of the world's largest

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events, uh, and make it incredible,
which every year it always is.

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The flags are made with SEACO
polyester, which won't release

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microplastics and is more eco-friendly.

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Well, there's lots of business
news happening outside of the

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway this
week, including country star Blake

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Shelton making a big bet on Indiana.

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It's literally top quality talent
that we're gonna bring here,

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that we're gonna find here.

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Blake Shelton's Ole Red bar, restaurant,
and live entertainment venue, inspired by

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the country star's hit by the same name,
is the latest addition to the burgeoning

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Fieldhouse district in downtown Indy.

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It will occupy space spanning three
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west of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Live
Nation Theater now under construction

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across from Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

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Construction work on the redevelopment
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expected to start later this year with
an opening targeted for late 2027.

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Indiana Governor Mike Braun wants
to use artificial intelligence to

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grow jobs and investments statewide.

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This week the governor announced the
launch of INAI, an initiative that

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will work directly with employers
statewide to accelerate AI adoption.

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It's a program the state expects to
reach more than one million Hoosiers.

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I'm interested in high wage jobs coming
from it, even if we lose some of the

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lower wage mundane, uh, jobs associated
with what it's gonna replace because high

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wages, job growth is gonna be the North
Star that drives economic development.

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A milestone moment.

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That's how Deaconess Health System CEO
Sean McCoy describes plans for a $150

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million comprehensive cancer center at
the Deaconess Gateway campus in Newburgh.

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The Evansville based health
system says the Cinelli Cancer

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Center ultimately employing around

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250 people.

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It is May!

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Well, the month of May certainly
is a month-long celebration

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throughout the state of Indiana.

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IMS porch parties are spreading statewide.

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We'll talk fan engagement,
tradition, and more when we return.

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Well, welcome back to the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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It will be about three weeks before
hundreds of thousands of fans crowd

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the grandstands here at the world's
greatest race course for the 110th

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running of the Indianapolis 500.

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But you don't have to wait until then
to experience the excitement and some

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of the history of this great event.

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This is mad!

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Porch parties are back.

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They started in 2016 with the 100th
running of the race, giving fans

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the chance to get an up close and
personal look at the Borg-Warner

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Trophy, show cars, and a lot more.

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This year's line-up kicked off in
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include 10 stops throughout the state.

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We have been talking throughout the show
about the economic impact of motor sports

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on the Indianapolis and Indiana economy.

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Uh, uh, Indianapolis Motor
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Boles, joining us now again.

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Doug, uh, big, uh, change on the horizon.

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A new car for the '28 season, right?

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Yeah, we're excited about it.

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This car that we're running today, some
form of it's been around since 2012.

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So we've got a new car
that's gonna come in 2028.

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Actually, the tub, the first
tub, has arrived at Dallara here.

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Those cars will be built here,
uh, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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And by some time this summer, those
cars will actually be on track

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to begin testing to get ready for
the '28 season, so exciting times.

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Yeah, and in terms of economic impact,
you've mentioned a lot of that's gonna

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be, take place right here in Indianapolis.

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So it's... That, a lot of the car
was already built here, but more of

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the car will now be built here in
Indianapolis, which will really be nice.

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So it's an Italian car, obviously.

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Uh, but a lot of it now is gonna be built
here, which really connects us further.

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You know, the racing capital of the world,
we need those cars built right here.

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Testing, of course, and technical
inspections- Yeah ... are a big

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part of, uh- Yeah ... of the sport.

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Uh, and I know you have, uh, some
investment going on with retrofitting

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a, an, an old building, and will
be new technical scanning area.

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Yeah, so one of the things that
came out of last year's technical

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infractions was we do it all manually,
and there is technology today to

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really do that through scanning and
3D, 3D visualization of the car.

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So we've taken one of our
buildings on the north end.

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We're gonna turn that
into a scanning facility.

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We're gonna start testing some
of that scanning, uh, this year.

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But by the time we get to 2028,
much of the technical inspection

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that somebody goes through will be
scanning, and we can see it in 3D

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models and make sure everybody's legal.

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Doug Boles, great to see you.

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Good to see you.

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Look forward to seeing
you the rest of the month.

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Well, that's all the time we have for
this edition of Inside Indiana Business

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from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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We will be back here next week and
throughout the month of May, talking

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about the economic impact of motor
sports on the Indiana economy.

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I'm Gerry Dick.

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Thanks for joining us.

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Go out and make it a successful week.