So I gave him a seat.

Yeah, Booney, you know, I love you to death, brother, and I'm always here to be the contrarian and to be the opposite voice.

Sure.

I think that is an absolutely fair grade.

Okay.

I look at the David Forrest era, and we have a division... title in the 2020 pandemic in 60 games we have two wild card appearances which again to be very very clear boonie is not nothing No, it's not.

18 through 20 was good teams.

Aaron, do you want to see a complete, a complete just overhaul of everybody?

Can you talk us through that? That looked really wild.

Uh, yeah.

No, it wasn't too bad.

I, I didn't wanna make contact there, but um, I had inspiration from Richie Stanaway, I believe last year with Ford.

Uh, he was all four wheels off the track there.

So just how's that little mentorship fostering for you right now?

Oh, it's, yeah, it's, it's a really great help, uh, just with, you know, little bits and pieces, same as what the other, some of the other boys have got.

And obviously Richo's super busy this weekend with Clay as well, with Trans-Am.

What do the A's need to do? What do you anticipate them doing at least?

Yeah, Crystal, I think what the last several weeks has shown with the athletics is all the talk of contention before the season and all of the excitement about hanging around the top of the American League West while the Mariners can't seem to get out of their own way.

All of it has been a bit fraudulent.

This is not a good team.

And I think the A's have regressed dramatically.

quite a bit to the mean the last three weeks.

Back on June 19th, they beat the Angels after being down 11 to four.

So these two tend to go hand in hand versus what are the keys for the A's to take this series? And the second question is, but what are you also afraid of heading into this series?

How about

yourself? Yeah, I've just been working away, trying to figure out, refine everything that I'm doing at the moment.

Usually I'm a pretty relaxed character with the way I go about my racing, but just trying to make sure those 1%ers are locked in and just... yeah trying to yeah the sports just got so close with everything we're doing that yeah all the ins and outlaps are really important now and I feel like that's a somewhere I've lacked a little bit so pretty keen to knuckle down on that but it's also like a fine line you see like Brock sprayed on the weekend on his outlap at turn one so it's sort of you're trying to find a free second or so there but also it can easily go wrong and you lose five or six seconds so yeah trying to just do a bit more research and

Does your Mario get itchy and you have to itch it throughout the race? Uh...

Okay, so no on the mow getting itchy.

It does collect a lot of sweat during the race.

Which, like, gets hung and...

No, no. Licks the sweat.

Okay.

Sort of just a weekend where we just didn't really have it, I'd say, as a, as a team.

But, uh, yeah, I think we got closer and closer to getting the car more comfortable to, to be able to do it in the race.

But yeah, certainly just not really...

We, we need to find that time, but I think it's not that much time.

So I think the s- the field's so tight that we're looking for two, three tenths in qualifying, uh, and then in the race it's sort of, uh, probably a bit the same with that race pace.

What do you think about a comment like that?

[laughs] It doesn't really phase me coming from James.