So once you get here and see that and feel that you get here, it's like being at the UFC fight, right? Like it was like you're ready, you know.

I definitely agree with that.

And I think it's twofold.

And we have conversations with the production, TV production, about how the sport is positioned.

On our side, we're all very technically involved with our teams.

And at the end of the day, the driver's standpoint in the car, we can make or break any run.

Absolutely.

You're being called.

Mike

Green, of course, cared and stared at what it was.

But for me, it was...

It was a really unique feeling of that entire final round because the best way to put it is someone had once said, it's hard to read the label of a bottle when you're inside of it.

And that's how I feel that I've been in a good way, helping create with our alliance with Elite and Momentum and yet also being with my team.

And once I was out of eliminations in the second round too, this robot of a driver.

And I mean it in the best way.

So what did you see? What's the one thing you were like, man, I didn't realize

What'd you think about all that? Have you, have you wrecked anything like that?

I, I, yes.

In 2020, you know, wonderful year of COVID.

I had a. fly high situation.

My chassis broke in half at about 200 feet and same thing.

Tony's on the starting line.

I'm in the car.

Was there ever a moment that you thought, When you had Dom, was there ever a moment after you've been mom for a while that you thought about, I might not ever drive again because I like this? Or was it always that burning desire to get back in the car?

Why is it such a natural co-ed event?

I believe it's because where NHRA started, the entire premise of it is who has a faster vehicle.

We've all done it.

Who's going to, you're going to be on a foot race who can be quicker, who's, you know, tea buckets, who had the fastest one.

So it's inherent for all of us to have competition and that does not, you know, men, females, all of that is the same.

But early in the in the 70s, there were female racers that they did punch through that ceiling and they did take the big brunt of stereotypes.

And then they paved the way, so to speak, so that Ida and I, we could look at Melanie Troxell or Bunny Perquette.

So has it been a nice escape from that to have this break and focus on being a mom? Or are you just like itching watching him race instead of you?