Oh, you gotta love fans.

But, uh, yeah, I, I haven't seen, uh, you know, the, the hate for Zane.

I, I mean, he could tell you probably better from, from all the guys, but the ladies love him at the track.

I, I, I take credit for that.

Uh, honestly, all of them.

All of them.

Like, it, it's, when you get to cup racing, like, the level of blocking is unbelievable.

And so just honestly, all of them will piss you off.

Just like we find the speed

here.

Yeah, it's been...

We've had a really solid weekend at Iowa.

We qualified 15th.

We made some good adjustments during practice.

Just the whole weekend overall was a good weekend.

Why do you, why do you think?

... what's F1, uh, like, bad Twitter like?

Oh, dude, they come out of the woodworks.

And it's always guys with, like, like, zero post, and they're just Europeans.

And they're like, "You fat [beep] wanker."

Yeah, it's-

It was frustrating.

Um, probably more frustrated at our overall situation this year and how tough it's been on the racetrack just every week.

But at the same time, you know what? I let my frustrations get the best of me, and we'll, we'll move on.

So, Noah, what got, what, like, got you into racing at 13? Like, what piqued your interest with, "Yo, this could be a future of mine"?

Uh, I just, I, I enjoyed the competition.

I li- I like dirt bikes, mountain bikes, snowboarding, skateboarding, all the action sports, X Games stuff growing up, and then had the opportunity to go out to the racetrack when I was 13 years old and...

It was actually a Wednesday of my seventh grade spring break, and a guy who worked with my dad, his kids raced, and they started talking and my dad was like, "Hey, if you wanna go out to the track and test on this Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, the season starts.

If you like it on Wednesday, we'll go out there and race on Saturday." And before we even got to the track, I kinda knew I was gonna race on Friday and Saturday, 'cause I, I knew I wanted to do it so bad.

So I didn't even have to drive the car around, and after the first couple laps, I had a smile super big on my face, and the rest has kinda been history.

You found it?

Oh, it was good.

Oh.

Give me the definition of an athlete, because what we, I think what we're saying is, is an athlete able to do athletic things, athletic being sports, track and field, or-

Mm, that's a long definition.

Okay.

Under that definition, I say yes, NASCAR drivers are athletes.

Um, I have seen many NASCAR drivers do very unathletic things outside of a race car, but that's not what their bodies are trained to do.

Um, it's...

When, when you train for a specific sport for most of your life, your body gets trained to be able to do that.

Talladega.

So, I don't...

We've had, we had good speed last year.

We got in so many wrecks, like just collected in wrecks last year, but I was really happy with, with our speed last year as, as, uh, a group on the four team.

But I don't...

We've kinda been struggling on the, the regular tracks, whether it be the short tracks or intermediate tracks.

It's just been, it's been tough this year for, for our group.

You know, you kinda just gotta go straight in the race and, and hope it works out.