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the super modifieds that i have now

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i actually built the cars from scratch

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from a pile of tubing so

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at nasa it's all about you know we have

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no air how do we get propulsion out of

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nowhere

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uh whereas with the race car it's how do

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we utilize the air to make downpours

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create the most load on the tires

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possible so you get faster corner right

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so it's

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it's kind of night and day completely

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different worlds but the basics and the

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backgrounds the same

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racing is and always has been a family

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deal you know my grandfather raised my

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uncle's race

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my dad was helping out a guy with his

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race car and his son was racing so we

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went and watched and then we went back

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the next week and bought a car and then

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a week after that i ran my first race at

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nine years old

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my father-in-law used to race these type

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of cars so my wife and kids are there

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and you know my kids are my biggest fans

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my daughter especially just loves it and

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you know to see her face

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and and how excited she gets when you

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say uh we're going to go to the

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racetrack

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you know it kind of melts your heart

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that was a big part of growing up for me

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and

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really made me appreciate

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cars and design in general and i think

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it really pushed me towards engineering

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because i always wanted to know how

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things work and now i had this race car

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and trying to understand how it works

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and make it better

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so it kind of feeds into engineering in

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general

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there's just

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amazing people as you'd expect that work

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at nasa that are you know we're problem

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solvers so

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uh you know give us a problem and we'll

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figure it out one way or another we're

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actually the agency

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lead for electric propulsion you know

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it's it's pretty cool knowing that you

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know we developed the thruster here at