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00:00How you doing everybody? I'm Screamin' Scott. The 36th Grand Prix in Detroit runs the history of the streets of
00:07downtown Detroit, May 29th through 31st, and we have the proud pleasure of actually having one of the race car
00:14drivers here today. Would you please welcome to our microphones, Roman, and hopefully I'll say the last name right. Here
00:20we go.
00:21The Anglis.
00:22Yes, that was good. I like the accent.
00:23Oh, you did? Okay. That's the only way I can pronounce it if I say the accent on it.
00:27Roman, our neighbor from Windsor, Canada.
00:31Exactly.
00:31How's it going, eh?
00:32It's great. It's great. I'm losing my Canadian accent, but I live in the States now, but I can try.
00:38Now, what was the first impression whenever you came to Detroit?
00:43I grew up coming to Detroit once or twice a week, whether that be for a dinner, a sports game.
00:49Had some families and friends that also lived in Detroit or went to school here.
00:54My sister went to Michigan State, so we were over here a lot.
00:57I'm sorry.
00:57Yeah.
00:58No, I'm just kidding.
00:59It's her loss, isn't it?
01:01But no, I love Detroit. I have a lot of great memories here, and it's a lot of the great
01:05memories being the Detroit Grand Prix, watching it growing up, so it's cool to be here and be competing.
01:09Well, your resume is huge. You know that, don't you?
01:12Yeah. It just became the youngest ever driver to win the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, and that's in 2017.
01:20You also have the Rolex 24 in Daytona.
01:23You've won the Detroit Grand Prix once.
01:26How were you able to do it again? Can't you let somebody else win once in a while?
01:30Yeah, hopefully that's a reoccurring problem. It would be nice to win here again.
01:33But I have to ask you, most race car drivers growing up, go-kart. You had your own go-kart,
01:42correct? And you raced go-karts.
01:44How did you get into go-karting as a kid, and how old were you when you started?
01:48I think I started go-karting around five. I started racing at nine or ten, but would just go out
01:53and enjoy it with my dad.
01:55My dad could have put me in a normal sport, but put me into go-karting at that young age
02:00and kind of just was fortunate enough to be involved in something that I fell in love with.
02:05And I'm able to call my job now, but was always kind of addicted to it and knew that that's
02:10what I wanted to do.
02:11Now, did you fool with the engine, like take the governor off and cheat?
02:16No cheating. No cheating. It was pretty highly regulated, believe it or not.
02:19Really?
02:20Yeah, these events were pretty strict. I mean, honestly, on par with some of the world championship racing I've done
02:27in Le Mans and stuff like that, the level was pretty high.
02:31So, yeah, I mean, it was very different than what people expect go-kart racing to be like.
02:36Really?
02:37Yeah.
02:37Now, how many awards and trophies do you have racing at CJ Barrymore's?
02:43Zero.
02:44Ha-ha!
02:45You got me beat.
02:46That's a challenge.
02:46You got me beat.
02:47Well, I don't have any either, but I would love to challenge you someday.
02:50Let's do it.
02:51If you get a chance.
02:52Now, again, Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix sponsored by Lear.
02:58It's just amazing that the track has come back to the original form here in the Motor City.
03:05What was your first impression?
03:06Did you race both tracks at all?
03:09I did.
03:09What is your comparison to the way the track was and to how it's back to what it originally was?
03:16Yeah, I mean, it's very different.
03:17I think the thing that really resonates with the new downtown track is how great of an event it is.
03:22Belle Isle, obviously, is close to downtown.
03:25You drive 10 or 15 minutes and you're there.
03:27But having the event be in the heart of the city where people can appreciate, you know, the restaurants, the
03:32buildings, things like that as well.
03:34And for us to be able to wake up in the morning and walk to the track isn't a bad
03:37thing either.
03:38So I really enjoy having the event downtown.
03:41They do such a good job of having things for fans to do as well.
03:45I think there's a car show on Friday night.
03:47There always seems to be concerts and things going on in the city.
03:50I think being able to walk to the event and walk back and just be in the heart of Detroit
03:54is something that's really cool.
03:56What were some of the hot spots that you love about Don?
03:58Have you went to Mom's Spaghetti yet?
04:00I have not, but I've heard about it.
04:02I sadly moved out of Windsor three or four years ago.
04:06And before that, I was in college.
04:07So I didn't spend too much time exploring on my own.
04:11But we used to go to Slow's Barbecue, being my friends, which we loved.
04:15San Morello was a cool spot.
04:17There's a lot of great restaurants.
04:19There was a lot of great places I went to in Windsor also.
04:23One was called the Gold Dollar.
04:27The Million Dollar Saloon.
04:28Uh-oh.
04:29For some strangers.
04:30No, but actually, there was, right on the shoreline, there was a great arcade right on the water.
04:37In Windsor.
04:37Yeah, in Windsor when I grew up.
04:40But also and stuff, dating as a kid.
04:43I knew and stuff, if I wanted to score, I would take my date over to Canada just so they
04:50could see Detroit from across the water.
04:53Nice. I never used that theory to cross the water.
04:56But maybe if I move back here, I'll remember that.
04:58Now, here's a question for you.
05:00As a race car driver, how fast is too fast?
05:06Never fast enough.
05:07Never fast enough?
05:08Never fast enough.
05:09Do you know how the fastest you've ever gone in a race car?
05:13Yeah, I think, I mean, what is it?
05:15I've got to do the conversion now because we're in America.
05:18Yeah, yeah, you're here now.
05:20It's got to be 220 to 230 in Le Mans.
05:22Really?
05:23Whatever 330-something kilometers an hour is.
05:25Now, I got, growing up, a Triumph TR7 convertible, and I got that up to 180, and it scared me
05:32to death.
05:32Miles an hour.
05:33Yeah.
05:34That's terrifying.
05:34Yeah, and it scared me to death.
05:36I mean, driving on 696 here scares me to death.
05:39Yeah.
05:39But I can't even imagine.
05:42Now, with that, the steering wheel that you use, I've seen pictures of it, how much it's evolved.
05:48It looks like you're playing a video game while you're racing.
05:52Yeah.
05:53There's so much on that.
05:54So what is all on a steering wheel nowadays?
05:56It's pretty intense.
05:58Moving from GT cars to now hypercar, the rules for what you can do and change in the car are
06:04basically completely open.
06:06Yeah.
06:06So we have systems that pretty much cover anything you can think of.
06:10If we have something in our head that's bothering us with a car, we say, we need a button for
06:16this.
06:16That would be really helpful.
06:17Some really smart guys that are way smarter than all of us go in a back room, type in a
06:21computer, plug it into the car, and they say, this button does X, Y, Z.
06:24We have a massive manual.
06:26And on that manual, I mean, I can go through it, all the buttons do, but it'll take an hour.
06:30But for example, we have what we call a multi-switch, and that multi-switch will be like multi-alpha,
06:36Bravo, Charlie, all that.
06:38And they'll tell us on the radio, multi-Foxtrot, two, plus four.
06:42And you have to be, you know, you're driving down whatever road it is in Detroit that the straightaway is
06:46on, bouncing your head, trying to like find which one's F and remember the alphabet.
06:50And then, yeah, so it's pretty intense, and that's something that was a big challenge going to hypercars, staying calm
06:58and still staying in the rhythm
06:59while having to do all those control changes, because it's pretty hectic.
07:02Now, could you do it like a James Bond thing and tell you guys, hey, can you put an oil
07:05slick button for the guys behind me, and I could win this race?
07:09Yeah, if there's oil coming out of the back of it, it's probably not a good thing, so.
07:12Now, being that it is like a video game, do you play video games yourself?
07:16I do not.
07:17I do a lot of simulator stuff.
07:19Right.
07:19Which I guess is kind of a glorified video game.
07:21But my next question is like, I used to play Atari's Pole Position all the time.
07:27Have you ever played that game?
07:28I have not, no.
07:28You have to.
07:30Being a race car driver, it's just amazing.
07:36I could just imagine you kicking my ass on something like that.
07:39Maybe it would help my racing career if I start playing it.
07:42Now, another thing, you being in Windsor, I have to ask you this question, okay?
07:47Oh.
07:48It's really serious.
07:49Let's hear it.
07:50The Journey song, Don't Stop Believing.
07:52When Steve Perry sings, Born and Raised in South Detroit, is he actually singing about Windsor?
08:00That's a good question.
08:02I always thought Detroit was south of Windsor.
08:06I always considered Michigan to be south of where I grew up.
08:10But we're kind of in a little weird bubble where it could be north, it could be south, it could
08:13be east or west.
08:14It's one of those unanswered questions I had to ask.
08:17Yeah.
08:17I'm more like when Kid Rock talks about Lake St. Clair.
08:20That's good.
08:22That resonates with me.
08:23I grew up on Lake St. Clair, so that's cool.
08:25Now, do you listen to music while you're driving at all, or is it all just...
08:28It's all just the really smart people.
08:30Not even during practice?
08:31No, no.
08:32Well, I honestly don't think that would go really well.
08:34There's so much going on in the car that you just, your thoughts are already, your brain's going 100 miles
08:40an hour all the time.
08:41Right.
08:41Now, what kind of music do you listen to in your off time?
08:43I am very unbiased with my music taste.
08:48I listen to country.
08:49I listen to rock.
08:50I listen to house music, rap, whatever.
08:54It depends on the mood.
08:56It depends where I am, what I'm doing.
08:57Now, my suggestion for racing, I used to play Pole Position, and I would listen to Red Barchetta from Rush.
09:05Okay, nice.
09:06That's all about a race car.
09:07Rush is good, yeah.
09:08Rush is Canadian also, aren't they?
09:10Yes.
09:10Oh, gee, you're just realizing that?
09:12Come on, you're Canadian.
09:13I was going to ask you, what are your favorite Canadian bands?
09:17I mean, Rush, you kind of have to say.
09:18Rush is pretty phenomenal.
09:20What other Canadian bands?
09:22Do you know any offhand?
09:24Not rock, necessarily.
09:25There's some Canadian rappers.
09:27Triumph is playing here this Friday.
09:29They're not Canadian, are they?
09:30No, yeah.
09:31Really?
09:31Yeah, yeah, really.
09:33I could go even deeper, like Anne-Marie and the DeFranco family, but I'm showing my age.
09:40Well, Robin, DeAngelis, thank you so much for taking the time again.
09:44It's the 36th Grand Prix, and I want to make a prediction.
09:50Cheer it.
09:51You're going to win this thing.
09:52That would be phenomenal, and I love your prediction, so let's hope it comes true.
09:56Now, if you do win a race between you and me at CJ Barrymore's, is that cool?
10:02Since you put it into the world that we were going to win, then it's your doing.
10:06So, yeah, I owe it to you then, if that's the case.
10:08Awesome.
10:09The Detroit Grand Prix, it's the 36th Detroit Grand Prix event in Detroit, May 29th through 31st.
10:16Roman, thank you so much for taking the time being with us today.
10:19Thanks for having me.
10:19Appreciate it.
10:20Happy racing.
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