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Washington, DC hosted an IndyCar race over the weekend dubbed the “Freedom 250 Grand Prix”. The Sports Junkies got hooked up with some tickets and had an amazing experience on Saturday afternoon at the race! Did you get a chance to watch the race this past weekend?
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00:00but we should start by thanking the great people over at monumental sports
00:04who had us out to the freedom 250 i'm going to hear all about it i went much later in
00:10the day
00:10cakes and eb went early yeah i think i arrived around 4 30 to be honest with you it was
00:16wrapping
00:17up it was pretty much over wasn't it uh saturday and they were doing qualifying okay believe me
00:22i heard a lot of loud cars and i saw them zipping by sure that's all you needed to see
00:28and i had
00:28shrimp cocktail i mean we had a great vantage point we were just set up directly across from the u
00:33.s
00:33capital like at the start slash finish line it was a like the the views and the vantage point was
00:41amazing it's pretty surreal you know you get there and you just you don't expect to see you know like
00:47indy cars racing down whatever road that was constitution avenue whatever the heck that was
00:51independence avenue i don't even know what road that was i should know that but i didn't know it
00:55it's just wild uh it would have the capital right there in the background i mean primo uh
01:00sweets there that monumental had and they were nice enough to invite us out yeah and everybody that was
01:06there you can't help it i don't care you have to take a picture in front of that because it's
01:11just an
01:12iconic scene yeah i sent a text to you guys though it was planes trains and automobiles at least for
01:17me
01:17yeah um i asked because you guys were going in the morning we had a soccer game out ashburn came
01:23back
01:23home for a bit and then went back out and i was wondering what was going on like what was
01:28the
01:28best route and eb said it's a disaster took an uber i didn't know that you guys took an uber
01:33together because cakes never responded well so my buddy lucas was here and valdez and i and lucas we
01:39played out at hidden creek on friday that was a blast i should mention that we can maybe talk about
01:43it
01:43later but that was that was a lot of fun um but then so lucas i had to fly in
01:48because he's a big
01:49f1 guy and i said i know you're into racing i mean he literally gets up every morning and what
01:54you know on the weekends watches it um he's not an indy car guy but he's a race guy says
01:59yeah sure
01:59i'll come up and so uh we came up here and i wanted to give him a tour of the
02:04radio station he'd been to
02:05dc a few times but i hadn't given him a tour yet so i'm giving a tour and then cakes
02:08is here with
02:09the sun giving brendan a tour because brendan hadn't been up here in a while if any times he'd been
02:13in the lobby for whatever reason never came up and saw the studio so i was like oh perfect it
02:18was
02:18like 10 o'clock something like that 10 30 something ish and he was gonna walk or or train i
02:25said
02:25considering it but there was a 30 minute walk oh yeah i was like you know what that's just too
02:29much
02:29i think the walk was i looked it up was like 1.8 miles right which is a healthy walk
02:35hey good for
02:35your walk definitely good for your dick you know we didn't know about the rain it was still dicey
02:40ended up holding out being perfect like it worked out for us i think i'm sure it did for you
02:43two in
02:44the afternoon um we took an uber and we had dina i had dina and lucas up late last the
02:50night before
02:50look at plotting on maps where we want to be what's closest to our thing and we still had an
02:57uber take
02:57us to where we thought would be close and we still struggled navigating it wasn't that close he dropped
03:03us off somewhere right then maybe he didn't drop us off where we asked i don't know it was not
03:07close
03:08we started walking the wrong direction then we figured out we had to double back yeah head towards
03:13the spot eventually we were set up it wasn't i'll say this it was a very cool event there were
03:18a lot
03:18of people that it wasn't signed well if that makes any sense like there wasn't like you know i understand
03:23it's a it's there for three days but they should have temporary signs somewhere they had a lot of
03:27volunteers you helped me out because you said just ask the volunteers but that said when i was driving
03:32here i punched up an article on nbc4 news and it was all about where to park or where to
03:39be and it
03:40said that if you're going through gate five to take the metro to la font plaza and i was like
03:48all right
03:48i'll just park here well we told our driver take the metro take us to the metro stop by that
03:53metro stop
03:54he told the uber guy because i don't want to get i didn't want to deal with the metro just
03:57drive to
03:58that metro stop i'm not sure he did no i don't think he did i don't think yeah because if
04:01you're right
04:02at that la font plaza basically you could smell the rubber right when you got off the metro we
04:06can hear i can hear everything and then where there was a volunteer right outside no idea jason
04:13you know he was like is this good and we're like yeah sure whatever i think he dropped us off
04:17near
04:17like the department of agriculture so you had no idea really where you were i don't even know where we
04:22were and then you know i've said this a million times you know when you get your ways out to
04:26for
04:26walking and it's the same thing i always deal with this in airports because you're like all right how do
04:31i get
04:32out of this airport i got to go to watch that field or whatever you put it in and it
04:36takes a
04:36second to get its bearings you know how it's going a million different directions yeah so that happened
04:40when we were walking we're walking right go this way go this way it was a cluster for us trying
04:46to
04:46find it be honest you just try and listen to the cars zooming by so and we needed to be
04:55near gate
04:56which is closest to where we wanted to be it's an interesting viewing experience yeah i don't know
05:02anything about racing and i brought my daughter and she brought one of her teammates yeah after i'll be
05:08honest after 10 minutes of watching everybody was bored and it was already closing in on six o'clock
05:14because we got there right when some race finished yeah so we so we're there the race finishes and then
05:21they're clearing the track and they're they're setting up for the next race which was like an
05:26hour later funniest thing but all the people that are just sitting in a spot yeah it's kind of
05:31fascinating to me now they're race fans so they love it but i i don't really because you don't know
05:36what's going on really i found what my buddy does could no less who watches f1 he was not only
05:42just
05:42watching this he was watching the tvs they had out there yeah so you could see the whole thing
05:46develop so you don't just watch the zoom zoom zoom you got to watch were the drivers for the races
05:51the the pre-qualifying races the iROC races were they the same drivers that were in the freedom 250
05:57because they were different those were the like stud names that you knew like jeff gordon rusty wallace
06:02was was racing oh really one of the ray halls i'm not sure which one it was almost like a
06:07legend
06:07like helio castroneve something was in one of the cars so they were different they were in the
06:13earlier cars the cars that didn't go as fast by the way where we were and and my but lucas
06:19was
06:19telling me is because we were coming off a turn our straightaway was like a short straightaway
06:24they weren't hitting top speed in front of us even though it was a straightaway because it was
06:27coming off the turn and those iROC cars i tell cakes they look like lawnmowers compared to the
06:32indy cars yeah they look stuck in the mud stuck in the mud i saw the indy cars i think
06:37we did i saw
06:38a qualifying indy cars were flying but still it wasn't still top top top speed i saw them get to
06:45like 140 or what they're saying they were well because there was a tv inside the suite that's
06:50what it said i didn't even know you could see the inside of a car and it was yeah they
06:53were getting
06:53up to they were getting up to yesterday when i was watching them get up about 165 so when we
06:58check
06:59in on the straightaway we gave them our name at the desk when we check in and the woman after
07:04i give
07:05her my name and my son's name she's like do you want the radio so you can listen in like
07:09to the
07:10to the pit or the team and i was like cool i was like thank you for the offer but
07:14no because i i mean
07:16i would just look like the world's biggest poser turned it down to just be like i don't even know
07:20what i'm listening to but it probably would have made our experience better it may it may have
07:24probably would have i turned it down i did not turn down the earplugs i did you guys put in
07:29the
07:29earplugs i put in the orange earplugs i'm all man oh man i'm good for you yeah you're really
07:35i already have uh damaged hearing so what was that really it was so is that gonna make it even
07:40worse
07:41i'm sure i'm sure it was and it's it's and it was a high pitch at least for the races
07:46that i was
07:48yeah yeah but it was it was fun to experience it was fun to watch it was good food yeah
07:52because
07:52you've never seen that before i'll be honest with you three quarters the reason why i went is as i
07:55probably gonna be pretty good for you so it was always what was on the menu cakes you can
08:00describe it there was shrimp cocktail i didn't see shrimp cocktail when we were there that might
08:05have been a later in the day were they uh colossal shrimp they weren't nubs tiny shrimp pretty big
08:10shrimp there were there was like a there was salmon like bean salad salmon grilled chicken and there
08:17was also some sort of roast beef with like a chimichurri sauce oh so you were there lunchtime it was
08:21definitely different yeah for me it was the shrimp and like a mar charcuterie boards yeah uh fruit
08:28yeah and nice that you would have been sized nice cookies cookies brownies a lot of little dessert so
08:35how long were you there total you think a couple hours uh i probably stayed until two one thirty
08:42two maybe i left shortly after cakes i'd say we were there probably two-ish hours two and a half
08:46hours
08:47and getting getting home was okay we walked we were like screw all this we walked back we ended up
08:53walking the station it was fine okay but uh because we did the uber was a disappointment yeah we didn't
08:59know where to go we're like let's walk somewhere and get an uber like you know what's only we're
09:03looking at our thing it's only another half a mile yeah let's just keep walking yeah yeah um
09:07i took my first metro ride i think in like a decade yeah somebody told me couldn't have been easier
09:12it was your son that told me that you don't even need metro card anymore you could just use your
09:16correct your credit card credit card just right there your apple pay or whatever well i looked
09:21i don't know if it was on tv on saturday i don't think it was with the qualifying stuff i
09:26don't think
09:26the qualifying was on tv but it was always definitely was oh yeah i was watching it was on like
09:30a speed
09:30channel or something i mean danica patrick was out there and i didn't see her um she was on the
09:36she was on the like the pre-race set uh-huh with the capital in the back no no it
09:41was a spectacular
09:42setting yeah and even though i don't really understand racing i'm thankful that i went
09:47because it is one of those experiences that i'll have lodged in my memory i'll always remember
09:51yeah it was just very cool very surreal experience thank you to monumental jim ben so it was great
09:56i'm sure he's always a great host he was like couldn't let me know if you want to come back
09:59tomorrow
10:00i mean he said the same thing to me i was like such a nice guy it's like i think
10:04i have soccer
10:06well it was cool to watch because uh you know of course it's never been here before so and all
10:11the
10:11flyovers were awesome and the actual race was pretty cool i mean i don't know there was probably
10:16when i was watching five or six accidents but one guy was in second with about 20 laps to go
10:21and he
10:22tried to pass the guy the leader and he was going too fast hit the wall and pummeled the tire
10:26he was
10:27done he was out of the race we sleep on kyle kirkwood who won the event kirkwood sleep on him
10:32he's definitely sleep he's from jupiter florida i'm not sure i know that are any of the indy drivers
10:37like sort of famous like to the general public not really i'd have to see a list of their names
10:42to
10:42figure it out so that i don't know i'm gonna guess i haven't heard of any of them i'm gonna
10:46guess
10:46you know some of the f1 names probably not many of the indy car names right but mario andretti is
10:54mario andretti is the team owner yeah i know that name and he came in i believe andretti
11:00racers were three of the top four nice including the winner so he killed it yeah that was very cool
11:07there were a lot of people out there a lot of people just in the lawn area just watching the
11:11big tvs all the sponsors and the weather ended up being good the weather ended up being just fine
11:17we got lucky no problem so thank you to monumental sports for having us out and like a just a
11:21random
11:22tire didn't hop over the fence and kill us which is great let me tell you something that thought
11:27never left my mind the back of my mind the entire time i was there you were going over those
11:31little
11:31bridges no right over the race sitting there sitting out front right by the finish line i was
11:37like watch out for flying tires destination movie where that happens i haven't seen that where
11:43that's the opening scene so what do they because there were so many you know tire marks on the
11:48streets yeah yeah do they clean the streets what do they do they repave them i don't have any idea
11:53i don't know you know what they did call me your bowser ask her chill bell mayor bowser said
11:58racers to your cars did you see that that's all she said she didn't do the start your engines no
12:03no she said to your cars and then that's what she was somebody else said start your engine someone
12:07else said start your okay yeah she got a note card i'm sure she got a note card i mean
12:11she was
12:12supposed to say that but i had never heard someone announce to your cars never heard that either i figured
12:18they were already at their cars i mean the race was like it's a good bit three minutes away
12:22jason says that to himself at 954 every day yeah yeah yeah jason to your car get your ass to
12:29your car
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