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[engines revving]

[dramatic music]

[Shea Adam] We've been looking forward to this

for a very long time

because it is finally time to go racing

as we kick off with the Mazda MX-5 Cup

live on IMSA Radio.

♪ ♪

When I was a little kid growing up in motorsport,

I don't remember seeing very many women

in positions of power.

[reporter] Stock car race drivers are a special breed

of American folk hero.

They have always been men.

The history of motorsport was so man-centric.

Men were competing and women were grid girls.

There was this culture propagated of,

women are there as eye candy.

So to change that, to shift that away

is exceedingly difficult.

[Shea Holbrook] For six years, I was the only female

in the series I was racing in.

I had a very steep uphill battle.

[announcer] Shea's worked her way up nicely.

There's been a changeover.

[announcer] Boys, move over.

The lady is coming through.

We're seeing women shatter glass ceilings and barriers

like we've never seen before.

[announcer] Danica Patrick wins at Twin Ring Motegi...

[announcer] Jamie Chadwick wins the W Series...

[announcer] Doriane Pin as she raises her podium...

I see the world in motorsports for women changing.

We're chipping away at it, and we're turning heads.

[engine revs]

[Shea Adam] The MX-5 Cup is leading the charge

by bringing more female drivers into the sport.

[Heather] As women, we have to assert our dominance

extra, it seems like.

So that's how it's gonna go.

I am over this!

I'm done with 90s dropping below the A-frame.

I don't like it.

One thing that has not happened is,

there has not been a female winner in MX-5 Cup history.

So the goal is to develop a female champion.

We're gonna drive up there and do anything that it takes.

Let's go!

[Heather] Everyone's out there fighting for their life.

[announcer] This is every driver for themselves.

Watch Nate! Watch Nate!

We have a championship that we're all fighting for.

And I know that that was wrong.

It just sucks because it was my fastest lap.

[announcer] Sally Mott inside the top 10.

Hang in there as hard as you can.

[Sally] I don't want to play nice.

[Heather] Fucking targeted by this girl who's like...

who just blatantly took me out.

Racing will kick you down.

Dry a couple of those tears off and buck up.

I don't want to be a pissed off, retaliative driver.

[tires squealing]

Oh, God. Oh, God.

In racing, you're gonna lose a lot more than you win.

Ugh!

It's definitely an emotional roller coaster.

But when the helmet goes on, it's you, the machine,

and the racetrack.

Nothing else matters.

[Shea Holbrook] Go, go, go!

Whoo, it's getting stacked up!

[upbeat music]

With all the eyes on the MX-5 Cup

and being one of the new drivers,

it's a lot of pressure for sure.

Before now, I've only raced go-karts.

[announcer] Sally Mott going for a wild ride

as she tries to pick back up...

[announcer] Sally Mott gets set

to lead all the boys to the green here.

[singer] ♪ Drive, drive, drive... ♪

[announcer] Oh, massive crash down the back straightaway.

And somehow, she's still driving.

In karting, I'm up here, right?

I'm racing to win.

[announcer] Mott won another race,

which is three in a row for her.

Whoo! That shit rips!

Whereas in car racing, I started at the bottom.

[anchor] Well, there's a 19-year-old girl in Crawford

who's working very hard to make her mark

in this male-dominated sport.

Congratulations to the 2023 winner

of the Shootout, Ms. Sally Mott.

This win means she'll be joining us for the 2024 season.

[Sally] When I won the scholarship, I was like,

oh, my God, they just called my name.

What did I just get myself into?

[atmospheric music]

This is my rookie season, so I want to make it count.

But when you're new and a girl, even,

you got to get that respect, right?

You have to earn the respect.

I'm not just striving to be the best girl driver

but to be the best driver.

I just graduated high school.

I'm not planning to go to college.

I want to be a race car driver.

This is my plan A. There's no plan B.

So I'm all in on this dream of mine,

and I'm just determined to make it work.

Whoa. Holy leg workout.

[Robby] Come on. It's the last lap, baby.

It's the last lap. Stay focused. Let's go.

[Sally] I think I have a very good coach...

my dad.

[Robby] Be careful as you push.

Don't go all the way up.

[Sally] He started racing when he was eight years old.

Started in karting.

And he's driven basically everything...

formula cars, sports cars, stock cars.

I'm...I'm not even, like, scratching the surface.

But anyways, he's taught me everything I know about racing.

He's been my driver coach, my life coach, my mental coach.

He's basically poured everything that he's gained

in his 40-plus years of racing and just dumped it onto me.

So what are you thinking about going into this race?

What's your number one goal right now?

[Sally] Mental focus.

Everything from where my mindset should be on race day

to what I should eat, preparing for race day,

to how I should work out.

[Robby] So all the years I've raced, you know,

it's like, go to a race,

and then as soon as that race is over, it's the next race.

I'm plugging in that track.

[Sally] I feel like he's kind of living through me a little bit.

Not in a bad way. Like, he loves it, right?

It's great because we're a team.

[Robby] Take everything that you're doing and ramp it up.

10 exit.

[electronic music]

[cars whooshing]

♪ ♪

[Connor] The MX-5 Cup is a professional race car series.

It's the absolute pinnacle of action at the racetrack

because of how close the racing is.

[John] Side by side, two pairs of two.

These are very small, very nimble sports cars.

[Connor] The fastest car doesn't always win.

And you can outthink people if you're not as fast.

[Shea Adam] The MX-5 cup is a career-defining race series.

This highly competitive battleground

attracts young drivers who come to prove themselves

in the world of motorsports.

It's a place to hone skills and gain exposure.

[Gresham] It's so tough here.

It's bumper-to-bumper, side-to-side racing.

[dramatic music]

[Westin] It's really about playing the game,

making the passes at the right time,

and sharpening your racetrack skills.

[Heather] It's just so hard to have a strategy for races

because things just immediately go out the window.

[John] Huge incident, huge incident.

Oh, my goodness, he's hit the wall.

Start of the race.

Oh, my goodness me, it was a huge one.

The drivers are all trying to earn real cash money.

Still got over $1.2 million up for grabs.

The overall winner take $250,000.

You know it's gonna be entertaining.

Oh, I've got goose bumps.

I'm so excited for this.

[John] And there's a sideways moment.

And that's Sam Paley going for a spin.

He's gonna lose the opportunity...

[Connor] I've raced in multiple different series,

ranging from the top levels of IMSA to NASCAR.

No matter how long I've been racing in the series,

every time I come out here, I always have,

you know, something to learn.

[Aaron] We all have that killer instinct

and that drive to go win.

It's so cutthroat.

It's a high-intensity chess match at 130 mile an hour.

[John] Jared Thomas coming out of turn two.

And it's almost three to MX-5's wide...

[Shea Adam] We've only ever had one repeat champion

in series history.

That's unheard of.

[John] Gonzalez out of the final corner.

And Thomas ahead of Max Opalski on the line.

[Shea Adam] And you never know who's going to win.

[John] Oh, my goodness.

We can call this for Jared Thomas.

His hands go up.

That is the championship.

[relaxed music]

♪ ♪

[photographer] Forward.

[person] No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

Smile.

[person] Someone asked me, oh, is this like a NASCAR?

[Sally] Did y'all already take your pictures?

Oh, OK.

Chin down. Forward.

[person] If the torso was a little bit longer,

-it'd be fine. -It looks good, though.

Heather Hadley, back for year two of the Mazda series.

But what is different about it this year

as opposed to last year when you were coming in completely green,

didn't know the cars, didn't know the tracks?

Do you feel better prepared?

[Heather] Yeah, absolutely.

The only thing that's really different this year

is a new team.

So that's gonna be an adjustment.

I'm feeling a lot more confident than last year

-at Daytona for sure. -Yeah.

Thanks. Appreciate it.

-Yeah. Good to see you. -[Shea Adam] Yeah, you too.

My name is Heather Hadley, and I'm a race car driver.

[rock music]

I discovered that racing was my passion at nine years old.

[singer] ♪ One, two, three ♪

♪ All eyes on me... ♪

It's just... it's consumed my life

and, unfortunately, my family's as well.

[laughs]

My childhood gave me a unique perspective,

I think, on a lot of things because my parents are divorced.

They divorced when I was two.

So I was constantly going back and forth between my mom,

and then I would, on the weekends,

just go to my dad.

My dad would take the weekends off,

and we would just run around and do whatever.

And that's when he took me go-karting.

[Damon] She got in her first go-kart,

and she was applauded when she came off that track.

And Heather's like, "Daddy, I want to race!"

I go, "Let's go racing, Heather!"

You know?

And then she's like, "Dad, the tire came off," you know?

I go, "I know.

I'm really sorry, Sweetie Pie."

I don't know anything about mechanics.

I'm a carpenter.

So it was a learning experience, right, for both of us.

[car whooshing]

She did 107 races in six months and won 104 of them.

So we knew we were on to something.

[Heather] We went every single Friday for six months,

and then eventually bought my first go-kart

and raced go-karts for five years.

Then after that, we bought a legend car.

And it just progressed to be where I am today,

which is racing in MX-5 cup.

[Shea Adam] The 54 car started nearly dead last

but is now on the verge of breaking into the top 10.

[singer] ♪ I got a number ♪

♪ I got a name ♪

♪ I got a target ♪

♪ It has a face... ♪

[Heather] When I started racing in MX-5 Cup last year,

I was giving other drivers too much space

because I was just terrified on track

and didn't want to make contact with anybody

and was doing everything in my power

to be nice to everybody.

I wanted to be friends with everybody.

I didn't want to piss anybody off.

And I've learned, like, OK, it's just going to happen.

You're going to piss somebody off.

It's gonna be incidental, but you gotta claim that space.

Last year, I ended up 16th overall

in the 2023 championship.

This year, I would love to break into the top 10.

If I'm able to show that kind of progress,

it will push my career forward.

Success is important to me, and I want to be finishing

consistently top 5, top 10.

Anything really below that is what I would deem unsuccessful.

-[photographer] Smile. -[Sally] How have you been?

I haven't actually got to talk to you.

[Heather] Good.

I know that we're, like, technically competing for money

every weekend, so we're, like, obviously

even extra, like, competitors on track.

-[Sally] Yeah. -But, like, still, off track,

like, if you ever need to, like, ask me anything,

anything, I'm here.

-Seriously. -Thank you. Appreciate it.

[Sally] There's a prize for top finishing female each round.

And since there's only two of us this season,

that makes us even more competitive with each other.

But when I see her, I get excited.

I'm like, yeah, like, we're gonna work together, you know?

We're the only two girls in the field.

Let's kick some butt.

[rock music]

♪ ♪

[Shea Adam] When you drive through the tunnel at Daytona

under turn four, it opens up

into this magnificent arena of motorsport.

[engine revs]

This series is such a destination.

People want to race here.

They want to be on these tracks.

They want to be competing.

Over the course of seven race weekends,

our drivers compete at some of the most iconic race tracks.

Each weekend consists of two practice sessions,

one qualifying session, and two races.

And every single team here wants to win the championship.

These cars are not the big stock cars.

They are not the cars running at 200 miles an hour.

It's almost, like, taboo

because they shouldn't be on this superspeedway.

But the racing is better

than what you get in either of those.

[Shea Holbrook] Guys, we're gonna have a quick meeting.

OK, do we have everybody?

One, two, three...

I'm Shea Holbrook, and I'm the team owner at BSI Racing.

Day one is always kind of high energy,

probably some high stress.

OK, guys, welcome to 2024.

A little bit different this year.

Same people, same feel, same processes,

a little different branding,

same loud voice.

[laughter]

Racing, in a roundabout way, has been a part of my entire life.

I have been a driver.

I've been a coach.

Last year, I was a team manager.

But I'm very excited because this is my first year

being a team owner in this series.

At the end of the year,

there's the overall championship.

There's the rookie championship.

There's the team championship.

You better believe that BSI will be after all of them.

This might be the most competitive field

that we've ever had.

Class of 2024, this might be the most competitive

MX-5 Cup has ever seen.

You know, motorsports just...

it's a difficult industry to be in.

It's a constant grind.

And it costs a lot of money.

So luckily...

[Shea Holbrook] My husband and I are homegrown.

We did not have the financial support and resources

to kick-start us.

I mean, we did all of this completely on our own.

Every driver has a spotter for Daytona.

Spotters have to be in the box, in the bird stand,

in order for cars to go on track.

When you take on becoming a team owner,

it's a pressure cooker.

There's a lot that rides on the decisions that you make.

The weight on my shoulders to make sure

that we have the right people implemented

is one of the hardest parts of my job.

Drivers are paying for their seat in the series.

The coaching staff, the engineering staff,

all of that has to be really cohesive to sell

the best possible product to the customer,

the race car driver.

I'm the person that you come to when you need things.

I am always gonna be that person,

whether it's a compliment, an argument,

something negative, something positive,

whatever it might be.

-All right? -[person] Yay!

[applause]

Drivers rely on me to do well,

and we also rely on our drivers for the best possible success.

Drivers, we got to make our way together.

We're a special group of people.

I don't know if that's good or if that's bad,

but we are a special group of people in the sense

that we're so family-oriented.

These crew guys, they've helped me raise my kids.

Now, I have two young kids, and they're aunts

and uncles to my children.

And you want to take care of your people, you know?

MX-5 Cup is my life and my career

and my business and my family.

And I'm gonna do whatever it takes to win

so that my team can be the best.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

[Nathanial] All right. [whistles softly]

Hey, who can whistle? [whistles softly]

[person] Hey, everybody!

Yeah, there's a whistle.

Is Sally here? Sally's here.

All right.

We're looking forward to a new series.

We've got about a bunch of returning faces.

Today, you know, we got qualifying race one.

And that's a lot up to you guys, to the drivers.

Sally, you know, this is new for you.

So good luck.

You know you can do it.

And we're expecting great things out of you.

It's gonna be a stellar year, guys.

-Let's do this. -[person] All right.

[cheers and applause]

[Nathanial] You know, I was a driver for a while.

And right off the bat,

running in this series is intimidating.

There's so much emotion in the car.

It's so loud.

The pressure in the car changes as cars pass.

So every sense we have as a human

is, like, pushed way further than you're normally used to.

And that's really hard to overcome.

We got Sally coming here for the first time.

Pretty daunting.

You're gonna have some trials and tribulations

there in the beginning.

It's very unlikely that you're gonna come in

and kick the door in and just succeed.

She's just gonna have a lot going through her head.

And we're throwing her off the deep end this weekend.

[dramatic music]

Take a deep breath when you get your helmet on.

All right? You got this, baby.

Hey, all you can do is the best you can do.

Drive fast, but let it rip.

OK?

We can replace a car. We can't replace you.

OK? So that's all that matters.

Have a good race.

♪ ♪

Today is qualifying and race day.

Qualifying is so short, and there's so much pressure.

Your fastest lap time in qualifying

determines your starting position for race one.

And then your second fastest lap time

will determine your starting position

for the second race.

Are you nervous?

I just need you to be a little bit more,

like, precise on your timing.

[Heather] Yeah, yeah.

[Shea Holbrook] Now you're nervous.

[both laugh]

Qualifying, it's just always been something

that I've struggled with.

For me, it's hard to just come out of the gate

doing super well.

[Sally] As one of the only girls in the series,

I want to be competitive.

It's just a matter of going on track

and surviving, staying safe.

This is nothing you hadn't done before.

[Sally] Sure, but you're gonna be in my ear, right?

[Brad] Yes, ma'am, the whole time.

Good. I like having you in my ear.

[Brad] Well, good.

[person] Yeah.

[percussive music]

[John] Beautiful weather here at Daytona

as the drivers make their way to the track

for their first qualifying session.

[Shea Adam] The best part about the series

is that it doesn't matter the speed of the cars.

It's how you finesse through the corners,

how you can keep your car going that tiny bit quicker

than the person ahead of you, because then you can draft up

behind them, you can get alongside them,

and you can make the pass before going into the next turn.

I need you to work with the two cars behind you a little bit.

Don't wait for them or anything.

But I'm trying to get them

a first two laps that are decent.

[Connor] I'll probably just go at the beginning with the pack.

And Neudorf has to stay with me.

OK.

[Connor] Because I'm not gonna push him.

I know.

Whether you're in a pack with your teammates

or you're racing in a pack with your competitors,

you have to utilize each other,

and you have to work together to achieve the fast laps,

to advance throughout the pack.

You need to follow Connor, OK?

My recommendation would be to stick with Neudorf

almost no matter what because he's gonna try

and go wherever Connor goes.

But if it gets to the point where you're not...

it's too much chaos for you, you make your own decision

-and let your spotter help you. -[Heather] OK.

But try not to leave our teammates.

Try not to.

[Heather] The Miata being a momentum car,

it forces you to have to use each other.

We have that ability to push each other and bang walls

and make contact pretty much everywhere.

And drivers take advantage of that.

Go.

[engines revving]

[Brad] Sally, drive this thing.

Let's go.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

There you go, Sally. Stay with us.

♪ ♪

[tires squealing]

Good job, girl. Good job.

[Shea Holbrook] Yes!

There we go!

There we go.

[Heather] I had a teammate, Connor Zilisch.

He was pretty much already done with his qualifying session,

and he just decided to help me on the last lap.

[Connor] I had already gotten my lap done.

I was P1 in qualifying.

And I had the option to either, you know, push Heather

and, you know, help her get a good lap...

When you don't really have someone to push you

and you're not right behind someone,

your lap's kind of killed at Daytona.

So, yeah, I stayed out even though I wasn't on a good lap

and pushed Heather, and she qualified

somewhere in the top 10 because of it.

[John] Heather Hadley has her best ever qualifying

for BSI in eighth.

Turns out we know what we're doing.

[Damon] See Heather's time?

-P8. -Holy shit.

Heather got P8?

-Heather got P8 on the last lap. -Fuck yes!

[laughs]

So we have...

We got five... four cars in the top 10.

Nice job, guys.

[Heather] That's the best I've qualified in this series

by far.

That lap wouldn't have been possible without his help.

-Yeah. -Hell yeah.

You did a great job prepping the cars, Bud.

Good job. I love you. I love you.

Sky's the limit for Heather.

She has the most support that I think

she's ever had in a race car.

Great job, guys!

Fuck yeah! Sorry.

Whoo!

I'm gonna get left behind.

One thing that has not happened in MX-5 Cup history is,

there has not been a female winner in MX-5 Cup.

As a female owner in the series, I'll tell you,

there's nobody that wants that more than Heather and I.

If we can push her to that,

you know, top step of the podium,

that's an ultimate goal.

And we'll make sacrifices to do that and get there.

I'm starting P23, not where I want to be, obviously.

It didn't feel straight, like, going on the banks and stuff,

like something wasn't quite connected in the front.

I didn't really tell anybody on the radio.

I didn't think it was worth mentioning.

And, honestly, I don't know what to feel for at Daytona.

I've never been here.

[Robby] Yeah, it looks like it's just leaking

from the pump, Sparky.

It looks like it might have a trans pump leak.

Which is not bad. We can adjust that.

So that's not a big deal.

We just want to make sure we didn't lose too much fluid.

I'm learning now, you know, everything's worth mentioning

because, obviously, there was some major issues.

So in qualifying, she didn't get the best lap

that she could have.

It happens.

My only thing was, I was like, hey, stay low in two

because, like, you kept going up high,

and people would pass you, like, five laps in a row.

I know.

I was driving the best I could,

but it wasn't good enough for my dad.

My dad has very high expectations.

And, you know, basically, he was telling me,

like, you need to get your head out of your ass,

and, like, you need to dig deeper

than you've ever dug before.

[rock music]

[indistinct chatter]

-Sally. Sally. -[person] Hey, guys.

-Hey, good job. -[Heather] Thank you.

That was...wow.

Thank you. How'd you do?

I did OK.

I think each session, I'm improving.

Yeah.

Not where I want to be, but chipping away at it.

-So... -Yeah.

I think every time... we've kind of made,

like, an agreement that every time

we see each other on track, we're gonna help each other out

and work together.

We don't really have as much, like, respect.

-[Heather] Yeah. -Yeah, it's kind of frustrating,

but I think we can always count on each other

to just work together when we happen to be

with each other on track, so it's kind of cool.

You know, it is a little bit of pressure

just to want to represent women well.

Like, let's make a little alliance here.

Let's stick together.

Yeah, I think you need to create, like, pacts

and stuff, you know.

-Yeah, alliances, friendships. -Exactly.

Let's show the world that, you know, female drivers

can also haul butt, right?

We can...we can drive.

[Heather] You need to have friends in this series

and not enemies.

The more you can have, and even if they're

part of different teams, anything, like,

hey, that'll help you get to the finish line.

-So... -Yeah.

Yeah.

[John] Beautiful weather, 75 Fahrenheit.

It's the first race for 2024.

[upbeat music]

Hi.

When I was pregnant, we were watching the Indy 500

with Danica Patrick almost winning and thinking,

wouldn't that be cool if Sally were a race car driver,

you know, and here she is.

It makes my heart race because she's out there alone

against mostly men in this man's world and...

you know, and this is one of the most intense things

that you can do in life.

I mean, you're putting your life on the line.

There's a lot of pressure.

You just hope everybody plays nice.

I know, I'm gonna keep my eye out on the start

and just look ahead.

First two laps, keep your head on a swivel.

-Yeah. -Yeah, just pay...

I mean, just pay close attention to what...

what's going on in front of you.

My name's Brad Little.

I am working with Spark Performance.

I am a technician.

So I make sure that car is ready to go

every time it goes on track.

So when it comes off track, we have checks we do.

We also debrief with drivers.

All right, I'm going to start suiting up.

Go ahead.

I get a call in the offseason.

Sparky's like, hey, you're gonna be with Sally this year.

She's new. She's a rookie.

You're probably the best fit because you have,

like, the most patience of anybody I've ever met.

I'm like, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

To anybody, girl or boy, coming into this series, it's...

it's very stressful.

These guys are very competitive when they get in there.

It's kind of overwhelming.

[Shea Adam] I am so excited.

28 drivers are suiting up for our first official race

of the season here at Daytona.

[Sally] The field is pretty stacked.

There's so much competition.

Honestly, I don't feel entirely comfortable in the car yet.

I'm just gonna try to make up as much time as I can

and just avoid the incidents

because I know there's gonna be

a lot of incidents in front of me.

OK.

[announcer] Five, four, three, two, one.

[Shea Holbrook] Here we go.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[Shea Adam] We've got the entire field

rolling out of the pit lane now.

Whoo! Race one, let's go.

[John] What a way to get things underway.

We are starting a new era and a new year of racing.

The green flag's in the air.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

[John] And it is the number 72 of Connor Zilisch for BSI Racing

who crosses the line first.

This is bump drafting.

All right.

[Brad] Good job, Sally. Stay with him. Stay with him.

Hadley's holding her own.

[John] Who's gone off that?

[Shea Adam] I think it's Heather Hadley.

Oh, that's Heather.

Shit.

[Shea Adam] Oh, she got a big tank-slapper.

[John] Oh, she'll be very disappointed with that.

She got hit.

[person] Somebody hit her.

[John] And she qualified in eighth.

That's comfortably her best qualifying position.

She's finished inside the top 10 before.

She's not qualified there.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Gresham Wagner will be pushed through by the 57

of Tyler Gonzalez.

And then the young man, BSI's Westin Workman,

he is the top rookie at the moment.

And Nathan Nicholson is just at the back of that group.

[Sally] Kind of catching this guy.

[Brad] Good job. Keep digging, girl.

Keep digging.

[John] From Spark Performance, Sally Mott up to 18th position

last time across the line.

[Sally, muffled] It's not turning in.

What did she say?

Something about turning in.

Did you say it's not turning in?

[Sally] Copy that. Yes.

[Brad] Not turning in.

OK, copy.

[Nathanial] All right, Sally, copy that.

There's not a whole lot we can do.

You just need to manage that vibration

and make sure to update us if it gets any worse or not.

You know, we could have lost the front sway bar.

And you just keep an eye on that vibration,

if it's getting any worse.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[Sally] Oh.

[Brad] OK, just stick with it.

Hang in there. Hang in there.

[Shea Adam] Sally Mott went for a bit of a wild ride.

[Brad] Keep your head down. Keep digging.

Keep digging. You're doing a damn good job.

♪ ♪

[Shea Adam] Heather Hadley going off-roading yet again.

Her car is a bucking bronco for this race, apparently.

God dang it.

[Heather] Fuck.

[John] She's had the right-hand side door mirror folded in.

So she's been attacking all the way through.

She'd got back up to just outside the top 12.

She was in the 14th position,

but that will have lost her a few more.

Let's get back in it, guys.

Come on.

[John] Heather Hadley recovering.

[Shea Adam] Bits are actually flying off the cars now.

We have six minutes, Sally, six minutes.

Just try to maintain the best you can.

[Sally] Copy that.

It's kind of getting worse, but I'll finish the race.

All right. Do the best you can.

[John] Westin Workman, the scholarship winner for BSI,

now leads the rookie.

Smart, Westin. Smart, Westin.

[John] The light blue, yellow, and white

is the number 72 of team BSI Racing.

Connor Zilisch yet to make his move.

Let's go, boys!

[John] 3 1/2 miles to determine the winner of the first round.

And it's been a banner performance

by Westin Workman for BSI Racing.

But is he at the right place now?

What has he got left?

Right now, a little sideways movement from Workman.

Ah, Jesus Christ.

Ah, Jesus Christ.

[John] This is the last of the braking areas.

They're coming over. They're coming.

[John] Here they come.

It's gonna be three wide through into the run to the line.

It's another blanket finish.

And Gresham Wagner's got the win,

pushed by Tyler Gonzalez.

Wagner wins it!

Wow, we didn't even get a podium.

Julian was way back.

And there you go.

You have successfully finished your first MX-5 Cup at Daytona.

We didn't even get nobody on the fucking podium.

God damn it.

[John] Westin Workman in seventh for BSI

is the best of the rookies in what's gonna be a great

Rookie of the Year battle.

[indistinct chatter]

[Heather] Just ended the first race of the season at Daytona.

I got shoved off track twice.

I feel like I have really good pace.

I feel like I'm just getting walked all over.

I've always been a little bit more of, like, a pushover.

Drivers, they'll send it on my inside,

or, like, make certain moves because they know that it's me.

[announcer] 1 and 2, the draft to perfection progression.

And he's your winner.

There is your victory podium, your top three

in round number one of the 2024 season.

[Heather] Tomorrow, I'm gonna try to prevent people

from walking all over me.

I'm never OK with finishing, you know, beyond

10th place or 15th place.

You know, we all have the same goal, that we want to win.

It was a great job.

I got ran off the track twice, so...

I...I know you...

It's just a matter of earning that respect.

And it will take some time, but...

[person] I hear ya.

[Heather] It's just annoying for the time being.

[announcer] It's a champagne shower.

[person] I hear ya.

You did a great fricking job, though.

You got back on there, and you hung in there.

I'm proud of you.

[Heather] Thank you.

[announcer] Congratulations once again to all of our drivers.

[Mina] Yay.

-[Sally] Oh, my God. -[Mina] What's the matter?

You're so tired, aren't you?

Dude, I got out of the car, and I was like,

oh, my God, I'm gonna pass out.

-[Mina] You did good. -Oh, my God.

[Sally] Race one, finished 20th.

So I gained some positions.

And I think I got a real taste of Daytona.

I got to shake and bake for real.

P1!

Hey, man, just get up in there,

have some fun, and maybe...

maybe you can beat that other girl.

I don't remember her name, but maybe you can beat her.

-[laughter] -Stop.

We'll work together.

We'll push each other to the front.

That would be cool.

It's tough.

We had virtually a perfect race, especially up front.

-[Heather] Yeah. -It's just luck.

-It's just bad luck. -Yeah.

Well, we'll get 'em tomorrow.

[Shea Holbrook] We'll win eventually.

-We'll get 'em tomorrow. -[Shea Holbrook] Just bad luck.

[Heather] Yeah.

Great job, girl. Proud of you.

-[Heather] Thank you. -Good job.

[Heather] I'm a sweaty mess.

[Shea Holbrook] Did I think I was gonna win?

I always think we're gonna win.

It's just if there's the one thing

that I could ask for, somebody, somebody,

just give us a little bit of luck.

Because all I've ever wanted to do is win here.

[sniffling]

I just want it so fucking bad for our team.

[Andrew] So...and I'm just gonna be very blunt here.

There's obviously a perception from last year, right?

And that makes it really hard for you

to get any help

because everyone's like, why would I help her?

She was in back last year.

It's gonna take you proving

that you can actually run up there and be up there

for these guys to really choose you

when they're picking a draft partner.

Last year, I definitely started towards the back

of the field with a lot to learn

and slowly started making improvements.

But I think a lot of drivers still have that idea of me.

But the pressure to do well isn't just about me.

I've had this amazing support system.

My family has sacrificed themselves

for me to be able to race.

[Damon] Good morning, Sweetie Pie.

-[Heather] Good morning. -[Damon] How you doing today?

[Heather] I'm good.

I'm just lucky to have a family that dropped everything

and put their lives on hold to help me pursue

my dream of becoming a professional race car driver.

-All right. -[Heather] Trophy room.

The trophy room.

[Heather] And that's a crazy dream to have.

If you're a realist, there's no way

you'd be like, I would choose this,

because there's no way you just keep coming back

and putting your money into it

just because the odds are so against you.

Your first day in your kart.

[Heather] Yeah, the helmet looks giant on me.

Well, they didn't have a helmet that fit you for years.

[Heather] I don't question at all whether my sacrifices

are worth it because it's my dream.

The only moments where I'll question

whether the sacrifice was worth it

is when it comes to my parents.

[Damon] So I built that mother-in-law,

or what Heather calls the Shoe.

I was a little old man who lived in the Shoe

because of the collapse in the economy in 2008.

[soft dramatic music]

They put a foreclosure notice on the house,

and there was no work.

So I decided, you know what?

Let's build the Shoe.

And we'll live in the Shoe, and we'll rent the house.

And we were able to save the home.

[Heather] The Shoe had everything you could need

to live packed into one space.

And then we would just lay the mattress on the floor...

-[Damon] Right. -[Heather] ...every night.

So, yeah, we'd just fold it up during the day.

[Damon] Yeah, I'd stand it up... I'd stand it up...

Stand it up, just be able to walk around.

-Put it out of the way. Yeah. -[both laugh]

[Heather] These buildings right here

are reflective of the support

you've always had for me and the love

you've always had for me.

And they're a symbol of pushing through

and not succumbing to dark times

and, you know, making it to where I am now.

Racing is never a guarantee.

It can be taken away at any second.

So that support from my family is something that

I really want to give back to them,

to make it all worth it in the end.

[rock music]

♪ ♪

[Shea Adam] We are gearing up for our second and final race

of the weekend here at Daytona.

Race two is always a little more wild.

So I'm excited to see what these drivers do.

[Shea Holbrook] All right, guys.

Crew chiefs and drivers in particular,

just wanted to say, thank you for yesterday.

There's not a single thing, really,

we would have changed yesterday.

This is a dog-eat-dog world.

Do what you got to do for yourself.

Let's continue this.

Let's have a great season.

Just thank you for everything, man.

[person] Thank you.

Have a good day.

I want people to remember us for...

yes, what we did, but who we are and that whole experience.

Do we have everybody?

[photographer] One, two, three.

Hold up the one.

Now, here we go...

-Dude. -[Robby] What's wrong?

So go to the front.

Smile, baby. It's race time.

Do you feel good, though?

-Yeah. -All right. Listen.

All you can do is the best you can do, right?

Nothing more.

Don't drive over your head.

Be smart. Look ahead.

Get a good start.

Don't speed out of the pits.

And have fun because when you smile out there,

you always do better.

[Sally] Today, the car should be better.

Unfortunately, I'm gonna be starting

pretty back of the pack.

I'm just gonna work on getting a good start

and try to avoid all incidents, just make my way up the pack.

[Brad] I'm here.

Oh, how you feeling?

[Sally] I'm good. I'm just...

Mm-hmm.

It might be a little bit more wild today

since nobody has to race tomorrow.

-Do you think so? -Probably.

That's usually how the MO works around here.

As the weekend progresses,

it's almost like a different breed

of drivers out there.

It's like they turn a switch.

So just be very cautious on the first two laps.

What's your name?

-Sally. -All right, then.

And what got you here?

-A shootout. -Shootout.

Driving ability. All right.

-That's all you got to remember. -All right.

Yeah.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[Shea Adam] There is a different attitude taken for race two

when you have time to fix the car before the next weekend.

Unfortunately, competitors do turn off

that extra smart switch in their brain,

and they do allow themselves to go a little bit more crazy.

They make the passes that maybe you wouldn't attempt

if it was race one.

[engines revving]

♪ ♪

Head right.

Take a deep breath before I call that green and go to work.

[Shea Holbrook] Here we go.

I'm just gonna go in with more of an aggressive mentality.

To survive in this series, you just need to have that.

[John] And we are racing for real at MX-5 Mazda.

[Brad] Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, green.

[John] What a way to get things underway.

[rock music]

♪ ♪

Let's take a look at... oh, sideways!

And a huge sideways swipe.

But this is two cars right on the fastest part

of the circuit.

[Shea Adam] Preston Pardus and Nathan Nicholson losing it

and actually sliding up into the wall.

There you go. Stay high. Stay high.

[Shea Adam] The yellows are out.

We are going to get the safety car.

[John] Really heads-up driving by everybody else.

All right, we're clear.

Thank God, we're clear. We're clear.

Just make sure you don't pass anybody on your yellow.

And then I will call the restart for you.

We'll get a good restart, OK?

You're doing a fabulous job, fabulous job.

How's Sally doing?

-She's good. -She's feeling it?

-Yeah. -Feeling it.

That's what she...she needed to be able to get by that

and not have any worries.

[John] Green flag, and we're racing again.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

[Shea Adam] It is fair game once again.

And then we're back to racing.

Feeling good.

Feeling optimistic.

[Sally] As I'm driving up on Heather,

like, I was actually, like, bumping her.

You know, when you get bumped, like, your head,

like, goes into the seat.

Like, you're actually getting bumped.

So it's pretty cool.

And it, like, pushes your car forward.

And then once you settle down and actually lock in,

you're just...constant push down the straightaway.

[cars bump, tires screech]

Ooh, ooh!

Jesus Christ!

[John] An incident at the west horseshoe,

Heather Hadley bumping Sally Mott.

Heather sent her.

Like, punted her bad.

Ease off. She's gonna get a penalty.

Just finish, OK?

Make sure Mike's head's up because Heather's under review.

[Sally] There's kind of a little bit of a vibration

in our front right.

All right, hon. Take deep breath for me.

Take a deep breath.

Focus on what's in front of you and just make up as much time

as you can, OK?

[Sally] Copy that.

That's gonna be an awkward conversation.

[John] I'm surprised that Connor's not

further up the field here.

Maybe he just hasn't got the setup today.

From McCumbee McAleer Racing, Nate Cicero,

oh, he's gonna take race two.

Heather Hadley, after a horrible race yesterday

when she qualified very, very well in eighth,

she qualified 18th today and finished 11th.

Good job, Sally. Good job. Good drive.

Take a deep breath, think about all the crap

you just went through, and look where you're at.

You finished your second race in a row.

[Sally] Yeah, yeah. Copy that.

[Brad] All right? So be proud of yourself.

You did good.

No sweat. Hard race. Lots of movement.

Lots of shit going on.

You did a good job. You're holding your own.

You're making... you're proving to people, right?

Perception's reality.

We got to make some...

we got to create the perception, and you're doing that.

-So good job. Good job. -Thank you.

Good job.

[tense music]

[Sally] We were talking,

"we'll work together," and "girl power."

And on track, it seemed like she had different ideas.

[announcer] Our highest-finishing female award

from BSI Racing is Heather Hadley.

[cheers and applause]

[Heather] I'm very happy that I was

standing on the podium today and get $2,000.

It really does help us along the way.

[Sally] I was right on the outside of the kink,

and she just ran me right off.

Like, right there. And I was, like, driving.

I'm like, dude, do not turn it.

And she goes, bzzt, and I spin.

I'm like, we're supposed to be on the same team.

It just felt a little bit like betrayal.

-What's up? -Yo, good job, man.

The incident on the track sucked.

Dude, you were all the way to the side of the track,

and she... all I saw was tire smoke.

She just straight drove right into you.

-Yeah, I know. -[Robby] I don't understand it.

What Sally's most hurt about right now

is that Heather won't even look at her.

She didn't apologize for it.

She didn't even acknowledge it.

And that really just hurt Sally's feelings.

She thought they were friends.

I mean, we're friendly, like, off...

I don't know, dude.

I thought we could at least... I don't know, but...

[Robby] It's racing, I get that.

But, like, yeah, I thought, hey, girl power.

You guys...you had an... she had an opportunity to push.

You guys could have went forward,

but she just cut you off and spun you out.

But way to hang in there.

Way to keep your head up.

As far as holding grudges,

if anybody's gonna hold one, it's gonna be me.

Just know it's racing, and you showed really, really well.

I mean, you're out there running

with guys that have been doing this for four, five, six years.

You should be proud of yourself. I am.

Good job.

[♪ Dave Antrell: "Wherever You Are"]

♪ ♪

[singer] ♪ I cried my heart out ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I wished on a star... ♪

[Brad] At the end of the day, they're race car drivers.

It don't take much to set a driver off.

Going into the next race, which is Sebring,

it's not starting from ground zero

like we did at Daytona.

She's gonna take what she learned from this track

and transfer it to the next track.

[singer] ♪ I prayed in the chapel... ♪

-Thank you. -Thank you.

Of course. Thank you.

The only way to advance is to work together,

but then do whatever it is to get to the front.

It's very dog-eat-dog.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

Of course.

[Shea Holbrook] You want to move forward

and you want to be the best,

you have to position

and manipulate people to get there.

[singer] ♪ Wherever you ♪

♪ Are ♪♪

[♪ Naomi August: "Downtown"]

♪ ♪

[singer] ♪ I need deliverance ♪

♪ If you want to come and set me free ♪

♪ There's no forgiveness ♪

♪ For the way you're touching me ♪

♪ I've been waiting ♪

♪ My body's aching ♪

♪ Spark that lighter up ♪

♪ Tonight, we're blazing ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ See the city lights, it's the red light district ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ See the city lights, it's the red light district ♪

♪ Do you wanna go downtown? ♪

♪ ♪

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