Unwinding with Racing Stars at Grand Prix of Long Beach

Unwinding with Racing Stars at Grand Prix of Long Beach
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YH continues our amazing day at the Grand Prix of Long Beach! After having taken a ride with Mario Andretti himself and shaking our booties with Helio Castroneves, we catch up with Sage Karam as he takes us around his team's labyrinthine network of trailers, and then Josef Newgarden lets us sit in his cozy ride! Then it's off for a pit stop at the Paddock Club for a little lunch and unwinding, and there we chill out with Conor Daly, who reveals some other super-crazy experiences he'd love to have!
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Hey guys, Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood back at the Long Beach Grand Prix. It has been one amazing day with Indycar, right? Sage, one of the younger boys on the tour, 20 years old, how is that going for you?
Uh, it's good but that sometimes it's rough. I'm uh, I got some of the biggest pranksters on this team, so uh, being the young gun and having Tony, who's also the oldest guy in the series, you know, on one team is pretty fun but you know, I'm learning a lot and uh, you know, we take every day as a learning experience and just getting better and better.
Okay, you said pranks, what are they doing to you? Now, you gotta spill.
We were on the airplane and they had the flight attendants say on the whole plane that my, that my mom called and told me that I left my SpongeBob pajamas behind. It's just embarrassing stuff, you know.
Show me your car.
Oh yeah, let's go. Okay. We have I think five or six trailers that all connect to each other. There's a shock room up in there where they work on all the shocks and dampers and stuff. And then we can go out here to the cars. There's two cars out there and two cars on that side. This is where our PR guy, his little station, his little cubby. And this is where we all just eat lunch and stuff when lunch comes.
Nice. Do you eat like a 20-year-old or do you eat like a professional athlete?
No, I eat like a 20-year-old. That's for sure. And then, and then the other one, I'm trying to smile now. I would, of course, it's the messiest. This is my uh, my mechanic here, his name's Mike.
Hey mechanic. How you doing?
Eating, it's good.
This is my car.
So, obviously, racing your biggest passion, if not the biggest passion in your life, what's another passion you have?
I like, I mean, I'm a big athlete. I like football. I think that's my second love, would be football. So, um, anything athletic and anything with an engine, I'll, I'll drive it. So.
Great. Yeah. Nice to meet you guys. Thank you.
Pleasure. Yeah. Thank you.
Joseph, good to see you again.
Great to see you. Long Beach is here. It's my favorite time of year. Our favorite time of year.
What have you been up to, young gun?
I've been up to a lot of things. Uh, I got a new team, CFH Racing. Been on simulators a lot. That's what we use in Indycar to train.
Is this a 24-hour a day, seven-day a week, 52-week out of a year job?
It is. It's, it's very demanding. You know, people don't know necessarily what race car drivers do but, you know, we train a lot. It's very physical inside these cars. There's a lot of work that goes into it and I, I spend a lot of time with the team trying to make myself better.
Speaking of cars and drivers, I just got out of a two-seater with Mr. Mario Andretti and he took me around twice.
That's cool. Mario's okay. He's getting a little old but, you know, he's Mario Andretti. He's like one of the most famous race car drivers in American racing history. So that's cool but, maybe you could try my car. My car is pretty cool too, right?
Do you want to step in? May I?
You can. Yeah. It's a little tight of a fit. Yeah. But you'll figure it out. Yeah. And then you just, you plop right down, you know. You slide in as they would say.
As they say. It's nice, right? Woo! You think you could drive one of these things?
Absolutely not. Absolutely not. No. No.
Thank you.
Thanks for coming to and seeing my car.
Amazing. Beef. All right, it has been a long day and I am starving. Right now, I'm outside the Indycar Paddock Club. This is where drivers bring their VIPs, celebrities come here, all their sponsors and I hear it is the best food at the track. Let's go. Okay, I see dessert over here but I think I'm gonna have to come back for that because I'm out of hands. Okay, let's try the food. Good. Connor, so here I came, having a little lunch and I run into you. It's a very special place we're in, right?
Yes, exactly. This is the Paddock Club where we're all coming to chill out and have a nice meal after long stressful activities of the day.
Okay, if you could do something crazy besides driving a car at 200 miles an hour, what would it be?
I would do some skydiving. I want to do some of that. I think that would be kinda cool. Uh, I want to go to space. Don't know how well that's gonna work out but I'd like to go there.
So then how do we wind down? How do I wind down? Some wine down.
I mean, you know, I'll have a nice relaxing day here. Um, won't be drinking on a race weekend but you can have wine, you can have whatever you want here because we've got
We've got all kinds of stuff here. We've got wine. Wait, there's water. Can I pour you that?
Absolutely, absolutely. Oh, look we have desserts. Which one you want? I'm down for this one.
Okay, let's peel it. Let me give the athlete the water.
Oh yeah, thanks.
Give the reporter the wine. Thank you for ending my amazing day. Thank you for being here. Cheers.
Thanks. Thank you.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Leslie Robbins
Young Hollywood reporter and host
- Sage Karam
IndyCar driver, toured his team's trailer
- Tony
Oldest guy in the IndyCar series, teammate of Sage Karam
- Mike
Sage Karam's mechanic
- Josef Newgarden
IndyCar driver, allowed host to sit in his car
- Mario Andretti
Famous race car driver, mentioned for giving a ride
- Conor Daly
IndyCar driver, interviewed at the Paddock Club






