- [Interviewer] What did you think of the Netflix series "Drive to Survive?" Do you think a series like this... (laughs) - I thought they killed it with "Drive to Survive." It's perfect. It's, it's enjoyable. It's enjoyable for people that like racing and people that don't like racing. And if you're able to, if you're able to do that, it's really impressive. They just made an entertaining
product, essentially. They've captivated people that didn't care anything about Formula 1, and now all of a sudden
they love Formula 1, you know, just by the entertainment factor but also the interest that they were able to generate on the drivers themselves, the process that they go through, the complexity of the racing, it's really interesting. And they captured it with a lens that people hadn't seen previously. So I thought it was really
positive for IndyCar. We could absolutely use
something like that. It's something that we're
trying to do a little bit with our ADMIT1 YouTube series. You know, we were trying to give people, you know, it's not as glitzy and glammy. We are not putting near
the production budget in place like that, but just giving people
that alternate perspective or look inside what we're doing, I think is interesting, and so, you know, certainly we're trying to
achieve a similar result with a much slimmer, much slimmer budget, but yeah, I think, I think a bigger budget production, you know, drive to survive type formula for IndyCar could be really big. - [Interviewer] What is
your favorite type of music? Do you listen to any music to get you pumped up on race day? - I don't, I don't listen to music to get pumped up on race day. I like music. I like all types of music. I mean I like, R & B, I mean, I'm talking like
some old school stuff, Boyz II Men, you know, any new school rap. That's normally what I'm listening to when I'm working out. But I love, you know, rock, alternative, bands like Linkin Park. I also like some bands that are a lot more slow
pace, like Coldplay. So I'll listen to everything Yellow Card, Green Day, you know, it doesn't matter. I like pop too, you know, throw some, I listen to Justin Bieber. I listen to everything. There's nothing that's
really off the table for me when it comes to music. But I don't, I don't use it as a tool to prep for the race car. Some guys do that. I just, it's never been my thing. - [Interviewer] Do you
race rookies different than more experienced competitors and who is the, who is the hardest driver
to pass on the track? - You definitely race, yeah, I race people, I race everybody different, you know, you're constantly analyzing, you know, what you can
do with each competitor. And I think rookies, they have their own sort of, they have their own sort of section as far as the way you approach them. But there are certain people that you can trust a little bit more, even if they're a rookie like a guy like Pato O'Ward, he was really solid. He was someone that I could race super, you know, super hard and aggressive, and I knew that I was gonna get the respect in return. You don't always get that with someone that's new in the series. So, it is very much case by case. I don't think it matters
if you're a veteran or you're a rookie, you're constantly analyzing how you can push people or not push people. What was the second part of that? Who's the toughest to pass? (sighs) I gotta tell you, I think Will Power is
probably the toughest to pass, even though he's my teammate. Like he's the hardest
guy for me to get around. I don't know why, man. He just, sometimes too, he will be dying on tires and just not give it up, not give it up. He's always the hardest for me. - [Interviewer] If you
could pick any race to win that isn't the 500 or Nashville, - Okay. - [Interviewer] Which
one would it be and why? - Right. Well, - I feel like I'm always gonna say it's the next one. You know, whatever the next one is, the next opportunity, I want to win it. Probably Long Beach at this point. I mean, if it's not, you know if it's not Indy, if it's not Nashville, Long Beach is probably
the most prestigious outside those two for me, but they're all important. I mean I enjoy, any victory you can, you can get is impressive I think, at this level. So you appreciate all of them, but yeah, Long Beach would be up there. - [Interviewer] How much input
do you give your engineers about car set up? Are you a driver that likes to give a lot of feedback on how to tweak and dial into perfect suspension or arrow set up of your car, or do you trust the engineers and stay out of that part mostly? - It's a collaboration, you know, I mean you're, you try and find that balance. I think the engineers, look, the engineer can
only be so successful or can only be as effective as the driver will let them be. And I think the, you know, driver can be only as effective as the engineer will let them be. I guess what I mean by that is, you know it's, it's a two-way street. Like you can have a really good driver with sort of a limited engineer, and they might not find success
and then vice versa. You might have a really capable engineer, like world-class engineer, but a not so great driver. And again, they may not find success. So there's a balance there but I like to give a lot of feedback. I'm very involved in our setups, very, very involved. And I think that's the right way to be, you know, as far as the hard details go, that's not us. The engineers are so good. You know, my engineer Gavin Ward they're putting in the
long hours, you know, the aggressive amount
of work that's going in as far as figuring out how to map the car, especially if you have
a new arrow part on it, it's a tremendous amount of hours to map the car, understand how that's
affecting everything, then when we're given the information, you know, we test it live in real life. And so, I have hands-on feedback for, you know, what I felt of it, but they're putting in all the work to prep those items, to get them to you, or prep setups. But that direction that you
give is really critical. You know, you're directing the engineer on how you want them to
approach new setups for the car. Sometimes they can come up
with that by themselves, or sometimes they're looking for direction from the driver, so yeah, I guess at the end of the day, I'm very, very involved, but it's a collaborative
effort all the way through. - [Interviewer] What would
your ideal IndyCar schedule be, ignoring money and
practicality and probability, if you were in charge? - Ideal schedule? - [Interviewer] And why
would it be 17 races at Iowa? - Is that what he says? (laughs) Oh man, yeah. Well, we definitely have
a doubleheader at Iowa. Mandatory. We throw Milwaukee back in there. No I think, ideal schedule for me, 21 events. I just think that's a really good number. You know, it's not, it's a nice number, 21 events, more short ovals. We'd be putting on Milwaukee. Definitely going back to Iowa, A hundred percent going to Richmond. I had to think about that. I wanted to say Rockingham for some reason Richmond would be incredible. It's basically like Iowa, but smoother. We'd keep a lot of what
we have on the calendar, but we'd add some international stuff. Go back to Surfers, go to Suzuka, probably go to Brands Hatch, and call it a day. Brands Hatch GP. Just want to be clear on that if you didn't think that. - [Interviewer] Who are your, who are three former
drivers that you'd hate, and by that I mean fear, to face in modern setups? - I think Senna is top of the list, a hundred percent, you know, that's obvious. I think anyone would
want to go against Senna in modern equipment, but you just don't know. I think it's really hard to
judge drivers across eras. You know, most sports have that argument, who's the greatest ever. I think racing is no different. You can't judge, you can't judge drivers across eras. There's too many differences. So Senna would be one, you know going all the
way back to like Fangio. I think he would be an
amazing person to go against. I think Schumacher, Schumacher is kind of a, you know he's an obvious one too, but he would be really interesting too. Anyone that's considered, I think, one of the best or that, you know, really, you know, excelled above everybody in a certain era would be top of my list to go
against in modern equipment. - [Interviewer] Joseph, can you confirm that Spencer Pigot is actually Macklemore? There are no images to be found with them in the same place and time, so I'm just curious. I did not make this up. - Okay. Okay. I don't, I don't know. I have no idea if Spencer
Pigot is Macklemore. He may be. I mean that's true. They probably haven't ever been in the same place at the same time. It could also just be cause they don't know each other, but they also may be the same person. I can't confirm or deny that, I have no idea. - [Interviewer] Would you rather have four IndyCar championships or four Indy 500s? - Four Indy 500s, all day. I mean, yeah how could you not? I mean. - [Interviewer] So here's a
better way of saying that. You have no championships right now. - Uh huh. - [Interviewer] What was the answer? - What would I choose? Yeah, I would say, I think it would more so be if I had no championships right now, you would a hundred percent
take the four Indy 500s. If it was like, you know, hey, you got to
give back two championships to have four Indy 500s, I think you'd probably
still make that dirty trade. It's a dirty trade, but you know what? I'd take it. - [ Interviewer] Hi Joseph,
if you got the chance, would you run the mall, Daytona 500, or any other crown jewel events? - All of them. Yeah, I want to do all those. - [Interviewer] If you could drive anybody in the two-seater, who would it be and why? - Anybody in the two seater? - [Interviewer] And then which track. - And which track? You know, I really wanna, I really wanna give my wife a ride in the two seater. I think she would enjoy that. I think she would be blown away by, you know, how much is actually going on. I think she actually wants to do that. So I'll probably, I'll probably give my wife Ashley a ride at some point.
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Great video!!! Good luck this weekend!
Current set plus Milwaukee, Iowa, Richmond, Gold Coast, Suzuka, Brands Hatch full circuit.
I am liking this JoNew schedule
(far better than some of the fantasy schedules that get posted here...)Indycar should've put Josef front and center more when he was champ.
The guy is definitely a good ambassador for the sport.
Great content. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Josef for doing this! Good luck at Barber!
I love this. I didn't know about those Admit1 videos until now and they're so fun to watch. Tell Josef the fans love those!
Thanks for the captions!
Also, even though the song is about Jacksonville, and in Long Beach, it's a couple miles from the track, but did Josef ever take you to a place off Ocean Avenue, where he used to sit and talk with you?