Andy Stumpf
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Um, the option for me was okay.
not say you've done it, still a great competition.
We had Ken Block, Tanner Faust at the beginning of that stuff, and there's a lot of great drivers.
But for the most part, in the U.S., if you're a great driver in any type of anything, you're going NASCAR or maybe IndyCar if you came from karting.
So the option to kind of keep chasing the best to see how far I could go was move to Europe.
Well, Subaru just pulled out of the WRC Championship, which is World Rally.
And I'm like, I'm not willing to give up the life I have here in the States with the friends and the family and everything that I've built to go see if I can make it over there.
But I'm like, maybe NASCAR.
I'm like, I don't I've never really tried pavement.
I don't really understand it.
Is it harder?
So let's not say harder and easier.
Let's look at an F1 driver or an IndyCar driver and their OCD for lack of a better word.
How they dress is very proper.
How they do everything in their life.
Imagine that.
there is a perfect way around the racetrack if it's paved there's a perfect now if the cloud cover comes over or anything track temperature changes but right now circuit racing is for very intelligent human beings it is for people that analyze everything that understand everything that have a great crew chief that have a great support team around them it's for people that are able to break if you're going 200 miles an hour
You have to break at the exact same place every time.
And Scott Speed was great because he didn't understand my mentality at all.
We made a great team because he was great on one side and I was great on the complete opposite side.