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Our show for March 9, 2010
LIVE from McGilvery's in Speedway, Indiana!
The Autosportradio.com Show airs live starting at 7:00 p.m. ET.
We are now streaming live video of our show!
Once the show has been moved to our archives, the following link will become blue, allowing you to watch or listen to the show:
VIDEO AUDIO
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Our First Scheduled Guest
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Melani Troxel
After growing up going to NHRA national events with father, Mike, every occasion Troxel has behind the wheel of a racecar is the realization of a lifelong dream.
Throughout her racing career, Melanie Troxel has been the model of the never-say-die attitude. The second-generation drag racer has encountered the kind of stumbling blocks that made more than one driver throw up their hands and walk away. Yet Troxel has been able to adapt to her changing situations and thrive when the opportunities have come her way.
The 2010 season brings new opportunity and new challenges. Troxel is reuniting with In-N-Out Burger, who sponsored her during her sportsman days, and will be pulling double duty this season with R2B2 Racing -- driving eight races in a Funny Car and 10 more in Pro Mod. The schedule dictates that sometimes she'll drive both of her cars at the same event, something she's never done during her driving career.
In 2000, Troxel graduated to the pro ranks of Top Fuel and won the NHRA's Road to the Future honors. During her career in a nitro dragster, Troxel reached 14 final rounds and won four times, and in 2006 collected numerous national awards, including being named Sportswoman of the Year by Billie Jean King’s Women’s Sports Foundation.
In the 2008 season, Troxel made the switch to Funny Car and won again, becoming the first female driver in history to have won a race in each of the NHRA's top two categories -- Top Fuel and Funny Car. In all, only 14 racers have accomplished the feat.
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Our Second Scheduled Guest
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( Tony and Mom Pam)
Pam Boas
When you talk with the mother of a racecar driver the conversation usually turns to family and children. Most like to talk about how lucky they are to have such a dedicated and determined son.
The best stories are the ones about when their son was a little boy, learning to race. Most of the moms will tell you they believed it was just a phase. Their son was going to be a businessman, a doctor, a salesman or whatever, but not a racer. Maybe they started on two wheels, maybe they started on four, but they all started the same way, dreaming of becoming a professional driver and someday winning the big race, like say the Daytona 500.
Of course, a few grew up dreaming of winning the Indianapolis 500. When you are born and raised in Indiana, that's to be expected. That was childhood dream. I think, Tony Stewart's somewhere, it still might be. But now he is a two-time Nextel Cup Series champion. He is a leader in the sport, a champion of charitable giving, and one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR history. Of course Tony also brings a lot of color with him to the track, and not all of it is orange.
So what is it like to be his mother?
"It depends on the day," said Pam Boas, Stewart's mom. "And it depends on what he has said on his radio show. We always taught him to be honest. We told our children that kids sometimes stretch the truth and they should not do that. If it comes back to us, it's going to get to you."
"Maybe that's why Tony is so brutally honest," Pam said. "That's the way he was raised, to tell the truth. Maybe we should have spent a little more time on tact".
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