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Sleep will be a dream now, man.

I have a feeling that you should eat those words.

You sound just like my teammate Simon. He has to have like 4 or 5 cups of coffee in the morning.

I'm usually good with three or four but I've had about seven today and the only thing I've managed to accomplish is using the restroom. I don't think I feel any more awake then I did before.

Were you up really late last night or something? Or I've always wondered if there's like a limit where the human body is no longer affected by caffeine.

Perhaps a little of both, but usually I can snap out of it with a cup of coffee regardless of when I went to bed so I'm starting to think it's mostly the latter. Which is a shame, I love coffee for more than its taste.

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I'd say energy drinks, but I know those come with some bad headaches for some people. Me, I actually just drink a lot of juice. [Laughs softly.] Were we introduced before?

I'd probably be one of those people. Just about anything gives a me a headache. Coffee's not so bad, but I've been drinking it since I was about fifteen so I'm likely immune to that aspect. Apparently I'm immune to it's effects too now though.

Juice? It's probably better than coffee! I'm not sure, but don't take that as a reflection on you. I've been a bit frazzled lately.

It's okay. So have I. I still am a little bit, actually. But I'm Shelby, it's really nice to meet you.

By the way, I did not get that funnel cake but I did get some cupcakes. Turns out the catering at the track had cupcakes. So...not a bad consolation prize.

Admittedly, myself as well. I'm better with faces then names anyway, admittedly! I'm Gabriel, or Gabe if you'd like.

See! Those are both equally as delicious! Even if you had to suffer through. [He laughs.]

Gabriel, nice to formally meet you. (Laughs.)

Suffering comes this afternoon - three layers of fire suit in an enclosed car on a hot track.

The pleasure is mine.

I'm fairly certain there's a lot of people out there saying that it's not good to sit in a car without the added addition of a fire suit. I'm assuming this is for a reason?

[Momentary confused look.] --Oh! I'm sorry, I thought I may have mentioned it before. I'm a racing driver.

Oh really? That's impressive. I couldn't do anything of that nature, I don't even have the tendency to play racing games. Unless you count Mario Kart.

That's okay, it's not for everyone. What is it you do?

I own two record shops one in Metropolis and the other in New York City. So not nearly as exciting. And it's not, but that's very impressive none the less.

Kind of like High Fidelity? And we'll see if it's impressive after tomorrow. One more race to go.

Sort of, yeah. Oh well I wish you the best of luck!

Thank you. You know, that's one thing I always thought would be cool about IndyCar. If we could have entrance music like the NASCAR guys do.

I didn't even know the NASCAR people did. That does sound fun. Any idea what you'd want your music to be?

They do at Bristol. I really like that song "Animals" by Maroon 5. But, you know, there's the easy way of just picking any song with a car pun in it. Or anything by The Cars. Or REO Speedwagon.

I got so little sleep when Aster was born that I think I actually started to hallucinate.

I got so little sleep to begin with, she seems to wake up just before I fall asleep so then I'm up all night. I think I may start to hallucinate!

You probably will!

That's not reassuring.