Where the Where is James? Where's James? God bless America. This is my friend James. Only I didn't know him a week ago. So, you're probably wondering how we ended up flying James 4,000 mi from London to the biggest race in the world, the Indianapolis 500.
Come on. It's the best kiss I've ever done. feels very kit also. Here's how it all went down. For the last two years, we've done Indy500 bigger than just about anyone. Year number one, I was first in line for the infield.
We threw a crazy tailgate. I'll never forget. There was a 4-hour rain delay and everyone went crazy. Then in year number two, we hosted a $50,000 tailgate with over a,000 people, dozens of sponsors. It was nuts. But we knew that this year for year three, we had to go even bigger.
Let's see how our new mates feeling across the pond in London. I am James, the potentially delusional Brit that has somehow been convinced by a stranger to travel 4,000 miles across the world to a race. If you would have asked me a week ago, I would not have been able to tell you it's a real thing. I didn't know that Indy500 existed. All right, let's go meet James. With James making the long trek to Indie, we were ready to show him what your hospitality is all about.
Hell yeah, brother. So, I've just arrived in Indianapolis. See if I can find Nate and the boys. This is James. Good. What's up, guys?
How are you, mate? How are you, dude? What's the time change? Um, 5 hours. So, it's like midnight at home. Yeah.
So, I deliberately didn't sleep. You know what I mean? I've I've been disciplined. So, you're ready to go. Jet lag doesn't exist. James just flew 4,000 mi to come to his first ever Indy500.
Let's go. What did your girlfriend say when you told her, "Hey, I'm going to be gone this weekend. I'm going to America." And we were going out for dinner on a Friday night. So, I was like, "Got something to tell you." She hates surprises.
So, I've gone there and just like told her and she's like, "That's actually just sounds so cool." So, this is where we play football. That's the wrong kind of football. No, the right kind of football right there. We also have Caitlyn Clark. Are you familiar with her?
No. You don't know who Caitlyn Clark is? No way. She's like the biggest female athlete right now. I would say the Indie 500 is huge. Like this specific race, the amount of people I saw in the airport speaking about it, caps on and stuff.
This weekend, the only thing that everyone is going to be talking about, watching, doing is the Indie 500. Going to be over 350,000 people. Whoa. James and I got connected by our mutual friend Joey Speed. I met Joey at a wedding and invited him to the race. He couldn't make it, so he introduced me to James.
What is a tailgate? We don't know what that is in the UK. It almost felt like a scam. Like, he didn't feel real. You know what I mean? It was so like so unexpected.
I'll never win anything. And like I know this isn't a prize necessarily, but I was just like, "Oh, there's got to be a catch." And you called me up like just taking it in because I was just thinking like I almost didn't trust you. We had a warm welcome for James back at the house. Then it was time for his second introduction to American culture. Don't eat the toothpick.
Very good. I wouldn't have been able to tell that was pork, though. What would you think it was? Kind of like deep fried chicken, I would say. Would you order that on your own? That's good.
I would definitely order that on my own. Yeah, for sure. Pork tenderloin gets a thumbs up. I got no lettuce or tomato in that bite. I just got bread and pork. Is drinking a big thing at car day?
Yeah. I did not know that. It's Miller Light carb day. I thought it was just like a hangout. Oh no. People come to get a borderated.
What do you think the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is going to be like? Big, loud. There's going to be no cap on emissions causing a big dent in a planet, but but good fun. We're going to go down to the pits and check it out there. Let's go. Let's go, buddy.
We were curious how different the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was from anything in London. Yeah. I'm just taking everything in. It's quite mad when you when you get here in person, everything just feels much bigger. Starting to get an idea of what 300,000's going to feel like. Looking like a chicken tender basket for the first meal of the day to let you know you're alive.
I hope I go home with like at least pre-diabetic. That's the plan. I'm starting to realize America is unnecessarily necessary. It absolutely makes sense here. Oh no. He's good.
Would it work? But that can be the difference between winning and losing the Indy500. This all of a sudden right here feels very American. Are they all a similar size to that? Yeah. Who we got here?
for we had one final tradition for James to check out. What do you think, James? I can't wait for the race. It's the best kiss I've ever had. That last of the three. This is an American staple.
James' first bush apple. Bapp as uh Will Hudson would call it. Oh yeah. It is like fizzy apple juice. Maybe a bit more light cider. That is kind of laser.
Bro, I think James throws better than you do. Finally, we asked James why he said yes to this crazy idea. Why did you fly 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to come to your first Indy500? I was working in engineering for about 10 years. This is like my job and I tried to pursue a different career. I've since done that.
And one of the biggest reasons for me to do that was I felt like I wanted to travel more. It broadens your horizons. You get to learn new things. And when you're offered like a free trip to do something that I know nothing about, it's like why would why would you not want to do that? You know, there's a potential that I could die. Like I don't know this guy.
I could literally be in an Indiana basement somewhere and that would be the last of me. I'm a big believer and following my gut whenever I've done that. It served me well. My gut was screaming at me to come. I was thinking if my gut is this strong, it's like I'm going to regret this cuz can you imagine I didn't do it and then someone else has done it and you look and go that could have been me. James, we're going to be right up there in the front corner.
Turn three. Snake pit you got going on back here. EDM music blaring. Everyone here having as much fun as humanly possible. We treated James to a classic American breakfast before heading off to the parade. We've got the spread on the nook.
Have you chose a favorite yet? I've got a couple. Ray could be your guy. Bit more confidence though. I like that. Bit more.
You know, this is what I'm talking about. Previous F1 driver. Roman Grojan. Then we've got Joseph New Garden. We watched some highlights last night. Joseph won those two races.
23. I remember some brownie points for me there. about to hit the craziest limbo known to man. Is enjoying himself. Ilio's going for his fifth ever. Give Ed a little flash in the the jacket.
Let's go. You've seen all the drivers, but we're going to pick your favorite tomorrow morning at the track. Now, people think Indiana's only known for racing, but we've also got a pretty good food culture. Let's see if James can handle the heat. James just went to the bathroom. He has no idea what he's getting into.
We're here at St. Elmo steakhouse that has the best and possibly the hottest shrimp cocktail in the world. What ingredients do you think come in a shrimp cocktail? A lot of shrimp. Based on what you said, I think a lot of chilies. Chilis.
It's going to be spice. This has been open since 1902, I guess. Yes. We're talking British times. All right, James. I'm happy to go first.
We're going to have you go first, buddy. Fork it. Yep. There you go. All right. Load that puppy up.
There you go. Let's go. Oh my god. That's not wasabi here. Do you have a tear coming? It's allergies.
Cheers. Now he's This is like a civilized version of Russian roulette. Now you got the cowboy rib. Can I get a yee-ha? First impressions where I've tried it. The fattiness ratio, that marbling is um I'm liking that.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Around here, we ran into our first big problem. 85% chance of rain tomorrow. This is not good. My flight back is on Monday.
Your flight back is on Monday at like 3:00 in the afternoon. Does it just get scrapped? So if the race gets delayed more than 4 hours, they move it to Monday. And is there enough time for me to do that and then get to the flight? We might be able to tailgate a little bit in the morning. And you'll have to Uber straight from the race track to the airport to catch you.
You're going to have to WhatsApp me if my chosen winner comes through there. Oh gosh, we have put so much effort into this video for us to get rained out and you not even see the 500. The next 5ish hours are actually critical. So, this is where we pack everything up. Everyone meets at my house. We get all the trucks situated and then we get to see is someone going to line jump us?
Like you can't pay for a good space either. No, it's first come. I actually love this. This is for the people, you know. It is truthfully for the people. And how catastrophic would that be?
No, it would ruin my streak. No way. Some friends came over to help pack because we have to camp overnight if we're going to keep the streak alive. We rolling deep this year. What's our updated weather report? So, there's been some recent models that have come out and they're showing that this this system here is going to split and we'll have a southern system that's going to hit southern Indiana, Kentucky, northern system that's going to hit like Lafayette and a sort of a Moses partying of the Red Sea situation here with Indianapolis right in the middle.
You know, on the eighth day, he said, "Let my people race, baby." I didn't anticipate this is going to be such a graph to be fair. We're getting there slowly but surely. All right. Well, we've got 100 cartons of milk. How come we need that much milk?
As an annual right of passage every year for the 500, I wear my uh signature cowboy hat. Um so we figured it's only right that you also have your own your own piece of headwear. Come on. This place is under no management. Yes. Is it?
No razor No razor blades. No razor blades. I haven't put any in there. No, not yet. Come on. Well, you can't go to Indy500 without a good pair of Jords, but you have to cut them yourself.
They're literally spray, bro. That's how they got to be, bro. This might be the look when you get back. There's no way those are fitting. There's no way. Are we going to have a look, bro?
We need the full fit. I can't even. All right, these going to go down. Oh, that cinnamon stick is good. Shout out to our friends at Greeks Pizza. We're going to go through Speedway, 16th Street.
It'll be sick. It'll be a lot of lot of commotion. Keep your head on straight. We're going to come from the west side towards the east side. I'll pull right up to the first gate. Everyone else just kind of make a line in order.
Throw on your flashers. We'll get out. We'll put some [ __ ] out that they leave there. And uh then we'll grab some chairs and we'll hang out. Oh [ __ ] This was the moment of truth to see if we could keep my streak alive. We're three turns away.
Three turns can make or break the Indy500. Too many of the drivers know that. Three turns. It's not over till it's over. Harry, we coming up to the last turn, mate. This is a completely different feel to it now.
No. No. No way. Oh [ __ ] Shout out to the youngsters. They beat us. They now hold the title for first in line for the Indy500.
We were bummed out, but we couldn't keep our heads down for too long. What are we drinking? Patron. Ah, Lou loves that [ __ ] I'm uh I'm honored that you all came out for the ride of a lifetime. Some fat shots. Record and get some audio for you.
Games back on. So, the first guy that came up was a police officer and the second guy who came up was IMS security. They just both said, "You're gonna get towed. This gate doesn't open till 6:00 a. m. I'm sure that's just what they tell them to say to make sure maybe like at 10 or 11:00 p.
m. the night before that people aren't lining up. New this year, I've never seen it before, but fellas, we're back at it. Uh we got brushed off uh over there. We just paid $200 to park at this lovely house across the street. You said um there's going to be some adversity.
I think we've had that. 12:15. We got two cars back in line. The security hasn't come back through. I'll say like at 12:45, maybe 1. If no one's over there, we get the cars in line.
So, people showed up, relin activity, but I think that there's just been a critical mass at this point. And with that, we were finally allowed in. Come on, baby. Good to see you guys. Happy race day. Happy race day, baby.
So, we made it 2 a. m. We were right the whole time. We were right. We knew we were right. But it's okay.
Everyone's just doing their job out here. James, now it's time you have to get the best 3 hours of sleep of your entire life because at 6:00 a. m. Well, at 6:00 a. m. this whole thing actually starts.
It's been a journey to get here. This evening remind me of the Revolutionary War. And you'll remember who won that one. Who won? The only thing left to do is to see if James can survive the Indy500. Let's go.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's race day. Oh yeah, this guy's got it. Good to see you guys. Come on, brother. It's race day. Let's go.
What happens at the track stays? That's right, buddy. Come on now. Let's go, boys. Dude, the third row to get let in. We're battling adversity today.
Battling so much adversity, gentlemen. What time of day? Sorry, I can't keep the PG for the camera. It's race day. You got to just look adversity in the eye and go right through it. And that's what adversity looks like.
Look at this. Of course, you go straight for the English muffin. Is it just called a muffin where you're from? If I were to land on swap, this jersey is not being swapped. How are we doing, mate? This is unreal so far.
It's only just started as well. I'm just saying I can't imagine what all of these filled up. Beer for breakfast. Damn, that have been awesome. We need your British accent. Do I make you horny, baby?
Pretty good. See, the British, they don't know anything about racing. See, this is real racing right here in the Indy500. They can't do that in Formula 1. They don't have it over there. Right here, we got the best hot dogs.
We got the best burgers. No fish and chips here. We drink real stuff over here. And we have a great time at the Indy500. Hello. I'm here at the Indy500.
I got my NX. Little NX, baby. Hey, mate. How you doing? Driver, stop your engine. That one is no good.
You don't like that. Like a Brit. No. You have an American accent. That was it. See, it's so good.
You didn't even know. She wants to move. It looks like rain. It's 9:00 a. m. Chances for Indy500 gap increasing.
What do we say? Part the Red Sea. Was there a timer? Who said the timer? I set the timer. James, it's time for you to pick your favorite driver.
Who do you think is going to win the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500? This boy down here. I liked his or man of the people. He was going around signing, shaking hands. I've heard he's also won it before. He's quite far down.
I don't know what that means. I know it's going to get harder. Joseph Newton, that's who he's going with. That's a damn good pick. On one of the last spins of the day, something crazy happened. $2,000.
You're welcome. I told you to spin the wheel. Yeah, you did. That was Where's the money? Who that you know is going to get it? Barely hanging on.
I didn't even know that was an option. I have to know. What are you going to spend the money on? I think it's going to go towards my right back to India. How many 500s have you been to? This is first one.
The first one. Let's go. I feel lucky. I feel better this year. You're really I mean, I felt good last year, but we went through like 200 spins. Congratulations.
The wheel. It's clear. Enjoy. So, it's 10:00 a. m. I've only just been told this.
I've had three rounds of beer pong. 3-0. I must add. The guy from the UK has a great hand on him. Leave it up there like again. I've just realized it's 10:00 a.
m. I need to pace myself. When I looked down, I was genuinely expecting like 300 p. m. It's 10:00 a. m.
You know, race starts at 1:00. I've got to ride it easy, but I'm having a great time. Someone said to me just, "Hey, we're coming every year." And I said, "Shit, I might have to do every year now as well." So, we're having an issue with the grill. The Indian 500 is all about adversity.
Get out of here. I'm the grill. And then we lost James. When I say hello, you say James. Hello. Hello.
Where's James? It feels like a much younger crowd here. You know, it's a bit loud, isn't it? Let's go. We found him and got him ready for our favorite Indy500 tradition. In typical American fashion, he says the US is all about a little bit of excess.
So, we're gonna show them how we excessively drink beer. water. Then it was time for the most iconic part of race day. USA feels very patriotic. Indo cheers. Shit's wet.
Shit's wet. That's straight from Marian County, White River. You know how it is. Speed City. Sometimes good fortune shines upon you. One system went south, one system went north.
We've got overcast skies, but we can run the race. That is the Indy500, baby. Let's freaking go. We're running the race. Oh. Oh.
Oh. No way. No way. Holy cow. That finish is actually crazy. Like on the very last bend.
You show me a few highlights when you see it in person. I didn't have that guy. My guy was out a long time ago, but on the very last bend. Crazy. That is That is the legend. That is the Indy500, man.
You never know who's going to win. And what did we say early on? Three turns to go, you're not a winner. Two turns to go, you're not a winner. One turn to go, you're still not a winner. You got to finish out the job.
And James, you finished out the job here at the Indy500. M. I hope we see you back next year. What do you think? Hopefully I'll bring all my boys in next year. UK comes to the Indy500, man.
Hey, here's the question. Who should we fight in Indiana
