Victory Lane

Davey welcomes on Aaron Bearden, founder and CEO of Motorsports Beat, for a wide-ranging conversation. Topics include how his job deeming him essential leads him to living an extremely normal life while others are quarantined, growing up in Indiana, his love for racing starting early on, being a NASCAR fan first and finding IndyCar/the Indianapolis 500 later and attending Ball State University (including how an allergy changed the trajectory of his life). Plus, why he began writing for fun, how it spiraled into something more, overcoming internal struggles with depression and why that makes him a doer, starting Motorsports Beat, the early wake-up calls to write "The Morning Warmup" newsletter, spending hours and hours on the road driving from race to race, tips to stay awake and, of course, how he comes up with his majestic puns...time after time.