Touring the Petersen Automotive Museum with IndyCar Champ Will Power

Here as well. Let's finish twenty-two Championship off. Erickson jumped out of line. Good place down in the fire going All right. This is the fastest driver in the car history. Remember that Later in this race, here comes willpower with the championship lead. Remember, he doesn't need to win the race. He just needs to stay in front of control. He's got a set of stickers black for this person. Did back out Speedway Fuel. But will Power joined some very famous names as a to time T T V Series champion. Honestly, it sounds really cannot. Thank you guys enough. It was absolutely a team this year, guys. Absolutely floor of the year. And I want you to do in my heart today. Uh, thank you and congratulations, guys. What's up, guys? Leslie Robins here for Young Hollywood Coming to you from the Peterson Automotive Museum, where I'm spending the day with a 20 twenty-two Andy car series champion. Okay, to my right to time in the car series champion Mr Will Power. How does that to time things sound you?

Yeah, it sounds amazing a long time between the two championships too. So it's an eight year eight years since one. My last champions. Very satisfying. A little bit older now. So I'm not on this massive high, but I just really enjoyed the journey and the process of putting a really good season together.

To talk about that season, the highs and the lows. Now, the ultimate high.

Yeah, it was. It was a very consistent season. I had nine podium finish, so more than 50% of the time, we were on the podium, You know, 17 race series, and, uh, I haven't had a season like that in my career. So really, really strong season, Uh, pass mayor and ready in positions, Which is amazing accomplishment for me and the team. Um, and, uh, I'm gonna really So this one up, I'm gonna enjoy the offseason.

Well, you talked about your first win. That was in 2014. Here we are in 2020 to talk about what it was like back then. Your life, your career to where you are now, how the wind is different.

It was quite different. They didn't have a kid back then. There's a lot of pressure to win one that I wasn't a champion, but I was getting a lot of race is a lot of positions leading up. Um, I think I had three runner up finishes really close going to last race. So that was a massive relief, just like a last. This one's just, you know, the uh, combination of just putting everything together, years of experience and sort of maintaining that speed and win a championship in your forties is, uh is pretty cool. Tom Brady gave me some inspiration to know that you can still perform at a very high level in your forties.

Of course you can. I mean, not too long ago, in between the two wins, a little thing happened in TWENTY-EIGHTEEN. You want Indianapolis 500? So, I mean, you've got some good hardware there.

I've had a fantastic career, very fortunate to drive for Roger, best team in the series. And, you know, given the opportunity to win, we can work out one of 501 to championships. So we've got the old time Paul Records. So if I stopped right now, I would be perfectly fine with my career.

You name drop, You beat him. Of course, in the pool record, you guys have a little conversation. He's so lovely and gracious. I'm sure he was just over the moon for you.

He's an absolute icon of the sport, and he was one of my heroes growing up. So it just blows my mind that my name's up there with Mario and have a tremendous respect for Maori and the whole. The whole family was a big fan of Michael's as well, Michael And when I was growing up, so it is really surreal that I'm surrounded by those names.

While we're talking about our history, we have some in our history behind us. And I know, of course, your car aficionado as you should be.

Yeah, open cars, for sure, walk me through what we have here because, by the way, let's let's tell people were in the vault of the Peterson.

Yeah, you see some pretty special stuff down here. It's kind of like the vault of, uh, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. It's a similar thing. There's a bunch of cars that not everyone says So what do we have a fight?

Four time Indianapolis 500 year, 19 eighty-one. There we go. 19 eighties car. They had the wings. Um starting to take shape Once I started running all the aerodynamics stuff the front wing, rear wing, the floor create down for like, an upside down playing wing and fast together more. It sucks to the ground. Yeah, this is probably Racehorse car. This would be a late nineties early 2000. Carson is a good friend of Hollywood. We love speaking with Graham is a phenomenal driver. His dad was a phenomenal driver and a hero of mine coming up. I think I remember watching this car race at the Gold Coast and they used to go down to Australia. These things were beasts. You know, these things that nine-hundred horsepower. Obviously a beautiful looking car looks like a fighter jet. This is my favorite Indy cars. Favorite shape. Designed in the car this era, these cars were really, really sleek. It was in the competition everywhere. Now we just have a common you cannot build. You must run a large, so they're all the same. And these these in this era you had you had you had swift at all these different manufacturers. So it really created a beautiful car because they were in competition. So obviously design really mattered. This is this is Robert Gordon car. This is, uh, late-nineties car. It's got the valves, but, uh, and it would have it set up the Super Speedway. See, these things are much bigger. Would be for a road, cause that would be like an Indianapolis 500 cars. So these ones, this configuration of wings is set up to do 200 these things were doing, like, 250 miles an hour. Uh, this is like a road course configuration. Bigger wings, a bit more drag. So the air holding back, and that was that was still getting close to 200 miles an hour on the streets like a long beach. You know, that's that's what you would raise that Long beach. That's what you're racing Indianapolis. So the thing is, I grew up in Australia, so all my, uh, cars as a teenager, you wanted, uh, like a whole Commodore. Yeah, things that you don't have over here, so I don't actually know all the but, you know, 60 70 cars. You wanna restore and drive?

That makes a lot of sense. So we'll give you some slack today.

Yeah. Yeah, I know. You probably think this guy knows nothing about this awesome. He doesn't know anything about American cars, but that's okay. It's actually we'll take a walk around, but we have to start here. This is Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein's car. Now that's gonna have some glass. Not really. That's crazy. Uh, coming up on the pope's car. That's pretty cool. Maybe just good vibes.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Now, that's my style. This is your around like that. Everyone can see Ghostbusters. There is some ridiculous stuff down here. Let me tell you now that you could be cruising downtown or maybe not my stuff.

Yeah, definitely. No, no. I need like, a vintage Porsche. Yeah, that's that's that's pretty cool to have a cool They don't even have You have to actually going to call the engine. Okay. This car is iconic for a very special reason. Film. And Louise, not just because they drive over the cliff is that Is that what happens?

Maybe there's something you want to tell you. The car wouldn't be here if they drive over the cliffs. Uh, it's called movie magic. So they have a cliff. You should have told. That's ruin the whole.

Maybe they did, but they could have driven the vision vision in this car. Okay. Oh, someone restored it. Look rolls-royce phantom. Wow. Top speed. 80 MPH. That's just so for you. Look at that call. Yeah, that's some serious. Well, there's some serious white. Um

Okay, well, we've had enough history for the day. Peterson. Now we're gonna go upstairs. We're gonna leave the vault. We're gonna play some games.

Oh, that sounds like fun. You into it Like some mental games and racing mental game raising the racing will be interesting. It sounds like you're gonna race me. I want to know about that. I don't know.

Okay. Well, our next stop at the Peterson is the fourth motorsport racing experience you feel at home in here when I see these simulators.

That's right. At home. I have one sitting in my basement. Uh, I'm ready to go. They have cleared this place out just for you, so

Wow. Yeah, well, there's a leaderboard that, uh there's a bunch of names and I want to get my name on the top of the leaderboard. Okay, We're gonna try our hardest, but first before we play that game, I have another kind of game for you. Okay, Now your name will power. That's kind of a cool name right now. Do you know the definition of power? So the definition of power to restrain impulses. Right. Okay, so we're gonna go through a category each category we're going to say, if you didn't have a real power if you didn't have the power, what did you get into in the following categories? Okay, if you didn't have the power, Okay. Shopping.

Um, Louis Vuitton.

Well, that's my wife was sampled. Oh, yeah. I was just thinking about it because I never shop for anything. Yeah, I don't really do that.

You bought online?

Yeah. Food. You know, your health. I know. Food. Chocolate? Yeah. Yeah. Big problem. Bad civilian driving. It's a double bird. It's what I There's definitely a lot of that pictures out of me with my favorite gesture. Correct? Yeah, yeah. Not too bad.

And the car driving bad in the car driving. If you didn't have willpower, what would you do?

Yeah, to the other competitors. Correct. That's I've done many things, uh, out of the car afterwards. I'm not paying back on track. I don't usually do that because it's too dangerous. Sure. I'll certainly go see them after parenting.

You have a five year old little Bo. Oh, yeah. There's a lot like given to him like that. It's a real problem.

Yeah, Anything? Yeah, I lost if he wants to be. Part of the fun, You know, One of the cookies. Yeah. My wife's always so you have no power whatsoever. I'm pretty. He can. He can help my heart pretty quickly. That little man.

Yeah, a sucker for kids. There you go. Exercise routine. That's a big one. Like, obviously, you just sit on the couch and eat bad and watch Netflix something.

I mean, yeah, you gotta get off the couch, Get off the screen. Just started. Even if you don't wanna do it. Just started doing it. Absolutely.

Okay. Last one on social media. Yeah, Instagram. You know, instagram, Twitter, flicking the facebook, the pictures. Dopamine going your brain, your new pictures. Very addictive. What kind of power do you have to have to not comments? Shut up.

Oh, you mean like someone saying nasty or like so just get on it, but yeah, we'll just tonight. It's addictive. So how do you not get on it? Yeah, I've got this new thing that I do now. I play every time I go to get on the social media instead of getting on social media and play a brain game. Play like a city or big brain academy. This one? Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. That's so much better for you.

It's crazy how much better you feel and sharper you are. It's a great tip. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Do that. You'll be better.

Okay. We're going to move from these red seats to those seats in the Sims. You're ready to do it right now. Are you going to teach me stuff for what's gonna happen here?

We're gonna see what track that the old time records, or I don't know what it is. The leaderboard gonna see what that is. Uh, that will be the track that we do. Let's do it. Let's go a second. I literally don't get out. Oh, yeah, I'm getting, like a plain thank you. Oh, just a track you want. Oh, more rain. Oh, I, uh Oh.

Well, how did you do?

Yeah, I did. Uh, okay. They have a lot of driving ads on there, so that really slows you up. But I think to get on the board, you need to learn the track, take all the driving aids off, and then you'd be good.

So you need a third in the series championship to get on the board. And what you're saying?

Yeah, pretty much. That's that's serious.

Okay, so we'll see you back here this time next year.

This time next year. I am here for it. I'll be there with you.