 That's your volume, the big one? Yeah, pretty cool, I'll have it. We'll go back to you guys in a little bit. Hey everyone, welcome in Phoenix Airlines, but today we are with Carl Cooke with Ronny Woo with the drivers. So, Carl and my teammate are ready, I've called Air Traffic Control to tell them to be quiet, so we can talk to you. Since it's not working, we need to interview and get to meet you, and I need to remember which question I'm supposed to ask you. Carl is an American driver from Florida, Jupiter, we are here at 10,000, I can't remember. I'm here from Jupiter, Florida, I'm 24 years old, my teammate are ready, and what I know from you is that you are to win every... You competed in the route to Indy, what you did? To make it to IndyCar, that's your second season in IndyCar, first season was with... Give me a minute guys, we need to copy a route. So we're back, it's only the third routing that we have today, so... I don't know why I fire a route so they change it all the time. Every championship that you competed in, everything but IndyCar so far. Oh yeah, I feel you. I'm lying, I didn't win from where I won, so that's the one I didn't win, but anyway. The idea is to get to know you a little bit better, I know you love surfing, I know you play golf, like every good fruit down here. But just tell me a little bit more about you. My entire life growing up as a kid was kind of the water. My family was never into racing, I was first generation into motorsports whatsoever. My dad got me and my two older brothers... They were 5'7", right heading 160, 2002 I believe. I would have been four years old at the time. But yeah, my lifestyle before... 4'5", 12 o'clock, 25 miles, 50, 40, 40, 40. As well as soccer actually. That's what my father and my older brother did. My dad was a professional soccer player here in the U.S. He played for Team Mounted Alice. My brother was getting ready to join with Orlando City and then he had a major injury that kept him from playing so he stopped from there. My lifestyle away from the track is on the water. I surfed many days as there's waves. When there isn't waves, I'm in the water diving, free diving, fishing to see when the water is clear enough to do so. So yeah, that's really my lifestyle. Good. So yeah, you completed F4 and then you went the road to Indy which is in Europe where we go from F4 to F3 to F2. But here, SF2000, Indy, Pro Indy Lite, I know Indy Next and then... Yep, yeah exactly. My whole... I bounced back and forth a little bit, right? So I did the F4 championship here in the U.S. for two years. I did it one year with a very low level, small budget team. We did pretty decent. I think I finished third in the championship. That series gets a pretty good turnout with the amount of cars that they have. And then the second year in it, I won, I think, 9 out of 16 races or something like that. And then I stayed with the same team that was Cape Motorsports into USF2000 and I was able to win 12 of the 14 races there. Which was a new record for USF2000. That obviously every series here gives you a scholarship to move on, right? So I just raced off of scholarships always. And I had a scholarship to go from USF2000 to Indy Pro 2000 and then to Indy Lite, which is now Indy Next and then to IndyCar. But while I was doing the USF2000, I actually raced F3 but it was because I got a scholarship from F4 to run F3 and it was a Honda-powered car. And there was only, I think, a total of 7 cars in the series and we won 15. So for me it was just really good seat time. And I was able to drive a ton of new tracks that I didn't get to win. So you raced there, you got seat time and did you ever thought about going to Europe or was not on the car? I did. You know, when you're here, there was a time when I was a carding that I got offered to go run for energy and be on the factory team over there. I was 13 years old at the time and decided that it would be better if I stayed here and stayed in school and didn't fully commit to something over there. And I obviously don't regret that decision but at the time it was a very tough decision to make and obviously as a young driver you want to be a factory driver on the carding team. I mean, that's amazing and a lot comes from that. And so I stayed over here, I raced for a carding team called Ocala Grand Prix which both me and Oliver Askew came up through. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you have a really good friend of Odey that rides. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so Oliver lives in Tequesta so he's only pretty much three miles away from me in a direct line. He's pretty funny, he's usually never really want to surf big waves because he's always there in a race car. Obviously having issues inside a race car. But I gave up skateboarding, right, because I got hurt and I was like, I'll just pick up surfing. And because he can't get in the water, and I've never actually got into surfing. You know, it's relatively safe and I don't push myself too far but Oliver is now just getting into it to where he'll start surfing bigger waves with me. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, I don't blame him because it's better. Right, yeah, so yeah, what about Europe? Who do you compete with when you grew up in the old road to India? The road to India. A couple of years older than Patto and Colton came from it and DK came the same time as then, right? Yeah, so I never, the only predator that, because I went through it so fast, there's still drivers that I competed against in the middle categories of it, right? So I just won consecutive years and a lot of guys are doing two years at a time sort of thing. But David Malukas was my biggest competition in Indy Lights. He won eight races, I won 10, it came down to the final race. I just needed to finish in the top 11 to continue to seal the championship and he went out there and won and I had to finish in the 11th, I think I finished. But he's the only one that's now in IndyCar that I had very close competition with in the road to India. Okay, good. Right, so yeah, David's doing a good job in IndyCar as well. So then you jumped in with Foyte for the first year, replaced Shimbure and then you race with André in Indy Lights or in the next or in the light. Well, Indy has about the time in the next now. So, okay, so that's why, and yet that relation and the idea was to come with André in IndyCar, right? Yeah, that was the original plan, right? So in 2021 when I was getting ready to win the championship there was obviously a lot of talk of Colton going over to Europe and racing in F1 so there would have been a boy that needed to be filled in the 26 car, which is why they put me in the car for three tests, both 2021 season. That was the most expected thing from the team. They were going to put me into that car and Colton was going to move on to Europe. Obviously that didn't happen, so I had to find a new route and for me that was AJ Foyte Racing and they put me on a short-term contract, gave me really good opportunity, really good terms and it gave me a spot to really learn, right? Yeah. Because it's a low-pressure situation there. They were extremely open to me about everything about the car, how they developed it. I need to look at as well as what they look at. So that was actually a really good stepping stone for me going with them for the season then moving over to a powerhouse team like in the autosport because if I would have just gotten thrown into the deep end to Dreddy Autosport it probably would have put a ton of pressure on me because obviously being with a bigger team a lot more opportunities for sponsors and stuff and it doesn't really give you the time to that you need to work. Which is good and then you get to learn the tracks because in IndyLight, I mean you learn a lot in IndyLight or in the next because you do some track but some of them you don't do. I mean you don't do Long Beach, you don't do Toronto? I don't know. Yeah we don't do, we never did Long Beach we never did Iowa obviously Nashville and I think all the other circuit and then the Speedway because they used the wind so they changed, they did Indy the Speedway and they stopped and then they were thinking about coming back but yeah you get Gateway as a learning oval You're talking about for IndyLight right? Yeah so Gateway was the only oval that we did Okay and in IndyLight so I guess take away Texas, Indianapolis, Speedway and Iowa, they now go both to Iowa and Gateway So yeah you basically have pretty much the same experience as I do on ovals Very little And do you like them, do you prefer road course, street course What's your favorite? I prefer either street or road course We're in the same boat Same plane I should say Maybe street course is over road course There's something about it you know what it reminds me of is I don't know if you've ever done any of the bigger karting races like for Super Nats which is in the entire track it's a temporary track right but it's a very big karting race and there's walls everywhere and that's kind of what it reminded me of and I always did really good at that event and I tend to do pretty solid at street courses too in comparison to I think I prefer road course just because I like to brake so late when there's no wall facing me I feel better It's a little bit more comforting but I mean we have such a good car and some beats that when it's like that road course street course is amazing but the car is not there it's just a challenge though we can ride yeah okay so now we're going into the tricky question you ready? yeah go for it I have a list is your bed made right now? uh no no way alright what's your guilty pleasure? guilty pleasure like a food guilty pleasure? it can be anything I mean shoe shopping it can be it can be it can be anything surfboards are one of I mean it's not really a guilty pleasure but I always I always buy different surfboards and I end up using a lot of them just because they look cool and then I ride them and I'm like ah I don't really like that much you have to teach me to surf I can't do that one about it I can't do that one about it I cannot stand up for some reason we'll figure it out what's one of your nicknames? I don't know your nicknames but you need to find you one one of my I mean the most commonly known one now is Kirk Kirk Kirkwood that's what everyone calls me now because there was an issue for about half the season last year on the big TV's where it says everyone's name that runs across the bottom it's a Kirk instead of Kyle Kirk Kirkwood it's a Kirk Kirkwood okay people didn't post anything about it until like in DGP I noticed it but there is obviously a mistake so everyone calls me that now but my nickname only growing up in and carding was always Woody Woody Woody Woody you know like Toy Story Woody I'm too old for that I'm sorry I'm 10 or 12 years older so Toy Story is from like the 90s I'm over 5 on work I'm too old I'm not old I'm not old but I tell you I'm spending money money I'm believing the same thing but you said that I was cold if you wanna go to the right car I said what I did I tell you I'm spending money on I guess so but what is your answer Yeah sir forward I try to justify um food food is one thing thing that I always try and justify. You only live once and eating good meals are very important. I agree, I'm French, I cannot agree any more. If you could afford any car, which one would you drive? Pagani. Oh yeah okay, all right. What's the last craft you made? Craft. You don't have kids so you don't make most of those. What is the last craft I made? I had to build a bunch of stuff from my apartment from IKEA. There you go. Indianapolis because I moved into apartment at the beginning of this year. You said a Gucci crush. Margarabi. Okay, yeah okay. Have you got any phobia? Any phobia? Yeah. You know I get claustrophobia. Number 69 here, contact approach 125.2 good day. And actually there was a period of time last year that I'd get very claustrophobic inside the Indy car because of the arrow screen right and you come to stop and all the heat soak would come in and because you're strapped in you can't move, you can't see out. It would cause some issues for me last year where I just need to get fans on me. I think a lot of that had to do that I was wearing all black in a black car so this year I've not had any issues whatsoever. Okay, what's your favorite rainy day activity? Rainy day activity. We don't have much in Florida so you can skip that one. What, much rain? Yeah, well we just get about rain for now. But we only get a few rainy days in Florida a year and they're usually during hurricanes. What's your hidden talent? My hidden talent? Nothing. How are we supposed to be in Florida? Finally, 9 o'clock, 8-6-5, maintaining 4,000 knots. Yeah, 9 o'clock, 8-6-5, summer approach, good morning, that's 7-3-0-2-4. You do travel at 12 o'clock, 5 miles, and you're getting 5,700. Really? Yeah, I speak to like 4,000. That's all I've got. Where's your happy place? Okay, 8-6-5 is just in Florida. Okay, thank you. All right, and last one, what's your favorite word? Favorite word. That's a tricky one. Favorite word? Oversteer. Oh yeah. Oversteer is better than understeer. All right, I'm with you. I'm with you, all right. I've got 5,700 miles to get to the fuel. Thanks for doing that. I kept us busy for a while. We'll see you guys when we land in Texas where the weather may not be the best. But we'll see you for arrival, which is going to be quite nice. See you in a bit.