1:22:03
A little past 5:00 in the morning.
The number 227
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of Matt and Steve Scaroni
collected the win in the protruck class.
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After a dozen tries.
The father and son team had finally done it.
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They give a lot of the credit
to the third driver. Ricky Johnson.
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You fall back to the little kid
in the underwear and the six-guns
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and the cowboy hat.
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You're a cowboy.
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At sunrise. Two-thirds of those cowboys
were still out in the course.
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Some as far back as the halfway point.
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Like number 806 of Todd Wyllie
and Mark Julius.
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Who'd had a rotten night.
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They'd lost a transmission.
lost a front end. Simply got lost.
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But could not lose
Jethro the know-it-all.
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You never finished a 100-mile race,
you never finished a 500-mile race.
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Come down here, how's he gonna finish
a 1,000-mile race?
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Mark Julius. In an attempt
to lose his publicist Jethro.
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Was off and running.
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And then a funny thing happened.
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A race broke out for 195th place.
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The buggy's race strategy
was hard to figure.
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After closing a half-mile gap
in a matter of minutes.
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He simply locked onto the rear bumper
and stayed there as if hypnotized.
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And the one chance he had
to make a pass.
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He saw open air.
And it scared the hell out of him.
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He went right back
to his happy place.
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After hitting the straightaway.
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The buggy couldn't keep pace
with Julius and the truck.
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And where it had taken 20 hours
to finish the first half of the race.
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It only took him a mere eight hours
to come into the finish.
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Julius and Wyllie had done it.
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Where's my key?
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We made it. We made it.
A thousand miles.
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Buddy.
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Good job, Mark.
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Best adventure of my life.
Thank you, sir.
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I couldn't begin to tell ya.
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The dreams will come true, man.