Tormenting Tarmac

What is going everyone! Welcome back to Sonoma Raceway at the Velocity Invitational for part 2 of our special. In this episode, you will hear from car content creator Kali Moldavon, YouTuber extraordinaire Jack Ultramotive, vintage car expert Gian Paolo Scorzo of Carissimo and one of the best photographers Arizona has to offer, Cody Nogowski. They all share their experiences of why to them, the Ve...

What is going on everyone! Special episodes coming to you from the Velocity Invitational. Here is a hell of way to get started. In part 1, we chat with Senior Vice President of Kahn Media, Cory Burns, automotive artist and friend to the pod Samantha Zimmerman, and an incredibly special guest, F1 World Champion Jenson Button! What is life! Part 1 is live now! Enjoy!

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by the legend himself, Ali Hoff aka Autohofffs. The biggest plug in the automotive game as we speak. We chat about the come up, how you can bring value as media, why it's important to remember what brought you to the dance to begin with, what makes the Velocity invitational so incredible and so much more. This was an amazing...

What is going everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by photographers extraordinaire Jake Woods and Brenden "Lodgey" Lodge. Both are no strangers to TT and on this week's episode, we decide to play a little catch up. Jake of course went to Car Week so we chat bit about his adventure and discuss more in detail the steps that Kimera Automobili is taking, Lodgey and Jak...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by Ryan Kristoff. Ryan is a veteran amateur racer (his own words but he's better than that) who's been racing in Gridlife for over a decade plus. This is an old school of episode of TT which takes us back to our passion of grass-roots motorsports and we dive into what makes it so special. We chat about Gridlife itself...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I welcome old friends Ryan Bahrke and Dan Pilling to the pod as well as new friend and their co-host Lindsey Jesch. Collectively along with Allen Orchard, they make the dynamic quartet now known as the Road Show podcast. On this episode we discuss the new concept behind the podcast, Lindsey's background as a high performance driver a...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! Let's get straight into it, on this week's episode I welcome the incomparable Matt Farah. Founder and host of the Smoking Tire YouTube channel and podcast, Editor at Large of Road and Track, the owner and founder of Westside Collector Car Storage in LA. The king of the one takes himself sits down with yours truly for 90 plus minutes of grea...

What is going everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, we have another awesome guest. I welcome Elisa Artioli on to Tormenting Tarmac. Elisa is the granddaughter of Romano Artioli, the former Chairman and owner of both Lotus and Bugatti back in the 90's. And even cooler as her name suggests, her grandfather named the all new then Lotus Elise after her. It is an awesome story. We chat about...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by good buddy to the pod Brenden Cabano. He was previously the owner of the e-commerce store German Muscle and now owns Baja brothers off-road, which focuses on making your F-150 Raptor even more gnarly! On this episode, we have a great time chatting about getting pulled over by cops, why Brenden believes the F-150 Raptor is...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I am honored to welcome back Zack Klapman of the Smoking Tire back to the show. As many of you know, Zack is the co-host and producer of the Smoking Tire YouTube channel and podcast as well works in a variety of different projects across automotive media. On this episode, we chat about the GT3RS vs the 911 ST, why people should really ap...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, we welcome back friend to the pod Jonny Lieberman. We discuss a variety of different things from some of the best looking ev trucks for sale, his recent press trips to Europe, what is going on at Mercedes and why they have both the SL and the GT63 available for purchase, updates on his GR Corolla and so much more. It is always a treat wh...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I am joined by friend to the pod Nyla Kramer. She recently just purchased a new to her 991.1 GT3 and in this episode we take it around North Scottsdale to go car spotting on a Saturday morning. We discuss her reasonings as to why she went with a 991 GT3 over a 993 which was her original choice, why she really wants to upgrade to a .2 nex...

What is going on and welcome come back to TT! This week I welcome back my good buddy Kent. He's a car collector, amateur racing driver, and a huge Ford enthusiast. On this episode, we really dive deep into Ford and in particular why we believe the Mustang holds such an important place in car culture. In April of this past year, the Mustang celebrated 60 years. So it was only right to do an epi...

Hi everyone and welcome to the 100th installment of Tormenting Tarmac. I cannot believe we are here. This journey started all the way back in January 2022 and if you want to get really technical, it started in September of 2021 when I recorded the first ever episode with Ron. Fast forward to now and I think this podcast is the perfect representation of car culture in the Phoenix area and we have e...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, my good buddy and yours AJ Shipitofsky joins me for a great chat! AJ is one of the premier photographers in the PHX metro area and that boy can indeed cook. This week we discuss how fast cars have gotten in the past 20 years, Michael Bay ruining the 303 freeway after it barely opened, and as the title suggests, AJ bought a Cayenne Turbo...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week we have a full house or conference room of guests. I am joined by my very good friends Alex Fis who is now the Director of Product with Formawerx, Chadd Randall who is an amazing photographer and huge Porsche enthusiasts and we are happy to welcome the owner/founder of Last Era clothing Eric Pasta and fellow Porsche enthusiast Phil Wilson...

This week on TT, I welcome Andy "Dray" Manaras. Many of you will probably recognize his IG page Drive with Dray. And boy oh boy is he awesome. On this episode, we discuss our love for mid 2000's supercars, why we both feel Mercedes fumbled it with the 4 cylinder C63, why he absolutely adores his BMW M Coupe, how he made a G87 M2 look fantastic but it still doesn't give him the fiz and which car he...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I welcome Joemax Klipp. He is an amazing content and the DO for P1 Exotics on the east coast. We discuss his come up, his background in YouTube, his super funky cool mustang and many amazing stories that have made him the person he is today. Huge thanks to Joe for being an awesome guest. enthusiasts never die!

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, good friend to the pod Kolbi Napier is back. We chat about the brand new Ferrari 12 cylindri, the best cars to use for a rally, how she compares Miami car culture to So Cal car culture and so much more. It is always a treat to hang with Kolbi. You can find her on IG @thekolbae and her photography page is @noshootfilm. Please enjoy and re...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, we go from west to east as we talk New York City car culture with Tom Gorelik and Sarah Jilla. Tom is the director for the CARISMA series on the Drive's YouTube channel and Sarah is an automotive enthusiast and 964 connoisseur. The two together are an awesome duo and in a cool way, helping everyone outside of New York understand the bril...

Hi everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I am joined by good friend to the podcast, Ron Evans. Ron of course is the owner and founder of the Vault of Scottsdale and an avid car collector. On this episode we discuss his new absolutely bonkers Mustang restomod, what makes the Ferrari 812 so incredible, sports cars beginning to get so heavy and so much more. Always a treat to have Ron on the sh...

What is going everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by motorsport artist and Porsche aficionado, Samantha Zimmerman. We discuss what got her into her art, why she would really like if people would stop hacking up 964's and 993's, how F1 has blown up in popularity the last 5 years, her influences in art and cars and making her passion become a reality when she did a marketing camp...

What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by Kol Bailey. Kol is a karting instructor who has been in the racing world for basically his entire life. We chat about why it can be easier to transition from extreme sports to racing, which production cars come out of the box well prepped for the track, his thoughts on some of the best F1 drivers of their respective genera...

What's going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by my good buddy Mason Wales and he brought along his good friends Ian Martin and Fury. All 3 of these individuals are talented photographers and huge car enthusiasts here in the Valley. On this episode we chat about their experiences at the 21st Century car show in March, Ian sold his 987 Boxster and purchased a 2020 BMW M2 C...

What is going everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, my buddies Dan Pilling and Ryan Bahrke join me to hang out and talk some adventures. Recently Dan purchased a brand new GR Corolla and gives us the story of how that came about, his work with his company 077 Media and the work he is doing with Firtfish Rally school, plus he and Ryan went to LA together for mini adventures galore. On top of...