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Juliette Brinkerhoff was the navigator with Valkyrie Racing in their most recent venture in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa. She rode with her mother, the driver and past Cars Yeah guest Renee Brinkerhoff, as part of Project 356, a 7 continent, 18 countries, 20,000-mile world record attempt. Along with worldwide adventures, the Team raises funds and makes donations through Valkyrie Gives where they fig...

Michael Zurich is the founder and host of SailorswithCars;   a YouTube channel that he launched to recognize the men and women who serve our country and community and who want to showcase their vehicles. Michael began his Naval career in 1984, at the age of 18, as an Enlisted serviceman progressing rapidly through the enlisted ranks to Chief Petty Officer. He served on many ships including the USS...

Born in San Jose, California, Willy T. Ribbs is a legendary racecar driver whose career behind the wheel started in England. The year was 1977 and Willy was 22 and he became the British Formula Ford "Star of Tomorrow" Champion. He returned home to the USA to face hostility from his racing peers. Undeterred, he became the first, and in some cases the only, African American to win races. His accompl...

Koen van Ham is the Co-Founder of Lightyear and is responsible for design. Lightyear is a Dutch technology company committed to its vision of making EV mobility scalable through the grid-independent solar car, delivering optimal performance. Most recently they designed and validated unprecedented performance in their 5-seater Lightyear One, setting a new world record for the most aerodynamic car....

Brandon Anderson is the Executive Director and CEO of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. He earned his B.F.A. in Historic Preservation and Architectural History and a Masters Degree in Museum Studies. His past positions include time at The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana, Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens in New Bern, North Carolina, The Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Winter Estat...

Colin Braun is a sports car racer who for more than 25 years has been on the track. He grew up in a racing family and his father Jeff Braun has been a guest here on Cars Yeah, twice. Colin's sportscar career includes wins at the Rolex 24, 12 Hours of Sebring, and Six Hours of Watkins Glen events. At just 16 he made his racing debut at the Rolex 24 Hours race in Daytona and he was the youngest driv...

Shawn Groce is the founder of WESA, a company that develops products that give drivers, people, and organizations peace of mind while driving in limited visibility or poor driving conditions. They facilitate life safety operations while safeguarding those that protect and serve. Their latest product is called NightRide and it makes safety available to everyone. Shawn is an engineer and entrepreneu...

Dr. Jacques Dallaire is the President at Performance Prime. Over forty years, he has enjoyed the opportunity to work with more than 750 high-performance motor racing drivers from forty-three countries, numerous race teams, as well as several thousand high-performance individuals from a multitude of sports and a variety of occupations including law enforcement, the entertainment world, and the busi...

Jeff Braun is a racing engineer who most recently worked with CORE Racing and IMSA. He's been the Competition Director on the LMP2 Cars in the Tudor United SportsCar Series for SpeedSource Engineering and Mazda Racing. Jeff attended his first race at the age of three and started karting at seven. After going to work to manage the Transact Racing Team he purchased the business after only two years...

Ross Bentley is a racecar driver, a driving coach, and a high-performance driving instructor. His website, Speed Secrets , is a landing page for anyone wanting to learn how to be a better and faster driver. He's raced against Michael Andretti, Al Unser Jr. Bobby Rahal, Emerson Fittipaldi, Paul Tracy, Rick Mears, and many others. Ross has driven Indy cars, GT sports cars, and he won the 1998 U.S. R...

Dane Greger is the owner of Dane's Detailing, a business he launched because of his lifelong passion for cars that started after attending the Puyallup Northwest National Good Guys show. Even as a little boy he was cleaning and customizing his Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars into tabletop show cars. Born into an automotive enthusiast family Dane was already mountain biking, snowboarding, and snowmobi...

Joshua Paul is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief at Lollipop Grand Prix Media. He is a portrait, travel, and automobile and racing photographer who has earned numerous awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, Type Director's Club, and Photo District News. Aside from traveling to over 95 countries, usually off the beaten path Joshua has p...

Rich MacDonald is involved in sales and promotions at Superformance / Hillbank / Shelby Legendary Cars in Irvine, California. There along with past Cars Yeah guests, Lance Stander, Owner of Superformance, and Doug Campbell and their talented team, they build continuation models of the iconic Shelby Cobra, Daytona Coupe, Ford GT40, Caterham, and the Corvette Grand Sport. You can walk in and purchas...

Steve Matusek is the founder of Aeromotive, a company he started in 1994. He and his business partner Jack Hylton focus on fuel delivery components through technology and engineering. Both are racers and their products are conceived on the racetrack. Through relationships with other racers, customers, manufacturers, they identify challenges and create solutions and turn them into products. Steve h...

Mitzi Valenzuela is the owner of Mitzi & Company Photography, a company she founded in 2004. She specializes in pinup and automotive photography through her love of travel and exploring car shows and events around the world. She launched her first International Pinup Contest at the Mooneyes Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show and has run several other contests including the Grand National Roadster Show a...

Hector Cademartori is an automotive artist who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His interest in motor racing started as a teenager being influenced by the European greats including Fangio, Gonzalaz, and Formula 1. He has been selling his illustrations and paintings since 1983 after graduation. His clients include race teams, corporations, magazines, racing organizations, and private collectors...

Jeany Zhao is the owner/co-owner of several companies including ZK Performance (along with Mike Kojima of Moto IQ), an online retailer of an automotive detailing product. She is the owner of Aphoena "afenna" Consulting, specializing in data analytics, consumer feedback, and company strategic planning and operations and co-owner of Big Tex BBQ in Bogota, Colombia. She is an enthusiastic sports car...

Tiffani Marie Lewis is a National Porsche Club of America Driving Instructor, primarily racing Autocross circuits and track events. She is the first female to be awarded Instructor of the Year for the Porsche Club of America Orange Coast Region in 2017- 2018. She earned first place wins in the PCA-OCR Autocross Series in her class for 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. She has been a guest judge for the...

Eleonor Segura is the Digital Production Editor at Automobile Magazine . She's been with the publisher for almost six years contributing as a writer, photographer, and sampling some of the coolest rides around plus, she is the only female writer on staff. Automobile Magazine's mantra of "No Boring Cars" brings enthusiasts a variety of inspiration through the latest news, car reviews, long-term upd...

Since 2003, Alyn Edwards has been a partner at Peak Communicators, a full-service public relations company with offices in Vancouver, Kelowna, and Calgary. He has been a career journalist, communications consultant, and life-long classic car enthusiast. He began his journalism career as a reporter and feature writer for one of Canada's most influential newspapers – the Toronto Telegram, where he c...

A.J. Baime is a  New York Times  Bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, a public speaker, and occasional on-screen personality. His books include  The Arsenal of democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War , and  Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans . Go Like Hell is one of the most recommended books by guests here on Cars Y...

Edward Roose is a Porsche enthusiast who works to bring clubs together and share their events, ideas, and passion for the marque. He was the president of his local Porsche Club and created a Clubs International website and a Whatsapp group of current and past club presidents. He runs his own not for profit Porsche Social Drive titled Flat 6 Fun on Facebook and he helped create and administer the I...

Brittney Hamilton is an automotive photographer, model, and car enthusiast. She is driven by her passion and eye for quality and performance.   She enjoys adapting fashion to automotive design to bring creative emotion to her photography and all elements of her work. Brittney's marque of choice is Porsche.

Arne Toman is a Christian, Husband, Father, Entrepreneur, and an Automotive Scofflaw. Arne is the co-founder and former VP of AMS Performance. He is currently starting new ventures in the automotive space and beyond. Arne built and drives the World's Fastest Hearse and now holds the coveted Cannonball Run record with a time of just 27 hours 25 minutes covering 2,825 miles from NY to LA, a record h...

John Schommer is the Producer of WheelandPedalWeds, where he tells stories of a love of cars through Mixer.com/Forza and Twitch.tv/Forza. For years John has been a writer, photographer, streamer, and online personality for Turn 10 Studios, makers of the Forza Motorsport series of racing games for Xbox 360 and Xbox One. He has written over 500 racing and car culture stories and innumerable car desc...