Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast

A little while ago Tasso asked if anyone had any questions for him on his Instagram account. He actually got a lot of good questions, and when he stopped by the shop recently, he brought some of those questions with him and we sat down and talked about them. This was a great discussion that covered everything from what OTC Racing stands for, to how a lot of the lessons that Tasso learned from raci...

Subaru has been hinting that the next BRZ was right around the corner, and they have just released all the details about the next-generation car which will be available late in 2021 as a 2022 model. From the outside, the appearance of the new next-generation BRZ looks like an up-date or refinement of what the car currently is. But Subaru definitely made some significant changes to the engine and d...

Scotty and Dussex are both using an App called Track Addict to collect data when they drive on track. They talk about it often, and I think that it is fair to say that they are somewhat obsessed with it. For a long time, collecting data about your driving was something that only race teams could do, but it did start to trickle down in the form of some devices that you could drive on track with, an...

For episode 15 of the Flatirons Syndicate podcast, we had just been looking at some of the work Scotty has been doing to build a rear diffuser on his 2011 STI race car. This is a topic that comes up fairly often around here, and Tasso from OTC Racing is always particularly interested in finding new ways to make his car more efficient in terms of aerodynamics. We had a great discussion about approa...

For Episode #14 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport podcast, we start out talking through the last NASA Rocky Mountain event of the season. From there, we talk about lessons learned from driving at the track. Overall a good conversation that also gives a lot of good tips and tricks as well as best practices for track days. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

Scott Crouch is the driver of the Flatirons Tuning Pikes Peak WRX, and he also happens to be the driver of the Flatirons Tuning Rally car. For our thirteenth episode of the podcast, we sit down with Scott to talk about how our 2020 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb went, and what it was like to run this year with all of the changes. From there, we branch out into a good conversation with Scott a...

Our last podcast was from March of this year, right before everything started shutting down and all. A lot has happened since then, and the good news is that there have been a number of races and events that did find a way to happen safely, and both Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Scotty from the shop here have been up to a lot since we last checked in. For this episode, we wanted to catch up with b...

For episode 11 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we are sitting down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Jeanette from Red Queen Racing, and we are talking right as things are starting to shut down, and events are starting to be canceled. For the first part of this Episode, Both Scotty and Viet were out at High Plains Raceway the previous weekend, and we have a good discussion about what each of...

For Episode 10 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Mike Pettiford from Go 4 It Services. Mike has been racing for a couple of decades now, and he has won an amazing 46 SCCA Championships. For this conversation, we started out talking about what Go 4 It Services does. We then moved into how Mike got into motorsports and prompted him to create his own driving school. We...

For this episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we are just back from Cars and Coffee where we brought out a few of our race cars and project cars, and we brought a few friends with us too. We had a great time at that show and we even brought back a few people to sit in on the podcast with us for this episode. We had Jeanette from Red Queen Racing, Nigel from Unome Racing, and our...

For this episode of the podcast, we have Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso from OTC racing back with us. For the first part of the episode, we catch up with everyone about what they have been up to for the last couple of weeks. Tasso got his engine fired up in his rally car which is awesome. Scotty got his car running again and took it to the track. And Dussex took his car out to Super Lap Battl...

For Episode 7 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Tasso from OTC Racing to talk about how the 2020 season is shaping up. Both of them are getting pretty close to having their cars back up and on track. For Ryan Super Lap Battle at Circuit of the Americas is just a few weeks away, so he is starting to finalize his plans for the race... And find an eng...

For Episode 6 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso from OTC Racing to talk about Hill Climbs and Time Attack. Since those are the Motorsports that each of them are involved in, we wanted to take a deeper look at each of them from both a spectator and competitor point of view. Tasso competes primarily in the Colorado Hill Climb Association series....

This is our first Podcast for 2020, so we sat down with Tasso from OTC Racing, and Ryan from DSX Motorsports to talk about plans for the year ahead. We had a good conversation here about a number of topics, and there were a couple of common focuses that came out. The main one was reliability. There is also a good discussion about changing out a brake master cylinder to go to manual brakes, and we...

About a year ago now, we sat down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, Jeanette from Red Queen Racing, and Scotty from the shop here to talk about their experiences competing in a variety of forms of Motorsports such as the NASA Time Trials Series, SCCA Autocross, Pikes Peak Time Attack series, Global Time Attack, and Grid Life. We had a really good discussion about what it was like to participate in t...

Ryan from DSX Motorsports was just in Indianapolis for the 2019 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show, and he saw a lot of cool things that we talk about.  Some of the things discussed are stand-alone aftermarket ECU's and PDM's, sequential transmissions that are coming out for the STI 6-speed transmission, and bolt-in roll cages. Then we move to the subject of Roger Clark Motorsports...

For this episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso from OTC racing, and we take a deep dive into Subaru aerodynamics. Scotty here is in the middle of building a splitter for his 2011 STI race car, and Ryan just built a splitter for his 2003 WRX race car not too long ago. When you throw Tasso into the mix, who is continually playing...

Two of the drivers that we sponsor are Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Tasso from OTC Racing. Neither of them are strangers at the shop, but they both happened to stop in a couple of weeks ago at the same time, and we had a really good conversation with both of them about their race season. It was such a good catch-up session that we decided that if we were able to get everyone together again, we s...