Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation

Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with with one of the most experienced and successful karters here in the States for Episode 19 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Billy Cleavelin. Billy's involvement in karting started back in the 70's as a kid turning wrenches, but ever since the 80's, he has been a force behind the wheel. Finding success through every...

Episode 18 of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation brings on Terry Nash as a guest with hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel. Renowned in the 4-stroke karting world as a master engine builder, Terry talks about how he got into the engine building game, tells a few stories about a pair of his kart racing kids, and even shares a few specifics of just what has gone into his craft over the...

For episode 17 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel welcome their first engine builder to the show, with Jesus Vasquez of P1 Engines coming on board. Jesus shares his story of coming up from humble beginnings to become one of the best driving talents of the late 90's and eventually early 2000's as a driver coach and team manager, and how...

For episode 17 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel welcome their first engine builder to the show, with Jesus Vasquez of P1 Engines coming on board. Jesus shares his story of coming up from humble beginnings to become one of the best driving talents of the late 90's and eventually early 2000's as a driver coach and team manager, and how...

Episode 16 of The Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation has hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with another of CalSpeed Karting's own, Sarah Bantay. Programs Manager at CalSpeed, Sarah not only is a instrumental part of the crew, but also has a big part of this podcast with her photoshop skills. In this episode, we talk to her about how she got into karting as a driver via K1...

Episode 15 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation sees Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel catch up with their buddy and longtime Sports Car racer, Craig Stanton. With years of experience under his belt in IMSA, off road, and even motorcycles, he has also been an avid karter in the arrive and drive genre as well. Craig shares several fun stories about how he got into car racing, his ri...

Episode 15 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation sees Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel catch up with their buddy and longtime Sports Car racer, Craig Stanton. With years of experience under his belt in IMSA, off road, and even motorcycles, he has also been an avid karter in the arrive and drive genre as well. Craig shares several fun stories about how he got into car racing, his ri...

For episode 14 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel have their first sit down with someone from the other side of the fence, Taylor Jocelyn. Taylor has over a decade of experience as a Race official, but has also spent time as a club president, putting on street races, never mind he was also a driver in his own right in SCCA, motorcycles, and of c...

For episode 14 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel have their first sit down with someone from the other side of the fence, Taylor Jocelyn. Taylor has over a decade of experience as a race official, but has also spent time as a club president, putting on street races, never mind he was also a driver in his own right in SCCA, motorcycles, and of c...

Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with one of the most successful shifter kart pilots in in North America for episode 13 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Billy Musgrave. A four time winner of the SKUSA SuperNationals, plus multiple local and regional karting championships, the lead driver for the Musgrave Racing Company (MRC) is hailed as one of the best in the busine...

Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with one of the most successful shifter kart pilots in in North America for episode 13 of The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation, Billy Musgrave. A four time winner of the SKUSA SuperNationals, plus multiple local and regional karting championships, the lead driver for the Musgrave Racing Company (MRC) is hailed as one of the best in the busine...

Episode 12 of The Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation has hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with CalSpeed Kartings own, Bob Niles. The current engine builder and "do'er of all things" at the Fontana, CA karting track, he has been working on engines since he was a teenager, never mind a long list of other skills he employs. With a slew of knowledge in karting as w...

The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation - Episode 11 has hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with the Team Principal and founder of HRT Driver Development, Kyle Hayner. A fairly new team to the industry, the name however is not new; born into and brought up in the racing world, Kyle's experience dates back to when he was just a kid in cadet karts, carry on into cars doing pre...

The Full Caster Podcast: A Karting Conversation - Episode 11 has hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with the Team Principal and founder of HRT Driver Development, Kyle Hayner. A fairly new team to the industry, the name however is not new; born into and brought up in the racing world, Kyle's experience dates back to when he was just a kid in cadet karts, carry on into cars doing pre...

Episode 10 of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation brings on Ryon Beachner as a guest with hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel. Ryon is known as the owner and manager of the 2Wild Karting team, with the team finding many successes over the years, and Ryon himself earning a name as quite the wheelman himself. Listen in as he takes our hosts through the trying early days for 2Wild, throu...

Episode 10 of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation brings on Ryon Beachner as a guest with hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel. Ryon is known as the owner and manager of the 2Wild Karting team, with the team finding many successes over the years, and Ryon himself earning a name as quite the wheelman himself. Listen in as he takes our hosts through the trying early days for 2Wild, throu...

The Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation hits its 10th episode with this installment, as hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel catch up with Alyssa Yauney back on May 29th. Alyssa has experience on both sides of the fence, working as a scorer for the Tri-C club, but also finding success behind the wheel, scoring championships in both sport karts and competition karts. The 2018 Super Series c...

The ninth edition of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation was recorded on May 27th, as hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with another long time karter, Travis Irving. Travis is known as a skilled tuner via his 'TI Tuned' moniker, but also is one of the front runners in the Masters category in both TAG and Shifter competition whenever he hits the track. Currently se...

The ninth edition of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation was recorded on May 27th, as hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel sit down with another long time karter, Travis Irving. Travis is known as a skilled tuner via his 'TI Tuned' moniker, but also is one of the front runners in the Masters category in both TAG and Shifter competition whenever he hits the track. Currently se...

Recorded in the first week of May, episode 7 for the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation, sees hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel interview longtime Sport karter Patrick Britain. Having started in the oval ranks, he didn't start karting until he was in his twenty's! Winner of the Machismo 12-hour, as well as former champion in both the CalSpeed IronMan and Super Series, Britain...

Recorded in the first week of May, episode 7 for the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation, sees hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel interview longtime Sport karter Patrick Britain. Having started in the oval ranks, he didn't start karting until he was in his twenty's! Winner of the Machismo 12-hour, as well as former champion in both the CalSpeed IronMan and Super Series, Britain...

Recorded on May 7th, the seventh edition of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation, sees hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel interview Matt Johnson. Matt is the reigning National Champion in the X30 Masters class from the SKUSA Pro Tour, and has been at the sharp end of the sport for many years. In this episode we take a look back at his career, chat about his car experience from a Late...

Recorded on May 7th, the seventh edition of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation, sees hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel interview Matt Johnson. Matt is the reigning National Champion in the X30 Masters class from the SKUSA Pro Tour, and has been at the sharp end of the sport for many years. In this episode we take a look back at his career, chat about his car experience from a Late...

This installment of the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation, was recorded on April 22nd, and is with our first current car racer. Hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel interview Alexander Bermudez for Episode 5, who actually didn't get into racing until his mid-30's! Over the hour and a half show we chat about his introduction into racing via his talent for photography, talk a goo...

Kicking off the month of May for the Full Caster Podcast - A Karting Conversation, is our first of the 'more recently' recorded episodes; this one taped on April 22nd. Episode 4 sees hosts Mike Smith and Derek Esquibel joined by veteran karter Stephen Clark, who got his start at the famed Adam Motorsports Park, and now runs the successful Phil Giebler Racing team. We chat a good amount a...