Performance & Racing Tech Talk Podcast

The Chronograph 1 RR7 Edition by Porsche Design Porsche Design launched a limited edition timepiece: the Chronograph 1 — Rennsport Reunion 7 Edition. In honor of 75 years of Porsche, only 75 will be sold. Based on the Chronograph 1 from 1972, the Rennsport Reunion 7 Edition revisits a timeless design with improved, modern materials. In 1963, Prof. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche created one of the mos...

For those who are fans of heavy metal rock music, the name of Metallica is emblazoned at the top of their minds ... this group has only sold 130 million records comprised of 10 albums discorphy. The lead singer, lead guitarist, and one of two forming members of the band to remain a driving force, James Hetfield. James sat down with the Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum Terry Kar...

We find ourselves in an age where the cars of the future, once visible only in our imagination, are finally becoming a reality. It is not only hardware in the form of cars that is changing. The conventions of our daily lives and society are also being transformed. Sony wanted to communicate re-imagined mobility as we knew it could be. How can we inspire people through mobility? How can we provide...

Opening Night of "The Disruptors," an artsy automotive exhibit, at the Petersen Museum. Was a very interesting show in that the designers, Rem D Koolhaas and Joey Ruiter essentially built functional abstract mechanical sculpture. Bikes, snowmobiles and of course the cars were all on display. The Panel with the Artists gives insight to the thinking behind the highly unusual -- yet functional cars.

The Steel Market Development Institute's Vice President, Automotive Market Jody M. Hall gave the Motor Press Guild members a presentation for their June monthly meeting on Tues. June 25 at 4 p.m. at the Rose Café. The presentation focused on consumer preferences as well as the automotive industry’s commitment to using steel. With the infiltration of new technology and forms of mobility, the automo...

“Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy” - Opening Panel Discussion The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened a new exhibit located in the Mullin Family Grand Salon on the first floor, set to run through March 15, 2020, titled “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” This exhibit (over 50 vehicles from 30 production and studio resources, inclu...

“Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy” - Opening Panel Discussion The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened a new exhibit located in the Mullin Family Grand Salon on the first floor, set to run through March 15, 2020, titled “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” This exhibit (over 50 vehicles from 30 production and studio resources, inclu...

Oliver Gavin, a GM factory driver for Corvette Racing for 15 years and an ambassador for Chevrolet UK, he competes in Europe, the USA and Australia, while remaining a dedicated family man, fitness fanatic and marathon runner. This interview finds Oliver the day before taking to the track in his effort to secure a sixth Class win in the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix At Long Beach. This race is...

Oliver Gavin, a GM factory driver for Corvette Racing for 15 years and an ambassador for Chevrolet UK, he competes in Europe, the USA and Australia, while remaining a dedicated family man, fitness fanatic and marathon runner. This interview finds Oliver the day before taking to the track in his effort to secure a sixth Class win in the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix At Long Beach. This race is...

Napoleon Motorsports Will Be The First Team To Give Formula DRIFT A Spark If Joe, Lynn, & Justin Napoleon with the fabrication assistance of Robert Quezada from Houston, Texas have their wishes come true, Napoleon Motorsports will be the first team to compete in the highest levels of Formula DRIFT with 100% electric power thus adding a spark to an already electrifying visual and sound display in m...

Auto Club Speedway is celebrating 22 years of racing during St. Patrick's Day weekend at Southern California’s premier motorsports venue March 15-17, 2019 when NASCAR makes its only stop in Southern California for Auto Club 400 Weekend. For the first time ever on the NASCAR circuit, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers will line up five wide during the pace laps prior to the drop of the green...

Charles Navarro, President of LN Engineering, producer of the IMS Solution, near Chicago, talks with our own Tom Stahler about the 996 and 986 Porsche debacle in the Intermediate Shaft that has debilitated so many of these cars -- and the solution!

Interview/Presentation with VP Operations, designer, test driver, Shelby American, Inc Vince Laviolette. about the new Shelby Cobra Super Snake Widebody over 1,000hp supercar. Enjoy hearing the passion of a 17 year motorculture history trailblazer. Over five decades after the first Shelby Super Snake rolled out of Shelby American, the all-new 2018 edition is once again leaving the performance worl...

Story as told by Rick Eberst at the Mullin Automotive Museum's Under The Hood Day includes some of these following details, and ... more. Photo Album Here: https://www.facebook.com/The. EDJE/media_set?set=a.10155680318557897.1073741907.719007896&type=3 The remarkably streamlined shape of this cabriolet, with body by Figoni and Falaschi, was recognized as an example of 1930s French design that it r...

Mullin Automotive Museum Docent, and Art Center Collage Of Design lecturer, Larry Crane gives a clear, and brilliant presentation showing the evolution of combustion engine design. A couple of interesting factoids discovered through Larry's presentation centered on the final evolution in valve placement and head design known as the overhead cam approach (or, dual overhead cam design). Photo Album...

Motor Press Guild's July Monthly Meeting - Mecum Auctions At The Automobile Driving Museum Our July event was hosted by Mecum Auctions at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo. Members found out what is in store for Mecum Monterey 2018 at Pebble Beach – Mecum's Daytime Auction during Monterey Car Week – from Mecum Auctions' John Kraman which was promptly followed by rides in a couple of the...

Interview Script: Welcome Nicolai Elghanayan ... You are a first year race car driver for a first year team competing in the Pirelli World Challenge in the GTS SprintX Class driving an Austrian manufactured KTM X-Bow GT4 and have been able to drive at two event venues in the 2018 season. We are conducting this interview after a fairly successful two-race event weekend at Lime Rock Park at the Lime...

AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN VS ENGINEERING PANEL: THE TENSION BETWEEN CAR DESIGN AND ENGINEERING A gloves-off panel discussion among some of each field’s best, led by MPG’s own Eric Noble and held at ArtCenter’s famous Hillside campus overlooking the Rose Bowl. Where: The ArtCenter College of Design, Hillside Campus Why: California is home to over a dozen automotive design studios from American, European, a...

IndyCar performs its first ever underwater media event with sport diver and racecar driver Schmidt Peterson Racing's Mayor of Hinchtown, Canadian James Hincliffe. The Verizon IndyCar Series in concert with The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA and American Honda Motor Co., Inc., set up an interview session with members of the motorsports media in advance of the 44th Toyota Grand Prix Of Lo...

Alexander Rossi participated in a media blitz on March 22, 2018 in advance of the Verizon IndyCar Series begining its Southwest United States spring swing with back-to-back races at ISM Raceway with the Desert Diamond West Valley Casino Phoenix Grand Prix (Friday April 6 - Qualifications 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT / Saturday April 7 - Race 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PT) and then the rites-of-spring 44th Toyota G...

March 2018 Motor Press Guild Member’s Luncheon At The Proud Bird! Planned educational panel to discuss “How To Survive As A Freelance Automotive Journalist.” The discussion will be moderated by Manuel Carrillo III, and includes the following panelists (L to R): •Elana Sherr - Freelancer, formerly Roadkill Magazine (freelancing for Hagerty, Dodge, and Hot Rod) •Bradley Iger - Freelancer (Hot Rod, A...

Dave Allen serves as President of Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. In this role, Mr. Allen is responsible for the management and operations of the ISC facility including Auto Club Dragway. Mr. Allen has been with the Speedway since 1999 after spending one year at Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca. From 2002-2006, Mr. Allen served as Senior Director of Sales and Marketing. In 2006, Mr. Allen w...

Upon arrival and entrance to the reception area of the Penske Racing Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona, one is welcomed by a receptionist. On this day, the receptionist to the museum had recently moved out from Pennsylvania in order to attend college at Arizona State University. After a couple of sentences of introduction about the facility by this receptionist, I asked if she would mind if I recorded t...

Dave Engelman, Media Relations Manager - Motorsports and Brand Heritage for Porsche Cars North America, Inc. has a conversation with Porsche Tech Talk's Edmund Jenks about the new showcase exhibit held at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. Opening February 3rd, “The Porsche Effect” in the Mullin Grand Salon will feature the German brand’s most historically significant stree...

The Motor Press Guild returns to the Proud Bird! Our January luncheon was sponsored by Pennzoil and featured speakers: Richard Dixon, Pennzoil Technology Manager Jeff Hsu, Quaker State Technology Manager Both gentlemen will be speaking on motor oil industry specification updates. These updates include API SN+ that is a new industry specification proposed by OEM’s, introducing the additional perfor...