RACERSHQ Podcast

Matt and Pat chat about the upcoming 2024 F1 Season. We make bold predictions.  Apple juice is consumed. Need we say more? 

Matt, Pat, Nate, and Todd recap TARP Racing's valiant attempt at winning the heroic fix award in Birmingham.

Matt, Pat, and Nate chat about the upcoming 2024 racing season. We've got the 24 Hours of Daytona this weekend, along with the NASA TX season opener at MSR Houston. Racing is hard. Try to have a good time. See y'all at Barber. Here's that Lambo effort we chatted about. Very similar feels to our budget enduro efforts. https://youtu.be/gWQcRBv-3wI?si=e7KISrz_rH571Whp

Matt and Nate chat with the 2023 NASA Texas ST6 champ, Jose Garcia Jr.  He and his family have been doing a ton of driving over the last couple of decades, so he's got some great stories and lessons to share.  We even took a deep dive into, his vast stable of miata, kmiatas, and ST5 rules.  https://racershq.com https://www.instagram.com/racershq/ https://www.instagram.com/jose_garcia_racing/ https...

!!! BIG SHOW ALERT !!! Matt and Pat chat with Jay Lamm, the inventor of budget endurance racing, about his journey through automotive journalism and the early days of the 24 Hours of Lemons.   https://24hoursoflemons.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybAvaM3b90  

Matt and Pat chat about the 2023 racing season.  Overall the team had a hard time making it to the track, but we got to see Hunter and Todd excel at sprint racing in the NASA Texas region.    Big congrats to Todd for winning the 2023 Racer of the Year award.  He crushed it!   https://racershq.square.site/s/shop  

Pat and Mat chat with Roland about his dominating victory over the RACERSHQ Podcast Battle FantasyGP league.  Big shout out to everyone that participated. Better luck next year. https://fantasygp.com/  

Matt, Pat, and Nate chat with Todd Spickard and Chris Moehring about the 2023 Stuntin' and Splodin' Soiree in Houston.  This was Chris's first race with a new car and zero wheel to wheel experience.  We learned a lot along the way and took home the Index of Effluency.  Make sure you play along with our virtual bingo card.  Send me a winner and we'll send you a shirt.  Bingo card:  https://mfbc.us/...

Matt, Nate, and Pat chat with returning guest, Hunter Biederman about his visit to the Formula 1 race in Austin last week.  We also catch up on our various projects, discuss spacial temporal continuity, review the 2024 24 Hours of Lemons schedule, and iRacing's AI racing.   https://circuitoftheamericas.com/ https://racershq.square.site/s/shop https://24hoursoflemons.com/schedule/  

Pat drove an old Ford in the Lemons race at Road America. It was exciting! Like and subscribe.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55ogjOImBc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw   https://racershq.com/    

Matt's got thoughts on the Gran Turismo movie.  Pat has to hear about it, and talks about his trip to Road America. Hilarity ensues. 

We've got a very special guest tonight.  Matt and Pat chat with Mario Korf from Occam's Racer, the best amateur racing blog in the known universe.  He's got a new book out.  Make sure you order a copy.  Like and subscribe and rate and review! racershq.com https://occamsracers.com/aero-resources/  

Matt and Nate chat with Pat about his new V8 Volvo project, a new livery for the E36, and splitters.  Check us out next week for a very special guest.   

In this episode we've got JT Toon telling us all about instructing and coaching drivers.  He's got a ton of experience, and it's always fun hanging out with him at Hallett.  Enjoy.     

Matt and Pat chat with our ol' friend from Lemons, Ross Carmichael.  He's been running his BMW e36 for over a decade and now he's crushing the ST5 class in NASA's Texas region.     https://nasatx.com/   https://racershq.com/  

Matt and Pat chat with Jill Swanson from Lemons of Love and F.A.S.T. Cooling.  Jill has been around the motorsports paddocks for decades and has some great stories about introducing her company's technology to NASCAR, off-road, and sports car racing.  After a battle with cancer, she started Lemons of Love, a non-profit providing care packages to cancer patients around the world.  We hope you tune...

No interview tonight, just some good old fashioned garage chat with Pat and Matt.  Pat's done a ton of work on the e36 Lemons Project, and Matt's ready to get back on track after a short stint in real estate jail.  Like and subscribe and rate and review and check us out on threads. 

Matt and Nate chat with Thomas Hawley about his wildly successful racing career in the COMMA series at Hallett and his new project, a Honda k24 turbo powered Porsche 997.   Tune in to hear all about this wild project.  I think you'll enjoy.  Subscribe and rate and review and buy a t-shirt. https://racershq.square.site/s/shop Check out Thomas's progress on the grams https://www.instagram.com/turbot...

Matt and Nate interview Pat about his recent visit to the 100 year anniversary of the 24 Hours of LeMans.  He's got lots of travel tips and some awesome track side stories.  Like and subscribe and rate and review! https://www.lemans.org/en  

Matt chats with returning guest Dave Mulvey about all the fun stuff you can do with radio communications at the race track and his bitchin' TV van.   Check out Dave at https://www.instagram.com/k5dcm.radio/ Buy one of the t-shirts he designed at https://racershq.square.site/s/shop Come say hi this Sunday at Hallett's NASA race. 

Matt and Nate interview Michael Elliott and where we explore how much things have changed since he started racing with the SCCA in the 1970's.  He's got some cool stories about racing Formula Vee's around old tracks like the Ponca City.  Like and subscribe. Rate and review. 

Matt and Nate chat with our old pal Spencer Elliott about his transition from autocross and road racing to karting.  He's got lots of great insight about choosing the right league, finding the right kart for your region, and navigating the expenses of motorsports.  Like and subscribe and rate and review and stuff. 

Matt, Pat and Nate recap TARP Racing's performance at the inagural 24 Hours of Lemons event at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit in Jennings, OK.  Lots of great insight in here from the front of the pack.  We had an awesome team and ran a strong race.  Congrats to the Tetanus Racing guys for their second win in a row.     https://24hoursoflemons.com/results/?id=369 https://www.facebook.com/tetanusracing...

Pat has a valuable hot take on flag and corner workers during an endurance race.  Nate loves endurance racing with his buds so much that he's considering an exit from Spec Miata. Matt rants about the use of "safety" measures to make pro racing entertaining.  Like and subscribe and rate and review. 

Matt, Pat, and Nate chat with Troy Hogan about his recent overall win at the NOLA Lemons race.  He's been working on this since 2008, and we're all very excited for him.  Troy's got some great stories that can help us all be better racers.  He's been through several Datsun crank shafts, came close to winning several times, and even started building radio wiring kits for everyone in the paddock.  G...