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Episode 136 - Austin and Adam catch up and discuss Austin's recent decision to leave the corporate world...again and his latest bad decision of buying an old Ambulance.  They also talk about the recent SCCA Majors event at Road Atlanta, and a few other things. Visit us on the web at www.tracktuned.com/slipangle

Episode 135 - Returning to the show, we have the man who quite literally wrote the book(s) on high performance driving, Mr. Ross Bentley himself.  He shares some stories from his racing and coaching career from the past several decades with Austin and Adam, and some of them leave us nearly speechless.  For more on Ross, visit www.speedsecrets.com 

Episode 134 - If you've been around the world of Time Attack the past few years, you likely know James Houghton, driver of the K-Tuned Time Attack Intergra Type R.  Hailing from Canada, James travels all over North America, from Super Lap Battle to the innagural #GRIDLIFE South Festival.  Always hilarous to talk to, Austin and Adam get to sit down with James after his bath time and chat about how...

Episode 133 - Austin and Adam sit down for some laughs with Writer, Teacher, Driver, and instrcutor, Christian "Mental" Ward.  In addition to writing for Road and Track, Hooniverse, and the Truth About Cars, Mental also drives on an American Endurance Racing team with some of the Road & Track Staff, Matt Farah, and some other heavy hitters in the automotive media industry.  Listen as we talk t...

Episode 132- Austin and Adam talk with Pikes Peak Winner and Lovefab owner Cody Loveland about his 2017 Pikes Peak program this year, history modifying and building cars, and a whole host of other things in this episode of SlipAngle.  

Episode 131 - Part two of our interview with Race Engineer Jeff Braun.  We talk about never being satisfied with how the car is set up, young race engineer opportunities, and Jeff's least favorite thing about modern car racing.  Austin also digs up his favorite question - "Where is the best place for the transponder?"  For more on Jeff, you can follow himFacebook via his page, Auto Racing Tech Tip...

Episode 130 - In Part 1 of our show with Jeff Braun we learn about how he got into racing and how he ended up being one of the best race engineers in the world.  We also hear about the process of being able to learn from other forms of motorsports and applying what you know into other aspects of motorsports.  Jeff tells us the story about his days at Level 5, and we learn about the "What if Scott...

The fellas, and a hundred of their friends, decended upon a track on a lake in wisconsin.  Giggles were had, silliness was accomplished, and "OH MY GOSH" was uttered too many times.  Ice racing is fun.  

Episode 128 - Adam picked Austin up at the airport at midnight , and they cruised to the great white north that is Wisconsin.  Ice racing was to happen at the Gridlife Ice Battle, and to pass the time, podcasting ensued.

Episode 127 - Austin sits down with Aaron Bitterman and Adam Gershon from Speed Ventures, one of the largest regional track day companies in the states. We talk about the early days of track days, Aarons experience with various clubs before forming Speed Ventures, the surprising number of events they run (28 this season!), different Time Attack and Wheel 2 Wheel series that are hosted at their eve...

Friend of the show and Tracktuned.com contributor Pete Lindberg stopped by Adam's on sunday for a quick show, during a whirlwind trip delivering a car to his parents.  Instead of catching up with mom and dad, he hangs out with us to chat Autocross and the car hobby

Epiosde 125 - His K swapped CRX was in a magazine before it was ever autcrossed.  His dad encouraged and helped him build it.  He's won an SCCA Solo Nationals Championship.  He's Brian Kuehl.

Episode 124 - As we close out January of 2017, Austin and Adam get together to recap Austin's first weekend at the track in California, Adam's plans to turn a car he's had forever into his next SCCA STL racecar, and we talk Camper Vans and RVs.

Episode 123 - Austin is at Corner 3 Motorsports in Laguna Hills, CA talking with friend of the show Steve Doherty.  John Capati, and Malko Izurieta join us to talk about Nissan Challenge, driving techniques, the benefit of having a coach, and learn the history of Corner 3 Garage.  We also learn about Nissan S Chassis cars and explore the newer Z33 and Z34 chassis Z Cars.  For more on Corner 3 Moto...

Episode 122 - We talk cheap expensive cars with Dave Ott and Abrin Schumucker at midnight in the lobby of the #GRIDLIFE Kart Battle Hotel.  Dave went from cheap old Hondas to a 996 911 Turbo that he drives even in winter, and Abrin talks EVOs.  Both have AWD cars with lots of horsepower.  Austin and Adam have only had cheap cars with low horsepower.  We talk the finer points of awd, turbos, fast c...

Episode 121 - Chris Stewart, Founder of #GRIDLIFE, sits down with Adam and Austin to talk about the history and origins of #GRIDLIFE, his various experiences running different events from Moped Rallies to large festivals, his experience with Hondas, and a whole list of other topics on this episode of SlipAngle.  For more on GRIDLIFE, visit www.grid.life

Episode 120 - We are joined at #Gridlife Kart Battle by Kristopher Miller of Powerstop Brakes to talk about his background in the industry, Powerstop's history, new Track Day product line, and talk cars as we always do.  To find out more about Powerstop, visit www.powerstop.com.

Episode 119 - Austin and Adam are joined by Mike Cohn who happens to be in Los Angeles this week.  Austin explains his weekly Car ADD choices, Mike talks about Canyons Canyons Cayons here in LA, and Adam sniffles.

Episode 118 - In our first RePlay episode, we relisten to Episode 12 from August 2015 with Lee Grimes from Koni.  Tons of great information in this one and it's always a pleasure to have Lee on.  Even if you have listened to this episode before, it's a great listen and you're sure to learn something new.

Episode 117 - Greg Amy joins us once again to talk about his 2016 season, TDIs, 2017 plans, denies his bid to be the president of the SCCA in their current search, and a whole host of other topics in the first SlipAngle show of 2017.

Episode 116 - We answer tons of questions from Facebook.  Some good, some not so good.  Have more questions?  Email austin@tracktuned.com or adam@tracktuned.com.  

Episode 115 - Austin and Adam talk old Hondas.  Adam barely knows Honda made cars after 1991.  Austin has a new desire for an old EF.  Naturally we talk about EFs, EGs, EM1s, STDs, D Series, B Series, K Series swaps, CRXs, Realtime AWD, and host of other Honda related content.  We also answer some questions from Facebook.  Oh, and there is a free echo you get courtesy of SlipAngle!  Hurray!

Episode 114 - Austin and Adam talk about Austin's recent desire for a Focus RS, Adam's RV purchase, driving faster cars after driving slower cars, and recap our PRI party last Friday.

Episode 113 - We're at the PRI show with the crew from RS Motors / 365racing.net, #GRIDLIFE regulars, and Ice Racing extrordinares.  We talk about their multiple One Lap of America and Optima Ultimate Street Car podium finishes.  And of course, we talk about Ice Racing, and our upcoming #GRIDLIFE IceBattle.  We are joined on this show by Andy Smedegard, Brandon Ranvek, Churchill Souksavong, Matt D...

Episode 112 - Multi Time SCCA Solo Nationals Champion David Whitener sits down to talk to us about Corvette Jeeps, Miatas, Autox, Time Trials, Hondas and Miatas.