Crash Course Podcast

Thanks for stopping by for episode #334. Shawn McCollum joins us to talk about the Young and Wreckless season. RDP dropped an update just a few minutes ago. I’ve been bombarded with questions about guest line up. We will hit on that during the show.

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Casey Smith joins us to talk about the youth division and the growth of the SMW Youth Program while looking ahead to 2021.

James Brown pulled down the win at Burlington in the Weld Compact division. We catch up with him before traversing a number of derby topics. .

Kyle Baker joins us to talk about the win at Buried Alive, and then we welcome Mark and Marcella Benjamin to the studio. We will talk about the upcoming RDP Blizzard Bash online derby, and look at the RDP’s Suicide Prevention and Awareness Initiative.

The northeast enjoyed some hard-hitting derby action over the two days of TJ McCullough’s Buried Alive Derby in Cumberland, MD. We will talk with $10,000-class winner Tim Mann, two-event winner Steven Sickles, Rumble winner Ken Kiskadden and McCullough in this episode.

We welcome TJ McCullough to the show to talk about the Buried Alive derby, set for October 30-31. We also recap the Wicked Team Derby.

Canadian-based Impact Motorsports has a new ownership group. We also dive into the weekend’s Unified Point Series results.

Guy Raymond has two wins and a second in his last three starts, and they came within a week of each other for the hometown-focused driver. We will catch up with him and then shift gears to Brenden Whisman, who won the Rear Wheel Drive Super Stocks at Courthouse Crash.

We catch up with Chris Quenzler, who won a the Hard Core Hobby Stock Championship at Roaring Knob Motorplex in Dunbar, PA before talking with Jon Shipley and Don Santel. The duo are first and second in the ME527 Unified Points; Shipley won the last-chance event for Hard Core Compacts while Santel won the last-chance … Continue reading Quenzler, Shipley, Santel and Krouse ..::..Crash Course #325 →

An exceptionally busy northeast weekend saw the Keystone Nationals anchor a three-derby trifecta as Burlington ran along side Spinning Wheels’ Sunday stop at Bethel Speedway. We will focus on that, welcoming some local stars who ventured to New Alexandria, PA for the Keystone Nationals. We will preview Hard Core Derby’s Final Confrontation with Frankie Guy. … Continue reading Keystone Nationals, Frankie Guy, ME527 Points ..::.. Crash Course #324 →

As we look ahead locally to a busy weekend at Bethel and New Alex for the 2020 Keystone Nationals, Devon Groeneveld was busy in Montana as his team scored a win. We will open with Nick Schumacher and Case Barker, and we will also dive into the season wrap-ups with Jacob Pruismann’s 448 Promotions.

We will be all over the place tonight! First, we will be catching up with Nick Quenzler following his Hobby Stock win at Labor Day Lockdown. We will finIsh with Chris Lancaster, who scored a win on the weekend and is looking ahead to some team show action in Bakken. In between, we will look … Continue reading Nick Quenzler and Chris Lancaster ..::.. Crash Course #322 →

Tim Clark with Smash It Demolition Derbies joins us to talk about the changes to Blizzard Bash and the rest of the fall schedule. Steve Cioppa joins us to look ahead to the Keystone Nationals, booked for September 19. We will also look back on Spinning Wheels’ Mini Meltdown from the weekend.

Mark Elliott and Roaring Knob compact winner Jeremy Riley take the first stint before we welcome youth fullsize winner Alex Paluch and his dad, Eddie Paluch to the show. We finish up with Pete Hansen, who won the full size class there. Plus, I made a friend in England, derby coverage from the midwest and … Continue reading Unified Points, the Paluchs, Elliott, Riley, Hansen ..::.. Crash Course #320 →

Josh Decker comes on with a Spinning Wheels update, including notes on the Meltdown update. We will also follow up with Ryan Shofner, a real-world derby driver who won Friday’s virtual Sin City Showdown with the Realistic Derby Project.

A full weekend of activity brings us to a busy Monday. We will catch up with Kristi and Devon Germain to follow up on their experience as first-time promoters. We will also criss-cross the Midwest to touch on Urban Destruction, Domination Motorsports, Unified Point Series action and 448 Promotions events.

We catch up with Capital City Carnage Limited Weld Champion Justin Stephen, and weld compact winner Jerrid Fisher.

We talk with Capital City Carnage 2019 compact champion Nate Middendorf and CCC’s 2019 Limited Weld runner up Zach Johnson as we count down the final days until this year’s spring visit to the Stormont Vail Events Center.

Cheesy and Darric Wurth, who are each entered to run Modified cars at Capital City Carnage, join us to talk about the builds and the battles. We will also highlight the Blue Ridge Bash and take a look at the latest Unified Points Series developments.

Dan Bolton makes his way to FL1 Studios to hang out for an episode. We take a look at his career before looking ahead to Capital City Carnage with Smash It’s TIm Clark. We finish with Ed Brewster, who is travelling back to Midlothian, VA from Motorama in Harrisburg, PA.

Joey LaGrander joins us to recap his win at NAPA WinterSLAM in the 80s chain class, and then we catch up with division maddog award winner Todd Wiirre. After recapping WinterSLAM, we will catch up with JMW Motorsports’ Ed Brewster for a 2020 preview. Ed is preparing to head off to Motorama this weekend. We … Continue reading Joey LaGrander and Todd Wiirre, Ed Brewster ..::.. Crash Course Podcast #308 →

Jeremy Hinen joins us to talk about Team Postal Mopar’s win in the Southern Nationals headline team finale. Bo Lockwood, fresh off a patient run in an Imperial, joins us to recap his win in the Super Stock division at the Southern Nationals. We finish with compact mad dog award winner Ben LeVangie. Mark Elliott … Continue reading Southern Nationals, Lockwood, Hinen, LeVangie ..::.. Crash Course Podcast #307 →

Mark Elliott joins us to recap Wicked Derbies’ Redneck Rumble in Sturgis, KY and go over the United Points Series roll out. We will also look ahead to the Florida Southern Nationals with Mark before shifting to Billy Monroe, who will preview Wytheville, VA’s Blue Ridge Bash. We finish out the hour with Randy Mosloski … Continue reading Mark Elliott, Billy Monroe, Mosloski & Thomas ..::..Crash Course Podcast #306 →

We look ahead to a busy end of the month, talking first with Iron City’s Todd Cioppa about the Florida Southern Nationals and then Wicked’s Brandon Dixon about Redneck Rumble. We finish with Mark Elliott, following up on his Facebook announcement and a look at his busy 2020 season.

In addition to a weekend development regarding Crash Course and The Florida Southern Nationals, we dive head-first into Cornhusker Chaos. The event was hosted by Logan Dowhy’s Wreckless Promotions indoor event in Kearney, NE. The team element of the event was won by Andrew Lewis. Lewis swept the win and Mad Dog honors. However, the … Continue reading Cornhusker Chaos: Hurt, Steinmeyer and More ..::.. Crash Course Podcast #304 →

The happiest derby driver in America joins us to talk about his experience at ArtBasel Weekend and the BaselHouse Mural Festival in Miami.