Race Colorado

We chat with Andy Crutcher (Spooky Andy) of Hoonigan Autofocus fame about his life as an engineer with asperger who engineered almost everything on his drifting Mazda RX7 with LS engine swap.

We chat live at Hot Import Nights with Chris Spencer about his Honda K engine swap widebody red Lotus Elise. See it in action on our friend Charles Ohl's C4 Productions YouTube channel under K-Swapped Widebody Lotus.

We chat live at Hot Import Nights with William of Next Level Paint/Premium Impressions and his engine builder Kevin Birchmeyer all the way from Albuquerque, New Mexico talks about his Dominic Toretto and Han Lue from The Fast and The Furious and The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift movie inspiration Mazda RX-7 that has a more pearl in it McLaren orange paint with black and gray flames and a LS1 engine swap.

We chat live at Hot Import Nights with ex-time attack racer turned drag racer Robert Esplana who also handles merch and airstrip attack organization for local car culture website and airstrip attack organizer Revvolution and Shift S3ctor.

We chat live at Hot Import Nights with Kyle Hemingway of NV US Colorado who saved a immaculate red Honda CRX from the crusher.

We chat live at Hot Import Nights with Brandon Devore about his 4G63 NASCAR and his mission to do the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. See video logs about the progress on YouTube by going to the SSR Video channel and searching 4G63 NASCAR and the YouTube channel 4G63NASCAR DSM.

We chat with Rodney Omaley who is a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer inspired by his dad who raced the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and who is inspiring his brother to race Pikes Peak International Hill Climb soon.

We chat with father and son Craig and Zach Lumsden who raced Pikes Peak International Hill Climb for the first time this year about their first time, Craig's SCCA ProRally, their race cars, and more.

We chat with Chris Strauch who is a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer that races with a single center seat Porsche 914 widebody with a Chevrolet engine swap about his racing, his race car, Pikes Peak, and more.

We chat with Shawn Bassett of Attacking The Clock who is a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer, Global Time Attack racer, owns a carbon fiber business, works for Aftermarket Industries (FueledByAI), races in a full carbon fiber Datsun Z that was not in the best shape when he bought it, has been featured on Speedhunters and Hoonigan AutoFocus with Larry Chen. His Datsun Z is gorgeous! Go to our website at http://www.racecolorado.net, click on Sights, and look for our album of photos of his Datsun Z titled Shawn Bassett's Carbon Fiber Datsun Z.

We chat with Tristan Butzen who is a drag racer, helped with Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this year, races horses, and more. 

We chat with Jake Caldwell who is a drifter and owns a car we like to call The Chevexus which is a car built on a Lexus LS400 frame with a 1951 Chevy body. It drifts too! He has been featured at Hoonigan and SEMA. Take a ride on this rocket ship!

We chat with the 2020 King of The Mountain, Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer Clint Vahsholtz about his racing, his race car, Pikes Peak, NASCAR, Wells Coyotes, electric race cars, his racing family Leonard and Codie, and more. Join us on the mountain!

We chat with David Glessner who is a photographer who owns his own photography business and works for AMP Media Denver. Not only does he shoot cars, but also racing like for Nathan Leach-Proffer and Acura for Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in which this was his first time shooting on the peak and he shoots buildings and houses too.

We chat with the legendary automotive and racing photographer Larry Chen who has shot for Hoonigan, Ken Block (think Climbkhana on Pikes Peak), Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Formula Drift, Speedhunters, Gridlife, and more as we walk around Gridlife at Pikes Peak International Raceway looking at cars like the weiner mobile. NOTE: There was an issue with the host's recorder, so some of the questions might be hard to hear.

We chat with the extremely energetic and positive Sterling Chase who owns Sterling Autowerks and is a team cheerleader and team mechanic for such teams as Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racers David Kern and Andy Kingsley, multiple rally, vintage, and hill climb teams. The cowbells are ringing on this chase of Sterling Chase! AH YEAH!

We chat with the Fun Haver Boys Vaughn Gittin Jr., Chelsea Denofa, and Loren Healy. Vaughn and Loren participate in Ultra 4, Vaughn and Chelsea participate in Formula Drift. Our chat is about drifting, Colorado, offroad racing, their stories, and more.

We chat with the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb team, the caretakers, the organizers, the heroes: Lisa Haight, Don Sanborn (past competitor), Sarah Woods, and Alex Feeback about obviously the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Spencer Penrose, competitors (Jeff Zwart, David Donner, Tommy Boileau, Rob Parsons/Chairslayer, and more), new challenges with the pandemic, history, and more.

We chat with Trevor Reiff who is a full time photographer, featured in Performance Auto and Sound (PAS) magazine, has covered Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, has worked at Telluride Festival of Cars and Colors, Oxotic super cars rental and road rally, has covered Bisimoto's 1000 hp van, and owns Fleeting Memories. Randy Pobst, an amazing racer not just in Pikes Peak International Hill Climb even called him at 3 A.M., do we know why? Was it a butt dial? We will never know. This is just one of his many stories. Also, there's some great advice for automotive photographers.

We chat with Rupert Berrington who is a automotive and racing photographer covering multiple SCCA races, Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, out of country races such as Monaco among many others, and when he's not shooting, he's leading the next Pikes Peak International Hill Climb photographer rookies and doing some racing of his own such as SCCA Rally Cross and more.

We chat with Josh Spencer who owns Colorado Street Scene Review, does the Drift Colorado live streams, working on a 2003 Nissan 350Z engine swapped Datsun and school bus rv project, and just all around positive guy filled with stories, humor, and words of advice.

We chat with Colorado Cars and Coffee Facebook page and group admins Steve Clark and Terry Balbier who advertise every single event in Colorado (It's a lot of work!). We chat about how they came up with this idea, what it's like, interesting and unique cars they have seen at meets, their history, and their cars. NOTE: We tried to use a different audio and recording setup and doing this over a online conference call system called Discord which resulted in not the best audio.

We chat with Charles Ohl who is a photographer, videographer, owner of his first LLC called C4 Productions, and media manager for Edge Autosport. He also talks to us about why he is moving from photoraphy to videography. NOTE: We tried to use a different audio and recording setup and doing this over a online conference call system called Zoom which resulted in not the best audio.

We chat with Chris Lennon who is a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer, races in a electric Porsche, and author of his book The Peak of Racing, a book about the history of Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, turn by turn stories and advice for any new racer, and stories from racers such as Bobby Unser, Romain Dumas, Mario Andretti, and more.

We are chatting live at Pikes Peak International Raceway track side with Austin Barto, who is working his way up to Pro 2 Formula Drift, paints helmets, and with his media manager Daniel Columbo, who does photography, videography, and some racing.

We are live at Pikes Peak International Raceway where we are chatting track side with Jeff Hartsough who has a Focus RS, building it to compete at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, has worked at Flat Irons Tuning where he met Tanner Foust and his car, races at the PPIR Track Attack, has done SCCA RallyCross, and we chat about the new Ford Bronco and Mustang Mach E.

We chat with Tommy Boileau live at Pikes Peak International Raceway about his racing family background, Honda Bob, his racing, working at the track, racing at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and more.

We chat with Paul Gerrard: Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer, Top Gear USA Stig, driving instructor, racer of the Cody Loveland Enviate, and author of the Optimum Drive book.

We chat with Sterling Backus who is creating a 3D printed Lamborghini Aventador in his garage.

We chat with the drift doctor, the drift boss of Drift Colorado about him, the drift scene, and the future of drifting.

Host Jon Walkow chats with Ryan Dussex and Ben Councill about drifting, time attack, networking, and more.

Half and Half: Brad Pedersen and his RWD Focus and some photography. Race Colorado host Jon Walkow sits down with local Pikes Peak International Raceway Track Attack racer Brad Pederson of DTF (Down To Focus) Garage to chat about Track Attack, what DTF Garage is, racing for beginners, and his rear wheel drive Ford Focus project car. We also end the episode with a little bit of photography knowledge from local automotive photographer, Jon Walkow.