Crossthreaded Podcast

We get into some recent car news plus a preview of our race next weekend at Road Atlanta. Jim has driven at Road Atlanta a decent amount, but Meghann never has. Neither has raced wheel-to-wheel there. Should be fun! Thanks for listening, and thanks also to our supporters on Patreon. We really appreciate it. Check us out here: http://patreon.com/crossthreaded Deltawing article on GRM: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/death-deltawing/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Death+of+the+DeltaWing&utm_campaign=GRMDaily Alfa Romeo and Sauber together: https://www.sauberf1team.com/news/the-sauber-f1-team-enters-a-multi-year-partnership-agreement-with-alfa-romeo New Tesla Roadster: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/tesla-unveils-the-new-roadster/ Nurburgring Wreck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYLUL9MRyQ Street racing morons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZhtY2CUQG0

Lotus receives magical engine mode in Spa 2015: https://missedapexpodcast.com/episode-list/2017/11/7/f1-boss-ep2 F1's engine politics examined: Why would Ferrari supply Red Bull? http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12475/9995927/f1s-engine-politics-examined Koenigsegg Agera RS nets multiple production car world speed records: http://www.koenigsegg.com/koenigsegg-agera-rs-achieves-multiple-production-car-world-speed-records/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD82XB7t8Xo Individual turbos for each cylinder? https://blog.caranddriver.com/engines-with-small-individual-turbos-for-each-cylinder-could-revolutionize-downsizing/ Musk yelled at a bunch of journalists: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-just-yelled-shame-at-a-bunch-of-journalists-1820059349 http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a28935/lamborghini-mit-electric-car-terzo-millennio/

Meghann kicks this episode off with a top-shelf intro. We get into some Volvo doings including the new Polestar 1, and then have a great interview with Ben Horst of Eddy Motorworks.  They put electric motors in all manner of cars, not least of which being an Exocet.  If you like these shenanigans, why not support us on Patreon? Check us out here: https://www.patreon.com/crossthreaded Polestar 1: https://www.polestar.com/polestar-1/ Volvo C30 Polestar on Jay Leno’s Garage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT9FwBsMD3Y Eddy Motorworks site: https://www.eddymotorworks.com/ Ben mentioned a guy who hacked Tesla. This is him: https://evannex.com/ Thanks for listening!  

Hy everyone! On this episode we touch on some 24 Hours of Lemons South Fall wrapup. We do that at the top so our racing buddies won't complain (as much).  We also get into a Petit le Mans wrapup: #6 Team Penske and the #63 Scuderia Corsa ferrari wreck at 10a https://youtu.be/ZV2ECSBvYRk?t=23m28s #52 car crash at turn 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N72qcUy9sY A new segment this episode WITH theme song: Meghann’s GM News! Bugatti Chiron & Koenigsegg 0 - 400k - 0: http://www.motortrend.com/news/koenigsegg-agera-rs-0-248-5-mph-back-0-36-44-seconds/ Thanks for listening!

Thanks for listening, folks, we appreciate the opportunity to chat with you. Lots of car news to talk about here plus we get into some 24 Hours of Lemons South Fall preview action.  Hope you're wrapping up a great summer! Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ Shares Blame in 2016 Fatal Crash, U.S. Investigators Say https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-autopilot-shares-blame-in-2016-fatal-crash-u-s-investigators-say-1505233891 The electrocet, Tesla power in Exocet. Eddy Motorworks was founded in February of 2017 by Ben Horst and Josh Preissle. https://www.eddymotorworks.com/the-electrocet/ Ariel building a hypercar: 1,180bhp, 1,327lb ft of torque, 0-100mph in 3.8secs (well over a second ahead of a McLaren P1 or Porsche 918), 155mph top speed and a 1,500kg kerbweight. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/first-look/ariel-will-build-1180bhp-hypercar

Guys we are so humbled by the guests who have joined us on this podcast in the last few months, but we also miss just talking to you about cars! Feels good to be back.  As always, more of us at http://crossthreaded.us  We donated to the Red Cross to support Harvey victims. Choose your own favorite charity and join us!  Dude’s LS-swapped Mazda RX8 project car is underwater. Noooooo! https://www.reddit.com/r/projectcar/comments/6wz5eq/project_car_is_underwater/ Car makers helping out with Harvey Mazda Foundation (USA), Inc. and Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) https://insidemazda.mazdausa.com/press-release/mazda-mazda-foundation-contribute-100000-american-red-cross-hurricane-harvey-disaster-relief-fund/ Toyota http://corporatenews.pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota+provides+3+million+relief+hurricane+harvey.htm Nissan http://nissannews.com/en-US/nissan/usa/releases/nissan-donates-1-million-to-habitat-for-humanity-renews-partnership Lotus Turns a Profit for the 'First Time in Years http://www.thedriv

We loved the movie Baby Driver for a lot of reasons, one of those being the driving sequences. Our guest today is Jeremy Fry, the man whose driving skill made those shots happen. Find out more about Jeremy on his IMDB page here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296758/ Thank you a million times to Jeremy for agreeing to be a guest on our podcast. He didn't get paid to chat with us. We didn't get paid to interview him. It's just three people super stoked about driving cars having a chat.  Have a listen and get a slice of life as a stunt driver on a modern movie.  Find more of us on our web site http://crossthreaded.us!  

Our guest is Mark Rivera, the brains behind Paco Motorsports. When I spotted his lifted Miata at The Mitty at Road Atlanta I knew I had to shake his hand.  Paco Motorsports have been in business since 2008 providing intelligently designed, quality built, and exceptionally valued performance products for sports cars, predominantly Mazda Miatas. Paco Motorsports Web Site: http://pacomotorsports.com/ Thanks for listening! 

Our guest this week is Keith Tanner of Flyin' Miata. You know him from our offhand references to the "Gandalf of Miatas." He's another one of those people in the car world who has a heap of knowledge paired with the motivation to share it with others. We're so pleased he agreed to be a guest with us.  Keith's web site: http://www.slowcarfast.com/ Miatagasm: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a32131/miatas-at-mazda-raceway-miatagasm-mega-test/ Keith’s Excellent Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Keith-Tanner/e/B001H6W5PO/ Thanks for joining us, Keith! 

We're thrilled to have Jay as a guest. We've spoken to him many times at his races and, of course, enjoyed every minute of racing in 24 Hours of Lemons ... except that we spend much of that time wrenching on the car usually.  There's already plenty of background stuff out there on LeMons so we skipped that part. Find some of that below.  Check out our web site: http://crossthreaded.us 11 Questions with Jay Lamm on Jalopnik: http://jalopnik.com/340374/11-questions-with-24-hours-of-lemons-founder-jay-lamm 24 Hours of Lemons on CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/19/how-an-amateur-launched-a-million-dollar-racing-league-with-500-clunkers.html Thanks for listening!

This week’s guest is highly accomplished racing driver Ryan Dalziel. You can find Ryan’s bio on his web site here: http://www.ryandalziel.com/biography Ryan supports research to cure Rett Syndrome, a serious lifelong neurological disorder that is caused by random mutations in a gene called MECP2. We’ve stepped up with a donation of $100, and we’d love it if you’d join us with whatever you can give, not only as thanks to Ryan for his time but to help some kids. Find out more about Rett Syndrome here: https://reverserett.org/donate/ For a great introduction to Ryan as a driver, have a look at his driver promo from Pirelli World Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CoRpL9sxE Ryan’s currently driving a Nismo DPi car. What’s a DPi Car? http://www.imsa.com/qa-2017-daytona-prototype-international-dpi-concept Photos of the Nismo car Ryan drives in the IMSA Weathertech championship: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nissan-racing/sets/72157678954260585 As always, find out more about us at our web site: http://cr

Our guest this week is AJ Schramm, Competition Director at the ATL SCCA. He's a guy with a ton of motorsports knowledge in his brain and the willingness to share that knowledge. Guess what we talk about. Yeah. Racecars. What else?  Thank you, AJ for agreeing to be on the podcast!  

Our guest today is engineer Warren Van Nus. He and his giant brain are responsible for much of the current look of the US market Exocet. You heard his name mentioned with great reverence in episode 8 when we talked to Kevin Patrick.  Kevin Patrick interview here: https://crossthreaded.libsyn.com/8-kevin-patrick-of-exomotive-ford-gt-thoughts Warren has since moved on to work at Tie Down Engineering, but still has a few passion products of an automotive flavor going on.  Check out our web site for more: http://crossthreaded.us Thanks for listening!

Our guests today: Richard Brunning & Nik Blackhurst of Bad Obsession Motorsport, builders and filmers of Project Binky, which is a mini in the process of getting Celica GT-Four running gear stuffed up it. Note: pronounced Selleck-ah like “Tom Selleck.” We hope you dig the podcast. If so, throw us a rating, review, or check out our website for more Crossthreaded doings here: http://crossthreaded.us Find Bad Obsession here on the web: http://www.badobsessionmotorsport.co.uk/ On YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport Thanks for listening!

In this episode we share some great podcast news, wrap up Monaco and the Indy 500, and hail Scott Dixon as the driving god that he is.  Check out our web site for more of us! http://crossthreaded.us We also welcome our buddy Tom of Tom's Turbo Garage back to the YouTube game. Good to see you back, Tom! https://www.youtube.com/user/turbomiragedude Sports writer loses job over Takuma Sato tweet http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/writer-loses-job-for-tweet-about-japanese-indy-500-winner/ar-BBBDuwd Video of Scott Dixon, driving god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QmrF5p9hEI  

On this episode, Jim recounts his experience driving Chevrolets at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He got asked to slow down and then told how the steering wheel works.  We're sad to hear about Skip Barber Racing School's woes: Skip Barber Bankruptcy http://www.thedrive.com/news/10526/skip-barber-racing-files-for-bankruptcy-owes-lime-rock-park-1-2-million We have a web site! http://crossthreaded.us and we'd love your support on patreon if you're so inclined http://patreon.com/crossthreaded Thank you for listening!

Let's design a low-cost zero-death racing series. Help us think this one through, gang.  We'd love to have your support on Patreon! http://patreon.com/crossthreaded Also: We tried something a little different this week on the YouTube. Watch the Subaru Forester Meditation video and let us know what you think.  Crying kid at Formula 1 when Kimi crashed out. https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/6b3kp6/formula_1_can_be_an_upsetting_sport/ Ended up meeting Kimi: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/6b3ukm/from_crying_because_of_his_hero_to_meeting_his/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=browse&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=formula1 One millionth Porsche 911 http://jalopnik.com/the-one-millionth-porsche-911-is-exceedingly-lovely-1795121703 “It’s a 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera S, painted in Irish Green and designed to mirror some details from the very first 911 from 1963. And when it rolled off the assembly line in Zuffenhausen today, it became the one-millionth Porsche 911.”

Glad to be back with you yet again, friends. If you haven't checked out our latest video you can find that on our YouTubes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26Dc_CAzT_xCjpZncFui4A/videos This weekend in Barcelona we’ll see new F1 design rules: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fia-reveals-plan-for-bigger-driver-numbers-and-names-898408/ Rolling Coal banned in Colorado http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/9930/colorado-bans-rolling-coal-hallelujah Thanks for listening!  

This week we get into some Death Metal. Someone on the podcasting team discovers they might maybe like metal after all. Hmmmm... Plus we get into some Engineering, driving best practices, and car industry family trees.  Thanks for listening, guys!  If you like what we're up to, we'd love to have your support on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crossthreaded How to drive a manual transmission explained using Death Metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__vmUH9dZd4 Mazda profits down over 50% http://jalopnik.com/gm-profit-soars-while-mazda-takes-a-severe-beating-1794738390 Who owns who in cars: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/06/car-brands-who-owns-what/index.htm Oregon Censored, Fined Man $500 For Criticizing Red-Light Cameras Without An Engineering License https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2017/04/28/do-you-need-a-license-in-engineering-to-criticize-red-light-cameras-oregon-says-yes/#3d1ebf8d32ee  

We recap our visit to the Mitty, which is always a good time, and play some sweet music we recorded there.  Thanks to Ian and Justin for coming up and saying hello. Glad you're enjoying the videos guys.  We'd love to have your support on Patreon if you're so inclined! http://patreon.com/crossthreaded Check out Paco Motorsports here: http://pacomotorsports.com/offroadster/ Rock on! Kookaburra sound: https://www.freesound.org/people/pocket/sounds/44554/ Bavarian Folk: https://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/239154/