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191: Chris Powell Porsche Mechanic from Chris's German Auto Service Feb 24, 2015

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Chris Powell is the owner of Chris’s German Auto Service in Bellevue Washington. He’s run his shop for over 31 years caring for Porsche automobiles. Chris spent some of his early years in racing with Bruce Leven and Bayside Racing and he got his hands on some very serious Porsche race cars including: the RSR, 934, 935, 924, GTR, Lola Porsche, and the 962. The team ran at the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring and they won at Sebring in 1981. Chris is on the Porsche Club of America’s National Technical Committee and enjoys helping Club members with their cars and technical challenges.

190: Peter Krause Driving Coach Talks About Going Faster Feb 23, 2015

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After twenty-five years as an award winning historic race car competitor, mechanic, and preparation shop owner, Peter Krause shifted gears to rev up a new career utilizing the latest GPS and high definition video equipment to quantify racing driver performance. This intersection of this technology, coupled with Krause's intimate knowledge of the psychology, art and science of "going fast," propelled him into the top tier of driver coaches, perhaps more accurately, driver performance analysts, in North America. Peter maintains a 1,200 square foot learning facility at Virginia International Raceway, complete with simulators to "virtually coach" and plasmas on the wall to review data and video.

189: Bruce Canepa Talks About Designing, Building, Restoring, and Racing Vintage Cars and more Feb 20, 2015

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Bruce Canepa is the Founder and CEO of Canepa Motor Company and Concept Transporters in Scotts Valley, California. Bruce is passionately involved in all aspects of his companies from vehicle design and development to historic and collector cars sales, restoration, and racing. His company is renown for expertly combining sophisticated design and superb craftsmanship in new vehicles and Pebble Beach level restorations on collector cars, vintage racecars, hot rods, luxury cars, motorcycles, SUVs, you name it. The automotive projects that come out of his companies are recognized as the best of the best. Bruce has raced in all sorts of cars over the years and today runs in most of the premier historic events around the world.

188: Big Daddy Don Garlits Does A Quarter Mile at 323.04 MPH in 4.72 Seconds Feb 19, 2015

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The name “Big Daddy” Don Garlits is synonymous with drag racing. Don’s been dubbed the “King of the Dragsters” and is the patriarch of Top Fuel Drag Racing. His 17 World Championship titles and racing milestones are so numerous it would take me this entire show to list them all. Don’s won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals a record 8 times and he’s raced for over four decades. His famous Swamp Rat series of 34 hand fabricated black race cars carried him to 144 national event wins. Today Don is the CEO of the Garlits Auto Museum in Ocala, Florida. The museum is a treasure trove of drag racing history and a destination for every fan to experience. The fastest Don's ever gone in a dragster? 323.04 mph in Swamp Rat 34 at the 2003 Gator Nationals. That's a quarter mile in 4.72 seconds!

187: John Wright is a Writer for Vintage Racecar, Victory Lane and Old Autos Magazines Feb 18, 2015

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John Wright is from Waterloo, Ontario. He is a journalist who writes stories about cars, racing, and people in racing. He writes for Vintage Race Cars, Victory Lane, and the Canadian publication Old Autos. He did some racing in a Formula Vee and then a race prepared MGB.

186: Danny Thompson Talks About Setting Land Speed Records and The Challenger II Plus His Father Micky Thompson Feb 17, 2015

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Danny Thompson comes from a family whose name is synonymous with speed. His father, Micky Thompson, is the famed driver and innovator of the Challenger, a man who broke land speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Step by step, Danny Thompson has maintained and expanded his family’s celebrated history in motor sports. Danny raced motocross winning his first 18 races. He then moved on to raing cars in the Formula Atlantic Series, Supervees, and CRA Sprint Cars. He won the opening night of the Mickey Thompson Off-Road Grand Prix and drove for Chevrolet as a factory driver. He’s served as the President of the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group and later as a consultant to entertainment, promotional, and safety firms.

185: Jim Kearney from Kearney Driver Development Teaches You How To Drive Faster While Being Happy Feb 16, 2015

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Jim Kearney operates KDD, Kearney Driver Development. He is a driving coach who’s mission is to help drivers become faster, more consistent, and competitive. He spent 32 years racing in Formula Vee, Formula ford, F2000 and SSC. He is a four-time SCCA Northeast Division FVee Champion with numerous top ten finishes. He’s a published writer with his words appearing in Sports Car magazine and Speed Secrets Weekly to name a few. Jim’s Napkin Manifesto, “Little Things Do Add Up.” Is a testament to Jim’s philosophy about driving fast and tuning the helmet, not engineering the race car. As drivers gain confidence, performance rises and happy drivers go faster.

184: Ian James Racecar Driver for Team Seattle in the Alex Job Racing Tudor 991 Porsche GT Feb 13, 2015

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Ian James is an ex Pat Brit who moved to America from England in 1999 after a successful open wheel career racing junior open wheel formulas. He has been racing successfully ever since in the United States. He is a race winner in the former American LeMans and Grand Am series and well as the continental sports car series. Ian has a truly diversified career and a keen ability to adapt to all types of vehicles. He currently races for Alex Job Racing in the Tudor Sportscar series driving the heart of Racing 991 GT America Porsche where he's been a drive for the past four years. Team Seattle is a group known by their Racing for the Heart program where they have raised over five million dollars for Seattle Children's Hospital.

183: John Dagys Automotive Journalist Who Operates Sportscars365.com Feb 12, 2015

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John Dagys is an international motorsports journalist and photographer who specializes in the coverage of sports car and endurance racing. For the past ten years, he's traveled the globe reporting on professional auto racing series including the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, FIA World Endurance Championship and pinnacle events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. John founded Sportscar365.com in 2013 that is an independent news source for sports car racing. He also serves as a corespondene for FOXSports.com.

182: Adam Martin From Hagerty Insurance and The Petersen Museums's Checkered Flag 200 Club Feb 11, 2015

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Adam Martin is the Vice President of The Hagerty Institute for Collector Vehicles, Business Development, and Automotive Data & Intelligence. He’s an overachieving classic car enthusiast affectionately known as enthuse-i-Adam. He’s an executive Committee member of the Checkered Flag 200 Club at the Petersen Museum. Recently Adam and Lucy, his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro Sport Coupe were featured in a video on Petrolicious where you can enjoy Adam’s long time passion and enthusiasm for the collector car hobby. Adam always brings Enthuse-i-Adam to everything he does.

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