This would normally be where episode #47 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast would be. But if you are seeing or listening to this, we need your help.We have run into a glitch that has created two iTunes Playlists. We couldn't find a way to combine the two, and going forward, we are only going to be putting new content onto one of the playlists, and this one is not it.So if you are hearing this podcast, please search for the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, and subscribe to the other option. The way you can tell the difference is all of the episodes in this list have a 2 digit number, and in the new list, all of the episodes have a 3 digit number.So the full episode with Dave from Rallispec is episode #047 on the new play list.We apologize for any confusion, and once you make the switch, you can hear all of the future podcasts just as you had before.Thanks for your help, and thanks for listening!Stay Tuned!

For episode 46 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, our guest is Farah Nanji from the Mission Makers Podcast.Farah has two separate, but successful careers.  She has a successful career as a Dj, but she has also had a passion for motorsports since her early childhood. Farah spent a couple of years racing karts competitively in her childhood, and then in 2011 she founded a group called Regents Racing which put on various types of motorsports events. On this episode, we talk with Farah about how she found driving and motorsports initially, how her interests in motorsports and music overlapped, and how both of those interests, coupled with her interest in business, form the basis for her Mission Makers Podcast.If you have not listened to, or checked out the Mission Makers Podcast, Farah has done some great interviews there, and they are definitely worth checking out.Thanks for listening, and Stay Tuned!

For Episode 45 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast we catch up with Tasso and talk about his experience at the Lands End Hill Climb. There was a lot of tough competition there, not the least of which was Rhys Millen in his GRC Hyundai. Tasso, Rhys, and Dave Kern were all battling for the top step of the podium all weekend. From there we talk about how the open rule set for Rally AWD in the CHCA has let Tasso and Dave Kern (and a couple of others) develop their cars to the point where they were actually able to run times close to what Rhys Millen was able to do in his car.That shows how capable the Rally AWD cars are becoming in the Colorado Hill Climb series.So does the open rule set raise the level of competition?From there we talk about the differences in competing in a series with a very strict rule set (like NASA's time trials which Scotty runs in), versus an open rule set, and the benefits of each.Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

For episode #44 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Dussex, Scotty and Jon sit down with Shawn Murphy to talk about his 2004 STI Time Attack car that holds the Outter, East, and West track records at Utah Motorsports Park in TT2, as well as the full course record at Utah Motorsports Park for TT1 and TT2.Shawn's current race car started out as his daily driver, but as is all too familiar a story, once he started to take his STI to the track, its didn't take long for it to fall into dedicated track car duty.The progression of Shawn's build started out focused on power, but then took a bit of a turn when he realized that he wanted to prioritize reliability over straight speed. And when he did that, and started to really focus on other aspects of the cars performance like brakes and suspension, he discovered that his car just kept getting faster.Thanks for listening, and Stay Tuned!  

For episode 43 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, the topic is Time Attack. And we have 3 very special guests join us for a fantastic discussion of the origin of Time Attack in Not only the United States, but Australia as well. Our guests for this episode are Ian Baker who is the organizer for World Time Attack in Australia, and Jason Dienhart and Kiet Le who organize Global Time Attack and Super Lap Battle. We talk with Ian, Jason, and Kiet about what drew them to the sport of Time Attack initially, and how they started organizing events. The sport of Time Attack, and especially the cars that are running the event, have changed a lot since its origin in Japan in the mid to late 90's. As technology has improved, everything from the power that the engines can make, the tires, the weight of the cars, and especially the amount of aero added to the cars has changed significantly. And because of the mostly open rules sets in the unlimited class for these races, some of these cars are pushing the absolute edge of performance, and are setting times close to that of open-wheel formula cars. This is a great conversation about how Time Attack became established, about the iconic cars that helped these events make their mark, and the new cars that rolled onto the track and changed the game. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

  For episode #42 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Scotty and Dussex have a chat about some of their recent trips to the track. First, we had just taken the Pikes Peak car to High Plains Raceway for the first time it far to long to shake it down, and get a sense of how much (if any) we had improved the car in terms of cooling and handling. The day didn't exactly go to plan, but we did learn some really important things. One of the main ones being that a lot of the small things that you can do to make the car better, can make the car a lot faster. Then, Scotty is in the process of re-building his engine after having a catastrophic engine failure. At this point, he is just starting to piece the car back together again, and he is in the middle of the decision process of what he can and can't re-use. This coupled with balancing the wants and needs that you have to get an engine back together, and a budget that was not prepared for that level of a failure makes for a lot of tough choices, and we dive into that. And at the end, we break down how much progress we have really made with the Pikes Peak car, and try to bring a little context to what those improvements amount to. It turns out that making a lot of small improvements and not jumping down the obvious path of more power has landed us in a place where a seemingly unattainable lap time might just be attainable? Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

For episode #41 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we talk with Preston Osborn who is now the Competition Director for the American Rally Association, or ARA.  We talk about this new roll, and some of the changes that he has made to make rally in the US better and safer.  And we talk about the direction that the ARA is going, and the vision that they have for the future of Rally racing in the US. We also talk with Preston about how he got into Rally in the beginning, and about the years that he competed and won a couple of championships, and how that prepared him for his switch from competitor to Competition Director. Preston has had a few Subaru's, and he has long been a fan of the WRX and STI.  Stick around to the end of the conversation, because we have a great talk about the possible direction that Subaru is going with the new WRX and STI. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

  For Episode #40 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, Tasso from OTC Racing, and Scotty from the shop to catch up on the events of the past few weeks. Tasso and Dussex both drove at Gridlife Alpine Horizon, Dussex in Time Attack, and Tasso in the Rally Sprints. The Rally Sprints were a new addition this year, and they were run by Rally Ready Driving School as a bracket elimination. This format created some great racing, and it is safe to say Tasso had a lot of fun running that weekend. Dussex was driving his Super Taikyu car in Time Trails, and even though he didn't get exactly the result he was looking for, he still had a solid weekend. Scotty took his 2011 STI race car out to run with NASA Utah at the Utah Motorsports Park, and things did not entirely go to plan. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

  For Episode #39 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Cole Powelson from Sierra Cars and Lyfe Motorsports. Cole is a driver that we have followed for a number of years now, first because of all that he did with the Lyfe Motorsports GTR Time Attack car. He has competed in that car in a number of Time Attack events, including the World Time Attack event in Sydney Australia, and he still holds a number of track records here in the US as well. He has even brought that car to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and we have raced with him there a few times. Then Cole started Sierra Cars where he is now building an open-wheel race car from the ground up. We had the opportunity to drive a couple of the Sierra Cars on the ice at Georgetown Lake and they were so much fun. These cars were so easy to drive, and so predictable, it was clear that a ton of development had gone into them. We talk with Cole about Sierra Cars, Time Attack, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, and even a couple of really cool projects that he is working on as well. Hint, one is a very cool Subaru, and the other is an iconic Time Attack legend. Enjoy the conversation and thank you for listening!  

  For episode #38 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we have a conversation with Rhys Millen from Rhys Millen Racing. There are few people that have run as many different types of cars in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb as Rhys Millen. He has run front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, and all-wheel cars in the Pikes Peak Hill climb from when the race was fully dirt, up to the present day where the entire road is now paved. Not only that but he has also run both internal-combustion engine cars as well as fully electric cars in the race as well. And he has been very successful in all of them. When we reached out to see if we could talk with Rhys about his experiences running the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, he was actually getting ready to run the Norra 1000 race in Baja, California. He was racing in a car that he has designed at Rhys Millen Racing, the 4 wheel drive Jackal, so we definitely wanted to find out more about the development of that car as well. We had a fantastic conversation with Rhys talking about all aspects of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, off-road racing, rally, and we hope that you enjoy it. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

  For Episode #37 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Scotty, Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Tasso from OTC Racing are all coming off of a big weekend of racing, and that is the topic for the day. Tasso ran the Continental Divide Hill Climb, and this was his first event back in over a year. We talk about how the car ran, what he had to get mentally up to speed again, and what his results were. Scott and Dussex were running with NASA at Pueblo Motorsports Park, and they both had a really productive weekend. Scotty is still chasing a fueling issue, but was able to get a good result, and Dussex had a good result too. They both drove Scotty's car, and it was an interesting comparison between that car and Ryan's Super Taikyu car. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

  For Episode #36 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we got the crew from Professional Awesome to join us on our Podcast to talk about Records, Time Attack, and a lot more. We have been a fan of the Professional Awesome Podcast, and the parts that they have started to make for while now, and they have definitely inspired some details of our builds on a couple cars. Scotty's 2011 STI in particular. They have a fantastic Podcast as well (which you should check out if you have not already), and so we really excited to have the opportunity to join in on a conversation with them. We talk a bit about how the Professional Awesome Crew came together, and about some of their history. We also talk about what their approach to a build is, and we got a lot of good information about the consultation that they do to help their customers build faster race cars. And of course, we couldn't have the Professional Awesome guys on without talking about the significance of records. In Time Attack especially, winning is great, but for many of the competitors, the overall goal is to beat a record in a given class, or to set an overall track record. That kind of mindset is one that we are starting to embrace, and it is one of the driving forces for the whole Professional Awesome crew. This is a fantastic conversation, and we hope that you enjoy it. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

For episode #35 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with our driver, Scott Crouch, Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Scotty from the shop to go over our experiences running in the 2021 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. This was the 99th running of this race, and this was our 10th consecutive year running as well. We had made a few good changes to our 2014 WRX Pikes Peak Race car for this year, and we had some good signs in testing as we were headed into race week. The way that the Pikes Peak Hill Climb is run is fairly unique, and the testing and qualifying takes place for the whole week leading up to the actual race which takes place on Sunday. This year, a lot happened in that lead up to the race, and on race day itself, the mountain had another surprise in store for everyone as well. Weather can be a factor any year on Pikes Peak, but this year, it was a factor for every single competitor. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

Ryan from DSX Motorsports was able to help crew for our Pikes Peak race car over a weekend of testing as we are getting ready to run in the 2021 Pikes Peak Hill Climb. And if you are reading this as it goes up, make sure that you tune in to the Mobil 1 Facebook page for the live stream of the 2021 Pikes Peak Hill Climb on Sunday June 27th! For episode #34 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we start out talking about Ryan and Scotty's experience testing on the mountain, and then Ryan made the observation that nearly every part that is on our Pikes Peak race car is also on our web-site.  We have a great discussion about the build, and this actually inspired me to write up a blog post (which is now up on our site) that goes into detail about all of the parts that are on the car currently. We also have a good conversation about the cars that come to run up Pikes Peak, and about what drives some of the Hill Climb culture in general as well. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

  When you are getting ready to go to the track for a track-day or even a race, does your car have to be perfect before you put it on the trailer? This has been a topic for discussion here lately, and it has broken down into two groups. Those that think that yes, the car has to be prefect and running 100% to go to an event, and those that say no, you just get it as close as possible, and then figure it out once you get there. We'll put them in the Send it camp. What became clear when we started to talk about this was that this is a subject that many people, customers and competitors alike, have run into. And because everyone seems to have a side that they fall on, we decided to talk about it for episode #33 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

  We all love to go to the track or to an event to drive our cars. It is one of the most fun things we can think of doing. But sometimes everything else about going to a track or an event can be stressful. Sometimes so stressful that it can take some of the fun out of the day all together. We have talked about this a bit around the shop, and we all sort of discovered that this has been something that we have all dealt with to one degree or another. And in finding out that so many of us here had wrestled with this, or developed a strategy to make the process of getting to the track easier, we decided we should have a conversation about it. A big thanks to Nigel, Jeanette, and Ryan for sitting down to have this conversation! We hope this helps, and thank you for listening!  

  Right as we were wrapping up recording episode #28 of the podcast, Tasso had a question that he wanted to throw out. He had just acquired a Miata shell that he intended to turn into a race car, but he wasn't sure what to do with it. It also turned out that Blake and Kelsey had also just got a Miata that they intended to turn into a race car as well. We had a great conversation about it, and I thought I would put it up as a short bonus episode. Thanks for listening!  

  For episode #31 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport Podcast, we sit down with Bucky Lasek, and Texas Dave (Dave Carapetyan). The inspiration for this conversation was to talk to Dave and Bucky about their first run in One Lap of America in a Subaru STI S209, and to talk about Lasek Rallysport which they just launched as a part of the Rally Ready Driving School. One Lap of America is a truly unique event that places a unique set of demands on both the car and drivers, and Bucky is putting together a number of videos documenting their run this year on his Youtube channel. Bucky and Dave also have a lot of history in Rally Racing, and it was a lot of fun to talk to them about what they love so much about driving on dirt, and about how much they love the Rally community in general. That was the inspiration for Bucky to launch Lasek Rallysport in conjunction with the Rally Ready Driving School. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!  

  For episode 30 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport Podcast, we have Scott Crouch, Andy Kingsley, Dave Kern, Stephan Verdier, and Victor Kuhns joining Tasso and Jon to talk about the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. As we are getting ready for the 2021 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, we had the idea to reach out to a few fellow competitors that we have run this race with over the years to have a discussion about their experiences running the race, and what it is that makes Pikes Peak such a unique event. Through the years, Pikes Peak has been a race run on fully dirt roads, as part of an SCCA rally event broken up into stages, partly paved, and then as its current state where the road is now fully paved. This group of competitors has run the race in all of these forms, so they bring a great amount of perspective and experience to this conversation. We really enjoyed sitting down with everyone to record this episode, and it is full of great information and stories. Thanks for listening, and Stay Tuned!  

For episode #29 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport Podcast, we have the usual crew on hand with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Tasso from OTC Racing.We had not caught up with them for a few episodes, and Scotty had also taken his car to the track for the first time since he finished all of his winter projects, so that is the first part of our discussion for this episode.Nigel is on as well because he has been making a ton of changes/up-dates to his race car to get ready for 2021, and he has ran into the budget slaying monster called Scope Creep more than a few times in the process.This is something that pretty much anyone with a project car or race car has run into, so we decided to have a conversation about it. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!