Posts Tagged “Billy Decker”

Episode 27 ..::.. ‘Tis The Season

We go a little off the beaten path in this episode, visiting first with Mike Welch, a storied stock division racer with many Canandaigua Motorsports Park accolades to his credit before chatting with Ryan DeLong, the winner of the first derby Chris went to this season. We dive head-first into the debate: Is combative motorsports [...]

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Episode 25 ..::.. Hammer On It

Mike misses the event due to a baseball game, but we press on and welcome Chris Hile and Billy Dunn to the studio. Hile discusses how his third-place showing is like a victory following the off-season fire that claimed the team’s hauler. Dunn talks about running modifieds and sprint cars; we chat with him about [...]

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Episode 22 .::. Different Perspectives

Matt Sheppard talks about his history at Black Rock Speedway, the preparation that goes into mapping out a full-time racing schedule and the economic challenges of picking events and following the Super DIRTcar Tour. We talk about the teams that have drifted away from motorsports and the current ‘super teams’ and the taxes on those [...]

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Episode 20 .::. Things Happen Fast

We officially welcome John Baumes to the party as part of the 31st Lap; Baumes will be joining us on a semi-weekly basis, or as often as he wants. We get to talk with Tiger Chapman of Chapman’s Can-Am Motorsports Park and get his side of the parting-of-ways that took place with DIRTcar last week, [...]

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Episode 19 .::. Cut’em No Slack

John Baumes stops in to talk about the difficulty of running his own (fantasy) racing tour. Bobby Varin talks about the challenges of racing a sprint car and modified, selling his cows to get a start in racing, his first laps in a street stock, and racing side-by-side with his son Danny at Glen Ridge [...]

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Episode 15 ..::.. A Full Table

Three guests helped make a slow start quite lively… we chatted with DIRTcar legend Alan Johnson about his plans for 2012, visited with Canadian racer Luke Whittaker after wrong-numbering one of his closest neighbors, and Kyle Weiss shared insight into having Johnson drive his car in the Freedom 76′er and unveiled some of his racing [...]

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