It’s cold out, but this CAMcast is a hot one! The gang (minus Dad) and Zack Lords tackle Trent’s Billion Dollar Question which centered around two high performance pick ups, and one less so. Then they tackle the Question of the Week! That question being “What car would you convert to electric?” The guys have some strong answers, and you all brought the heat with your answers!
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Earlier this month, “this month” being August, we had what might be the last Pirelli World Challenge event at Utah Motorsports Campus for a while, if not ever. Get yourself a sweet souvenir by buying a photo from the event! With Utah Motorsports Campus being left off next year’s schedule, this event was probably the last time we’ll see the series roll through. With that knowledge possibly weighing on the locals, they went out and had some solid showings.
David Askew and DXDT racing never left the podium for either of the GT Sprint-X AM class races, finishing first on Saturday and third on Sunday.
Despite only podiuming once, 2nd place on Saturday, Drew Stavely locked down the GTS-X Am championship on the very track where he teaches! Yes, the Ford Performance Racing School instructor brought home the first championship for Ian Lacy Racing and G3 Racing with their Ginetta program.
Vesko Kozarov must be tapping into the same magic Arthur Golebiowski does, because he was no where near any of the other TC competitors! He swept the weekend by bus lengths.
Other locals out racing on the weekend were the rest of the G3/Ian Lacy Racing team: husband and wife duo Frank and Jenny Gannet (Frank in the #24 Ginetta in GTS, Jen in the MX-5 Global Cup Car in TCA), and Steve Burns.
Daren Jorgensen was out and about in his M4 GT4 that’s probably been to more bucket list tracks than a lot of you reading this. The car was shipped to Australia for the Bathurst 12 Hour, and has been doing regular GTS duty all season.
Lumber magnate (…sure?), and purveyor of fine grooming products, Jeff Burton was also out in GTS Am.
In other news: I fell off a golf cart, almost ran into The Stradman (literally), met Tom O’Gorman, and caught up with friend of the program Ryan Eversley. I also chatted with the dominant Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai i30n TCR drivers about looking like the locals. Anyway, here are a bunch of galleries to rifle through. If you like what you see, you can buy some photos here.
Thanks for joining us on this episode! Most of the other panelists couldn’t make it, so Mike and Gavin are joined by CAM super fan Brandon Kuhn, local drifting royalty (?) Nick Stucky, and wildcard Julian Whitterton. This motley crew tackle some serious news topics
A British tourist managed to rack up $47,000 in fines in 4 hours of driving in Dubai
A lot of cars missed being IIHS Top Safety picks because of their headlights
Lawrence Stroll, and several other rich people, have saved Force India!
Elon Musk might take Tesla private
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Hello and welcome to another brand new episode of the CAMcast! We’re joined by Jordan from SuperTuner, who joins us as we talk about all sorts of news:
The French GP happened for the first time in a decade
Volkswagen set a new Pike’s Peak record, and wants to set a land speed record
Bentley set a Pike’s Peak record too
There’s going to be a new Blazer
Forza Horizon 4 vehicle list is leaked!
Sorry for the audio dropping out, but I’ve fixed it!
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Welcome back to the organized chaos that is the CAMcast! Mike and Dave are joined by Trent, and they take a wonderful journey around the world of automotive and racing news. On today’s episode, the guys talk about:
Blaize Potts takes Southwest Drift
Sally and Markos kick ass at GTA Road Atlanta
The Racing Chica needs your help in her quest for GTA domination! Buy some merch so she can get to GTA New Jersey!
Bentley is taking on Pike’s Peak
Tesla Model 3 Performance aims for the M3
Tesla Model 3 also has some issues
A turbo Silverado is being prototyped
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Words by Michael Chandler. Photos by Michael Chandler and Gavin Pouquette
As we’ve discussed, the upcoming 2019 Camaro looks like an Impala. Thankfully Jay Steffey’s is not a 2019, it’s a 2018. It’s also had one important box ticked: the 1LE package.
“Hey Michael, what the hell does that mean?” GLAD YOU ASKED! First it means you opted to grab a ZL1, because 1: why wouldn’t you? and 2: it’s superior to the pedestrian SS because it is packing a supercharged V8. It also has beefy Brembos, Goodyear Eagle F1 SuperCar rubber, and an eLSD that does some stuff with the traction control to make cornering better.
When you tick the 1LE box, you get some things that take the ZL1 from good to great. You get diveplanes and a big spoiler for added downforce, and aggression. Just looking at the car, you can tell it means business. And that’s before we talk about the upgraded mechanical parts. Tell me this doesn’t look like it’s going to burn your town to the ground for a laugh. YOU CAN’T!
The 20″ wheels get replaced with 19s, and you get a special set of Eagle F1 Supercar rubber that has been specially developed for the big Chevy. The magnettic dampers are replaced by an upgraded set, made by Multimatic. You can adjust the ride height in the front, and the camber because YOU GET CAMBER PLATES FROM THE FACTORY. You can stiffen up the rear sway bar if you want to! You still get that eLSD, but it’s packed with a 3.73 gear set.
Six piston and four piston Brembos, with this neat 1LE logo on them, haul this thing to a stop.
Now, you may have noticed that this thing is covered in NASA stickers. That’s because Jay runs Time Trial in this thing. Some of you may be chuckling, and saying something like he’d probably do better if he were in a GT350. You might be right, but let’s look at some numbers. This Camaro weighs 3880 pounds and makes 650 horsepower, which means each horsepower has to move 5.97 pounds. A Mustang GT350 weighs 3760 pounds but makes 526 horsepower, which results in 7.14 pounds for each horseypower. So, going by that he would be doing worse in the Mustang. But enough about this, let’s get back to the Camaro.
The interior is pretty swank. You wrap your mitts around things covered in suede. The steering wheel, which is also flat bottomed, and the shift knob are wrapped in suede.
You get to plant yourself in some nicely bolstered Recaros, and if you can get a ride in Jay’s you’ll get to secure yourself into those Recaros with these Safecraft harnesses.
There’s a performance data recorder, and then there’s this! “This” being the paddle that activates the rev match for the transmission. Yes, the six speed manual in the ZL1 has rev match so you don’t royally screw up your shifts. The system can’t help you if you can’t find 3rd.
If you’re curious, the paint is called Frost White, and if you go to build your own on Chevy’s website it’ll look gray. It’s definitely not gray. It’s very white, and the diveplanes and hood are very black, making this thing look like a panda. A panda that’s been eating nothing but steroids for a year.
Happy New Year everybody! Hope you had a nice weekend, ringing in the new year and all. We’re coming out of the gate STRONG in 2018, by looking back at the year that was!
We pick cars of the year
Remember our fondest moments
Talk about the best races of the year
Awesome drives we saw or went on
We talk season 2 of The Grand Tour
And there’s going to be a The Fast and The Furious stunt show
We also celebrate YOUR moments of the year, and we pick the final winner of our contest! Congratulations to Isaiah Garza for being the last winner, and getting a chance to be on the podcast!
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody! We’re thankful you’re joining us for this episode, and every episode. If this is your first, welcome! On this episode Dave, Gavin, and Mike go off on tangents, are joined by a cat, and talk some news:
Tesla’s new Roadster AND Semi
Callaway is bringing GT3 spec Corvettes to World Challenge
The new Aston Martin Vantage is a sharp lookin vehicle
An amazing late entry for the retro livery question
And the cars you’d fight someone for to get a crazy discount
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Write-up coming… Eventually? In the meantime, here are the photos from Sunday. Enjoy the gallery, buy stuff so I can keep coming out and covering the races (also so I can replace the pants I ripped hopping fences this last round), and stay tuned for the write-up.
It was a nice day out at Utah Motorsports Campus! Â Mostly sunny with some intermittent clouds, sport bikes from the Apex Track Days event wailing on the West Track, and tires howling in the West Paddock from the drivers of the final Salt City Drift event of the season. Â At the end of the day, there would be two winners crowned: the winner of the event, and the overall season champion! Â Let’s see how that all played out:
In third place in the day’s competition was OP Anderson! Â Despite organizing and being one of the guys running the event, and despite having a box stock Saturn Sky Redline as his chariot, he managed to go out and slay enough to get on the podium.
In second place was the man, the myth, the Southern Dandy: Blaize Potts! Â We finally got to see his LS powered FC RX-7 ripping, and rip it did. Â Put a pin in this, cause we’re gonna get back to him in a minute.
Taking home the win was Trevor Malan! Â Trevor’s S13 has everything that the internet seems to love: sparkly paint, big Weds wheels, a DMAX kit, JDM nose, it’s dumped, and it’s a ripper. Â And it has something I love: a dude behind the wheel who’s down to drive. Â Doesn’t matter how cool your car looks, or what parts you’ve thrown on it: if you can’t/won’t drive it like it’s supposed to, then you’re blowing it.
INTERMISSION
This is John. Â I like John, cause he’s down to get weird. Â Here he is in his Wisefab equipped E36, munching a cone. Â It also has some crazy stiff springs out of the Lyfe Motorsport GTR. Â It was quite a sight to behold.
This is Devin. Â His Corolla has Arizona tags, lives in a garage in Michigan, and has a BEAMS 3S-GE under the hood. Â He drove, in that Corolla, all the way from Michigan just to drive in this event. Â And it isn’t some well sorted, fully developed Corolla. Â Very recently it was just a lump of 80’s Toyota, sitting in his garage. Â He got the car on the ground, got it running, then got it running well enough to drive across the goddamn country to slay some tires. Â Think about that for a second. Â Devin is the man.
BACK TO SOME ACTUAL NEWS
In addition to the actual competition, there were two games being played: limbo and table. Â Not quite sure how limbo worked, but the guy who won got some cash. Â Good job there, fella! Â It looked like Blaize was going to take the table win, until Nick Stucky showed up. Â He was having car troubles, but finally managed to get his car running. Â He did some tandem with Scott Bradshaw, and then he went for the table. Â Name of the game was to drift through the last two turns of the course, then slide your car to a stop next to a table. Â You needed to be parallel, or close enough, to the table to be in the running. Â Blaize set the bar pretty high, or low, but Nick cleared it in whichever direction was necessary. Â He slide to a stop mere inches from the table, on his only table run of the day!
Speaking of tables (AWKWARD TRANSITION), here’s the podium for the season championship: in third place, with an E30 325, is Hayden Campbell! Â He might have taken second if he drove the event, but third isn’t bad!
In second place is the guy who used two cars this season: Blaize Potts! Â He sold the KA24DE powered S13 coupe, and was handsomely rewarded for doing so. Â Look at that 2nd place trophy and moderately priced champagne!
And the winner of the 2016 Salt City Drift driver’s championship is: Nick Nengas! Â Proving many things this year (any seat time is good seat time, the 350Z is a solid platform for damn near anything, looking like a child has its benefits) netted him the top spot. Â It wasn’t an easy task, there were some guys who could shred, but Nick shredded harder. Â Now, what do three guys with champagne do with it after they’ve received awards?
There was much rejoicing. Â And so ends the Salt City Drift season. Â It was an enjoyable one, a solid one, and hopefully one that has a bigger succeeding season. Â Congratulations to the winners, the people who tried, everyone who came out to support the events, and especially the folks at Salt City Drift. Â They’re trying to bolster this community we have by hosting these events, and it’d be killer to see some more folks driving, or even volunteering at these events.
