A podcast that is generally on the topic of Motorsports, Subaru's, racing, and car parts, brought to you by Flatirons Tuning
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All About Subaru Engines with Dave from Rallispec
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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 pl…
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We talk with Farah Nanji from the Mission Makers Podcast
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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 childh…
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The Lands End Hill Climb, Strict Rule Sets vs. Open Rule Sets and the opportunities each provide
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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 …
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We talk with Shawn Murphy about his Time Attack Subaru STI
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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…
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The History and progression of Time Attack with the organizers of WTAC, GTA, and SLB!
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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 …
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The Pikes Peak car hits the track, Scotty is rebuilding his engine, and we talk about the little differences that make you a lot faster
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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 …
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Preston Osborn, Competition Director for ARA is our guest
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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 vis…
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We talk about Gridlife Alpine Horizon, Rally Sprints, NASA at Utah Motorsports Park
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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 addit…
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We talk to Cole Powelson about Sierra Cars, Lyfe Motorsports, Pikes Peak, Time Attack, and more
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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, includi…
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We talk with Rhys Millen about Off-Road Racing, Rally, and of course the Pikes Peak Hill Climb
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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…
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The Continental Divide Hill Climb and NASA at Pueblo Motorsports Park
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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 ge…
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We talk with the crew from Professional Awesome about Records, Time Attack, and a lot more!
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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 …
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Our re-cap of the 2021 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
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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…
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A Pikes Peak Hill Climb car in a box?
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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 epis…
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The Send-It Mentality Vs. The Pursuit of Perfection
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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…
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Dealing with the stress of an event or track day
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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 s…
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If Miata is always the answer, then what is the question?
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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…
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We talk to Bucky Lasek and Dave Carapetyan!
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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 …
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A Pikes Peak Hill Climb Round-Table discussion with Special Guests!
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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…
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The Budget Slaying Monster that is Scope Creep, and we catch up with DSX Motorsports and OTC Racing
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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 d…
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What do the Clifton Hillclimb in Arizona and the Brig Hillclimb Series in Japan have in common?
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For episode #28 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we have Victor, Blake, and Kelsey from the DM Rally Team as our guests with Tasso from OTC Racing. A few weeks ago, the SCCA Clifton Hillclimb was held in Clifton Arizona, and Victor was there running his JDM GC STI rally car, and Blake and Kelsey were running their N/A Subaru GC Rally…
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A conversation about Women's culture in Motorsports - With special guests!
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Through 2020, Jeanette (Red Queen Racing) had started to work at Pikes Peak International Raceway, and one of the things that she organized there were some Women's driving clinics and track days in addition to the other events that were put on. There was a great response from these, and we wanted to bring Jeanette on to talk about what she was doin…
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Olly Clark from Roger Clark Motorsports, driver of the Gobstopper is our guest!
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For Episode #26 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Olly Clark from Roger Clark Motorsports to talk about all things Roger Clark. We start off by getting a sense where Olly and his brother Matt got started with racing and Subaru's, and how that turned into what Roger Clark Motorsports is today. We also get some great in…
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Catching up with Ryan and Jeanette from The Ridge, and Do you have to be a Humble Driver to get Faster?
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For Episode 25 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we start off talking with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Jeanette from Red Queen Racing about driving in the Global Time Attack event at The Ridge in Washington State. From there we open up a topic that has come up around the shop here a few times. Do you have to be humble as a driver to…
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Subaru 5 Speeds, 6 Speeds, dog boxes and sequentials with Dave from Rallispec
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For Episode 24 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, I had the chance to sit down with Dave from Rallispec and pick his brain about pretty much every aspect of the Subaru drivetrain. Dave founded Rallispec over 20 years ago, and he has a wealth of experience building pretty much every type of Subaru from modified street cars, Rally Cars, and track ca…
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Why the RPM Act is more important now than ever
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The RPM Act has been stuck in Congress for a few years now, but with recent developments, it is more important now than ever. The main reason for this is that there is now a court case in Arizona Between Gear Box Z and the EPA that could set the precedent that you cannot convert a production vehicle into a vehicle built for race use. The RPM Act wo…
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We talk about DSX Motorsports trip to CotA for Super Lap Battle, and what to do with your car when you get back from an event
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For episode 22 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we catch up with Ryan from DSX Motorsports to talk about his experience running Super Lap Battler at Circuit of the Americas a couple of weeks ago. This was the first event that Ryan ran his new Super Taikyu STI, so there was a lot to discuss. From there, we move into a discussion about…
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A deep conversation abut Subaru Long-Rod Engines
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For Episode 21 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Clint from Turn in Concepts, and Micah from 3MI Racing. The inspiration for this came a few weeks when I called Clint to see if he might have a stock length rod in stock. His response was that he couldn't remember the last time that Turn in Concepts…
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Is it better to buy a race car? Or to build your own race car?
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If you have been building your car for a while, and especially if you are starting to think about competing with your car, there is going to be a point where you will most likely have to add a roll cage and some other safety equipment to your car that will make it a full blow race car. But before you go past this point of no return, is it better to…
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Catching up with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso in 2021 and looking to the year ahead
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For episode #19 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport Podcast, we first catch up with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and we talk about the new race car that he has picked up. Tasso from OTC Racing is on the podcast as well, and we all discuss what 2021 might have in store. For this Podcast, we are trying something a little different once again, and we …
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We sit down with Tasso from OTC Racing to answer your questions
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A little while ago Tasso asked if anyone had any questions for him on his Instagram account. He actually got a lot of good questions, and when he stopped by the shop recently, he brought some of those question with him and we sat down and talked about them. This was a great discussion that covered everything from what OTC Racing stands for, to how …
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A Discussion about the 2022 BRZ with DSX Motorsports and Red Queen Racing
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Subaru has been hinting that the next BRZ was right around the corner, and they have just released all the details about the next generation car which will be available late in 2021 as a 2022 model. From the outside, the appearance of new next generation BRZ looks like an up-date or refinement of what the car currently is. But Subaru definitely mad…
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A look at how to collect data at the track with Apps like Track Addict
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Scotty and Dussex are both using an App called Track Addict to collect data when they drive on track. They talk about it often, and I think that it is fair to say that they are somewhat obsessed with it. For a long time, collecting data about your driving was something that only race teams could do, but it did start to trickle down in the form of s…
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DIY Aerodynamics and Seat Time are our topics of the day.
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For episode 15 of the Flatirons Syndicate podcast, we had just been looking at some of the work Scotty has been doing to build a rear diffuser on his 2011 STI race car. This is a topic that comes up fairly often around here, and Tasso from OTC Racing is always particularly interested in finding new ways to make his car more efficient in terms of ae…
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Talking about the last NASA event of the season, and lessons learned from going to the track
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For Episode #14 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport podcast, we start out talking through the last NASA Rocky Mountain event of the season. From there, we talk about lessons learned from driving at the track. Overall a good conversation that also gives a lot of good tips and tricks as well as best practices for track days. Thanks for listening an…
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Talking through our run at the 2020 Pikes Peak Hill Climb with our driver Scott Crouch
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Scott Crouch is the driver of the Flatirons Tuning Pikes Peak WRX, and he also happens to be the driver of the Flatirons Tuning Rally car. For our thirteenth episode of the podcast, we sit down with Scott to talk about how our 2020 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb went, and what it was like to run this year with all of the changes. From there, w…
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Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast #12 - Catching up with Scotty and Ryan
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Our last podcast was from March of this year, right before everything started shutting down and all. A lot has happened since then, and the good news is that there have been a number of races and events that did find a way to happen safely, and both Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Scotty from the shop here have been up to a lot since we last checked…
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Flatirons Syndicate Motorsport Podcast 11
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For episode 11 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we are sitting down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Jeanette from Red Queen Racing, and we are talking right as things are starting to shut down, and events are starting to be canceled. For the first part of this Episode, Both Scotty and Viet were out at High Plains Raceway the previous weekend,…
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A conversation about driving, sponsorship, and going faster with Mike Pettiford from Go 4 It Services
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For Episode 10 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Mike Pettiford from Go 4 It Services. Mike has been racing for a couple of decades now, and he has won an amazing 46 SCCA Championships. For this conversation, we start out talking about what Go 4 It Services does. We then move into how Mike got into motorsports, and wh…
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A recap of Cars and Coffee, Tasso's new Livery, the next step for Jeanette's BRZ, and a talk of going to the track
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For this episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we are just back from Cars and Coffee where we brought out a few of our race cars and project cars, and we brought a few friends with us too. We had a great time at that show and we even brought back a few people to sit in on the podcast with us for this episode. We had Jeanette from …
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Catching up after Super Lap Battle, and a deep dive into differentials
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For this episode of the podcast, we have Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso from OTC racing back with us. For the first part of the episode, we catch up with everyone about what they have been up to for the last couple of weeks. Tasso got his engine fired up in his rally car which is awesome. Scotty got his car running again and took it to the tra…
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The Start of the 2020 Season, and a talk with Matt from Motul USA
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For Episode 7 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Tasso from OTC Racing to talk about how the 2020 season is shaping up. Both of them are getting pretty close to having their cars back up and on track. For Ryan Super Lap Battle at Circuit of the Americas is just a few weeks away, so he is starting to …
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All about Hill Climbs and Time Attack from a competitor and spectator point of view
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For Episode 6 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso from OTC Racing to talk about Hill Climbs and Time Attack. Since those are the Motorsports that each of them are involved in, we wanted to take a deeper look at each of them from both a spectator and competitor point of view. Tasso competes primar…
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This is our first Podcast for 2020, so we sat down with Tasso from OTC Racing, and Ryan from DSX Motorsports to talk about plans for the year ahead. We had a good conversation here about a number of topics, and there were a couple of common focuses that came out. The main one was reliability. There is also a good discussion about changing out a bra…
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A Talk about competing in your car with Ryan, Jeanette, and Scotty
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About a year ago now, we sat down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports, Jeanette from Red Queen Racing, and Scotty from the shop here to talk about their experiences competing in a variety of forms of Motorsports such as the NASA Time Trials Series, SCCA Autocross, Pikes Peak Time Attack series, Global Time Attack, and Grid Life. We had a really good dis…
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We talk about 2019 PRI show and then we go through all of the Gobstopper 3 details revealed by Roger Clark Motorsports
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Ryan from DSX Motorsports was just in Indianapolis for the 2019 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show, and he saw a lot of cool things that we talk about. Some of the things discussed are stand alone aftermarket ECU's and PDM's, sequential transmissions that are coming out for the STI 6-speed transmission, and bolt-in roll cages. Then we mov…
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An Aerodynamics Deep Dive with DSX Motorsports and OTC Racing
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For this episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Tasso from OTC racing, and we take a deep dive into Subaru aerodynamics. Scotty here is in the middle of building a splitter for his 2011 STI race car, and Ryan just built a splitter for his 2003 WRX race car not too long ago. When you th…
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A Talk with DSX Motorsports and OTC Racing about the 2019 Season
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Two of the drivers that we sponsor are Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Tasso from OTC Racing. Neither of them are strangers at the shop, but they both happened to stop in a couple of weeks ago at the same time, and we had a really good conversation with both of them about their season, etc. It was such a good catch-up session that we decided that if…
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