VinWiki Founder and CEO and also Cannonball Run expert Ed Bolian joins Nothing Leaves Stock owner Josh Paashaus and Audi Club's own Bill Cho ahead of the 2022 One Lap of America. Ed recently sold Josh a 1985 Audi 4000 quattro Cannonball Run Edition from his own collection. That car has already made a Cannonball Run with Bolian, Alex Roy and Arne Toman, and now it heads to the One Lap of America with Bolian paired with Paashaus and Cho. We caught up with them a few nights before they left, and you can follow their progress on @audiclubna from April 28 to May 8. 

Having spent much of his career at Microsoft working on the Forza driving video game franchise, Justin Osmer now owns and operates Turn-In Point Consulting, drives and RS 6 Avant and recently took that car and his automotive passion (and Avant) on a bucket list road trip covering the full length of Route 66 and then some. Justin covers a lot with us, from his passion, to his business, from driving sims and games to a deep dive on the trip itself. Listen along, and then catch a full feature on his trip in the Q3_2022 issue of quattro Magazine due to be published in the summer of 2022.

Brad Beardow may be best known as co-founder of fifteen52 and its association with Ken Block's Gymkhana series, but his career goes back much further. After meeting Audi's American motorsport boss Jo Happen by chance in Florida in the early 90s, Beardow founded his own tuning firm VW Sport selling ABT Sportsline, Projectzwo and more in the DC area, later morphing to 1552 Design. After a short period managing editorial at VWvortex and Fourtitude, he returned to the tuning business relaunching 1552 (now fifteen52) as a wheel brand and seeing it tie together with Hoonigan and Ken Block's Gymkhana series. Brad's past all that now, launching some of his favorite wheel designs as RML (Retro Modern Line) Wheels and took the time to catch up for more than two-hours for our podcast. Follow him at @rmlsnowflakes.

When we first met Rob DiNuzzo, he was displaying his pristine B7 RS 4 at the Waterfest enthusiast show. Rob's been into modern performance Audis for years, but more recently he's dived into the world of 2-stroke '60s era Auto Union classics including a 1000 Deluxe Coupe and his 1000 SP sports coupe. In owning them he's become a bit of an expert on the space.

Look for a full feature on Rob's cars in the upcoming Q2_2022 issue of quattro Magazine, shipping to Audi Club North America members in early April. To join Audi Club and subscribe to the magazine, please visit www.audiclubna.org.

Brian Scotto has been a lot of things, Magazine Editor, Film Director, and now Youtube personality Chief Creative Officer at Hoonigan. Through all that, he's also had a serious addiction to the Audi brand... particularly the big bodies. In this second part of our discussion with him, we talk about importing cars from Germany, wheels/Rotiform, the art of video production (versus virality) and Hoonigan's upcoming Electrikhana with Ken Block and the S1 e-tron Hoonitron.

Brian Scotto has been a lot of things, Magazine Editor, Film Director, and now Youtube personality Chief Creative Officer at Hoonigan. Through all that, he's also had a serious addiction to the Audi brand... particularly the big bodies. In this first part of our discussion with him, we talk about Hoonigan's Audi SEMA cars, his Coupe quattro and Ken Block's Sport quattro, plus his ever-expanding Audi habit.

In the fall of 2021, Jeff Beyda and his sons flew to Burlington, VT to finalize a deal to purchase perhaps the last remaining works Audi quattro rally car from American rally legend John Buffum. The car had won the 1982 Rally Portugal at the hands of Michèle Mouton, then was sent to the USA later that season where Buffum logged Audi's first win at Pike's Peak and eventual rally championships in the USA. The car is now in Michigan with Maskus who is performing a sympathetic restoration. quattro Magazine on location in Burlington to cover it for a story in our upcoming Q2_2022 issue, and so we caught up with Beyda and Maskus to chat about the experience for a deeper dive about their process and of course the car.

New Jersey exotic car dealer and vintage Audi specialist Kevin Ginsberg talks about his own Audi enthusiast history, his former ownership of our Audi Club quattro Sweepstakes '85 "ur" quattro 20V, and multiple other subjects.

Audi Club's Talia Pakkala and Bill Cho join quattro Magazine editor George Achorn to go through questions and comments about the magazine submitted as part of Audi Club's membership survey. Special thanks to SilverCar by Audi for helping make this survey and episode possible, and also for the great prize of free rental days for one lucky survey participant. Joint Audi Club North America at www.AudiClubNA.org.

Over the summer we caught up via conference platform with Audi Sport and Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen for a chat about his biography "Mr. Le Mans". The book is as much about the man as it is about racing, which led to a conversation about documentaries like "Truth in 24" and the "F1 Drive to Survive" series by Netflix. We also got Tom's take on Le Mans 2023 and Audi's return.

"Mr. Le Mans" is published by Euro Publishing. It can be found here and possibly with autographed copies ( https://www.evropublishing.com/products/mr-le-mans-tom-kristensen) and can also be found on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Mans-Tom-Kristensen/dp/8797260304).