Jon, Scotty, and Dussex chat with Thomas Smith who took 3 in Street Class at Super Lap Battle, and had the fastest Subaru on track that weekend.

Even though we were largely focused on our car during Super Lap Battle, we did have a chance to talk a little with Thomas, and see him put down some fast laps.  Looking at the car, and hearing a bit about his build, we knew that we wanted to get him on the podcast to have a chat about the path that his car took to get to the point where it is.

At Super Lap Battle 2022, Thomas set a new AWD record time in Street class in his STI, and took 3 overall in street.  His time of 2:19.879 is actually just about  a second behind the Subaru record time of 2:18.9 held by Dan Kroll of DPK Racing.  And that is on 200 treadwear street tires.

We had a fantastic conversation with Thomas about how he got involved in motorsports, all the different racing that he has done from Auto-Cross to wheel-to-wheel racing and of course about his history with Time Attack.

If you are reading this before you listen to the Podcast, take a look at his fastest lap from SLB on his Youtube page, and then Tune in to the conversation.

Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

If you want to follow Thomas Smith Racing, be sure to check out his Youtube page here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/optimus265

And his Instagram page here:

https://www.instagram.com/thomas_smith05

Jon, Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Scotty sit down to have a conversation about how limited slip differentials have become the new key for faster lap times in the Colorado Crew.

We then talk about the local tracks, High Plains Raceway and La Junta, and how walking the track, and getting to know all of the details and subtleties of a track are key for going faster.

And last but not least, we discuss the rumor that the WRC may be making a return to the US next year, and one of the rumored locations is in Colorado and Utah!

Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

When we left you at the end of episode 63 of the podcast, we were about to head out to Super Lap Battle at Circuit of the Americas. Now, for Episode 64 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we are back, and we are here to talk about everything that happened at Super Lap Battle.

Ryan from DSX Motorsports took his Super Taikyu car out and put down some great laps this weekend. Keith from 969 Performance had just rebuilt his engine, and he came out to help Ryan this weekend, and he ended up helping us out as well.

For us, our weekend didn't exactly go as planned. The Flatirons Tuning race car overheated the first time on track in testing on Friday, and we were fighting with it for the whole rest of the weekend. We ran into some weird issues, and we did our best to get the car working again, but we weren't able to get even a single hot lap in all weekend.

Even though we didn't have the race we were hoping for, this event was amazing. Tons of records fell, and this Super Lap Battle was the biggest one yet.  There were big fields in all of the classes with lots of fast cars. There were a lot of fast cars from Colorado, and 11 Subaru's running in total as well.

A big thank you goes out to everyone from Super Lap Battle because it was an amazing event. And we can't wait to go back next year.

Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

Jon, Scott, Ryan, and Tasso sit down to talk about plans for 2022.

We talk about our plans and expectations for Super Lap, and then what we have in the works for the rest of the year.  Tasso is working on getting his car up and running again, and discovered a few leaks that needed attention as his transmission was getting fixed.

And we came back to the same plan that we had nearly at the beginning of the Podcast, that reliability is our overall priority for the season.

But for Tasso, somehow that quest for reliability also involves removing the blow-off valve completely from his car.  Stick around for that discussion at the end.  If it works, it is going to be pretty interesting.

We have special guest Olly Clark from Roger Clark Motorsport joining us on the podcast again!

The biggest news since we last spoke with Olly is that their newest race car, Gobstopper III, has now been revealed. They have been doing a lot of testing, and are working to get Gobstopper III ready to compete in the 2022 UK Time Attack series, and we get a lot of insight into that process.

We also talk about Subaru's, the Motorsport community in the UK, and we even have a good conversation about the 2021 Formula 1 season.

Thanks very much for listening and we hope you enjoy this episode.

Stay Tuned!

Jon and Ryan sit down with Brian from iWire to talk about wiring, Subaru swaps, and everything Subaru wiring.

Anything to do with wiring, and the electrical system, in general, can be really hard to diagnose.  And if you are trying to do something like swap a turbo engine into a car that didn't come that way, there can be a lot of wiring involved.  For many of us, this is the part of those types of projects that we like least.  But that is what Brian from iWire likes and does best.

iWire started out as a service to help merge two Subaru wiring harnesses together to make turbo swaps much, much easier for the rest of us.  But now, Brian and the folks at iWire have taken the wiring knowledge that they have gained and started to make other wiring solutions available to make other projects easier for all of us like Fuel Pump wiring, grounding kits, finding the right plug, etc.

Bucky Lasek is back on the Podcast!

Bucky has been working on a ton of projects, so we wanted to check in with him to talk about what he is working on, and to talk about anything that he had planned for the new year.

This turned into a fantastic conversation about Bucky's projects, Skateboarding and how it really relates to driving, and even how Bucky got involved with Subaru's Rally program.

Be sure to check out and follow Bucky's Youtube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCciHWxn1ZNqFtgAxAqMxR6g

Thanks for listening, and Stay Tuned!

Jon and Ryan sit down to talk about Subaru suspension with Drew and Myles from Racecomp Engineering.

Right upfront, I'm going to tell you that this was a great conversation, but we got so caught up in it that this ran a good deal longer than our regular Podcasts.

But it is well worth it.

We start off talking about how RCE began, and then we get into a really wide-reaching discussion about Subaru suspension, the difference between Japanese and European coilovers, how RCE built a relationship with KW, and their process for developing their Tarmac line of coilovers.

By the end, we then started talking about the 2022 BRZ because they just got their first car that they can start driving and testing, and they already have some great insight into the differences between the new BRZ, and the previous one.

And how the new BRZ compares to a 944 Turbo in fact.  It is a lot closer than you might think.

Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

For episode #58 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Scotty, Ryan, and Tasso have a question that we have talked about amongst ourselves a fair amount here at the shop, and we decided to throw the question to a Podcast.

If you had a budget of $50,000 and you had to buy a car, build it for a series, and race for a season, what would you buy, and what type of racing would you do?

Now, full disclosure, none of us has or has ever had $50,000 to play with, but since we wanted to talk about buying and building a car, this seemed to be a reasonable place to start.

The underlying goal of this topic is to have a good discussion of how you use your budget, how you pick the car and class, etc., and that is exactly what we had here.  It was definitely clear that with all of the experience that Ryan, Tasso, and Scotty have had building their cars, and keeping them running for a season, there are a lot of good lessons that they would apply to this type of scenario.

Thanks everyone for listening in 2021! We will be back in the new year after a quick break over the holidays. 

Your support means everything to us! #staytuned to what we have planned coming up next year.