Tech House & Speed RADIO show byBillWood - 2010

[Francisco]

Tech House & Speed RADIO show byBillWood DEBUT

Tech House & Speed will debut tonight – Wednesday January 6th – at 8p Eastern on the Race Fan Radio website (http://www.RaceFanRadio.com) and is hosted by Bill Wood. It’s a rare weekly look at the vertical Sports Car racing world including drifting, rallying, time attack and sports car racing.

Today's show will include the Ken Block to the WRC story (http://www.worldrallysport.com/node/5139) and an “exclusive” interview with Ken. Also on the webcast: two-time Formula Drift champion Tanner Foust, Dwight Tanaka, Dir. of Operations for the Long Beach Grand Prix (explaining why time attack and drifting are the future of American motorsports promotion) and 2009 ALMS GT2 driving champion Patrick Long.

There’s also a calendar of what’s coming this weekend and a commentary from yours truly.

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[Francisco]

Patrick Dempsey, Andrew Comrie-Picard, Nikolas Malechikos and Efrain Olivares Tonight at 8pm EST on RaceFanRadio.com

Last week, "Tech House & Speed" debuted as a part of the new RaceFanRadio.com broadcast line-up and tonight's show is another great one!

Actor, Team Owner and Driver, Patrick Dempsey, will talk about spending time in the studio as well as the driver's seat while prepping for another Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. Also on the show, North America Rally Champion Andrew Comrie-Picard and Redline Time Attack's Nikolas Malechikos.

And speaking of the Rolex 24, Racing Insider Efrain Olivares reviews the Grand-Am test last week and how the frigid temperatures affected the pre-season testing session.

Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast

Get interactive by phoning the show at 317.248.0263 or send an email: Tech House & Speed@RaceFanRadio.com, THSTalk on Twitter and Facebook or email at THSTalk@Mail.com

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You can learn more about Bill Wood and Tech House & Speed by visiting his website: ByBillWood.com (http://www.bybillwood.com/online/)

and

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[Francisco]

Scott Pruett, Max Papis, Drifting King Chris Forsberg and Rally Insider Francisco La Torre Tonight at 8pm EST on RaceFanRadio.com

Another great show tonight on "Tech House & Speed" on RaceFanRadio.com!

One of America’s greatest sports car drivers ever Actor, Scott Pruett, will talk about his holiday fitness as he prepares for the Rolex 24 at Daytona at the end of the month. Pruett has won a record eight American sports car championship in Rolex Series Daytona Prototype competition. His win with teammate Memo Rojas in 2008 was Pruett’s third consecutive victory in the Rolex 24 Hour race. Pruett also talks about the growing pressure to work harder to hold off the younger and younger drivers who are coming into sports car racing and challenging him for supremacy.

Max Papis will be joining Pruett on his team for the Rolex race. He talks about running in his 15th straight Rolex and about his friendship with Italian countryman Mario Andretti.

2009 Formula Drift champion Chris Forsberg steps away from his off-season to talk about his championship run in a Nissan 350Z that is less modified than some of the cars in the parking lot at Formula Drift competition. Forsberg even explains an incident last season when his crew chief had to pick up some spare parts at a local auto parts store to keep his title run in motion; the car is that “unmodified.”

And just hours after the start of the 78th Monte Carlo Rally, Tech House & Speed calls in Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, from the World Rally Sport website, to give us background on one of rallying’s most famous events and brands. He tells us that 14 of the 15 stages in the event will be broadcast live by EuroSport television and more about the social media efforts of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, sanctioning body for the Monte Carlo.

Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast

Get interactive by phoning the show at 317.248.0263 or send an email: Tech House & Speed@RaceFanRadio.com,
THSTalk on Twitter and Facebook or email at THSTalk@Mail.com

[Francisco]

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[Francisco]

Rally Czar J.B. Niday, BMX Legend Dave Mirra, Marc Goossens, Andy Lally and Endurance Racing Legend Hurley Haywood Tonight at 8pm EST on RaceFanRadio.com

The guest line-up just gets better on Tech House & Speed, RaceFanRadio.com, each Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern!

First, we learn the latest on the changes in the 2010 Rally America season that starts this week in the snowy, freezing forests of northern Michigan. J.B. Niday, Managing Director of Rally America, outlines what America's top rallyists will face when they arrive at the Sno*Drift Rally starting Friday. He also explains why the U.S. national championship is gaining in international prestige.

BMX and X Games legend Dave Mirra is moving into the Big Boy Open Class Subarus at Sno*Drift as a teammate to four-time National Champion Travis Pastrana, injured this week in a motorcycle accident but running anyway! Mirra explains what he's learned, who's teaching him including Pastrana, and what he can bring from BMX into rallying.

Sports Car driver Marc Goossens talks with us from Belgium where he's preparing to team with Paul Gentilozzi on the JaguarRSR team in the ALMS this season. Goossens has won races with under-funded teams with no sponsor on the door. He won't have that problem with Gentilozzi and Jaguar where he'll get all the resources to win.

Three-time Grand-Am champion Andy Lally talks about the Rolex 24 this weekend AND his Street Luge competition and team. This weekend Lally is looking to defend his Rolex 24 GT victory from last year.

And the big news is our conversation with Endurance Racing legend Hurley Haywood who's going for his unprecedented sixth Rolex 24 win this weekend in Daytona. He's stacked the deck with co-drivers David Donohue and Darren Law who won the Rolex last year. Also in the car will be Butch Leitzinger and Raphael Matos, a Super Team for the Rolex. Haywood has an interesting story about his five Rolex victory watches and the special watch given to him by the Rolex people, the one he always wears.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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[Francisco]

Author Garth Stein, Veteran Driver & TV Show Host Tommy Kendall, ALMS LMP2 Champion Adrian Fernandez and Action Sports Legend Travis Pastrana Tonight at 8pm EST on RaceFanRadio.com

It's another show of headliners on "Tech House & Speed" on RaceFanRadio.com!

New York Times Bestselling author Garth Stein will lead off the webcast tonight. He's the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain, a novel 35 plus weeks on the N.Y. Times Bestseller list that has been acquired by actor Patrick Dempsey to be made into a motion picture. Stein is a former Spec Miata racer in the Pacific Northwest so he knows the art of racing in the rain plus the art of telling a great story. The book is a page turning novel about Denny, a driver/husband and father who faces challenges that must be overcome during the rainy times of his life. The story is told through the eyes of Denny’s dog Enzo. Great read. Great interview tonight.

We'll also have "TK" Tommy Kendall, a former IMSA GTU and Trans-Am dominator, who talks with us about the current state of American sports car racing in the Grand-Am and ALMS. He also has some very real opinions about drifting and who can AND can't pull off one of the finest of the racing arts. Anyone who follows Kendall knows he has some very defined opinions and he shares them tonight on Tech House & Speed on RaceFanRadio.com.

We also have a headliner this week. 2009 ALMS LMP2 champion Adrian Fernandez has moved his family and career from Phoenix to Switzerland where he'll drive this season for the Aston Martin works team, news that was released just this week. His experience as a team owner and international driver and champion will be invaluable to the Aston Martin team as it prepares to return to Le Mans in 2010.

And the Tech House & Speed spotlight is on Action Sports legend Travis Pastrana who won last weekend's Sno*Drift Rally, an icy blast through northern Michigan run on roads as slippery as a luge run. We'll hear from several drivers about how the ice changes their driving style. And we'll hear from Pastrana about how his broken collarbone changed his driving style on the ice and behind the wheel.

Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

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[Francisco]

Time Attack Champion Billy Johnson, Rolex 24 winner Terry Borcheller, Drift Champion Tanner Foust and Racing Legend Bobby Rahal Tonight at 8pm EST on RaceFanRadio.com

Another headliner show with a headlining announcement from Tanner Foust on "Tech House & Speed" on RaceFanRadio.com!

Redline Time Attack Unlimited Champion Billy Johnson opens tonight's Tech House & Speed webcast. Johnson is preparing his title winning Acura NSX for shipping to Australia next month for the World Time Attack Challenge in May. The event will bring together teams from the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Australia for the first world invitational time attack competition.

Johnson also drives and wins races in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. He drives a Ford Mustang with Jack Roush, Jr. and was in the car last year when Roush earned his first ever victory. That was welcome news to Roush's Dad Jack Sr. who is one of the top team owners in all of American racing.

Also on the webcast is Terry Borcheller, one of four drivers on the Action Express team that won the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the first event on the Grand-Am 2010 calendar. Borcheller talks about knitting his championship winning career back together after some tough times. He explains how he picks a team and maintains his form when he had to drive for teams with minimal resources.

The major headline for the webcast, however, will come from our interview with Tanner Foust, a TV show host and the only man to ever win a Formula Drift championship back-to-back. Foust is announcing a new deal to run in the European Rally Cross championship, an international career that's expanding after Foust's round wins in the last two Race of Champion events, both wins coming at the expense of World Driving Champions Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher.

Foust is perfect for European-style Rally Cross, a series of short sprint heats on pavement and dirt that will be featured this year by the Rally America organization.

Finally, a conversation with racing legend Bobby Rahal, a three-time Champ Car champion and the winner of the 1986 Indy 500 as a driver and the 2004 Indy 500 as a team owner. Rahal also has some interesting comments about hiring U.S. drivers and the failure of the USF1 program to find an American driver for its American-based Formula One team.

Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

NHRA Top Fuel driver Antron Brown, Sports Car veteran Memo Gidley, European Rallycross star Andreas Ericksson & Sports Car icon Alex Job Tonight at 8pm EST on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Rally is a HOT TOPIC on tonight's show, with interest in the sport from Antron Brown and a discussion about Rallycross with Andreas Ericksson!

Just like the Saints, the stars just keep marching tonight on Tech House & Speed, www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tonight's webcast starts with NHRA Top Fuel drag racing star Antron Brown, third last year in the final NHRA points standings. Brown makes a visit to THS Radio to talk about rally cars of all things. Brown is an avid karter who's been considered for the Toyota celebrity race at the Long Beach Grand Prix. He's also a fan of rally car racing and has followed the activity through four-time Rally America champion Travis Pastrana.

Brown said he'd love the opportunity to race at speed through the trees in a forest rally and feels confident he can keep the car under the 300+ MPH speeds he's used to in his Top Fuel drag machine.

Open-wheel star turned sports car driver Memo Gidley visits Tech House & Speed tonight. Gidley's move into sports car racing is the key part of the interview. Host Bill Wood reminds Gidley of an earlier interview when Memo promised he'd never drive sports cars. It's a humorous moment worth hearing as Gidley explains his move to sports cars, a move that saw him leading last month's Rolex 24 at Daytona. Gidley also talked about "Memo Gidley's Secrets of Speed," the karting book he wrote and the secrets he teaches from the book.

From his shop in Sweden, European Rallycross headliner Andreas Ericksson, builder of the car Indy 500 winner Kenny Brack used to win the X Games Gold Medal last summer. That car is currently in use by Ken Block in the Rally America series and will be in action at the end of the month at the 100 Acre Wood Rally in southern Missouri. We find out from Ericksson how European-style Rallycross is comparable to ancient Rome. We also learn how American stars such as Pastrana, Block and Tanner Foust compare with international rally drivers. The real eyebrow raiser, though, comes when Ericksson is asked if Kenny Brack will return to the X Games this summer to defend his Gold Medal. Sometimes an unanswered question is an answer itself!

Then we visit with Alex Job, one of the most successful sports car team owners in the world. Alex Job Racing has won at Le Mans and has six wins in the upcoming 12 Hours of Sebring including four in a row. At one stretch, Alex Job Racing scored 22 consecutive Pole Position awards, an unheard string of excellence in any kind of racing. We learn what gives him his success and the comparisons between the ALMS and Grand Am. We also learn Job's favorite driver of all the great ones he's supported behind the wheel.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

Two-Time ALMS Champion Alan McNish, Ford Racing Executive Jamie Allison, THS Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, 11-Time American Rally Champion John Buffum & Eight-Time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen Tonight at 8pm EST on www.RaceFanRadio.com <http://www.RaceFanRadio.com>

A Milky Way of Racing Legends Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com !

Tech House & Speed turns its attention to the American Le Mans Series as we stare down the barrel of the Sebring 12-Hour next week. And turning our attention is more than an understatement. Two of the largest names in all of Le Mans racing will be guests tonight. Alan McNish has won at Le Mans twice and at Sebring three times. That goes along with his two ALMS championships.

But McNish won't shine alone tonight. Eight-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen will come on board with a conversation that will leave you smiling in its clarity and fun.

McNish opens the webcast with some levity of his own. The sports car champion from Scotland enjoys the Tech House & Speed tagline: "NASCAR Free Radio." He also talks about a possible visit to Sebring even though Audi won't be racing as a factory effort this year. McNish also talks about where he'd like to settle when his racing is done. The racing fans of Northern California won't be disappointed in these revelations.

Ford Director of North American Motorsports Jamie Allison visits to talk about the Ken Block success behind the Blue Oval brand. Allison was the man who signed Block to rally a Ford Fiesta in the U.S. and a Ford Focus internationally. Allison also gives us some idea of how Ford plans to support the Ford Fiesta with performance goodies when it appears in showrooms in June.

Rally Insider Francisco La Torre from the World Rally Sport website returned from Rally Mexico last weekend. He has insights you'll only hear on Tech House & Speed. That includes observations of how the World Rally Championship community was accepting of the Monster World Rally Team efforts in Mexico led by Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino.

Eleven-time U.S. rally champion John Buffum actually coached Block when Block was driving for Subaru. He has some insight into Block's success and what we can expect from Ken's WRC efforts as the season continues. Buffum also tells us of his efforts internationally and whether or not his generation of drivers could compete with the current crop of competitors.

Finally, Tom Kristensen, the King of Le Mans with eight wins including six consecutively from 2000-2005. Kristensen has shared the spotlight with McNish in his history making run with Audi. But it's his run at the Race of Champions that will surprise you tonight. Kristensen has "enjoyed" his time at the ROC with young American stars Travis Pastrana and Tanner Foust. His comments about those two are priceless and unforgettable. See if you agree tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series. You can learn all you need to know about the world of Tech House & Speed through the portal of www.ByBillWood.com.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, Tech House & Speed archives are available on-demand or via Podcast at www.ByBillWood.com or at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

Get interactive with Tech House & Speed through THSTalk on Twitter and Facebook or email at THSTalk@Mail.com. And don't forget to visit Bill Wood’s website at www.ByBillWood.com for more or to hear the webcast on-demand.

[Francisco]

Ex-Formula Drift Champion Rhys Millen, Porsche Fabricator Michael Essa, Web Producer Tom Masiero, North American Rally Champion Andrew Comrie-Picard, Audi Prototype Driver Marco Werner

An International Sports Car Tribute Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

The Tech House & Speed webcast tonight spans the globe for the constant variety of sports car racing. We go to London to find out about the British rallycross opener. We go to the International City to learn about this week's Formula Drift opener. We go to New England to find out about an international live webcast. And we go to Switzerland to learn how a German-born driver will team with an American team to run in the classic of all motor races, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

We start with 2005 Formula Drift champion Rhys Millen who explains the overhaul of his Hyundai Genesis Coupe for the upcoming Formula D season. We also force Millen to talk about something he's hesitant to address, his assumed participation in the Rally America rallycross competition this fall in New Jersey. Wait'll you hear how Millen walks away from that question!

We also talk with Michael Essa who builds Porsches for a living at his Tech Trix Motorsports shop. This year, however, Essa has shelved his old Mazda RX7 in favor of a BMW drift machine that's full of its own high tech tricks including an M5 V10. Essa did, however, keep his signature orange wheels on the black BMW. How'd his Porsche customers like the idea of a BMW in the shop?

Web producer and YoParts.com owner Tom Masiero joined us to outline the first live stream experience from a Formula Drift round. When the season opens this weekend in Long Beach, Masiero explains how you can watch the live pictures on your computer or cell phone anywhere in the world. Tech House & Speed host Bill Wood will be a host on the project so some of the high tech excellence of the project will be...

2009 North American Rally Champion Andrew Comrie-Picard was found in a London cab as he returned from the opening round of the British Rallycross Championship. ACP was there to run in a Suzuki Swift class and his impressive run found him in sixth when the flag fell. What's really wild, though, is learning that ACP ran in a 100+ horsepower RHD Swift last Monday but by Friday he'll be in a 700+ horsepower Dodge Viper drifting in the Formula Drift opener in Long Beach. Great frequent flyer miles if you can get it!

Finally, Tech House & Speed talks with Audi driver Marco Werner on his German cell phone from his Swiss home near the Audi facilities in Germany. Werner will be driving for the American Highcroft team at Le Mans which means he needs to relearn the power of a gasoline powered sports prototype after driving a uber powered turbo-diesel Audi for the last few years. Werner explains and talks about his favorite North American track during his visit.


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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

World Challenge Icon Mike Davis, ALMS driver & Team Owner Chris Dyson, Rally Driver & Web Video Icon Ken Block & Trans-Am Legend Tommy Kendall Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

A Tribute to the Environment and Cinco de Mayo Tonight onwww.RaceFanRadio.com!

For more than a year now Tech House & Speed has addressed, at least, the surface of motor racing and the Green Movement. That's why this edition of THS is important coming as it does during the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster.

We spent a large portion of the webcast with Tommy Kendall, a Trans-Am and IMSA champion in the 1980s and 1990s. In fact, it was in 1997 that Kendall won all but two races in the Trans-Am calendar. That racing resume coupled with his degree in economics from UCLA makes Kendall the best man to address the idea of racing's responsibility, if any, for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. That conversation is at the end of the Tech House & Speed webcast at 45 minutes after the hour.

Leading the webcast is Mike Davis, owner of Applied Computer Solutions, who has become an icon in the World Challenge series racing Ford Mustangs as a passion born when Davis was a teenager. Davis' company has found computer solutions for some of the largest computer projects in the world. He's also finding racing solutions as he continues a successful career that led his son Brandon to a championship last season.

Chris Dyson is a driver and team owner in the ALMS series. Tech House & Speed talked with Dyson a year ago when his Mazda powered prototype sports car was introduced. A year later it's one of the fastest cars in its class. We talk about that and the environmental advancements the car is bringing to motor racing.

At the bottom of the hour is Ken Block, a founder of the Action Sports brand DC Shoes and a businessman who's working as hard as he can to fulfill a passion to become a World Rally Championship series driver. He's run two events this year in addition to three events in the Rally American championship. It's been a roller coaster ride of success and failure but Block is willing to talk about both and, even, candidly grade his performance so far this season.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series. You can learn all you need to know about the world of Tech House & Speed through the portal of www.ByBillWood.com.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, Tech House & Speed archives are available on-demand or via Podcast at www.ByBillWood.com or at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

ALMS GT star Gimmi Bruni, World Challenge star Andy Pilgrim, Action Sports icon Dave Mirra & Tuner icon Tanner Foust Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Veteran Drivers Learning New Disciplines Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Gianmaria "Gimmi” Bruni is one of the world's best GT drivers as part of the Risi Competizione Ferrari F-430 GT team in the ALMS. Bruni has won races in seconds and as much as EIGHT laps, more than 60 miles! He'll be teamed with Jamie Melo in the ALMS at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca next weekend.

But tonight he talks with Tech House & Speed from a street cafe in Rome where he talks about his culinary habits which don't include pasta; an Italian who'd pick steak over pasta or, even, pizza. Bruni is a special personality who is learning American racing. And here's a chance for American racing to learn about Gimmi Bruni.

Andy Pilgrim drove and won races for GM for many years in Corvettes and Cadillacs but now he's finding the same success with an independent team that's winning with Volvos. Pilgrim also drives for independent teams in Grand-Am where the checks are a lot smaller and he still has success. We talk about the differences between resources and racing on wits. We also talk about Pilgrim's major passion, motorcycles and the differences between riding in Florida and Southern California.

BMX racing legend Dave Mirra, the winningest star in X Games, is finding his way in rallying with the Subaru-sponsored Vermont Sports Car team where he's a teammate with four-time American rally champion Travis Pastrana. Mirra talks about this weekend's Oregon Trail Rally where he'll compete without Pastrana who's out of the country on business in Australia.

Mirra also drops a headline on Tech House & Speed. After the interview he mentions that he's being sent to Finland where he'll train with four-time World Rally Champion Tommi Makinen who was the 2000 Race of Champions winner. Mirra is not far from competing for the gold in Rally American events! Finally, Tanner Foust returns to the U.S. from Portugal where he competed successfully in a round of the European Rallycross Championship. Foust gives us the inside information on rallycross which is especially valuable with European-style rallycross coming to the U.S. this fall under the direction of Rally America. Foust speaks to us after a day of taping for the new Top Gear American show headed to the History Channel.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series. You can learn all you need to know about the world of Tech House & Speed through the portal of www.ByBillWood.com.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, Tech House & Speed archives are available on-demand or via Podcast at www.ByBillWood.com or at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

2004 Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice, Rally Instructor Tim O'Neil, Time Attack driver David Empringham, Indy 500 team owner Bryan Herta at 8pm EDT Wednesday night on Race Fan Radio.

We look at the Indy 500 weekend from a number of insights tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

2004 Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice is in a unique place as a former Indy Car winner. He's building a karting business in Phoenix and Southern California. He's working on his stable of street machines and he's building speed on his Grand-Am Spirit of Daytona Daytona Prototype team that'll be racing Monday at Lime Rock Park.

But in all that, he's not racing in Sunday's Indy 500 and he doesn't seem to be bothered by that. We talk about the race, the changes it's experiencing and the new crop of drivers who are changing the faces of Indy Car racing in America.

In the second segment of the show we talk with Tim O'Neil who's built a rally school in New Hampshire that's become the yardstick for rally instruction in North America. O'Neil has given instruction to four-time Rally America champion Travis Pastrana, Monster World Rally Team driver and web video icon Ken Block, and Action Sports legend Dave Mirra, leading gold medal winner in the X Games.

The Team O'Neil Rally School has some distinct ideas about driving a rally car, or any vehicle on a loose road surface. We talk about those ideas and how O'Neil's business is expanding in a number of areas including military instruction.

David Empringham is a former sports car and open-wheel winner who is not full-time in Time Attack including the American Redline Time Attack series. But last weekend Empringham and the Sierra Sierra Racing program pushed his Mitsubishi EVO directly onto the world stage of time attack nearly winning the World Time Attack Challenge in Australia.

We talk with Empringham from Australia where he's recovering from the intense competition. He tells us how the crowd of tens of thousands which showed up in Australia could be duplicated here in North America and how he plans on closing the final gap to the championship.

Finally we talk with Indy 500 team owner Bryan Herta who made it into the race in the final minutes of qualifying last weekend. Bryan Herta Autosport has been in karting, open-wheel racing and sports car racing. That makes him the perfect person to talk with on Tech House & Speed, especially when he opens the door to time attack, a discipline he appreciates and may explore in the future.

It's ironic that the Indy 500 itself used to be a form of time attack where individual speed shops would put their best ideas on the track and compete against each other to find out who's fastest. That's not the case anymore but that's at the core of the conversation we had with Herta.

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[Francisco]

Trans-Am points leader Tony Ave, Wrecked Magazine publisher Joey Redmond, Targa Trophy Rally winner Rado Kalla, The Ford X Games team, & DP team owner Michael Shank Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Breaking News & Headlines Tonight www.RaceFanRadio.com!

The Trans-Am series was once the headliner road racing series in America. It's far from that now but the series is coming back and bringing some smack talking controversy with it. 2010 points leader Tony Ave and 2009 champion Tomy Drissi say they're friends away from the track but at the track is something far different. Drissi called Ave "a 100 mile driver" after Ave's first win this season. Ave says he's ready to take it to Drissi on the track and has won the last two events to prove it.

"Now that we're building our own equipment we're ready to win," Ave told Tech House & Speed. And it goes on from there like the Parnelli Jones and Mark Donohue challenges from the Trans-Am past. You can hear more Wednesday night.

We also have some breaking news from Wrecked Magazine publisher Joey Redmond, out drifting insider. Redmond expanded his analysis on the news that the D1GP was trying to make another go here in the United States. "I don't see how they can make it," Redmond told Tech House & Speed. There's much more from the drifting journalist and insider.

Tech House & Speed is bringing new winners to the spotlight this week. Rado Kalla won the inaugural Targa Trophy Rally in his Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, a win that came after he challenged his co-driver at the start of the event to "to get this win!" Kalla is a rally novice but he's been bitten by the bug with his first victory. We find out how bad Wednesday night.

The real headlines might come in the third segment of the webcast. Ford Racing Tuesday night announced it's four man team for the X Games Rally Car competition. 2009 gold medalist Kenny Brack is returning with 2009 bronze medalist Tanner Foust, Monster World Rally Team driver Ken Block and Metal Mulisha racer Brian Deegan are all on the team. Brack, Block and Foust will be on Tech House & Speed Wednesday night to talk about the Ford charge into X Games.

It's Block's first X Games in a Ford after winning medals in the past with Subaru.

Finally, we turn to Michael Shank, owner of Grand-Am DP competitor Michael Shank Racing, one of the most successful Ford powered teams in major league racing this season. Shank Racing is third and sixth in points going into the Grand-Am weekend in Daytona. Shank talks about the passion that allows him to compete against the toughest sports car racing teams anywhere.

"If we don't make it at this my wife and I might just as well pack up and go do something else," Shank said. He's made a place for himself amongst teams with far more resources and experience. We find out how Wednesday night.

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[Francisco]

Formula Drift Seattle winner Tanner Foust, Drag Racing champion Troy Coughlin, Rally America points leader Antoine L'Estage, ALMS Salt Lake City winner Simon Pagenaud Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Nothing but Winners & Champions Tonight on Tech House & Speed!

Spins and other track weirdness share the spotlight this week on Tech House & Speed. We start with Tanner Foust who was on his way to his first podium in European Rally Cross when he actually landed on a car he was passing on his way to third in the A Main in Sweden. Instead, the ERC officials thought he was too aggressive and bounced him back to sixth.

Still, Foust is measured with the top drivers in the sport after only three rounds of experience in the ERC. He talks about the Swedish round and the new aggression the rallycross competition is bringing to his drifting in the Formula Drift series.

Foust is the only man to win two consecutive Formula Drift titles (2007 & 2008) and, with a win in Seattle last weekend, he's moved into second place in 2010 with an eye for the championship with three events left in the season.

In the second segment we take another strange twist on the racetrack. Championship drag racing Troy Coughlin, one of the four brothers in America's First Family of drag racing, talks about his sports car training and how it's helped him handle his 3000 horsepower Pro Mod drag racer on the quarter-mile drag strip. Coughlin is currently fifth in the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Series.

At the core of his crossover training is the nuance he learned in handling a sports car around the track at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Coughlin said he was used to "muscling" his Pro Mod Camaro but his instructor said he'd find it better with a better feel for the wheel and, so far, it's worked for Troy!

Segment three found a introductory conversation with Antoine L'Estage, a two-time Canadian and North American rally champion who could win his first American title this weekend at the New England Forest Rally in Maine. It's the last event in the Rally America 2010 points paying calendar. L'Estage could unseat four-time Rally America champion Travis Pastrana with a title run in New England Friday and Saturday.

With a potential championship on the line, we spend some time learning some personal things about L'Estage including his taste in music which stretches from Bob Dylan to CCR to classical music; they're all in his iPod. He's also a business man who runs a chain of fitness centers in Montreal. He gives us some background on fitness training for rallying and road racing.

Finally we talk with Simon Pagenaud who won the ALMS event at Miller Motorsports Park last weekend in a run with teammate David Brabham for Highcroft Racing. In Victory Lane, though, Pagenaud had to admit to a 720 degree spin near the end of the event, a spin that was missed by the TV cameras, the commentators and most of the competitors on the track.

"I thought I'd blown it," Pagenaud said.

However, Pagenaud isn't blowing any opportunities to return to his first love in open-wheel racing. Despite his wins with Highcroft Racing, Pagenaud is talking with teams in Formula One about a switch there. But Pagenaud said he wouldn't switch just to be in F1. He said he's more interested in winning and running with a well-resourced team than he is about returning to open-wheel.

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[Francisco]

Trans-Am Toronto winner RJ Lopez, 4-time Rally America champion Travis Pastrana, Action Sports icon Ken Block, Grand-Am New Jersey winner Alex Gurney, Sports Car legend Andy Wallace Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Winners & Champions Return Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Champions, winners and iconic legends visit Tech House & Speed tonight including RJ Lopez who won his first Trans-Am race on the streets of Toronto Sunday. Lopez is from The Dominican Republic where his father owns a major racing facility. His win came after four consecutive podium finishes in the iconic Trans-Am series known for big-bore American sports cars.

Lopez has been having success in a Chevrolet Corvette operated by a team in Illinois making the effort truly an American model for success. In fact, that's the story of Trans-Am this year. At Toronto Lopez got his first win, second was another driver who got his first win this season, and third was a woman who's battling for her first win maybe this season. Lopez talks about the historic racing in an historic series this year.

In the second segment of the webcast, four-time American rally champion Travis Pastrana talks about his frustrating season and the loss of his grip on the Rally America title. Pastrana missed two events this year as he was out of the country in Australia launching his Nitro Circus brand on television in that country.

There are rumors Travis will miss more events next season as he works to spread the brand internationally. We talk with him about that at the last Rally America points event of the season, the New England Forest Rally. Pastrana doesn't deny he'll be altering his commitments to American rallying next season. What those commitments will be are still being determined. Pastrana is in negotiations with Subaru to determining just what will happen in the 2011 season.

Pastrana does, however, talk about the disappointment at not being able to defend his title with new champion Antoine L'Estage who was crowned in New England.

We also talk with Action Sports icon Ken Block who created his own Monster World Rally Team this year with commitments in the World Rally Championship. Those commitments may turn into a fulltime entry in the WRC with conflicts in his commitments to American rallying.

Ken talks about his disappointments with growing pains in his 2010 season in America. He also talks about the introduction of his Gymkhana Grid series that opens its doors in December with a possible full season next year. Even more for Block's clock!

Grand-Am Rolex DP defending champion Alex Gurney and his teammate Jon Fogarty have won two of the last three Grand-Am championships. But this year started with some problems that were put in the past last weekend in New Jersey when Gurney passed points leader Scott Pruett on the last lap for the victory.

We talk with Gurney about the pass, the changes in the team that could see considerable success the remainder of the season, and what's causing the aggressive driving that destroying racing machinery during the 2010 season.

Finally, we talk with sports car icon Andy Wallace who's been grabbing gears for thirty years. He talks about something new in his tool box. Wallace drove a Mazda RX8 in the New Jersey Grand-Am race last Sunday, one of the few times he's driven a front-engine car in a road race.
Normally Wallace drives much more powerful rear-engine prototypes, like he'll be driving in the ALMS race this weekend at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut.

Wallace also gives an opinion on a recent headline: the speed or lack of speed coming from a former Wallace teammate Milka Duno who's now in the Indy Car Series. Wallace also talks about the differences between the Grand-Am and ALMS series as well as some changes he'd recommend to reduce the aggression and car wrecking that's entered the Grand-Am Rolex series this season.

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[Francisco]

ALMS Lime Rock winner Klaus Graf, Defending X Games Gold Medalist Kenny Brack, Drift champion Sam Hubinette, Rally champion Andrew Comrie-Picard, Action Sports legend Brian Deegan Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

A Salute to Winners & the X Games Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed, the only weekly webcast with exclusive content from the world of sports car racing, tonight pays tribute to X Games 16 in Los Angeles this weekend. The Rally Car Racing and new Super Rally competition at X Games is one of the hottest competitions at the Action Sports Expo.

But, in addition to the X Games salute, Tech House & Speed will visit with ALMS Lime Rock winner Klaus Graf from his home in Germany. Graf is climbing into a title shot with ALMS points leaders David Brabham and Simon Pagenaud of Highcroft Racing. The win at Lime Rock moved Graf to within seven points of the Highcroft pair tied at the top of the standings.

Graf talks about his chances for the championship and his growing relationship with Greg Pickett, owner of the Cytosport Muscle Milk Porsche RS Spyder team that earned its first overall ALMS win at Lime Rock.

It’s the X Games content that sets this show apart, however. The second segment tonight is defending Rally Car Racing gold medalist Kenny Brack, the 1999 Indy 500 winner, who is officially retired from racing but returns for special one-off events such as X Games. Brack is methodical in his preparation for the Rally Car Racing competition and the new Super Rally competition that will take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Friday and Saturday.

Brack returns in the Ford Fiesta he drove to the gold medal last year.

Also tonight, two-time Formula Drift champion Sam Hubinette returns to the Tech House & Speed roving studio as he prepares for his X Games debut in Super Rally competition. Hubinette is one of the best drifters in the world but he cut his racing teeth on rallycross competition which is the European version of X Games Super Rally. So this isn’t new for Hubinette, it’s actually a return to his roots and he’s look forward to the opportunity.

With Hubinette is his teammate and friend Andrew Comrie-Picard, the 2009 North American Rally Champion who added drifting to his resume this season in Formula Drift. ACP is helping Hubinette get ready for X Games by preparing one of his Mitsubishi Evo 10s, the one he used to win his 2009 championship, to put Sam in the middle of the action.

“He’s helped me make the transition to drifting,” ACP said. “And now I get the chance to help him get back into a rally car but watching him this morning he doesn’t need much help at all,” ACP added.

Finally, Tech House & Speed visits with Action Sports legend Brian Deegan, founder of the iconic Metal Mulisha brand. Deegan will be one of four Ford Fiesta drivers in X Games rally competition. And to help in the preparation of the cars, Deegan built a scale replica of the X Games track in his front yard outside Temecula, CA, for testing and development of the Ford team cars.

The Deegan/Metal Mulisha compound includes an off-road shop, a foam pit, supercross track and freestyle motocross facility plus more so the rally/off-road practice track in the front yard was hardly out of the ordinary!

“Brian knows how to live,” said Brack, a teammate of Deegan’s on the Ford team, who’s building his own “compound” or home in London. “But I’d have to talk to the Queen to building something like this in London,” Brack said with a laugh.

“It’s easier to bring everyone to me than for me to spend so much time away from my family,” Deegan said. The only time he has to leave is to practice his stock car racing. “I don’t have a track yet. Even the driveway is gravel,” Deegan added.

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[Francisco]

Rally Car Managing Director J.B. Niday, Grand-Am driver Oswaldo Negri, Time Attack champion James Elterman, Formula Drift driver Stephan Verdier, X Games Gold Medalist Tanner Foust, X Games Silver Medalist Brian Deegan Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

An X Games Recap & The Birth of Rallycross Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed is larger than it's ever been this week. We bring six guests into the Woodland Pits for a recap of the Rally Car Racing at X Games 16 then we look ahead to the upcoming Rallycross racing that's growing from the excitement of X Games SuperRally in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum last weekend.

The world's only weekly webcast concentrating on sports car racing including rallying, drifting and time attack this week opens with an in-depth conversation with J.B. Niday, Managing Director of RallyCar, one of the major rally organizing bodies in the world. RallyCar, formerly Rally America, not only sanctions a stage rally national championship in the U.S., it is expanding it's growth into Rallycross, a closed course competition racing for rally car vehicles.

Niday talks about the three upcoming Rallycross events at New Jersey Motorsports Park at the end of August, a month later in September and a month after that in October. These events hold the promise of a national championship series in 2011 and possible inclusion in an international series as soon as 2012.

Niday was a force in seeing that Rally Car Racing and Super Rally were included in X Games. He's traveled internationally to see that the U.S. National Rally Championship is one of the most respected in the world.

The second segment of Tech House & Speed looks at two drivers in very different parts of their careers and disciplines but each holding passionate commitments to their racing communities. Grand-Am Daytona Prototype driver Oswaldo Negri is seventh in Grand-Am Rolex points as the series heads to Watkins Glen this weekend. We go from Negri's description of his hero Aryton Senna, another passionate Brazilian racing driver, to James Elterman, a 2008 Redline Time Attack champion from St. Louis who competes in time attack because of the intensity of the racing and competition.

Both Negri and Elterman are in far different kinds of racing disciplines but they share many of the same personality characteristics that make both men championship contenders. It's a fascinating comparison of human personalities in the world of racing.

The third segment in the hour looks at Stephan Verdier, a former rally champion who's made his living in the Formula Drift series the past three years. Verdier is a former Winter X Games competitor who competed in the Super Rally competition in X Games 16 last weekend. He describes the passionate efforts he made along with his team to fight back from a qualifying incident to win a heat in the Super Rally elimination rounds. He followed that up with a terrific start in the Gold Medal race only to see his car surrender under him. Verdier was within a literal arms reach of a Silver or Bronze Medal only to coast to the finish line and be passed at the last minute for the Bronze Medal.

In the fourth segment we talk with last weekend's double X Games Gold Medal winner Tanner Foust who's been competing in European Rally Cross events giving him the experience to win the X Games Super Rally competition. Foust is one of the most diverse drivers in the U.S. with two Formula Drift championships to go along with his X Games Gold and his Rallycross success. Foust feels the Rally Car Rallycross events upcoming in New Jersey could be enormously successful in the U.S.

Finally we talk with Action Sports legend Brian Deegan who competes in closed-course off-road racing as well as stock car racing but his two Silver Medals at X Games 16 leave him wanting a further taste of Rallycross. He said he wants more experience in Rallycross events so he can move up to the Gold next year at X Games.

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[Francisco]

ALMS Mid-Ohio winner Chris Dyson, Grand-Am Rolex GT winner Leh Keen, NHRA Seattle FC winner Ron Capps, Redline Time Attack driver Jason Saini, Gymkhana GRID driver Thomas Smith, Formula D driver Dai Yoshihara, Action Sports icon Ken Block & Formula D driver Kyle Mohan Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Weekend Winners & The Birth of a New Sport Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly webcast concentrating on sports car racing including rallying, drifting and time attack, continues growing this week with eight new guests and the birth of a new motor racing discipline, Gymkhana GRID. But first, we talk with two stars from last weekend's racing Chris Dyson and Leh Keen. Both brought Mazda into the racing spotlight. Dyson drove Mazda to its first overall win in the American Le Mans Series during an event at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. And Keen drove an RX8 to victory in the Grand-Am Rolex GT competition at Watkins Glen, the first victory for Patrick Dempsey Racing.

Dyson's win also earned the first overall win for BP Biofuel Isobutanol, for Dunlop Tires and for Castrol, all sponsors on the Mazda Prototype. The win left Dyson and co-driver Guy Smith third in ALMS LMP points.

Keen's win was not only the first win for a team owned by Hollywood star Dempsey but it was the first non-factory win for Mazda in Grand-Am Rolex GT competition. Keen's win with James Gue led a stampede by Mazda. Seven of the first ten cars in the race were Mazda RX8s. Keen is a curious success story for sports car racing. He was born in Georgia and lives in South Carolina, all hotbeds of stock car racing.

A highlight in the Tech House & Speed webcast could be a conversation with NHRA Seattle Funny Car winner Ron Capps. Capps said his original thoughts of a racing career involved road racing in CART or, even, Can-Am where he father worked on a team. Capps, though, found his career in drag racing but he still participates in diverse racing events including Skip Barber road races and various short track races on dirt.

Capps said he also keeps an eye on various Tuner disciplines especially the SuperRally competition at X Games last month.

"I'd love to do that one day," Capps said. The idea of racing high horsepower cars wheel-to-wheel on pavement and dirt is right in Capps' racing wheelhouse.

SCCA World Challenge and Redline Time Attack driver Jason Saini heads off the third segment with details on the Mazdaspeed3 that has been converted from World Challenge to the unlimited world of Super Modified Redline Time Attack competition by Mazda tuners Tri-Point Engineering. Saini said the Mazdaspeed3 would be more than an equal in time attack with the changes planned and already made.

Also in the third segment of the webcast we start an in-depth look at Gymkhana GRID, a new motor racing discipline introduced last weekend in the parking lot of Hollywood Park Racetrack in Southern California. Gymkhana GRID combined the best of several disciplines including time attack, autocross and drifting. It came from the fertile mind of Action Sports icon Ken Block, one of the founders of the Action Sports brand DC Shoes.

We talk with newcomer Thomas Smith, a time attack and autocross champion who is expanding to Gymkhana. He's expanding his Zenkai Motorsports team from sponsors Subaru of Las Vegas and Crawford Performance to Gymkhana GRID. His success in the early days of his racing career has drawn the attention of many including Quirt Crawford, one of the best known tuning engineers and tuner shop owners in racing.

In addition to Smith, we find out from Daijiro Yoshihara, a two-time winner in Formula Drift this season, who was a witness at the Gymkhana GRID introduction. He said he'd look forward to adding Gymkhana to his racing tool box.

The final segment of Tech House & Speed includes a conversation with Ken Block, preparing for another run in the World Rally Championship event in Germany next week. We also take an audio ride with Block and Smith to help put listeners right in the world of Gymkhana during Tech House & Speed.

Finally we talk with Formula Drift driver Kyle Mohan, a musician, who talks about what music he'd use to "score" Gymkhana. His choices are eye-opening and give us a true flavor of racing in a new discipline.

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[Francisco]

Total Rally Radio host Tony Simpson, FWD pioneer Chris Rado, Formula D points leader Vaughn Gittin, Formula D driver Justin Pawlak, 2009 Formula D champion Chris Forsberg, Formula D driver Tyler McQuarrie Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Tech House & Speed spends an hour looking ahead to the racing weekend Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly webcast concentrating on sports car racing including rallying, drifting and time attack, will spend a half hour looking ahead to this weekend's season changing Formula Drift round in Las Vegas. This is one instance when what happens in Las Vegas won't stay in Las Vegas especially when the season championship is at stake.

The second half of the webcast will bring four of the top drifters in the United States together to talk about the weekend's competition PLUS additional competition coming ahead with Rallycross.

The guests include Formula D points leader Vaughn Gittin, Formula driver Justin Pawlak, 2009 Formula D champion Chris Forsberg, and Formula D driver Tyler McQuarrie who's turned over a padrt of his season to World Challenge racing. It's been a great World Challenge ride for McQuarrie as he won one event, won two poles and finished second in two other events. Gittin and Pawlak are teammates and qualified first and second respectively in the last round of Formula D competition in the Seattle area.

Forsberg's conversation points to the diversity in American drifters. Forsberg has committed a part of his career to helping newcomers to drifting. That includes a deep commitment to fellow driver Joon Maeng who worked out of Forsberg's shop last year and received extensive help from Forsberg's crew chief Kevin Wells; all of which led to Maeng receiving a new ride this season with a new team including factory help from Mazda.

The Tech House & Speed webcast opens with Tony Simpson, one of the hosts of Total Rally Radio, a highly popular weekly analysis of international rallying that streams internationally on the World Wide Web. Simpson gives us a preview of Rally Germany, the next round of the World Rally Championship and a crucial stop on the WRC calendar and one of the few that is run on pavement and not gravel roads.

Simpson also gives us eye opening analysis of American Ken Block's impact on the WRC season. Block's next round in the WRC is Rally Deutschland and its high speed paved narrow lanes through Germany. Simpson, a veteran international co-driver, gives critical analysis of Block's efforts and some questionable practices that may have contributed to his WRC record that's failed to see him finish any of the rounds he's entered in 2010. Some of the analysis might even rise to the level of headlining.

Finally, Chris Rado appears just a few days after the appearance of his groundbreaking AWD Scion tC, a technological exploration of what's possible when you put 1200+ horsepower into a purpose built time attack rocket that could change the way we think about what's possible in time attack.

Rado is a pioneer in FWD performance setting records in drag racing and time attack especially with his dual wing FWD time attack car, a car that's changed the performance standards for FWD racing.

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[Francisco]

ALMS winner Jonny Cocker, Team USA Scholarship finalist Ashley Freiberg, Rally Champion Pat Moro, Rally America Rookie of the Year Joseph Burke, Rally School founder Tim O'Neil, Boris Said, 11-time Rally champion John Buffum Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Tech House & Speed looks ahead to this weekend's RallyCar Rallycross Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

This week Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly webcast concentrating on sports car racing including rallying, drifting and time attack, looks at this weekend's RallyCar rallycross inaugural event at New Jersey Motorsports Park. It's the first time European Rallycross will open regular competition in the United States. Most of the hour-long webcast will look at the competition from drivers to instructors to an 11-time champion who doesn't like the sport but sees a real need for it.

The webcast opens with ALMS Road America winner Jonny Cocker of Drayson Racing who made up nearly seven seconds on the race leader on the last lap to win at Road America in a memorable drive. It was Drayson Racing and Cocker's first overall win in the ALMS. It was also achieved on Sunday before Cocker's birthday on Tuesday.

Joining Cocker in the first segment is Ashley Freiberg, a nominee for the Team USA Scholarship given to the best up and coming drivers in the U.S. Freiberg, 18 of Homer Glen, Illinois, was one of eight finalists announced last weekend. She is the first female to win a Skip Barber regional event on her way to winning the Skip Barber Southern Regional championship.

The second segment moves on the rallycross drivers Pat Moro, the Rally America 2010 Super Production champion, who's competed for a rally championship in each of the last five seasons winning two championships including the current one. Moro is a four-time X Games athlete.

Joseph Burke, a mechanical engineering student at Auburn University, is the 2010 Rally America Rookie of the Year. He's from a family of rally drivers including his father Seamus Burke who is one of the best know in the Eastern U.S. Burke and Moro are scheduled to run in the rallycross event this weekend.

Segment three features Tim O'Neil, founder of Team O'Neil Rally School, one of the best known rally schools in North America. He helped Travis Pastrana transition from a motocross rider to a four-time American rally champion. O'Neil and international sports car star Boris Said spend the segment explaining the difficulty of rallycross driving when compared with any other form of motor sports discipline.

Finally, we spend several minutes with eleven-time American rally champion John Buffum, winner of more than 115 events in his career that dates back to 1975. Buffum is well known as a stage rally aficionado who isn't drawn to circuit racing even though that's where he got his start in racing. Buffum admits that when he saw and participated in stage rallying he was hooked.

But even though rallycross isn't for him, Buffum does see where its potential would be good for rallying bringing in new fans and sponsors who might learn around the overall sport of rallying and may learn about stage events in the process.

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[Francisco]

ALMS winner Klaus Graf, Subaru executive James Han, Rallycross champion Andreas Ericsson, Rallycross winner Tanner Foust, Grand-Am winner Scott Pruett Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Winners, Champions & Headliners Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We'll look at winners and champions this week on Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly webcast concentrating on sports car racing including rallying, drifting and time attack. The THS webcast will also introduce a few feature lacing together music and racing.

The webcast opens with ALMS Mosport winner Klaus Graf who so dominated the race that he lapped all but the race runner-up by the time the race was over. We talk with Graf from his home in Germany after such a great weekend he'd pulled to within 16 points of the championship lead with 30 points available in the ALMS finale at Petit Lemans next month.

The second segment of the show features Subaru of America Motorsports Marketing Manager James Han who runs the company's racing programs from rallying to road racing. Han also has a key "project" the next couple weeks as Subaru fights to get a deal together that would keep four-time U.S. rally champion and Action Sports icon Travis Pastrana in a Subaru for another year. We talk with Han at the U.S. Rallycross championship inaugural at New Jersey Motorsports Park where Pastrana placed second in the A Main final heat.

That heat AND the event was won by two-time U.S. drifting champion Tanner Foust who is part of the webcast's third segment. Along with Foust in the third segment is Andreas Ericsson, one of the best rallycross drivers in the world and the manager of the Rockstar/Ford Fiesta rallycross program, the team Foust drove for in New Jersey.

In addition to running the team that Foust drives for both in the U.S. and Europe, Ericsson is also Foust's mentor and coach in the growing sport of rallycross in the U.S. However, one of the funniest lines ever on Tech House & Speed comes off-the-cuff from Ericsson when he describes working with Foust through the radio during the competition. Something about monkeys and manners… we think!

Finally, we talk with Grand-Am Rolex winner Scott Pruett who won in Montreal with teammate Memo Rojas. The win was the team's eighth of the season to go along with two seconds for a record breaking Grand-Am season with one event left at Miller Motorsports Park in two weeks.

Tech House & Speed introduces a new musical feature with Pruett. We explore some of his musical tastes including the one song that's at the top of his personal playlist. This will be an expanding feature in the show as it continues to build audience and expand it's brand in the world of motorsports.

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

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[Francisco]

2010 Le Mans Series champion Stephane Sarrazin, LMPC driver Gunnar Jeannette, European Rallycross winner Liam Doran, 2008 World Drift Champion Rhys Millen Tonight at 8pm EDT on www.RaceFanRadio.com

We Point to Petit Lemans and RallyCross II tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly topical webcast on sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack, looks ahead to events this weekend at Road Atlanta and New Jersey Motorsports Park.

2010 European Le Mans Series champion Stephane Sarrazin and 2010 LMPC American Le Mans Series points leader Gunnar Jeannette are preparing for Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. European Rallycross winner Liam Doran and 2005 Formula Drift champion Rhys Millen are preparing for RallyCar's Rallycross II in New Jersey.

Sarrazin is a throwback to times when drivers drove anything. His resume includes Formula One, international rally events, and Le Mans Prototypes where he's won European championships in 2007 and 2010 for Peugeot. Sarrazin's Peugeot relationship includes test driving and competition in rally events including a third and fourth respectively in the last two Monte Carlo Rallies.

Sarrazin will be driving for Peugeot at Petit Le Mans this weekend where his major competition will be with the Audi Sport team in the ALMS' top prototype class. We talk with Sarrazin about his sports car championships as well as his rallying where he looks forward to eventually getting the Monte Carlo win.

Gunnar Jeannette is tied for the driver's championship in the LMP Challenge category. His team, in its first year of operation, is also tied for the team title going into the last event of the year. Already this year Green Earth Team Gunnar has won four events, finished second twice and third twice. A very successful season by any measure!

But Jeannette must battle hard to come away with a championship because of the two car efforts from Level 5 Motorsports, his main competition in the LMP Challenge category. Jeannette also talks about his sponsor, Green Earth Technologies, which has developed a green racing oil and an oil clean up technique that aided efforts to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Segment three includes a conversation with Liam Doran, one of the best rallycross drivers in the world who finished third in the European Rallycross Championship this season including two wins and a second. He had the highest point total in the second half of the ERC season.

He talked about coming to the U.S. to run the RallyCar Rallycross II event at New Jersey Motorsports Park this weekend. That includes another shot at Tanner Foust the only American to ever run in the ERC series with any success. Foust finished 11th in the championship while only running half the events this season.

"Rallycross will be successful in America," Doran said. "There's no question and I want to be there early." Doran said visiting X Games last summer helped lead him to that conclusion.

Finally, we talk with Rhys Millen, a former rally champion who holds titles at Pikes Peak and his current major business drifting where he won the 2005 Formula Drift title and the 2008 Red Bull World Championship.

Millen worked with his primary sponsor Hyundai to import a European WRC car to run this weekend's Rallycross event and prepare his own program for 2011 and a run at an X Games invitation.

Millen's real comment might include his analysis of drifting in the U.S. and how drivers are looking ahead to the sport's future.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

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[Francisco]

Petit Le Mans winner Pedro Lamy, Redline Time Attack co-founder Nikolas Malechikos, Formula Drift co-founder Ryan Sage, Rallycross 2 winner Tanner Foust, Big Buck Hunter finalist Travis Pastrana Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We Look Back to Events Last Weekend & Ahead to Events in the Next Two Weeks tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Two of the largest names in Action Sports, Travis Pastrana and Tanner Foust, are guests this week on Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly topical webcast on sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack. The two of them were at the RallyCar Rallycross 2 event in New Jersey and wind up the webcast Wednesday night, looks ahead to events this weekend at Road Atlanta and New Jersey Motorsports Park.

The show starts with the ALMS Petit Le Mans winner Pedro Lamy who won in a Peugeot prototype sports car he shared with two other drivers including Stephane Sarrazin who was on the webcast last Wednesday night. So, guess what kind of credit Tech House & Speed took with Lamy? We talked with him from his home in Lisbon, Portugal.

Segment two featured Redline Time Attack co-founder Nikolas Malechikos who is busy changing the paradigm in time attack competition and Redline, the largest promoter of time attack in the United States. Malechikos' changes include production of a Versus television show that will highlight 16 fulltime Redline teams that will participate in a new racing format featuring wheel-to-wheel competition.

Malechikos also explains that Redline is becoming a sanctioning body with several new series that will be featured on the Pro Weekends from Redline in 2011.

Segment three features Formula Drift co-founder Ryan Sage. The final event in the 2010 Formula Drift season unfolds this weekend at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, considered the birthplace of drifting in the U.S. and often called The House of Drift. Sage outlines the growth of the series in the last seven years including the drivers who have built significant careers as drifters. Sage also explains how the breakthrough live webstreams of Formula Drift events has expanded the series television audience and the box office at 2010 events over the past six months.

Finally, we visit with two headliners in the world of Action Sports motor racing. Tanner Foust, the only back-to-back Formula Drift champion in series history, talks with Tech House & Speed after winning his second consecutive American Rallycross event at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Foust will also be at Irwindale with a very distant but distinct chance of winning his third Formula Drift title if many cards fall in his favor.

We also talk with Action Sports legend Travis Pastrana who was also at last weekend's rallycross event for Subaru. But his appearance in New Jersey followed his world competition for a video game, Big Buck Hunter. Pastrana finished in the final top ten worldwide after barely qualifying from his Maryland regional competition.

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

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[Francisco]

4-Time Canadian Rally champion Patrick Richard, Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, 2-time U.S. 2WD Rally champion Lauchlin O'Sullivan, 2-time European Rallycross champion Sverre Isachsen Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We Study Rally & Rallycross Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Rally and Rallycross are growing in America so the world's only weekly topical webcast on sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack, Tech House & Speed, is setting aside an hour to study what this means to American motorsport. We have champions and experts during this week's edition of Tech House & Speed.

You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM. There you'll find time cues to particular segments of the webcast.

The webcast opens this week with Patrick Richard, once the King of North American rallying. Richard has won four Canadian rally championships including the last two. He also won the Rally America and North American Rally championships in 2004 and 2005. He was unbeatable.

However, Richard is fighting to keep the Canadian championship he won last year on the last stage of the last event when he closest competitor broke down on the stage. This year that competitor, 2010 Rally America champion Antoine L'Estage, leads the Canadian championship going into that last event. Richard must raise his game to catch L'Estage this week on Tech House & Speed.

In the second segment we visit with Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, principle at WorldRallySport.com, where he's covered North American and World Rally Championship events. He brings that expertise to the table this week to put the growth of rallycross and rallying into perspective.

That perspective includes an explanation of changes in the European Rallycross Championship that finds ERC competitors coming to the U.S. where they can expand their programs. Will they find success here in the U.S.? We look at that this week.

Segment three is a conversation with two-time 2WD Max Attack! rally champion Lauchlin O'Sullivan who was vacationing in Mexico where he watched his beloved San Francisco Giants win the World Series. Now he's trying to get back home to celebrate but he was stuck with air travel that had canceled flights leaving him stranded.

O'Sullivan is a former X Games athlete who's won rally championships in 2WD and AWD machinery. He talks about his plans for next year and how he might get into the burgeoning rallycross competition in 2011.

Finally we visit with two-time European Rallycross champion Sverre Isachsen, the self-described Viking Warrior who is the best rallycross competitor in the world. Isachsen came to the X Games last summer to compete in Super Rally bus mechanical problems kept him from the Super Rally final. He said he's ready to defend his rallycross excellence this weekend at RallyCar's Rallycross 3&4 at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

Isachsen also said he's ready to see another part of America after a few days in Los Angeles. He's aware that central New Jersey is another world altogether but he says all he wants it a good steak and a cold beer to enjoy his week in New Jersey. Think he'll get one or both?

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at www.RaceFanRadio.com.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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[Francisco]

RallyCar Rallycross Analysis with ACP, Rally Legend Per Eklund, Rally Legend Tommi Makinen & Four-Time American Rally Champion Travis Pastrana and Zhuhai 1000K winner Patrick Long, Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We Study A Racer's Brilliance and Rally Legends Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed sets aside an hour this week to analyze the U.S. Rallycross Championship after the first four events this fall at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The world's only weekly topical webcast on sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack also visits with one of the most versatile sports car drivers in the world, Patrick Long. We catch him after success in the Australian V8 Supercar round in Surfer's Paradise and the Zhuhai 1000K race in China where Long's Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid was one of the fastest GT cars on the track.

Long is in the midst of a racing itinerary that has him involved in six series in seven weeks across five continents. Long's weekend this week includes a NASCAR visit to Phoenix where he'll run a stock car again this year. He's already done it four times. However, Long assures host Bill Wood that he'll never leave his sports car rounds and disappear behind the stock car curtain.

The Patrick Long interview will be set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM. There you'll find time cues to particular segments of the webcast.

Segment two this week begins a lengthy look at the U.S. Rallycross weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park last weekend. We start with comments from all three podium finishers on Sunday. It concludes with some analysis from 2009 North American Rally Champion Andrew Comrie-Picard who raises some questions about the way rallycross is growing so fast in the U.S. He's concerned that North American stage rally competitors have a chance to compete against the rallycross stars who are migrating to the U.S. to take part in the new series.

Segment three is a visit with rally legend Per Eklund who won the 1999 European Rallycross championship after a lengthy World Rally Championship relationship with SAAB. Eklund Motorsport is now mentoring emerging teenage rally star Toomas Heikkinen who won the U.S. Rallycross round 4 last Sunday. Eklund was very effusive in his praise for the young Finn who only started driving rally cars last April. He won the Finnish rallycross championship in his first five races after a short career in formula cars in Scandinavia.

Segment four includes a visit with another rally legend, Tommi Makinen, who won the WRC championship four consecutive years from 1996-1999. He's tied for second in the number of WRC championships and fifth in the number of WRC events won. Makinen is working with the Subaru Rally Team USA and helping to coach one of its drivers Dave Mirra.

We have some fun with Eklund and Makinen during the show. Eklund is confident he can beat Makinen in a rallycross challenge should one ever materialize here in the U.S. Makinen, obviously, is less sure of that eventuality.

Finally we talk with four-time Rally America stage rally champion Travis Pastrana who is withdrawing from a full-time commitment to the American championship. He addresses rumors that have him running rallycross full-time in 2011 or running in the WRC next year. Pastrana said his only 2011 commitment is a continuing relationship with sponsor Red Bull energy drink.

OFFICIAL: Travis Pastrana leaves SRT USA (Click to Read Story) (http://www.worldrallysport.com/node/6813)

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

Time Attack record holder David Empringham, Rally Executive J.B. Niday, 2010 Rally America champion Antoine L'Estage, ALMS star Jonny Cocker Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We Look at the Successful Achievement of 2010 Goals Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Ever set the bar high for a goal and meet it? That's what our guests this week can brag about. All set some pretty high standards and all met them to the benefit of all. (Continue Reading Below Video)

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Tech House & Speed, the world's only weekly topical webcast on sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack, starts this week with former open-wheel champion David Empringham, Sierra Sierra Motorsports. Empringham and team owner Dennis Kottke set a goal to be the best time attack team in the world. They fell 1.297 seconds short in May at the World Championships in Australia.

They took another step toward the goal by grabbing the coveted Buttonwillow Raceway track record last week at the Super Lap Battle. The record is one of the most sought after marks in time attack. Now it belongs to Sierra Sierra and the team has set its sights on the rest of the international community. David says the target on his back fits just right, thank you!

The David Empringham interview is set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM. There you'll find time cues to particular segments of the webcast.

Next is J.B. Niday, Managing Director of RallyCar, the major promoter of rallying in the United States. Niday was instrumental in getting rally car competition into x Games. He was also at the center of bringing European-style rallycross to the United States this fall. We talk to him about how that worked out and what's in store for next season. When will the 2011 schedule be out? What are the plans for more television coverage such as that seen on NBC's World of Adventure Sports last weekend? And what's in store for the RallyCar marquee next year when Travis Pastrana and Ken Block are gone.

Antoine L'Estage is the 2010 American and North American rally champion. He goes for the rare hat trick this weekend at Rally of the Tall Pines in Antoine's native Canada. The Canadian championship is up for grabs largely between L'Estage and two-time defending champion Patrick Richard who was on the webcast a couple weeks ago. Last year Antoine's car let him down giving the championship to Richard. Obviously he'd like to turn that around this weekend.

Finally we talk with ALMS driver Jonny Cocker, Drayson Racing, who finished third in the championship points in 2010. Drayson also finished third in the ALMS and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series this season, all in the team's second year of competition.

Cocker calls us from his home in the UK where he's recovering from more than a week in China where the team ran fourth in the Zhuhai 1000K. Cocker tells us how motor racing is growing amongst the Chinese racing fans.

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

2008 Rolex GT champion Paul Edwards, Drift Insider Joey Redmond, Wrecked Magazine, Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, World Rally Sport, Grand-Am Daytona Prototype driver Ozz Negri Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We Look at the 2011 Upgrades and New Goals Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

This week Tech House & Speed looks at many disciplines including interviews directly from the Canadian woods while championships are being celebrated. There's also a quick comment from a historic champion who plans a visit to the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The guest list includes:

Segment 1: 2008 Grand-Am Rolex champion Paul Edwards takes time out from home repairs to explain his move from GT cars to Daytona Prototypes. He tests next week at Homestead and gets his first competition in January at the Rolex 24.

Segment 2: Wrecked Magazine publisher Joey Redmond, our drift insider, takes us behind the curtain with details on Formula Drift's excursion to Abu Dhabi and the Yas Marina Circuit where the best of Formula D will hold a demonstration event in February.

Segment 3: World Rally Sport principle Francisco La Torre, our rally insider takes us to the Canadian woods where the Canadian Rally championship is settled in a face-to-face battle between the two men who've controlled the title, Antoine L'Estage and Patrick Richard. La Torre brings back interviews with the survivors - Antoine L'Estage and Nathalie Richard.

Segment 4: Grand-Am Daytona Prototype driver Ozz Negri, a four-time Brazilian karting king, takes us to the competition at last weekend's karting SuperNationals in Las Vegas. Negri takes us to school with details on why karting should be part of every race driver's tool box.

The Joey Redmond interview is set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition.

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

We Continue to Bring You an Hour of Nothing but Champions & winners Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week reaches into the cold of Sweden and Montana to bring you a look at how champions are created. In one case it starts with the discipline of looking for missing nuclear debris. In another it's an extension of a driver who was late and almost missed his seat altogether. Listen to the story of champions!

The guest list this week includes:

Segment 1: Three-time World of Outlaws champion Sammy Swindell who made a career out of turning left on dirt. But when he got a chance to turn right at Road Atlanta he not only took advantage. He nearly rewrote history. This is a story you'll only hear on Tech House & Speed.

Segment 2: Tyler McQuarrie won in Formula Drift and the World Challenge series this season. This weekend he looks to continue his winning streak at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill. But what about next season? He also talks about where his interests lie in 2011.

Segment 3: Drayson Racing Crew Chief Dale White might be the most eclectic of all racers in the world. His career started chasing down lost nuclear debris. Now it stretches to Victory Lanes in Baja, Le Mans and Road America. He also talks about visiting China where his Drayson team ran in the Zhuhai 1000K and nearly ended on the overall podium.* Finally, you won't believe how he dabbles in country music!

Segment 4: 14-time European Rallycross champion Kenneth Hansen is one of the most dominant racers in the world. On top of fourteen championships, he has a 70 percent podium success rate in 23 years of racing.* Hansen tells us how he changed the sport of rallycross and how he's leaving a legacy behind him every year.

The Kenneth Hansen interview is set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. Here’s the link: CLICK HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw)

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

Gymkhana Grid Winners Dai Yoshihara & Tanner Foust, MLB Pitcher and Thunderhill winner C.J. Wilson, Pikes Peak legend Monster Tajima, New Subaru Rally Team USA member David Higgins Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Again, Nothing but Legends, Champions & Winners Tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week goes into the quarries of Irwindale, CA, the stadiums of Major League Baseball, the top of the mountain at Pikes Peak, and the headlines of American motorsport. Once again we stretch our commitment to the latest in sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack. This is another hour into the world of champions! The guest list this week includes:

Segment 1: Gymkhana Grid Invitational winners Dai Yoshihara, winner in the 2WD category, and Tanner Foust, winner in AWD. Both are American drifters, movie stunt drivers and, now, the only American Gymkhana winners. They talk about the discipline of gymkhana and how it differs from anything else in the world of motorsport.

Segment 2: C.J. Wilson is a southpaw pitcher for the Texas Rangers. He started Game Two in the 2010 World Series and 38 days later he was running in the 25 Hours of Thunderhill. His effort isn't a celebrity appearance. Wilson has a passion to become a professional driver and is using his pitching excellence to open the door to racing. By the way, Wilson and his team won their class at Thunderhill by 45 laps. He's a serious driver!

Segment 3: Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima is the King of the Mountain at Pikes Peak. He holds the overall record on the mountain and is considered the man to beat whenever Pikes Peak talk resumes. Tajima was visiting the Gymkhana Grid event last weekend but we found the time to talk with him about his time on the mountain, his Monster Motorsports brand, and his desire to bring all that to America.

Segment 4: Finally we enter the headline arena during a visit with David Higgins, announced Wednesday morning as the newest member of the Subaru Rally Team USA. Higgins has two American and four British championships on his resume. He's tested the 2011 Subaru he'll be driving next year. And he talks about his additional expertise at SRT including what teammate Dave Mirra, a BMX racing legend, has committed to do for Higgins' son.

The Monster Tajima and David Higgins interviews are set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM. There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

Legends, Champions, Winners and even a NASCAR driver! Tonight at 8pm ET on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week bends the rules and talks NASCAR even if it's with four-time American rally champion Travis Pastrana. It's Pastrana, for goodness sake! He explains why he made the move and you'll understand it when you hear it from the champion's mouth. We also talk with a man who won two iconic races on different continents in one seven-day period. Then Audi puts a coupe under its badge and sends it to the racetrack. We talk with the man who is developing the package. Once again we stretch our commitment to the latest in sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack!

The guest list this week includes:

Segment 1: Action Sports icon Travis Pastrana, a four-time American rally champion, explains his mind boggling jump to NASCAR. Why'd he do it? Are his fans accepting of the move? What will he be doing beside NASCAR next year? When's his first NASCAR race? All of that and more is covered in a few minutes with an iconic legend, Travis Pastrana.

Segment 2: Sylvain Tremblay won his first race, an autocross in a Mazda coupe. Years later Tremblay is the team owner at SpeedSource Race Engineering, the Mazda factory team in Grand-Am Rolex GT competition. His 2010 year was incredible and included a SpeedSource team car winning the Rolex GT title. He finished third as a driver and of the ten best cars in the series, SpeedSource engineering was in six of them. That's a great season and Sylvain explains it this week on THS.

Segment 3: Vic Elford is one of the greatest drivers in international sports car racing. He once won the Monte Carlo Rally and a week later won the Daytona 24 Hour. Both wins were firsts for Porsche, a factory he raced with for five years. Elford has raced everything from World Rally Cars to Daytona 500 stock cars. And he was good in all of it. He talks about it on Tech House & Speed this week.

Segment 4: Finally we talk with Allan McNish who returns to THS to talk about the new Audi R-18 COUPE prototype. He is one of only two drivers working with Audi to develop the car that won't be seen in the U.S. until October. Why so long? How's it work? Is everyone at Audi happy with a coupe and not a roadster? Questions presented to and answered by McNish this week on THS.

The Travis Pastrana and Allan McNish interviews are set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM. There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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[Francisco]

Headlines join the Champions & Winners TONIGHT at 8pm ET on www.RaceFanRadio.com

Tech House & Speed this week breaks news from 2003 World Rally Champion Petter Solberg who announces an American initiative in 2011. He plans on building his own car - he calls it a PS - that's not connected to any brand he's run before. And he's coming with or without corporate or brand sponsorship. A headlining show tonight and here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: 2009 SCORE champion Robby Gordon, the first American to win a stage of The Dakar Rally, talks with Tech House & Speed about this year's event, the third consecutive in South America. The rally starts New Year's Day and we were able to talk with Gordon as he was preparing to transfer his team and attentions to Buenos Aires where the 16-day marathon/raid starts.

Segment 2: 2010 Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. visits with us from the Ken Block Invitational Gymkhana Grid at Irwindale where he ran in a 30-year-old Ford Escort instead of his tire shredding Ford Mustang. Gittin talks about the new experience as a champion and the future and convergence of Action motorsports including drifting, gymkhana and rallycross.

Segment 3: Christian Edstrom is a three-time U.S. co-driving champion. Those championships came in the right seat beside four-time champion Travis Pastrana. But Edstrom is more than a champion co-driver. He works on Wall Street as a management consultant finding money for businesses that are battling to keep the doors open in a brutal economy. Edstrom is used to pressure on and off his rally weekends.

Segment 4: Finally the headliner. We talk with 2003 World Rally Champion Petter Solberg who may have done his best work this year finishing third in the WRC with a privateer Citroen team. Solberg is the last driver not named Sebastian Loeb to win the WRC championship, a crown he wants back in the worst way. But while he's battling in the WRC, he plans on building a new, privately branded PS car to bring to America to compete in one of this country's oldest motorsports events. He explains how, why, where, when and with what backing, this week on THS.

The Robby Gordon and Petter Solberg interviews are set aside for ease of listening on the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

We go behind the headlines tonight with Champions & Winners TONIGHT at 8pm ET on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week looks behind the scenes at: the Dakar Rally, at the Formula Drift Abu Dhabi exhibition next month, at the Rally America opener in three weeks in Michigan and at this week's ALMS/ESPN media breakthrough announcement.

All of this comes as Tech House & Speed makes some headlines of its own. Our shows and interviews are now available on iTunes where you can hear, on-demand, the best in topical sports car, rally, drifting and time attack content anywhere on the web.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: Our Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, publisher of the World Rally Sport website, takes us behind the scenes at the 2011 Dakar Rally. We look at the unique event in South America, the arduous stage mileage and the mishaps that have hampered the efforts of two spotlighted American competitors Mark Miller and Robby Gordon. They were off to a great start but accidents have sent them backwards in the field.

Segment 2: Formula Drift competitor Ryan Tuerck, second and third in the final standings the last two season, gives us some background on the Abu Dhabi exhibition Formula Drift has planned next month. He also takes us behind the scenes on his off-season which will also take him to Texas. That's maybe a place as exotic as Abu Dhabi?

Segment 3: Ramana Lagemann, second in the Rally America SP category final standings last season, returns in 2011 with a new car and new resources. Lagemann won three events last year and could have won the championship except he didn't score in the other three events of the series. This is a renewed commitment from Lagemann who started as a factory Subaru driver nearly ten years ago. He's won events and challenged on the world rally stage in his career. Now he's starting it again in three weeks.

Segment 4: Finally the headliner. We talk with three-time ALMS GT champion Patrick Long who had an explosive fourth quarter on the race track in 2010 with championship performances in the U.S., Australia and China. Long now talks about the part he played in the ALMS media agreement with ESPN. In just a few years Long has emerged as an international presence in sports car racing. We take advantage of it with Patrick, our first guest one year ago at the birth of Tech House & Speed.

The Patrick Long interview is set aside for ease of listening on iTunes and the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand in the iTunes Store or at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . At www.TechHouseandSpeed.com you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

This is a second video we want to bring to your attention. It’s also on our You Tube Channel. It centers on Kevin Abbring, a Dutch rally driver who was a key competitor in the Ken Block Invitational Gymkhana Grid. Kevin Abbring Puts Methanol in the Grid can be seen here if you double click on the video or use this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcluGyh0Z1c to watch it on You Tube.

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

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[Francisco]

Ramana Lagemann Interview on THSTalk


FULL INTERVIEW with Ramana Lagemann: CLICK HERE (http://bit.ly/dR7iFs)

We talk with Ramana Lagemann who was once one of the youngest in North America to be supported in a factory-backed rally team. His success with Subaru and the late Mark Lovell, a former British and American Rally Champion, is well documented. He's said what he brought from that experience has been invaluable in building to his three wins last year in the Rally America SP category. Missing two events and not scoring in a third kept him from the title but he's ready to move up in performance this year to the faster Open Class cars. He talks about his 2011 plans and how he relaxes in the kitchen when he's not competing. Listen and see if you don't agree. This is an exclusive THS Breakout interview on the world's only weekly topical webcast on sports car racing, rallying, drifting and time attack. It's also available on iTunes.


FULL INTERVIEW with Ramana Lagemann: CLICK HERE (http://bit.ly/dR7iFs)

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[Francisco]

Dakar Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, World Rally Sport, 2010 Rolex 24 winner Ryan Dalziel, Indy Car winner Graham Rahal, four-time Trans-Am champion Tommy Kendall Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We bring two headlines to the spotlight tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week breaks two stories on the motorsports world. One involves 2007 & 2008 Formula Drift champion Tanner Foust. The other involves four-time Trans-Am champion Tommy Kendall. Both are exclusive comments heard only on Tech House & Speed, the Internet's only webcast with topical NASCAR Free content on sports cars including rallying, drifting and time attack.

In addition we look behind the headlines at the Dakar Rally and the Rolex 24 testing just completed at Daytona International Speedway.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: Once again our Rally Insider Francisco La Torre, publisher of the WorldRallySport.com website, takes us behind the scenes at the 2011 Dakar Rally. This week includes a look at the behind the scenes workings at the rally leading VW team where the two top drivers on the team are intensely fighting each other, the field and the South American terrain for the victory. We also look at the American rallycross schedule revealed last week. We talk with RallyCar Managing Director J.B. Niday about the schedule and get some analysis from Niday about the schedule's late release.

Following the rally coverage, we talk exclusively with Tanner Foust as he leaves for the UK where his 2011 plans for the European Rallycross Championship will be announced. Will those plans conflict with any of his U.S. Rallycross Championship or Formula Drift championship plans? Tanner says "No..."

Segment 2: We turn to Ryan Dalziel, a 2010 Rolex 24 winner with the Action Express team. Last weekend Dalziel took the Starworks Motorsport Daytona Prototype to the unofficial track record at Daytona International Speedway. Dalziel, though, is quick to point out the record isn't "unofficial" to his team. He also talks about the offseason preps Starworks accomplished after it changed relationships to Ford for 2011.

Segment 3: Graham Rahal, 2008 Indy Car winner at the St. Petersburg GP, is moving to Ganassi Racing this year. As part of that move Rahal is running with the Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas Ganassi Team, winners of the 2010 Grand-Am DP Championship. Rahal talks about what he learned after a weekend of testing with the team as well as his love of sports car racing in general.

Segment 4: Finally our second headliner. We talk with four-time Trans-Am champion Tommy Kendall who's spent the last few years as a television show host and racing analyst. TK has been a visitor to Tech House & Speed in the past and, this time, he talked about some of the invitations he's had to return to the race track. One of those invitations was for this year's Rolex 24. Kendall said he turned down the invite but thought with a year of conditioning he could be ready for next year's race. Even TK said he's never lost his taste for racing and isn't against a return to the track, maybe even in a fulltime capacity.

The Tanner Foust and Tommy Kendal interviews will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes and the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at iTunes or at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw

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If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

2005 World Challenge champion Andy Pilgrim, U.S. Rallycross Promoter Brian Gale, Rally America Managing Director J.B. Niday, 2004 Grand-Am DP co-champion Max Papis Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We get ready for the rally season while we talk with sports car champions tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week begins looking ahead to the launch of the U.S. stage rally and rallycross championships tonight. And we talk with two champion sports car drivers: Andy Pilgrim who's getting back into a World Challenge Cadillac CTSV and Mad Max Papis who drives anything from F1 to stock cars. Papis also is a world class fitness athlete as you'll hear.

Both are exclusive comments heard only on Tech House & Speed, the Internet's only webcast with topical NASCAR Free content on sports cars including rallying, drifting and time attack.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: We find Andy Pilgrim in Sebring preparing to test the new Cadillac CTSV Coupe that's being prepared for this year's World Challenge series. Pilgrim won the 2005 World Challenge title in a different Cadillac and he says he feels comfortable returning to GM even though he'll miss friends at the K-Pax Volvo team he ran for last year. Pilgrim also talks about his Foundation that's committed to helping high school students drive safely especially driving un-distracted. He explains the DVD that's keeping him from the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Segment 2: Brian Gale is the U.S. Rallycross Championship Series Promoter and Organizer. He's been in the hot seat of late because the rallycross schedule is very late but Gale explains why and doesn't appear to be too concerned because of all the work that's happening in the background to get a quality television package for the series. We've seen a proposed schedule and there are events planned on both coasts where, last year, all the events were in New Jersey. This conversation will answer lots of rallycross questions.

Segment 3: J.B. Niday is the Managing Director of Rally America, the major stage rally sanctioning body in the U.S. He gives us more background on the series as it prepares for launch in ten days at the Sno*Drift Rally. Champions from several countries will be participating in the U.S. National Championship that leads to the Invitational Super Rally events at X Games. Will TV be involved in the Stage Rally championship? Niday explains.

Segment 4: Max Papis was part of the team that won the 2004 Grand-Am Daytona Prototype championship. He also finished second in the Rolex 24 last year. In this year's event he'll move over to the team that won in 2010, Action Express. Papis has experience in F1, Indy Car and stock cars but he says his passion is sports car racing, the discipline that brought him to the U.S. some 15 years ago. We also talk about Papis' world class fitness training. He might be the most fit driver in all racing.

The Max Papis interview will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes (http://bit.ly/fNbxey) and the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at iTunes or at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition: CLICK HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw)

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Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

Grand-Am DP driver Nic Jonsson, X Games legend Dave Mirra, Formula Drift Las Vegas winner Tyler McQuarrie, 2010 WRC runner-up Jari-Matti Latvala Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We look at the Rolex 24 and the Sno*Drift Rally tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week looks at some headline news as it looks ahead to the Grand-Am season kickoff in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the Rally America stage rally kickoff at the Sno*Drift Rally in Michigan. And we talk with one of the fastest rally driver in the world, Jari-Matti Latvala who finished second in the 2010 World Rally Championship standings and appears ready to fight for the championship despite a testing crash last weekend that he details for us tonight.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: We talk with racer and businessman Nic Jonsson who will be with Krohn Racing at the Rolex 24 beginning Saturday and his own Kinetic Motorsports KIA Forte Koupe team at the Continental Tire Challenge Series event on Friday. Jonsson talks about the quality of the Daytona Prototypes as his Krohn team will be joined by Le Mans veterans Nicolas Minassian and Ricardo Zonta for the Rolex race. He also talks about the issues of bringing a new company like KIA into the motorsports industry and the success he had with the Koupe in 2010 when Kinetic Motorsports turned in six top-10 finishes.

Segment 2: X Games legend Dave Mirra is entering his fourth year in the Rally America stage rally series. The most successful X Games athlete in history is making enormous progress in his rally car development with podium finishes several times last year, the first coming last April at the Olympus Rally in Washington. Mirra starts the 2011 rally season at the Sno*Drift Rally in Michigan with a new co-driver and a new teammate on the Subaru Rally Team USA squad. He talks about the value of both, especially David Higgins, a former British and U.S. rally champion who might be doing some mentoring with Mirra as the season progresses.

Segment 3: Formula Drift star Tyler McQuarrie will expand his racing portfolio in 2011 with a ride in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series. The announcement came Tuesday and this will be his first detailed interview on headline. McQuarrie will be driving a BMW with Insight Racing in the ST category of the Continental Tire series. McQuarrie finished third in the 2009 Formula Drift series and won last year in Las Vegas. He also won the World Challenge race in Long Beach last year so his road racing skills are more than adequate for this new assignment.

Segment 4: Finally we talk with one of the fastest rally drivers in the world. Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally team driver Jari-Matti Latvala, second in the World Rally Championship last season, says he's ready to compete for the championship in 2011. And that confidence comes despite a testing accident last Saturday. The high speed crash did heavy damage to the new Ford Fiesta RS the team plans to introduce at the WRC opener in Sweden next month and was scheduled for a test rally this weekend. Latvala details the accident for us tonight.

The Jari-Matti Latvala, David Mirra and Tyler McQuarrie interviews will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes (http://bit.ly/fNbxey) and the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at iTunes or at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition: CLICK HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw)

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

[Francisco]

Rolex 24 winner Scott Pruett, Sno*Drift winner Travis Hanson, Monte Carlo winner Bryan Bouffier, 12-time WRC winner Mikko Hirvonen Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We look at how hard work can create excellence tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We always hear about just winning our way to excellence but the real way to get true excellence is through hard work. This week we talk with four drivers who've worked hard and achieved excellent results this season. That's an important part of Tech House & Speed, the world's only topical webcast specializing in sports car racing including rally, drifting and time attack.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: We talk with Scott Pruett, winner of his fourth Rolex 24 at Daytona last weekend. Pruett may go down as the most successful road racing in American history. His records a piling up but there's more than simple skill building those records. Many believe Scott Pruett may work harder than any driver in history. He's even working while we talk with him! He talks about his experience and how those experiences are having an impact on his success now.

Segment 2: Sportsman rally driver Travis Hanson made history last weekend at the Sno*Drift Rally in northern Michigan. Hanson won his first rally overall at Sno*Drift. And he put a Super Production category car on the top step of the podium for the first time in the Rally America national championship. Hanson has worked hard to fight through the frustration of a difficult season last year where he either won or crashed out of events. He says he's ready to go forward with a big year this year with the discipline he displayed last weekend. On top of everything else, he made history at the event with his Dad sitting in the co-driver's seat next to him. This is a nice few minutes.

Segment 3: Bryan Bouffier is the French National Champion rally driver who'd never won a point in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge before this year's Monte Carlo Rally. Bouffier made some well thought out decisions during the historic event and went on to win the 100th Monte Carlo surprising many around the rally world. Bouffier explains those decisions and more to Colin Clark, Total Rally Radio host, in these few minutes with a potential IRC champion this season.

Segment 4: Finally we talk with Mikko Hirvonen who came to within one point of upsetting one of the greatest championship runs in motor racing history. In 2009 he lost the title to Sebastian Loeb on the last day of the last event of the WRC season. Perhaps the frustration of that one point loss helped Hirvonen fall to sixth in the standings last season. He says he's worked through that frustration and is ready for a great season in 2011. That season starts next week at Rally Sweden. We talk with Hirvonen at the Ford World Rally Team headquarters in London.

The Travis Hanson, Bryan Bouffier and Mikko Hirvonen interviews will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes (http://bit.ly/fNbxey) and the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at iTunes or at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. CLICK HERE TO WATCH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw).

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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[Francisco]

2008 World Drift champion Rhys Millen, Champion co-driver from Ireland Martin Brady, Rallycross analyst Tim Whittington, ALMS LMP1 team owner Greg Pickett Tonight at 8pm Eastern on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

We hear some headline making news and some international analysis of U.S. Rally excellence tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed, the world's only topical webcast specializing in sports car racing including rally, drifting and time attack, once again shows it's also a headline leader. We hear from one driver who will introduce a new direction for his program at the Chicago Auto Show Wednesday morning. Rhys Millen has a growing relationship with Hyundai. This announcement will make that relationship deeper. He gives us details Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern on Race Fan Radio.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: We talk with 2005 Formula Drift champion and 2008 Red Bull World Drift champion Rhys Millen about his announcement at the Chicago Auto Show Wednesday morning. Rhys continues to build his relationship with Hyundai and he gives us details on his 2011 plans just hours after the announcement. We also hear what he looks forward to in a busy year this racing season. Millen is always candid with us and this conversation is no different.

Segment 2: Martin Brady is a championship winning co-driver from Ireland where he also works Monday-Friday as a policeman! This time, however, Brady has some arresting news just a few days after he ran to second in the Galway International Rally/Historic Rally category with American rally driver Seamus Burke. Brady has competed in the U.S. several times in the past decade so when he gives us some analysis on the growth of rally talent in the U.S. you have to listen. In fact, Brady is very complimentary of the American rally talent pool and indicated European hot shoes would find it much more difficult to win here than they did just five years ago.

Segment 3: British motorsports journalist Tim Whittington is considered an expert in the world of Rallycross. He published Rallycross World Magazine and oversees content at the ERC24.com website. So here's another opportunity to rate American Rallycross talent with the best in the world and Whittington finds the talent here well worth watching. In fact he names one driver who has an opportunity to win in the European Rallycross Championship this season. He also says the best in the world are looking forward to the growth of the sport here in the U.S.

Segment 4: Finally we talk with Greg Pickett, the 1978 Trans-Am champion but also a winner last season in the ALMS at Lime Rock. Pickett believes that win makes him the only American driver in history to win in five consecutive decades. Pickett is looking forward to this year when his Team Cytosport program switches from Porsche to Aston Martin. He explains why the move was necessary and how it was handled by the top brass at Porsche. We also hear how he's looking forward to his new Aston Martin prototype this year and the talent pool he'll have at the Sebring 12 hours next month.

The Rhys Millen, Martin Brady, Tim Whittington and Greg Pickett interviews will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes (http://bit.ly/fNbxey) and the ByBillWood website after it streams in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand at iTunes or at http://bit.ly/2rTWM . There you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. CLICK HERE TO WATCH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw).

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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[Francisco]

Rallycross Interviews

Marcus Gronholm interview: CLICK HERE (http://www.bybillwood.com/online/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1729:marcus-gronholm-on-rally-rallycross-a-music&catid=54:ths-radio&Itemid=106)

America's Rallycross Architects, J.B. Niday and Brian Gale interviews: CLICK HERE (http://www.bybillwood.com/online/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1711:americas-rallycross-architects-answer-the-questions&catid=54:ths-radio&Itemid=106)

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[Francisco]

Grand-Am Homestead winner Bill Auberlen, European Rallycross Team Owner Andreas Eriksson, 2-Time Formula D champion Sam Hubinette, Daytona & Sebring winner Joey Hand Wednesday 8pm ET on Race Fan Radio*

This is another week filled with winners and champions on Tech House & Speed, NASCAR Free Radio. There's even a driver who did something to equal the legends but he may have a few more walls to climb before he can be considered a legend! That's tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Tech House & Speed this week looks ahead to the Global Rallycross debut this weekend at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale and the Formula Drift opener at Long Beach in two weeks. We also look back at the ALMS opener at Sebring during the world's only topical webcast concentrating on sports car racing including rallying, drifting and time attack.

And in What Do You Think? this week: Drifting changed the motorsports conversation ten years ago. Can rallycross do that in the next ten years? Yes or No? Vote!! Learn something about yourself! Check out the blog.

Here's the guest list for this week:

Segment 1: We start with Bill Auberlen, one of the two BMW factory drivers we have on this week's webcast. Auberlen won the Grand-Am GT competition at Homestead and he was on his way to an ALMS win at Sebring when a tire problem let his teammate Joey Hand get by for the win. Auberlen is considered one of the best GT drivers in America. His record proves it. Tonight we talk about it!

Segment 2: Andreas Eriksson is a key figure in European Rallycross who's moving to the U.S. to set up shop because he thinks enough of the American effort to launch the sport here. His shop's so new, we had to call his Swedish cell to talk with him down the street! Eriksson is building the Fords that Tanner Foust and Marcus Gronholm will use in this weekend's Global Rallycross debut at Irwindale.

Segment 3: Sam Hubinette is a two-time Formula Drift champion who's expanding his team with an Irish drift champion this year. The Crazy Swede, the Formula D champion in 2004 and 2006, is looking to go back to the top of drifting in 2011.* He's won more events than anyone in Formula D history. Without a doubt he's the most successful in the sport. This season he's looking to move back into the sport's spotlight.

Segment 4: Finally we visit with Joey Hand. He's the other BMW factory driver in this webcast along with Bill Auberlen. He's also a rare Daytona 24 and Sebring 12 Hour winner in the same year. He joins the likes of Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood in a pretty heady club. Joey Hand talks about some dreams he has. One could be spelled DTM! Listen!!!

Featured Interviews: The Joey Hand and Andreas Eriksson guest interviews will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes (http://bit.ly/fNbxey) and the ByBillWood website after they stream in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand in the iTunes Store or here: http://bit.ly/2rTWM. At Tech House & Speed you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. CLICK HERE TO WATCH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw).

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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[Francisco]

2009 Rolex 24 winner Darren Law, ALMS LMPC winner Gunnar Jeannette, Global Rallycross Podium finisher Stephan Verdier, 2-time WRC champion Marcus Gronholm, WRC driver Ken Block, 5-time British Rally Champion Marcus Dodd Tonight, 8pm ET on Race Fan Radio

Winners, champions and legends return to Tech House & Speed, NASCAR Free Radio, this week. In addition to looking ahead at Grand-Am and ALMS events, we recap the launch of Global Rallycross last weekend at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale! That's tonight on www.RaceFanRadio.com!

Segment 1: We start with Darren Law, 2001 Grand-Am Rolex GT champion and 2009 Rolex 24 winner. Darren drives prototypes in Grand-Am and GT in the ALMS. He wins at both disciplines. He is getting ready for the Barber Motorsports Park sprint in the Grand-Am series in two weeks. He's riding in the Phoenix heat to prepare for the heat and humidity in Birmingham, Alabama.

Gunnar Jeannette has changed teams this year after four wins and a second overall in the American Le Mans LMPC category last season. His wins came at Long Beach, Lime Rock, Road America and Mosport. He'll be back at Long Beach in two weeks! Gunnar also talks about his trips to the moon in the middle of the 24 Hours of Le Mans! Wait'll you hear THAT conversation!

Segment 2: Stephan Verdier has his feet firmly on the ground as he prepares to leave Formula Drift to concentrate on Global Rallycross this year. He explains why and he can't be far wrong after a podium finish in the GRC launch at Irwindale last weekend. He finished third and stood on the Podium with Marcus Gronholm and Tanner Foust, two of the fastest rallycross drivers in the world!

Segment 3: Finally we recap the Global Rallycross Championship inaugural at Irwindale by visiting the Podium ceremonies, talking with WRC legend Marcus Gronholm, WRC newcomer Ken Block who's recovering from a violent crash before Rally Portugal and Marcus Dodd, a five-time British Rally Champion who's running in the Global Rallycross Championship in the U.S. this season.

The Stephan Verdier, and Marcus Gronholm, Ken Block and Marcus Dodd guest segments will be set aside for ease of listening on iTunes (http://bit.ly/fNbxey) and the ByBillWood website after they stream in the webcast. You can hear this or any of the past Tech House & Speed webcasts on-demand in the iTunes Store or http://bit.ly/2rTWM. At Tech House & Speed you'll find time cues to particular guests and segments of the webcast.

Tech House & Speed also wants to draw attention to our You Tube Channel where a special video appears this week. Heat Winning 101 with Tanner Foust puts you in the passenger seat during a U.S. Rallycross Championship round of competition. CLICK HERE TO WATCH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGchrS-92nw).

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Join host Bill Wood every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific to get industry insider news and conversation in the sport of road rally, drifting, time attack and various road racing series.

If you have missed any episode or guest, or to view special edition video clips, "Tech House & Speed" archives are available "On Demand" or via Podcast at http://bit.ly/2rTWM.

Get interactive by phoning the show at +1 317.248.0263 or send an email: THSTalk@Mail.com, @THSTalk on TWITTER (http://www.twitter.com/THSTalk) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=tech+house+%26+speed&init=quick#/pages/THSTalk-Tech-House-Speed/244500458033?ref=search&sid=576391985.1672504302..1)

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