After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

Logan is 12 years old and already building a drift car, learning fabrication, and getting hands-on with everything that comes with it. Alongside his dad Anthony, they talk about where that passion started and how quickly it’s grown.
They get into Logan’s first project, sourcing parts, and the moment things shifted from just liking cars to actually wanting to drive. There’s also a look into Long Lake Camp and how that kind of hands-on experience shaped his confidence.
The conversation moves through drifting stories, early mistakes, and learning as you go, with Anthony sharing his own path along the way. It’s a look at what happens when someone starts young and sticks with it.
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Ricardo Ruiz joins us to talk about his path through car culture, from early Corolla builds to his current S-chassis and everything in between. We get into drifting, the reality of building cars, and the kind of bad luck and lessons that come with it. Along the way, we touch on community, time spent at the track, and how those experiences shape the way you approach cars and the people around them.
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Kevin Martinez of Team Essence/Essence Garage joins us for another one of the Texas Series episodes, recorded in Houston on a freezing cold morning. We dive into his 10-year journey with his 240SX, the ups and downs of blowing three SRs, rebuilding after setbacks, and how Team Essence shaped his approach to drifting. Kevin talks about balancing school, work, and car life, the evolution of his style, and why sticking with one chassis can mean more than constantly switching builds.
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Tom Nazzaro from Front Street Drift Club joins us in the shop for this episode. We get into everything from rebuilding drift cars on impossible timelines to traveling for drifting and how quickly those trips start to blur together when you're constantly on the move.
Tom shares stories from Drift Appalachia, building cars with friends, the early days of Front Street, and what it’s like balancing competition drifting with everything else that comes with the scene. Along the way the conversation drifts into road trip stories, close calls, and the reality of chasing drifting all over the place.
Just a laid-back episode with Tom telling stories, talking drifting, and getting into some of the moments that happen behind the scenes that most people don’t see.
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This week’s episode is a laid-back Q&A that somehow turned into a debate about criticism, car standards, and why people get so pressed online. We recap the Knuckle Up voting situation and the backlash from last week, talk about what it actually means to build a car for a specific event, and whether calling something out for what it is should really be that controversial.
Somewhere along the way we end up arguing about 370Zs, stance cars, dream builds, raffle luck, death row meals, and whether it would be worse to deal with a ghost or a full-blown alien standing in your doorway.
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