After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

Ron from Daring Ones stops by for a long, laid-back conversation that starts exactly where you’d expect and ends up everywhere else. We get into drifting, Raceway Park, and what it actually takes to keep a car reliable for a full season, but not before bouncing through scary movies, Fast & Furious nostalgia, ghost stories, and plenty of off-topic shop banter. Ron breaks down his mindset on keeping things simple, focusing on seat time over constant upgrades, and why having a spare motor in the wings just makes sense. It’s one of those episodes that feels like hanging out in the shop late at night, where serious drift talk slowly blends into random stories and movie debates.
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In this episode, we sit down with Alan Kyle — local drifter, VQ abuser, serial car owner, and full-time truck driver — for one of our most unhinged conversations yet.
What starts as a loose, alcohol-fueled intro quickly spirals into stories about slamming cars until they’re undriveable, drifting mishaps, the realities of CDL trucking, backing semi-trucks with no backup cameras, highway chaos, HOA nightmares, and yes… lot lizards.
Somehow, buried beneath the chaos, there’s real insight on VQ platforms, drift setups, costly car mistakes, and learning everything the hard way. If you make it past the first stretch, the back half of this episode gets dangerously informative.
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We kick off 2026 with a laid-back Q&A covering what’s ahead for the podcast, upcoming travel plans, drifting goals, shop life, and plenty of off-the-cuff conversations. From planning podcast trips and talking cars to health habits, motorcycles, and random listener questions, this episode sets the tone for the year ahead.
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Michael Russo of 9NINE2 and Reese Marin sit down with us to talk about drifting across Europe and Japan, documenting the trips, and how years of persistence in media and motorsports turned into real opportunities. The conversation moves through travel, drifting culture overseas, creative work, and the long road that comes with building a life around it.
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The Christmas episode features the crew hanging out with Anthony Rizzo and catching up on cars, drifting, shop life, and what everyone has been dealing with heading into the holidays. The conversation moves through current projects, work schedules, money, the realities of running businesses, and how people are navigating a busy and expensive time of year. Along the way, they touch on car builds, driving, industry changes, and day-to-day situations that come up both in and outside the shop.
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