We’re back with another installment of Behind The Wheel Podcast, #WHEELWEDNESDAY edition! Wheel Wednesday is a segment where Scott (Konig Wheels, Marketing Director) and Nick (Konig Wheels, Marketing team) break down some of the questions we consistently get asked via social media, discussing one wheel tech-related topic, talking cars and any other cool things we have upcoming or going on. So you may be the first to hear about wheel giveaways or new wheels. We also might go in-depth on technical topics!
On this episode, we break down “BIG BRAKES”! If you like what you hear, give us some feedback and also let us know what we should talk about in the next one!
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Currently all of our podcasts are interviews or motorsport related with hardly any wheel talk. When we decided to do a podcast we wanted to keep it fun and bring some great stories to you just because. Just simple car people reaching other car people!
We’ve had a fair amount of requests to increase the frequencies of our podcasts and to talk more about wheels and what is happening with the brand. We are trying to do just that. So starting today, the KONIG Behind The Wheel podcast now has a new segment, Wheel Wednesday! Wheel Wednesday is a going to be a weekly podcast including Scott (Konig Wheels, Marketing Director) and Nick (Konig Wheels, Marketing team) breaking down some of the questions we consistently get asked via social media, discussing one wheel tech-related topic, talking cars and any other cool things we have upcoming or going on. So you may be the first to hear about wheel giveaways or new wheels. We also might go in-depth on technical topics!
On this episode, we break down “Wheel Offsets”! If you like what you hear, give us some feedback and also let us know what we should talk about in the next one!
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Check out this FD edition of our podcast as we go into Joey Redmond’s TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED points from Formula Drift New Jersey! Make sure to share your thoughts with us!
If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded right here to our YouTube Channel!
If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded to YouTube! …. (details/cheat sheet below! – Audio )
00:41 | Track Layout Change for the Best 04:43 | Travis Reeder Holding onto Rookie of the Year Top Spot 13:53 | Chelsea DeNofa – The Chase of 2019 16:17 | Ken Gushi is in Winning Form 19:52 | Vaughn Gittin Jr. Continues to Spin 29:26 | Odi Bakchis Loses His Winning Ways at the Wrong Time 33:41 | Chris Forsberg’s Serious Weekend to Forget 37:25 | Justin Pawlak Brings it to a 100 40:17 | Fredric Aasbo Back in the Championship Lead 43:32 | Ryan Tuerck Wins his Fourth Ever Formula Drift Event
Check out this FD edition of our podcast as we go into Joey Redmond’s TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED points from Formula Drift Atlanta! Make sure to share your thoughts with us!
If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded right here to our YouTube Channel!
See you after FD New Jersey!
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00:47 | “Passionate Pat” Goodin is the Underdog Everyone is Cheering For
05:02 | A Great Top 32
11:44 | It’s Electric and Qualifies – Now What?
17:39 | Fans Remain the Real VIP with Weather
19:04 | Odi Bakchis vs. Forrest Wang is the New Rivalry FD Needs
22:46 | Josh Robinson Wins Pro 2 – Makes Championship Wide Open!
26:06 | James Dean Back on the War Path!
28:48 | Odi Bakchis Falls Just Short of All-Time Tandem Wins in a Row Record
30:24 | The Big Statement from Ryan Tuerck
34:26 | Fredric Aasbo Capitalizes in the Rain with Perfect Event
Travis Reeder, Formula Drift Pro driver, 2018 Formula Drift Pro2 Champion, and FD Pro Rookie have a lot of buzz around him and his team. That is mainly due to Travis and Napoleon Motorsports building the first PRO ELECTRIC drift car. However, in the first two events of the season they have not been able to run the car and had to go to their backup car, Travis’s 240sx from Pro2. There has been a ton of controversy around the EL1 Camaro. Should the car be allowed to run, is it safe, too boring for a sport like drifting are only a few of the shots thrown at them.
Travis joins us on the podcast to talk about how the car works, drifts, how he linked up with Napoleon Motorsports and so much more!
Thanks for all of your support and listening!
And please, if you like the podcast and what we’ve been doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes, Google Play and we always put the full video interviews on our YouTube Channel (we’d love if you subscribe there as well)! Thank you for listening!
As always you can use our timeline cheatsheet (below) to jump around in the podcast and hear what you like the most.
CONTENT CHEAT MENU: 0:20 Intro 1:50 How’d you link up with Napoleon? 4:50 How much seat time do you have so far? 5:50 The difference drifting an electric drift car 8:20 Difference between Pro and Pro2 11:18 Can you tune the throttle? 13:30 How comparable is electric power to horsepower 15:40 How much power does the EL1 make? 17:07 Any doubts? 18:40 How do other FD drivers feel? 20:20 What really happened at FDLB, why were you not allowed to run the EL1? 24:00 Making sure the car is allowed at every other track 28:00 Why didn’t you use it at FD Orlando 33:20 Preparing for new tracks 35:00 Adjusting this car vs a conventional drift car at the track. 38:20 Wheels are like an electric car quick change? 41:12 Difference driving w/ guys like Tuerck & Gitten Jr. 43:55 Driving Blind 47:25 Drifting Pro Tip (for chase runs) 48:50 New view for Livestream 49:58 2019 goals 51:38 Is the lack of noise a disadvantage while driving? 54:00 Do you think EVs will become more popular in drifting? 55:15 Outro / Contact info!
Formula Drift Orlando brought some heat to OSW and the PRO2 drivers finally were able to join the party! Multiple qualifying runs seemed to be on the doorstep of perfection and the field, including pro2, seemed to step up their game! Adam LZ brought new excitement to the event and we saw quick repairs and builds make it to the oval after suffering massive crashes. Join us as Scott (Konig Wheels, Marketing Director) and Joey Redmond (Wreck’d Magazine) dissect and breakdown FDORL!
Check out this FD edition of our podcast as we go into Joey Redmond’s TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED points from Formula Drift Long Beach! Make sure to share your thoughts with us!
If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded right here to our YouTube Channel!
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4:35 | Ryan Tuerk Made it 7:22 | Jhonnathan Castro dominates OSW 11:15 | Adam LZ – Hold off the verdict 25:28 | Chelsea DeNofa’s chase and speed were mind-blowing! 26:13 | Trenton Beechum runs a perfect Pro 2 weekend 28:22 | I wanted just a little more from Goodin on home turf 36:10 | Vaughn’s team works a miracle 39:50 | James Deane’s woes continue 43:00 | Perfect qualifying session – first ever in series history? 55:13 | Odi Bakchis looks unstoppable
Welcome back DRIFT FANS! The 2019 Formula Drift season has kicked off and it was everything we hoped it would be. There were new drivers, exciting battles, some controversial issues and crashes that may leave a couple of teams out of the next event in Orlando.
Check out this FD edition of our podcast as we go into Joey Redmond’s TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED points from Formula Drift Long Beach! Make sure to share your thoughts with us!
If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded right here to our YouTube Channel!
See you after FD Orlando!
If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded to YouTube! …. (details/cheat sheet below! – Audio )
0:18 | Intro 2:09 | Jeff Jones is the best driver you aren’t paying attention to 5:28 | Chelsea DeNofa vs. Chris Forsberg was Tandem of the day 9:40 | Travis Reeder overcomes tough team weekend with great performance! 19:37 | Podium marks a season for positive tire diversity 22:52 | Forrest Wang strikes 6th podium but still evades a victory 25:18 | What happened to James Deane? 30:47 | Matt Field sees 99 33:00 | Odi Bakchis wants that championship! 37:08 | Can Ryan Tuerck return for Orlando? 42:16 | Frederic Aasbo finds success with old school setup 50:46 | Outro / Contact info
Formula Drift Pro driver, Faruk Kugay joins Scott (Konig, Marketing Director) on the Behind The Wheel podcast and tells us what’s to come in the 2019 season, his journey in the Europe Drifting scene, Sonoma Drift Winter jam, advice to the grassroots drifters some advice on what to do when building a program and so much more!
We’re going to be releasing the YouTube video versions in multiple parts from now on. We will continue to release another part every day until we come to the conclusion!
The full audio version is live on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher right now!
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Faruk Kugay, Formula Drift Pro drive, came on the podcast to give some major announcements. One of them, (not hard to figure out) is that he has now partnered up with Konig. But the second announcement will shock most of his fans!
This is a really great episode of the podcast and Faruk is a lot of fun to listen to. Scott and Faruk go through the ins and outs of having a professional program, his personal evolution in drifting and what it takes to run a program. Faruk is super down to earth and reveals so many things about himself, how he funds his program working 4 jobs (bet you won’t guess what they are), his most frustrating issues with his program and how he plans to move forward.
If you’re not a Faruk Kugay drift fan, you will be by the end!
By the way, PODCAST listeners will get the scoop on his major announcements before the YouTube viewers. We will be releasing the podcast on our YouTube channel in 5 parts starting today at 5 pm. We will be releasing another part of this podcast every day until the conclusion.
We will update this page below! Part 3 is the Konig announcement and Part 4 is Faruk’s major announcement. That will be live on Monday at 8 am EST (on YouTube).
Thanks for all of your support and listening!
And please, if you like the podcast and what we’ve been doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes, Google Play and we always put the full video interviews on our YouTube Channel (we’d love if you subscribe there as well)! Thank you for listening!
As always you can use our timeline cheatsheet (below) to jump around in the podcast and hear what you like the most.
CONTENT CHEAT MENU: 0:19 | Longest 10 Question Quick-fire ever (but its so good)! 15:05 | We bet you never knew this about Faruk! 22:15 | Introducing Faruk Kugay! 23:20 | Sonoma Drift and Winter Jam 26:04 | Faruk x Konig! We-are-family!! The story of how we met. 33:01 | Move to Turkey and Drifting in Europe! 36:57 | When and Where did you get into Drifting?! 37:53 | First exposure to drifting! 39:58 | Bombshell and Faruk’s plan for 2019…Plus what REALLY happened at Irwindale 48:20 | Faruk’s goals! How can we move the program forward?! 53:32 | Motegi Racing Super Drift. SEMA Ignited. GRIDLIFE. 55:03 | Putting together a drift program! The trials and tribulation! 1:03:17 | Advice from Faruk and what to take away from his experience in the drift scene 1:08:35 | Outro
