This week we bring you a historic epic that should be a biopic but will likely never be. Fight in WWII, fly out of multiple race cars, and win Le Mans while drunk, its Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt!
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This week, we profile a character who burst onto the drag racing scene in a gigantic way through the early 2000's, pouring massive funding into the sport, but what nobody knew was that money, belonged to the U.S. taxpayers, its Evan Knoll!
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This week, we cover the history of someone who had all the potential to be a short track legend, even more than he already is. You'll root for him to clean it up, only to be disappointed every time, with Robert Powell!
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This week we take a look at a few short stories, all surrounding (in some way), one person. Have your name involved in multiple crimes, have a weird association with people involved in the Epstein trial, its Rick Hendrick!
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This week, we cover a figure who sought power in elected office, while trying to make a fortune marketing one of the biggest card games ever created. Be corrupt, hide your money through race car sponsorships and your parents, diddle an underage teen, and only do time for the financial crimes, its Robert Tezak!
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This week we cover a rather polarizing figure in the United States political spectrum over the last 8 years or so, who also found time in between stealing his client's money to do a little sports car racing, its Michael Avenatti!
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In this week's episode, it's our Holiday Special, and instead of egg nog and Santa Claus, we aren't doing the 12 Days of Christmas, we're instead doing the 12 Cases of Bowman Gray! 12 different crimes and situations throughout the years where people run afoul of the law all surrounding the Madhouse itself!
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In this episode, we chronicle a young USAC racer (who is still racing) and his "poor choices" that ended with him in police custody.
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In our Season 2 Premiere, we dive into the life, accomplishments, and brutally unnecessary death of one of the biggest automotive industry legends, Mickey Thompson. A man who's name is still synonymous with the performance parts industry to this day, Thompson's infamous murder left a void in the business still felt to this day.
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In our season finale episode, we chronicle the life of Bob Pronger, a Chicago based racer who ran the short tracks in the area and big league NASCAR events that spanned from the Daytona Beach race to the new superspeedway.
Operate a chop shop, piss off the mafia, and have your pants stolen on multiple occasions, its Bob Pronger!
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In this weeks episode, we cover another home state scumbag, a road racer who had won the Rolex 24 at Daytona in their class as an owner in the mid-2000's. Partner with successful German teammates, scam millions of dollars from a church and its parishioners, and have a judge completely dress you down in court, its Gregory Loles!
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In this week's episode, Jesse profiles a man who was known around the drag racing circuits as "Billy The Kid". He ran a successful Pro Stock team in the first years of the division, but was also a crime syndicate boss! Commit a litany of crimes from which you never get punished for, sue the government for your money back, and WIN, and (allegedly) orchestrate murders of gangland figures, its "Billy the Kid" Stepp!
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In this week's episode, we dive into the phenomenon that was Rob Moroso, the unofficial godfather of the Young Guns movement. Make a name for yourself before age 21, be a NASCAR champion and called the next "legend" of the sport by legends of the sport, and throw it all away, taking someone innocent with you, its Rob Moroso!
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This week, we bring our buddy Phil from our other show in to witness the perversion of our next subject! Be a long time racer in NASCAR's upper levels with limited success, retire and send a picture of your "self" to the FBI, its Rick Crawford!
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In this unbelievable episode, we follow Christopher Wilder, a wealthy businessman who goes racing in IMSA and races in the Daytona 24 and the 12 Hours of Sebring, but also is a horrific human being, probably one of the worst we may ever cover on the show!
Destroy lives from Australia to the continental US, be a terrible race car driver, and cut a path of destruction so large, they still can't tell how big it was to this day, its Christopher Wilder!
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In this episode, our subject isn't the one under scrutiny, rather he was the victim of crime instead, and it is a wild tale of Rebels, Race Cars, and Exhumation! Come and listen to the crazy tale of Juan Manuel Fangio!
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In this tragic episode, we witness a young man from a very well-off family, get thrown directly into the big league stock car fire, and it doesn't take long for it to burn his career to the ground. Escalating offenses during and after his career, culminating in a final violent act that nobody saw coming, it's the story of John Wes Townley!
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From humble beginnings, Lee Roy Yarbrough tore up race tracks in southern Georgia and Florida and became one of NASCAR'S 50 greatest drivers ever. As quickly as his star rose, it faded away, and greatness turned to trouble. The tragedy of Lee Roy Yarbrough is one story you'll never forget. (Even though he probably did)
Show links:
1964 Daytona Modified Sportsman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7KSGPKxPKw&ab_channel=NASCARWrecks
1967 Charlotte Crash- https://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/cpdb/crashphotos_view.php?page=view&editid1=6962
1969 Daytona 500-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCuSzJjkU0&ab_channel=SMIFFTV
1971 Indianapolis test crash-https://the-fastlane.co.uk/cpdb/crashphotos_view.php?page=view&editid1=3063