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The Smoking Tire

Bill Caswell

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Bill Caswell returns! The man who built turned $500 car into a WRC legend, and lives a life that fits his website (Buildraceparty.com), tells stories of sleeping in a car at the Monaco Grand Prix, how to sneak into F1 races, and what the Focus RS was like to drift.

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

In less than five minutes, you's the small guitar podcast.

0:55.8

We're in a good, good mood right now because it's, uh, fuck. Because I don't have to drive anything today. That's why I'm in a good mood. I reviewed 12 cars last week. Bill Caswell in the building. Hey, guys. Is this the first episode you've been on, like, officially? No, you know. You were on the show when we were at the old house for sure back like back when you first got

0:57.7

like internet famous we had you on the show

1:00.3

in the early days

1:01.4

when I was even kind of like ooh this guy

1:04.1

and then I think uh Wyatt and I came on

1:06.1

right yeah oh that's right because before I met you

1:08.9

I thought you know I heard I read the Sam Smith's original Jalachnik piece and I was like, this guy is amazing. And then I met you and I was like, it's just, it's just Caswell. He's not amazing. He's just reckless with money. And I love it. And, you know, I take like calculated. Like, I know what... That's my motto.

1:27.8

Right.

1:28.2

I know, I know what stuff can fail and what the critical path is, and I just, you know, a lot of wreckage is left in the path, like, you know, in the way. Are you talking about racing your entire life right now? I look at racing, like, I look at them as like adventures. Like, each race for me wasn't, like... Not for him, no.

1:24.0

Well, no, no, no, for, like, if you talk to a lot of drivers, for them, the race starts, wasn't like. Not for him. Well, no. Well, no.

1:44.4

For like, if you talk to a lot of drivers, for them, the race starts, like when the green flag happens, that's just about that period of time. For me, it's the whole adventure. Your race starts at the bar a week before the race. You haven't signed up for the race. You don't have a car. It's the road trip. it's the adventure, it's the, you know,

1:42.5

the gun fights at the border

1:43.6

trying to get into Mexico.

1:45.3

I don't have a car. It's the road trip. It's the adventure. It's the, you know, the gunfights at the border trying to get into Mexico.

2:04.4

See, now you says gun fights. Now I want it because me and Thad want to do Chihuahua Express in the Mustang. And we can do it. Like, I can afford it. We can go. The car's ready. Right. You know, Chihuahua Express is sort of like La Carrera.

1:59.2

Yeah, but can't you enter through, like, Baja, or do you have to go through like Juarez or?

2:04.3

I don't, I don't. you know chihuahua express is sort of like la carrera yeah but can't you enter through like

2:17.7

bahar or do you have to go through like uh warres or i don't i don't well that's a thing i don't i was that's why i wanted to ask you like about because like i can pay the fucking entry fee and i can go to the embassy and get a visa it's no big deal but like how i logist i mean literally from a legit, I don't own a truck.

2:15.5

I don't own a trailer, although I can

2:17.4

get one. I would, Iist, I mean literally from a legit I don't own a truck.

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