Ep.294 – DINNER BITES: Speed Academy (Dave Pratte & Peter Tarach)

Dinner with Racers

Automotive, Sports, History, Leisure

5 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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One of the most authentic YouTube channels dedicated to streetcar mods, Speed Academy hosts Dave Pratte and Peter Tarach bring a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to add true authenticity to the medium. Long-time writer and journalists in the automotive, and specifically sport compact / tuner world, the Canadian duo decided to start their own […]

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0:00.0	All right. So if you're a real Canadian, where do you stand on Letterkenny?
0:03.1	Oh, come on. It's the greatest TV show ever made.
0:06.0	How can you just fine here? We're going to be just fine.
0:11.8	And now, Dinner Bites, a new spinoff of Dinner with Racers, presented by
0:16.6	Hot Nantle Tire.
0:18.2	With your host, Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman. Hey, Ryan, it's Dinnerbytes again. Hey, welcome back to Dinnerbytes with Racers. Racer. That's right. Dinner bites, as we've said, every time, is a special offshoot of dinner with racer series. Dinner with Racer's, of course, is still going and we will have more episodes coming out later this year like we always do but here's some short form remote episodes just kind of focus on people not just in racing but beyond
0:41.5	such as people who like to find speed in their streetcars yeah we talked to peter kyrack and
0:47.8	david pratt from speed academy who were a couple of really lovely canadian guys but also spoke about
0:53.2	some of the things that they've built,
0:54.8	some of the differences between our show and their show, how we all have to kind of produce
0:58.9	content. And I think my favorite thing was discussing some of the, quote, feedback that we've
1:04.8	gotten in the past. Exactly. So Speed Academy is a very popular YouTube series. They basically do
1:09.6	builds, they do something unique to other shows where they don't stop until they finish the build and they move on to the next one in their series. But basically, you can go onto their YouTube channel at any time and see whatever their latest project car is to make it go faster, have a better exhaust, find more torque, find better lap time, whatever it is. They got all kinds of projects making their cars go faster.
1:28.2	Now, full disclosure, they are also sponsored by continental tire, which means they're lovely, lovely people.
1:33.7	But they got some cool projects going on again, check them out.
1:36.6	Because of our sponsors, Ryan.
1:40.4	Cotton metal tire.
1:41.9	Again, was that?
1:44.0	Catnettle tire. And again, was that? God Nettle Tire.
1:45.5	And again, you can post on Instagram and use hashtag Dinner with Conti to let them know that you appreciate what we do on the series.
1:53.0	God Nettle Tire!
1:54.7	Speed Academy.
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