Vaughn Gittin Jr and Dave Cole on the King of Hammers Stage

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This show was recorded live on stage at the 2025 King of the Hammers off-road race. Our guests: - Vaughn Gittin Jr, a 2-time Formula Drift Champion who has turned his wheel towards off-road racing and been killing it in Ultra 4 Racing for Nitto Tire and Ford. - Dave Cole, the founder of the King of the Hammers event. This conversation covers a wide range of topics about the event itself, business lessons, and how technology is changing racing including: The WILD story about the very first KOH event How do you get people to sign up for something that's never been done? What is making cars go faster off-road? The creativity of spectator vehicles Building different mouse traps Why off-road racing might be the most exciting motorsport for a driver AND a spectator The nighttime antics you won't see at any road race Anti-EV? Hardly. And more! Recorded Feb 5, 2025 Get up to 10 FREE meals and a free high protein item for life at https://www.HelloFresh.com/smokingtire10fm. Today get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://www.joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TSTPOD for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Tweet at us! https://www.Twitter.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Twitter.com/zackklapman Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman

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0:00.0	What up everyone?
0:02.0	Welcome to the Smoking Tire podcast.
0:04.1	You know how it be.
0:05.2	We sponsored by Off the Record this week, just like every week.
0:09.4	Some of you guys experienced a bit of an outage, sent me a DM.
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0:23.6	So we've extended that code into 2025, but just a heads up in a couple of months, we're
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1:28.4	All right, folks, we are live on a big stage for this one. We are up on at the King of the Hammer's Race out in Johnson Valley, and we are sitting up on the main stage doing a live podcast to Hammer Town with King of the Hammer's founder, Dave Cole,
1:46.4	and racing driver, Formula Drift, Ultra4 racing driver, Vaughn Gitton Jr.
1:52.2	He's an old pal of mine, and it's great to get him back on the show.
1:56.3	We are talking about the history of the King of the Hammer's race.
1:59.5	What makes it so crazy?
2:01.8	What Ultra Four racing is all about?
2:04.5	How off-road racing compares to Formula Drift driving and grip driving and the different skills required.
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