The coffee machine team decided we'd like to cloud your quarantine reality with a little escapism! With racing at a standstill, all professional sports, and life as we know it, we wanted to hop back in our time pods and frolic around the fields of yesteryear... And that’s where you’ll find us — at the intersection of discussion intervention and bra…

Indycar driver Oliver Askew and Road to Indy driver Christian Brooks sit down at the virtual cafe counter to talk sim racing! Oliver recently competed in rounds 1 and 2 of the Indycar iRacing challenge, while Christian, competed recently in the Road to Indy iRacing eSeries.

Nestled inside our shoebox shelters, while most scurry off to the virtual ethers of a simulated racing scape made of mangled dreams off the shores of turn 1, we want to make sure we’re spending our time wisely. And as uncertainty flexes our unsightly fear muscles, as we witness the unraveling of our seasons, our jobs, and most of all the money that…

Hey guys —the coffee machine is back! We have a bunch of episodes releasing this week, so stay tuned. As we settle into these unprecedented times, we find ourselves at a unique crossroads. Though we can no longer share spaces, we CAN share our minds, unique thunks, and commune with the racing world at large. It’s a chaotic time, so we hope this giv…

"Nobody in the history of performance based settings has ever said - I want to fail. I really want to suck at this, could you show me how to be worse than I already am?. The more we invest in understanding how we think, the more likely we are to control the way we think. And that has a huge impact on performance."In this episode we were able to sit…

This week we're pumped to sit down with skateboarding icon - 10x X-Games Gold Medalist turned rally driver, Bucky Lasek. Bucky is most known for his success in vert skating, but in 2012 made the move over to Global Rallycross with factory supported Subaru Rally Team USA. He talks us through where his love of cars began and the crazy journey it took…

Chris and TJ reconvene to banter the latest shortcomings many drivers face as we pop into the start of the season. Picture this: 2017 season concludes mid September - triggering the start of the 2018 season for most drivers. Early? Seemingly. Premature? Already late. As the offseason kicks into high gear, many drivers go into racing hibernation - s…

Join the Cafe Machina crew from the Speedster Cafe at the Porsche Experience Center LA for the Porsche Christmas Special show. Featuring drivers Joey Jordan and Armen Aghakhan on the podcast to talk through what it's like to teach people to become racing drivers in 90 minutes or less. We deliberate the common denominator in why people tend to overe…

This is a special one - take the plunge into the fifth and unravel your views on the future. The real-life trolley problem: Once a philosophical thought experiment, now the gate between moral goods and evils, resting in the coding parameters of the computer engineer behind a screen. The question is - have you done enough lately for the car to prote…