TDCS024 Corona Lockdown Practice Tree Challenge

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08/06/20 • 85 min

Our guest this week are the founders of the Corona Lockdown Practice Tree Challenge, Blase Raia and Bob Welsch. What started out of boredom earlier this spring during the COVID-19 lockdown has grown into a 1,300+ strong community of racers looking to fun and competition. The invitation only Facebook group routinely produces some of the toughest competition in drag racing.
Blase and Bob joined us to discuss the origins of the Challenge, how much work goes into managing the online competitions, what they would change if they could...(not much), the Triple 0 Jackpot, they're personal racing endeavors, and they're future plans. As always we get into a number of other topics as well.
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TDCS023 Luke Bogacki

Cool Hand Luke Bogacki is our guest this week on the DragChamp Show! Luke is a 2x NHRA World Champ and has won over a $1,000,000 while drag racing for a living. He's the founder of the online driving school This is Bracket Racing and This is Bracket Racing Elite along with co-founding the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast with Luke and Jed. Our conversation covered a range of topics including hearing some old racing stories from Luke's early days of racing, how his schedule is now focused more on his business than being on the road racing, his newly updated Vega, spraying to go dead on, his toughest opponent, a 26 mile moped trip, and his Stock Eliminator experience.
The DragChamp Show is a weekly bench racing style podcast where hosts Jake Hodge, Ryan Gleghorn, and Gary Don Free sit down with racers to discuss current racing topics and share racing stories. For more visit our website at DragChamp.com, our Facebook page, or email the team at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].

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TDCS025 Brandon Taylor

Alabama based bracket racing ace Brandon Taylor is our guest this week on the DragChamp Show. Brandon has won at the highest levels of the sport including a $175,000 victory at the SFG Powerball of Drag Racing. The episode was a little bit of a mess as Ryan was battling food poisoning, Gary Don has just got back from vacation, and BT was a little shy. In the end, we had some fun, gave Brandon a hard time, and hopefully provided some entertainment for everyone.
In the episode we talked about how BT's son Braden is leaving juniors at the end of the year and taking over his racing operation. We talked about killing copperhead snakes, a couple of road trips with BT and Gleghorn to get dinner, the most frustrating part of junior racing, BT Sunday, getting kicked out of race tracks, and Brandon's wild trip to Michigan last year.
After the interview the guys talked about Ryan's Jr. ET Finals weekend at Ardmore, Jeff Riedel's big weekend in Ardmore the previous week, Cameron Fulfer's current hot streak, Jake's upcoming race the Working Man's $10 Grands, and more!
The DragChamp Show is a weekly bench racing style podcast with some of the biggest names in sportsman drag racing. You’ll find entertaining racing stories, interesting people, and an all-around good time with sportsman drag racers.

The DragChamp Show is hosted by talented drag racing announcers Jake Hodge and Ryan Gleghorn. They’re joined by DragChamp founder Gary Don Free.

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