Season 2, Episode 27 - Tina Nelles - Marketing Services Manager at BASF

11/24/21 • 30 min

Tina Nelles has been with BASF for 16 years. Her many years of customer care and service as well as her current role as marketing services manager have helped prepare her for her biggest passion – developing initiatives for youth, diversity and women in the automotive space. Identifying talent continues to be a high priority for Nelles and her company, BASF, supports her endeavors 100%.

Tina shares her passion with host Amanda Busick as she prepares the youth of today with wonderful opportunities for the future.

Tina shares her passion with host Amanda Busick as she prepares the youth of today with wonderful opportunities for the future.

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Season 2, Episode 26 - Michelle Lackey Maynor - President and Majority Owner of Alaska Raceway Park

Alaska Raceway Park is the premier motorsports complex in Alaska where they feature NHRA Division 6 drag racing on their 1/4 mile track as well as NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series racing and INEX Legend and Bandolero racing on their 1/3 mile paved high bank oval. This week host Amanda Busick talks with Michelle Lackey Maynor, the president and majority track owner about the road she traveled to get to this position, and how her main goal is to make her father proud as she takes over the country’s most beautiful track from her parents. If you hear of a Kid Rock concert coming to ARP, you know Michelle’s dream has become reality as her “rockstar” status in the track ownership world is hitting a high note.

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Season 2, Episode 28 - Kim Barnes - Car Collector and Judge, Commercial Business Manager for Michelin

Just push forward. That’s the mindset Kim Barnes has had most of her life. Whether it was for something she wanted to do as a child, as a young professional, or even now as an expert car collector and judge, Kim has always pushed forward in pursuit of her passions. Kim is an exceptional woman who shares her stories of trials and tribulations as she has lived through an era of traditions and expectations that she has bucked in pursuit of true happiness.

Kim Barnes has been featured in automotive publications and the Wall Street Journal for her Concours winning, eclectic collection of sporting cars that includes Sunbeam Tigers, Alpine, Austin Healey, Triumphs, Barracuda Mod Top, Corvettes, muscle cars, and special edition Citroens. She is a commercial business manager at Michelin and has worked as the Event Director for the Art in Motion Concours at Monticello Motor Club, Market & Acquisition Specialists and Restoration Manager for Vintage Motor Management, a copywriter for the Trump Concours, and host of The Classic Car Radio Show. Kim’s judging credits include AACA, NCRS, Greenwich Concours, Greenbrier Concours, Radnor Hunt Concours, Hilton Head Concours, St. Michaels Concours, Atlanta Concours, and marque specialty events. She maintains her personal cars and does some of the restoration work.

She’s the one you want to go to a Concours with...