Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

McKinlee Riley followed her dad around his auto shop for years, begging to be taught. What began as a love of cars and dirt bikes, has evolved into education, competition, and a real love for absolutely anything that moves with a motor. 

Brandee Sanders is the Vice President of Marketing at Modal, a company that provides e-commerce to the world’s leading automotive dealers and brands. She is an award-winning marketing technologist leading global digital, data science, analytics, and demand-gen teams from start-up and rapid growth to IPO.

Christina Lam is a racer, an engineer, and co-owner of the Hi-Speed Motorsports race team. She now competes in the SCCA Majors and Hoosier Super Tour in the Touring 1 class in her M3 and a Honda HPD TCA Civic Si factory race car.   

Angela Hucke is the Curator at the Bugatti Trust Museum and Study Centre at Prescott in the United Kingdom. She has been passionate about historic cars and more specifically Bugattis for as long as she can remember.

Izzy Wright is the future of women in automotive tech. She was born and raised in San Diego, California and recently graduated high school where she was elected to be the ambassador for the Automotive Tech career pathway. Having to finishing school in the middle of a pandemic, Izzy had a strong desire to utilize my skills and get back under the hood of a car. 

Joan Klatil Creamer became General Motors first female ‘Exterior Designer” for Production Cadillac and Advanced Buick after graduating from Cleveland Institute of Art in Industrial Design. Her next career move was with General Electric in Consumer Electronics, Appliances, and Wiring. She then started her own freelance business in product design.

Emily Morris is a Product Development Engineer working in the Bay Area. Over the last fourteen years, she has worked in the Aerospace, Automotive, and Medical Device industry as a Manufacturing Engineer. 

Rachel Meyer started racing, with her sister Megan, when she was just 8 years old. She raced Jr Dragsters for about 10 years then moved up into a super comp dragster and eventually the Top Alcohol Dragster ranks.  She clinched her first championship win in 2020 as the NHRA Central Regional Championship. 

Lisa Boggs is the Director of Motorsports at Bridgestone Americas Motorsports. She joined Bridgestone in 2013 bringing 20 years of motorsports experience including advertising, integrated communications, on and off-track activation, content development, and crisis management. 

Todd Sommerville is the Vice President of OEM Relationships at Modal, a company that provides e-commerce to the world’s leading automotive dealers and brands. He is responsible for driving strategy, business development, partnership, and new-label sales efforts for OEM and Alliance relationships on behalf of the company’s leading automotive e-commerce platform. 

Chester Allen is a lifelong journalist and the executive editor of Linkage magazine and the linkagemag.com website. He spent more than 20 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and columnist before transitioning to magazines when he joined Sports Car Market where he was their executive editor from 2010 to 2020. 

Donald Osborne is the Chief Executive Officer at Audrain in Newport, Rhode Island where he oversees the Audrain Automobile Museum, Audrain’s Newport Concours d’Elegance & Motor Week, and Linkage, a quarterly automotive publication and website. With their tagline “Geared for the Automotive Life” Linkage is all about the automotive marketplace, driving, restoration, collecting, events, and discovering the passion for vehicles. 

Tim Mathews is the Curator of Transportation, Motorsports, and Automobilia at Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed. 

Lee Klancher is the Founder and Publisher of Octane Press, an award-winning book publishing company that specializes in books about motorsports and machines. His career encompasses more than 30 years of publishing great stories. 

 In 2016, Danny Thompson drove his father Mickey Thompson's Challenger II to break the existing naturally aspirated streamliner record with a combined speed of 406.769mph. Then in 2018 he drove the restored 50-year-old vehicle to a blistering two-way AA/FS record of 448.757mph, a mark that stands to this day.

Back in 1993-94 David Smith decided he wanted to purchase and drive a vintage race car, but not just any vintage race car. David was the first in the USA to purchase a modern, ex-Ferrari F1 car from the factory and his actions drove Ferrari to consider what became their Ferrari F1 Clienti program where today you can purchase an ex-Ferrari F1 car and drive it on the track.  Part 2 of a two-part podcast.

Back in 1993-94 David Smith decided he wanted to purchase and drive a vintage race car, but not just any vintage race car. He wanted the 1994 Ferrari 412 T1B, a car driven by Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi.  David’s experience purchasing and driving the car is a unique and exciting story about persistence, patience, tenacity, and endurance so let’s buckle up and go! Part I of a two-part podcast.

Bud Brutsman is the CEO of Brentwood Communications International known as BCII TV. He is an entrepreneur, producer, military buff, off-road racer, and author.  He started producing television in 1992 and has produced over 60 TV shows and commercial projects.

Steve Sudler is the Director of Marketing and Motorsport for Foreign Cars Italia, the Official Ferrari Dealer for the Carolina’s. There he oversees advertising, client experiences, brand events, partnerships, and their Championship winning Ferrari Challenge Racing team with Riley Motorsports. 

Larry Dixon is a legend in the sport of drag racing and a three-time NHRA Camping World Series Top Fuel champion in 2002, 2003 and 2010. The second-generation Top Fuel racer is the second winningest Top Fuel driver in NHRA history with 62 wins and a Brand Ambassador for Stand 21 Race wear North America.