Cafe Machina

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 keeps these wheels a turnin’, we pause and reflect on a few pertinent questions...

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 gives you a little somethin to nibble on.

In typical Machineer form, we tangential...

This week the cafe crew is super excited to sit down for episode 16 with our first guest in the shroomhub studios — Italian ace Alessandro Bressan. We were lucky to talk to Alessandro fresh off the heels of his breakout win in the Asian Le Mans series LMP3 class last week. Alessandro’s story is a hyper unique one, going from factory karting pilot in Italy to driver coach at Dream Racing in Vegas. The leap of faith, the struggle, an...

3rd times the charm of Cafe Machina's sophomore slump. Episode #15! We're super excited to talk to IMSA DPi Penske driver Dane Cameron! Dane has a stream of accolades to his name: 2 time overall IMSA champion, 2014 GTD champ, 2007 Star Mazda champ, and a Team USA Scholarship winner. And it doesn’t stop there - Dane is truly a unique cat, he talks us through everything from racing Bathurst, to rubbing shoulders with JPM. listen to i...

The 2nd installment of our sophomore slump is here! Cafe Machina episode #14! We're super excited to have Oliver Askew on the show this week to talk us through his surprise rookie campaign, the path to becoming a pro, his new simulator routine, and more. Oliver is a rookie competing in the 2020 Verizon Indycar series with McLaren SP, reigning Indy Lights Champion, USF2000 champion, former Mazda scholarship winner, and mega karting ...

You know that feeling when you get too busy to think about something for 2 years? Sometimes when you look back at your life, you realize things. In our case, we forgot to do that until now. You see it's not so much as we stopped doing cafe machina, but something more along the lines of "we forgot to record a podcast for 2 years". The act of stopping would require outright ACTion.... which as I've eluded to, is not what we did.

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