Paddock talk with real track scars.
SlipAngle powered by TrackTuned runs on paddock energy: old friends catching up, comparing cars, and drifting into the practical reality of track days and club racing. It is informal, funny, and specific, with plenty of lived experience behind the tangents.
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SlipAngle powered by TrackTuned is car culture from the paddock side, not the brochure side. It is loose by design. Episodes often begin with a technical snag, a joke, an apology for the schedule, or somebody catching up after too much time away. Then the useful stuff arrives sideways. A conversation about buying a TSX becomes a meditation on practical enthusiasm, old Hondas, collector 911s, and what makes a car worth driving hard. A Road America episode can move from GRIDLIFE and IMSA memories to motorcycle travel, busted valve stems, and race cars that lived rough lives. A PRI conversation with James Wood turns project-car history into a wider look at Grassroots Motorsports, industry relationships, advertising, RX-7 pain, and why rotary people have their own orbit. The show is strongest when it lets lived details do the work. Track names matter. Corners matter. Tires, bushings, trailers, bikes, weather, staff, budgets, and bad timing all become part of the story. There is plenty of GRIDLIFE talk, especially around Midwest, Road Atlanta, event production, and the people trying to make ambitious motorsports weekends happen without unlimited resources. It also wanders into fitness, parenting schedules, food, watches, road trips, and the emotional weirdness of getting older inside a hobby that used to consume everything. That looseness is part of the identity. The conversations can repeat themselves, interrupt themselves, and admit when nobody remembers the exact point. Still, the show keeps earning attention because the perspective is earned. It is funny without acting slick. It is technical without becoming a lecture. It is sentimental about cars and racing, but rarely precious. SlipAngle powered by TrackTuned is for listeners who want motorsports talk with grease under its fingernails, real event context, and enough off-topic drift to feel like a late-night paddock conversation that happened to get recorded.
Made for: Built for track-day drivers, club racers, autocross regulars, GRIDLIFE followers, and car people who enjoy practical stories more than polished commentary.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the mix of event-operator perspective, long-running friendships, project-car memory, and candid driver talk. The show sounds like people comparing notes after the weekend, not presenting a cleaned-up motorsports segment.
A weekly podcast hosted by Austin Cabot, Adam Jabaay, and Abrin Schmucker covering track days, club racing, autocrossing, and other various driving hobbies. By Drivers, For Drivers.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
SlipAngle makes grassroots racing legible through mechanical detail, event experience, project-car history, and candid conversation from inside the paddock.
SlipAngle turns grassroots motorsports into shop talk among people who have spent years around race cars, track events, and the problems that follow both.
Gingerman's turn 10 might be 600 feet from the road; your track-brain does the math.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A flu-season catch-up that turns into honest garage math and car talk.
Austin Cabot returns to a relaxed, car-first conversation that begins with flu recovery and soon shifts into familiar garage math: a newly bought TSX, a 911 treated more as a collector piece than a daily driver, and the ongoing pull between something to use and something to…
A loose, personal chat that folds racing obsession, track geography, and event production into one motorsports-focused conversation.
The episode returns after a long gap with a self-aware catch-up that should land well with longtime listeners. It moves into an honest look back at racing obsession, fatherhood, and the pressure that can turn enthusiasm into something heavier.
A Road America anniversary folds motorcycle improvisation and race-car history into a loose, lived-in motorsport catch-up.
Road America anchors a ten-year anniversary conversation that keeps opening out from the track. Austin Cabot and Abe connect the Wisconsin weekend to the Oshkosh Air Show, Gridlife's exhibition-style time-attack slot during IMSA, a stormy hammock night under the awning garages,…
A loose SlipAngle return where bike miles, calorie math, and Grid Life talk comfortably share the lane.
Some Car Talk, Mostly Bikes finds SlipAngle easing back after a long gap, starting with a broken board and then drifting through Grid Life, road-race podcasts, family evening routines, watches, Fitbits, and the workday problem of staying active from a desk.
An RX-7's long life leads into Gridlife, Grassroots Motorsports, and the business around grassroots racing.
A green RX-7 with a blown rotary, repeat V8 problems, and a livery people remember gives this SlipAngle conversation its trackside pull. At PRI, James Wood traces the car from buying it in 2012 through track mod, SCCA hill climbs, and Gridlife, then connects that history to his…
Austin Cabot's TSX gives SlipAngle a loose, useful mix of fresh excitement and real setup questions.
SlipAngle's visit with Austin Cabot makes the uneven release rhythm feel of a piece with the subject: there is simply a lot orbiting these cars, and not all of it fits into a tidy lane.
A practical Slip Angle conversation on Fire Laps and the promise of making amateur racing data easier to use.
Slip Angle's conversation with Scott Malloy, David Calzada, and Daniel Calzada frames Fire Laps as a fast-moving new company built around a familiar racing problem: drivers often collect data without having a simple way to turn it into better laps.
The host interviews Jamie Garcia about a custom trophy for fastest front-wheel drive Club TR car, discussing its design and their interactions on Instagram.
Heyward Wagner from SCCA discusses a new partnership with PRI and the perception challenges in the racing industry between different disciplines like autocross, road course, and circle track.
The SlipAngle podcast hosts interview David and Daniel Calzada, founders of Firelapse, a new web platform for motorsports data analysis.
Austin Cabot returns to the SlipAngle podcast after a long hiatus.
Austin Cabot is back.
The show opens by admitting it has been a while, and it takes two tries to get everything connected.
Road America is the meeting point.
The hosts discuss a GRIDLIFE Midwest event recap, share personal anecdotes about drifting and podcasting, and reflect on their motivations for continuing the show.
A conversation about John's new role as Motorsports Director at Gridlife, discussing his responsibilities and decade-long experience with the organization.
The board breaks again.
James Wood, an RX-7 racer who now works at Grassroots Motorsports selling advertising partnerships, catches up with the SlipAngle hosts at PRI about his current V8-swapped RX-7 build.
The host interviews Jamie Garcia about a custom trophy for fastest front-wheel drive Club TR car, discussing its design and their interactions on Instagram.
This episode features sponsor ads for OG Racing offering motorsports gear discounts and TOLOS for trailer rentals, with a brief mention of Ross Bentley at PRI 2023.
This episode promotes OG Racing for motorsports safety gear with a listener discount and introduces the Apex Pro mobile app for track driving data and lap timing.