Brampton, On- This past weekend Jon and Brandon headed off to the Motorama Custom & Motorsports Expo. The duo was in attendance all weekend talking to drivers, fans, media personalties and show goers. What an event it was right from the hop, the cars were ready to be seen and the Toronto International Centre was ready to welcome show goers all three days. The ninth edition of the Motorama Car Show was one for the record books. On Saturday, police were called in to block off the entrance and people were being turned away due to the maxing out the capacity of the International Centre. It was a great weekend getting to meet so many new people and got to showcase what the True North Racing Podcast was all about. The "Pods" had a great spot in hall 1b courtesy of Boneyard Event Services. In the booth we had, Stickers N' Scuffs, The Feeney Call, The Wide World Of Motorsports and of course the True North Racing Podcast. It was a space for all of us to showcase our shows, create content and talk racing.
On Friday, Jon was on stage for two episodes of the True North Racing Podcast presented by Vision 20 Studios. During the first set at 12:00pm Jon had invited Brandon Feeney to join him on stage during the show. During our set we would talk about the Feeney Call, track food, our friendship and random moments as per typical. After an hour break Jon was back on stage, this time was joined by the 2023 Flamboro Speedway Mini Stock Champion Mike Thomson. During the live taping, Jon and Mike would talk about his championship season, as well as recognizing Mike and his team of their hard work to get the #16 ready to go for Motorama and we are thankful for their involvement as this was the first year for JoMo Media putting in a car into the racers corral. Mike even took home best appearing mini stock at the show.
Day two came and boy were we under prepared. By 11am the Toronto International Centre was packed with people. Our first guest of the day was the "Pavement Princess" Kaitlyn Wallace. Kaitlyn, was featured in the show in the Flamboro Speedway booth, during live show number 3 of the weekend we chatted with Kaitlyn about her 2023 season, winning her first mini stock race, Dairy Queen marketing ideas plus talking about her time on The Driver's Seat podcast.
At our 1:00pm show we kicked it off with Jennifer Hatch to talk about the power of social media after Tuesdays podcast we were able to locate a fan Jennifer has been looking for 20 years in 12 hours and are in talks of having the fan take Jennifer's pure stock "Big Booty Judy" out on track. We also talked about the big news being announced at the show she has taking the reigns as race director for the great lakes legend series. We are excited for Jennifer's journey and her busy
season this summer. Jon was then joined on stage by the Wildman Cody Wilds. During our time on stage we talked about Cody's rough wreck that sidelined the ending to his rookie season in the super stocks as well as picking up a new to him super stock and what the 2024 season holds for the Wildman. To cap off our episode with Cody we brought up Hailiey McNicol to try her luck on Checker's or Wreckers. When the dust settled and score was tallied it was Hailey walking away with with "Weekends are for Racing" tumbler. Cody didn't go home empty handed as we awarded him the True North Racing Podcast Tumbler.
We weren't done just yet for the day as we had show number 5 of the weekend to go and we were on stage with Cam Thomson to discuss his busy race season as we will see Cam Thomson return to the dirt side in his 28T Crate Sprint on Friday nights at Ohsweken Speedway and then he will climb into a BT Racing prepared bone stock for Cam to compete in this summer at Flamboro Speedway as he looks to chase the Pure Stock championship at the track.
At the conclusion of our final live episode of the day on Saturday, Brandon Feeney, Michael Wallace, James Jordan, Peter Jordan, Damin Sawyer and Jon Morrison headed over to the Yesterday's Speedway booth to compete in head to head competition to see who was the was the best podcast slot car racer. We were even able to have a camera man and brought in announcer Adam Ross to call the races. In the end it was Brandon Feeney taking home the 1st annual podcasters slot car race. Watch the full video below to see how the races shook out.
The final day of the Motorama Custom Car & Motorsports Expo came and to say we didn't want it to end was an understatement. Jon would be back up on stage three more times through out the day to cap off an 8 episode weekend. Our first guest of the day was Ontario Legend Series driver Keaton Pipe. Keaton joined us to talk about the legend series and during that conversation would learn about Keaton's charity work for the upcoming season partnering with different initiatives. Also this year, Keaton landed a pretty big sponsor. He has the jumpman logo on his car and no it's not on there for show. We learned how Keaton partnered with the jumpman brand for the 2024 season.
Our second episode of the day belonged to Donovan Price. Donovan joined us on stage to talk about how he got into the sport helping his brother at the old Mosport oval. Donovan has raced everything under the sun in the asphalt world. We had a great at with him about his plans for the 2024 season, hoping to make the Qwick Wick Super Stock race at Peterborough Speedway. We enjoyed the conversation with Donovan and we wish him the best of luck in his 2024 season.
The final interview of the day was a near and dear one for Jon as it was with out presenting sponsor for our vlog series this summer JTM Racing joined us on stage. Jae, Tenli and Maddux Pepin joined us on stage to talk Canadian Vintage Modified Racing, Ontario Pro Challenge racing. Jae is entering his third season while his son Maddux is entering his first with the Grindstone Landscaping Canadian Vintage Modifieds. Tenli is entering her second season with the Ontario Pro Challenge. We talked about their excitements for the upcoming season including a surprise fact that JTM Racing has acquired a THIRD CVM that will be rebuilt over the 2024 season and will see the track in 2025.
One person we have to thank you spent tireless hours on his feet making sure we look and sound good on the camera is the man, the myth, the legend Bryce Turner. Bryce was our camera operator all weekend long ensuring camera was on, mics were working and made sure the talent was on stage at the right time. Thank you for everything this weekend Bryce and I hope to see you at a race track this summer!
Thank you to all the podcasters who came out and were on stage all weekend long and hanging out in the Boneyard Event Services Podcast Corner. You all made the weekend so much fun and enjoyable and next year will only get better! Thank you to Cam K from the Stickers N' Scuffs Podcast for taking the lead to set this up. To Brandon Feeney of the Feeney Call and Michael, James, Peter and Damin from the Wild World of Motorsports thank you for being in attendance and promoting your shows. To see all of us work together and have fun while doing what we love was amazing to see.
One final thing I would like to say is thank you to Cam K for suggesting me to announce the awards for best appearing in the Gulf Race Fuels Racing Zone. It was an amazing experience and I am so thankful for the opportunity to get on the mic and announce some drivers. I hope I made you proud bud! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and chatted over the weekend. We have some new partnerships in the works and we can't wait to announce. Our podcasts episodes from Motorama will be available on all major podcast platforms over the course of the coming weeks so stay tuned. We can't wait to see you at a race track this summer!
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