Cafe Machina

The coffee machine team decided we'd like to cloud your quarantine reality with a little escapism! With racing at a standstill, all professional sports, and life as we know it, we wanted to hop back in our time pods and frolic around the fields of yesteryear... And that’s where you’ll find us — at the intersection of discussion intervention and brain soup - recapping the recent season of Formula 1 drive to survive. We hand picked our favorite storylines, entangle ourselves in the very...

Indycar driver Oliver Askew and Road to Indy driver Christian Brooks sit down at the virtual cafe counter to talk sim racing! Oliver recently competed in rounds 1 and 2 of the Indycar iRacing challenge, while Christian, competed recently in the Road to Indy iRacing eSeries.

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. From all of us at Cafe Machina, happy fu**in friday.

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 tangentially explore many other racing thunks you might be curious to know,...

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, and ultimately the win all comes full circle in front of us....

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 it all here! As always we explore the tangents so pertinent...

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 star. As always we do try and talk about fun and possibly...

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. We realize we've made a grave mistake. But 2020 C'MON it has a...

"Nobody in the history of performance based settings has ever said - I want to fail. I really want to suck at this, could you show me how to be worse than I already am?. The more we invest in understanding how we think, the more likely we are to control the way we think. And that has a huge impact on performance." In this episode we were able to sit down with mental performance expert and author of Performance Thinking, Dr. Jacques Dallaire during the 12 hours of Sebring race event in...

This week we're pumped to sit down with skateboarding icon - 10x X-Games Gold Medalist turned rally driver, Bucky Lasek. Bucky is most known for his success in vert skating, but in 2012 made the move over to Global Rallycross with factory supported Subaru Rally Team USA. He talks us through where his love of cars began and the crazy journey it took him on. We also dive into how de copes with overcoming fear, the challenges athletes face, and bridging the gap between both sports. Awesome...

Chris and TJ reconvene to banter the latest shortcomings many drivers face as we pop into the start of the season. Picture this: 2017 season concludes mid September - triggering the start of the 2018 season for most drivers. Early? Seemingly. Premature? Already late. As the offseason kicks into high gear, many drivers go into racing hibernation - scavenging for sponsorship, rides, and ultimately a direction. Once the driver has a plan, a solid team to run with, then comes the execution (go...