Open Trailer Podcast
Open Trailer Podcast provides in depth interviews with those who shaped racing in the Northeast, and the people who carry the torch today. Every open trailer has more than few stories, Open Trailer Podcast is here to tell them
Episodes
We bring home season 3, episode 24 with one of the most recognizable voices in the Northeast. Always brutally honest, Marco breaks down his years with PASS, announcing races while legally blind, working Mainely Motorsports, his take on streaming, and a number of other great nuggets about music and concerts.
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Stage 1 of Marco was a solid heat race. The man is warmed up and brings heat including how he started the Racin' Paper, took over an announcing gig at Star without an audition, and a lot of random 90's nuggets. The ill fated Pro Truck tour, his take on the Tom Curley/Mike Liberty dispute, NEPSA tour and the day Ralph Nason and Dave St. Clair ran a race against the Oxford 250. Oh, and if he's had any death threats.
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It's an episode years in the making. Buckle up for Mark 'Marco' Thomas.
One of the most distinctive voices and personalities in the Northeast unleashes his history.
- Childhood fascination with racing at Thunder Road, and how the late Ken Squier played a role.
- Hitchhiking to hundreds of races before he got a drivers license.
- The absolute machine that was Speedway Scene, and how he got there.
- How his budding friendship with ...
The SP Trilogy wraps up with Steve getting more real than he's ever been on record.
- How race teams can affect friendships
- How broken he was, and not just financially.
- How he was able to work through both and come out stronger than ever.
The man behind 'the show' stepped up to the plate on this one.
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Steve's back, and has a ton of life hacks. Like, how to bargain with your wife during race season
- How focused was a 20 year-old Kyle Busch?
- How he hooked up with Mike Rowe
- How he put Austin Theriault on the map
- Was Mainely Motorsports a mistake?
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Ready to roll with one of the most visible characters in Maine racing over the last two decades.
History:
Shocker. Steve was a class clown
Before ownership, Steve was a winning race car driver.
The little team goes to the Oxford 250...and outperformers their peers year after year
The one time Steve counted money before te pay window opened.
This is a good listen, pretty humorous. Drop a 5 star review if we've earned it! Share, s...
If you thought stage 1 was nuts, this episode is even deeper.
- Voted off the island
- The night of his NAACAR Championship
- The Bad Santa car
- Racing after a stroke
- Paying the tire bill before the electric bill
- Racing despite no electricity in the house.
It's a wild ride, buckle up.
Underdog, champion, court jester. Lewis Anderson has played all three. But was it fair? This week's episode may change everything you've thought about the man, but also may reinforce it. That's up to you.
- We start by digging right into the infamous Wildcat 50
- What it's like to struggle and not qualify for races...for 20 years
- How he was given a fast car without instruction to finesse it.
- Being on the wrong side of Beech R...
Mike is back to wrap the trilogy.
- A nice wrap on his driving days.
-Driving for Dick Fowler.
- Motivation for life
- How to deal with dubs, by Mike Maietta
- The toughest driver he ever raced
Stage 2 includes a ton of great nuggets.
- How Mike's accident affects racing over 30 years later.
- Richie Evans was going to let him drive the 61. What did he say?
- How to avoid being angry....by Mike Maietta
- Why ordering food on an iPad is part of what's wrong with society
- Why Mike would be a better race car driver today
The 9x BRMS track champ loads up on race stories, plenty of non racing stories and other things.
Mike's 'job' at the race track when he was 9
His family wasn't keen on him racing
Digging up Beech Ridge
Why he never went 'tour' racing
We pick up stage 2 with Lemons racing. Lemons is good enough for Travis Pastrana...and sounds like a hell of a time.
Cole and Matt go to a fight with Billy Penfold...then slowly back away from the scene
They end up back at Beech Ridge...and in the path of the Dirty Lew
The most badass racecar that never took a lap...but why?
Matt's inspirational story from pancreatitis to health.
Lots of swearing.
With over 50+ NASCAR wins at Beech Ridge, Cole Watson takes on the Thursday Thunder/NASCAR Night stat debate.
PLUS!
Why Fords?
How they beat tech...once.
Cole worked for...Tom Mayberry?
How affordable entry level racing was in the 90's
Racing drama at all levels...especially karting
Lots of laugh out loud in this one. Grab a gear.
We wrap up our time with the brothers and dig into NASCAR development deals that never developed, Mike Rowe rivalry (not the 2023 version, and Trevor goes deep on how close he was to losing his life.
We pick up the story with Trevor joining RMR...the first time.
How Jay Cushman's ride came into play
Was Trevor checked up by NASCAR teams?
Young man goes west to Nashville Fairgrounds
How tight the budget was circa 2009
Heartbreak in the PASS 400...again...and again.
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Trevor Sanborn jumped into Super Late Models before he had a drivers license. In the last 20 years, has driven and won all over the place. Older brother Corey was also a competitor and sure does have stories.
- We talk the 50th Oxford 250
- How the Sanborns were involved in one of the biggest wrecks in Beech Ridge Motor Speedway history
- Corey's over his head in ACT
- Why was Trevor so quiet?
- What he learned from Maine greats li...
Chum's back for Stage 2 with more great stories including the infamous 'Ride of Your Life' night, schooling his son in-law, getting his grandson Rusty Poland up to speed, and how retirement just doesn't work for him.
The man who was at Beech Ridge...day 1. If there's anyone who has seen and been a part of it all, it's Chum. He's been behind all the greats and we dig into stories of Homer, Dickie, Jeff Stevens, and others.
Chum's grandson, Rusty Poland guest's as co host...and you're really going to enjoy this one.
We get into Bob's foray into NASCAR North with Sandy McKinnon...as yes, an orange #33
The very first ACT car had Bob's #91 on it, but as a prototype Beaver Dragon ride. Hear how Bob paved the way for Beaver in the 91.
Bob returns to Beech Ridge and becomes the first local driver to win an ACT race
Teams with Alan Tardiff's dad, Marc late in his career.
The best race he ever had was with who????
The original MCR! Sanford's Bob Randall is a 4X Beech Ridge champion and has always been a 'car guy.' He's also into skydiving...and (at over 70) still yearns to go bungee jumping.
- Another racer whose first vehicle didn't have any brakes.
- We get the same lesson in stagger Bob did
- A controversial first win over Dave Darveau (pits and grandstands divided)
- Racing with a very, very young Curt Gerry
- The first cha...
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