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New ESPN2 Series Import Racers
Charges into Revved Up World of Tuner Car Culture
The hot-rod tradition is not only alive and thriving, it’s bigger than ever – but with a global twist. Modern hot rods are no longer just hulking V8-powered American muscle cars. A new generation of automotive enthusiasts gets its adrenaline rush from vehicles that may have less sheet metal but offer an unlimited canvas for customization – import sport compact cars, or “tuner cars.” ESPN2 will take viewers deep into this action-packed world in November when it debuts the new 13-part series Import Racers.
Featuring small engines with potent performance potential, tuner cars haven’t just created an entirely new category within the auto industry. They are responsible for a unique culture that spawns trends for music, fashion, art, even forms of competition. It is a culture that series host Sal Masekela understands well. As one of Gen-X’s hottest skate, snowboard and surf personalities and the popular host of ESPN’s X-Games, Masekala won’t just report from the sidelines, he’ll live the tuner lifestyle from the street to the race track.
Each 30-minute episode of Import Racers will introduce viewers to a unique experience from the world of tuner car culture. When Masekela meets the girls of Drifting Pretty, America’s first all-female drift team, he melts a set of racing tires as they teach him the finer points of e-braking. Masekela also tries his hand at racing a shifter kart with X-Games legend Bucky Lasek and top karter Alan Rudolph. And, for some high altitude hijinks, Import Racers’ intrepid host gets behind the wheel of a rally car as Subaru teammates Ken Block and motocross-star-turned-rally-driver Travis Pastrana prep their Subaru STI for the Colorado Cog Rally in the Rockies.
On a segment featuring a journey south of the border to Ensenada, Mexico, viewers will witness an underground street race organized with the help of the local constabulary, the Federales. In another episode, Ali Afshar, a world-record-holding sport compact pro drag racer, shows Masekela the high-octane world of import drag racing, and a street-legal version of his Subaru STI dragster. At the European-car specialists Global Motorsports Group (GMG) in Santa Ana, CA, Masekela also learns how the right modifications will transform his Audi S4 into a serious contender for bragging rights at GMG’s high-speed racing school.
Import Racers also visits extraordinary car builders, featuring top tuning talent from many different economic backgrounds as well as a mind-boggling collection of creative high-performance machines. One episode takes Masekela to the garage of Team Prototype, one of the original import tuner fabrication shops. Founder Mike Madriaga, who was customizing cars before he was old enough to drive, shows viewers why and how they create their state-of-the-art custom cars. Specializing in outrageous carbon fiber and a “nothing-too-extreme” attitude, Team Prototype and their project vehicles have appeared in dozens of films, music videos and more than 100 international magazines.
For anyone who has ever dreamed of getting maximum performance thrills out of their everyday wheels or putting pedal to import metal on a drag strip, Import Racers is the ideal weekly pit stop starting early November on ESPN2.
About WATV Productions
WATV Productions, television’s premier producer of award-winning vehicle enthusiast programming, is creating three new series: Import Racers, Truck Stop, and Chopper Nation, each to launch on ESPN2 in November. Since its founding in 1992, the Los Angeles-based company has produced over 700 television episodes on almost every type of vehicle-related theme for major cable channels.
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Charges into Revved Up World of Tuner Car Culture
The hot-rod tradition is not only alive and thriving, it’s bigger than ever – but with a global twist. Modern hot rods are no longer just hulking V8-powered American muscle cars. A new generation of automotive enthusiasts gets its adrenaline rush from vehicles that may have less sheet metal but offer an unlimited canvas for customization – import sport compact cars, or “tuner cars.” ESPN2 will take viewers deep into this action-packed world in November when it debuts the new 13-part series Import Racers.
Featuring small engines with potent performance potential, tuner cars haven’t just created an entirely new category within the auto industry. They are responsible for a unique culture that spawns trends for music, fashion, art, even forms of competition. It is a culture that series host Sal Masekela understands well. As one of Gen-X’s hottest skate, snowboard and surf personalities and the popular host of ESPN’s X-Games, Masekala won’t just report from the sidelines, he’ll live the tuner lifestyle from the street to the race track.
Each 30-minute episode of Import Racers will introduce viewers to a unique experience from the world of tuner car culture. When Masekela meets the girls of Drifting Pretty, America’s first all-female drift team, he melts a set of racing tires as they teach him the finer points of e-braking. Masekela also tries his hand at racing a shifter kart with X-Games legend Bucky Lasek and top karter Alan Rudolph. And, for some high altitude hijinks, Import Racers’ intrepid host gets behind the wheel of a rally car as Subaru teammates Ken Block and motocross-star-turned-rally-driver Travis Pastrana prep their Subaru STI for the Colorado Cog Rally in the Rockies.
On a segment featuring a journey south of the border to Ensenada, Mexico, viewers will witness an underground street race organized with the help of the local constabulary, the Federales. In another episode, Ali Afshar, a world-record-holding sport compact pro drag racer, shows Masekela the high-octane world of import drag racing, and a street-legal version of his Subaru STI dragster. At the European-car specialists Global Motorsports Group (GMG) in Santa Ana, CA, Masekela also learns how the right modifications will transform his Audi S4 into a serious contender for bragging rights at GMG’s high-speed racing school.
Import Racers also visits extraordinary car builders, featuring top tuning talent from many different economic backgrounds as well as a mind-boggling collection of creative high-performance machines. One episode takes Masekela to the garage of Team Prototype, one of the original import tuner fabrication shops. Founder Mike Madriaga, who was customizing cars before he was old enough to drive, shows viewers why and how they create their state-of-the-art custom cars. Specializing in outrageous carbon fiber and a “nothing-too-extreme” attitude, Team Prototype and their project vehicles have appeared in dozens of films, music videos and more than 100 international magazines.
For anyone who has ever dreamed of getting maximum performance thrills out of their everyday wheels or putting pedal to import metal on a drag strip, Import Racers is the ideal weekly pit stop starting early November on ESPN2.
About WATV Productions
WATV Productions, television’s premier producer of award-winning vehicle enthusiast programming, is creating three new series: Import Racers, Truck Stop, and Chopper Nation, each to launch on ESPN2 in November. Since its founding in 1992, the Los Angeles-based company has produced over 700 television episodes on almost every type of vehicle-related theme for major cable channels.
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-RIGHT CLICK on the Trailer Link
-select "SAVE TARGET AS"
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