{"podcast":{"title":"Very Vehicular","slug":"very-vehicular-7616640","podcast_index_feed_id":7616640,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/very-vehicular","website_url":"https://bio.site/321actionaction","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/XlDrPVj1nNea4bJU7OP-Kq4cB4gOJ7CZrYSRm-gEf30/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMjEz/MTUyZDMwM2VjMjAz/ZTQ0NzNhMWU0ODNk/MGJhZS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Brian Scotto","episode_count":30,"summary":"A conversation about cars, trucks, tugs and other machines of transport that flows like an ADHD fever dream, hosted by Hoonigan co-founder and 321 Action Action director Brian Scotto. Enjoy, it’s gonna be a bizarre ride.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T04:19:20.591466+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-vehicular-7616640"},"episode":{"title":"From RC Cars to Race Team Owner - Stephan Papadakis Reveals Everything","slug":"from-rc-cars-to-race-team-owner-stephan-papadakis-reveals-everything","published_at":"2026-05-13T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-vehicular-7616640/from-rc-cars-to-race-team-owner-stephan-papadakis-reveals-everything","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-vehicular-7616640","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/8d5c80ba","audio_url":"https://2.gum.fm/op3.dev/e/pdcn.co/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/media.transistor.fm/8d5c80ba/47de2c1f.mp3","summary":"Joining us this week on Very Vehicular we have Stephan Papadakis ! From his earliest beginnings in the SoCal RC hobby scene, to his record-shattering years as a legendary figure of the drag racing world, arriving on the mountain top as race team owner and all-around engineering wizard, we find out: is there anything Steph Papadakis can’t do? Scotto gets the deep backstory on the game-changing FWD drag cars that shattered records (first into the 9s!) and how those cars came to be. It’s a tale stranger than fiction! We find out all about Steph’s move into drifting - again, innovating, taking names and shaking things up. Of course, there’s always time left over to opine on the state of motorsports, youtube, takeovers, and what’s next for Stephan. Enjoy! @PapadakisRacing @StephPapadakis @BrianScotto @321ActionAction Partners: Vyper Industrial FCP Euro Heatwave Visual Wera Tools KW Suspension Producer : Nick Rutter @nickrutterarts Music : SlikSound Patreon : https://patreon.com/u37266647 https://bio.site/321actionaction podcasts@321actionaction.com 00:00 - Welcome & Introduction 00:34 - Sponsors: Heat Wave Visual & KW Suspensions 02:11 - RC Car Origins and the Racing Mindset 07:48 - From RC to Real Cars 14:46 - SoCal Street Racing Era 20:26 - Import Drag Racing Breakthrough 25:09 - First FWD Tube Chassis Civic 29:52 - Wheelie Bars Explained 35:40 - Tech Arms Race and Limits 38:25 - A Whole New Plan - Ready for SEMA? 39:14 - Fortin Brings the Drivetrain Magic 40:33 - Getting into the Low 8s 40:54 - Fast and Furious Boom 44:01 - Hey, Who Killed the Music? When the Scene Faded 47:45 - Sponsors: FCP Euro & Wera Tools 50:01 - Getting the Wandering Eye… for Drift 53:55 - Enter, Tanner Foust 58:46 - Scion TC Controversy & the Letter of the Rules 01:01:24 - A Toyota…","meta_description":"Joining us this week on Very Vehicular we have Stephan Papadakis ! From his earliest beginnings in the SoCal RC hobby scene, to his record-shattering year…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7275,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/very-vehicular-7616640/episodes/from-rc-cars-to-race-team-owner-stephan-papadakis-reveals-everything/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-vehicular-7616640/from-rc-cars-to-race-team-owner-stephan-papadakis-reveals-everything.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}