TOP FIVE Sub $15k Track Day Cars You Can Buy Right Now?
4/22/20262 hr 13 min
Firing Order is BACK for its first outing in season 3 and this week we’ve got Chris Stewart, co-founder of GRIDLIFE and all-round track sensei RonCar, aka Ron Zaras, founder of AntiLag here to join Scotto in debating the Top Five Budget Track Day Cars! Don’t worry, as you’ve come to love and expect: there are tangents-a-plenty and while an objective ranking (clearly, not the work of “three idiots”) may eventually be reached, they take their sweet time battling it out on their way there. Meanwhile, Scotto… well, I think Scotto just wants to found a neo-vintage racing class? Grab your helmets and spare tires, we’re off to the track, baby!
Partners:
Vyper Industrial
FCP Euro
Heatwave Visual
Wera Tools
KW Suspension
Producer: Nick Rutter @nickrutterarts
Music: SlikSound
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00:00 - Welcome & Introduction
00:26 - Sponsors: Heat Wave Visual & Wera Tools
02:30 - Meet Chris Stewart, co-founder of GridLife
11:12 - Rules and Ice Cream Test
16:55 - Chris’s List
33:55 - Ron’s List
45:32 - Two from Each List Advance
52:38 - Sponsor: FCP Euro
54:51 - Scotto’s List
01:16:10 - Blindspots (from Patreon)
01:33:41 - Final Six
01:34:17 - Sponsor: Vyper Industrial Snack Cart
01:35:53 - Number Six Gets Cut
01:49:51 - Ranking the Top Five
02:08:37 - Final Top Five List
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsBrian Scotto· Host0:00
What's up, everybody? Welcome back. It is another episode of Firing Order, brought to you by Viper Industrial. This is the show where we get into extremely nuanced arguments about random rankings of things in the car world, and we try to stay friends through the end. Today, we've got my co-conspirator, Ron Zarras, as well as Gridlife co-founder, Chris Stewart, to rank the top five budget track day cars. Let's get into it. [static] If you grew up reading Hot Rod and not GQ, you're probably more of a hat and hoodie person, which means your sunglasses likely match that look. But this past weekend, my wife said we had somewhere fancy to go, so I dusted off the button-down she got me for Christmas. But when I went to go grab my laser faces, I got that look. Thankfully, Heatwave saved my ass with their new Nimitz. It's an elevated take on the classic aviator, stylish and functional. So if you need to class it up a little, my friends at Heatwave got you covered from track day to date night. Heatwavevisual.com. [static] Some people are extremely organized, super sorted workbenches, garages, and lives. I am not that person. I'm a mess. Luckily, Wera can help. When you buy their toolkits, they offer matching foam inserts. Maybe it's a mental condition of mine, but there's something about an empty slot that just screams at me to go find that missing 10 millimeter before it vanishes forever. Plus, the inserts fit perfectly into Wera's stainless steel rolling cabinets, which come both in regular