Hype Is Right Episode 16
BTW PODCAST – #WHEELWEDNESDAY – LET’S GOGO! FT. ALI ARSHAM (GOGOGEAR)
On this week’s Behind The Wheel “Wheel Wednesday” podcast, Vice President, Scott and Marketing Coordinator, Jared talk with National Auto Sport Association (NASA) co-founder and GoGoGear Vice President, Ali Arsham. The three discuss Arsham’s humble beginnings in auto racing and how it ended up shaping his entire life – from an extensive racing career to “unintentionally” creating a racing family of his own! Listen now!
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Behind The Wheel Podcast: – Wheel Wednesday – LET’S GOGO!! FT. ALI ARSHAM (GOGO-GEAR RACING)
Ever had aspirations to start your own racing series?! In this #WHEELWEDNESDAY podcast, Scott (Konig Wheels, Vice President) and Jared (Konig Wheels, Marketing Coordinator) are joined by Ali Arsham who is the co-founder of NASA (National Auto Sport Association) and Vice President of Gogo-Gear Racing! Ali is your quintessential car guy and has been involved in the motorsport community for many years! Join us as he tells us stories on the beginning of the NASA organizations and his over 20 year history with Konig as a partner! We hope you enjoy and thank you for tuning in!
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Final Drive TV at USTCC Thunderhill
Gogogear.com President Ali Arsham and his UTI/Konig Wheels Hyundai Genesis Coupe battled it out back in November 2015 in the last race of the USTCC season at Thunderhill Raceway. Final Drive picked up the event in their recently released Episode 47 of Final Drive TV. Ali Arsham has been featured as a Face Of Konig a while back for his contribution to the motorsports & road racing community. He currently runs the Konig Integram, which is Flow Formed, on his racecar.
Whats so interesting to watch in this episode is how more then a few USTCC racers run Konig Flow Formed product on the track and have for years! Drivers like Michael McCulligan, the guys from Life’s Good Racing and a few others push their Konig product harder then most others will ever do! Konig’s Flow Formed Line Up is a very popular choice amongst road racers & weekend autocross enthusiasts alike. The product is extremely affordable and has an extremely high level of quality that is perfect for the street or the intense abuse of track conditions.
Check out Final Drive TV’s Episode 47 at USTCC Thunderhill!
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As Seen In – Grassroots Motorsports June 2015
Grassroots Motorsports Magazine has been a go-to source for road racing and autocross enthusiasts alike. With June’s issue now available, it features an in depth look at how easy, safe and affordable it is taking your daily driver out on the track. Anyone who as thought about getting into road racing but weren’t quite sure on where to start or how much of an expensive hobby it can amount to be should definitely give this issue a good read. If you happen to flip to our ad, you see one of our newest Faces of Konig, Ali Arsham, NASA Pro Racing Co-founder and his Hyundai Genesis Coupe race car that took home the USTCC Championship this past year. Be sure to check out what tips & insight Ali has to offer for those who look to get into road racing without breaking the bank. As the definition of a car guy, Ali is a prime example of how passion leads to success.
Hear why Ali believes Flow Formed wheels by Konig are an avid choice for those looking for the same performance and strength as most forged wheels costing 5 time more!
2013 Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship
The start of the 2013 Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship (USTCC) has started heating up some of the best tracks around! This season promises to be one of the best seasons in USTCC history with some awesome tracks and extreme levels of competition. Race # 2 will be at the longest race track in all of North America; Utah’s Miller Motorsports Park . The USTCC teams will putting their cars through some terrific terrain on the 4.5 mile road course with a breath taking 3500 foot straightaway towards turn one.
There are lots of new cars and lots of new teams for 2013. Some of the existing teams will be expanding their efforts with added drivers and cars. The GoGoGear.com team will be running three cars at most races while they will field four cars at selected events with the addition of their new E90 BMW chassis to their existing BMW M3 and the always popular Hyundai Genesis Coupe.
We will be bringing you up to date information following the race in only a few short weeks! Best of luck to all of the competitors. Check out the Gogogear Hyundai Genesis Coupe driven by Ali Arsham #33.
Forza Motorsport 4: GoGoGear Hyundai Genesis
KÖNIG is really excited to see another one of our sponsored vehicles in Forza Motorsport 4.
New to the Forza Motorsport 4 platform is the GoGoGear.com Hyundai Genesis Coupe. The GoGoGear Hyundai Genesis utilizes KÖNIG Kilograms on the track, and were certainly well rendered on the car in Forza Motorsport.
Check out some of the studio shots below as well as instructions on how to pick up the car in Forza Motorsport 4.
The GoGoGear Hyundai Genesis can be downloaded from the Xbox 360 Storefront by searching “ali arsham – ustcc”. A tune is also available for this car.
All images are courtesy of Forza Motorsport 4 / Turn 10 Studios
Attention New York City: Have you seen this vehicle?
We are always getting some really cool stuff shared by our fans and friends. Ali Arsham is no exception. Mr. Arsham runs GoGoGear.com. GoGoGear specializes in Custom Graphics, Apparel and Promotional Products. Ali Arsham has been racing for 22 years. He is also a fabricator and one of his more recent builds was the 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe. If you follow our blog, then you know the exposure this car has received since it was debuted. The car has traveled to various Auto Shows and Events across the country. However, this Genesis Coupe is by no means just a sweet race-built show car. On May 22nd, 2012 at Thunderhills Raceway in Willows California it shared 3rd place in the 2nd round of the Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship (USTCC).
Ali and the GoGoGear team just shared this image of the Genesis Coupe in action on the big screen in Times Square, New York, NY. This is certainly exciting for KONIG Wheels, GoGoGear and the USTCC. Check out the image below. Let us know in the comment section if you were walking down 7th Avenue in Times Square and saw this on the screen!
Image Courtesy of Del City and GoGoGear
First Podium for Hyundai
Ali Arsham Scores his First Podium for the GoGoGear.com/Konig Wheels Hyundai Genesis Coupe
Willows, Calif., May 22, 2012 – Ali Arsham, driving the GoGoGear.com/Konig Wheels Hyundai Genesis Coupe, finished in third place in round two of the Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship (USTCC) at Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, California. The team fought hard against many other manufacturers including Volvo, Mazda, Dodge, Honda, Acura, Mitsubishi and BMW using crew mostly comprised of students and instructors from Universal Technical Institute, a leading training school for future automotive technicians.
The race started off in a normal fashion with Robert Thorne’s K-PAX Volvo C30 starting from pole position and assuming the lead. A fight soon began between the Volvo of Thorne and the TNI Racing Mazdaspeed 3 of Felipe Cabezas. Cabezas was glued to the yellow Volvo and would not let Thorne get away. The two started to pull away from everyone else and nearly collided on the first lap in Turn 6. Behind the pair, Arsham’s Hyundai was running on a completely different strategy. Things really got interesting as soon as the fuel stops started to come into play.
After about 90 minutes of racing the battle for the final podium spot started to heat up. Arsham’s Hyundai was running in third place in the latter part of the race. “My strategist was on the radio telling me that Cabezas was on the same lap as me and was gaining on me quickly. He did the math and said that I need to speed up considerably or I will get passed,” commented Arsham after the race.
The GoGoGear.com team’s strategy was bold and risky from the beginning. They decided to try and complete the race without stopping for fuel. “Hyundais are known for their excellent reliability and fuel economy. We knew that these were the strengths of our Del City.net Genesis Coupe and knew that we needed to use those strengths to gain an advantage,” added Arsham.
On lap 39, the Mazda caught up and passed Arsham and it looked like the Mazda was headed to the podium. But five laps later, the Mazda was forced to pit. The turbocharged engine was thirsty and needed more fuel while the 3.8-liter V6 engine in the Hyunai was providing much better fuel economy. The TNI Racing Team crew hurried and did a super quick pit stop lap of 3:03, the fastest pit stop of the day to try to send Cabezas in front of Arsham. But as the car was still in the pits, Arsham roared by the pits and reclaimed third place. Then both teams started to work out the math to figure out the gap. With only five laps left in the race, Arsham’s crew radioed him to step it up. They knew that third place was theirs to lose. Arsham started to click his personal best laps in the last five laps of the race trying to stop Cabezas from catching him. The TNI Racing crew also knew what was going on and were telling Cabezas that he needs to step it up. While on the last lap, Cabezas was behind the winner but one lap down and the checkered flag was shown. Cabezas was done but Arsham who still had not received the checkered flag had one more lap to finish.
Everything was looking good but suddenly at Turn 9, the Hyundai slowed down out of fuel. “I knew it was out of gas because we have done considerable testing and know exactly what the car will and will not do. I knew that if I can get to Turn 14, I would be in good shape because it is a right hand turn and the fuel pick up is on the left side. Sure enough, just when it looked like the car was done, it came back to life,” said a very happy Arsham. The Hyundai crossed the finish line and then stopped on the side of the track, just after the pit exit in third place. “We used Hyundai’s fuel economy to our advantage to score a podium finish. This was our first podium finish in our Hyundai. Being able to do it with the help of the Universal Technical Institute students and instructors, is a real bonus,“ added Arsham.
The GoGoGear.com Racing team will be racing their Hyundai Genesis Coupe at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA on June 16-17, 2012 joining the National Auto Sport Association for their big summer racing festival. For more information visit www.gogogear.com
