From Drifting to TV!! On this #wheelwednesday podcast, Scott (Konig Wheels, Vice President) and Jared (Konig Wheels, Marketing Coordinator) are joined by Pro Drifter and Motorsports enthusiast, Faruk Kugay! We talk about Formula Drift, his appearance on Netflix show, HyperDrive, his new show coming soon on The Discovery channel and so much more!
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Formula Drift Pro driver, Faruk Kugay joins Scott (Konig, Marketing Director) on the Behind The Wheel podcast and tells us what’s to come in the 2019 season, his journey in the Europe Drifting scene, Sonoma Drift Winter jam, advice to the grassroots drifters some advice on what to do when building a program and so much more!
We’re going to be releasing the YouTube video versions in multiple parts from now on. We will continue to release another part every day until we come to the conclusion!
The full audio version is live on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher right now!
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Faruk Kugay, Formula Drift Pro drive, came on the podcast to give some major announcements. One of them, (not hard to figure out) is that he has now partnered up with Konig. But the second announcement will shock most of his fans!
This is a really great episode of the podcast and Faruk is a lot of fun to listen to. Scott and Faruk go through the ins and outs of having a professional program, his personal evolution in drifting and what it takes to run a program. Faruk is super down to earth and reveals so many things about himself, how he funds his program working 4 jobs (bet you won’t guess what they are), his most frustrating issues with his program and how he plans to move forward.
If you’re not a Faruk Kugay drift fan, you will be by the end!
By the way, PODCAST listeners will get the scoop on his major announcements before the YouTube viewers. We will be releasing the podcast on our YouTube channel in 5 parts starting today at 5 pm. We will be releasing another part of this podcast every day until the conclusion.
We will update this page below! Part 3 is the Konig announcement and Part 4 is Faruk’s major announcement. That will be live on Monday at 8 am EST (on YouTube).
Thanks for all of your support and listening!
And please, if you like the podcast and what we’ve been doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes, Google Play and we always put the full video interviews on our YouTube Channel (we’d love if you subscribe there as well)! Thank you for listening!
As always you can use our timeline cheatsheet (below) to jump around in the podcast and hear what you like the most.
CONTENT CHEAT MENU: 0:19 | Longest 10 Question Quick-fire ever (but its so good)! 15:05 | We bet you never knew this about Faruk! 22:15 | Introducing Faruk Kugay! 23:20 | Sonoma Drift and Winter Jam 26:04 | Faruk x Konig! We-are-family!! The story of how we met. 33:01 | Move to Turkey and Drifting in Europe! 36:57 | When and Where did you get into Drifting?! 37:53 | First exposure to drifting! 39:58 | Bombshell and Faruk’s plan for 2019…Plus what REALLY happened at Irwindale 48:20 | Faruk’s goals! How can we move the program forward?! 53:32 | Motegi Racing Super Drift. SEMA Ignited. GRIDLIFE. 55:03 | Putting together a drift program! The trials and tribulation! 1:03:17 | Advice from Faruk and what to take away from his experience in the drift scene 1:08:35 | Outro
