{"id":53522,"date":"2018-07-19T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=53522"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:24:18","slug":"behind-the-wheel-podcast-episode-10-brendon-raymondi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/behind-the-wheel-podcast-episode-10-brendon-raymondi\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Wheel Podcast Episode 10: Brendon Raymondi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/behind-the-wheel-podcast-episode-10-brendon-raymondi\/brendon-raymondi-btw_feature-image-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Behind the Wheel Podcast Episode 10: Brendon Raymondi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg\" alt=\"Behind the Wheel Podcast Episode 10: Brendon Raymondi\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While many of us are familiar with drag and circle track racing, your friends here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\">RacingJunk.com<\/a> have yet to slip <em>Behind The Wheel <\/em>with a unique driver like Brendon Raymondi.<\/p>\n<p>This ambitious drift\/stunt driver and former Rally Cross AWD Champion was born with racing fuel in his veins. While some 16-year-olds dream of obtaining their drivers license, there are few who dream of becoming a household name in fearless driving.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qvaoXi1AIZ0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Years later, this road warrior racer has battled all kinds of elements, from icy\/snowy tracks in an unprepped machine to other serious drift racing challengers with similar aspirations to prove that nothing can stop him from overcoming a challenge. This sideways driver even has other skills like acting and stand-up comedy, and has his own hysterical series of virtual driving videos that showcase the best ways to live fast, on the edge, all while laughing and being silly.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to the latest edition of <em>Behind The Wheel <\/em>and let this fun-loving speed demon, who they now call the DriftSlut, tell you why he is the next superstar in the making.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdNJVvbV3k4?si=Zjd3ZQ-QsrQf7Gyh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Brendon Raymondi, check out this motorsports funny man on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DriftSlut\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brendon-raymondi-7a818092\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcVJiFRCxXHbqvrmeGXDwgw\">YouTube<\/a>. Do you have suggestions for the <em>Behind The Wheel<\/em> podcast this season? Drivers you think would made great interviews? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>While many of us are familiar with drag and circle track racing, your friends here at RacingJunk.com have yet to slip Behind The Wheel with a unique driver like Brendon Raymondi.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":53523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029,3399],"tags":[1667,6109,357,1619,41,5444,1632,6110],"class_list":["post-53522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","category-nhra","tag-behind-the-wheel","tag-brendon-raymondi","tag-driver-interviews","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-news","tag-podcast","tag-racing","tag-rally-cross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brendon-Raymondi-BTW_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-dVg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99469,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522\/revisions\/99469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}