Dr. Ken Yohn has been teaching in colleges and universities in Japan, France, Germany, Poland, and the United States for over 30 years. Ken is currently a professor and the chair of the department of history and politics at McPherson College in Kansas, and just completed his 21st year at that school. At McPherson, Ken teaching a course on the history of the automobile and the role of technology as an agent of social change. His current project for the college is a 6-part summer school webinar about how the automobile has transformed the world titled “Wheels of Change: How the Automobile Shaped our Lives.”   

Rob Ferriol is a racer who owns and runs Team Hardpoint in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a team owner and driver in the IMSA Micheline Pilot Challenge series driving the #31 Team Hardpoint Audi R8 LMS GT4. His brand encompasses both his race team and a startup that helps other funded, gentleman divers, to extract more value from their racing passion through branding and activation of Hardpoint Outfitters. 

Hugh Barter is a racer with a very clear goal. To win the Formula 1 Championship. He was born in Japan and lives in Melbourne, Australia where he has raced since the age of 7 in Australia as a Cadet and can’t wait for race weekends when he can compete. Hugh runs in the KA Class in karting, Junior Max, Ka4 and KA3. He has multiple wins and podium finishes and his talent, enthusiasm, persistence, and discipline has set his course as a racer. Did I forget to mention, Hugh’s only 14 years old?

Kelley Earnhardt Miller is part owner and general manager of JR Motorsports and is considered one of the most prominent businesswomen in NASCAR today. She oversees the company’s race team, management team, and business ventures for her brother, Dale Earnhardt Jr. The daughter of seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, Kelley has a new book Drive.

Jason Wenig is the Founder and Owner of The Creative Workshop, one of the top restorers of classic cars and builders of coach-built specials. His business is known for and regularly entrusted with rare, exotic, and prototype vehicles. He and his team have built several bespoke cars and completely re-bodied cars as well. His company has garnered multiple awards and been featured in print, radio, and television and he is the member of numerous automotive associations, clubs, and groups. 

Carl Bomstead is a Contributing Editor to Sports Car Market and their automobilia specialist. He has judged at numerous events including Amelia Island, Keels and Wheels, Boca Raton, and Audrain. He has been a judge at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for the past 24 years. Carl is also a Classic Car Club of America Master Judge and served on the CCCA National Board for five years. 

Wendy Cappola is the President of She Racing, a company created to help more women get involved and be successful in the automotive sport. She provides a platform for female motorsports drivers and enthusiasts to promote and support females in the sport of high performance driving where women racers can collectively have a voice and start changing the industry. 

Jean Pierre Kathoefer, or JP as his friends call him, is the Founder of Johnnypuetz Productions. He’s a thirty-something German, living in New York City, who has an obsession with motorcycles and film making. His latest creation is a short documentary titled The Distinguished Gentleman that was selected by several Film Festivals and is now available on Amazon.  He and fellow Cars Yeah guest Lou Barletta recently collaborated to produce the music video Ghost Ride and JP also produced the short film Big Apple Outlaw with Magnus Walker.

Lou Barletta is a filmmaker whose been a Porsche car enthusiast since the early 80's. Film has inspired his love for cars.  Movies including the Graduate with Al Pacino inspired him to purchase a 1986 Red Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate as his very first car. He created Ghost Ride with Big Apple Outlaws creator, J.P., which is a soon to be released music video style passion project showcasing Lou’s 1979 Porsche 911 SC. 

Spencer Pumpelly is an American race car driver currently racing with The Racers Group known as TRG. He also runs in the Michelin Pilot Challenge Series in a GS Audi R8 driving with Rob Ferriol for Hardpoint Motorsports as well as contesting the NAEC in IMSA Weathertech in a Grasser Magnus Lamborghini in GTD. He’s competed at the top levels of sports car for over two decades.