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Welcome to the "AutoMatters & More" CZcams channel! 2022 is the 20th year for "AutoMatters & More." I have written over 700 columns written to date. Over 400 of those have already been uploaded from my archives, for you to enjoy at AutoMatters.net. Most of the columns include my professional still photography - many of which are of people, places and events from long ago. Now that the website is up and running, I am turning more attention to this CZcams channel. Check it out!
The wide variety of topics include:
• Motorsports (pro & amateur): NASCAR, IndyCar, FiA Formula 1 and Formula E, autocross, rally, vintage and historic racing, air racing, boat racing, drifting and more
• Concerts
• Movie reviews
• Travel
• Auto shows
• Pop culture, including San Diego Comic-Con and WonderCon
• Air shows
• Photography, including gear reviews and helpful tips & techniques
• Interviews
• Major trade shows, including the SEMA Show and CES in Las Vegas
• Consumer product reviews
Jan Wagner
The wide variety of topics include:
• Motorsports (pro & amateur): NASCAR, IndyCar, FiA Formula 1 and Formula E, autocross, rally, vintage and historic racing, air racing, boat racing, drifting and more
• Concerts
• Movie reviews
• Travel
• Auto shows
• Pop culture, including San Diego Comic-Con and WonderCon
• Air shows
• Photography, including gear reviews and helpful tips & techniques
• Interviews
• Major trade shows, including the SEMA Show and CES in Las Vegas
• Consumer product reviews
Jan Wagner
2018 San Diego Bayfair: U 11 & U 9 racing
2018 San Diego Bayfair: Tom Thompson in U-11 & Andrew Tate in U-9 racing
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20240524 Fantasmic returns to Disneyland
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This slightly re-edited video (25 minutes, 31 seconds) was shot during the second performance of Fantasmic at Disneyland, on May 24, 2024 - the eagerly awaited day when Fantasmic finally returned, after it abruptly ended when its signature Maleficent dragon spectacularly burned to the ground during a performance. For this story and still photos, as well as hundreds more on a wide range of topic...
20240504 & 12-Star Wars Season of the Force fireworks at Disneyland
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This is the Star Wars: "Season of the Force" 2024 "Fire of the Rising Moons" evening fireworks show at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. May 4th was celebrated as Star Wars Day at Disneyland: "May The 4th Be With You!" The fireworks are synchronized with Star Wars music by John Williams. Many people were holding lightsabers and were wearing Star Wars atti...
20240323 Tesla Cybertruck welcome & tonneau cover demo
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The Tesla CYBERTRUCK has a special way of welcoming visitors, complete with music, its frunk and widows opening, a light show and more. The tonneau cover over the truck bed is motorized.
FORMULA DRIFT Mustang erupts in flames at 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach PRESS DAY
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Several FORMULA DRIFT cars had been making drifting runs on the track of the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, during PRESS DAY (April 9, 2024). Suddenly, while drifting alongside another car, a Mustang burst into flames. The video ends with some still photos from the pits of people assessing the damage.
Dec. 8, 2018: House of Scotland Pipe Band & Beret Dernbach - "December Nights" in Balboa Park
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Dec. 8, 2018: Balboa Park's International 'House of Scotland' Pipe Band & Beret Dernbach, performing during the annual two-day "December Nights" celebration in Balboa Park's Spreckels Organ Pavilion. "December Nights" is held the first weekend every December.
20240127 Luminar LIDAR Automatic Emergency Steering demo at CES 2024
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This video demonstrates Luminar's LIDAR-powered Automatic Emergency Braking by showing vehicles with and without the system as a 'pedestrian' (crash test dummy) walks out from in front of a parked car.
Comments while riding through Las Vegas in an APTIV self-driving BMW, during CES 2018.
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Spontaneous comments while riding in the APTIV self-driving BMW, during CES 2018. I am the person speaking while taking photos with my Nikon DSLR camera. Jan
Max Verstappen doing donuts in Red Bull F1 car-SEMA Ignited 2017, Las Vegas
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Max Verstappen doing hot laps, burnouts and donuts in a screaming Red Bull Formula One car, entertaining a crowd in a small parking lot bordered by concrete walls at the SEMA Show's "SEMA Ignited" 2017.
Ukrainian concert-"Dec. Nights" 2022, Balboa Park, San Diego
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Songs sung in Ukrainian, dedicated to the war effort, by members of the Ukrainian community's House of Ukraine, in Balboa Park, San Diego, at "December Nights" on Dec. 3, 2022.
The Satin Dollz at Tiki Oasis 2018
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The Satin Dollz song and tap dance troupe, with a Big Band Era sound, at Tiki Oasis 2018 in San Diego, California.
Chef Nat prepares Pad Thai at The Pad Thai Stand, San Diego
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I first experienced pad thai while exploring the Street Food Market across from the Cruise Ship Terminal in San Diego. In this video, Chef Nat shows how he makes his delicious Pad thai. I chose chicken, and asked for it to be sweet, not spicy, so Chef Nat made me a pad thai with a flavor found in the Northern (Chiang-Mai) region of Thailand. Its preparation included noodles, egg, peanuts, smoot...
MONSTER TRUCKS FLY at the 2022 San Diego County Fair!
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The San Diego County Fair returned in 2022, and with it so did the MONSTER TRUCKS performing in the Del Mar Arena, as seen in this video. To see my professional photography of this event, and full coverage of the rest of the Fair, including the exciting Firefighters' Demolition Derby (with a video!), you can enjoy it here, on the "AutoMatters & More" website: automatters.net/2022-san-diego-coun...
DEMOLITION DERBY at the 2022 San Diego County Fair
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The FIREFIGHTERS DEMOLITION DERBY was presented by fire departments in support of the BURN INSTITUTE. It is part of my extensive coverage of the 2022 San Diego County Fair, entitled "2022 San Diego County Fair - HEROES REUNITE" (AutoMatters & More #746): automatters.net/2022-san-diego-county-fair-heroes-reunite/ Website: automatters.net.
DRIFTING at "FABULOUS FORDS FOREVER" 2022, at Irwindale Speedway in Southern California
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DRIFTING at "FABULOUS FORDS FOREVER" 2022, at Irwindale Speedway in Southern California
Slow Down to Go Fast: Goodguys Del Mar Autocross, with a crash
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Slow Down to Go Fast: Goodguys Del Mar Autocross, with a crash
On the ragged edge... and beyond! FORMULA DRIFT at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach 2022
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On the ragged edge... and beyond! FORMULA DRIFT at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach 2022
Jan attempts the "Jack Ryan" Training Field at San Diego Comic-Con 2018
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Jan attempts the "Jack Ryan" Training Field at San Diego Comic-Con 2018
U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team-2019 MCAS Miramar Air Show
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U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team-2019 MCAS Miramar Air Show
Electric Eel rollercoaster - new at SeaWorld San Diego (June 2018)
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Electric Eel rollercoaster - new at SeaWorld San Diego (June 2018)
NITRO CIRCUS motorcycle stunt show at SEMA Ignited 2019
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NITRO CIRCUS motorcycle stunt show at SEMA Ignited 2019
Drifting at the 2019 SEMA Show & SEMA Ignited
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Drifting at the 2019 SEMA Show & SEMA Ignited
Chef Nat cooks a pad thai at The Pad Thai Stand at San Diego's STREET FOOD MARKET
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Chef Nat cooks a pad thai at The Pad Thai Stand at San Diego's STREET FOOD MARKET
Vaughn Gitten Jr. drifting finale at 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas
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Vaughn Gitten Jr. drifting finale at 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas
2010 Samuel Hubinette-drifting demo-Dodge Charger-Auto Club Speedway-c J Wagner 20100914
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2010 Samuel Hubinette-drifting demo-Dodge Charger-Auto Club Speedway-c J Wagner 20100914
2010 Coronado Speed Festival (video #3): Head-on, fast, historic car racing-c J Wagner 20100926
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2010 Coronado Speed Festival (video #3): Head-on, fast, historic car racing-c J Wagner 20100926
2010 Coronado Speed Festival (video #2): Fast, close historic car racing-c J Wagner 20100926
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2010 Coronado Speed Festival (video #2): Fast, close historic car racing-c J Wagner 20100926
2010 Coronado Speed Festival (video #1): Historics race start-c J Wagner 20100926
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2010 Coronado Speed Festival (video #1): Historics race start-c J Wagner 20100926
Dont know if this is like mine, but if a accidednt happens like this, guessing that the whole event has to be totally stopped, a whole bunch of paper work has to filed out, pictures must be taken of the accident and whatever else. right?
I'm sure that is true, and Goodguys no longer uses that section of the Del Mar Fairgrounds parking lot for their event autocross. Jan
I think I will be "crossing" any Goodguys autox events off my list now if this is how they set things up....
No need to do that. After this event, they moved the autocross to another part of the Fairgrounds. Jan
For USA market only. It will not pass safety for other countries. In Canada they didn't let it in. 1. No crash tests, no soft bumpers for collision with other vehicles.
I can see why there are accident-related safety concerns with Cybertruck. Almost immediately upon seeing Cybertruck for the first time, I noticed that the leading edge of the stainless steel bodyside sheet metal at the very front and rear of the vehicle is exposed, has almost sharp edges and is quite thick and strong. If Cybertruck were to hit someone or something with those edges, I suspect that they would do more damage than a vehicle with rounded or covered edges would do.
Are you sure that it has not been crash tested? I thought that was an absolute requirement for mass-produced passenger vehicles sold in the U.S.
@@AutoMatters Yes, I am sure. No videos in youtube. Here is from Internet: "Does the Cybertruck pass the crash test? Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck hasn't been crash tested. Feb 20, 2024". It is OK for USA, but not for other countries.
It Transforms!
It's ALIVE!!! Jan
Everyone online thinks they're a Professional race couch driver; not a single person asked if the driver was okay or if there is a repair story to the truck That being said most commentators are right about the wall being within feet of the track cones even for 2024. This year, the track location was a different spot. The spot you see in the video get's submerged when it rains, like this year, and has a lot of cracked asphalt/caked mud, etc. The del mar fair parking lot is below sea level and the water has no where to go.
Good news. The driver was/is okay and competed in the same (repaired) truck at last weekend's GoodGuys "AutoCross" at the Del Mar Nationals. I took some photos there and will post them soon in my "AutoMatters & More" column on AutoMatters.net. I do not shoot videos very often (I mostly shoot still photos, instead), so I do not upload very much to my "AutoMatters & More" CZcams channel, but I do plan to edit and then post another video here soon. I happened to be recording one of the few videos I shot yesterday when something totally totally wild and unexpected happened during a two-car Formula Drift demonstration run at yesterday's Press Day for the upcoming Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach (IndyCar, Formula Drift, sportscar racing and more). Jan
Looked like a brake balance issue
Hi Ian. Yes, he clearly had trouble stopping. Scary stuff! Jan
I just watched it carefully again. The front wheels were locked up but the rears kept turning. That would certainly seem to support your theory. Jan
@@AutoMatters I would imagine they chose less braking on the rear because its a pickup and there's no weight on the rear. I have a brake bias adjuster next to the seat in my race car. At each meeting I stomp on the brakes and adjust it a number of times until each end locks up equally. Every track surface is different and each track will constantly change with the weather or get dustier as the day goes on and tires also change over a race day...There are so many factors that can screw up your braking
@ianbrown9082 That makes complete sense. I wonder if they knew they needed to do that and just forgot, or maybe the track, tires or whatever changed faster than they were expecting. I autocrossed for many years, but never at that technological level. I put on a set of sticky tires and had to keep using them until they wore out. I adjusted tire temps, and shocks on some cars, and tuned with 'competition' sway bars.. As a result, my setups were usually not great. My autocrossing days are over (I'm 70). Now I just take pictures of other people doing motorsports, but the skills that I learned are still making me a better driver than average. Jan
Once, a few decades ago (long before today's automatic driving safety systems), while I was driving a minivan at about 50MPH (the road's speed limit), I had to swerve left to avoid a slow-moving vehicle that had inexplicably, suddenly, crossed from the opposite side of the road that I was on and had driven right in front of me. There was no time to significantly slow down. Had I not swerved, I would have hit that vehicle with a speed differential of perhaps 30MPH. Luckily there was no one beside me when I swerved (left) and there was no accident. In a similar situation in the near future, hopefully an advanced AI equipped with lidar would instantaneously check for nearby traffic, signal, etc. and successfully avoid an accident. Sometimes, however, an accident may be unavoidable no matter what, in which case the best that could be achieved would be to reduce the severity of an unavoidable accident... Jan
Looks more dangerous 😂😂😂. No indication, warning lights and changes lanes with speed
It wouldn’t course correct in this way if there was something there.
Good thing the K-walls were there! If not, there would have been considerably more damage as a result. Hope the driver and passenger have since recovered!:-)
I think that I saw the rebuilt truck at the same event this past year.
I’m sorry but it looks like if they would have got off the brakes they could have went left to avoid it
Lakeside's 220 tire made the show!!!
I will eventually be posting a lot of photos of the 2023 version of this in my weekly "AutoMatters & More" column on my AutoMatters. net website. In the meantime, you can see my pictures from the 2022 demolition derby at the San Diego County Fair here: automatters.net/2022-san-diego-county-fair-heroes-reunite/
@@AutoMatters We think this years Derby was better than last! For a minute I thought little #7 was going to take the win. It looked like a Pinto at the end. So much fun. Looking forward to seeing your videos
@@lizardbreath9999 Elizabeth, I totally agree with you. After taking a preliminary look at what I shot, I suspect that rather than videos, still photo close-ups will provide my best views of the non-stop excitement and vehicular carnage. I wish that I had taken some time to interview drivers and crew members, to add to my story about the event. Since I've covered several great events recently, it may take me a few weeks to write this story, edit the photos and add them to the lineup of "AutoMatters & More" weekly columns, but look for that coverage at AutoMatters.net. Jan
@@AutoMatters You did a great job at putting together your column. Your photography is spectacular and how you put it together helped tell the story. Especially since I was there. I look forward to this years coverage. Thank you Jan!
@@lizardbreath9999Elizabeth, I also wrote this column more recently about the great work that they do at the San Diego Burn Institute. You might enjoy it too: automatters.net/free-burn-institute-program-can-be-a-life-saver-for-senior-homeowners/ Feel free to continue to reply this way, and/or you can add comments at the end of any of my "AutoMatters & More" comments. I get notified and will reply to them. Jan
We're okay except for my pride.
Hi Wes, I am glad that you both are okay and that you did not give up on autocrossing. After several decades of autocrossing myself, I retired from doing that a few years ago. I recently posted three photos of what I think is you and your truck autocrossing at the 2023 GoodGuys Del Mar Nationals. Scroll down and look for it towards the end of my post on AutoMatters.net in AutoMatters & More number 789. Here is the link to that post: automatters.net/goodguys-40th-anniversary-celebrated-at-the-del-mar-nationals/ Jan
Hate to see it. Not sure if ever do autox in an area that constrained
No autocross event should look like this. Surrounded by buildings, concrete, people? Nope
After having their autocross here for many years (I entered it myself several times), GoodGuys moved it to a different location.
Слава Украине!
Героям слава! I hope that this is an appropriate response. I learned it from Wikipedia. Jan
Well there goes $20-30k down the toilet
I saw the same truck and driver compete in this year's (2024) GoodGuys autocross in Del Mar. Jan
@@AutoMatters That's great!
RIP
Just wondering if the track surface was slick?
Christopher, No, The surface was not slick. I ran it for years in my Mustang GT on All-American Sunday. However, it had some very tight turns which, if you went into them too quickly, could end with a visit to concrete barriers. FYI, GoodGuys just had another event at the Del Mar Fairgrounds this past weekend. For the first time in as long as I can remember, they did not use the same autocross course, or even the same part of the parking lot. I am in the process tonight of writing one of my "AutoMatters & More" columns about that event, for publication - with lots of photos - this week. When you see that, you can decide whether or not their new autocross course is an improvement or not. It certainly looked safer. I only heard one comment, and that person did not like it. My columns are published weekly in various publications and, with the most photos by far, on my "AutoMatters & More" website, here: automatters.net Just click on the blue 2022 box to see all of the columns from 2022, in reverse chronological order. There are around 500 of my over-700 columns posted there, dating back about 20 years. Jan
THROTTLE HUNG and the IDIOTS THAT MADE THE COURSE DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR THIS POTENTIAL PROBLEM This is all on the AUTOCROSS Club that set this up!!!!!
I'm guessing his daily driver has ABS.
a vette with a bookshelf for encyclopedia britannicas.......how cute
Damn I'm no pro driver but if he let off the breaks it woulda turned.... hope he had insurance
Drivers never learn threshold braking because of ABS.
what a race !!! for all the cars. the c10 needs better brakes !
Wonder what the time of the Maverick was? Good to see an ol Maverick.
Thanks for the comment. The Maverick seemed to handle very well indeed.
That Ford Maverick did a nice job
John, I agree. The handling of that Maverick is especially amazing considering that the underlying car is about 50 years old! Jan
Abs¿
That should certainly have helped!
them pick-up`s are built like crap the chassie frame is hopeless built so weak and bend like tinfoil ! full chassie is best
How come it's still too hard to understand that you can't steer when you locked up
Locked up the brakes and drove straight into a wall. good job
Throttle stick on the pick up
Really like the appearance and stance of that truck.. shame accident happened.. but that's part of it.. you just never know
That was a purrrrty trans am!
tthe people organizing these cheese wiz tracks are just begging for a fatal crash... this is stupidity!
Brake faded . I experienced it at the Sierra madre en Mexico going down hill . pretty dangerous
Mario, That would be really scary. How did you get slowed down? Jan
@@AutoMatters try to Stopped at the small village and let them cool down. My car was a Pontiac fire bird standard transmission. DOWN SHIFTING HELP ME A LOT .
De magnifique resto mode la plupart y love it chevy mopar dodge hummm
Merci pour votre comment, Jean Charles! Ma langue maternelle est l'anglais. Cependant, j'ai réussi à écrire la phrase précédente sans l'aide de Google Translate (anglais vers français), que j'utilise maintenant pour continuer. Veuillez m'excuser pour ma capacité limitée à communiquer en français. J'ai étudié le français il y a environ 50 ans à l'école primaire, quand je vivais en Alberta, au Canada. À l'époque, nous avons appris le français en écoutant de l'audio et en regardant des images fixes de pellicules mettant en vedette la famille fictive Thibault. Jan
@@AutoMatters ok thancs no probleme mie is frenchy bye sir sorie no speak english sorie bye boys
@@jeancharlesrabaux5658 Merci!
@@AutoMatters no problem bye
Ha une fois qu on la prepare autrement que d origine c est des 🚀
Remember folks horse power is how fast you hit the stop box barricade, torque is how much longer you extend the stop box
Leave it in first and just go ! Let off the gas , if you need to slow down .
That maverick was wild!!!
Seeing that last truck drivers head whip forward at impact was scary!
Yes it was. That could have ended very badly for him. Jan
Vette with a way to big spoiler looks bad dude...like really bad not like bad good but bad bad.
Beautiful truck bad break sorry boys hope it can be fixed
5:08 - you're welcome.
Come on don’t worry it’ll BUFF OUT
😢
Dude! There's better ways to meet girls!
Maybe if he had more than just front brakes
Audience, all the cars were super nice; however, the blue truck at 5:08 just didn't have all disc brakes. Wow, he just f%&ked his truck up...Wipe out!!!!
Gee hope the people the C10 are ok, hate ti see classics get damaged, looks like a lot of fun.
That's a bummer but it didn't look like there were any rear brakes.