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Mercedes and Andy Lilienthal are a wife and husband team who are competing in the 2024 Alcan 5000 Rally driving the new INEOS Grenadier. They will tackle a ten-day, 5,000 miles journey of blisteringly cold temps, navigating their way through treacherous conditions, abundantly large wildlife, and fighting off sleep deprivation. Their INEOS Grenadier is from INEOS Automotive, a new automaker. This 4x4 workhorse is a powerhouse of new, innovation. It's a recently developed vehicle designed to fulfill a marketplace gap after Jaguar Land Rover (now JLR) stopped production on its famed boxy Defender in 2016 and went after the luxury and technology segment.

Rita Campana is the owner at Campana Modena, one of the oldest body shops in the province of Modena, Italy. Founded in 1947 by her grandfather, handed down to her father their CEO, and now in Rita's hands, Campana has over 10,000 square meters in a variety of buildings where they restore, repair, and create modern, classic, and vintage racing cars. They are an authorized Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, and Maserati service center and the level of handmade services are the best in the world. You can see some of their most recent builds in the new Movie Ferrari featuring cars they built from scratch for the film.

Mitch Williams is the Division General Manager of StopTech, the best in high performance brakes and part of the First Brands Group. He has led several iconic performance industry brands including Hella, APR, Restoration Parts Unlimited, and today at StopTech. Mitch has raced sports cars, served six terms on the SEMA Board of Directors and has driven cross-country 40 times - and once drove almost coast to coast in 40 hours - by himself. He has owned more than 75 cars, has flown in the Goodyear Blimp, and took aerobatic flying lessons.

David Campo is the Founder of Nezumi Studios, a business where he has merged his passions in the automotive, watch, fashion, and music industries for over a decade. David created his own Porsche Club he calls Roughneck Brigade that started with a grill badge design and now includes nearly 100 Brigadiers across nine countries with members in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He has a special collaboration with the legendary Porsche designer RUF culminating in a limited-edition series of Nezumi Ruf timepieces and all 200 watches sold out in 21 minutes. He also designed a watch to celebrate the band Anthrax's album 'Persistence of Time'.

Bill Pack is an automotive photographer who returns to Cars Yeah to talk about his latest project. Bill teamed up with past Cars Yeah guest and designer Dwight T. Knowlton to create a book titled Epic Drama: The Winning Collection of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. At over 200 pages this project is a magical journey featuring the historic race cars that have run the Indy 500.

Dominic Dobson is the President of Dobson Motorsports and Dobson Stuttgart, the Northwest's finest Porsche service, sales, and storage facility. Dominic is a former IndyCar and sports Car racer, has raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Daytona 24 Hours, and the Sebring 12 Hours numerous times. Dominic has raced in the Baja 1000, Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He founded Motion Research Technologies, a pioneer in Augmented Reality and invented the world's first wireless heads-up display named "SportVue" for motorcycle riders.

Jan Hyde is a race historian who runs the Registry of Corvette Race Cars. It's a project he calls The Corvette Race Car Collection to-the-Max.

Derek E. Moore is the Director of Collections & Curator of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. As a lifelong automotive enthusiast Derek has turned his passion into his career. Past roles have included the Crawford Curator of Transportation History at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Conservation Specialist for Transportation Collections at The Henry Ford.

Matt Anderson is theMatt Anderson is the John and Horace Dodge Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. He oversees the development, care and interpretation of the museum's collection of nearly 300 motor vehicles. Matt also oversees the museum's collection of horse-drawn carriages, railroad locomotives and rolling stock, as well as aircraft. Matt will take office as president of the National Association of Automobile Museums later this year. He has previously worked at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland; the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana; and the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, Minnesota. Matt is a VIP judge at the Keels & Wheels Concours d'Elegance.

Dr. Andrew Feustel is a NASA Astronaut and Mission Specialist whose passion early in life to wrench on cars came full circle when he flew in to space on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis. He spent 13 days in space improving the Hubble Space Telescope’s observatory’s capabilities, removing frozen bolts, stripped screws, and stuck handrails. Then he flew on Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final mission to the International Space Station. Andrew served as the lead space walker on that trip delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a cosmic ray particle physics detector that examines fundamental issues about matter and the origin and structure of the universe. And a few stats for you; Drew is the 473 person to go in to space and he’s the 473 guest here on Cars Yeah!