Scott Atchison is one of the most accomplished and versatile racers on the FastLane staff, and he has been an instructor with the school since 1995. A Bakersfield native, he has won at the highest levels on two wheels and four, in the dirt and on the pavement, across a career spanning more than four decades.

Scott started young, racing motorcycles in the Mojave desert at age twelve. By seventeen he had earned his first motorcycle championship and run his first Baja 1000, and in 1981 he took a silver medal at the International Six Days Enduro. He turned to road racing in 1983, and the results came fast: 1985 Formula Ford National Champion, 1987 US Formula Super Vee National Champion, and a step up to the CART IndyCar World Series, where he raced in 1988 and 1989 with a best finish of ninth place. He went on to IMSA endurance racing before stepping back from professional road racing in 1992.

Off-road never left his blood. Scott has kept racing the desert for decades, piling up wins that include the Baja 1000, often alongside fellow FastLane coach Mike Alsup. Away from competition he owned Consumer Automotive Research, running vehicle testing and manufacturer training programs, and he has worked as a stunt driver in television commercials and films.

That rare combination, a champion on dirt bikes, formula cars, Indy cars, and in the desert, plus decades of professional testing and teaching, is exactly what Scott brings to FastLane. In private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, he meets each driver where they are and turns hard-won experience into real, lasting skill.

Bradley Howe has spent his entire life on two and four wheel vehicles; exploring the woods, deserts and mountains across the country and around the world.  He began his off-roading career at the age of 3, on a Yamaha PW50, and as soon as his dad removed the training wheels he and his brother were lining up for races.

Bradley is currently a driver for the Monster Energy / Can-Am Racing Team, which competes in the SCORE-International Baja 250, 400, 500 and 1000 events, as well as the Best in the Desert (BITD) Series, Ultra4 King of the Hammers and The Mint 400 and California 300 desert racing events. 

Aside from racing, Bradley spends his day-to-day as an off-road magazine editor. He began his career as an Associate Editor for Dirt Wheels Magazine and later moved on as the Editor-in-Chief for ATV Rider Magazine and UTVDriver.com. In 2019, he started Howe Media and purchased UTV Off-Road Magazine, a publication dedicated to the off-road enthusiast in the ever-growing UTV and Side-by-Side motorsports space. 

CHAMPIONSHIPS:

2020 Score-International Overall Points Champion

2020 Score-International UTV FI Points Champion

2020 Score-International UTV FI Baja 500 Champion

2017 Cal City AVE Pure Overall Champion

2016 Cal City AVE Pure Overall Champion

2015 Cal City AVE Pure Overall Champion

Craig Staton has been competing in the world of motorsports for over 35 years, making him one of the most seasoned veterans in the industry. Since his beginnings in motocross and supercross in Southern California during the late 70s and early 80s, he has had an impressive road racing and motocross career.  

As a machinist, Craig began working for Modern Motors Off Road Center in 1978, where he would eventually advance to a driving position racing off-road trucks.

Over the course of his illustrious career, Craig has raced in countless events, including the Grand-Am Series, ALMS, World Challenge, and all the major North American tin-top series. Stanton drove in 49 races during his first full season as an amateur. In his second season, he competed in 41 races, taking home six class championships in his Porsche 996. The 2004 Grand-Am Cup Grand Sport (GS) champion earned Rising Star status both in the Grand-Am Cup Series and the Super Grand Sport (SGS) class of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series. In 2004, Stanton won the Grand-Am Koni Challenge championship in the GS class, and in 2005 he won the Grand-Am Rolex Series championship in the GT class.

During the 2010 and 2011 Grand-Am Rolex Sportscar series, Stanton raced a Porsche Cup car for Magnus Racing. Four podium finishes were achieved during the two years with team owner John Potter.  Stanton also raced with Potter in 2008 and 2009 as part of the TRG team in a Porsche GT3 Cup car.

In addition to driving Porsche Cup cars, Stanton has also competed in Universal Service Administrative Company and National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing and the Service Corps of Retired Executives off-road series, and is an avid off-road racer.

Porsche: Petersen – White Lightning in ALMS

Reiser-Callas Racing in ALMS

Keyser Racing in ALMS

BMW: Marcus Motorsports in Grand Am

Bell Motorsports in Grand AM

Aasco Boduck Racing in Grand Am

Ferrari: XL Racing Ferrari 550 Maranello in ALMS

Trucks: Pierce Racing (SCORE Baja 2000)

NASCAR: GT1 Racing – Late Models

Southwest Tour team

Nissan: GT1 Racing 240SX Factory Speedvision Cup Team

Chevrolet: Fizmaun.c~Smith Enterprises Camaro in Trans Am

Shifter Karts: California Sports Car Club

Midgets: USAC on the West Coast

Jeff Bodnar is a professional racer, veteran driving instructor, and Hollywood precision driver who coaches privately for FastLane. His racing life started early, on dirt bikes at eleven, then motocross and GP competition by fifteen, before he moved into professional off-road racing and, ultimately, pro-level sports car racing.

For more than twenty years Jeff has taught vehicle dynamics and high-performance driving at the highest level. He has guided SCCA race-licensing and teen safety students, trained police, military, and elite-forces drivers in high-threat and protective driving, and written curriculum and run vehicle testing for major automotive programs. A Technical Sergeant with the California State Guard, he brings a disciplined, standards-first approach to every session.

On screen, Jeff is a longtime SAG-AFTRA precision driver, handling lead and stunt driving for film and television with credits including G.I. Joe, Burlesque, Boston Legal, and Numb3rs, and appearing as himself on shows like Street Outlaws and NASCAR TV. He is a winning coach as well, including at the Pro/Celebrity Race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. In private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, all of that range comes together to help each driver build genuine car control and confidence.

Matt Treglia is FastLane’s Chief Instructor, and he is the rare coach who has truly done it all: raced it, tested it, taught it, and built racing schools around it. Originally from East Providence, Rhode Island, Matt has spent over 30 years in motorsport as a professional racer, driver coach, and test driver, and that lifetime of seat time is exactly what every FastLane driver gets to draw on.

His racing résumé spans the open-wheel ladder and beyond. In 1999 he was a finalist in the Elf Winfield World Driving Challenge in France, finishing 4th and earning fastest American driver, then ran the French Formula Renault 2.0 series. He went on to win races in the Formula Russell and Formula Mazda series, drove Ferrari Challenge and Formula Renault V6 for R3 Motorsport from 2003 to 2008, tested an Indy car in 2007, raced a sprint car, and has competed in SCCA and NASA road racing. As a karter from 1996 to 2016 he started more than 85 races across the 100cc, 125cc shifter, and 250cc superkart classes, collecting 41 wins.

That competition pedigree is matched by a deep professional career. Matt has driven for Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW, Jaguar, Infiniti, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, and Subaru, and worked as a driver coach and test driver for R3 Motorsport. He spent years as an onsite instructor at Willow Springs Raceway, then co-owned and served as chief instructor of Willow Springs Racing School, and delivered advanced driver training before bringing it all to FastLane, the SCCA-accredited racing school at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

What makes Matt a complete coach is everything he understands beyond the driver’s seat. He loves digging into the data and understanding car setup, and he pairs that with a natural feel that lets him climb into virtually any car and immediately find its limits. To Matt, a fast lap is never a mystery; it is a series of things you can see, measure, and repeat, and he can show you each one.

In the car, that turns into real progress. Matt rides right-seat to show you exactly what is possible, sits down with you afterward to review the video and the data, and has a gift for reading a driver and meeting you precisely where you are. He draws out what you truly want from the day, whether that is to push past your own limits, to finally understand what the car is telling you, or to wring every last bit of performance and joy out of your time on track. He shows you what you are capable of, and then he brings you there.

And the experience does not end when the helmet comes off. Matt’s excitement for this sport is infectious, and it shines through every lap, every debrief, and every story he tells. Work with him once and you will have a racing friend for life, someone who is always happy to help and never shy with honest, no-nonsense advice. Away from the track, Matt loves the outdoors, the beach, mountain biking, and racing RC cars, where he both competes and leads his local RC car league’s Sunday races. He lives in Ventura with his wife. Every FastLane day with Matt is 100% private and one-on-one at Buttonwillow, built entirely around you, and led by someone who genuinely loves making you faster.

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Rick Porter brings more than forty years of racing and driver-coaching experience to FastLane. His career sits at the intersection of professional racing, automotive manufacturer driver programs, and one-on-one coaching, and that range is exactly what makes him such a versatile instructor at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

Rick has worked on manufacturer driver programs for BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Chevrolet, GMC, and Toyota. He is a BMW Performance Center (West) Level 2 driving instructor and served as a driving instructor and product specialist for the launch of the BMW 3 Series and the Porsche Panamera Turbo. His on-camera work includes driving an M4 GT4 in a BMW Super Bowl 2026 commercial and a featured drive in a Maserati MC20 spot.

As a coach he has worked with some of the most recognizable names in the sport. At the Long Beach Grand Prix Pro/Celebrity race he coached Al Unser Jr., Frankie Muniz, Dara Torres, Adrien Brody, and Top Gear host Rutledge Wood, and he has handled private coaching and race-car preparation for drivers including Marco Andretti and Parker Kligerman. As a lead driving instructor, his teaching has spanned classroom and lead-follow sessions, right and left seat coaching, defensive driving, teen safety programs, CHP police-academy training, high-speed and low-friction technique, drifting and stunt work, course design, and private high-performance one-on-one coaching.

Rick is a serious racer in his own right. He has prepared, tested, and raced a long list of machinery, from Champ Car Atlantic, Formula Mazda, and Formula Renault to a Ferrari 360 Challenge car, Spec Racer Fords, and vintage historics including a Jackie Stewart Tyrrell F1 car, a Denny Hulme McLaren Can-Am, and a Kyle Petty NASCAR. He currently races a Porsche in an endurance championship series. Away from the track he holds a commercial Class A license (he has hauled a 53-foot trailer cross-country with the Champ Car series), rides motorcycles, runs off-road and four-wheel-drive, boats, and mountain bikes every chance he gets. With Rick, a private day at Buttonwillow is spent with a coach who has genuinely done it all.

Jim Bishop is a professional coach at FastLane with a racing and teaching background that spans nearly every corner of the sport. He started behind the wheel as a teenager racing karts, and went on to compete in autocross, rallying, road racing, and stock car racing, collecting a long list of wins, lap records, and championships along the way.

Few instructors bring his depth of teaching experience. Jim has coached drivers for more than thirty years, including over a decade at The Mid-Ohio School, and serves as Chief Instructor for the Cal Club Region of the SCCA. He was also an instructor for the former Long Beach Grand Prix Pro/Celebrity Race, working with professional drivers and Hollywood names alike.

That blend of broad racing experience and decades on the instructing side is exactly what makes Jim such a valuable coach. In private one-on-one sessions at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, he meets each driver where they are and builds the day around real, transferable skill, whether you are chasing your first confident laps or a full competition license.

Roger Hensley is a national motocross champion and a longtime friend and instructor at FastLane Racing School. He carried that championship speed into the AMA Pro Motocross 125 Nationals in the early 1980s, lining up on his Yamaha at iconic circuits like Saddleback, Hangtown, and Carlsbad against the best riders of the era.

Based in Rosamond, California, Roger has been an integral part of FastLane for many years. He is also best friends with Eddie Valdez, FastLane’s former head mechanic, and together they brought a deep well of racing and wrenching experience to the team that helped make FastLane what it is.

Roger is also an accomplished pilot, and not just a pilot but a builder: he flies a Lancair 320 he constructed himself, taking off from his airpark home in the high desert. That rare blend of championship racing instinct, hands-on mechanical know-how, and a lifelong need for speed is exactly what he brings to coaching drivers one-on-one at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

Rod Susman has lived a remarkable life in sport. He earned his race competition license in 1960 and has carried a passion for motorsport and teaching ever since, even as he spent more than six years playing professional tennis on the international circuit. His wife, Karen Hantze Susman, is herself a former Wimbledon singles and doubles champion.

It was through racing that Rod found his true calling: teaching. He began instructing track drivers and racers in the early 1980s, has coached professionally for the past three decades, and for nearly ten years has served as Chief Driving Instructor for the Vintage Auto Racing Association (VARA), where he authored the organization’s official Instructor Manual. Along the way he has organized and promoted countless track days, both private and for clubs.

Rod is driven by giving back to the sport that has given him so much, including developing the next generation of instructors through his work with the Motorsport Safety Foundation. In coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, he brings more than six decades of racing perspective and a lifetime of teaching craft to every driver he works with.

Larry Mason is FastLane Racing School’s Lead Instructor, coaching drivers one-on-one across our SCCA race licensing, high-performance, and Formula 4 programs at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. He is also the host of the RaceSchool.com podcast and a regular writer for the FastLane blog. Larry pairs a champion’s race craft with a rare gift for teaching, meeting every driver where they are and building the day around their goals.

Larry is an accomplished racing driver with championships in both open and closed-wheel cars and multiple track records to his name, including the Formula Mazda Challenge West Championship and the SCCA Southern Pacific Division Championship. His career is also a story of resilience. After a suspension failure at the 1990 Dallas Grand Prix left him with broken legs and ankles, he returned to racing about eighteen months later and won his very next amateur race, then took his first professional win at the 1992 Del Mar Grand Prix. In 2001 he made his CART Indy Lights debut with a top-ten finish at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, and in an Indy Racing League rookie test at Phoenix he unofficially broke the track record his first time ever on a one-mile oval.

Off the track, Larry is a national award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and photographer, a member of the Motor Press Guild and the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association, and a Cal State Long Beach engineering graduate. He brings that same discipline to fitness as an ACE-certified personal trainer and triathlete. That blend of championship experience, communication skill, and genuine patience is what makes him one of the most requested coaches at FastLane.

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Mike Alsup is a veteran off-road and desert racer based in Bakersfield, California, and a FastLane coach of more than a decade. He came up racing motocross before turning his focus to four wheels and the desert, and has spent years in SCORE International competition, taking on legendary events like the Baja 1000 and Baja 500.

Racing runs in the family. Mike works alongside his son, Mitchell Alsup, at Alsup Racing Development, the Bakersfield off-road race shop Mitchell founded and a genuine force in SCORE and UTV competition, where Mitchell is a class champion and Can-Am factory driver. Mitchell has also coached at FastLane, and Mike still races dirt and desert events alongside fellow FastLane coach Scott Atchison.

On a road course, Mike’s off-road background gives him a deep feel for grip, weight transfer, and car control in conditions where the surface is always changing. In private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, he turns that hard-earned instinct into clear, transferable technique for drivers at every level, from first-timers to aspiring racers.

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Ron Hurst is a longtime FastLane instructor of more than a decade and one of the most connected figures in West Coast road racing. He serves as President of the Vintage Auto Racing Association (VARA), the largest vintage racing organization on the West Coast, where he helps steward the cars, the racers, and the racing school that keep historic motorsport alive.

A Brea, California native, Ron is a licensed SCCA racer with a long and successful competition career, and a true hands-on racer. He builds his own engines and campaigns vintage cars, the kind of driver who understands a race car from the crankshaft up.

Ron also brings a law enforcement background to his teaching, as a police sergeant and EVOC (Emergency Vehicle Operations) instructor, pairing pursuit-grade vehicle control with decades of racecraft. In private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, that combination of authority, mechanical depth, and racing experience helps every driver build real, transferable skill.

Bill Follmer has been a FastLane coach since the very beginning, working alongside founder Danny McKeever at the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Grand Prix in Long Beach, and he still coaches drivers one on one at Buttonwillow Raceway Park today.

The son of American racing legend George Follmer, Bill grew up trackside and followed his father into the sport, becoming an accomplished racer in his own right. Across decades of sports-car and vintage competition he has earned wins and podiums, racing Porsches and the family's legendary Can-Am and IROC machines at premier historic events such as the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. A respected builder and restorer as well as a driver, Bill prepares classic and vintage Porsches and the historically significant Follmer cars he campaigns, and has instructed at IROC-focused track events at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

The Follmer name carries weight. George was the only driver ever to win the Can-Am and Trans-Am championships in the same season (1972), a Formula One podium-finisher, an IROC winner, and a multiple hall-of-fame inductee. Bill grew up inside that world and has spent his life keeping it alive, on track and in the shop.

That lifetime in racing, a championship family, hands-on car craft, and decades behind the wheel and coaching, is what Bill brings to every FastLane driver. In private one-on-one sessions at Buttonwillow, he meets each student where they are and turns hard-won experience into real, lasting skill.

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Art Haynie spent more than twenty years behind the camera as a commercial and television director and producer, with credits that range from record-setting Super Bowl commercials to a staff director role on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Then he fell in love with driving, and never looked back.

It started on the set of a Super Bowl commercial, where he worked closely with racing star Danica Patrick. She invited him to hang out with her and her engineers at the races, and the self-described science geek was hooked: the technology, the cars, the sounds, and the speed. He started asking questions, including the big one, would someone teach him to drive. From there it became a second career.

Since then Art has won awards and earned national certifications, and he keeps chasing anything that moves. He has flown planes and helicopters, driven trains, ambulances, and boats, and managed and raced an electric superbike team to an undefeated season with wins at Le Mans and Laguna Seca and two World Land Speed Records. His biggest coup came at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, where he recruited two-time defending motorcycle champion Carlin Dunne away from Ducati and won the overall motorcycle title, making history as the first electric motorcycle to beat combustion-engine competitors head to head and generating headlines around the world.

Today Art is a high-performance driving and racing instructor, a test driver for Porsche, and a precision and stunt driver for film and production. He is Class A licensed, motorcycle licensed, and holds a full competition auto racing license, and he will happily tell you he can drive virtually anything with wheels. At FastLane he brings that same curiosity and craft to private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, meeting every driver where they are and making the day about real skill.

Jim Smith is a longtime FastLane instructor and a dedicated vintage and club racer in Southern California. A familiar presence in both SCCA and VARA (Vintage Auto Racing Association) competition, he has spent years on track as both a racer and a coach.

Jim campaigns a classic Datsun 240Z in vintage competition, and his pace speaks for itself: at a 2022 VARA hillclimb he won the vintage over-two-liter class outright, posting the fastest time of day in his category. That blend of hard-earned seat time and a real feel for a classic sports car is exactly what he brings to his students.

At FastLane, Jim coaches drivers one-on-one at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, drawing on decades around the sport to help each driver build genuine car control and confidence.

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Robert Lara is a race car driver and FastLane coach who competes in open-wheel formula racing. A familiar name in Southern California’s SCCA and Cal Club paddocks, he races in the Pacific F2000 series, piloting the kind of wings-and-slicks formula car that forms the backbone of West Coast open-wheel competition.

Off the track, Robert brings an unusual edge to his driving: a professional background in product design and plastics. That engineer’s eye shows in how methodically he approaches setup, preparation, and the small details that make a fast car, and he documents his racing under the Project X-22 Racing banner.

At FastLane, Robert coaches drivers one-on-one at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, translating real formula-car experience into clear, practical technique for anyone looking to build speed and confidence on track.

Steve Staveley has been an instructor at FastLane since 1999. He shares his deep knowledge of racing through our high-performance courses, and he is also a cornerstone of our defensive-driving instruction, often leading the classroom sessions and programs that genuinely help save lives.

Steve’s background is exceptional. An accomplished racer and instructor, he also spent nearly forty years in law enforcement, including ten as a Police Chief. He channels that experience into one of FastLane’s standout programs, High Speed EVOC, which prepares incoming California Highway Patrol cadets for the high-speed driving portion of their academy, a test they must pass to earn their badge. Under Steve’s leadership, hundreds of cadets have come through the program with a 98% pass rate.

Humble, proactive, and genuinely passionate, Steve is also just a great person to sit down and talk with. In private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, that rare mix of elite driving skill, real-world authority, and patient teaching is exactly what makes him such a valued part of the FastLane team.

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Alex Penrith is a law enforcement driving instructor and lifelong racer who contracts with FastLane as an EVOC (Emergency Vehicle Operations) coach. An LAPD officer, he serves as a driving instructor at the department’s Davis Training Facility, where he teaches pursuit driving, high-speed vehicle operation, and collision avoidance, and he is POST certified.

His instructor credentials are matched by real racing. Based in Ojai, California, Alex is a vintage and historic sports car racer who has campaigned cars including a Lola sports racer and a Lotus, and he competes in hill climb events alongside his road racing. That mix gives him both a competitor’s instinct and a professional instructor’s discipline.

The blend is what Alex adds to the FastLane team: the precision of police EVOC training paired with the racecraft of an active competitor. In coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, he helps drivers master car control at speed, the same fundamentals that keep both racers and officers safe when it matters most.

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Mark Jager has been a FastLane instructor for many years, and ran FastLane Track Days for over a year, putting drivers on track in a relaxed, well-run environment. He is a West Coast time attack champion, the founder and host of the Perfect Lap Podcast, and one of the most recognizable names in Southern California time attack.

Mark’s path started young. As a teenager it was a 1991 Honda and the drag strip; after high school he bought a Subaru STI and stuck mostly to drag racing, until his wife surprised him with a day at a driving school. Half a day on a road course and he was hooked. Following in the footsteps of fellow FastLane coach JC Meynet, he transformed that Subaru from near-stock into a championship car.

What followed was a rapid climb from enthusiast to record-setting competitor. Mark won Redline Time Attack and Global Time Attack Street Class championships and set a long list of class and overall records at premier West Coast circuits including Buttonwillow, Auto Club Speedway, Chuckwalla Valley, and Road Atlanta, with his cars built alongside tuner and fabricator Paul Leung.

After retiring the STI, Mark now pilots a Ford Mustang with a bit more practicality to it, a car that is just as happy on the street as it is fast on track. When he is not chasing a perfect lap of his own, you can often find him behind the mic on Global Time Attack’s live stream or wandering the pits looking for someone to interview. That mix of championship seat time and a genuine love of the sport is what he brings to private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

JC Meynet (Jean-Charles Meynet) is one of the most versatile racers and car builders on the FastLane staff. In 2023 he announced himself on the national stage by winning the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli Western Championship GT title in his debut season, driving the No. 28 Killer Shrimp Racing Chevrolet Corvette. He won five of eight races, including three straight poles and wins to open the year at Thunderhill, Sonoma, and Laguna Seca, finished on the podium seven times, and took both the GT championship and Rookie of the Year.

JC’s path to that title started in the dirt. He grew up chasing speed on BMX, motocross, and skis, and came up as a motocross champion before turning his attention to four wheels. A 2006 Subaru STI and a few track days were all it took: he was hooked, and went on to build and race a string of high-horsepower Subarus, Corvettes, and Trans Am cars across time attack, SCCA, and even Stadium Super Trucks.

What truly sets JC apart is that he does it all himself. He is an accomplished engineer, tuner, and engine builder, and an expert at car setup, the kind of driver who understands a race car from the inside out. That rare combination of championship-winning pace and deep technical knowledge is exactly what he brings to private one-on-one coaching at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, helping drivers go faster by understanding not just the line, but the machine underneath them.