Those long drives to the track are the perfect times to listen to motorsport podcasts. Here are a few of the great automotive podcast I enjoy focused on racing, track days and the aftermarket industry. Each covers a different topic in an entertaining way including some great laughs.
Ten Tenths Podcast
Presented by Michael Beck, Adam Nielsen and Robert (Handsome Rob) Vierhout, it covers amateur motorsports from three buddies with some great automotive arguments including dream garages and which of their daily drivers is more practical. They own imports, american and european cars so you get a variety of different perspectives. My favorite episodes so far are #3 The Dream Garage Argument and #8 The beginners guide to racing. Great laughs ensue when they shame each other and guests for poor automotive choices.
Speed Secrets Podcast
I loved reading the Speed Secrets books! Now the podcast allows me to listen on the commute! It has great interviews with motorsports professionals and even more driving tips to help me go faster! If you want tips from racers and engineers on how to drive a car faster this is the podcast for you.
SlipAngle by TrackTuned.com
Presented by Adam Jabaay, Adam Jabaay, and Abrin Schmucker covering track days, club racing, autocrossing, and other various driving hobbies. They have lots of great interviews with people in the aftermarket industry sprinkled in with some great tech tips. Listen for Adam's voice and those stupid but hilarious comments. They are involved with Grid.Life and know a lot of people in the Honda community. If you want to talk about Honda CRX racing, time attack or performance wagons this is definitely the podcast for you.
Dinner With Racers
A funny and insightful motorsports podcast hosted by racing driver Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman. The duo travel across the United States to interview other racing drivers, team owners, engineers, and general motorsports personalities over dinner. If you are a racer or engineer do yourself a favor and check out the Level 5 episode.
Grassroots Motorsports
Presented by J. G. Pasterjak, it is the official podcast of Grassroots Motorsport and covers auto crossing, racing and the aftermarket industry. Contains chats with industry insiders, professionals, drivers and influencers including how they got started, their successes and failures. Some episodes take you behind the scenes of the Grassroots Motorsport and Classics Motorsports magazines.
Cars For A Living
Presented by Rob Kibbe and Dan Kahn, is a podcast dedicated to turning your passion for cars into a career or business. The podcast ended January 2015 with 51 episodes. It covers a variety of topics focused on people in the automotive industry how they got their start and become successful. There are lots of tips and tricks for shops, social media, marketing and interviews with automotive industry experts.
Do It For A Living
This podcast started by Reid Lunde talks to the movers and shakers in the performance racing industry to find out their story and provide insight and guidance for those wanting to start or improve their automotive business. There are lots of great interviews with fantastic information including both the success and failures. If you are looking to get into the industry this podcast is essential.
The Marshall Pruett Podcast
This fantastic podcast goes deep into the world of motorsports looking in depth into SportsCar and IndyCar racing. Lots of great content and episodes including “The Week In IndyCar”, “The Week In Sports Cars”, “Catching Up With”, special episodes and many more. Great insights from Marshall Pruett and the team.
Beyond the Grid Podcast
An excellent podcast that goes behind the scenes of Formula 1 talking to current and former Formula 1 drivers, engineers, mechanics and team owners. If you enjoy Formula 1 this is the podcast for you to learn more from the people themselves.
The Inside Racing Podcast
John Robbins: Business strategist, coach and consultant for more than a decade shares his strategies, frameworks, tips and best practices to help you preserve and grow your racing operation. John goes beyond the scenes of racing with race track, sanctioning bodies, race teams and industry professionals.
Racers HQ Podcast
This podcast delves inside motorsports and racing to help people in karting, autocross, road racing and endurance racing. Jake took over RacersHQ and the podcast and interviews current racers to talk about their experience, tips and advice for new and perspective racers.
The Rags to Races Podcast
Jake’s former podcast discusses the different ways to get involved in motorsports no matter the size of your budget. He covers the varying costs, shows you what is involved and how you too can get into motorsports.
Driving While Awesome
Late to the party with this podcast but I have enjoyed listening to their banter, off topic diversions and general car knowledge. They answer listener questions from instagram, entertain Art's overly long stories and mix in some trivia, all while throwing out every chassis and model code for BMWs and Porsche. Definitely worth a listen and a few good laughs on the commute.
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