Episodes
The Month of May is just around the corner, it's the biggest month of the year for the IndyCar series and it's capped off with the Indy 500. Before that there's a road course raise at Indy, Indy 500 qualifying weekend, this weekend's Grand Prix of Long Beach and more. It's a busy time on track for IndyCar with a lot going on off track as well, with the impending arrival of the new hybrid engine and a new TV/streaming deal for 2025 and beyond. There's also the rich history of IndyCar, the 500...
Published 04/18/24
Published 04/18/24
We're back after a week off with Jarett Andretti joining us for our latest interview. Jarett is competing in the IMSA Weathertech Championship in the GTD category after spending the last couple of years in the LMP3 category. He talks about his 2024 season so far, how he got up to speed with a late start in his racing career, his experience in dirt track racing and about his father, John, the wider Andretti racing family and the #Checkit4Andretti foundation's important mission. Before our...
Published 04/09/24
Samantha sat down with us on a busy Monday in her shop out in California as she and her team continue preparations for the opening weekend of the GT World Challenge America 2024 calendar, taking place at Sonoma Raceway on April 5-7th. Samantha talked about her start in racing, the unique circumstance around founding her own team, her success in touring cars, GT4 and GT3 categories. She also discussed how her long association with BMW turned into being a BMW M Motorsport Global Ambassador in...
Published 03/26/24
We're joined this week by Olivia Hicks, the creator of Formula Flash, and Sasha Rogelberg, creator of InBoxBox, to talk F1. Both of this week's guests work can be found on Substack, which is also the home of MOTA, and they also collaborated together recently on an ezine project about the finance, sponsorship and influence that F1 has off track, all over the world. We had such a great conversation with Olivia and Sasha that skipped a intro from Thomas and got straight into talking about...
Published 03/19/24
F1’s 2024 opening weekend in Bahrain just concluded and we’re a few days away from the next weekend in Saudi Arabia.  Aaron Guy Leroux joins us to talk about what to look forward to for what will be F1’s longest ever season with 24 races. We had a fantastic, wide ranging conversation discussing Red Bulls dominance, McClaren’s bid to really make this year their year, Haas, Logan Sargeant and just about everything else. We’ll also review this past weekend’s results in F1 for Haas and Logan...
Published 03/05/24
This week, Mac Clark joins the pod to talk about his upcoming season in USF Pro 2000 and how he’s quickly climbing the open wheel ranks on his own personal road to Indy. Mac has had a tremendous amount of success in his young career starting out in Canada before moving into US F4 and then into USF Juniors and beyond. He talks about representing Canada in the wider racing world, balancing race car driving with attending college and his goal of winning the Indy 500. Follow Mac right here and...
Published 02/27/24
We’re back after a week off with Stu Leslie from Off in the Esses, a YouTube channel covering IMSA. Stu talked all about how he got into IMSA, the excitement all the races provide and what we can look forward to this season. Stu was at the 24 Hours of Daytona and tells us all about his experience at the track and seeing the racing up close. Off in the Esses has a ton of great content to check out if our chat peaks your interest in IMSA. This is a great video to start out with: The Ultimate...
Published 02/20/24
We’re joined this week by Ian Lacy from Ian lacy Racing out in Utah. Ian has a long and wide range of experience in racing going back to his start working as a mechanic and finding a legal outlet for his driving passion by taking on the challenge of autocross. Ian had success as an open wheel driver for many years and now runs a team that’s garnered a big haul of trophies in SRO. Hear about all that and his hope for 2024! News The world of Formula 1 was stunned last week by Lewis Hamilton’s...
Published 02/06/24
After the first major racing of event of the year, the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, we’re bringing you an interview with Nathan Saxon, who joined us recently to talk about his experience as a driver coach and how his racing career developed from iRacing to a recent test in a LMP3 car in Portugal. We’ll also be looking to meet up with Nathan later on this summer at some local tracks in New England to see him racing and coaching in action. Until then, keep up with Nathan on his site and find out...
Published 01/30/24
This week we have an awesome interview to share with Sally Mott. Sally is competing in the Mazda MX-5 Cup this season which is a spec series supporting several IMSA weekends in 2024. Sally had an amazing 2023 and she talks about that and how she’s preparing for a big 2024 season. We also touch on some news… IMSA’s Roar Before the 24 took place last weekend with WeatherTech Championship qualifying for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, along with practice sessions for several of the series running next...
Published 01/23/24
Motorsport of the Americas kicks off 2024 with a great interview with Victor Gonzalez Jr. who's team will be competing with a two car lineup in the Michelin Pilot Challenge. Victor talked about his hectic 2023 season, his team's plans for 2024, his own career as a race car driver and adding being a team owner to that and the opportunities he provides to Hispanics aspiring to get involved with motorsports. We also talk quickly about Guenther Steiner's exit from the Haas F1 team and what will...
Published 01/16/24