THE biggest weekend in motorsport for the year gets the full Hot / Not / What treatment from team OTG this week as we delve into everything good, bad and insane that happened.  There's a full Indy 500 debrief and a discussion into what made the show so good, a substantial Formula One rant about what made the show so bad, lots of weather chat and all the usual interesting titbits you might not have picked up on across the weekend from those races and more.  Learn more about your ad choices....

FORD found themselves back in victory lane in the Perth Supersprint last weekend, their first wins of the 2024 season. We welcome Ford's Motorsport Engineering lead, Brendan McGinniskin, to the show to discuss their rise to victory for the first time this year, plus how the global elements of Ford Motorsport are contributing to their Aussie program - and vice-versa. Then we debrief the weekend that was - including the proverbial elephant in the room about a certain Aussie Racing Car - and...

This week, for something completely different, our interview guest under the spotlight is none other than Aussie Racing Car part team owner and part-time commentator/PR operative/podcaster Richard Craill! RC is joined by Johnston Craill Racing Enterprises team pilot Asher Johnston, with the dynamic duo breaking down their venture into national-level motorsport - unsurprisingly, it's a highly insightful chat! In part two, we break down a big weekend in sports, look forward to Supercars heading...

Jay Robotham is taking an alternate route in his motorsport career, with a contrasting array of programs on his 2024 roster. From Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia to the Thai Super Series with a wild Ford Ranger Super PickUp and a MARC Mustang, Jay plans to put the miles to good use when he lines up in the Supercars enduros with Bryce Fullwood at Brad Jones Racing. From luring monkeys with bananas to a cracking Thai lifestyle, it’s a top chat. Plus, the team breaks down a massive week in...

IMAGINE racing one of the most successful IndyCars ever? That's what Aussie Jordan Roddy is doing having recently purchased and now raced the famous Macca's Newman Haas Lola raced to a pair of Champ Car titles by Sebastien Bourdais. Jordan joins the show to discuss some of his incredible car resto projects, including a Cadillac LMP1 car, V12 Jaguars and how he's reassembled lots of Newman Haas Racing to run his latest purchase. It's a great story with some cool moments along the...

The Repco Supercars Championship debut in Taupo witnessed a massive bounceback for Anton De Pasquale and the Shell V-Power Racing Team, who jetted home with the all-important Jason Richards Memorial Trophy after a classic weekend of racing. Anton joins us to break it all down, while Richard Craill phones it in from across the ditch with all of the inside gossip from on the ground at our newest championship circuit. The team analyse a big weekend in sport, plus there is the usual dose of Hot...

The Supercars are back in New Zealand this weekend and we're the first on the ground at Taupo to give the first impressions on the series newest venue. We also recap the weekend that was at the Shannons SpeedSeries, hear from SRO Chief Stephan Ratel, as well as Craig Lowndes and Cooper Murray and run through some hots.. and some reasonably serious items in the opposing Not column.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GEORGE MIEDECKE is on the show this week which gives us a chance to look backwards - at his significant role in claiming the Bathurst 6 Hour - and forwards, at his GT4 Australia debut this weekend at Phillip Island aboard a mighty Ford Mustang. George is at his usual best with an engaging chat about all things! Then it's a big debrief of the week that was and the weekend that will be, plus the usual rundown of all things Hot and Not in the world of Motorsport.  Learn more about your ad...

Jayden Ojeda and Courtney Prince both made history in the Bathurst 6 Hour this year, 'Juice' the first to defend his win while Courtney is the first female driver to stand on the top step of the Bathurst podium in years. They're both on the show this week to help debrief another magic Mountain moment. Then it's into the breakdown of the race and the Hot's and Not's of the week that was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Percat brought home the win in the final race for Supercars at the Grand Prix. It was celebrations all round for Nick and his team at Matt Stone Racing. We chat to the Bathurst 1000 winner about life moving forward. A massive review of the Aussie GP and a big preview of the Bathurst 6 hour. Hots and Nots and there could even be a what. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Previous Supercar AGP winner Dave Reynolds talks about his move to Team 18 and how he found himself there. Dave also talks about family life, his love of GT3 cars and much more. Our hots and nots are very hot this week and we also slip in a GP preview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Schibecs is away in Thailand this week, so we've begged Greg Rust, of TV and Rusty's Garage fame, to come and co-host the first half of our ep. Always thoughtful and insightful, Rusty offers up his thoughts on F1, this weekend's Shannons SpeedSeries round in Tassie, his best guests on his own podcast and dream guest scenarios. We don't have a dream guest scenario any more: Rusty was it and we've now ticked that box. Then it's the Hots and Nots of the week including why timed races going is...

We catch up with Tom Randle and talk about his first GT3 race 'The Bathurst 12 hour' which was followed up 5 days later by the Bathurst 500. Tom talks about the fun he had driving with a legend of the sport and how he got his head around two very different types of cars on the mountain. We preview the first IndyCar race of the year and plenty of hots and nots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Lowndes spoke to Mark Walker about driving in the Fink Desert Rally, The Bathurst 12 hour and last weekends 500. We hear from the driver of the fastest closed in car to lap Mount Panorama Romain Dumas, Hots and Nots and plenty more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaxon Evans very nearly scored a podium in the Bathurst 12 hour last weekend, and now he'll try the same as he makes his Supercars debut at the same venue five days later. He joins us to discuss his big career change and much more. And then it's all the hots and nots from the week that was and what is to come this weekend.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the team records the podcast at different times because they all had a little bit on. Ben Bargwanna joins Tony Schibeci for a chat about his solid start to season 2024 in TCR Australia taking 2 from 3 wins at Sandown. Richard and Mark catch up to give a huge Bathurst 24 hour preview and chat a couple of other things as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As always all the news breaks when we're not on air. We take a few minutes to go through some of the big Motorsport stories to have broken over the past 6 weeks. The boys cover off on things they think might or will happen in 2024 via way of a top 5 and delve into their Caltex Hot's and Not's. It's good to be back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our grand finale for 2023! We close out a massive year of On the Grid stories with our all-time HOT and NOT power rankings from the year that was.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two key interviews this week as Motorsport Australia's CEO, Sunil Vohra, drops in and believe us - he's a race fan. We quizz the new boss about his passion for the sport and what his plans are moving forward. And then, with the summer of speedway almost here, James McFadden drops in to chat his return with the NAPA Hodges Motorsport entry, fills is in on his World of Outlaws campaign and talks his big summer of Speedway ahead. It's a big show with fun, interesting chats!  Learn more about...

KAI ALLEN sealed the Super2 series crown in Adelaide so we had to get this impressive young bloke from Mount Gambier back on the show to discuss his achievements - and find out the odd reason why he couldn't have the chat at our usually scheduled time.. Then it's a massive debrief in and around the Adelaide 500 and the end of the Supercars Championship for 2023. It's a big one, this.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A simple show this week and most of it is centred around the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the VAILO Adelaide 500 this week. A typically comprehensive and opinionated breakdown of the Vegas highs and lows is mirrored by a typically comprehensive and opinionated breakdown of this weekend's Supercars decider. A lengthy Hot / Not breakdown features as well, of course.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A huge show this week, as Josh Buchan joins us to discuss the start of his reign as TCR Australia's champion after claiming the title in Adelaide. Todd Hazelwood is on the show to discuss the pausing of his full-time Supercars career and what may come next, before a typically feisty Hot and Not segment processes the pro's and con's of McDonald's and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ROB HUFF joins the show - the first World Champion to do so - to reflect on his successful weekend in the TCR World Tour races in Sydney and his incredible Touring Car career in general. Plus, how close he came to racing Supercars, his sneaky pre-Sydney test and how he's got his own museum in Macau! Huffy is a legend and a great chat - this is well worth a listen!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

YOUNG GUN Bayley Hall has launched from zero to success in his Porsche Carrera Cup career, claiming his first race and overall victory in the tough one-make championship at the weekend. We get to know the young man from Queensland, talk pathways to the top and racing in America, plus an incredible weekend at Surfers that delivered him a maiden Carrera Cup win.  Then it's the Hot's and Not's from a massive week of motorsport.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than 35,000 people turned out to watch Drag Racing at The Bend for the first time at the weekend, an event that doubled as the launch of the new National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC). One of the series' main players, Nathan Prendergast, is our special guest to download the weekend and the exciting future a unified sport has moving forward. Then it's our Gold Coast preview and a particularly scathing Hot and Not segment to not be missed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...