Episode 121 - 2026 Events preview

In Episode 125 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with the Alfa Romeo Concierge at Stellantis &You in Leicester – friend of the the podcast Saber Ali - to talk about his role, the challenges of operating a retailer, Alfa’s heritage, customers electrification and the models the marque needs in the future.

Episode 124 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - sees Editor Guy Swarbrick sit down with Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club manager Nick Wright and Club Secretary David Faithful to discuss the UK’s biggest Alfa event by far - National Alfa Day.

In Episode 123 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick ventured into the Chilterns above Henley-on-Thames to talk about the Club’s upcoming National Concours – and to provide some general tips on concours competitions. His guests were Club finance Director and Chief Concours judge John Timms, fellow judge Andrew Stevens, overall 2026 concours winner the stunning, white 1967 Duetto – and the Duetto’s owner Gary Plumb. The ACF50 Aluminium detailer discussed on the podcast is available direct from the manufacturer. The Duetto on Goodwood TV (at Brooklands...) -  Gary's Duetto's AROOC Guardian page   

In Episode 122 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick talks to GT Registrar Nathan Mahoney and 159 Registrar Debbi Lindsey about their new lives as social media stars. How did it all come about? What have they done so far? What have they learned? What are their plans for the future? If you have ideas for future content, you can contact them by email - Nathan Mahoney - GT Registrar - and Debbie Lindsey - 159 Registrar. And you can find all Debbie and Nathan's videos at AROC TV.

In Episode 121 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Manager Nick Wright and Club Secretary David Faithful to talk about the packed programme of events in store of Alfisti in the UK this year - and the new Alfa Romeo Driver Academy, recently launched in Italy.

In Episode 120 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick is at Goodwood – during a fairly noisy test session - to meet legendary Alfa racer Chris Snowdon and his business partner Richard Melvin of CSR to talk about their long association with the Alfetta GTV and the ex-Jon Dooley Napolina GTV6 that they’ll be racing at the Goodwood Members Meeting later this month.

In our fifth annual International Women's Day episode, Alfa Female's Kirsty Hodson sits down with Alfa Romeo and Italian Intermarque Championship racer Stacey Dennis to talk about her life in racing and discuss ideas about how to get more women involved in the Alfa racing scene. 

In Episode 118 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman - and friend of the podcast - John Griffiths to talk about how he got the bug, the Alfas he's owned (and the ones he wishes he had) and how his involvement with the Club has evolved.

As usual, we're taking short break over Christmas and the New Year but we're not going to leave you without a podcast to listen to! Episode 117 dips back into the archive and extracts the 'Alfas we've owned' sections from four of our early 'Meet the Board' episodes. Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick begins with Club Manager Nick Wright, then Motorsport Director Richard Murtha, Finance Director John Timms and, finally, Section Supremo Jonathan Griffin. Recorded during the pandemic between May 2020 and January 2021, as well as being a fascinating insight into the variety of cars the board has owned - they also act as a time capsule from a very different time, when podcasts were born!

No Such Thing as the Slough-Dover-Coventry Triangle. Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, John Griffiths, Nick Wright and David Faithful share their favourite facts about Alfa Romeo - in the UK (mostly!). A surprising number of Alfa Romeo importers have come and gone within a triangle bounded by former offices and Slough, Dover and the current HQ in Coventry. What's going on?