S11 Ep6: Rory Reid: Everyone wanted us to fail on Top Gear!

Olympian Iwan Thomas is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Thomas is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in 4x400m relay event. He’s also a former World, European and Commonwealth Games 4x400m relay champion.The 52-year-old, who now co-hosts the motorcycle-themed podcast Full Chat, joined Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of cars. 

Television presenter and motoring journalist Rory Reid is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Motoring journalist Reid, who is best known for his time as a presenter on Top Gear and Fifth Gear, is currently the YouTube director for Autotrader. He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of cars and why he wanted to present Fifth Gear. 

YouTube star Jack Pegoraro is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. The online personality is best known for his YouTube channel Number 27, which is dedicated to telling the story of classic cars, and has amassed over 85 million views and nearly 250,000 subscribers. He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of older vehicles and why he dislikes modern cars. 

Best known for his time on BBC's Dragon's Den, the hugely successful entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is Vicki and Dave's guest this week on Fuelling Around. Theo's success in the retail world affords him the finer things in life, and as a self-confessed petrolhead, that means cars, cars and more cars! From rare vintage Jags to his wife's John Cooper Works Mini, Theo has an eclectic collection of vehicles in his garage, which he's happy to talk about at length in this brilliantly entertaining episode!

Formula 1 presenter Steve Jones is the latest guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. The 49-year-old is best known for being the main presenter of Channel 4’s coverage of Formula 1 and previously hosted shows such T4 and X factor USA.Steve joined Vicki and Dave to explain how he likes everything to be just right about his cars, and how he's managed to write 3 books while on the road with the F1 circus!

Autoalex is the second guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around!He joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his eclectic collection of cars and why he finds it so hard to part with any of them!Alex has over 750,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 100 million views on his channel, making him one of the biggest automotive YouTubers on the planet!

Television presenter Tim Lovejoy is the first guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Lovejoy, who is best known for presenting weekend TV shows such as Sunday Brunch, Soccer AM and Something For The Weekend joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his love of cars. The 58-year-old also revealed all about life behind-the-scenes from some of TV’s most popular shows.

In the final episode of this series of Fuelling Around, Jason and Dave are joined by actor Simon Gregson who's played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street for the last 35 years! When he's not been out on the cobbles or propping up the bar in the Rovers Return, Simon has clearly been busy buying and selling cars, as he's certainly had plenty of stock over the last 3 decades! From a Renault 5 Turbo to a Ferrari 328, Simon's had them all and his car collection shows no sign of slowing down, as is apparent, as he walks the lads through his varied and eclectic garage!

He's the ultimate rock 'n' roll frontman, but Justin Hawkins from The Darkness also possesses a penchant for performance cars, and like his catsuits, he likes them to be exotic and flamboyant! This is a brilliant episode as Jason and Dave take a walk down Justin's memory lane of motors, and talk about his future days on track, now that he's passed his ARDS racing licence!

He's without doubt one of the biggest stars of YouTube, and has built a following of galactic proportions! Colin Furze is an engineer, an adventurer and a real life inspector gadget! He's built a secret bunker in his garden and an underground tunnel that links said bunker to his house, plus there's also a subterranean garage that will house his prized Delorean! Oh and he's a bit of a petrolhead as well, although Colin's approach to cars is like his approach to most things in life, ever so slightly unconventional! This is a brilliant episode and one to certainly watch, like and share, while not worrying too much about the lack of a traditional risk assessment!