The Racecar Podcast

Indianapolis used to be the place for weird and wonderful race cars, but that ended in 1968. Hear the story of Andy Granatelli, Carroll Shelby, and the other men who tried (and failed) to harness the power of the turbine to take home the Borg Warner trophy on this episode of The Racecar Podcast.

Has it really been a year? How time flies am I right? Anyway here’s 23 minutes or so on the R32 GT-R, which seemed like a good easy subject to cover. Neat car, lots of wins, Kaiju noises, check it out.

Right so I made another episode, big deal, want to fight about it? Its been almost a year, so clearly I'm right on schedule. Dan Carlin releases a 6 hour epic on the Vikings, I give you guys 22 minutes on four racecars nobody cares about, thats just how it works. Anyway this is an episode about four cars I couldn't stretch into full episodes, so I linked em all together and made one show out of them. I enjoyed it, kinda, so hopefully you do too

Okay so its been a while, right? This one isn't produced or edited, its just me talking, but its been in my notes file for like a year so I wanted to get it out there. Anyway its the Porsche 917, from birth to death to 1980s zombie undeath.

There are many people, of which I am one, who believe the Jordan 191 is the best looking F1 car of all time. But it was also a successful racecar for a team that desperately needed to come out swinging in their rookie season if they had any hope of being more than a one-season competitor. Oh, and Michael Schumacher makes an appearance as well. This is the Jordan 191.

The story of the design, development, and competition history of the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R. GM's first true factory backing of the Corvette as a race car, the C5-R would take on the world and win basically wherever it went. Raise hell, praise Dale. 

There was actually a time in NASCAR's history when they called the cars stock cars and actually meant it. The greatest of that era is undoubtedly the Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and its story is told here. 

Hans J Stuck, the driver of the 90 GTO, said that race cars have a soul and the 90 GTO had a very special soul. This is the story of the car, why it existed at all, and how it changed the landscape of motorsport forever. 

Wherein Enzo Ferrari builds a whole Indy car just to get the FIA to let him run V12s after the end of the turbo era. The 637 is a gorgeous car that deserved to run, but it does have a story even if it never raced.

There are maybe some sorts of cars you don't expect to see being launched off curbs on a race circuit, and a Volvo 850 Estate is certainly one of them. This episode is a look at the one year only car that brought Volvo back to BTCC racing, and has remained one of the most famous touring cars of all time despite its short career.