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How do you go from racing enduro in Spain to taking on the Dakar Rally for one of the biggest factory teams in the world? Tosha Schareina reveals the reality of racing Dakar, how he used a Dakar video game on PlayStation to learn rally navigation, what it takes to survive at the highest level of rally-raid, and his journey to becoming a factory Honda rider.
Tosha Schareina is a Spanish rally-raid racer and factory Honda rider competing at the highest level of cross-country rally. In Chapter 420, he sits down with Jase Macalpine to break down his journey from motocross and enduro to Dakar, and his pursuit of the World Rally-Raid Championship.
TOSHA EXPLAINS:
◼ How playing the Dakar video game helped him learn rally navigation
◼ What it really takes to race the Dakar Rally
◼ How he went from Spanish enduro to racing for Factory Honda
◼ Why Billy Bolt and Josep Garcia helped make enduro cool again
◼ The physical and mental demands of cross-country rally
◼ His take on Jett Lawrence vs Haiden Deegan in Pro Motocross
0:00 The Dakar Dream That Started on a PlayStation
9:44 Cardo Systems
11:11 The Uncle Who Got Him on Bikes at 7
13:12 Why He Missed His Shot at Being a Motocross Pro
20:55 Choosing Enduro Over Motocross in Spain
21:40 How Billy Bolt and Josep Garcia Made Enduro Cool Again
32:58 Racing Under the Spanish Federation, Not a Factory
37:37 Battling Josep Garcia Through the Junior Ranks
55:54 The Sponsor Money That Gets You to Dakar
59:53 He Trained for Dakar Using the PlayStation Game
1:05:19 MotoSport.com
1:14:15 Racing Argentina, Morocco, and the Learning Curve
1:28:51 Physical vs Mental Prep in Cross-Country Rally
1:43:14 Where Supercross and Rally Overlap
1:59:30 Chasing the World Rally-Raid Championship
2:00:35 AG1
2:10:16 Tosha Schareina on Jett vs Deegan
2:23:47 What's Next: Baja, Brazil, and Morocco
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Jase Macalpine sits down with Pernilla Solberg for Chapter 419 of the Gypsy Tales Podcast to tell the story behind one of rally's most influential families. Pernilla never wanted to be the best female driver. She wanted to be the best driver, period. When one competitor told her that if she ever beat him, he'd put his helmet on the shelf, that's exactly what she did.

Pernilla raced against the boys in Sweden throughout the late '90s, met Petter Solberg at Rally GB in 1998, and retired at 28 to raise their son Oliver, now a WRC driver in his own right. Today, she runs the Solberg motorsport operation, serves as President of the FIA World Rally Commission, and holds board seats across five family car companies.

In this chapter, Pernilla gets into what it takes to run a rally team, why a Rally1 car can now cost $1.5 million with few buyers lining up, how modern PR is stripping motorsport of its biggest personalities, and why a new WRC owner could be days away from being announced. Plus, the sim racer who beat everyone with a Logitech taped to his kitchen table, the Norwegian Prime Minister who wrote Petter a letter about his swearing, and why Pernilla believes YouTube, not TV, has become the biggest engine in motorsport.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:37 Growing Up Around Swedish Motorsport
00:09:35 The Lando Norris Ice Session
00:11:32 Starting Rally At 16 With Her Dad
00:14:47 SOTA Fuel Ad
00:15:26 The First Race In A Volvo 240
00:19:45 The Guy Who Put His Helmet On The Shelf
00:24:24 The Sim Racer Who Won With A Logitech
00:28:36 Stepping Up To A Mitsubishi Evo 3
00:32:05 Meeting Petter At Rally GB 1998
00:37:07 Retiring At 28 To Have Oliver
00:41:36 Getting Oliver Into Cross Karts
00:52:54 The Call That Subaru Was Leaving
00:57:13 AG1 Ad
00:59:00 Starting A Rally Team In Five Weeks
01:07:21 The Muzzling Of Modern Motorsport
01:16:29 Petter Told Off By The Norwegian Prime Minister
01:22:53 Rally 1 Cars Now Cost $1.5 Million
01:33:57 YouTube Is The World's Biggest TV Channel
01:36:19 Brunt Workwear Ad
01:37:52 If Championships Went All-In On YouTube
01:44:34 Women In Motorsport
01:53:56 Can Oliver Be A World Champion
01:57:48 Favorite Rallies On The Calendar
02:03:35 Building A Rally Car From Scratch
02:13:07 The Vision For WRC

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Petter Solberg sits down with Jase for Chapter 418 to tell the full story of how a broke Norwegian farm kid became the only Norwegian to ever win the World Rally Championship.
From racing Beetles in the mud and earning £15,000 a year as a carpenter, to signing with Ford alongside Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz, the crash that changed his career, winning the 2003 WRC title, and raising his son Oliver as the next generation.
They cover the golden era of WRC, the wild party scene of 2000s rally, Petter’s rallycross years battling Sébastien Loeb, keeping sponsors happy, his wife Pernilla and how they built an empire together, and Jase getting behind the wheel of Petter’s rally car.
Whether you grew up playing Colin McRae Rally on PlayStation or you’re discovering the sport through Oliver Solberg, this is two decades of rally history told by the man who lived it.
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0:00 Intro
3:44 Welcome Petter Solberg to the Podcast
10:50 AG1 Ad
11:37 The Golden Era of World Rally
20:18 How Sim Racing Changed Motorsports
28:00 Petter and His Older Brother
33:48 Growing Up on the Norwegian Family Farm
40:00 Where Petter's Driving Career Began
52:04 Brunt Workwear Ad
53:31 From Broke to World Rally Champion
1:07:25 When Petter Knew Oliver Would Race
1:14:13 Guiding Oliver Without Controlling His Career
1:14:34 Petter's Big Rally Crash
1:20:16 Petter on Brian Deegan and Comparing Their Kids' Careers
1:25:54 The Crash That Changed Petter's Career
1:32:39 Colin McRae's Impact on World Rally
1:38:55 Rallycross Is Older Than World Rally
1:46:27 Ridge Wallet Ad
1:48:04 Petter's Rookie Years in World Rally
1:57:12 Keeping Sponsors Happy in Motorsport
2:05:07 The Party Scene of 2000s Rally
2:06:31 Petter's First Full WRC Season
2:17:05 Becoming World Rally Champion
2:26:09 Why Petter Could've Won More
2:30:47 Broke to Multi-Millionaire
2:38:17 Pernilla Solberg and Building the Empire
2:45:22 Jase Gets Behind the Wheel
2:47:18 Closing
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Charley Boorman sits down with Jase to tell the real story behind Long Way Round, the trip with Ewan McGregor that changed the motorcycle adventure genre forever. From how the idea came together over dinner in London, to the Dakar Rally training that got him ready, to riding the Road of Bones across Siberia to Magadan, Charley walks through the trip that shaped his life.

They get into what four months on the road with Ewan actually taught him, how the Sky One deal came together, the Long Way Down and Long Way Up follow-ups, riding Australia end to end, 53 miles of hard enduro at the Isle of Man with David Knight, and what makes Jett Lawrence and Marc Marquez operate on a different level than the rest of us.

Whether you've watched every Long Way series or you're finding Charley for the first time, this is the interview that goes deeper than the shows ever could.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:54 Welcome Charley Boorman to Gypsy Tales
2:26 Jase on the Subscribe Discovery
4:57 Meeting Charley at the Isle of Man TT
10:16 The David Jeffries Story
14:40 Cardo Systems Ad
22:01 Riding Australia End to End
25:49 Living in Queensland with Jason Connery's Mother
34:57 Racing the Dakar Rally
37:07 The Race to Dakar Documentary
40:04 What It Takes to Make the Dakar
50:54 Coming Back to Dakar
52:13 Jumping Into Long Way Down
54:37 The Real Story Behind Long Way Round
1:03:47 Getting the Sky One Deal
1:07:06 Motosport Ad
1:13:54 Collecting Dream Motorcycles
1:24:05 Why Ewan Wanted to Do the Trip
1:30:04 Riding Into Russia
1:38:38 Jase's Scottish Roots
1:39:33 Through Mongolia
1:41:12 The Road of Bones to Magadan
1:45:51 Magadan to Anchorage
1:51:05 Long Way Round
1:58:19 How Long Way Round Inspired So Many
2:04:27 Fist Handwear Ad
2:07:51 The Making of Long Way Down
2:12:58 Africa in All Its Vibrance
2:19:04 The Dangers of Border Crossings
2:32:29 Charley's Dream Australian Ride
2:36:56 Ducati's Desert X
2:37:38 The Bike Charley Bought Himself
2:42:41 53 Miles of Hard Enduro at the Isle of Man with David Knight
2:47:04 What Makes Elite Riders Different
2:47:40 Sota Fuel Ad
2:48:28 Why Jett Lawrence Is So Good
2:51:43 How Soccer Players Handle Injuries vs MotoGP
3:00:58 Charley's Bucket List Rides
3:07:38 The European Bucket List Tour
3:14:02 Closing

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Chapter 415 of the Gypsy Tales Podcast features British speedway rider Dan Bewley sitting down with Jase to explain what it actually feels like to race a bike with no brakes, four laps at a time, at 70 mph, inches away from three other riders. Dan breaks down the crash that shattered his femur, his dream of becoming a professional motocross racer before switching to speedway, and what it took to build a career in a sport most Americans have never seen.

They also get into the new Kawasaki two-stroke concept everyone's talking about, life racing in Poland where speedway is massive, Russian riders being banned from top-level competition, Ken Roczen finally becoming a Supercross champion, and whether Haiden Deegan really has what it takes to beat Jett Lawrence.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:03:37 Welcome Dan Bewley to Gypsy Tales

00:04:05 Breaking My Femur in a Speedway Crash

00:13:32 Motosport Ad

00:14:24 Dan Bewley's First Major Injury

00:26:05 Off-Season Life in England

00:29:18 Growing Up in Northern England

00:40:11 Chasing the Pro Motocross Dream

00:48:09 Learning Speedway from Scratch

00:51:26 Falling in Love with Speedway

00:53:30 What Riding Speedway Really Feels Like

01:00:07 AG1 Ad

01:01:10 Kawasaki's New 2-Stroke Concept

01:05:11 Building a Career in Speedway

01:11:36 How Speedway Racing Actually Works

01:19:57 Speedway's Craziest Fans

01:26:52 Life Racing in Poland

01:29:46 Dan Bewley's First Speedway Victory

01:33:19 Russian Riders Banned from Speedway

01:41:29 How Big Is Dan Bewley?

01:43:29 What's Left to Achieve?

01:55:53 Ken Roczen Wins a Supercross Championship

01:59:36 Fist Handwear Ad

02:00:54 Jett Lawrence vs. Haiden Deegan

02:11:48 Can Anyone Beat Jett Lawrence?

02:21:06 Dan Bewley's Recovery Timeline

02:25:59 Closing

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