Historic Racing News podcast

Gary Watkins talks about the history of GT3 racing which incredibly celebrates its 20th birthday this year and… yes… there are now GT cars in historic racing!

Martin Warner looks forward to the Shere Hill Climb which this year, amongst many other fabulous cars, will feature the ex-Stirling Moss/Rob Walker Ferrari 250 SWB. Josh Parsons from Goodwood looks forward to the upcoming Revival with Paul Tarsey and Jim Roller and Paul Jurd discuss some amazing sales at Monterey Car Week

John Fitzpatrick discusses his career, from the early days in a Mini, through the Broadspeed Anglias and Cologne Capris right up to running his own Porsche team.

Alan Brewer tells Paul Tarsey about the plans for Goodwood to ‘cross the pond’ and how he will be very involved in setting up the new operation which will take much of the flavour of GRRC to the USA. Jim Roller digs into the auctions during Monterey Car Week and Paul Jurd looks back at the Festival of Speed.

Ross Brawn tells Paul Tarsey about the takeover of the Honda Grand Prix team, the creation of the Brawn F1 organisation and the subsequent fairytale World Championship with Jenson Button.

And if you think that the British Grand Prix started at Silverstone; think again: The first ever BGP was at Brooklands 100 years ago, in 1926. Allan Winn from the Brooklands Museum will talk about the exciting plans they have to celebrate this important centenary.

Paul Jurd looks back 100 years and brings us a race report from Brooklands and Jim Roller, Paul Jurd and Paul Tarsey discuss the reasons why Stirling Moss never won the World Championship.

And we look forward to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Classic Nostalgia at Shelsley Walsh.

Motorsport legend Ross Brawn talks to Paul Tarsey about his life in Formula One from his earliest days with Williams and then working with Michael Schumacher, through to that fairytale year of 2009 when he won the World Championship with Jenson Button.

Derek Daly tells Paul about his life on both sides of the Atlantic. Derek talks very frankly about the difficult time he spent as Keke Rosberg’s Williams team mate and then his transition to Indycars. He is also painfully honest about a very serious accident in 1984 and the long slow recovery.

Plus Nick Padmore on his up-and-down Monaco Historique weekend and Jim Roller reports on the auction scene.

A look at the life and times of Lella Lombardi: Jon Saltinstall argues that, although famous for being the world’s most successful female F1 driver, there was much more to her than that.

Experienced historic racer Saif Assam tells Paul Tarsey about the cars he competes in, and Rob Young and Arnout Kok talk about the amazing South African F1 ‘specials’ of the 1960s.

There is a debrief from Jim Roller on Monaco Historique and the Goodwood Members Meeting and Paul Jurd looks back at why Barry Sheene and James Hunt were so important to British morale in 1976.