On The Grid

After 19 years on the Australian Motor Racing Calendar the Shannons Nationals/Speedseries is no longer. We look at some of the great rounds with a man who covered nearly all of them, Gary O'Brien. We look ahead to the Valo Adelaide 500, Hots and Nots and plenty more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A team show this week as Schibecs, Walker and Craill work through the week that was, including the Brazilian GP, World Endurance Championship and NASCAR playoffs via the crucible of the Hot and Not rankings. Walker gives his tips on Victoria's backroads after a weekend of grass roots racing, while we also had a vested interest in the Melbourne Cup which went exactly the way we were told to expect. Suffice to say, there's no guest this week because we couldn't afford it - but nice to have a horse in the race. Literally..  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RACING heritage runs deep in the Geoghegan family with five-time Touring Car champion Ian 'Pete' and Leo stars of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Now, Pete's grandson Max has claimed his first national championship, taking the Toyota GR Cup title in style in a climactic showdown on the streets of Surfers Paradise. He joins the show this week to reflect on his crown, his first Supercars test and his family legacy. Then, it's onto the usual Hot's and Not's of a particularly big week in motorsport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DAVID REYNOLDS is the guest On the Grid this week, which should be all the incitement you need to tune in. He's classic Dave in good form despite a challenging Bathurst weekend, and returns this weekend to the Gold Coast where he went supremely well last year. Plus the debrief from the weekend SpeedSeries antics, a look ahead to the Surfers stoush plus everything else in the world of motorsport.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's no other way to say it - our guest this week is genuine friend of the show and now Bathurst winner, Todd Hazelwood. That alone should be reason to listen - but stay for the full OTG debrief of all the pro's and con's of the biggest event of the year.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our Great Race preview! We're running our eye over the Bathurst 1000 field with a team by team preview and a look at everything else going on over the big race week. Oh, and did we mention we did it with a refreshing Bathurst-brewed beer? The weekly Hot's and Not's are there and also Tony Schibeci reports in from the USA, where he caught up with Team Penske's commercial chief, Aussie ex-pat Chris Wilson. Enjoy the Great Race, everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WHEN you think Bathurst, you think #05, right? Well, Ben Eggleston not only gets to look after one of Brock's old HRT Commodores, he gets to steer the sister 015 car at the Great Race as well. The Eggleston team boss swings past to discuss the V8 Sleuth Heritage Revival class on the Mountain that will see the on-track return of two classic HRT machines, plus tell the story of Eggleston Motorsport and their incredible talent factory that, among others, has produced Supercars' newest stars like Kai Allen and Cooper Murray. Then, with Tony Schibeci and Mark Walker on holiday, the great man Matt Naulty drops past to reminisce about some classic Bathurst memories and run through the week's Hot and Not lists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a massive week On the Grid as we break down the massive Toyota announcement as the brand prepares to enter Supercars for the first time as a competing manufacturer. Why it's big news, where they have strengths and everything else. We're also joined by Repco Supercars Championship race director James Taylor, who helps break down the much-discussed Safety Car and Full Course Yellow regulations and why they are always finding ways to make them better - especially in time for the Great Race. That and our usual bout of Hot's and Not's are locked and loaded in this bumper episode of what could be the Oscar Piastri of Australian Motorsport Podcasts, but is probably more like Nico Hülkenberg. Like, we're good enough to be in the big leagues - but it's pretty clear we're never going to win the world title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IT'S another big show On the Grid this week, as Jack le Brocq swings by to help preview the Sandown 500 this weekend, as he lines up with Jayden Ojeda at Erebus Motorsport. We talk Superbikes from the Island and how their events shape up against those with four wheels, more news discussion and then the usual smattering of the Hot and Not content we know you're here for.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yes, you read that correctly. This week, thanks to our great mates at City Rural Insurance Brokers, we're giving away a Supercars hotlap at Sandown! All the details are in the pod about how you can enter for an experience of a lifetime. Aside from that big, breaking news, we also dissect the week that was - it was a big one and there are plenty of our usual hots and nots to come from it. But also, Hotlap.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MIRACLE of miracles, we've actually got news! One of the biggest silly season weeks of the year kicked off on Tuesday and with whispers of more to come, we held the pod back at day to make sure we got it all fresh to podcastland. So, we delve exclusively into the joint Kostecki / Murray announcements that will reshape the Supercars grid for 2025 with the man who pulled it all together, talk Winterbottom out and Anton de Pasquale in at T18 and even talk SVG's new deal in NASCAR and the F1 shuffling. The news gods have never been kind to our show so finally we've caught a break and we make the most of it! All the usual content is there too with our regular breakdown of the week that was with the Hots and Nots.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Returning to Australia to race this year, Brendon Leitch has made a huge impact in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia championship with a series of stirring performances alongside Tim Miles in an Audi R8. In the leadup to the GT Festival at Phillip Island, Brendon joins the show to tell us his fascinating career story and how a kid from the far, far south of New Zealand's South Island ended up racing at places like Spa Francorchamps. It's a great yarn and well told! Then it's the week that was in our usual style of putting everything into baskets named 'Hot' or 'Not' and shaking vigorously.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a couple of weeks off the Supercars are back in town this weekend in Launceston. And supporting the Supercars are Formula Ford, a category where 2/3rds of the Supercar field got their start. We chat to Icky Harrington about season 2024 and who should we be watching on the weekend. We look at this weekends racing, and of course plenty of Hots and Nots. I another big show On the Grid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IN the midst of a breakout Supercars season with Tickford, Thomas Randle is also kicking goals outside of his driving including a star turn on the Shannons SpeedSeries broadcast last week at Queensland Raceway. 'Mr Everywhere' drops past for a chat to discuss his TV turn, Tickford progress, quickfire trips to the UK and much more in a wide-ranging chat.  Then it's over to the boys to breakdown the week that was via our usual Hot and Not analysis of the way things were, the way things should be and the way things weren't.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Callum Hedge won Porsche championships in Australia and then completely changed tack in his career to chase an IndyCar dream - and he's going the right way about it. The young Kiwi checks in following a strong start to his IndyNXT campaign, talks adapting to racing Ovals for the first time, using a spotter, moving to Indianapolis and what it's like to come across his racing hero Scott Dixon in the Gym..  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FOR AS long as he could remember, Hunter McElrea wanted to be an IndyCar driver. On Sunday, July 21 he quite literally lived that dream, making his NTT IndyCar Series debut with Dale Coyne Racing on the streets of Toronto - so of course we needed to get the lowdown. From the seemingly fruitless chasing of a drive all year to a late call-up to test for Coyne's team at Mid Ohio and then landing the seat for Toronto, Hunter tells the full story of the build-up, testing and then his debut weekend. From what it's like to drive an IndyCar, the hybrid system, braking and Toronto's walls to racing legends old enough to be his father, this is a ripper insight into both the journey and what the destination is like when he got there. Following our chat with Hunter, it's the regular Hot's and Not's from the week that was in motorsport, and boy, there were plenty. All on this special edition of OTG that goes as long as an IndyCar race, just with less aerial racing cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone

Garth Tander is back On the Grid this week - literally - racing in Porsche Carrera Cup at Sydney Motorsport Park. He chats how important being sharp for the enduros is, who he most wants to beat in the Porsche Pack, Penrite Racing's upwards trend and just why it's so hard to be consistently competitive in Supercars. PLUS our instant reaction to the news that friend of the show Hunter McElrea will become an IndyCar driver this weekend.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SUPERCHEAP Auto's Best Performing Oils campaign is one of the best and most innovative motorsport-themed commercials of the year, so we wanted to find out more. We go one on one with the brains behind the advert to unpick how they shot it, some of the celebrity challenges and also just how our own Tony Schibeci became the genuine, number one, headline star of the entire show. Then it's the Hot's and Not's of the week that was and boy oh boy, were there many.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oscar Targett is a young man going places in a hurry. Just 18 months removed from professional-level karting in Europe, this young star has been taken under the wing of the Grove Racing team and is leading the way in the ultra-competitive Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge series in 2024. We chat all things with the young gun - including his pathway to Porsche's, aspirations for a professional career, working with gurus like Garth Tander and David Cauchi and even why he might consider changing his surname.. Then it's the usual dive into the best bits of the week that was with the Hots and Nots from the world of Motorsport this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NICK Percat is back - though he never really went anywhere to begin with. Sitting fourth in the Supercars Championship half-way into the season, Nick is in form on and off the track. He's back OTG this week to discuss how to generate consistency in Supercars, what he'd like to see change within the event formats currently in place, his enduro co-driver, karting team and much more. Oh - and which kart track has the best canteen.. Then the boys dissect the week that was and preview the week that will be with the Hots and Nots of this week in Motorsport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices