On The Grid

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

THIS week we dive straight into the Hots and the Nots from a massive weekend in motorsport, in the Top End and over at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. There's plenty of good stuff to review, plus some stuff that needs some improvement. Also, why Mark left our group chat, why Craillsy didn't know about it and several Darwin-hangover related discussions you don't need to miss.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week On the Grid, Craillsy, Schibecs, and Walker break down a massive weekend in motorsport. We look ahead to Supercars' annual trip north to the topics and a big weekend at Hidden Valley Raceway, plus what is shaping up as a blockbuster Le Mans 24 Hour. The team reviews a crazy Canadian Grand Prix, plus a successful weekend for the Antipodean set in both Indycar and NASCAR. And to round it all out, there is the weekly serve of Power Ranking Hots and Nots! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week On the Grid, we chat to Todd Hazelwood about his breakthrough weekend in the Australian Trans Am Series from the Shannons SpeedSeries at The Bend.   Against a hyper-competitive field, Todd claimed his first two race wins of the season, with there being a fair degree of controversy along the way.   It’s been a wild rollercoaster of a season to date for Todd, and we break it all down in what is always one of our favourite interviews.   Dale Rodgers dropped by Speedway Australia night of nights, and he gets the low down from all of the main players at the National Speedway Awards.   Then the lads wrap up a big weekend for the sport from The Bend, plus Shane van Gisbergen’s big NASCAR win in Portland, with the show rounded out with a hearty serving of Hots & Nots! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE biggest weekend in motorsport for the year gets the full Hot / Not / What treatment from team OTG this week as we delve into everything good, bad and insane that happened.  There's a full Indy 500 debrief and a discussion into what made the show so good, a substantial Formula One rant about what made the show so bad, lots of weather chat and all the usual interesting titbits you might not have picked up on across the weekend from those races and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FORD found themselves back in victory lane in the Perth Supersprint last weekend, their first wins of the 2024 season. We welcome Ford's Motorsport Engineering lead, Brendan McGinniskin, to the show to discuss their rise to victory for the first time this year, plus how the global elements of Ford Motorsport are contributing to their Aussie program - and vice-versa. Then we debrief the weekend that was - including the proverbial elephant in the room about a certain Aussie Racing Car - and work through the Hot's and Not's of the event, including a deep-dive into what the Supersprint format is lacking after seeing it live. All that, plus F1, NASCAR and IndyCar from qualifying at the '500 - it's another big show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, for something completely different, our interview guest under the spotlight is none other than Aussie Racing Car part team owner and part-time commentator/PR operative/podcaster Richard Craill! RC is joined by Johnston Craill Racing Enterprises team pilot Asher Johnston, with the dynamic duo breaking down their venture into national-level motorsport - unsurprisingly, it's a highly insightful chat! In part two, we break down a big weekend in sports, look forward to Supercars heading west, plus F1 at Imola, and all of the usual shenanigans in the weekly serving of Hots and Nots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay Robotham is taking an alternate route in his motorsport career, with a contrasting array of programs on his 2024 roster. From Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia to the Thai Super Series with a wild Ford Ranger Super PickUp and a MARC Mustang, Jay plans to put the miles to good use when he lines up in the Supercars enduros with Bryce Fullwood at Brad Jones Racing. From luring monkeys with bananas to a cracking Thai lifestyle, it’s a top chat. Plus, the team breaks down a massive week in sports, including F1, NASCAR, and the greatest race you’ve never heard about, rounded out with a serving of our patented Hots and Nots!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices