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    It's Not the Car

    It's Not the Car

    It's Not the Car

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    Length:
    17 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people, speed, and how we all work under pressure.

    Short version: We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.

    Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and an internationally renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a championship-winning race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. Together, we unpack the emotion at the heart of the machine.

    We don’t love motorsport for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the bag of meat at the wheel.

    New episodes on Tuesdays!
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 17 episodes

    Title

    Do Car Magazines Have Secrets?

    They do! But first: SAM HAS A NEW BOOK OUT. It’s called “Smithology”—available now on A...

    70 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2024

    The Dan Gurney Fan-Service Episode

    The catch: We’re the fans. (Bet you didn’t see that coming.) “If you have the chance to...

    62 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    The Ferrari Story You Didn’t Know You Needed

    Once, in the 1990s, a fancy Italian carmaker hadn’t gone sports-car racing in 20 years....

    75 minutes
    		Apr 16, 2024

    How to Be a Rookie at the Indy 500

    Step one: Know you might die trying. In 1993, at the tender age of 36, a host of this s...

    77 minutes
    		Apr 09, 2024

    For Love of the Game — (Villeneuve 1979 US GP Wet Quali)

    “He was the craziest devil I ever came across in Formula 1.” —Niki Lauda Gilles Villene...

    71 minutes
    		Apr 02, 2024

    The World’s Most Charming Race Track

    What makes a special place special? Wonderful people? Beautiful scenery? How you keep g...

    76 minutes
    		Mar 26, 2024

    How Do Wind Tunnels Work?

    Answer: The blowy thing goes WHOOSH and the invisible gas that keeps us all alive goes ...

    70 minutes
    		Mar 19, 2024

    Listener Q&A: Can the Data Lie?

    It’s another “No Dumb Questions!” You email us to ask, we sit down to answer. There are...

    56 minutes
    		Mar 12, 2024

    Can You Have Too Much Power? — (Donohue 1970s Porsche Can-Am)

    “It will never have enough . . . until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straight...

    75 minutes
    		Mar 05, 2024

    What You and Max Verstappen Have in Common

    There are so many answers to this: A favorite color. Human legs. An enjoyment of oxygen...

    63 minutes
    		Feb 27, 2024