About this episode
Just what happens behind the scenes at a big-league pro sports-car race?
Answer: Everything! And in this extra-special, audiobook-style INTC, you get… a whole lot of it!
Jeff Braun and Sam Smith are two of this show's three hosts. Jeff is also competition director for the IMSA GTD Corvettes of AWA Racing. Last summer, Sam and Jeff met up for the IMSA race at Virginia International Raceway. Jeff and AWA were running a car—and Sam was building a show around all of it.
Warning: This ep’s so big, we broke it into chapters. Listen to the whole thing in a single sitting AT YOUR PERIL.
(Cue thunder/lightning, very very frightening! With apologies to F. Mercury.)
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. We call this format “Day in the Life.”
This episode was produced by Mike Perlman.
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ABOUT THE SHOW:
It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.
Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver, a bestselling author, and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning writer and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine.
We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.
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