About this episode
Picture it: Your scrappy little pro race team has a rough 2024. The next year, out of nowhere, you win Daytona. Then the whole gang takes its first trip to Le Mans and lands a killer finish.
The rest of Jeff Braun's 2025 IMSA season was, to quote Jeff, “not that.”
This one’s a doozy: First, we’ve got INTC co-host Jeff sharing what he learned in IMSA this year. (Jeff helps run a Corvette in the GTD class, remember.) Second, we’ve got Sam, who made way too much coffee on tape day. He's a little rapid-fire yappy here, but hey, we’re all captives to fate, fly on free bird, fútbol/racing podshow is life, right?
Trophies rarely teach you something. But a long, tough season in pro racing just might.
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. We call this format "What I've Learned."
This episode was produced by Sam Smith.
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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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