It's Not the Car
Sam Smith, Ross Bentley, Jeff Braun
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 and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer with time in NASCAR and IMSA. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist, a club racer, and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine.We don’t love motorsport for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.
Episodes (117)
The One Where Hitler Loses — (German GP, 1935)
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The Strange World of the Amateur “Pro” Driver
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How Would You Fix IndyCar?
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When It All Goes Wrong
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Instant Expert: Getting Used to a New Car
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How Do You Know You’re Good Enough?
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Jeff Tells a Story: My Favorite Cars to Engineer
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Jeff and Ross Didn’t Win Sebring!
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How Do You Become a Pro Driver?
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Mythbusting: The Brakes Just Failed!
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Off-Topic Show — You Asked For It!
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Jeff Just Won Daytona!
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Two-Wheel Science 101 — w/Nick Ienatsch
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Drifting is Harder Than You Think — w/Vaughn Gittin, Jr.
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Flowing Into the Zone — w/Dr. Sue Jackson
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When NASCAR Broke America — (1979 Daytona 500 Fistfight)
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Jeff Tells a Story: Meeting 1967 Formula 1
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Inside Car and Driver's "Lightning Lap" — w/Tony Quiroga
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The One Where Jeff Explains Race Strategy
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Whoop, There It Is — (Mazda Le Mans Win, 1991)
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Why We Love Laguna Seca
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You Can Be Fast in Anything — w/Colin Braun
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How NASCAR Teams Cheat — w/Chris Andrews
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All Hail Dan and Uncle Bobby — (Gurney Flap, 1971)
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The Why of a Racing Coach
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How to Drive It: Porsche 911
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Sex, Shocks, and Rock ’n’ Roll
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To Pilot a Mercedes — (Le Mans CLR Crashes, 1999)
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How to Watch F1 . . . and Learn Its Secrets
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Paul Newman in a Race Car
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How Pro Racers Cheat – Part Two!
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The One Where a Cobra Eats Europe — (Daytona Coupe, 1965)
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What Does a Race Engineer Do, Really?
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The Worst Race Car I’ve Ever Met
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To Be Dumb in Racing
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Instant Expert: How Do Tires Work?
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The Last Great F1 Fairy Tale — (Brawn GP, 2009)
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When Sam Drove Alonso’s F1 Car
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Listener Q&A: Does Driving Style Matter in F1?
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Instant Expert: What is Oversteer?
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Belief, Death, and the Fastest Man Alive — (Parry-Thomas & Babs, 1927)
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BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Indoor Storage”
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RACE RECAP: Monaco G.P. + Indy 500
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How Pro Racers Cheat
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BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — "Dajiban!"
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337 MPH in 3.7 Seconds — (GUEST: Top Fuel Driver Clay Millican)
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BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Mears and My Feet”
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The Awful Joy of Bad Racing Movies — (Driven, 2001)
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BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Wall Drug”
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How Roger and Mario Broke the Indy 500 — (Penske “Beast” V-8, 1994)
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