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Ava Hanssen on 20 Championships, Winning Her First Open Wheel Race at COTA, and What It Really Takes to Chase Formula Four at 16 (opens the original)
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Ava Hanssen started racing at four years old in Elkhorn, Wisconsin — and she hasn't slowed down since. In this episode, the 16-year-old Formula Four Junior Formula Championship driver talks about what it actually felt like to grow up racing, what 20+ championships across 11 years of competition really cost, and why winning her very first open wheel race at Circuit of the Americas is the moment she points to as proof she can do anything she sets her mind to. We get into the Skip Barber Racing Sch
F1 2027 Calendar, Monaco Sprint & Madring Fallout | Baku GP Preview (opens the original)
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F1's newest circuit couldn't produce a race. Three days later, F1 gave Monaco a sprint. Is that fixing the racing, or just adding more TV? This week on the Thursday Pit Stop, Eva Gregory breaks down the Madring's F1 debut at the Spanish Grand Prix. Norris lost the race to an ill-timed Virtual Safety Car, and the 57 laps that followed had fewer than ten overtakes. The circuit's designer now says only minimal changes are possible, on a ten-year contract. Then we dig into the 2027 F1 calendar: Port
Nathan Lyons on Leaving Fort Worth Without a Guarantee , Winning at Charlotte, and What the NASCAR Pipeline Really Demands (opens the original)
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Nathan Lyons was 12 years old when he left Fort Worth, Texas and moved to North Carolina to chase a career in racing full-time. In this episode, the AK Performance driver backed by Ally Racing talks about what that decision actually felt like for him and his family, what it meant to be the kid who'd already made a bet on a career while everyone else was figuring out middle school, and what racing Bandoleros taught him that still shows up in how he drives today. We get into his time with Rev Raci
Is Shorter Racing Actually Better? IMSA's Brickyard Sprint Explained (opens the original)
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IMSA just shortened its Indianapolis race back to 2 hours and 40 minutes, after two years as a six-hour endurance race. This Sunday, the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship returns to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Battle on the Bricks — now a sprint again, after Road America took over as the six-hour endurance round. Eva Gregory draws on her years running motorsports facility operations to make the real case for shorter racing, the real case for endurance racing, and why the better question
Sam Russo | Rebelle Rally 2026 — No GPS, No Speed, and Why She Said Yes to 8 Days in the Desert with Lacy Taylor (opens the original)
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Sam Russo didn't plan to compete in the Rebelle Rally. Then she turned to a friend at a conference and said "we should do this" — and the rest, as they say, was chaos in the best possible way. In this episode of BeDifferential, Sam talks about how a moment of "say yes to the crazy" energy led her to prep a high-mileage 4Runner, build navigation skills from scratch, and so much more before going into the desert. Now returning for 2026 with a new co-driver partnership alongside Lacy Taylor, Sam br
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