HeyJaredIt's Not the Car
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.
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IndyCar’s Bravery Problem — with RACER founder Paul Pfanner (opens the original)
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This summer, for the first time in 15 years, IndyCar unveiled a new chassis. The Dallara IR-28 has a chance to change everything about the world’s fastest wheel-to-wheel racing. And when the car takes its first green flag in 2028, maybe it will. Paul Pfanner founded RACER magazine in the early 1990s and bloomed that brand into the media empire it is today. Ten years ago, IndyCar management asked Pfanner and a few other visionaries to help dream up what the next IndyCar could be. The car that gro
Crappy Miatas, Endurance Porsches, and Other Fun Diseases — with TJ + Ed from BFGoodrich (opens the original)
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This episode is about how racing sucks you in—even (or perhaps especially) if it’s tied to your day job. And never more than with endurance racing. Last month, BFGoodrich invited Ross and Sam to co-drive a Porsche Boxster in a ChampCar enduro weekend at VIR. A lot happened. Way too much! Chiefly, though, our two co-hosts chatted with some smart people. They talked about why everyone from track-day junkies to moonlighting pros bothers to go amateur endurance racing—and why this quirky little corn
FREE BONUS: The Hyper-Nerdy Sim Racing FAQ — with Balázs Remenyik (opens the original)
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Balázs Remenyik is a professional sim racer and the official simulator development driver for the Citroën Formula E team. He’s also chief instructor at the Speed Secrets Sim Racer Academy, where INTC co-host Ross Bentley is founder and head coach. Sam and Balázs talked earlier this year—Sam called him up to get a pro sim driver’s insight into the topics discussed on this week’s main-feed show. This is one of the world’s best sim racers walking through the basics of digital driving. On top of tha
You're Wrong About Sim Racing (opens the original)
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Some love it, some hate it. You’re probably doing at least part of it wrong, even if you’re good at it. Twenty years ago, INTC co-host Ross Bentley was a beta tester for the original version of iRacing, the world’s largest online racing sim. Today, he’s logged thousands of hours of sim coaching for “real" race drivers both pro and amateur. And he’s learned a lot along the way. This started as a simple 101-level chat between Sam and Ross about sim technique. By the end of the show, they’d gone do
How to Get a Job in Racing — Ashley Baily, IMSA Tire Specialist (opens the original)
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Once, Ashley Baily was a pastry chef. Now she’s the 26-year-old, Daytona-winning tire chief for an IMSA Corvette team. Landing that leap took guts, passion, and five years of working two demanding jobs at once. (Plus cake. There was a silly amount of cake.) Want a job in pro racing? If you're ready to knuckle down and work like hell, it’s closer than you think. This episode is the latest installment in our HOW I GOT HERE series—a dive into just what it takes to land a career in professional moto
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