Behind the Sport

Justin Hunt may be a name you recognise if you've been around motorsport and events for a while in Australia, or perhaps not. He's been involved with some of the biggest motorsport events in Australia at various levels including the never to be repeated Rally Australia super stages in Perth, Western Australia, Australasia Safari and more.

Now, he's bringing to life an event in Joondalup, Western Australia called the Joondalup Festival of Motoring.

We caught up with him to chat about his history, get some funny tales from before things got so strict, the logistics put into running an event like the Safari and of course we hear about the Joondalup Festival of Motoring and what one thing about the event is making it all worthwhile to put his reputation (and more!) on the line to put this event on.

Perth Motorplex's Speedway manager Gavin Migro jumps into the guest chair this episode for a chat about his 20 year race career and now 20 plus years in administration and promotion of Speedway.

We find out about his early experience in some form of racing and some news about the upcoming speedway season.

Sam Dicker joins us for the latest episode almost fresh off the back of a championship win at Puckapunyal where he battled with James Golding. A look bat at his karting history, his other motorsport endeavours and what led to him being relegated to 55th on the Behind the Sport podcast grid list!

From the land of the long winter, miserable weather and toffy accents comes Chris Cheverall who moved to Western Australia and brought with him a passion for race cars and his BMW.

Hear about the racing in the UK where they are 10000% spoilt for choice on tracks, given the small distances, and the mammoth effort to bring his BMW to Australia.

Described as someone who has a child like excitement around motorsport, in a positive way, Chris Mitchell almost had no choice about getting involved with motorsport.

His Dad, His Dad's Dad all competitors in motorsport before him, he's given Karting, Formula Ford, Sim Racing, RC Racing a go all before landing himself behind a microphone after having one of his "I can do that" moments and giving it a go.

From racing, to commentating, to movie star and more we get to learn more about one of Perth's best and most sought after person behind the microphone.

As we come off the back of the Supercars weekend, we caught up with one of the many volunteers who make events like the Perth Supercars round possible, Nathan Green.

Nathan has been volunteering for some time and gives us an insight into how to get started, what volunteers get to do and see and some favourite moments from his time so far as a marshall.

Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer motorsport official should get in touch with their local motorsport club.

Episode 50 lands and we grabbed Jess Dane just before she headed to Perth for the return of the V8 Supercars at Wanneroo Raceway.

Lawyer in training, all rounder at Triple Eight Racing, on air personality and so much more including ambassador to FIA Girls on Track and representative of FIA Women in Motorsport she squeezed us in to talk about her history in motorsport and women in motorsport.

19 year old Gianni Lutzu went from karting into the Arise Driver search where he placed second with mentoring from Nick Percat and BD Soutar Dawson, he then competed in the Arise camp in an F1000 for an interrupted 2020 season and then the following 2021 season.

He has now turned his hand to sim racing and we caught up with him a chat about his journey so far.

Growing up around motorsport family and friends, it was probably inevitable that Brooke was going to end up in Motorsport, but she was eventually convinced to give it a go and now loves competing. Come hear her story and find out what's next for Brooke as she heads off to compete in some "away" rounds of sprintcars.