Behind the Sport

As we notch up our 20th episode, Karting club Hurricane Go Kart Club nothces up their 10th year of their King of the Hill tournament and joining us is probably the tallest guy in karting, Tony Arambasic.

 

A late bloomer in motorsport but a proud as punch Dad now his kids are getting into the sport, he joins us to chat about his beginnings and everything we need to know about the King of the Hill tournament out at Hurricane Go Kart Club.

Ian Baker is a true character of Australian motorsport. With the World Time Attack Challenge series having its 10th year in 2019, the future is looking bright for the series once borders reopen and we had Ian jump on for a chat about the history of WTAC, the future and a few fun moments over the years.

He also drops some exclusive information about the future of World Time Attack Challenge so make sure you keep a listen out for it!

Ian Baker is a true character of Australian motorsport. With the World Time Attack Challenge series having its 10th year in 2019, the future is looking bright for the series once borders reopen and we had Ian jump on for a chat about the history of WTAC, the future and a few fun moments over the years.

He also drops some exclusive information about the future of World Time Attack Challenge so make sure you keep a listen out for it!

Episode 0018!

 

We’ve got 2 for 1 value this week with Stuart Home and Joe Begic who are a mechanic and driver respectively from the Arise Racing team here in Western Australia.

 

Stuart has been with Arise Racing for 3 years prepping cars for the likes of Nick Percat, Aaron Love, Jordan Love, Mitch Johnson and Adam Lisle.

 

Joe on the other side has just taken up motorsport and would be considered a very late bloomer to enter motorsport.

We've got 2 for 1 value this week with Stuart Home and Joe Begic who are a mechanic and driver respectively from the Arise Racing team here in Western Australia.

Episode 0017, not 0016 as Shane mentions in the intro, lands with less grace than Mika Häkkinen jumping a kerb in Adelaide.

 

Our guest this week is renowned Formula 1 photographer Mark Sutton from Sutton Images / Motorsport Images who has spent the last 30+ years photographing motorsport around the world including over 500 Formula 1 races.

 

We broke the episode length record again this week with over 2 hours of insight into Mark and Formula 1 as we talk about the highs, the lows, that horrible weekend at Imola in 1994, and how motorsport photography has changed over the years.

Our guest this week is renowned Formula 1 photographer Mark Sutton who has spent the last 30+ years photographing motorsport around the world.

We’re living life a 1/4 mile a time. Trying hard not to offend the drag racing community with Shane’s clear lack of knowledge on this form of motorsport, but we think we did OK!

 

Oil & Energy / Hydraulic Technical Solutions drag racer Kyle Putland, holder of the Australian record for the fastest naturally aspirated car jumped on for a chat and gave us a bit of an insight into drag racing, breaking records and letting Brent fanboy in his shed…

And we wonder if Shane will be allowed into the Motorplex when racing resumes this year? -cue crickets from the motorplex admin team-

Kyle Putland, holder of the Australian record for the fastest naturally aspirated car gave us a bit of an insight into drag racing & breaking records.

On this week’s episode, Nick Scarcella Vice President of the Phillip Island Auto Racing Club (PIARC) jumps in the hot seat for a chat about his history in motorsport, how the PIARC are dealing with COVID-19 and we manage to squeeze a story out of him about that time the famed wind on the main straight caused a tourist bus to turn into a strobe light.

 

Plus who are his two picks of drivers to do laps of the circuit if he could have anyone?