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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey visit Will Beaumont, the creator and Editor of Werke Magazine.

Werke Magazine is a high-quality quarterly BMW magazine that celebrates BMW and the culture that surrounds BMW cars. In this week's episode, John and Miles explore the origin of Will's new venture following a print media career starting in design and later evolving into writing.

As you might expect, the conversation takes a slightly obsessive focus on the BMW brand but not exclusively. To learn more about Werke and purchase an issue or two, visit www.werke.site and follow @_werke on Instagram.

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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar is joined by Rob Jolly, the CEO and founder of ONTO, a company that offers subscription services to electric vehicles. In this conversation, John and Rob work through a selection of questions from our listeners about the EV industry.

Why aren't there more sporty GT-style EVs? How does an EV specialist company CEO feel about the ethics of mining precious metals required for battery production? What about Hydrogen? How do we improve the safety of vulnerable people charging their electric cars late at night?

In this week's episode, we discuss these questions and more. To learn more about ONTO, visit www.on.to and check out their Instagram profile via @driveonto

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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey are joined by racing driver Richard Attwood. In his racing career, Richard has successfully peddled some of the most iconic racing cars produced by Lotus, BRM, Maserati, Ferrari and Porsche - the marque that Richard was driving at the 1970 Le Mans 24h race in the Porsche 917K.

As you will hear in this week's podcast, despite his accolades, Richard is a very humble man and shares his stories with great humility. To this day, Richard still uses his driving ability to help others as an instructor at Porsche experience centres and on trackdays - often without boasting about his achievements to his students.

Follow Richard on Instagram via: @RichardAttwoodMotorsport and learn more about him at www.richardattwoodmotorsport.com

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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John and Amy are back in the studio for the first time since Amy Shore became Amy Heynes! No guests this week; it's just John and Amy, but fear not, there are talking topics a-plenty!

The talking topics on this week's podcast include (to name just a few); Amy's honeymoon driving adventure around the USA, John's recent visit to Salon Prive, a discussion on fake EV engine sounds, the question of 'Is Land Rover dead??', John and Amy share obscure facts around UPS delivery vans, we have an update of our very own driven Land Rover Defender, and as the title suggests, Amy gets splinters in her feet whilst looking at a Bugatti Type 57 (...in her pyjamas).

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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar brings you The Sounds of Goodwood Members Meeting 2023 #MM80 and, with it, 21 fantastic conversations John, Tim and Miles had throughout the two-day event.

This week's guests in order of appearance:

ON SATURDAY, we speak to Racing driver Grant Williams, a previous podcast and Goodwood celebrity, thanks to his sideways antics in his Jaguar racing cars. Photographers Rob Overy, Nigel Harniman and Jake Boreham. Racing driver Alex Brundle, racing driver and television presenter Tiff Needell, and racing driver Mike Wilds famous for racing in F1, Saloon cars, Touring cars Le Mans and more. Motorcycle racer and previous podcast guest Maria Costello, journalist, racing driver and TV presenter Chris Harris, TV presenter and friend Nicki Sheilds, and Goodwood lap record holder Nick Padmore. I then found a good friend and, by chance, unfolded an amazing story with touring car driver Jake Hill.

ON SUNDAY, we talk to the man that has orchestrated the event and the Goodwood estate as we know it today, his grace, The Duke of Richmond, followed by BTCC legend and Le Mans racing driver Darren Turner. Miles and John then found racing driver Justin Law who, unbeknown to us, hadn't had the best race. We then found the MD of Praga Cars, Mark Harrison. We then bump into the racing driver, Goodwood celebrity and friend of the show James Wood before catching up with historic motorsport engineer Karim Demynn as he prepared to see his 1950s Ferrari 250 Testarossa compete. We round off the event by talking to Le Mans legend Andy Wallace, racing driver Stuart Morley and one last catch-up with Jake Hill following a saga that will no doubt be talked about for generations.

That's 21 conversations with 21 truly amazing people at one of my favourite events on the calendar. Let's dive into the event right from the moment I arrive alongside my friend Tim Hutton.

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Niki Faulkner is a man known for many things. He's known as a racing driver, a precision driver, a film and television automotive advisor and even Jeremy Clarkson's stunt double. He's also the man that choreographed the Spice Girls singing live whilst standing on London taxis at the London Olympics and is a man that once caused a woman to faint purely by driving past her (true story!)

This week, on The Driven Chat Podcast, Niki Faulkner is our guest, joining John Marcar and Miles Lacey to chat through his frankly remarkable career so far. Niki now runs Driving Wizards, a company which supports television and movie productions with car chases, driving stunts and stunt choreography. Niki's work has allowed him to work with the likes of Tom Cruise, Michael Bay, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond, Chris Hemsworth, Ron Howard and Ray Winston (to name just a few).

This week's podcast is a long one at more than 2 hours and 20 mins, but we're confident you'll enjoy every single minute of it. To learn more about Niki and Driving Wizards, follow @drivingwizards and check out drivingwizards.com

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This week, on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar is joined by one of the most well-known and well-loved television presenters on our screens, Radzi Chinyanganga.

Radzi currently hosts Formula E on Channel 4 but is known to an array of television viewers as a presenter who has appeared on shows such as Blue Peter, Gladiators and Songs of Praise. Radzi has also presented on sports and event coverage for The Olympics & Winter Olympics, Crufts and the World Snooker Championships.

In this week's podcast, Radzi shares how his journey to the television studios has been neither smooth or conventional. However, grit, graft and determination got him to where he is now, with some inspiring ambition for his following chapters.

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This week, on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Amy Shore are in the studio together for one of their regular catch-up chats, but this time, a pressing topic dominates the conversation as our very own Amy Shore is getting married!

Aside from plenty of wedding chat, we also catch up with Amy's comings and goings, including an adventure to Scotland with a BMW X6 (thank you, BMW Park Lane), racing pre-war Bentleys around Goodwood, and photographing friends in cars full of flowers.

John also shares the details on some recent press cars, including his week with a KIA EV6, a Bentley Bentayga EWB and the much anticipated BMW M3 Touring.

Also, for the first time ever, as part of a new trial, this week's episode has also been caught on camera and is available to watch on YouTube. Let us know what you think in the comment section of YouTube.

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When you think of back-dated bespoke Porsche 911 builds, a small number of companies spring to mind that are renowned for high-quality work in the field, and Rennsport is definitely one of those companies.

This week, John Marcar is joined for a chat by Rennsport's Managing Director, Paul Cockell. Paul shares his fantastic story of how he went from working as a young workshop apprentice to the managing director of his own custom Porsche 911 workshop in the Cotswolds.

As is often the way, Paul's journey isn't what you would necessarily call 'conventional'; however, it features a few great stories you will enjoy in this episode. Paul's career features chapters involving running a small workshop, his own limousine hire company and even a Pawn Shop in Leamington Spa before venturing back to his original calling, working on and building classic Porsche 911s.

To learn more about Rennsport - visit the website: https://www.911rennsport.co.uk/ and follow @911Rennsport on Instagram.

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Brian Klein is best known to an automotive audience for his work as a television director on BBC Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond and this week joins John Marcar for his second appearance on The Driven Chat Podcast.

Brian first worked with Jeremy Clarkson in the 1990s as the director of stocking-filler videos and DVDs, mainly featuring exploding caravans, supercar shootouts and grand pianos being dropped onto Austin Allegros. Following a massive success with Clarkson in the late 90s-early-00s, Brian later became an integral part of the relaunch of BBC Top Gear and the rest, as they say, is history.

Brian continues to direct BBC Top Gear to this day and, in this conversation, shares some fantastic stories and memories of his time so far with the production, as well as a chapter not previously discussed where he decided to temporarily walk away from the BBC to help launch The Grand Tour on Amazon.

As well as being a hugely successful TV director, Brian has released his second book, The Führer's Prophecy - a thrilling and dangerous ‘What If?’ thriller, following on from the astounding success of his debut novel, The Counterfeit Candidate – which has been hailed as an instant classic in the genre, becoming an Amazon bestseller with more than 60,000 sales to-date and thousands of five-star reviews.

Get your copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/F%C3%BChrers-Prophecy-Reich-Trilogy/dp/1399936379

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