The final Brad Jones Racing Run Down of the year has the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones in the host chair! With BJR general manager Chris Westwood off sick (get well soon!), Macca is joined by BJR boss Brad Jones to look back at season 2024 and chat about the highlights, lowlights, and their take on some of the things on the horizon for 2025.

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In the final episode of the Special Stage Rally Podcast this season, the RallySport Magazine team give their highlights of the year and discuss what’s happened over the course of a busy 2024.

Who are some drivers to look out for next year? What events are going to be the ones to watch in 2025?

This episode puts a bow on the 2024 rally year and shares what’s to come in the New Year.

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RallySport Magazine welcomes two of the brightest young rally drivers to the podcast this week as they talk about their winning seasons in the Australian Rally Championship.

Firstly, though, Luke and Peter Whitten recap the Silver Fern Rally that concluded late last week.

Then Bodie Reading and Mitch Garrad talk about their respective Production and Junior Cup wins and give an insight as to what the future might hold for them.

Also discussed is the Monza Rally Show and the stunning McKlein rally calendars in the RallySport Magazine shop.

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On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the final race of the 2024 season at the Adelaide 500. They talk about battling the 35-degree heat in the Saturday race and how it highlighted a deficiency with one of the Gen3 specs, whether Turn 8 needs to be changed in the wake of some of the weekend’s accidents, while a chat about concussions leads Macca to open up on the time he raced in Adelaide while concussed, plus much more.

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Both Rally Tasmania and Rally Japan lived up to the hype and we welcome Taylor Gill as the podcast’s co-host to describe the action.

Midway through Sunday, Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaghe took their first World Rally Championship title, then later, Harry Bates and Coral Taylor took the Australian Rally Championship title in Tasmania.

We discuss each of those events and the troubles of some of their rivals, including Ott Tanak and Scott Pedder.

To conclude the podcast, we welcome regular host, Peter Whitten, to update us on what’s happening in New Zealand at the marathon Silver Fern Rally.

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The rally season is about to come to an end, but there's no doubt that it's finishing with a bang. We have it all on this episode of Special Stage.

The boys dive into a massive weekend of rallying, with three major events in three countries.

Peter Whitten will head to New Zealand for the marathon 7-day Silver Fern Rally, while Luke Whitten will be in the Apple Isle getting the low-down on the final round of a successful Australian Rally Championship season.

Not to be outdone, the final round of the WRC takes place in Japan from Thursday evening.

It's nearly summer, but there's definitely no shortage of rallying to talk about!

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It's a bumper edition of the Special Stage Rally Podcast this week as we talk of rallying's news and discuss the five year anniversary of the cancellation of Rally Australia in 2019.

The RallySport Magazine team cover the International Rally of Whangarei, the future of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and the upcoming Rally Tasmania.

Targa Tasmania is also back on the calendar, and is discussed alongside a disappointing logjam in the calendar at the end of 2025.

Lastly we talk with former Rally Australia Clerk of Course, Wayne Kenny, about the timeline of events that led to Rally Australia's cancellation in 2019, five years on.

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On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood reflect on the 2024 season and look forward to the season finale in Adelaide. Other topics include Macca’s preparation for the end-of-season Supercars Gala, Test driving a Trans Am car, street circuits versus heritage tracks and more.

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A new champion in New South Wales, and teams testing hard for this month's Rally of Tasmania – just two of the topics on this week's Special Stage Rally Podcast.

The rally season is moving towards its finale but there's still plenty going on.

Josh Redhead took the NSW title on Saturday, despite Riley Walters winning the Bathurst Rally, while the Toyota team were hard at it on Tuesday testing their Rally2 cars.

Australia's JWRC star, Taylor Gill, also got his first taste of an AP4 car, while we look ahead to the final round of the WRC, and what the likely axing of the Hybrid units for 2025 means.

Then, we chat one-on-one with New Zealand's youngest rally star, Zeal Jones, who heads to Finland next month as part of Toyota’s WRC young driver search.

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On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Gold Coast 500, including whether it was the right thing to do to turn off the kerb-hop sensors, Macca’s take on Saturday race winner Cam Waters’ charge that parity is still not right, and much more.

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