Spinning Wheels

Mike Nicholsons career has been spent at the top flight of British motorsport.

He starred as a co driver during the halcyon days of the British Open Rally Championship alongside legendary names such as Tony Pond and Russell Brookes, and taking the title with in 1984 with Jimmy McRae.

A career-long association with Vauxhall then saw the Derbyshire man take the helm of the Griffin's race programme, fielding drivers such as John Cleland, James Thompson and Jason Platoin the British Touring Car Championship during the revered Super Touring heyday.

Guy and Paul go behind the pace notes and the deals to discover the story of one of the sport's great characters in the latest episode of Spinning Wheels.

Every now and agin, someone comes along and inspires not only people within motorsport; but uses their platform to raise the profile of wider issues outside of the sport.

Nathalie McGloin is a race and rally driver, an ambassador for global organisations ,president of the FIA commission for disability and accessibility, and a charity founder.

As the worlds's first female tetraplegic racing driver, Nathalie pushes boundaries and changes expectations with every race start.

Guy snad Paul explore the world of motorsport from a different perspective in episode 19.

Matt chats with Guy and Paul about the struggle to the top of British rallying from working all night on his own rally cars to sleeping in tents on events as there was no money for accommodation, However that hard work and determination paid off and Matt got the support to move into a Fiesta R5 and that was the break he needed to prove what he could do. Back to back British rally championships followed in 2018 and 2019.

Guy and Paul chat with David Brabham son of 3 time world Formula One champion Sir Jack about his career in the sport and what it was like growing up as the son of such an iconic racer.

David started racing late by todays standards at age 17 but it wasn't long before he gave up life on the family farm to pursue  a career in motorsport.

David has raced in Formula One, Sports cars, Touring cars, Aussie V8's you name it he's done it and tased success many times throughout his career.

David has taken control of the Brabham name after a long court battle and is now building beautiful sports cars under the Brabham BT62 name and is ensuring the Brabham name continues to shine bright.

Ben Collins has done it all raced in the US, Le Mans, ASCAR and was one of Britain's brightest stars on the motor racing ladder which not many people may know about but its his time as Top Gear's STIG the man in the white suit that people know him best and latterly the amazing stunt driving work he has done for films such as James Bond's Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre with Daniel Craig and National Treasure with Nicholas Cage.

He has now turned his talents to writing books and has just finished a book on Aston Martin's history.

An all round great guy and it was brilliant to get behind the scenes with Ben.

Guy and Paul go back in time with one of rallying's original superstar co-drivers. Mike Broad's rise to rallying success came at a time immense national interest in the sport, with huge terrestrial TV audiences and glamorous international entry lists.

Co-driver to some of the biggest stars the sport has ever seen ,from Walter Rohrl to Russel Brookes, Tony Pond and Colin McRae, Mike takes us back to the glory days of Group B, right through to his thoughts - as BTRDA President-on the future of rallying.

Andy Chats to Guy and Paul about his rise through the sport and how he was originally planning on becoming a professional footballer but turned his focus to car racing having taken a trip to Oulton Park.

Andy has driven for British brands Bentley and Aston Martin and is only a handful of drivers that have raced the radical Delta Wing and he tells us what it was like to drive, Andy is also instrumental in the developing of British racing talent with his work for both the Motorsport UK academy and as director of the BRDC superstars.

'Mad' Max Papis talks to Guy and Paul about been mentored by the great Ayrton Senna, the disappointment of Formula one, The highs of racing in Indycar and having the most NASCAR starts for a European driver.

An all round 'Bas ass' Max's story is really inspirational and we really enjoyed speaking with him.

Described by Ayrton Senna as the best driver he had raced again Terry Fullerton was World karting champion and multiple European and British champion. He has worked with some of the best drivers in the world and he shares with Guy and Paul some of the secrets of the trade and what made him so successful.

He talks about his rise to the top of the sport and what it was like as team mate to Ayrton Senna and how their rivalry reached boiling point when Terry made a last lap move on Senna to win the Champions cup at Jesolo in 1980.

Triple World touring car champion Andy Priaulx MBE tells Guy and Paul about the struggles of making it to the top of the sport and living in a caravan at Silverstone until he got his big break into touring cars and then joining BMW for 13 years that saw him win 3 world titles, a European title, the Nurburgring 24hrs plus many races. He talks about his decision to leave BMW and move to Ford with the GT and his new role with Multimatic. Andy's son See is also on the rise in the sport just been signed by Multimatic on a long term deal so it will be interesting to watch his progress in the sport.