Takona Tlks with Rich Hall the man behind Great British Sports Cars, an independent car maker based in Nottinghamshire. Rich shares the story behind where the company started, how it's grown, and where it's heading. With a good mix of challenges and success thrown in for good measure.

See more from Great British Sports cars at: https://www.greatbritishsportscars.com/

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Takona Tlks with Hamilton James - A car youtuber, presenter and in his words, failed car dealer. A long, authentic, and at times deep episode looking quite thoroughly at both cars and mental health.

For more from Hamilton check out his youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpuEELfejiUJrlMlZlDbFw

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Takona Tlks with Automotive youtuber Freddie Hernandez aka Tavarish. One of Americas and possibly the worlds biggest automotive youtube content creators. Freddie has built his name around the phrase "I am the warranty" and his journey has taken him from fixing his cars on a driveway to buying flood damaged Mclaren P1's to build into something unique.

We sat down for a good old chat about his journey, some of the harder things to manage in being so well known, along with the usual life, the universe and everything.

See freddies Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/tavarish

As always more from Takona can be found here: www.takona.co.uk

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Takona Tlks with Sam Fretwell, founder of the Classicwise specialist car dealer in Southwell Nottinghamshire. Going from an incredibly difficult situation following a nasty car crash and turning that experience into the motivation to build a truly brilliant business doing fantastic things. We get into the story behind how Classicwise came to be.

For all things Classicwise head to https://www.classicwise.co.uk/

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Takona Tlks with Tim Foster, one of the men behind Rallying With Group B a community of enthusiasts, car owners and service suppliers who offer event organisers a one-stop solution for supplying spectacular eye-catching, well-driven and professionally organised cars.  

RWGB were the first demonstration group to be officially recognised by the UK's motorsport governing body, Motorsport UK. We are regulated, insured, and approved to run and organise display & demonstration events with the safety of the public as our primary concern.

Tim and I were introduced by the team at Race Retro as Rallying with Group B will be hosting the live rally stages across the weekend, something I'm personally quite excited to go and see. (Hence wanting to talk about such a cool thing on the podcast)

The Race Retro team have even offered a £2 off code for Takona Tlks listeners, use TAKONA2 at checkout. https://www.raceretro.com/

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Takona Tlks with Mark Foster, Formula one and Aston Martin Valkyrie Designer and founder of Rock Solid Rigs race simulator rigs. Mark and I talk through his career starting from entering Formula one, through to working with Adrian Newey on the Valkyrie, and now designing and building Racing Simulator Rigs.

See more of Marks Sim Rig work at www.rocksolidrigs.com and more from Takona at www.takona.co.uk

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Takona Tlks with Simon Lane, a man who has been behind some of the coolest and most interesting special vehicle operations cars for the past few years, including the James Bond Goldfinger DB5 recreation cars, the Aston Victor, and the Fitipaldi Evija. We go through some of Simons fondest projects and the story of how a tough school start has lead him onto an amazing career within the automotive world.

If you're a Patreon member you'll have seen some of the amazing pieces Simon shared with me after our chat.

If you're not a Patreon member you can explore how to become one here: https://www.patreon.com/Takona

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Takona Tlks with Simon Hill, a motorsport specialist in a variety of ways, from racing cars, to commentating about motorsport for the likes of ITV and Motors TV, managing motorsport logistics, and even helping manage his son Jake Hill who recently became BTCC champion for 2024.

Simon is a familiar face around most paddocks especially when the touring cars are in town. We sat down in the Hilton at Silverstone for a good catchup about his career in and around the motorsport world.

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