The Motorsport to Business Podcast

This episode, our final recorded at Goodwood FOS 2025, spotlights Freddie March—the visionary aristocrat-engineer who turned an airfield on his family estate into British motor racing’s most beloved stage. Before he was the 9th Duke of Richmond, Freddie was a hands-on designer, racer and record-setter at Brooklands, an instinctive problem-solver who believed beauty and speed should share the same line.

Wartime transformed the estate into RAF Westhampnett; peacetime saw March channel that grit and ingenuity into a circuit, opening Goodwood in 1948 and curating a calendar that made heroes. Nine Hours through the night, RAC TTs blazing in the sun, safety and standards raised without losing the romance.

He paired craftsman’s eye with organiser’s discipline, proving that great venues are engineered as carefully as great cars, and that culture, how people build, behave and belong—decides whether excellence endures. The Goodwood we celebrate today is his blueprint: precision wrapped in charm, modernity in dialogue with memory, a place where the next lap always honours the last.

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This episode, recorded at Goodwood FOS 2025, spotlights Peter Hodgkinson—one of motorsport’s most influential quiet operators—whose career arcs from Detroit to Le Mans, Brackley to the America’s Cup.

Leaving New Zealand in 1986, Peter cut his teeth with Jack Roush on SCCA Trans Am and IMSA GTO, stacking nine championships in three years before joining Tom Walkinshaw’s programmes across IMSA GTP, Le Mans and the Ligier F1 effort.

Over 26 seasons in Brackley with BAR Honda, Brawn GP and Mercedes-AMG Petronas, Peter served as Head of Build, where configuration discipline, release confidence and right-first-time quality became competitive weapons. In 2020 he shifted from parts to people as Head of Employee Engagement, translating technical precision into cultural cadence: clear roles, honest debriefs, high standards repeated until they become reflex.

Peter’s gift is bridging torque specs and team spirit—showing leaders how to win, and keep winning, without burning the engine or the people who behind it.

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Recorded live at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025, this episode brings you into the Motorsport to Business Partner Lounge with Sante Group and Thinking it better.

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An NSP Media Production, (c) 2025.
Theme music is 'HMS Friendship' by Leader: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattcooperakaleader.bandcamp.com/track/hms-friendship-home-demo-2020⁠

Goodwood Special (Part 1): with Nick Butcher, Darren Andrew (CoByEx) & Rob Huff. From the pit wall to the boardroom to the podium. In this Goodwood Special, we sit down for three fast-paced conversations that unpack how motorsport performance translates into business value and beyond, and what it actually takes to win at the top of touring cars.

• Nick Butcher (Motorsport to Business) explains how elite motorsport processes—data discipline, marginal gains, pit-stop choreography, and decision-making under pressure—map directly into high-performing organisations.

• Darren Andrew (CoByEx) the connectivity layer of modern motorsport: resilient trackside networks, roaming, telemetry dataflows, satellite/5G back-up, and why reliable comms save time and money.

  
  

• Rob Huff (World Champion racing driver) brings you track-level perspective and the realities of sustaining a winning career.

  
  

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Blink and you’ll miss it—but world championships are won in those blinks. This episode takes you behind the wheel guns with Mercedes Grand Prix pit crew member, Ryan McGarva and we explore how elite teams engineer speed and consistency, on demand.

We break down the anatomy of a perfect stop: roles and responsibilities, and the language that keeps everyone aligned. You’ll hear how the crew is selected, cross-trained, and conditioned; why repetition turns pressure into pattern; and how data, and debriefs fuel marginal gains week after week. We dig into handover discipline, dealing with the unexpected elite mindset needed in this critical role for competitive advantage.

This is a masterclass in turning milliseconds into medals—and a playbook for any environment where performance, safety, and teamwork decide the result.

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Former Formula 1 communications lead and founder of The Comms Exchange, Nicole Bearne takes us inside the garage wall, back to the BAR Honda years, the fairytale Brawn GP season, and the white-heat of Abu Dhabi 2021 to show how elite teams keep their message clear when pressure peaks.

Nicole unpacks the quiet mechanics of trust, calmness and human leadership required to win, over and over again, when millions are watching.

From the culture shock of BAR’s early years through Honda’s exit and the “start-from-zero” transformation into Brawn GP. She talks about earning credibility in the pitlane, translating technical complexity without diluting the truth, and shaping a narrative during the 2009 fairytale: redundancy fears one winter, world titles the next. Expect candid reflections on ownership changes, slim resources, and how consistent, human messaging kept the team aligned when everything else was moving.

In this inspiring and in-depth interview, Nicole shows why credibility is the most valuable currency in the F1 paddock.

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Mark Arnall has spent more than two decades at the sharp end of Formula 1 as the performance coach trusted by world champions and legends. In this conversation, Mark opens up about the craft behind sustained elite performance: building travel-proof routines, managing sleep and jet lag across hundreds of days on the road, and keeping decision-making crisp when the stakes are highest.

He shares stories and pragmatic approaches from his years alongside Mika Häkkinen, Kimi Räikkönen and Sebastian Vettel, and from life inside McLaren, Lotus and Ferrari, distilling what truly moves the needle from podiums to World Championships to the boardroom.

You’ll learn how Mark’s “travel fit” philosophy translates into everyday leadership habits—hydration, mobility, recovery and simple, repeatable systems—plus how rigorous pre-briefs and debriefs compound marginal gains and culture in sport and business: designing for consistency under pressure, protecting energy, and turning discipline into competitive advantage.

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Theme music is 'HMS Friendship' by Leader: https://mattcooperakaleader.bandcamp.com/track/hms-friendship-home-demo-2020
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In this episode, broadcaster and journalist Jennie Gow takes us behind the scenes of life in the Formula 1 paddock and shares her powerful story of resilience. With years spent covering one of the most demanding sports on the planet, Jennie offers an insider’s perspective on the intensity, travel, and constant pressure that define the F1 world and what it means to find your voice in the most elite of environments.

Jennie reflects on suffering a stroke and her road to recovery, and how the experience reshaped her outlook on life and success. Her story is one of vulnerability, strength, and determination, offering inspiration well beyond motorsport.

Listeners will hear candid insights into the future of F1, including diversity, fan engagement and Jennie’s reflections on the values that keep her grounded. This is a conversation about resilience, reinvention, and the lessons learned when life throws the unexpected.

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Theme music is 'HMS Friendship' by Leader: https://mattcooperakaleader.bandcamp.com/track/hms-friendship-home-demo-2020

Mindset, moments and moves, Mark Blundell has lived life at full throttle.

This Motorsport to Business episode sits down with Mark Blundell — a name synonymous with grit, speed, and adaptability on and off the track. From his early rise through to becoming a Formula One driver and Le Mans winner, Mark's career has spanned some of motorsport’s most challenging and exhilarating eras.

In our conversation, Mark opens up about the mindset it takes to perform at the highest level, the lessons learned from the paddock to the boardroom, and the shifting landscape of motorsport today. It’s an exploration of ambition, resilience, and reinvention — offering insights that go beyond the chequered flag while leaving the story’s biggest turns for you to discover.

Whether you’re a lifelong fan or new to his legacy, this episode delivers an intimate look at a man who has navigated life at full throttle — and isn’t done yet.

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Theme music is 'HMS Friendship' by Leader: https://mattcooperakaleader.bandcamp.com/track/hms-friendship-home-demo-2020

This look back at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed sees Nick speaking with young driver Ruben Stanislaus (https://www.instagram.com/rubenstanislaus/?hl=en) and TOCA's Jake Hill (https://www.jake-hill.com).

Exploring what makes very fast drivers so fast and how business is critical to success in the motorsport industry.

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