It's Not the Car

When It All Goes Wrong


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Do you remember your worst day in racing?

Of course you do. How could you forget?

Jeff, Sam, and Ross: three hosts, three hugely different people, three lifetimes in and around motorsport. And in this episode, the stories of three very different bad days at the track—in parenting (Jeff), in desperation (Sam), and in the realization that a dream is gone and not coming back (Ross).

Racing is like any other part of life: It’s not about what happens when things go right. It’s about who you are when things go wrong.

This show changes format weekly, because squirrel. We call this format “EVERYONE TELLS A STORY.”


This episode was produced by Mike Perlman.


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ABOUT THE SHOW:

It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.


Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver, a bestselling author, and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning writer and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine.


We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.


New episodes every Tuesday.

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