MP 506: The Week In Sports Cars, March 20, with Graham Goodwin

It's the latest edition of The Week In Sports Cars podcast with Marshall Pruett and Graham Goodwin recorded after a busy 'Super Sebring event where IMSA and the WEC headlines in Florida. Driven by listener-submitted questions, Pruett and Goodwin answer a wide array of submissions from Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter.
Topics:
IMSA (starts at 2m27s)
WEC/AsLMS/ELMS (45m39s)
General (1h18m)
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MP 504: Inside The Sports Car Paddock, March 18, with Braun, Bamber, McNish, King, Kern, Leupen, and Zurlinden

It's the ninth installment of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show, and coming out of a busy IMSA and WEC weekend at Sebring, we have seven short-form interviews for you starting with CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun and Marshall Pruett on wet-weather chassis setups and strategies. Next, it's Porsche GT driver Earl Bamber on the evolution of his GT3 racing team, then Sebring Grand Marshall Allan McNish joins in to discuss his career after retiring from the cockpit.
Aston Martin Racing's Dave King follows to talk 2020 Hypercar and the brand's growing GT3 and GT4 sales, and we close with three interviews starting with factory Porsche driver Lars Kern, whose job testing and developing road cars led to a surprise role as a racer in IMSA, then Toyota Gazoo Racing principal Rob Leupen checks in on 2020 Hypercar, and Pascal Zurlinden, Porsche's Director of GT Factory Motorsports, takes us home with thoughts on fielding dual IMSA/WEC efforts at Sebring.
Interviews:
Jeff Braun (starts at 3m45s)
Earl Bamber (30m23s)
Allan McNish (40m28s)
Dave King (55m29s)
Lars Kern (1h01m54s)
Rob Leupen (1h16m19s)
Pascal Zurlinden (1h25m40s)
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MP 499: Catching Up With Randy Lanier

1984 IMSA GTP champion Randy Lanier is back for his second visit to the Marshall Pruett Podcast in a quick 'Catching Up With' episode.
The star of our first long-form special feature in 2016 (https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/podcast/mp-95-randy-lanier-my-racing-life-and-career/), the happy and free Lanier joined us at the 2019 Rolex 24 At Daytona where he was a guest of Chip Ganassi.
Providing updates on his life since being freed from decades of imprisonment for narco trafficking, Lanier also offers thoughts on the transition from high-power/low-downforce IMSA prototypes to the immense physical demands found in the GTP era.  
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MP 495: The Week In Sports Cars, March 6, with Graham Goodwin

It's the latest edition of The Week In Sports Cars podcast with Marshall Pruett and Graham Goodwin who answer a wide array of WEC, ELMS, SRO, IMSA, and fun questions submitted via Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter in the listener-driven show.
Discussion Topics:
IMSA (starts at 5m00s)
WEC/AsLMS/ACO/ELMS (starts at 25m50s)
General (1h19m16s)
Fun (1h26m45s)
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MP 487: Inside The Sports Car Paddock, Feb 25, with Braun and Eversley

It's the fifth installment of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show and our guests include CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun who explores two tech-talk subjects with Marshall Pruett on traction control and modern radio systems, and then we close with Ryan Eversley, who discusses his new opportunity with Gradient Racing in an Acura NSX GT3 and what's ahead for his popular Dinner with Racers podcast.
Interviews:
Jeff Braun (starts at 2m54s)
Ryan Eversley (42m53s)
 
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MP 484: The Week In Sports Cars, Feb 19, with Graham Goodwin

It's the latest edition of The Week In Sports Cars podcast with Marshall Pruett and Graham Goodwin who answer a wide array of WEC, ELMS, SRO, IMSA, and fun questions submitted via Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter for the listener-driven show.
Discussion Topics:
IMSA (starts at 2m10s)
WEC/AsLMS/ACO (31m36s)
General (1h31m21s)
Fun (1h49m47s)
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MP 483: Inside The Sports Car Paddock, Feb 18, with Braun, Keating, Riley, and Legge

It's the fourth installment of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show and our guests include CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun who tells Marshall Pruett about the fine art of sports car damping by using the upcoming race at Sebring to explore the rules and needs for controlling the ride characteristics of prototypes and GT cars on the bumpy road course.
IMSA team owner/driver Ben Keating is up next to share insights on the Ford GT he purchased to race in June's 24 Hours of Le Mans, and he's followed by Bill Riley, who will run the Keating Motorsports GTE-Am effort. We close with Katherine Legge, who called in after winning the all-electric Jaguar I-PACE eTrophy race on Sunday in Mexico City to bring us inside the new series and the career resurgence she's experiencing in sports cars.
Interviews:
Jeff Braun (starts at 2m54s)
Ben Keating (36m02s)
Bill Riley (55m46s)
Katherine Legge (1h05m38s)
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MP 477: Catching Up With Toni Calderon

Toni Calderon, executive producer of the new racing documentary The Gentleman Driver, now available on Netflix, visits The Marshall Pruett Podcast for an episode of Catching Up to bring us behind the scenes of how the film was made and all that went into chronicling the lives of four businessmen attempting to earn respect of the professional teams and drivers competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA's WeatherTech Sports Car Championship.
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MP 474: Inside The Sports Car Paddock, Feb 4, with Braun, Brabham, Marquardt, and Reinke

It's the second episode of new Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show and our guests include CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun who tells Marshall Pruett about the rules and management process involved with drive-time in IMSA.
And from Australia, Graham Goodwin met with David Brabham after his new BT62 supercar set a lap record at Bathurst, spoke with BMW Motorsport boss Jens Marquardt on the brand's GT racing plans, sat down with Audi Customer Sport director Chris Reinke on a similar topic, and closed with Bathurst 12 Hour race director Kurt Sakzewski.
Interviews:
Jeff Braun (starts at 3m05s)
David Brabham (28m08s)
Jens Marquardt (41m27s)
Chris Reinke (50m17s)
Kurt Sakzewski (1h07m27s)
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MP 473: Catching Up With Mitch Bishop

It's our short-form 'Catching Up With' interview series featuring Mitch Bishop, son of IMSA founders John and Peggy Bishop, who visits The Marshall Pruett Podcast to share insights on his magnificent new book IMSA: 1969-1989 written with Mark Raffauf, to bring some of its stories to life during a conversation captured at the recent Rolex 24 At Daytona.
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MP 472: The Week In Sports Cars, Jan 31, with Graham Goodwin

It's an expanded episode of The Week In Sports Cars podcast with Marshall Pruett and Graham Goodwin following a rain-soaked Rolex 24 At Daytona with great questions submitted via Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter for the listener-driven show.
Discussion Topics:
IMSA (starts at 4m49s)
WEC (1h16m16s)
General and Fun (1h20m14s)
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MP 471: Inside The Sports Car Paddock, Jan 30, with Allmendinger, Braun, and Fry

It's time for the debut of a new show on The Marshall Pruett Podcast as Inside The Sports Car Paddock, a weekly interview format where drivers, team owners, engineers, and more bring us inside their world following major events like last weekend's Rolex 24 At Daytona, and other happenings spanning North American, European, and Asian sports car racing.
Our debut episode opens with CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun who breaks down the team's incredible efforts to get their Nissan Onroak DPi to the finish line, the reasons why heavy rains made it impossible to continue racing, and whether the first red flag should have been the final red of the day. BMW Team RLL technical director Brandon Fry is next on the guest list as he details the program's win in the GT Le Mans category, the steering column issues that struck the sister BMW M8 GTE entry when Alex Zanardi climbed in for his first stint, and more from a 24-hour contest that had highs and lows for the German brand.
The final interview in our debut episode goes to A.J. Allmendinger, who had a busy weekend pulling double duty driving a Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 in GTD and sprinting up to the NBC Sports broadcast booth between stints.
Jeff Braun: Starts at 4m25s
Brandon Fry: 1h2m30s
A.J. Allmendinger: 1h21m13s
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MP 469: Busby Racing Wins The 1989 24 Hours of Daytona

Team owner Jim Busby, driver John Andretti, Busby Racing crew chief Mike Colucci, and Porsche/Andial legend Alwin Springer bring their win at the 1989 Sunbank 24 Hours of Daytona to life on the 30th anniversary of their overall win in the gorgeous No. 67 Porsche 962.
The two-car effort, with the lead No. 67 entry for the late hero Bob Wollek, all-time great Derek Bell, and Andretti, was complemented by a one-off second entry, the No. 68, as a tribute entry featuring the Holbert Racing crew and a 962 chassis for Mario and Michael Andretti, in the wake of Al Holbert’s death a few months earlier.
By the end of the 24 Hour, Porsche had won its 50th race with the 962, which would also serve as Bell's final 24-hour win, and with a long delay for fog, the windshield flying off with Andretti behind the wheel, and a titanic battle for victory with Jaguar that forced Wollek to close the race running at qualifying speeds, the 1989 event is loaded with amazing stories offered by our guests. 
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MP 468: Memo Gidley -- Five Years Later

Five years after his terrifying crash at the 2014 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Memo Gidley takes us back to the day where his life changed as a result of the leg and back injuries he sustained, and then works through the recovery process--one that was brutally painful--before breaking through and returning to the sport that's taken almost as much from him as it's given.
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MP 466: Catching Up With Christian Fittipaldi

Veteran Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, and IMSA driver Christian Fittipaldi visits The Marshall Pruett Podcast to discuss his upcoming retirement from racing after the Rolex 24 At Daytona and his shift to continuing with the Action Express Racing in a new sporting director role.
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MP 464: The Week In Sports Cars, Jan 23, with Juan Montoya and Graham Goodwin

Acura Team Penske's Juan Montoya joins the opening segment on the The Week In Sports Cars podcast with Marshall Pruett and Graham Goodwin and the fun continues as MP and GG close the show fielding the usual topics of interest submitted by listeners via Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter leading into this weekend's Rolex 24 At Daytona.
 
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MP 463: Mark Martin on His 1989 Rolex 24 IMSA GTO Win

NASCAR legend Mark Martin visits the Marshall Pruett Podcast to share some great tales about his first class victory at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, taken 30 years ago in a Roush Racing Mercury XR7, and his subsequent wins, including 1995, where he drove with the late Paul Newman. It's typical Mark Martin--funny and poignant--all told with great charm.
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MP 462: PJ Jones on His 1993 IMSA GTP Lap Record at Daytona

P.J. Jones owns one of IMSA's greatest achievements--the outright lap record at the Rolex 24 At Daytona--set in 1993, and with the 2019 field of IMSA prototypes on the cusp of setting a new record in qualifying, the former All American Racers driver visits the Marshall Pruett Podcast to recount his amazing feat in the AAR Eagle Mk III GTP and details its unbelievable performance capabilities.
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MP 461: Busby Brings In-Car Cameras To IMSA 1985

Veteran IMSA team owner/driver Jim Busby visits the Marshall Pruett Podcast to share stories of IMSA’s first adventure in live on-board footage from 1985 as his Porsche 962 GTP team, with backing from tire manufacturer BFGoodrich, took sports car fans along for some memorable rides.
Although it's become commonplace today, sitting in the passenger seat next to Busby, Jochen Mass, Pete Halsmer, John Morton, Rick Knoop, and other GTP legends was a ground-breaking viewing experience in the mid-80s.
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MP 460: Racing To The Front -- The Women of Meyer Shank Racing

The all-female Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 IMSA team founded by Jackie Heinricher with co-owner Mike Shank, led by drivers Katherine Legge, Simona De Silvestro, Christina Nielsen, and Bia Figueiredo, visits the Marshall Pruett Podcast for a roundtable discussion ahead of their debut at the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
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