The Gary Klutt Podcast

Matt Tifft is the youngest NASCAR Cup Series team owner in history. Matt is a Former Nascar Cup series driver, he has raced for Front Row Motorsports, Kyle Busch's truck team, Joe Gibbs and Richard Childress in the Xfinity series. Matt is a brain Tumor survivor and someone living with Epilepsy, He is super open on this podcast about his struggles with his condition, his dream being taken away...

DJ Cunningham discusses harnessing his ADHD to his advantage. DJ is the CEO of LEARNstyle. Through is education and career, DJ worked to discover how he learned differently with his learning disability of ADHD. He founded Learn Style at 24 years old ontario’s largest educational training company. As a result of DJ’s success, he has shared his story at numerous education events such as Microsoft&#3...

André Ahrlé owner of Special Security Services, has lived an insane life. Andre born in Germany raced Motocross in Europe as a teanager, before receiving a full ride football scholarship to Texas. Once in the USA he launched his own bodyguard/ security company with clients like:-Alice cooper, Backstreet boys, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, the Commonwealth games and various Formula one team...

Description: Gary and Al Unser Jr. talk about his extremely successful IndyCar Career, his new book: A Checkered Past, his struggles with drugs and Alcohol and substance use disorder. Al goes through his career from the beginning, racing go karts in New Mexico, to dirt sprint cars, Super Vee, his CAN-AM racing and his career as an IndyCar Legend. Unser had the opportunity to race Nascar and Formul...

Dayton Price was involved in a tragic accident while traveling with his golf team, his take on the accident, grief and loss, gratitude for life and his come back to Golf. Canadians Dayton Price & Hayden Underhill were survivors of a horrific car crash in Texas that took nine lives, including seven members of the University of the Southwest golf team they were part of. The team was driving afte...

Carroll Shelby, GT40's and Helicopters. A look back on the best of the 2002 Dream Car Garage season with Peter Klutt

Mikey Ciccarelli is a professional snowboarder making a living from his riding for Burton and Rockstar Energy, living in Whistler BC. He currently competes in Travis Rice's Natural selection backcountry contest. Mikey grew up riding in Ontario at Mount St. Louis. He went on to the Canadian Olympic team after winning the Jr. Olympics in Slopestyle. Mikey has competed in X games and Dew tour and...

Mark Martin is this week's guest, he talks about how Junior Hanley & Gary Balough Shaped his Career with the stroke of luck of moving to the ASA series early on and parking beside Jr Hanley at his first race. We discuss more personal topics of health and weight lifting and how Mark quit drinking and the health benefits. Mark Martin reminisces on how crazy him and Junior Hanley got, with bu...

Ed Bernardon is the VP of Strategic Automotive Initiative's at Siemens. Gary and Ed talk about AI, Artificial intelligence and its application in the future of cars. The largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe, Siemens is a $77 Billion Dollar a year company. Ed holds a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT… a BS Mechanical Engineering from Purdue and an MBA from Butle...

Dr John Degarmo has been a foster parent to over 60 kids over the years. He is the director of the Foster Care Institute. Dr. Degarmo is a leading international foster care expert and consultant, he has a doctorate in Educational leadership from Walden University, He is the author of many books on foster care. He has appeared on Ted Talks, and almost every news channel, He has authored 10 books in...

How do we reliably perform at our very best? Get out of you own way. Elvis Stojko has worked his whole life on practices that allow him to perform at his very best under Olympic level pressure. Elvis Stojko is a Legendary Canadian Figure Skater- 2x Olympic silver Medalist 3x World Champion 6x podium finisher in the Worlds. Elvis is also a Racecar driver and an Actor, we talk about him being a stun...

Harrison Burton, son of Nascar Hall of Famer Jeff Burton, grew up at the race track. With the motto of "Something to prove" Harrison is aware of what it takes to become and stay a professional race driver. Harrison started racing at the age of 4 with the goal of making it to the highest level in the sport, the NASCAR CUP Series. He now drives for the legendary Wood Brothers Racing team....

Gary and Peter discuss the trip to DEI to film with Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jr. for season 2 of Dream Car Garage. The guys add their commentary to segments where Dale Earnhardt Sr talks about his 1957 Chevy, as well as his 2001 Corvette C5R that he and JR raced together at Daytona 24 hours in 2001. Dream Car Garage segment where Peter steals Dale Jr’s 8 Budweiser cup car and gets arrested by the Mo...

Ty Majeski is probably the best iRacer of all time on the iRacing sim platform. Majeski currently races in the Nascar Truck series for Thorsport racing. Ty Majeski's racing resume is insane both in real life and on iRacing. He has won the snowball derby in 2020, the slinger national, three Arca races, two nascar camping world truck series races. Ty holds the record for most ARCA midwest tour champ...

Foster Huntington is Famous for coining #Vanlife, Foster lives off the grid in a cedar cone tree house with a cement pool to skateboard below, but while driving all around the west coast  in the 2011 surfing and living in his van, be became super popular on Instagram with 1M followers. Foster and I talk about Personal Creativity, finding your North Star, 10 years in Social Media, AI (Artifici...

Peter Klutt Joins Gary to discuss The Story of The ONLY 1969 LS7 Camaro & How It lead to the success of Dream Car Garage. In the first season of Peter's TV show Dream Car Garage, they restored the rarest camaro on the planet, an LS7 454 Baldwin Motion Camaro. This restoration set the stage for the quality of cars and quality of muscle car restorations Legendary Motorcar would be known for.

The Youngest Stock Car Champion in Canadian History Treyten Lapcevich grew up racing quarter midgets, winning national races and titles before jumping to a full sized stock car at 10 years old at Sunset speedway. Treyton Became the youngest racer to win a stockcar champions at 11 years old. He now races in the Nascar Pinty's series or Canadian Nascar, winning rookie of the year and multiple races,...

Alon Day is an Israeli Racecar driver competing in the NASCAR Euro Series. He was the Israeli Athlete of the year and holds the record for most Nascar Euro Series race wins and Championships being a 4 time champion. Alon talks about being the first jewish Israeli Nascar driver, his Nascar Cup, xfinity and truck series starts and compares sports cars to Nascar. Alon received a go kart as his bar mi...

Noah Gragson is the guest this week, he sits down to discuss his racing journey, what it takes to make it in NASCAR.Noah's career went from Bandoleros, to the Arca Menards series, to the NASCAR Truck series driving for KBM, jumping to JR Motorsports for his Xfinity Series time. Now Noah Gragson is driving for Legacy Motor Club in the Cup Series, along side Jimmie Johnson and Eric Jones.  Noah...

The Guest today on the podcast is Super bike racer Trevor Daley. Trevor grew up racing go karts, with his auto racing career culminating in the Formula BMW Series. He then went on to work for AIM Autosport, before ultimately making the jump to professional motorcycle racing,  in the Canadian Super Bike Championship. Trevor is the founder and owner of One Speed Inc, in which he does custom fab...

The Guest this week is Murray Timm, He has built Nascar Cup Series race cars at Hendrick Motorsports  Nascar Cup Shop for over 25 years. He has won 13 Nascar Cup Series Championships, and 231 Nascar Cup Series Wins. He is an Aerodynamic specialist, who has worked on bodies in the wind tunnel for the likes of Dale Earnhardt jr. Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliot. He has received the prestig...

Gary and Kenny chat about Kenny’s Pro Motorcycle racing career. From winning races in the Canadian Superbike Championship CSBK, racing the historic Bol d’ Or at Circuit Paul Ricard, as well as the 24h of Lemans and Daytona. Growing up racing go karts together, Kenny moved down to the States to race ama 600 supersport. Kenny was also factory Triumph motorcycle rider and competitive snowboarder. In...

Professional Sportscar Racer Kyle Marcelli shares his career path from go-karting all the way to Prototype & Sportscar racing. The process of finding sponsorship, getting free drives, to becoming a paid racecar driver for teams and manufacturers alike. #racing #racingpodcast #lamborghini #lamborghinisupercars #lamborghinisupertrofeo #laborghinidrivers #mosport #ronfellows #racingsponsorship #p...

Gary is joined by Darryl Timmers, the owner of Professional Racing Ontario. A National Go Kart Champion, Co-host of Another Race Weekend (A Formula 1 podcast) and high performance driving coach. They discuss the 2022 racing season, indycar, Nascar, Formula One, Formula 2, shifter kart racing, SKUSA SuperNats, Moto GP, and American's in Formula 1. #racing #gokart #xtremeindoorkarting #kartracing #s...

Paul Cooke, Canadian motorsports hall of famer, gives a detailed history on Canada’s most signifigant race team, Comstock racing. The team was a Ford factory supported through the 1960, racing Shelby Cobra’s, GT40s and Mustangs. Paul was witness more Canadian motorsports history than almost anyone, The director of Karting for ASN FIA was the team manager for George Eaton’s Can-Am team, and other’s...