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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, Miles Lacey and John Marcar catch up on some recent activities and debate which is best: motor racing in Australia or road-tripping in the Alps? Shortly after a recent podcast recording, Miles had to hop on a 24-hour flight to Australia whilst John had to go to the Alps for some wheeler-dealing. Miles' Australian adventure resulted from an invite to drive with...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, Miles Lacey and John Marcar visit one of the most unique car showrooms in the country: DMB Collection in Yorkshire, to meet the founder and now TV star, Dean Bartle. Dean and his team at DMB Collection are now on our television screens on Quest and Discovery+ with the new TV show Supercar Showroom. The show follows the comings and goings of your not-so-average...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, Miles Lacey and john Marcar sit are joined by Raoul Popescu-Ghimis from RACE Software. RACE Software enables drivers, engineers and hobbyists on any level to tune and adapt suspension setups in the virtual world before using the simulated geometry in the real world. Confused? Don't worry, John was too, but Raoul explains how his software has helped racing team...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey sit down with Ben Broke-Smith, the founder and 'big boss' at String Theory Garage - specialists in suspension geometry and performance setup based in Warwickshire. Ben's working history involves competing professionally in motorsport earning the accolade of European Drift Champion in 2008. Ben has also worked for and with racing tea...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey take a seat in the Coventry Corner Podcast Studio to catch up on their recent adventures, escapades and accolades in and around the automotive world. Talking topics on this week's episode include; Miles driving brand-new Rolls-Royce cars in central Milan, John riding a Triumph Speed Twin 1200 whilst wearing a suit in central London,...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey visit Will Beaumont, the creator and Editor of Werke Magazine. Werke Magazine is a high-quality quarterly BMW magazine that celebrates BMW and the culture that surrounds BMW cars. In this week's episode, John and Miles explore the origin of Will's new venture following a print media career starting in design and later evolving into...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar is joined by Rob Jolly, the CEO and founder of ONTO, a company that offers subscription services to electric vehicles. In this conversation, John and Rob work through a selection of questions from our listeners about the EV industry. Why aren't there more sporty GT-style EVs? How does an EV specialist company CEO feel about the ethics of mining pre...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey are joined by racing driver Richard Attwood. In his racing career, Richard has successfully peddled some of the most iconic racing cars produced by Lotus, BRM, Maserati, Ferrari and Porsche - the marque that Richard was driving at the 1970 Le Mans 24h race in the Porsche 917K. As you will hear in this week's podcast, despite his acc...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John and Amy are back in the studio for the first time since Amy Shore became Amy Heynes! No guests this week; it's just John and Amy, but fear not, there are talking topics a-plenty! The talking topics on this week's podcast include (to name just a few); Amy's honeymoon driving adventure around the USA, John's recent visit to Salon Prive, a discussion on fake...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar brings you The Sounds of Goodwood Members Meeting 2023 #MM80 and, with it, 21 fantastic conversations John, Tim and Miles had throughout the two-day event. This week's guests in order of appearance: ON SATURDAY, we speak to Racing driver  Grant Williams , a previous podcast and Goodwood celebrity, thanks to his sideways antics in his Jaguar ra...

Niki Faulkner is a man known for many things. He's known as a racing driver, a precision driver, a film and television automotive advisor and even Jeremy Clarkson's stunt double. He's also the man that choreographed the Spice Girls singing live whilst standing on London taxis at the London Olympics and is a man that once caused a woman to faint purely by driving past her (true story!) This week, o...

This week, on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar is joined by one of the most well-known and well-loved television presenters on our screens, Radzi Chinyanganga. Radzi currently hosts Formula E on Channel 4 but is known to an array of television viewers as a presenter who has appeared on shows such as Blue Peter, Gladiators and Songs of Praise. Radzi has also presented on sports and event covera...

This week, on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Amy Shore are in the studio together for one of their regular catch-up chats, but this time, a pressing topic dominates the conversation as our very own Amy Shore is getting married! Aside from plenty of wedding chat, we also catch up with Amy's comings and goings, including an adventure to Scotland with a BMW X6 (thank you, BMW Park Lane), ra...

When you think of back-dated bespoke Porsche 911 builds, a small number of companies spring to mind that are renowned for high-quality work in the field, and Rennsport is definitely one of those companies. This week, John Marcar is joined for a chat by Rennsport's Managing Director, Paul Cockell. Paul shares his fantastic story of how he went from working as a young workshop apprentice to the mana...

Brian Klein is best known to an automotive audience for his work as a television director on BBC Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond and this week joins John Marcar for his second appearance on The Driven Chat Podcast. Brian first worked with Jeremy Clarkson in the 1990s as the director of stocking-filler videos and DVDs, mainly featuring exploding caravans, supercar shoo...

Grant 'Sideways' Williams is a five-time winner of the world-famous St Mary's Trophy at the annual Goodwood Revival Meeting. Grant's unique driving style has brought him fame and followers from all corners of the globe thanks to his ability to drift and slide his Jaguar Mk1 whilst fighting for podium positions. In this week's Driven Chat Podcast, Grant joins John Marcar and Miles Lacey to share mu...

This week, on The Driven Chat Podcast, we are joined by the face of DriveTribe, Mike Fernie. DriveTribe appeared out of nowhere in 2016 as a new and exciting automotive social media platform seemingly fronted by Clarkson, Hammond and May. But less than six years after the launch of the DriveTribe brand, it was all coming to a sudden end in January 2022. Except, it wasn't... From early 2022, DriveT...

This week, F1 racing driver Martin Donnelly joins John Marcar and a very special guest host Miles Lacey for the latest Driven Chat Podcast. Martin Donnelly is perhaps best known as the survivor of a horrifying 170mph crash whilst testing his Lotus F1 car at the Jerez Circuit in 1990. It was a crash that would end his F1 career but against all odds, not his life. In this week's podcast, John and Mi...

This week, the presenter, performer and content creator, Miss Emma Walsh, joins John Marcar for the latest Driven Chat Podcast. Emma was brought up in a family of performers, with her parents starring in the 1970s-80s pop group The Dooleys. With such a strong musical influence, it's perhaps no surprise that Emma also went on to pursue a career in music. Later in life, Emma also appeared on our TV...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Amy Shore are joined for a chat by Aaron Shelby, the Grandson of the late-great Carroll Shelby. Carroll Shelby is known, loved and celebrated as the iconic name that made fast cars even faster. Aaron still plays a crucial role working within the organisation and legacy founded by his grandfather as a board member of Carroll Shelby International...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar re-visits Baffle Haus and LOWE Classics to sit down with Leon Oli Window, who first appeared on the podcast in October 2020. It's been just over two years since our original episode was recorded, and Oli shares his progress with both of his brands, celebrating the UK car culture that he's undoubtedly helped progress from his small but impactful pre...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, Amy Shore and John Marcar sit down with photographer and advertising legend - Nigel Harniman, a man famous for his work in and around the automotive industry since the 1990s. Nigel's work has been seen in magazines, on advertising billboards and on television screens around the globe featuring brands from Renault to Rolls Royce and just about every car brand i...

In November 2022, we had the privilege of attending the Royal Automobile Club’s Art of Motoring Exhibition at the prestigious Sotheby’s Bond Street, London. This week on the Driven Chat podcast, Rachael Downie shares her fascinating conversations had with some wonderfully talented automotive artists at Europe’s leading curated automotive art exhibition. Curators Andrew Marriott and Rupert Whyte, u...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, Rachael Downie chats with Kate Reid, a lady with an incredible career behind her and a fantastic legacy ahead. Kate fell in love with F1 as a child, thanks to the influence of her father and later decided she was destined to work within the industry. Kate joined Williams F1 aged 23, moving from her home in Melbourne, Australia, to the U.K. to work as an aerody...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar & Rachael Downie are in conversation with Portrait Photographer Indira Flack. Indira has made a huge name for herself by capturing the images and documenting the personalities of iconic racing drivers such as Derek Bell, Sir Stirling Moss, Jenson Button, Lando Norris and many, many more. In this chat, Indira explains how she made a career as a...