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This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar sits down with Claire Johnson, aka The Naked Warrior. Claire is a specialist in fitness and nutrition, supporting racing drivers and race teams with their diet and getting the best out of their performance on track and in the pitlane. Claire offers fascinating insights into foods that can benefit the body and mind for performance and endurance. Asi...

Valtteri Bottas & Zhou Guanyu on The Driven Chat Podcast!! This week on the podcast, enjoy the full and uncut conversations from Alfa Romeo Orlen F1 racing drivers Bottas and Guanyu first heard on The Driven Chat Radio Show on talkSPORT. The Valterri Bottas joined Andy Jaye via facetime and Zhou Guanyu sat down in person with John Marcar and Rachael Downie just outside the Silverstone Circuit...

Welcome to a very special episode of The Driven Chat Podcast. This week, it's a highlight show recorded at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2022. John Marcar and Rachael Downie roam around the Festival to speak to as many personalities as possible. Over the three days, here is who you'll be hearing from in this episode: On day 1: we speak to Zenvo Chairman Jens Sverdrup, Tim Burton (aka Shmee150), c...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Rachael Downie talk to racing legend Steve Soper as part of our celebration of 50 years of BMW M with Partridge BMW, Hampshire. Steve Soper is among the most successful and celebrated saloon racing car drivers of all time and is closely affiliated with BMW racing cars. His motorsport career started in the early 1980s driving for privateer teams...

This week on the Driven Chat podcast, John Marcar is joined by the founder and director of Forza Clienti, Dan Eales. Dan has worked in car sales from an early age and has a fantastic story of how he went from fixing cars in main dealer service shops to selling supercars at the world's most prestigious Ferrari dealership. In this conversation, Dan shares how his passion for customer service has now...

This week on the Driven Chat podcast, John Marcar sits down with our newest member of the presenting team at Driven - Rachael Downie. Rachael has joined Driven Chat in a timely fashion as our Radio Show finds a new home on talkSPORT2. Rachael's presenting background is heavily motorsport dominated, making her a perfect addition to the Driven Chat team on talkSPORT. In this episode, we dive into Ra...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar is joined by fellow podcaster and old friend Sam Moores. Sam is known by many as a photographer and a YouTuber but is perhaps equally famous as the owner of a world-renowned Blue Ferrari F40. John and Sam first met whilst working on the production and media side of Gumball 3000, travelling the world together on the Gumball 3000 Rally. In this week'...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar sits down with John McGurk, the founder and MD of McGurk Performance cars in Warwickshire. McGurk primarily specialises in selling and servicing Aston Martins, but his journey to where he is now is pretty remarkable, with stints at Ferrari and TWR in Coventry. Naturally, with a varied career and a passion for cars and motorbikes, John has many a st...

It isn’t very often you get the chance to sit down with a best in the world award winner in any field, let alone two; however, this week, John Marcar sits down with Ferrari’s best Sales Executive and best technician… and when we say the best - we mean the best - the best in the world!   Jardine Colchester Ferrari has the almost unheard of accolade with two Testa Rossa award winners on the pay...

Imagine turning up to a race track and being given a chance to drive a selection of amazing cars such as a McLaren 720S, a Porsche Cayman GT4 and a BMW M2 Racing Car with no concern about expensive things like fuel consumption and tyre wear. DTO Motorsport is a company that offers a selection of packages that do just that, and recently, John Marcar was invited to Donington Park to experience a DTO...

Welcome to the 'Hundred Club! Our 100th episode of the Driven Chat Podcast - hosted by John Marcar, Amy Shore and Andy Jaye. In this special episode, John brings you content from the 2022 Goodwood Members Meeting thanks to Bonhams Auctioneers and talks to the head of European Auctions - Paul Darvill, as he explores the Bonhams Marquee ahead of the weekend. Before diving in with Paul, though, John...

Every podcast we record is noteworthy for its own reason, but every so often, we hit the record button and what follows is something extra-extra special. This week's Driven Chat Podcast is absolutely definitely 'extra-extra special. Elspeth Beard and Jacqui Furneaux have both embarked on international adventures on two wheels. Elspeth circumnavigated the world as a young 23-year-old on her BMW, cr...

We do love a Lotus launch! We were present for the launch of the Lotus Emira in 2021 and were delighted to be welcomed back by Lotus for the launch of their latest car, the Eletre. The Lotus Eletre is Lotus' first-ever SUV model, and they have gone in with a bang! The Eletra is a Hyper-SUV promising super-fast charging and performance capabilities, including a 0-60mph launch in under 3 seconds. Ju...

This week's podcast is a collection of conversations recorded at The Classic Car & Restoration Show at the NEC. These interviews were originally recorded for our radio show; however, we've decided to include them here on the podcast for your listening pleasure too. First up, we talk to Charlotte Vowden, a writer and journalist who has transitioned into the world of automotive thanks to her won...

Have you ever wanted to hear about the inner workings of an inventor?? This week we're still at Baffle Haus, but this time, we're talking to a man that has invented something to keep our bikes out of the hands of thieves. Neil Barron is an award-winning inventor who has worked with and for brands such as Guinness, Fender Guitars, Lego Futura, Thermos and Boots. Neil is now working on an essential...

This week's Driven Chat Podcast has a two-wheeled theme as John Marcar, and Amy Shore record from the motorcycle meet up location, Baffle Hause in Monmouthshire, Wales. Our guests this week are brand founders Andrew Salter and Sam Daymond, who created Baffle Culture as a social media profile whilst at university together. Later, thanks to the community around the subject matter, Baffle Culture ach...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, we have a show of two parts. Firstly, John and Amy are joined by the two founders of Auto Artists For Ukraine; Jonny Ambrose and Rev. Adam Gompertz. In the first part of the podcast, Jonny and Adam talk about their reasoning for coming together for such a vital cause and share how everyone listening can get involved and support their charity efforts. In the se...

This week it's a Praga Cars special where we include five conversations in one podcast. Following an invite from Praga to attend the pre-season test day at Silverstone, John Marcar is in conversation with; Ex SAS soldier turned racing driver, Jay Morton Racing driver and previous 'Top Gear Stig', Ben Collins Managing Director of Praga Cars, Mark Harrison YouTube Creator and now racing Driver, Jimm...

92 Becky Evans is our latest guest on The Driven Chat Podcast, and this week, she's in conversation with John Marcar and Amy Shore.  Becky is a television presenter and YouTube creator with a strong social following as QueenB. In this conversation, Becky shares how her 'forward' personality has allowed her to excel in an industry with little more than just an initial interest. Starting in the...

Sam Fane is known to his many hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers as 'Seen Through Glass', and this week, he's our guest on The Driven Chat Podcast in conversation with John Marcar and Amy Shore.  What started as a side hustle whilst working in the busy world of media PR soon transformed into a job and lifestyle that involved Sam travelling the world and documenting his love of...

Imagine stepping away from a comfortable and stable job and starting up a specialist classic car dealership, just as a global pandemic is unfolding. This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar talks to Harvey Window, one of the directors of Lowe Classics based out of Baffle Haus in Monmouthshire. Lowe Classics offer attainable classic cars with examples ranging from everyday favourites like...

Chances are, if you have enjoyed a variety of TV shows, viral videos and movies featuring driving stunts or precision driving, you will have seen the work of this weeks guest on The Driven Chat Podcast.  Andy Harriss is the brains behind keeping things safe in the world of car stunts and driving. Having worked on productions including BBC Top Gear, The Fast and Furious movies and Mission Impo...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Amy Shore talk to Rev Adam Gompertz - also known as; Revs Art. Adam Gompertz started his career as a Psychiatric nurse before exploring his passion for drawing cars by becoming a car designer for MG Rover and Rolls-Royce. Later in his career, Adam received his calling to be a Church of England Vicar but didn't want to turn his back on the autom...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar sits down with his old friend James 'Jim' Cameron to talk about Mission Motorsport, the company he founded ten years ago whilst serving in the British Army as a commander of the Tank Regiment.  James assembled a small team of like-minded individuals and took it upon himself to ensure that members of his own regiment had a 'next step' following...

Nick Whale is the founder and managing director of Silverstone Auctions and comes from a family background of selling prestigious cars in the West Midlands of England. In this week's podcast hosted by John Marcar & Amy Shore, Nick talks about his history of working in the motor trade industry, starting as a salesman for highstreet car dealerships and building his career to be part of his fathe...