Fuelling Around - Stars Talking Cars!

It's the final episode in the current series, and Vicki and Dave's guest is YouTuber Mike Fernie! Best known for his work on Drivetribe, Mike has now set up on his own, and considering the channel is only just over 6 months old, it's so far going very well indeed!

Olympian Iwan Thomas is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around.  Thomas is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in 4x400m relay event. He’s also a former World, European and Commonwealth Games 4x400m relay champion. The 52-year-old, who now co-hosts the motorcycle-themed podcast Full Chat , joined Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his lo...

Television presenter and motoring journalist Rory Reid is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around.  Motoring journalist Reid , who is best known for his time as a presenter on Top Gear and Fifth Gear, is currently the YouTube director for Autotrader.  He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of cars and why he wanted to present Fifth Gear. 

YouTube star Jack Pegoraro is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around.  The online personality is best known for his YouTube channel Number 27 , which is dedicated to telling the story of classic cars , and has amassed over 85 million views and nearly 250,000 subscribers.  He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of older vehicles and why h...

Best known for his time on BBC's Dragon's Den, the hugely successful entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is Vicki and Dave's guest this week on Fuelling Around. Theo's success in the retail world affords him the finer things in life, and as a self-confessed petrolhead, that means cars, cars and more cars! From rare vintage Jags to his wife's John Cooper Works Mini, Theo has an eclectic collection of vehicl...

Formula 1 presenter Steve Jones is the latest guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around.  The 49-year-old is best known for being the main presenter of Channel 4’s coverage of Formula 1 and previously hosted shows such T4 and X factor USA. Steve joined Vicki and Dave to explain how he likes everything to be just right about his cars, and how he's managed to write 3 b...

Autoalex is the second guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around! He joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his eclectic collection of cars and why he finds it so hard to part with any of them! Alex has over 750,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 100 million views on his channel, making him one of the biggest automotive YouTubers on...

Television presenter Tim Lovejoy is the first guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Lovejoy, who is best known for presenting weekend TV shows such as Sunday Brunch, Soccer AM and Something For The Weekend joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his love of cars.  The 58-year-old also revealed all about life behind-the-scenes from som...

In the final episode of this series of Fuelling Around, Jason and Dave are joined by actor Simon Gregson who's played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street for the last 35 years! When he's not been out on the cobbles or propping up the bar in the Rovers Return, Simon has clearly been busy buying and selling cars, as he's certainly had plenty of stock over the last 3 decades! From a Renault 5 Turbo t...

He's the ultimate rock 'n' roll frontman, but Justin Hawkins from The Darkness also possesses a penchant for performance cars, and like his catsuits, he likes them to be exotic and flamboyant! This is a brilliant episode as Jason and Dave take a walk down Justin's memory lane of motors, and talk about his future days on track, now that he's passed his ARDS racing licence!

He's without doubt one of the biggest stars of YouTube, and has built a following of galactic proportions! Colin Furze is an engineer, an adventurer and a real life inspector gadget! He's built a secret bunker in his garden and an underground tunnel that links said bunker to his house, plus there's also a subterranean garage that will house his prized Delorean! Oh and he's a bit of a petrolhead as...

He was brought up in his father's prestigious luxury car garage, but Tom Hartley Jnr had plans to create the ultimate car dealership trading the world's most exquisite classic and performance cars, and that's exactly what he's done from his base in the midlands! When you've sold individual rarities for more than £60m each and have your eyes set on several trillion pounds worth of future business d...

This week Jason introduces Dave to his old mate Dario Franchitti. Jason and Dario raced together when they were much younger, before Dario moved to the states to become a big name in Indy Car. He won the championship four times and the infamous Indy 500 three times, and despite some terrifying crashes, is still around to tell the tales. These days his life is a much more sedate one, and his succes...

This week, Jason and Dave meet one of the brightest young stars in motorsports broadcasting, Sky and BBC Radio 5 Live commentator Harry Benjamin! Harry's been obsessed with F1 since he was a young boy, and to now be a significant part of the travelling world wide team, rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in the game is quite simply a dream come true, as he explains in this brilliantly enterta...

On this week's episode, we meet YouTube and Instagram star Michal Fidowicz, whose online channel 'Candy Showroom' is gaining him a lot of attention. With a sense of style and a taste in clothes and cars that pre-dates his late 20s age bracket, Michal is making his own car content to a very high level. A sucker for old BMWs, Michal has already owned many motors and photographed significantly more,...

Abbie Eaton is without doubt one of the most talented young racing drivers this country has ever produced, and her glittering collection of silverware is testament to her talents. In addition to the trophy cabinet, Abbie was selected to be the test driver on 'The Grand Tour' so has lived the dream of every car fan, and has the stories from those infamous trips to prove it! Ably assisted by her cat...

'Fuelling Around' is back for a tenth series, with Jason and Dave welcoming along another all star line up of notable petrolheads! First up, it's the smoothest of the smooth, DJ Trevor Nelson, who as well as knowing a thing or two about music as the host of Radio 2's prestigious afternoon show, is also a bit of a secret car nut! His early days of motoring were reassuringly humble like the rest of...

The final episode of the series sees Jason and Dave sit down with a man who rarely sits down, comedian Russell Kane! Russell is currently half way through an epic UK tour that has already seen him play about 60 dates this year, with the same scheduled for next year, and that doesn't take into account the podcasts, the interviews and the corporate gigs that he has to try and juggle as well! Away fr...

Ben Edwards has enjoyed a highly acclaimed career as a motorsports commentator, presenter and journalist, but it was behind the wheel and on track where it all started for him, and he still manages to get out in his track car when he can. With the F1 season concluding in Abu Dhabi last weekend and the Formula E season kicking off in São Paulo at the same time, it seemed the perfect opportunity to...

On this week's episode, Jason and Dave meet BBC Sports presenter Mike Bushell, who did Strictly Come Dancing 5 years ago and now does commentary at Carfest when he's not getting up at the crack of dawn every day to take his place on the breakfast show sofa! Away from the day job, Mike loves nothing better than getting behind the wheel of something tasty on track, as he explains to the boys.

At the age of just 45 and suffering from flu at the time, Jennie Gow had a stroke that was to change her life beyond all recognition, in an instance. An incredibly scary situation for Jennie, her husband and her young daughter, it was unlikely she'd ever return to broadcasting again, but with an unwavering sense of fight and determination, coupled with the support of some incredible medical staff...

On this week's edition of Fuelling Around, Jason and Dave welcome along a gentleman who used to be McLaren's chief engineer under Ron Dennis between the years of 1999 and 2009, seeing him work with the latest technology of the time, to enable the likes of David Coulthard, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton drive to the absolute limit. These days Marc Priestley aka F1 Elvis is a key note speaker and...

Darren Gough is one of this country's greatest ever cricketers, having represented England and his beloved Yorkshire for decades. He won Strictly Come Dancing (twice if you believe him!) in the noughties, but these days golf is his greatest passion, along with cars of course. When it comes to motors, with Darren it's normally the bigger the better! Range Rovers, Land Rovers and even the behemoth t...

He may not look like your average YouTuber, but car content creator / full time farmer Harry Metcalfe is nothing short of being an online sensation! His 'Harry's Garage' videos get millions of views worldwide, and within those fabled four walls is a car collection to die for! When your podcast guest has a Lamborghini Countach as just one of the many toys ready to be played with at the weekend, the...

Fuelling Around is back for its ninth series, and the boys are launching with one of their favourite people on the planet! Kevin McCloud has hosted Grand Designs on Channel 4 for the past 25 years and shows no signs of stopping, but when he's not marvelling at ingenious architectural design, Kevin likes to indulge his other great love of cars! He's got all sorts of oddities, most of which are in b...