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We’ve got a special summer episode of the Brad Jones Racing Run Down to kick off your 2025! On this ep, the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood run through a bunch of terms and jargon you’ll hear used around motorsport and what they all mean. Become a BJR Member in 2025 >> https://www.bradjonesracing.com.au/bjr-memberships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The final Brad Jones Racing Run Down of the year has the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones in the host chair! With BJR general manager Chris Westwood off sick (get well soon!), Macca is joined by BJR boss Brad Jones to look back at season 2024 and chat about the highlights, lowlights, and their take on some of the things on the horizon for 2025. Become a BJR Member in 2025 >> https://www.bradjonesr...

In the final episode of the Special Stage Rally Podcast this season, the RallySport Magazine team give their highlights of the year and discuss what’s happened over the course of a busy 2024. Who are some drivers to look out for next year? What events are going to be the ones to watch in 2025? This episode puts a bow on the 2024 rally year and shares what’s to come in the New Year. Special Stage i...

RallySport Magazine welcomes two of the brightest young rally drivers to the podcast this week as they talk about their winning seasons in the Australian Rally Championship. Firstly, though, Luke and Peter Whitten recap the Silver Fern Rally that concluded late last week. Then Bodie Reading and Mitch Garrad talk about their respective Production and Junior Cup wins and give an insight as to what t...

On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the final race of the 2024 season at the Adelaide 500. They talk about battling the 35-degree heat in the Saturday race and how it highlighted a deficiency with one of the Gen3 specs, whether Turn 8 needs to be changed in the wake of some of the weekend’s accidents, wh...

Both Rally Tasmania and Rally Japan lived up to the hype and we welcome Taylor Gill as the podcast’s co-host to describe the action. Midway through Sunday, Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaghe took their first World Rally Championship title, then later, Harry Bates and Coral Taylor took the Australian Rally Championship title in Tasmania. We discuss each of those events and the troubles of some of...

The rally season is about to come to an end, but there's no doubt that it's finishing with a bang. We have it all on this episode of Special Stage. The boys dive into a massive weekend of rallying, with three major events in three countries. Peter Whitten will head to New Zealand for the marathon 7-day Silver Fern Rally, while Luke Whitten will be in the Apple Isle getting the low-down on the fina...

It's a bumper edition of the Special Stage Rally Podcast this week as we talk of rallying's news and discuss the five year anniversary of the cancellation of Rally Australia in 2019. The RallySport Magazine team cover the International Rally of Whangarei, the future of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and the upcoming Rally Tasmania. Targa Tasmania is also back on the calendar, and is discussed...

On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood reflect on the 2024 season and look forward to the season finale in Adelaide. Other topics include Macca’s preparation for the end-of-season Supercars Gala, Test driving a Trans Am car, street circuits versus heritage tracks and more. Become a BJR Member in 2024 >> https://www.brad...

A new champion in New South Wales, and teams testing hard for this month's Rally of Tasmania – just two of the topics on this week's Special Stage Rally Podcast. The rally season is moving towards its finale but there's still plenty going on. Josh Redhead took the NSW title on Saturday, despite Riley Walters winning the Bathurst Rally, while the Toyota team were hard at it on Tuesday testing their...

On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Gold Coast 500, including whether it was the right thing to do to turn off the kerb-hop sensors, Macca’s take on Saturday race winner Cam Waters’ charge that parity is still not right, and much more. Become a BJR Member in 2024 >> https://www.bradjonesracing.com.au...

The Special Stage podcast is back, and we welcome 2024 Queensland Rally Champion, Ryan Williams, to discuss the week’s news. Williams talks about his Queensland season, his experience on Finnish snow and what the future might hold for 2025. The chat then turns to Western Australia to discuss their final state round, while there’s also time spent on the Mt Baw Baw Sprint and the upcoming Adelaide R...

We get the low-down on the future of the Australian Rally Championship on this week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast. Adrian Coppin is in the co-host’s chair as we delve into state rallies in South Australia and Victoria before looking at the WRC’s penultimate round.  Coppin shares personal anecdotes on rallying on tough European tarmac and just what it was like competing there in 2013 and 2014. We t...

On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 – and BJR’s best-placed finisher at Mount Panorama – Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Bathurst 1000, including Macca’s state after doing the last 40 laps without any water, how the Full Course Yellow and Safety Car rules didn’t seem to make things safer for officials during the Matt Payne crash cl...

We’ve reached for the top shelf for this week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast guest, with European Rally Champion Hayden Paddon joining us from Poland. After we briefly preview this weekend’s WRC round and state rounds in South Australia and Victoria, Paddon brings us up to date with his plans to contest next year’s Australian Rally Championship. He speaks freely about what’s still left to tick off...

This week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast episode sees the RallySport Magazine team discuss the news of the week. We talk the Race of Champions coming to Australia and also the Working Dog Rally that was held in northern New South Wales. Clayton Hoy, Toby Price and Ryan Williams are all discussed from that event as well as the two legendary classic cars that graced the podium. The WRC driver market...

We’re getting ready to head to the Mountain on this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down! Driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood chat about the biggest weekend on the Supercars calendar, including Macca’s bruising preparations in the virtual world, the fact he gets to participate in this year’s Pit Stop Challenge (but doesn’t think he should be), the dangers of the ch...

After a week off, the Special Stage Rally Podcast is back, and we welcome Alex Rullo to the co-host’s chair to talk about WRC Rally Chile. On spectacular roads, the WRC was yet again at its fascinating best, and Rullo joins Luke Whitten to give their views on Kalle Rovanpera’s South American win. Also discussed is Rullo’s ARC season, the Rosewood Rally and the upcoming Working Dog Rally where Toby...

Plenty of stuff to talk about this week on the Brad Jones Racing Run Down! Driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood are joined by team owner Brad Jones. They unpack Toyota’s announcement that it is joining Supercars in 2026 and what the future for GM/Camaro is in Supercars, and look at the controversial Full Course Yellow procedure and what needs to change. Brad also...

It’s Special Stage Rally Podcast time again and this week we dive deep into last weekend’s Adelaide Hills Rally, paying particularly attention to Lewis Bates’ victory There were off-road excursions, time penalties for the championship leader and stellar drives from the category leaders, and we discuss it all. We also chat with popular Australian driver, Brendan Reeves, who was in New Zealand to co...

It’s a busy time. Our local stars are overseas competing and there's an all-important round of the Australian Rally Championship ready to kick off. The Special Stage Rally Podcast covers it all. RallySport Magazine’s Peter and Luke Whitten keep you updated with everything happening, including Taylor Gill’s Junior WRC exploits and the big talking points from the WRC’s leading men. Harry Bates is th...

On this episode of the Brad Jones Racing Run Down, driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood chat about what’s been a very busy week of pre-enduro testing. They talk about the two days the team spent at Winton, why the track conditions were ‘pretty sketchy’ for the first couple of hours, the intricacies of doing driver changes in a Gen3 car, changes that will mean fas...

This week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast celebrates what would have been Geoff Portman’s 70th birthday. The two-time Australian Rally Champion was a huge figure in the sport of rallying and on the occasion of his birthday, we welcome the author of his book, Bruce Keys, to talk about his career. Peter and Luke Whitten also run through the news of the week, which has an international slant as both Ha...

This week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast episode is predominantly about the East African Safari Rally which Australian Tim Wilkins competed on recently. Wilkins had a last minute opportunity to compete on the ‘Mini’ Safari Rally in a Datsun 1600 and also reveals his plans to do the full-blown event over nine days at the end of 2025. He talks with Luke Whitten for almost 40 minutes on just what the...

On this episode of the Brad Jones Racing Run Down, driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Tasmania SuperSprint. They talk about Bryce Fullwood’s breakthrough podium for BJR and the team’s improved form overall, the shunt for Jaxon Evans and how it’s prompted a change to the team’s pre-enduro testing schedule, how the team’s preparing for enduro sea...