Off Track Podcast

Hello and welcome to Off Track Podcast proudly sponsored by zerofit, the world’s warmest base layers, our guest this week needs little introduction – joined by our great mate Ben Currie one last time before he steps aside from his co-host role, we sit down with 2023 Bennetts British Superbike Champion Tommy Bridewell! We talk all things Honda Racing, well almost all things, we talk about the trans...

This week's guest, in proud association with Zerofit the king of baselayers, has had a difficult time over the last 12 months in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship. After sustaining a career-threatening injury during the Knockhill test in '23, coupled with helping develop a brand-new Honda Fireblade for ’24, it’s not been an easy time for the likeable Northern Irishman. The good...

This week it’s our final chat from the NW200 and TT races as we sit down with a man who holds the record for the most TT starts in history and at 68 years of age he’s showing no signs of stopping – he was the first man to reach 100 starts at the TT and despite personal tragedy, he proudly continues to race at the NW200 and his beloved TT races. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Would you like earl...

This week’s show is a real insight into the highs and lows of motorcycle racing. From multiple titles to laying in a hospital bed with a badly broken leg, wondering if it’s all over to finding the love for the sport again but on his own terms to take advantage of more family time and fatherhood. We also talk about other important subjects like the merits of sausage and mash and which guests he’d s...

This week’s second show is a rider who is really looking to make his mark in 2024 – he has the ability and now he has the team behind him. After a successful career on the smaller bikes, stepping up to road racing and adjusting to the bigger machines is starting to pay dividends as he continues to learn and improve with every lap, whether it’s the NW200, the TT or Armoy. Welcome back to the show,...

In his 25th year of running the TAS Racing team alongside his father, Hector, Philip Neill has a rich history in the world of motorcycle racing both on short circuits but more notably on the Roads. The teams roster of riders reads like a who's who of Road Racing royalty and this chat is just a glimpse of that history. Enjoy! In proud association with episode sponsor https://www.causeway-eats....

Fresh from his successful but painful NW200 campaign, we sit down with one of the coolest fellas in racing to talk about his success on the North Coast, a look ahead to the TT, his love of Country music and just what WAS on offer for '24... it's a fascinating and relaxed chat with the brilliant Davey Todd. Enjoy! Huge thanks to https://sorrymate.com/ our proud mid-roll sponsor Send us Fa...

This week's show is the first of three from the brilliant North West 200 road races. In this opening episode we sit down with WTF Racing's James Hillier, a man who's 9 podiums and a race win around the Triangle and was Man of the Meeting in 2019, he's also contested 71 TT races, finishing 65 of them with 14 podiums and victory in the 2014 Lightweight TT. If that wasn't eno...

Finally, after 11 years of doing this we finally get to sit down with the Road Racing legend that is John McGuinness MBE! In the chat John, with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, kindly tells us WHY we've never sat down together until now before we talk about that fabulous NW200 podium, his thoughts on this year's Isle of Man TT, and why we wear clothes, amongst other pearls of McG...

The second of our two chats from Oulton Park as Completely Motorbikes Kawasaki's  super-talented Max Cook sits down with us to talk about his step up to British Superbikes and his journey to get their. There have been huge disappointments along the way but with some great success to outweigh the negatives. No ego, a wicked sense of humour and has a great career ahead of him. Enjoy! https://so...

The Moto3 World Champion and McAMS Racing British Superbike rider joins us at Oulton Park. We chat about his last years of GP racing after winning that world title and how he had to roll the dice in STK1000 to prove himself as a big bike rider before BSB teams would even take him on. Now he's aboard the Yamaha R1, a machine that suits his style and has the pedigree to challenge for wins acros...

You listen to him help our brilliant guests tell their stories every week, but who is he? What's his history? I'm Jen, Off Track PA, and I asked our Off Track FB followers if they'd like Dave to tell his story, the story of how he came to host one of, if not THE, fastest-growing motorcycle racing podcasts in the UK as well as his background in the sport he loves so much... well, the...

'Boz' as he's better known is a former 250cc British Champion, test rider for Kenny Roberts, BSB Team Manager and the man who was at the sharp end of setting up the Foggy Petronas WorldSBK team. We chat about his career, punching Alan Carter, eight-up on a moped, the origins of Foggy Petronas and Boz gives his side of the James Haydon story... It's an entertaining chat! Enjoy!...

With the 2024 Bennetts British Superbike Championship kicking off this weekend in Navarra, I sat down with MCN's BSB journo Josh Close to look at the runners and riders for the '24 season. We talk about the main challengers, the riders looking to improve on '23, rider changes, rule changes and the sub-stories we expect to develop pretty much from race one, lap one! It's a diffe...

The great man himself invites us round for a brew and  a catch up and to fill in the blanks on last years show... his time in WorldSBK! We talk at length about the Foggy Petronas project and Crescent Suzuki as well as a deeper dive into Jack's love for Road Racing and the Isle of Man TT. Absolutely fascinating from start to finish. Enjoy! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Would you like early...

This week in proud partnership with Xpress Coffee, we’re joined by the brilliant Steve Parrish! 10 years after our first podcast together, we chat with Steve over a morning Xpress Coffee to look back at some of his career highlights, the lesser-known practical jokes, the Macau incident, his love for Scarborough’s Oliver’s Mount, the Goodwood revival weekend and much more! As you’d expect it’s a ve...

This week we return to the scene of one of our most popular shows of the last 12 months (until Shakey came along and took top spot off him) we’re back up at Huddersfield International Airport with ever-popular James Whitham and his faithful Head of Security and Vermin Control, Captain Sprouticus the Jack Russell. In this episode we look back at the ’23 BSB season and ahead to WorldSBK and BSB for...

This week we’re joined by Eurosport pundit and former Grand Prix rider James Haydon! We take a look back at his racing career from his days racing 250s under the Team Great Britain banner, run by Ron Haslam, to making his 500cc Grand Prix debut, through British Superbikes, World Superbikes and back to Britain before Eurosport passed him a mic and said ‘here, talk into this’. James is a real gentle...

At Ducati Preston's recent Open Day we sat down with Glenn to talk about that incredibly intense '23 Bennetts British Superbike season, his thoughts on his time at the Isle of Man TT, his love for the NW200 and his recently announced ride for '24 with the new PBM Racing Team. Strap in, it's quite the journey! Enjoy! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Would you like early access...

Following in their dad's footsteps was never going to be easy but after a winter of rebuilding, hard work and determination Jordan and her twin brother Frank Jnr recently launched their new PBM Racing Team. With the championship runner-up, Glenn Irwin, as their sole rider on his favoured Ducati Panigale, the team are ready for the challenge of contesting the 2024 Bennetts British Superbike Ch...

Motorcycle racing is a tough old sport... we hear plenty about the good times but very little about the not-so-good times, even though there are plenty! Lincolnshire twins Tim and Tom (and yes, just like the Lowes twins, I can actually tell them apart :-)) came late to the tarmac by modern standards after glittering careers in Flat Track racing. 2023 posed problems for both fellas with Tom in his...

This week we’re joined by Crew Chief to Josh Brookes at FHO Racing, Mark Woodage. It was a rollercoaster season in 2023, early season wins in BSB didn’t translate to the championship challenge that rider or crew chief had hoped, while a return to road racing saw the NW200 curtailed before a return to the glorious Isle of Man TT races, the season rounded out with Josh making his Macau debut with Ma...

You’ll know Charlie well from his years doing the WorldSBK grid walk for Eurosport and more recently Moto2 free practice comms for TNT Sport. Charlie has a huge amount of experience in television production and understands our sport incredibly well and in this show not only tells the story of how he came to work in the three best racing series of MotoGP, WorldSBK and BSB, he also shares his views...

After a chance meeting in a Lincoln building society, Frankie Carchedi never looked back as he entered the world of motorcycle racing under the guidance of the great Colin Wright. Three BSB titles, multiple WorldSBK race wins, a MotoGP championship with Joan Mir and Suzuki before moving to Gresini Racing and helping Fabio di Giannantonio to his maiden MotoGP victory at Qatar last season. 2024 hold...

Finally, he's back! Fan favourite Michael Howarth joins us for a chat in the cafe at equine charity HAPPA just outside Burnley. There's something Howie wanted to say before we got into the racing side of things and it's an important listen, then we go head first into the world of British Superbikes as well as a dabble into WorldSBK (clearly missing one important ingredient after the...