On The Grid

Craig Lowndes spoke to Mark Walker about driving in the Fink Desert Rally, The Bathurst 12 hour and last weekends 500. We hear from the driver of the fastest closed in car to lap Mount Panorama Romain Dumas, Hots and Nots and plenty more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaxon Evans very nearly scored a podium in the Bathurst 12 hour last weekend, and now he'll try the same as he makes his Supercars debut at the same venue five days later. He joins us to discuss his big career change and much more. And then it's all the hots and nots from the week that was and what is to come this weekend.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the team records the podcast at different times because they all had a little bit on. Ben Bargwanna joins Tony Schibeci for a chat about his solid start to season 2024 in TCR Australia taking 2 from 3 wins at Sandown. Richard and Mark catch up to give a huge Bathurst 24 hour preview and chat a couple of other things as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As always all the news breaks when we're not on air. We take a few minutes to go through some of the big Motorsport stories to have broken over the past 6 weeks. The boys cover off on things they think might or will happen in 2024 via way of a top 5 and delve into their Caltex Hot's and Not's. It's good to be back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our grand finale for 2023! We close out a massive year of On the Grid stories with our all-time HOT and NOT power rankings from the year that was.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two key interviews this week as Motorsport Australia's CEO, Sunil Vohra, drops in and believe us - he's a race fan. We quizz the new boss about his passion for the sport and what his plans are moving forward. And then, with the summer of speedway almost here, James McFadden drops in to chat his return with the NAPA Hodges Motorsport entry, fills is in on his World of Outlaws campaign and talks his...

KAI ALLEN sealed the Super2 series crown in Adelaide so we had to get this impressive young bloke from Mount Gambier back on the show to discuss his achievements - and find out the odd reason why he couldn't have the chat at our usually scheduled time.. Then it's a massive debrief in and around the Adelaide 500 and the end of the Supercars Championship for 2023. It's a big one, this.. Learn more a...

A simple show this week and most of it is centred around the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the VAILO Adelaide 500 this week. A typically comprehensive and opinionated breakdown of the Vegas highs and lows is mirrored by a typically comprehensive and opinionated breakdown of this weekend's Supercars decider. A lengthy Hot / Not breakdown features as well, of course.  Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

A huge show this week, as Josh Buchan joins us to discuss the start of his reign as TCR Australia's champion after claiming the title in Adelaide. Todd Hazelwood is on the show to discuss the pausing of his full-time Supercars career and what may come next, before a typically feisty Hot and Not segment processes the pro's and con's of McDonald's and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

ROB HUFF joins the show - the first World Champion to do so - to reflect on his successful weekend in the TCR World Tour races in Sydney and his incredible Touring Car career in general. Plus, how close he came to racing Supercars, his sneaky pre-Sydney test and how he's got his own museum in Macau! Huffy is a legend and a great chat - this is well worth a listen!  Learn more about your ad choices...

YOUNG GUN Bayley Hall has launched from zero to success in his Porsche Carrera Cup career, claiming his first race and overall victory in the tough one-make championship at the weekend. We get to know the young man from Queensland, talk pathways to the top and racing in America, plus an incredible weekend at Surfers that delivered him a maiden Carrera Cup win.  Then it's the Hot's and Not's from a...

More than 35,000 people turned out to watch Drag Racing at The Bend for the first time at the weekend, an event that doubled as the launch of the new National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC). One of the series' main players, Nathan Prendergast, is our special guest to download the weekend and the exciting future a unified sport has moving forward. Then it's our Gold Coast preview and a particularl...

Bathurst is in the rear-view mirror but we're still breaking down the Great Race, this time with former winner Mark Winterbottom who had a challenging end to his Bathurst campaign. Still, he's upbeat about what is to come. Then the team breaks down a huge weekend of racing at Tailem Bend, discusses why Speedway is so good in spite of itself, and breaks down the Hot's and Not's of the week that was...

ONE of the great voices of the Great Race, Garry Wilkinson, is our special guest this week as he reflects on his incredible career having been inducted into the Supercars Media Association Hall of Fame at the weekend. Then it's our breakdown of everything hot and not from the Bathurst week as we run through all the big moments that made the 60th anniversary race so good.   Learn more about your ad...

It's Great Race week so the OTG team are here to walk you through the pressing issues ahead of the Repco Bathurst 1000 this weekend. From parity talk, co-drivers to the best place for a beer or a drive in the Bathurst region, we've got you covered. All the Bathurst chat and our regular Hot and Not segment as we build up to a massive week of content covering the big one on the big hill.  Learn more...

We know we spoke to Tom Randle not long ago, but we had to do it again and chat about the Saab V8 that he flew around Phillip Island on the weekend. We also chat to him about Sandown, Bathurst and his boss. There is some talk about Oscar Piastri's podium and our world famous Hot's and Nots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Russell just finished second in the Sandown 500 with Erebus Motorsport, and he's dropped into the show to tell us all about it this week, including an insight into just how to squeeze into a Gen 3 Supercar, road-trip memories from his Nissan days and thoughts about the Great Race that is rapidly approaching - especially given he a co-driver Brodie Kostecki head in among the favourites. Then...

HUNTER McElrea joins the show this week to reflect on a successful INDY NXT Championship, where he won two of the final five races and finished second overall. Hunter reflects on the year, the challenges of progressing to IndyCar and what is to come on his ongoing US Adventure.  Then it's all the Hot's and Not's from the week that was and the week that will be at Sandown Raceway as the '500 return...

CLAY RICHARDS has made an impression in 2023, fast in the Toyota 86 Series and on the podium in TCR Australia on his debut, he's very much following in the footsteps of his famous father and grandfather. Clay drops in to preview this weekend's TCR round at Sandown raceway, talk his ambitions, racing with family and a whole heap more.  Then we're joined by a SPECIAL GUEST HOST to help break down th...

JACK PERKINS is a racing driver, broadcaster and also a bloody good car restorer. With a seven-year process to restore his Dad's 1993 Bathurst 1000 winner almost complete - the car turned its first laps last week - Jack drops by to discuss the restoration, how the motorsport community embraced his search for originality and finding pieces of the car where you'd least expect it.  He also talks abou...

TOM RANDLE was a star of The Bend's Supercars weekend, scoring his first solo Supercars podium. Then the second. Then the third! The Castrol Racing Tickford driver swings past for a chat about his performance, how he has built to this moment, enduro season and how his Simulator is a handy tool to have..  Then the boys break down the weekend that was with the usual chat and Hot / Not rundown - whic...

JOSH BUCHAN has charged into the lead of the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Championship at the series' mid-way point and even though it's only by a solitary point, it's still a lead. The Sydneysider jumps aboard the OTG ship once again to discuss this year's compelling title battle, fighting with his teammate for the championship lead, rivalries and how he's going to take on the world when they co...

Who is Garnet Patterson? That's the question we answer this week as one of the leading lights in Aussie GT3 racing joins the show. 'GP' talks about leaving Australia early, racing with top Prototype teams, his pick of the tracks and this year's intense GT World Challenge title battle - all from his roots in a small town in country NSW. That, and we talk about very little else because we now just s...

IT MIGHT have been a while between wins, but Andre Heimgartner is pushing Brad Jones Racing forward apace this year and continues to notch up podiums, all the while sitting pretty in sixth position in the championship. He jumps on the line to discuss his mighty efforts in Sydney, how having quick teammates is helping and whether he too will be jumping to NASCAR.  After that, the weekly Hot / Not s...

YOUNG GUN Kai Allen is getting the chance of a lifetime to start the Great Race this year as prepares to line up alongside Simona De Silvestro in a Shell V Power Racing Mustang at Bathurst.  It's a huge opportunity for the young man from Mount Gambier who at the start of last year was a relative unknown starting his Supercars journey. Kai drops by the show for his second visit to chat about the an...