RaceSchool.com Podcast hosted by Larry Mason

Clara Harter is an award-winning reporter for the Southern California News Group. We caught up with her at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where she had just finished riding with Davey Hamilton in the INDYCAR Experience Two-Seater. Her smile and enthusiasm for what she just experienced were off the charts. She gave us her take on what it was like and also what she normally covers for her employ...

Davey Hamilton has had a long career in motorsports racing sprint cars, midgets and silver crown cars on dirt tracks across the country. He’s also been a fixture in the NTT IndyCar Series and has 11 Indy 500 starts under his belt with a best finish of fourth. These days, Hamilton is still driving Indy cars – specifically the INDYCAR Experience Two-Seater giving fans and VIPs a thrill ride before t...

Sting Ray Robb has the coolest name in motorsports. As an up and coming driver in the NTT IndyCar Series racing for AJ Foyt, he’s looking to build on his junior level career experience and work towards getting to Victory Lane. At the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach this year, we had the opportunity to chat with Robb in the driver’s lounge of the team’s transporter. He tells us how he got his name,...

Takuma Sato is a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and also won the 2013 Grand Prix of Long Beach for AJ Foyt Racing. At the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame Induction ceremony he (along with Katherine Legge) became the latest inductee. Sato has won races all over the world when he competed in F3 including a British F3 championship and a win at the prestigious Macau Gran...

Chris Forsberg is a three-time Formula Drift champion and has amassed the most head-to-head victories and podium finishes in Formula Drift history. Along with his friendly demeanor off-track, this driver has a knack for acquiring and retaining sponsors. Read More...

Theo Pourchaire is a French Formula 2 champion that was drafted into the Arrow McLaren NTT IndyCar Series team on short notice. He made his debut at the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach (subbing for the injured David Malukas) where he qualified 22nd and finished 11th. We caught up with him at his first race in Long Beach and spoke with him immediately following the Sunday warm-up. He’s a really...

Mario Andretti is one of the greatest race car drivers of all time. His son Michael has not only had a successful driving career, but has also been extremely successful on the business side of racing. Andretti Global is working hard to get on the Formula One grid with their own team having Cadillac as their manufacturing partner. Although the FIA has approved their application, Formula One Managem...

Ed Ross has been a fixture in pit lane at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach for many years working as a fire marshal. His vast experience over the years has kept him working for the top teams to assist when emergencies happen. We caught up with him this year just off of pit lane during some down time to get his story on how he got started, hear about frantic moments, and also some of his favorite...

American driver Alexander Rossi left Formula One and made his mark in the NTT IndyCar Series by winning the Indianapolis 500 as a rookie in 2016. He’s also dominated other races like the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where he won back-to-back in 2018 and 2019. We caught up with him there this year and he filled us in on the differences and what it’s like to transition from Formula One to Indy car...

In what has become an annual RaceSchool.com tradition, we like to kick off the summer vacation driving season with safety tips from the CHP. This year at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach we met up with officers Alec Pereyda and Bobby Eurine. Between the two of them they give us their insights on safe driving tips, things that they are looking for on patrol, and specific information regarding tee...

Nolan Siegel is a rising star in the NTT IndyCar Series. He’s raced and won in a variety of cars coming into the 2024 season and made his racing debut in the Indy car at the Thermal Club event in March where he put on a very competitive drive just missing out on a transfer spot to the final shootout. A California native only19 years of age, we caught up with him at the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Lon...

Will Power has won just about everything there is to win in the NTT IndyCar Series such as the most pole positions in Indy car racing history (70), the Indianapolis 500, the series championship (twice) and multiple races along the way. However, his last race win came in June of 2022 at the Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle until this year’s race in June at Road America. We had a chance to chat with...

Josef Newgarden has been on an emotional roller coaster this year. It started with the high of winning the 24hrs of Daytona, followed by another win in the NTT IndyCar Series season opener at St. Pete. However, during the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend it was found that he and his team had used the “Push to Pass” (P2P) system in St. Pete when they weren’t supposed to have had it avail...

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and six-time Grand Prix of Long Beach winner, Al Unser Jr.  is no stranger to racing fans. We had the opportunity to chat with him following the media luncheon for the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. He tells us about how Long Beach was so good to him, and also the family struggles and triumphs at Indianapolis. Specifically, he recalls his two victories and ho...

Renger van der Zande has been winning races in IMSA for 11 straight years. Sebastien Bourdais has been winning races and championships in Indy cars and multiple races in IMSA. Together they are teammates in the Cadillac VSeries. R IMSA GTP car for Chip Ganassi Racing. We caught up with the champagne soaked duo just after their 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach winning post-race press conference....

Scott McLaughlin is a three-time champion in the Australian Supercars Series. Team Penske brought him over the pond to pilot an Indy car alongside champion drivers Josef Newgarden and Will Power. That decision has paid dividends as McLaughlin has taken to these vastly different cars like a duck to water. In this interview (during the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach) he talks about how fun and...

Stand by race fans, the countdown to the 49th Annual Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is almost over. In just a couple of days the city streets of Long Beach will be shut down to everyday traffic and the sounds of roaring engines will reverberate off of the buildings around the convention center, arena, Hyatt hotel and Aquarium of the Pacific. Headlining the event this year will once again be the NT...

Katherine Legge was announced yesterday (April 9th) as a driver in the 2024 Indianapolis 500 for Dale Coyne Racing with RWR. On the same day she was at the press day for this year’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where we got to sit down with her and chat about her new opportunity. She was also very candid in discussing the incident with Stefan Wilson last year along with how and why it happened....

Ed Klotz is a familiar face around the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, after all he’s been volunteering with the Committee of 300 for over 40 years! During press day prior to the 2023 event we thought that we’d get an insider’s view on what the C300 does and how Ed decided to join and continue with the organization for so many years. He’s a man with a heart dedicated to volunteering and enjoying h...

If you happen to bump into Jason Holt at the race track, you might be inclined to think he’s just another surfer dude from Southern California. The reality is that although he does indeed like to surf, just like the ocean is deep, there’s much more to this man than meets the eye. His commitment to the Indy car community (and associated support series) is very near and dear to his heart. In this in...

Davy Jones talked to us in Part One about his early days in racing and how he moved up to win at the highest levels of sports cars. This week in Part Two he continues to tell us about his career with stories about racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans both with and without the chicanes on the Mulsanne Straight. He also tells us about that fateful day in Florida where a horrendous crash at Walt Disney...

Davy Jones has enjoyed a long career in auto racing. From small open-wheel race cars to the Indianapolis 500, multiple sports car wins including the 24 hours of Le Mans and more, Jones has achieved more than most in the sport. We met up with Jones at the media day activities for the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where he was nice enough to spend some time with us talking about his new ride t...

Devlin DeFrancesco raced for the Andretti Autosport team in the NTT IndyCar Series in 2023 and consistently improved during the season including an incredible start and a dominating run to the front of the field at the Indianapolis road course before fading back due to tire blisters. We caught up with him just off the red carpet at the premier of the “ 100 Days to Indy ” TV show on the CW network...

Colton Herta has demonstrated his speed by beating his competitors in the NTT IndyCar Series and track records alike in the last five years. Thanks to showing his capabilities in harnessing a high-horsepower car on the track, he was rewarded in the 2022-2023 off-season to a Formula One test with the McLaren F1 team. At the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach media luncheon, we sat down with Herta...

Colton Herta burst on to the NTT IndyCar Series with a win in his first full year of competition at the tender age of 18. Now a veteran of five (full-time) years in the series, his speed and racecraft continue to improve. We caught up with him at the “ 100 Days to Indy ” premiere just prior to the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where he talks about his season so far, how the Long Beach track...