Rusty's Garage

Chance opportunities with Bobby Rahal, the nickname ‘Mad Max’ and being part of the so called ‘Brat Pack’ of Champcar with Dario Franchitti, Tony Kanaan and the late Greg Moore. How these incredibly competitive athletes became good friends. Plus his NASCAR chapter and how it lead to mentoring Ty and Austin Dillon. Max kindly dialed in at the end of a big work day at his Max...

Don’t worry Russell got even. It’s a great story! Fitting that we’re releasing this ep on the eve of a new Formula One season. Max, through sheer determination and his early grasp of forming lasting commercial relationships, made it to F1. By his own admission his time there was brief. And why it almost marked the end of his career as a professional racer. Plus the early days gro...

Chaz Mostert and Hayden Paddon are back on the pod but this time in opposing corners ahead of the Race of Champions (ROC)! Mozzie has been given a late call up to join the All Stars team and reckon’s he needs some advice from Hayden.  For Paddon the chance to go head-to-head in Sydney with an icon of rallying in Sebastien Loeb was too good an opportunity to miss. So who has the edge? Ci...

An Aussie speedway star with a seriously impressive record.  We’ve been wanting to get Robbie Farr on the pod for a while and he doesn’t disappoint. The influence of family (he started going to oval tracks like the Sydney Showground and Liverpool when he was just weeks old) and how he harnessed a bit of a ‘wild’ approach in his early years to become the complete packag...

Stats that are off the charts and highlight just how good Robbie is….in all sorts of Speedway classes.  How recently, with a little age on his side and in post pandemic pondering, Robbie rediscovered circuit racing with a TA2 machine. Why he’s loving the challenge and how excited he is about taking it to Bathurst. We also reflect on rivals, some broader observations of Speedway i...

A ‘Perfect’ preview of the opening round of the 2025 Supercars Championship this weekend with former Bathurst winner Nick Percat. How he plans to build on wins at the Grand Prix and in Tasmania last year and will there be a change in his overall approach to ensure he makes the ‘playoffs’? The growth of Matt Stone Racing, the emergence of young racer Cameron Crick and his im...

We begin the 2nd part of this Feature Episode with an impersonation that is usually reserved for the broadcast team during warmups - let’s just say that Jonathan sounds exactly like one of the Gods of motorcycle racing. How he fell into Auckland Harbour once while doing a story with some Supercars Drivers - it made the nightly news! Why the talent pool coming out of the New Zealand Summer Se...

Speed City’s main man is our latest addition to the Garage library. We spoke with him after five epic weeks covering Toyota’s Formula Regional Oceania Championship and the New Zealand Grand Prix. But this ep won’t just appeal to the Kiwis. Lovers of Two-Wheels will enjoy it as well.  Rusty talks to JG about his huge stint calling the World Superbikes with Aussie Steve Martin...

Will Brown and Broc Feeney join us as we wrap up a huge weekend at Highlands Motorsport Park. How Will became the first Aussie in 50 years to win the prestigious race and how his Supercars teammate stole the pole with almost no single seater experience. Don’t think for a minute that makes Toyota’s Formula Regional Championship a walk in the park. Both Brown and Feeney reflect on the ca...

Meet Arvid Lindblad, the Red Bull Junior who’s been unstoppable over summer in New Zealand, ahead of his first F2 race at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne next month. The calculated decision to come down under to compete to ensure he has enough points for a Super Licence for F1. Could we see him drive in practice sessions this year maybe even a Grand Prix? What a call from Helmut Marko...

‘Chucky’ is back but this time he’s on the pod to talk about winning one of the biggest races in the world! It was a dominant performance rarely seen at Dakar as the Aussie lead from start to finish. The home grown influence on the technical side Daniel pushed for that helped significantly and you’ll get a sense of how much was riding on his shoulders over the past few mont...

The final lap of a rare 3-parter and he saves some cracking yarns for it. How the so called Piranha Club move to promote Michael Schumacher to Benetton came at his expense. The fallout from that and a 3am phone call from Eddie Jordan to get Roberto to drive for him. Let’s just say he hung up on him a few times. Finding a way to pre-qualify for minnow teams when on paper they were no chance a...

It’s the 2nd of 3 parts of a fascinating story by a great story teller! Roberto continues his gripping recollections of the road to success and while it didn’t yield world championships he scored podiums in F1, special places in the record books along with wins in Indycar. You’ll get a sense of his relentless determination when most of us would give up trying. And he garnere...

The ‘Super Sub’ shares passion fuelled stories of his path to Formula 1 and Indycar, a path filled with setbacks and seemingly insurmountable challenges but he never gave up! An insight into his early life in Brazil and the close friendship he formed with F1 World Champion Nelson Piquet when they were both youngsters. Heading to the UK to take on the world and not knowing a word of Eng...

RedBull Racing’s new signing for the 2025 F1 season returns to the pod after a huge send off by fans at home in New Zealand. Lawson was trackside for the Next Gen NZ Championship round in Taupo at the weekend, he joined Rusty and broadcast colleague Stephen McIvor for a chat via the Stuff Speed hub - www.stuff.co.nz/speedhub Why Lawson hasn’t changed despite the meteoric rise and how i...

It doesn’t matter how good the car is if the driver can’t get comfortable behind the wheel they’ll never perform at their best! Vaughan Cartright has been making world class, bespoke race seat solutions for some of the biggest names in Motorsport for decades. And he looks after drivers all round the world and in all sorts of categories. Check out his work at https://realdesigngro...

Kids the F word gets used a little so Santa would like you to block your ears as we enjoy a laugh with the very funny brother of Indy 500 winner Will Power. How they fired up the 2-strokes and took the karts out in Toowoomba when they were youngsters. (Ok that’s Rusty’s attempt at using nice words to basically say they terrorized the neighbourhood!) Turning hard right and pursuing a ca...

The driving force of the Race of Champions — Fredrik Johnsson — joins us to preview the ROC Sydney Show next March. For more than 30 years the Race of Champions has travelled the globe pitting stars different types of Motorsport against each other in equal machinery to try and figure out who’s the best! The line-up for ROC’s first trip down under is epic and includes. 4-tim...

Meet the new Sporting and Technical Director at Motorsport Australia. And, if the name rings a bell—it's for good reason. Lisa's father raced in Formula Holden, and although motorsport wasn’t always on her career radar, a move overseas nearly two decades ago changed everything. Lisa’s journey spans the globe, from circuit management in the Middle East to working with elite categories in the UK. Sh...

Rusty & Frosty click the chat up a few gears in this one with everything from Kung Fu fighting in Shanghai to the part he played in the movie Cars 2. What an experience! There’s crystal clear memories of his Bathurst win in 2013 and the epic battle with Jamie Whincup that day as well as the title win a few years later and what it meant for the former Sydney sider to seal it in his old home tow...

After lots of listener requests we finally got Frosty in the studio for a well overdue feature episode. He literally put the full stop on his Team 18 chapter the day we recorded. How he feels about it all now with the benefit of some time and his excitement about returning to Ford! The vivid memories he’ll carry or the Supercars send off in Adelaide ahead of his final full time drive. We reflect o...

The Championship winning Team Principal joins us from Triple 8 Race Engineering World Headquarters to debrief the Supercars season. What he made of Will Brown’s history making performance in the 2024 Championship and why he’s so good? And how Broc Feeney took the loss and the fire inside for 2025. Plus, some thoughts on Jamie’s own driving performance when he parked the managerial duties to tackle...

You can't get much better than the 2024 Champion to wrap a mega final weekend of the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship.   The Champion, Will Brown and Adelaide 500 winner, takes us inside the final weekend of racing; including his superstitious approach to the final couple of days, and just how he planned his surreal celebratory burnout.  Plus, Broc Feeney details the conversation with Chaz Moster...

With Sprintcars on the VAILO Adelaide 500 schedule, we thought it was time for another catchup with world renowned driver, James McFadden who will be racing the NAPA Auto Parts backed Hodges Motorsport #5 in Adelaide.  The Aussie speedway star made an emotional speech at the recent High Limit Series banquet announcing his retirement from full time racing in the USA, but it’s not the end of the roa...

A full debrief from the Gold Coast 500, and a look towards what awaits us in Adelaide.  Broc Feeney let's fly on what the Championship fight could look like for him and his team mate Will Brown at the VAILO Adelaide 500, plus Tim Slade opens up on his full time racing career after 16-years coming to an end and Aaron Love with his take on his Rookie Year and the world of racing with a laugh a long...