The Driver's Seat

Earlier this week a bombshell from Mark Winterbottom was dropped when he announced that he was axed from Team 18, and replaced by Anton De Pasquale. We go through all the ramifications of what this means for the rest of the grid - and who takes Anton's current seat at Dick Johnson Racing? Plus we head overseas and look at Shane van Gisbergen's promotion to NASCAR Cup Series in 2025 and Jack Doohan...

Matt Stone Racing has exceeded all expectations for the year already, but the guys and girls in the team aren't taking their foot off the pedal heading into the Endurance Season! We speak to team boss Matt Stone about their second win in Bendix Racing for 2024 with Nick Percat, and why they have their eyes on the next crop of talent coming through as well Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Will Brown still has a stranglehold on the Supercars Championship, but his rivals are closing in on him. We cover all the action from last weekend in Tassie, plus we'll update the Power Rankings, and we chat to Matt Stone after his team returned to victory lane in the opening race of the round when Nick Percat got MSR it's second win of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

We're done with the Olympics and motorsport is back on the menu! We look ahead to the NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint this weekend, plus we head overseas and break down the carnage that happened in NASCAR between Austin Dillon, Joey Logano, and Denny Hamlin. While we are talking carnage, we'll chat to Dean Herridge and get all the fallout from a chaotic Gippsland Rally in the ARC, and we chat to W...

It was a chaotic round of the Australian Rally Championship at the Gippsland Rally, with defending champions Harry Bates and Coral Taylor clawing back some points from Scott Pedder and Glenn Macneall in an eventful round. We spoke to 7plus Rally Commentator Dean Herridge about an eventful outing that also saw the debut of the Subaru WRX Challenge, and Molly Taylor's final appearance in the Product...

Will Brown has been the series leader since the Australian Grand Prix, but recently has been challenged by Chaz Mostert. Before heading off to Tassie we spoke to the Red Bull Ampol Racing young gun about the season so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Shannons SpeedSeries was in action at Queensland Raceway last weekend, and we look at all the fallout from the TransAm Series that saw Todd Hazelwood take the Championship lead as well. Plus we look at the ramifications of Kai Allen joining Grove Racing in 2025, and we're joined by Malcolm Owens for another edition of Mal's Mayhem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his first season in the category Todd Hazelwood had a stellar weekend at Queensland Raceway, taking the series lead after a dominating performance that saw him take Pole Position and get the round win after winning three of the four races of the weekend - and gaining the Championship lead in the series! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The V8 Sleuth Live is back on the road with three shows in regional Victoria as part of the HINO Supercars Tour. We spoke to the V8 Sleuth himself Aaron Noonan who will be joined by Garth Tander on August 12th in Sale, Bendigo on August 13th, and Ballarat on the 14th. Also featuring Steven Richards, Neil Crompton, and David Reynolds as well - the tour will have giveaways, Q&A sessions, and plenty...

Grove Racing have kicked off the silly season already with the news that Richie Stanaway will no longer be with the team at the end of the season. We'll debate what it might mean for Penrite Racing next year and what it means for the rest of the grid, but there's also some news in Formula One as we head into the Summer Break that also has some big ramifications for 2025 as well. Plus we chat to th...

Thomas Randle picked up his first podium for the season under lights at Sydney Motorsport Park, and he returned to the show to recap an eventful weekend that saw Tickford Racing jump to second in the Teams Championship - and his team mate Cameron Waters beat him to Pole Position by 0.013s! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We look back at a huge week in motorsport as Oscar Piastri became the fifth Australian to win a Formula One Grand Prix, plus we also wrap up all the fallout from Supercars under lights at Sydney Motorsport Park last weekend and look at the results of SVG and Scotty Mac in NASCAR XFinity and IndyCar - and we're joined by Thomas Randle from Tickford Racing after his first podium of the year and his...

Penrite Racing bounced back after a less than stellar round at the Darwin Triple Crown, with young Matthew Payne notching up his second career win in the category in a commanding race on the streets of Townsville and he joined us to recap a breakthrough weekend for Grove Racing in North Queensland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're at the halfway point of the season which means it's time for Matt and Steve to hand out grades for our annual Mid Year Report Card. We'll look back at the Townsville 500, update The Driver's Seat Power Rankings, and see what's happening overseas with former Supercars champions Shane van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin in NASCAR and IndyCar respectively. Plus we're joined by Matt Payne from Pe...

We look ahead to the Townsville 500 and see if there's anyone that can take the fight to the Red Bull Ampol Racing Team. Plus we wrap up a big week of Formula One where the Max Verstappen of old made an appearance in a costly clash with Lando Norris in Austria, and we'll recap Rally Queensland from the weekend and chat to Scott Pedder who won his first ARC round in a decade! Learn more about your...

Scott Pedder returned to the winners list for the first time in a decade winning Rally Queensland last weekend in Gympie, and we spoke to the 2014 Australian Rally Champion about his comeback to the sport - and he might have dropped some big news on what we can expect for 2025! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year Mark Winterbottom broke a seven year drought with a win at the Darwin Triple Crown, which also was Team 18's first race win, and Frosty's first win in the Camaro. This year he was back on the podium at Hidden Valley and we spoke to the 2015 Champion about his run of form in the Top End. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Darwin Triple Crown is in the books and the boys go through the good, the bad, and the ugly from Hidden Valley. We saw Broc Feeney get his charge for a maiden Supercars title back on track, the defending champion Brodie Kostecki return to the podium for the first time since the Gold Coast 500 last year, and we speak to Mark Winterbottom who was the best of the rest in the Top End. Learn more a...

We're back after a week off, and boy is there a lot to cover! Cam Waters and Will Brown both made their NASCAR Cup Series debuts, Shane van Gisbergen got his second Xfinity win and made a new friend in Austin Hill, it was chaos at the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, and there's another round of Supercars this weekend as well as we look to the Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley. Keeping our focu...

Fresh off his debut appearance at the Finke Desert Race, we spoke to Supercars legend Craig Lowndes about his experience in one of the worlds most gruelling races. Plus we went down memory lane and spoke about his win at the first ever race at Hidden Valley, and we look ahead to the Triple Crown this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a mega week in motorsport and the boys wrap up the sensational racing at the Indy 500, as well as the - if we're being honest - snorefest at Monaco in the Formula One. Plus we'll preview this weekend's SpeedSeries round at Tailem Bend and we chat to Cameron Waters from Tickford Racing about his win in Perth, his upcoming NASCAR debut, and his future in 2025! Learn more about your ad choi...

Cameron Waters spoke to us before Tickford Racing's test day at Winton about the changes in the off season downsizing to two cars from four, the absence of Tim Edwards at the team, his NASCAR Cup Series debut in a few weeks, and we get a definitive answer about where we'll see him driving in 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a great weekend for Ford fans after the Perth SuperSprint with both Chaz Mostert and Cameron Waters getting wins for the Blue Oval at Wanneroo. We'll update the Power Rankings for 2024 after the latest round, recap another Max Verstappen victory in Formula One, and break down Scott McLaughlin's record breaking pole position ahead of the Indy500. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

It was a breakthrough victory for Chaz Mostert in Perth last weekend giving Ford it's first win of the 2024 season, and the two time Bathurst winner joined us to talk about the milestone win for Walkinshaw Andretti United, his team mate Ryan Wood, and how he's coping with being a new Dad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a battle at the top between Wayne Newby and Phil Lamattina in the Top Fuel Championship, with both veterans P1 and P2 in the championship, so ahead of the Double Header at Sydney Dragway this weekend we spoke to both of the boys for a quick preview of the biggest drag racing event of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices