The Gary Klutt Podcast

Daniel Foch, how much trouble is Canada in? what's going on with the current housing market. Dan Foch is a Real Estate Agent, Personality, Public figure, Analyst and Podcast host of The Canadian Real Estate investor. At the end of 2024 Dan discusses the impact a Trump presidency will have on Canada as well as the incoming Conservative Super majority in Canada. With Daniel Foch’s goal of becoming t...

Peter Klutt is the Guest today, we dive into the art and science of car investing. Peter shares insights on what to look for when buying a car as an investment, explore the history of the collector car market, and discuss the cultural and external factors that influence car values. Plus, hear about the one car Peter regrets not purchasing!

Dj Kennington a multi time Nascar Canada Champion, starting driving transport trucks at his father's truck repair yard, building an outlaw dirt go kart track, starting a kart club. He then moved to late models and Cascar racing at Delaware speedway. He has raced in ever level of the Nascar National series, trucks, xfinity and cup series, being one of the few Canadians to race in the Daytona 500. D...

Svein Tuft is the guest this week, coming off of winning the Buckshot 400 and the Epic 1000, we go back to Svein's childhood in BC, leaving home at an early age on his bike, to mountain climb, riding his bike to Alaska and down to Mexico living hand to mouth. His Unorthodox "training" lead to road races in north America and ultimatly to race bikes professionally for GREEN Edge competing in the Tou...

Gianmarco Raimondo on chasing his dream of becoming a Canadian Formula One driver. He moved to Italy at a young age to race F3 and GP2 (F2). He discusses the hurdles to moving up the single seater formula car ladder, from politics in motorsports to fitness required to drive at the highest leve. Gianmarco is a Canadian who grew up racing go karts, moving to shifter karts, then to the Formula BMW se...

Sitting down with my dad Peter Klutt, we go over a TV Special from nearly 20 years ago: The Muscle Car Shootout. Testing the world's best all-around classic Muscle Cars, this 1 hour special was such a hit back in the day Speed Channel requested 2 additional specials. There were 7 cars part of the competition running a series of tests: A 1969 AMX 390 Go Package, a 1970 Buick GS 455 Stage 1, a 1...

Danny Formal is the guest this week, he is one of the few professional go-kart racers, leading to him getting a professional drive in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series and eventually competing for Wayne Taylor/Andretti in the IMSA Weathertech series. Gary and Danny go through his career from being born in Costa-Rica, moving to Florida competing in the Florida Winter Tour, and SKUSA Super Nats, b...

Jackson Bathgate is a professional skier on the Freeride World Tour FTW. He competed in 2023 with his last stop being in the Country of Georgia. We discuss the prospects of making a living as a professional skier, winning the 2016 Freeride Junior World Championships, the risk-reward calculation of being a professional skier, the difficulties of finding sponsors, and the odd physical alterations th...

James Hinchcliffe is a former Canadian Indy Car driver with six Indy Car wins and a pole position at the Indy 500. We discuss his start in go-kart racing, his move to shifter karts, the formula BMW series, Star Mazda series, formula Atlantic and Ultimately Indy Car driving for teams including Andretti Autosport. The podcast outlines the immense cost associated with racing and the struggle to find...

Scott Goodyear joins Gary to go through his story from go-karts, to sleeping in his car in debt, starting fresh, his rise to Indycar, and becoming a Porsche Factory driver at LeMans. Scott Goodyear scratched and clawed and never gave up. We go over his career, racing go-karts in Canada, to Formula Ford, Formula 2000 to Formula Atlantic, Indycar, his two 2nd place finishes at the Indy 500, his famo...

Lauren Fix is the host of Car Coach Reports. We talk the future of electric vehicles, the green revolution, the Kill switch bill and much more. Lauren Fix has been in the automotive world her entire life. We discuss the difference between bottom up demand for Electric vehicles vs. the top down push from governments for EV's, with the bottom line being that from cradle to grave electric cars ar...

Daniel Morad is a Pro GT3 and GT4 Driver, a factory driver for Mercedes, a SIM driver for Mercedes, he runs his own youtube channel and Twitch stream, and is the owner of Moradness, where his sells racing apparel and Simulator gloves. Daniel and I talk about the difference between Asseta Corsa and I Racing and how I Racing is more similar to driving a real race car. We talk, the financial aspect o...

Mac Clark is the youngest F1600 Champion, a USF 2000 Junior champion who has his sights set on being Canada's next Indy car Series driver. Since his start in karting Mac has been on a trajectory of winning championships and working through the road to Indy. He has won a ton of races including the SKUSA Florida winter tour karting race. In this episode we chat about the difficulties of finding...

Mat Williamson is one of the winningest dirt modified racers. This past season he brought home an enormous amount of winnings from his dirt modified season. He currently holds the record for largest purse won in a dirt modified race at $100,000. We discuss how he became a professional racing driver and what life is like on the road. He ran 75 races this season winning 31 of them. Mat is 33 years o...

Chase Cabre is a young oldschool racer, he does all the work for the Hailie Deegan Youtube Channel, he races micro sprint cars and is a former member of REV racing and the Nascar Drive for Diversity. Gary and Chase talk about growing up in florida, making the jump from dirt racing to the Nascar K&N or Arca series, winning racing and what it takes to find a ride in the Nascar Camping World Truc...

Ben Young is a 3x Canadian Superbike Champion, he joins Gary in the studio to discuss racing in the British superbike championshp while living in Scotland before moving to collingwood. Ben then went on to race in the states racing 600 AMA Moto America, with some success. Ben then came back to the Canadian Superbike Championship CSBK going on to win 3 championships. Ben is a Factory rider for BMW m...

Marty Schaffer is the Owner of CAPOW Guiding, and Blanket Glacier lodge based out of Revelstoke British Columbia. Marty is a professional backcountry ski guide who was raised in the backcountry of British Columbia. Marty spent his winters guiding guests at Blanket Glacier lodge in the 90s on a split board, he then became a full guide and worked at Revelstoke Mountain Resort and CMHC Heli ski. He i...

Ben Rhodes is a Nascar Truck Series Champion from Kentucky driving for Thor Sport. In this thrilling episode of the Gary Klutt Podcast, we shift gears and join forces with one of NASCAR's most dynamic drivers, Ben Rhodes. Gary Klutt, with his understanding of the racing world, engages in an insightful conversation with Ben, unraveling the layers behind his successful career in NASCAR. Dive int...

Gary and Peter take a look back at thier trip to the 100th anniversary of the LeMans Classic event in 2023. The Legendary Motorcar team took the 1964 prototype GT40 to the historic event. They talk about the race format, how difficult it was to drive during the night stints and the massive event that this was with hundreds of thousands of spectators there to watch cars that have raced in the LeMan...

JR Fitzpatrick going from a silver spoon to becoming an old school racer. JR Fitzpatrick moved from jr late models to the Cascar series becoming the youngest driver to win a race and a championship. He pursued racing professionally racing in the Nascar Xfinity Series, Nascar Camping world truck series. Jr has a long list of achievments... 2006 Cascar Super series champion, 2007 Nascar Canadian Tir...

John Fletcher Jr. has made a living through one way or another through racing his entire life. John was born into racing as his Dad worked as Junior Hanley's full time employee. John grew up going to ASA late model races helping out guys like Gary Balough, Randy Macdonald and Junior Hanley. John raced vintage modifieds, Super late models, OSCAAR super late model outlaws, the CASCAR series, the...

Daniel Foch, the real estate recession has arrived, what's going on with the current housing market. Dan Foch is a Real Estate Agent, Personality, Public figure, Analyst and Podcast host of The Canadian Real Estate investor. Daniel Foch speaks on the Toronto Real Estate Market & the state of the world in 2023 after many interest rate hikes since our last discussion. With Daniel Foch’s goal...

From Nascar to motivational speaking, being a on Survivor to performing Ted Talks, Julia Landauer is leading an incredible life. Julia grew up in New York City racing go karts at an early age leading to the skip barber series, 2 late model stock car championships, the Nascar K&N series, the Nascar euro and Pinty's series, and finally the Nascar Xfinity series. She is a graduate of Stanford...

Paul Tracey joins Gary on the podcast to talk about being booted from the SRX series, winning a Nascar Brazil race, and getting back into riding his bike losing a bunch of weight. Paul Tracy is a former Indycar Champion, indy 500 winner. We discuss the 2023 SRX season and his crash with Joseph Newgarden and confrontations with Kenny Schrader. Paul recently won a Nascar Brasil/Brazil race, he has c...

David Deacon  is a singer-songwriter, poet, former champion race car driver, painter, entrepreneur, and an example of how to live life fully In his race car days he won the  Canadian endurance racing championship  in a Porsche RSR, then BMW sponsored him to race the M1 in the States and then to race for their factory team in 1981 at the 24 hours of Le Mans (he was the first native Canadian to do s...