The Grasstrack Banter Podcast

We have a great chat this week with the 'Godfather of GT140s' Jed Rolph. He clears up some points made in the last episode. To help us get a rounded view, GT140 racer Duncan Burton joins us. We also review DR Events and preview the World Longtrack which kicks off next week.

Mark Headling takes the reigns live trackside today and hears the views of Max Perry, Edward Kennett, Luca Whitelam and several others as they all enjoy a great day's racing at Dig Dog Lane.

This week we look back at Chick Garrod Racing's very first meeting last week and discuss several talking points from the meeting. Gareth has a rant! And we preview a big meeting at Dig Dog Lane this weekend as DR events host the British Grand Prix.

All sorts of subjects covered this evening as the lads delve into some of the action and controversy from European meetings in the last couple of weeks. We discuss drugs and alcohol testing at meetings and look forward to Chick Garrod's first event taking place this Sunday.

This week in Gareth's absence, Mitchel takes the wheel of the podcast ship and steers it through all of the action from last week's history-making British Championships. The main man of the moment, Ashton Vale joins Mitch and Trevski to talk about his monumental achievement. Liam joins to discuss his day at the Brits and the team preview the action this weekend on the continent.

In this epsiode, Gareth is joined by a whole host of the Podcast crew to break down last week's event in Cornwall. We also review the highly successful (from a British perspective) European Challenge in Bielefeld last week. Paul Cooper was one of the Brits who saw safe passage to the final and he talks us through his day. We also discuss Altrip Longtrack which had taken place earlier that day. We...

It's a bumper episode this week. Gareth is joined by the winner of last Sunday's legendary Teterow Bergring Paul Cooper. We are joined by Mitch Godden who also picked up an excellent podium before getting back on the sidecar with Paul Smith to win in Stadskanaal. Simon Field also joins us to help us picture the scenes from the other side of the boards. Trevski, Will and Mark join us to discuss Fri...

Live from trackside we go through highlights of an excellent, hot Battle of Britain Grasstrack.

We have a fantastic weekend of racing ahead of us this May Bank Holiday and we preview it all today. We make our predictions ahead of Frittenden's Battle of Britain event this Sunday before Paul Cooper and Mitch Godden joined us to talk about this weekend's legendary Teterow Bergring that they are both competing in.

After a disappointing rainoff abroad, Mitch and Paul drop in quickly as they board the ferry home to discuss a rainy day in Germany. Big chair legend Tim Bennett pops by for a brief chat and Gareth reviews results of the Cheshire Flyer.

This week, Gareth, Mark, Ben, Mitchel, Trevski and Paul Cooper come together to talk about a very positive weekend just gone. Coops drops some exclusive news about his 2026 setup and we preview all of the action both here and abroad that is coming up in the next week.

The Grasstrack Family all got together to celebrate the life of a great friend and stalwart of the sport, Sylvie Pattison, this weekend at the Bantasia Arena. Gareth and Mark give a flavour of the day.

Gareth is joined by regulars Mitch, Trevski, Mark and Paul Cooper joined us once again to set some records straight, to review an excellent day's racing at Ledbury and to have a look at a few meetings coming up.

Bonus Podcast alert! Ryan runs through the action at today's meeting at Ledbury.

Fresh from his heroics on the ice speedway, Paul Cooper joins us to talk us through the history-making performance in the Netherlands. Gareth, Smudge, Trevski and Ryan predict who might do the winning this weekend at Ledbury.

Something a bit different this week as we travelled to record live trackside at the Ice Speedway in Herenveen, Netherlands to cheer on our very own Paul Cooper. We caught up with a number of track racers including Grant Faulkner, Mark Detz, Bridget Meijerink, Dennis Smit and many more. We also took in some practice at Swingfield on Sunday. Come and join us on this busy weekend!

This week, Gareth, Mitch, Ben, Mark, Ryan, Trevski and Smudge join us to preview and predict the two meetings this weekend at Tallington and the event at Balkbrug in the Netherlands on Monday.

This week we are joined by 2007 British Masters champion, FIM Race Director and current ACU TRWG member Glen Phillips. It has been a turbulent winter for grasstrack with the ACU and the TRWG coming under criticism. Glen joins us to put the other side across.

This week, Gareth, Paul, Mitch, Ben, Trevski and Mark talk off the cuff about a range of subjects currently prevalent in the grasstrack world.

It's our 100th episode! Thank you to all of our listeners for all of your support, it's kept us all going for all 100 episodes. To celebrate, we invited our World Champion onto the show. Zach Wajtknecht had a tremendous 2025 and he tells us all about it here. So here's to the next 100 🍻

This week, Gareth, Mark, Smudge and Trevski come together to discuss all of the announcements for the British Championship events this coming season. We hear some Fantasy Finals and Trevski shares with us his Hall of Fame.

This week we are joined by 3-time British Champion and Wimborne MCC committee member Paul Miller who has some exciting news for the coming season, and perhaps even further into the future than that! We also discuss unity among grasstrack clubs and Mitch passionately presents what he believes is needed to get our sport moving again.

We are back! Gareth is joined by Ben Ilsley, Mitch Godden, Mark Headling, Trevski Steward and Russell Little as we unpick some of the various comings and goings of the last week. We explore the current rumblings of clubs defecting to NORA, and try to give a balanced view for all.

Gareth is joined by Ben, Mark and our newest recruit Trevski as we run through the latest news from grasstrack. We discuss this week's news that clubs both old and new are moving to NORA, and we unpick some of the possible reasons why that might be happening.

We continue our Christmas Quiz with Mitch and Mark taking a surprising early lead. Will the defending champions catch up?