The MotorMouth Podcast

Tim and Harry sit down for a quick chat to look back over Season 5 and look ahead to Season 6 with our BIGGEST EVER line up. We've got Mario Andretti, Jake Humphrey, Gerhard Berger, Guenther Steiner, Alex Lynn and some very, very special secret guests. MASSIVE thanks to all our Season 5 guests, they were all brilliant. Thanks also to our Season 5 sponsors at https://motusone.com/ and a big welcome...

Today, we bring you a double whammy and it was LOADS of fun to record. Not one guest but two! The first Tom Blomqvist, a rapidly rising star of the track, born in the UK before moving to New Zealand, he’s the son of the legendary rally star Stig Blomqvist….his decorated career has taken him all over the world competing in the likes of FIA Formula 3, DTM, endurance racing and sportscars, and the in...

Alyx Coby is one of the most exciting racing talents to come out of Ireland, hailing from County Kildare, she’s already up there with Europe’s best young karters. With motorsport in the blood, she started karting at 6 and racing at 8 years old, now 16, she’s already notched 14 wins and 38 podiums in her career and has firmly established herself internationally, as one to watch. Described by Women’...

Esmee Hawkey started in karts, aged just 9 years old and has, over the years, built up an impressive racing CV that focusses around GT’s, in particular with Porsche, she was also a big part of the W Series inaugural season where she did incredibly well, despite it being her first time in a Single Seater Series and she’s working with Mark Blundell’s MB Motorsport in BTCC as a development driver.&nb...

Eddie Jordan is a living legend in Formula One circles. He founded the Jordan team in the 80s before finding his way to Formula One with the support of Bernie! In this interview, we meet a brilliantly batty EJ, who is funny, smart and full of interesting stories! A must listen and we hope you enjoy! This show is supported by MOTUS | ONE. If you or your company require Event Transportation, Dana an...

Join us as we chat to Jean-Eric Vergne. JEV is a back to back Formula E Champion having won Season 4 and 5, his rise to motorsport fame came after learning his craft since the tender age of 4, before going on to race in single seaters when Red Bull snapped him up on their Junior Team. He raced in British F3, Formula Renault 3.5, WEC and of course Formula One. He’s now involved with our friends ove...

Today we’re speaking with Jimmy Broadbent, a serial content creator, sim racing streamer and YouTube sensation who has built an audience from his infamous shed. He started his rise to online stardom back in 2016 when he pushed out a video a day, and over time, found an audience, it was a few short years before he was reaching millions of people, his most popular YouTube video, at the time of recor...

One of our most fascinating and intelligent guests so far! This week we're joined by Rodi Basso, an Italian businessman and former Director of Motorsport at McLaren, he was a NASA consultant and has worked with Ferrari and Red Bull in Formula One. He's now the CEO of the all new, electric powerboat Championship, the E1 Series. This show is supported by MOTUS | ONE. If you or your company require E...

Today's guest is former SAS operator turned racing driver, Jay Morton. After an initial stint in the PARAs and tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Jay went through gruelling special forces selection and onto a 10 year carer with the UK’s elite. He’s climbed Everest, twice and was one of the frankly terrifying Directing Staff on Channel 4s SAS: Who Dares Wins. What does this have to do with motorsport?...

**Recorded outside of lockdown** We met up with Formula One legend, Johnny Herbert at the incredible Silverstone Experience Museum in front of some iconic F1 cars to chat with the British racing star. A former Formula 1 racer, who started his career in 1974 before progressing through the ranks before Eddie Jordan signed him up for the 1987 season when he won British F3 Championship before Formula...

It's a new season of The MotorMouth Podcast, Season 5, and a lot has changed.... We're got an ALL-STAR line up for the next 10 shows, kicking off with Formula 1 legend, Mark Webber. Mark took an hour out of his busy schedule to talk to us and the no-nonsense Aussie was great value as always. He talks us through his career, his friction with Vettel, his biggest moments in F1, winning the World Endu...

BIG PLANS AHEAD! Here's a little taste of what's to come in Season 5. We've got former Red Bull Formula One star, Mark Webber, the legendary Johnny Herbert (which will also be available on video, a MotorMouth first) and former SAS hero and star of Channel 4's "Who Dares Wins", Jay Morton, who kick starts his motorsport career very soon...and loads more. For more content and to join the MotorMouth...

Today Tim & Harry are joined by Catie Munnings , who was recently announced as the latest female driver to be signed to the new Extreme E Championship which gets underway in 2021, she’ll be behind the wheel of the Andretti United machine to take part in the revolutionary new series. The 22 year old racing ace is already a rally star in her own right so will go into the series with high hopes!...

Another inside look into the inner workings of Formula One, we previously heard from Matthew Carter, former Lotus F1 Team boss who provided us with some absolute gems, this time we hear from Oliver Weingarten, a man who was Secretary General of FOTA, the Formula One Teams Association, and he has some pearlers for you listening pleasure, including his experiences with Bernie and his involvement wit...

An eye opening insight. Matt Bishop is a fascinating character. He has an enviabe CV which boasts the W Series, the McLaren F1 Team, Car Magazine and F1 Racing Magazine where he fundamentally changed the face of Formula One journalism. He's a supporter of LGBTQ+ inclusion, diversity and discussion in motorsport and is now an author, having written his own booked called "The Boy Made the Difference...

Poor old Harry was laid up in bed for this episode, so Tim is joined by racing driver, trans pioneer and LGBTQ+ spokesperson, Charlie Martin as co-host. Huge thanks to Charlie for jumping in last minute and experiencing what it's like to be on the other side of the mic! We had a chat with Alexander Sims , the 5th Formula E driver we've had on the show, we're slowly working our way through the enti...

This is a first for us, historically, we’ve interviewed just one person at a time, but today, we have 2…Daniel Bailey and Rupert Svendsen-Cook are co-founders of Veloce Esports which has merged with Veloce Racing to encompass its diversification into real world racing. They have been at the very centre of Veloce’s rise in Esports and electric vehicles. They work alongside the likes of Adrian Newey...

So we’ve had a few interesting characters in our Gearing Up Series to date and today has got to be one of the best. Matthew Carter is a name that most F1 fans will remember, he was the Chief Executive of the Lotus F1 team after the departure of Eric Boullier. He was right at the centre of the teams ups and downs between 2013 to 2016 after Bridgehouse Capital’s owner bought a stake in the team befo...

From a tea plantation to the boss of the Mahindra Racing Formula E Team! Dilbagh Gill is a huge personality and the Team Principal and CEO of Mahindra Racing in Formula E where he’s been since the 2014/15 inaugural season as one of ten founding teams, and the only Indian team…he’s enjoyed numerous wins and podiums and we’re delighted to have him here to learn about him, his life, Mahindra and of c...

The fastest Kiwi in the world!?   Nick Cassidy, the fastest Kiwi in the world? He’s just bagged a seat with Envision Virgin Racing for Season 7 in Formula E and we think he’s going to smash it! Have a listen to learn all about the man from New Zealand…his racing in Japan, how he made his way to Formula E and importantly, how he did on the MotorMouth quiz…has he beaten his fellow Formula E com...

His voice is as familiar as the racing drivers he worked with, with classic lines such as “Felipe Baby Stay Cool” and “Fernando is Faster than you”. Rob Smedley is the former Head of Vehicle Performance at the Williams F1 Team, before that he was of course Felipe Massa’s race engineer at Ferrari until they collectively hopped across to the British team. He can now be found providing expert technic...

We are slowly working our way around Sky Sports F1’s powerlist with the likes of Karun Chandhok, Crofty and Natalie Pinkham appearing on the podcast and we’re delighted to be joined by yet another broadcast star, this time in the form of Rachel Brookes. Rachel started life in radio before a move to TalkSport, IMG and eventually landing in Sky Sports where she remains today. We’re here to hear all...

It was a pleasure to chat with one of the main faces from Sky Sports F1 coverage, Natalie Pinkham, and learn more about her life, career, her opinions, fears and her curious sleepwalking habits...which are frankly, incredible! She's an F1 broadcaster, charity campaigner, mother, host of In The Pink Podcast and all round good egg! Enjoy! For more content and to join the MotorMouth community, downlo...

Here's the lastet of our "Gearing Up" episodes where we shine a light on people you may not have heard of, but definately should. Today we chat with David Dicker, a no nonsense, fiesty, fascinating character who built a multi-million dollar empire through his business Dicker Data. He went on to set up Rodin Cars, creating machines that have the potential to rival Formula One cars. We might even se...

IndyCar star Conor shares honest opionions on his life and career, what he really thinks about Formula One and lots more, do we even have a new leader on the MotorMouth Podcast??! Conor Daly is a second generation race car driver who started in karts at 10 years old. By 2005 he had won 19 races, two championships and Junior Driver of the Year. He’s a rising star in the motorsport world and is curr...