The Racing Ear Podcast

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again fellow Racing Ears, In this episode Rick and Trent were able to have a memorable conversation with Joe Catron.  They were recently all together at the Lucky Dog Racing League 8 Hour Enduro at Sears Point International Raceway on Saturday February 12 2022 where the racing team finished 8th out of 80 cars in the...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  Many thanks to Brad Kettler for coming on to chat with us on The Racing Ear Podcast. In this episode, we all were able to discuss more of what the era was when the Audi R8 LMP 900 racing car dominated the 24 Hours Of Le Mans and the American Le Mans Series back in the early 2000's.  We also...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  Here is another great episode of The Racing Ear Podcast.  For this episode Trent, Jeff, and Rick got to chat with Brad Kettler formerly of Audi Sport and of Champion Racing.   Originally from Lafayette Indiana, Mr. Kettler was kind enough to come on and share how his passion for racing grew from...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  In this episode Trent, Rick, and Jeff had a chance to catch up with Dan Binks.   Dan Binks is the legendary Crew Chief that was involved in the epic racing dynasty that was the Pratt & Miller Engineering Compuware Chevrolet Corvette Racing Team.  This team has a total of EIGHT class victories...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Fellow Racing Ears,  Martin Raffauf is an auto racing mechanic that spends his time being a highly published auto racing Porsche racing historian.  He has written several articles that are currently posted on www.porscheroadandrace.com.    In this episode, Martin Raffauf joins The Racing Ear Podcast to share h...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Racing Ears,  Many thanks go to Rick Knoop and Henry "Ike" Smith for making this episode happen at the glorious "Conversation Diner" in Central California.  As mentioned in our last episode, myself and Mr. Producer were able to visit Rick and Ike during the Holidays in 2021.   In this episode we...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello and Happy New Year 2022 from The Racing Ear Podcast,    In this episode, Mr. Producer and I were fortunate enough to be able to visit with Rick Knoop and Henry "Ike" Smith during the Christmas Holidays in December of 2021.  We were also able to have a very historic conversation about the Canadian American...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, It is my distinct honor and pleasure to welcome Mr. Paul Page to The Racing Ear Podcast.  Mr. Page is a legend in the coverage of the Indiana classic auto racing event that happens every Memorial Day weekend at the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.  Mr. Page also wrote th...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, In this episode, Jeff Oldham is our special guest.  Rick Knoop and Jeff Oldham have known each other for over 40 years.  It was great to hear about Jeff originally being from Indianapolis Indiana.  His Dad taking him to the Indianapolis 500 practice and qualifying sessions was a big reason why he...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  It was great to chat with Rick Knoop again after his illustrative trip to Daytona Beach Florida to be a racing driver during the HSR Classic 24 Hour at Daytona International Speedway back on October 27th through the 31st of 2021.   Rick had an awesome time getting to see old friends again, see sp...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  I had a great opportunity to be a guest at the 2021 Yokohama Drivers Cup at Sears Point International Raceway.  This event featured Porsche racing groups but it was great to see the Masters Historic Racing groups as well.   The Masters Historic Racing group featured a Historic Formula 1 racing gr...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, In this episode it was great to have a conversation with Dann Shively.  Dann Shively was a key figure in the development of live helicopter news journalism in the greater Sacramento metropolitan area.  Dann has been involved in the broadcasting of radio and television news which includes his tenur...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, This is a special episode where Rick Knoop talks about his week at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac Michigan.  For the week of September 27 of 2021 Rick was at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac Michigan at the Motorsports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies for 2020 and 2021.  Both events were amazing and it w...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, Here is a great episode where it is just Rick Knoop and I.  Rick was great to come on the show again to discuss his trip to Pontiac Michigan for the week of September 27th 2021.  He shared a little bit of what is "on tap" for this particular trip to the M1 Concourse in Pontiac Michigan....

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Fellow Racing Ears,  In this episode, Rick and I started with a new Father / Son theme as it relates to automotive enthusiast heritage.   Today we chatted with Jim Perell.  He is Chief-Of-Concours for the San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club of America.  We all discussed the car culture living in Southe...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, In this episode, Rick Knoop was kind enough to let me chat with his friend Peter Miles.  Peter Miles is the son of Ken Miles, who was heavily involved as a test driver, mechanic, and racing driver in the development of the Ford GT40 back in the mid 1960's.  The Ford GT40 won the 1966 Le Mans...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  In this episode of The Racing Ear Podcast Mr. Producer and I revisited our visit to the amazing Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles California.  We shared each and every car that we saw in this museum and what each car meant to us.  This museum experience is a great value for any automotive...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Again Racing Ears,  I was so excited to be able to chat with John Morton and Rick Knoop again for the Part 2 episode of their shared racing memories.  In this episode we discussed their time racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.   Once again they discussed cars, drivers, chicanes vs no chicanes on the Mulsanne Straight...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Racing Ears,  Mr. Producer and I got to go to the NHRA Sonoma Nationals back on Friday July 23 and we had a ball.  It was our first big racing event of 2021.  We had $16.00 corn dogs and drank $5.00 cokes and sprites.  We saw a few heroes of ours and it was so nice to be in a cooler climate for a few hours.  I incor...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Again Racing Ears, In this episode Rick Knoop was kind enough to let me chat with his friend John Morton.  Both Rick and John spent time being racing teammates and being racing competitors.  In this episode we all chatted about racing cars, racing drivers, and racing circuits.  This is part 1 with special guest John...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, I had another amazing chat with Rick Knoop about a circuit in North America that you may have heard of.  Watkins Glen International Raceway is a circuit located in Upstate New York and according to Rick Knoop it is one of the fastest circuits he has ever raced on.  His descriptions of this histori...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, Jeff Kline is a former racing driver that I have become more familiar with recently after hearing him being a part of a panel discussion with the Racing History Project / "Race Talk with Trish" episode remembering IMSA GTU back in the 1980's.  Back in the day, Jeff raced predominant...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears,  Thank you for your continued support of this humble little auto racing history podcast.   I got to check in with Rick Knoop and how he is doing with being a race car driving instructor with DK Racing School at Willow Springs International Raceway in Rosamond California and the M1 Concourse in Pon...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears,  For this episode of The Racing Ear Podcast I had an amazing conversation with Martina Kwan who is the spokesperson for the DK Racing School that is located at the Willow Springs International Raceway in Rosamond California.   Martina Kwan is an FIA licensed race car driver, race car instructor,...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears,  Its been awhile but I got to chat with Rick Knoop again about his recent travels to Pontiac Michigan to be a driving instructor at the M1 Concourse.  He had a blast a few weeks ago and is really looking forward to being there again.   We then had a conversation about his memories surrounding Riv...