The Racing Ear Podcast

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears,  My producer and I were able to attend the 2021 CSRG David Love Vintage Races at Sonoma Raceway on Saturday April 10 2021.  We had a great first outing for the year at my favorite spring time vintage racing event at Sonoma Raceway.  Mr. Producer as I like to call him had an amazing time getting c...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears, Locke De Bretteville is the President of the Classic Sports Racing Group.  I remembered hearing Locke on an episode of The Vintage Racing Podcast with Greg Tatarian a few years ago and I finally was able to chat with him in this episode.  Locke and I talked about his racing memories going back in...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears, In this episode of The Racing Ear Podcast, Rick Knoop and I discuss what it took for Porsche to overcome the dominance of the Chevrolet powered McLarens, Lolas, and Shadows during the Canadian American Challenge Cup back in the early 1970's.  This episode is a thoughtful and passionate recol...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ear Enthusiasts, I had the great pleasure of chatting with Bob and Becky Pengraph for Episode 9 of The Racing Ear Podcast.  At the time of this interview the Classic Sports Racing Group first event of the year, the David Love Vintage Races, was 2 weeks out to be held at Sonoma Raceway April 9-11 2021. ...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears,  Bud Moeller has owned and raced iconic Historic Formula 1 racing cars for over 30 years.  The 1980 Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari 312 T5 and the 2003 Michael Schumacher Ferrari F2003GA are historic and iconic in the world of motorsport.  His stories related to these amazing racing cars are well worth...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Fellow Racing Ear Enthusiasts, I got another chance to have a chat with Rick Knoop about his experience racing in Historic Formula 1.  We spoke about what it was like to spectate at the Long Beach Grand Prix when Formula 1 would come to the west coast to have its second race in the United States opposite Watki...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Racing Ear Enthusiasts, Rick Knoop had an opportunity to drive in NASCAR and it was a privilege to speak with him about racing during an era when I was a fan of Bill Elliott.  In this episode, Rick Knoop recollects what it was like to drive in NASCAR at historic venues like Talladega, Watkins Glen, Michigan Internat...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello again Racing Ears, Ever since I first laid my eyes on the amazing Porsche 962 back in 1985 when I was 13 years old at Laguna Seca Raceway, I have always been a fan of the spectacular era that was the IMSA Camel GTP racing series in North America in the mid to late 1980's.   Rick Knoop co-drove the BF Goodrich J...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears, I was able to chat with Rick Knoop again and tonight we spoke about his experience running at the annual Pikes Peak Hillclimb in Pikes Peak Colorado in the Knoop Mann Special.  His stories related to this amazing event are fascinating.   Thank you for listening to The Racing Ear Podcast  #theraci...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears, Rick Knoop has raced many cars over the years since starting his career over 45 years ago.  In this episode of The Racing Ear Podcast we discuss his success driving with Mazda.  There have been many instrumental and groundbreaking efforts to bring the Mazda RX7 to the race track and to the winner...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello Fellow Racing Ears, I am so thankful and grateful for this episode of The Racing Ear Podcast.   My first guest is Rick Knoop.   Rick Knoop has been a race car driver for over 40 years and in this episode of The Racing Ear Podcast, he remembers and describes what it was like to participate at the 1978 24 Hours of Le...

Send me a message. I would love to know where you are listening to me from!! Hello fellow Racing Ears, My name is Trent Barr and I love historic sports car racing.  I am in my late 40s and I want to start my old podcast up again.  The Racing Ear started in 2014 where my goal was to go to historic racing events and record the sounds of the cars in their element, at the race track.  I started with a...