The Racing Network

On episode 99 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Kenny Schmied. Kenny moved from endurance amateur racing with WRL starting in 2020 to race professionally with AOA racing in the SRO GT World Challenge for 2023. Before WRL he raced karts. Our sponsor for this episode is Chris Taylor Racing Chris Taylor Racing Services is a longtime provider of storage, transportation, and maintenance work on a var...

On episode 98 of Drive to Compete Carey met with Johan Schwartz. Johan is a pro driver and Guinness world record holder for the longest drift - 8 hours! I had a blast chatting with Johan about how he got into motorsports, his accomplishments along the way, and then we got into some details about how he broke (and then broke again) the record for the longest continuous car drift. If you haven't...

On episode 97 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Dave Skeen and Matt Geddes. They are introducing a new racing product to the market to save lives. Once you've had a chance to demo the product you'll be asking how to get one for yourself. This is one of the coolest things I've seen as a driver myself. To learn more go to: https://www.audibleflaggingsystems.com https://gilgoggles.com C...

On episode 96 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Celso Neto. Celso continues to podium in almost every race he enters in the TC class in the SRO GT World Challenge. This time I caught him at VIR where he got a 3rd and a 2nd place. Our sponsor for this episode is Chris Taylor Racing Chris Taylor Racing Services is a longtime provider of storage, transportation, and maintenance work on a variety of...

On episode 123 of Inside the SCCA we will talk with an SCCA legend.. 16-time National Champion John Heinricy. His off track success is as impressive as his on track prowess.... John has engineered some of the finest cars to come out of Detroit. This is a conversation you won't want to miss. Partners - A big thank you to our partners who help make Inside the SCCA possible! Our Coverage of the 2...

On episode 84 of Inside ChampCar we talk with Jim Uteg, driver for the WIP Racing Mustang. Jim talks to us about his road to racing the Ford Mustang. We talk about ChampCar business stuff. And we talk about upcoming ChampCar races. Inside ChampCar is the weekly deep dive into the TireRack.com ChampCar Endurance Series. Hosted by veteran sports broadcaster and producer Brian Bielanski and ChampCar&...

Title Meet Stephen Hunt - Former team manager for Rooster Hall Racing and current driver in the SCCA ---------------------------------------------- Description Today I sat down with Stephen Hunt. I caught Stephen spectating at the SRO GT World Challenge Race at VIR. He was hanging out with the Rooster Hall team, because he used to be their team manager. Now he's doing his own thing and racing...

On episode 94 of Driven to Compete Carey met with the owner of Rooster Hall Racing and multiple-time national champion in BMW CCA, Todd Brown. He's a busy guy because Rooster Hall Racing has cars racing in BMW CCA and in SRO. Todd not only owns the team but he's also driven in both series. And he's won the national championship in his class in BMW CCA multiple times. The 2 cars he has...

On episode 93 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Karsten Molitor. What an amazing story. As a racer he's done so much but as a team owner, just about the only thing he hasn't done is Le Mans in one of the front garages. Karsten owns MRS Racing which was founded in 1993 in Germany. At one point MRS was the largest private race team in Europe. If there's a continent that has racing, he&...

On episode 92 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Eric Burch President of P1 Group. He's been running race teams since the '90s Eric's role is strategic for MRS Racing. He was responsible for bringing in Only Fans as the title sponsor for the team. He's got some crazy logistics stories for shipping race cars from one continent to another. Our sponsor for this episode is Chris Taylo...

On Episode 91 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Alex Vogel at VIR. Alex is a pro driver in SRO and this is his first year competing in the GT World Challenge. He drives a Porsche GT3R for the Only Fans - P1 Group - MRS racing team. He's also the 2021 AER national champion. He's jumping in the deep end this year and loving it. Our sponsor for this episode is Chris Taylor Racing Chris Tayl...

On episode 90 of Driven to Compete Carey sat down with Diane Carter. Diane is a friend of mine. I've raced with her in B-Spec but she is much more experienced than me. The Texas based driver races her Miata and B-Spec car in the SCCA. But she's also an amazing volunteer with the SCCA and is the Divisional Administrator for timing and scoring, so she is dealing with transponder issues, ille...

On episode 122 of Inside the SCCA we will talk with road racer Henry Tabor. He's recovering from a huge wreck that happened this year during one of the Super Tour races. We talk about his recovery progress and his future racing plans. Partners - A big thank you to our partners who help make Inside the SCCA possible! ---- Our Coverage of the 2022 and 2023 SCCA Runoffs is presented by Goodyear R...

Brian Hirth, also known as the Cook at the ChampCar Pittsburgh International race events joins Bill and Brian to talk about the upcoming party at Race Pitt in a few weeks. Inside ChampCar is the weekly deep dive into the TireRack.com ChampCar Endurance Series. Hosted by veteran sports broadcaster and producer Brian Bielanski and ChampCar's director of marketing, Bill Strong. Each week we will...

On episode 89 of Driven to Compete Carey sat down with Christina Lam. Christina fell in love with racing after getting to experience a race car on the Nürburgring Ring. She's worked very hard to progress every year that she's raced. She loves racing BMW CCA but she also coaches and recently raced in a GT3 Acura NSX at Buttonwillow and her team won the race. Christina comes from a tradition...

THIS WEEK ON INSIDE THE SCCA: Episode 121 of Inside the SCCA Presented by Mazda Motorsports is our 4th and final episode from the 50th SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, NE. We talked with a young man who is 25 years old and racing at his 13th Solo Nationals -- we also caught up with a guy who just missed the podium with car that probably shouldn't have been there in the first place... then we wr...

On episode 88 of Driven to Compete Carey sat down with Jon Krolewicz. Jon is a driver and the Senior Manager of Regional Track Program Development at the SCCA. He's been racing since the 90's and has been a member of the SCCA for 28 years. He works for the SCCA national office and is responsible for several of the programs at the SCCA including Track Night in America and the new enduro for...

THIS WEEK ON INSIDE THE SCCA: Episode 120 of Inside the SCCA Presented by Mazda Motorsports is our 3nd episode from the 50th SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, NE. We talked with an 82-year old driver who is an absolute firecracker, a newly minted first-time national champion shared her story... and I'll introduce you to a friend I made at a stoplight in Oklahoma. Partners - A big thank you to ou...

THIS WEEK ON INSIDE THE SCCA: Episode 119 of Inside the SCCA Presented by Mazda Motorsports is our 2nd episode from the 50th SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, NE. We talked with a driver who won a national championship last year and decided to change classes this year. Another driver sat in the chair next to me after winning her fourth national title just a few minutes earlier. Then I talked with a...

Grant Barron from MBM Performance joins Bill and Chelsey, as Brian has the week off. He is off near Lincoln, Nebraska, to dodge cones in a parking lot with his Honda Fit. Grant talks to us about his recent two-car effort at Thompson Speedway, and we talk to Chelsey about her new role with the TireRack.com ChampCar Endurance Series. Inside ChampCar is the weekly deep dive into the TireRack.com Cham...

THIS WEEK ON INSIDE THE SCCA: Episode 118 of Inside the SCCA is our first episode from the 50th SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, NE. We heard about a driver who is driving a car that has been in her family for more than 50 years... and it competed in the first solo nationals in 1972. We also caught up with the SCCA's President and CEO Mike Cobb, last year's CSP National Champion and you&#39...

On episode 87 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Christian Retterer. Christian is from the Atlanta area and has been racing for 15+ years. His passion for motorsports started as a student at Georgia Tech in the Baja SAE program. He's podiumed multiple times at the national level for SCCA rally-cross and isn't stopping until he's won. He's also the Atlanta region chair for SCCA ral...

One episode 86 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Peter Heffring. Peter owns Kaizen Autosport at VIR and he's a driver. He started a simple "driving experience" business but then when his clients asked for more, he created Kaizen Autosport. Kaizen does it all from corporate events, arrive and drive track events, racing school, and driver coaching. If you have a question about Radica...

On episode 85 of Driven to Compete Carey sat down with Memo Molina. Memo races a Miata in the SCCA but he also tracks his kit car that he built and he also takes his personal M2 to track days. Our sponsor for this episode is Chris Taylor Racing. Chris Taylor Racing Services is a longtime provider of storage, transportation, and maintenance work on a variety of racecars in the Austin area. On the s...

On episode 84 of Driven to Compete Carey met with Jeffery Ryan Straight and John De Barros. They own and operate a very busy race team called AOA racing. They talk about doing it all. They guys do everything involved with running a race team, pretty much by themselves. They run in WRL, ChampCar, and SRO and they run a number of cars. I'm so happy that I crossed paths with these guys at the GT...