60 Episodes

  1. To Pilot a Mercedes — (Le Mans CLR Crashes, 1999)

    Published: 9/10/2024
  2. How to Watch F1 . . . and Learn Its Secrets

    Published: 9/3/2024
  3. Paul Newman in a Race Car

    Published: 8/27/2024
  4. How Pro Racers Cheat – Part Two!

    Published: 8/20/2024
  5. The One Where a Cobra Eats Europe — (Daytona Coupe, 1965)

    Published: 8/13/2024
  6. What Does a Race Engineer Do, Really?

    Published: 7/30/2024
  7. The Worst Race Car I’ve Ever Met

    Published: 7/23/2024
  8. To Be Dumb in Racing

    Published: 7/16/2024
  9. Instant Expert: How Do Tires Work?

    Published: 7/9/2024
  10. The Last Great F1 Fairy Tale — (Brawn GP, 2009)

    Published: 7/3/2024
  11. When Sam Drove Alonso’s F1 Car

    Published: 6/25/2024
  12. Listener Q&A: Does Driving Style Matter in F1?

    Published: 6/18/2024
  13. Instant Expert: What is Oversteer?

    Published: 6/11/2024
  14. Belief, Death, and the Fastest Man Alive — (Parry-Thomas & Babs, 1927)

    Published: 6/4/2024
  15. BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Indoor Storage”

    Published: 6/3/2024
  16. RACE RECAP: Monaco G.P. + Indy 500

    Published: 5/30/2024
  17. How Pro Racers Cheat

    Published: 5/28/2024
  18. BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — "Dajiban!"

    Published: 5/27/2024
  19. 337 MPH in 3.7 Seconds — (GUEST: Top Fuel Driver Clay Millican)

    Published: 5/21/2024
  20. BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Mears and My Feet”

    Published: 5/20/2024

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It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts. Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer with time in NASCAR and IMSA. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. We don’t love motorsport for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.