60 Episodes

  1. The Awful Joy of Bad Racing Movies — (Driven, 2001)

    Published: 5/14/2024
  2. BONUS: Sam Reads From His New Book — “Wall Drug”

    Published: 5/13/2024
  3. How Roger and Mario Broke the Indy 500 — (Penske “Beast” V-8, 1994)

    Published: 5/7/2024
  4. Do Car Magazines Have Secrets?

    Published: 4/30/2024
  5. The Dan Gurney Fan-Service Episode

    Published: 4/23/2024
  6. The Ferrari Story You Didn’t Know You Needed

    Published: 4/16/2024
  7. How to Be a Rookie at the Indy 500

    Published: 4/9/2024
  8. For Love of the Game — (Villeneuve 1979 US GP Wet Quali)

    Published: 4/2/2024
  9. The World’s Most Charming Race Track

    Published: 3/26/2024
  10. How Do Wind Tunnels Work?

    Published: 3/19/2024
  11. Listener Q&A: Can the Data Lie?

    Published: 3/12/2024
  12. Can You Have Too Much Power? — (Donohue 1970s Porsche Can-Am)

    Published: 3/5/2024
  13. What You and Max Verstappen Have in Common

    Published: 2/27/2024
  14. When Car Magazines Test Race Cars

    Published: 2/20/2024
  15. Listener Q&A: Rain Driving and You

    Published: 2/13/2024
  16. Ten Hours, 1000 Miles, and 170 MPH — (Moss 1955 Mille Win)

    Published: 2/6/2024
  17. When is a Driving Sim Worth Millions?

    Published: 1/30/2024
  18. At the Wheel in a McLaren F1 GTR

    Published: 1/23/2024
  19. Unpacking the 24 Hours of Le Mans

    Published: 1/16/2024
  20. The Indy 500 is Harder Than You Think — (Rossi 2016 Win)

    Published: 1/9/2024

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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.