Podcast

Car Chat Podcast #49: Julien Chaffard | Classic Racing Group

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Julien Chaffard (@classicracinggroup) is the founder of "The world’s first historic racing school" in France based at the Charade circuit. We have a dig into the journey of building the company, some of Julien's funny stories about financing the cars and discuss the joys of driving old formula style cars. You can also find the podcast on itunes and spotify etc under "Car Chat"

Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/car-chat/id1432553826
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0HsgCgPL61E43fkSeJAbvm

My instagram: https://instagram.com/sammooresphoto

Classic Racing Group:
https://www.classicracinggroup.com/
https://www.instagram.com/classicracinggroup/

Hope you enjoy the podcast,

Cheers,

Sam

Show Notes:
03:08 = Why did you choose that car
07:23 = You have more fun when you are in control
09:00 = Why did you start a racing school?
19:30 = Adapting the car for larger people
21:28 = Where are you based?
24:23 = The growth of the business
30:37 = The interesting people that attend
33:09 = Difficulty finding staff?
50:51 = Does weight make a difference in laptimes?
52:33 = 5 Questions

Car Chat Podcast #48: Matt Farah | The Smoking Tire

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Matt Farah (@thesmokingtire) is a freelance automotive journalist from LA, hosting The Smoking Tire Podcast, making videos on his youtube channel and writing articles for magazines such as Road & Track. He also now has a car storage business in LA called Westside Collector Car Storage. You can also find the podcast on itunes etc under "Car Chat"

Matt's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesmokingtire/

Matt's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSmokingTire

https://www.westsidecollectorcarstorage.com/

Hope you enjoy the podcast,

Sam

Show Notes:

00:43 = Where did it all begin?

05:20 = Working at Gotham Dream Cars

22:14 = Drive

27:14 = One Takes

38:24 = 992 Turbo thoughts

44:58 = The Safari 911

55:36 = The Smoking Tire Podcast

1:01:00 = Westside Collector Car Storage

1:10:35 = 5 Questions

1:22:36 = The Countach

Car Chat Podcast #47: Gavan Kershaw | Lotus Cars

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Gavan Kershaw is the Director of Attributes and Product Integrity (Basically the man that makes sure a Lotus drives like a Lotus). We have a chat about all of the things that go into this process, the Evija hypercar and some of Gavan’s amusing stories from the test tracks along the way.

Hope you enjoy,

Sam,

Show Notes:

3:57 = The Evora GT4

7:41 = The benefits of having the test track right at the factory

9:34 = What's the process for developing a Lotus?

15:53 = If someone had a car and wanted to set it up on the track how would you go about it?

20:43 = Has this process been different on the Evija

27:13 = Driving the lotus F1 cars

32:40 = You've been involved in some group C racing?

38:20 = 5 Questions