On The Grid

This week the team records the podcast at different times because they all had a little bit on. Ben Bargwanna joins Tony Schibeci for a chat about his solid start to season 2024 in TCR Australia taking 2 from 3 wins at Sandown. Richard and Mark catch up to give a huge Bathurst 24 hour preview and chat a couple of other things as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As always all the news breaks when we're not on air. We take a few minutes to go through some of the big Motorsport stories to have broken over the past 6 weeks. The boys cover off on things they think might or will happen in 2024 via way of a top 5 and delve into their Caltex Hot's and Not's. It's good to be back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our grand finale for 2023! We close out a massive year of On the Grid stories with our all-time HOT and NOT power rankings from the year that was.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two key interviews this week as Motorsport Australia's CEO, Sunil Vohra, drops in and believe us - he's a race fan. We quizz the new boss about his passion for the sport and what his plans are moving forward. And then, with the summer of speedway almost here, James McFadden drops in to chat his return with the NAPA Hodges Motorsport entry, fills is in on his World of Outlaws campaign and talks his big summer of Speedway ahead. It's a big show with fun, interesting chats!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KAI ALLEN sealed the Super2 series crown in Adelaide so we had to get this impressive young bloke from Mount Gambier back on the show to discuss his achievements - and find out the odd reason why he couldn't have the chat at our usually scheduled time.. Then it's a massive debrief in and around the Adelaide 500 and the end of the Supercars Championship for 2023. It's a big one, this.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A simple show this week and most of it is centred around the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the VAILO Adelaide 500 this week. A typically comprehensive and opinionated breakdown of the Vegas highs and lows is mirrored by a typically comprehensive and opinionated breakdown of this weekend's Supercars decider. A lengthy Hot / Not breakdown features as well, of course.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A huge show this week, as Josh Buchan joins us to discuss the start of his reign as TCR Australia's champion after claiming the title in Adelaide. Todd Hazelwood is on the show to discuss the pausing of his full-time Supercars career and what may come next, before a typically feisty Hot and Not segment processes the pro's and con's of McDonald's and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ROB HUFF joins the show - the first World Champion to do so - to reflect on his successful weekend in the TCR World Tour races in Sydney and his incredible Touring Car career in general. Plus, how close he came to racing Supercars, his sneaky pre-Sydney test and how he's got his own museum in Macau! Huffy is a legend and a great chat - this is well worth a listen!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

YOUNG GUN Bayley Hall has launched from zero to success in his Porsche Carrera Cup career, claiming his first race and overall victory in the tough one-make championship at the weekend. We get to know the young man from Queensland, talk pathways to the top and racing in America, plus an incredible weekend at Surfers that delivered him a maiden Carrera Cup win.  Then it's the Hot's and Not's from a massive week of motorsport.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than 35,000 people turned out to watch Drag Racing at The Bend for the first time at the weekend, an event that doubled as the launch of the new National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC). One of the series' main players, Nathan Prendergast, is our special guest to download the weekend and the exciting future a unified sport has moving forward. Then it's our Gold Coast preview and a particularly scathing Hot and Not segment to not be missed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bathurst is in the rear-view mirror but we're still breaking down the Great Race, this time with former winner Mark Winterbottom who had a challenging end to his Bathurst campaign. Still, he's upbeat about what is to come. Then the team breaks down a huge weekend of racing at Tailem Bend, discusses why Speedway is so good in spite of itself, and breaks down the Hot's and Not's of the week that was.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ONE of the great voices of the Great Race, Garry Wilkinson, is our special guest this week as he reflects on his incredible career having been inducted into the Supercars Media Association Hall of Fame at the weekend. Then it's our breakdown of everything hot and not from the Bathurst week as we run through all the big moments that made the 60th anniversary race so good.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Great Race week so the OTG team are here to walk you through the pressing issues ahead of the Repco Bathurst 1000 this weekend. From parity talk, co-drivers to the best place for a beer or a drive in the Bathurst region, we've got you covered. All the Bathurst chat and our regular Hot and Not segment as we build up to a massive week of content covering the big one on the big hill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know we spoke to Tom Randle not long ago, but we had to do it again and chat about the Saab V8 that he flew around Phillip Island on the weekend. We also chat to him about Sandown, Bathurst and his boss. There is some talk about Oscar Piastri's podium and our world famous Hot's and Nots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Russell just finished second in the Sandown 500 with Erebus Motorsport, and he's dropped into the show to tell us all about it this week, including an insight into just how to squeeze into a Gen 3 Supercar, road-trip memories from his Nissan days and thoughts about the Great Race that is rapidly approaching - especially given he a co-driver Brodie Kostecki head in among the favourites. Then special guest co-host Chad Neylon joins the fun as we break down a successful Sandown enduro season kick off and run through the big ticket items from the week that was, including all the Hot's and Not's floating around. There are many.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HUNTER McElrea joins the show this week to reflect on a successful INDY NXT Championship, where he won two of the final five races and finished second overall. Hunter reflects on the year, the challenges of progressing to IndyCar and what is to come on his ongoing US Adventure.  Then it's all the Hot's and Not's from the week that was and the week that will be at Sandown Raceway as the '500 returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CLAY RICHARDS has made an impression in 2023, fast in the Toyota 86 Series and on the podium in TCR Australia on his debut, he's very much following in the footsteps of his famous father and grandfather. Clay drops in to preview this weekend's TCR round at Sandown raceway, talk his ambitions, racing with family and a whole heap more.  Then we're joined by a SPECIAL GUEST HOST to help break down the Hots and Nots of the week that was..  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JACK PERKINS is a racing driver, broadcaster and also a bloody good car restorer. With a seven-year process to restore his Dad's 1993 Bathurst 1000 winner almost complete - the car turned its first laps last week - Jack drops by to discuss the restoration, how the motorsport community embraced his search for originality and finding pieces of the car where you'd least expect it.  He also talks about his upcoming enduro campaign with Erebus, which perhaps represents his best shot yet at becoming a repeat Bathurst winner.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOM RANDLE was a star of The Bend's Supercars weekend, scoring his first solo Supercars podium. Then the second. Then the third! The Castrol Racing Tickford driver swings past for a chat about his performance, how he has built to this moment, enduro season and how his Simulator is a handy tool to have..  Then the boys break down the weekend that was with the usual chat and Hot / Not rundown - which includes several self-inflicted Not's..  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JOSH BUCHAN has charged into the lead of the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Championship at the series' mid-way point and even though it's only by a solitary point, it's still a lead. The Sydneysider jumps aboard the OTG ship once again to discuss this year's compelling title battle, fighting with his teammate for the championship lead, rivalries and how he's going to take on the world when they come Down Under later this year.  Then all the hot's and not's from the week that was, including some Calder Park chat and the Scott Dixon fun facts you need to know.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices