It's a new episode of The Week In IndyCar show, with questions submitted from fans via social media. Among the items covered: "Any chance this iRacing could be the Winter Series (for fun of course) that Mark Miles has talked about in the past? Maybe have six races from October-December?" "Do you suspect IndyCar may follow F1's lead and possibly postpone the mandate for KERS and a new chassis in 2022 in order to give the teams time to recover financially?" "I know that the DW12 is a spec car but ...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 662
Chip Ganassi Racing managing director Mike Hull makes his 22nd appearance on The Marshall Pruett Podcast to answer questions for The Week In IndyCar show using items submitted by fans via social media. Episode Time Stamps: Show open and recent news Mike Hull conversation (starts at 11m42s) Stimulus package and Payroll Protection Program (13m16s) Memories of Rod Campbell (24m24s) Hull's shelter-in-place routine (31m34s) Aeroscreen setup changes and cooling at a hot August Indy 500 (37m29s) Pickin...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 661
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson pays his first visit to The Marshall Pruett Podcast to discuss his first IndyCar iRacing event at Watkins Glen taking on all of the full-time NTT IndyCar Series stars, and his NASCAR iRacing event 24 hours later as the 44-year-old embraces virtual competitions during the coronavirus shutdown. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Apr 01, 2020•17 min•Ep. 660
It's Part 1 of The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin, who delve into IMSA, the FIA WEC, and other topics of interest. Discussion Topics: IMSA (starts at 6m08s) WEC/AsLMS/ELMS/ACO (22m42s) General (38m30s) Fun (1h04m37s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 659
The Indy Racing League’s season finale was meant to take place on Sunday, September 16. Rescheduled for October 6, the Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway was a somber affair, as were most sporting events in the weeks that followed the attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. In some ways, the feel of sports taking a back seat to the needs of the world isn’t too far removed from what we’re experiencing today with the coronavirus. Racing—our passion, our love—put in its rightful place, just as it wa...
Mar 29, 2020•26 min•Ep. 658
NTT IndyCar Series on NBC host Leigh Diffey returns to The Marshall Pruett Podcast ahead of calling his first IndyCar iRacing event at Watkins Glen, and helps to answer a variety of questions on the newly-modified 2020 schedule where the Indy 500 has moved to August, among other calendar adjustments in the shortened championship. Episode Time Stamps: Show open and iRacing insights Listener Q&A (starts at 9m04s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: h...
Mar 28, 2020•58 min•Ep. 657
It's the first RACER Magazine Reporter Roundtable feature on The Marshall Pruett Podcast, featuring Formula 1 reporter Chris Medland, NASCAR reporter Kelly Crandall, and host and IndyCar and IMSA reporter Marshall Pruett who open the series with a discussion on how the COVID-19 virus has impacted their respective paddocks. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 28, 2020•50 min•Ep. 656
It's another short-form '9 Minutes of Nonsense' episode on the Marshall Pruett Podcast with our guest and IndyCar star Sage Karam, who walks us through the rapid move toward Esports and iRacing, where the Pennsylvanian featured at the recent IMSA event at Sebring and will take part in IndyCar's new iRacing league that launches this weekend. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 26, 2020•9 min•Ep. 655
It's The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin, who delve into IMSA, the FIA WEC, and other championships of interest in a time of uncertainty for motor racing. Discussion Topics: WEC/AsLMS/ELMS/ACO (starts at 2m28s) IMSA (26m14s) General (35m05s) Fun (48m45s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 654
NTT IndyCar Series championship contender and 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi returns to answer listener questions submitted via social media for The Week In IndyCar show. Episode Time Stamps: Show open, news and updates Alexander Rossi interview (starts at 6m58s) Getting mad at and struggling with iRacing (7m16s) Driver contracts and training during the coronavirus shutdown (10m01s) Thoughts on Esports (14m55s) Off Track with Hinch and Rossi (19m18s) Shots fired! (22m02s) Dream vintage rac...
Mar 26, 2020•42 min•Ep. 653
It's a new episode of The Week In IndyCar show, with questions submitted from fans via social media on event cancellations and postponements, iRacing, Panoz DP01 vs Dallara DW12, combo race weekends, teams assisting in coronavirus-related mask and ventilator manufacturing, an IndyCar driver cage match, and more. Listener Q&A begins at the 5m58s mark in the episode. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 652
It's The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin, who delve into IMSA, the FIA WEC, and other championships of interest in a time of change for motor racing. Discussion Topics: IMSA (starts at 3m20s) WEC/AsLMS/ELMS/ACO (starts at 33m35s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 21, 2020•58 min•Ep. 651
We're back right away with the new series on the Marshall Pruett Podcast as '9 Minutes of Nonsense' joins our other shows. It's short stories, rants, recollections, and whatever else comes to mind in the world of motor racing that takes nine minutes or less to capture. Our second episode, like the first, features Derek Daly, who delivers a fresh tale of Nissan's pain-ridden GTP run at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1991. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group:...
Mar 21, 2020•9 min•Ep. 650
It's the debut of a new series on the Marshall Pruett Podcast as '9 Minutes of Nonsense' joins our other shows. It's short stories, rants, recollections, and whatever else comes to mind in the world of motor racing that takes nine minutes or less to capture. Our first episode features Irish racer Derek Daly and the bizarre tale of IMSA's 12 Hours of Sebring race in 1990. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 21, 2020•9 min•Ep. 648
The realest team owner in the NTT IndyCar Series (and IMSA) makes his 10th visit to the podcast as Meyer Shank Racing deals with the health and financial effects of the COVID-19 virus. Few are more direct or honest than the racer-turned-owner, which makes the Ohioan's answers to the listener questions submitted via social media for The Week In IndyCar show a perfect blend of insight and fun. Episode Time Stamps: Show open, news and updates Michael Shank interview (starts at 18m49s) Shank's thoug...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 647
The effects of the coronavirus weigh heavily in the opening portion of our listener-driven Week In IndyCar show, with questions on scheduling, postponing the Indy 500, how fans can support teams/sponsors/vendors to keep the series from collapsing, gaming, and more items submitted via social media, along with a special message to close the episode. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 17, 2020•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 646
It's The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin, who discuss the wide-ranging impact of the COVID-19 virus and how it has affected seasons already in motion for IMSA, the FIA WEC, and other championships of interest. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 13, 2020•54 min•Ep. 645
The 2020 season in finally here, and that means we have tons of great questions submitted by fans for our listener-driven Week In IndyCar show, so let's get ready for this weekend's event at St. Petersburg--and some of the key factors that will play out across the championship--with the great topics submitted via social media. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 12, 2020•2 hr•Ep. 644
NTT IndyCar Series CEO Mark Miles pays a return visit to The Week In IndyCar to field your questions and get us ready for the start of the season this weekend at St. Petersburg. Miles opens with thoughts and info on the series' approach, so far, to the COVID-19 virus, and moves onto the influence and impact felt by new IndyCar and IMS owner Roger Penske, E-Sports, future schedules and whether international events are on the horizon, and plenty more driven by everything submitted by listeners via...
Mar 12, 2020•53 min•Ep. 643
It's time to launch a new season of the Indy Lights series presented by Cooper Tires, and we have NBC Sports reporter Katie Hargitt, who covers the series and Road To Indy as a whole, to help us preview the year and highlight which teams and drivers are tipped for success, and who is tipped to win the championship and graduate to the NTT IndyCar Series. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 11, 2020•26 min•Ep. 642
With the start of the 2020 NTT IndyCar Season almost here, let's fire up the 2.2-liter twin-turbo V6 soundtrack a few days early by riding along with Pato O'Ward on his series debut with the Chevy-powered Harding Steinbrenner Racing team from 2018 at Sonoma Raceway. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 10, 2020•12 min•Ep. 641
It's The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin. Discussion Topics: WEC/AsLMS/ELMS/ACO (starts at 1m51s) General (51m57s) Fun (1h11m37s) IMSA (1h47m23s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 08, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 640
Join an all-rookie graduation podcast for four of the NTT IndyCar Series' finest young talents at the 2019 season finale at Monterey where Colton Herta, Marcus Ericsson, Santino Ferrucci, and Felix Rosenqvist joined in for some fun in front of a small audience to discuss their rookie campaigns and what their futures might hold. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 06, 2020•47 min•Ep. 639
The great Mario Andretti joins us for The Week In IndyCar guest show to interact with fans in our listener-driven show. Of the topics submitted via social media, Andretti is asked about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, memories of his late nephew John Andretti, IndyCar's new aeroscreen, racing against the late and legendary Canadian Formula 1 driver Gilles Villeneuve, riding a MotoGP bike, and the supposed 30-year split and recent reunion with Bobby Unser, who was awarded the contentious win at t...
Mar 05, 2020•51 min•Ep. 638
It's time for the The Week In IndyCar Listener Q&A show driven by fans and their conversation topics submitted via social media that range from engine penalties to the coronavirus to beer sponsorships to Jimmie Johnson to choosing the Rush songs that best fit a variety of circuits. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Mar 04, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 637
It's The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with plenty of time spent on the list of invites and reserves for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Hypercar, LMDh, and more with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin. Discussion Topics: Le Mans Entry List (starts at 2m15s) IMSA (33m09s) WEC/AsLMS/ELMS/ACO (52m35s) General & Fun (1h10m53s) Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodc...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 636
Oliver Askew returns to The Week In IndyCar to discuss his upcoming rookie season with Arrow McLaren SP, being coached by Robert Wickens, having Fernando Alonso as a teammate for the Indy 500, Formula 1 aspirations, being half Swedish, and more in our show driven by listener questions submitted via social media. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Feb 27, 2020•50 min•Ep. 635
It's a packed episode of the The Week In IndyCar Listener Q&A show driven by fans and their conversation topics submitted via social media, with the Citrone/Buhl Autosport team, Fernando Alonso and Arrow McLaren SP, grid penalties, IndyCar's YouTube video settings, Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Checkered Flag, and more items covered for your open-wheel amusement. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Feb 26, 2020•2 hr 59 min•Ep. 634
The 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion weekend at Laguna Seca gave us some amazing sounds from the assembled IMSA GTP and European Group C prototypes. With our trusty audio recorder atop the famous Corkscrew, capturing Porsche 962s and Mazda 767Bs and all manner of unhinged cars powering down the hill, we have a brief sound feature to share as some prototypes, with 800-900 horsepower to unleash, crash through the Corkscrew and rocket away for our audio delight. Subscribe: https://marshallpr...
Feb 23, 2020•13 min•Ep. 633
It's The Week In Sports Cars podcast, driven by listener Q&A, with an hour dedicated to the fall-out of Aston Martin's exit from Hypercar and what it might mean for the FIA WEC, with hosts Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast...
Feb 22, 2020•56 min•Ep. 632
