RACER Debrief Audio Podcast

Inside Mazda MX-5 Cup, North America’s ultimate one-make series | RACER Debrief

The RACER Debrief takes a deep dive into the world of Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by Michelin. Joining us are 2025 champion Jeremy Fletcher and Mazda Motorsports Senior Manager Jonathan Applegate.
How did Fletcher turn his season around and land a title? Who’s on the fast track thanks to Mazda’s wildly-successful MX-5 Cup Shootout? How does the MX-5 Cup keep on delivering some of the best racing in North America, and what’s in store for a fast-approaching 2026 season? Check out the RACER Debrief for a fascinating take on North America’s most-competitive one-make series.
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Oriol Servia talks IndyCar 2026, young driver pitfalls | RACER Debrief

Eleven-time Indianapolis 500 starter and Indy car race-winner Oriol Servia talks up the teams and drivers who can make Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou sweat for a fifth NTT IndyCar Series title in 2026. Plus, as a former Indy Lights champion and now a driver manager, Oriol explains his role in helping young wannabe IndyCar stars achieve “the best versions of themselves” and negotiate the thorny path of dealing with the demands of team owners. 
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Fast talk with 2025 NHRA champs Doug Kalitta and Austin Prock | RACER Debrief

The RACER Debrief caught up with not one, but two 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series nitro class champs – Top Fuel’s Doug Kalitta and Funny Car’s Austin Prock. Both are now two-time NHRA champs and give us the lowdown on sealing the deal, getting hot when it counts, drag-racing dynasties, and the challenge of taming a 13,000hp, 330mph-plus racecars. NOTE: Interviews were recorded before Austin Prock’s bombshell exit from John Force Racing.
#NHRA #NHRAChampion #DragRacing #DougKalitta #AustinProck #TopFuel #FunnyCar #racing #motorsport #JohnForceRacing #RACERDebrief #RACERpodcast

It’s crunch time in Las Vegas for F1’s title battle | RACER Debrief

Saturday night on the Las Vegas Strip will be crunch time in the battle for the 2025 Formula 1 World Championship drivers’ title. Lando Norris leads the points, but can his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri or resurgent Red Bull Racing ace Max Verstappen narrow the gap in Sin City? With just three grands prix and one sprint race remaining, the Las Vegas Grand Prix could make or break a season for the three contenders and RACER’s F1 expert Chris Medland joins us to set the scene. Plus we get Chris’s take on F1’s latest stewarding controversy, prospects for 2026’s major F1 rules revamp and IndyCar ace Colton Herta’s potential path to grand prix racing. Throw in some very dodgy Las Vegas weather forecasting from the Debrief crew and it’s a packed episode.
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Countdown to the 2025 Baja 1000 with “Mr. Versatile” Rhys Millen | RACER Debrief

Rhys Millen has raced the Baja 1000 in the Pro UTV classes and no-holds barred Class 1 buggies, and he’s a class winner in the Class 7 truck class. For 2025, he’s back with a Rhys Millen Racing-built, Toyota-powered Class 7 entry and hoping to emulate his class win on this year’s Baja 500. Rhys joined the RACER Debrief to talk about the challenge of taking on the world’s greatest off-road race and an ever-versatile career beyond the desert that’s taken in everything from the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, to drifting, to stunt driving in multiple Hollywood blockbusters. If you caught “F1: The Movie” this summer, you’ll have seen him in action – but let Rhys tell the story…       
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Countdown to the 2025 Baja 1000 with Trophy Truck rising star Christopher Polvoorde | RACER Debrief

Christopher Polvoorde is one of the rising stars of SCORE desert racing’s headlining Trophy Truck class. This year, the 25-year-old Californian once again teams up with Baja legend Bryce Menzies to take on the 58th Baja 1000. After an early exit from the race in 2024, the duo have unfinished business and, as Polvoorde tells the RACER Debrief, they’re going all-out for victory this time around. What’s the game plan for hustling a 1,200hp off-road rocket ship across 854 miles of crazy jumps, hidden boulders and truck-swallowing silt? Let Christopher tell you…  
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#SCORE
#offroad
#ChristopherPolvoorde
#BryceMenzies
#TrophyTruck
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#motorsports
#risingstar

Countdown to the 2025 Baja 1000 with “Iron Woman” Kristen Matlock | RACER Debrief

Baja 1000 “Iron Woman” Kristen Matlock joins the RACER Debrief as we get set for the 58th SCORE Baja 1000. The Pro UTV Open class ace talks about driving solo for every grueling mile, her 2019 class win, her journey to off-road racing, and the continuing pull of Baja and the world’s most famous off-road race.
 
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#offroad
#KristenMatlock
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#motorsports
#ironwoman

It’s winner-takes-all time in the NASCAR Cup Series | RACER Debrief

It’s the final race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and a champion will be crowned Sunday afternoon at Phoenix Raceway. Will it be Chase Briscoe, William Byron, Denny Hamlin or Kyle Larson lifting the trophy on Sunday?  Kelly Crandall joins the RACER Debrief to run the rule over the Championship 4 contenders and set the scene for a desert shootout.
#NASCAR #Playoffs #FinalFour #Champion #racing #motorsport #RACERdebrief #RACERpodcasts #ChaseBrisco #DennyHamlin #WilliamByron #KyleLarson

It’s “go or go home” time in the NASCAR Playoffs | RACER Debrief

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs are into crunch time with the Round of 8. Eight drivers are still in the hunt, with just three races to decide who makes it into the winner-takes-all Championship 4 finale.  RACER’s NASCAR expert, Kelly Crandall, joins the Debrief to rate the contenders, lay out the potential curveballs ahead (Talladega’s high-speed lottery included!), and mark your cards for the pressure-packed weekends ahead.    
#NASCAR#NASCARplayoffs#KellyCrandall#NASCARchampion#NASCARtop8#goorgohome#LasVegas#Talladega#RACERpodcasts #RACERdebrief #racing #motorsport

RACER Debrief: The racecar reimagined, with JR Hildebrand

As a professional racecar driver and a life-long motorsports fan, JR Hildebrand sees racing from all sides. The 12-time Indy 500 starter joins the RACER Debrief to talk about bringing back the awesome to open-wheel racing – for drivers and for fans – and gives us his take on a potential solution for resetting the spectacle and the challenge: the Blackbird 66 Mk.1.   
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#Blackbird66#Blackbird66mk1#openwheelracing