RACER Weekly Audio Podcast

Loren Healy isn’t the winningest driver in Ultra4 history for nothing. The New Mexico native got hooked on rock crawling after giving it a go with a beat-up truck and a few friends and, multiple titles later, is still the guy to beat when the Ultra4 4400s hit the boulders at King of the Hammers or Crandon International Raceway. Loren joins RACER Weekly to tell us what makes Crandon so special, why he’s still enjoying new challenges – the 2026 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, anyone? – and how he’s working with Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Ford to make off-road adventuring accessible to everyone. And to check out Loren Healy at the 57th Polaris Crandon World Championships, head to RACER Network, Sept. 4-6, for live coverage of short-course off-road racing’s biggest weekend.      
#LorenHealy #Ultra4 #CrandonWorldChampionships #CrandonOffRoad #Baja500 #Baja1000 #PikesPeak #kingofthehammers #rockcrawling #Ford #RACERNetwork

As former NHRA Funny Car champ and 2026 title contender J.R. Todd tells it, taking one of these 12,000hp beasts down a 1,000ft drag strip in 3.8 seconds and hitting 335mph as you reach for the chutes can be anything but funny… The driver of the Kalitta Motorsports DHL GR Supra joins RACER Weekly hot off a win in Seattle and getting set for what promises to be a closely-fought Countdown for the Funny Car Championship. The 2018 FC champ tells us what it’s like behind the wheel as the nitromethane-powered mayhem begins, his approach to the sharp end of the season, and why the fastest runs can also be the craziest.    
  
#NHRA #JRTodd #KalittaMotorsports #DHL #GRSupra #DragRacing #FunnyCar #Nitro #racing #motorsports #RACER

When Wayne Taylor Racing reunited with Cadillac for a two-car IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP class attack in 2025, it seemed that the wins would quickly follow. In reality, it took until Road America’s 6-hour enduro on Aug. 2 for Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque to crack the code and take their No. 10 WTR Cadillac V-Series.R to victory lane. Ricky joins RACER Weekly to look back on that return to winning ways, talk about the momentum built in recent races, and give us his take on some of the fast and fascinating co-drivers he’s raced with during almost two decades at the highest levels of prototype sports car racing.             
#RickyTaylor #WayneTaylorRacing #CadillacRacing #IMSA #racing #motorsports #endurance #sportscars
 

When Meyer Shank Racing made the strategy call that put Felix Rosenqvist in the frame for a 2026 Indianapolis 500 win, the Swede sealed the deal with a classic last-lap move. But just weeks later, Rosenqvist announced he’d be moving from MSR to Arrow McLaren for the 2027 NTT IndyCar Series. MSR founder and co-owner Michael Shank joins RACER Weekly to talk about his team’s second Indy 500 win, its momentum-building alliance with Chip Ganassi Racing, and how Rosenqvist’s shock exit from a race-winning seat brings big opportunities for a team knocking on the door of IndyCar’s elite. Plus, how exiting IMSA will boost MSR’s open-wheel ambitions, and why a new-for-2028 racecar can supercharge IndyCar’s upward trajectory.          
#MeyerShankRacing #FelixRosenqvist #Indy500 #IndyCar #MichaelShank #RACERWeekly #IMSA

Is talk of Corey Heim being NASCAR’s next generational talent a little premature? A Brickyard 400 victory in only his 15th Cup Series start says maybe not. Add in a win on San Diego’s Naval Base Coronado street track, and we could be in for something special when 23XI Racing lets its 24-year-old phenom loose on a full campaign next year. RACER’s NASCAR expert Kelly Crandall joins RACER Weekly to talk about the rise and rise of Heim, set the scene for the home stretch of the Cup Series’ Regular Season – four races that will lock in the field for the title-deciding Chase – and look at the switch in momentum between early-season pacesetter Tyler Reddick and the guy bringing the summer speed, Denny Hamlin. Plus, when it comes to stock cars, how come the racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway ain’t so great? Kelly gives us her take on it…

Like so many up-and-coming racecar drivers, Matt Brabham dreamed of reaching the rarefied air of Formula 1 or the NTT IndyCar Series. The son of IMSA legend Geoff and grandson of triple F1 champ Sir Jack had the talent and the drive – as hisjunior open-wheel seasons proved – yet racing’s a fickle business, where budgets, luck or “right place, right time” can be just as big a factor as skill. Brabham fell off the open-wheel radar, but found huge success in the high-flying world of Stadium Super Trucks, and right now he’s dominating theheavy-metal action in Trans Am by Pirelli. He joins RACER Weekly to look back on his racing journey and talk about the joy and the challenge of chasing TA perfection in his Chris Dyson Racing Ford Mustang.                                                     
#MattBrabham #F1 #IndyCar #TransAm #StadiumSuperTrucks #FordMustang #DysonRacing #ChrisDyson #RACERpodcast #racing #motorsport                                                                        

Connor De Phillippi joins Racer Weekly fresh off back-to-back podiums and sitting atop the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GTD Pro standings with BMW. He breaks down the crucial driver-role split with teammate Neil Verhagen, previews the new-for-2026 six-hour race at Road America, and reflects on a career that took him from sleeping in a tent at Monaco to winning the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Plus: the story behind BMW's wild M3 Touring Nürburgring 24H program, and the one race still on his bucket list.
#IMSA #ConnorDePhillippi #BMWM #BMWM4GT3 #GTDPRO #Rolex24 #SportsCarRacing #RoadAmerica #RACERWeekly #Motorsport

Laurence Foster is joined by RACER's Formula 1 expert Chris Medland for the latest episode of RACER Weekly, digging into the storylines defining F1’s summer. Kimi Antonelli and George Russell's intra-team battle at Mercedes has tightened up over the last three races, but has George really closed the gap, or is he starting to psych himself out? Chris breaks down why he's now leaning toward Antonelli as championship favorite, despite some recent bumps in the road for the teen phenom. 
Plus: Is Lewis Hamilton a genuine title contender at Ferrari? The seven-time champ is now just 32 points back from Kimi, but what actually happened in the final laps at Silverstone that cost him a shot at a Ferrari 1-2 with teammate Charles Leclerc? And why did Max Verstappen go from praising Red Bull's progress to fuming about his car within a single week? 
Chris also gives his read on Isack Hadjar's breakout season as Max’s teammate, Red Bull’s tech team exits, including Paul Monaghan's impending move to Cadillac, and the latest "Cadillac Watch" as F1’s newest team hits its first real growing pains nine races into its debut season.
#F1#Formula1#GeorgeRussell#KimiAntonelli#MercedesF1#LewisHamilton#MaxVerstappen#FerrariF1#RedBullRacing#RACERWeekly

When NHRA Funny Car legend Ron Capps chose Maddi Gordon to drive his team’s all-new Top Fuel dragster, he knew it would be only a matter of time before she started delivering on her potential. Two semi-final appearances in her first two NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series events hinted at what was to come, but a win at Norwalk in just her 10th start has taken “Maddi Mania” to a whole new level and confirmed that drag racing has a new star. With the victory still sinking in, Maddi joined RACER Weekly to talk about her stellar rookie season so far, some “Top Gun” moments at the wheel of her 12,000hp, 330mph-plus racecar and, of course, that winning run in Ohio.                                                               
#NHRA #MaddiGordon #RonCapps #TopFuel #TopGun #dragracing #racing #motorsports #Wally #RACERpodcast #RACER

After a race-winning career as an Indy car driver, Bryan Herta’s not letting up outside of the cockpit. He’s calling strategy in the NTT IndyCar Series for Andretti Global ace Kyle Kirkwood, building a powerhouse race team in Bryan Herta Autosport, and enjoying being a proud racing dad as his son, Colton, takes on the challenge of Formula 2 in pursuit of a Cadillac F1 race seat. Bryan joins RACER Weekly to talk IndyCar ambitions, the rise and rise of BHA…and setting the alarm clock to follow Colton’s F2 adventures.                                                             
 
#IndyCar #F1 #Formula1 #Formula2 #BryanHerta #KyleKirkwood #ColtonHerta #racing #racer #motorsports #CadillacF1 #BryanHertaAutosport #AndrettiGlobal