Motorsport of the Americas

MOTA Previews the Month of May with George Phillips

The Month of May is just around the corner, it's the biggest month of the year for the IndyCar series and it's capped off with the Indy 500. Before that there's a road course raise at Indy, Indy 500 qualifying weekend, this weekend's Grand Prix of Long Beach and more. It's a busy time on track for IndyCar with a lot going on off track as well, with the impending arrival of the new hybrid engine and a new TV/streaming deal for 2025 and beyond. There's also the rich history of IndyCar, the 500 and the ever present debate about the balance between ovals and street/road courses on the IndyCar schedule. It's the perfect time to talk IndyCar and George Phillips is the guy to talk about it with. He joins us this week to talk all about it! This weekend's event in Long Beach features IndyCar, IMSA and GT America all on track over three days, get the full schedule here [https://www.gplb.com/weekend-schedule]. And be sure to follow the IndyCar season along with George's site, OilPressure.com [OilPressure.com]. He posts three times per week all year long and just about every day in May. It's a great place to start your IndyCar fandom if you haven't already. We're going on a bit of a break here at MOTA, it's been a ton of fun putting these eleven episodes together, we've had great guests every time and gotten a wealth of insight into the world of racing. Life gets busy sometimes so we'll be taking a hiatus and will be looking to pick up where we left off later on this summer. Until then, thanks again for the support and be sure to checkout any of the great interviews [https://shows.acast.com/motorsport] we've done you may have missed! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

MOTA Checks in with Jarett Andretti

We're back after a week off with Jarett Andretti joining us for our latest interview. Jarett is competing in the IMSA Weathertech Championship in the GTD category after spending the last couple of years in the LMP3 category. He talks about his 2024 season so far, how he got up to speed with a late start in his racing career, his experience in dirt track racing and about his father, John, the wider Andretti racing family and the #Checkit4Andretti foundation's important mission. Before our interview with Jarett, we checked in on our last guest's, Samantha Tan, excellent start to the season in the GT World Challenge America and how Logan Sargeant and Haas faired in the latest F1 Grand Prix in Japan. Only one link this week to share, so please take a moment and click on over to #Checkit4Andretti [https://www.checkit4andretti.org/] to learn more about the organization's dual mission of raising colon cancer awareness and helping people who can't afford a colonoscopy get the potential life saving test. Please consider spreading their message, making a donation and getting tested yourself. We really appreciate Jarett coming on the show, we mentioned his father, John Andretti, and his book Racer, a thoroughly enjoyable book about John's unique racing career and his battle with cancer. It's a great look into the life of a race car driver, be sure to add it to your reading list! We'll be back in a few weeks to talk IndyCar as the month of May is right around the corner! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

MOTA Catches Up with Samantha Tan

Samantha sat down with us on a busy Monday in her shop out in California as she and her team continue preparations for the opening weekend of the GT World Challenge America 2024 calendar, taking place at Sonoma Raceway on April 5-7th. Samantha talked about her start in racing, the unique circumstance around founding her own team, her success in touring cars, GT4 and GT3 categories. She also discussed how her long association with BMW turned into being a BMW M Motorsport Global Ambassador in 2023 and again in 2024. Before our interview with Samantha we also checked in on how the racing has been going for our previous driver guests. Victor Gonzalez, Sally Mott and Mac Clark have all been getting at it on track, we’ll see how they are doing so far! You can follow Samantha and STR’s progress this year on their Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/samanthatanracing/] and their team site [https://www.st-racing.org/] as well. For more on the SRO GT World Challenge America and how to watch Samantha on track, check the site out here [https://www.gt-world-challenge-america.com/]. We’ll be back in two weeks when we’ll be joined by Jarett Andretti! Catch up on any of our episodes you missed so far and be sure to subscribe to the pod wherever you get your podcasts from or get them all right here [https://shows.acast.com/motorsport], thanks to Acast. We’d love to hear your feedback in our Substack chat, so give us a follow [https://motorsportoftheamericas.substack.com/] and let us know what you think so far! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

MOTA Walks the F1 Paddock w/Olivia and Sasha

We're joined this week by Olivia Hicks, the creator of Formula Flash, and Sasha Rogelberg, creator of InBoxBox, to talk F1. Both of this week's guests work can be found on Substack, which is also the home of MOTA, and they also collaborated together recently on an ezine project about the finance, sponsorship and influence that F1 has off track, all over the world. We had such a great conversation with Olivia and Sasha that skipped a intro from Thomas and got straight into talking about sponsorship in F1 from cigarettes to crypto, speculated on whether every team on the grid will turn into something like Visa Cash App Racing Bulls, stories about F1 disappearing, the investigation at Red Bull, F1 Academy and the driver's market insanity. So just a few of the many, many F1 related topics then! Checkout Olivia's Substack here: Formula Flash [https://formulaflash.substack.com/] Sasha's here: InBoxBox [https://inboxbox.substack.com/] And their collaboration here [https://issuu.com/formulaflashinboxboxcollab/docs/collab_1_] We'll wrap up quickly on the other side of the chat and talk about Mac Clark's first weekend in USF Pro 2000 and Sally Mott's second weekend competing in the Mazda MX-5 Cup and preview next week's guest, Samantha Tan! Catch up on any of our episodes you missed so far and be sure to subscribe to the pod wherever you get your podcasts from or get them all right here [https://shows.acast.com/motorsport], thanks to Acast. We’d love to hear your feedback in our Substack chat, so give us a follow [https://motorsportoftheamericas.substack.com/] and let us know what you think so far! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

MOTA Talks F1 with Aaron Guy Leroux

F1’s 2024 opening weekend in Bahrain just concluded and we’re a few days away from the next weekend in Saudi Arabia.  Aaron Guy Leroux joins us to talk about what to look forward to for what will be F1’s longest ever season with 24 races. We had a fantastic, wide ranging conversation discussing Red Bulls dominance, McClaren’s bid to really make this year their year, Haas, Logan Sargeant and just about everything else. We’ll also review this past weekend’s results in F1 for Haas and Logan Sargeant and touch on how the US drivers competing in F2 [https://www.fiaformula2.com/Results?raceid=1064] and F3 [https://www.fiaformula3.com/Results?raceid=1049] did in their opening weekends as well. You can checkout all of Aaron’s great insight into F1 on his Substack, The Installation Lap here [https://theinstallationlap.substack.com/]. And if this wasn’t enough F1 talk for you, we’ll be back in two weeks with another episode focused on F1 with two more content creators focused on F1, Sasha Rogelberg and Olivia Hicks! Catch up on any of our episodes you missed so far and be sure to subscribe to the pod wherever you get your podcasts from and join our Substack [https://motorsportoftheamericas.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile]! We’d love to hear your feedback in our Substack chat, so give us a follow and let us know what you think so far! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.