# It's Not the Car

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Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786.md
RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/f02659d0/podcast/rss
Official site: https://www.itsnotthecar.com
Author: Sam Smith, Ross Bentley, Jeff Braun
Episodes: 109

## Resource

It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts. Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer with time in NASCAR and IMSA. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist, a club racer, and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. We don’t love motorsport for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.

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## Episodes
- [Getting Used to Big Power](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/getting-used-to-big-power) — 2026-05-27T00:53:22+00:00
- ["Don't Drive It, You're Going to Die"](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/do-not-drive-it-you-re-going-to-die) — 2026-05-12T22:33:32+00:00
- [What the Hell is Going on With Formula 1?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-formula-1) — 2026-04-28T15:05:08+00:00
- [Saying No to a $20 Million Porsche](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/saying-no-to-a-20-million-porsche) — 2026-04-16T00:06:40+00:00
- [Jeff and the Glorious Mazda Fail-Diesels](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/jeff-and-the-glorious-mazda-fail-diesels) — 2026-03-31T06:03:48+00:00
- [How Pro Race Cars Blow Up!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/how-pro-race-cars-blow-up) — 2026-03-17T07:00:00+00:00
- [The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Jeff’s Car on Fire](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/the-thrill-of-victory-the-agony-of-jeff-s-car-on-fire) — 2026-03-03T07:00:32+00:00
- [Postwar Madness on Public Roads — (1948 Watkins Glen GP)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/postwar-madness-on-public-roads-1948-watkins-glen-gp) — 2026-02-17T10:00:01+00:00
- [Racing Stories That Change Your Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/racing-stories-that-change-your-life) — 2026-02-03T10:00:01+00:00
- [Two Drunk Guys Win Le Mans — (Jaguar Works Team, 1953)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/two-drunk-guys-win-le-mans-jaguar-works-team-1953) — 2025-12-24T01:28:09+00:00
- [Get a Job as a Race Engineer! — w/ Charlie Ping](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/get-a-job-as-a-race-engineer-w-charlie-ping) — 2025-12-09T10:00:00+00:00
- [BONUS Episode PREVIEW – Listener Q&A – 11/25](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/bonus-episode-preview-listener-q-a-11-25) — 2025-12-05T10:00:00+00:00
- [The One Where Ross Doesn't Get Hit by Lightning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/the-one-where-ross-doesn-t-get-hit-by-lightning) — 2025-12-02T10:00:00+00:00
- [Impossible Gear, Impossible Finish — (Schumacher 1994 Spanish GP)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/impossible-gear-impossible-finish-schumacher-1994-spanish-gp) — 2025-11-25T18:12:22+00:00
- [Did Patrick Dempsey Imagine His Way to Being Faster?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/did-patrick-dempsey-imagine-his-way-to-being-faster) — 2025-11-18T10:00:00+00:00
- [Racing is Broken, and Blackbird 66 Might Fix It — w/ J.R. Hildebrand](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/racing-is-broken-and-blackbird-66-might-fix-it-w-j-r-hildebrand) — 2025-11-11T16:26:36+00:00
- [Shelby Cobras, Kimi Räikkönen, and Suspension Cork-Sniffing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/shelby-cobras-kimi-r-ikk-nen-and-suspension-cork-sniffing) — 2025-11-04T15:21:11+00:00
- [Crashing Four Times at Your First Indy 500 — w/ Jimmy Kite](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/crashing-four-times-at-your-first-indy-500-w-jimmy-kite) — 2025-10-28T15:27:59+00:00
- [Learning to Love (Hate?) the Porsche 911](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/learning-to-love-hate-the-porsche-911) — 2025-10-22T03:10:49+00:00
- [RECAP: 2025 IndyCar Season — w/ Marshall Pruett](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/recap-2025-indycar-season-w-marshall-pruett) — 2025-10-14T10:00:00+00:00
- [What the 2025 IMSA Season Taught Our Pro Engineer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/what-the-2025-imsa-season-taught-our-pro-engineer) — 2025-10-07T10:00:00+00:00
- [The One Where Ross Explains the Nürburgring](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/the-one-where-ross-explains-the-n-rburgring) — 2025-09-30T09:00:00+00:00
- [The Bloody Madness of the First Indy 500 — (1911)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/the-bloody-madness-of-the-first-indy-500-1911) — 2025-09-24T10:00:00+00:00
- [So . . . What is Handling, Actually?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/so-what-is-handling-actually) — 2025-09-16T20:19:57+00:00
- [[BEST OF] – Belief, Death, and the Fastest Man Alive — 6/4/24](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/best-of-belief-death-and-the-fastest-man-alive-6-4-24) — 2025-09-09T13:00:00+00:00
- [[BEST OF] – The Ferrari Story You Didn’t Know You Needed — 4/16/24](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-the-car-6747786/best-of-the-ferrari-story-you-didn-t-know-you-needed-4-16-24) — 2025-09-02T15:39:35+00:00

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