# Motorsport has a HUGE Problem! Can It Be Saved? JR Hildebrand and Scotto Have Some Ideas!

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Podcast: [Very Vehicular](https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-vehicular-7616640)
Published: 2026-03-04T15:00:00+00:00
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This week VERY VEHICULAR welcomes JR Hildebrand : Race Driver and Veteran of THAT Indy 500 Crash back in 2011. Scotto and JR get philosophical as they break down the maybes and what-ifs they’ve each encountered through the many forks in life’s road. Mainly though, they’re here to figure out the answer to motorsports’ entertainment problem. Drawing from his deep well of experience behind the wheel, JR’s manifesto for setting racing ‘off’ rather than on the straight and narrow is compelling. Scotto, as ever, brings both a viewer’s and a director’s eye to bear on the problem at hand, because at the end of the day, don’t we all deserve to be entertained? Enjoy! @JRHildebrand @BrianScotto @321ActionAction Partners: Vyper Industrial FCP Euro Heatwave Visual Wera Tools Producer : Nick Rutter @nickrutterarts Music : SlikSound Patreon : https://patreon.com/u37266647 https://bio.site/321actionaction podcasts@321actionaction.com 00:00 - Welcome & Introduction 00:54 - Sponsors: Vyper Industrial, Heat Wave & Wera Tools 03:19 - Meeting JR Pre Internet 04:20 - That Crash at Indy and What Ifs 15:27 - JR’s Road to Racing and a Career in Indy 27:05 - Rufus: A Way to Fix Motorsport? 39:19 - Flow State: Did Senna Really See Himself From Above? 42:11 - Hitting the Speed Ceiling. Is Speed Even the Right Thing to Chase? 46:30 - Nostalgia for Group B, Rose-tinted Glasses? 48:02 - Sponsor: FCP Euro 56:05 - So If Not Speed, What Becomes the North Star? 59:31 - Cut Downforce Add Power 01:03:01 - Rally Style And the Loeb of it all 01:14:22 - Storytelling in Racing 01:22:56 - Meetings With NASCAR 01:25:54 - How TV Shaped Racing 01:27:39 - Mickey Thompson Tangent 01:33:47 - Can The Existing Series Evolve? Or Do We Need To Burn It Down? 01:40:09 - Check Out The Patreon 01:48:03 - Rufus - The…

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