Behind the Sport Podcast Episodes

Hosted by Shane Lawrie and Brent Peters, Behind the Sport takes you inside the world of Australian motorsport.

Each week, Shane and Brent sit down with racers, teams, and industry figures for unfiltered conversations about life on and off the track.

From grassroots categories and karting prodigies to seasoned professionals, the show uncovers the stories, struggles and triumphs that fuel the sport we love. Fast cars, fierce battles, and plenty of laughs — this is your front-row seat to the people and passion behind Australian motorsport.

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Episode 0018!   We’ve got 2 for 1 value this week with Stuart Home and Joe Begic who are a mechanic and driver respectively from the Arise Racing team here in Western Australia.   Stuart has been with Arise Racing for 3 years prepping cars for the likes of Nick

Episode 0017, not 0016 as Shane mentions in the intro, lands with less grace than Mika Häkkinen jumping a kerb in Adelaide.   Our guest this week is renowned Formula 1 photographer Mark Sutton from Sutton Images / Motorsport Images who has spent the last 30+ years photographing motorsport around the world

We’re living life a 1/4 mile a time. Trying hard not to offend the drag racing community with Shane’s clear lack of knowledge on this form of motorsport, but we think we did OK!   Oil & Energy / Hydraulic Technical Solutions drag racer Kyle Putland, holder

On this week’s episode, Nick Scarcella Vice President of the Phillip Island Auto Racing Club (PIARC) jumps in the hot seat for a chat about his history in motorsport, how the PIARC are dealing with COVID-19 and we manage to squeeze a story out of him about that

Ken Collier, general manager of operations at Australian Racing Group took time out of his hectic schedule to join us on Behind the Sport where we learnt about his background in motorsport and which two drivers he would put onto a grid and in what cars he would have them

17 year old .. sorry wait, 18 year old Luke Veersma joins us for a chat about his time in Junior Drags, moving to drifting and where he’d like to end up plus offer some advice on his media profile. We also talk about the return to motorsport in

Pocket rocket Laura Byrnes from Red Shamrock Racing joins us for a chat about being a first generation racer and all things speedway, as well as how at 13 years old, she displayed perhaps some “road rage” towards Perth’s Formula 1 star Daniel Ricciardo at an

Another of the Brad Jones Racing team jumps on for a chat with us, this time it is 19 year old, 2 time Australian Karting champion Joshua Fife. We chat about his early days, who his ultimate teammate would be and flappy paddles or no flappy paddles?

At just 19 years old, Madeline Stewart is on a path to the main game of V8 Supercars. Having taken the leap from Karts straight to Super3, a feeder series for Supercars, Madeline joined us to discuss her journey so far, how many pies Brad Jones eats and much more.

We return from our “visit east” with a catch up with local commentator extraordinaire Jarrod Maclean. At just age 30 he’s got more experience under his belt that one would expect as he takes us through some tips like how to control the “fanboy”