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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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?

This week West Australian Formula Vee competitor April Welsh jumps in to have a chat with us about racing, women in motorsport and much more! Plus we fanboy over Race Chix, Charlie Martin, RaceKraft, Laura Byrnes and electric race cars!

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.

In this week’s episode, we catch up with Brad Jones Racing driver Nick Percat for a chat about his early motorsport history, sim racing, Nelson the Chocolate Labrador, his helmet, mental health, 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”

Recently “retired” Super2 and former V8 Utes driver Adam Marjoram joins us to talk about how he got started in motorsport, his biggest supporter, what the future holds for him and why he left motorsport.

With all the buzz in motorsport being around eSports and sim racing, we had a chat with Jon Le from RaceKraft Simulations about all things simracing and simulators.

Join us this week as we catch up with 19-year-old Antonio Astuti who was scheduled to be running in an S5000 at the 2020 Australian F1 Grand Prix plus two of the Perth Broncos women’s team players Laura and Ruth who have just started their own YouTube channel

Join us for a chat of all things predominately motorsport with some gridiron and other sport thrown in for good measure! Hosted by Shane from BeardySnaps and Brent from Luxe Performance with regular guests coming through. On this episode we are joined by DJ Laubscher, Andrew Malkin and John Coleman