Rally DNA Podcast

Season 3, Ep.2: Johan Kristoffersson

A slight departure from normal programming this week into the world of Rallycross, with the undisputed master (and very cool bloke), 5 time World Champion Johan Kristoffersson! This multi-talented driver was a delight to have on and provided some great laughs as well as some great insight.
 
Sticking with a Swedish theme - We'll be back next week to talk some Rally Sweden of old
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Season 3, Ep.1: Rallye Monte Carlo ’91 & ’97

We're back for another season! And to kick it off with the traditional starting point for the WRC Season, we choose our favourite running of the event from our lifetime. Jamie picks the 1991 edition, while Killian opts for 1997.
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Season 2, Ep.10: A Visit to Stables Motorsport Centre/2022 Recap

Its the end of Season 2 and with it the last episode of the year. Killian visits Donagh Kelly's amazing Stables Motorsport Centre to drool over its contents and we bring you a walkthrough with the man himself. Donagh is a legend of Irish Rallying and was very generous in giving up his time to have us visit. We also look back on the year we have had and our Rally DNA journey so far.
Happy Christmas to all our listeners and we shall return in January 2023!!
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Season 2, Ep.9: Ray Sherratt, Part 2

One of the most highly regarded motorsport engineers of his generation, Ray Sherratt’s full-time rally career spanned four decades and took in innumerate cars, teams and drivers. Indeed, his CV reads like a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Golden Age rally talent, with individuals such as Roger Clark, Ari Vatanen, Didier Auriol and both Jimmy and Colin McRae all featuring heavily (as does a certain black and white, wide-arched Mk2 Escort).
Part 2 covers his time at R.E.D and beyond.
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Season 2, Ep.9: Ray Sherratt, Part 1

One of the most highly regarded motorsport engineers of his generation, Ray Sherratt’s full-time rally career spanned four decades and took in innumerate cars, teams and drivers. Indeed, his CV reads like a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Golden Age rally talent, with individuals such as Roger Clark, Ari Vatanen, Didier Auriol and both Jimmy and Colin McRae all featuring heavily (as does a certain black and white, wide-arched Mk2 Escort).
This is part one of our chat with Ray, pop back next week for part 2!
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Season 2, Ep.8: Testing, Testing

This week’s episode centres on the murky, oft overlooked and eternally understudied subject of Pre-Event and Performance Testing, an essential undertaking for any rally team seeking to make its mark in any given championship, from the Clubman level right up to the WRC.
Joining us to help demystify this dense, delightfully technical subject we’re delighted to once more welcome Richard Browne, the former Prodrive and current VW Motorsport engineer - and the individual who helped us debut Rally DNA way back at the start of the year.
Richard was kind enough to give us almost an hour and a half of his valuable time to discuss the intricacies of test schedules, component destruction testing, the influence a driver’s personality and experience can make on how a given PET plays out, and much else besides. It all makes for a fascinating insight into a world most of us will have precious little first-hand experience of and probably seldom think of, yet one that’s a key component of successful rallying in the modern era.
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Season 2, Ep.7: Group 4 into Group B

This week Jamie and Killian discuss a topic that's been on the cards for a while - the tail end of Group 4 and its cross over into Group B. We have selected 8 cars from that time, most of which ended up homologated into Group B when those rules came in. We had a laugh doing this one and think its an interesting subject and produced plenty worthy of discussion. Warning: terrible accents and mispronunciations abound in this one!
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Season 2, Ep.6: Henry Catchpole on Rallying

This week we welcome a very talented journalist and someone flying the flag for the bobble hat brigade in the world of motoring journalism - Henry Catchpole! Henry is perhaps best known for his work with Evo magazine, more lately for his top quality videos on YouTube channel Carfection and now featuring on Hagerty. Henry has driven a plethora of rallying greats as well as competing on various events over the years and his knowledge and love for the sport shows in the work he does, which made him a great fit for joining us on the pod to make us green with envy at the list of rallying icons on his CV.
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Season 2, Ep.5: Tarmac Specialists, with Jon Desborough

The era of the Tarmac Specialist in the World Rally Championship was brief, but exciting, particularly when you paired them with a screaming manic front wheel drive French hatchback on steroids and ran amok when you plonked them onto the likes of the Tour de Corse or San Remo, much to the ire of the established teams. These specialists sometimes evolved into somewhat of a "super sub" driving works cars on specific events with the demise of the F2 Kit Cars until, ironically the arrival of a certain Frenchman seemed to put to bed the relevance of such a driver in the championship any more.....
Joining us to discuss this fascinating sub plot from the peak of the World Rally Championship is veteran broadcaster and WRC commentator Jon Desborough, well positioned to help us out in this chat, even if he claims he doesn't know what a differential is...
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Season 2, Ep.4: Dan Anctil, Subaru Motorsports USA

This week we trekked (virtually) across the Atlantic to chat to the Motorsport Director of Subaru Motorsports USA, Dan Anctil of Vermont SportsCar the dominant force in North American rallying. Dan took a break from prepping for a Rallycross test to talk to us about how his love of the sport came about, the journey to get to his current role, the current season and what lies ahead for Rallying in the US. An all round great guy for sure. Enjoy and as ever please subscribe to us, turn on notifications leave us a rating or review and feel free to comment with your feedback on Instagram or Facebook
 
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