Rally DNA Podcast
Behind the scenes of Rallying, through the voices of people involved. Each week we will feature a guest who has a unique insight into the sport of Rallying to provide you the listener with some great anecdotes and a peek behind the curtain of motosport’s most exciting category.
Episodes
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Season 2, Ep.8: Testing, Testing
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
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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Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Season 2, Ep.7: Group 4 into Group B
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
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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For some great all round rallying content check out Jamie's page The Gravel Crew on Facebook and Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/WorldRallying @the_gravel_crew
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Season 2, Ep.6: Henry Catchpole on Rallying
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
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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We are now on Twitter! @RallyDna
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Check out Henry's work on Hagerty Media here: https://www.youtube.com/c/Hagerty
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Season 2, Ep.5: Tarmac Specialists, with Jon Desborough
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
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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We are now on Twitter! @RallyDna
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For some great all round rallying content check out Jamie's page The Gravel Crew on Facebook and Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/WorldRallying @the_gravel_crew
Jon has some books you can buy on eBay here: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/294442387062?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=5282-175127-2357-0&ssspo=1uSQYqMJRvG&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Season 2, Ep.4: Dan Anctil, Subaru Motorsports USA
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
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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Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Season 2, Ep.3: Also Rans & ”Never Rans” of Group B
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
On this episode of Rally DNA, we look at some also rans of the Group B12 category and then move onto some cars that never ran in the formula but were spawned to do just that.
Featuring:
Controversial opinions
Bad Jokes
Bad Cars
Bad pronunciation
Getting the generation of the Group B RX7 wrong
Prototypes
Ideas that never left the drawing board
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Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Season 2, Ep.2: ”Best Impreza” Part 2, with Carlo Baroli
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
The man behind the run of 8 limited "Best Impreza, McRae Edition" Group A continuation cars joins us to fill us in on his own background, what led to getting this project off the ground and some more insight into the development of the car itself including assistance from Pierro Liatti.
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Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Season 2, Ep.2: ”Best Impreza”, Part 1, with Adam Towler
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
With the noisy arrival of Best Engineering's "Best Impreza McRae Edition" onto our social media feed courtesy of an Evo Magazine feature, we couldn't help but reach out to the lucky sod who travelled to Italy for an early taster of these stunning continuation Group A cars to ask what it was like. Adam Towler, Deputy Editor of Evo Magazine and a full paid up member of the Group A fan club joins us on this episode of Rally DNA.
Part 2 of our look at the Best Impreza project will feature Carlo Boroli, the guy responsible for these fascinating cars and will be released next week.
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Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Season 2, Ep.1: Group A E30 M3, with Paul Howarth
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Prodrive veteran Paul Howarth joins us to kick off Season 2 and talk about the Group A BMW E30 M3 as prepared by Prodrive. Paul's first role with Prodrive was working on the M3s and he has a fantastic insight into what remains an iconic car.
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Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Rally DNA Season One: Episode 10, Season Finale
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Its the final episode of Season One of Rally DNA! To mark the occasion Killian and Jamie have opted to try something a little different: a discussion on the driver-team moves we consider to be the most significant or otherwise consequential in the history of the World Rally Championship.
We’ve selected ten examples of a driver leaving one team for another and have endeavoured to strike a nice balance between successful pairings and disastrous missteps - and let’s face it, WRC history is littered with instances of both!
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