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Going Back to Road Atlanta — What the Motul Petit Le Mans Means to Me | Thursday Pit Stop

I spent years working inside Road Atlanta — and this week, I'm going back. 🏁 The Motul Petit Le Mans is the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale: ten ho

Ava Hanssen on 20 Championships, Winning Her First Open Wheel Race at COTA, and What It Really Takes to Chase Formula Four at 16

Ava Hanssen started racing at four years old in Elkhorn, Wisconsin — and she hasn't slowed down since. In this episode, the 16-year-old Formula Four Junior Formula Champi

F1 2027 Calendar, Monaco Sprint & Madring Fallout | Baku GP Preview

F1's newest circuit couldn't produce a race. Three days later, F1 gave Monaco a sprint. Is that fixing the racing, or just adding more TV? This week on the Thursday Pit

Nathan Lyons on Leaving Fort Worth Without a Guarantee , Winning at Charlotte, and What the NASCAR Pipeline Really Demands

Nathan Lyons was 12 years old when he left Fort Worth, Texas and moved to North Carolina to chase a career in racing full-time. In this episode, the AK Performance driver

Is Shorter Racing Actually Better? IMSA's Brickyard Sprint Explained

IMSA just shortened its Indianapolis race back to 2 hours and 40 minutes, after two years as a six-hour endurance race. This Sunday, the WeatherTech SportsCar Championshi

Sam Russo | Rebelle Rally 2026 — No GPS, No Speed, and Why She Said Yes to 8 Days in the Desert with Lacy Taylor

Sam Russo didn't plan to compete in the Rebelle Rally. Then she turned to a friend at a conference and said "we should do this" — and the rest, as they say, was chaos in

Madrid's New F1 Circuit: The Madring, And Its 10-Year Deal

Formula 1 opens a brand-new circuit in a European capital this weekend, which is a thing that basically never happens. The Spanish Grand Prix moves to Madrid — the Madrin

Ed Welburn on The Lost Legacy of Charlie Wiggins — Four Championships, a Recovered Race Car, and a Story American Motorsports Forgot

Charlie Wiggins was a four-time Gold & Glory Sweepstakes champion who built his own race car, ran a thriving mechanic shop on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis, and achieved

NASCAR's New Playoff Format, Explained — And The Guy Who Beat It

NASCAR quietly rebuilt its entire playoff format for 2026 and almost nobody covered it. Then on Saturday night at Daytona, it produced the exact result it was designed to

From Karting to the MX-5 Cup: Christian Valverde on Building a Motorsport Career at 18 and Finding the Door Nobody Told You About

Christian Valverde grew up with Silverstone as a backdrop — and at 18, he's already closer to that world than most people ever get. In this episode, Christian talks about

GT3 Racing Explained — And Why Its Old Cars Now Race Each Other

GT3 is the most successful form of sports car racing in the world, and most people have never had it explained to them. So this week I'm doing that — and then telling you

Jeff Swoboda on Luftgekühlt, the Art of the Gathering, and Why Getting the Atmosphere Right Changes Everything

What does it take to build a car event so good that people fly across the world to attend it? Jeff Swoboda, commercial development lead and key figure behind Luftgekühlt,

Dutch Grand Prix 2026: Why Zandvoort Quit Formula 1

The last Dutch Grand Prix runs this weekend at Circuit Zandvoort — and almost everyone has the story backwards. Formula 1 didn't drop Zandvoort. Zandvoort dropped Formula

Ella White on Berg Racing, F1 Academy, and Why Not Following the Rulebook Might Be Her Biggest Advantage

Ella White didn't come up through the traditional karting ladder — and that might be exactly what makes her one of the most compelling young drivers to watch. In this epi

INDYCAR On The National Mall: Growth Or Spectacle?

On August 22–23, the NTT INDYCAR Series runs the Freedom 250 Grand Prix on the streets of Washington, D.C. — the first INDYCAR race ever held on the National Mall, with f

Cristian Garling: The Teacher Who Came Back To The Classroom That Saved Him

Cristian Garling grew up watching people hustle and survive through the window of his mother's hair salon on Beach Boulevard. By his junior year at Rancho Alamitos High S

Monterey Car Week 2026: Is It Still For Enthusiasts?

Monterey Car Week 2026 runs August 7–16, and every year the same argument shows up online: that it's become less accessible, more corporate, less about the cars. In thi

Ian Koenig on Chasing Formula Drift, Building an Audience, and Why Drifting Is More Than Going Sideways

Ian Koenig — the man behind KoenigSlides and over a billion views across social media — joins BeDifferential to talk about what it actually takes to chase a dream in moto

The Best and Worst Career Advice I've Ever Received — And What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Sooner | Thursday Pit Stop

No industry trends. No race previews. No big structural question about the future of car culture. This week it's just Eva Gregory, pulling back the curtain on the career

From English Lit to Press Cars: Amanda Cline on Making Automotive Journalism Approachable, Honest, and Hers

Amanda Cline of Amanda Reviews Cars didn't take the obvious road into automotive journalism — and that's exactly what makes her perspective worth hearing. In this episode