How Pro Racers Cheat

Secrets dished! Stories told! Firsthand accounts from an INTC host who works in the paddock! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll ponder the nature of human morality! This episode’s title implies a question. For the long answer, press play. The short answer is, “very effectively.” Sometimes. Mostly. (Insert push-to-Penske IndyCar joke here.) This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. We call this format “Jeff Shares a Secret.” This episode is just Jeff and Sam. Ross couldn’t make it—he was busy [redacted] a [redacted] while [redacted] because the moose had [redacted]. But that’s okay, because the Dallara was [redacted] and you can really only eat so much [redacted] before you [redacted] anyway, right? Related Trivia: We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you. This episode was produced by Mike Perlman. ** Support It’s Not the Car: Contribute on Patreon www.patreon.com/notthecar ** Topic suggestions, feedback, questions? Let us know what you think! ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ ** Check out Sam's new book! ⁠Smithology: Thoughts, Travels, and Semi-Plausible Car Writing, 2003–2023⁠ ** Where to find us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/intcpod https://www.instagram.com/j.v.braun/ https://www.instagram.com/rossbentley/ https://www.instagram.com/thatsamsmith/ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/INTCpod https://rossbentley.substack.com/ https://speedsecrets.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Drivercoach ** ABOUT THE SHOW: It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts. Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and an internationally renowned performance coach and author. Jeff Braun is a championship-winning race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. Together, we explore the emotion at the heart of the machine. We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the bag of meat at the wheel. New episodes every Tuesday.