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It's a bumper edition of the Special Stage Rally Podcast this week as we talk of rallying's news and discuss the five year anniversary of the cancellation of Rally Australia in 2019.
The RallySport Magazine team cover the International Rally of Whangarei, the future of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and the upcoming Rally Tasmania.
Targa Tasmania is also back on the calendar, and is discussed alongside a disappointing logjam in the calendar at the end of 2025.
Lastly we talk with former Rally Australia Clerk of Course, Wayne Kenny, about the timeline of events that led to Rally Australia's cancellation in 2019, five years on.
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On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood reflect on the 2024 season and look forward to the season finale in Adelaide. Other topics include Macca’s preparation for the end-of-season Supercars Gala, Test driving a Trans Am car, street circuits versus heritage tracks and more.
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A new champion in New South Wales, and teams testing hard for this month's Rally of Tasmania – just two of the topics on this week's Special Stage Rally Podcast.
The rally season is moving towards its finale but there's still plenty going on.
Josh Redhead took the NSW title on Saturday, despite Riley Walters winning the Bathurst Rally, while the Toyota team were hard at it on Tuesday testing their Rally2 cars.
Australia's JWRC star, Taylor Gill, also got his first taste of an AP4 car, while we look ahead to the final round of the WRC, and what the likely axing of the Hybrid units for 2025 means.
Then, we chat one-on-one with New Zealand's youngest rally star, Zeal Jones, who heads to Finland next month as part of Toyota’s WRC young driver search.
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On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Gold Coast 500, including whether it was the right thing to do to turn off the kerb-hop sensors, Macca’s take on Saturday race winner Cam Waters’ charge that parity is still not right, and much more.
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The Special Stage podcast is back, and we welcome 2024 Queensland Rally Champion, Ryan Williams, to discuss the week’s news.
Williams talks about his Queensland season, his experience on Finnish snow and what the future might hold for 2025.
The chat then turns to Western Australia to discuss their final state round, while there’s also time spent on the Mt Baw Baw Sprint and the upcoming Adelaide Rally.
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We get the low-down on the future of the Australian Rally Championship on this week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast.
Adrian Coppin is in the co-host’s chair as we delve into state rallies in South Australia and Victoria before looking at the WRC’s penultimate round.
Coppin shares personal anecdotes on rallying on tough European tarmac and just what it was like competing there in 2013 and 2014.
We then ask the important questions about the new structure of the ARC and what it means for the future of the championship.
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On this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down the driver of the #96 – and BJR’s best-placed finisher at Mount Panorama – Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Bathurst 1000, including Macca’s state after doing the last 40 laps without any water, how the Full Course Yellow and Safety Car rules didn’t seem to make things safer for officials during the Matt Payne crash clean-up, plus the good innovation in the pre-race build up - if only the drivers had been told what they were doing stopping at Brock’s Skyline! – and much more.
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We’ve reached for the top shelf for this week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast guest, with European Rally Champion Hayden Paddon joining us from Poland.
After we briefly preview this weekend’s WRC round and state rounds in South Australia and Victoria, Paddon brings us up to date with his plans to contest next year’s Australian Rally Championship.
He speaks freely about what’s still left to tick off the list to make that happen, as well as going into depth about his electric rally car program and his recent purchase of the car that he won the 2016 Rally of Argentina in.
As always, the Kiwi speaks about his ‘job’ with passion and enthusiasm and will keep you entertained.
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This week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast episode sees the RallySport Magazine team discuss the news of the week.
We talk the Race of Champions coming to Australia and also the Working Dog Rally that was held in northern New South Wales.
Clayton Hoy, Toby Price and Ryan Williams are all discussed from that event as well as the two legendary classic cars that graced the podium.
The WRC driver market also gets a mention … just where will Adrien Fourmaux go?
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We’re getting ready to head to the Mountain on this week’s Brad Jones Racing Run Down! Driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood chat about the biggest weekend on the Supercars calendar, including Macca’s bruising preparations in the virtual world, the fact he gets to participate in this year’s Pit Stop Challenge (but doesn’t think he should be), the dangers of the changed Full Course Yellow rules for the Bathurst 1000, and much more.
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After a week off, the Special Stage Rally Podcast is back, and we welcome Alex Rullo to the co-host’s chair to talk about WRC Rally Chile.
On spectacular roads, the WRC was yet again at its fascinating best, and Rullo joins Luke Whitten to give their views on Kalle Rovanpera’s South American win.
Also discussed is Rullo’s ARC season, the Rosewood Rally and the upcoming Working Dog Rally where Toby Price will make his stage rallying debut.
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Plenty of stuff to talk about this week on the Brad Jones Racing Run Down! Driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood are joined by team owner Brad Jones. They unpack Toyota’s announcement that it is joining Supercars in 2026 and what the future for GM/Camaro is in Supercars, and look at the controversial Full Course Yellow procedure and what needs to change. Brad also gives a bit of insight into how the 2025 calendar is coming together and why it’s not so straightforward to just add more rounds, plus why the ‘V8’ was dropped from the ‘V8 Supercars’ name and whether it should come back, plus a look back at the team’s Sandown 500 campaign.
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It’s Special Stage Rally Podcast time again and this week we dive deep into last weekend’s Adelaide Hills Rally, paying particularly attention to Lewis Bates’ victory
There were off-road excursions, time penalties for the championship leader and stellar drives from the category leaders, and we discuss it all.
We also chat with popular Australian driver, Brendan Reeves, who was in New Zealand to contest the Daybreaker Rally in Hayden Paddon’s Hyundai i20 AP4.
Yet again it was another massive week in rallying, and the Special Stage Rally Podcast has all the latest gossip.
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It’s a busy time. Our local stars are overseas competing and there's an all-important round of the Australian Rally Championship ready to kick off. The Special Stage Rally Podcast covers it all.
RallySport Magazine’s Peter and Luke Whitten keep you updated with everything happening, including Taylor Gill’s Junior WRC exploits and the big talking points from the WRC’s leading men.
Harry Bates is this week’s podcast guest as he talks about his experience in Japan at the famous Rally Hokkaido, and he shares the amazing nature of the country’s rallying scene.
We also look forward to the Adelaide Hills Rally and have the tough task of trying to predict who finishes where.
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On this episode of the Brad Jones Racing Run Down, driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood chat about what’s been a very busy week of pre-enduro testing. They talk about the two days the team spent at Winton, why the track conditions were ‘pretty sketchy’ for the first couple of hours, the intricacies of doing driver changes in a Gen3 car, changes that will mean faster fuel stops at the 2024 enduros, and preview next weekend’s Sandown 500.
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This week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast celebrates what would have been Geoff Portman’s 70th birthday.
The two-time Australian Rally Champion was a huge figure in the sport of rallying and on the occasion of his birthday, we welcome the author of his book, Bruce Keys, to talk about his career.
Peter and Luke Whitten also run through the news of the week, which has an international slant as both Harry Bates and Taylor Gill look to achieve big goals overseas this weekend.
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This week’s Special Stage Rally Podcast episode is predominantly about the East African Safari Rally which Australian Tim Wilkins competed on recently.
Wilkins had a last minute opportunity to compete on the ‘Mini’ Safari Rally in a Datsun 1600 and also reveals his plans to do the full-blown event over nine days at the end of 2025.
He talks with Luke Whitten for almost 40 minutes on just what the Kenyan experience was like and the many stories he has to tell about an amazing event.
We also chat to AMSAG President Michael Bannon about the series’ first event of the season, and cover all the week’s rally news, from resignations to state championship winners.
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On this episode of the Brad Jones Racing Run Down, driver of the #96 Macauley Jones and BJR general manager Chris Westwood look back at the Tasmania SuperSprint. They talk about Bryce Fullwood’s breakthrough podium for BJR and the team’s improved form overall, the shunt for Jaxon Evans and how it’s prompted a change to the team’s pre-enduro testing schedule, how the team’s preparing for enduro season, Macca’s blunt take on the new ‘co-drivers can’t start the race’ rule, their thoughts on the incident that got Andre Heimgartner all fired up, and plenty more.
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Join us on this week's episode of the Special Stage Rally Podcast as we dive into a bumper edition featuring guest Tom Clarke.
First up, we talk about Tim Wilkins and his Mini Safari Rally efforts, where he achieved some impressive stage times. We also delve into the potential sale of the World Rally Championship for a rumoured $800 million Aussie dollars and discuss it given the uncertain future of the championship.
We also cover the rally news on the RallySport Magazine website including the European Rally Championship, and a fascinating interview with Brian Green about his career and the upcoming Daybreaker Rally.
Then, our exclusive interview with Tom Clarke airs, where he discusses junior development in the sport and shares some key insights of what’s happening in the White Wolf Racing world.
Tune in for all this and more on episode 63 of Special Stage.
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Last weekend's Gippsland Rally was plodding along without too many dramas until Scott Pedder threw a massive spanner into his ARC title hopes.
Crashing on the final stage was hardly in the script, and the Skoda driver wasn't the only one to suffer that fate.
On this week's Special Stage Rally Podcast we did deep into the Gippsland Rally to look at who starred and how others walked away with their trails between their legs.
We review the Production Cup, the 2WD Cup, the Classics and the new Subaru WRX Challenge.
There also a quick chat about 13-year-old Toby Musico's stunning rally debut in Finland in a Ford Fiesta Rally4.
All that and more on this week's Special Stage Rally Podcast.
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