It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people, speed, and how we all work under pressure. Short version: We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts. Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and an internationally renowned performance coach. 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 unpack the emotion at the heart of the machine. We don’t love motorsport for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the bag of meat at the wheel. New episodes on Tuesdays!