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In his final podcast, Norris McDonald reveals that Firestone will try to wrest the NASCAR tire contract from Goodyear, announces that someone's building seats for a Forsythe Racing Indy 500 effort (will Paul Tracy get to drive?) and reminisces about all the great guests he's had.
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Norris McDonald continues his conversation with George Daszkowski and they talk about some of the problems facing big-league racing as well as the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame's need for volunteers.
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George Daszkowski of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame talks to Norris McDonald about the Max Mosley sex scandal and the future of auto racing as a spectator sport.
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In the second part of their interview, Inside Track magazine editor and publisher Greg MacPherson talks to Norris McDonald about the future of racing in Canada - and D.J. Kennington's successes and failures.
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Greg MacPherson, editor and publisher of Inside Track motorsport news magazine, talks to Norris McDonald about why Paul Tracy isn't driving in the unified Indy car series and how Fernando Alonso seems to have lost his grip on reality. First of two parts.
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Al Pease, formerly of Toronto, was a wonderful sports car racer back in the 1960s. He drove in Canada's first F1 race, too. Now living in Tennessee, he tells Norris McDonald that Lewis Hamilton's got him interested in F1 again.
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Mark Gallagher, managing director of A1 Team Ireland and Team Canada, talks to Norris McDonald about the A1 Grand Prix series and the possibility of the series racing in Toronto..
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Lee Bailie, of Mosport International Raceway, talks to Norris McDonald about next weekend's 12 Hours of Sebring as well as races planned for Mosport this year.
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Promoter Glenn Butt talks to Norris McDonald about the Canadian Motorsports Expo that's on at the Toronto Congress Centre this weekend as well as the cancellation of the Toronto Grand Prix.
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CASCAR founder Tony Novotny is one of seven men who will be inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame on Feb. 23. He talks to Norris McDonald about his life in motorsport and his hopes for the future of Canadian stock car racing.
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Dick Foley of Montreal was the first Canadian to race in the Daytona 500. And he drove in the very first one back in 1959. Foley talks to Norris McDonald about his memories of racing first on the beach at Daytona and then at the big speedway.
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Grand Prix of Toronto President and CEO Charlie Johnstone talks to Norris McDonald about plans for the big race at the CNE July 4-6, including the first Celebrity Challenge Race being organized by actor Jason Priestley.
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Toronto's Robert Wickens is heading into a make-or-break year in his racing career. And he's only 18. He talks to Norris McDonald about driving in the World Series by Renault and the A1 Grand Prix Series, where he recently made it to the podium.
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Vancouver race car driver Ross Bentley talks to Norris McDonald about what it's like to be going 200 mph at Indianapolis and suddenly finding yourself on fire. The first mistake he made was flipping open his visor.
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In the second part of his podcast interview, Sir Jackie Stewart talks to Norris McDonald about going through life while suffering with dyslexia.
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In the first of a two-part interview, Norris McDonald talks to former race car driver The Flying Scot, better known as Sir Jackie Stewart.
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Five years ago, Gavin Ward was a high school student in Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood who helped out a Formula Ford team at Mosport on weekends. Now he's Mark Webber's trackside control system engineer in F1. He talks to Norris McDonald about life in the big leagues.
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Motorsport marketing and communications consultant Sid Priddle talks with Norris McDonald about some of the wacky things that have gone on in his career, including a faux pas committed by none other than Sir Jackie Stewart.
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Wheels editor Mark Richardson hosts this week's motorsport podcast and his guest is none other than Santa Claus, who doles out candy canes (or lumps of coal) to all the nice (or naughty) little boys and girls in auto racing.
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In the second part of a two-part interview with Norris McDonald, American short-track speedway legend Bentley Warren talks about the people he's raced against, from Indy car pilots to supermodified racers, as well as his plans for the future.
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Bentley Warren is an American short-track speedway legend. In the first of a two-part interview, he talks to Norris McDonald about the thrill of making the field at Indianapolis and being burned at a track in - of all places - Argentina.
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Norris McDonald talked this week with PRN Magazine F1 correspondent Dan Knutson about what might happen this coming Thursday (Dec. 6) when Renault answers to charges of stealing design data from McLaren.
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Canadian rally champion Nathalie Richard talks to Norris McDonald about the sport, the art of co-driving and the challenges she faces when the driver she's partnering also happens to be her sweetheart.
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Canadian stock car star DJ Kennington talks to Norris McDonald about racing in NASCAR's Busch Grand National Series and how he has mixed feelings about going wheel-to-wheel with open wheel stars and "Busch-whackers."
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Canadian racing legend Richard Spenard talks to Norris McDonald about his on-track career and about some of the famous drivers he coached. Wait til you hear what he has to say about Paul Tracy!
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Roy Sova has been the announcer at New York's famous Oswego Speedway for 43 years. In all that time, and out of about 800 races, he's missed exactly three. He tells Norris McDonald why he still does it.
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Neal Jones, editor-in-chief of Performance Racing News magazine, talks with Norris McDonald about the state of Formula One, the Champ Car World Series and why open-wheel drivers are flocking to NASCAR (hint: it's all about the money).
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Award-winning motorsport photographer Dave Franks tells Norris McDonald about being in the right place at the right time when a fire broke out in Richard Petty's pit during the Atlanta 500.
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Long-time Mosport announcer Jim Martyn talks with Norris McDonald about Corvette's future in the American Le Mans Series and what's with all the open wheel drivers flocking to NASCAR?
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American Le Mans Series owner Don Panoz sat down with Norris McDonald at Mosport in August to discuss sports car racing and all sorts of other things, including the cigarette patch.
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Richard Coughlin, director of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, talks to Norris McDonald about NASCAR's first year of stock car racing in Canada plus its plans (and hopes) for the future.
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17-year-old Daniel Morad of Markham tells Norris McDonald how thrilled he is to have won the Formula BMW-USA title and his hopes for the future as he prepares to leave for Europe at the end of the month for winter testing.
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Formula Atlantic driver James Hinchcliffe, of Oakville, talks to Norris McDonald about Jacques Villeneuve joining the NASCAR series and his personal ambition to be driving in the Champ Car World Series next season.
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American Le Mans Series star Brian Herta talks to Norris McDonald about the transition from open wheel Indy cars to closed wheel sports cars as well as the state of Indy car racing these days.
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Toronto IRL racer Marty Roth talks to Norris McDonald about how his sponsorship deal with Dussault Apparel Inc. came about and of his plans to run a full season in 2008.
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Denny Snyder of Varney, Ont., talks to Norris McDonald about the race car he designed and built that allows handicapped people to enjoy the thrill of going fast around a race track.
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Driver Ron Fellows talks to Norris McDonald about his fourth-place finish in last Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Watkins Glen and the American LeMans Series sports car race he'll be in at Mosport next weekend.
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Norris McDonald talks to his old pal Jack Darch about some of the good racing times they've enjoyed together and who's going to win the Oswego Classic for supermodifieds on Labour Day weekend.
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Canadian sports car racer (and hockey promoter) John Graham talks to Norris McDonald about his entry in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series race in Montreal this weekend and his plans for a full season in 2008.
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Norris McDonald discusses the ramifications of the pending merger of NASCAR's Robert Yates Racing with Champ Car's Newman-Haas-Lanigan team and how the FIA can find McLaren guilty of possessing Ferrari secrets and then not impose a penalty.
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Norris McDonald talks to sprint car racer and defending World of Outlaws champion Donny Schatz about the upcoming race at Ohsweken Speedway.
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Norris McDonald and Wheels editor Mark Richardson discuss industrial espionage in Formula One and to punch, or not to punch, in Champ Car/IRL.
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Frankie Muniz, star of "Malcolm in the Middle" on TV and "Agent Cody Banks" in the movies, talks to Norris McDonald about his acting career and his decision to drive in Champ Car's Formula Atlantic Series.
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Charlie Johnstone, president and CEO of the Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto, talks with Norris McDonald about next weekend's big race and all the other attractions on offer at the track.
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Legendary Canadian race car driver Norm Mackereth talks to Norris McDonald about his career, including racing against Gordon Johncock, and strategy he used to win a bed race in Fulton, N.Y. Yes, a bed race.
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Canadian racing champion Horst Kroll talks to Norris McDonald about his plans to salute the late announcer Jim Paulson by coming out of retirement to drive at next weekend's VARAC vintage auto racing festival at Mosport.
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KONI Challenge Series driver Karl Thomson of Toronto talks to Norris McDonald about next weekend's big Father's Day racing program at Mosport.
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Champ Car driver Will Power talks to Norris McDonald about the season to date and how much he's looking forward to racing in July's Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto.
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John Strothard (a.k.a. Johnny Lugnuts) talks to Norris McDonald about the Grand Prix of Monaco, the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600.
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Champ Car driver Alex Tagliani talks to Norris McDonald about the Victory Lap program that raises money for the Children's Miracle Network and his fist fight with Paul Tracy.
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Veteran U.S. sprint car driver Jack Hewitt talks with Norris McDonald about winning four features in one day and making the field at Indy. Joining them in the podcast is Southern Ontario Sprints star Dick Mahoney.
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Norris McDonald and Bert Coates listen to, and discuss, excerpts from the "lost Villeneuve tapes" recorded in 1979 by Bert's brother Len Coates, a former Toronto Star motorsport reporter.
Gilles Villeneuve interview, Part 1 (Large, 28.1 MB file)
Gilles Villeneuve interview, Part 2 (Large, 27.8 MB files)
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Mosport vice-president of marketing Jerry Priddle talks to Norris McDonald about NASCAR, Tony Stewart and all the racing going on at his facility this summer.
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John Bondar, president of the Castrol Canadian Touring Car Championship, talks to Norris McDonald about how an amateur racing class was turned into a professional series.
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Dodge stock car racer Mark Dilley talks about the new NASCAR Canadian Tire Series and his prospects for the 2007 season.
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Glenn Butt, president and general manager of the brand new Canadian Motorsports Expo, talks to Norris McDonald about all the good things in store at this weekend's show.
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Rising Canadian racing star Daniel Morad talks about the upcoming Formula BMW season and what he thinks of Andrew Ranger's switch from Champ Car to NASCAR.
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In his weekly podcast, Norris McDonald discusses the latest F1 controversy (Ferrari's moveable floor) and NASCAR's cellphone dilemma.
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Norris McDonald talks with Wheels editor Mark Richardson about Formula One - the intrigue surrounding 'customer cars' and who's hot and who's not among the drivers.
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Alison MacLeod, a 16-year-old race car driver from Mississauga, talks to Norris McDonald about being part of the Ford Driver Development Program and the road ahead to NASCAR.
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Three-time Canadian Driving Champion Bill Brack talks about the golden years of auto racing in Canada and the problems facing Formula One today.
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Norris McDonald talks with Champ Car driver Katherine Legge about her career and surviving an awful crash.
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Norris McDonald talks to racer Pierre Bourque about the new NASCAR Canadian Tire series and cheating in Nascar.
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Formula Atlantic team owner Eric Jensen and karting champion Michael Vincec talk to Norris McDonald about their hopes for the 2007 racing season.
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Ralph Luciw talks to Norris McDonald about the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame's upcoming induction gala.
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Racing reporter Rick Matsumoto talks with Norris McDonald about the challenges facing Champ Car, among other topics.
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Norris McDonald talks with Canadian sports car champion Scott Maxwell.
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Norris McDonald talks to public-relations specialist Stuart Morrison about some of Canada's up-and-coming road-racing stars and what NASCAR Canada might do to create some excitement.
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Supermodified veteran Gary Morton talks to Norris McDonald about winter racing and why stock cars pushed the open-wheel rockets out of Ontario's speedways.
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Glenn Butt, president of the Canadian Motorsport Expo, tells Norris McDonald about the plans for the first expo, to be held in Toronto from April 6 to 8.
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Indy Pro Series team owner Brian Stewart of Sutton, whose drivers have included Paul Tracy and Cristiano da Matta, talks to Norris McDonald about his own championship racing career, his team's domination of the Indy Lights and Indy Pro series, and why he's never "moved up."
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Norris McDonald talks to rising 20-year-old racing star James Hinchcliffe of Oakville about Formula Atlantic, his secondary career as a broadcaster and, yup, NASCAR.
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Robert Wickens, 17, of Etobicoke talks with Norris McDonald about his Formula BMW-USA championship and the possibility of going Formula Atlantic racing in 2007.
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Charlie Johnstone, president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Toronto, talks with Norris McDonald about the July race and changes in Champ Car.
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In his weekly podcast, Norris McDonald interviews champion Canadian race-car driver Ron Fellows about his future and about the rough-and-tumble world of NASCAR.
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Hear about who's coming to the podcast, and what's up with the NASCAR Chase.
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Norris McDonald talks about why the NASCAR Chase just isn't working.
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Norris McDonald talks about Michael Schumacher’s new job, and Robbie Gordon’s dumb stunt in Atlanta.
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Norris McDonald suggests there's a reason why NASCAR doesn't want Jeff Burton to win the Nextel Cup and pays tribute to the late Ted Johnson, founder of the World of Outlaws sprint car circuit.
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It's time to clinch the championships this weekend for F1, NASCAR, Champ and ALMS. Hear Norris McDonald's predictions.
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Hear Norris McDonald’s thoughts on the new Champ Car and IRL circuit announcements, as well as all the NASCAR and F1 gossip.
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