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Listing of the Openpaddock.net #RallyCast podcasts. ome listen to host Mike Shaw and his co-commentators ramble about all things rally…and some things not.

Episode 264 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMega show this week!  We start out the first hour talking rally with special guests Matt Brandenburg and Elliott Sherwood from BRAKIM Racing!  Who are these guys and how did they get started?  Let alone, why are they turning a Lamborghini into a rally car?  In our second hour we “dive” into WRC Mexico and our photog extraordinaire Doug Patterson tells us about his snow filled experience at this year’s Rally in the 100 Acre Wood.  In the final hour of our mega (long) podcast we discuss…

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Episode 263 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWe have a heck of a show this week with multiple special guests!  To kick things off we have FY Racing’s Brenten Kelly and his Irish co-driver Niall Burns to talk Rally America and help us preview the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood that takes place this weekend in Salem, Missouri.  We also have our good friend and favorite astrophysicist Doug Patterson on the line, who’s been off doing other endeavors but has come back to OpenPaddock to satisfy his rally fix.  We’ll…

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Episode 262- OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFrom Tuesday February 10th, 2015. This week in rally we review Rally America’s Sno*Drift Rally, preview Rally Sweden, and discuss Toyota’s return to the WRC.  In our miscellaneous motorports segment we talk about the awesomeness that is the Bathurst 12 hour race and kangaroo dodging, NISMO GT Academy, and a few bits regarding F1.  We finish up with IndyCar ranting and question whether they are on the cusp of a golden era, then have a whole lot of Mazda Road to Indy as they did a…

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Episode 261- OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFrom Tuesday, January 27th 2015.  Tonight we start with our preview of this weekend’s Rally America season opener with special guest Jim Beaver of the Down and Dirty Radio Show.  Jim is kicking off the new Rally America Radio show at Sno*Drift and he gives us details on what we might expect from this new endeavor.  I then go into a long review of Rallye Monte-Carlo.  I apologize for the length, but a whole heck of a lot went down with the season opener and the changing…

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Episode 260 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFrom Wednesday, January 14th this is our first episode of the new year, so Happy New Year…2 weeks late!  This week in rally we discussed the goings on in Dakar, the ultimate off-road endurance rally (which has of course finished now that podcast is up…go figure and congrats to Nasser Al-Attiyah!) and we discuss some of the WRC’s new 2015 liveries (unfortunately VW and Hyundai didn’t release their’s until the day after our show).  Red Bull GRC released their 2015 schedule, and it looks…

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Episode 259 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFrom Tuesday December 30th, this is our final episode of 2014.  In rally we talk about the Rally America rumor mill, a bit of news regarding upcoming Rally Monte Carlo, preview the Dakar Rally (Daily Dakar updates on NBC Sports starting Monday Jan. 5th), and we finish up with the latest of a string of new American Rally Championships that just keep coming out of the woodwork.  This time it’s something called the Extreme American Rally Championship.  In F1 we talk about Haas purchasing…

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Episode 258 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOne of the most fun OpenPaddock episodes in recent history!  In our first hour and headlining the show are our special guests, NASA Rally Sport’s East and West directors Anders Green and Kristopher Marciniak.  NASA is the place for grassroots affordable rally racing, and it has a number of advantages beyond the cost savings.  Anders and Kris tell us all the details of the NASA rally series and how NASAhas the the flexibility to experiment with new technologies like Android tablets for timing/scoring and new racing platforms such as…

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Episode 257 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadReturning after a week away, we finally review F1’s finale at Abu Dhabi and other F1 nonsense.  In rally we talk about the return of Sebastien Loeb, more WRC silly season, and a bit about N. American rally.  We finish up with IndyCar rules changes, and more teams coming to Indy Lights.

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Episode 255 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis episode shall be known a “Apocolyptico” as we battled power outages, communications issues, and I even had to step away to fix something at work in the middle.  We ended up with a rally-centric episode beginning with Chris Duplessis talking about his first time driving the Nameless Performance GT-86 in anger at Seed 9 Rally, then we shift to GRC Las Vegas review and preview WRC Wales Rally GB.  Unfortunately the multiple technical difficulties meant that we didn’t have time to talk F1,…

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