The Racing Ear Podcast
Hello my name is Trent Barr and thank you for listening to The Racing Ear Podcast. I have been a passionate historic sports car racing fan since I was a child and I started my first version podcast back in 2014. I started going to historic sports car racing events and audio recording racing cars in the paddock and on the track. Then I started up again and I wanted to interview people who have been in the racing industry.
I have been involved with hosting this podcast with 2-Time 24 Hours of Le Mans Winner, Rick Knoop and Auto Racing Engineer, Jeff Oldham. I have been involved in over 40 episodes of interviews through the kindness of Rick and Jeff with very well know figures in the racing world.
More recently I started podcasting again by going to events and just being a Huell Howser-esque kind of interviewer / fan talking to people about their cars, whether they own racing cars, classic cars, or are just racing fans just like me. I look forward to doing more interviews in the future as well as attending more historic sports car racing events in the future as well.
Thank you so much for listening to The Racing Ear Podcast.
The Racing Ear Podcast
TRE Ep 53 Friday at the GT World Challenge at Sonoma Raceway
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Hello again,
I was fortunate to be able to visit Sonoma Raceway at Sears Point for Friday of the 2026 GT World Challenge weekend. It was unseasonably hot and was not as cool as it usually is visiting in late March. Anyway, it was fun to catch up with these cars and remember what it was like to see sports car racing at Sears Point Raceway in years past.
I was able to say hello to Craig Stanton who was a driver in the American Le Mans Series back in the early 2000's when he drove for the Petersen White Lightning Porsche GT Class team. They owned and operated a Porsche 996 GT3-RSR racing car back in that period. I saw Mr Stanton race in the #31 Porsche at Laguna Seca back in 2004 when Laguna Seca hosted its very first "day into night" 4 hour endurance race which was also the season finale in 2004. Craig Stanton and Rick Knoop go way back.
It was great to also meet Amanda Busick, Loni Unser and her Dad Johnny Unser.
Thanks for listening!
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