Danny Formal is the guest this week, he is one of the few professional go-kart racers, leading to him getting a professional drive in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series and eventually competing for Wayne Taylor/Andretti in the IMSA Weathertech series. Gary and Danny go through his career from being born in Costa-Rica, moving to Florida competing i…

Sitting down with my dad Peter Klutt, we go over a TV Special from nearly 20 years ago: The Muscle Car Shootout. Testing the world's best all-around classic Muscle Cars, this 1 hour special was such a hit back in the day Speed Channel requested 2 additional specials. There were 7 cars part of the competition running a series of tests: A 1969 AMX 39…

Jackson Bathgate is a professional skier on the Freeride World Tour FTW. He competed in 2023 with his last stop being in the Country of Georgia. We discuss the prospects of making a living as a professional skier, winning the 2016 Freeride Junior World Championships, the risk-reward calculation of being a professional skier, the difficulties of fin…

James Hinchcliffe is a former Canadian Indy Car driver with six Indy Car wins and a pole position at the Indy 500. We discuss his start in go-kart racing, his move to shifter karts, the formula BMW series, Star Mazda series, formula Atlantic and Ultimately Indy Car driving for teams including Andretti Autosport. The podcast outlines the immense cos…

Scott Goodyear joins Gary to go through his story from go-karts, to sleeping in his car in debt, starting fresh, his rise to Indycar, and becoming a Porsche Factory driver at LeMans. Scott Goodyear scratched and clawed and never gave up. We go over his career, racing go-karts in Canada, to Formula Ford, Formula 2000 to Formula Atlantic, Indycar, hi…

Lauren Fix is the host of Car Coach Reports. We talk the future of electric vehicles, the green revolution, the Kill switch bill and much more. Lauren Fix has been in the automotive world her entire life. We discuss the difference between bottom up demand for Electric vehicles vs. the top down push from governments for EV's, with the bottom line be…

Daniel Morad is a Pro GT3 and GT4 Driver, a factory driver for Mercedes, a SIM driver for Mercedes, he runs his own youtube channel and Twitch stream, and is the owner of Moradness, where his sells racing apparel and Simulator gloves. Daniel and I talk about the difference between Asseta Corsa and I Racing and how I Racing is more similar to drivin…

Mac Clark is the youngest F1600 Champion, a USF 2000 Junior champion who has his sights set on being Canada's next Indy car Series driver. Since his start in karting Mac has been on a trajectory of winning championships and working through the road to Indy. He has won a ton of races including the SKUSA Florida winter tour karting race. In this epis…

Mat Williamson is one of the winningest dirt modified racers. This past season he brought home an enormous amount of winnings from his dirt modified season. He currently holds the record for largest purse won in a dirt modified race at $100,000. We discuss how he became a professional racing driver and what life is like on the road. He ran 75 races…

Chase Cabre is a young oldschool racer, he does all the work for the Hailie Deegan Youtube Channel, he races micro sprint cars and is a former member of REV racing and the Nascar Drive for Diversity. Gary and Chase talk about growing up in florida, making the jump from dirt racing to the Nascar K&N or Arca series, winning racing and what it takes t…

Ben Young is a 3x Canadian Superbike Champion, he joins Gary in the studio to discuss racing in the British superbike championshp while living in Scotland before moving to collingwood. Ben then went on to race in the states racing 600 AMA Moto America, with some success. Ben then came back to the Canadian Superbike Championship CSBK going on to win…

Marty Schaffer is the Owner of CAPOW Guiding, and Blanket Glacier lodge based out of Revelstoke British Columbia. Marty is a professional backcountry ski guide who was raised in the backcountry of British Columbia. Marty spent his winters guiding guests at Blanket Glacier lodge in the 90s on a split board, he then became a full guide and worked at …

Ben Rhodes is a Nascar Truck Series Champion from Kentucky driving for Thor Sport. In this thrilling episode of the Gary Klutt Podcast, we shift gears and join forces with one of NASCAR's most dynamic drivers, Ben Rhodes. Gary Klutt, with his understanding of the racing world, engages in an insightful conversation with Ben, unraveling the layers be…

Gary and Peter take a look back at thier trip to the 100th anniversary of the LeMans Classic event in 2023. The Legendary Motorcar team took the 1964 prototype GT40 to the historic event. They talk about the race format, how difficult it was to drive during the night stints and the massive event that this was with hundreds of thousands of spectator…

JR Fitzpatrick going from a silver spoon to becoming an old school racer. JR Fitzpatrick moved from jr late models to the Cascar series becoming the youngest driver to win a race and a championship. He pursued racing professionally racing in the Nascar Xfinity Series, Nascar Camping world truck series. Jr has a long list of achievments... 2006 Casc…

John Fletcher Jr. has made a living through one way or another through racing his entire life. John was born into racing as his Dad worked as Junior Hanley's full time employee. John grew up going to ASA late model races helping out guys like Gary Balough, Randy Macdonald and Junior Hanley. John raced vintage modifieds, Super late models, OSCAAR su…

Daniel Foch, the real estate recession has arrived, what's going on with the current housing market. Dan Foch is a Real Estate Agent, Personality, Public figure, Analyst and Podcast host of The Canadian Real Estate investor. Daniel Foch speaks on the Toronto Real Estate Market & the state of the world in 2023 after many interest rate hikes since ou…

From Nascar to motivational speaking, being a on Survivor to performing Ted Talks, Julia Landauer is leading an incredible life. Julia grew up in New York City racing go karts at an early age leading to the skip barber series, 2 late model stock car championships, the Nascar K&N series, the Nascar euro and Pinty's series, and finally the Nascar Xfi…

Paul Tracey joins Gary on the podcast to talk about being booted from the SRX series, winning a Nascar Brazil race, and getting back into riding his bike losing a bunch of weight. Paul Tracy is a former Indycar Champion, indy 500 winner. We discuss the 2023 SRX season and his crash with Joseph Newgarden and confrontations with Kenny Schrader. Paul …

David Deacon is a singer-songwriter, poet, former champion race car driver, painter, entrepreneur, and an example of how to live life fully In his race car days he won the Canadian endurance racing championship in a Porsche RSR, then BMW sponsored him to race the M1 in the States and then to race for their factory team in 1981 at the 24 hours of Le…

Matt Tifft is the youngest NASCAR Cup Series team owner in history. Matt is a Former Nascar Cup series driver, he has raced for Front Row Motorsports, Kyle Busch's truck team, Joe Gibbs and Richard Childress in the Xfinity series. Matt is a brain Tumor survivor and someone living with Epilepsy, He is super open on this podcast about his struggles w…

DJ Cunningham discusses harnessing his ADHD to his advantage. DJ is the CEO of LEARNstyle. Through is education and career, DJ worked to discover how he learned differently with his learning disability of ADHD. He founded Learn Style at 24 years old ontario’s largest educational training company. As a result of DJ’s success, he has shared his story…

André Ahrlé owner of Special Security Services, has lived an insane life. Andre born in Germany raced Motocross in Europe as a teanager, before receiving a full ride football scholarship to Texas. Once in the USA he launched his own bodyguard/ security company with clients like:-Alice cooper, Backstreet boys, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, t…

Description: Gary and Al Unser Jr. talk about his extremely successful IndyCar Career, his new book: A Checkered Past, his struggles with drugs and Alcohol and substance use disorder. Al goes through his career from the beginning, racing go karts in New Mexico, to dirt sprint cars, Super Vee, his CAN-AM racing and his career as an IndyCar Legend. U…

Dayton Price was involved in a tragic accident while traveling with his golf team, his take on the accident, grief and loss, gratitude for life and his come back to Golf. Canadians Dayton Price & Hayden Underhill were survivors of a horrific car crash in Texas that took nine lives, including seven members of the University of the Southwest golf tea…

Carroll Shelby, GT40's and Helicopters. A look back on the best of the 2002 Dream Car Garage season with Peter Klutt

Mikey Ciccarelli is a professional snowboarder making a living from his riding for Burton and Rockstar Energy, living in Whistler BC. He currently competes in Travis Rice's Natural selection backcountry contest. Mikey grew up riding in Ontario at Mount St. Louis. He went on to the Canadian Olympic team after winning the Jr. Olympics in Slopestyle. …

Mark Martin is this week's guest, he talks about how Junior Hanley & Gary Balough Shaped his Career with the stroke of luck of moving to the ASA series early on and parking beside Jr Hanley at his first race. We discuss more personal topics of health and weight lifting and how Mark quit drinking and the health benefits. Mark Martin reminisces on ho…

Ed Bernardon is the VP of Strategic Automotive Initiative's at Siemens. Gary and Ed talk about AI, Artificial intelligence and its application in the future of cars. The largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe, Siemens is a $77 Billion Dollar a year company. Ed holds a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT… a BS Mechanical…

Dr John Degarmo has been a foster parent to over 60 kids over the years. He is the director of the Foster Care Institute. Dr. Degarmo is a leading international foster care expert and consultant, he has a doctorate in Educational leadership from Walden University, He is the author of many books on foster care. He has appeared on Ted Talks, and almo…

How do we reliably perform at our very best? Get out of you own way. Elvis Stojko has worked his whole life on practices that allow him to perform at his very best under Olympic level pressure. Elvis Stojko is a Legendary Canadian Figure Skater- 2x Olympic silver Medalist3x World Champion 6x podium finisher in the Worlds. Elvis is also a Racecar dr…

Harrison Burton, son of Nascar Hall of Famer Jeff Burton, grew up at the race track. With the motto of "Something to prove" Harrison is aware of what it takes to become and stay a professional race driver. Harrison started racing at the age of 4 with the goal of making it to the highest level in the sport, the NASCAR CUP Series. He now drives for t…

Gary and Peter discuss the trip to DEI to film with Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jr. for season 2 of Dream Car Garage. The guys add their commentary to segments where Dale Earnhardt Sr talks about his 1957 Chevy, as well as his 2001 Corvette C5R that he and JR raced together at Daytona 24 hours in 2001. Dream Car Garage segment where Peter steals Dale Jr…

Ty Majeski is probably the best iRacer of all time on the iRacing sim platform. Majeski currently races in the Nascar Truck series for Thorsport racing. Ty Majeski's racing resume is insane both in real life and on iRacing. He has won the snowball derby in 2020, the slinger national, three Arca races, two nascar camping world truck series races. Ty…

Foster Huntington is Famous for coining #Vanlife, Foster lives off the grid in a cedar cone tree house with a cement pool to skateboard below, but while driving all around the west coast in the 2011 surfing and living in his van, be became super popular on Instagram with 1M followers. Foster and I talk about Personal Creativity, finding your North …

Peter Klutt Joins Gary to discuss The Story of The ONLY 1969 LS7 Camaro & How It lead to the success of Dream Car Garage. In the first season of Peter's TV show Dream Car Garage, they restored the rarest camaro on the planet, an LS7 454 Baldwin Motion Camaro. This restoration set the stage for the quality of cars and quality of muscle car restorati…

The Youngest Stock Car Champion in Canadian History Treyten Lapcevich grew up racing quarter midgets, winning national races and titles before jumping to a full sized stock car at 10 years old at Sunset speedway. Treyton Became the youngest racer to win a stockcar champions at 11 years old. He now races in the Nascar Pinty's series or Canadian Nasc…

Alon Day is an Israeli Racecar driver competing in the NASCAR Euro Series. He was the Israeli Athlete of the year and holds the record for most Nascar Euro Series race wins and Championships being a 4 time champion. Alon talks about being the first jewish Israeli Nascar driver, his Nascar Cup, xfinity and truck series starts and compares sports car…

Noah Gragson is the guest this week, he sits down to discuss his racing journey, what it takes to make it in NASCAR.Noah's career went from Bandoleros, to the Arca Menards series, to the NASCAR Truck series driving for KBM, jumping to JR Motorsports for his Xfinity Series time. Now Noah Gragson is driving for Legacy Motor Club in the Cup Series, al…

The Guest today on the podcast is Super bike racer Trevor Daley. Trevor grew up racing go karts, with his auto racing career culminating in the Formula BMW Series. He then went on to work for AIM Autosport, before ultimately making the jump to professional motorcycle racing, in the Canadian Super Bike Championship. Trevor is the founder and owner o…

The Guest this week is Murray Timm, He has built Nascar Cup Series race cars at Hendrick Motorsports Nascar Cup Shop for over 25 years. He has won 13 Nascar Cup Series Championships, and 231 Nascar Cup Series Wins. He is an Aerodynamic specialist, who has worked on bodies in the wind tunnel for the likes of Dale Earnhardt jr. Kyle Busch, Kyle Larso…

Gary and Kenny chat about Kenny’s Pro Motorcycle racing career. From winning races in the Canadian Superbike Championship CSBK, racing the historic Bol d’ Or at Circuit Paul Ricard, as well as the 24h of Lemans and Daytona. Growing up racing go karts together, Kenny moved down to the States to race ama 600 supersport. Kenny was also factory Triumph…

Professional Sportscar Racer Kyle Marcelli shares his career path from go-karting all the way to Prototype & Sportscar racing. The process of finding sponsorship, getting free drives, to becoming a paid racecar driver for teams and manufacturers alike. #racing #racingpodcast #lamborghini #lamborghinisupercars #lamborghinisupertrofeo #laborghinidriv…

Gary is joined by Darryl Timmers, the owner of Professional Racing Ontario. A National Go Kart Champion, Co-host of Another Race Weekend (A Formula 1 podcast) and high performance driving coach. They discuss the 2022 racing season, indycar, Nascar, Formula One, Formula 2, shifter kart racing, SKUSA SuperNats, Moto GP, and American's in Formula 1. #…

Paul Cooke, Canadian motorsports hall of famer, gives a detailed history on Canada’s most signifigant race team, Comstock racing. The team was a Ford factory supported through the 1960, racing Shelby Cobra’s, GT40s and Mustangs. Paul was witness more Canadian motorsports history than almost anyone, The director of Karting for ASN FIA was the team m…

How do we gain wisdom? Covid, Politics, individualism. Gary and Jon talk about the importance of tough conversations and the willingness to feel humbled. Some ideas that the guys explore are the ideas of, Jordan Peterson, Alan Watts, Ram Dass . Jon talks about reducing anxiety and becoming more connected to the world and the physical reality. How i…

Mark Dilley is Professional Racecar driver, making a living as a racecar driver for over 30 years in the Cascar series and Now the Nascar Pintys Series in Canada. He has some great insight into finding sponsorship as a racecar drive, building reletionships and performing for your sponsors. Mark is as Cascar Champion and winner in the Nascar Pinty’s…

Gary interviews Garrett a fellow podcaster, the topics range from, How to talk to God or pray, Choosing one religion or many. Garrett discusses some of the guests that he has interviewed, including John Vervaeke, Ian Mcgilchrist, and Curt Jaimungal. The guys discuss Garrett’s Evangelical Upbringing, and his existential questions. Visit Garrett's Po…

Jim Bray is the oldest Nascar team owner. He has raced in the Daytona 500 multiple times. He raced in the first race at Mosport with Sterling Moss. Jim is a wealth of Nascar history that he witnessed first hand in the 1950s and 60s, he’s got great stories with many legends of the stock car world. He still flys his plane, runs his trailer business a…

Carl Kuster is a four-time X-Game medalist and has spent six years racing snowmobiles for Blair Morgan Racing and BRP. He is the owner of Carl Kuster Mountain park located just outside Revelstoke BC. Carl was exposed to early backcountry snowmobile riding in the mountains, the feeling of floating in the powder stayed in the back of his mind while h…