BONUS Episode PREVIEW – Listener Q&A – 11/25
Podcast: It's Not the CarPublished On: Fri Dec 05 2025
Description: Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/november-bonus-144929992**NDQ is our listener Q&A series! Have questions about performance driving, race engineering, setup, or anything else? Hit us up: INTCPod@gmail.comThere are no dumb questions in racing… but there might be some dumb answers.**ANSWERED THIS MONTH://2:30 – How do pro drivers in long endurance races get by without sleeping? // 19:50 – How should you think about the beginning of braking as entry speeds change? // 35:30 – How do you stop overthinking behind the wheel? // 38:20 – How can you improve your driving without data or video? // 41:00 – How can you improve if you don’t know what to work on first? **Who We Are + Spicy Merch:www.ItsNotTheCar.com**Support It’s Not the Car:Contribute on Patreon www.patreon.com/notthecar**Topic suggestions, feedback, questions? Let us know what you think!INTCPod@gmail.com**Check out Sam's book!Smithology: Thoughts, Travels, and Semi-Plausible Car Writing, 2003–2023**Where to find us:https://www.instagram.com/intcpodhttps://www.instagram.com/thatsamsmith/https://www.instagram.com/j.v.braun/https://www.instagram.com/rossbentley/https://rossbentley.substack.com/https://speedsecrets.com/**ABOUT THE SHOW:It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver, a bestselling author, and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning writer and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine.We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.New episodes every Tuesday.
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