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 37 Joe Catron Racing Memories with Rick Knoop
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Hello again fellow Racing Ears,
In this episode Rick and Trent were able to have a memorable conversation with Joe Catron. They were recently all together at the Lucky Dog Racing League 8 Hour Enduro at Sears Point International Raceway on Saturday February 12 2022 where the racing team finished 8th out of 80 cars in the Vintage Exotics Porsche 997. The Vintage Exotics Team on that Saturday was Joe Catron, Lenny Loftin, Rick Knoop, Mike Halo, Mary Lou, and Trent Barr.
Joe Catron is originally from Southern California where he has roots in the Pomona California area at the beginning point of when the Pomona Fairplex racing circuit started back in the 1950's. He has been around racing cars for a long time and he is still involved in racing in one way or another. He is a driving instructor, racing team manager, racing driver, and is also an experienced yacht captain.
Joe Catron Sr. was a racing driver who raced between 1956 and 1961. He raced a Jaguar XK120, Simca Aronde, Volvo, Porsche 356 Super Speedster, Speedster, and 356 1600. He also was very involved at Catron Motors which was a Volkswagen and Porsche dealership on East Holt Avenue in Pomona California.
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Porsche 935 Number 70 owned by Charles Nearburg warming up in the paddock before a session at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 at Laguna Seca Raceway.
Footage of The Corkscrew at Laguna Seca during the 2015 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
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