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 33 Martin Raffauf Remembers 1978 with Rick Knoop and Jeff Oldham
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Hello again Fellow Racing Ears,
Martin Raffauf is an auto racing mechanic that spends his time being a highly published auto racing Porsche racing historian. He has written several articles that are currently posted on www.porscheroadandrace.com.
In this episode, Martin Raffauf joins The Racing Ear Podcast to share how he started in auto racing working as a volunteer mechanic on a certain historic Porsche 935 for Dick Barbour Racing at Garretson Enterprises in Mountain View California back in 1978, while working for a certain well known world renowned computer company. His experience is highlighted and documented in the Porsche 935 auto racing documentary "Moby and the Warhorse Gang".
Originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Martin spent many years working alongside IMSA legendary mechanics, race drivers, and team owners. He competed against Rick Knoop and Jeff Oldham during those years and it was great to capture things that they all remember when IMSA was in its beginning. Many names and many stories during the days with IMSA took him to the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Many thanks to Martin Raffauf, Jeff Oldham and Rick Knoop for making this episode possible.
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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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