Motorsport stories, served sideways.
Dinner with Racers turns racing history into table conversation, with Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman chasing stories from people across motorsport. It is casual and messy in the useful way: jokes first, then the real answer.
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Dinner with Racers is a racing show shaped like a long meal with people who have actually been there. Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman bring a fast, teasing rhythm to interviews with people from across motorsport who rarely fit into a tidy highlight reel. The show starts loose. It usually stays loose. But the looseness has a purpose, because the joking gives guests room to explain how careers, races, teams, and reputations really get built. A conversation about the Grand Prix of Long Beach becomes a story about a tiny group raising money, working unpaid, and trying to sell a city on a race. A chat with Christian Rasmussen turns into the pressure of asking for support, wiring money at the last second, and choosing the American ladder over a more expected route. With Anthony Lazzaro, the appeal is the folk-hero arc of a driver who worked as a mechanic while chasing major opportunities. With Matt Yocum, the show tracks a long broadcasting career across NASCAR, radio, TV specials, behind-the-scenes shows, and IMSA pit reporting. With Mike Lanigan, sponsorship and team ownership become questions of trust, promises, and what a legacy should mean. The hosts do not treat motorsport as glossy content. They treat it as a web of favors, nerve, odd jobs, family decisions, strange restaurants, hard timing, and stories that improve when the guest is allowed to ramble a little. That makes the show especially good at the parts between the statistics. It notices who raised the money. It asks who took the risk. It laughs at the absurdity, then comes back for the practical answer. The interview style can be blunt and irreverent, with sponsor reads and intros folded into the banter instead of sealed away from it. That rough edge is part of the identity, but the center is affectionate curiosity. Dinner with Racers works because it understands racing as both a sport and a community memory bank. The cars matter. The people explain why.
Made for: Built for racing fans who want the stories behind the paddock, the funding calls, the TV work, the street races, and the careers that almost did not happen. It also suits curious listeners who prefer human stories over technical sermonizing.
What sets it apart: The show turns insider motorsport history into relaxed meal-table conversation, where jokes and detours often lead to sharper context than a formal interview would reach. Its strength is access without stiffness.
Dinner with Racers Podcast Presented by Continental Tire
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dinner with Racers reveals the family relationships, financial risks, and personal loyalties behind motorsports careers.
Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman turn meals with racing figures into expansive conversations about the people behind motorsports careers. Dinner with Racers follows the money, relationships, chance meetings, and difficult choices that determine who reaches the track and who stays…
Dinner turns racing careers into candid oral histories, so you get the money talk with the memories.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Long Beach's early race history is shaped by fundraising, unpaid work, and hard behind-the-scenes labor.
The episode revisits Jim McCallion, one of the founding fathers of the Grand Prix of Long Beach and the man handling its day-to-day work, and it gives the clearest attention to how the first race was assembled by a very small utilitarian group.
A candid business conversation that earns its praise through practical detail.
RJ Valentine comes through as a Boston original and a self-made millionaire, and the conversation lands its strongest note when it stays with business decisions, the Massachusetts Business Association, opening stores, marketing, and budgets.
A motorsport origin story where an eight-lap sponsorship turns into a lesson in trust.
Mike Lannigan's path from a $35,000 sponsorship on Eric Bachelard's car to owning an IndyCar team gives Dinner with Racers a clean shape: a motorsport life built through risk, relationships, and promises kept.
A relaxed, human look at one long IndyCar career and the family choices around it.
Dinner with Racers ends its 10th season at Johnny Rockets in Hollywood with Sean Heckman and Ryan Eversley in conversation with Paul "Ziggy" Harkis, now team manager at Andretti Autosport.
A clear look at Rasmussen's path, where talent, timing, and funding all had to line up.
Christian Rasmussen's conversation presents his career as a place where racing skill and funding stay tightly linked. It touches on the people who saw what he could do, the first no, the later yes, and the same-day wire that sent money to HMD.
A candid, grounded account of how Jack's neurofibromatosis diagnosis became sustained advocacy through racing ties and Cure NF with Jack.
Jake's story gives this Dinner Bites episode a personal center: a local doctor names neurofibromatosis during a visit for Jack's cold, and the conversation follows the shock that came with it.
An IndyCar dinner chat that moves from Twitter to Fontana to the animated Grinch.
Dinner with Racers settles in with Graham Rahal, one of IndyCar's veterans since 2008, while Sean Heckman and Ryan Eversley keep the road-trip banter moving as they close out a season of recordings.
Hosts Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman introduce a new short-form spinoff, Dinner Bites, and welcome Jake Burke to discuss neurofibromatosis (NF) awareness month.
Dinner with Racers hosts Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman sit down with IndyCar veteran Graham Rahal at Monterey Cuisine in Carmel, Indiana.
Dinner with Racers Ep.330, a re-heated version of the fall 2016 Ep.41 recorded at Tegri Bistro in Indianapolis, features Kevin "Rocket" Blanch, who stepped away from his IndyCar tech post mid-season after the 500.
A tribute episode re-releasing an interview with Jim Michaelian, a founding father of the Long Beach Grand Prix, who recently passed away.
Hosts Sean Heckman and Ryan Eversley introduce a new recurring content format for Dinner with Racers, starting with a re-heated episode featuring self-made millionaire RJ Valentine.
Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman introduce Matt Yocum, a veteran NASCAR and IMSA pit reporter, in the 10th anniversary episode of Dinner with Racers.
Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman introduce their 10th year of Dinner with Racers podcast from a Johnny Rockets in Hollywood, teasing a research project with guest Ted Giovanis.
Anthony Lazzaro shares his racing career stories, including near-death experiences and his time as an unpracticed McDonald's spokesman, over dinner with hosts Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman.
Christian Rasmussen traces his career from a small Copenhagen car dealership and a family investor to racing in the United States at 17.
Paul "Ziggy" Harcus describes being "child trafficked" onto a ship at 15, then getting pulled off the dock by his mother before the voyage left.
Mike Lanigan traces MyJack back to Jack Lanigan’s 1967 basement start in Dalton, Illinois, and says the crane idea created a "500% efficiency" gain for intermodal shipping.
Sean and Ryan introduce a special Ben Keating episode for Thanksgiving, discussing their trip to Texas and the extended content from their video series.
A bonus episode featuring funny and updated clips from a week spent with successful businessman and pro-am sports car driver Ben Keating.
Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman introduce a Dinner Bites episode promoting NF Awareness Month and the Cure NF with Jack charity, featuring guest Jake Burke.
Bob Reilly and his family discuss Bill's teenage years, including a party he threw while his parents were away.
A tribute episode featuring long-form, unedited dinners with the Riley family, celebrating the life and legacy of racing legend Bob Riley.