Motorsport stories from inside the garage.
Rusty's Garage pairs long, easy conversations with people who have spent real time around racing. Recent episodes move from Formula One pressure and Supercars momentum to motorcycle crashes, famous surnames, sponsor realities, and the family work behind a racing career.
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Rusty's Garage is built like a conversation after the garage door has been pulled halfway down. It is intimate, unhurried, and comfortable with the kind of detours that only make sense when the guest has earned them. The racing matters. So do the people carrying it. Recent episodes show that range clearly, moving from Formula One's commercial and competitive pressure to the smaller, more personal pressures around family names, junior careers, injuries, and team belief. Stuart Bell's appearance frames modern Formula One as a sport where failure has nowhere to hide. That sits neatly beside Rusty and Howie's season preview, where new regulations, lighter cars, changed aerodynamics, and the end of DRS become part of a wider conversation about how quickly the sport keeps shifting. The show is just as interested in the ladder below the spotlight. Tabitha Ambrose's episode follows a young racer conscious of the Ambrose surname while still trying to make her own mark. Brad Johnson's conversation looks at a football family learning the cost, patience, and restraint required as Jack pursues motorsport in Australia. Those episodes are warm, but not soft. They understand pride, pressure, and the awkward business side of racing. The Kevin Magee two-parter brings a rougher edge, with Horsham beginnings, dirt-track grounding, grand prix bikes, serious crashes, comeback, and the precise technical memory of a rider who can still talk sprockets and machinery in fine detail. The James Golding and Aaron Cameron episodes shift the energy into a roundtable about Supercars, the Blanchard Racing Team, hard yards, team confidence, and the work required to prove a strong round was not a one-off. Across the show, the best moments often come from small specifics. A NASCAR at school. A gearbox washer left out. A parent stepping back. A team deciding not to reinvent the wheel. Rusty's Garage is for motorsport listeners who want the lived version of racing: generous, detailed, funny in places, and alert to how much of the sport happens away from the chequered flag.
Made for: For motorsport followers who enjoy long-form interviews, career backstories, technical detail, and candid paddock memory. It especially suits listeners interested in Formula One, Supercars, motorcycle racing, and Australian racing families.
What sets it apart: The show has the ease of a garage-side chat but keeps enough technical and career detail to satisfy serious racing listeners. It gives guests room to connect machinery, family, pressure, injury, business, and ambition without sanding off the human edges.
In Rusty's Garage, automotive commentator and journalist Greg Rust speaks to the most passionate riders, drivers, designers and collectors he knows. Each guest shares their stories about the machines they've owned, raced, crashed & restored throughout their lives going flat out.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Greg Rust connects Australian racing history and current Supercars competition through informed interviews rich in mechanical detail, team dynamics and lived experience.
Rusty's Garage turns motorsport experience into detailed, easygoing conversation. Greg Rust draws out the practical memory behind racing careers: Colin Bond recalls fragile machinery and stretching each payday, while Sam Shahin explains the ambition and business case behind The…
This is the garage where Bathurst legends and Supercars drivers hand you the keys to the backstory.
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James Golding and Aaron Cameron connect family, career turns, and current Supercars ambitions.
Rusty's Garage frames a team pairing as a shared look at how James Golding and Aaron Cameron reached the same garage. Greg Rust brings them together in the Melbourne studio, tracing early motorsport paths, work beyond the driver's seat at Gary Rogers Motorsport, Golding's…
A loose but useful Supercars roundtable on turning Sydney Motorsport Park pace into a repeatable BRT standard.
Rusty's Garage has James Golding and Aaron Cameron in an easy BRT Supercars roundtable, with the mood shaped by Blanchard Racing Team's lift after Sydney Motorsport Park.
A warm, grounded look at the hard-earned voices stepping into Supercars' main commentary role.
The Motorsport Brief frames Supercars' fresh commentary voices through the real work of a live call. Rusty brings Pat Nalon, Matt Nolte, and Richard Crail into a relaxed conversation shaped by shared history, easy ribbing, and a clear respect for the craft.
A grounded motorsport conversation about the ambition behind building the Bend.
Sam Shahin's second conversation with Greg Rust follows ambition on two tracks: the practical choices around a family enterprise and the racing path that led Shahin from a V8 Cosworth Dallara to a V10 Judd Benetton.
Will Davison gives Taupo a human frame, from team change to the perspective earned across a long racing career.
Rusty's Motorsport Brief lands in Taupo with a tidy mix of Supercars scene-setting, Ford's 100 years down under, and the live question of whether a Mustang can trouble the Camaros.
Colin Bond turns improvised repairs, a surprise pole position and 21 wins into a vivid slice of Australian racing history.
Colin Bond's early racing life comes through in the kind of practical detail that makes the period feel improvised, local and fiercely competitive.
Greg Rust visits Colin Bond in Sydney after Bathurst 1000 weekend, where Matt Payne took his first win and Garth Tander logged his sixth.
A preview of the Supercars Grand Final in Adelaide with driver Thomas Randle, including discussion of his UK trip and other motorsport news.
Host Greg Rust opens with a tribute to his late father, a Speedway fan.
Andrew Miedecke recalls his 1984 sixth-place finish with Colin Bond in a rented Porsche from John Fitzpatrick and his 1986 Bathurst entry with Helmut Marko's AMG Mercedes team, where he never turned a race lap.
A bonus episode of The Motorsport Brief discussing Stuart Bell's new book about the brutal nature of Formula 1, with a focus on pressure and failure in the sport.
AFL legend Brad Johnson discusses his son Jack's motorsport career, balancing guidance with independence, and the business side of racing.
Rusty interviews Tabitha Ambrose about her racing career, dealing with her famous surname, and her father Marcus's battle with cancer.
Kevin Magee discusses his Grand Prix debut, the dangers of 500cc racing, and a serious accident at the 1989 US Grand Prix.
Greg Rust interviews former motorcycle racer Kevin Magee about his career, including his Grand Prix win in Spain and notable crashes.
Rusty brings Aaron Cameron and James Golding into the Melbourne studio to compare their routes from karting, Formula Ford, TCR, S5000, and Supercars.
BRT stripped both Supercars back to chassis-only over Christmas and rebuilt them to be identical.
Rusty and Howie preview the 2026 Formula One season with guest Greg Rust, discussing major technical regulation changes including lighter, shorter cars and the removal of DRS.
Rusty interviews Matt Nolte, Chad Naylon, and Richard Crail about taking turns as Supercars commentators in 2026.
Sam Shahin says MotoGP on Adelaide streets became possible only after a long Dorna conversation and a Premier meeting.
A preview of the Supercars Grand Final in Adelaide with driver Thomas Randle, including discussion of his UK trip and other motorsport news.
Rusty interviews Rob and Dean Herridge about their participation in Australia's longest rally, a 1,200km safari through remote terrain.
Rusty interviews Antman, a helmet painter for top motorsport drivers, discussing his work and career.