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The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Let's find out. Today we ask can Hyundai pick up where they left off. How will we call Robin pair of cope with the weights? On his shoulders are being the champion. And do we have a true, true, three way fights for the first time in a long time in 2023, let's get up to speed with our rally man Tom Howard. Hey Tom, welcome back to the auto sport podcast. You must be so excited about rally this year. Yeah, no, it's really exciting. If we weren't already excited by the new cars and everything last year, this year, perhaps the excitement was even more because as you said there, we've got new drivers, new driver lineups and rally winners or champions, should we say in each of the teams, which is a spicy concoction there ready for a real real tight title fight which we're all looking forward to. Let's tell our listeners why and I'll see if I can make my case as we do this next 15 minutes of why I think WRC is about to wake up to a wider audience. I'm actually not going to start without new world champion we'll get to him in a moment, but rather a former one. Oit tanak comes into M sport. Now that team know, they have signed somebody who they simply must deliver for. He's a star signing. Do you think M sport can rise to the occasion? So firstly, we should just clear up for anyone who doesn't follow the reality that aim sport isn't a full manufacturer back team like Toyota and Hyundai. So they don't quite have the same resource as those two. So they really have to sort of cut their cloth accordingly. But for this, after a dismal, should we say dismal last season where they only had one win, which is Monte Carlo, and a couple of podiums after that. They needed to make some changes. Malcolm Wilson, the team boss. He doesn't come here just to make up the numbers. He comes in to win rallies into wind tiles. So he's cut his coffin called me. We've got two full-time entrance, and one of those is the 2019 world champion. He left high and die after three years at the end of last year with a year contract still on the year still on his contract. So he was quite unhappy with how things went behind the relationship kind of broke down. He needed a somewhere new to go and he's rejoined eSport, which is the team that gave him his first break back in 2011. And it's where he's got his first parody in his first win. So there's a lot of history. It's a homecoming of sorts. And this is really the sort of key piece in the puzzle frames for what they needed a world champion or a genuine rally winner to lift and to spearhead their challenge and in order to get one. But to answer your question, can they deliver for him? There is no option other than they have to. They have to deliver for it tanak. Yes, they don't have the resource, but it has been assured that the development will continue with the puma. They do have a very strong relationship with Ford in the U.S. Ford performance who helped design the puma. So they do have the resource there, not perhaps not quite as much as the other two teams, but if they nail their direction of development correctly and oit gives them the feedback that they need to do that and the two combine, you have got a genuine title contender in their possibility and one thing we're also going to support is they've been clever here in terms of only putting out two full-time cars last season, they perhaps overstretched their resources, running 5 cars sometimes, and you could see that it was too much. Scaling back to two really puts the focus on making sure that they can give everything they need to owe it to him to do or for him to challenge for his title with Pierre Louis lube as a really worthy assistant in the second car. So yes, my answer is yes, but we were wait and see. What a tan X qualities that you think could bring the title to M sport. There's no question marks are about his ability. We've seen what he can do and he's won a world title in 2019 with Toyota. He was extremely dominant that year. And let's not forget that that was sort of the only sort of gap in before Cali struck last year. It's the only gap in the sort of Sebastian rain where Loeb and OJ dominated for decades. So he can beat the best, but also what probably stands out last year more than ever was his ability to extract the most out of the car that perhaps isn't the best. So this could be key for M sport in terms of if it is found that the pure is maybe slightly lacking compared to the high end iron Toyotas in tanakh, they've got someone who can rise above that, shall we say, because infinite last year in a high end it was quite wayward tannic was supreme and managed to be able to beat Kelly Robin pere in the best machine out there. So that's probably the skill work tanak is the fact that he can really wrangle the best out of anything. And I think this is where his skills are really kind of come to the forks. He's got to learn a new car, new team, but I don't have any concerns over that. I'm pretty sure he will get that pretty quickly and he'll be on the pies for the rest. Next, Hyundai, what about the hierarchy at that team? And the leadership Nigerian monse was the man who had to take over at short notice last year and there was a brand new car, new set of regulations, new hybrid power, he's no longer in charge though. What happened there? So Hyundai is a very curious case if you look at last season because if you look at it on paper, it was their most successful year ever. They didn't win any titles, but they won 5 rallies, which is the most I've ever done in a single season, but that is only a snippet of the story because they were so far behind up to 6 months behind their opposition because of a light green light to join the new regulations so the car was delayed. Then they lost a longtime team prince Andrea damo, who left in December. There was a huge testing accident for Tyrion noville, so at Karl's written off. So they were chasing their tiles for basically the first half of the season with an underdeveloped and an unreliable I 20 N but credit to Julian monse and despite a lot of leadership struggle, should we say because he was sort of just trusted into sort of a control when we didn't know if he was going to be replaced mid season or whether he was going to be there the whole year. It's hard for him to do that. But he managed to bring the team to get it to score 5 ready wins in the second half of the year. They outscored Toyota, which were the champions. So they closed the gap, remarkably. And it points us get enough credit for what they did there. So in many ways, I'm very excited to see what they do this year because if they can close the gap from being that far behind it start the season. What are we going to see if there are much more equal staff to this year? Will we actually see Hyundai actually overtake to us? Because the way that they were going at the second half of the year, it was suggesting that they were going to. So both teams have made changes to their cars and certainly in the aero department on both cars and the engine on the Toyota. So we will see, but I think we have generally going to see quite a strong challenge from Hyundai and now under the new management with Cyril, a B 12 coming in. His Formula One experience. What I've actually written in the column for the magazine this week is I feel like, yes, Cyril doesn't have the rally experience, but his man
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Of this podcast this time last year. Our long suffering chief editor Kevin Turner. My first guest. Welcome back to the podcast. You get to be not doing my job this year on the podcast. You just get to throw bombs in and then run away if you want to. Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. That's a good point as much more. It's much more fun being the pundit you have to be organized. Have a list of things to work through and all and corral everyone and get them under control. That won't be happening. As you say, I can just say what the hell I like now. Absolutely. I mentioned that you are long suffering because this is the 21st time that we've done this. And how many times have you worked on this list? But the first 5, I think, probably. But obviously early days, I was sort of the junior T boy, so I'd have probably been largely ignored or what club driving do you think the national driver should be throwing in that sort of thing, and then it's grown over the years to be more and more a part of my December. Now you sign it off. Sign it off now. Sign it off. Well, that makes it sound archive. I don't do a V, I don't think I've ever done a veto. I go, no. It always happens. No, I don't think I've ever done that. I think we always have a there's usually a core of say three or four people sort of at the end of the process. Because obviously we get constant. You have to make a decision eventually, otherwise you just get each correspondent just wants to argue their person in our shake it all about up down whatever and eventually someone has to go right. Well, we actually have to print this at some point. But it's not me that just does it. No. Hopefully I'll just come back me up on that now, the other people that have been part of the process. My second guest today is your first appearance on this podcast is rally man Tom Howard and so you were on today because there's a name very high up. We'll get to it in a second from the world of rally. But welcome to the first time we do this. Is it your first time working on the top 50 list? No, no, it's the second time you've worked on the top ten seconds. I was actually quite a privilege to work on this list obviously it's something I've read as a child growing up and it's always cool to be involved in it and certainly this year. We've got some good names in there from the world of rally. As a child growing up. Yes. Right. Now I feel really old already. Specifically, because you cover rally, you cover specific series. I guess you come to this with you argue your case for why your series as it were and your drivers should be higher up than. Well, somebody else's. Yeah, absolutely. I suppose I'm the only sort of rally bod in the organization, so I have to sort of make sure I look after the guys there, I suppose. But yeah, no, I'm supposed to be in the expert on the rally for the magazine. It's important to give my points of view on who these guys are and how well they've been going because it's a series that perhaps doesn't get the eyeballs that probably deserves. And my final guest today is our list supremo. Many people have looked after the top 50 drivers list over the years. It's an honor, a privilege, and probably a headache. I imagine as well. James newbold. Welcome to the podcast. We were sharing stories earlier of our toddlers because mine's about a year older than yours and is currently got chickenpox, and you're just started at nursery. So we're doing dad chat earlier. It's actually a privilege to be in the office doing this in person. I know. Normally it's remote dad chat. Absolutely. We're in person dad chat. Absolutely. I did put the list together last year as well. I was not part of the podcast last year. Yeah, it's my second time putting the list together. It is very much though saying lists of primo. I mean, I started the list and then it then becomes its own beast as I pitch in names that might fall through cracks of different places and I create a long list of 50 to 70 drivers and have a first bash if you like trying to put them in an order based on the different correspondence season reviews. For all of our reviews from WRC to DTM, which is the season the series that I've been looking after this year to Formula One and everything in between. Our correspondence will rank the best drivers. And that's a really important point to start off with, frankly, is that we go by the rankings that the correspondence put together themselves. So, for example, on our list, a champion in one of the very top. U.S. motor sport categories is ranked below a teammate. But that's because that is effectively what was handed down to us by the correspondent of that series in his own top ten. So we have to be consistent with our own season reviews. And then we go from there, really. We have a go at trying to whittle down the list. We try and spread the love a little bit, but there's always that question of how do we prioritise what series above another taking into account the level of prestige of the series, the amount of competition involved, and in some cases, maybe other aspects which are harder to pin down, like the amount of technical input that drivers have to have if it's a series where development is allowed and the difference that that can make as well. So there's lots of factors that will come into play. There's lots of shuffling around as people go up and down the list. We come down to a final top 50, which nobody is happy with, but it's our best crack at what is ultimately meant to be a bit of fun to try and put together a list that highlights achievements of the top drivers in our view. So yeah, this is not scientific. This is not, we have this is not solely data related. If you're listening to this and thinking I would have put that burst in number 32. Now number 33, this is our best effort at the end of the year to go back over the last year and that's important to mention that it is over the last year. So there'll be some people who have had fabulous careers, but a bad year. And hopefully on this podcast, we can reveal the secrets, explain our thinking behind how we put this together. What does what do you want this list to do and not do as well? Because as we put the top 50 together and we base it on a calendar year. Kev, when you come to this, what do you want the top 50 to be like at the end of the year? Well, the first of all, I say, we take the process seriously, but the end result should be a bit of fun, I think, to carry on from what James was saying. And this isn't, you know, we do take it very seriously when we're doing it. And I think it's key to say that it is this season. So this is not a list of the 50 best drivers who are active at the moment. That's a different thing and that's something we try and emphasize. So yeah, it's trying to get obviously you want to get a mix of categories. So effectively, you have hierarchies within those championships, which are as James has said, normally based on the top tens of the correspondence because they're on the ground, they know what's going on.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"tom howard" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"This offer will not last very long. They're known to sell quickly, so order now with promo code Eric at my pillow dot com promo code Eric at my pillow dot com. This is the Eric metaxas show. Today you're hearing a special Socrates in the city version of the show drawn from a number of events that I hosted in Oxford, England. Here's more of my conversation with professor Walter hooper. It's our prize that yours as much as mine. And was that for the last battle? The last what did that win? I think the new. Right name. The newberry, the new berry. It is? Oh wow. I hadn't been aware of that. That's amazing. My goodness. Well, you mentioned, I guess we're going to chronologically, in 1984, having had a private audience with Pope John Paul the second. And you said that that affected you greatly, and that four years later, as I mentioned earlier, you became a Roman Catholic. Tell us a little bit about that if you could. Well, it wasn't really just simply meeting the Pope, but I'm sure that played a part in it. But I had felt for a long time that the church, which Lewis was a member of in which he supported so well. The Anglican church, the Anglican church. Make Christianity the core belief of it. I think we're passing away from the Anglican church. And they were, it seemed to me settle once and for all, finally, in the Catholic Church. And I particularly wanted more doctrinal church. I wanted to hear the sin and redemption express more often than the ordination of women. And so I became a capitalist. And I had no backward glance, Mira I'm usually such a sentimental old man. I look back and think, you know, to be that way again. But this didn't happen with me in that case. I was so happy. I wish I had been too young to jump up and click my heels together. I couldn't. Do you have to do it for me? You've said, at certain points that you believe that Lewis had he lived would have similarly crossed the tiber to use that term for similar reasons that he wouldn't have been able to abide the doctrinal mushiness of the Anglican church. Yes, I would say that. And I think it would. I think what he believed about new Christianity is really fun, totally, and the capital at church, much more as well, but at least that. See, I think he would have become a Pentecostal. And I'm sure of it. Because in 1988, I did. No, I'm teasing you, but it's just interesting to speculate because Lewis is so beloved by Catholics. I mean, obviously, by the evangelicals, by so many, but it is interesting that he really has found a huge audience among Catholics. Peter craft, who I'm sure you know, and I know Louis is biggest fans, so to speak, and promoter and Tom Howard, the mutual friend, Tom Howard, who says hello..
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Following this one, prepare to be amazed. Colin McRae's previous record of being the youngest, world rally champion at 27, hasn't just been beaten. It just got smashed. Let's find out who just became the youngest ever champion how he ended Finland's 20 year wait for a title. And what he can do for the future of the sport. Let's get up to speed with autosports, Tom Howard Tom. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having us. Back on the show. So you just witnessed history being made in New Zealand with the youngest ever champion. The world rally championship. Let's remind ourselves, though, who the previous youngest champion was, tell us more. The legend that is all that was sadly Colin mccrea, certainly for me, he was a hero of mine growing up one of the reasons why I even got hooked into watching rallying and I'm sure there's several people of similar age to myself and an older and younger that would have also enjoyed watching Colin McRae. He was a real special talent on the his only world title in 1995 and did that at the age of 27, which was the youngest at the time. 27 back there would have been seen very, very young because champions were sort of, you know, the late 20s, early 30s, and sometimes mid 30s were sort of seen as the prime age to win a world title. So yes, Conor McRae was known as the mister maxim of attack. He was a very exciting driver to watch race for Subaru, the factory team and his early 90s then went to Ford and then he had his final season with citron in 2003. He still regarded as one of the legends of the sport even today, 26 years on since his world title. And in the top level of rallying in the modern era, tell me about the recent champions. And how long they'd been driving? Were they also all older? Inverted commas. Champions. If you're not too familiar with rallying and WRC, then in the last few couple of decades, we say it's been dominated by two Sebastian's two French French rally drivers, Sebastian Loeb, and Sebastian ogier, Loeb has the 9 time world champion, the most successful and greatest rally driver of the ball. He has 80 world rally championship wins and has been competing even this year on a part time basis at the age of 48 and still winning events so Monte Carlo in January, so Sebastian ogier took over from him. One 8 titles and is the reigning world champion this year until Kelly Robin Perez success. That sort of period of dominance was split by tanak who won the world title in 2019 for Toyota. So that's how the world rally scene has played out over the last few years. While following rally New Zealand over the weekend, Callie Robin perra is now world champion. They call him king Kelly. You could also call him birthday boy. Tell us about the weekend and Callie Robin Pereira being the new world champion. What's a weekend if you or Kelly off of Paris celebrating your 22nd birthday? I don't know. He does get any better, I guess. If you're a rally driver or if you're if you're dream is to win the world rally champion, it doesn't get any better than the weekend that Callie Robin Perez just experienced not only has he become that the youngest ever world champion at the age of 22 and one day. He also became the first Finnish world champion for 20 years, so it ended that drought for a rally mad nation. So it's a massive deal for Finland. They've already announced that there's going to have a special celebration day in the country in his hometown of your vascular. So it's a big deal for Finland. And a big deal for Kelly Rothenberg. I mean, he's just a phenomenal talent. It's a record, I reckon we won't see beaten. A new benchmark, which I think is just above and beyond what anyone could have imagined. Now, he hasn't come from nowhere, like all overnight success stories. It's been 20 years in the making. Maybe 22 years in the making. Because in the beginning, there was Harry, Robin pere. Yep, Callie's father, WRC driver, 1993 to 2006. What happened with his dad's career and how did that lead into Cali getting behind the wheel? Harry Robin pere a former factory driver for Peugeot and sayat as well and it's a bushy. So he's been around a while as Harry. But I only ever won one rally back in 2001 at Sweden. So he was a regular podium finisher, but never really a title contender. He was what you'd call, I guess, a very safe pair of hands. You would have implored him to just pick up the points and be that sort of driver there, but perhaps not the one you put your money behind to lead your team to a title. He's really has some helped build obviously his son Kelly wrote from pair in terms of the rally driver. From an early age, he's got him in the car in cars driving from I think 8 or 9. He's been Cali has been driving some sort of vehicle. What do you think about it? Yes, he's the youngest of a world champion at the age of 22, but he's been driving things for a very long time. And our over that time, you just build the skills. Boy, as he built some skills because most of the paddock most of the service park sorry would envy the skills that Kali Roth and bear have his age. Certainly, you just watching him, he is he has skills beyond his years. The composure that he has behind the wheel, I don't think we have seen in many drivers in all motor sport. It's something that I generally can't really describe, but he just has this sort of, I just jump in the car and I just go and do it. There's no worries, there is no sort of panic. He's machine like, I guess. Is the only way to sort of it's just a machine. I'm generally speechless at how good he is because we're obviously fold him all season 6 rally wins. But he just has this ability to just destroy his rivals, but he's real skill. And I guess this is sort of comes back to all those years that you've been training in all sorts of cars, trying to learn car control. And it's his car control, which sets him about apart from the rest, because when the weather gets tricky, Cali rov repair is untouchable. There is no one that can come near him when it starts raining or gets slippery.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"tom howard" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Here's more of my conversation with professor Walter hooper. It's our prize that yours as much as mine. And was that for the last battle? The lost battle. What did that win? I picked the new big I think that then they'd be right now. The newberry? The new berries. It is. I think it is. I had been aware of that. That's amazing. My goodness. Well, you mentioned, I guess we're going chronologically in 1984 having had a private audience with Pope John Paul the second. And you said that that affected you greatly, and that four years later, as I mentioned earlier, you became a Roman Catholic. Tell us a little bit about that if you could. Well, it wasn't really just simply meeting the Pope, but I'm sure that played a part in it. But I had felt for a long time that the church which Lewis was a member of in which he supported so well. The Anglican church the Anglican church. Make Christianity the core belief of it. I think we're passing away from the Anglican church. And they were a symptom me settle once and for all, finally, in the Catholic Church. And I particularly wanted more dark triangle church. I wanted to hear just sin and redemption express more often than the ordination of women. And so I became a capitalist. And I had no backward glance, Mira I'm usually such a sentimental old man. I look back and think, you know, to be that way again. But this didn't happen with me in that case. I was so happy I wish I had been too young enough to jump up and take my heels together. Do you have to do it for me? You've said at certain points that you believe that Louis had he lived would have similarly crossed the tiber to use that term for similar reasons that he wouldn't have been able to abide the doctrinal mushiness of the Anglican church. Yes, I would say that. And I think it would. I think what he believed about Nick Christianity is really fun. Totally and the capital at church, much more as well, but at least that. See, I think he would have become a Pentecostal. And I'm sure of it. Because in 1988, I did. So no, I'm teasing you, but it's just interesting to speculate because Lewis is so beloved by Catholics. I mean, obviously by the evangelicals, by so many, but it is interesting that he really has found a huge audience among Catholics, Peter Kraft, whom I'm sure you know, and I know Louis is biggest fans, so to speak and promoter and Tom Howard mutual friend Tom Howard, who says hello. But it is interesting to think of that that there are so many and of course Michael ward. Who was with us talking about Lewis. So there's something there. I'm not sure quite what, but there's something there about Lewis and Catholicism, his ability to speak to people who are serious. About these doctrines, this old fashioned things like redemption and sin. Although I would argue, I think that converts to Catholicism because Congress the Catholicism tend to be serious about these things. I think that cradle Catholics tend not to be. So except perhaps for Alice von Hildebrand. Another mutual friend. He says the low as well. But she told me to rebuke you for this relationship you have with this cat. Can you tell us about that? You do have a cat that plays a central role in things. I lay in bed all night long. Cuddling my cat. This is, this is my wife. What is the cat's name? She's named after the saint and she's blessed Lucy of Nadia. And she's means the world in the she is one of my three cats. The first cat was urban the 8th. And then when he died, I adopted his mother, claret the meek. Claret's on the cats and up generally meek, but she really was. And I think clarity to me, if the Pope was going to canonize cats, he should begin with her..
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Sport magazine. I'm Martin Lee, and this is the auto sport podcast. Another round of the world rally championship at the weekend and home hero couldn't quite bring it home first, but he wasn't far behind. Hyundai's tanakh though held off the world rally championship leader Kelly Robin Pereira to claim a stunning victory at rally Finland. But the Finns weren't absent, like I say, from the top of the time sheets and there's so much to talk about today, including a thrilling weekend of rally. Filling up your leaky car from a Lake and a hot new co driving talents that's the talk of the service park. That's long-term listeners know what I'm referring to. But we'll get back to you. I think you've made a very, very poor judge for that. We'll get to Tom's exploits at the end of the podcast, but first of all, I'm joined on gravel notes by Tom Howard fresh back from Finland. You got in yesterday, but you were there for quite a while because like I say this cove co driving stuff, we'll get to, but you fresh back, what did you make of that rally Finland and the result? Yeah, yeah, what's a rally? I think we've been spoiled this year for rally just in terms of the quality of the competition and just exactly just some of the events that unfold during them. And I think, yeah, it's going to be hard to top what happened in rally Finland. I think this year, I think for many people, this will be so far what the standout rally in terms of not only the competition, but the support behind it, the amount of people that turned up to watch just the hype surrounding it all. Yeah, it was unlike any of the other rallies of visited this year. So yeah, absolutely extraordinary. And I have to say hats off to a talent. That will probably be one of, if not, the greatest drive he's had so far in his career was absolutely astonishing. You described it as an against the odds performance. And that's because the odds were in the favor of rally favorite Cali rob perra and the Toyotas, which have been barnstorming. The Japanese manufacturer having a huge winning run at rally Finland. And also just the fact that he had to be the to win this rally had to do the equivalent of qualifying laps for the whole weekend, complete maximum attack mode. Tell me about that. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, just to put this into context, just two or three weeks ago and rally Estonia, which is obviously ten X backyard and was expected to obviously perform, but this remember the hind eye isn't as good a car as the Toyota so it was always going to be a bit of a tall order for him and in Estonia. He was beaten by Callie Robin pair by almost two minutes, so and these roads are very similar to fill and not quite as extreme, but it's a similar type of rally. So to come to Finland to Toyotas backyard Cali rob Perez backyard and two with a car that let's be honest isn't as good as the Toyota and to be able to fend off these Toyotas and win fend off Callie Robin Pereira and when this rally, yes, simply astonishing, nobody saw this coming. You would have got very long odds on a result like this happening. I mean, let's be honest tanak is good, very, very, very good driver at a 29er 19 world champion and a two time rally Finland winner before this weekend. So we know he can go fast here, but what he did and if you ever get the chance to watch some of the action, he's just on the edge the entire 22 stages, which you just simply, you can't do this in these days in WRC. It's impossible to be absolutely on it for the entire rally, trying to haul a machine that isn't quite as fast as a competitor's to victory. It was, yeah, just amazing. I don't know quite how he did it. It was just an inspired performance from tannic to, as I said, produce an against the odds victory. We're going to hear from all top three on the podcast today, so let's hear from tanak talking to you as he talks about his satisfying win. Your most satisfying victory. It is that teddy is very satisfying and it's very special.
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Rally is our man Tom Howard. Wow, that was once again a weekend that absolutely delivered for some amazing racing. Yeah, an incredible rally. Again, it's just fun in the words to describe calorie rover Perry is now actually hard. I'm running out of adjectives. I'm running out of superlatives. It's just, it's just unbelievable. Like people are just genuinely stunned at what he's able to do and it's the key to this is the wet weather. This is where he's making the most impact. When it gets difficult and extreme, he's on a different or as Yara Matty Latvia the toe to boss said he's on another planet and he's absolutely correct because there is no one could touch him. Nobody can absolutely touch it. If you need anything to sort of justify or the skill that calorie romper is I would produce. Just go and watch the highlights from the power stage because that for me is probably that will be one of the drives of the season because I didn't need to push. Had a massive lead already, but there's 5 bonus points up for grabs. It was absolutely ridiculously wet to the point where SFI galapa actually described it as the craziest stage he's ever driven. That's how bad the conditions were. And he had the very similar conditions thereof in evidence and say, oh, you know, they were together in the road order. So elfin went slightly before him. So they started conditions weren't that different. But Kelly won the stage by 22.5 seconds over Evans, which is just unheard of. And it's just, I just don't know what to say anymore. He's just defying belief of what he's able to do in that car at the minute. And so that the car is reliable, but so, as the consistency of the driver as well, nothing seems. And he has had big offs. And coming through the series as well in WRC two, he had a big offer a few years ago where he landed on top of a spectator's car. And so it's not like he is impervious to making him mistake. But this season, his consistency just seems to keep delivering and delivering. Yeah, he's just, I think we spoke about it before. I think this was maybe Portugal where we just said he's just in this sort of flow zone where everything he is doing is just coming up gold. You know, it's just I think the best things to look at and you have to remember that each driver is a different driving styles, but if you compare the onboards of him with elfin Evans, it looks like Kelly's on a Sunday drive, like he's just so calm, so collected and yet performing miracles and doing things that you just can't believe he's doing, whereas elfin is just on the ragged edge, trying to get as much out of this car to try and keep up with Cali. Yeah, as I said, no one really can explain it. He's just he's on a different level. He's just at this point where he's so confident in the car. He's able to push where people just simply can't. And people can't say, well, it's just the machinery is better because he's beating his teammate because it was a one two photo again this weekend and with elf and Evans coming home in second tanak home hero tanak in the first of the Hyundai's in third, followed home by the closest championship rival, what does he know? I made a note of it over the weekend, 80 odd points, 83 points. Three points. Neuville is 83 points behind rather than in the fight for the championship. But like four minutes back in the second Hyundai. So it's not as if you can say, well, he's in superior machinery. And the Toyota is superior machinery in many conditions. He's just so good. And you know, it seems like now let's flip things around a little bit because on the last podcast, the second half we heard from the drivers and team managers, let's flip it round and hear from him right now because he's got that, if I can sort of use a bit of a cultural stereotype, that finish that finish thing going on, where he is brutally fast on the road. And yet when the Finns talk about their racing afterwards, it just sounds like they're so like they reclined, they're laid back. And he is so laid back when you hear him talk. Let's have a little listen here to Callie Robin pere talking after another win. Big 5 from the beginning with the guys opening the road and he had an elephant was all the time they are giving pressure also. So it was a nice vegan. Brokerage driving and United States is yeah, I think I haven't seen rains like this anywhere else before. It seemed that every time we had a break or road checks and there was some sunshine and stuff and then when we were on the start line it's always raining or something and yeah, quite extreme conditions a few times. An impressive final stage from you today. I saw that there was some rain before heavy rain for the guys then a bit less and less all the time for the last cars to come through. So yeah, I knew that there might be a chance for us to have a good position to start at the stage and India then I just push for it and the time was good. Okay, that's some of the press conference audio that they very kindly supplied to the auto sport podcast for us to use on the podcast today some Tom. So what do you make of some of the things that he talked about there after his win? You're right, he's typically understated. He must realize that what he's doing is phenomenal, but he's just so calm with it all. It's interesting in a way. It's kind of from a journal perspective. It's kind of, I suppose, a little bit annoying that he doesn't get more excited about what he's doing. But you have to buy it. You have to buy the fact that he's just so cool, calm collected. But I guess the point we need to make here is that the area where he is having a vantage is in these wet and slippery conditions. So three times elfin and Cali have gone up against each other for a rally win and the three times The Rain has come down in Portugal, Kenya, and now here he's just had something else that he can offer an elfin has no answer in reply. But he don't. But Evan started the weekend really well. He dominated early part of Friday. They absolutely. So just to recap that obviously elfin started Friday, he won 5 stages on the bounce and a lead of 19.9 seconds over Cali. Now, some of that was down to that was dry to begin with that the rally. So there was a bit of cleaning for Cali to do being first on the road, and you have to remember elfin was, I believe, 6th on the road. So he had a much better conditions. But yes, you're right. I often was in the zone and was looking very much like the elf and that we saw in Finland last year when he absolutely monster that event and won it. So there was genuine hope here that elf is elephant is going to do this. There's a very strong chance, but again, The Rain came down on that last stage on Friday and this is where Callie is so ruthless and clever is that he was because he was first on the road. It just worked slightly better in his favor in terms of the conditions were bad, but they got worse for the rest of the field. And he knew that and he could have just backed off because it was pretty slippery, but because he knew he was going to get worse. He decided to push. And that is where he got the 22.6
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
"So to me, that makes sense. The moment you said it, I was thinking back to like big trouble little Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee, big showdown little Tokyo. Show down a little Tokyo, one of my favorite martial arts movies. Oh, great soundtrack. Dude, great sound. It's just awesome old inspired martial arts movie. When I wrote that Dolph Lundgren movie, that was like the first thing I talked about was showdown. Oh, did you? Yeah, I see that. That's given me some great Brandon Lee. So shout out to Dolph. Serious desire to be you. He is. And that's one of the cool things you always hear that as well. Also, incredibly intelligent, far more than myself. But you see this, the bad guys, they're always partying, they're always, they've got the love hotel, which then you see in Yakuza as well. And those kind of things, those secondary things are, I mean, I'm in agreement, cyberpunk, in particular, didn't hit it. And especially when you get an open world with a desert around it, you start looking at these other things going. I would like a little bit of interactivity. And one of the things that I came away with from cyberpunk was I couldn't even sit on a stool. And I don't want Skyrim interactivity because I've been killed by a loaf of bread in Skyrim, multiple times because physics got screwed up. It was wrong. And you can hear it inside going. And you're like, uh oh, if that goes out, that's gonna hit me. And just crazy bugs happening in that. Tom Howard is like an Old Testament God. He will give us and taketh away. Yeah, he will. Speaking of giveth, Timothy gave us $2 super chat. I think Hogwarts legacy will have a good world. I absolutely hope the same men. That's a good point. For sure. I can't wait to see that. Special week, $5 super chat. Games still have a progress bar rather than the animation. I want to see the animation for opening a door or grabbing stuff or putting items on a puzzle. So listen to this, buddy. That's a good point about animations. Just recently, they patched in Horizon Zero Dawn, horizon forbidden west, they patched in an animation to not bend down and grab stuff. Now, I get it, man. Other people like that. But that bothered, it sounds so dumb, but it bothered me. I was like, but I am. Why would you remove the animation? Just make it faster, make something else. And I think maybe she does the thing that Valhalla can do, where I call it like bear Cuban, or tyrannosaurus rexon, where they're going through. But I like that. I was wrong. Everybody else, everybody else was absolutely a fan of it. Lord metroid member for 9 months, great walking the walk for dragon's dogma when a Capcom's best games, I like it so much. I own the switch and Xbox version keep up the great content, guys. Yeah, dragon's dog, dude. The reason why reposted that walking the walk is because there were some audio issues with the original. They sort of crept into the new one as well. But yeah, dragon's dog, if anybody hasn't checked it out, you need to. Very cool game. Yeah. Super chat, special week, $5. Games. Oh, yeah, so he was talking about animations. He wants to see the animations for opening doors, not a progress load bar. I agree, I agree.
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Absolutely fine. And that's the point. I think freak accident used to be used as an excuse. Oh, it's a freak accident. We can't possibly have done anything about this. That was just the way it goes. And now we go, well, that was a freak accident. What can we learn from it to make sure that when another freak accident happens, someone doesn't die or get seriously injured and it's changed it's changed the focus of a freak accident. And that's a good thing. That's probably been a big push from the FYI really since the terrible weekend of Emily in 1994. And that pushes continued and it has to. You are the man behind also sport magazine that we all read every Thursday. You've now got the luxury of plenty of images to pick from for your magazine next week. The hard work started today, you know, you're already reading copy and tomorrow you have to sit down and work out front covers and things like that. What can we look forward to in order to sport magazine next week? Were all of that will be there, of course, but I think we've got to give science the cover. He's been I think that's a feel good story. And he's gone out and he's won the Grand Prix. So I'll be looking for some nice celebratory pics of a sort of at last. And then obviously we'll be going into the ins and outs of all the things we've discussed the Ferrari tactical tactical gaffes and of course all the reports from around the rest of us as well. We've got formula E we're looking at the Kenyans as well that the locals that starred on the safari rally recently Tom Howard has spoken to them. So yeah, we'll be packed full of the usual, but yeah, we've got a bit of work to do over the next 48 hours before we can bring that to you. And then just that of interest, obviously the TV coverage doesn't show the protesters that made their way on to the track. And that's a right thing. TV shouldn't cover it. But in the day in these days of social media, I saw all of that unfolding in real time. I guess you could go back if you've got F one TV, you can go back and look at all the different onboards, and then you get an exact point of when the dash light went red and the red flag was thrown and I've seen a couple of the onboards as well. And they're near the track and the cars are going at speed. How much coverage, if any, do you give people like that? Because they're there to raise awareness. Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have given sympathies towards them because they both believe in the right to protest, if not in that way. Now, where do you stand on giving extra fuel to that fire if you like, bringing attention to them? No, I think it's something that you something you report on. I'm not very comfortable with ignoring things completely. Because that's kind of getting into censorship realms, isn't it? But I think it needs to be handled with. I mean, I think actually Seb and Lewis had a sensible take on it really. Yes, I agree with the right to protest. Yes, what they're protesting about is perfectly valid and something for discussion, but no walking onto a track where racing cars are going past 200 miles an hour is not the way to do it. But I mean, it's the sort of jumping off point, really, where we should be talking about F one having synthetic fuels and the hybrid systems and pushing the green agenda. And this is what this is what people like Hamilton. I think they get, you know, we've got to be in Vettel, it's got to be that message it can't just be, we can't just allow this idea that we're just going around burning lots of fossil fuels for our own enjoyment. It's got to be more environmentally conscious than that. It's definitely discussion worth having. And I think Lewis instead have done well to make sure that it is had. But yeah, walking onto it, walking onto a racetrack. I said to Alex, you know, I think these people need to be shown a video of the Tom price accident from the 1977 South African Grand Prix, which is absolutely horrendous horrific thing when a Marshall got hit by prices shadow and the fire extinguisher killed price in the Marshalls kill. It's horrible and racing cars and human body are not good mix. Not the best way to protest. I would suggest. And I would offer as well the opinion that I own, I've owned three, we have two electric cars in our driveway, we sold a Renault Zoe a couple of weeks ago and we drive electric cars day in day out because we charge. We got solar panels at home. So I haven't been to petrol station in many years. I'm jealous. Especially the price of the minute, right? But that surely is where I am interested in where we go, right? The cars that we take for a pint of milk and do the commute on a Monday morning, maybe you're listening to this in your car right now. Let's get those not emitting emissions. Let's get freight transport and all those things electric or zero emissions. But we don't ride horses to work anymore because of the motor car. But we still ride horses. And I'm the biggest proponent for I'm living this life, driving electric car, and I agree with it in principle. But if in 20 years time, we're still burning something to go watch motor racing. Well, we still ride horses, right? But I understand it's a halo. In terms of people look up to it and it has to lead the way. But if we're still burning stuff in the 20 years time, let's fix the 99% and then if we still do some stuff, it's not going to cause global warming. And I'm the person saying that anyway I disagree with me if you want to feel free to email podcast to auto sport dot com and say you're an idiot. I'll write straight away, yeah, why not? This topic is definitely a whole.
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Dedicated to rally, where we put all of our content there, and occasionally we crop up here as well in the auto sport channel. When there's a big thing to talk about, which there is today because we've sent our man Tom Howard to rally safari. It's going to be a wonderful event in Kenny around 6 of this season. The world rally championship sees a return to an event that was a regular from 1972 to 2002 back after a 19 year hiatus, though, and Tom welcome along to the podcast. If you can just tell us, you know, about your journey. Oh, we keep hearing about his travel chaos in the newspapers. And what it's like where you are and where you're working from, just set the scene for us. Firstly, we've got to say thanks for this opportunity to be able to actually go to cover an event like this. So a lot of strings have been pulled for us to be here in the first place. So those people that know who they are should receive some thanks. But firstly, yeah, it's quite a long journey. I haven't had any sleep for 24 hours. So I'm very tired, but yeah, so flew out from Heathrow to Cairo last night. And then got a plane from Cairo through the night to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. And then got another flight from Tanzania this morning to Nairobi in Kenya. So I landed in Nairobi about 8 a.m. Kenya time. So then we had a two and a half hour road trip to naivasha, which is where the rally is based. So I've seen quite a lot today. Some things I quite confronting, some things quite spectacular. But yeah, it's been a bit of a long journey, but we are here and we are here to cover safari rally. I can see you're working from some sort of, it looks like an office. I mean, you're on your own in some sort of room. What facility do they build in the middle of the desert? So we've got like we're actually in a wildlife resort near Lake naivasha, which is a holiday destination, so we say it's quite a touristy area. Lots of hotels, lots of safari trips that you can go on. So we're in a sort of a wildlife resort where they've constructed all these temporary buildings to house all the rally cars this weekend. Near the town of nova. So it's a small town, not two hours north of Nairobi. But we're in quite a extensive metal structure with a tarpaulin roof and I've cheekily nabbed the FIA office, which is a little bit quieter than the media center to be able to do this podcast. So thanks to Vera, if I media delegate. So let me borrow her office. So we should be doing this in vision because your Wi-Fi connection is rock solid. It looks great. It's nice and crisp. It's better than when you have 5 minutes down the road is who sets all this up before we actually get into talking about the rally just for our listeners who might be interested in like the infrastructure of a rally event in safari rally Kenya. Is this the FIA that build all this or WRC and the promoters? And the safari rally organizers. I think a point that we should make here is this is a really serious event here. This is the biggest sport and event they have in Kenya. It's bigger than any football event or marathon or anything else. So everything is pulled into this to make it a spectacular as possible. And I have to say, being a hugely impressed with the Internet connectivity and the service park and everything so far. I've had my own personal driver, take me around everywhere today. So called Nelson, who should get a shout out. He was a very, very nice fella. So yeah, this is a serious event. The president will be here tomorrow of Kenya to oversee it. And this is a key part of his sort of manifesto, I guess. He was a very key part of his plan to bring this event back to Kenya as it has been a way for a while, obviously came back last year. But this was all a very key part of their sort of political strategy because this is not only a sporting event. It's all about tourism. And it has such a long tradition, as you said, at the beginning there. So it's a very, very special event for Kenya. Colin McRae's last win was there. It's been won by Richard burns and Tommy McKinnon. It did come back last year, but a kind of a legendary event for those people who might not be super into their rally. What's it like for speed and the location and the kind of surfaces they'll be on. So this will be one of the toughest on the calendar and this will be even tougher than it was last year as the crews have been saying today in the press conference. But these are high speed gravel stages, very open stages. So you're out in the middle of now where really lots of wildlife so they'll be giraffes, buffalo, elephants, zebra, so the crews will come across all sorts of different animals on there and their ways through the stages, obviously they try to clear the stages before they run through to make sure it's as clear as possible, but you can't really legislate for any zebras running around at the erratic. But yes, they're very fast, open stages. And the graph is quite soft and sandy in places. So the car is actually sort of dig in quite a lot. And if you're not careful, you can actually get stuck as calorie roughen Perry did last year. So you get stuck in this sort of quicksand like gravel, which is called fresh fish. Is the local term. And so it's quite an interesting combination of you can not go flat out on this event. There are too many areas where you need to be careful and preserve the cars. It's so rough in places. So it's really going to be a case of who measures it the best in terms of going flat out when they know they can, but also making sure the car is safe and healthy. So you reach the finish. It's going to be a real rally of attrition. Yeah, organizers know what they're doing in terms of clearing the way. But how do they clear the way of the animals and to try and keep them clear of the cars? In the old days, every crew used to have its own helicopter run ahead, but they don't have like these days. So there is a helicopter that goes through and a double zero car, which goes through to make sure the stage is clear before anyone comes in. But one of the tools that some of the teams run to sort of help scare wildlife away so they don't have any trouble with they run a special flashing light system on their headlights. So they're constantly flashing, which is hopefully which hopes to catch the eye of any animal and sort of warn them that there's a car coming. So there's some little clever little tools I have, but largely speaking, there isn't a great deal you can do, but the organizers do the best I can to make sure that there is no dramas. The last rally out was a warm one, but what are the conditions going to be like for the drivers and inside the cars, these new hybrid cars? Yes, so in Sardinia, they ran some tweaked modifications to the cars to combat this increased temperatures in the cockpit. Sardinia was incredibly hard, 40°. We're not looking like we're going to exceed 25 here in Kenya. So it's going to be a lot easier, shall we say on the cruise, not no less tough, but the temperatures won't be as high. There is also a threat of rain on every day. So which could also throw a spanner in the works. So yeah, the conditions are very mixed. It's going to be a real challenge for all of them. Kelly Robin perra arrives there with a 50 point lead over Thierry Neville. Tell us about the form going into this event. So yeah, Kelly obviously had a quiet event last time in Sardinia, which was going to be a tough one for him to open the road, always going to be very difficult for him there. With the way that the roads are, so dusty and tight and compact..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"tom howard" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Well, the new book is Benedict, the 16th. We just got about a minute left. What is Benedict the 16th doing with himself these days? It's amazing to me that he's just turned 95. Well, he's clearly what is our eyes set firm or the finishing line. He's clearly now living a largely monastic prayer filled and prayerful last years of his life in order to please God attain the reward, all of us hope for, which is the eternal presence of all the saving Jesus Christ in heaven. And that, I think, is something which we should be grateful for what he's done first in the past. But I think should understand that he's got his eyes very firmly fixed on his own future at the moment and who can blame him for that. Do you know whether he's been writing in the last years? I think he's largely retired from such things. Do you think he's largely retired from such things? Because we always, we always wonder, well, just wonderful Joseph pierce to have you back again. I want to recommend all of your books to my audience and they can find most of them at ignatius press. They can get a copy of chance of the dance by my dear departed friend Tom Howard, so many wonderful books there. But Joseph pierce, where can people find you? Is there a website? Yeah, if people want to check me out, it's very simple, J pierce, JPE, ARC, E dot co, not dot com but dot co, that's my website and keep up to date with what I'm up to what I'm doing. If they go to that site. Say it again, Joe. J pierce. Dot CO. Well, Jay Pearce, a joy to have you. God bless you, my friend. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Alvin, we have a important announcement to make. Oh, we do. Yes, it is. I mean, it actually is important. One of our sponsors is new traumatic dot com. This month only the month is almost done, folks. This month only they decided special introductory offer if you use the code Eric, you get 30% off of everything on the website. That is huge. It was a big deal when they said we're going to do 25% for one week or something like that. They said, we're going to do it for the whole month. As an introductory thing. So if you're not familiar with their products and you want to try them at a ridiculously low price, you use the code Eric, but it has to be in April 2022. That's right. That's right now. Right now. But it's going to be gone soon, pretty soon it will be May 2022. And then when you put in the code Eric, you get the 20% not the 30%. So I want to encourage you if you need a melatonin or you need magnesium, we need zinc. Vitamin C all this vitamin D or C I take this stuff every single day. And the reason we do that is because we are now aware that you want your immune system to be very healthy. Right? You don't have to get weird injection. We're staying healthy over here. So that's the goal. So if you go to nutrimetics dot com. But this is only this month, folks. Only this month, 30 percent off. We should also mention a couple of other things while we're on the subject. If you use the code Eric at my store dot com, the bahnhof for posters will blow your mind. If you don't have one of those, I don't know, I don't know what to tell you. They're absolutely gorgeous. They're like the paper stock, the print of everything is gorgeous. It's a bun offer poster to silence in the face of evil, is itself evil, not to speak is to speak, not that. If you don't have that poster look in the mirror and say, what kind of American am I? Yes, and if you don't have that poster, you're being silent in the face of evil itself. Do you understand? Do you understand what I'm saying? So you go to my store dot com or my pillow dot com use the code, Eric..
Inside Supercars
"tom howard" Discussed on Inside Supercars
"To automate pit stops? I think the way how we write the regulations has a lot of safety concerns already considered. We work obviously with a lot of other partner race classes to just make sure we don't have we don't have any safety issues in there. Would this be regulated by health organization? I don't believe that we have governing bodies. We are also working with the FIA. We are governing body ourselves. So basically, we're looking back at the history of years and years of becoming better. And for example, we just changed our it's the regulations from last year to this year that the rails on the real axis have to be exchanged first before they move forward to the context. It's just to make sure that if a driver presses the battle too quick and we'll start turning that no mechanic at hurt. So I think it's a constant improvement of making sure it's a trade off between show and functionality, but safety always comes first. And this is how we write the rules. You may remember in 2020, we spoke to Tom Howard, who's now with auto sport, but back then was working on a British touring car championship team, and he explained that the British touring car teams only operated with a fraction of the staff. That it takes to run a super car team..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric and Dennis Prager Discuss the Importance of Rituals
"Rituals are so essential. So that's one of another theme that I deal with in the book. That's why I mentioned why are many Christians having a satyr because Christian life has been denuded of ritual and absolutely. Some denomination. I'll give you. Yes, I'll give you an example that really bothers me and half my listeners who agree with me on virtually everything. Don't agree with me on this. You should dress up to go to church. For crying out loud and get a haircut. It's a matter with you. I don't like her. I don't care about the haircut. No, you don't care about what they wear. Dennis. I can actually argue both sides of this. I could argue both sides of this because I think. Getting dressed nicely is a ritual. That has been lost. One of my favorite books in the world is called chance of the dance by Tom Howard. I dedicate my new book to him. And he deals with this issue. Human beings are created for ritual symbol meaning on and on and
The Eric Metaxas Show
"tom howard" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Okay. Now this one we tried to answer a couple of weeks ago. What is your favorite book? Your favorite. I'm going to go with ecclesiastes. Just kidding. I don't really, I don't really like the ecclesiastes very much. What's my favorite book? Yeah. Oh, they don't mean book of the Bible. They mean you're actual book. Yeah. Well, I don't know. On a day like today, I'm going to say chance of the dance by Thomas Howard. I dedicate my book is atheism dead to Tom Howard and to John rank in two friends that passed away about a year ago to the greatest men I've ever had the privilege to know. And Tom Howard wrote a book called chance of the dance, which I think of as in the tradition of C. S. Lewis. It's a book that Lewis would have been proud to write. It's utterly brilliant. And I, myself at the privilege of writing the forward to the most recent addition, but chance of the dance is a critique of modern secularism and its utterly brilliant and Peter craved whom we've had on this show many times said that if he could take ten books to the moon with him, chance of the dance would be two of them. Okay. Yeah. In case anybody wants to know a confederacy of dances is mine. John Candy was supposed to play the title role. Are you serious? Yeah. But he passed away and Johnny Carson had bought the rights for the most. I don't know why coming out. I can't believe I'm hearing this. Yeah, yeah. That's years ago. Okay, who buys your clothing? What are you talking about? My mommy. No, you can't say that on the air, but I will say this. Mother, mother has always bought my clothing. I can't imagine I can't imagine a trusting anyone else. So she stops it. No, it's so funny when people ask these questions, I don't know what who buys. I think I have people who buy my clothing for me. I do have a wig maker, but I don't want to talk about that. No, I've always bought my own clothing. So I don't know, is this a trick question? Is it meant to be funny? I don't understand. Okay, moving on. How can I have a close and deep relationship with God always? Oh my gosh. What a question. These are to Alban, these are tough questions. I wasn't prepared for this. I need to go have a cigarette and think about this one. How can I have a close and deep relationship with God always? Well, if there were a way to answer that question, we wouldn't be in a fallen world. There's no easy answer to that. But there are a million things you can do. I think maybe I'll pick this up on the other side of the break, but I will simply say hanging out with people who love Jesus and who are emotionally healthy. I'm not talking about crazy religious people who talk about Jesus all the time, but I'm talking about people who actually live it out, hanging out with those kind of people. That would be the number one answer..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"tom howard" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That's more than I meant to say. Okay. Now this one we tried to answer a couple of weeks ago. What is your favorite book? Your favorite. I'm going to go with ecclesiastes. Just kidding. I don't really, I don't really like the ecclesiastes very much. What's my favorite book? Yeah. Oh, they don't mean book of the Bible. They mean you're actual book. Yeah. Well, I don't know. On a day like today, I'm going to say chance of the dance by Thomas Howard. I dedicate my book is 80s and dead to Tom Howard and to John rank in two friends that passed away about a year ago to the greatest men I've ever had the privilege to know. And Tom Howard wrote a book called chance of the dance, which I think of as in the tradition of C. S. Lewis. It's a book that Lewis would have been proud to write. It's utterly brilliant. And I, myself at the privilege of writing the forward to the most recent addition, but chance of the dance is a critique of modern secularism and its utterly brilliant and Peter craved whom we've had on this show many times said that if he could take ten books to the moon with him, chance of the dance would be two of them. Okay. Yeah. In case anybody wants to know a confederacy of dances is mine. John Candy was supposed to play the title role. Are you serious? Yeah. But he passed away and Johnny Carson had bought the rights for the most coming out. I can't believe I'm hearing this. Yeah, yeah. That's years ago. Okay, who buys your clothing? What are you talking about? My mommy. No, you can't say that on the air, but I will say this. Mother, mother has always bought my clothing. I can't imagine I can't imagine a trusting anyone else. So she stops it. No, it's so funny when people ask these questions, I don't know what who buys. I think I have people who buy my clothing for me. I do have a wig maker, but I don't want to talk about that. No, I've always bought my own clothing. So I don't know, is this a trick question? Is it meant to be funny? I don't understand. Okay, moving on. How can I have a close and deep relationship with God always? Oh my gosh. What a question. These are to Alban. These are tough questions. I wasn't prepared for this. I need to go have a cigarette and think about this one. How can I have a close and deep relationship with God always? Well, if there were a way to answer that question, we wouldn't be in a fallen world. There's no easy answer to that. But there are a million things you can do. I think maybe I'll pick this up on the other side of the break, but I will simply say hanging out with people who love Jesus and who are emotionally healthy. I'm not talking about crazy religious people who talk about Jesus all the time, but I'm talking about people who actually live it out, hanging out with those kind of people. That would be the number one answer. But we'll say more on the other side of the break..
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Moving into your world, isn't it with that involvement? Roman Dumas is a bit of a his says in all rounder is probably underplaying what he does because he turns out on pike's peak he does a bit of rallying and of course he's won LeMond twice. He's still going to lemon. He's a glickenhaus last year. But he just loves motor racing. And he someone wants to joke that his Porsche factory driver has been for a long time, that he basically, they liked having him as a factory driver because he basically gave them his salary back in all the cars. You know, he ran his rallied them and yeah, he just loves doing different different things. So it is yeah, it's great that he went there and he won it, you know, he sort of own venture with enormous and obviously enormous supplied the underpinnings of the Volkswagen IDR as well with an electric powertrain. But sort of going back to the veteran film climb dance. I think one of the most amazing things about that is the surface because I think very small sections of it were paved at that point because it got paved in a sort of piecemeal way over the years. And I think that process started much later. But it's just that the things he's doing, he's doing it on an unmade road with this precarious drop on one side. And it spell bounding, isn't it? It's also interesting that it was made without the sort of camera technology of today in the sort of tiny cameras that could be mounted on every surface of a racing car. Yeah, I think you're right. It is spell spellbinding. It's funny, isn't it? I think when we were growing up, pike's peak, it was something that was mentioned, but it didn't get a lot of coverage, did it. Because the world was a bigger place. Late 70s in the 80s, when we were now interested in motor racing was growing. You know, I vaguely knew about the answers. Roll in the race that the under family has won it umpteen times. I think at the beginning before the war, then Robbie, not Robin. So Bobby and Al, who were brothers and Louis nephews, I think. Alan junior has run it and Robbie answers when it says they're amazing connection between the family. And that's not forget that Mario Andretti, Rick Mears. They've won it as well. Yeah. It's one of those things that I think you need to discover Pikes Peak much easier, of course, these days with the Internet. And you see cars, like the idea going up, which does look bonkers and crazy and extreme as did the Peugeot four O 5 T 16. A car that can only be described as when somebody drew the rear wing, the person standing next to them said, make it bigger, a bit bigger. Make it a bit bigger. And of course, you know, back in the day as well, that would have had someone like Jean tots sitting in the well there wasn't a passenger seat. It was a solo solo run. But he would have been around at that time doing things in that circle. So, yeah, so he would have been around and he would have been around those cars and involved in the project and I think he would have jumped in as well and said, you know, show me, show me what this car's got. No passenger seat, of course, in those cars. Only one seat. We need to talk about a couple more things before we wrap up the podcast. Tell us who is penned the next piece for the magazine, which we highly recommend if you sit and you're not a subscriber. You're going to grab your copy for some fantastic pictures of this. And let's talk Godzilla. So who's written about the Nissan GTR R 32 for us? Yeah, that was a Tom Howard production and Tom was the logical chapter Derrick because he joined auto sport having spent a stint of several years down under in Australia, which not during the era of Godzilla, or hastened to effort. I'm not sure he was born. But I'm sure he's got plenty to say, as you guys will have about group a and about just bonkers monsters. Yeah, Godzilla is the Nissan skyline GTR R 32, which was developed for the 1990 Japanese touring car championship. And cashier hoshino would have been the guy who did most of the development work on that car because he was mister Nissan. And if only I'd known we'd be doing this monsters of motor sport issue where I interviewed hoshino in Japan a couple of years ago. I would have got some material for it. But he's an absolute legend. But yeah, it was developed in Japan. Then taken to Australia where the Gibson motor sport team did a lot of rework on the car, which was raced by Jim rittson Mark skiff. And scope is the guy who Tom has interviewed about it. He's still very much a part of the Australian touring car scene. And he is a very, very interesting story. It is the ultimate group a car. Absolute phenomenal power complete sledgehammer to crack a nut by the time it finished. And really only apart from a couple of outings at the spa 24 hours, one of which it won, it never really made a mark in Europe. And the reason for that is because Europe was switching over to the two liter regulations by the time Godzilla emerged and those two liter regulations were eventually became super Turing. So we never really saw that car at its peak. Our memories, Gary and I are memories of the ultimate group a cars will be the Sierra RS 500s if they're the late 80s, which just trickled over into the 1990 when there was a two class structure before it went strictly one class in what you can see. Let's not forget markers that we had to make do with a sort of production saloon version of the skyline, which of course Andy middlehurst won a hell of a lot of races in the mid 90s, one, two production saloon championships. And it was and also Matt Neal as well, race skyline to Griffin championship before launching himself into British touring cars. And for me, it's just a great looking car great sounding car yeah in my dream garage. I think they're probably an R 32 in there somewhere. Yeah. Preferably and chaos sonic livery. Well, if anyone's got one going spare, Gary will find a home for it..
The Autosport Podcast
"tom howard" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"That <Speech_Female> <SpeakerChange> would be a treat. <Speech_Female> I mean, <Speech_Female> I <Speech_Female> still get <Speech_Female> goosebumps thinking about, <Speech_Female> was it 2018, <Speech_Female> Brazil and max, <Speech_Female> just <Speech_Female> absolutely <Speech_Female> no earlier than <Speech_Female> that. Wasn't it 2016? <Speech_Female> 2016. <Speech_Female> 2016. <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> Yeah, it <Speech_Female> was just absolutely <Speech_Female> magic <Speech_Female> to watch. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> So <Speech_Female> I think, yeah, <Speech_Female> that would be great. And obviously, <Speech_Female> the <Speech_Female> thing that we have to watch <Speech_Female> out for is <Speech_Female> attrition. So <Speech_Female> if we do get any DNFs, <Speech_Female> it could spice things <Speech_Female> up. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> I mean, <Speech_Female> max crashed <Speech_Female> out from leading <Speech_Female> the race. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> With <Speech_Female> aachen, famously, <Speech_Female> in 2018, <Speech_Female> so <Speech_Female> I think <Speech_Female> that's quite, <Speech_Female> yeah, that's <Speech_Female> something to look out for. I mean, <Speech_Female> I don't think that's <Speech_Female> a scenario <SpeakerChange> that's likely <Speech_Female> going to repeat itself. <Speech_Female> But yeah, let's <Speech_Female> hope, let's have a little <Speech_Female> bit of rain. As Joe <Speech_Female> Biel said, not <Speech_Female> spar levels, <Speech_Female> but, you know, <Speech_Female> something where <Speech_Female> we can still be <Speech_Female> still be racy <Speech_Female> and have a maybe <Speech_Female> an inters and <Speech_Female> enters race would be would <Speech_Female> be great fun <Speech_Female> next time out. <Speech_Female> But Mercedes <Speech_Female> have <SpeakerChange> to <Silence> have <Speech_Female> to <Speech_Female> go <Speech_Female> for it in Brazil. <Speech_Female> <Silence> But we're going to <Speech_Female> have to see what happens. <Speech_Female> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> We will have to wait and <Speech_Female> see. But thankfully, <Speech_Female> we don't have to wait to <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> long because <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> of course we are <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> in our final trip hydrophilic <Speech_Music_Female> season, so we <Speech_Music_Female> go to Brazil in just a <Speech_Music_Female> few days. <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Music_Female> Guys, thank you <Speech_Music_Female> so <Speech_Female> <SpeakerChange> thank you <Speech_Music_Female> so much for joining <Speech_Music_Female> me tonight. <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> It is very <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> late back in the UK, so I'm <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> gonna let you go, <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> but before we wrap <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> up here's what you can read right <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> now on auto sport plus, <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Luke <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Smith was invited inside <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Mercedes mission <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> control where F one <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> races are one or lost, <Speech_Music_Female> read his full <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> report. <Speech_Female> In WRC, <Speech_Music_Female> Tom Howard writes about <Speech_Music_Female> how high end does radical <Speech_Music_Female> approach prepare <Speech_Music_Female> for the <Speech_Music_Female> new hybrid era <Speech_Music_Female> and of course <Speech_Music_Female> look out for autosport <Speech_Music_Female> driver ratings <Speech_Music_Female> as Al Grand Prix editor <Speech_Music_Female> Alex Helen orcas gives <Speech_Music_Female> his scores on <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> today's performances. <Speech_Female> That is <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> all check out all the spots <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> for slash plus <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> and I will see you <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> this <SpeakerChange> Friday <Speech_Music_Female> for the Brazilian Grand <Music>
AM 970 The Answer
"tom howard" Discussed on AM 970 The Answer
"Folks Welcome back. I'm talking to Margarita Mooney. The book is the love of learning. Seven Dialogues on the liberal arts margarita have to say that, um you know, I'm not a Catholic, but many of the books that have informed Uh, my my larger sense of the Christian worldview have been by Catholic authors, some of them friends, Peter craved Tom Howard, Chester 10 and so many others. And it's fascinating to me because truth is one. And so you don't need to be a Catholic to read books by people I know Bahnhof for when he was getting interested in natural theology. He had to go to a Benedictine monastery and it tall in in the Alps. Because he was interested, and that's where he found it. And so I think there is I mean, I know there is a very rich tradition in the Catholic Church, and I want to say to people who aren't Catholic, avail yourself of it, folks, because some of the stuff is absolutely wonderful, and it's sometimes a crime to me to think that there are people that they're just unaware. Some of the folks you're mentioning, like Newman and others well in my programs through Scala Foundation and obviously my teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. I work with more students who are of a Protestant background of a Catholic background and what I have found is that we share with each other. Our favorite resources and authors. But, yes, absolutely. There are riches in the Catholic intellectual tradition that I want to present to readers, and I want to make an introduction. I think what this book also does. I should mention that each chapter ends with List of references to the authors we talked about, and it also has suggested readings. So I think for listeners of any background, whether you think you know anything about this topic or a lot about this topic you will find In this book, actually, almost a lifelong reading list. Um, and it includes not only classics like Aristotle and quietness, but it includes the best selection of online articles that I have found which bring up to the present day. Thinkers like Dasani. I wrote an article on Jason's method of education and why we need tradition. An authority in education. And I contrast just Sani to another writer whose book Pedagogy of the Oppressed is one of the best selling books in education. Paolo Frayer. You may not have heard his name, but he is a staple of schools of education and Paolo Frayer appeals to a lot of people. It was written in the 19 sixties in Brazil. It was part of a movement to educate peasants and people like Frayer because it brings out a dialogue of the teacher and the student having an open dialogue and making education relevant to the concerns of the students, and it talks about liberation. Now what I do in the book is Get readers to think about. Well, what does Frayer mean by liberation? Because Frayer if you read all the way to the end of the book His models and education are people like Lennon. Mao. Well, too. Sarah Fidel Castro. And he's actually using words like liberation in a philosophical sense, that's descendant from the Higa Lian dialectic and into Marxism, So it's a view of history..
Inside Supercars
Inside Motor Sport
"You knew the risks when you decided to drive drunk. There could be a crash people could get hurt or killed, but that didn't stop. You did it. You knew you could get arrested, you can incur huge legal expenses and you could possibly even lose your job. You were well aware of the consequences of driving drunk, but one thing's for sure you were wrong. When you said it was no big deal drive, sober, forget pulled over. This message brought to you by nitsa. Thing, and we're in the business of gone five. So the teams and the push it to the absolute limits and sometimes Ivor and that that's what happens. Just just merged into the into the family. If between the whole, I'll even Barrett for that right to greet dot, intense mania. Some like that. That just is an acceptable from the race trips across the strategy at he is inside supercars. Welcome to inside civic is it's tiny, went lockers fondly back behind the microphone, Craig. It's great to be back. I didn't make engage Thailand band, but you had a good time today in Dadar did, and it's a portion of heavy back in the driver's seat once again on such because I watched from the distance. As you may or may not be aware. I don't get folks hillsdale's any watching the edited all lights. It was a Donut performance by triple eight of both days. Qualifying one two's both days races, the Qasr certainly had massive speed and they did they usual thing which something that have been doing for some years. And of course, now back on top of the championship with Shane grabbing that lay there with a second Bryce on Sunday, and one thing of coming up in the weeks ahead spoken at length with mocked up in the belt, the satisfaction of going to a new trek like that and having that sort of success that certainly if it's not next week, it'll definitely be the week after on the show just before we go into what he's on the show this week. Interesting to see that the Team Penske were floundering, almost certainly in was no way Scotty was doing his best. But really not making much of an inroad into things. It was the worst and first of all, rhodium since humble, she in two thousand sixteen. So that's a long time for them to of now former met distance. The other very obvious thing was the Spade. The Bayrak has now, obviously, to degree that's echoing the Zayd, be performance of the triple eight guys. Great to see Brad and came with a pair of drivers in an of course, running four cars in the main game this weekend, but to save Nick and Tim in the top five, that was a fantastic result. It wasn't a Tim slide mentioned early in the wakened that the Bayrak has do like that super smooth, low deg taught of rice trek, which is exactly what we head tail and bend. So I guess he was extremely disappointed on Saturday when the result didn't come his, why that he was expecting after good pay some Friday. And then as you said, bench. Back with both. He and Nick perk head on Sunday, but obviously they have got a great setup. And if you think back to when the series went overseas and they're on the tinkle circuits by always did seem to be able to rise an extra, an extra step in those of instance, well. Oh. Until he tracks that would be three years. And of course, I also also very well album pack that same type of very fast corners, service mood surface. And as you say, low degradation of the ties, you had ninety weekend because the the nice car people were down. That's Steve o. Donnell Jose executive president and chief racing development officer and also Joan was there who's also involved in? So you spoke to both of those gentlemen to stay Donald respect, civil Donal on the record. We said Hello to. To miss the pros. But we Tom Howard it on Tom, how'd from speak Hefei dot com. Headed an opportunity to speak with Steve Donal about why they were there and about motorized boating. And also we, we talked a little bit about the supercar series and its relationship with NASCAR similarities that