Dario Franchitti on winning the Indy 500 and his love of fast road cars #285

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by IndyCar legend Dario Franchitti in this live podcast in partnership with car finance specialist JBR Capital. They ask Dario about his stellar racing career, during which he won four IndyCar championships and three Indy 500s, making him Britain's most successful motor racing export.

Other topics include the horrifying crash that ended Dario's professional racing career prematurely and the lasting consequences of it, plus Dario's love of high-performance roads cars, including the Ferrari F40 and Porsche Carrera GT that are the centrepieces of his eclectic collection, and the work he does developing some of the best hypercars in existence with Gordon Murray Automotive.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast, everybody, and it's a special one this week, recorded a couple of weeks ago at a glitzy event in London hosted by our car finance partner, JBR Capital.
0:15.0	The team at JBR Capital very kindly invited Andrew and I along to record a live podcast with the great Dario Frankeety.
0:23.0	We talk about his stellar professional racing career, his love of high performance roadcars
0:27.9	and the work he does with Gordon Murray Automotive.
0:32.4	Please enjoy the episode and if you want to know more about JBR Capital, check out the link
0:37.1	in the description.
0:38.6	So, ladies and gentlemen,
0:39.6	we are in the presence of motorsport greatness.
0:42.5	Three Indy 500 wins,
0:44.9	four IndyCar championships.
0:46.8	I think that's enough to make Dario,
0:48.4	in my view,
0:49.5	one of Britain's greatest,
0:51.2	most successful racing drivers,
0:52.5	is that fair?
0:53.2	Yeah, probably our greatest motor racing export.
0:57.0	Thank you. Thank you. I like this.
1:01.0	So, we're so pleased that you're here, Dario. It's great to talk. If I had to steal away from you one Indy 500 win or one IndyCar Championship, which are you going to
1:12.9	give up? I'd tell you what I would do. You could have a couple of championships if you gave me
1:17.1	another Indy 500. So this is the point I'm getting at. The Indy 500 to a racing driver like you
1:22.2	is bigger than the entire IndyCar series, isn't it? It means more, yeah. And we've had this discussion.
1:29.1	A championship season is, it's every lap, every race counts. People always talk about the last
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