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Driven To Succeed - British GT Star Adam Smalley

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4723 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the final set of episodes for Series 2 of "Driven To Succeed", Kevin Turner sits down with British GT Star and 2023 Porsche Carrera Cup GB Champion Adam Smalley. In this interview, Kevin sits down with Adam coming off his debut in the 24 Hours of Spa Endurance Race, and chats about the differences in racing GT3 cars in an Endurance setting as opposed to a traditional manner, what it's like sharing the car and garage with a team of fellow drivers, and whether a push for Le Mans is now on the cards. There's also a great story of how Adam got into Motorsport via a family holiday and a karting track, and who inspired Adam to get where he is today as a racing driver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From allsport.com and allsport magazine, I'm Kevin Turner and this is the Allspot podcast.

0:10.9

Welcome to the latest episode of our Driven to Succeed series where we get to speak to up and coming British talent and joining me at Silverstone.

0:18.8

We're here for the British Grand Prix is Adam Smalley. Welcome

0:22.3

Adam to the All-Spot podcast. How are you? Yeah, first of all, thank you very much for having me.

0:26.9

I'm feeling good. It's nice to be here as a spectator this weekend. Come off the back of two

0:32.0

back-to-back race weekends, including the SPAR 24. So some rest is definitely needed. But yeah, what a way to chill for a weekend and enjoy some motorsport.

0:40.6

I was going to say that does seem to be universal with the drivers we've spoken to.

0:43.3

It's like, ah, is this a nice relaxing, watch some, watch some Formula One cars and support

0:47.4

races and have a bit of a chill.

0:49.0

How was SPAR?

0:49.9

I mean, that is a pretty, I mean, only 24-hour race is pretty full on, isn't it? Yeah, so for me, you know, previously what I've done,

0:56.1

Zombe been sprint racing, so to come into into GT racing my first season,

1:00.9

and, you know, round two of GT World Challenge endurance, being the SPAR 24,

1:05.3

was definitely a baptism of fire.

1:08.2

I had not done more than an hour in the car prior to that time. Yeah. So

1:12.8

my first stint in SPA 24 was incredible. Started in the day, finished three hours later

1:20.8

in the rain at night. So it was definitely tricky, but absolutely loved it. It was an incredible

1:25.8

experience. And what was the biggest challenge there?

1:28.2

I mean, you obviously, you know, you can all racing drives these days are fit. So was it more of a

1:31.7

mental thing than a physical test? Yeah, I suppose what I'm used to with sprint racing is the

1:38.1

intense 30 minute, you know, it's down to you. You know, you've got the setup of the car. That's it.

1:44.0

It's down to you to do the job. Whereas with the endurance racing, it's hard to you. You know, you've got the setup of the car. That's it. It's down to you to do the job.

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