Live: BTCC legend Jason Plato as you've never heard him before #282

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by double BTCC champion Jason Plato for a live podcast in partnership with Renault. Jason discusses his early racing career, his record-breaking 23-year stint in the British Touring Car Championship and much more. He also opens up about how difficult the past few years have been for him and the mental health challenges he has battled since retiring from racing.

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1:42.2	Welcome back to the podcast, everybody. This is episode 282. This one's a bit different. It's a live podcast recorded a couple of weeks back in London with BTCC legend Jason Plato. It's actually quite an important episode, I think this one one. The first half, first two-thirds of the chat, a fairly typical interview style with Jason talking about his career in racing. And then it sort of turns and it goes off in a slightly different direction, but an important direction. And Jason reveals what the last few years have been like for him.
2:24.0	And he also talks about what's next for him.
2:27.4	So a few days after we recorded this episode, Jason announced publicly that he is returning
2:33.2	to the BTCC next year as a team owner.
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