Fuelling Around - Stars Talking Cars!

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This is the podcast for Petrolheads. Join professional racing driver Jason Plato and lover of all things automotive, Dave Vitty, for some quality car chat, and some very famous passengers joining them for the ride. Fuelling Around is powered by Adrian Flux.

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96 episodes
Updated June 3

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June 3 · 47 min
S11 Ep8: Mike Fernie: Working with Clarkson, Hammond and May was incredible!
It's the final episode in the current series, and Vicki and Dave's guest is YouTuber Mike Fernie! Best known for his work on Drivetribe, Mike has now set up on his own, and considering the channel is only just over 6 months old, it's so far going very well indeed!
May 27 · 46 min
S11 Ep7: Iwan Thomas: I've had some silly cars in my time!
Olympian Iwan Thomas is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Thomas is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in 4x400m relay event. He’s also a former World, European and Commonwealth Games 4x400m relay champion. The 52-year-old, who now co-hosts the motorcycle-themed podcast Full Chat, joined Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of cars.
May 20 · 48 min
S11 Ep6: Rory Reid: Everyone wanted us to fail on Top Gear!
Television presenter and motoring journalist Rory Reid is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Motoring journalist Reid, who is best known for his time as a presenter on Top Gear and Fifth Gear, is currently the YouTube director for Autotrader. He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of cars and why he wanted to present Fifth Gear.
May 13 · 33 min
S11 Ep5: Jack Pegoraro: I review about 100 cars a year!
YouTube star Jack Pegoraro is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. The online personality is best known for his YouTube channel Number 27, which is dedicated to telling the story of classic cars, and has amassed over 85 million views and nearly 250,000 subscribers. He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of older vehicles and why he dislikes modern cars.
May 6 · 38 min
S11 Ep4: Theo Paphitis: I Got Arrested Doing Donuts In A Ferrari!
Best known for his time on BBC's Dragon's Den, the hugely successful entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is Vicki and Dave's guest this week on Fuelling Around. Theo's success in the retail world affords him the finer things in life, and as a self-confessed petrolhead, that means cars, cars and more cars! From rare vintage Jags to his wife's John Cooper Works Mini, Theo has an eclectic collection of vehicles in his garage, which he's happy to talk about at length in this brilliantly entertaining episode!
April 29 · 43 min
S11 Ep3: Steve Jones: I’m looking forward to being back in the saddle for the Monaco Grand Prix!
Formula 1 presenter Steve Jones is the latest guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. The 49-year-old is best known for being the main presenter of Channel 4’s coverage of Formula 1 and previously hosted shows such T4 and X factor USA. Steve joined Vicki and Dave to explain how he likes everything to be just right about his cars, and how he's managed to write 3 books while on the road with the F1 circus!
April 22 · 37 min
S11 Ep2: Autoalex: Looking after 20 odd cars is a lot of admin!
Autoalex is the second guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around! He joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his eclectic collection of cars and why he finds it so hard to part with any of them! Alex has over 750,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 100 million views on his channel, making him one of the biggest automotive YouTubers on the planet!
April 15 · 59 min
S11 Ep1: Tim Lovejoy: I’ve not had a weekend off for 30 years!
Television presenter Tim Lovejoy is the first guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Lovejoy, who is best known for presenting weekend TV shows such as Sunday Brunch, Soccer AM and Something For The Weekend joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his love of cars. The 58-year-old also revealed all about life behind-the-scenes from some of TV’s most popular shows.
Jun 4, 2025 · 36 min
S10 Ep9: Simon Gregson – Owning a Renault 5 Turbo at 18, lit the fire for my love of performance cars!
In the final episode of this series of Fuelling Around, Jason and Dave are joined by actor Simon Gregson who's played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street for the last 35 years! When he's not been out on the cobbles or propping up the bar in the Rovers Return, Simon has clearly been busy buying and selling cars, as he's certainly had plenty of stock over the last 3 decades! From a Renault 5 Turbo to a Ferrari 328, Simon's had them all and his car collection shows no sign of slowing down, as is apparent, as he walks the lads through his varied and eclectic garage!
May 28, 2025 · 42 min
S10 Ep8: Justin Hawkins: The first time I did Top Gear, The Stig said I had a natural talent on track!
He's the ultimate rock 'n' roll frontman, but Justin Hawkins from The Darkness also possesses a penchant for performance cars, and like his catsuits, he likes them to be exotic and flamboyant! This is a brilliant episode as Jason and Dave take a walk down Justin's memory lane of motors, and talk about his future days on track, now that he's passed his ARDS racing licence!
May 21, 2025 · 42 min
S10 Ep7: Brilliant world records, crazy inventions and a constant disregard for health and safety with Colin Furze!
He's without doubt one of the biggest stars of YouTube, and has built a following of galactic proportions! Colin Furze is an engineer, an adventurer and a real life inspector gadget! He's built a secret bunker in his garden and an underground tunnel that links said bunker to his house, plus there's also a subterranean garage that will house his prized Delorean! Oh and he's a bit of a petrolhead as well, although Colin's approach to cars is like his approach to most things in life, ever so slightly unconventional! This is a brilliant episode and one to certainly watch, like and share, while not worrying too much about the lack of a traditional risk assessment!
May 14, 2025 · 43 min
S10 Ep6: Buying and selling the finest cars in the world, with Tom Hartley Jnr!
He was brought up in his father's prestigious luxury car garage, but Tom Hartley Jnr had plans to create the ultimate car dealership trading the world's most exquisite classic and performance cars, and that's exactly what he's done from his base in the midlands! When you've sold individual rarities for more than £60m each and have your eyes set on several trillion pounds worth of future business deals, then this is clearly no ordinary garage, as Tom explains to Jason and Dave in this jaw dropping episode!
May 7, 2025 · 57 min
S10 Ep5: Inside Dario Franchitti’s garage and his insane car collection!
This week Jason introduces Dave to his old mate Dario Franchitti. Jason and Dario raced together when they were much younger, before Dario moved to the states to become a big name in Indy Car. He won the championship four times and the infamous Indy 500 three times, and despite some terrifying crashes, is still around to tell the tales. These days his life is a much more sedate one, and his success has afforded him a fantasy garage of automotive exotica, which he's happy to give the lads a tour of, 'provided it doesn't make me sound like a dick' he says, which of course it most certainly doesn't!
Apr 30, 2025 · 57 min
S10 Ep4: It's eyes to the lights and foot to the floor, with Formula One commentator Harry Benjamin!
This week, Jason and Dave meet one of the brightest young stars in motorsports broadcasting, Sky and BBC Radio 5 Live commentator Harry Benjamin! Harry's been obsessed with F1 since he was a young boy, and to now be a significant part of the travelling world wide team, rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in the game is quite simply a dream come true, as he explains in this brilliantly entertaining chat!
Apr 23, 2025 · 48 min
S10 Ep3: We take a trip around the Candy Showroom with Michal Fidowicz!
On this week's episode, we meet YouTube and Instagram star Michal Fidowicz, whose online channel 'Candy Showroom' is gaining him a lot of attention. With a sense of style and a taste in clothes and cars that pre-dates his late 20s age bracket, Michal is making his own car content to a very high level. A sucker for old BMWs, Michal has already owned many motors and photographed significantly more, and his dream now is to ditch the day job and do this full time, as he explains to Jason and Dave.
Apr 16, 2025 · 52 min
S10 Ep2: Abbie Eaton: Working with Hammond, Clarkson & May on 'The Grand Tour' was a really big deal!
Abbie Eaton is without doubt one of the most talented young racing drivers this country has ever produced, and her glittering collection of silverware is testament to her talents. In addition to the trophy cabinet, Abbie was selected to be the test driver on 'The Grand Tour' so has lived the dream of every car fan, and has the stories from those infamous trips to prove it! Ably assisted by her cat Elvis, this is a brilliant chat about a racing career that goes from strength to strength, even though Abbie has certainly had her fair share of hurdles to overcome along the way!
Apr 9, 2025 · 50 min
S10 Ep1: Trevor Nelson: I don't play any new music in my old car!
'Fuelling Around' is back for a tenth series, with Jason and Dave welcoming along another all star line up of notable petrolheads! First up, it's the smoothest of the smooth, DJ Trevor Nelson, who as well as knowing a thing or two about music as the host of Radio 2's prestigious afternoon show, is also a bit of a secret car nut! His early days of motoring were reassuringly humble like the rest of us, but these days, he has something a little bit special on his drive at home, and he's delighted to have the opportunity to talk about it properly!
Dec 18, 2024 · 31 min
S9 Ep8: Russell Kane: I love 1980s modern classics
The final episode of the series sees Jason and Dave sit down with a man who rarely sits down, comedian Russell Kane! Russell is currently half way through an epic UK tour that has already seen him play about 60 dates this year, with the same scheduled for next year, and that doesn't take into account the podcasts, the interviews and the corporate gigs that he has to try and juggle as well! Away from that though and when he does have some time to himself, cars are a passion, and in particular 1980's modern classics! He loves old Fords and the motors of his Essex upbringing that rolled off the line at Dagenham, just down the road from his mum and dad's house, but has treated himself to a 1986 vintage BMW 5 series which is his pride and joy, and something he's only too happy to talk about!
Dec 11, 2024 · 56 min
S9 Ep7: Ben Edwards: The voice of motorsport and his career in cars!
Ben Edwards has enjoyed a highly acclaimed career as a motorsports commentator, presenter and journalist, but it was behind the wheel and on track where it all started for him, and he still manages to get out in his track car when he can. With the F1 season concluding in Abu Dhabi last weekend and the Formula E season kicking off in São Paulo at the same time, it seemed the perfect opportunity to get Ben on the podcast fresh from his travels, to give Jason and Dave his expert analysis on all of the week's goings on, plus the customary walk down memory lane in terms of his own motoring life story!
Dec 4, 2024 · 42 min
S9 Ep6: Mike Bushell: Track days for me are the ultimate thrill!
On this week's episode, Jason and Dave meet BBC Sports presenter Mike Bushell, who did Strictly Come Dancing 5 years ago and now does commentary at Carfest when he's not getting up at the crack of dawn every day to take his place on the breakfast show sofa! Away from the day job, Mike loves nothing better than getting behind the wheel of something tasty on track, as he explains to the boys.