Race Chasers

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Race Chasers takes you inside professional bike races from the perspective of professional photographers Zac Williams and Harry Talbot.

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#16
July 22 · 1 hr 23 min
Ep 15: TDF Rest Day 2 - A sensational second week
Are photographers cars causing crashes or saving lives? Ask Tom Pidcock! Join Harry and Zac as they discuss their favourite photos, educate you on roadside behaviour! Find out why Zac had the best weekend ever at a bike race and what photographer has Georg Stienhausser tattooed upon him. So much delight and delusion in this weeks episode!
#15
July 14 · 1 hr 8 min
Ep 14: One year of Race Chasers, back at Le Tour
Zac and Harry are back at the biggest bike race on earth! Join them on the one year anniversary of the podcast as they regale the tallest tales of the first week of a scorching Tour. Filled with observations from the duo, plus cameos from Hannah Walker and Anders Mielke drilling down into the big questions! Is the Tour all but over? Is Harry utterly washed? Can Zac really call himself the head of morale? Tune in to find out.
#14
June 3 · 55 min
Ep 13: When in Rome
Join Harry and Zac in Rome as they look back on all of the trials and tribulations of the Final week. Did Jonas take some classes at Zac and Harry’s Cycling Celebration School? Is Jai Hindley actually the nice guy you think he is and how many times can you count Harry yawn throughout this episode? Sign up for Escape Collective here.
#13
May 25 · 1 hr 8 min
Ep 12: Second week suffering
Harry and Zac talk through the second week stages, find out what riders listened to their celebration masterclass and who needs help. The pair discuss what being hit by Jhonny Narvaez would feel like and give the tell-all on Jai Hindleys next contract!
#12
May 20 · 1 hr 7 min
Ep 11: Bulgarian backlash and Italian inconsistency
Join Zac and Harry and their innumerable anecdotes from a wild first week at this year’s Giro! They discuss the ups and downs of the Bulgarian Grande Partenze, Italy and Bulgaria’s approach to policing and the photographic highs and lows that punctuate any Grand Tour!
#11
April 15 · 1 hr 24 min
Ep 10: Wout just happened!?
Relive the hell of the North one more time through the crazy, chaotic days of photographers Harry and Zac! From French sausage sizzles to eyes on the Laurence Pithie crash and tearing farmers' fields up on motorbikes, the two finally got to experience Wout winning in the iconic velodrome!
#10
April 9 · 58 min
Bonus: Kingmaker Chris Auld shares Industry Secrets
A special episode where Harry and Zac deep dive into the psyche and relentless business mindset behind industry titan Chris Auld. Fresh off yet another iconic image captured at Gent Wevelgem, Hear the story behind the nosey fan and the infamous roundabout crash shot that started it all! Most importantly, hear the tallest of tales about meeting hosts Zac and Harry for the first time.
#9
April 7 · 1 hr 14 min
Ep 9: Floundering in Flanders
Live by the camera, die by the security guard. Zac and Harry deep dive into their day at De Ronde. Hear how Harry scraped through by the skin of his teeth to make the finish while Zac had his day ruined by an overzealous security guard. They also return to Harry’s one true passion - lawn moving, amongst other cycling adjacent chat, all in the lead up to Roubaix and beyond!
#8
March 31 · 1 hr 8 min
Ep 8: Back in Belgium, back on the airwaves
Harry and Zac catch up on the summer in the southern hemisphere. Zac has new cameras while Harry seems to be giving them away to fans now? The two discuss MVDP’s possible new found WASHED status and what on earth is going on with the new name for Gent Wevelgem?!?
#7
Oct 22, 2025 · 1 hr 21 min
Ep. 7: Season recap, Waking up in Woking and Zac’s revenge tour
In this episode of Race Chasers, Harry and Zac are back staring into one another’s eyes in the flesh! In our last in-person-record of the year we recap our season’s, bring you our 5 favourite images of the year and regale tall tales from Gravel Worlds, il Lombardia and The McLaren Technology centre!
#6
Oct 2, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min
Ep. 6: Chaos in Kigali and the real Felix gall
Join Zac and Harry as they debrief the Vuelta, dive into Zac’s reflections on Rwandan Worlds and most importantly of all, discuss the greatest cycling event on the international calendar - the Team Time Trial Mixed Relay.
#5
Sep 15, 2025 · 52 min
Ep. 5: Mercadona Hamburgers and Jonas Rickaert
Join Zac and Harry for the final week of this wild Vuelta! They delve deep into the remarkable world of Mercadona’s take-away department, stoked to the brim with morale and spiritual enlightenment that’s needed to survive the depths of the third week of the third grand tour. They also talk cycling photography and race goings on too - because they have to.
#4
Sep 9, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
Ep. 4: Chaos reigns, Vuelta remains
In this episode of the Race Chasers podcast, Zac and Harry recount their most eventful and challenging week on a grand tour yet, where else, but the Vuelta?!? Protests stopping stages, getting the car stuck, Air BnB hosts untimely deaths, lemon being squeezed over paella! All this and more in episode 4 of Race Chasers!
#3
Sep 3, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
Ep. 3: Vuelta Vibes
After much apologising and explanation, Harry and Zac are back! This time from the first rest day of La Vuelta. We talk (dis)organisation, Big Starts in foreign lands, rider trivia, and weigh in on that Juan name on everyone’s lips. With plenty of photo chat in between, join us for a look back on the week that’s been and what we’ve been up to, while 10 days into the Third Grand Tour of our season!
#2
Jul 22, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Ep. 2: Pyrénean point and shoot
Zac and Harry dive into the second week of the 2025 Tour, complete with haystacks, traffic jams, French evening greetings and some photos in between.
#1
Jul 17, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
Ep. 1: We're at the Tour de France
Zac and Harry come to you from the first rest day of the Tour de France.

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