Oct 27, 202632 minS3
From the Racetrack to the Road: The IP Behind Formula 1 Innovation. When a Formula 1 team builds something brilliant, the next question is just as important as the engineering: do you patent it, or do you keep it...
About this Podcast:
The automotive and motorsport world has always had a seat at the table — it just hasn't always been yours. BeDifferential is the podcast for newcomers, outsiders, and anyone who's ever felt like they didn't quite fit in car culture. Each week, host Eva Gregory goes behind the scenes with racers, engineers, executives, and industry insiders to share the stories, career paths, and hard-won lessons that don't make it into the mainstream. From grassroots motorsport to the paddock, from vintage cars to cutting-edge tech — if you're curious about where you fit in this world, you found the right show. New episodes every Tuesday, plus solo industry takes every Thursday.
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What is Be Differential about?
The automotive and motorsport world has always had a seat at the table, it just hasn't always been yours. BeDifferential is the podcast for newcomers, outsiders, and anyone who's ever felt like they didn't quite fit in car culture.
What has Be Differential covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Formula 1 Patents vs Trade Secrets | Dr Paul Loustalan" (27 October 2026, 32 minutes), "How to Work in Motorsport: 5 Ways In | F1 Austin" (22 October 2026, 13 minutes), and "Annie Van Orman | Helen the VW Beetle, the Hemmings Great Race, and What Air-Cooled Ownership Actually Looks Like" (20 October 2026, 53 minutes).
How often does Be Differential publish?
Be Differential publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 169 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Be Differential?
Booking probability for Be Differential is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Be Differential requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Be Differential's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Be Differential?
The strongest fits for Be Differential are Auto Parts Manufacturing and Car & Truck Manufacturing. Be Differential has a leisure audience.
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Episode #169
How to Work in Motorsport: 5 Ways In | F1 Austin
Oct 22, 202613 minS3Want to work in motorsport but you’re not a driver or engineer? Here are the 5 side doors into a racing career, and how to start this year. F1 hits Austin for the US Grand Prix, and Kimi Antonelli could clinch the...
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Annie Van Orman | Helen the VW Beetle, the Hemmings Great Race, and What Air-Cooled Ownership Actually Looks Like
Oct 20, 202653 minS3Meet Helen — a classic VW Beetle owned, driven, wrenched on, and genuinely loved by Annie Van Orman, the enthusiast behind @annies_vw. In this episode of BeDifferential, Annie talks about how she fell into the world of...
- Oct 15, 202612 minS3
Eva Gregory gets asked this question more than almost anything else: how do I actually get a job in motorsports? This week she answers it — for real, without the motivational speech. She started as a cashier at a...
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James Dornor | Driven By Us — From Isolation to Impact, and What It Really Takes to Change Who Belongs in Motorsport
Oct 13, 202646 minS3James Dornor looked around the motorsport industry and couldn't find a community that felt like his, so he built one. In this episode of BeDifferential, the founder of Driven By Us traces the full journey from that...
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Sean Patrick MacDonald on SimCraft Motion Simulator, Six Degrees of Freedom, NASA Architecture and Translational Seat Time
Oct 6, 202649 minS3SimCraft co-founder Sean Patrick MacDonald joins the BeDifferential Podcast to talk motion simulation, racing technology, and what it really took to build one of the most advanced simulator platforms in the world. From...
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Going Back to Road Atlanta — What the Motul Petit Le Mans Means to Me | Thursday Pit Stop
Oct 1, 20269 minS3I spent years working inside Road Atlanta — and this week, I'm going back. The Motul Petit Le Mans is the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale: ten hours, or 1,000 miles, at one of the most storied road...
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Ava Hanssen on 20 Championships, Winning Her First Open Wheel Race at COTA, and What It Really Takes to Chase Formula Four at 16
Sep 29, 202635 minS3Ava Hanssen started racing at four years old in Elkhorn, Wisconsin — and she hasn't slowed down since. In this episode, the 16-year-old Formula Four Junior Formula Championship driver talks about what it actually felt...
- Sep 25, 202618 minS3
F1's newest circuit couldn't produce a race. Three days later, F1 gave Monaco a sprint. Is that fixing the racing, or just adding more TV? This week on the Thursday Pit Stop, Eva Gregory breaks down the Madring's F1...
- Sep 22, 202632 minS3
Nathan Lyons was 12 years old when he left Fort Worth, Texas and moved to North Carolina to chase a career in racing full-time. In this episode, the AK Performance driver backed by Ally Racing talks about what that...
- Sep 17, 202610 minS3
IMSA just shortened its Indianapolis race back to 2 hours and 40 minutes, after two years as a six-hour endurance race. This Sunday, the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship returns to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the...
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Sam Russo | Rebelle Rally 2026 — No GPS, No Speed, and Why She Said Yes to 8 Days in the Desert with Lacy Taylor
Sep 15, 202643 minS3Sam Russo didn't plan to compete in the Rebelle Rally. Then she turned to a friend at a conference and said "we should do this" — and the rest, as they say, was chaos in the best possible way. In this episode of...
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Madrid's New F1 Circuit: The Madring, And Its 10-Year Deal
Sep 10, 202617 minS3Formula 1 opens a brand-new circuit in a European capital this weekend, which is a thing that basically never happens. The Spanish Grand Prix moves to Madrid — the Madring — and it's the first F1 race in the Spanish...
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Ed Welburn on The Lost Legacy of Charlie Wiggins — Four Championships, a Recovered Race Car, and a Story American Motorsports Forgot
Sep 8, 202638 minS3Charlie Wiggins was a four-time Gold & Glory Sweepstakes champion who built his own race car, ran a thriving mechanic shop on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis, and achieved things that should have made him a household...
- Sep 3, 202614 minS3
NASCAR quietly rebuilt its entire playoff format for 2026 and almost nobody covered it. Then on Saturday night at Daytona, it produced the exact result it was designed to prevent. Here's the change: the knockout rounds...
- Sep 1, 202632 minS3
Christian Valverde grew up with Silverstone as a backdrop — and at 18, he's already closer to that world than most people ever get. In this episode, Christian talks about nearly a decade of competitive karting across...
- Aug 27, 202615 minS3
GT3 is the most successful form of sports car racing in the world, and most people have never had it explained to them. So this week I'm doing that — and then telling you about the strangest, best idea in racing right...
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Jeff Swoboda on Luftgekühlt, the Art of the Gathering, and Why Getting the Atmosphere Right Changes Everything
Aug 25, 202633 minS3What does it take to build a car event so good that people fly across the world to attend it? Jeff Swoboda, commercial development lead and key figure behind Luftgekühlt, joins BeDifferential to pull back the curtain on...
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Dutch Grand Prix 2026: Why Zandvoort Quit Formula 1
Aug 20, 202611 minS3The last Dutch Grand Prix runs this weekend at Circuit Zandvoort — and almost everyone has the story backwards. Formula 1 didn't drop Zandvoort. Zandvoort dropped Formula 1. The Dutch GP is privately funded, it sold out...
Episode #150
Ella White on Berg Racing, F1 Academy, and Why Not Following the Rulebook Might Be Her Biggest Advantage
Aug 18, 202639 minS3Ella White didn't come up through the traditional karting ladder — and that might be exactly what makes her one of the most compelling young drivers to watch. In this episode, the Berg Racing Ligier JFC driver talks...
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