S1 Ep76: 1994 Was F1’s Most Consequential Year
Today on Past Gas, we’re zooming in on a single year of Formula One-- one that saw the loss of a legend and the birth of a new superstar. We can often point to one year that shapes us-- whether it be ...
19 Apr 202156min
S1 Ep75: The Underdogs Who Outraced The Nazis
Beating Nazis in a racecar sounds like the plot of a ’90s action movie-- but it’s actually straight out of real life. Today on Past Gas, the story of how a band of determined outsiders, led by Lucy Sc...
12 Apr 202156min
S1 Ep74: THIS GUY won F1, NASCAR, Indy, AND Le Mans?!
Only three drivers have won in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, and Sports Cars. Dan Gurney was the first. Gurney was like the Forrest Gump of cars in the ‘60s and ‘70s, everywhere at once, racing incre...
5 Apr 202149min
S1 Ep73: The Stunt Too Crazy For Evel Knievel
Stunt driving is full of fearless, borderline crazy people. Today on Past Gas, we’re talking about possibly the craziest stunt man of them all. A guy whose stunt was so reckless, even Evel Knievel too...
29 Mar 202148min
S1 Ep72: How Marlboro Bought Off Ferrari For A BILLION Dollars
Today on Past Gas-- the troubled history of tobacco and racing. How and why did a major tobacco company exist without selling any products or services-- while still serving as the title sponsor for th...
22 Mar 202147min
S1 Ep71: Are We Actually About to Get Flying Cars?
Does anything symbolize the promise of the future like flying cars? From Star Wars to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, from The Jetsons to James Bond, flying cars have captured our imagination, but failed to ...
15 Mar 202144min
S1 Ep70: Why The 90's Was The Decade Of The SuperCar
Today on Past Gas—why the ’90s was the golden age of supercars! The lightning fast McLaren F1, the objectively sexy Lamborghini Diablo, and the very weird and very amazing Vector W8—are just a few, of...
8 Mar 202151min
S1 Ep69: Why Volkswagen is the Gamestop of Cars
Before Gamestop revolutionized the world of stonks, there was… Volkswagen. Over a decade before Reddit made GME a meme, one of the craziest short squeezes in history involved VW and Porsche. How did V...
1 Mar 202144min
