The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast

The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - live from the NEC - with Editor Guy Swarbrick, Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Nick Wright.

In this bumper episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick and guests focus on the upcoming Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC – and provide impressions of the new 2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale.  With Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club Manager Nick Wright and Alfa Female’s Kirsty Hodson.

In Episode 113 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down in a kitchen above a bicycle shop in Ipswich, to explore the story of the Giulia cycling team car which was such a hit at Club events this year - and talk about Steve's plans for next year.   You can find out more about the car in the December issue of Alfa Romeo Driver - or on Instagram - @alfabetti66

Hello and welcome to episode 112 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With Editor Guy Swarebrick this month are one of the Club’s newest Section Secretaries Andrew Whitehead – know to his friends as TED – and friend of the podcast, MiTo Registrar and AROC Racing Leagues commentator Reeve Taylor to talk about the eSports Section’s latest activities, including its new racing programme which started this week. AROC Racing Leagues races are broadcast on YouTube from 8pm every Wednesday. You can find all the races on the AROC YouTube Channel – and Round 1 of our new 1750 Championship is here The lowest price we could find for the Ultimate Edition of Assetto Corsa is £9.53 at Instant Gaming – which is an absolute steal! We did exaggerate slightly in the podcast when we said it was 13 years old. It’s only 11 years since the official release, although preview versions were around earlier…  And here’s a video showing what’s involved in setting your PC up to race with us - thanks to Section member - and friend of the podcast - Jack Hodson. You can find more at our official website and the Touring Car and Historic Racing websites - and the email address we couldn't remember on the podcast is this simple!  If you don’t have a PC, Assetto Corsa is available for Xbox – although most of the additional content is not and, unfortunately, Xbox and PC multiplayer racing don’t mix. And, finally, thanks to Greig Young for the image on the label - taken from the opening round and feature TED and Matt Daly.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with AROC Manager Nick Wright and Management Team member David Faithful to discuss National Alfa Day - which will be held at Bicester Motion on the 17th of August. Find out what's in store at the biggest and best Alfa Romeo event of the year!

In Episode 110 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club we have something slightly different – or, rather, we have two slightly different things. Lance Dong of the San Diego Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of the USA - a regular listener to the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast started his own podcast - Always Looking for Another. Lance interviewed Guy Swarbrick for his show – and then Guy turned the tables and interviewed him back. You can find Episode 13 of Always Looking for Another through this link, on Spotify, Podcast Addict, Buzzsprout and everywhere else good podcasts are found… You don’t have to listen to that episode first – but if you have time, we’d recommend you do. We refer to it a couple of times here - but this should all make perfect sense even if you listen to this one first. We’d recommend downloading the other 12 episodes, too.

In Episode 109 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to 75 Registrar Nick Suiter, 159 Registrar Debbie Lindsey and Giulia Registrar Andrew Celi to talk about their models’ 40th, 20th and 10th anniversaries respectively. 

In this month's episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with his very first guest - Management Team member David Faithful to choose their favourite ten episodes from the last five years.

Hello and welcome to Episode 107 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. This month I sat down with Alfa Hillclimber, National Alfa Day pace car driver and friend of the Podcast Mike Stark - and Former Club Chairman (and Alfa Romeo Driver Editor) Ed McDonough to talk about their recent discovery of an Alfa Romeo which competed at the Aston Hillclimb in 1912 - less than two years after the company was founded.

Episode 106 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club is our annual International Women's Day podcast. AROC Management Team member and Alfa Female founder Kirsty Hodson sat down with AROC New Zealand President Kirsten Adams-Ford and Head of PR for Alfa Romeo in the UK Krystyna Perry to talk about their achievements and their love of the marque. International Women's Day is on March the 8th.

In episode 105 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick hosts one of our occasional ‘Meet the Club Officials’ podcasts. Taking over from David Faithful as MiTo Registrars makes Owen Reeve and Reeve Taylor two of the bravest individuals we've had on the show.

In Episode 104 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with professional racing driver – and instructor – Steve Deeks to talk about his passion for Alfa Romeo. They talked for so long, we turned it into two epsiodes. Part 1 was released in December as Episode 103 and covered Steve’s early racing career and his links to Alfa Romeo – and how that developed into the passion he has for the marque. Part 2 covers his exploits in the Alfa Workshop 4C and the work he’s done with Jamie Porter to help develop the car. It should make sense if you haven’t listened to Part 1, but if you want to catch up and come back, that will work even better.

In Episode 103 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with professional racing driver – and instructor – Steve Deeks to talk about his passion for Alfa Romeo. They talked for so long, we’ve turned it into two epsiodes - in Part 1 they talked Steve’s early racing career and his links to Alfa Romeo – and how that developed into the passion he has for the marque. Part 2 will cover his exploits in the Alfa Workshop 4C and the work he’s done with Jamie Porter to help develop the car and will be released in the New Year.

In this special bonus episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Nick Wright - and a live audience - in the Podcast Lounge at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC to talk about the show, the Club, the year's events and the Club's Guardian microsite scheme.  If you'd like to see the team live in action - and we have no idea why you would - there's a webcam video version on the Club's YouTube Channel.

In Episode 101 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - sits down with Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Guy Swarbrick to look ahead to the upcoming Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC. What's going to be on the AROC stand? What else is there to look at? What's a podcast lounge?

In the fifth episode of No Such Thing as a Brera Quadrifoglio - and the 100th episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, Nick Wright and John Griffiths gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the world of Alfa Romeo patents... As promised in the podcast, here are a couple of  links  Fiat Strada - Handbuilt by Robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fXV6KzhBbM BL Ambassador - Handbuilt by Roberts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-tuY0Z7nQ And the one we didn't talk about... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPTlT8HXjk  If you want to explore more Alfa Romeo patents (or find the ones we talked about) start https://patents.google.com/?assignee=alfa+romeo&oq=alfa+romeo And finally - and most importantly - the link to the Peter Collins book! https://www.veloce.co.uk/store/Alfa-Romeo-p455563040 And the discount code to get 30% off the cover price is... at 1:18 into the podcast. Or 3:45. Or 18:27. No - sorry, you're going to have to listen to the whole thing.  

In episode 99 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Editor Guy Swarbrick is joined by two friends of the podcast – magazine regular and Alfa Workshop owner Jamie Porter and sim-to-real-life-racer Colin Cunniffe - to share their experiences on becoming a racing driver.

In Hello Episode 98 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits round the virtual round table episode with the usual suspects – Club Chairman John Griffiths, Management Team members Kirsty Hodson and David Faithful and Club Manager Nick Wright – to talk about all - OK, most - of the things you can look forward to at National Alfa Day on Sunday the 18th of August at Bicester Heritage. We’re very much looking forward to seeing you all there.

For the last two months we’ve been promising you an interview with Jamie Porter about becoming a racing driver. Last month he was bumped in favour of Alfa Romeo Managing Director Jules Tilstone. This month… well, this month we’re unable to bring the interview to you for technical reasons. Honestly, we lost it. We looked for it – for days – but it’s not there. We will re-record it, but unfortunately, Jamie is now on holiday. But we promised you Jamie, so Jamie you shall have. Here’s another chance to listen to Episode 24 – from way back in January 2021. If you’ve only started to listen to the podcast recently and haven’t listened to everything in the archive, this is a cracker. And, if you have listened to it before, it’s definitely worth another listen. If nothing else, it illustrates how much better our production techniques have got!

In Episode 96 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owner’s Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Jules Tilstone - managing director of Alfa Romeo UK - to talk about his background, his plans for the UK retail network and the new Alfa Romeo Junior. If you were expecting Jamie Porter, talking about becoming a racing driver, that episode will now be released in July.