The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast

Episode 116 - No Such Thing as a Brera Quadrifoglio 6

No Such Thing as the Slough-Dover-Coventry Triangle. Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, John Griffiths, Nick Wright and David Faithful share their favourite facts about Alfa Romeo - in the UK (mostly!).

A surprising number of Alfa Romeo importers have come and gone within a triangle bounded by former offices and Slough, Dover and the current HQ in Coventry. What's going on?

Episode 115 - Live! At the Classic Motor Show

The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - live from the NEC - with Editor Guy Swarbrick, Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Nick Wright. Thanks to Tony and the team from the Car Chum podcast - you can listen to this episode and others recorded during the event at carradio.co.uk or on the Car Radio channel on TuneIn and other internet radio apps.

Episode 114 - NEC Classic Motor Show Preview and Tonale First Impressions

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.

Episode 113 - Steve Grimwood and Alfabetti

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

Episode 112 - Sim Racing Section Update

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.

Episode 111 - National Alfa Day Preview

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!

Episode 110 - Lance Dong of Always Looking for Another

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.

10, 20 and 40 - the Giulia, 159 and 75

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’ 40^th, 20^th and 10^th anniversaries respectively. 

Episode 108 - The 50th Anniversary Episode

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.

Episode 107 - Britain's first racing Alfa

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.