Fuelling Around - Stars Talking Cars!

It's the final episode in the current series, and Vicki and Dave's guest is YouTuber Mike Fernie! Best known for his work on Drivetribe, Mike has now set up on his own, and considering the channel is only just over 6 months old, it's so far going very well indeed!

Television presenter and motoring journalist Rory Reid is the latest guest on award-winning podcast Fuelling Around. Motoring journalist Reid, who is best known for his time as a presenter on Top Gear and Fifth Gear, is currently the YouTube director for Autotrader. He joined our co-hosts Vicki Butler-Henderson and Dave Vitty to discuss his love of cars and why he wanted to present Fifth Gear.

Best known for his time on BBC's Dragon's Den, the hugely successful entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is Vicki and Dave's guest this week on Fuelling Around. Theo's success in the retail world affords him the finer things in life, and as a self-confessed petrolhead, that means cars, cars and more cars! From rare vintage Jags to his wife's John Cooper Works Mini, Theo has an eclectic collection of vehicles in his garage, which he's happy to talk about at length in this brilliantly entertaining episode!

Autoalex is the second guest on a brand new series of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Around!He joined Dave Vitty and new co-host Vicki Butler-Henderson to discuss his eclectic collection of cars and why he finds it so hard to part with any of them!Alex has over 750,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 100 million views on his channel, making him one of the biggest automotive YouTubers on the planet!

In the final episode of this series of Fuelling Around, Jason and Dave are joined by actor Simon Gregson who's played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street for the last 35 years! When he's not been out on the cobbles or propping up the bar in the Rovers Return, Simon has clearly been busy buying and selling cars, as he's certainly had plenty of stock over the last 3 decades! From a Renault 5 Turbo to a Ferrari 328, Simon's had them all and his car collection shows no sign of slowing down, as is apparent, as he walks the lads through his varied and eclectic garage!

He's without doubt one of the biggest stars of YouTube, and has built a following of galactic proportions! Colin Furze is an engineer, an adventurer and a real life inspector gadget! He's built a secret bunker in his garden and an underground tunnel that links said bunker to his house, plus there's also a subterranean garage that will house his prized Delorean! Oh and he's a bit of a petrolhead as well, although Colin's approach to cars is like his approach to most things in life, ever so slightly unconventional! This is a brilliant episode and one to certainly watch, like and share, while not worrying too much about the lack of a traditional risk assessment!

This week Jason introduces Dave to his old mate Dario Franchitti. Jason and Dario raced together when they were much younger, before Dario moved to the states to become a big name in Indy Car. He won the championship four times and the infamous Indy 500 three times, and despite some terrifying crashes, is still around to tell the tales. These days his life is a much more sedate one, and his success has afforded him a fantasy garage of automotive exotica, which he's happy to give the lads a tour of, 'provided it doesn't make me sound like a dick' he says, which of course it most certainly doesn't!

On this week's episode, we meet YouTube and Instagram star Michal Fidowicz, whose online channel 'Candy Showroom' is gaining him a lot of attention. With a sense of style and a taste in clothes and cars that pre-dates his late 20s age bracket, Michal is making his own car content to a very high level. A sucker for old BMWs, Michal has already owned many motors and photographed significantly more, and his dream now is to ditch the day job and do this full time, as he explains to Jason and Dave.

'Fuelling Around' is back for a tenth series, with Jason and Dave welcoming along another all star line up of notable petrolheads! First up, it's the smoothest of the smooth, DJ Trevor Nelson, who as well as knowing a thing or two about music as the host of Radio 2's prestigious afternoon show, is also a bit of a secret car nut! His early days of motoring were reassuringly humble like the rest of us, but these days, he has something a little bit special on his drive at home, and he's delighted to have the opportunity to talk about it properly!

Ben Edwards has enjoyed a highly acclaimed career as a motorsports commentator, presenter and journalist, but it was behind the wheel and on track where it all started for him, and he still manages to get out in his track car when he can. With the F1 season concluding in Abu Dhabi last weekend and the Formula E season kicking off in São Paulo at the same time, it seemed the perfect opportunity to get Ben on the podcast fresh from his travels, to give Jason and Dave his expert analysis on all of the week's goings on, plus the customary walk down memory lane in terms of his own motoring life story!

At the age of just 45 and suffering from flu at the time, Jennie Gow had a stroke that was to change her life beyond all recognition, in an instance. An incredibly scary situation for Jennie, her husband and her young daughter, it was unlikely she'd ever return to broadcasting again, but with an unwavering sense of fight and determination, coupled with the support of some incredible medical staff and therapists, Jennie's back on the BBC and doing what she does best, getting the biggest stories first, from the greatest stars in Formula One! The support she received from the world of motor racing and its fans has been a huge part of Jennie's recovery over the past two years, as she describes honestly and openly to Jason and Dave.

Darren Gough is one of this country's greatest ever cricketers, having represented England and his beloved Yorkshire for decades. He won Strictly Come Dancing (twice if you believe him!) in the noughties, but these days golf is his greatest passion, along with cars of course. When it comes to motors, with Darren it's normally the bigger the better! Range Rovers, Land Rovers and even the behemoth that is the Cadillac Escalade is on his hitlist, but there have been smaller toys along the way in his more formative years. These days though, as a respectable man in his mid fifties, Darren can see himself looking quietly understated and naturally sophisticated in an Aston Martin, provided he doesn't have to pay for it. So, true to form and upholding almost every Yorkshire stereotype there is, Goughie wants to blag one, as he may have mentioned 3 or 5 times to Jason and Dave!

Fuelling Around is back for its ninth series, and the boys are launching with one of their favourite people on the planet! Kevin McCloud has hosted Grand Designs on Channel 4 for the past 25 years and shows no signs of stopping, but when he's not marvelling at ingenious architectural design, Kevin likes to indulge his other great love of cars! He's got all sorts of oddities, most of which are in bits, but there's no mistaking his credentials as diehard fan of all things automotive! So, buckle up as Jason, Dave and Kevin have a virtual root around in that fantasy garage, and contemplate a dream drive to beat them all!