Grant Denyer will return to motorsport at Targa Tasmania by late April

Grant Denyer has revealed a major change of heart in the latest episode of his podcast with wife, Chezzi.

After declaring he would never take part in another Targa race, Grant Denyer has revealed he will return to the tarmac.

The Gold Logie-winning TV host has revealed he will make a comeback at Targa Tasmania at the end of April.

The avid motorsport fan has suffered serious injuries – including breaking his back – while competing in various races and in the latest episode of his podcast with wife Chezzi, It’s All True!, said he feared he would die after the most serious accident.

“I thought it was gonna be bad,” he said.

“I remember coming to a stop after the car had pirouetted around in the air a few times and landed, it was a big crash. The only thing that probably prevented us from being killed was the fact that it was a rear engine car.”

TV personality Grant Denyer will team up with Professional Co-driver Alex Gelsomino to drive a 2012 Renault Megane RS265 in this years Targa Tasmania.

Targa is a tarmac rally where purpose-built rally cars compete on sealed roads closed for competition.

Father-of-three Denyer said he only ruled himself out of Targa as he felt it was what his wife needed to hear.

TV presenter Grant Denyer is airlifted to the Alfred Hospital after a car crash. Picture:Eugene Hyland

“I feel like something is missing,” Denyer said, confirming he will compete later this month. “I don’t know what I get out of my system when I race, but it’s something that’s important and I know my make up requires that.”

He added: “In motor racing, there is an accepted level of risk that you have to arrive at for you to be comfortable to be able to do that and I accept that risk. The joy I get back from doing it is worth the risk it takes. So the question is, should I race or should I not race? And I think we’ve just decided that I’m going to go and do the 20th anniversary of Targa Tasmania and just go down there and enjoy some of the world’s greatest road in a great car and, yes, it’s at speed but I’ve never felt better on this planet than when I do that kind of thing.”

Grant and Chezzi Denyer.

Grant Denyer has revealed he will race at Targa Tasmania. Picture: Mark Stewart

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the wide-ranging podcast that is released each Friday through Nova, Denyer spoke of the absolute exhaustion he felt when he called time on his long stint on breakfast show, Sunrise.

“I remember going to the doctors and the doctor said, your organs are running at about seven per cent and he goes, ‘you continue this and you’re going to die’,” Denyer explained.

“I always knew that job had a time limit because when you’re in a different part of the country every single day … I think I had 750 flights in three-and-a-half years, you’re gonna die.

“No one can maintain that. It’s just completely unreasonable and particularly because we dialled it up to 11 as well and we were doing crazy stuff on television every day. It was great television but that comes at a personal toll.”