The V8 Sleuth Podcast

The Undercut Q&A - Bring back ‘V8 Supercars’?

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0000

THE Undercut is back with a special Q&A vodcast, answering all your questions that arrive at V8 Sleuth!

In this episode, Aaron Noonan and Jack Perkins tackle whether Supercars should revert to ‘V8 Supercars’.

Does Super2 deserve standalone rounds again?

Will Triple 8 be as dominant as in previous years now that they are with Ford?

Is Lee Holdsworth underrated by fans?

Will a fourth manufacturer join Ford, Chevrolet, and Toyota?

Should Supercars replace MotoGP at Phillip Island?

All that, and much, much more!

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The Undercut – Fuelling the feuds in Supercars!

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0000

The Undercut returns in a massive week of sport, with Aaron Noonan once again joined by Jack Perkins, breaking down the inaugural New Zealand double header!

Of course, there is Brodie Kostecki versus Chaz Mostert, and is the war between Broc Feeney and Ryan Wood truly over?

Who really are the A-Grade drivers? Is Ruapuna up to spec for Supercars? What has happened to Cam Waters the qualifier? There’s parity, Toyota’s first win, and much, much more.

In our fresh segment, Number Crunching, we delve into the first 100 races of the Gen3 era and who the big winners truly are.

This week on The Workbench, the lads look at the revolving door of Supercars CEOs, plus what is going on in TV commentator land.

There’s some incredibly cool footage of a V8 Supercar cutting hot laps on the Calder Park Thunderdome, our Castrol Performers of the Week, and we dip into the archive for a sensational Colin Bond Castrol ad.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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The Undercut – Breaking down the big 2026 issues!

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0000

The Undercut is back for 2026, with Aaron Noonan once again joined by Jack Perkins and James Moffat, breaking down a massive start to the new motorsport season!

Can Grove Racing win without Grant McPherson? Does General Motors lack star power? Is Brodie Kostecki’s one-man band an advantage? How deep is the Triple Eight – Walkinshaw feud? Is BRT the real deal, and much, much more!

The lads catch up with Will Davison on life away from full-time Supercars driving, plus a schedule that will keep him busy this season.

In our new segment, Number Crunching, we delve into David Reynolds' remarkable career, which is set to notch up 500 race starts in New Zealand.

This week on The Workbench, we look at the new for 2026 Mustang Cup, which will see Moff and Jack line up at Phillip Island.

There’s the Phillip Island Classic, and a deep dive into the archives for some classic V8 Supercars testing action.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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V8SP: The ultimate guide to the Phillip Island Classic

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:53:00 -0000

It's back for 2026 - the Phillip Island Penrite 100 Classic caps a mega fortnight of motorsport in Victoria this weekend, with 364 classic race cars from across the motorsport spectrum set to hit the track.

From the Five Litre Touring Cars, to the best of Group C and A, to the best of Group N Historic Touring Cars, the event will also include the best from sports cars and open wheelers.

On this pod, Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker break down what promises to be a massive event.

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V8SP: Mega 2026 Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour Preview

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:55:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of Australia’s International Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2026 edition of the country’s premier GT race.

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V8SP: David Cauchi (Part 2)

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:49:00 -0000

In the second half of our chat with David Cauchi, Aaron Noonan delves into THAT fateful day at Mount Panorama, where Jamie Whincup ran out of fuel on the final lap of the 2014 Bathurst 1000. From there, 'Cauchi' went on to become team principal at Grove Racing, which has since transformed into one of the sport's powerhouse teams.

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V8SP: David Cauchi (Part 1)

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:45:00 -0000

David Cauchi has been there and won that in Supercars competition. From the glory years at Triple Eight Race Engineering to his time as team principal at Grove Racing, he has been a central figure in some of the sport's biggest moments. Aaron Noonan caught up with 'Cauchi' just before his departure from Grove Racing.

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The Undercut – The Q&A Edition

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0000

This is what happens when your favourite podcast format meets The Undercut – it’s a Q&A, with all of your questions answered by the team – Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins and James Moffat!

Just some of the topics covered in this show include:

- Feeney Vs Wood or Skaife Vs Ingall

- Winning drivers losing out in the championship

- The Supercars points structure and a minor premiership?

- Expanding the finals

- Countdown clocks

- The VB Challenge

- The future of the Supercars calendar

- Gala gossip

- Time certain supports

- Super2 in the pecking order

…and much more!

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Mini Metal: Garry Rogers and GRM machines

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:24:00 -0000

Lovers of 1:18 scale diecast model cars gather around – the Diecast Detective is back for a deep dive into the remarkable world of Mini Metal!

For episode five, Aaron Noonan is joined by the Diecast Detective as they check out models of cars either raced by Garry Rogers or fielded by his eponymous team.

Examining what’s hot, what’s not, what’s selling, and what’s not, this is a fascinating look into the cars that have claimed the championship trophy.

The value of some of these cars is seriously impressive, proving that diecasts are more than a hobby; they can be a serious investment.

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The Undercut – Unpacking the Grand Final drama!

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0000

The Undercut is back with an epic and unpacks all of the drama that unfolded on the streets of Adelaide for Supercars’ inaugural Grand Final!

With thanks to the Shell V-Power, Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins, and James Moffat look at Wood vs Feeney, our new champion Chaz Mostert, the new Grand Final format and much more.

The team also remember the incredible legacy of Allan Moffat, a man who transcended the sport, a household name and the Blue Oval hero from an incredible era of the sport.

The inaugural Undercut Awards break down the biggest winners from a massive season on and off track, while our City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car is a BMW Super Tourer that has performed on some of motorsport’s biggest stages.

Then there’s our Top 5 powered by Shell V-Power, which unearths some classic moments out of the archives.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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V8SP: Leigh Diffey

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:03:00 -0000

As far as Australian motorsport exports go, Leigh Diffey is one of our finest. With a career that has taken him around the world, Leigh is now the lead caller on NBC's coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series, amongst a range of top-tier sports, including the Olympics. Leigh recalls some classic tales from his early days in the sport, as well as his colleagues from Network 10 who covered V8 Supercars. We caught up with Leigh at the bp Adelaide Grand Final, where he was visiting as an ambassador of the event.

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Mini Metal: ATCC/Supercars title-winning models

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:16:00 -0000

Lovers of 1:18 scale diecast model cars gather around – the Diecast Detective is back for a deep dive into the remarkable world of Mini Metal!

For episode four, Aaron Noonan is joined by the Diecast Detective as they check out models of cars that have won the Australian Touring Car Championship/Supercars Championship.

Examining what’s hot, what’s not, what’s selling, and what’s not, this is a fascinating look into the cars that have claimed the championship trophy.

The value of some of these cars is seriously impressive, proving that diecasts are more than a hobby; they can be a serious investment.

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The Undercut: Grand Final Time!

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0000

The Undercut returns with a ripper show – unpacking the Sandown 500 and breaking down everything about the Adelaide Grand Final!

With thanks to the Shell Motorsport Collection, Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins, and James Moffat take a look behind the curtain of Supercars racing from every angle.

Payne, Waters, Cindric, Grove Racing and Tickford come under the spotlight in the Burning Questions.

The team looks at the Hall of Fame legacy of six-time Bathurst 1000 victor Garth Tander.

In the Workbench, the prospects of the four Adelaide finalists come into focus – who will win between Broc Feeney, Chaz Mostert, Will Brown and Kai Allen?

Then there’s our City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car – the Brad Jones Racing Falcon that took a tumble at Adelaide’s turn 8, and our Top 5 delivered by Shell counts down some forgotten moments from the V8 Utes at the Adelaide Parklands.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

Please note - this episode was recorded before the passing of the legendary Allan Moffat - stay tuned to V8 Sleuth for a full celebration of the life of this legend of Australian motorsport.

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Mini Metal: Sandown 500-winning models

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:36:00 -0000

Lovers of 1:18 scale diecast model cars gather around – the Diecast Detective is back for a deep dive into the remarkable world of Mini Metal!

For episode three, Aaron Noonan is joined by the Diecast Detective as they check out the models of the Sandown 500 and beyond.

Examining what’s hot, what’s not, what’s selling, and what’s not, this is a fascinating look into the cars that raced at the fan favourite venue.

The value of some of these cars is seriously impressive, proving that diecasts are more than a hobby; they can be a serious investment.

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V8SP Mini: Davison’s not so Dynamik Supercars debut

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:22:00 -0000

With Will Davison about to start his 600th ATCC/Supercars Championship race, this week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with ‘Davo’ in our first season, recorded at Sleuth HQ back in 2019.

In this snippet, he talks about the first races of his Supercars career with Team Dynamik in 2004, how they came to be, his first laps in a V8 Supercar at Mallala, how he was meant to do the full 2005 season with them, and how the deal fell apart…

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The Undercut: It’s Finals Time!

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:36:00 -0000

The Undercut is back with a bumper show, taking a look behind the curtain of Supercars racing!

With thanks to the Shell Motorsport Collection, Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins, and James Moffat break down a big weekend on the Gold Coast and look forward to the new-look Sandown 500.

There have been significant moves at Dick Johnson Racing, the end of a Supercar era, plus the team looks at the calendar latest and more.

What impact have the finals already had? Chaz Mostert, Kai Allen, Will Brown, and who gets to Adelaide.

One-Way Traffic this week remembers Garry Rogers, and the indelible mark he left on our three panellists.

Then there’s our City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car – the HRT VF Commodore, which many believed to be cursed, and our Top 5 delivered by Shell counts down some forgotten moments from the early days of the V8 Supercars Development Series.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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V8SP: Richard Emery (Part 2)

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:35:00 -0000

In part two of our chat with motoring industry stalwart Richard Emery, Aaron Noonan delves into his time as the chief of Nissan in Australia, which coincided with the brand’s stint in the Supercars championship. From politics to battles with the category, going GT racing, and dealing with teams, it’s an absorbing look behind the curtain at how the sport really operates. Now as the head of Hino, Richard explains how the truck manufacturer is leveraging its involvement with Supercars, Team 18 and the Toyota GR Cup. In part one, we looked at his stint at Mitsubishi, which included the brand’s push into V8 Supercars, plus his experience at Mercedes-Benz, a time when Erebus Motorsport took the brand V8 racing.

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V8SP: Historic Sandown! Everything you need to know

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:59:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this year’s edition of Historic Sandown on November 7-9! Aaron Noonan is joined by Mark Walker to preview the 33rd edition of the classic race event.

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V8SP: Garry Rogers in his own words

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:20:00 -0000

Australian motorsport lost a giant last week in Garry Rogers, the popular racer and team owner passing away aged 80.

In his honour, this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn is devoted to our episode with ‘Gaz’ from 2021, where over nearly two hours he shared stories and tales from his extraordinary life in the foyer of his legendary race team, Garry Rogers Motorsport.

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The Undercut: The Bathurst 1000 Champion Edition

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0000

The Undercut is back with our biggest show ever, breaking down the 2025 Repco Bathurst 1000!

With thanks to the Shell Motorsport Collection, Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins, and James Moffat are joined by six-time Bathurst 1000 victor Garth Tander in the studio, giving you the rundown of the Great Race from every angle.

Was it the greatest Great Race ever? Did James Golding deserve a penalty? Did the big dogs choke, and did Chaz Mostert really win or lose Bathurst?

The team looks at parity, the latest in the silly season, and who will survive the first round of the finals on the Gold Coast.

Then there’s our City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car – the cult hero Ford Laser that nearly won the Bathurst 12 Hour, and our Top 5 delivered by Shell counts down some forgotten moments from the mighty V8 Utes on the streets of Surfers Paradise.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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V8SP: Richard Emery (Part 1)

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:51:00 -0000

Richard Emery’s career has placed him as a mover and shaker behind the scenes in motorsport circles. In this opening leg of our chat, we delve into the very real look that Mitsubishi had at V8 Supercars with the homegrown 380 model. Richard was also involved with Mercedes-Benz when Erebus Motorsport entered the championship with its unique program.

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The Undercut: The Bathurst 1000 Edition

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:00:00 -0000

The Undercut is back, and it’s all about the Great Race – the 2025 Repco Bathurst 1000!

With thanks to the Shell Motorsport Collection, Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins, and James Moffat break down all of the big issues as we head to Mount Panorama for motorsport’s biggest event.

Who will win, who are the darkhorses, museum pieces on the racetrack, and much more.

The team also takes a deep dive into the archives to look at Jack and Moff’s first Bathurst 1000 podium finishes.

There’s the latest on Supercars’ safety car changes, plus the latest from the silly season driver market, while the subject of testing comes under the microscope.

Then there’s our City Rural Classic Car – the VF Commodore that took Will Davison and Jonathan Webb to the closest competitive victory in the Bathurst 1000 back in 2016, and our Top 5 delivered by Shell counts down some of the biggest moments from the history of the V8 Utes at Mount Panorama.

This is V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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Mini Metal: Bathurst 1980s & '90s

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:14:00 -0000

Lovers of 1:18 scale diecast model cars gather around – the Diecast Detective is back!

Episode two of the Mini Metal Podcast, powered by the Diecast Detective, focuses on the model cars from the 1980s and ‘90s Bathurst 1000 classics.

Examining what’s hot, what’s not, what’s selling, and what’s not, this is a fascinating look into an era of the sport that continues to capture the imagination of race fans.

The value of some of these cars is seriously impressive, proving that diecasts are more than a hobby; they can be a serious investment.

The Diecast Detective has done the homework on an ever-changing marketplace, with Aaron Noonan bringing his unique insights from two epic decades of the Great Race.

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V8SP: Rob Starr (Part 2)

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0000

In this second part of our chat with Rob Starr, we delve into the glory years of the Holden Racing Team, where success came naturally for Team Red. The discussion delves into the various roles Starr has held within the Walkinshaw operation, as well as the future outlook, with the outfit transitioning from the Ford Mustang to the Toyota Supra in 2026.

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The Undercut: Unpacking The Bend & Bringing on The Mountain

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 20:36:00 -0000

On this episode of The Undercut, with thanks to Shell OTR, Aaron Noonan, Jack Perkins, and James Moffat pull apart the burning issues in Supercars. The team break down all of the big-ticket items from the inaugural enduro at The Bend, plus we look forward to the Bathurst 1000 and the cutoff race for the Supercars finals.

There’s safety car chat, what parity truly is, plus the silly season plays that are about to be a talking point in the paddock.

Then there’s our City Rural Classic Car – the VZ Commodore that won all three levels of V8 competition, and our Top 5 delivered by Shell OTR, counting down our list of biggest moments from the incredible Touring Car Masters class.

Enjoy V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

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V8SP: Rob Starr (Part 1)

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:36:00 -0000

Robb Starr has been there, and won that in Australian motorsport. One of the longest-serving members of the touring car paddock, Starr joined the Holden Racing Team in 1991 and remains with Walkinshaw Andretti United to this day. In part one of our chat, Aaron Noonan delves into the early days of HRT, through to the glory days of the outfit, where winning came naturally.

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Mini Metal: The 1960s and ‘70s Bathurst Cars

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:28:00 -0000

Are you into model cars? Well, this is the podcast for you!

In the first episode of the Mini Metal Podcast powered by The Diecast Detective, the V8 Sleuth, Aaron Noonan, is joined by the Diecast Detective himself, who takes a look back at the model cars of the Bathurst 500s and 1000s from the 1960s and ‘70s.

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The Undercut: Previewing the AirTouch 500 at The Bend

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:25:00 -0000

Aaron Noonan is once again joined by Jack Perkins and James Moffat to talk Supercars and more on the second episode of The Undercut with thanks to Shell OTR - V8 Sleuth’s look at the world of Supercars, with the angles you don’t and won’t get anywhere else, with the analysis and numbers to back them up!

Covered in the show is the big unveil of the Toyota Supra Supercar, we look ahead to The Bend 500 and break down the combos that will tackle the enduros, heartbreak for Jack Perkins in the Xfinity Series at Portland, the future of Lucky Dogs in the enduros, finals formats and much, much more.

Then there’s our City Rural Classic Car – the Bathurst 12 Hour HSV Sportswagon, and our Top 5 delivered by Shell OTR, counting down our list of biggest serve-ups from the V8 Utes category.

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V8SP: Mark Winterbottom on his new autobiography, ‘Frosty’

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:21:00 -0000

Mark Winterbottom joins us for his second visit to the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum to mark the release of his new autobiography, ‘Frosty’, written with former Daily Telegraph journo and longtime friend James Phelps.

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V8SP: The lost enduros

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000

With this year’s Enduro Cup looming, we’re going back to a lost era of endurance races on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum.

Will Dale and Shane Rogers run through some of the big touring car enduros that, because they weren’t a round of the ATCC or have long since lapsed, are all but forgotten by history ... but not by us!

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V8SP: The Pack Up – Queensland Raceway

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:57:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker break down all of the talking points after a big weekend of Supercars racing around a packed-out ‘paperclip’!

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V8SP: Q&A - Spare cars, JR’s Bathurst anniversary, Super2 parity

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:50:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Warren Luff’s future as an enduro co-driver

- The current status of the Australian Touring Car Championship trophy

- The mooted Asia-Pacific Supercars series

- Where Feeney’s 2025 Camaro ranks among Supercars’ most successful cars

- Our favourite statistical coincidences in ATCC/Supercars/Bathurst history

- Parity in Super2

- A bit of Stock Car Sleuthing

- Should Supercars utilise spare cars?

- And plenty more

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from ‘The Paperclip’

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:29:00 -0000

The Supercars are about to return to Queensland Raceway for the first time since 2019 for the Century Batteries Ipswich Super440, so we’re looking back at the championship’s history of racing at at the ‘Paperclip’ on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum. Aaron Noonan and our resident Queensland Raceway expert Mark Walker talks about how the circuit came about, the dramas around the inaugural event in 1999 – and how he and a lot of people missed the opening race – along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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V8SP: Winton Festival of Speed: Everything you need to know

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:31:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this year’s edition of the Winton Festival of Speed on August 1-3! Aaron Noonan is joined by Mark Walker to look at what is rapidly becoming one of the best events of classic race cars on the calendar.

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V8SP: The Pack Up – Townsville 500

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:02:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker break down all of the talking points after a big weekend of Supercars racing in Tropical North Queensland!

Broc Feeney continues to be on fire, belt buckles, timing, who's hot, who's not, and a whole heap more.

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V8SP: Tickford Racing’s Simon Brookhouse

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:55:00 -0000

Tickford Racing chief Simon Brookhouse joins us for this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum.

While he’d not been directly involved in motorsport prior to being recruited as Tickford’s CEO in early 2024, Brookhouse explains his background in other sports as well his own visits to Mount Panorama in his younger days.

He also talks about some of the challenges that faces Supercars as a sport in the future – including one unexpected area that is becoming an increasing issue for teams – Triple Eight’s arrival as Ford’s homologation team for 2026, the repeated rumours over Tickford being sold and his take on whether the sport’s future is with private equity owning teams, the future of Super2 and building brand new cars for it, the team’s long-mooted move from its Campbellfield home, and plenty more.

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V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 2)

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:35:00 -0000

We’ve got a Bathurst winner on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum – and he’s a return visitor!

A lot has happened since Lee Holdsworth’s last visit to the podcast in early 2021, headlined by his Bathurst 1000 victory with Chaz Mostert at the end of that year, plus an unexpected swansong full-time Supercars season that netted him the Barry Sheene Medal.

For the final part of our two-part chat, we recap the extensive celebrations that followed his Bathurst win – including the Monday morning phone call from a rival team owner with an offer to race full-time in Supercars the next year!

Holdsworth talks about navigating changing his 2022 plans to drive for Grove Racing, his offer to race on into the Gen3 era full-time, working with a young Matt Payne, returning to Walkinshaw Andretti United for 2023 but knowing he had next to no chance of winning Bathurst, his return to Team 18 that would’ve seemed unlikely just a few years ago, and his new life outside of motorsport working in commercial real estate.

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V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 1)

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:45:00 -0000

We’ve got a Bathurst winner on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum – and he’s a return visitor!

For the first part of our two-part chat, we wind back to his last visit - and all the things that were going on at that time that he couldn’t talk about! One of those things was his co-drive deal with Walkinshaw Andretti United, which had yet to be announced.

We chat about the uncertainty he felt in the wake of being unexpectedly cut loose by Tickford at the end of 2020, how his deal to join WAU came together, plus a lot of inside stories of he and Mostert’s dominant weekend at Mount Panorama. We’ve never had a guest reference ‘Kevin Bloody Wilson’ on this podcast before, but we have now!

Lee also tells the story of how the team’s post-race inspection of the car revealed that their shot at victory came quite literally a centimetre from unravelling…

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V8SP: All things ‘40’ in motorsport

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:45:00 -0000

Aaron Noonan and Will Dale explore all things ‘40’ throughout the world of motorsport in this episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn, in honour of Autobarn’s 40th anniversary in 2025.

From Supercars and Bathurst 1000 stars, Formula 1 icons, Indy 500 close-calls to NASCAR legends, we look at the #40 across motorsport as well as a look back at what was going on 40 years ago in Australian motorsport.

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V8SP: The Pack Up - Darwin Triple Crown

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:38:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker go through all the talking points after a hot weekend of Supercars racing in the top end at the betr Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley.

Broc Feeney's true triple crown, Grove Racing on fire, and those who had a tough weekend in the Top End, plus much, much more!

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The Undercut: Our new show about Supercars and more!

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:45:00 -0000

Haven’t had a chance to watch our new show, The Undercut? Listen to the first episode here on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn!

Aaron Noonan is joined by Jack Perkins and James Moffat to talk Supercars and more - opinion, analysis and the boys certainly didn't agree on everything in this new program from V8 Sleuth.

Jack downloads on his upcoming NASCAR debut, we talk Trans Am with James and the guys tackle the City Rural Insurance Burning Questions, packed with plenty of topics to chew on!

From the Walkinshaw driver battle, to who is Ford's best title chance, how Frosty's TV debut went, what happens to James Courtney in 2026 and much more, the boys have plenty to talk about!

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V8SP: Q&A - Illegal gearboxes, pointless penalties, Perth double-header

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:38:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- What are the chances of two Perth rounds in 2027?

- Penalties given to drivers that are out of contentions/out of the race

- Supercars’ Free to air TV coverage

- Toyota rally stars in Supercars

- “Tuned up the car”

- Cam Waters’ forgotten Porsche deal

- Garry Rogers’ lost Bathurst start

- The last Supercars race to feature none of the current primary or co-drivers

- And plenty more

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V8SP: Dean Canto (Part 2)

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:05:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features Supercars race winner and two-time Super2 Series winner Dean Canto.

A second-generation racer, we start the final leg of our two-part chat with Canto talking about his 2004 enduro drives with a pre-powerhouse Triple Eight, his 2005 Development Series title with Dick Johnson Racing, and the moment he feels cost him a shot at driving full-time for Triple Eight in 2006.

We then cover his time at Garry Rogers Motorsport, a period that delivered his first and only solo Supercars race win, but it’s a period Canto doesn’t look back on too fondly – we’ll let him explain why…

He opens up about the stunt driving school he ran with Luke Youlden, his Supercars co-driver era – including the time he and Youlden ended up both driving for FPR without either’s prior knowledge! – Bathurst 1000 heartbreaks with David Reynolds, their Gold Coast 600 triumph, and the plans for a third-generation racing Canto.

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V8SP: Dean Canto (Part 1)

Wed, 28 May 2025 06:04:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features Supercars race winner and two-time Super2 Series winner Dean Canto.

A second-generation racer, we start the first leg of our two-part chat with Canto talking about what he’s up to now and whether we’ll see him back in a racecar any time soon.

We then look back through the early years of his career, from coming to prominence in - of all things - a Maserati Ghibli, to landing a drive in Supercars’ brand new second-tier series and going on to become its first champion.

He then describes his rocky early years in the ‘main game’, including a false start with an elite squad in 2001, a couple of years of enduro co-drives followed by a shot at moving into the championship full-time for 2003. However, as he describes, it was hardly a dream situation for a rookie driver - one who’d been signed to a 10-year management contract...

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V8SP: Cameron Crick

Thu, 22 May 2025 01:45:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features rising Supercars racer Cameron Crick.

The son of six-time Australian Truck Racing Champion Rodney, the second-generation racer’s story is one of perseverence.

Crick talks about the grind that has been hand-and-hand with his rise through the sport, including his approach to securing sponsorship partners and delivering them value that is a must-listen for any aspiring young racer.

He also opens up on the loss of his father, his memories of his father’s truck racing and a hilarious story about the chance to drive one of Rodney’s race trucks and how it came to a sudden end.

Cam also details the point at which he nearly quit racing entirely during his debut Super2 season, and how he bounced back from that to make his Supercars debut and win this year’s Bathurst 6 Hour.

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V8SP: Cameron McLean (Part 2)

Wed, 14 May 2025 02:41:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features popular V8 Supercars and Super Touring privateer Cameron McLean.

The Queenslander was a fixture of touring car racing grids in the 1990s and early 2000s in the yellow hues of Greenfield Mowers, initially in two-litre racing in a variety of ex-factory machines before making the leap to V8s with Ford Falcons.

Among the second and final part of our two-part chat with Cam are his years of being a Supercars team co-owner, including his side of the story of his team’s car being seized and impounded in the middle of a race weekend. He also shares a sliding-doors moment that nearly led him to a full-time factory V8 Supercars drive, his time as a hired gun for the V8 enduros, and his scary roll in Carrera Cup at Queensland Raceway.

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V8SP: Cameron McLean (Part 1)

Wed, 07 May 2025 02:00:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features popular V8 Supercars and Super Touring privateer Cameron McLean.

Among the first part of our two-part chat with Cam are the tales of starting out racing motorbikes, how he came to race an ex-Tony Longhurst BMW M3 in Sports Sedans and win the national title, making the leap to Super Touring, the gnarly surprise awaiting he and his crew when they unloaded their Opel Vectra fresh off the boat from South Africa, plus the slice of luck in finishing fourth in his final Super Touring Bathurst 1000.

He also talks about the start of his Supercars career, the deal he did to get on the grid after failing to qualify for his first race, and how he snagged the signature of John Cleland for his first Bathurst in a V8.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from Symmons Plains

Thu, 01 May 2025 23:44:00 -0000

The Supercars are set to head to the Apple Isle for the Snowy River Caravans Tasmania Super440, so we’re looking back at the championship’s history of racing at Symmons Plains on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn. We look through the event’s extensive history dating back to the 1960s, the Tasmanian road circuit that preceded it, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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V8SP: Q&A - Godzilla sleuthing, B6Hr wrap-up, TCR’s future

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:17:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Which Nissan GT-R is in the Fox Collection?

- The future of TCR in Australia

- Our favourite Supercars season

- The Bathurst 6 Hour

- Cars being recalled to the ‘main game’ from DVS/S2

- When Supercars started sea-freighting cars to NZ

- Adding European cars to TCM

- The fate of the 2017 Bathurst-winning car

- And plenty more

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V8SP: 2025 Bathurst 6 Hour: Everything you need to know

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:45:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this weekend’s Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of the People’s Bathurst Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2025 edition of the country’s premier production car race.

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V8SP: Q&A - The ‘Rat’s heartbreak AU, lap records, converting cars

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:28:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- How we rate the start of Brodie Kostecki’s stint with DJR

- The whereabouts of Paul Radisich’s ‘99 Bathurst car

- Our take on the Chevrolet/GM Homologation Team race

- The times a sponsor has won its own race

- Variety of makes and models at the front of the grid

- Is the Bathurst 6 Hour the most underrated race in Australian motorsport

- The reappearance of the Peter Jackson Search for a Champion Commodore!

- Trans Am vs Super2

- And plenty more

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V8SP: Richard Hay

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast guest might be better known for their voice than their name, having played a key role in Bathurst 1000 broadcasts and Channel 7’s touring car racing coverage through the mid-1980s and 1990s.

Englishman Richard Hay was in Australia recently and caught up with Noonz to chat about his memories of Mount Panorama, working under Mike Raymond and alongside the likes of Garry Wilkinson, Neil Crompton and Doug Mulray. He also talks about how his father Neville became involved in motorsport commentary and how that in-turn led him to being a cameraman, commentator, producer and presenter across his career in motorsport media.

He also shares some fun tales from his time as a racer himself, including taking part in the Le Mans 24 Hours!

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V8SP: George Commins

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:00:00 -0000

Supercars Championship and Bathurst 1000 race-winning engineer George Commins joins this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Best known as the partner in crime for Brodie Kostecki’s recent successes, Commins shares stories from a long career that started with Mark Larkham and included a stint in Europe and in Formula 1 with Williams.

He opens up on just what life in F1 is like, his initial stint at Dick Johnson Racing in the 2000s, his time with Rick Kelly from 2015-2020 and his thoughts on the Nissan Altima Supercar, plus incredible insights into what makes Brodie Kostecki tick as a driver, their success at Erebus and where they are at amid DJR’s rebuild.

For V8 Sleuth Podcast Plus subscribers, you can also enjoy a snippet of Commins talking about the drivers he worked with in Europe, including current F1 stars Carlos Sainz Jr, Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc!

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V8SP: 2025 Trico Trans Am Series: Everything you need to know

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:45:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this weekend’s Race Tasmania at Symmons Plains for the opening round of the 2025 Trico Trans Am Series. Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker preview all the action, run through the massive 32-car entry list, the format for the weekend and some of the changes for this year’s season.

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V8SP: Q&A - 2026 silly season, clashing events, TCR’s future

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:26:45 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Did we really need to schedule three major motorsport events for the same weekend?

- Alternatives to keep the Sandown 500 alive

- The 2026 Supercars silly season

- Shane Rogers: Bathurst tour guide

- The future of the TCR Series in Australia

- The fate of the Team Brock Commodore from the 2002 Bathurst 1000

- Whatever happened to the Peter Jackson Search for a Champion Commodore?

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V8SP Mini: The darkest point of David Reynolds’ career

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with David Reynolds almost exactly five years ago in March 2020, when he visited Sleuth HQ with his chauffeur for the day - future Supercars champ (and his then enduro co-driver) Will Brown!

In this snippet, Reynolds opened up on a very serious topic: a tragic tarmac rally accident from the early part of his career.

Two weeks after securing the 2007 Australian Carrera Cup Championship, Reynolds was competing in the Mount Buller Sprint with navigator Paul Flintoft.

Their Elfin MS8 Clubman spun off the road and crashed down a 20 metre cliff, killing Flintoft and leaving Reynolds with head injuries.

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V8SP Mini: Brock & Skaife’s epic hire car race

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with Mark Skaife in our first season, recorded in his office back in 2019.

In this snippet, released on what would have been Peter Brock’s 80th birthday, Skaifey talks about partnering up with the King of the Mountain in 1997, plus a fun tale involving the Brocky, a couple of hire cars, and a desperate race to get out of the Symmons Plains car park

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V8SP: Scott McLaughlin

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:45:00 -0000

Supercars champ-turned-IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin makes his second appearance on the V8 Sleuth Podcast for this week’s episode, recorded while he was at Sebring for pre-season testing with Team Penske.

A lot has happened since his last visit to the pod back in 2020 so there’s plenty to talk about – including testing Porsche’s LMDh prototype sportscar at Sebring last week and partnering with his old Supercars rival Shane van Gisbergen at the 24 Hours of Daytona!

He talks about how his relationship with SVG has changed since he departed Supercars and his role in getting them together for Daytona, where the gains come from now the Dallara IR12 is a 14-year-old car, whether he still keeps up with Supercars, comparisons between the 2019 Bathurst controversy and last year’s Push-to-Pass IndyCar drama, the new era about to dawn in IndyCar, and plenty more.

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V8SP Mini: Becoming the 'Supersub' for your dream team

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Jack Perkins, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ back in 2021.

In this snippet, Perkins talks about his dream call-up from the Holden Racing Team in 2015 - initially as a co-driver, then being suddenly promoted mid-weekend to the primary driver role after a bizarre incident injured James Courtney. He also talks about his emotional first Supercars race win upon Courtney’s return, plus a special day with his dad and Walkinshaw Andretti United at Sydney Motorsport Park in 2018.

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V8SP: Q&A - Reporting sensitive stories, top 25 drivers since 2000, mid-season manufacturer swaps

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Our take on Supercars.com’s list of the Top 25 drivers since 2000

- How we go about investigating and reporting on sensitive stories

- Teams that have switched manufacturers mid-season or run different makes at the same meeting

- Three-driver combinations

- A book on NASCAR stock car racing in Australia

- The most numbers used by a driver

- Drivers that have done the most Shootouts without scoring a pole position

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V8SP Mini: Warnie’s role in Davison’s pursuit of F1 dream

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Will Davison, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ way back in 2019.

In this snippet, Davison talks about the cubic dollars that were required when he was pursuing his dream of racing in Formula 1 in the early 2000s and some of the things he did to raise it – including the help he had from Australian cricket legend Shane Warne..

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V8SP: 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour: Everything you need to know

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:45:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to next weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of Australia’s International Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2025 edition of the country’s premier GT race.

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V8SP Mini: How Volvo’s deal to enter Supercars came together

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:00:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our episode with Garry Rogers, recorded at Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2021.

We look back at the team’s much-beloved Volvo era, and how it was actually an entirely different manufacturer that he was chasing!.

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V8SP Mini: How a six-pack of beer produced one of the great Bathurst 1000 TV openers

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:00:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast features part of our epic two-part chat with Mark Larkham at his kitchen table back in 2022.

In this snippet, he shares the inside story of the creation of Channel 10’s incredible intro to its broadcast of the 2017 Bathurst 1000, in which Larko gives an impassioned explanation of a lap of Mount Panorama.

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V8SP Mini: What Murph and Ambrose really said at The Cutting in 2005…

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is drawn from Supercars legend Greg Murphy’s first visit to the pod back in 2020.

This snippet revolves around a regularly-mined topic come that special Sunday in October: his confrontation with Marcos Ambrose after they crashed out of the 2005 Bathurst 1000.

We’d received so many National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions about it that we simply had to bring it up – and Murph didn’t disappoint with his recreation of what the pair said to each other post-shunt. The V8 Sleuth bleeper hasn’t been the same since…

This Mini came from Episodes 66 and 67 back in 2020, a two-part chat via Zoom with Murph about his career to that point. To listen to the rest of the chat, tap this link >> https://bit.ly/V8SPMurphy

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V8SP Mini: How siblings pulled off a ‘Bradbury’ moment

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Nathan Pretty sharing a couple of tales from his rookie season in Supercars.

In this snippet, Pretty talks about a wild moment in the early laps of the first race at the 1999 Winton round, where he and sister Nicole used an old Thunderdome trick to avoid a host of crashing cars to vault, Steven Bradbury-style, from the back of the field to the front!

He also shares his side of the Bathurst practice crash later that year that led to Larry Perkins’ now-infamous synopsis: “Young bloke, cold tyres, f***ed up.”

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V8SP: The rise and fall of AUSCAR

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:44:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol looks back at the rise and fall of one of Australian motorsport’s most exciting categories: AUSCAR.

Created as the second-tier category at Bob Jane’s Calder Park Thunderdome, AUSCAR quickly became a star attraction in its own right through a simple formula that had, at the time, disappeared from Australian circuits: V8 Holdens and Fords racing head to head.

We chat about how it came about, the star drivers, what triggered its downfall, where some of the cars went, and share your memories from an incredible period of racing.

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V8SP: Greg Murphy

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:45:00 -0000

He’s back! Supercars hero Greg Murphy makes his second visit to the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for this week’s episode.

A lot has happened since his debut appearance on the pod back in 2020 so there’s plenty to talk about.

Among the topics is talking about all the fun he had in the V8 Sleuth Heritage Revival at this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000, and plenty of chat about the upcoming Taupō Historic GP and some of the incredible cars and drivers that will be on hand for the event on January 11-12.

We also grill him on some Supercars topics, including his thoughts on the new Finals system and Richie Stanaway’s move to PremiAir for 2025, and get him talking about a few things from his career that we didn’t get a chance to ask about the first time around.

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Ryco Rewind: When Will Davison hedged his brother on the last lap of the season

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sunday leg of the 2013 Sydney NRMA Motoring & Services 500 at Homebu… ahem, sorry … ‘Sydney Olympic Park’, a race that delivered one of the greatest largely unseen moments of ATCC/Supercars history: when Will Davison divebombed his brother Alex for seventh place on the last lap of the season. In Will’s defence, he had an extremely lucrative reason for doing so…

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V8SP: Q&A - Driver salaries, mystery HDT car, S2 v SC at Bathurst

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The times Ford outnumbered Holden at Bathurst

- The move to ‘Americanise’ the championship format

- The history of the VL Commodore dressed in HDT’s VK livery that raced in Heritage Revival at Bathurst

- The current level of driver salaries in Supercars

- Is Heritage Revival coming back for next year’s Bathurst 1000?

- The percentage of cars that won races in COTF/Gen2 and in Gen3

- How many S2 cars would’ve made the Top 10 Shootout at Bathurst over the years when combining their qualifying times with the ‘main game’ ones

- And plenty more!

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Ryco Rewind: They’re all in the fence!

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday leg of the 2010 Sydney Telstra 500 at at Homebu… ahem, sorry … ‘Sydney Olympic Park’, a race that delivered one of the most dramatic, championship-changing moments in ATCC/Supercars history.

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V8SP: Tony Quinn (Part 2)

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features one of the icons of Australian motorsport, Tony Quinn.

A racer, a team owner and a circuit owner, ‘TQ’s history in motorsport goes all the way back to his native Scotland – where he once raced Formula Ford against a future Indy 500 winner – before rekindling it in Australia in the 2000s having built up a multi-million dollar business empire.

Among the second part of our two-part chat with Quinn are stories from his ownership of Carrera Cup and Australian GT, his recovery from serious injuries after a Porsche crash in Townsville, and he reveals a couple of the exciting new cars he’s acquired that he’ll hit the racetrack in next year…

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V8SP: Tony Quinn (Part 1)

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:44:00 -0000

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features one of the icons of Australian motorsport, Tony Quinn.

Among the first part of our two-part chat with Quinn are stories from his earliest days in the sport, what got him back in, plus the notable run-in he had with officials that culminated in him trying to pay a $3,000 fine in coins – plus the other dig he had up his sleeve that weekend…

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V8SP Mini: Larry Perkins’ F1 debut on the Nürburgring Nordschleife

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Larry Perkins sharing one of his many tales from racing in Europe.

In this snippet, Perkins tells the colourful tale of his Formula 1 debut driving for Chris Amon’s privateer team at the 1974 German GP, held on the legendary and daunting Nürburgring Nordschleife.

This Mini came from Episode 31 back in 2020, the first of a two-part chat with Perkins about his career. To listen to the rest of the chat, tap this link >> https://bit.ly/3YswxSK

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V8SP: Matt Naulty

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:45:00 -0000

You’ve heard the voice, now hear his story! Long-time commentator Matt Naulty joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

‘Knuckles’ has been part of the Supercars commentary team for over a decade now, but has also lent his dulcet tones to a wide range of motorsports, including speedway and Stadium Super Trucks both here and abroad.

But his links with the sport go deeper than that: back in the 1990s, he was a part of a couple of race teams, including a team that took part in the inaugural Adelaide 500 back in 1999!

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V8SP: David Russell (Part 2)

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:46:00 -0000

Australian motorsport veteran David Russell joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Over two parts, the racer known as both ‘Coighty’ and ‘D-Russ’ takes us back through his diverse career behind the wheel, culminating in his reputation as one of Supercars’ top co-drivers.

In Part 2 he goes into his years as a hired gun for Supercars teams, including a long run with Kelly Racing that spanned its Holden and Nissan eras. Russell touches on his near-miss on a deal that would’ve landed him on the grid full-time in 2012, plus his infamous collision with a kangaroo in the early laps of the 2013 Bathurst 1000, and shares the story of a famously disastrous pre-Bathurst kayaking trip undertaken by the Kelly Racing enduro drivers!

He also covers his unexpected exit from Tickford in early 2019, success with Erebus Motorsport, and his decision to depart the team earlier this year only for them to win Bathurst.

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V8SP: David Russell (Part 1)

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:45:00 -0000

Australian motorsport veteran David Russell joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Over two parts, the racer known as both ‘Coighty’ and ‘D-Russ’ takes us back through his diverse career behind the wheel, culminating in his reputation as one of Supercars’ top co-drivers.

In Part 1 he talks about his dad’s racing, why he didn’t go via the traditional karting route and starting his racing career in his mid-teens aboard two very different machines: a turbocharged Datsun Sports Sedan and a bog-standard Suzuki Swift!

He also covers his years in GT Production with Proton, the competition that kick-started his Supercars career, racing in the Bathurst 12 Hour, and some of the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing to move up the ladder.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Erebus to supply rival/s with cars in ‘25

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 01:08:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Erebus Motorsport building cars for rival team/s in 2025.

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V8SP: Q&A - Elvis, a forgotten Mustang, the most dominant season

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:07:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- A new take on judging the most dominant season in Supercars

- The last driver to pilot a Toyota to a win/finish in the ATCC/Bathurst

- The fate of one of the original Group A Ford Mustangs

- What became of the cars that were badly damaged in a horror Turn 1 crash at Albert Park in 2017

- Elvis!

- Is Tony Quinn the first team owner to win an ATCC/Supercars race at a track he owns?

- The story behind Gibson Motorsport’s outrageous fuel economy in the 1995 Bathurst 1000

- And plenty more!

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Ryco Rewind: Courtney and Perkins’ against-the-odds triumph

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sunday leg of the 2015 Castrol Gold Coast 600 at Surfers Paradise, a race that delivered one of the most emotional Supercars victories in recent memory.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Winterbottom makes call on driving future

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:21:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Mark Winterbottom revealing that he won’t be on the full-time grid in 2025.

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V8SP: Todd Hazelwood (Part 2)

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:25:00 -0000

Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Hazelwood – as he will now forever be introduced! – joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for a look back at the remarkable path that his career has taken.

Hazelwood starts Part 2 reliving the year that he says “broke” him; the 2018 season where he and Matt Stone Racing stepped up to the Supercars Championship. He opens up on the challenges of that year and how it led to him having to leave the team at the end of the following year.

He talks about his two seasons with Brad Jones Racing, including his maiden Supercars pole and maiden podium finish - albeit one he regards with a bit of an asterisk - and his return to MSR for 2022. Hazelwood also goes in-depth on his switch to the Blanchard Racing Team for the inaugural season of Gen3 and it unravelled, before revealing just how bad co-driver Brodie Kostecki was feeling in the lead-up to their Bathurst 1000 victory - and just how bad Todd was feeling after it!

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V8SP: Todd Hazelwood (Part 1)

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:22:00 -0000

In Part 1, we start with the present and his victory at this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 with Brodie Kostecki and Erebus Motorsport, before delving back into the unusual path he took through the sport.

He opens up on his family’s pivotal role in getting him through the sport, from fundraising through sausage sizzles and memberships to remortgaging their home, and the key role an open-wheel racing champion played in his progression. We also cover his successful season on the reality TV show Shannons Supercar Showdown, and how it indirectly led to his first full-time Dunlop Series drive. He also reveals the white lie he told to secure that ride with Matt Stone Racing, and his very, very nervous wait through the first practice session for word from the bank...

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Ryco Rewind: The Gold Coast race that took three attempts to start

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday leg of the 2012 Armor All Gold Coast 600 at Surfers Paradise, a race that took three attempts to start and lost six cars before it finally got underway!

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Tander makes call on co-driving future

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Garth Tander revealing his future co-driving plans beyond 2024.

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Castrol Bathurst Daily: Race Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:31:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Sunday action at the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000, with Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood taking a popular victory in the latest edition of the ‘Great Race’..

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Castrol Bathurst Daily: Shootout Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:56:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Saturday action at the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000, with Brodie Kostecki storming to pole position for the second year in a row..

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Castrol Bathurst Daily: Qualifying Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:48:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Friday action at the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000, with Matt Payne topping qualifying, the fastest lap of the day going unrewarded, and a pair of big names enduring two big crashes.

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Castrol Bathurst Daily: Practice Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:52:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Thursday’s action at the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000, a busy and strange day for the opening day of Supercars practice at Mount Panorama.

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V8SP: The era that made the Bathurst 1000 what it is today

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:45:00 -0000

On the eve of this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol takes a look back at the Group C era of the ‘Great Race’ from 1973 through to 1984.

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Ryco Rewind: A Bathurst for Brocky

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, a year when Mount Panorama mourned the death of its King and celebrated the victory of his protege.

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Ryco Rewind: The last Safety Car-free Bathurst 1000

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 1991 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst, a year when Nissan and ‘Godzilla’ finally slayed the Mountain.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: The looming format changes for 2025

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:24:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by the release of the calendar for the 2025 season.

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Ryco Rewind: The five-month Bathurst 1000

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 1987 James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst, a year when the results for the race weren’t finalised until March in 1988!

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2024 Bathurst 1000

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:51:00 -0000

It’s time for that special Sunday in October! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of the 2024 edition of the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Q&A - Feisty Hazelwood, FCY/Lucky Dog, IndyCar at the 'Dome

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:23:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Full Course Yellow and the ‘Lucky Dog’/wave-by rule

- Todd Hazelwood's feistyness at Sandown/Erebus' hopes at Bathurst

- Recreating the Sandown circuit in another location

- Toyota’s entry to Supercars

- More street races in regional areas

- Bathurst 1000 as a twilight race; Adelaide 500 as a night race

- Do we do too many Top 10 Shootouts?

- How many Nissan Skyline HR31s did Gibson Motorsport build?

- Reverting a chassis to a model that predates its build

- The IndyCar Series at the Thunderdome?

- And plenty more!

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: The washup from Toyota’s massive announcement

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Toyota’s seismic revelation that it is entering the championship in 2026 with the Supra.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from the Sandown 500

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:24:00 -0000

Race Control: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round – the Penrite Oil Sandown 500.

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V8SP: Matt White (Part 2)

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:00:00 -0000

Veteran broadcaster Matt White joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

White shares stories from his long career in television, which has brought him into the world of Supercars as a reporter, host and lead commentator, in particular giving incredible insights into the craft of commentating and some of the politics that happens behind the scenes in the world of TV.

In Part 2, he talks about unexpectedly ending up back in the V8 Supercars world when Seven landed the broadcast rights for 2007, how he ended up on Dancing With the Stars, trades stories with Noonz about their time in the box together - and the times Noonz subbed for him! - and he opens up on the challenging years of his return to 10 and serving as its head of sport, the inside story on the day the 2020 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix was cancelled, and his own sudden exit from the network.

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V8SP: Matt White (Part 1)

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:59:00 -0000

Veteran broadcaster Matt White joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

In Part 1, he talks about how he came to get involved in the media, from working for the Manly Daily newspaper, through doing radio with Triple M and TV news in Newcastle, through to landing a role at Channel 10 and being in the right place at the right time as Sports Tonight took off and the network became the Home of Motorsport, and eventually becoming the lead commentator for its coverage of V8 Supercars.

He goes in-depth on his call of Greg Murphy’s ‘Lap of the Gods’ Top 10 Shootout run from the 2003 Bathurst 1000, and reveals why he left the network to move to Seven in 2004..

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Ryco Rewind: Sandown’s most controversial enduro

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 1982 Castrol 400 at Sandown, a year when the results for September’s traditional pre-Bathurst enduro weren’t finalised until mid-December!

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V8SP: We answer your Sandown 500 questions!

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and stats guru Shane Rogers run through a raft of listener questions about the Sandown 500.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The grid position that has produced the most winners

- How many championship-counting Sandown enduros have actually completed their scheduled distance

- Which individual chassis has won the Sandown enduro the most times?

- Did the Holden Racing Team cop a penalty for the infamous incident in the 1993 race where a bucket-load of water smashed the windscreen on one of their cars?

- The most successful driver pairings

- Should retro round and the ‘Race for the Grid’ qualifying race format return?

- The fate of the car Todd Hazelwood flipped at the Esses in the 2017 co-driver qualifying race

- And plenty more!

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Ryco Rewind: When Holden won Ford's Sandown 500

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 1996 Tickford Sandown 500, a year when Holden dominated the Ford-sponsored enduro...

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Supercars’ early-morning Bathurst test

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:49:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, a few key changes and interesting happenings for this years Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Craig Lowndes’ Sandown 500 memories

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:46:00 -0000

Craig Lowndes joins this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for a look back through his history at the Sandown 500.

A six-time event winner, the publish date of this ep - September 4 - falls exactly on the 30th anniversary of his touring car race debut in the 1994 Sandown 500..

Lowndes shares tales from his history with the Sandown circuit - including some tales about his time as a driver trainer in his youth! - how he landed the ‘94 drive with the Holden Racing Team, plus behind-the-scenes stories of the wins, the losses, and the lessons that he’s now passing on to his 2024 co-driver Cooper Murray.

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V8SP Mini: Brad Jones’ troubled one-lap NASCAR debut

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:09:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Brad Jones sharing a couple of stories about his time racing in the Australian NASCAR Championship.

In this snippet, Jones tells the colourful tale about how he made the switch from AUSCAR, in which he was a five-time series champion, to NASCAR, including the fun and games of trying to buy a car in America, the extreme lengths he and brother Kim Jones went to in order to make the grid for his first NASCAR race on the Gold Coast, and then a hilarious encounter he had with a visiting American star once he’d switched to NASCAR full-time.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Huge 2025 silly season moves announced

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:22:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by Mark Winterbottom revealing he is leaving Team 18 at the end of the season, followed shortly after by the team announcing Anton De Pasquale for 2025.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Perkins blocked from Sandown Super2 start

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 04:47:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by the passing of Campbell Little, the punishment handed out for a post-race push at Symmons Plains, and the rule that has prevented Jack Perkins from racing in Super2 at the Sandown 500.

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V8SP: Bryce Seales (Part 4)

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:32:00 -0000

We’ve had a fantastic chat with Aussie ex-pat Bryce Seales on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

A veteran of the Australian and United States racing scenes, Seales has been on staff at NASCAR Cup Series squad Trackhouse Racing for several years. He very generously interrupted a holiday back at home to drop into V8 Sleuth headquarters to tell a few stories, and we’re releasing the last two parts of our chat this week.

In Part 4, Seales shares more stories from his time with the Holden Racing Team and Walkinshaw Racing, including his take on why the team hit a rough patch in the 2010s, and the special career milestone he was able to achieve with the Perkins family in 2015.

He also discusses the reasons behind his return to the United States in the mid-2010s - and hails an important topic brought up by his former HRT teammate Scott Sinclair during his visit to the V8 Sleuth pod last year - and his years with Chip Ganassi’s NASCAR team.

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V8SP: Bryce Seales (Part 3)

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:02:00 -0000

We’ve had a fantastic chat with Aussie ex-pat Bryce Seales on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

A veteran of the Australian and United States racing scenes, Seales has been on staff at NASCAR Cup Series squad Trackhouse Racing for several years and very generously interrupted a holiday back at home to drop into V8 Sleuth headquarters to tell a few stories.

We’re releasing the last two parts this week. In Part 3, Seales talks about moving back to the United States after landing a gig in the CART World Series and shares some stories that highlight the vast amount of money that engine manufacturers burned through in pursuit of horsepower, as well as a sad tale of what might have been amid a tragic period for the championship.

He also talks about his brief stint in the Indy Racing League working for Eddie Cheever, a bizarre job interview with a leading open-wheel team, and making his way back to Australia and returning to Supercars with PWR Racing and the Holden Racing Team.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Tasmania

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:58:00 -0000

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Ryco Rewind: When SVG made McLaughlin blow a fuse

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sydney Motorsport Park round of the 2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, when a restart rumble between two Kiwi heroes exploded in front of the pack.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Camaros on top early in Tasmania

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:37:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by the opening practice session for this weekend’s NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint at Symmons Plains.

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V8SP: Bryce Seales (Part 2)

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:46:00 -0000

We’ve had a fantastic chat with Aussie ex-pat Bryce Seales on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

In Part 2, Seales talks about getting started in touring car racing with Murray Carter prior to departing overseas, and how it led him to land a job with Glenn Seton Racing upon his return in the early 1990s. He shares his view on the team’s rollercoaster seasons running Falcons in Peter Jackson colours, from winning the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1993 to Seton’s heartbreaking Bathurst loss in 1995.

We then cover off his years at Perkins Engineering, from his job interview with Larry Perkins to working on Russell Ingall’s car throughout the 1996 and 1997 seasons, culminating in victory in the Bathurst 1000 - and another move overseas!

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V8SP: Bryce Seales (Part 1)

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’ve had a fantastic chat with Aussie ex-pat Bryce Seales on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

We’re releasing the first two parts this week. In Part 1, Seales shares an interesting insight into Trackhouse Racing and in particular its owner Justin Marks, plus Shane van Gisbergen’s impact on the NASCAR scene from an insider’s perspective.

We then go back to how he got started in racing, fielding a Ford Cortina in the Appendix J support race at Mount Panorama, doing a job interview with the Lotus Formula 1 team at the Adelaide Grand Prix, and how a stint overseas led to an unlikely meeting with one of the most iconic cars in Australian touring car racing.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Sale looming for Supercars TV rights holder

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 05:45:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by news that Supercars’ primary TV rights holder could be up for sale.

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V8SP: More tales from V8 Sleuth's stats guru

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:45:00 -0000

This week - by popular demand - we’ve once again pressed our AN1 Data stats guru Shane Rogers into joining this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Shane tackles the stat questions you sent us via social media – makes a few updates and corrections from the last batch! – and shares some of his favourite obscure and unusual statistics and facts from ATCC/Supercars history – including yet another bizarre tale from the life of Supercars Hall of Famer Norm Beechey, this one on how he was nearly caught up in a jail break from Pentridge Prison.

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Ryco Rewind: The V8 era’s first title showdown

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Oran Park round of the 1995 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, which marked the culmination of a three-way title battle between Ford’s John Bowe and Glenn Seton, and Holden’s Peter Brock.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Supercars team boss backs finals series

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:52:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by a team boss throwing his support behind Supercars introduce a finals series to determine the champion.

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V8SP: 2014 – Bizarre Bathurst, the rise of Scotty Mac and Danny Ric

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:45:00 -0000

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol winds back 10 years for a look at the 2014 motorsport year, touching on the big topics and happenings in V8 Supercars, F1, MotoGP, NASCAR, IndyCar and sports car racing.

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Ryco Rewind: Forgotten aspects of Oran Park’s startline fireball

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Oran Park round of the 2000 Shell Championship Series, which featured a notorious moment in ATCC/Supercars history.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Major 2025 silly season move confirmed

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:28:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by confirmation today that Richie Stanaway is moving on at the end of the 2024 season – and we reveal who his replacement at Grove Racing will be.

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V8SP: Q&A - The first post-race burnout, the last H-pattern user, weird qualifying formats

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- What happened to Gen3’s exhaust flames?

- Chances of a book on Brad Jones’ career?

- What happens is two drivers tie in a Shootout?

- Different circuit layouts within one round

- The last driver to race with a H-pattern gearchange in Supercars

- Neil Crompton’s usage of the #7

- Weird qualifying formats

- Mid-weekend driver replacements

- The first driver to do a post-race burnout in ATCC/SC history

- And plenty more!

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Sydney

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:03:00 -0000

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Are we having too many Shootouts?

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:52:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week ahead of the Panasonic Air Conditioning Sydney SuperNight, and puts forward the case that the championship is overdoing the ‘Top 10 Shootout’.

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V8SP Mini: How Courtney incensed T8 amid Homebush 2010 drama

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:11:00 -0000

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features James Courtney sharing some behind the scenes tales about his 2010 Supercars title-winning season.

In this snippet, JC talks about the turmoil that was tearing the team apart from the inside, hearing the cheers of the crowd at Homebush in 2010, and how he inadvertently angered Triple Eight and Roland Dane enough for him to face the stewards over a claimed ‘obscene gesture’!

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Ryco Rewind: ‘The Dude’s breakthrough marks end of several eras

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Calder Park round of the 2001 Shell Championship Series, a special one in the career of Paul Morris but also one that marked the end of several eras in ATCC/Supercars history.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: The case for a Supercars playoff finals system

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:14:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by confirmation of the new ownership structure at Triple Eight Race Engineering and he makes the case for the introduction of a playoff finals system to crown the champion.

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V8SP: George Smith (Part 4)

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:16:00 -0000

We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He shared so many stories from a career in the sport that has seen him in the middle of many of its most memorable and iconic moments that he and Noonz ended up chatting for almost four hours (!) and we’re releasing the final two parts this week.

In Part 4, he talks about Peter Brock’s final Bathurst win in 1987 and the team’s emergence as a Ford Sierra squad in 1989-90 – and how the their fortunes could’ve been much greater had a pivotal chassis tuning change been made much sooner.

He also talks about the opportunistic conversation that secured Dencar’s role as the Holden Racing Team’s chassis builder, and how Jeff Grech seemed to keep drawing Smith back into the sport time and time again; first with PWR, then with Tasman, and now with Team 18 - and reveals another near-miss along the way!

He also shares more insight into his current project, the restoration of the ex-Paul Morris Big Kev Commodore.

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V8SP: George Smith (Part 3)

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:14:00 -0000

We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He shared so many stories from a career in the sport that has seen him in the middle of many of its most memorable and iconic moments that he and Noonz ended up chatting for almost four hours!

We’re releasing the last two parts this week. We pick up Part 3 at the tail end of his time with Nissan Motorsport, including some insight into why the manufacturer skipped the 1985 season, before getting an offer he couldn’t refuse to rejoin the Holden Dealer Team, now under the custodianship of Peter Brock.

He talks about building a fleet of cars at the end of 1985 before crating two of them up to send to Europe, and shares stories of the MHDT’s troubled campaign on the 1986 European Touring Car Championship, and the team’s rapid rebuild of the #05 Commodore after Allan Moffat’s practice crash at Bathurst later that year.

He also talks about the team’s shock divorce from Holden at the start of 1987, how Moffat sneakily purchased one of the team’s new racecars, and the prank he helped play when it came time to reveal the reliveried car to the world.

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Ryco Rewind: Brock’s comeback win aboard a Ford

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Oran Park round of the 1989 Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship, in which Peter Brock ended a long victory drought and notched up his first win for the ‘Blue Oval’.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Ownership change at Triple Eight

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 05:01:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of this weekend’s NTI Townsville 500, headlined by a change in ownership at Triple Eight Race Engineering and the end of an era for that team.

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V8SP Mini: Pole to pancaked – Bargs’ Bathurst ‘97 rollercoaster

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:45:00 -0000

This week’s ‘mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Jason Bargwanna talking about his year with the Holden Young Lions program in 1997.

In this snippet, Bargs talks about how much it cost to be in the program, what was involved, how he nearly ended up in the main Holden Racing Team car at Bathurst, plus his rollercoaster weekend at The Great Race when he put the HYL car on provisional pole then crashed heavily in the morning warm-up.

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Ryco Rewind: How a card draw literally determined the 1994 title

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Wanneroo round of the 1994 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, one where Mark Skaife mathematically clinched that year’s title based on the luck of a card draw.

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Ryco Rewind: The Nissan race win that was taken away

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Winton round of the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship, one where Gary Scott and Nissan Motorsport got the win – but didn’t get to keep it.

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V8SP: George Smith (Part 2)

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:46:00 -0000

We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

In Part 2, he talks about Colin Bond’s defection from the Holden Dealer Team to Moffat Ford Dealers for 1977 and shares an incredible story about an unexpected mechanical problem that hit Allan Moffat’s #1 Falcon on the morning of that year’s Bathurst 1000.

He then talks about his move to Datsun/Nissan, initially to work on its rally cars before being a foundation member of its Bluebird Group C touring car program - and he shares a few tales and confirms/dispels a few myths and rumours about the hidden technical trickery the turbocharged rockets possessed.

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V8SP: George Smith (Part 1)

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He shared so many stories from a career in the sport that has seen him in the middle of many of its most memorable and iconic moments that he and Noonz ended up chatting for almost four hours!

We’re releasing the first two parts this week. In Part 1, he talks about his current project: restoring the Big Kev Commodore that sat untouched for over 20 years following Paul Morris and Mark Larkham’s horror start-line crash at Oran Park in 2000.

He then shares stories from his days with Dencar, his chassis building company with Dennis Watson that was responsible for underpinning many of the Holden Commodores that competed in touring car racing from the early-1990s to the mid-2000s, including a tale involving the production line in Elizabeth that Holden executives certainly didn’t find funny at the time…

He then talks about how he got involved in the sport in the first place in Tasmania, landing a job with Harry Firth at the Holden Dealer Team, then linking up with Colin Bond’s Sydney-based HDT outpost.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: How Supercars can fix its practice problem

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:34:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, headlined by a string of co-driver announcements ahead of the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 enduros. Noonz also puts forward a radical solution to getting more racing into Supercars race weekends.

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Ryco Rewind: When Slade caused a controversial Safety Car

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Hidden Valley round of the 2009 V8 Supercars Championship Series, one where Tim Slade and Paul Morris Motorsport were accused – but cleared – of intentionally causing a Safety Car to benefit a teammate.

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V8SP Mini: How DJR built the world’s fastest Sierras

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:55:00 -0000

This week’s ‘mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Dick Johnson talking about how his team built what were widely renowned as the world’s fastest Ford Sierra touring cars in the late 1980s.

In this snippet, Dick talks about how he initially had to buy management system chips from Andy Rouse, their very blunt parting of the ways and how the team was able to go its own way on developing the turbocharged rockets, culminating in DJR’s ‘ego trip’ to the 1988 Silverstone TT to take on Rouse and the factory-backed Eggenberger cars.

This Mini came from Episode 14 back in 2019 when we were talking to Dick ahead of writing the sold-out, limited-edition book ‘Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske: 40 Years of Cars - 1980-2019’. To listen to the rest of the chat, covering the Tru Blu XDs and Greens’ Tuf XEs, Group A Mustangs and Sierras, and early Five Litre-era Falcons, tap this link >> https://bit.ly/V8SP14DJohnson

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Hidden Valley

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:15:00 -0000

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: The sole Triple Crown contender determined

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:21:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, headlined by the on-track action from Friday at Hidden Valley where, after qualifying, just one driver remains in contention for the Triple Crown.

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Revealed: Our V8 Sleuth Bathurst Live Night guest for 2024!

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Tickets are now on sale for our annual V8 Sleuth Live night at this year's Repco Bathurst 1000, but there's been a few changes for 2024 that Noonz will take you through in this episode - as well as revealing the identity of this year's featured guest!

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V8SP: Andrew Miedecke (Part 2)

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:46:00 -0000

We’re talking to Andrew Miedecke for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol – and we’re releasing both parts at the same time!

The second part of our two-part chat looks at the end of the road for Miedecke Motorsport as a touring car operation in 1989 and his union with Peter Brock, going from full-timer to co-driver for a host of elite squads, culminating in a Bathurst 1000 podium finish with Mark Larkham and Stone Brothers Racing in 1997.

Miedecke also tells stories from racing NASCARs and winning Targa Tasmania, as well as going racing with son George and their current success in GT4 – which led to an unexpected congratulatory call from one of the biggest names in the automotive world!

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V8SP: Andrew Miedecke (Part 1)

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Andrew Miedecke for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol – and we’re releasing both parts at the same time!

In the first part of our two-part chat, he talks about choosing racing cars over horses in his native Tasmania, the story behind a one-off ATCC start in a Volvo in 1971, getting serious in open-wheel racing and trying to go overseas, getting into the car sales business and moving to Port Macquarie, returning to racing in the 1980s and earning the nickname ‘Mad Andy’, and finally hitting the big-time in touring cars with a Ford Sierra run on a shoestring budget.

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Ryco Rewind: Ambrose’s Canberra ‘control tyre’

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Canberra round of the 2001 Shell Championship Series, one where Marcos Ambrose’s loose left-rear Bridgestone stole some of the limelight with a remarkable, unrepeatable, ‘not in a billion tries’ feat.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from the Canberra 400

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:10:00 -0000

With the King’s Birthday long weekend coming up, we’re looking back at a unique slice of Supercars history that traditionally fell on that public holiday weekend on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. The Canberra 400 only ran for three years (2000-2002) but left an incredible impression on fans and drivers – mainly for how cold it was! We look back through the event’s brief history, from the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that happened.

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Ryco Rewind: The carnage amid Lowndes’ first title

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Mallala round of the 1996 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, a memorable one for Craig Lowndes that largely overshadows the carnage amid the day he clinched his first ATCC/Supercars title.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Waters keen for Adelaide 500 double-duty

Fri, 31 May 2024 06:30:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, headlined by Supercars in-season testing, Will Brown’s hectic schedule, and Cam Waters’ interest in pulling some double duty at the Adelaide 500 in his Supercar and his Sprint Car.

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V8SP: 1984 – Dayglo, Big Bangers, Australia taking on the world

Wed, 29 May 2024 01:45:00 -0000

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol winds back four decades for a look at the 1984 motorsport year, touching on the big topics and happenings in motorsport in Australia and around the world, from the end of the Group C touring car era, the vast changes to Sandown, the last standalone Australian Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna’s arrival in Formula 1, and the failed touring car street race enduro scheduled for that Easter.

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Ryco Rewind: When Brock, Moffat were both banned from racing

Mon, 27 May 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Calder round of the 1978 Australian Touring Car Championship, a weekend that took place without the championship’s two biggest star drivers or the factory-backed teams from Ford and Holden.

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V8SP: Riana Crehan

Wed, 22 May 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Riana Crehan for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

She last visited the podcast in late 2020 on Episode 83 (tap here to listen!) and plenty has happened since then! Riana shares stories of her time on reality show SAS Australia, her return to the Supercars broadcast team and some insights into the parts of her role that you don’t see on TV, how she and Will Davison don’t actually see much of each other during race weekends, and talk about their young son Dash.

We also talk about the odds of her getting behind the wheel of podcast friend Richard Craill’s Aussie Racing Car – although keep in mind, this episode was recorded and produced prior to the car’s unfortunate accident at Wanneroo last weekend...

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Ryco Rewind: When Ingall snagged a ‘Bradbury’ win in Darwin

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Hidden Valley round of the 2004 V8 Supercars Championship, when Russell Ingall demonstrated that you only need to lead past the chequered flag to win a race.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Wanneroo

Tue, 21 May 2024 07:42:00 -0000

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Engineering change, new liveries for Wanneroo

Fri, 17 May 2024 03:20:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of opening practice for the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint at Wanneroo Raceway.

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Ryco Rewind: Dugal McDougall’s ‘major, major sausage’

Wed, 15 May 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Phillip Island round of the 1999 Shell Championship Series, a weekend where one team’s total dominance was completely overshadowed by one of the most memorable crashes in ATCC/Supercars Championship history.

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V8SP Mini: Skaifey’s special ‘Golden Child’

Wed, 15 May 2024 01:45:00 -0000

This week we’re debuting a new ‘mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol, featuring Mark Skaife talking about his favourite chassis from his Supercars career - HRT 045, the car known as ‘Golden Child’.

In this snippet, Skaifey talks about how he came to own the car, restoring it, his very first drive of it, how it got its nickname, and why he has such a soft spot for it.

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V8SP: Paul Radisich (Part 2)

Wed, 08 May 2024 01:46:00 -0000

We’re talking to Paul Radisich for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol – and we’re releasing both parts at the same time!

The second part of our two-part chat looks at his years racing in Supercars, beginning with how his four-year stint at Dick Johnson Racing was originally a one-year deal and how he tried to make the switch to another top Ford team after that 1999 season, his aggressive driving style, the dramatic win at the 2001 Queensland 500 and equally as dramatic heartbreak at the 1999 Bathurst 1000.

Radisich also opens up about his years at Briggs Motor Sport and his role in bringing Triple Eight into Supercars, his podium finish with Team Kiwi Racing, and the aftermath of his two horrific crashes at Bathurst in 2006 and 2008, as well as tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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V8SP: Paul Radisich (Part 1)

Wed, 08 May 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Paul Radisich for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol – and we’re releasing both parts at the same time!

In the first part of our two-part chat, he talks about getting into racing in New Zealand, his years spent racing in open-wheelers against some of the biggest names in global motorsport, his early races in touring cars with Denny Hulme, Peter Brock and Dick Johnson, and how those starts parlayed into becoming a two-time World Cup-winning star of Super Touring.

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Ryco Rewind: Lowndes and Ludo steal a victory

Mon, 06 May 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Perth SuperSprint round of the 2016 V8 Supercars Championship, a race that culminated in one of Craig Lowndes’ most unlikely triumphs.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Another Supercars star to make NASCAR debut

Fri, 03 May 2024 05:23:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by another star Supercars driver that is set to make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Sonoma Raceway next month.

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Ryco Rewind: BMW slays Godzilla, Larry & the Sierras

Thu, 02 May 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Lakeside round of the 1992 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, a weekend where all four of Group A touring car racing’s makes shared the limelight.

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V8SP: Barry Rogers (Part 2)

Wed, 01 May 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’re continuing our chat with Barry Rogers in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

In the final part of a two-part chat, Rogers opens up about Garry Rogers Motorsport’s involvement in TCR and S5000, as well as how it ended up with the reins of the Australian Racing Group.

Rogers also talks about how they came to own a slice of Supercars and why they recently sold out of it, as well as the future of S5000 and the Bathurst International.

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Ryco Rewind: The ‘Enforcer’ upstages HRT’s new ‘Supercar’

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 20:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Calder Park round of the 1996 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, an event that proved auspicious for the seasons ahead.

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V8SP: Barry Rogers (Part 1)

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Barry Rogers for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

In the first part of a two-part chat, Rogers shares stories about growing up with Garry Rogers, Sports Sedan racer, as his dad, and his career outside the sport before joining GRM.

He shares some great stories from the team’s Volvo era, drivers Scott McLaughlin, Robert Dahlgren, David Wall and James Golding, and talks about the team bowing out of Supercars at the end of the 2019 season.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Taupō

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:57:00 -0000

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Ryco Rewind: Phillip Island tyre roulette

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:44:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Phillip Island SuperSprint round of the 2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, a controversial race marred by tyre blowouts and penalties.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Friday wrap of Taupō practice

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:45:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by the rundown of who’s where after Friday practice at the ITM Taupō Super400.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from New Zealand

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:39:00 -0000

The Supercars are heading back across the Tasman this weekend with the championship’s first visit to Taupō, so we’re looking back at the history of the championship racing in New Zealand on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. We look through the event’s history, from the Wellington Street Race of the 1980s and the 12-car double-header of 1996, the championship’s first visit in 2001 through to its most recent in 2022, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Major co-driver move for 2024 enduros

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:57:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by a star co-driver making an unexpected team switch for the 2024 endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst.

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V8SP: 2004 – Big characters, big changes, big controversies

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:19:00 -0000

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol wind back two decades for a look at the 2004 motorsport year, touching on the big topics and happenings in V8 Supercars, F1, MotoGP, NASCAR, Champ Car, IRL and rallying.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Aussie backing for star’s NASCAR debut

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:43:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by a Supercars star heading States-side this weekend to make his debut in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series.

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V8SP: Tales from V8 Sleuth's stats guru

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:45:00 -0000

This week - by popular demand - we’ve pressed our AN1 Data stats guru Shane Rogers into joining this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He talks about how he got into motorsport in the first place, working on early Supercars web/results data sites Conrod.com.au and VESRIX and getting a job CAMS after being told not to tell CAMS in the interview that he had any interest in motorsport!

Shane then tackles the stat questions you sent us via social media as well as bringing to the table some of his favourite obscure and unusual statistics and facts from ATCC/Supercars history - including the wild tale behind the oldest driver ever to start a championship race, and some crazy stories he’s uncovered from the youth of a future Supercars Hall of Famer.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Supercars racers in Bathurst for Easter

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:32:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Castrol Supercars Championship, including a raft of current, former and future Supercars stars in action at Mount Panorama this weekend.

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V8SP: Q&A - Brock’s missed double, stars that tried NASCARs

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The 1988 Bathurst 24 Hour - no, that’s not a typo

- Does the Australian Touring Car Championship title still exist?

- The fate of an early privateer EB Falcon

- The nationality with the most ATCC/SC starts behind Australia and New Zealand

- Mitsubishi’s podium history

- The biggest year-on-year rise or fall in the standings for a full-time driver

- Forgotten stars that sampled stock cars at the Thunderdome

- Peter Brock’s 1990 season; an ATCC/Bathurst double that got away?

- And plenty more!

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Albert Park

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:00:00 -0000

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Ryco Rewind: Pye’s twilight Albert Park breakthrough

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Albert Park round of the 2018 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, focusing on the Saturday twilight race held in dark, greasy conditions, in which Scott Pye claimed the first race win of his Supercars career.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: The latest from Albert Park

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 05:41:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Castrol Supercars Championship, headlined by all the action from Friday’s racing at Albert Park for the MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint at the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

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V8SP: Phil Keed (Part 2)

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:14:00 -0000

We’re continuing our chat with veteran engineer Phil Keed for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

The second and final part of our two-part chat covers the Supercars part of his career, which began when he joined the championship full-time in 2003. Keed covers his years at Team Brock and PWR and the relationship he built with Jason Bright, and how it evolved across stints across three different teams. He also shares stories from his time at Ford Performance Racing, why he shifted to Brad Jones Racing, how he and Fabian Coulthard came to separately move to DJR Team Penske at the same time and how it all ended, starting again at Team 18 and returning to his current home engineering Bryce Fullwood at BJR.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Horse race forces Sandown 500 date change

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:01:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the reason for a date change for this year’s Sandown 500.

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Ryco Rewind: A new era begins under lights

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the opening round of the 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship at Calder Park, a day/night event that was the first to be run under the V8 Supercars banner.

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V8SP: Phil Keed (Part 1)

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to veteran engineer Phil Keed for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Although he’s long been a fixture within the Supercars paddock, the first part of our two-part chat looks back at his career prior to joining the championship full-time in 2003.

Keed talks about where his passion for motorsport came from, and how he got his start in the industry by cold-calling Colin Bond’s workshop while he was still in high school! He shares stories of going to Bathurst with the team, and why they pointed him in the direction of becoming an engineer instead of a mechanic.

He also shares a heap of incredible stories from his years in rallying, where he rose from working for Ralliart in Australia to becoming multiple world champion Tommi Makinen’s engineer at the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Overseas entity buys into Supercars

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:29:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the sport itself getting a new international co-owner that has links to Formula 1 owner Liberty Media.

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V8SP: Garth Tander (Part 2)

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:45:00 -0000

This week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol continues Garth Tander’s first visit to the show since 2019.

The second and final part of our chat picks up with more memories from his time racing Formula Ford, beginning with a hilarious story about a tangle with Marcos Ambrose and the reception they copped from both of their dads when they returned to the pits.

He also shares the story of how he slept in on the day of his evaluation test with Garry Rogers Motorsport, as well as his reaction to Garry Rogers’ infamous dress-ups during his early years with the team, plus his continuing confusion over why his first Supercars race win was reawarded to John Bowe.

We also talk about his role behind a microphone instead of a steering wheel, his take on Shane van Gisbergen’s NASCAR move, and a trip through his three biggest fines from his racing career.

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Ryco Rewind: The Adelaide 500’s biggest upset

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sunday of the Adelaide 500 round of the 2016 V8 Supercars Championship, a dramatic and storm-hit day that delivered a shock triumph for a rising South Australian star and one of the championship’s minnow squads.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Supercars fighting push to block fans from AGP paddock

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:21:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the possibility that fans will not be allowed in the Supercars paddock at this year’s Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, a change from past years when the teams were in the secondary pitlane garages.

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V8SP: Garth Tander (Part 1)

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:31:00 -0000

Garth Tander returns to the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for the first time since Ep. 17 back in 2019 – and he’s added a couple more Bathurst 1000 wins since then!

This time around he reflects on the sudden and unexpected end to his full-time Supercars career and the part surrounding it that angered him the most, plus how his quick shift to a co-driver role at Triple Eight came about. He hits out at Supercars’ new ‘primary driver must start’ rule at the 2024 endurance races, takes us inside what it was like preparing for the COVID Bathurst 1000 in 2020, and tells the story of how he helped wrangle Shane van Gisbergen for the morning TV interviews after winning the 2022 Bathurst 1000.

He also opens up about his switch to Grove Racing, how and why it came about, and whether we’ll see him behind the wheel in any categories outside of Supercars this year, and we end the first of our two-part chat going back to his championship-winning season in Formula Ford in 1997, including how he landed backing from Bunnings and a couple of pivotal moments in his campaign.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from the Bathurst 500

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:06:00 -0000

Race Control filtered by Ryco: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round.

Included in this post-2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500 edition:

- Why some drivers that lost their fastest laps and some didn’t when the yellow flag came out at Murrays Corner in the final moments of Qualifying for Race 1

- The Race 2 tangle between Broc Feeney and James Golding at The Chase that resulted in the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver being given a five-second time penalty

- Why Race Control handled the Cam Waters’ lost wheel situation in Race 1 the way it did

- Full Course Yellows and why they favoured using a Safety Car at the Bathurst 12 Hour

- The two Dunlop Series tangles at The Cutting in Race 1 and Race 2, and why they were treated differently

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Ryco Rewind: Amaroo Park’s V8 farewell

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Amaroo Park round of the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship, the final time the touring car series made the pilgrimage to the much-missed north-western Sydney circuit.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly: Erebus reveals new primary sponsor

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:42:00 -0000

Castrol Supercars Weekly returns for 2024 with a wrap of all the news in the lead-up to opening practice for the Thrifty Bathurst 500 on Friday at Mount Panorama, headed by reigning champion team Erebus Motorsport revealing a new primary sponsor on the eve of the new season.

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V8SP: Peter Fitzgerald (Part 2)

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:49:00 -0000

We continue our chat with multiple national champion, production car and Porsche icon Peter Fitzgerald in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the final part of our two-part chat, Fitzy shares stories from the GT-P and Nations Cup era, his other tilts at the Bathurst 1000 – including a memorable one with Captain Peter Janson!

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Ryco Rewind: Gricey’s generous prizemoney donation

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:20:00 -0000

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sandown round of the 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship, where Allan Grice collected the winner’s prizemoney and then immediately donated it to a very worthy charitable cause.

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V8SP: Peter Fitzgerald (Part 1)

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:16:00 -0000

We’re talking to multiple national champion, production car and Porsche icon, and inaugural Bathurst 12 Hour winner Peter Fitzgerald in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Fitzy shares the story of how he became a racing rookie at the age of 27 at the wheel of an ex-Pete Geoghegan Porsche, with a bit of tutelage and advice from Frank Gardner. He shares tales of how he funded his racing - including the deal that funded his first attempt to race at the Bathurst 1000 in 1981 - as well has his side of the infamous tale of how Brad Jones’ dad flagged him down in Albury to secure a pivotal co-drive for his son!

He also shares the story of how he managed to seamlessly switch sponsorship deals from Yokohama to Goodyear, as well as a couple of tales from his victory with Allan Grice and Nigel Arkell in the inaugural Bathurst 12 Hour in 1991. It proved his only victory in the opening era of the race - and he talks about how the win slipped away in 1993 and when the race moved to Eastern Creek in 1995.

We also briefly touch on his touring car racing, including a year in the Benson & Hedges BMW squad as co-driver to Alan Jones and Denny Hulme, netting a Bathurst class podium in the process.

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Ryco Rewind: Group A gets underway at Winton

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:00:00 -0000

Throughout 2024 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast feed we’re going to take a look back through Australian motorsport history with a series of Ryco Rewind episodes that explore the great races, drivers and cars from the past on the anniversary of them unfolding.

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Winton round of the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship, the first championship round run to the new international Group A Touring Car regulations.

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V8SP: 2024 Bathurst 12 Hour- Everything you need to know

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:45:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol looks ahead to next weekend’s Repco Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of the 12 Hour, Richard Craill, to preview the 2024 edition of Australia’s International Enduro.

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Ryco Rewind: The Kid's Sandown follow-up

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 19:00:00 -0000

For our first Ryco Rewind, we're going back to the Sandown round of the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship when 'The Kid', Craig Lowndes, showed his win on debut under lights at Eastern Creek was no fluke!

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V8SP: 1994 ... Controversy and tragedy as new eras dawn

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:03:00 -0000

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol winds back three decades for a look at the 1994 motorsport year, one tinged with controversy and tragedy around the world.

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V8SP: Inside the new book on Moffat’s Mustang

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:40:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is back for 2024! We’re kicking off the new season with a chat about the recently released book The Boss: The Inside Story of Allan Moffat and his Trans-Am Mustang. Noonz sits down with author David Hassall, who shares several stories about how the book came together, a peek at some of the incredible information and memorabilia that was uncovered as part of his research, some of the mysteries that were solved and myths that were debunked along the way, and gives us a hint at what might be the next book in the series.

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V8SP: Q&A - DJR Falcon’s fate, ‘drop worst round’, Tassie’s winter move

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:13:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Where the first Supercar Shane van Gisbergen drove is now, and does his history with it make it more valuable?

- Favourite ATCC/SC liveries of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

- The fate of DJR EF6

- BMW’s lost plot to win the Bathurst 24 Hour

- Race numbers

- Letters on driver overalls

- Slightly wrong elements of liveries on restored cars

- Symmons Plains’ move to August on the 2024 Supercars calendar

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Darren Hossack (Part 2)

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to multiple national champion Darren Hossack on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

In the second and final part of our two-part chat, Darren shares more stories from his long career in motorsport. We start out with two infamous crashes from 1998; the first of which isn’t well known, while the other in Bathurst 1000 practice wasn’t technically a crash until two other cars turned up. He shares stories from his last three drives in the ‘Great Race’ with Romano Racing in 1999, Kmart Racing in 2000 and Ford Performance Racing in 2003.

He also talks about taking over John Gourlay’s Saab Sports Sedan - including shaking it down on the Thunderdome! - and his tense rivalry with Tony Ricciardello and his iconic Alfa Romeo GTV, through to moving into a new Audi A4 Sports Sedan designed and built by Gourlay and Hossack’s dad. He also opens up on his injuries from a nasty speedway crash in 2015 that ended his time in the Audi, and plenty more. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: DJR reveals significant restructure

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:52:00 -0000

We’re back with a quick episode of Repco Supercars Weekly in the wake of a significant off-season announcement by Dick Johnson Racing with Ludo Lacroix departing, Dr Ryan Story returning, and a reshuffle among the team’s key roles.

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V8SP: Darren Hossack (Part 1)

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:07:00 -0000

We’re talking to multiple national champion Darren Hossack on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. Darren shares plenty of stories in the first part of our two-part chat, recorded in his workshop. He talks about buying his first kart through the Trading Post, joining elite karting outfit Drew Price Engineering for a two-week stint that ended up stretching into many years, claiming Spectrum’s first Formula Ford title, racing a rotary-powered Gemini Sports Sedan, how helping a young Paul Dumbrell in karting eventually led to a V8 Supercars drive, and plenty more.

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V8SP: Scott Sinclair (Part 2)

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We wrap up our chat with Supercars race and championship-winning engineer Scott Sinclair on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the final part of a two-part chat, Scott talks about the dramatic title-changing race at Homebush in 2010 where crashes left the Dick Johnson Racing and Triple Eight crews racing each other to repair their cars, his shift to the Holden Racing Team amid a lull period for the once-great team, and moving into a team management role with Nissan Motorsport and the efforts to make the Altima a competitive proposition, and what drove his decision to leave the team at the end of 2019 and his stint on the Supercars Commission.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: New champ’s post-season surgery

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:49:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Repco Supercars Weekly, headlined by new champion Brodie Kostecki having to pull out of racing at the Circuit of The Americas this weekend to go under the knife.

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V8SP: Scott Sinclair (Part 1)

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:26:00 -0000

We’re talking to Supercars race and championship-winning engineer Scott Sinclair on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, Scott talks about being in the crowd at Bathurst on race day in 1990 and early visits to Wanneroo touring car rounds, being part of a winning Formula SAE team, his baptism of fire as a Development Series race engineer at Dick Johnson Racing, plus his graduation to running Will Davison in the ‘main game’ in 2007. He also shares stories from his time engineering James Courtney, including revealing the turning point in 2009 that put the team on the path towards its upset 2010 championship victory.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from the Adelaide 500

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 06:57:00 -0000

RACE CONTROL: A recent addition to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Supercars round.

Included in this post-2023 VAILO Adelaide 500 edition:

- The Lap 1 incident between Will Brown and Anton De Pasquale in the Saturday race that effectively ended Shane van Gisbergen’s title challenge

- The Nick Percat/Jack Le Brocq incident early in the Saturday race where they interlocked wheels

- The skirmishes between Broc Feeney and Chaz Mostert early in the Saturday race, which resulted in Mostert being awarded a five-second time penalty

- The pitlane tangle between James Golding and Macauley Jones during the Saturday race

- The Shane van Gisbergen/Thomas Randle incident entering the ‘Staircase’ during the Sunday

- The assistant that Baird has to help him find all the vision of any incident

- The Super2 Series incident between Zak Best and Nash Morris during the Saturday race that resulted in a points penalty for Best

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Wrapping opening day at the VAILO Adelaide 500

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:40:00 -0000

This week, V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the action from opening practice at the VAILO Adelaide 500 and the key news in the paddock ahead of the final round of the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship - headlined by the new role for Supercars’ former Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess.

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V8SP: The greatest ATCC/Supercars title-deciders

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0000

With the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship set to be decided this weekend at the VAILO Adelaide 500, this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own looks back at the greatest final-round title deciders across ATCC/Supercars history.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Where next for Adrian Burgess?

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 04:46:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Repco Supercars Weekly, headlined by the impending departure from Supercars of its technical chief, Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess.

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V8SP: Q&A - SVG’s first winner, B&H Sierras, the Larry Bar

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Where Shane van Gisbergen’s first race-winning Supercar is now

- The most ‘valuable’ car still racing in Australia

- How many Benson & Hedges Sierras were there?

- The chances of a Steven/Jett Johnson Bathurst 1000 wildcard

- The greatest winning margin in the Supercars era

- What Noonz bought at the Diecast Model Expo

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Breaking down the 2024 Supercars calendar

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:00:00 -0000

In the latest episode of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan gives the full rundown on the 2024 calendar revealed by Supercars on Friday afternoon, including all the changes to dates and race formats, and the circuit that has missed out on a date - and the knock-on effect that omission will have in 2025 on one of the championship's marquee events.

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V8SP: Steve Owen (Part 2)

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 02:03:00 -0000

We’re talking to Supercars race winner and multiple Super2 Series champion Steve Owen on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the second and final part of a two-part chat, he talks about the scary moment during the 2006 Adelaide 500 where he passed out behind the wheel due to the severe in-car heat, and stepping back to the Development Series twice and winning both times.

He also talks about joining Triple Eight as a co-driver and winning his first Supercars Championship race - in ‘budgie smugglers’ - and landing a full-time return to the category, and opens up on his fiery start-line shunt with Karl Reindler at Barbagallo in 2011, as well as his race-winning spell as an Enduro Cup co-driver at Tickford Racing. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions - well, what was left of them, as he answered a lot of them during the course of the main chat!

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V8SP: Steve Owen (Part 1)

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:06:00 -0000

We’re talking to Supercars race winner and multiple Super2 Series champion Steve Owen on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, he reveals how he’s actually a second-generation Bathurst 1000 racer, working three different jobs to pay for his first Formula Ford, and studying psychology at university before dropping out when a big racing opportunity came along. He also tells a funny story about his first drive of a V8 Supercar, talks about his Indy Lights test, the ‘misunderstanding’ with Peter Brock that helped get him a Bathurst 1000 drive, and the early years of his Supercars career.

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Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from the Gold Coast

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:27:00 -0000

RACE CONTROL: A new addition to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Supercars round.

Included in this post-2023 Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 edition:

- David Reynolds cutting the first chicane while battling to hold off Brodie Kostecki for the win on the final lap of the Sunday race

- James Golding’s flick-spin on the exit of the first chicane that led to Scott Pye hitting the wall late in the Sunday race

- Matt Payne and James Courtney’s showdown at the Beach Chicane during the Saturday race that resulted in a five-second time penalty for Payne

- Contact between Andre Heimgartner and Todd Hazelwood late in the Sunday race that resulted in a 15-second time penalty for Heimgartner.

- The new kerb-hop sensors, bad sportsmanship flags, and why drivers, teams and fans aren’t told just how many kerb-hops a driver has left

- The big misconception about what the bad sportsmanship flag actually means for how many ‘lives’ a driver has left

- Barry Ryan’s suggestion on something MotoGP does that Supercars could employ to balance out chicane-cutting

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Title contender’s post-Bathurst surgery

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 05:20:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by news that one of the four drivers in mathematical contention for the 2023 title had to undergo surgery after the Repco Bathurst 1000, while we’re another step closer to having a complete grid for the 2024 season.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from the Gold Coast street race

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:45:00 -0000

The Supercars are set to tackle the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, so we’re looking back at the history of racing on the Surfers Paradise streets on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. We look through the event’s history, from its controversial beginnings in 1991 through to the modern-day Supercars event, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Erebus makes 2024 co-driver play

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:09:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Erebus locking in one of its two co-drivers for 2024, the cancellation of the 2024 Newcastle 500, and the major changes that have happened at Team 18 since the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Tony Cochrane (Part 2)

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:54:00 -0000

We’re talking to Tony Cochrane on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the second and final part of our two-part chat, he gives his take on the Gen3 car, the sport’s fans, some of the key learnings from his time in the AFL and one thing in particular that could be applied to Supercars, John Farnham, the emotions behind his exit from the sport in 2012, and plenty more. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, which turned up some great tales – including an infamous 1996 meeting where he illustrated who actually owned the category.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: How close T8 came to losing Bathurst

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:29:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Triple Eight revealing just how close the #97 Chevrolet Camaro of Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway came to having the same gearshift mount failure as its two teammates in the closing stages of the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Tony Cochrane (Part 1)

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Tony Cochrane on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, he talks about growing up, where his interest in events came from, bringing Frank Sinatra to Australia, his first car, fans, the Adelaide 500, the ‘Battle for Bathurst’ and cleaning up the Bathurst 1000, and setting up V8 Supercars.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Race Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:09:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Sunday action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, where Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway claimed the Peter Brock Trophy for Triple Eight Race Engineering.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Shootout Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 09:53:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Saturday action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, where Brodie Kostecki romped to pole position in the Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Qualifying Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:41:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Friday action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, where the big question is whether or not anyone can catch the provisional pole-sitting #99 Erebus Motorsport Camaro of Brodie Kostecki and David Russell.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Practice Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 08:55:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Thursday’s action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, although the on-track action was overshadowed by some parity news off of it.

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V8SP: Bathurst 1000 Q&A: Unlucky numbers, age gaps, cross-entering

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a special Repco Bathurst 1000 Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Which races had the best and worst levels of reliability

- The biggest age difference between the oldest and youngest drivers on the grid

- The lowest car number never to win the race

- International drivers

- Cars that limped to the chequered flag

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Behind the scenes at the National Motor Racing Museum

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:45:00 -0000

Our next stop for Repco Bathurst 1000 race week for 2023 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own is a chat with Brad Owen, who surely has one of the greatest jobs in Australian motorsport: he is the co-ordinator at the National Motor Racing Museum at Mount Panorama!

Brad takes us behind the scenes at the museum, discussing how he got the job in the first place, what’s involved in running it and the stories behind some of the cars that have graced its halls.

FYI, if you’re at Mount Panorama for the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, here’s when the NMRM is open:

Tuesday 3 October / Wednesday 4 October: 9am to 5pm

Thursday 5 October / Friday 6 October: 8am to 5pm

Saturday 7 October: 8am to 5:30pm

Sunday 8 October: 8:30am to 4:30pm

Monday 9 October: 8am to 4:30pm

Tuesday 10 October: Closed 😴

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V8SP: The story of the Bowden collection

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:24:00 -0000

We kick off Repco Bathurst 1000 week for 2023 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own with a special podcast with Dan Bowden, who shares the story behind the Bowden family’s love of motorsport and cars, how it began for father David Bowden and some of the tales behind the iconic race cars that have come into their collection, including the ultra-rare Ford Falcon XA GTHO Phase IV, Pete Geoghegan’s Super Falcon, Peter Brock’s Bathurst-winning Holden Torana A9Xs and many more.

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2023 Bathurst 1000

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:45:00 -0000

It’s time for that special Sunday in October! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of the 2023 edition of the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Tickford boss announces exit

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:06:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Tickford Racing announcing that long-time CEO and team principal Tim Edwards will leave the team at the end of the season.

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V8SP: James Courtney (Part 2)

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:21:00 -0000

We’re talking to James Courtney on this week’s double episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

We cover plenty of ground across a two-part chat touching on many facets of his career. In Part 2, we start out chatting about the good and bad of having one of the bigger public profiles on the Supercars grid, what memorabilia he has hung onto from his career, his tattoos and the funny story behind one of them, as well as the Bathurst 1000s that he feels were ones that got away.

He also chats about how his philosophy towards teammates changed during his brief exit from Supercars in 2020, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions - where he reveals the origins of his 'Frank the Tank' victory celebration.

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V8SP: James Courtney (Part 1)

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:20:00 -0000

We’re talking to James Courtney on this week’s double episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

We cover plenty of ground across a two-part chat touching on many facets of his career. In Part 1, he talks about his regular ‘story time’ with his Tickford teammates where they hit him up for tales from his days racing overseas - some of which he shares with us! He also talks about the influence of longtime manager Alan Gow - including a fax he sent to him back in the day - his missed opportunity to do Bathurst with Peter Brock, his 2010 championship season, the fallout and his move to the Holden Racing Team for 2011.

He also talks about his decision to switch his focus to racing in Australia and reveals a couple of other enduro opportunities that preceded his 2005 Supercars debut…

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from the Sandown 500

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:05:00 -0000

Big bad Sandown is back! Supercars’ traditional pre-Bathurst enduro returns this weekend, so we’re looking back at the history of the Sandown 500 on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. We look through the event’s patchwork history, dating back to its origins as a six-hour production car race in the 1960s, through to its 250-mile, 400-kilometre and 500-kilometre length increases, the kings of the event, the quirky parts of its lineage – which definitely includes the two PROCAR-era 500s – along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades..

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Key rule dropped for Sandown, Bathurst

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 06:13:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Supercars dropping a decade-old rule for this year’s Sandown 500 and Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Garry Wilkinson (Part 2)

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Garry Wilkinson on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. ‘Wilko’ was a core part of Channel 7’s coverage of touring car racing from the late 1970s through the late 1990s, and his voice is the soundtrack on several iconic moments throughout the sport’s history.

In the second and final part of our two-part chat, he talks more about the late Mike Raymond and how his impact on touring car racing’s TV coverage went well beyond his commentary, what it was like in the battlefield that was the Bathurst 1000 winner’s podium ceremony, and his thoughts and insight into the ‘Battle for Bathurst’ between V8 Supercars and the ARDC/Channel 7 in the mid-1990s.

He also shares stories from some of his other ‘combat missions’ during his time at Channel 7, including commentating and hosting the Olympic Games coverage, and opens up about his sudden and unexpected exit from the network. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, which turned up some great tales - including his drive of a future Supercars legend's Formula Ford!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Major changes for Tickford, BRT, WAU

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:43:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Tickford’s confirmation that it will undergo a significant restructure for the 2024 season, while the Blanchard Racing Team will also expand, and Walkinshaw Andretti United confirms it will promote a rookie to the ‘main game’ next year.

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V8SP: Garry Wilkinson (Part 1)

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Garry Wilkinson on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. ‘Wilko’ was a core part of Channel 7’s coverage of touring car racing from the late 1970s through the the late 1990s, and his voice is the soundtrack on several iconic moments throughout the sport’s history.

In Part 1 of a two-part chat, he talks about how his distinctive, dulcet voice and accent originally came about through an overseas radio job, how his maiden call-up for a motorsport commentary gig was his first visit to a race track, and shares a few behind-the-scenes tales from the early days of Channel 7’s Australian Touring Car Championship broadcasts.

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V8SP: Q&A - Summer series, a generic V8 engine, Sandown 500 history

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:39:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The potential for a generic, non-manufacturer-aligned engine in Supercars

- How could Supercars transition to a summer series

- The Sandown 500’s patchwork history

- The years with the least number of past champions on the grid

- Team radio’s place in Supercars broadcasts

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Latest 2024 silly season move confirmed

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 04:08:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Jack Le Brocq confirming a move into a title-contending seat for the 2024 season.

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V8SP: 600 rounds - ATCC/Supercars’ mega milestone

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:45:00 -0000

This weekend’s OTR SuperSprint at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park (the brand new name for The Bend) will be the 600th round in Australian Touring Car Championship/Supercars Championship history. On this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own, we’re looking back at the milestone rounds by each century on the championship’s journey to its 600th event, highlighting the sport’s evolution and some of the stats across the eras, plus a look at South Australia’s history in the championship.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Erebus releases Brown for Triple Eight switch

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:38:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Erebus Motorsport clearing the way for Will Brown to make a shock switch to Triple Eight for 2024.

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V8SP: Stewart McColl - 20 years on

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:45:00 -0000

Wednesday 9 August 2023 marks 20 years to the day that we lost Stewart McColl in a tragic accident at Phillip Island. Not only was Stewy a rising star, having raced and won against strong opposition in Formula Ford and Formula Holden, but he was also a friend to many in the sport.

We celebrate his life on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own by sharing his story, as told by his parents John and Janelle McColl and his great friend Steve Ducat.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: SVG locks in NASCAR oval debut

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:18:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Shane van Gisbergen locking in his debut NASCAR oval race in the Craftsman Truck Series.

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V8SP: Mark Winterbottom (Part 3)

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We wrap up our chat with Team 18’s Mark Winterbottom on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. ‘Frosty’ is set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first Bathurst 1000 come this year’s race in October, so we sat down to talk about his history at Mount Panorama.

In the third and final part, he chats about his time so far at Team 18, what it meant for him personally to finally break through for the squad’s first Repco Supercars Championship race victory earlier this year at Hidden Valley, and why it means they go to the Mountain with their best ever chance of winning the Peter Brock Trophy.

We also ask him about what memorabilia he’s kept from his racing career, what race car he’d love to have kept – it’s one that he actually tried to buy! – and get the back story on some of the fines he’s copped across his time in Supercars.

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V8SP: Mark Winterbottom (Part 2)

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re continuing our chat with Team 18’s Mark Winterbottom on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. ‘Frosty’ is set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first Bathurst 1000 come this year’s race in October, so we sat down to talk about his history at Mount Panorama.

In Part 2, he chats about the balance of his Bathurst tilts with Ford Performance Racing/Prodrive Racing Australia/Tickford Racing, from the lows of the boot explosion in 2009 to the highs of his dramatic victory in the 2013 race with Steven Richards. He also talks through the end of his time with the team and his move to Team 18 for the 2019 season.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: SVG’s car swap for Sydney

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 04:40:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news ahead of this weekend’s Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight, headlined by reigning champion Shane van Gisbergen swapping cars for the event.

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V8SP: Mark Winterbottom (Part 1)

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:44:00 -0000

We’re talking to Team 18’s Mark Winterbottom on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. ‘Frosty’ is set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first Bathurst 1000 come this year’s race in October, so we sat down to chat about his history with Mount Panorama.

In the first part of a three-part chat, he talks about watching the race as a kid, long before the karting and Formula Ford successes that earnt him his first V8 Supercar drive with Stone Brothers Racing. He talks about his debut with SBR in the 2003 race – and how he feels they had a shot to win it – and his two starts with Larkham Motor Sport in 2004 and 2005, plus his early near-misses with Ford Performance Racing in 2007.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Bathurst co-driver field almost complete

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 02:52:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by one team’s surprise co-driver signing for the Sandown 500 and Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from Sydney Motorsport Park

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:46:00 -0000

With the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight up next on the calendar, we’re looking back at touring car racing’s history at Sydney Motorsport Park on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. We look through some of the wild and forgotten moments from the championship’s time at the circuit formerly known as Eastern Creek International Raceway, including the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened in the circuit’s 34-year history.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Win your own Peter Brock Trophy!

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 05:47:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by a top contender finalising its driver pairings for the enduros at the Sandown 500 and Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Q&A - Round winners, reversed circuits, most fines in a weekend

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden's Own.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- What happened to the old overall ‘round’ podium system, why it came up at Townsville and who has the most

- The races that had the most fines handed out

- ‘Sprint for the Grid’ races

- The new ‘young gun’ era, and have some of the old ‘young guns’ missed their chance to win titles

- Circuits that have been raced in the reverse direction

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Outsiders on top in Townsville practice

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 06:35:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest Repco Supercars Championship news following the opening day of practice at the NTI Townsville 500.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from Townsville

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:45:00 -0000

With the NTI Townsville 500 on this weekend, we’re looking back at touring car racing’s history on the North Queensland streets on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. We look through some of the wild and forgotten moments from the championship’s time at Reid Park, including a forgotten street race that pre-dates the arrival of the V8 circus by almost 20 years, plus the memorable races and results, the controversies, the special liveries, and some of the weird things that have happened in the event’s 15-year history.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars stars racing around the world

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:26:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest Repco Supercars Championship news as a heap of our star drivers prepare to race in all corners of the globe this weekend, headlined by Shane van Gisbergen’s NASCAR Cup Series debut on the streets of Chicago.

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V8SP: Tim Edwards (Part 2)

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Tickford Racing’s Tim Edwards on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the second and final part of our two-part chat, he shares stories from his time running a Supercars team that has been known variously as Ford Performance Racing, Prodrive Racing Australia and Tickford Racing over its life.

Edwards became the squad’s team principal at the start of the 2005 season and has been its chief ever since through ups and down, Bathurst 1000 and championship wins, and a cast of winning drivers and machines. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Silly season hots up, and not just with drivers

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 04:12:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest Repco Supercars Championship news in the wake of last weekend’s betr Darwin Triple Crown, headlined by a top Triple Eight engineering being lured away by a rival team, the latest on Cam Waters’ future and Supercars’ move on parity between the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang.

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V8SP: Tim Edwards (Part 1)

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Tickford Racing team principal Tim Edwards on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the first part of a two-part chat, he talks about his dad’s history in The Great Race and his own long history with Ford. He also talks about his sudden move overseas to pursue a career in motorsport with Aussie ex-pat Alan Docking, which linked him up with Mika Salo – and Tim tells a hilarious story about the press ‘junket’ in Finland where Salo announced his British F3 program to the Finnish media.

He also talks about moving into Formula 1 with Jordan and shares some tales from his decade with the team, like the time eponymous team boss Eddie Jordan did a deal for a British rock star to use the team’s HQ as his band’s practice space ahead of a tour, being present for Michael Schumacher’s first F1 test in 1991, as well as being in the truck when Ayrton Senna punched Eddie Irvine after the 1993 Japanese Grand Prix!

Tim also talks about moving home to Australia and getting out of motorsport, only to begin another stint in the sport that continues to this day.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: SVG strikes trouble in Darwin

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:12:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest Repco Supercars Championship news after Friday’s practice running at the betr Darwin Triple Crown, where reigning champion Shane van Gisbergen endured a problem-filled day.

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V8SP: Tony D’Alberto (Part 2)

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re bringing you the second half of our chat with Tony D’Alberto on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the final part of a two-part chat, he talks about the end of Tony D’Alberto Racing and the move into the co-driver phase of his Supercars career.

He shares the story behind his first podium finish in V8 Supercars and how it was overshadowed by a personal tragedy, and chats about online trolls, his side of the controversial conclusion to the 2019 Bathurst 1000, and a Supercars race victory that got away. Tony also opens up about his time with DJR Team Penske and Dick Johnson Racing, and what it means to him to have been a fixture at the squad for eight seasons.

We also chat about his championship victory in the TCR Australia Series and how he got involved in the category, and the hands-on role he has in his family’s business when he’s away from the racetrack. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Indigenous Round liveries rolling out

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:54:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of next weekend’s betr Darwin Triple Crown, with several teams revealing their liveries for the upcoming Indigenous Round.

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V8SP: Tony D’Alberto (Part 1)

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:01:00 -0000

We’re talking to Tony D’Alberto on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the first part of a two-part chat, he talks about his family’s history in motorsport and with Holden, racing karts as a family team and briefly progressing to Formula Ford before jumping into V8 Supercars with Holden Young Lions.

He shares a funny story about his first drive of a V8 Supercar at Morgan Park with his new team boss John Faulkner in the passenger’s seat, and the eventual decision to go back to a family-run squad to progress his career and the story of his Development Series title win in 2007. Part 1 wraps up with the rough welcome he received upon his graduation to the ‘main game’ in 2008 and his early years in the V8 Supercars Championship.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Crucial Gen3 testing disrupted

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:16:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship in the wake of a busy week of testing – for the Queensland-based teams, at least.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from Hidden Valley

Wed, 31 May 2023 01:47:00 -0000

We’re looking forward to the Betr Darwin Triple Crown on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast by looking back at touring car racing’s history at Hidden Valley Raceway. Celebrating its 25th anniversary on the ATCC/Supercars schedule this year, we look through some of the wild and forgotten moments from the championship’s time in the Northern Territory, from weird incidents and results, to the carnage and chaos, plus the time the championship tripped over a time-zone change…

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Bathurst 1000 seats filling up

Fri, 26 May 2023 07:11:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship in the wake of a hectic NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint, headlined by a four-car squad locking in its co-drivers for the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Dale Wood (Part 2)

Wed, 24 May 2023 01:44:00 -0000

We’re bringing you the second half of our chat with Dale Wood on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In this ep, he talks about making it to the ‘main game’ with Kelly Racing and the way he found out he was being replaced mid-way through his rookie season, his return to the Dunlop Series and his title-winning season in 2013. He then chats about his second spell in the Supercars Championship, driving for Brad Jones Racing, Kelly Racing and Erebus Motorsport, and opens up on a 2017 that he describes as the ‘worst year of his life’. He also chats about his 2014 blow-up with Nick Percat, then becoming his co-driver at BJR – plus how he nearly missed the 2021 Bathurst 1000 and the star driver he’d lined up as a replacement – and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Van Gisbergen’s NASCAR debut confirmed

Fri, 19 May 2023 05:52:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of this weekend’s NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint, headlined by confirmation that Shane van Gisbergen will indeed make his NASCAR Cup Series debut this year.

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V8SP: Dale Wood (Part 1)

Wed, 17 May 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Dale Wood on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Woody’s a brilliant storyteller, as you’ll hear in the first part of our two-part chat. He talks about growing up around motorsport through his dad’s racing, then going racing himself in motocross, karting and Formula Ford – the latter in an RF87 Van Diemen previously raced by F1 star Eddie Irvine! He also talks about jumping on a trampoline with then-Formula BMW racer Daniel Ricciardo, his persistence in pursuing a sponsor that went on to back him all the way into V8 Supercars, as well as a hilarious tale where he very bluntly brushed off someone he believed was in a Development Series rival’s entourage, only to find out it was a top V8 team owner!

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V8SP: John Cleland (Part 2)

Wed, 10 May 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to John Cleland on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the last part of a two-part chat, John talks about his love affair with Australia, Mount Panorama and the Bathurst 1000. It’s been 30 years since his first trip to race in the Great Race, and he recounts tales from racing with Peter Brock (and how he came to race one of the Holden Dealer Team ‘Last of the Big Banger VKs in England) and his first experience of a V8 touring car at Mount Panorama, to finishing on the podium with Brad Jones, and the time he ended up on his roof in one of Brad Jones’ cars after hitting Peter Brock’s car! He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Shock enduro reunion

Fri, 05 May 2023 06:29:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by a surprise change of plans for Warren Luff amid a reunion with a driver that he’s already joined on the Bathurst 1000 podium twice previously.

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V8SP: John Cleland (Part 1)

Wed, 03 May 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to John Cleland on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the first part of a two-part chat, John talks about how he got into the sport in the first place and the deal he cut with his car dealer dad to go racing, watching his hero Jim Clark debut the iconic Lotus 49 and Ford Cosworth DFV at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix and what it means to him to have his name alongside Clark’s on the British Touring Car Championship trophy.

He also talks about how his long relationship with Vauxhall and General Motors first came about, the cheeky bit of gamesmanship that helped him win the 1989 BTCC, how he feels nowadays about that controversial 1992 title decider, which of his BTCC rivals was the most fun to wind up and the time BTCC chief Alan Gow squared him up for a prank.

John also talks about seeing the clear benefits of motorsport to the brands his car dealership sold, the ex-Peter Brock car that he now owns, and why he retired from racing full-time at the end of 1999.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Late Mustang parity change for Perth

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:37:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by a late parity tweak for the Ford Mustang ahead of this weekend’s Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint at CARCO.com.au Raceway.

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V8SP: The lost races from ATCC/Supercars history

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:20:00 -0000

We loved a topic from our most recent Q&A episode so much, we’ve gone and done a whole episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast on it! This week we’re looking back at some of the ‘lost’ races from ATCC/Supercars Championship history and Australian touring car racing in general, along with why they’re lost, where they could be and what hope there is of them ever resurfacing.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: van Gisbergen confirms racing future

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 05:36:00 -0000

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Shane van Gisbergen officially making a call on his future in the championship.

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V8SP: Q&A - Mulray moments, winning AUs, ‘Shriek at the Creek’ Sleuthing

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:45:00 -0000

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- If there’s still a minimum production number in the Gen3 era

- Lost ATCC race TV broadcasts

- Magic moments from the late Doug Mulray

- How many AU Falcons won championship races

- The fate of the two cars involved in the ‘Shriek at the Creek’

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: A timely change for Super2

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 04:54:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined up an upcoming milestone for Mark Winterbottom and a major format change for the Dunlop Series races for Super2 and Super3.

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V8SP: Why a top NASCAR team has a Holden Supercar

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:45:00 -0000

Our Sleuth senses started tingling when a photo turned up on social media over Easter of a Supercar in the race shop of elite NASCAR squad Richard Childress Racing. So for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast we’re taking a look at which car it is, where it came from, what it’s race history is and what it might be doing over in the United States.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments at Wanneroo

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:45:00 -0000

We’re looking forward to the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast by looking back at touring car racing’s history at Wanneroo Raceway. Celebrating its 50th anniversary on the ATCC schedule this year, we look through some of the wild and forgotten moments from the test in the West, from the weird results to unusual cars, unexpected race strategies and memorable incidents.

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V8SP: Greg Crick (Part 3)

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:01:00 -0000

We’ve got a double serve of Greg Crick on the V8 Sleuth Podcast this week. In the final part of our three-part chat, Cricky continues to talk about the impacts of the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour on his health, his fightback to go racing in Touring Car Masters and how concussions played their part, and what finally brought an end to his driving career. He also talks about what he’s up to these days at Garry Rogers Motorsport – including the ‘Garry, Barry and Larry show’ – and he answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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V8SP: Greg Crick (Part 2)

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:59:00 -0000

We’ve got a double serve of Greg Crick on the V8 Sleuth Podcast this week. In the second part of our three-part chat, Cricky shares more of his memories of Targa Tasmania and why the event will never be the same again. We also talk about his years racing V8 Supercars, including driving for Bob Forbes, Pinnacle Motorsport, John Alcorn, Kees and Paul Weel, and his sole race with Stone Brothers Racing alongside good mate Marcos Ambrose and why it all went wrong. We also chat about his Nations Cup Dodge Viper and his star turn against ex-F1 racer Mika Salo at the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour – how it was the best race he ever had, and opens up on the traumatic health consequences that followed.

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V8SP: Greg Crick (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:44:00 -0000

We’re talking to Greg Crick on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the first part of a three-part chat, Cricky talks about growing up just over a mile from the Longford road circuit in Tasmania, watching the F1 heroes of the day and deciding to go racing himself. He also talks about some of the wild machines he raced early in his career, from his first FJ Holden and a turbocharged XU-1 Torana, through to a speedway-inspired Mazda RX-7 sports sedan and his iconic Australian title-winning Honda Prelude. He also shares some hilarious stories (including the time he was ‘arrested’ by Victoria Police’s Armed Robbery Squad during Sandown 500 practice!) and his first time racing in the Bathurst 1000. He also explains his decision to turn his attention to touring car racing, plus becoming teammates with Sir Jack Brabham in winning the inaugural Targa Tasmania.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The aftermath of Gen3’s race debut

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:59:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship in the wake of the first race for the Gen3 Fords and Chevrolets at the Thrifty Newcastle 500.

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V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from AGP support race history

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:43:00 -0000

We’re looking forward to the Australian Grand Prix on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast by looking back at touring car racing’s history on the F1 undercard. From the dramatic start to the first support race at Adelaide in 1985, we look through some of the wild and forgotten moments from the sprints on the South Australian streets, through the event’s move to Melbourne and its eventual addition to the Repco Supercars Championship calendar.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Parity tussle paused on eve of season

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:23:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the key news on the eve of the opening round of the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by a significant announcement from Supercars, Ford and General Motors.

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V8SP: Thomas Randle (Part 2)

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We continue our chat with Thomas Randle on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the second and final part of our two-part sit down with the Tickford Racing pilot, he opens up about his battle with testicular cancer – from noticing the first symptoms in late 2019, the diagnosis and undergoing treatment in 2020 and coming back to win the Dunlop Super2 Series title. He also chats about F1 star Fernando Alonso driving his Supercar, his breakthrough front row qualifying performance at The Bend last year (and how it turned sour when the lights went green) and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Key Gen3 rule finally locked in

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 05:04:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by an important rule being finalised with a week to go before the cars hit the track in Newcastle, plus an F1 star that will be piloting an Alfa Romeo Group A touring car in Adelaide.

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V8SP: Thomas Randle (Part 1)

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Thomas Randle on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the first part of a two-part chat, Randle talks about following his dad into the sport, starting with racing karts at the age of seven through growing up to pilot the family’s Saab Sports Sedan. He also talks about his move into Formula 4 and heading to Europe to try and crack Formula 1, and battling future F1 star Lando Norris and IndyCar hero Colton Herta, then making the decision to come home and pursue a career in Supercars.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The washup from the Gen3 test at SMP

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:23:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship in the wake of the official pre-season test at Sydney Motorsport Park, which marked the first time all 25 Gen3 Supercars have hit the track together.

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V8SP: What happened at the start of every ‘new era’?

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:24:00 -0000

We’re looking back at the start of every previous ‘new era’ in ATCC/Supercars history on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through every evolution of the championship’s technical rules, from Appendix J to Improved Production, Group C and Group A, the dawn of the Five Litre Touring Car era and its various iterations (Project Blueprint, Car of the Future/Gen2) that led us to Gen3. We also look at how the first race of each era played out, and it’s an interesting journey…

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Gen3 achieves major milestone

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:41:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship and there has been plenty happening at Winton and Queensland Raceway as teams hit the track with their brand new Gen3 chassis.

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V8SP: Chris Lambden (Part 2)

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We wrap up our chat with longtime motorsport identity Chris Lambden on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In Part 2, Lambden talks about how Motorsport News came about, its rivalry with Auto Action and its legacy on the industry. He also talks about going racing in a historic Formula 5000 and how it led to the creation of the Formula Thunder 5000 concept. He also reveals how he nearly purchased the cars from a high-profile defunct series as its basis, and talks about the category’s long road to being born as S5000 – including the day he found out about Supercars’ rival concept and how it was resolved.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Gen3 cars start hitting the track

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:09:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by the latest as teams begin to hit the racetrack with their first cars built to Gen3 specifications.

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V8SP: Chris Lambden (Part 1)

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:52:00 -0000

We’re talking to longtime motorsport identity Chris Lambden on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Perhaps best known now as the creator of S5000, an editor of Auto Action, the founding editor of Motorsport News and a touring car racer in his own right, Lambden has been around motorsport for over five decades. In the first part of our two-part chat, Lambden talks about his years racing karts in New Zealand and overseas, which brought him into the orbit of karting guru Terry Fullerton and his chief rival, a young Brazilian named Ayrton Senna da Silva. He also talks about his first publishing effort, his move to Australia and his time as editor of Auto Action. Lambden also chats about his move into touring car racing, getting a reference letter from Peter Brock for his driving, buying the 1987 Bathurst-winning Holden (and crashing it…) and how he nearly gave Craig Lowndes his first Bathurst 1000 start.

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V8SP: Q&A - The ‘Candyman’, WPS Falcons’ fate, Sandown-Bathurst doubles

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:47:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The fate of WPS Racing’s Ford Falcon V8 Supercars

- When Supercars’ pit lane garage order became dictated by the Teams Championship

- Safety Car wave-around rules at the Bathurst 12 Hour

- Our take on the removal of in-car anti-roll bar adjusters in Gen3 Supercars

- The first motor race to be broadcast in colour on Australian TV

- The time that ‘The Candyman’ couldn’t

- How and why the start and finish lines at Mount Panorama are not one and the same

- The most successful driver combos at the Sandown 500 and which ones went on to win Bathurst

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Teams racing to finish new Gen3 cars

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 03:27:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by the latest from teams as the debut of the Gen3 platform nears and teams push to finish their cars in time for pre-season testing.

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V8SP: Q&A - Project Blueprint, Privateer’s Dashes, Pace Car Sleuthing

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:45:00 -0000

We’re back for 2023 and we’re answering your questions! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The last pre-Project Blueprint chassis to compete in the ‘main game’

- Who was the most successful driver in the Privateer’s Dashes from the late 1990s?

- Nissan’s Bathurst-winning GT-Rs … or should that be GT-R?

- The fate of the Gen3 prototypes

- Holden’s most loyal ATCC/Supercars driver

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Charlie O’Brien (Part 2)

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Charlie O’Brien on our final episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco for 2022. In the last part of our two-part chat, Charlie talks about his years driving at the Bathurst 1000 for Allan Moffat, Dick Johnson and Tony Longhurst, his years racing NASCAR in Australia and his disastrous attempts to qualify for a Winston Cup race in the early 1990s. He also talks about racing in Super Touring, including the hilarious story behind his sponsorship by Virgin Cola, as well as racing in and winning the Bathurst 12 Hour with Mazda. Charlie also talks about coming back to race Carrera Cup in the 2000s and how it led to his final V8 Supercar race start at the 2004 Sandown 500 – and why that race remains a regret – and racing in V8 Utes. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: WAU confirms expansion for 2023

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:45:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship and there’s plenty going on despite being in the second week of the off-season, including Walkinshaw Andretti United confirming a two-car Super2 effort for next year.

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V8SP: Charlie O’Brien (Part 1)

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Charlie O’Brien on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of a two-part chat Charlie shares some amazing stories from early in his career, including getting caught racing under age and discretely resuming his career under his brother’s name, and the time he sold his grandfather’s favourite horse to buy a faster car. He also talks about buying Dick Johnson’s Zupps Torana XU-1 for his touring car debut then moving up to an L34 and setting a long-standing record for being the youngest driver to win an ATCC race, then landing his dream drive with the Holden Dealer Team – at precisely the wrong time. He also opens up about what really caused his infamous crash in practice for the 1978 Bathurst 1000 and his close friendship with Gregg Hansford.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Tander’s bombshell team switch

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 04:29:00 -0000

The 2022 Repco Supercars Championship might be over but there is still plenty of news for V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan to run you through, led by a bombshell announcement from Garth Tander who is leaving Triple Eight for a Ford team!

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V8SP: Craig Denyer

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:09:00 -0000

We’re talking to Craig Denyer on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Father of Grant and a veteran of the Australian motorsport scene, Denyer shares plenty of incredible stories from his time in racing, beginning with his first encounter with motorsport at a Hume Weir Boxing Day meeting in the late 1960s, through to racing himself, his part in Allan Grice and Graeme Bailey’s famous win in the 1986 Bathurst 1000, through to tales from the inaugural running of Gold Coast Indy, the birth of the Bathurst 24 Hour, plus the story of V8 Utes from go to woah – including the alternative he and Bill West proposed that lost out to SuperUtes.

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V8SP: Adam Macrow (Part 2)

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:30:00 -0000

We’re talking to Adam Macrow on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the last part of our two-part chat we talk about his title-winning Fujitsu Series season in 2006, the bold promise he made to seal the drive with Howard Racing in the first place and how a good word from Alain Menu helped get his foot in the door at Triple Eight. He also opens up on why a full-time drive never came his way and what he’d have done differently in hindsight. Adam did get one solo-driver round, however, and talks about how his unlikely opportunity with Team Kiwi Racing came about. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Unpacking the 2023 Supercars calendar

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:32:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, led by some very big and exciting news: the Sandown 500 is officially BAAACCKKK!!!!!

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V8SP: Adam Macrow (Part 1)

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:50:00 -0000

We’re talking to Adam Macrow on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of our two-part chat with the 1998 Australian Formula Ford Champion and 2006 Fujitsu Series victor starts with what he’s doing now and how he’s helping the next generation of drivers take their first steps into car racing, and some of the current rising stars he has worked with. He also talks about his own start in the sport, his rise through Formula Ford, his brief foray into Formula Holden, his early steps into V8 Supercars, and his rapid Datsun 120Y Improved Production car!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Young gun gets Supercars graduation

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 04:10:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, led by some big news for one of Australian motorsport’s rising stars.

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V8SP: Steve Ellery (Part 2)

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:45:00 -0000

Part 2 with Steve Ellery on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco covers a serious amount of ground! We talk about that amazing double podium finish at Sandown and Bathurst with Luke Youlden in 2003, cover the unique situation of taking sponsor stickers off mid-race weekend in 2004 on the Gold Coast, the decision to close his family team, how he arrived at and then left Triple Eight and the full-time deal to drive a Commodore that he turned down in the aftermath. Steve also tackles the National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars champ turns team co-owner

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:52:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship led by three-time Supercars Champion Scott McLaughlin’s move into team co-ownership.

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V8SP: Steve Ellery (Part 1)

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:50:00 -0000

We’re talking to Steve Ellery on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of our two-part chat with the V8 Supercars race winner and former team owner, we chat about his early years in Formula Ford and what got him started in racing and the ups and downs of trying to make it in touring car racing in the 1990s/early 2000s, ranging from his breakthrough podium finish at the Bathurst 1000 in 1996, the collapse of his relationship with Tony Longhurst the next year, his often forgotten year with Holden Young Lions, narrowly missing out on a Bathurst win in 1999, and finally achieving success as an owner-driver.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: T8 customer goes in-house for Gen3

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 05:40:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship in the wake of a bruising Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500.

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V8SP: It’s back! Your guide to the VALO Adelaide 500

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0000

Adelaide is set to come Alive once again with the roar of Supercars! The iconic Adelaide 500 has been resurrected for 2022 and V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale runs you through everything you need to know about the reborn event.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 preview

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:48:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, including new liveries for Supercars’ return to the Surfers Paradise streets.

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V8SP: Q&A - Suspended drivers, Cenovis Falcon’s fate, iconic Whincup on-board

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:51:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Who owns the footage of Jamie Whincup’s opening stint from the 2014 Bathurst 1000?

- The fate of Allan Moffat’s Cenovis EB Falcon after it’s Bathurst 1000 crash in 1998 with Allan Heath

- Can teams build new Mustangs and Commodores to be used in Super2 next year?

- What lost permanent circuit we’d bring back

- The greatest year-on-year improvement in lap times at the Bathurst 500/1000

- What we’d choose as an exhibition at the National Motor Racing Museum

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Mark Larkham (Part 2)

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:50:00 -0000

We’re talking to Mark Larkham on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the second part of our two-part chat Larko tackles all your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions – and they’ve brought out some absolute gold! We also touch on which of his V8 Supercars was Larko’s favourite, what became of the AU Falcon that was involved in the infamous start-line shunt with Paul Morris at Oran Park in 2000, and Mark Winterbottom’s lucky escape at the Shanghai round in 2005 when a metal grate went through the floor of his Larkham Motor Sport Falcon.

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V8SP: Mark Larkham (Part 1)

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:59:00 -0000

We’re talking to Mark Larkham on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We’ve devoted the first part of our two-part chat to talking about Larko’s first Mitre 10 Falcon V8 Supercar. He opens up about how he came to move from Formula Brabham to touring cars, why he chose 5L V8s over Super Touring, all the bits of clever engineering that went into the team’s bold, blue Ford Falcon EF, and how elements of it were ahead of its time but the car was so troublesome overall.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: (No) Shootout Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:54:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale wrap all the Saturday action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including the Shootout rainout, the last time pole wasn’t decided by the one-lap runoffs, a run through the grid and what we’re hoping to see happen on Sunday.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Qualifying wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:09:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Friday action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including Shane van Gisbergen’s tangle with Macauley Jones, Triple Eight’s decision to bench Broc Feeney for Jamie Whincup, and the surprise results from a very wet qualifying session.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Thursday wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 08:55:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Thursday’s action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including the lack of precipitation, the abundance of speed, and the word that was on many Supercars drivers’ lips at the end of the day – and no, it wasn’t “rain”…

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Wednesday wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:29:00 -0000

We’re doing daily editions of the V8 Sleuth Podcast trackside at Mount Panorama this week during the Repco Bathurst 1000! V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap up everything from trackside on the eve of opening practice for the 2022 ‘Great Race’.

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V8SP: Bathurst 1992: Controversy and tragedy clouds 'The Great Race’

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0000

With 2022 marking 30 years since the running of one of the most controversial editions of ‘The Great Race’, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale look back over the events of the 1992 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst.

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V8SP: What was the greatest Holden in Bathurst 1000 history?

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0000

As ‘Australia’s Own’ car prepares for its final tilt at ‘The Great Race’, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate which is the greatest model of Holden to have tackled the Bathurst 1000.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Gen3 passes significant milestone

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:02:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of the biggest week of the year: the lead-up to the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2022 Bathurst 1000

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0000

It’s time for that special Sunday in October! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000 and answer your questions ahead of the 2022 edition of ‘The Great Race’.

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V8SP: Craig Lowndes (Part 2)

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the last part of our two-part chat talking about his emotional triumph in the 2006 Bathurst 1000, held just a few weeks after the death of his friend and mentor Peter Brock. We cover his 2010 triumph, playing football at the same club that Brock did, how he ended up with his long-standing helmet design, tackling the Australasian Safari, his desire to do the Le Mans 24 Hours, plus his future behing the wheel of a Supercar. He also faces your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Craig Lowndes (Part 1)

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the first part of our two-part chat talking about buying his first road car, the Ford Cortina he drove while lead driver at the Holden Racing Team – and the white lie he told them about selling it. We also chat about the Formula Ford he's currently restoring, driving the ‘Black Death’, a DJR test that didn’t happen, how his drive in the 1994 Bathurst 12 Hour came about, plus the phone call from Jeff Grech that changed his life. We also chat about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the ‘Green-Eyed Monster’, his interviews with ‘Poida’ (aka Eric Bana) and 60 Minutes, and the start of his Triple Eight era.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Plan to preserve Pukekohe

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:25:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with the action from Friday practice for the ITM Auckland SuperSprint and a plan for Pukekohe to be preserved digitally after its closure in early 2023.

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V8SP: Anton De Pasquale

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Anton De Pasquale on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Aaron Noonan sits down with him in the boardroom at Dick Johnson Racing to chat about his career to date, including how he got into karting in the first place as he isn’t from a family that was already into motorsport, making the big move to Europe and some of the big names he raced against, coming home to Australia and how he came to link up with Paul Morris, which launched him into Supercars. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Change to Bathurst 1000 field

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:24:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with a major update on the composition of the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 field.

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V8SP: Roland Dane (Part 2)

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Roland Dane on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the final part of our two-part chat, we dive deeper into the story of Triple Eight in Supercars with RD, starting with the team’s breakthrough win with Craig Lowndes at Eastern Creek in 2005, the same year it did a deal with one of its rivals, Stone Brothers Racing, for engine supply. We also talk about how Triple Eight’s success caused a rule change for the Bathurst 1000, and go through the highs and lows of its tilts at the Mount Panorama classic. We also cover their first Bathurst win in 2006 in depth, with plenty of chat about the winning chassis as well, and RD also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: 2023 calendar taking shape

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:25:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting an update on the Newcastle 500 and a milestone for Erebus’ Gen3 Supercar plans.

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V8SP: Roland Dane (Part 1)

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Roland Dane on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the first part of our two-part chat getting the rundown on the new era at Triple Eight Race Engineering following the changes in ownership and management over the past 24 months, headlined by his stepping out of the Managing Director and Team Principal roles. Dane then rewinds back to his early years in business and motorsport in England and Triple Eight’s time in the British Touring Car Championship and Super Touring, which led to his first visit to the Bathurst 1000 in the late 1990s with Peter Brock driving. He also talks about moving to Australia and establishing Triple Eight in V8 Supercars in 2003 and securing Craig Lowndes’ signature one year later – as well as his Australian ancestory!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The form guide after Friday at Sandown

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Connor O’Brien run through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with the action from Friday practice for the Penrite Oils Sandown SuperSprint.

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V8SP: Craig Baird (Part 2)

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Craig Baird on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the second part of a two-part chat, Bairdo talks about retiring from motorsport at the end of the 1998 season and getting a ‘real’ job in 1999, only to get pulled back into motorsport by Stone Brothers Racing, reviving his career Down Under. He opens up about his early years in V8 Supercars, from SBR to Prancing Horse Racing and Team Brock, and his transition to becoming the benchmark of Porsche Carrera Cup. He also talks about his role as the Driving Standards Advisor for Supercars and how he approaches the task. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Lowndes to practice BJR car at Sandown

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, headlined by something we haven’t seen since 2004: Craig Lowndes driving something other than a Triple Eight car in an official session at a championship round!

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V8SP: Craig Baird (Part 1)

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Craig Baird on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of a two-part chat, Bairdo talks about starting his racing career at just four years of age and racing a Formula Ford at age 15! The three-time New Zealand Grand Prix winner also chats about the Kiwi star that played a big role in his development – and the other Kiwi legend that threatened to stab him with a screwdriver after a racing incident! – and racing against future F1 and IndyCar drivers in Formula Atlantic over the summer months at home. We also chat about his move into touring cars, his first Bathurst 1000 start and racing BMWs in South Africa where he drove with the late Sabine Schmitz. He also opens up on his disqualification after winning the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000, and what it was like being a teammate to F1 legend Nigel Mansell.

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V8SP: Q&A - V8 SuperStars shows, Brock’s forgotten Sierra, Larko’s lost NZ win

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Stefan Bartholomaeus tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The subsequent history of the T8 chassis that copped a wheel in the windscreen at Bathurst in ‘05

- The forgotten Peter Brock Sierra

- The prospect of episodes of V8 SuperStars being released on DVD and whether the show would work in 2022

- Whether the lack of Supercars scandals in the mainstream media is a good or bad thing

- What ‘twin spring’ setups were all about

- Teams that scored championship hat-tricks where different drivers did the winning

- How we’ll treat Gen3 chassis histories given their more modular design

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Key Bathurst pairings locked in

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week ahead of this weekend’s OTR SuperSprint at The Bend.

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V8SP: Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Bruce Stewart

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Walkinshaw Andretti United team principal Bruce Stewart on this week's V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Bruce chats about his background outside of motorsport prior to getting involved with one of Supercars’ most decorated teams, the feedback that WAU has had from fans and the industry on their shock Ford switch and how they’ll farewell their Holden legacy, and opens up on some of the mistakes the team made as it tried to return to being regular threats for race wins.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars’ rejected takeover bid

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 07:12:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, and there’s been a fair bit going on – led by the category owner RACE's rejection of a takeover bid.

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V8SP: David Hassall

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to veteran motorsport media identity David Hassall this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. ‘Hass’ shares a heap of tales from across his six decades around motorsport, from his start as a Victorian hillclimb reporter at Racing Car News through to his roles as editor of Auto Action and founding editor of both Motorsport News and Australian Motor Racing Magazine, and the close relationships he formed with icons of the sport such as Peter Brock and Allan Moffat – and the time he was run over by Captain Peter Janson on live TV!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The fate of the Newcastle 500

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with the latest on the future of the Newcastle 500.

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V8SP: Mark Howard

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to veteran sports broadcaster Mark Howard this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. The host of the popular The Howie Games podcast shares stories from his time around motorsport, including getting his start in the glamorous world of Formula 1 with a decidedly unglamorous job, his formative days at Channel 10 and hosting Trackside, through to how The Howie Games podcast came about.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The form guide after Friday in Townsville

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with the action from Friday practice for the NTI Townsville 500.

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V8SP: Sven Burchartz

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Sven Burchartz this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Normally preferring to keep his co-ownership of Tickford Racing low-key, Burchartz opens up on his love of motorsport, his involvement in the sport as a racer, a category chief and through his day job as a lawyer, and how he came to own a stake in Tickford Racing. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Brock’s ‘Big Banger’ becomes #25 again

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with confirmation that a 29th car will join the field for this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000, plus new owners – and an old number – for a significant car in Holden’s ‘Great Race’ history.

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V8SP: Nathan Pretty (Part 2)

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Nathan Pretty this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Nathan talks about racing for three different factory Holden teams in 2002, shares stories about racing the Garry Rogers Motorsport-built Nations Cup Holden Monaro 427C and his little mishap during the Bathurst 24 Hour, and racing with Peter Brock as a teammate both in rallying and circuit racing. He also talks about his loyalty to Holden – and the opportunities to race a Ford that he turned down – and what hampered him in his one shot at a full time V8 Supercars drive. Nathan also chats about his 2006 Development Series and the comments that led him to copping a massive pull-through over the phone from Larry Perkins, his final years in V8 Supercars and his years in V8 Utes – and chats about his ‘good friend’ Randy Corners. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars star releases own beer

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with Tickford Racing locking in their Repco Bathurst 1000 co-driver pairings, plus the driver who has announced he is releasing his own beer.

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V8SP: Nathan Pretty (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:35:00 -0000

We’re talking to Nathan Pretty this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Nathan reveals how a set of dental braces set him on a path towards a motor racing career, and talks about his days racing and winning on a minimal budget in the AUSCAR Series, getting into V8 Supercars – again, with a minimal budget – and the Thunderdome trick that helped him snag a seventh-place finish at Winton, the infamous ‘young bloke, cold tyres, f***** it up’ incident at Bathurst, to landing a drive with the Holden Racing Team while he was working driving a taxi in Wodonga.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The form guide after Friday in Darwin

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:04:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with all the action from Friday practice for the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley.

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V8SP: Gary Scott (Part 2)

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Gary Scott this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Gary opens up on his tumultuous 1986 season with Nissan headlined by his pole-winning lap for the 1986 Bathurst 1000, his return to the HDT alongside Peter Brock and crashing the #05 Commodore at Lakeside – and the real reason he was at the HDT for such a short time – and his time with Mitsubishi, including the marque’s planned four-wheel drive turbo car that “would have made the Nissan GT-R look like a taxi” had it come to fruition, and Mark Trenoweth’s stunning Jaguar XJ-S Sports Sedan. He also answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and tackles the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Gen3 Supercars’ Toowoomba aero test

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 04:32:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship.

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V8SP: Gary Scott (Part 1)

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:17:00 -0000

We’re talking to Gary Scott this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, the 1986 Bathurst 1000 polesitter talks about his stunning Hardies Heroes lap, tells stories from growing up around motorsport in Queensland in the 1960s as the son of racer Glyn Scott, racing motorbikes as a teen with good mate Gregg Hansford, and the impact of the loss of his dad in a racing crash that happened right in front of him and how it caused him to walk away from the sport for several years. He also chats about trying to climb the ladder to F1 in England, and returning home without a plan to keep racing, only to land seats with the Holden Dealer Team and Nissan Motorsport.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars’ worst-kept secret set for reveal

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:03:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship.

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V8SP: Q&A - Camaro’s future, a return for progressive grids, Johnson family’s Mustangs

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The history of the Mustangs driven by Dick, Steve and Jett Johnson at Queensland Raceway earlier this week

- If Supercars aren’t doing a Sandown 500, what other category should take up the mantle?

- Should progressive grid formats make a return?

- Allan Moffat’s carburetted Ford Falcon EB

- What happened to the Big Kev VT Commodore

- Larry Perkins’ VP Commodore from the 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000

- Prizemoney in Supercars

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The Bathurst local behind the Mustang wildcard Bathurst 1000 entry

Fri, 27 May 2022 00:45:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship headlined by the identity of the team behind the Repco Bathurst 1000 wildcard entry using a DJR-sourced Ford Mustang.

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V8SP: Triple-Crowned Commodore, the car that made HRT

Wed, 25 May 2022 02:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: one that has a special place in the hearts of Holden Racing Team and Craig Lowndes fans. HRT 033 – aka Gabrielle – caused a sensation when it debuted during the 1996 ATCC, featuring a CAD-designed roll cage with a distinctive ‘Petty Bar’ that was subsequently banned from being used in any other car. We chat about the car’s incredibly successful – yet surprisingly brief – competitive life, its two sizable shunts, and where it is on the road to restoration.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Everything you need to know for the return to Winton

Thu, 19 May 2022 06:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of the championship’s return to Winton Motor Raceway for the first time since 2019.

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V8SP: Nations Cup - Tales from Australia's own GT class

Wed, 18 May 2022 02:00:00 -0000

In the wake of the return of the Bathurst 12 Hour, this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re looking back at the Nations Cup series. Devised by PROCAR, the series pitted exotic sports cars from around the world in a parity-matched series that was effectively the forerunner of the modern Australian GT Championship. We chat about how it came about, the stars, the cars, some of the quirky tales and aspects of the category, why it came to an end, and what its legacy is.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: NASCAR stars drive Mustang Supercar in the US

Thu, 12 May 2022 04:07:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by the appearance of a Ford Mustang Supercar turning laps at Watkins Glen International in the United States with a pair of NASCAR stars reportedly behind the wheel.

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V8SP: Cam Waters

Wed, 11 May 2022 02:00:00 -0000

The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco has reached the double-ton! In our 200th episode, we’re talking to Supercars and speedway racer Cam Waters. We chat about his career to date, from Formula Ford, Super2, Supercars and sprint cars, his big break through the Shannons Supercar Showdown reality TV show, and a heap of other topics. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Walkinshaw Andretti United confirms Ford switch

Fri, 06 May 2022 04:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Friday’s announcement that Walkinshaw Andretti United will become a Ford team for the 2023 Supercars season, ending a 33-year history with Holden.

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V8SP: Q&A - Worst title defences, how drivers get paid, is SVG the modern-day Richo?

Wed, 04 May 2022 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The worst ATCC/Supercars title defences on record

- How Shane van Gisbergen stacks up against Jim Richards in the versatility stakes

- What exactly gets recorded in a Supercars logbook

- The mysterious third Peter Jackson Racing entry at Bathurst in 1992

- What makes up a driver’s remuneration package – ie how do they get paid?

- How Superlicence eligibility rules apply to someone like Jamie Whincup

- How many V8 Supercars chassis were unfinished by teams

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Everything you need to know for the return to Wanneroo

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:30:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship and previews the championship’s return to Wanneroo Raceway for the first time since 2019.

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V8SP: James Davison

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to James Davison this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. A cousin to Supercars racers Will and Alex Davison, James shares a host of stories of how he carved out an overseas career that has included racing – and leading – the Indianapolis 500, a season in the NASCAR Cup Series, sports car racing, iconic Formula 1 cars and more. He took us inside some of the wheeling and dealing that got him his first IndyCar drive, a story that includes future F1 team boss and Supercars team co-owner Zak Brown, plus the chance meeting that led to his Indy 500 debut. He also chats about some of the friends he’s made along the way, a list that includes reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen, and he also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: How the co-driver grid is shaping up for Bathurst

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, including a look at how the co-driver grid is shaping up for the Repco Bathurst 1000, and the Supercars team owner that is set to tackle an Australian Formula Ford Championship race later this year.

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V8SP: Charlie Schwerkolt (Part 2)

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Charlie Schwerkolt this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, the Team 18 boss talks about the seasons where Tickford then Walkinshaw ran his Supercars entry, then the decision to strike out on his own and found his own squad, the Lee Holdsworth years, the 2019 rebuild that culminated in recruiting Mark Winterbottom and expanding to two cars for 2020 with Scott Pye. Charlie also opens up on what the future might look like for Team 18, and he also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: What happens if a driver is benched with COVID?

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, including two high-profile Supercars racers testing positive for COVID-19 after the Melbourne 400.

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V8SP: Charlie Schwerkolt (Part 1)

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Charlie Schwerkolt this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, the Team 18 boss talks about growing up around cars and his family’s business – which wasn’t always to do with forklifts – as well as his days racing go-karts. He also opens up on how his relationship with Dick Johnson Racing began, how he became a part-owner of the team and his view on how it all came apart amid the team’s remarkable 2010 championship victory.

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V8SP: John Bowe (Part 2)

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:00:00 -0000

John Bowe was our very first guest on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco and this week he returns to tell more stories from his career. In Part 2 of a two-part episode, JB talks about his time racing for Brad Jones Racing including what it was like finishing second to the ‘Lap of the Gods’ and his horror shunt at Pukekohe in 2006, plus an update on his health in the wake of his prostate cancer battle last year. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions – including one where he reveals that he turned down a plum Super Touring drive for the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Finishing what we started at Albert Park

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, including another Supercars reality TV success story, Gen3’s latest lappery and everything you need to know ahead of the championship’s return to Albert Park next weekend.

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V8SP: John Bowe (Part 1)

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0000

John Bowe was our very first guest on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco, and this week he returns to tell more stories from his career. In Part 1 of a two-part episode, JB tells a few stories about growing up in Tasmania, watching racing at the old Longford road circuit, and why he got into racing open wheelers instead of sedans. He also talks about his years racing for Garrie Cooper’s legendary Elfin team, plus his maiden touring car season racing a Volvo 240T and one of the fastest cars of its era – the VesKanda sports car.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Tasmania SuperSprint preview

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through all the news and previews this weekend’s NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint at Symmons Plains.

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V8SP: Q&A - Bathurst breakdowns, Adelaide as a Grand Finale, Paragon’s problems

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The prospect of Super2 adopting Gen3 cars in 2022

- Why Grove Racing continues Kelly Racing’s history but PremiAir Racing doesn’t carry on TEKNO/Team SYDNEY’s

- The story of why Paragon Motorsport was benched for the 2001 Queensland 500

- Where the Adelaide 500 fits into the Supercars calendar long-term

- Which Bathurst 1000 had the lowest percentage of finishers

- A BF Falcon that started life as an AU

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Revised Gen3 Camaro hits the track

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, with news on the co-driver market, the latest on Gen3, the new home for Cam Waters’ current Monster Energy Mustang, and news on the restoration of a recent Bathurst-winning Holden.

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V8SP: Inside stories from HRT’s golden era (Part 2)

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0000

This week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco is the last of a two-part episode featuring stories from inside the Holden Racing Team during its golden era. Paul ‘Wally’ Weissel was HRT’s media liaison from 1994 to 2004, and in the second part he talks about how he buried a HUGE story about Craig Lowndes injuring himself a week out from the 1996 Bathurst 1000, the controversy around Peter Brock’s 1994 Bathurst Commodore – and why Wally is STILL mad about it! – how Mark Skaife started winning over the team on his first day, and plenty more.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: New world order or false dawn?

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0000

Repco Supercars Weekly is back for 2022! V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news in the wake of the season-opening Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight.

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V8SP: Inside stories from HRT’s golden era (Part 1)

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0000

This week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco is the first of a two-part episode featuring stories from inside the Holden Racing Team during its golden era. Paul ‘Wally’ Weissel was HRT’s media liaison from 1994 to 2004, and in the first part he talks about how a chance to work with Peter Brock eventually led them both to the factory team in 1994. Wally tells stories from those early years as the foundations were put in place for HRT to become a dominant team.

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2022 Repco Supercars Championship

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0000

A brand new season of the Repco Supercars Championship gets underway this weekend! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale preview the year ahead with a rundown of all the driver and team changes, the new rules, the new cars and where you can watch it all, plus we answer your questions about the 2022 season.

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V8SP: What happened to Volvo’s V8 Supercars?

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:30:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a very special era of V8 Supercars: the Volvo era. We talk about why fans took to the Garry Rogers Motorsport-run Swedish machines, their unique engine note, the rise of Scott McLaughlin, the genesis of the program, why it ended so quickly, the highlights and lowlights – and LOLs along the way – and run through where the cars are now.

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V8SP: Q&A - Sleuthing a Bathurst winner, the number you don’t want to have, petty rule enforcement

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The drivers who have raced and won on the most different ATCC/SC circuits

- A teaser of what to expect in this year’s Seven Magic Moments of Motorsport DVD releases

- The Bathurst 1000’s wild first support race in the event’s history

- Unsuccessful ATCC/SC numbers

- The whereabouts of the 1999 Bathurst-winning Commodore

- Scrutineering fun and games at Bathurst in 1987

- Our take on combining Supercars and TCR in the Bathurst 1000

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Ford fans' saviour: Marcos Ambrose's BA Falcon

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: one that has a special place in the hearts of Ford fans. Marcos Ambrose only raced one BA Falcon chassis during an incredible three year period that delivered two V8 Supercars Championship titles, a swag of race wins, plus no shortage of drama! We tell the story of the car from its first on-track laps, it's greatest moments, plus the array of future Supercars Champions and Bathurst winners who drove this car after Ambrose.

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V8SP: Brad Jones (Part 2)

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0000

We wrap up our two-part chat with Brad Jones this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Brad tells stories from his time with Audi in the 1990s, headlined by his title-winning years in the Australian Super Touring Championship and his near-start in the Race of a Thousand Years. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Brad Jones (Part 1)

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Brad Jones this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Brad tells stories from his time as the King of the Thunderdome, racing in AUSCAR and NASCAR. He also chats about racing the Thomson-Fowler Mercedes Sports Sedan and his years as a Mitsubishi factory driver racing Group A Starions.

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V8SP: Terry Wyhoon (Part 2)

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:01:00 -0000

We’re talking to Terry Wyhoon this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Terry tells stories from his time in Supercars, the Development Series and Super2, including the time his team's car was seized by police during a race weekend and coming back to win next time out, how close he came to pulling Image Racing out of Super2 last year, and how he sees the future of the category. He also tackles the National Motor Racing Museum Top 10 Shootout and chat about memorabilia thanks to the Motorsport Trader.

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V8SP: Terry Wyhoon (Part 1)

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0000

We’re talking to Terry Wyhoon this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Terry tells stories from Calder Park Thunderdome, including the funny story behind his first AUSCAR race win, having the only fully Australian-built NASCAR, and getting stitched up by Jim Richards at Bathurst.

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V8SP: Q&A - Short-lived cars, missing Larry Bars, turbo-six Falcon Supercar

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The chassis that have done the least amount of laps before being written off

- How many Car of the Future chassis have been built

- Cars that won the championship but never raced in the Bathurst 500 or 1000

- Were AU Falcons and VX Commodores updated to Project Blueprint

- The whereabouts of Paul Morris’ 2001 Calder-winning Commodore

- The history of a V8 Supercar that later had a turbocharged six-cylinder engine fitted

- The story behind Larry Perkins’ brief stint with Dick Johnson

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Q&A - Unlucky numbers, the most loyal drivers, Luffy’s amazing record

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 03:30:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The most number of wins for a combination of driver and car number

- Why Ford didn’t race XR8-style quad headlights on its EF and EL Falcons

- The old infield section at Sandown

- How Warren Luff’s finishing record at Bathurst stacks up

- How one of the Great Race’s most memorable moments happened in an ad-break but ended up with ‘live’ commentary

- The unluckiest car number in the Bathurst 1000

- The drivers with the most ATCC/Supercars Championship round starts exclusively with one brand of car

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: A big shift in the Gen3 gearshift plan

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 01:01:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship this week, and despite it being the first real week of the off-season, there’s a bit to cover!

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V8SP: Jason Richards 10 years on

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:25:00 -0000

It’s a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco this week, which falls on December 15, 2021 – exactly 10 years to the day since we lost Jason Richards. We talk to some of the people who knew him best: his wife Charlotte, his dad Dave, plus his good friend – and neighbour! – John Bowe and his former team boss Brad Jones, whose cars continue to wear a JR star in Jason’s honour.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars hunting for a new CEO

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:36:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news in the wake of the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 – and there’s been a fair bit happening…

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V8SP: Jim Richards (Part 2)

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:16:00 -0000

We’re talking to Jim Richards this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco, and he told us so many stories that we’ve had to split this one in half! In Part 2, Richo tells us a few more ripping tales, including the time he went to buy a set of tyres and ended up with a Bob Jane T-Marts franchise, his Formula 5000 cameo, how he first came to race a Porsche and his long relationship with them thereafter, building his Touring Car Masters Falcon Sprint and AMC Javelin, plus he chats about memorabilia thanks to our friends at The Motorsport Trader and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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V8SP: Jim Richards (Part 1)

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:15:00 -0000

We’re talking to Jim Richards this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco, and he told us so many stories that we’ve had to split this one in half! In Part 1, Richo tells us another tale from his years racing NASCAR and talks in depth on two iconic cars from his career: the Sidchrome Ford Mustang and his Big M Ford Falcon Sports Sedan.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Saturday wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:44:00 -0000

We’re doing daily editions of the V8 Sleuth Podcast trackside at Mount Panorama this week during the Repco Bathurst 1000! V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Stefan Bartholomaeus run you though everything you need to know from Top 10 Shootout day on the Mountain.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Thursday wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:04:00 -0000

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Wednesday wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:14:00 -0000

We’re doing daily editions of the V8 Sleuth Podcast trackside at Mount Panorama this week during the Repco Bathurst 1000! V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run you though everything you need to know from a title-crowning Wednesday on the Mountain.

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Repco Bathurst Daily: Tuesday wrap at the Bathurst 1000

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:18:00 -0000

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Triple Eight ends Bathurst tradition

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news as we gear up for the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 – and there’s a fair bit going on! – while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 25.

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2021 Bathurst 1000

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 02:45:00 -0000

It’s time for that special Sunday in … December! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Reynolds cleared to return to racing

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:45:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news and what you need to know for this weekend’s Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight – including the shock return of David Reynolds – while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 18.

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V8SP: Garry Rogers

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 06:45:00 -0000

We’re talking to Garry Rogers this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Garry shares all sorts of stories from his long career in motorsport, both as a driver and as the boss of Garry Rogers Motorsport, chats memorabilia thanks to our mates at The Motorsport Trader, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: John Smailes

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:05:00 -0000

We’re talking to John Smailes this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. The motoring and motorsport industry veteran chats about his new book, Formula One: The Australian and New Zealand Story, which covers the rich history of drivers from our corner of the world that have reached the pinnacle of the sport. He also shares a few tales from his extensive career in motoring and motorsport, including the time Kimi Raikkonen hip and shouldered him and Smailes hip and shouldered him right back!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The sport needs niggle … and we got it!

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key happenings from last weekend’s ARMOR ALL Sydney SuperNight, runs through what you need to know for this weekend’s BP Ultimate Sydney SuperSprint, while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 9.

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V8SP: Dick Johnson on his highs and lows at the Bathurst 1000

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:17:00 -0000

We’re talking to Dick Johnson this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We last caught up with the Supercars Hall of Famer in 2019 to talk about his team’s race cars, and this time we’re chatting to him about his years at the Bathurst 1000. We cover the highlights – his three wins in 1981, 1989 and 1994 – a few of the lowlights, and a host of entertaining tales around his trips to Mount Panorama.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The weekend of Anton

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key happenings from last weekend’s Bunnings Trade Sydney SuperSprint, runs through what you need to know for this weekend’s ARMOR ALL Sydney SuperNight, while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 2.

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V8SP: Remembering the AMSCAR Series

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 01:05:00 -0000

With Supercars returning to action with a four-round stint at Sydney Motorsport Park, this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re looking back at the AMSCAR Series, the touring car track championship held at Amaroo Park in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. We run through the concept behind AMSCAR, why and how it existed, the big cameos, the privateers that starred against the professionals, why it faded away – and its one-year comeback in 1997 outside V8 Supercars’ control.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: We’re back, baby!!!

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:30:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through everything you need to know as the season prepares to resume at this weekend’s Bunnings Trade Sydney SuperSprint.

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V8SP: The long-lasting GIO Commodore

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: a Holden Commodore with a long, long racing life! Chassis RF 04 began its life as a Holden Commodore VN Group A SS in 1991 and kept racing – upgraded to a VP, then VR then VS specifications – until 2007! It hosted young guns, a world champion, well-known privateers and (at one point) a future Supercars Hall of Famer, gave Neil Crompton his maiden ATCC/SC podium finish, and had a starring role in some infamous Mount Panorama moments.

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V8SP: Jessica Dane

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Jessica Dane on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Jess talks about her role in the upcoming new era at Triple Eight as her father Roland prepares to step back and Jamie Whincup moves from the cockpit to the Team Principal role, and talks about her journey in motorsport so far, including her earliest motorsport memory, joining Triple Eight, her gap year outside motorsport, and her role with the FIA’s Girls on Track program in growing interest in STEM subjects and industries with school girls by using motorsport as a tool. She also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Q&A - Live in-race chats, Dash for Cash, T8's drift Supercar

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 01:15:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Should Supercars have run a 500km enduro among its four Sydney events?

- Which circuit has hosted the most championship rounds

- The Dash for Cash and the likelihood of something similar coming back to Supercars

- If round wins still mattered, who would have the most

- Wildcard chassis for the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000

- The ‘drift’ V8 Supercar created by Triple Eight and driven by Shane van Gisbergen

- Bathurst 1000 documentary ideas off the back of the Netflix release of Schumacher

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: James Moffat (Part 2)

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to James Moffat on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, we pick up the chat in 2011 when Moff came close to snagging a surfboard in his first Gold Coast 600, the Nissan years – including his maiden V8 Supercars win at Winton in 2013 and standing on the Bathurst podium in 2014, and his difficult years at Garry Rogers Motorsport and the roundabouts way he returned to them to race in the TCR Australia Series. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: James Moffat (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to James Moffat on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Moff shares his early racetrack memories, how his uncle got him started in motorsport, his whirlwind national-level racing debut in a Lotus at Hidden Valley, joining Sonic Motor Racing as a mechanic and turning that into driving for them, gambling on himself in his breakthrough rookie Development Series season and landing a seat in V8 Supercars.

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V8SP: Jessica Yates

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re talking Jessica Yates from FOX SPORTS. Jess shares her story of growing up in a sporting family, choosing journalism as a career path – including a stint overseas as a subeditor at a newspaper in Laos! – and how she turned a part-time opportunity at FOX into becoming the face of the network’s motorsport coverage. She also shares a few stories from her career, including being live on air on the Friday at the 2020 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix as COVID-19 shut down the event, and she tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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V8SP: Neil Crompton

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Neil Crompton on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Ahead of the release of his autobiography ‘Neil Crompton: Best Seat in the House’, Neil shares a couple of stories from his career behind the wheel and behind the microphone, ranging from Peter Brock to Dame Edna, touring car legends to Indycar testing - and you can even hear a snippet of one of his earliest pieces of TV commentary. He also gives an update on his health in the wake of his prostate cancer diagnosis earlier in 2021.

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V8SP: Who are the ‘Immortals’ of Australian motorsport?

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re talking about the ‘Immortals’ of Australian Motor Sport with Luke West. A long-time motorsport media identity and former editor of Australian Muscle Car Magazine, Luke has just published a book looking at the 10 drivers whose impact on the local racing scene will see their names and feats live on.

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V8SP: The yellow Nations Cup Holden Monaro

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:35:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: the yellow Holden Monaro 427C, the first built to Nations Cup specification by Garry Rogers Motorsport. We cover its built, its technical specifications, the controversy that surrounded it and why its 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour win was far from the runaway dominance the final results suggest. We also chat with Nathan Pretty, who shares a couple of stories from his time as the car’s main driver.

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V8SP: From the Archives - Harry Firth (Part 2)

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0000

This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Harry Firth, recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia. Part 2 features Firth talks about his time with both Ford and Holden, winning the Bathurst 500 as a driver and as a team manager, developing the Ford Cortina GT500, the first GT Falcon, plus the Holden Torana XU-1 and L34, and a rising young star named Peter Brock.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Nick Percat on keeping driver skill in Gen3

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 02:10:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Brad Jones Racing’s Nick Percat to talk about his big move north, his take on his start to the 2021 season, how BJR are adapting its cars to be more ‘Penske’-like, and his strong thoughts on introducing auto-blip with the proposed paddle gearchange for Gen3.

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V8SP: From the Archives - Harry Firth (Part 1)

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0000

This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Harry Firth. Recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia, Firth talks about his early life growing up in Gippsland, where his interest in mechanical things came from, his time as a dispatch rider and mechanic in the Army during World War II, and how all those experiences shaped the legend that became known as the ‘Fox’. Firth also talked about his early years in motorsport and the first running of the ‘Great Race’ at Phillip Island in 1960.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Winners & losers from 2021 so far

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Aaron Noonan is joined by Stefan Bartholomaeus to cover the news of Red Bull renewing its sponsorship of Triple Eight through to the end of the 2023 season, the positives that each of Supercars’ prospective new owners could bring, their winners and losers of the 2021 season so far, plus the pick of the Super2 races currently being uploaded to Supercars’ SuperArchive on YouTube.

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V8SP: Q&A - Barbecued Falcons, front-row lockouts, Safety Car Sleuth

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The teams that have scored the most front-row lockouts

- The first Safety Car period in ATCC/SC history, and where have all the old Safety Cars gone?

- What happened to the car Fabian Coulthard rolled on Lap 1 of the 2010 Bathurst 1000

- Are the two Alan Jones cars that caught fire at Lakeside in ’95 and Bathurst in ’96 still around?

- Some gearbox/transaxle Sleuthing

- The driver with the most race starts in #05 after Peter Brock

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Will Scotty Mac be back for Bathurst?

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 05:10:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly, including the delayed Bathurst 1000 amid major calendar changes for the second half of the 2021 season, what the new date means for the likelihood of former champion Scott McLaughlin making it back for the race, plus a snippet of how the Gen3 Chevrolet V8 engine may sound based on a preliminary test at Queensland Raceway.

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V8SP: From the Archives - Bob Jane

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Bob Jane. Recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia, Jane talks about his early life growing up in Brunswick, racing bicycles before getting into car racing, how he accidentally got into the tyre business, shares stories from his victories in the early years of the ‘Great Race’, plus putting the Australian Grand Prix back on the map in the 1980s and bringing NASCAR down under with the Thunderdome.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: What Kellys’ exit really means

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Aaron Noonan is joined by Stefan Bartholomaeus to cover the big news of the Grove Group taking full ownership of Kelly Grove Racing at the end of the 2021 season, analysing what the Kellys' sale really means and giving a rundown on how Todd Kelly’s involvement will continue despite the change, plus the highs and lows of Todd and Rick Kelly time as team owners in the Supercars Championship.

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V8SP: Marcos Ambrose

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Marcos Ambrose on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Marcos explains how he has come to be the Competition Director at Garry Rogers Motorsport plus his new role as a TV pundit for Supercars’ broadcasts. We look back at his time racing Formula Ford in Australia and abroad, his first V8 Supercars drives in a Holden, his first Bathurst with Stone Brothers Racing in 2000 – no, that’s not a typo! – and his misfortunes at Mount Panorama, plus his championship success at Stone Brothers Racing. He also tackles our new segment What’s In Your Cupboard courtesy of The Motorsport Trader as well as your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, plus the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Greg Murphy on Supercars sale

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:30:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Greg Murphy to wrap up last weekend’s WD-40 Townsville SuperSprint, including his take on who Triple Eight’s biggest rival is, the likely suitors for the soon to be vacant #88 car of Jamie Whincup, his preparations for his Bathurst 1000 wildcard, and what he believes should be the first move for whoever purchases Supercars.

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V8SP: Marcus Marshall (Part 2)

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Marcus Marshall on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Marcus opens up about his season in ChampCar racing for Team Australia, including how he got the drive and how he was suddenly dropped after his home race. He then talks about returning to race in Australia, including his side of IntaBill Racing’s brief existence in 2009, and where we might see him racing in the next few years. He also tackles our new segment What’s In Your Cupboard courtesy of The Motorsport Trader as well as your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Will Brown on Townsville breakthrough

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Erebus Motorsport’s Will Brown to wrap up last weekend’s NTI Townsville 500, an event where he made a Top 10 Shootout for the first time and finished fifth in the Sunday race. Brown also talks about his season to date, the atmosphere within the Erebus team (a Happy Birthday message too for his team owner Betty Klimenko!) and also tells us about going back to his day job in the week between Townsville rounds: selling used cars in Toowoomba!

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V8SP: Marcus Marshall (Part 1)

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Marcus Marshall on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Marcus talks about how he got into racing in the first place aboard a Mazda RX-4, how he bought his first racecar on Bartercard, his difficult early years in Formula Ford, the chance meeting that led to a plum Carrera Cup drive, his star cameo in Porsche Supercup and British Formula 3 race win, all of which led to him securing a ChampCar drive for 2005 – which we’ll cover off in Part 2 next week!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Twin Townsvilles and no Albert Park

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 05:22:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly, including that this weekend will likely be the first of two rounds held in Townsville this year, the cancellation of the 2021 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, the new machinery coming to the Super2 Series in 2023, and more!

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V8SP: John Faulkner (Part 2)

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to John Faulkner on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, John talks more about his NASCAR and AUSCAR days – including the time Peter Brock raced one of his cars – before opening up on his time in V8 Supercars, including his side of the $300,000 fine he was levied by the sport in 2003. He also reveals his battles with cancer in recent years, and tells some funny tales off the back of your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Cam Waters on 2022 silly season

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Tickford Racing’s Cam Waters to talk about the recent stories about which team he’ll be driving for in 2022, how he rates his 2021 Repco Supercars Championship season to date, Tickford’s likely form at the upcoming Townsville 500, plus his brother’s Mercedes speedway sedan and an update on his 1974 Ford Falcon XB hardtop restoration.

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V8SP: John Faulkner (Part 1)

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to John Faulkner on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, John talks about buying a one-way ticket from New Zealand to Australia as a teen, doing the hard yards to get into motorsport, the crash that put him on the path to the Bathurst 1000, giving away car racing and getting into karting – which eventually got him back into car racing! – and becoming one of the stars of Calder Park Thunderdome in AUSCAR and NASCAR.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Will Davison on his return to pole position

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by the Shell V-Power Racing Team’s Will Davison to wrap up the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown, covering Davison’s sweep of the pole positions and twin podium finishes on Sunday, his take on his start to the 2021 season, and what comes next for the new Supersoft tyre after its Hidden Valley debut.

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V8SP: Adrian Burgess (Part 2)

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Supercars’ Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Adrian talks about how he ended up back in Formula 1 and how it led him to a new life in Australia. He opens up about his move to Dick Johnson Racing in 2006 and the team’s against-the-odds championship triumph in 2010, as well as his time at Triple Eight Race Engineering and the moment he told Roland Dane he was leaving for the Holden Racing Team. Adrian also talks about riding the Tour De Cure, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout..

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Mostert on new deal, Neylon on step up

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly previewing the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats to Chaz Mostert about his newly-announced deal to stay at Walkinshaw Andretti United, and to commentator Chad Neylon about stepping into the booth for the Repco Supercars Championship this weekend.

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V8SP: Adrian Burgess (Part 1)

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Supercars’ Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Adrian talks about how he got into motorsport in the first place, leaving home at 15 to join a race team and plotting his path as a mechanic to Formula 1. He also shares some stories from his time with McLaren, including a prank the test team played on Ayrton Senna, memories of the Chrysler/Lamborghini V12, and winning a world championship with Mika Hakkinen.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Greg Murphy talks Bathurst 1000 return

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Greg Murphy to talk about the confirmation that he will return to Supercars this October to take part in the Repco Bathurst 1000 in a Boost Mobile-backed, Erebus Motorsport-run wildcard entry with Richie Stanaway.

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V8SP: The Power of 7

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

Aaron Noonan and Will Dale explore the #7 throughout the world of motorsport in this episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco, from Formula 1 world champions to NASCAR legends, Supercars heroes and a swathe of iconic racers to carry the number on a wide array of two and four-wheeled machines.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: What now after Winton postponement?

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan wraps all the news in the wake of the postponement of the Winton SuperSprint.

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V8SP: Q&A: Most teams to win in a season, a 'V8 Masters Tour', the Fordodore

Wed, 26 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The record for the most teams to win races in an ATCC/RSC season

- Our take on whether we’ll see COTF cars racing in the ‘main game’ in 2022

- How cars are determined to be a ‘write off’

- The idea of a racing category for retired V8 racers

- The #2 Holden Racing Team Commodore from the 2006 enduros

- Numbers that Peter Brock used other than #05

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Winton Preview with Mark Larkham

Tue, 25 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Mark Larkham joins V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan to preview this weekend’s Winton SuperSprint.

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V8SP: Barry Ryan (Part 2)

Wed, 19 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Erebus Motorsport CEO Barry Ryan on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, we pick up our chat at the end 2015 for Barry’s take on restarting Erebus Motorsport from scratch as a Melbourne-based Holden team and its rise into a contender for wins, culminating in the team’s emotional triumph in the 2017 Bathurst 1000. He also gives his take on The Inside Line documentary series and his portrayal, as well as last year’s turbulent season on the road during the COVID-affected 2020 season. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Mid-week testing, new tyres

Tue, 18 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly, including a mid-week test day for a heap of teams at Winton – but not on Dunlop’s brand new tyre – while a famous family starts a new chapter of racing success.

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V8SP: Barry Ryan (Part 1)

Wed, 12 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Erebus Motorsport CEO Barry Ryan on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Barry talks about how he was just a few days old when he was taken to his first race, going racing himself on two wheels, getting into V8 Supercars as a mechanic – and how he dealt with his wedding clashing with Bathurst! – his years at Kmart Racing with insights into the pit stop issue that caused Greg Murphy’s infamous five-minute penalty at the 2002 Bathurst 1000, finding a home at Perkins Engineering, and how he came to arrive at Erebus.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The Bend Review with Greg Murphy

Tue, 11 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Supercars legend Greg Murphy joins V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan to review last weekend’s OTR SuperSprint at The Bend, including the rise of Andre Heimgartner and Kelly Grove Racing, Ford’s 400th ATCC/RSC race win, the return to form for Dick Johnson Racing and Anton De Pasquale’s impressive performance, Erebus Motorsport’s impressive start to 2021, their take on Gen3 on the day of a meeting between Supercars and team owners, plus the persistent rumour that Murph will drive a Peter Adderton-backed wildcard entry in the Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Jack Perkins (Part 2)

Wed, 05 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week Jack Perkins joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Jack talks about his road back to Supercars’ main game – including a brief move to Queensland –fulfilling his dream of racing and winning for the Holden Racing Team, restarting Perkins Engineering with an update on how their car restorations are going, plus he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Who’s winning the head-to-heads in each team?

Tue, 04 May 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan previews this weekend’s OTR SuperSprint at The Bend Motorsport Park – including a look at which drivers are winning the head-to-head qualifying battles within each Supercars team.

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V8SP: Jack Perkins (Part 1)

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re talking to Jack Perkins on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Jack talks about growing up around the sport and becoming a racer himself – including securing HSV sponsorship for a Ford-backed karting competition! – his early years in Supercars and his very short Bathurst 1000 debut in 2006, plus his type 1 diabetes diagnosis, how he initially hid it and how he now manages it while racing.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Camping returns to Bathurst 1000

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly, including rookie testing at The Bend, the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown expanding to a three-day race weekend, plus tickets going on sale for the Repco Bathurst 1000 – which will feature all eight of Mount Panorama’s camp sites open for the first time at the ‘Great Race’ since 2019.

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V8SP: Leanne Tander (Part 2)

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week Supercars racer, Gold Star runner-up and Australian Formula Ford Series champion Leanne Tander joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Leanne talks about rediscovering her love for motorsport through an Improved Production Mazda RX-7, Tandersport and coming agonisingly close to winning the Formula 3 title, her return to Supercars and the Bathurst 1000 and her title victory in Formula Ford, plus she tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: wrapping the Tasmania SuperSprint

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan wraps up the action from the third round of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship, the Beaurepaires Tasmania SuperSprint.

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V8SP: Leanne Tander (Part 1)

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

This week Supercars racer, Gold Star runner-up and Australian Formula Ford Series champion Leanne Tander joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Leanne talks about her current status as a driver, her kids’ desire to race and their move into karting, how she got into motorsport herself, plus the early years of her career in Formula Ford and the Konica V8 Supercars Series.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Tasmania SuperSprint preview

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan previews this weekend’s Beaurepaires Tasmania SuperSprint at Symmons Plains.

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V8SP: Greg Murphy’s ‘Lap of the Gods’ Holden

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 03:20:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about HRT 043, the car that Greg Murphy drove to a stunning pole position lap for the 2003 Bathurst 1000. Along with the car’s most famous moment – which, oddly for a Bathurst-winning chassis is not its actual Bathurst win! – we trace its long racing history as a chassis that was at the centre of several big moments in Supercars Championship history.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: SVG’s winning run continues

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0000

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly.

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V8SP: Q&A - Sandown’s future, LOGAMO Holdens, DNQ record holder

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Stefan Bartholomaeus tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The future of: multiple enduros, Sandown, Adelaide Parklands Circuit

- The history of Greg Murphy’s final Bathurst 1000 pole-winning car

- How current Supercars’ aero compares with the OG 1993 cars

- The last Holden-engined car to compete in the Bathurst 1000

- Who holds the ignominious record of the most failures to qualify for Supercars races

- The Perkins Engineering Holdens raced by Tony Longhurst and Paul Morris

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The state of play in the co-driver market

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 03:45:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan gives the latest rundown on who’s driving with whom at this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Q&A - Tasman’s Tiger, totalled Toll car, Tander’s first win that wasn’t

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Why Garth Tander didn’t get to keep first Supercars race win

- What was the reasoning behind Tasman Motorsport’s ‘Tiger’ logo

- The fate of Anthony Tratt’s final full-time Toll Commodore after it’s 2005 Phillip Island shunt

- What the path to Supercars looks like for young drivers

- How many EB Falcon Supercars are still EB Falcons

- The chances of seeing another Legends of Motorsport TV series

- Supercars that now live in Europe, the Americas and Asia

- And plenty more!

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Repco Supercars Weekly: wrapping the Sandown SuperSprint

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan wraps up the action from the second round of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship, the Penrite Oil Sandown SuperSprint.

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V8SP: Dirk Klynsmith

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

We notch up our century this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco! For our 100th episode, we’re sitting down with award-winning motorsport photographer Dirk Klynsmith. Recorded on the eve of the Repco Mount Panorama 500 – his last event before retiring from full-time professional motorsport photography – Dirk shares some stories from a career spanning three decades.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: Sandown Preview with Greg Murphy

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Supercars legend Greg Murphy joins V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan to preview this weekend’s Sandown SuperSprint.

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V8SP: Fred Gibson (Part 2)

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week Bathurst-winner and Supercars Hall of Famer Fred Gibson joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Fred answers more of your great National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, covering plenty of ground across his career. We chat more about the mighty Nissan GT-R, the Gazelle that escaped the crusher, some of the technical trickery they pulled off, and a Fred Gibson Bathurst win that many people don’t stop to consider, and finally he tackles our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: The latest on Gen3 Supercars

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 03:20:00 -0000

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan gives the latest update on how Supercars’ plans for its Gen3 Supercars rules package are progressing.

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V8SP: Fred Gibson (Part 1)

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week Bathurst-winner and Supercars Hall of Famer Fred Gibson joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Fred talks about his antics on the road led him to the racetrack, before we hop back and forth through tales from his career – including his very first race at Mount Panorama, and the story of fellow racing legend ‘Pete’ Geoghegan having a drive of the Nissan GT-R! There were also so many great National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions that we’ve spread them across both parts, and the first lot we hear this week turned up some absolute gold.

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Repco Supercars Weekly: wrapping the Repco Mount Panorama 500

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0000

For the inaugural edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan wraps up the action from the season-opening round of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship, the Repco Mount Panorama 500.

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 01:30:00 -0000

It’s time for that special (Saturday and) Sunday in February … we’re off to start the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship season at Mount Panorama! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale preview the year ahead with a rundown of all the driver and team changes, the new rules, the new cars and where you can watch it all.

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V8SP: Celebrating Tickford Racing’s 250 round milestone

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast we’re celebrating the 250th round start for Tickford Racing, a milestone that is set to fall at the opening round of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship, the Repco Mount Panorama 500. Tim Edwards, the squad’s long-time Team Principal, joins the podcast to chat about his arrival at a team then known as Ford Performance Racing, its highs, its lows, its changing names and fortunes – and its biggest ‘superfan’!

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V8SP: Q&A - Zero vs. double-zero, Pink Pigs, Baskerville, the ‘Race to Replace’

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Our picks for who we’d want/expect to see in the #88 in 2022

- Title contenders that fell at the final hurdle

- Baskerville as a Supercars Championship venue

- Whether #0 is a legal Supercars race number

- Which driver has driven the most chassis in their career

- A lost COTF chassis

- The two pink Group A Commodores from Western Australia

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Analysing Triple Eight’s bombshell - Whincup retires, Dane steps back, Quinn buys in

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:00:00 -0000

It’s a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast this week as Will Dale and Stefan Bartholomaeus break down the big news of Jamie Whincup retiring to take over running Triple Eight, Roland Dane taking a step back, and business mogul Tony Quinn buying a big share in the team.

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V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 2)

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week Supercars race winner, Drivers’ Driver Award recipient and TCR Australia Series race winner Lee Holdsworth joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In Part 2 Lee chats about his time with Garry Rogers Motorsport, headlined by his maiden Supercars race win at Oran Park in 2007 and his Bathurst 1000 podium finish in 2009 – plus his ‘five year’ contract that actually went for six … He also chats about his move to Stone Brothers Racing and its change to Erebus, racing for Team 18 and the breakdown of that relationship and his move to Tickford. Lee also answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and tackles the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 1)

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week Supercars race winner and Drivers’ Driver Award recipient Lee Holdsworth joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In Part 1, Lee chats about the recent news that he’s no longer a full-time Supercars racer, his move to TCR with support from Betty Klimenko, where his love of motorsport came from, his unorthodox progression towards Supercars compared to his peers, the ‘manual Tinder’ event where he met his wife Alana, plus the true origins of his ‘Leethal’ nickname and the straightforward way he got it to stick at Garry Rogers Motorsport.

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V8SP: The Falcon that broke Glenn Seton's heart

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast we’re chatting about GSR6, the car that famously let Glenn Seton down just nine laps shy of winning the 1995 Tooheys 1000. Along with the car’s most famous (or should that be infamous?) moment, we trace its history as a chassis that was at the centre of a major controversy, plus the other significant moments throughout its period history as a touring car.

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V8SP: Thunderdome - NASCAR/AUSCAR memories

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0000

This week we’re looking back on a special era of Australian motorsport on the V8 Sleuth Podcast!

Between 1987 and 2000, Calder Park Thunderdome reverberated to the V8 rumble of NASCAR, the American-born category getting an Australian outpost thanks to the sheer force of will of Bob Jane. Aaron Noonan and Will Dale share their memories of watching NASCAR and AUSCAR at the Thunderdome, its rise and fall, and chat about the stars and cars of a category that holds a unique place in local motorsport history.

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V8SP: How V8 Sleuth came to be

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week we’re turning the spotlight on ourselves in a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken!

Will Dale sits down with V8 Sleuth Managing Director Aaron Noonan to chat about what V8 Sleuth does, how it came about, and a bit of a behind the scenes look at how and why we do what what we do – plus ‘Noonz’ tells a few stories from his own career in Australian motorsport media and what led to the creation of the organisation as it stands today.

The boot is also on the other foot for our other popular segments as Noonan answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and tackles the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Best of 2020: Stitch-ups, hotel pillows and garbologists

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week we’re recapping the best moments from across all the episodes in 2020 of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! We had the privilege of bringing to you some amazing stories this year, while your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout also delivered some incredible and funny tales – we’ve picked out a handful for you to enjoy!

If this is your first time listening to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, make sure to go back and listen to the full episodes of each guest you hear from in this compilation!

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V8SP: Q&A - SVG without Shippy, Sandown MIA, paddle shift’s future

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and new recruit Stefan Bartholomaeus tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Sandown’s absence on the 2021 calendar

- The loss of Grant ‘Shippy’ McPherson from Triple Eight

- The process for de-registering a Supercar

- Would Supercars ever go paddle-shift?

- How do we determine what constitutes a ‘round start’

- Could DJR run #1 at Bathurst when Scott McLaughlin comes back?

- Can Supercars benefit from someone taking on a Stone Cold or Chris Jericho persona?

- A Supercar’s potential lap time on soft tyres at Bathurst

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Riana Crehan

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week Riana Crehan joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Off the back of her announcement that she will not be part of Supercars’ television broadcast team in 2021, Crehan talks about the overwhelming support she’s received from fans in the days since and what her plans are for the future. She also opens up about what has been a tough 2020 and a bit of reflection on how she has coped with a rollercoaster year. She also chats about how she first came to be involved in the sport via the Miss V8 Supercar competition, and how it led her on the path to her career in broadcasting – plus the hilarious story of her meeting with future husband Will Davison. Finally, she tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Allan Grice (Part 2)

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:01:00 -0000

This week two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Allan Grice joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about his long and successful relationship with Les Small, his time racing NASCAR both in Australia and in the United States, racing in the Le Mans 24 Hours, and how he found himself becoming a Queensland state politician. Finally, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Allan Grice (Part 1)

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Allan Grice joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Gricey talks about how he got into motorsport, the origin of his ‘Maitland pastry chef’ tag and the unlikely way his enduring sponsorships with Craven Mild and SAAS began, his first tilt at the ‘Great Race’ in a Fiat with Bill Tuckey and his victories in 1986 and 1990, plus we chat about Sam, his much-loved labrador who doubled as a motoring journalist!

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V8SP: Q&A - Forgotten Bathurst prizes, undercooked Group A cars, RIP street circuits?

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Drivers who didn’t defend their Supercars title

- A simple solution for time-certain races

- Are street circuits dead now?

- The family tree of Supercars RECs

- A long-lost Bathurst 1000 prize and how it was awarded

- Which Group A car had the greatest potential that was never reached

- Kim Jones’ influence in Brad Jones Racing’s success

- Why Supercars dropped ‘V8’ from its name and why it should come back

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Andy Raymond

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week Andy Raymond joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. He talks about growing up around motorsport with his dad, the legendary late Mike Raymond, then following his dad into a career in sports television. Along with chatting about his years covering motorsport, Andy also talks about leaving Channel 7 – and he opens up about the manner in which the network dropped Mike – and moving to FOX SPORTS, his move into covering rugby league, boxing and kickboxing and promoting wrestling in Australia (including the time he interviewed WWE chief Vince McMahon!) and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: The untimely end of the Adelaide 500

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken we’re looking back at some of the magic moments from the history of the Adelaide 500, what made the race so special, why its cancellation triggered such a massive outpouring of emotion, and why its loss will be so keenly felt by Supercars, its fans, and Adelaide itself.

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V8SP: Glenn Seton

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week Glenn Seton joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. With his new book ‘Seto: The Official Racing History of Glenn Seton’ set for release, we chat to the Supercars Hall of Famer about the book, how it came together and some of the stories in it – including his thoughts on his heartbreaking late-race exit from the 1995 Bathurst 1000 and how he handled it the way he did, his sole race in a Group C Nissan Bluebird Turbo, and a very serious offer to join Holden full-time. Finally, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Mark Skaife

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week we have our first return visitor as Mark Skaife rejoins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. With his new book ‘Mark Skaife: The Complete Illustrated Autobiography’ freshly released (and available from the V8 Sleuth Bookshop!), this time around we chat to him about some rarely-discussed parts of his decorated career, including the time he drove a Jordan F1 car around a car park, when he was supposed to race Michael Schumacher as a junior, his brief stint as a factory Mazda driver, battling Mario Andretti throughout a stint at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and the time he had a bit of explaining to do after rolling a company-owned Nissan road car...

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V8SP: Tomas Mezera (Part 2)

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:01:00 -0000

This week Bathurst 1000 winner Tomas Mezera joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about his years racing with Larry Perkins and how ‘LP’ was responsible for a couple of his big career breaks, including his recruitment by the Holden Racing Team. Tomas tells a host of stories from his time at HRT – yes, including the infamous ‘bucket of water on the windscreen’ incident – plus the time he had a genuine F1 star lined up to race in the Bathurst 1000 only for their F1 team to shut down the deal! Finally, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Tomas Mezera (Part 1)

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0000

This week Bathurst 1000 winner Tomas Mezera joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Tomas opens up about growing up in Czechoslovakia under a communist regime and the remarkable story of how he defected to the west at the age of 20, including his time living on the streets in Austria before ending up in a refugee camp, and the dream that helped him choose Australia as his new homeland. We also cover his years working towards his racing dream and achieving success in Australia before heading to England to battle against future F1 stars, before securing a Bathurst 1000 victory which not even the team he drove for was expecting.

Oh, and he tells us the correct way to pronounce ‘Mezera’ – we’ve been saying it wrong all these years!

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V8SP: We rank the top 10 Holden drivers at the Bathurst 1000

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0000

In a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken in the lead-up to the 2020 Bathurst 1000 – Holden’s last as an active vehicle brand – Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate over who are Holden’s 10 best drivers in its history at the Mount Panorama enduro.

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V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2020 Bathurst 1000

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0000

It’s time for that special Sunday in October … Happy Bathurst Day! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Bathurst Q&A - FPR BBQs, Larry’s ‘new’ VP, the car that did the most Bathursts

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Bathurst Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The Garry Rogers Motorsport car driven in the 2010 race by Lee Holdsworth and David Besnard that led over half the race

- What became of Mark Winterbottom’s ‘BBQ fire’ Falcon from the 2009 race

- The time Larry Perkins backdated his Commodore to get a better aero package

- Our favourite personal Bathurst memories – not stuff we watched on TV

- Why Glenn Seton switched from #30 to #5

- What the new Channel 7 deal means for future editions of the FOX SPORTS Bathurst Channel

- Which overseas-born driver has the most Bathurst 1000 starts

- Allan Moffat’s last Bathurst Falcon

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Bathurst Trivia Quiz

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 02:00:00 -0000

We’re doing something a little different this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken – a round of trivia! And you can win prizes!

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V8SP: Restoring ‘Steffi’: Brock’s Holden for his 'last' Bathurst

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week we’re chatting about HRT 034 – aka ‘Steffi’, the car that Peter Brock raced in the 1997 Primus 1000 Classic for what was at the time going to be his last tilt at the ‘Great Race’ – on this Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Aaron Noonan and Will Dale are joined by the car’s current owner, Super2 Series team boss Ben Eggleston, who shares the story of the car’s restoration which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.

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V8SP: Melinda Price

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week Melinda Price joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. She talks about growing up in a racing family, tells stories from the Castrol Cougars program and what it was like racing for Larry Perkins, the time she and Steven Richards came within an ace of winning a major production car race; being teammates with Sam Newman, Sir Jack Brabham and Hermann Tilke, her cancer battle and return to racing, and she tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Greg Murphy (Part 2)

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and King of Pukekohe Greg Murphy joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about the Spiderman livery that adorned his race-winning Commodores in late 2004, his spicy press conference at the Gold Coast that year with Marcos Ambrose, his reunion with his Bathurst 24 Hour-winning Holden Monaro – along with a reminder about his other Bathurst-winning Holdens, and we’re not talking Commodores! - and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions (including the deluge of Bathurst 2005 questions) and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Greg Murphy (Part 1)

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and King of Pukekohe Greg Murphy joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back to his first year racing in Australia in Formula Brabham and the unexpected connection that gave him the springboard into Super Touring, plus the 1996 New Zealand Mobil V8 Sprints at Pukekohe and Wellington, his IndyCar test, the Bathurst he did with Triple Eight in a Holden, his Williams BTCC test, his stint racing NASCAR and the time he raced a Ford!

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V8SP: Super Touring’s glory years Down Under

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:00:00 -0000

We celebrate the glory years Super Touring in Australia in this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom. The two-litre touring car formula, so popular in Great Britain with the British Touring Car Championship and adopted across Europe, North America and South Africa at its peak, ran its own standalone championship in Australia between 1994 and 2001.

Some of the things we chat about as we go down memory lane:

- The origins of the series and its ‘rivalry’ with the established touring car scene in Australia

- Comparisons with the new TCR Series Australia

- The Super Touring Bathurst 1000s

- The phenomenal cars and where they ended up

- The two spectacular, headline moments of the series

- The great drivers of the category and our take on who was the King of Super Touring in Australia

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Grant Denyer (Part 2)

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week Super2 Series race winner, Bathurst 12 Hour runner-up and Gold Logie winner Grant Denyer joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about the breakthrough Development Series result that solidified his belief in his driving ability, the race win that forever links him with David Thexton, racing in the Bathurst 1000 for Craig Gore, the moment he realised he had to choose between his driving and TV careers, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Grant Denyer (Part 1)

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week Super2 Series race winner, Bathurst 12 Hour runner-up and Gold Logie winner Grant Denyer joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back through his years in the Development Series – first as a broadcaster on Trackside, then trackside as a driver! – along with his years in V8 BRUtes, his mid-race haircut, plus a hilarious tale from a Bathurst 12 Hour racing with Tony Quinn and Klark Quinn.

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V8SP: Q&A - Polarisers, the most successful AU Falcon, the ‘missing’ HRT Commodore

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The last times we had a podium without Triple Eight and DJR Team Penske, and when T8 last missed the podium across a weekend

- The most successful car from Perkins Engineering

- A bit of V8 Utes Sleuth and Open Wheel Sleuth

- Did any Bathurst-winning cars carry an Energy Polariser?

- Where does Marcos Ambrose’s Stone Brothers Racing BA Falcon sit among the top Falcon racecars?

- The shortest-lasting race team in Supercars

- The fate of Fabian Coulthard’s 2010 Bathurst rollover car

- The ‘missing’ HRT Commodore from the 1993 Bathurst 1000

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Scott McLaughlin (Part 2)

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week two-time Supercars Champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Scott McLaughlin joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about his breakout years racing Volvos for Garry Rogers Motorsport and what he really thought when the alliance was first revealed, plus the impact that winning the Bathurst 1000 has had on his life, the massive impact he had in the Bathurst-winning car a fortnight later, why he gets more nervous about qualifying at Bathurst rather the Top 10 Shootout, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Scott McLaughlin (Part 1)

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week two-time Supercars Champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Scott McLaughlin joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back through his years in the Dunlop Series – now known as Super2 – including his first drive of a Supercar in 2009, the race where he genuinely felt like he could be a race-winner, his take on the remarkable ‘Class of 2012’, and how his first ‘main game’ drive with TEKNO Autosports came about.

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V8SP: 20 years of Super2: Rising stars and magic moments

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0000

We celebrate 20 years of the Super2 Series in this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

Some of the things we chat about as we go down memory lane:

- The origins of the series, and the rival category that helped fire it into life

- All the different names the series has had – and the ‘Development Series’ was never one of them!

- The early standalone years

- ‘Trackside’, the TV show that was home to the series

- The champion drivers and teams it produced

- How it was a development series for more than just the drivers

- The great races: Lakeside 2000, Oran Park 2007, Bathurst 2012, etc

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Luke Youlden (Part 2)

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week Bathurst 1000 winner Luke Youlden joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about returning to Stone Brothers Racing and becoming a solo race-winner as a co-driver, following Fabian Coulthard from Brad Jones Racing to DJR Team Penske, his move to Erebus, the impact winning the Bathurst 1000 has on a driver, he tells his side of his race-winning campaign with Erebus in 2017 and how their pursuit of back-to-back wins unravelled in 2018, what went wrong in 2019 and how close he came to racing a Mercedes in Super2, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Luke Youlden (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week Bathurst 1000 winner Luke Youlden joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, the second-generation racer talks about his introduction to the sport through father Kent ‘The Bear’ Youlden, winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship, progressing into the Development Series, linking with the Ellery family and scoring his first two Supercars Championship podiums at the 2003 Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000, plus his years co-driving for Stone Brothers Racing and Ford Performance Racing – plus the two times he looked set for a full-time ‘main game’ drive...

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V8SP: Q&A - Skylines, Privateers, Triple Challenge TV footage

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- What footage still exists of Australian Touring Car Championship races prior to 1983 and of the Winfield Triple Challenge Events from 1992-1995?

- The current Supercars race format with soft tyres

- The Bowden family

- The Holden Bathurst Revival at this November’s Bathurst International

- How many Gibson Motorsport Nissan Skyline GTS-R HR31s were built

- Is Supercars too predictable?

- The ‘Holy Grail’ of missing Australian touring cars

- The union between Super2 and Super3 for the rest of 2020

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Q&A - Secret turbo boost adjusters, JR’s Bathurst podium cars, alternate circuit layouts

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- Which circuits have alternate layouts that Supercars could use for repeat rounds at the same venue

- Did the Nissan Bluebird really have a sneaky turbo adjuster?

- What happens to Dunlop Supercars tyres after they're used up

- Jason Richards’ Bathurst podium Commodores

- Progressive grids

- What we’d like to see in the Gen3 Supercars regs

- Extending the Bathurst 1000 to the Bathurst 1500 or Bathurst 24 Hour

- The other Chiko Roll Commodore

- And plenty more!

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V8SP: Brock’s Bathurst-winning cars

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0000

Ahead of the release of the new documentary ‘Brock: Over The Top’, the latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at the histories and the fates of the eight cars that Peter Brock used to claim the nine Bathurst 500/Bathurst 1000 victories that earnt him the title of ‘King of the Mountain.’

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V8SP: Michael Caruso (Part 2)

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Caruso talks about standing on the podium at Bathurst in 2009, that incredible mid-race spin at Reid Park, and the real origin story of the special Valvoline livery that he and Lee Holdsworth used that weekend. He also tells a hilarious tale from the night out after his maiden V8 race win at Hidden Valley, opens up on his Nissan years, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Michael Caruso (Part 1)

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Caruso talks about growing up watching his dad Mick race, his early years in karting and his brief time in Formula Ford, as well as his move to Europe to sweep floors for a Formula 3000 team to try and land a race drive. He then opens up about making the switch to V8 Supercars, the key role the late Jim Morton played in launching his tin-top career, and his … unusual … job interview with Garry Rogers.

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V8SP: Paul Dumbrell (Part 2)

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, ‘PD’ talks about the deal that nearly saw him replace Russell Ingall at Stone Brothers Racing, his breakthrough successes in 2010 and his years co-driving with good mate – and now fellow co-owner of Triple Eight Race Engineering – Jamie Whincup, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Paul Dumbrell (Part 1)

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, ‘PD’ talks about V8 Supercars, NASCARs, AUSCARs and Formula Holdens all when he was still just 16 years of age, his early years racing Supercars full-time for Larry Perkins – including a time he pushed LP’s patience a little too far, plus a few stories that illustrate that poor PD is a bit accident-prone – and that ‘Doctor Whincup’ should probably stick to driving!

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V8SP: Brock's first #05 Holden

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0000

The latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at one of Peter Brock's Bathurst-winning cars and the first car to carry his signature #05, the Gown-Hindhaugh Holden Torana L34 that he and Brian Sampson drove to victory in the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo 1000.

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V8SP: The 5 Greatest DJR/DJRTP Racecars

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 02:00:00 -0000

Off the back of the release of the epic book Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske 40 Years of Cars: 1980-2019, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through their take on the five greatest cars produced by the team in this week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, and give a behind the scenes look at how the book was created.

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V8SP: Q&A - Resurrecting the Thunderdome, V8s on Channel 9, Unrestored Bathurst winners

Wed, 27 May 2020 02:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

- The winning statistics of Allan Moffat’s Coca-Cola Trans-Am Mustang

- Unrestored Bathurst-winning V8 Supercars

- Could the Thunderdome be resurrected?

- Did Channel 9 ever telecast an ATCC race?

- Where is the Channel 9 Camaro?

- Terri Sawyer

- Future CMS Motorsport DVD releases

- Supercars Eseries

- Daniel Ricciardo joining McLaren

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V8SP: Wayne Gardner (Part 2)

Wed, 20 May 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Wayne talks in depth about the Coca-Cola Racing years, along with his Formula 1 test with Lotus, and why his huge accident in practice for the 2002 Bathurst 1000 prompted his retirement, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Wayne Gardner (Part 1)

Wed, 20 May 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his very first test of a touring car – which pre-dated his world title! – his Bathurst debut in 1992, and his full-time arrival in the sport in 1993. Wayne also talks in detail about that tumultuous first year with the Holden Racing Team, a partnership that ended acrimoniously and led to the creation of Wayne Gardner Racing.

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V8SP: Alan Gow (Part 2)

Wed, 13 May 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week BTCC chief Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Alan talks about the Super Touring era and the years it was pitted against V8 Supercars in Australia, his long relationship as friend and manager to James Courtney, plus he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Alan Gow (Part 1)

Wed, 13 May 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week BTCC supremo Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his early days in the sport with Captain Peter Janson, he tells a couple of ripper Peter Brock stories from his time running Mobil 1 Racing, and he talks about the current state of play of the BTCC.

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V8SP: Jason Bright (Part 2)

Mon, 04 May 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week Jason Bright joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Jason opens up about his Supercars career, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout, and we reveal the winners of the V8 Sleuth Podcast Trivia Competition.

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V8SP: Jason Bright (Part 1)

Mon, 04 May 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week Jason Bright joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about Jason’s open-wheel career … in particular his time racing in the United States back in the year 2000 which ended with him racing an Indycar at Gold Coast Indy at Surfers Paradise.

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V8SP: Trivia Quiz!

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:00:00 -0000

We’re doing something a little different this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken – a round of trivia hosted by the V8 Sleuth himself, Aaron Noonan! And you can win prizes!

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V8SP: Nick Percat (Part 2)

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week Bathurst 1000 and Adelaide 500 winner Nick Percat joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Nick opens up about the illness that forced him to sit out the tail end of the 2015 Supercars season, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Nick Percat (Part 1)

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week Bathurst 1000 and Adelaide 500 winner Nick Percat joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Nick talks about his time at Walkinshaw Racing, capped by his 2011 Bathurst 1000 win with Garth Tander, and he opens up on the race that got him on Walkinshaw’s radar: the final Aussie Racing Cars race of the 2006 Gold Coast Indy, and how he initially wasn’t even going to start it! He also talks about making his full-time main game debut with Walkinshaw in 2014 – and the Dick Johnson Racing contract he turned down in the process.

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V8SP: Greg Rust (Part 2)

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:01:00 -0000

This week veteran Australian motorsport broadcaster and journalist Greg Rust joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Rusty opens up about a major health scare he had back in 2011, plus the chance meeting it led to, he tells a ripper story about his dog Buster and an infamous visit to the Channel 10 studios, he talks about he and his family’s move to New Zealand at the end of 2017, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, and we put him against the clock in our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Greg Rust (Part 1)

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:00:00 -0000

This week veteran Australian motorsport broadcaster and journalist Greg Rust joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Rusty talks about how he went from working in banking to a career in the media, his time calling Super Touring and working on the early years of Channel 10’s V8 Supercars coverage – and he tells a few cracking stories about Barry Sheene and Leigh Diffey! – and we go all ‘meta’ as he talks about his podcast on our podcast, telling the story of how his show ‘Rusty’s Garage’ came to be.

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V8SP: Q&A

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan tackles your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken.

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V8SP: Ryan Story (Part 2)

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:01:00 -0000

After recording this in July 2019, we’ve finally unleashed this to the internet: Ryan Story on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! In Part 2, Ryan tells the full back story of how the DJR Team Penske union came together – he reveals the role a Supercars fan favourite played in helping get the deal over the line! – and the evolution of the team from its dark days at the start of the Car of the Future era through to its emergence as one of the big players on the Supercars grid.

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V8SP: Ryan Story (Part 1)

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:00:00 -0000

After recording this in July 2019, we’ve finally unleashed this to the internet: Ryan Story on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! In Part 1, Ryan takes you inside Dick Johnson Racing’s most tumultuous years, revealing just how bad things were at the end of 2012 and how the team survived through the next couple of seasons. He also opens up on his own life story – which is a remarkable tale in itself!

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V8SP: Larry Perkins (Part 2)

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 01:01:00 -0000

A six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, a solar car pioneer, and still to this day a hero to masses of Supercars fans, Larry Perkins joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2 we ask him your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, talk about his decision to start his own touring car team, his three Bathurst victories under his own banner, the Castrol Cougars program, and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout, where Larry comes out with a few ripping answers!

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V8SP: Larry Perkins (Part 1)

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 01:00:00 -0000

A six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, a solar car pioneer, and still to this day a hero to masses of Supercars fans, Larry Perkins joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we chat about his time in Europe trying to make it to Formula 1, racing for Bernie Ecclestone, how an ice skater ended his oval-racing career before it even began, plus his sudden decision to retire from the cockpit for good at Bathurst in 2003.

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V8SP: David Reynolds (Part 2)

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 01:01:00 -0000

A Bathurst 1000 winner, a former donut expert on the Albury High School oval, and one of the most popular drivers in Supercars, David Reynolds joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2 he opens up about the greatest day of his life and the absolute worst day of his life, reveals where he took his long-term partner for their first date, plus your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: David Reynolds (Part 1)

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 01:00:00 -0000

A Bathurst 1000 winner, a former member of the marketing team at Holden Special Vehicles, and one of the most popular drivers in Supercars, David Reynolds joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 he chats about the early years of his racing career, his time at HSV and Walkinshaw Racing, and his contentious move from Kelly Racing to Ford Performance Racing before landing at Erebus Motorsport.

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V8SP: Adelaide 500 Q&A

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:00:00 -0000

We wrap the Adelaide 500 on this week's V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, Aaron Noonan and Will Dale covering the big battleground topics – like the Armor All Pole Award viking helmet!

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V8SP: Jason Bargwanna

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:00:00 -0000

A Bathurst 1000 winner, a Holden Young Lion, and a former BMX bandit, Jason Bargwanna joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken.

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V8SP: Bathurst 12 Hour

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:00:00 -0000

We're back for 2020! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale chat about all the things we love about the Bathurst 12 Hour – and announce an exciting new project!

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V8SP: Q&A

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

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V8SP: Q&A

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

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V8SP: Simona De Silvestro

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0000

A podium-finisher in the IndyCar Series, a one-time teammate to a world-famous actor, and one of the most popular drivers on the Supercars grid, Simona De Silvestro joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

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V8SP: 2019 Bathurst 1000 Preview

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0000

It's time for the annual pilgrimage to Mount Panorama! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

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V8SP: Dick Johnson's 1994 Bathurst Winning Falcon EB

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0000

The latest Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast looks back at the short but highly successful career of DJR EB5, a Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon EB with a winning pedigree.

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V8SP: Colin Bond

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0000

On the 50th anniversary of his Bathurst triumph with Tony Roberts, the first triumph in the Mount Panorama for the Holden Dealer Team, Colin Bond joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Holden.

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V8SP: Our Top 10 Ford Bathurst Drivers

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0000

In a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast in the lead-up to this year's Bathurst 1000, Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate over who are Ford's 10 best drivers in its history at the Mount Panorama enduro.

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V8SP: Jim Richards

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 02:00:00 -0000

A seven-time Bathurst 1000 winner – including triumphs with both the HDT and HRT – a Calder Park street bike drag racer, and one of Australia’s drivers at a bizarre World Cup of Motorsport in Mexico, Jim Richards joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by ACDelco.

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V8SP: Garth Tander

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:00:00 -0000

He's won the Bathurst 1000 twice as a factory Holden driver, won the Bathurst 24 Hour in a Holden Monaro, and started more Supercars championship races in Commodores than anyone else; Garth Tander joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Holden.

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V8SP: Mark Skaife

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 02:00:00 -0000

A five-time championship winner, six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, and the last driver to win 'the Great Race' while simultaneously owning the factory Holden team, Mark Skaife joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Holden.

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V8SP: Paul Gover

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:00:00 -0000

The guy who gave Russell Ingall the nickname 'The Enforcer', a co-driver to Peter Brock at Bathurst, and a good friend of 'Arthur' Moffat's, veteran journalist Paul Gover joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: Dick Johnson

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0000

As we sit down to write the book on every car produced by his eponymous race team, Dick Johnson joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: Whincup's special Commodore 'Kate'

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0000

This week we’re looking back at an iconic racing machine in a Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Motorsport Parts Australia, Jamie Whincup's Triple Eight Holden Commodore better known as ‘Kate’.

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V8SP: Troy Bayliss

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0000

A Daytona 200 polesitter, former resident of the 'Broken Hill' of Monte Carlo, and one-time atom splitter, two-wheel legend Troy Bayliss joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: Jamie Whincup

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0000

A D2 indoor cricket champion, a car wash entrepreneur, and Supercars' only seven-time series champion, Jamie Whincup joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: Steven Johnson

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0000

A Suzuki Vitara owner for 2 days before writing it off, a race winner around our Parliament Houses, and the current custodian of Mustang Sally, Steven Johnson joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: Beth (HRT 030)

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0000

This week we’re looking back at an iconic racing machine in a Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Motorsport Parts Australia, Peter Brock's Holden Racing Team Commodore better known as ‘Beth’.

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V8SP: Will Davison (Part 2)

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0000

In Part 2 of Will Davison on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric, he opens up about his time racing for both Holden and Ford’s factory Supercars squads and how his relationships with both unravelled, a pair of Bathurst 1000 wins that got away, plus he answers your Couch Racer Questions and has a crack at the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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V8SP: Will Davison (Part 1)

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:30:00 -0000

We had too many good stories to make just one episode of Will Davison on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric – so we've made two! In Part 1, he talks about his 'sliding doors' moments testing for F1 driver academy slots, how deep his debts were from chasing his F1 dream, and his Supercars years with Team Dynamik and Dick Johnson Racing. Oh, and that time Will Power grabbed him by the throat at Donington Park...

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V8SP: Q&A

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! From Supercars heading overseas to the championship's least successful chassis, Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

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V8SP: The Green-Eyed Monster

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:50:00 -0000

This week we’re looking back at an iconic racing machine in a Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast, Craig Lowndes’ #00 Ford Falcon AU – better known as ‘the Green-Eyed Monster’.

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V8SP: Cameron McConville

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:20:00 -0000

A last-lap Supercars race-winner, a Bathurst 24 Hour winner, and the last person to drive for Honda's Formula 1 team, Cameron McConville joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: Q&A

Fri, 31 May 2019 20:00:00 -0000

You’ve asked, we’re answering! From TCR to SuperUtes and XR8 Falcon headlights, Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast.

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V8SP: Mark Webber

Tue, 21 May 2019 08:00:00 -0000

A world champion, Formula 1 Grand Prix-winner, owner of an ex-Sebastian Vettel F1 car, and one-time stalker of F1 team owners, Mark Webber joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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V8SP: John Bowe

Wed, 08 May 2019 07:38:00 -0000

An Australian Touring Car Champion, two-time Bathurst 1000 winner, victor of eleventy-million Touring Car Masters races, and 'christener' of the Thunderdome and The Bend, John Bowe joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric.

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