The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated 2 days agoV8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan chats one-on-one with icons of Australian motorsport. Along with the big wins and the big moments, Noonz digs a step deeper and unearths a few forgotten tales and funny stories from their life in racing.
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Repco Supercars Weekly: Win your own Peter Brock Trophy!
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. Win your own Peter Brock Trophy! >> https://garage.repco.com.au/competition-brock-award/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Round winners, reversed circuits, most fines in a weekend
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! Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Outsiders on top in Townsville practice
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest Repco Supercars Championship news following the opening day of practice at the NTI Townsville 500. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from Townsville
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. Learn more about Bowden’s Own products here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars stars racing around the world
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage PRE-ORDER: Triple Eight, The Cars 2003-2023 >> https://bit.ly/444Nzb4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Tim Edwards (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ PRE-ORDER: Tickford Racing, The Cars 2003-2023 >> https://bit.ly/3r0T8Zy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Silly season hots up, and not just with drivers
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage PRE ORDER: Tickford Racing, The Cars 2003-2023 >> https://bit.ly/3r0T8Zy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Tim Edwards (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: SVG strikes trouble in Darwin
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Tony D’Alberto (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Indigenous Round liveries rolling out
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Tony D’Alberto (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Crucial Gen3 testing disrupted
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from Hidden Valley
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… V8 Sleuth Super Sale ON NOW: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Bathurst 1000 seats filling up
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage V8 Sleuth Super Sale >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Dale Wood (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Van Gisbergen’s NASCAR debut confirmed
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Dale Wood (Part 1)
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! V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: John Cleland (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Shock enduro reunion
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: John Cleland (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Late Mustang parity change for Perth
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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint Official Program >> https://bit.ly/41FEOCV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: The lost races from ATCC/Supercars history
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint Official Program >> https://bit.ly/41FEOCV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: van Gisbergen confirms racing future
Description: 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. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Hercules in the V8 Sleuth Showroom >> https://bit.ly/41iUUCt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Mulray moments, winning AUs, ‘Shriek at the Creek’ Sleuthing
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! V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ HRT – The Cars, 2nd Edition >> https://bit.ly/3a6EasN Perkins – The Cars (unnumbered) >> https://bit.ly/3UP0UAp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices