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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V8SP: Anton De Pasquale
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Buy your ticket to the V8 Sleuth Open Night @ the Bathurst 1000 with Greg Murphy: https://bit.ly/3QezP5I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Change to Bathurst 1000 field
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Buy your ticket to the V8 Sleuth Open Night @ the Bathurst 1000 with Greg Murphy: https://bit.ly/3QezP5I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Roland Dane (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: 2023 calendar taking shape
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Roland Dane (Part 1)
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! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The form guide after Friday at Sandown
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Craig Baird (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Buy now: HRT – The Cars 2nd Edition: https://bit.ly/3a6EasN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Lowndes to practice BJR car at Sandown
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! The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Craig Baird (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - V8 SuperStars shows, Brock’s forgotten Sierra, Larko’s lost NZ win
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! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ #BringBackTheSandown500 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Key Bathurst pairings locked in
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Bruce Stewart
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars’ rejected takeover bid
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: David Hassall
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! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Watch the Janson incident: https://youtu.be/6om2jzvcyes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The fate of the Newcastle 500
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Mark Howard
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The form guide after Friday in Townsville
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Sven Burchartz
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Brock’s ‘Big Banger’ becomes #25 again
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage ‘05’ Big Banger returned to ‘25’ by new owners: https://bit.ly/3ORCJgB Order HRT – The Cars 2nd Edition: https://bit.ly/3a6EasN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Nathan Pretty (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars star releases own beer
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Nathan Pretty (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The form guide after Friday in Darwin
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Gary Scott (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Gen3 Supercars’ Toowoomba aero test
For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices