The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated about 3 hours agoV8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan chats one-on-one with icons and stars 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 racing lives.
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V8SP: Charlie Schwerkolt (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: John Bowe (Part 2)
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Finishing what we started at Albert Park
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: John Bowe (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Tasmania SuperSprint preview
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage 2022 Official Season Guide: https://bit.ly/RSC2022SG Damaged Book Stock: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au/search?q=damaged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Bathurst breakdowns, Adelaide as a Grand Finale, Paragon’s problems
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Revised Gen3 Camaro hits the track
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Monster Mustang’s new owner: https://bit.ly/3qBYyHt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Inside stories from HRT’s golden era (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au HRT 2nd Edition Pre-order: https://bit.ly/HRTCars2ndEd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: New world order or false dawn?
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage 2022 Official Season Guide: https://bit.ly/RSC2022SG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Inside stories from HRT’s golden era (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au HRT 2nd Edition Pre-order: https://bit.ly/HRTCars2ndEd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2022 Repco Supercars Championship
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au 2022 Official Season Guide: https://bit.ly/RSC2022SG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: What happened to Volvo’s V8 Supercars?
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Sleuthing a Bathurst winner, the number you don’t want to have, petty rule enforcement
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Ford fans' saviour: Marcos Ambrose's BA Falcon
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Ep. 136 – Marcos Ambrose: https://bit.ly/V8SP136Ambrose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Brad Jones (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Brad Jones (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Terry Wyhoon (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Terry Wyhoon (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Short-lived cars, missing Larry Bars, turbo-six Falcon Supercar
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Unlucky numbers, the most loyal drivers, Luffy’s amazing record
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: A big shift in the Gen3 gearshift plan
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! The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jason Richards 10 years on
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars hunting for a new CEO
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… The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Peter Hughes Prints: https://bit.ly/3EHDlAN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jim Richards (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jim Richards (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices