The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated 3 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: The sport needs niggle … and we got it!
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win a DJR Ford Mustang from Repco: https://bit.ly/3nQMMXi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Dick Johnson on his highs and lows at the Bathurst 1000
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. Win a DJR Ford Mustang from Repco: https://bit.ly/3nQMMXi V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The weekend of Anton
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Remembering the AMSCAR Series
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: We’re back, baby!!!
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: The long-lasting GIO Commodore
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jessica Dane
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Live in-race chats, Dash for Cash, T8's drift 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. 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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: James Moffat (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: James Moffat (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jessica Yates
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Neil Crompton
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. Pre-order Neil’s book: https://bit.ly/2X1wOjv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Who are the ‘Immortals’ of Australian motorsport?
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: The yellow Nations Cup Holden Monaro
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop Bundle & Save – including Nations Cup Monaro products: https://bit.ly/37UkuDU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: From the Archives - Harry Firth (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop – Bundle & Save: https://bit.ly/37UkuDU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Nick Percat on keeping driver skill in Gen3
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: From the Archives - Harry Firth (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Winners & losers from 2021 so far
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Barbecued Falcons, front-row lockouts, Safety Car Sleuth
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Will Scotty Mac be back for Bathurst?
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: From the Archives - Bob Jane
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: What Kellys’ exit really means
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Marcos Ambrose
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Greg Murphy on Supercars sale
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Marcus Marshall (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices