The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated about 6 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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Episodes (567)
Repco Supercars Weekly: Mid-week testing, new tyres
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Barry Ryan (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The Bend Review with Greg Murphy
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jack Perkins (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Who’s winning the head-to-heads in each team?
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Jack Perkins (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Camping returns to Bathurst 1000
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Leanne Tander (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: wrapping the Tasmania SuperSprint
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Leanne Tander (Part 1)
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. 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 previews this weekend’s Beaurepaires Tasmania SuperSprint at Symmons Plains. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Greg Murphy’s ‘Lap of the Gods’ Holden
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: SVG’s winning run continues
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Sandown’s future, LOGAMO Holdens, DNQ record holder
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The state of play in the co-driver market
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Tasman’s Tiger, totalled Toll car, Tander’s first win that wasn’t
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! V8 Sleuth Bookshop Mad March Sale, One Week Only: http://bit.ly/V8SMMS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: wrapping the Sandown SuperSprint
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Dirk Klynsmith
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Sandown Preview with Greg Murphy
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Fred Gibson (Part 2)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: The latest on Gen3 Supercars
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Fred Gibson (Part 1)
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: wrapping the Repco Mount Panorama 500
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. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship
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. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Celebrating Tickford Racing’s 250 round milestone
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’! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices