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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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
V8SP: Q&A - Zero vs. double-zero, Pink Pigs, Baskerville, the ‘Race to Replace’
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: - Our picks for who we’d want/expect to see in the #88 in 2022 - Title contenders that fell at the final hurdle - Baskerville as a Supercars Championship venue - Whether #0 is a legal Supercars race number - Which driver has driven the most chassis in their career - A lost COTF chassis - The two pink Group A Commodores from Western Australia - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Analysing Triple Eight’s bombshell - Whincup retires, Dane steps back, Quinn buys in
It’s a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast this week as Will Dale and Stefan Bartholomaeus break down the big news of Jamie Whincup retiring to take over running Triple Eight, Roland Dane taking a step back, and business mogul Tony Quinn buying a big share in the team. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 2)
This week Supercars race winner, Drivers’ Driver Award recipient and TCR Australia Series race winner Lee Holdsworth joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In Part 2 Lee chats about his time with Garry Rogers Motorsport, headlined by his maiden Supercars race win at Oran Park in 2007 and his Bathurst 1000 podium finish in 2009 – plus his ‘five year’ contract that actually went for six … He also chats about his move to Stone Brothers Racing and its change to Erebus, racing for Team 18 and the breakdown of that relationship and his move to Tickford. Lee also answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and tackles the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 1)
This week Supercars race winner and Drivers’ Driver Award recipient Lee Holdsworth joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In Part 1, Lee chats about the recent news that he’s no longer a full-time Supercars racer, his move to TCR with support from Betty Klimenko, where his love of motorsport came from, his unorthodox progression towards Supercars compared to his peers, the ‘manual Tinder’ event where he met his wife Alana, plus the true origins of his ‘Leethal’ nickname and the straightforward way he got it to stick at Garry Rogers Motorsport. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: The Falcon that broke Glenn Seton's heart
This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast we’re chatting about GSR6, the car that famously let Glenn Seton down just nine laps shy of winning the 1995 Tooheys 1000. Along with the car’s most famous (or should that be infamous?) moment, we trace its history as a chassis that was at the centre of a major controversy, plus the other significant moments throughout its period history as a touring car. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Thunderdome - NASCAR/AUSCAR memories
This week we’re looking back on a special era of Australian motorsport on the V8 Sleuth Podcast! Between 1987 and 2000, Calder Park Thunderdome reverberated to the V8 rumble of NASCAR, the American-born category getting an Australian outpost thanks to the sheer force of will of Bob Jane. Aaron Noonan and Will Dale share their memories of watching NASCAR and AUSCAR at the Thunderdome, its rise and fall, and chat about the stars and cars of a category that holds a unique place in local motorsport history. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: How V8 Sleuth came to be
This week we’re turning the spotlight on ourselves in a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! Will Dale sits down with V8 Sleuth Managing Director Aaron Noonan to chat about what V8 Sleuth does, how it came about, and a bit of a behind the scenes look at how and why we do what what we do – plus ‘Noonz’ tells a few stories from his own career in Australian motorsport media and what led to the creation of the organisation as it stands today. The boot is also on the other foot for our other popular segments as Noonan answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and tackles the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Best of 2020: Stitch-ups, hotel pillows and garbologists
This week we’re recapping the best moments from across all the episodes in 2020 of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! We had the privilege of bringing to you some amazing stories this year, while your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout also delivered some incredible and funny tales – we’ve picked out a handful for you to enjoy! If this is your first time listening to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, make sure to go back and listen to the full episodes of each guest you hear from in this compilation! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - SVG without Shippy, Sandown MIA, paddle shift’s future
You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and new recruit Stefan Bartholomaeus tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Sandown’s absence on the 2021 calendar - The loss of Grant ‘Shippy’ McPherson from Triple Eight - The process for de-registering a Supercar - Would Supercars ever go paddle-shift? - How do we determine what constitutes a ‘round start’ - Could DJR run #1 at Bathurst when Scott McLaughlin comes back? - Can Supercars benefit from someone taking on a Stone Cold or Chris Jericho persona? - A Supercar’s potential lap time on soft tyres at Bathurst - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices