The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated about 8 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: Greg Murphy (Part 2)
This week four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and King of Pukekohe Greg Murphy joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about the Spiderman livery that adorned his race-winning Commodores in late 2004, his spicy press conference at the Gold Coast that year with Marcos Ambrose, his reunion with his Bathurst 24 Hour-winning Holden Monaro – along with a reminder about his other Bathurst-winning Holdens, and we’re not talking Commodores! - and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions (including the deluge of Bathurst 2005 questions) and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Greg Murphy (Part 1)
This week four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and King of Pukekohe Greg Murphy joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back to his first year racing in Australia in Formula Brabham and the unexpected connection that gave him the springboard into Super Touring, plus the 1996 New Zealand Mobil V8 Sprints at Pukekohe and Wellington, his IndyCar test, the Bathurst he did with Triple Eight in a Holden, his Williams BTCC test, his stint racing NASCAR and the time he raced a Ford! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Super Touring’s glory years Down Under
We celebrate the glory years Super Touring in Australia in this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom. The two-litre touring car formula, so popular in Great Britain with the British Touring Car Championship and adopted across Europe, North America and South Africa at its peak, ran its own standalone championship in Australia between 1994 and 2001. Some of the things we chat about as we go down memory lane: - The origins of the series and its ‘rivalry’ with the established touring car scene in Australia - Comparisons with the new TCR Series Australia - The Super Touring Bathurst 1000s - The phenomenal cars and where they ended up - The two spectacular, headline moments of the series - The great drivers of the category and our take on who was the King of Super Touring in Australia - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Grant Denyer (Part 2)
This week Super2 Series race winner, Bathurst 12 Hour runner-up and Gold Logie winner Grant Denyer joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about the breakthrough Development Series result that solidified his belief in his driving ability, the race win that forever links him with David Thexton, racing in the Bathurst 1000 for Craig Gore, the moment he realised he had to choose between his driving and TV careers, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Grant Denyer (Part 1)
This week Super2 Series race winner, Bathurst 12 Hour runner-up and Gold Logie winner Grant Denyer joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back through his years in the Development Series – first as a broadcaster on Trackside, then trackside as a driver! – along with his years in V8 BRUtes, his mid-race haircut, plus a hilarious tale from a Bathurst 12 Hour racing with Tony Quinn and Klark Quinn. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Polarisers, the most successful AU Falcon, the ‘missing’ HRT Commodore
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 Timken, recorded over Zoom. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - The last times we had a podium without Triple Eight and DJR Team Penske, and when T8 last missed the podium across a weekend - The most successful car from Perkins Engineering - A bit of V8 Utes Sleuth and Open Wheel Sleuth - Did any Bathurst-winning cars carry an Energy Polariser? - Where does Marcos Ambrose’s Stone Brothers Racing BA Falcon sit among the top Falcon racecars? - The shortest-lasting race team in Supercars - The fate of Fabian Coulthard’s 2010 Bathurst rollover car - The ‘missing’ HRT Commodore from the 1993 Bathurst 1000 - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Scott McLaughlin (Part 2)
This week two-time Supercars Champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Scott McLaughlin joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about his breakout years racing Volvos for Garry Rogers Motorsport and what he really thought when the alliance was first revealed, plus the impact that winning the Bathurst 1000 has had on his life, the massive impact he had in the Bathurst-winning car a fortnight later, why he gets more nervous about qualifying at Bathurst rather the Top 10 Shootout, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Scott McLaughlin (Part 1)
This week two-time Supercars Champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Scott McLaughlin joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back through his years in the Dunlop Series – now known as Super2 – including his first drive of a Supercar in 2009, the race where he genuinely felt like he could be a race-winner, his take on the remarkable ‘Class of 2012’, and how his first ‘main game’ drive with TEKNO Autosports came about. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: 20 years of Super2: Rising stars and magic moments
We celebrate 20 years of the Super2 Series in this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom. Some of the things we chat about as we go down memory lane: - The origins of the series, and the rival category that helped fire it into life - All the different names the series has had – and the ‘Development Series’ was never one of them! - The early standalone years - ‘Trackside’, the TV show that was home to the series - The champion drivers and teams it produced - How it was a development series for more than just the drivers - The great races: Lakeside 2000, Oran Park 2007, Bathurst 2012, etc - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Luke Youlden (Part 2)
This week Bathurst 1000 winner Luke Youlden joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about returning to Stone Brothers Racing and becoming a solo race-winner as a co-driver, following Fabian Coulthard from Brad Jones Racing to DJR Team Penske, his move to Erebus, the impact winning the Bathurst 1000 has on a driver, he tells his side of his race-winning campaign with Erebus in 2017 and how their pursuit of back-to-back wins unravelled in 2018, what went wrong in 2019 and how close he came to racing a Mercedes in Super2, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Luke Youlden (Part 1)
This week Bathurst 1000 winner Luke Youlden joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, the second-generation racer talks about his introduction to the sport through father Kent ‘The Bear’ Youlden, winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship, progressing into the Development Series, linking with the Ellery family and scoring his first two Supercars Championship podiums at the 2003 Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000, plus his years co-driving for Stone Brothers Racing and Ford Performance Racing – plus the two times he looked set for a full-time ‘main game’ drive... V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Skylines, Privateers, Triple Challenge TV footage
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 Timken, recorded over Zoom. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - What footage still exists of Australian Touring Car Championship races prior to 1983 and of the Winfield Triple Challenge Events from 1992-1995? - The current Supercars race format with soft tyres - The Bowden family - The Holden Bathurst Revival at this November’s Bathurst International - How many Gibson Motorsport Nissan Skyline GTS-R HR31s were built - Is Supercars too predictable? - The ‘Holy Grail’ of missing Australian touring cars - The union between Super2 and Super3 for the rest of 2020 - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Secret turbo boost adjusters, JR’s Bathurst podium cars, alternate circuit layouts
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 Timken. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Which circuits have alternate layouts that Supercars could use for repeat rounds at the same venue - Did the Nissan Bluebird really have a sneaky turbo adjuster? - What happens to Dunlop Supercars tyres after they're used up - Jason Richards’ Bathurst podium Commodores - Progressive grids - What we’d like to see in the Gen3 Supercars regs - Extending the Bathurst 1000 to the Bathurst 1500 or Bathurst 24 Hour - The other Chiko Roll Commodore - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Brock’s Bathurst-winning cars
Ahead of the release of the new documentary ‘Brock: Over The Top’, the latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at the histories and the fates of the eight cars that Peter Brock used to claim the nine Bathurst 500/Bathurst 1000 victories that earnt him the title of ‘King of the Mountain.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Michael Caruso (Part 2)
This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Caruso talks about standing on the podium at Bathurst in 2009, that incredible mid-race spin at Reid Park, and the real origin story of the special Valvoline livery that he and Lee Holdsworth used that weekend. He also tells a hilarious tale from the night out after his maiden V8 race win at Hidden Valley, opens up on his Nissan years, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Michael Caruso (Part 1)
This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Caruso talks about growing up watching his dad Mick race, his early years in karting and his brief time in Formula Ford, as well as his move to Europe to sweep floors for a Formula 3000 team to try and land a race drive. He then opens up about making the switch to V8 Supercars, the key role the late Jim Morton played in launching his tin-top career, and his … unusual … job interview with Garry Rogers. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Paul Dumbrell (Part 2)
This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, ‘PD’ talks about the deal that nearly saw him replace Russell Ingall at Stone Brothers Racing, his breakthrough successes in 2010 and his years co-driving with good mate – and now fellow co-owner of Triple Eight Race Engineering – Jamie Whincup, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Paul Dumbrell (Part 1)
This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, ‘PD’ talks about V8 Supercars, NASCARs, AUSCARs and Formula Holdens all when he was still just 16 years of age, his early years racing Supercars full-time for Larry Perkins – including a time he pushed LP’s patience a little too far, plus a few stories that illustrate that poor PD is a bit accident-prone – and that ‘Doctor Whincup’ should probably stick to driving! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Brock's first #05 Holden
The latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at one of Peter Brock's Bathurst-winning cars and the first car to carry his signature #05, the Gown-Hindhaugh Holden Torana L34 that he and Brian Sampson drove to victory in the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo 1000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: The 5 Greatest DJR/DJRTP Racecars
Off the back of the release of the epic book Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske 40 Years of Cars: 1980-2019, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through their take on the five greatest cars produced by the team in this week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, and give a behind the scenes look at how the book was created. If you want to buy a copy, hit up this link: https://bit.ly/DJRBook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Resurrecting the Thunderdome, V8s on Channel 9, Unrestored Bathurst winners
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 Timken. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - The winning statistics of Allan Moffat’s Coca-Cola Trans-Am Mustang - Unrestored Bathurst-winning V8 Supercars - Could the Thunderdome be resurrected? - Did Channel 9 ever telecast an ATCC race? - Where is the Channel 9 Camaro? - Terri Sawyer - Future CMS Motorsport DVD releases - Supercars Eseries - Daniel Ricciardo joining McLaren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Wayne Gardner (Part 2)
This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Wayne talks in depth about the Coca-Cola Racing years, along with his Formula 1 test with Lotus, and why his huge accident in practice for the 2002 Bathurst 1000 prompted his retirement, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Wayne Gardner (Part 1)
This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his very first test of a touring car – which pre-dated his world title! – his Bathurst debut in 1992, and his full-time arrival in the sport in 1993. Wayne also talks in detail about that tumultuous first year with the Holden Racing Team, a partnership that ended acrimoniously and led to the creation of Wayne Gardner Racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Alan Gow (Part 2)
This week BTCC chief Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Alan talks about the Super Touring era and the years it was pitted against V8 Supercars in Australia, his long relationship as friend and manager to James Courtney, plus he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Alan Gow (Part 1)
This week BTCC supremo Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his early days in the sport with Captain Peter Janson, he tells a couple of ripper Peter Brock stories from his time running Mobil 1 Racing, and he talks about the current state of play of the BTCC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices