The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated 2 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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Episodes (558)
Castrol Supercars Weekly: Supercars racers in Bathurst for Easter
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Castrol Supercars Championship, including a raft of current, former and future Supercars stars in action at Mount Panorama this weekend. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Brock’s missed double, stars that tried NASCARs
You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - The 1988 Bathurst 24 Hour - no, that’s not a typo - Does the Australian Touring Car Championship title still exist? - The fate of an early privateer EB Falcon - The nationality with the most ATCC/SC starts behind Australia and New Zealand - Mitsubishi’s podium history - The biggest year-on-year rise or fall in the standings for a full-time driver - Forgotten stars that sampled stock cars at the Thunderdome - Peter Brock’s 1990 season; an ATCC/Bathurst double that got away? - And plenty more! Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from Albert Park
Race Control: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round – the MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint at the 2024 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park. The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: Pye’s twilight Albert Park breakthrough
For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Albert Park round of the 2018 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, focusing on the Saturday twilight race held in dark, greasy conditions, in which Scott Pye claimed the first race win of his Supercars career. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Castrol Supercars Weekly: The latest from Albert Park
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Castrol Supercars Championship, headlined by all the action from Friday’s racing at Albert Park for the MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint at the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Phil Keed (Part 2)
We’re continuing our chat with veteran engineer Phil Keed for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. The second and final part of our two-part chat covers the Supercars part of his career, which began when he joined the championship full-time in 2003. Keed covers his years at Team Brock and PWR and the relationship he built with Jason Bright, and how it evolved across stints across three different teams. He also shares stories from his time at Ford Performance Racing, why he shifted to Brad Jones Racing, how he and Fabian Coulthard came to separately move to DJR Team Penske at the same time and how it all ended, starting again at Team 18 and returning to his current home engineering Bryce Fullwood at BJR. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Castrol Supercars Weekly: Horse race forces Sandown 500 date change
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the reason for a date change for this year’s Sandown 500. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: A new era begins under lights
For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the opening round of the 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship at Calder Park, a day/night event that was the first to be run under the V8 Supercars banner. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Phil Keed (Part 1)
We’re talking to veteran engineer Phil Keed for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Although he’s long been a fixture within the Supercars paddock, the first part of our two-part chat looks back at his career prior to joining the championship full-time in 2003. Keed talks about where his passion for motorsport came from, and how he got his start in the industry by cold-calling Colin Bond’s workshop while he was still in high school! He shares stories of going to Bathurst with the team, and why they pointed him in the direction of becoming an engineer instead of a mechanic. He also shares a heap of incredible stories from his years in rallying, where he rose from working for Ralliart in Australia to becoming multiple world champion Tommi Makinen’s engineer at the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Castrol Supercars Weekly: Overseas entity buys into Supercars
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the sport itself getting a new international co-owner that has links to Formula 1 owner Liberty Media. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Bundle our Holden Racing Team: The Cars and Triple Eight: The Cars books and get 20% off HERE >> https://bit.ly/3PzMXVR PWR AU Falcon For Sale in the V8 Sleuth Showroom presented by My105 >> https://bit.ly/3Vb4nM4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Garth Tander (Part 2)
This week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol continues Garth Tander’s first visit to the show since 2019. The second and final part of our chat picks up with more memories from his time racing Formula Ford, beginning with a hilarious story about a tangle with Marcos Ambrose and the reception they copped from both of their dads when they returned to the pits. He also shares the story of how he slept in on the day of his evaluation test with Garry Rogers Motorsport, as well as his reaction to Garry Rogers’ infamous dress-ups during his early years with the team, plus his continuing confusion over why his first Supercars race win was reawarded to John Bowe. We also talk about his role behind a microphone instead of a steering wheel, his take on Shane van Gisbergen’s NASCAR move, and a trip through his three biggest fines from his racing career. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: The Adelaide 500’s biggest upset
For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sunday of the Adelaide 500 round of the 2016 V8 Supercars Championship, a dramatic and storm-hit day that delivered a shock triumph for a rising South Australian star and one of the championship’s minnow squads. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Castrol Supercars Weekly: Supercars fighting push to block fans from AGP paddock
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the possibility that fans will not be allowed in the Supercars paddock at this year’s Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, a change from past years when the teams were in the secondary pitlane garages. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Garth Tander (Part 1)
Garth Tander returns to the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for the first time since Ep. 17 back in 2019 – and he’s added a couple more Bathurst 1000 wins since then! This time around he reflects on the sudden and unexpected end to his full-time Supercars career and the part surrounding it that angered him the most, plus how his quick shift to a co-driver role at Triple Eight came about. He hits out at Supercars’ new ‘primary driver must start’ rule at the 2024 endurance races, takes us inside what it was like preparing for the COVID Bathurst 1000 in 2020, and tells the story of how he helped wrangle Shane van Gisbergen for the morning TV interviews after winning the 2022 Bathurst 1000. He also opens up about his switch to Grove Racing, how and why it came about, and whether we’ll see him behind the wheel in any categories outside of Supercars this year, and we end the first of our two-part chat going back to his championship-winning season in Formula Ford in 1997, including how he landed backing from Bunnings and a couple of pivotal moments in his campaign. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Race Control: Craig Baird explains the calls from the Bathurst 500
Race Control filtered by Ryco: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round. Included in this post-2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500 edition: - Why some drivers that lost their fastest laps and some didn’t when the yellow flag came out at Murrays Corner in the final moments of Qualifying for Race 1 - The Race 2 tangle between Broc Feeney and James Golding at The Chase that resulted in the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver being given a five-second time penalty - Why Race Control handled the Cam Waters’ lost wheel situation in Race 1 the way it did - Full Course Yellows and why they favoured using a Safety Car at the Bathurst 12 Hour - The two Dunlop Series tangles at The Cutting in Race 1 and Race 2, and why they were treated differently The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: Amaroo Park’s V8 farewell
For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Amaroo Park round of the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship, the final time the touring car series made the pilgrimage to the much-missed north-western Sydney circuit. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Castrol Supercars Weekly: Erebus reveals new primary sponsor
Castrol Supercars Weekly returns for 2024 with a wrap of all the news in the lead-up to opening practice for the Thrifty Bathurst 500 on Friday at Mount Panorama, headed by reigning champion team Erebus Motorsport revealing a new primary sponsor on the eve of the new season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Peter Fitzgerald (Part 2)
We continue our chat with multiple national champion, production car and Porsche icon Peter Fitzgerald in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the final part of our two-part chat, Fitzy shares stories from the GT-P and Nations Cup era, his other tilts at the Bathurst 1000 – including a memorable one with Captain Peter Janson! V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: Gricey’s generous prizemoney donation
For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sandown round of the 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship, where Allan Grice collected the winner’s prizemoney and then immediately donated it to a very worthy charitable cause. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Peter Fitzgerald (Part 1)
We’re talking to multiple national champion, production car and Porsche icon, and inaugural Bathurst 12 Hour winner Peter Fitzgerald in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Fitzy shares the story of how he became a racing rookie at the age of 27 at the wheel of an ex-Pete Geoghegan Porsche, with a bit of tutelage and advice from Frank Gardner. He shares tales of how he funded his racing - including the deal that funded his first attempt to race at the Bathurst 1000 in 1981 - as well has his side of the infamous tale of how Brad Jones’ dad flagged him down in Albury to secure a pivotal co-drive for his son! He also shares the story of how he managed to seamlessly switch sponsorship deals from Yokohama to Goodyear, as well as a couple of tales from his victory with Allan Grice and Nigel Arkell in the inaugural Bathurst 12 Hour in 1991. It proved his only victory in the opening era of the race - and he talks about how the win slipped away in 1993 and when the race moved to Eastern Creek in 1995. We also briefly touch on his touring car racing, including a year in the Benson & Hedges BMW squad as co-driver to Alan Jones and Denny Hulme, netting a Bathurst class podium in the process. V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: Group A gets underway at Winton
Throughout 2024 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast feed we’re going to take a look back through Australian motorsport history with a series of Ryco Rewind episodes that explore the great races, drivers and cars from the past on the anniversary of them unfolding. For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Winton round of the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship, the first championship round run to the new international Group A Touring Car regulations. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: 2024 Bathurst 12 Hour- Everything you need to know
The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol looks ahead to next weekend’s Repco Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of the 12 Hour, Richard Craill, to preview the 2024 edition of Australia’s International Enduro. Buy the Official Repco Bathurst 12 Hour Program >> https://bit.ly/3Ss8mRj Buy Bathurst: Going Global >> https://bit.ly/4bpWV5h Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryco Rewind: The Kid's Sandown follow-up
Throughout 2024 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast feed we’re going to take a look back through Australian motorsport history with a series of Ryco Rewind episodes that explore the great races, drivers and cars from the past on the anniversary of them unfolding. For our first Ryco Rewind, we're going back to the Sandown round of the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship when 'The Kid', Craig Lowndes, showed his win on debut under lights at Eastern Creek was no fluke! Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: 1994 ... Controversy and tragedy as new eras dawn
This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol winds back three decades for a look at the 1994 motorsport year, one tinged with controversy and tragedy around the world. V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Inside the new book on Moffat’s Mustang
The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is back for 2024! We’re kicking off the new season with a chat about the recently released book The Boss: The Inside Story of Allan Moffat and his Trans-Am Mustang. Noonz sits down with author David Hassall, who shares several stories about how the book came together, a peek at some of the incredible information and memorabilia that was uncovered as part of his research, some of the mysteries that were solved and myths that were debunked along the way, and gives us a hint at what might be the next book in the series. Buy the book here! >> https://bit.ly/3Hs2Sku V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices