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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V8SP: Q&A - DJR Falcon’s fate, ‘drop worst round’, Tassie’s winter move
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 polished by Bowden’s Own. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Where the first Supercar Shane van Gisbergen drove is now, and does his history with it make it more valuable? - Favourite ATCC/SC liveries of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - The fate of DJR EF6 - BMW’s lost plot to win the Bathurst 24 Hour - Race numbers - Letters on driver overalls - Slightly wrong elements of liveries on restored cars - Symmons Plains’ move to August on the 2024 Supercars calendar - And plenty more! Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Darren Hossack (Part 2)
We’re talking to multiple national champion Darren Hossack on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the second and final part of our two-part chat, Darren shares more stories from his long career in motorsport. We start out with two infamous crashes from 1998; the first of which isn’t well known, while the other in Bathurst 1000 practice wasn’t technically a crash until two other cars turned up. He shares stories from his last three drives in the ‘Great Race’ with Romano Racing in 1999, Kmart Racing in 2000 and Ford Performance Racing in 2003. He also talks about taking over John Gourlay’s Saab Sports Sedan - including shaking it down on the Thunderdome! - and his tense rivalry with Tony Ricciardello and his iconic Alfa Romeo GTV, through to moving into a new Audi A4 Sports Sedan designed and built by Gourlay and Hossack’s dad. He also opens up on his injuries from a nasty speedway crash in 2015 that ended his time in the Audi, and plenty more. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: DJR reveals significant restructure
We’re back with a quick episode of Repco Supercars Weekly in the wake of a significant off-season announcement by Dick Johnson Racing with Ludo Lacroix departing, Dr Ryan Story returning, and a reshuffle among the team’s key roles. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Darren Hossack (Part 1)
We’re talking to multiple national champion Darren Hossack on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. Darren shares plenty of stories in the first part of our two-part chat, recorded in his workshop. He talks about buying his first kart through the Trading Post, joining elite karting outfit Drew Price Engineering for a two-week stint that ended up stretching into many years, claiming Spectrum’s first Formula Ford title, racing a rotary-powered Gemini Sports Sedan, how helping a young Paul Dumbrell in karting eventually led to a V8 Supercars drive, and plenty more. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Scott Sinclair (Part 2)
We wrap up our chat with Supercars race and championship-winning engineer Scott Sinclair on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the final part of a two-part chat, Scott talks about the dramatic title-changing race at Homebush in 2010 where crashes left the Dick Johnson Racing and Triple Eight crews racing each other to repair their cars, his shift to the Holden Racing Team amid a lull period for the once-great team, and moving into a team management role with Nissan Motorsport and the efforts to make the Altima a competitive proposition, and what drove his decision to leave the team at the end of 2019 and his stint on the Supercars Commission. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: New champ’s post-season surgery
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Repco Supercars Weekly, headlined by new champion Brodie Kostecki having to pull out of racing at the Circuit of The Americas this weekend to go under the knife. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Scott Sinclair (Part 1)
We’re talking to Supercars race and championship-winning engineer Scott Sinclair on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, Scott talks about being in the crowd at Bathurst on race day in 1990 and early visits to Wanneroo touring car rounds, being part of a winning Formula SAE team, his baptism of fire as a Development Series race engineer at Dick Johnson Racing, plus his graduation to running Will Davison in the ‘main game’ in 2007. He also shares stories from his time engineering James Courtney, including revealing the turning point in 2009 that put the team on the path towards its upset 2010 championship victory. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ 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 Adelaide 500
RACE CONTROL: A recent addition to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, 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 Supercars round. Included in this post-2023 VAILO Adelaide 500 edition: - The Lap 1 incident between Will Brown and Anton De Pasquale in the Saturday race that effectively ended Shane van Gisbergen’s title challenge - The Nick Percat/Jack Le Brocq incident early in the Saturday race where they interlocked wheels - The skirmishes between Broc Feeney and Chaz Mostert early in the Saturday race, which resulted in Mostert being awarded a five-second time penalty - The pitlane tangle between James Golding and Macauley Jones during the Saturday race - The Shane van Gisbergen/Thomas Randle incident entering the ‘Staircase’ during the Sunday - The assistant that Baird has to help him find all the vision of any incident - The Super2 Series incident between Zak Best and Nash Morris during the Saturday race that resulted in a points penalty for Best The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Wrapping opening day at the VAILO Adelaide 500
This week, V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the action from opening practice at the VAILO Adelaide 500 and the key news in the paddock ahead of the final round of the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship - headlined by the new role for Supercars’ former Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: The greatest ATCC/Supercars title-deciders
With the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship set to be decided this weekend at the VAILO Adelaide 500, this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own looks back at the greatest final-round title deciders across ATCC/Supercars history. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Where next for Adrian Burgess?
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Repco Supercars Weekly, headlined by the impending departure from Supercars of its technical chief, Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - SVG’s first winner, B&H Sierras, the Larry Bar
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 polished by Bowden’s Own. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Where Shane van Gisbergen’s first race-winning Supercar is now - The most ‘valuable’ car still racing in Australia - How many Benson & Hedges Sierras were there? - The chances of a Steven/Jett Johnson Bathurst 1000 wildcard - The greatest winning margin in the Supercars era - What Noonz bought at the Diecast Model Expo - And plenty more! Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Breaking down the 2024 Supercars calendar
In the latest episode of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan gives the full rundown on the 2024 calendar revealed by Supercars on Friday afternoon, including all the changes to dates and race formats, and the circuit that has missed out on a date - and the knock-on effect that omission will have in 2025 on one of the championship's marquee events. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Steve Owen (Part 2)
We’re talking to Supercars race winner and multiple Super2 Series champion Steve Owen on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the second and final part of a two-part chat, he talks about the scary moment during the 2006 Adelaide 500 where he passed out behind the wheel due to the severe in-car heat, and stepping back to the Development Series twice and winning both times. He also talks about joining Triple Eight as a co-driver and winning his first Supercars Championship race - in ‘budgie smugglers’ - and landing a full-time return to the category, and opens up on his fiery start-line shunt with Karl Reindler at Barbagallo in 2011, as well as his race-winning spell as an Enduro Cup co-driver at Tickford Racing. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions - well, what was left of them, as he answered a lot of them during the course of the main chat! Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Steve Owen (Part 1)
We’re talking to Supercars race winner and multiple Super2 Series champion Steve Owen on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, he reveals how he’s actually a second-generation Bathurst 1000 racer, working three different jobs to pay for his first Formula Ford, and studying psychology at university before dropping out when a big racing opportunity came along. He also tells a funny story about his first drive of a V8 Supercar, talks about his Indy Lights test, the ‘misunderstanding’ with Peter Brock that helped get him a Bathurst 1000 drive, and the early years of his Supercars career. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ 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 Gold Coast
RACE CONTROL: A new addition to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, 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 Supercars round. Included in this post-2023 Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 edition: - David Reynolds cutting the first chicane while battling to hold off Brodie Kostecki for the win on the final lap of the Sunday race - James Golding’s flick-spin on the exit of the first chicane that led to Scott Pye hitting the wall late in the Sunday race - Matt Payne and James Courtney’s showdown at the Beach Chicane during the Saturday race that resulted in a five-second time penalty for Payne - Contact between Andre Heimgartner and Todd Hazelwood late in the Sunday race that resulted in a 15-second time penalty for Heimgartner. - The new kerb-hop sensors, bad sportsmanship flags, and why drivers, teams and fans aren’t told just how many kerb-hops a driver has left - The big misconception about what the bad sportsmanship flag actually means for how many ‘lives’ a driver has left - Barry Ryan’s suggestion on something MotoGP does that Supercars could employ to balance out chicane-cutting The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Title contender’s post-Bathurst surgery
For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by news that one of the four drivers in mathematical contention for the 2023 title had to undergo surgery after the Repco Bathurst 1000, while we’re another step closer to having a complete grid for the 2024 season. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from the Gold Coast street race
The Supercars are set to tackle the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, so we’re looking back at the history of racing on the Surfers Paradise streets on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. We look through the event’s history, from its controversial beginnings in 1991 through to the modern-day Supercars event, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades… Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Erebus makes 2024 co-driver play
For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Erebus locking in one of its two co-drivers for 2024, the cancellation of the 2024 Newcastle 500, and the major changes that have happened at Team 18 since the Repco Bathurst 1000. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Tony Cochrane (Part 2)
We’re talking to Tony Cochrane on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the second and final part of our two-part chat, he gives his take on the Gen3 car, the sport’s fans, some of the key learnings from his time in the AFL and one thing in particular that could be applied to Supercars, John Farnham, the emotions behind his exit from the sport in 2012, and plenty more. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, which turned up some great tales – including an infamous 1996 meeting where he illustrated who actually owned the category. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: How close T8 came to losing Bathurst
For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Triple Eight revealing just how close the #97 Chevrolet Camaro of Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway came to having the same gearshift mount failure as its two teammates in the closing stages of the Repco Bathurst 1000. The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Tony Cochrane (Part 1)
We’re talking to Tony Cochrane on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, he talks about growing up, where his interest in events came from, bringing Frank Sinatra to Australia, his first car, fans, the Adelaide 500, the ‘Battle for Bathurst’ and cleaning up the Bathurst 1000, and setting up V8 Supercars. Learn more about Bowden’s Own here >> https://www.bowdensown.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: Race Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000
V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Sunday action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, where Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway claimed the Peter Brock Trophy for Triple Eight Race Engineering. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: Shootout Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000
V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Saturday action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, where Brodie Kostecki romped to pole position in the Top 10 Shootout. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: Qualifying Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000
V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Friday action at the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000, where the big question is whether or not anyone can catch the provisional pole-sitting #99 Erebus Motorsport Camaro of Brodie Kostecki and David Russell. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices