The V8 Sleuth Podcast

We’re doing daily editions of the V8 Sleuth Podcast trackside at Mount Panorama this week during the Repco Bathurst 1000! V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Stefan Bartholomaeus run you though everything you need to know from the opening day of support category running on the Mountain. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win a DJR Ford Mustang from Repco: https://bit.ly/3nQMMXi Learn more abo...

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news as we gear up for the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 – and there’s a fair bit going on! – while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 25. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win a DJR Ford Mustang from Repco: https://bit.ly/3nQMMXi Bathurst Open Night t...

It’s time for that special Sunday in … December! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Bathurst Open Night tickets: https://bit.ly/3noJf3s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news and what you need to know for this weekend’s Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight – including the shock return of David Reynolds – while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 18. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win a DJR Ford Mustang from Repco: htt...

We’re talking to Garry Rogers this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Garry shares all sorts of stories from his long career in motorsport, both as a driver and as the boss of Garry Rogers Motorsport, chats memorabilia thanks to our mates at The Motorsport Trader, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop:...

We’re talking to John Smailes this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. The motoring and motorsport industry veteran chats about his new book, Formula One: The Australian and New Zealand Story, which covers the rich history of drivers from our corner of the world that have reached the pinnacle of the sport. He also shares a few tales from his extensive career in motoring and motorsport,...

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key happenings from last weekend’s ARMOR ALL Sydney SuperNight, runs through what you need to know for this weekend’s BP Ultimate Sydney SuperSprint, while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 9. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win a DJR Ford Mustang...

We’re talking to Dick Johnson this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We last caught up with the Supercars Hall of Famer in 2019 to talk about his team’s race cars, and this time we’re chatting to him about his years at the Bathurst 1000. We cover the highlights – his three wins in 1981, 1989 and 1994 – a few of the lowlights, and a host of entertaining tales around his trips to Mount...

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key happenings from last weekend’s Bunnings Trade Sydney SuperSprint, runs through what you need to know for this weekend’s ARMOR ALL Sydney SuperNight, while On This Day looks at moments from Supercars history that happened on November 2. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about you...

With Supercars returning to action with a four-round stint at Sydney Motorsport Park, this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re looking back at the AMSCAR Series, the touring car track championship held at Amaroo Park in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. We run through the concept behind AMSCAR, why and how it existed, the big cameos, the privateers that starred against the professionals...

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through everything you need to know as the season prepares to resume at this weekend’s Bunnings Trade Sydney SuperSprint. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: a Holden Commodore with a long, long racing life! Chassis RF 04 began its life as a Holden Commodore VN Group A SS in 1991 and kept racing – upgraded to a VP, then VR then VS specifications – until 2007! It hosted young guns, a world champion, well-known privateers and (at one point) a future Supercars Hall of...

This week we’re talking to Jessica Dane on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Jess talks about her role in the upcoming new era at Triple Eight as her father Roland prepares to step back and Jamie Whincup moves from the cockpit to the Team Principal role, and talks about her journey in motorsport so far, including her earliest motorsport memory, joining Triple Eight, her gap year outside moto...

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: - Should Supercars have run a 500km enduro among its four Sydney events? - Which circuit has hosted the most championship rounds - The Dash for Cash and the likelihood of something similar coming back to Su...

This week we’re talking to James Moffat on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, we pick up the chat in 2011 when Moff came close to snagging a surfboard in his first Gold Coast 600, the Nissan years – including his maiden V8 Supercars win at Winton in 2013 and standing on the Bathurst podium in 2014, and his difficult years at Garry Rogers Motorsport and the roundabouts way he return...

This week we’re talking to James Moffat on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Moff shares his early racetrack memories, how his uncle got him started in motorsport, his whirlwind national-level racing debut in a Lotus at Hidden Valley, joining Sonic Motor Racing as a mechanic and turning that into driving for them, gambling on himself in his breakthrough rookie Development Series s...

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re talking Jessica Yates from FOX SPORTS. Jess shares her story of growing up in a sporting family, choosing journalism as a career path – including a stint overseas as a subeditor at a newspaper in Laos! – and how she turned a part-time opportunity at FOX into becoming the face of the network’s motorsport coverage. She also shares a few stori...

This week we’re talking to Neil Crompton on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Ahead of the release of his autobiography ‘Neil Crompton: Best Seat in the House’, Neil shares a couple of stories from his career behind the wheel and behind the microphone, ranging from Peter Brock to Dame Edna, touring car legends to Indycar testing - and you can even hear a snippet of one of his earliest pieces...

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re talking about the ‘Immortals’ of Australian Motor Sport with Luke West. A long-time motorsport media identity and former editor of Australian Muscle Car Magazine, Luke has just published a book looking at the 10 drivers whose impact on the local racing scene will see their names and feats live on. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleu...

This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: the yellow Holden Monaro 427C, the first built to Nations Cup specification by Garry Rogers Motorsport. We cover its built, its technical specifications, the controversy that surrounded it and why its 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour win was far from the runaway dominance the final results suggest. We also chat with Natha...

This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Harry Firth, recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia. Part 2 features Firth talks about his time with both Ford and Holden, winning the Bathurst 500 as a driver and as a team manager, developing the Ford Cortina GT500, the first GT...

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Brad Jones Racing’s Nick Percat to talk about his big move north, his take on his start to the 2021 season, how BJR are adapting its cars to be more ‘Penske’-like, and his strong thoughts on introducing auto-blip with the proposed paddle gearchange for Gen3. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn...

This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Harry Firth. Recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia, Firth talks about his early life growing up in Gippsland, where his interest in mechanical things came from, his time as a dispatch rider and mechanic in the Army during World W...

For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Aaron Noonan is joined by Stefan Bartholomaeus to cover the news of Red Bull renewing its sponsorship of Triple Eight through to the end of the 2023 season, the positives that each of Supercars’ prospective new owners could bring, their winners and losers of the 2021 season so far, plus the pick of the Super2 races currently being uploaded to Supe...

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: - The teams that have scored the most front-row lockouts - The first Safety Car period in ATCC/SC history, and where have all the old Safety Cars gone? - What happened to the car Fabian Coulthard rolled on...