The V8 Sleuth Podcast

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features Supercars race winner and two-time Super2 Series winner Dean Canto. A second-generation racer, we start the final leg of our two-part chat with Canto talking about his 2004 enduro drives with a pre-powerhouse Triple Eight, his 2005 Development Series title with Dick Johnson Racing, and the moment he feels cost him a shot at...

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features Supercars race winner and two-time Super2 Series winner Dean Canto. A second-generation racer, we start the first leg of our two-part chat with Canto talking about what he’s up to now and whether we’ll see him back in a racecar any time soon. We then look back through the early years of his career, from coming to prominence...

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features rising Supercars racer Cameron Crick. The son of six-time Australian Truck Racing Champion Rodney, the second-generation racer’s story is one of perseverence. Crick talks about the grind that has been hand-and-hand with his rise through the sport, including his approach to securing sponsorship partners and delivering them va...

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features popular V8 Supercars and Super Touring privateer Cameron McLean. The Queenslander was a fixture of touring car racing grids in the 1990s and early 2000s in the yellow hues of Greenfield Mowers, initially in two-litre racing in a variety of ex-factory machines before making the leap to V8s with Ford Falcons. Among the second...

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn features popular V8 Supercars and Super Touring privateer Cameron McLean. The Queenslander was a fixture of touring car racing grids in the 1990s and early 2000s in the yellow hues of Greenfield Mowers, initially in two-litre racing in a variety of ex-factory machines before making the leap to V8s with Ford Falcons. Among the first p...

The Supercars are set to head to the Apple Isle for the Snowy River Caravans Tasmania Super440, so we’re looking back at the championship’s history of racing at Symmons Plains on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn. We look through the event’s extensive history dating back to the 1960s, the Tasmanian road circuit that preceded it, along with the memorable races and res...

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 Autobarn. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: -   Which Nissan GT-R is in the Fox Collection? -   The future of TCR in Australia -   Our favourite Supercars season -   The Bathurst 6 Hour -   Cars being recalled to the ‘main game...

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this weekend’s Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of the People’s Bathurst Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2025 edition of the country’s premier production car race. TV guide for the Bathurst 6 Hour >> https://bit.ly/4jwyDJZ V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Podcast Plus >> https://v8sleut...

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers 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: -   How we rate the start of Brodie Kostecki’s stint with DJR -   The whereabouts of Paul Radisich’s ‘99 Bathurst car -   Our take on the Chevrolet/GM Homologation Team race -   The times a sponsor ha...

This week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast guest might be better known for their voice than their name, having played a key role in Bathurst 1000 broadcasts and Channel 7’s touring car racing coverage through the mid-1980s and 1990s. Englishman Richard Hay was in Australia recently and caught up with Noonz to chat about his memories of Mount Panorama, working under Mike Raymond and alongside the likes of Garry...

Supercars Championship and Bathurst 1000 race-winning engineer George Commins joins this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Best known as the partner in crime for Brodie Kostecki’s recent successes, Commins shares stories from a long career that started with Mark Larkham and included a stint in Europe and in Formula 1 with Williams. He opens up on just what life in F1 is like, his initial st...

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this weekend’s Race Tasmania at Symmons Plains for the opening round of the 2025 Trico Trans Am Series. Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker preview all the action, run through the massive 32-car entry list, the format for the weekend and some of the changes for this year’s season. V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ V8 Sleuth Podcast Plus >> ht...

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers 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: - Did we really need to schedule three major motorsport events for the same weekend? - Alternatives to keep the Sandown 500 alive - The 2026 Supercars silly season - Shane Rogers: Bathurst tour guide...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with David Reynolds almost exactly five years ago in March 2020, when he visited Sleuth HQ with his chauffeur for the day - future Supercars champ (and his then enduro co-driver) Will Brown! In this snippet, Reynolds opened up on a very serious topic: a tragic tarmac rally accident from the early part of his career. Two weeks...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our chat with Mark Skaife in our first season, recorded in his office back in 2019. In this snippet, released on what would have been Peter Brock’s 80th birthday, Skaifey talks about partnering up with the King of the Mountain in 1997, plus a fun tale involving the Brocky, a couple of hire cars, and a desperate race to get out of the S...

Supercars champ-turned-IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin makes his second appearance on the V8 Sleuth Podcast for this week’s episode, recorded while he was at Sebring for pre-season testing with Team Penske. A lot has happened since his last visit to the pod back in 2020 so there’s plenty to talk about – including testing Porsche’s LMDh prototype sportscar at Sebring last week and partnering with his...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Jack Perkins, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ back in 2021. In this snippet, Perkins talks about his dream call-up from the Holden Racing Team in 2015 - initially as a co-driver, then being suddenly promoted mid-weekend to the primary driver role after a bizarre incident injured James Courtney. He also talks about his...

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers 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 take on Supercars.com’s list of the Top 25 drivers since 2000 - How we go about investigating and reporting on sensitive stories - Teams that have switched manufacturers mid-season or run differ...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Will Davison, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ way back in 2019. In this snippet, Davison talks about the cubic dollars that were required when he was pursuing his dream of racing in Formula 1 in the early 2000s and some of the things he did to raise it – including the help he had from Australian cricket legend Shane Wa...

The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to next weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of Australia’s International Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2025 edition of the country’s premier GT race. Buy the Official Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour Program >> https://bit.ly/4g4Whex Buy Bathurst: Going Global >> https://bit.ly/4bpWV5h V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://supers...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our episode with Garry Rogers, recorded at Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2021. We look back at the team’s much-beloved Volvo era, and how it was actually an entirely different manufacturer that he was chasing!. To listen to the rest of the chat from Episode 160, tap this link >> https://bit.ly/4fyHPuV Or, if you’d rather watch it, check i...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast features part of our epic two-part chat with Mark Larkham at his kitchen table back in 2022. In this snippet, he shares the inside story of the creation of Channel 10’s incredible intro to its broadcast of the 2017 Bathurst 1000, in which Larko gives an impassioned explanation of a lap of Mount Panorama. This Mini came from Episode 246, the secon...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is drawn from Supercars legend Greg Murphy’s first visit to the pod back in 2020. This snippet revolves around a regularly-mined topic come that special Sunday in October: his confrontation with Marcos Ambrose after they crashed out of the 2005 Bathurst 1000. We’d received so many National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questi...

This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Nathan Pretty sharing a couple of tales from his rookie season in Supercars. In this snippet, Pretty talks about a wild moment in the early laps of the first race at the 1999 Winton round, where he and sister Nicole used an old Thunderdome trick to avoid a host of crashing cars to vault, Steven Bradbury-style, from the...

This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol looks back at the rise and fall of one of Australian motorsport’s most exciting categories: AUSCAR. Created as the second-tier category at Bob Jane’s Calder Park Thunderdome, AUSCAR quickly became a star attraction in its own right through a simple formula that had, at the time, disappeared from Australian circuits: V8 Holdens and For...