The V8 Sleuth Podcast

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by the rundown of who’s where after Friday practice at the ITM Taupō Super400. 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/adchoic...

The Supercars are heading back across the Tasman this weekend with the championship’s first visit to Taupō, so we’re looking back at the history of the championship racing in New Zealand on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. We look through the event’s history, from the Wellington Street Race of the 1980s and the 12-car double-header of 1996, the championship’s first...

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by a star co-driver making an unexpected team switch for the 2024 endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst. 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...

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol wind back two decades for a look at the 2004 motorsport year, touching on the big topics and happenings in V8 Supercars, F1, MotoGP, NASCAR, Champ Car, IRL and rallying. 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 Supe...

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by a Supercars star heading States-side this weekend to make his debut in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series. 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...

This week - by popular demand - we’ve pressed our AN1 Data stats guru Shane Rogers into joining this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. He talks about how he got into motorsport in the first place, working on early Supercars web/results data sites Conrod.com.au and VESRIX and getting a job CAMS after being told not to tell CAMS in the interview that he had any interest in...

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...

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...

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...

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/adchoice...

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-selec...

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 sti...

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

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

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 col...

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...

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...

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

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 Fin...

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 h...

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 f...

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 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

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://superstor...

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