The V8 Sleuth Podcast

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 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint at Wanneroo Raceway. 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

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of opening practice for the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint at Wanneroo Raceway. 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 FREE! Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint Official Program >> https://issuu.com/v8sleuth/docs/perth_program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Phillip Island round of the 1999 Shell Championship Series, a weekend where one team’s total dominance was completely overshadowed by one of the most memorable crashes in ATCC/Supercars Championship history. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re debuting a new ‘mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol, featuring Mark Skaife talking about his favourite chassis from his Supercars career - HRT 045, the car known as ‘Golden Child’. In this snippet, Skaifey talks about how he came to own the car, restoring it, his very first drive of it, how it got its nickname, and why he has such a soft spot for it. This Mini came from Episode 16 back in 2019, our very first year of doing the V8 Sleuth Podcast. To listen to the rest of the chat, tap this link >> https://bit.ly/3yjYxyB We also did another chat with Skaifey on Episode 76 in late 2020, which you can listen to here >> https://bit.ly/V8SPSkaife2 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

We’re talking to Paul Radisich for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol – and we’re releasing both parts at the same time! The second part of our two-part chat looks at his years racing in Supercars, beginning with how his four-year stint at Dick Johnson Racing was originally a one-year deal and how he tried to make the switch to another top Ford team after that 1999 season, his aggressive driving style, the dramatic win at the 2001 Queensland 500 and equally as dramatic heartbreak at the 1999 Bathurst 1000. Radisich also opens up about his years at Briggs Motor Sport and his role in bringing Triple Eight into Supercars, his podium finish with Team Kiwi Racing, and the aftermath of his two horrific crashes at Bathurst in 2006 and 2008, as well as tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions. 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

We’re talking to Paul Radisich for this week’s episodes of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol – and we’re releasing both parts at the same time! In the first part of our two-part chat, he talks about getting into racing in New Zealand, his years spent racing in open-wheelers against some of the biggest names in global motorsport, his early races in touring cars with Denny Hulme, Peter Brock and Dick Johnson, and how those starts parlayed into becoming a two-time World Cup-winning star of Super Touring. 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

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Perth SuperSprint round of the 2016 V8 Supercars Championship, a race that culminated in one of Craig Lowndes’ most unlikely triumphs. 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 the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by another star Supercars driver that is set to make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Sonoma Raceway next month. 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 Erebus Motorsport: From Challengers to Champions, now available in the V8 Sleuth SuperStore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/products/erebus-motorsport-from-challengers-to-champions-book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Lakeside round of the 1992 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, a weekend where all four of Group A touring car racing’s makes shared the limelight. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re continuing our chat with Barry Rogers in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the final part of a two-part chat, Rogers opens up about Garry Rogers Motorsport’s involvement in TCR and S5000, as well as how it ended up with the reins of the Australian Racing Group. Rogers also talks about how they came to own a slice of Supercars and why they recently sold out of it, as well as the future of S5000 and the Bathurst International. 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

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Calder Park round of the 1996 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, an event that proved auspicious for the seasons ahead. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Barry Rogers for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the first part of a two-part chat, Rogers shares stories about growing up with Garry Rogers, Sports Sedan racer, as his dad, and his career outside the sport before joining GRM. He shares some great stories from the team’s Volvo era, drivers Scott McLaughlin, Robert Dahlgren, David Wall and James Golding, and talks about the team bowing out of Supercars at the end of the 2019 season. 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: 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 inaugural ITM Taupō Super400. 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

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Phillip Island SuperSprint round of the 2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, a controversial race marred by tyre blowouts and penalties. 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 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/adchoices

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 visit in 2001 through to its most recent in 2022, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades… 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

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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 motorsport! Shane then tackles the stat questions you sent us via social media as well as bringing to the table some of his favourite obscure and unusual statistics and facts from ATCC/Supercars history - including the wild tale behind the oldest driver ever to start a championship race, and some crazy stories he’s uncovered from the youth of a future Supercars Hall of Famer. 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