The V8 Sleuth Podcast

This week Bathurst 1000 winner Luke Youlden joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, the second-generation racer talks about his introduction to the sport through father Kent ‘The Bear’ Youlden, winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship, progressing into the Development Series, linking with the Ellery family and scoring his first two Supercars Championship podiums at the 2003 Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000, plus his years co-driving for Stone Brothers Racing and Ford Performance Racing – plus the two times he looked set for a full-time ‘main game’ drive... V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - What footage still exists of Australian Touring Car Championship races prior to 1983 and of the Winfield Triple Challenge Events from 1992-1995? - The current Supercars race format with soft tyres - The Bowden family - The Holden Bathurst Revival at this November’s Bathurst International - How many Gibson Motorsport Nissan Skyline GTS-R HR31s were built - Is Supercars too predictable? - The ‘Holy Grail’ of missing Australian touring cars - The union between Super2 and Super3 for the rest of 2020 - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Which circuits have alternate layouts that Supercars could use for repeat rounds at the same venue - Did the Nissan Bluebird really have a sneaky turbo adjuster? - What happens to Dunlop Supercars tyres after they're used up - Jason Richards’ Bathurst podium Commodores - Progressive grids - What we’d like to see in the Gen3 Supercars regs - Extending the Bathurst 1000 to the Bathurst 1500 or Bathurst 24 Hour - The other Chiko Roll Commodore - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of the release of the new documentary ‘Brock: Over The Top’, the latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at the histories and the fates of the eight cars that Peter Brock used to claim the nine Bathurst 500/Bathurst 1000 victories that earnt him the title of ‘King of the Mountain.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Caruso talks about standing on the podium at Bathurst in 2009, that incredible mid-race spin at Reid Park, and the real origin story of the special Valvoline livery that he and Lee Holdsworth used that weekend. He also tells a hilarious tale from the night out after his maiden V8 race win at Hidden Valley, opens up on his Nissan years, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Caruso talks about growing up watching his dad Mick race, his early years in karting and his brief time in Formula Ford, as well as his move to Europe to sweep floors for a Formula 3000 team to try and land a race drive. He then opens up about making the switch to V8 Supercars, the key role the late Jim Morton played in launching his tin-top career, and his … unusual … job interview with Garry Rogers. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, ‘PD’ talks about the deal that nearly saw him replace Russell Ingall at Stone Brothers Racing, his breakthrough successes in 2010 and his years co-driving with good mate – and now fellow co-owner of Triple Eight Race Engineering – Jamie Whincup, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, ‘PD’ talks about V8 Supercars, NASCARs, AUSCARs and Formula Holdens all when he was still just 16 years of age, his early years racing Supercars full-time for Larry Perkins – including a time he pushed LP’s patience a little too far, plus a few stories that illustrate that poor PD is a bit accident-prone – and that ‘Doctor Whincup’ should probably stick to driving! V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at one of Peter Brock's Bathurst-winning cars and the first car to carry his signature #05, the Gown-Hindhaugh Holden Torana L34 that he and Brian Sampson drove to victory in the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo 1000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Off the back of the release of the epic book Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske 40 Years of Cars: 1980-2019, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through their take on the five greatest cars produced by the team in this week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, and give a behind the scenes look at how the book was created. If you want to buy a copy, hit up this link: https://bit.ly/DJRBook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - The winning statistics of Allan Moffat’s Coca-Cola Trans-Am Mustang - Unrestored Bathurst-winning V8 Supercars - Could the Thunderdome be resurrected? - Did Channel 9 ever telecast an ATCC race? - Where is the Channel 9 Camaro? - Terri Sawyer - Future CMS Motorsport DVD releases - Supercars Eseries - Daniel Ricciardo joining McLaren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Wayne talks in depth about the Coca-Cola Racing years, along with his Formula 1 test with Lotus, and why his huge accident in practice for the 2002 Bathurst 1000 prompted his retirement, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his very first test of a touring car – which pre-dated his world title! – his Bathurst debut in 1992, and his full-time arrival in the sport in 1993. Wayne also talks in detail about that tumultuous first year with the Holden Racing Team, a partnership that ended acrimoniously and led to the creation of Wayne Gardner Racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week BTCC chief Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Alan talks about the Super Touring era and the years it was pitted against V8 Supercars in Australia, his long relationship as friend and manager to James Courtney, plus he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week BTCC supremo Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his early days in the sport with Captain Peter Janson, he tells a couple of ripper Peter Brock stories from his time running Mobil 1 Racing, and he talks about the current state of play of the BTCC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jason Bright joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Jason opens up about his Supercars career, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout, and we reveal the winners of the V8 Sleuth Podcast Trivia Competition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jason Bright joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about Jason’s open-wheel career … in particular his time racing in the United States back in the year 2000 which ended with him racing an Indycar at Gold Coast Indy at Surfers Paradise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re doing something a little different this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken – a round of trivia hosted by the V8 Sleuth himself, Aaron Noonan! And you can win prizes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Bathurst 1000 and Adelaide 500 winner Nick Percat joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Nick opens up about the illness that forced him to sit out the tail end of the 2015 Supercars season, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Bathurst 1000 and Adelaide 500 winner Nick Percat joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Nick talks about his time at Walkinshaw Racing, capped by his 2011 Bathurst 1000 win with Garth Tander, and he opens up on the race that got him on Walkinshaw’s radar: the final Aussie Racing Cars race of the 2006 Gold Coast Indy, and how he initially wasn’t even going to start it! He also talks about making his full-time main game debut with Walkinshaw in 2014 – and the Dick Johnson Racing contract he turned down in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week veteran Australian motorsport broadcaster and journalist Greg Rust joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Rusty opens up about a major health scare he had back in 2011, plus the chance meeting it led to, he tells a ripper story about his dog Buster and an infamous visit to the Channel 10 studios, he talks about he and his family’s move to New Zealand at the end of 2017, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, and we put him against the clock in our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week veteran Australian motorsport broadcaster and journalist Greg Rust joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Rusty talks about how he went from working in banking to a career in the media, his time calling Super Touring and working on the early years of Channel 10’s V8 Supercars coverage – and he tells a few cracking stories about Barry Sheene and Leigh Diffey! – and we go all ‘meta’ as he talks about his podcast on our podcast, telling the story of how his show ‘Rusty’s Garage’ came to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan tackles your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After recording this in July 2019, we’ve finally unleashed this to the internet: Ryan Story on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! In Part 2, Ryan tells the full back story of how the DJR Team Penske union came together – he reveals the role a Supercars fan favourite played in helping get the deal over the line! – and the evolution of the team from its dark days at the start of the Car of the Future era through to its emergence as one of the big players on the Supercars grid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After recording this in July 2019, we’ve finally unleashed this to the internet: Ryan Story on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! In Part 1, Ryan takes you inside Dick Johnson Racing’s most tumultuous years, revealing just how bad things were at the end of 2012 and how the team survived through the next couple of seasons. He also opens up on his own life story – which is a remarkable tale in itself! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, a solar car pioneer, and still to this day a hero to masses of Supercars fans, Larry Perkins joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2 we ask him your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, talk about his decision to start his own touring car team, his three Bathurst victories under his own banner, the Castrol Cougars program, and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout, where Larry comes out with a few ripping answers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, a solar car pioneer, and still to this day a hero to masses of Supercars fans, Larry Perkins joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we chat about his time in Europe trying to make it to Formula 1, racing for Bernie Ecclestone, how an ice skater ended his oval-racing career before it even began, plus his sudden decision to retire from the cockpit for good at Bathurst in 2003. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Bathurst 1000 winner, a former donut expert on the Albury High School oval, and one of the most popular drivers in Supercars, David Reynolds joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2 he opens up about the greatest day of his life and the absolute worst day of his life, reveals where he took his long-term partner for their first date, plus your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Bathurst 1000 winner, a former member of the marketing team at Holden Special Vehicles, and one of the most popular drivers in Supercars, David Reynolds joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 he chats about the early years of his racing career, his time at HSV and Walkinshaw Racing, and his contentious move from Kelly Racing to Ford Performance Racing before landing at Erebus Motorsport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wrap the Adelaide 500 on this week's V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, Aaron Noonan and Will Dale covering the big battleground topics – like the Armor All Pole Award viking helmet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Bathurst 1000 winner, a Holden Young Lion, and a former BMX bandit, Jason Bargwanna joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back for 2020! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale chat about all the things we love about the Bathurst 12 Hour – and announce an exciting new project! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A podium-finisher in the IndyCar Series, a one-time teammate to a world-famous actor, and one of the most popular drivers on the Supercars grid, Simona De Silvestro joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for the annual pilgrimage to Mount Panorama! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast looks back at the short but highly successful career of DJR EB5, a Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon EB with a winning pedigree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the 50th anniversary of his Bathurst triumph with Tony Roberts, the first triumph in the Mount Panorama for the Holden Dealer Team, Colin Bond joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Holden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast in the lead-up to this year's Bathurst 1000, Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate over who are Ford's 10 best drivers in its history at the Mount Panorama enduro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A seven-time Bathurst 1000 winner – including triumphs with both the HDT and HRT – a Calder Park street bike drag racer, and one of Australia’s drivers at a bizarre World Cup of Motorsport in Mexico, Jim Richards joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by ACDelco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's won the Bathurst 1000 twice as a factory Holden driver, won the Bathurst 24 Hour in a Holden Monaro, and started more Supercars championship races in Commodores than anyone else; Garth Tander joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Holden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A five-time championship winner, six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, and the last driver to win 'the Great Race' while simultaneously owning the factory Holden team, Mark Skaife joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Holden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guy who gave Russell Ingall the nickname 'The Enforcer', a co-driver to Peter Brock at Bathurst, and a good friend of 'Arthur' Moffat's, veteran journalist Paul Gover joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we sit down to write the book on every car produced by his eponymous race team, Dick Johnson joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re looking back at an iconic racing machine in a Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Motorsport Parts Australia, Jamie Whincup's Triple Eight Holden Commodore better known as ‘Kate’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Daytona 200 polesitter, former resident of the 'Broken Hill' of Monte Carlo, and one-time atom splitter, two-wheel legend Troy Bayliss joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A D2 indoor cricket champion, a car wash entrepreneur, and Supercars' only seven-time series champion, Jamie Whincup joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Suzuki Vitara owner for 2 days before writing it off, a race winner around our Parliament Houses, and the current custodian of Mustang Sally, Steven Johnson joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re looking back at an iconic racing machine in a Classic Car edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Motorsport Parts Australia, Peter Brock's Holden Racing Team Commodore better known as ‘Beth’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part 2 of Will Davison on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Doric, he opens up about his time racing for both Holden and Ford’s factory Supercars squads and how his relationships with both unravelled, a pair of Bathurst 1000 wins that got away, plus he answers your Couch Racer Questions and has a crack at the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices