The V8 Sleuth Podcast

We’re talking to Adam Macrow on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the last part of our two-part chat we talk about his title-winning Fujitsu Series season in 2006, the bold promise he made to seal the drive with Howard Racing in the first place and how a good word from Alain Menu helped get his foot in the door at Triple Eight. He also opens up on why a full-time drive never came his way and what he’d have done differently in hindsight. Adam did get one solo-driver round, however, and talks about how his unlikely opportunity with Team Kiwi Racing came about. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. 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, led by some very big and exciting news: the Sandown 500 is officially BAAACCKKK!!!!! The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage V8 Sleuth Super Sale: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/collections/v8-sleuth-super-sale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Adam Macrow on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of our two-part chat with the 1998 Australian Formula Ford Champion and 2006 Fujitsu Series victor starts with what he’s doing now and how he’s helping the next generation of drivers take their first steps into car racing, and some of the current rising stars he has worked with. He also talks about his own start in the sport, his rise through Formula Ford, his brief foray into Formula Holden, his early steps into V8 Supercars, and his rapid Datsun 120Y Improved Production car! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ In-car video of Macrow's IP Datsun 120Y in the wet at Phillip Island: https://youtu.be/eEczr-YozeM 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, led by some big news for one of Australian motorsport’s rising stars. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 with Steve Ellery on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco covers a serious amount of ground! We talk about that amazing double podium finish at Sandown and Bathurst with Luke Youlden in 2003, cover the unique situation of taking sponsor stickers off mid-race weekend in 2004 on the Gold Coast, the decision to close his family team, how he arrived at and then left Triple Eight and the full-time deal to drive a Commodore that he turned down in the aftermath. Steve also tackles the National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the Top 10 Shootout. 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 led by three-time Supercars Champion Scott McLaughlin’s move into team co-ownership. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Steve Ellery on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of our two-part chat with the V8 Supercars race winner and former team owner, we chat about his early years in Formula Ford and what got him started in racing and the ups and downs of trying to make it in touring car racing in the 1990s/early 2000s, ranging from his breakthrough podium finish at the Bathurst 1000 in 1996, the collapse of his relationship with Tony Longhurst the next year, his often forgotten year with Holden Young Lions, narrowly missing out on a Bathurst win in 1999, and finally achieving success as an owner-driver. 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 in the wake of a bruising Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adelaide is set to come Alive once again with the roar of Supercars! The iconic Adelaide 500 has been resurrected for 2022 and V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale runs you through everything you need to know about the reborn event. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Official Adelaide 500 website: https://adelaide500.com.au/ Buy Adelaide 500 tickets: https://adelaide500.com.au/ticketing 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 the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, including new liveries for Supercars’ return to the Surfers Paradise streets. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage 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 Repco. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Who owns the footage of Jamie Whincup’s opening stint from the 2014 Bathurst 1000? - The fate of Allan Moffat’s Cenovis EB Falcon after it’s Bathurst 1000 crash in 1998 with Allan Heath - Can teams build new Mustangs and Commodores to be used in Super2 next year? - What lost permanent circuit we’d bring back - The greatest year-on-year improvement in lap times at the Bathurst 500/1000 - What we’d choose as an exhibition at the National Motor Racing Museum - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Mark Larkham on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the second part of our two-part chat Larko tackles all your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions – and they’ve brought out some absolute gold! We also touch on which of his V8 Supercars was Larko’s favourite, what became of the AU Falcon that was involved in the infamous start-line shunt with Paul Morris at Oran Park in 2000, and Mark Winterbottom’s lucky escape at the Shanghai round in 2005 when a metal grate went through the floor of his Larkham Motor Sport Falcon. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Mark Larkham on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We’ve devoted the first part of our two-part chat to talking about Larko’s first Mitre 10 Falcon V8 Supercar. He opens up about how he came to move from Formula Brabham to touring cars, why he chose 5L V8s over Super Touring, all the bits of clever engineering that went into the team’s bold, blue Ford Falcon EF, and how elements of it were ahead of its time but the car was so troublesome overall. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale wrap all the Saturday action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including the Shootout rainout, the last time pole wasn’t decided by the one-lap runoffs, a run through the grid and what we’re hoping to see happen on Sunday. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Friday action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including Shane van Gisbergen’s tangle with Macauley Jones, Triple Eight’s decision to bench Broc Feeney for Jamie Whincup, and the surprise results from a very wet qualifying session. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Thursday’s action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including the lack of precipitation, the abundance of speed, and the word that was on many Supercars drivers’ lips at the end of the day – and no, it wasn’t “rain”… The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re doing daily editions of the V8 Sleuth Podcast trackside at Mount Panorama this week during the Repco Bathurst 1000! V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap up everything from trackside on the eve of opening practice for the 2022 ‘Great Race’. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With 2022 marking 30 years since the running of one of the most controversial editions of ‘The Great Race’, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale look back over the events of the 1992 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As ‘Australia’s Own’ car prepares for its final tilt at ‘The Great Race’, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate which is the greatest model of Holden to have tackled the Bathurst 1000. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ 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 the biggest week of the year: the lead-up to the Repco Bathurst 1000. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time for that special Sunday in October! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000 and answer your questions ahead of the 2022 edition of ‘The Great Race’. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Buy the 2022 Bathurst 1000 program: https://bit.ly/3dafe5k Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the last part of our two-part chat talking about his emotional triumph in the 2006 Bathurst 1000, held just a few weeks after the death of his friend and mentor Peter Brock. We cover his 2010 triumph, playing football at the same club that Brock did, how he ended up with his long-standing helmet design, tackling the Australasian Safari, his desire to do the Le Mans 24 Hours, plus his future behing the wheel of a Supercar. He also faces your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the first part of our two-part chat talking about buying his first road car, the Ford Cortina he drove while lead driver at the Holden Racing Team – and the white lie he told them about selling it. We also chat about the Formula Ford he's currently restoring, driving the ‘Black Death’, a DJR test that didn’t happen, how his drive in the 1994 Bathurst 12 Hour came about, plus the phone call from Jeff Grech that changed his life. We also chat about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the ‘Green-Eyed Monster’, his interviews with ‘Poida’ (aka Eric Bana) and 60 Minutes, and the start of his Triple Eight era. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ 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, starting with the action from Friday practice for the ITM Auckland SuperSprint and a plan for Pukekohe to be preserved digitally after its closure in early 2023. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Anton De Pasquale on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Aaron Noonan sits down with him in the boardroom at Dick Johnson Racing to chat about his career to date, including how he got into karting in the first place as he isn’t from a family that was already into motorsport, making the big move to Europe and some of the big names he raced against, coming home to Australia and how he came to link up with Paul Morris, which launched him into Supercars. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Buy your ticket to the V8 Sleuth Open Night @ the Bathurst 1000 with Greg Murphy: https://bit.ly/3QezP5I 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, starting with a major update on the composition of the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 field. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Buy your ticket to the V8 Sleuth Open Night @ the Bathurst 1000 with Greg Murphy: https://bit.ly/3QezP5I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Roland Dane on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the final part of our two-part chat, we dive deeper into the story of Triple Eight in Supercars with RD, starting with the team’s breakthrough win with Craig Lowndes at Eastern Creek in 2005, the same year it did a deal with one of its rivals, Stone Brothers Racing, for engine supply. We also talk about how Triple Eight’s success caused a rule change for the Bathurst 1000, and go through the highs and lows of its tilts at the Mount Panorama classic. We also cover their first Bathurst win in 2006 in depth, with plenty of chat about the winning chassis as well, and RD also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions. 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, starting an update on the Newcastle 500 and a milestone for Erebus’ Gen3 Supercar plans. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Roland Dane on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the first part of our two-part chat getting the rundown on the new era at Triple Eight Race Engineering following the changes in ownership and management over the past 24 months, headlined by his stepping out of the Managing Director and Team Principal roles. Dane then rewinds back to his early years in business and motorsport in England and Triple Eight’s time in the British Touring Car Championship and Super Touring, which led to his first visit to the Bathurst 1000 in the late 1990s with Peter Brock driving. He also talks about moving to Australia and establishing Triple Eight in V8 Supercars in 2003 and securing Craig Lowndes’ signature one year later – as well as his Australian ancestory! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Connor O’Brien run through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with the action from Friday practice for the Penrite Oils Sandown SuperSprint. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Craig Baird on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the second part of a two-part chat, Bairdo talks about retiring from motorsport at the end of the 1998 season and getting a ‘real’ job in 1999, only to get pulled back into motorsport by Stone Brothers Racing, reviving his career Down Under. He opens up about his early years in V8 Supercars, from SBR to Prancing Horse Racing and Team Brock, and his transition to becoming the benchmark of Porsche Carrera Cup. He also talks about his role as the Driving Standards Advisor for Supercars and how he approaches the task. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Buy now: HRT – The Cars 2nd Edition: https://bit.ly/3a6EasN 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 this week, headlined by something we haven’t seen since 2004: Craig Lowndes driving something other than a Triple Eight car in an official session at a championship round! The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Craig Baird on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of a two-part chat, Bairdo talks about starting his racing career at just four years of age and racing a Formula Ford at age 15! The three-time New Zealand Grand Prix winner also chats about the Kiwi star that played a big role in his development – and the other Kiwi legend that threatened to stab him with a screwdriver after a racing incident! – and racing against future F1 and IndyCar drivers in Formula Atlantic over the summer months at home. We also chat about his move into touring cars, his first Bathurst 1000 start and racing BMWs in South Africa where he drove with the late Sabine Schmitz. He also opens up on his disqualification after winning the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000, and what it was like being a teammate to F1 legend Nigel Mansell. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Stefan Bartholomaeus tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - The subsequent history of the T8 chassis that copped a wheel in the windscreen at Bathurst in ‘05 - The forgotten Peter Brock Sierra - The prospect of episodes of V8 SuperStars being released on DVD and whether the show would work in 2022 - Whether the lack of Supercars scandals in the mainstream media is a good or bad thing - What ‘twin spring’ setups were all about - Teams that scored championship hat-tricks where different drivers did the winning - How we’ll treat Gen3 chassis histories given their more modular design - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ #BringBackTheSandown500 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 this week ahead of this weekend’s OTR SuperSprint at The Bend. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Walkinshaw Andretti United team principal Bruce Stewart on this week's V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Bruce chats about his background outside of motorsport prior to getting involved with one of Supercars’ most decorated teams, the feedback that WAU has had from fans and the industry on their shock Ford switch and how they’ll farewell their Holden legacy, and opens up on some of the mistakes the team made as it tried to return to being regular threats for race wins. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Sandown Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/sandown-comp/ 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 this week, and there’s been a fair bit going on – led by the category owner RACE's rejection of a takeover bid. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to veteran motorsport media identity David Hassall this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. ‘Hass’ shares a heap of tales from across his six decades around motorsport, from his start as a Victorian hillclimb reporter at Racing Car News through to his roles as editor of Auto Action and founding editor of both Motorsport News and Australian Motor Racing Magazine, and the close relationships he formed with icons of the sport such as Peter Brock and Allan Moffat – and the time he was run over by Captain Peter Janson on live TV! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Watch the Janson incident: https://youtu.be/6om2jzvcyes 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, starting with the latest on the future of the Newcastle 500. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to veteran sports broadcaster Mark Howard this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. The host of the popular The Howie Games podcast shares stories from his time around motorsport, including getting his start in the glamorous world of Formula 1 with a decidedly unglamorous job, his formative days at Channel 10 and hosting Trackside, through to how The Howie Games podcast came about. 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, starting with the action from Friday practice for the NTI Townsville 500. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Sven Burchartz this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Normally preferring to keep his co-ownership of Tickford Racing low-key, Burchartz opens up on his love of motorsport, his involvement in the sport as a racer, a category chief and through his day job as a lawyer, and how he came to own a stake in Tickford Racing. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions. 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, starting with confirmation that a 29th car will join the field for this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000, plus new owners – and an old number – for a significant car in Holden’s ‘Great Race’ history. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage ‘05’ Big Banger returned to ‘25’ by new owners: https://bit.ly/3ORCJgB Order HRT – The Cars 2nd Edition: https://bit.ly/3a6EasN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Nathan Pretty this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Nathan talks about racing for three different factory Holden teams in 2002, shares stories about racing the Garry Rogers Motorsport-built Nations Cup Holden Monaro 427C and his little mishap during the Bathurst 24 Hour, and racing with Peter Brock as a teammate both in rallying and circuit racing. He also talks about his loyalty to Holden – and the opportunities to race a Ford that he turned down – and what hampered him in his one shot at a full time V8 Supercars drive. Nathan also chats about his 2006 Development Series and the comments that led him to copping a massive pull-through over the phone from Larry Perkins, his final years in V8 Supercars and his years in V8 Utes – and chats about his ‘good friend’ Randy Corners. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. 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, starting with Tickford Racing locking in their Repco Bathurst 1000 co-driver pairings, plus the driver who has announced he is releasing his own beer. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Nathan Pretty this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Nathan reveals how a set of dental braces set him on a path towards a motor racing career, and talks about his days racing and winning on a minimal budget in the AUSCAR Series, getting into V8 Supercars – again, with a minimal budget – and the Thunderdome trick that helped him snag a seventh-place finish at Winton, the infamous ‘young bloke, cold tyres, f***** it up’ incident at Bathurst, to landing a drive with the Holden Racing Team while he was working driving a taxi in Wodonga. 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, starting with all the action from Friday practice for the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Gary Scott this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Gary opens up on his tumultuous 1986 season with Nissan headlined by his pole-winning lap for the 1986 Bathurst 1000, his return to the HDT alongside Peter Brock and crashing the #05 Commodore at Lakeside – and the real reason he was at the HDT for such a short time – and his time with Mitsubishi, including the marque’s planned four-wheel drive turbo car that “would have made the Nissan GT-R look like a taxi” had it come to fruition, and Mark Trenoweth’s stunning Jaguar XJ-S Sports Sedan. He also answers your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and tackles the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au 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 from the Repco Supercars Championship. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Gary Scott this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, the 1986 Bathurst 1000 polesitter talks about his stunning Hardies Heroes lap, tells stories from growing up around motorsport in Queensland in the 1960s as the son of racer Glyn Scott, racing motorbikes as a teen with good mate Gregg Hansford, and the impact of the loss of his dad in a racing crash that happened right in front of him and how it caused him to walk away from the sport for several years. He also chats about trying to climb the ladder to F1 in England, and returning home without a plan to keep racing, only to land seats with the Holden Dealer Team and Nissan Motorsport. V8 Sleuth Bookshop: https://bookshop.v8sleuth.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices