The Supercars are about to return to Queensland Raceway for the first time since 2019 for the Century Batteries Ipswich Super440, so we’re looking back at the championship’s history of racing at at the ‘Paperclip’ on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum. Aaron Noonan and our resident Queensland Raceway expert Mark Walker talks about how the circuit came about, the dramas around the inaugural event in 1999 – and how he and a lot of people missed the opening race – along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this year’s edition of the Winton Festival of Speed on August 1-3! Aaron Noonan is joined by Mark Walker to look at what is rapidly becoming one of the best events of classic race cars on the calendar.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker break down all of the talking points after a big weekend of Supercars racing in Tropical North Queensland!

Broc Feeney continues to be on fire, belt buckles, timing, who's hot, who's not, and a whole heap more.

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Tickford Racing chief Simon Brookhouse joins us for this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum.

While he’d not been directly involved in motorsport prior to being recruited as Tickford’s CEO in early 2024, Brookhouse explains his background in other sports as well his own visits to Mount Panorama in his younger days.

He also talks about some of the challenges that faces Supercars as a sport in the future – including one unexpected area that is becoming an increasing issue for teams – Triple Eight’s arrival as Ford’s homologation team for 2026, the repeated rumours over Tickford being sold and his take on whether the sport’s future is with private equity owning teams, the future of Super2 and building brand new cars for it, the team’s long-mooted move from its Campbellfield home, and plenty more.

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We’ve got a Bathurst winner on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum – and he’s a return visitor!

A lot has happened since Lee Holdsworth’s last visit to the podcast in early 2021, headlined by his Bathurst 1000 victory with Chaz Mostert at the end of that year, plus an unexpected swansong full-time Supercars season that netted him the Barry Sheene Medal.

For the final part of our two-part chat, we recap the extensive celebrations that followed his Bathurst win – including the Monday morning phone call from a rival team owner with an offer to race full-time in Supercars the next year!

Holdsworth talks about navigating changing his 2022 plans to drive for Grove Racing, his offer to race on into the Gen3 era full-time, working with a young Matt Payne, returning to Walkinshaw Andretti United for 2023 but knowing he had next to no chance of winning Bathurst, his return to Team 18 that would’ve seemed unlikely just a few years ago, and his new life outside of motorsport working in commercial real estate.

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We’ve got a Bathurst winner on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum – and he’s a return visitor!

A lot has happened since Lee Holdsworth’s last visit to the podcast in early 2021, headlined by his Bathurst 1000 victory with Chaz Mostert at the end of that year, plus an unexpected swansong full-time Supercars season that netted him the Barry Sheene Medal.

For the first part of our two-part chat, we wind back to his last visit - and all the things that were going on at that time that he couldn’t talk about! One of those things was his co-drive deal with Walkinshaw Andretti United, which had yet to be announced.

We chat about the uncertainty he felt in the wake of being unexpectedly cut loose by Tickford at the end of 2020, how his deal to join WAU came together, plus a lot of inside stories of he and Mostert’s dominant weekend at Mount Panorama. We’ve never had a guest reference ‘Kevin Bloody Wilson’ on this podcast before, but we have now! 

Lee also tells the story of how the team’s post-race inspection of the car revealed that their shot at victory came quite literally a centimetre from unravelling…

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Aaron Noonan and Will Dale explore all things ‘40’ throughout the world of motorsport in this episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn, in honour of Autobarn’s 40th anniversary in 2025.

From Supercars and Bathurst 1000 stars, Formula 1 icons, Indy 500 close-calls to NASCAR legends, we look at the #40 across motorsport as well as a look back at what was going on 40 years ago in Australian motorsport.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker go through all the talking points after a hot weekend of Supercars racing in the top end at the betr Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley.

Broc Feeney's true triple crown, Grove Racing on fire, and those who had a tough weekend in the Top End, plus much, much more!

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Haven’t had a chance to watch our new show, The Undercut? Listen to the first episode here on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Autobarn!

Aaron Noonan is joined by Jack Perkins and James Moffat to talk Supercars and more - opinion, analysis and the boys certainly didn't agree on everything in this new program from V8 Sleuth.

Jack downloads on his upcoming NASCAR debut, we talk Trans Am with James and the guys tackle the City Rural Insurance Burning Questions, packed with plenty of topics to chew on!

From the Walkinshaw driver battle, to who is Ford's best title chance, how Frosty's TV debut went, what happens to James Courtney in 2026 and much more, the boys have plenty to talk about!

Noonz brings an idea to the table to improve the momentum of the Supercars calendar in our Workbench segment too - where less is more!

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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.

Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions:

-   What are the chances of two Perth rounds in 2027?

-   Penalties given to drivers that are out of contentions/out of the race

-   Supercars’ Free to air TV coverage

-   Toyota rally stars in Supercars

-   “Tuned up the car”

-   Cam Waters’ forgotten Porsche deal

-   Garry Rogers’ lost Bathurst start

- The last Supercars race to feature none of the current primary or co-drivers

- And plenty more

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