Supercars champ-turned-IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin makes his second appearance on the V8 Sleuth Podcast for this week’s episode, recorded while he was at Sebring for pre-season testing with Team Penske.

A lot has happened since his last visit to the pod back in 2020 so there’s plenty to talk about – including testing Porsche’s LMDh prototype sportscar at Sebring last week and partnering with his old Supercars rival Shane van Gisbergen at the 24 Hours of Daytona!

He talks about how his relationship with SVG has changed since he departed Supercars and his role in getting them together for Daytona, where the gains come from now the Dallara IR12 is a 14-year-old car, whether he still keeps up with Supercars, comparisons between the 2019 Bathurst controversy and last year’s Push-to-Pass IndyCar drama, the new era about to dawn in IndyCar, and plenty more.

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Jack Perkins, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ back in 2021.

In this snippet, Perkins talks about his dream call-up from the Holden Racing Team in 2015 - initially as a co-driver, then being suddenly promoted mid-weekend to the primary driver role after a bizarre incident injured James Courtney. He also talks about his emotional first Supercars race win upon Courtney’s return, plus a special day with his dad and Walkinshaw Andretti United at Sydney Motorsport Park in 2018.

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You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Shane Rogers 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:

- Our take on Supercars.com’s list of the Top 25 drivers since 2000

- How we go about investigating and reporting on sensitive stories

- Teams that have switched manufacturers mid-season or run different makes at the same meeting

- Three-driver combinations

- A book on NASCAR stock car racing in Australia

- The most numbers used by a driver

- Drivers that have done the most Shootouts without scoring a pole position

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our double episode with Will Davison, recorded at V8 Sleuth HQ way back in 2019.

In this snippet, Davison talks about the cubic dollars that were required when he was pursuing his dream of racing in Formula 1 in the early 2000s and some of the things he did to raise it – including the help he had from Australian cricket legend Shane Warne..

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The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to next weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of Australia’s International Enduro, Richard Craill, to preview the 2025 edition of the country’s premier GT race.

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast comes from our episode with Garry Rogers, recorded at Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2021.

We look back at the team’s much-beloved Volvo era, and how it was actually an entirely different manufacturer that he was chasing!.

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast features part of our epic two-part chat with Mark Larkham at his kitchen table back in 2022.

In this snippet, he shares the inside story of the creation of Channel 10’s incredible intro to its broadcast of the 2017 Bathurst 1000, in which Larko gives an impassioned explanation of a lap of Mount Panorama.

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is drawn from Supercars legend Greg Murphy’s first visit to the pod back in 2020.

This snippet revolves around a regularly-mined topic come that special Sunday in October: his confrontation with Marcos Ambrose after they crashed out of the 2005 Bathurst 1000.

We’d received so many National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions about it that we simply had to bring it up – and Murph didn’t disappoint with his recreation of what the pair said to each other post-shunt. The V8 Sleuth bleeper hasn’t been the same since…

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Nathan Pretty sharing a couple of tales from his rookie season in Supercars.

In this snippet, Pretty talks about a wild moment in the early laps of the first race at the 1999 Winton round, where he and sister Nicole used an old Thunderdome trick to avoid a host of crashing cars to vault, Steven Bradbury-style, from the back of the field to the front!

He also shares his side of the Bathurst practice crash later that year that led to Larry Perkins’ now-infamous synopsis: “Young bloke, cold tyres, f***ed up.”

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This week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol looks back at the rise and fall of one of Australian motorsport’s most exciting categories: AUSCAR.

Created as the second-tier category at Bob Jane’s Calder Park Thunderdome, AUSCAR quickly became a star attraction in its own right through a simple formula that had, at the time, disappeared from Australian circuits: V8 Holdens and Fords racing head to head.

We chat about how it came about, the star drivers, what triggered its downfall, where some of the cars went, and share your memories from an incredible period of racing.

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