The V8 Sleuth Podcast

Australian motorsport veteran David Russell joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Over two parts, the racer known as both ‘Coighty’ and ‘D-Russ’ takes us back through his diverse career behind the wheel, culminating in his reputation as one of Supercars’ top co-drivers.

In Part 1 he talks about his dad’s racing, why he didn’t go via the traditional karting route and starting his racing career in his mid-teens aboard two very different machines: a turbocharged Datsun Sports Sedan and a bog-standard Suzuki Swift!

He also covers his years in GT Production with Proton, the competition that kick-started his Supercars career, racing in the Bathurst 12 Hour, and some of the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing to move up the ladder.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Erebus Motorsport building cars for rival team/s in 2025.

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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 powered by Castrol.

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

- A new take on judging the most dominant season in Supercars

- The last driver to pilot a Toyota to a win/finish in the ATCC/Bathurst

- The fate of one of the original Group A Ford Mustangs

- What became of the cars that were badly damaged in a horror Turn 1 crash at Albert Park in 2017

- Elvis!

- Is Tony Quinn the first team owner to win an ATCC/Supercars race at a track he owns?

- The story behind Gibson Motorsport’s outrageous fuel economy in the 1995 Bathurst 1000

- And plenty more! 

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sunday leg of the 2015 Castrol Gold Coast 600 at Surfers Paradise, a race that delivered one of the most emotional Supercars victories in recent memory.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Mark Winterbottom revealing that he won’t be on the full-time grid in 2025.

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Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Hazelwood – as he will now forever be introduced! – joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for a look back at the remarkable path that his career has taken.

Hazelwood starts Part 2 reliving the year that he says “broke” him; the 2018 season where he and Matt Stone Racing stepped up to the Supercars Championship. He opens up on the challenges of that year and how it led to him having to leave the team at the end of the following year.

He talks about his two seasons with Brad Jones Racing, including his maiden Supercars pole and maiden podium finish - albeit one he regards with a bit of an asterisk - and his return to MSR for 2022. Hazelwood also goes in-depth on his switch to the Blanchard Racing Team for the inaugural season of Gen3 and it unravelled, before revealing just how bad co-driver Brodie Kostecki was feeling in the lead-up to their Bathurst 1000 victory - and just how bad Todd was feeling after it!

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Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Hazelwood – as he will now forever be introduced! – joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for a look back at the remarkable path that his career has taken.

In Part 1, we start with the present and his victory at this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 with Brodie Kostecki and Erebus Motorsport, before delving back into the unusual path he took through the sport.

He opens up on his family’s pivotal role in getting him through the sport, from fundraising through sausage sizzles and memberships to remortgaging their home, and the key role an open-wheel racing champion played in his progression. We also cover his successful season on the reality TV show Shannons Supercar Showdown, and how it indirectly led to his first full-time Dunlop Series drive. He also reveals the white lie he told to secure that ride with Matt Stone Racing, and his very, very nervous wait through the first practice session for word from the bank...

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday leg of the 2012 Armor All Gold Coast 600 at Surfers Paradise, a race that took three attempts to start and lost six cars before it finally got underway!

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Garth Tander revealing his future co-driving plans beyond 2024.

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V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Sunday action at the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000, with Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood taking a popular victory in the latest edition of the ‘Great Race’..

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