The V8 Sleuth Podcast

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headlined by Toyota’s seismic revelation that it is entering the championship in 2026 with the Supra.

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Race Control: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round – the Penrite Oil Sandown 500.

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Veteran broadcaster Matt White joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

White shares stories from his long career in television, which has brought him into the world of Supercars as a reporter, host and lead commentator, in particular giving incredible insights into the craft of commentating and some of the politics that happens behind the scenes in the world of TV.

In Part 2, he talks about unexpectedly ending up back in the V8 Supercars world when Seven landed the broadcast rights for 2007, how he ended up on Dancing With the Stars, trades stories with Noonz about their time in the box together - and the times Noonz subbed for him! - and he opens up on the challenging years of his return to 10 and serving as its head of sport, the inside story on the day the 2020 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix was cancelled, and his own sudden exit from the network.

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Veteran broadcaster Matt White joins us for this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

White shares stories from his long career in television, which has brought him into the world of Supercars as a reporter, host and lead commentator, in particular giving incredible insights into the craft of commentating and some of the politics that happens behind the scenes in the world of TV.

In Part 1, he talks about how he came to get involved in the media, from working for the Manly Daily newspaper, through doing radio with Triple M and TV news in Newcastle, through to landing a role at Channel 10 and being in the right place at the right time as Sports Tonight took off and the network became the Home of Motorsport, and eventually becoming the lead commentator for its coverage of V8 Supercars.

He goes in-depth on his call of Greg Murphy’s ‘Lap of the Gods’ Top 10 Shootout run from the 2003 Bathurst 1000, and reveals why he left the network to move to Seven in 2004..

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 1982 Castrol 400 at Sandown, a year when the results for September’s traditional pre-Bathurst enduro weren’t finalised until mid-December!

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You’ve asked, we’re answering! V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and stats guru Shane Rogers run through a raft of listener questions about the Sandown 500.

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

- The grid position that has produced the most winners

- How many championship-counting Sandown enduros have actually completed their scheduled distance

- Which individual chassis has won the Sandown enduro the most times?

- Did the Holden Racing Team cop a penalty for the infamous incident in the 1993 race where a bucket-load of water smashed the windscreen on one of their cars?

- The most successful driver pairings

- Should retro round and the ‘Race for the Grid’ qualifying race format return?

- The fate of the car Todd Hazelwood flipped at the Esses in the 2017 co-driver qualifying race

- And plenty more! 

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the 1996 Tickford Sandown 500, a year when Holden dominated the Ford-sponsored enduro...

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, a few key changes and interesting happenings for this years Repco Bathurst 1000.

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Craig Lowndes joins this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for a look back through his history at the Sandown 500.

A six-time event winner, the publish date of this ep - September 4 - falls exactly on the 30th anniversary of his touring car race debut in the 1994 Sandown 500..

Lowndes shares tales from his history with the Sandown circuit - including some tales about his time as a driver trainer in his youth! - how he landed the ‘94 drive with the Holden Racing Team, plus behind-the-scenes stories of the wins, the losses, and the lessons that he’s now passing on to his 2024 co-driver Cooper Murray.

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Brad Jones sharing a couple of stories about his time racing in the Australian NASCAR Championship.

In this snippet, Jones tells the colourful tale about how he made the switch from AUSCAR, in which he was a five-time series champion, to NASCAR, including the fun and games of trying to buy a car in America, the extreme lengths he and brother Kim Jones went to in order to make the grid for his first NASCAR race on the Gold Coast, and then a hilarious encounter he had with a visiting American star once he’d switched to NASCAR full-time.

This Mini came from Episode 177 back in 2022, the first of a two-part chat with Jones about his career. To listen to the rest of the chat, tap this link >> https://bit.ly/3X20nN8

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