The V8 Sleuth Podcast

This week - by popular demand - we’ve once again pressed our AN1 Data stats guru Shane Rogers into joining this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

Shane tackles the stat questions you sent us via social media – makes a few updates and corrections from the last batch! – and shares some of his favourite obscure and unusual statistics and facts from ATCC/Supercars history – including yet another bizarre tale from the life of Supercars Hall of Famer Norm Beechey, this one on how he was nearly caught up in a jail break from Pentridge Prison.

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Oran Park round of the 1995 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, which marked the culmination of a three-way title battle between Ford’s John Bowe and Glenn Seton, and Holden’s Peter Brock.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by a team boss throwing his support behind Supercars introduce a finals series to determine the champion.

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This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol winds back 10 years for a look at the 2014 motorsport year, touching on the big topics and happenings in V8 Supercars, F1, MotoGP, NASCAR, IndyCar and sports car racing.

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Oran Park round of the 2000 Shell Championship Series, which featured a notorious moment in ATCC/Supercars history.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week, headed by confirmation today that Richie Stanaway is moving on at the end of the 2024 season – and we reveal who his replacement at Grove Racing will be.

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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:

- What happened to Gen3’s exhaust flames?

- Chances of a book on Brad Jones’ career?

- What happens is two drivers tie in a Shootout?

- Different circuit layouts within one round

- The last driver to race with a H-pattern gearchange in Supercars

- Neil Crompton’s usage of the #7

- Weird qualifying formats

- Mid-weekend driver replacements

- The first driver to do a post-race burnout in ATCC/SC history

- And plenty more! 

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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 Panasonic Air Conditioning Sydney SuperNight at Sydney Motorsport Park.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship from this week ahead of the Panasonic Air Conditioning Sydney SuperNight, and puts forward the case that the championship is overdoing the ‘Top 10 Shootout’.

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This week’s ‘Mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features James Courtney sharing some behind the scenes tales about his 2010 Supercars title-winning season.

In this snippet, JC talks about the turmoil that was tearing the team apart from the inside, hearing the cheers of the crowd at Homebush in 2010, and how he inadvertently angered Triple Eight and Roland Dane enough for him to face the stewards over a claimed ‘obscene gesture’!

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