The V8 Sleuth Podcast

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Calder Park round of the 2001 Shell Championship Series, a special one in the career of Paul Morris but also one that marked the end of several eras 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, headlined by confirmation of the new ownership structure at Triple Eight Race Engineering and he makes the case for the introduction of a playoff finals system to crown the champion.

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We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He shared so many stories from a career in the sport that has seen him in the middle of many of its most memorable and iconic moments that he and Noonz ended up chatting for almost four hours (!) and we’re releasing the final two parts this week.

In Part 4, he talks about Peter Brock’s final Bathurst win in 1987 and the team’s emergence as a Ford Sierra squad in 1989-90 – and how the their fortunes could’ve been much greater had a pivotal chassis tuning change been made much sooner.

He also talks about the opportunistic conversation that secured Dencar’s role as the Holden Racing Team’s chassis builder, and how Jeff Grech seemed to keep drawing Smith back into the sport time and time again; first with PWR, then with Tasman, and now with Team 18 - and reveals another near-miss along the way!

He also shares more insight into his current project, the restoration of the ex-Paul Morris Big Kev Commodore.

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We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He shared so many stories from a career in the sport that has seen him in the middle of many of its most memorable and iconic moments that he and Noonz ended up chatting for almost four hours!

We’re releasing the last two parts this week. We pick up Part 3 at the tail end of his time with Nissan Motorsport, including some insight into why the manufacturer skipped the 1985 season, before getting an offer he couldn’t refuse to rejoin the Holden Dealer Team, now under the custodianship of Peter Brock.

He talks about building a fleet of cars at the end of 1985 before crating two of them up to send to Europe, and shares stories of the MHDT’s troubled campaign on the 1986 European Touring Car Championship, and the team’s rapid rebuild of the #05 Commodore after Allan Moffat’s practice crash at Bathurst later that year.

He also talks about the team’s shock divorce from Holden at the start of 1987, how Moffat sneakily purchased one of the team’s new racecars, and the prank he helped play when it came time to reveal the reliveried car to the world.

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Oran Park round of the 1989 Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship, in which Peter Brock ended a long victory drought and notched up his first win for the ‘Blue Oval’.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of this weekend’s NTI Townsville 500, headlined by a change in ownership at Triple Eight Race Engineering and the end of an era for that team.

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This week’s ‘mini’ edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol features Jason Bargwanna talking about his year with the Holden Young Lions program in 1997.

In this snippet, Bargs talks about how much it cost to be in the program, what was involved, how he nearly ended up in the main Holden Racing Team car at Bathurst, plus his rollercoaster weekend at The Great Race when he put the HYL car on provisional pole then crashed heavily in the morning warm-up.

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Wanneroo round of the 1994 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, one where Mark Skaife mathematically clinched that year’s title based on the luck of a card draw.

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Winton round of the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship, one where Gary Scott and Nissan Motorsport got the win – but didn’t get to keep it.

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We’ve had an incredible chat with George Smith that set a new benchmark for the longest recording in the history of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol.

He shared so many stories from a career in the sport that has seen him in the middle of many of its most memorable and iconic moments that he and Noonz ended up chatting for almost four hours (!) and we’re releasing the first two parts this week.

In Part 2, he talks about Colin Bond’s defection from the Holden Dealer Team to Moffat Ford Dealers for 1977 and shares an incredible story about an unexpected mechanical problem that hit Allan Moffat’s #1 Falcon on the morning of that year’s Bathurst 1000.

He then talks about his move to Datsun/Nissan, initially to work on its rally cars before being a foundation member of its Bluebird Group C touring car program - and he shares a few tales and confirms/dispels a few myths and rumours about the hidden technical trickery the turbocharged rockets possessed. 

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