The V8 Sleuth Podcast

Garth Tander returns to the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol for the first time since Ep. 17 back in 2019 – and he’s added a couple more Bathurst 1000 wins since then!

This time around he reflects on the sudden and unexpected end to his full-time Supercars career and the part surrounding it that angered him the most, plus how his quick shift to a co-driver role at Triple Eight came about. He hits out at Supercars’ new ‘primary driver must start’ rule at the 2024 endurance races, takes us inside what it was like preparing for the COVID Bathurst 1000 in 2020, and tells the story of how he helped wrangle Shane van Gisbergen for the morning TV interviews after winning the 2022 Bathurst 1000.

He also opens up about his switch to Grove Racing, how and why it came about, and whether we’ll see him behind the wheel in any categories outside of Supercars this year, and we end the first of our two-part chat going back to his championship-winning season in Formula Ford in 1997, including how he landed backing from Bunnings and a couple of pivotal moments in his campaign.

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Race Control filtered by Ryco: 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.

Included in this post-2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500 edition:

- Why some drivers that lost their fastest laps and some didn’t when the yellow flag came out at Murrays Corner in the final moments of Qualifying for Race 1

- The Race 2 tangle between Broc Feeney and James Golding at The Chase that resulted in the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver being given a five-second time penalty

- Why Race Control handled the Cam Waters’ lost wheel situation in Race 1 the way it did

- Full Course Yellows and why they favoured using a Safety Car at the Bathurst 12 Hour

- The two Dunlop Series tangles at The Cutting in Race 1 and Race 2, and why they were treated differently

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Amaroo Park round of the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship, the final time the touring car series made the pilgrimage to the much-missed north-western Sydney circuit.

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Castrol Supercars Weekly returns for 2024 with a wrap of all the news in the lead-up to opening practice for the Thrifty Bathurst 500 on Friday at Mount Panorama, headed by reigning champion team Erebus Motorsport revealing a new primary sponsor on the eve of the new season.

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We continue our chat with multiple national champion, production car and Porsche icon Peter Fitzgerald in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the final part of our two-part chat, Fitzy shares stories from the GT-P and Nations Cup era, his other tilts at the Bathurst 1000 – including a memorable one with Captain Peter Janson!

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For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Sandown round of the 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship, where Allan Grice collected the winner’s prizemoney and then immediately donated it to a very worthy charitable cause.

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We’re talking to multiple national champion, production car and Porsche icon, and inaugural Bathurst 12 Hour winner Peter Fitzgerald in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Fitzy shares the story of how he became a racing rookie at the age of 27 at the wheel of an ex-Pete Geoghegan Porsche, with a bit of tutelage and advice from Frank Gardner. He shares tales of how he funded his racing - including the deal that funded his first attempt to race at the Bathurst 1000 in 1981 - as well has his side of the infamous tale of how Brad Jones’ dad flagged him down in Albury to secure a pivotal co-drive for his son!

He also shares the story of how he managed to seamlessly switch sponsorship deals from Yokohama to Goodyear, as well as a couple of tales from his victory with Allan Grice and Nigel Arkell in the inaugural Bathurst 12 Hour in 1991. It proved his only victory in the opening era of the race - and he talks about how the win slipped away in 1993 and when the race moved to Eastern Creek in 1995.

We also briefly touch on his touring car racing, including a year in the Benson & Hedges BMW squad as co-driver to Alan Jones and Denny Hulme, netting a Bathurst class podium in the process.

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Throughout 2024 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast feed we’re going to take a look back through Australian motorsport history with a series of Ryco Rewind episodes that explore the great races, drivers and cars from the past on the anniversary of them unfolding.

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Winton round of the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship, the first championship round run to the new international Group A Touring Car regulations.

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The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol looks ahead to next weekend’s Repco Bathurst 12 Hour! Aaron Noonan is joined by the voice of the 12 Hour, Richard Craill, to preview the 2024 edition of Australia’s International Enduro. 

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Throughout 2024 on the V8 Sleuth Podcast feed we’re going to take a look back through Australian motorsport history with a series of Ryco Rewind episodes that explore the great races, drivers and cars from the past on the anniversary of them unfolding.

For our first Ryco Rewind, we're going back to the Sandown round of the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship when 'The Kid', Craig Lowndes, showed his win on debut under lights at Eastern Creek was no fluke!

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