The V8 Sleuth Podcast

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol winds back three decades for a look at the 1994 motorsport year, one tinged with controversy and tragedy around the world.

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The V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol is back for 2024! We’re kicking off the new season with a chat about the recently released book The Boss: The Inside Story of Allan Moffat and his Trans-Am Mustang. Noonz sits down with author David Hassall, who shares several stories about how the book came together, a peek at some of the incredible information and memorabilia that was uncovered as part of his research, some of the mysteries that were solved and myths that were debunked along the way, and gives us a hint at what might be the next book in the series.

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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 polished by Bowden’s Own.

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

- Where the first Supercar Shane van Gisbergen drove is now, and does his history with it make it more valuable?

- Favourite ATCC/SC liveries of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

- The fate of DJR EF6

- BMW’s lost plot to win the Bathurst 24 Hour

- Race numbers

- Letters on driver overalls

- Slightly wrong elements of liveries on restored cars

- Symmons Plains’ move to August on the 2024 Supercars calendar

- And plenty more! 

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We’re talking to multiple national champion Darren Hossack on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own.

In the second and final part of our two-part chat, Darren shares more stories from his long career in motorsport. We start out with two infamous crashes from 1998; the first of which isn’t well known, while the other in Bathurst 1000 practice wasn’t technically a crash until two other cars turned up. He shares stories from his last three drives in the ‘Great Race’ with Romano Racing in 1999, Kmart Racing in 2000 and Ford Performance Racing in 2003. 

He also talks about taking over John Gourlay’s Saab Sports Sedan - including shaking it down on the Thunderdome! - and his tense rivalry with Tony Ricciardello and his iconic Alfa Romeo GTV, through to moving into a new Audi A4 Sports Sedan designed and built by Gourlay and Hossack’s dad. He also opens up on his injuries from a nasty speedway crash in 2015 that ended his time in the Audi, and plenty more. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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We’re back with a quick episode of Repco Supercars Weekly in the wake of a significant off-season announcement by Dick Johnson Racing with Ludo Lacroix departing, Dr Ryan Story returning, and a reshuffle among the team’s key roles. 

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We’re talking to multiple national champion Darren Hossack on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. Darren shares plenty of stories in the first part of our two-part chat, recorded in his workshop. He talks about buying his first kart through the Trading Post, joining elite karting outfit Drew Price Engineering for a two-week stint that ended up stretching into many years, claiming Spectrum’s first Formula Ford title, racing a rotary-powered Gemini Sports Sedan, how helping a young Paul Dumbrell in karting eventually led to a V8 Supercars drive, and plenty more.

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We wrap up our chat with Supercars race and championship-winning engineer Scott Sinclair on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the final part of a two-part chat, Scott talks about the dramatic title-changing race at Homebush in 2010 where crashes left the Dick Johnson Racing and Triple Eight crews racing each other to repair their cars, his shift to the Holden Racing Team amid a lull period for the once-great team, and moving into a team management role with Nissan Motorsport and the efforts to make the Altima a competitive proposition, and what drove his decision to leave the team at the end of 2019 and his stint on the Supercars Commission.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Repco Supercars Weekly, headlined by new champion Brodie Kostecki having to pull out of racing at the Circuit of The Americas this weekend to go under the knife.

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We’re talking to Supercars race and championship-winning engineer Scott Sinclair on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, Scott talks about being in the crowd at Bathurst on race day in 1990 and early visits to Wanneroo touring car rounds, being part of a winning Formula SAE team, his baptism of fire as a Development Series race engineer at Dick Johnson Racing, plus his graduation to running Will Davison in the ‘main game’ in 2007. He also shares stories from his time engineering James Courtney, including revealing the turning point in 2009 that put the team on the path towards its upset 2010 championship victory.

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RACE CONTROL: A recent addition to the V8 Sleuth Podcast, 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 Supercars round.

Included in this post-2023 VAILO Adelaide 500 edition:

- The Lap 1 incident between Will Brown and Anton De Pasquale in the Saturday race that effectively ended Shane van Gisbergen’s title challenge

- The Nick Percat/Jack Le Brocq incident early in the Saturday race where they interlocked wheels

- The skirmishes between Broc Feeney and Chaz Mostert early in the Saturday race, which resulted in Mostert being awarded a five-second time penalty

- The pitlane tangle between James Golding and Macauley Jones during the Saturday race

- The Shane van Gisbergen/Thomas Randle incident entering the ‘Staircase’ during the Sunday 

- The assistant that Baird has to help him find all the vision of any incident

- The Super2 Series incident between Zak Best and Nash Morris during the Saturday race that resulted in a points penalty for Best

The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together.

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