The V8 Sleuth Podcast

This week, V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the action from opening practice at the VAILO Adelaide 500 and the key news in the paddock ahead of the final round of the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship - headlined by the new role for Supercars’ former Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess.

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With the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship set to be decided this weekend at the VAILO Adelaide 500, this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own looks back at the greatest final-round title deciders across ATCC/Supercars history. 

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Repco Supercars Weekly, headlined by the impending departure from Supercars of its technical chief, Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess.

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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 Shane van Gisbergen’s first race-winning Supercar is now

- The most ‘valuable’ car still racing in Australia

- How many Benson & Hedges Sierras were there?

- The chances of a Steven/Jett Johnson Bathurst 1000 wildcard

- The greatest winning margin in the Supercars era

- What Noonz bought at the Diecast Model Expo

- And plenty more!

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In the latest episode of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan gives the full rundown on the 2024 calendar revealed by Supercars on Friday afternoon, including all the changes to dates and race formats, and the circuit that has missed out on a date - and the knock-on effect that omission will have in 2025 on one of the championship's marquee events.

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We’re talking to Supercars race winner and multiple Super2 Series champion Steve Owen on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the second and final part of a two-part chat, he talks about the scary moment during the 2006 Adelaide 500 where he passed out behind the wheel due to the severe in-car heat, and stepping back to the Development Series twice and winning both times.

He also talks about joining Triple Eight as a co-driver and winning his first Supercars Championship race - in ‘budgie smugglers’ - and landing a full-time return to the category, and opens up on his fiery start-line shunt with Karl Reindler at Barbagallo in 2011, as well as his race-winning spell as an Enduro Cup co-driver at Tickford Racing. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions - well, what was left of them, as he answered a lot of them during the course of the main chat!

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We’re talking to Supercars race winner and multiple Super2 Series champion Steve Owen on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. In the first part of a two-part chat, he reveals how he’s actually a second-generation Bathurst 1000 racer, working three different jobs to pay for his first Formula Ford, and studying psychology at university before dropping out when a big racing opportunity came along. He also tells a funny story about his first drive of a V8 Supercar, talks about his Indy Lights test, the ‘misunderstanding’ with Peter Brock that helped get him a Bathurst 1000 drive, and the early years of his Supercars career.

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RACE CONTROL: A new 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 Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 edition:

- David Reynolds cutting the first chicane while battling to hold off Brodie Kostecki for the win on the final lap of the Sunday race

- James Golding’s flick-spin on the exit of the first chicane that led to Scott Pye hitting the wall late in the Sunday race

- Matt Payne and James Courtney’s showdown at the Beach Chicane during the Saturday race that resulted in a five-second time penalty for Payne

- Contact between Andre Heimgartner and Todd Hazelwood late in the Sunday race that resulted in a 15-second time penalty for Heimgartner.

- The new kerb-hop sensors, bad sportsmanship flags, and why drivers, teams and fans aren’t told just how many kerb-hops a driver has left

- The big misconception about what the bad sportsmanship flag actually means for how many ‘lives’ a driver has left

- Barry Ryan’s suggestion on something MotoGP does that Supercars could employ to balance out chicane-cutting

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

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For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by news that one of the four drivers in mathematical contention for the 2023 title had to undergo surgery after the Repco Bathurst 1000, while we’re another step closer to having a complete grid for the 2024 season.

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The Supercars are set to tackle the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, so we’re looking back at the history of racing on the Surfers Paradise streets on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast polished by Bowden’s Own. We look through the event’s history, from its controversial beginnings in 1991 through to the modern-day Supercars event, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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