The V8 Sleuth Podcast

We’re talking to John Cleland on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the last part of a two-part chat, John talks about his love affair with Australia, Mount Panorama and the Bathurst 1000. It’s been 30 years since his first trip to race in the Great Race, and he recounts tales from racing with Peter Brock (and how he came to race one of the Holden Dealer Team ‘Last of the Big Banger VKs in England) and his first experience of a V8 touring car at Mount Panorama, to finishing on the podium with Brad Jones, and the time he ended up on his roof in one of Brad Jones’ cars after hitting Peter Brock’s car! He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by a surprise change of plans for Warren Luff amid a reunion with a driver that he’s already joined on the Bathurst 1000 podium twice previously.

The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage

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We’re talking to John Cleland on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast. In the first part of a two-part chat, John talks about how he got into the sport in the first place and the deal he cut with his car dealer dad to go racing, watching his hero Jim Clark debut the iconic Lotus 49 and Ford Cosworth DFV at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix and what it means to him to have his name alongside Clark’s on the British Touring Car Championship trophy.

He also talks about how his long relationship with Vauxhall and General Motors first came about, the cheeky bit of gamesmanship that helped him win the 1989 BTCC, how he feels nowadays about that controversial 1992 title decider, which of his BTCC rivals was the most fun to wind up and the time BTCC chief Alan Gow squared him up for a prank.

John also talks about seeing the clear benefits of motorsport to the brands his car dealership sold, the ex-Peter Brock car that he now owns, and why he retired from racing full-time at the end of 1999.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by a late parity tweak for the Ford Mustang ahead of this weekend’s Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint at CARCO.com.au Raceway.

The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage

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We loved a topic from our most recent Q&A episode so much, we’ve gone and done a whole episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast on it! This week we’re looking back at some of the ‘lost’ races from ATCC/Supercars Championship history and Australian touring car racing in general, along with why they’re lost, where they could be and what hope there is of them ever resurfacing.

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined by Shane van Gisbergen officially making a call on his future in the championship.

The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage

Hercules in the V8 Sleuth Showroom >> https://bit.ly/41iUUCt

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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.

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

-      If there’s still a minimum production number in the Gen3 era

-      Lost ATCC race TV broadcasts

-      Magic moments from the late Doug Mulray

-      How many AU Falcons won championship races

-      The fate of the two cars involved in the ‘Shriek at the Creek’

-      And plenty more!

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Perkins – The Cars (unnumbered) >> https://bit.ly/3UP0UAp

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headlined up an upcoming milestone for Mark Winterbottom and a major format change for the Dunlop Series races for Super2 and Super3.

The Garage >> https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage

2023 Repco Supercars Championship Season Guide >> http://bit.ly/3Ee5yAK

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Our Sleuth senses started tingling when a photo turned up on social media over Easter of a Supercar in the race shop of elite NASCAR squad Richard Childress Racing. So for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast we’re taking a look at which car it is, where it came from, what it’s race history is and what it might be doing over in the United States.

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Main pic: Twitter / @nascarnrb

Background pic: an1images.com / Justin Deeley

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We’re looking forward to the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast by looking back at touring car racing’s history at Wanneroo Raceway. Celebrating its 50th anniversary on the ATCC schedule this year, we look through some of the wild and forgotten moments from the test in the West, from the weird results to unusual cars, unexpected race strategies and memorable incidents.

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