The V8 Sleuth Podcast

This week we’re talking to James Moffat on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, we pick up the chat in 2011 when Moff came close to snagging a surfboard in his first Gold Coast 600, the Nissan years – including his maiden V8 Supercars win at Winton in 2013 and standing on the Bathurst podium in 2014, and his difficult years at Garry Rogers Motorsport and the roundabouts way he returned to them to race in the TCR Australia Series. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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This week we’re talking to James Moffat on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Moff shares his early racetrack memories, how his uncle got him started in motorsport, his whirlwind national-level racing debut in a Lotus at Hidden Valley, joining Sonic Motor Racing as a mechanic and turning that into driving for them, gambling on himself in his breakthrough rookie Development Series season and landing a seat in V8 Supercars.

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This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re talking Jessica Yates from FOX SPORTS. Jess shares her story of growing up in a sporting family, choosing journalism as a career path – including a stint overseas as a subeditor at a newspaper in Laos! – and how she turned a part-time opportunity at FOX into becoming the face of the network’s motorsport coverage. She also shares a few stories from her career, including being live on air on the Friday at the 2020 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix as COVID-19 shut down the event, and she tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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This week we’re talking to Neil Crompton on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Ahead of the release of his autobiography ‘Neil Crompton: Best Seat in the House’, Neil shares a couple of stories from his career behind the wheel and behind the microphone, ranging from Peter Brock to Dame Edna, touring car legends to Indycar testing - and you can even hear a snippet of one of his earliest pieces of TV commentary. He also gives an update on his health in the wake of his prostate cancer diagnosis earlier in 2021.

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This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re talking about the ‘Immortals’ of Australian Motor Sport with Luke West. A long-time motorsport media identity and former editor of Australian Muscle Car Magazine, Luke has just published a book looking at the 10 drivers whose impact on the local racing scene will see their names and feats live on.

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This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco we’re chatting about a Classic Car: the yellow Holden Monaro 427C, the first built to Nations Cup specification by Garry Rogers Motorsport. We cover its built, its technical specifications, the controversy that surrounded it and why its 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour win was far from the runaway dominance the final results suggest. We also chat with Nathan Pretty, who shares a couple of stories from his time as the car’s main driver.

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This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Harry Firth, recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia. Part 2 features Firth talks about his time with both Ford and Holden, winning the Bathurst 500 as a driver and as a team manager, developing the Ford Cortina GT500, the first GT Falcon, plus the Holden Torana XU-1 and L34, and a rising young star named Peter Brock.

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For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Brad Jones Racing’s Nick Percat to talk about his big move north, his take on his start to the 2021 season, how BJR are adapting its cars to be more ‘Penske’-like, and his strong thoughts on introducing auto-blip with the proposed paddle gearchange for Gen3.

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This week we’re bringing you a special ‘From the Archives’ episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco featuring an interview with the late Harry Firth. Recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia, Firth talks about his early life growing up in Gippsland, where his interest in mechanical things came from, his time as a dispatch rider and mechanic in the Army during World War II, and how all those experiences shaped the legend that became known as the ‘Fox’. Firth also talked about his early years in motorsport and the first running of the ‘Great Race’ at Phillip Island in 1960.

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For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Aaron Noonan is joined by Stefan Bartholomaeus to cover the news of Red Bull renewing its sponsorship of Triple Eight through to the end of the 2023 season, the positives that each of Supercars’ prospective new owners could bring, their winners and losers of the 2021 season so far, plus the pick of the Super2 races currently being uploaded to Supercars’ SuperArchive on YouTube.

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