The V8 Sleuth Podcast

You’ve asked, 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:

- The teams that have scored the most front-row lockouts

- The first Safety Car period in ATCC/SC history, and where have all the old Safety Cars gone?

- What happened to the car Fabian Coulthard rolled on Lap 1 of the 2010 Bathurst 1000

- Are the two Alan Jones cars that caught fire at Lakeside in ’95 and Bathurst in ’96 still around?

- Some gearbox/transaxle Sleuthing

- The driver with the most race starts in #05 after Peter Brock

- And plenty more!

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly, including the delayed Bathurst 1000 amid major calendar changes for the second half of the 2021 season, what the new date means for the likelihood of former champion Scott McLaughlin making it back for the race, plus a snippet of how the Gen3 Chevrolet V8 engine may sound based on a preliminary test at Queensland Raceway.

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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 Bob Jane. Recorded in February 2008 by the National Library of Australia, Jane talks about his early life growing up in Brunswick, racing bicycles before getting into car racing, how he accidentally got into the tyre business, shares stories from his victories in the early years of the ‘Great Race’, plus putting the Australian Grand Prix back on the map in the 1980s and bringing NASCAR down under with the Thunderdome.

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For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, Aaron Noonan is joined by Stefan Bartholomaeus to cover the big news of the Grove Group taking full ownership of Kelly Grove Racing at the end of the 2021 season, analysing what the Kellys' sale really means and giving a rundown on how Todd Kelly’s involvement will continue despite the change, plus the highs and lows of Todd and Rick Kelly time as team owners in the Supercars Championship.

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This week we’re talking to Marcos Ambrose on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Marcos explains how he has come to be the Competition Director at Garry Rogers Motorsport plus his new role as a TV pundit for Supercars’ broadcasts. We look back at his time racing Formula Ford in Australia and abroad, his first V8 Supercars drives in a Holden, his first Bathurst with Stone Brothers Racing in 2000 – no, that’s not a typo! – and his misfortunes at Mount Panorama, plus his championship success at Stone Brothers Racing. He also tackles our new segment What’s In Your Cupboard courtesy of The Motorsport Trader as well as your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, plus the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout.

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For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Greg Murphy to wrap up last weekend’s WD-40 Townsville SuperSprint, including his take on who Triple Eight’s biggest rival is, the likely suitors for the soon to be vacant #88 car of Jamie Whincup, his preparations for his Bathurst 1000 wildcard, and what he believes should be the first move for whoever purchases Supercars.

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This week we’re talking to Marcus Marshall on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 2, Marcus opens up about his season in ChampCar racing for Team Australia, including how he got the drive and how he was suddenly dropped after his home race. He then talks about returning to race in Australia, including his side of IntaBill Racing’s brief existence in 2009, and where we might see him racing in the next few years. He also tackles our new segment What’s In Your Cupboard courtesy of The Motorsport Trader as well as your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions.

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For this week’s edition of Repco Supercars Weekly, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan is joined by Erebus Motorsport’s Will Brown to wrap up last weekend’s NTI Townsville 500, an event where he made a Top 10 Shootout for the first time and finished fifth in the Sunday race. Brown also talks about his season to date, the atmosphere within the Erebus team (a Happy Birthday message too for his team owner Betty Klimenko!) and also tells us about going back to his day job in the week between Townsville rounds: selling used cars in Toowoomba!

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This week we’re talking to Marcus Marshall on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In Part 1, Marcus talks about how he got into racing in the first place aboard a Mazda RX-4, how he bought his first racecar on Bartercard, his difficult early years in Formula Ford, the chance meeting that led to a plum Carrera Cup drive, his star cameo in Porsche Supercup and British Formula 3 race win, all of which led to him securing a ChampCar drive for 2005 – which we’ll cover off in Part 2 next week!

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V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the latest happenings in the Repco Supercars Championship on Repco Supercars Weekly, including that this weekend will likely be the first of two rounds held in Townsville this year, the cancellation of the 2021 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, the new machinery coming to the Super2 Series in 2023, and more!

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