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 powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

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

- Drivers who didn’t defend their Supercars title

- A simple solution for time-certain races

- Are street circuits dead now?

- The family tree of Supercars RECs

- A long-lost Bathurst 1000 prize and how it was awarded

- Which Group A car had the greatest potential that was never reached

- Kim Jones’ influence in Brad Jones Racing’s success

- Why Supercars dropped ‘V8’ from its name and why it should come back

- And plenty more!

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This week Andy Raymond joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. He talks about growing up around motorsport with his dad, the legendary late Mike Raymond, then following his dad into a career in sports television. Along with chatting about his years covering motorsport, Andy also talks about leaving Channel 7 – and he opens up about the manner in which the network dropped Mike – and moving to FOX SPORTS, his move into covering rugby league, boxing and kickboxing and promoting wrestling in Australia (including the time he interviewed WWE chief Vince McMahon!) and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken we’re looking back at some of the magic moments from the history of the Adelaide 500, what made the race so special, why its cancellation triggered such a massive outpouring of emotion, and why its loss will be so keenly felt by Supercars, its fans, and Adelaide itself.

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This week Glenn Seton joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. With his new book ‘Seto: The Official Racing History of Glenn Seton’ set for release, we chat to the Supercars Hall of Famer about the book, how it came together and some of the stories in it – including his thoughts on his heartbreaking late-race exit from the 1995 Bathurst 1000 and how he handled it the way he did, his sole race in a Group C Nissan Bluebird Turbo, and a very serious offer to join Holden full-time. Finally, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week we have our first return visitor as Mark Skaife rejoins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. With his new book ‘Mark Skaife: The Complete Illustrated Autobiography’ freshly released (and available from the V8 Sleuth Bookshop!), this time around we chat to him about some rarely-discussed parts of his decorated career, including the time he drove a Jordan F1 car around a car park, when he was supposed to race Michael Schumacher as a junior, his brief stint as a factory Mazda driver, battling Mario Andretti throughout a stint at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and the time he had a bit of explaining to do after rolling a company-owned Nissan road car...

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This week Bathurst 1000 winner Tomas Mezera joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about his years racing with Larry Perkins and how ‘LP’ was responsible for a couple of his big career breaks, including his recruitment by the Holden Racing Team. Tomas tells a host of stories from his time at HRT – yes, including the infamous ‘bucket of water on the windscreen’ incident – plus the time he had a genuine F1 star lined up to race in the Bathurst 1000 only for their F1 team to shut down the deal! Finally, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week Bathurst 1000 winner Tomas Mezera joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Tomas opens up about growing up in Czechoslovakia under a communist regime and the remarkable story of how he defected to the west at the age of 20, including his time living on the streets in Austria before ending up in a refugee camp, and the dream that helped him choose Australia as his new homeland. We also cover his years working towards his racing dream and achieving success in Australia before heading to England to battle against future F1 stars, before securing a Bathurst 1000 victory which not even the team he drove for was expecting.

Oh, and he tells us the correct way to pronounce ‘Mezera’ – we’ve been saying it wrong all these years!

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In a special episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken in the lead-up to the 2020 Bathurst 1000 – Holden’s last as an active vehicle brand – Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate over who are Holden’s 10 best drivers in its history at the Mount Panorama enduro.

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It’s time for that special Sunday in October … Happy Bathurst Day! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

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You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Bathurst Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom.

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

- The Garry Rogers Motorsport car driven in the 2010 race by Lee Holdsworth and David Besnard that led over half the race

- What became of Mark Winterbottom’s ‘BBQ fire’ Falcon from the 2009 race

- The time Larry Perkins backdated his Commodore to get a better aero package

- Our favourite personal Bathurst memories – not stuff we watched on TV

- Why Glenn Seton switched from #30 to #5

- What the new Channel 7 deal means for future editions of the FOX SPORTS Bathurst Channel

- Which overseas-born driver has the most Bathurst 1000 starts

- Allan Moffat’s last Bathurst Falcon

- And plenty more!

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