This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Caruso talks about standing on the podium at Bathurst in 2009, that incredible mid-race spin at Reid Park, and the real origin story of the special Valvoline livery that he and Lee Holdsworth used that weekend. He also tells a hilarious tale from the night out after his maiden V8 race win at Hidden Valley, opens up on his Nissan years, and tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week multiple Supercars Championship race winner Michael Caruso joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Caruso talks about growing up watching his dad Mick race, his early years in karting and his brief time in Formula Ford, as well as his move to Europe to sweep floors for a Formula 3000 team to try and land a race drive. He then opens up about making the switch to V8 Supercars, the key role the late Jim Morton played in launching his tin-top career, and his … unusual … job interview with Garry Rogers.

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This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, ‘PD’ talks about the deal that nearly saw him replace Russell Ingall at Stone Brothers Racing, his breakthrough successes in 2010 and his years co-driving with good mate – and now fellow co-owner of Triple Eight Race Engineering – Jamie Whincup, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week 2012 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Dumbrell joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, ‘PD’ talks about V8 Supercars, NASCARs, AUSCARs and Formula Holdens all when he was still just 16 years of age, his early years racing Supercars full-time for Larry Perkins – including a time he pushed LP’s patience a little too far, plus a few stories that illustrate that poor PD is a bit accident-prone – and that ‘Doctor Whincup’ should probably stick to driving!

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The latest Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken takes a look at one of Peter Brock's Bathurst-winning cars and the first car to carry his signature #05, the Gown-Hindhaugh Holden Torana L34 that he and Brian Sampson drove to victory in the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo 1000.

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Off the back of the release of the epic book Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske 40 Years of Cars: 1980-2019, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through their take on the five greatest cars produced by the team in this week’s V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, and give a behind the scenes look at how the book was created.

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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.

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

- The winning statistics of Allan Moffat’s Coca-Cola Trans-Am Mustang

- Unrestored Bathurst-winning V8 Supercars

- Could the Thunderdome be resurrected?

- Did Channel 9 ever telecast an ATCC race?

- Where is the Channel 9 Camaro?

- Terri Sawyer

- Future CMS Motorsport DVD releases

- Supercars Eseries

- Daniel Ricciardo joining McLaren

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This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Wayne talks in depth about the Coca-Cola Racing years, along with his Formula 1 test with Lotus, and why his huge accident in practice for the 2002 Bathurst 1000 prompted his retirement, along with tackling your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week 1987 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, we talk about his very first test of a touring car – which pre-dated his world title! – his Bathurst debut in 1992, and his full-time arrival in the sport in 1993. Wayne also talks in detail about that tumultuous first year with the Holden Racing Team, a partnership that ended acrimoniously and led to the creation of Wayne Gardner Racing.

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This week BTCC chief Alan Gow joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Alan talks about the Super Touring era and the years it was pitted against V8 Supercars in Australia, his long relationship as friend and manager to James Courtney, plus he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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