The V8 Sleuth Podcast

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This week we’re chatting about HRT 034 – aka ‘Steffi’, the car that Peter Brock raced in the 1997 Primus 1000 Classic for what was at the time going to be his last tilt at the ‘Great Race’ – on this Classic Car episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. Aaron Noonan and Will Dale are joined by the car’s current owner, Super2 Series team boss Ben Eggleston, who shares the story of the car’s restoration which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.

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This week Melinda Price joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. She talks about growing up in a racing family, tells stories from the Castrol Cougars program and what it was like racing for Larry Perkins, the time she and Steven Richards came within an ace of winning a major production car race; being teammates with Sam Newman, Sir Jack Brabham and Hermann Tilke, her cancer battle and return to racing, and she tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and King of Pukekohe Greg Murphy joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about the Spiderman livery that adorned his race-winning Commodores in late 2004, his spicy press conference at the Gold Coast that year with Marcos Ambrose, his reunion with his Bathurst 24 Hour-winning Holden Monaro – along with a reminder about his other Bathurst-winning Holdens, and we’re not talking Commodores! - and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions (including the deluge of Bathurst 2005 questions) and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and King of Pukekohe Greg Murphy joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back to his first year racing in Australia in Formula Brabham and the unexpected connection that gave him the springboard into Super Touring, plus the 1996 New Zealand Mobil V8 Sprints at Pukekohe and Wellington, his IndyCar test, the Bathurst he did with Triple Eight in a Holden, his Williams BTCC test, his stint racing NASCAR and the time he raced a Ford!

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We celebrate the glory years Super Touring in Australia in this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken, recorded over Zoom. The two-litre touring car formula, so popular in Great Britain with the British Touring Car Championship and adopted across Europe, North America and South Africa at its peak, ran its own standalone championship in Australia between 1994 and 2001.

Some of the things we chat about as we go down memory lane:

- The origins of the series and its ‘rivalry’ with the established touring car scene in Australia

- Comparisons with the new TCR Series Australia

- The Super Touring Bathurst 1000s

- The phenomenal cars and where they ended up

- The two spectacular, headline moments of the series

- The great drivers of the category and our take on who was the King of Super Touring in Australia

- And plenty more!

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This week Super2 Series race winner, Bathurst 12 Hour runner-up and Gold Logie winner Grant Denyer joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about the breakthrough Development Series result that solidified his belief in his driving ability, the race win that forever links him with David Thexton, racing in the Bathurst 1000 for Craig Gore, the moment he realised he had to choose between his driving and TV careers, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week Super2 Series race winner, Bathurst 12 Hour runner-up and Gold Logie winner Grant Denyer joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we go back through his years in the Development Series – first as a broadcaster on Trackside, then trackside as a driver! – along with his years in V8 BRUtes, his mid-race haircut, plus a hilarious tale from a Bathurst 12 Hour racing with Tony Quinn and Klark Quinn.

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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, recorded over Zoom.

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

- The last times we had a podium without Triple Eight and DJR Team Penske, and when T8 last missed the podium across a weekend

- The most successful car from Perkins Engineering

- A bit of V8 Utes Sleuth and Open Wheel Sleuth

- Did any Bathurst-winning cars carry an Energy Polariser?

- Where does Marcos Ambrose’s Stone Brothers Racing BA Falcon sit among the top Falcon racecars?

- The shortest-lasting race team in Supercars

- The fate of Fabian Coulthard’s 2010 Bathurst rollover car

- The ‘missing’ HRT Commodore from the 1993 Bathurst 1000

- And plenty more!

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This week two-time Supercars Champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Scott McLaughlin joins us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, he talks about his breakout years racing Volvos for Garry Rogers Motorsport and what he really thought when the alliance was first revealed, plus the impact that winning the Bathurst 1000 has had on his life, the massive impact he had in the Bathurst-winning car a fortnight later, why he gets more nervous about qualifying at Bathurst rather the Top 10 Shootout, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and our Motorfocus Top 10 Shootout.

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