The V8 Sleuth Podcast

We’re doing something a little different this week on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken – a round of trivia hosted by the V8 Sleuth himself, Aaron Noonan! And you can win prizes!

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This week Bathurst 1000 and Adelaide 500 winner Nick Percat joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Nick opens up about the illness that forced him to sit out the tail end of the 2015 Supercars season, and he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week Bathurst 1000 and Adelaide 500 winner Nick Percat joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Nick talks about his time at Walkinshaw Racing, capped by his 2011 Bathurst 1000 win with Garth Tander, and he opens up on the race that got him on Walkinshaw’s radar: the final Aussie Racing Cars race of the 2006 Gold Coast Indy, and how he initially wasn’t even going to start it! He also talks about making his full-time main game debut with Walkinshaw in 2014 – and the Dick Johnson Racing contract he turned down in the process.

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This week veteran Australian motorsport broadcaster and journalist Greg Rust joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2, Rusty opens up about a major health scare he had back in 2011, plus the chance meeting it led to, he tells a ripper story about his dog Buster and an infamous visit to the Channel 10 studios, he talks about he and his family’s move to New Zealand at the end of 2017, he tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, and we put him against the clock in our traditional MotorFocus Top 10 Shootout.

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This week veteran Australian motorsport broadcaster and journalist Greg Rust joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1, Rusty talks about how he went from working in banking to a career in the media, his time calling Super Touring and working on the early years of Channel 10’s V8 Supercars coverage – and he tells a few cracking stories about Barry Sheene and Leigh Diffey! – and we go all ‘meta’ as he talks about his podcast on our podcast, telling the story of how his show ‘Rusty’s Garage’ came to be.

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You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan tackles your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken.

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After recording this in July 2019, we’ve finally unleashed this to the internet: Ryan Story on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! In Part 2, Ryan tells the full back story of how the DJR Team Penske union came together – he reveals the role a Supercars fan favourite played in helping get the deal over the line! – and the evolution of the team from its dark days at the start of the Car of the Future era through to its emergence as one of the big players on the Supercars grid.

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After recording this in July 2019, we’ve finally unleashed this to the internet: Ryan Story on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken! In Part 1, Ryan takes you inside Dick Johnson Racing’s most tumultuous years, revealing just how bad things were at the end of 2012 and how the team survived through the next couple of seasons. He also opens up on his own life story – which is a remarkable tale in itself!

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A six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, a solar car pioneer, and still to this day a hero to masses of Supercars fans, Larry Perkins joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 2 we ask him your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions, talk about his decision to start his own touring car team, his three Bathurst victories under his own banner, the Castrol Cougars program, and the V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout, where Larry comes out with a few ripping answers!

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A six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, a solar car pioneer, and still to this day a hero to masses of Supercars fans, Larry Perkins joins the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Timken. In Part 1 we chat about his time in Europe trying to make it to Formula 1, racing for Bernie Ecclestone, how an ice skater ended his oval-racing career before it even began, plus his sudden decision to retire from the cockpit for good at Bathurst in 2003.

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