The Supercars are heading back across the Tasman this weekend with the championship’s first visit to Taupō, so we’re looking back at the history of the championship racing in New Zealand on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. We look through the event’s history, from the Wellington Street Race of the 1980s and the 12-car double-header of 1996, the championship’s first visit in 2001 through to its most recent in 2022, along with the memorable races and results, the controversies, the massive shunts, and some of the weird things that have happened over the decades…

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