The V8 Sleuth Podcast

We’re continuing our chat with Barry Rogers in this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the final part of a two-part chat, Rogers opens up about Garry Rogers Motorsport’s involvement in TCR and S5000, as well as how it ended up with the reins of the Australian Racing Group. Rogers also talks about how they came to own a slice of Supercars and why they recently sold out of it, as well as the future of S5000 and the Bathurst International. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Calder Park round of the 1996 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, an event that proved auspicious for the seasons ahead. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to Barry Rogers for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. In the first part of a two-part chat, Rogers shares stories about growing up with Garry Rogers, Sports Sedan racer, as his dad, and his career outside the sport before joining GRM. He shares some great stories from the team’s Volvo era, drivers Scott McLaughlin, Robert Dahlgren, David Wall and James Golding, and talks about the team bowing out of Supercars at the end of the 2019 season. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Race Control: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round – the inaugural ITM Taupō Super400. The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Phillip Island SuperSprint round of the 2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, a controversial race marred by tyre blowouts and penalties. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by the rundown of who’s where after Friday practice at the ITM Taupō Super400. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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… Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by a star co-driver making an unexpected team switch for the 2024 endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol wind back two decades for a look at the 2004 motorsport year, touching on the big topics and happenings in V8 Supercars, F1, MotoGP, NASCAR, Champ Car, IRL and rallying. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, headed by a Supercars star heading States-side this weekend to make his debut in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week - by popular demand - we’ve pressed our AN1 Data stats guru Shane Rogers into joining this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. He talks about how he got into motorsport in the first place, working on early Supercars web/results data sites Conrod.com.au and VESRIX and getting a job CAMS after being told not to tell CAMS in the interview that he had any interest in motorsport! Shane then tackles the stat questions you sent us via social media as well as bringing to the table some of his favourite obscure and unusual statistics and facts from ATCC/Supercars history - including the wild tale behind the oldest driver ever to start a championship race, and some crazy stories he’s uncovered from the youth of a future Supercars Hall of Famer. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Castrol Supercars Championship, including a raft of current, former and future Supercars stars in action at Mount Panorama this weekend. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’ve asked and we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - The 1988 Bathurst 24 Hour - no, that’s not a typo - Does the Australian Touring Car Championship title still exist? - The fate of an early privateer EB Falcon - The nationality with the most ATCC/SC starts behind Australia and New Zealand - Mitsubishi’s podium history - The biggest year-on-year rise or fall in the standings for a full-time driver - Forgotten stars that sampled stock cars at the Thunderdome - Peter Brock’s 1990 season; an ATCC/Bathurst double that got away? - And plenty more!  Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Race Control: V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan chats with Supercars’ Driving Standards Advisor, Motorsport Australia’s Craig Baird, who explains all the details behind the calls made in Race Control during the latest Repco Supercars Championship round. Included in this post-2024 MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint at Albert Park edition: - POINT 1 - POINT 2 - POINT 3 - POINT 4 - POINT 5 The V8 Sleuth Podcast appreciates the support of Motorsport Australia in putting our Race Control episodes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the Saturday of the Albert Park round of the 2018 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, focusing on the Saturday twilight race held in dark, greasy conditions, in which Scott Pye claimed the first race win of his Supercars career. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Castrol Supercars Championship, headlined by all the action from Friday’s racing at Albert Park for the MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint at the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re continuing our chat with veteran engineer Phil Keed for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. The second and final part of our two-part chat covers the Supercars part of his career, which began when he joined the championship full-time in 2003. Keed covers his years at Team Brock and PWR and the relationship he built with Jason Bright, and how it evolved across stints across three different teams. He also shares stories from his time at Ford Performance Racing, why he shifted to Brad Jones Racing, how he and Fabian Coulthard came to separately move to DJR Team Penske at the same time and how it all ended, starting again at Team 18 and returning to his current home engineering Bryce Fullwood at BJR. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from this week in Castrol Supercars Weekly, headlined by the reason for a date change for this year’s Sandown 500. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Ryco Rewind we're going back to the opening round of the 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship at Calder Park, a day/night event that was the first to be run under the V8 Supercars banner. Check out the Ryco Filters range >> https://rycofilters.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking to veteran engineer Phil Keed for this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Castrol. Although he’s long been a fixture within the Supercars paddock, the first part of our two-part chat looks back at his career prior to joining the championship full-time in 2003.  Keed talks about where his passion for motorsport came from, and how he got his start in the industry by cold-calling Colin Bond’s workshop while he was still in high school! He shares stories of going to Bathurst with the team, and why they pointed him in the direction of becoming an engineer instead of a mechanic. He also shares a heap of incredible stories from his years in rallying, where he rose from working for Ralliart in Australia to becoming multiple world champion Tommi Makinen’s engineer at the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team. Find the right Castrol product for your vehicle or equipment here with the Castrol Product Finder >> https://www.castrol.com/en_au/australia/home/oil-selector.html V8 Sleuth Superstore >> https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices