V8SP: Wild and forgotten moments from ‘The Paperclip’
The Supercars are about to return to Queensland Raceway for the first time since 2019 for the Century Batteries Ipswich Super440, so we’re looking back at the championship’s history of racing at at the ‘Paperclip’ on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum. Aaron Noonan and our resident Queensland Raceway expert Mark Walker talks about how the circuit came about, the dramas around the inaugural event in 1999 – and how he and a lot of people missed the opening race – 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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V8SP: Winton Festival of Speed: Everything you need to know
The V8 Sleuth Podcast looks ahead to this year’s edition of the Winton Festival of Speed on August 1-3! Aaron Noonan is joined by Mark Walker to look at what is rapidly becoming one of the best events of classic race cars on the calendar.
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V8SP: The Pack Up – Townsville 500
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Mark Walker break down all of the talking points after a big weekend of Supercars racing in Tropical North Queensland!
Broc Feeney continues to be on fire, belt buckles, timing, who's hot, who's not, and a whole heap more.
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V8SP: Tickford Racing’s Simon Brookhouse
Tickford Racing chief Simon Brookhouse joins us for this edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum.
While he’d not been directly involved in motorsport prior to being recruited as Tickford’s CEO in early 2024, Brookhouse explains his background in other sports as well his own visits to Mount Panorama in his younger days.
He also talks about some of the challenges that faces Supercars as a sport in the future – including one unexpected area that is becoming an increasing issue for teams – Triple Eight’s arrival as Ford’s homologation team for 2026, the repeated rumours over Tickford being sold and his take on whether the sport’s future is with private equity owning teams, the future of Super2 and building brand new cars for it, the team’s long-mooted move from its Campbellfield home, and plenty more.
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V8SP: Lee Holdsworth (Part 2)
We’ve got a Bathurst winner on this week’s edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by the National Motor Racing Museum – and he’s a return visitor!
A lot has happened since Lee Holdsworth’s last visit to the podcast in early 2021, headlined by his Bathurst 1000 victory with Chaz Mostert at the end of that year, plus an unexpected swansong full-time Supercars season that netted him the Barry Sheene Medal.
For the final part of our two-part chat, we recap the extensive celebrations that followed his Bathurst win – including the Monday morning phone call from a rival team owner with an offer to race full-time in Supercars the next year!
Holdsworth talks about navigating changing his 2022 plans to drive for Grove Racing, his offer to race on into the Gen3 era full-time, working with a young Matt Payne, returning to Walkinshaw Andretti United for 2023 but knowing he had next to no chance of winning Bathurst, his return to Team 18 that would’ve seemed unlikely just a few years ago, and his new life outside of motorsport working in commercial real estate.
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V8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan chats one-on-one with icons of Australian motorsport. Along with the big wins and the big moments, Noonz digs a step deeper and unearths a few forgotten tales and funny stories from their life in racing.
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