Inside Supercars Podcast

Richard Craill (SBS Speedweek) and William Dale (Foxsport.com.au) look back at Craig Lowndes 100th race victory, Dave Reynold’s 2nd win, More HRT Friendly Fire, Coulthard’s Luck, Nissan finding some speed, the CAMS stewards busiest weekend along with Nick Percat's reaction and apology.

Stefan Bartholomaeus (Speedcafe) and Tony Whitlock (RaceFax) look at the series return to the track in Darwin, including what the new surface and soft tyres in the sprint races will bring. Triple 8 get the 26th REC, what now for Super Black? Will Craig Lowndes finish his career as the 3rd wheel in the T8 Garage? Malyasia to host a V8 street race, OS racing do people really care? And or mainstream media? Can a wildcard ever win Bathurst? SVG wins at Silverstone, why is he now talking about cutting back his OS racing when he is now making such an impression in the International Stage? Does the Homebush Track need to downsize for the event to survive? And their belief of the long term future of Gold Coast event?

This week, Inside Supercars speaks with Team Principals, General Managers and a Corporate Manager about where their team and the sport is headed and how they are working to improve it. Dr Ryan Story (DJR Team Penske), Tim Edwards (Prodrive Racing Australia), Nick Ryan (Nissan Motorsport) and Chris Wilson (DJR Team Penske) all join us to give their point of view.

Inside Supercars looks at the how Dunlop are going to manage the new tyre rules, what are the diffrences between promoting Rugby League and V8 Supercars and how does Gary Rogers view 2015 in a global sense.

This week, Inside Supercars looks at the V8 Supercar Gen 2, with  Sporting and Technical Director Dave Stewart. Cameron Waters talks about his recent Dunlop Series success, Scott Pye reflects on his top 10 speed a Winton and Dr Geoff Slater, engineer for Shane Van Gisbergen talks about V8 Supercars and the Blancpain GT3 series and his recent trip to Monza.

John Bannon (V8X) and Peter Norton (Inside Motor Sport) discuss Prodrive Racing Australia clean sweep Main Game and Dunlop Series, Chaz Mostert and James Courtney Crashes, Volvo’s dilemmas continue, DJR Team Penske start to move forward, Red Bull’s up and down weekend? what is the future of the Saturday Race Format is the soft tyres soon to be on the way? Media ratings and the CEO says he is staying.

Lachlan Mansell (Winton Motor Raceway) and Tony Whitlock (Race Fax) Preview Winton, and discuss the anniversary of 30 years since the first ATCC round. Can one driver sweep the weekend? Lowndes watch, will this weekend be his 100 Last year the track came under question, this year will the track be a factor? Co-Drivers announcements and Gambling in V8 Supercars.

Chad Neylon (V8SC) and Stefan Bartholomaeus (Speedcafe) wrap up an interesting weekend in the West. Topics include Winterbottom’s Saturday double, Davo’s Sunday Success, Fabian’s Q9 red flag and race comeback, No safety car at the end of R9 was that the right call? SVG tyre saving, was it worth it? Does Winton continue the Lowndes 100 watch, or will the focus be on the racing and Lowndes leading the championship, Is Courtney becoming “The Accumulator”? Is Coulthard a challenger? Tyres Allocations when is enough not enough?

Mark Fogarty (Auto Action/Fairfax Media) and Garry O'Brien (Auto Action) discuss V8SC's plans to compacted the 2016 calendar and why WA will be the ANZAC Round host from next year. They preview Perth, discuss tyre monitoring and why it has taken so long them to be returned to the series. They look at the latest Enduro Announcements, Sebastien Bourdais to partner Holdsworth, Jack Le Brocq to join Ash Walsh,how they rate the two partnerships & 100th Round of the Dunlop Series.

This week, Steven Johnson talks about Jamie Whincup and his Entourage. Cole Hitchcock discusses the promoting of V8 Supercars, and ahead of the up coming Dunlop Series round, we hear from Clipsal podium drivers Cameron Walters and Aaron Russell.

This week we continue our interview series, we hear more from Chaz Mostert on the longer practice in 2015, Jamie Whincup, on Red Bull team work. We have two retrospective interview packages, the first with Lee Holdsworth speaking about his Clipsal 500 with Charlie Swerkolt and Walkinshaw Performance. Then we take you back to the Bathurst 2006 and hear the full interviews from Campbell Little, Craig Lowndes and Roland Dane about winning the first ever Peter Brock Trophy and Triple 8’s first Bathurst, It is a bumper show.

This week on Inside Supercars, we hear a number of interviews which are unfortunately we normally have the chance to run on the show. Cole Hitchcock the General Manager of Communication for V8 Supercars talks to us about the TV audience figures from Tassie, Chaz Mostert wraps up his weekend from Symmonds Plains, Steven Johnson gives us his impressions of Motor Sport the New Gen and Gen 2 cars and Jamie Whincup wraps up his Tassie Weekend.

Adrian Musolino (V8X) and Lewis Issacs (Auto Action) look back on an interesting weekend in Tassie. Lowdnes 98th, 99th wins and that tap in Race 3. does this get some pressure off Grant McPherson? Is Andre Heimgartner, developing faster than anyone has imagined? Why did Courtney go missing on Sunday? Also what are they Rounds or Events? First ever all pay TV event, what was the feedback? and Drivers Personality what do you have to do to get the guys to come out of their shell. Do we need Vaudville Villan's?

Stefan Bartholomaeus (Speedcafe) and Tony Whitlock (Racefax) look at the Ambrose's step down, the importance of the Tasmanian round, Symmons Plains V World Cup – Who wins? Or are there only losers? and discuss if it is about time the series drops the 300 points per round and start paying the points on distance? along with Frosty’s successful Brazil trip.

Mark Fogarty (Auto Action/Fairfax) and Adrian Musolino (V8X) Discuss the shock move by Marcos Ambrose and wrap up the non-championship Australian GP V8 Races, with Frosty and Chaz sweeping the weekend.

Chad Neylon (V8SC Commentator) and Ben Beazley (BAM Media) discuss Shane VanGizbergen making the move to Triple 8 Race Engineering, DJR Team Penske sponsorship model, Melbourne GP Preview, Ballarat – the next potential new V8SC track, EJ Viso could race at Bathurst and Erebus give up on Mercedes and AMG.

John Bannon (V8X) and Lewis Issacs (Auto Action) Wrap up the first race weekend of 2015, and we find out about David Wall's toe.

Peter Norton (Inside Motor Sport) and Richard Craill (Seven/SBS) look at the first race of the new season.

Peter Norton (Inside Motor Sport) looks back at the 2014 and discussed the top stories of the year in V8 Supercars. In this weeks feature interview James Warburton talks about the Gen 2 platform.

Kylie King (V8 Media) and John Bannon (V8X) look at the year that was and how will the Dunlop Series look in the new media deal. In this weeks feature interview Tim Cindric talks about Penske coming to V8 Supercars.