Aaron Noonan

Melbourne

Managing Director at V8 Sleuth

MD of AN1 Media & @v8sleuth | Head of AN1 Data | @v8sleuth podcast host | Hawthorn tragic

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Triple Eight's first Mustang hits Supercars milestone

1 week ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

TRIPLE Eight Race Engineering’s first Gen3 Mustang chassis marks the beginning of a new era for the Queensland-based team but it also signifies a milestone for Supercars with this era of car. The Gen3 era of the category has hit the half century given the Triple Eight chassis – that is set to become the team’s first Ford Mustang and follow in the wheel tracks of a range of Falcon, Commodore and Camaro race cars – is the 50th Gen3 Supercars chassis produced.
Piastri shoots to lead for Motorsport Australia Gold Star Award

1 week ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

OSCAR Piastri’s form in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship has rocketed him into the box seat for this year’s reintroduced Motorsport Australia Gold Star Award. The season-long chase to determine Australia’s champion driver of 2025 sees drivers from all forms of circuit racing scored via a live pointscore based on their championship standings as well as their performance in high-profile, marquee events.
Moffat's Monza-winning Holden to return to track

1 week ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

ONE of the most significant racing Holdens in Australian motorsport history is set to return to the track at the Winton Festival of Speed on August 1-3. The 1987 World Touring Car Championship Monza-winning Rothmans Group A Commodore VL driven by Allan Moffat and John Harvey will hit the track in the hands of long-time owner Milton Seferis in the ‘Touring Car Legends’ SuperSprint at the event.
Seven set to retain Supercars TV rights, but free-to-air rounds to be reduced?

1 week ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

THE Seven Network appears set to continue as the free-to-air broadcaster of the Repco Supercars Championship from 2026 onwards, however it’s expected to show one less round per year than the current broadcast arrangement under the new deal. The Australian Financial Review reported a week ago that Seven and 10 were in contention for the free-to-air rights. Seven are the current rights holders, having returned to broadcasting the championship via the mix of live rounds and highlights in 2021.
OPINION: Only one decision for Cam

2 weeks ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

PIECING together the silly season movements of drivers in the Supercars Championship is a seemingly never-ending tumble dryer of truths, half-truths, furphys and everything in between. There are possibilities, mooted deals, unsigned offers and plenty of discussions between drivers, managers and race teams. Many of them often lead nowhere in this big off-track game.
Brad Jones Racing Falcon lives on in New Zealand

3 weeks ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

BRAD Jones Racing built a total of four BA/BF Falcon V8 Supercars that have gone on to have long racing lives in all sorts of places. The very first of them – chassis BJR 04 driven by John Bowe in 2003 in the famous black and green OzEmail livery for the team – now lives in New Zealand and has been back in action in recent times. The car, driven by owner Darrell Breen, was on track recently at the George Begg Festival.
Brad Jones Racing's last Audi race unearthed

3 weeks ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

THIS year marks the 25th anniversary of Brad Jones Racing in the Supercars Championship but the V8 Sleuth team has recently dug out a piece of history that marked the end of its previous racing era – its last race with Audi. BJR, which is aligning with Toyota next season, first moved into what was then known as V8 Supercars in 2000 after purchasing a Level 1 franchise and Falcon AU race car from Tony Longhurst.
AFL star Akermanis’ Stone Brothers V8 Supercar test

3 weeks ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

THREE-TIME AFL premiership winner Jason Akermanis is a rev head from way back, but did you know he once tested a Stone Brothers Racing V8 Supercar Ford Falcon? The Brownlow Medal winner steered Mark Winterbottom’s Milligans Falcon AU Konica Series car in 2003 at Queensland Raceway with tutelage from then-SBR ace Russell Ingall. Reports of the period indicated ‘Aker’ turned laps in the low 1m20-second bracket and had the #41 Ford up to 240km/h on the straights.
'Rat in a cage' racer remembered in muscle car series

1 month ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

A TWO-WHEEL racer turned four-wheel muscle car driver has paid tribute to a much-missed Aussie motorsport ace in a special way recently at Queensland Raceway. Andrew Edser steered dad Tony’s Pontiac Firebird to a first-up round win on debut last month in the QRDC Australian TransAm Series, carrying a special logo on the front left of the American muscle car.
Super2 team boss escapes bone-breaking car crash

1 month ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Aaron Noonan

REIGNING Dunlop Super2 Series champion team co-owner Ben Eggleston has had an unusual lead-up to next weekend’s second round in Tasmania via a stint in hospital. The Melbourne-based team boss walked away largely unscathed from a major car crash near the team’s workshop in March. “I got cleaned up at an intersection in the work ute by someone running a red light just down the road from the workshop,” Eggleston told V8 Sleuth this week.