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It gives you an amazing taste of the speed, the sound and the excitement of the mountain. The museum's generally open six days a week and also during events, so visit their Facebook page or themuseum's Bathurst.com.au website for further details. A motorsport podcast network production. Welcome along, it is Castrol Supercars Weekly. I am Aaron Unan and you are about to get some of the latest news headlines in the Repco Supercars Championship on the countdown to next weekend's Endurance Classic. The Sanddown 500 in Melbourne, the 60th anniversary of the first touring car in Europe. Back in 1964, I wasn't there if you were. Love to hear from you, get in touch with us via the V8 salute socials. But on this ep of Castrol Supercars Weekly, some news on some tires, some news on the calendar next year, an old face emerging again in the pit lane and a cool event next week as well that you should come along to for free and you might win some cool stuff. Castrol's Redjo to Oil is cool stuff too. It's on their website now. It's where you'll instantly know the best Castrol products to unlock the edge of performance in your car. Just search for Redjo, the number two and oil and you can find out more. Now, Sanddown's next but Bathurst is the one that follows the Repco Bathurst 1000 in October. Don't forget, you can get your copy of the official program. Pre-orders are open now. We've gone to print, it will be available in the week after the Sanddown 500. Bit earlier than last year. Get it in your hot little hands before heading off to Bathurst or indeed, make sure that you can get right through it before the telecast begins during race week. Head to our website, superstore.v8sluth.com, that you order yourself a copy or two or three or four and add it to your collection. 144 pages packed with plenty of features and history, stats and info on all the current drivers in this year's race and plenty, plenty more. Now, speaking of Bathurst news, now the schedule dropped this week. It's on our website if you're wanting to plan your event and what's on when and what categories and what races. But there's an interesting thing listed for Friday morning at 7.25 a.m. Some of you might still be in bed there that weekend or for that week. We call it race week, don't we, right? Even though there's a weekend and then we talk about the weekend, even though it's the week. Anyway, you get the idea. Friday morning, 7.25 in the event schedule, there is a session listed there, a short one, not for supercast practicing, but there's no real details. But we understand it's a window to trial the prototype 2025 Supercars Dunlop tyre. That's part of the evaluation for what they're gonna do for next year. So they've actually tested, I think it's seven drivers and teams across, I think it's three tracks now. Queensland Raceway, Sydney and the Bend as well. So that gives them an opportunity to have a run at Bathurst, which of course has the loads that other tracks just can't generate for tyres. So Friday morning, if you see a Supercar, not sure whose car or which team or which teams will be running, but if you are here a V8 engine, you know what's going on at Bathurst. And speaking to of tyres, there's gonna be multiple wet weather compounds for the Repco Bathurst 1000, the old spec wet. The teams have the choice to run them just in the race. There's two sets per car, effectively it's a bit of an intermediate option actually. So they could spice it up and provide a little bit of variable should we get a bit of weather up at Bathurst next month. Sandout, I get asked by so many of you. Is it retro round? Should it be retro round? Can it be retro round? No, yes and yes, but I'm hearing. There's some really cool retro livers coming for next weekend that you'll see and hear more about next week. So keep your eyes peeled on v8sluth.com.au and our socials because as soon as they're dropping, we'll have them for you. But I hear that there's some teams celebrating some Sandout history and some world motorsport history too. So I think that's something that's going to be very, very cool. Now Tony Queen, of course, car owner of Triple 8 and well, he owns a few tracks around the place including Queensland Raceway. He's confident that the Ipswich circuit's going to be on the Supercars calendar next year. And he's told our colleague Greg Rust, of course, the host of the Rusty's Garage podcast that if he was a betting man, that's Tony, not Greg, it'd be a 99% on the money situation to see Supercars at that track again next year. Now, if that happens and there's no additional round on the calendar and we stay at 12, something's going to miss out here. Could it be Sandout not only doesn't have a 500 but doesn't have a round next year? So the bend is in, the Bathurst second or the first event from this year, that's gone. So if Queensland Raceway's coming onto the calendar, something else has to give. So if Sandout's not on there, could it be that the Grand Prix, which I haven't heard if there's a deal done there yet, could it be the Grand Prix is the only Supercars event in Victoria next year? If that happens, that's a real shame. That's a real shame because, of course, the Grand Prix is not Supercars event, the company, the business, the championship, they are of support category and they get the hit and giggle windows compared to Formula One, understandable, to Formula One event. But we'll keep an eye on that one because that'd be quite a turnaround if we had Wynton, Phillip Island and Sandout not hosting Supercars. And of course you'd end up with Victorian teams, unable, I mean, they can test obviously on Victorian tracks, but testing a track that you can't then race on, it's something that the Queensland teams have had to deal with in the recent past. But anyway, all that calendar stuff will no doubt unfold in upcoming weeks and we'll all get to Sandout next week and everyone has their chats with one another between the garages and between the transporters and there's whispers and all sorts of stuff going on. That stuff, no doubt, will start to play out. We've got to get a calendar locked and loaded for everyone to plan their world around for next year. A piece of the old guard, by the way, is coming back from the days of Triple-A race engineering. No, J.B. Winkup's not coming back to full-time driving. Peter Jamison, the longtime commercial manager, formerly at Triple-A, is back in the sport. He's joining, or joined, Premier Racing. The Peter Jamison team, of course, has a bunch of familiar X Triple-A faces there, Ludo Lacroix, Steve Robertson. There's a bunch there as well. So a familiar face returning to the paddock. I presume we'll see him at Sandout next weekend. Speaking of next week in Sandout, by the way, penciling Thursday, September the 12th, because we are doing a V8 Sleuth live podcast. You can't hear it here. The only way you can hear it is if you come along to the Auto Barn Tickford Racing Signing Session, going to make it more than a signing session. We're going to make it a night. Well, not a full night, but we're going to make it a bit of an avo and evening. It's a must-visit event. It's from 4.30pm on Thursday, September the 12th. Lock it in. It's at the Auto Barn store in Moraben, Kingston Plaza. The address is 288 Centreden in Long Road. Come along, there'll be a pile of giveaways. There'll be all sorts of stuff. You might even win a few Tickford books signed by the four drivers. James Moffatt, Cam Waters, Thomas Randall, and Tyler Everingham. And I'm told there might be some tickets for Sandout, for grabs, for prizes as well, as plenty of other really cool stuff. So come along and join us from 4.30pm next Thursday at Auto Barn Moraben in Kingston Plaza. That will be a haul pile of fun. And yeah, you'll get to throw your questions at the guys and we'll have a pile of fun. That's what we do with our live podcast and our live chat. So come along, more cars have been confirmed for the V8 Sleuth Heritage Revival. At the Repco Bathurst, 1,055 cars of heritage touring cars. Group A, Group C, super tours, 5 litre V8s, a bit of everything, whether you're like your 70s, you're 80s, you're 90s, you're gonna get a little piece of everything at Bathurst. It's already been confirmed. The pack of, you know what, 1992 winning Nissan GTR will be in the field. Tony Elford, the owner will be driving the ex Jim Richards Mark Scafe, Bathurst winning Winfield number one GTR. And you gotta hear in upcoming weeks of the rest of these cars being unveiled. And we're gonna announce them on v8sleuth.com.au in upcoming weeks and I was gonna say months, but it's really a month, isn't it? Before we are almost at Bathurst, there's gonna be a pair of Holden Racing Team Commodores that are gonna roll out at Bathurst. I can't give away exactly what they are, but they're from the 90s and they haven't turned a wheel on the mountain in a very, very long time. More details on those coming up very soon. And if you wanna get even deeper involved with us, we're involved in all sorts of areas of Australian motorsport, but particularly our podcast. We've got such a big audience out there. Last year we had over 370,000 listeners over the course of 2023. So what we wanted to do this year was to bring those who really care about our pod, even closer, so you can become a member now of the v8sleuth podcast. It's our podcast plus offering ad-free episodes, bonus apps, your chance to vote on future content and much, much more, get to it now. The link's in the show notes v8sleuth.supportingcast.fm. Right, stand out. Next weekend, a little bit of something else to tell you. If you can't be there and if you haven't got a TV near you, you can listen to me and Maddie White. We're getting back together. We worked on TV for years. We are going to call the Sandown 500 on radio for SCN. I was with SCN last year. Of course, James Moffat, who normally does it with Maddie this year, is a little busy driving around in the Monster Mustang. So Maddie and I are going to be back together for the 500. So tuning in on SCN next Sunday afternoon. To have a bit of a listen, we will have a whole part of the fun. In the meantime, I'm going to head off and check out Castros Redjo to oil website. Big weekend of AFL finals football, by the way, just quietly too. I will see you next week. I'll chat to you next week. But in the meantime, the pair for Sandown. Get ready for some history. Get ready for some wild weather. It's going to be a poll of fun. Have a great weekend. Thanks for tuning in. Castros Supercars Weekly. Over and out. Talk to you next time. Supercars in the Gold Coast. We're Paradise, Meets Power. Witness a festival like atmosphere in an adrenaline-fueled weekend. Vote on and off the track. With Boost Mobile, boosting the party vibes. Supercars on the Gold Coast. It's the place to be. Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, October 25th, the 27th. Vote now at ticket tech. Supercars Unforgettable. The National Motor Racing Museum is a must-see if you're in the central west of New South Wales. It's on the outside of Murray's Corner at the famous Mount Panorama in Bathurst and celebrates the rich history of Australian motorsport. There's famous cars, bikes, memorabilia. So much to take in. Including the spectacular immersive room. It gives you an amazing taste of the speed, the sound and the excitement of the mountain. The museums generally open six days a week and also during events, so visit their Facebook page or themuseum'sbatless.com.au website for further details. [BLANK_AUDIO]
