{"id":788978,"date":"2026-07-09T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:31:17","slug":"the-incredible-career-of-steven-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788978\/","title":{"rendered":"The incredible career of Steven Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT\u2019S been seven years in the making and 564 episodes, but Steven Richards has finally joined us on the V8 Sleuth Podcast, powered by Parramatta Toyota!<\/p>\n<p>Aaroon Noonan spent the afternoon with Richo, sharing epic yarns that cover some serious ground in this three-part special.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening leg, the five-time Bathurst 1000 winner opens up on his status as an aircraft mechanic, his time with Team 18, a visit to the Goodwood Festival, his Formula Ford year, plus his time in AUSCAR at the Thunderdome.<\/p>\n<p>In the second episode, he opens up about his time in Super Touring, both here and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>On these shores, he raced for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-354-Garry-Rogers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garry Rogers<\/a> Motorsport in the Australian Super Touring Championship aboard a range of machinery, from Alfa Romeo to Honda and Nissan.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the conversation turns to his foray into Great Britain and the chase for a factory drive at the height of the British Touring Car Championship.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the chance encounter with Roland Dane, plus the tough parting of ways with Garry Rogers, plus much more.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned next week for Part 3, taking in Richo\u2019s remarkable career in V8 Supercars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parramattatoyota.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The V8 Sleuth Podcast is powered by Parramatta Toyota, Sydney\u2019s Toyota dealer with a passion for performance and motorsport!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the links below to listen in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Amazon Music, or listen to the full episode in the player below.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN AD-FREE: <a href=\"https:\/\/v8sleuth.supportingcast.fm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to V8 Sleuth Podcast Plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>APPLE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/2Jj6dpN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe to the V8 Sleuth Podcast <\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPOTIFY:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SpotifyV8SP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe to the V8 Sleuth Podcast <\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMAZON: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3q4a6Qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to subscribe to the V8 Sleuth Podcast <\/a><\/p>\n<p>LISTEN NOW!<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 \u2013 Team 18, Formula Ford &amp; AUSCAR<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 \u2013 Super Touring &amp; taking on the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S been seven years in the making and 564 episodes, but Steven Richards has finally joined us on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-788978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}