TRIPLE Eight is officially pulling out of both the Dunlop Super2 and GT4 Australia series in 2026.
In addition to changing over to Ford and leading the Blue Oval’s charge as far as being its new Supercars homologation team, Triple Eight is also establishing an in-house engine program and is expanding to running three Mustangs on a full-time basis.
That all has come at the price of needing to scale back its activities outside of the Repco Supercars Championship – at least for now.
“That is confirmed, yes,” managing director Jamie Whincup told V8 Sleuth.
“Just with so much going on next year, we’ve decided to make sure we don’t run ourselves too thin and therefore we won’t be competing in Super2 or GT4.
Triple Eight’s Broc Feeney, Steve Blackmore, Will Brown and Earl Evans. Pic: Ross Gibb
“But we will look to get back into Super2 as soon as Gen3 is eligible and we’re very much hoping that’s 2027, so we would only have 12 months out and then we’re back in again.”
The topic of when that transition happens has been hotly debated, with many others pushing for a 2028 changeover.
Triple Eight had only just returned to Super2 this year, running two ZB Commodores for Jackson Walls and Ben Gomersall. Walls will graduate to the main game next year via the SCT entry which is coming to Banyo from Brad Jones Racing.
Triple Eight has thrice won the Super2 title, with Andrew Thompson in 2011, Broc Feeney in 2021 and Declan Fraser in 2022.