{"id":13223,"date":"2025-07-22T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13223\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:08:11","slug":"new-triple-eight-holden-zb-commodore-supercar-set-to-debut-at-bathurst-super2-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13223\/","title":{"rendered":"New Triple Eight Holden ZB Commodore Supercar set to debut at Bathurst Super2 round"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE brand-new Holden Supercar which Triple Eight is building is set to debut in the hands of Super2 rookie Ben Gomersall<\/a> on the 2025 Repco Bathurst 1000 undercard.<\/p>\n

V8 Sleuth last month revealed Triple Eight had committed to erecting a new Gen2 chassis which will become a ZB Commodore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A timeline had not been specified at that stage, but car owner Jason Gomersall has affirmed the Mount Panorama Super2 round in October is the target.<\/p>\n

Ben, 19, holds eighth in the standings at the halfway stage of the season, having opened his campaign with a round podium at Sydney Motorsport Park.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ben Gomersall. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

He will stay on in 888A-039 for next month\u2019s visit to Queensland Raceway before making the switch, all things going to plan amid Triple Eight\u2019s busy workload behind-the-scenes as it prepares to become Ford\u2019s Supercars homologation team for 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat car that he is currently in, there\u2019s a lot of brand-new stuff on it which will transfer across to the new chassis,\u201d Gomersall Sr told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason we\u2019re actually doing it is because I\u2019ve got that many ZB or COTF car bits \u2013 engines, gearboxes, suspension \u2013 I figured, well, build a new chassis and have the benefit of it now and then when this program is finished in a year or two, I\u2019ll have four complete cars to sell rather than three complete cars and a bunch of spares.\u201d<\/p>\n

That will also afford the flexibility of having a spare chassis for the time being in case of emergency, either for Triple Eight\u2019s own team or to lease to another competitor.<\/p>\n

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Fellow Triple Eight Super2 driver Jackson Walls<\/a> is racing 888A-033, which was converted to ZB specification in the off-season after Gomersall\u2019s other COTF machine, 888A-050, was involved in a heavy crash<\/a> at last year\u2019s Adelaide finale.<\/p>\n

888A-050 will also be rebuilt, Gomersall confirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s due to be repaired later this year. Obviously Triple Eight has got a fair bit on at the moment, so it\u2019s parked in the corner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will see another day. Whether it ever races again, keep in mind it was a Red Bull Whincup car, so that will be a good collector car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until Triple Eight\u2019s new rig hits the track, Walkinshaw Andretti United boasts the honour of having the newest Holden in the Super2 field, Campbell Logan<\/a>\u2019s Commodore having debuted in February.<\/p>\n

TCM Falcon tastes Gold Coast concrete<\/p>\n

Terry Wyhoon clips the ever-lurking concrete wall on the streets of Surfers Paradise in this Touring Car Masters video from 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE brand-new Holden Supercar which Triple Eight is building is set to debut in the hands of Super2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-13223","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\/13223","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=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}