{"id":153551,"date":"2025-09-19T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153551\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:12:10","slug":"supercars-news-david-reynolds-camaro-turns-purple-for-bathurst-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153551\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: David Reynolds Camaro turns purple for Bathurst 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Reynolds-Tradie-purple.jpg\" alt=\"Reynolds Camaro turns purple for Bathurst 1000\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe new-look Tradie Camaro. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The latest look is based on the drink brand\u2019s \u2018G\u2019Day Grape\u2019 flavour and follows earlier schemes promoting Lemon Squash and Creamy Soda varieties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome to reveal the Tradie Energy Camaro in purple for Bathurst,\u201d said Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTradie keep mixing it up with their colours and flavours this year and the G\u2019Day Grape theme looks unreal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBathurst is the biggest race of the year, so it\u2019s the perfect stage to show off something new and bold like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TRADIE_RENDER_16x9_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reynolds and Holdsworth will carry these colours. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds and co-driver Lee Holdsworth are hoping for a stronger showing on the Mountain than achieved last weekend at The Bend, where they finished 13th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bend was a tough 500km with no Safety Cars and not much opportunity to move forward, but we brought the car home in one piece and learnt a lot across the weekend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLee did a great job in his stints, and we\u2019re building momentum as we head into the Great Race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBathurst is always unpredictable, but I know we\u2019ve got a strong pairing and the team behind us to put on a good show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TRADIE_RENDER_16x9_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the third Tradie livery of 2025. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds is currently 18th in the points standings \u2013 the lowest ranked of the drivers who can still <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-who-is-in-finals-after-the-bend-500-enduro-cup-standings-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mathematically make it into the Finals on points.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new livery was revealed this morning on Seven\u2019s Sunrise, promoting a rematch of a <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-sunrise-matt-shirvington-vs-david-reynolds-race-sydney-500-video-reaction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">race undertaken between the car and Olympian Matt Shirvington<\/a> in Sydney earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The rematch will take place on the pit straight at Mount Panorama on the Friday of race week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-toyota-team-18-charlie-schwerkolt-gm-homologation-team-wau-supra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Schwerkolt opens up on Team 18 Toyota \u2018U-turn\u2019<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new-look Tradie Camaro. Image: Supplied The latest look is based on the drink brand\u2019s \u2018G\u2019Day Grape\u2019 flavour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,12356,42656,102747,806,805,803,804,85,42657],"class_list":{"0":"post-153551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bathurst-1000","11":"tag-david-reynolds","12":"tag-lee-holdsworth","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-team-18"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153551","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=153551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}