{"id":175618,"date":"2025-09-28T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175618\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:06:13","slug":"rick-kelly-championship-winning-vz-commdore-triple-champion-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175618\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Kelly Championship winning VZ Commdore, triple champion car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT was at the heart of one of the most controversial V8 Supercars title deciders of all-time, with Rick Kelly\u2019s victorious Toll HSV Dealer Team VZ Commodore continuing to race on in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cityrural.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car<\/a> profile, we catch up with the car\u2019s custodian, Ben Eggelston, who has put a massive effort into restoring the car to its original 2006 specification.<\/p>\n<p>The car not only won the title, but it also finished second in the two enduros at Sandown and Bathurst in two tight finishes, with Rick\u2019s brother, Todd, on loan from the Holden Racing Team.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 2006 title only tells a part of the car\u2019s remarkable story.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Tony D\u2019Alberto used the chassis to claim the Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series crown, while in 2014, as prepared by Eggleston Motorsport, Justin Ruggier claimed the V8 Touring Car Series, making it the only V8 Supercar to claim three titles in as many classes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/the-undercut-unpacking-the-bend-bringing-on-the-mountain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can watch the entire third episode of The Undercut here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WATCH<\/p>\n<p>Rick Kelly\u2019s controversial championship-winning Commodore<\/p>\n<p>In this City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car, we look at the only car to win titles at all three levels of Supercars competition, including with Rick Kelly in 2006 in a drama-charged finale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2025-repco-bathurst-1000-official-program?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756681331_142_2025-repco-bathurst-1000-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT was at the heart of one of the most controversial V8 Supercars title deciders of all-time, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-175618","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-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175618","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=175618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}