{"id":215905,"date":"2025-10-15T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:54:12","slug":"what-jeromy-moores-cadillac-role-means-for-general-motors-supercars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215905\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jeromy Moore&#8217;s Cadillac role means for General Motors Supercars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS breaking during the Repco Bathurst 1000 week that Jeromy Moore has been appointed to an American-based position within General Motors prompted one key question.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for GM\u2019s Supercars program?<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s presence and influence in a centralised tech capacity had been hailed by Chevrolet Supercars squads, especially once an early release from his Triple Eight notice obligations had been secured in July.<\/p>\n<p>Moore is renowned as one of the sharpest minds in Australian motorsport. He was involved in mass success through two stints with Triple Eight separated by a period overseas with Porsche.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight described him as a \u201conce in a lifetime mastermind\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/triple-eight-farewells-once-in-a-lifetime-mastermind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upon farewelling him during the winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see him become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/moore-appointed-to-us-based-cadillac-racing-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cadillac Racing\u2019s LMDh chief engineer across IMSA and WEC<\/a> less than three months later would seem a blow to Camaro Supercars ambitions at a time when a Triple Eight-less future is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bathurst-1000-saturday-hi-res-2-of-448-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237837\"  \/>GM Motorsports\u2019 Supercars racing program manager Simon McNamara. Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not how GM sees it, with several pertinent figures expressing to V8 Sleuth that the Moore revelation came as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more is that according to Simon McNamara, GM Motorsports\u2019 Supercars racing program manager, Moore actually won\u2019t be lost to the manufacturer\u2019s Aussie resource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJJ will lead the Supercars efforts in the US and we have a strategy and plan in place,\u201d McNamara told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if a local replacement would be sought, McNamara simply smiled and repeated: \u201cWe have a strategy and plan in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are set to be eight Camaros on the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship grid, down from 14 this season, given Triple Eight and Brad Jones Racing are joining Ford and Toyota respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Team 18 has taken over homologation responsibilities for GM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-1992-bathurst-1000-16-holden-commodore-vp-percy-grice-model?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/cdn\/shop\/files\/18853_1_117ce395-5a8e-4082-bc9d-1ce1e9786d6b_1024x1024.jpg?v=1758780756\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS breaking during the Repco Bathurst 1000 week that Jeromy Moore has been appointed to an American-based position&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215906,"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-215905","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\/215905","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=215905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}