{"id":263078,"date":"2025-11-05T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263078\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:06:12","slug":"grove-racing-dale-wood-part-ways-for-2026-supercars-enduros-bathurst-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263078\/","title":{"rendered":"Grove Racing, Dale Wood part ways for 2026 Supercars enduros, Bathurst 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

GROVE Racing has announced Dale Wood<\/a> will not return to its Ryco Enduro Cup line-up for 2026.<\/p>\n

The Porsche Carrera Cup regular played a steady hand in helping Richie Stanaway<\/a> (2024) and Kai Allen<\/a> (2025) to top 10 Bathurst 1000 finishes.<\/p>\n

There is however an influx of top-end talent coming onto the co-driver market including James Courtney<\/a>, Nick Percat<\/a>, Will Davison<\/a>, Richie Stanaway, Bryce Fullwood<\/a> and Jaxon Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Courtney is widely tipped to land at Team 18, but the whereabouts of the others remains a hot topic \u2013 as does whether or not Bathurst-winning Grove co-driver Garth Tander<\/a> will continue.<\/p>\n

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Either way, there\u2019ll be a new face alongside Allen in the #26 come next year\u2019s The Bend 500 and Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so proud to have been a part of Penrite Racing the past two years,\u201d said Wood, who had two prior stints at the Groves\u2019 predecessors Kelly Racing (2009-10, 2019-20).<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing the way the team are growing and to be alongside the team getting the Bathurst win this year are memories I\u2019ll have forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was welcomed by the team every time I walked in the door like I\u2019ve never experienced before and I\u2019m very grateful for this.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to see what next for the team and for myself moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Dale Wood shared this Kelly Racing Commodore with Jack Perkins<\/a> in the 2009 Bathurst 1000. Pic: an1images.com \/ Justin Deeley<\/p>\n

CEO Brenton Grove added: \u201cDale has been a valued member of Grove Racing, contributing to the progress of our main game drivers and playing a key role in Kai\u2019s rookie season.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis professionalism and commitment has not gone unnoticed over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank Dale for his efforts over the past two years and wish him all the best in the next stage of his racing journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wood has 18 Great Race starts under his belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GROVE Racing has announced Dale Wood will not return to its Ryco Enduro Cup line-up for 2026. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-263078","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\/263078","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=263078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}