{"id":26612,"date":"2025-07-28T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26612\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:13:10","slug":"xiberras-knack-for-blooding-fresh-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26612\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiberras\u2019 knack for blooding fresh talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETER Xiberras\u2019 reputation for giving fresh talent a crack in Supercars machinery takes another step today.<\/p>\n<p>PremiAir Racing is at Queensland Raceway today for an evaluation day involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2680-Nash-Morris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nash Morris<\/a>, Nathan Herne and Cody Brewczynski.<\/p>\n<p>For Morris, who races in Super2 for Tickford Autosport, the opportunity follows ride day laps with PremiAir in February \u2013 and is ultimately expected to lead to him getting the nod to co-drive with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1189-Richie-Stanaway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richie Stanaway<\/a> at The Bend and Bathurst.<\/p>\n<p>Herne and PremiAir have now long flirted with the prospect of an official alliance, the Trans Am star\u2019s first laps with the team coming back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>As for Brewczynski, a breakout season in V8 SuperUtes has culminated in these maiden laps in a Supercar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-commodore-chronicles-vn-vp-vr-vs-book?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\/07\/commodore-chronicles_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Xiberras has also offered chances to open-wheel ace Joey Mawson, Porsche frontrunners Harri Jones (before his 2025 Team 18 call-up) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2800-Max-Vidau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Vidau<\/a>, and others from Kaleb Ngatoa to Nic Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s probably a thousand young men and women that would love to do this, and I\u2019ve only got limited seats and all that sort of stuff,\u201d Xiberras told V8 Sleuth when asked about his tendency to give the likes of Brewczynski a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do like giving people a go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it goes somewhere, great for them, and if it doesn\u2019t, we\u2019ll just give them a go and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2747-Zach-Bates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Bates<\/a> is also testing today at QR, ahead of his Repco Supercars Championship debut in next month\u2019s Ipswich Super440.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PETER Xiberras\u2019 reputation for giving fresh talent a crack in Supercars machinery takes another step today. PremiAir Racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-26612","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\/26612","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=26612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}