{"id":274822,"date":"2025-11-10T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:10:11","slug":"jack-perkins-zach-bates-to-race-toyotas-on-sandown-supercars-support-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274822\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Perkins, Zach Bates to race Toyotas on Sandown Supercars support card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERCARS veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-48-Jack-Perkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Perkins<\/a> and 2026 rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2747-Zach-Bates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Bates<\/a> will race on the Penrite Oil Sandown 500 support card this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The duo have signed on as guest drivers for the final round of the Toyota GR Cup season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a role that has been filled by various well-known figures over the various rounds, most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-54-Warren-Luff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Luff<\/a> and Chris Pither on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gold-coast-friday2-59-of-169-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240348\"  \/>Chris Pither at the wheel of a Toyota 86. Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p>For Perkins, it\u2019s an extension of a racing year that has taken in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, American Trans Am (both in Toyotas) and Repco Supercars Championship enduros with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a> at the Blanchard Racing Team.<\/p>\n<p>For Bates, it keeps him behind the wheel between the final two rounds of his Super2 career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/bates-inks-matt-stone-racing-full-time-supercars-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before he graduates to the main game next year with Matt Stone Racing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erebus Academy talent Oliver Wickham leads the GR Cup standings heading into the decider, with Jett Murray \u2013 the younger brother of Erebus Supercars racer Cooper \u2013 his nearest threat.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 It\u2019s Finals Time!<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down the latest in the world of Supercars \u2013 Gold Coast, Sandown and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS veteran Jack Perkins and 2026 rookie Zach Bates will race on the Penrite Oil Sandown 500 support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274823,"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-274822","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\/274822","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=274822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}