{"id":282877,"date":"2025-11-14T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282877\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:54:14","slug":"erebus-motorsport-ceo-barry-ryan-to-step-back-as-jack-le-brocqs-engineer-aidan-graham-to-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282877\/","title":{"rendered":"Erebus Motorsport CEO Barry Ryan to step back as Jack Le Brocq&#8217;s engineer, Aidan Graham to debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATT Stone Racing won\u2019t be the only team blooding a debutant race engineer at this weekend\u2019s Penrite Oil Sandown 500.<\/p>\n<p>Just as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/matt-stone-racing-opts-for-engineering-reshuffle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oli Boone is stepping up from data engineering duties<\/a> to lead the charge on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a>\u2019s #10 Bendix Camaro, Erebus is similarly giving the prodigy of its brains trust his first big break.<\/p>\n<p>That is Aidan Graham, who will call the shots on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1181-Jack-Le Brocq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Le Brocq<\/a>\u2019s #9 Tyrepower Chev for Sandown and Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Erebus has brought in Daniel Frencham \u2013 who has several years\u2019 experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-354-Garry-Rogers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garry Rogers<\/a> Motorsport \u2013 to fill Graham\u2019s shoes as the data engineer across both cars.<\/p>\n<p>All this allows Barry Ryan to resume more of a management role at the track, having juggled CEO and race engineering responsibilities through the first 11 rounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/erebus-motorsport-from-challengers-to-champions-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\/11\/erebus-champions-book_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Le Brocq, who will return to MSR in the coming off-season, welcomed the opportunity for Graham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting. Aidan has never been on the phone in the main game before, so it\u2019s pretty cool, thrown in the deep end there and put him under pressure,\u201d the two-time race winner told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got two half-hour sessions for him to iron out all his little bits and pieces and then we\u2019re straight into qualifying on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an awesome experience for Aidan and a good chance for him to get a couple of rounds under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA baptism of fire for the young fella \u2013 it\u2019s going to be good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to working with him, we get along really well and he\u2019s a smart young fella.\u201d<\/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-friday2-12-of-169-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240771\"  \/>Jack Le Brocq (right) with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2803-Jarrod-Hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Hughes<\/a>. Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p>Erebus should have a solid baseline to work from at Sandown, Le Brocq himself having challenged for a podium at last year\u2019s \u2018500\u2019 before being the victim of an aggressive late-race move by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2716-Matt-Payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Payne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s super soft tyre for Saturday, so same as what we ran here last year, and the (new) soft tyre has thrown a spanner in the works all year which has been interesting,\u201d said Le Brocq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got a good base so there\u2019s plenty to build on from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to find a bit of form for our side of the garage so fingers crossed we can get that back this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a place I love and usually go well at, so fingers crossed we can get back to where we should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first of two Repco Supercars Championship practice sessions today starts 1:30pm AEDT.<\/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":"MATT Stone Racing won\u2019t be the only team blooding a debutant race engineer at this weekend\u2019s Penrite Oil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282878,"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-282877","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\/282877","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=282877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}