{"id":287461,"date":"2025-11-16T03:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:15:11","slug":"grove-locks-in-veteran-for-2026-enduro-co-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287461\/","title":{"rendered":"Grove locks in veteran for 2026 enduro co-drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GROVE Racing has secured half of its new co-driver lineup for next year\u2019s Enduro Cup, confirming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-14-Tim-Slade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Slade<\/a> will join the team for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Bathurst 1000-winning Ford squad were slated to have two new recruits alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2716-Matt-Payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Payne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2726-Kai-Allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Allen<\/a> next year, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/tander-announces-retirement-from-supercars-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Tander\u2019s retirement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/grove-racing-makes-co-driver-call\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its decision to part ways with Dale Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slade will fill one of those berths, thought to be a on two-year deal that will put him in Allen\u2019s #26 Mustang at The Bend and Mount Panorama next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-bathurst-1000-winner-100-ford-mustang-payne-tander-model-pre-order?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\/ACD18F25BWW_PitBoard_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old arrives at the team off the back of a strong run with Matt Stone Racing alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a> in this year\u2019s enduros, delivering a fifth-place finish at The Bend before an engine-cruelled run at Bathurst.<\/p>\n<p>Slade is expected to turn his first Grove Mustang laps at the post-event Sandown ride day tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, V8 Sleuth understands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a> is leading the race for the co-drive alongside Matt Payne in the team\u2019s #19 entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GROVE Racing has secured half of its new co-driver lineup for next year\u2019s Enduro Cup, confirming that Tim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287462,"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-287461","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\/287461","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=287461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}