{"id":328730,"date":"2025-12-05T05:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328730\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:14:17","slug":"walkinshaws-last-commodores-to-roll-out-of-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328730\/","title":{"rendered":"Walkinshaw\u2019s last Commodores to roll out of Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Walkinshaw family\u2019s last Holden ties are to be broken with Walkinshaw Andretti United\u2019s last Commodore race cars set to be leaving the team\u2019s Clayton, Melbourne, workshop.<\/p>\n<p>WAU CEO Bruce Stewart told V8 Sleuth this week that the team\u2019s pair of ZB Commodores \u2013 driven in this year\u2019s Dunlop Super2 Series by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2864-Matt-Hillyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Hillyer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2798-Campbell-Logan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Campbell Logan<\/a> \u2013 are on the market for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The car raced by Logan this year \u2013 chassis WR 031 \u2013 was a brand-new build for this year and has only competed in six rounds and 12 races of Super2 competition.<\/p>\n<p>The car raced by Hillyer this year \u2013 chassis WR 018 \u2013 has had a long life with the team and been raced by a range of well-known names in Supercars including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-12-Lee-Holdsworth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Holdsworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-1?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\/10\/V8Sleuth-Magazine-1_91f7f282-3ced-4ad8-9031-10de31dcd2de_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It started its life as a VF Commodore customer chassis for Tony D\u2019Alberto before returning to the Walkinshaw fold.<\/p>\n<p>WR 018 was later converted to ZB specification and was used by IndyCar aces James Hinchcliffe and Alexander Rossi for their wildcard entry at Bathurst in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Its last \u2018main game\u2019 WAU race came via another wildcard entry, in 2022 at Hidden Valley, with now-PremiAir Racing signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1544-Jayden-Ojeda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Ojeda<\/a> at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darwin-Ojeda-Best-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56516\"  \/>Jayden Ojeda runs ahead of fellow wildcard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1547-Zak-Best\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zak Best<\/a> at Hidden Valley. Pic: Walkinshaw Andretti United<\/p>\n<p>Later in the year the car was leased to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1233-Matt-Chahda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Chahda<\/a> Motorsport and raced at Bathurst in Caltex colours with Chahda and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2667-Jaylyn-Robotham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylyn Robotham<\/a> driving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re keen to find new homes for these cars,\u201d Stewart told V8 Sleuth this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll include technical data for the right buyer in the deal too. We want to see these chassis find new homes; they are the perfect cars for the Super2 Series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-short-sleeve-t-shirt?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\/12\/sleuth-t-shirt-1_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cars are available now and each includes an engine in the package, as well as a commitment to service engines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gen2 cars \u2013 including the ZB Commodore and Mustang \u2013 will have two more years of competition life in Super2 given the recent decision to introduce Gen3 chassis from 2028.<\/p>\n<p>WAU\u2019s move to Toyota for 2026 will see it solely focus on the Repco Supercars Championship next year with a pair of GR Supras for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Mostert<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2748-Ryan-Wood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wood<\/a> in addition to its Academy program of GR Cup 86 Toyotas.<\/p>\n<p>The Walkinshaw and Holden history dates back to the formation of Holden Special Vehicles and the Holden Racing Team in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The former HSV and HRT sites at Clayton have been demolished in recent times to make way for a new business park development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Walkinshaw family\u2019s last Holden ties are to be broken with Walkinshaw Andretti United\u2019s last Commodore race cars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328731,"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-328730","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\/328730","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=328730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}