{"id":34566,"date":"2025-07-31T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34566\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:03:11","slug":"opinion-triple-eights-ominous-message-in-bombshell-contract-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34566\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Triple Eight&#8217;s ominous message in bombshell contract announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-inter font-normal normal antialiased text-md mb-6 gap-x-1 leading-6 md:text-base md:leading-7 text-dark-grey-2\">History has proven that no matter what changes there may be in the world of Triple Eight, the winning machine keeps rolling on.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the team signed a young Melburnian who had impressed alongside the late Jason Richards in the 2005 enduros, but was otherwise largely unproven. He would play apprentice to 2005 recruit Craig Lowndes.<\/p>\n<p>In the space of three seasons, Jamie Whincup had three Bathurst wins and a championship to his name, on his way to becoming the greatest Supercars driver of all-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History has proven that no matter what changes there may be in the world of Triple Eight, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-34566","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\/34566","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=34566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}