{"id":359873,"date":"2025-12-20T06:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:14:14","slug":"summer-grill-inside-gms-response-to-t8-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359873\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER GRILL: Inside GM&#8217;s response to T8 defection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VSyuXL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1015323 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/KTM_Full-Send_728x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GM\u2019s Australian boss Jess Bala opens up about the brand\u2019s Supercars fightback in the wake of Triple Eight\u2019s defection in the latest episode of the KTM Summer Grill.<\/p>\n<p>The year began with a shock for General Motors with the unexpected news that its homologation squad was jumping sides to the Blue Oval.<\/p>\n<p>It sparked a sensational fightback from GM which held onto the likes of Jeromy Moore and Craig Lowndes and signed Team 18 as its new factory squad.<\/p>\n<p>GM ANZ managing director Jess Bala joins the KTM Summer Grill to discuss all that and more (including the ongoing search for a star driver) in a revealing chat.<\/p>\n<p>Every day of the KTM Summer Grill we\u2019re giving away a KTM prize pack including a bottle opener, straw hat, drawstring bag, a cross-body bag and a stubby cooler. Enter below for your chance to win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktm.com\/en-au\/powerdeals\/full-send-less-spend.html?utm_source=speedcafe&amp;utm_medium=platinumpartner&amp;utm_campaign=fullsend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1015289 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/KTM_Full-Send_970x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GM\u2019s Australian boss Jess Bala opens up about the brand\u2019s Supercars fightback in the wake of Triple Eight\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359874,"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-359873","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\/359873","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=359873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}