{"id":381105,"date":"2025-12-30T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381105\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:32:32","slug":"ex-bond-sierra-heads-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381105\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bond Sierra heads to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE car behind the final two race wins of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-312-Colin-Bond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Bond<\/a>\u2019s illustrious ATCC career will feature in New Zealand\u2019s 2026 Historic Touring Cars field.<\/p>\n<p>The Caltex-liveried Ford Sierra RS500 chalked up 80 starts in the hands of Bond, including for his third-place finish with Alan Jones in the 1988 Great Race.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for his versatile prowess, Bond\u2019s final two ATCC wins both came in 1990, at Lakeside and Mallala.<\/p>\n<p>This very car notably popped up at the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000, driven by Chris Stillwell in the V8 Sleuth Heritage Revival category.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 HTCNZ will involve two stops at Ruapuna Raceway, including on the support card for Supercars\u2019 inaugural ITM Christchurch Super440 on April 17-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/full-tilt-colin-bond-autobiography-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\/12\/Colin-Bond-Full-Tilt_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE car behind the final two race wins of Colin Bond\u2019s illustrious ATCC career will feature in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381106,"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-381105","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\/381105","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=381105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}