{"id":411453,"date":"2026-01-14T03:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411453\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:42:13","slug":"motorsport-news-jess-dane-departs-general-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411453\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport news: Jess Dane departs General Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessica-Dane-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jess Dane departs General Motors\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJess Dane during her time at Triple Eight.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>GM announced overnight that Dane\u2019s former role of Corvette Racing program manager will now be filled by Andrea Hidalgo \u2013 a senior engineer within the program.<\/p>\n<p>Dane is reported to have departed GM entirely, although there is no further word on her plans.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of Triple Eight founder Roland Dane relocated to the United States in 2024 alongside partner Shane van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n<p>She joined GM in May of that year, initially under the title of motorsport integration manager before stepping into the Corvette role.<\/p>\n<p>Corvette\u2019s expanding GT3 program will this year include a two-car Johor Motorsport effort at the Bathurst 12 Hour.<\/p>\n<p>Dane became a shareholder of Triple Eight in her own right in 2015 but sold out of the business midway through 2024 following her US move.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Jess Dane during her time at Triple Eight.&#13; GM announced overnight that Dane\u2019s former role of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,217666,806,805,803,804,9910,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-411453","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-jess-dane","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-slot2","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411453","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=411453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}