{"id":413786,"date":"2026-01-15T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413786\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:50:13","slug":"matt-stone-racing-secures-commercial-firepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413786\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Stone Racing secures commercial firepower"},"content":{"rendered":"

MATT Stone Racing has made a key appointment ahead of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship, hiring Nick Testu as its head of commercial.<\/p>\n

Testu brings plenty of experience, having spent eight years at Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing before a more recent stint with Viva Energy Australia as a sponsorship specialist.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, DJR has just appointed former Viva executive general manager (consumer) Megan Foster as its new CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MSR heads into the new season with Bendix continuing as the naming rights backer on the #10 Camaro of Zach Bates<\/a>, while Tyrepower has been confirmed to be following Jack Le Brocq<\/a> as a major sponsor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time of growth at Matt Stone Racing, and I\u2019m excited to join the team at the start of this new chapter,\u201d Testu told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatt and his team have done an amazing job consistently punching above their weight thanks to their passion, effort and expertise.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stone surname is iconic in Australian motor racing, but we\u2019re not looking in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatt clearly wants to take the team to the next level and win the biggest trophies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really believe we have a fantastic platform to build on: a great group of people here at HQ, very loyal and committed commercial partners, and a passionate fanbase. I can\u2019t wait to get stuck in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Testu adds to a hierarchy led by Matt Stone himself, with Paul Forgie the team\u2019s technical coordinator and Jack Bellotti head of engineering.<\/p>\n

In addition to its main game efforts, MSR is returning to Super2 this year with Ayrton Hodson locked in<\/a> and potentially further announcements to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MATT Stone Racing has made a key appointment ahead of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship, hiring Nick Testu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413787,"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-413786","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\/413786","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=413786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}