{"id":438126,"date":"2026-01-26T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:38:24","slug":"holden-racing-team-endurance-winner-immortalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438126\/","title":{"rendered":"Holden Racing Team endurance winner immortalised"},"content":{"rendered":"

A CLASSIC Holden Racing Team Commodore is being produced for V8 Supercar fans to enjoy \u2013 in 1:18 scale.<\/p>\n

The 1997 Tickford 500-winning HRT Commodore VS driven to victory by Greg Murphy and Craig Lowndes<\/a> is being produced by Biante Model Cars in 1:18 scale with pre orders open here now on the V8 Sleuth Superstore.<\/a><\/p>\n

The victory came in a brand new #15 Mobil-backed Commodore that was making its race debut that weekend as Lowndes returned for his first race in Australia of \u201997 after a season racing Formula 3000 open wheelers in Europe.<\/p>\n

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Murphy, who had replaced Lowndes that year as the full-time pilot of the factory team\u2019s #15 entry, qualified sixth after the engine cut out during his Top 10 Shootout lap.<\/p>\n

Race day was wet and the duo and their Bridgestone-shod Commodore led 103 of the 157 laps completed before the race was finished due to the 4.45pm local cut off time.<\/p>\n

The victory gave Murphy and Lowndes their second straight Sandown 500 endurance race win, leading home Larry Perkins<\/a> and Russell Ingall\u2019s Castrol Commodore by nearly a full lap.<\/p>\n

Presented in premium packaging and accompanied by an individually numbered Certificate of Authenticity, this 1:18 model is a must-have for fans of Greg Murphy, Craig Lowndes, and the glory era of the Holden Racing Team.<\/p>\n

FROM THE FILES: MARK SKAIFE \u2018CONTROL FREAK\u2019 HOLDEN TV COMMERCIAL<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CLASSIC Holden Racing Team Commodore is being produced for V8 Supercar fans to enjoy \u2013 in 1:18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-438126","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\/438126","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=438126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}