{"id":454961,"date":"2026-02-03T04:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:08:15","slug":"australian-female-motorsport-driver-alice-buckley-enters-super2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454961\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian female motorsport driver Alice Buckley enters Super2 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALICE Buckley will continue blazing a trail on the road to Supercars by contesting the 2026 Dunlop Super2 Series with her own team.<\/p>\n<p>A General Motors prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Buckley made waves last year in the TA2 Muscle Car Series. The teenager also won the Toyota 86 Scholarship Series title and ended up testing a Matt Stone Racing Commodore in December.<\/p>\n<p>She will now head into her maiden season in Supercars\u2019 feeder category, racing a Triple Eight-built Holden under the Alice Buckley Motorsport banner with engineering and mechanical support from MSR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be racing the Holden Commodore in the Dunlop Super2 Series this year. I\u2019m most excited about it being the feeder category for Supercars, and that\u2019s where I want to go,\u201d Buckley said, whose Castrol-backed livery has also broken cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/official-2026-repco-supercars-championship-season-guide-pre-order?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/season-guide-2026_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve decided to make the jump this year to a really exciting program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, my goals for going to Super2 are that I want to get rookie of the year, and if I can get in the top 10, I will be absolutely stoked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a driver has always been a dream since I was a little kid racing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a>, so it\u2019s been an absolute dream to get into Super2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s been very supportive of not only having a young female, but a young female driver that is getting some good results at the moment. So I\u2019ve been very fortunate to have the sport being very accepting and pushing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buckley, who will also race in TA2, described MSR as a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gold-coast-sunday1-8-of-62-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246164\"  \/>Alice Buckley. Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p>MSR is one of four GM teams in the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program is about creating the right environment for development,\u201d said team owner Matt Stone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlice is a proven race winner and has shown exceptional potential, and by supporting her with our engineering and race expertise, we\u2019re aiming to give her the best possible platform to grow and succeed in Super2 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSR will also run two of its own entries this year in Super2, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2865-Ayrton-Hodson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ayrton Hodson<\/a> and Tommy Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The last female driver to race in Supercars was Simona De Silvestro as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing wildcard at the 2023 Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALICE Buckley will continue blazing a trail on the road to Supercars by contesting the 2026 Dunlop Super2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-454961","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\/454961","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=454961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}