{"id":472964,"date":"2026-02-11T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472964\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:09:20","slug":"every-2026-supercars-driver-engineer-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472964\/","title":{"rendered":"Every 2026 Supercars driver\/engineer combination"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUST half the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship field will feature tried and tested driver\/engineer combinations.<\/p>\n

Of the 24 full-time entries, only 12 have carried over from last year\u2019s main game grid. Team 18 was the last squad to publicly confirm its race engineers, on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the continuity at the upper end of pitlane \u2013 in fact, Kai Allen<\/a> is the only 2025 finalist with a new engineer, Riccardo Corte having come aboard from Ferrari\u2019s Formula 1 program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Further down the list, there\u2019s change aplenty \u2013 including complete shake-ups at Brad Jones Racing and Matt Stone Racing (the latter having effected a double driver swap).<\/p>\n

Tickford\u2019s Cam Waters<\/a> and Sam Potter are the longest standing combination in the field, entering their eighth successive season together.<\/p>\n

Every driver\/race engineer combination in the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship<\/p>\n

* Walls\/Baldry have worked together in Super2, but not yet in the Supercars Championship
** Ojeda\/Gilliam continue on after spending the final two rounds of 2025 together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUST half the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship field will feature tried and tested driver\/engineer combinations. Of the 24…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-472964","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\/472964","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=472964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}