{"id":502546,"date":"2026-02-25T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502546\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:16:13","slug":"image-racing-enters-ex-shane-van-gisbergen-tim-slade-falcon-supercars-for-adelaide-motorsport-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502546\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Racing enters ex-Shane van Gisbergen, Tim Slade Falcon Supercars for Adelaide Motorsport Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMAGE Racing will make its return to the public event stage just one week after being a rare absence from the Dunlop Super2 Series field.<\/p>\n<p>Having run three ZB Commodores in 2025 in collaboration with the Erebus Academy, Image was missing altogether from last weekend\u2019s Sydney season-opener.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first Super2 round the Victorian squad has missed since Sandown 2016.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no official word on if\/when Image will return to the Super2 arena, it will have a two-fold presence at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival on February 28-March 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-falcon-chronicles-eb-ef-el-au-book?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/falcon-chronicles_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team owner Terry Wyhoon, himself a two-time Bathurst 1000 starter, will drive the SBR FG03 chassis in which Shane van Gisbergen became a Supercars race winner 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Wyhoon\u2019s teenaged son Ryan meanwhile will drive another ex-Stone Brothers Racing Falcon, the Lucky 7-backed Ford that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-14-Tim-Slade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Slade<\/a> campaigned in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Image entered that car in the final couple of rounds of Super3 in 2024 before the third-tier category ceased to exist, for Antonio Molluso at Sandown and Tony Auddino at Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>The car which Wyhoon Sr is steering last raced in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGE Racing will make its return to the public event stage just one week after being a rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-502546","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\/502546","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=502546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}