{"id":523897,"date":"2026-03-07T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:05:15","slug":"anton-de-pasquale-laments-lack-of-pace-as-chevrolet-camaro-struggle-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523897\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton De Pasquale laments lack of pace as Chevrolet Camaro struggle continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENERAL Motors\u2019 spearhead driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1264-Anton-De Pasquale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anton De Pasquale<\/a> conceded his DeWalt Camaro had little in the way of answers for rivals on a hectic Friday afternoon in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big stories from this week has been the form swing away from Chevrolet at Albert Park, having held a perfect 11-from-11 record across its past three visits to now struggling for top 10 representation whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Having been the top GM runner on Thursday in ninth, 10th yesterday for De Pasquale equated to second among the Bowtie contingent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1181-Jack-Le Brocq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Le Brocq<\/a> was sixth for Matt Stone Racing).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/full-tilt-colin-bond-autobiography-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\/08\/Colin-Bond-Full-Tilt_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty hectic race: a lot going on, cars going everywhere,\u201d surmised De Pasquale, who was a race winner last month in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve not really got much to fight with, so that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty set tomorrow to go again and hopefully it\u2019s better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/018-de-Pasquale-EV02-26-MH6_1573-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250003\"  \/>Pic: Supplied\/Mark Horsburgh<\/p>\n<p>Teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-5-David-Reynolds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Reynolds<\/a> meanwhile finished Race 5 in 19th after battling tyre blistering.<\/p>\n<p>De Pasquale and Reynolds are sixth and 13th respectively in the championship after five races.<\/p>\n<p>Another two races are still to play out this weekend, the grids for which will be set via a couple of rapid-fire qualifying sessions this morning from 9am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENERAL Motors\u2019 spearhead driver Anton De Pasquale conceded his DeWalt Camaro had little in the way of answers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-523897","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\/523897","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=523897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}