News emerged late last week that Tickford is looking to field a third Mustang in Adelaide for Team Penske\u2019s Austin Cindric<\/a>, making it the latest Supercars team to be linked to a NASCAR-themed wildcard.<\/p>\nRival teams were informed of that intention, or at least elements of it, last Thursday, with Supercars sign-off required, particularly as Tickford already has a wildcard program running this year.<\/p>\n
While there is currently no news on where that sign-off sits, Tickford has now confirmed that talks with Ford Performance are underway, and that it would like to have a NASCAR driver on the Adelaide grid.<\/p>\n
\u201cTalking about the likelihood\u2026 we\u2019d certainly love to run a program,\u201d said Tickford CEO Simon Brookhouse on Friday at Queensland Raceway.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to do it last year, the timing just didn\u2019t work. The NASCAR season finished very close to Adelaide. This year there is a bit of a gap.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a little bit of water to go under the bridge and nothing has been confirmed. But we\u2019re certainly working towards the possibility of that happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Cindric has emerged as the likely driver for the program should it go ahead, that is a decision Brookhouse says has been left in Ford\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working with Ford Performance and they are working through the drivers they think would work best,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately we\u2019re leaving it in their hands. We\u2019re not particular about the driver. We\u2019re really partnering with Ford Performance if it goes ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
For Brookhouse the wildcard concept could be a key relationship-builder between Supercars and NASCAR.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think for the relationship between NASCAR and Supercars, there\u2019s a great opportunity to start it in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy own personal thoughts [are] if next year you could have a Toyota, a Chev and a Ford going around with NASCAR drivers, that would be great.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill [Brown] is going back over to drive NASCAR, Cam [Waters] has gone over, Shane [van Gisbergen] is doing so well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can build those relationships and have a pathway for our drivers to go there, and have them come back here and showcase their skills, I think the future of the sport is really rosy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brookhouse also hinted that if the program doesn\u2019t get off the ground this year, that won\u2019t be the end of the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve heard the rumours that Kyle Larson was going to come, and I think Kyle Busch another year and whatnot, and it just hasn\u2019t got off the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we do get it off the ground, whether it be this year or beyond, it will be something that we continue into the future.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Cindric is the favourite to drive a Supercars wildcard with Tickford Racing at the Adelaide Grand Final.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,9910,85,43956],"class_list":{"0":"post-52550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-slot2","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tickford-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52550","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=52550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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