{"id":53397,"date":"2025-08-08T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53397\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:23:39","slug":"supercars-news-murdered-out-betty-klimenko-gets-dream-erebus-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53397\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: \u2018Murdered out\u2019: Betty Klimenko gets \u2018dream\u2019 Erebus livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/527939473_18520500712044418_6449208865156897854_n.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Murdered out\u2019: Klimenko gets \u2018dream\u2019 Erebus livery\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tErebus has gone dark for Cooper Murray&#8217;s Ipswich livery. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The squad revealed the look via social media on Thursday evening in a post that said the car is team owner Betty Klimenko\u2019s \u201cdream livery \u2013 murdered out, all black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Murdered out\u2019 is a slang term for cars that have been given the all-black treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Klimenko quipped at the announcement of Erebus Motorsport\u2019s Supercars entry back in 2012 that she wanted her cars to run in plain black.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>She named the team after the Greek God of Darkness and its first Mercedes-AMG E63 Supercar initially tested in matte black before sponsor colours were adopted for the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Erebus is without a full-time sponsor for its #99 machine this year and has run various brands on the car across the year to date.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Raceway livery includes promotion of Rural Aid Australia, which provides support \u2013 including water, hay and counselling assistance \u2013 to rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>Klimenko\u2019s support of the organisation included a $50,000 donation made during last year\u2019s Bathurst 1000 weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Bathurst winning team owner was in 2022 awarded an Order of Australia for significant service to motorsport and to charitable organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erebus has gone dark for Cooper Murray&#8217;s Ipswich livery. Image: Supplied The squad revealed the look via social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,44543,44544,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-53397","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-cooper-murray","11":"tag-erebus-motorsport","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53397","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=53397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}