{"id":561720,"date":"2026-03-24T19:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:17:20","slug":"nick-percat-grace-hayden-join-shannons-speedseries-tv-team-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561720\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Percat, Grace Hayden join Shannons SpeedSeries TV team for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIX-TIME Supercars race winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a> will add a string to his bow with a call-up to the Shannons SpeedSeries broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p>Percat is part of a six-pronged television line-up named to cover the 2026 SRO events, starting with Phillip Island this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old retired from full-time racing at the end of last season and will co-drive with Triple Eight\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1545-Broc-Feeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broc Feeney<\/a> in this year\u2019s enduros.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Hayden, a sports presenter who is the daughter of Australian cricket legend Matt, is another new face alongside an otherwise familiar mix of Greg Rust, Chris Stubbs, Richard Craill and Charlie Barlow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting to have a broadcast team that has a mix of familiar faces and new talent that will cater to all types of sports fans across the country,\u201d said SRO Motorsports Australia CEO Ben McMellan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-albert-park-10-chevrolet-camaro-nick-percat-model-pre-order?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\/ACD18C25F_5f74ceb8-fc80-4b7f-95ba-907194dbeb2d_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a perfectly diverse team that will offer unrivalled motorsport coverage, with Greg Rust and Richard Craill, who have been long-time members of the Shannons SpeedSeries coverage, and both Chris Stubbs and Charlie Barlow, who have played key roles in the success of the platform\u2019s coverage in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing in Nick Percat and Grace Hayden will inject new life into the series with fresh ideas, and it will go a long way in assisting the Shannons SpeedSeries\u2019 growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to have such a strong cast full of experience across all areas and I am confident that the group will produce a high-quality broadcast, which I am sure many in the industry are looking forward to watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Key categories for the SpeedSeries include GT World Challenge Australia, GT4 Australia and Mustang Cup Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports and Kayo will be the exclusive home of live SpeedSeries action this year.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grace-Hayden-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252347\"  \/>Grace Hayden. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIX-TIME Supercars race winner Nick Percat will add a string to his bow with a call-up to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-561720","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\/561720","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=561720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}