{"id":565081,"date":"2026-03-26T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565081\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:43:17","slug":"team-18-boss-adrian-burgess-lauds-general-motors-grant-mcpherson-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565081\/","title":{"rendered":"Team 18 boss Adrian Burgess lauds General Motors’ Grant McPherson signing"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE boss of General Motors\u2019 Supercars homologation team, Adrian Burgess, has hailed the manufacturer\u2019s signing of Grant McPherson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burgess is at the helm of Team 18, which has vowed to fly the flag for Chevrolet and drive collaboration across its four remaining squads.<\/p>\n

Accomplished engineer McPherson will be a core cog in that \u2013 once he finishes up at Grove Racing \u2013 bringing technical expertise to the table including to manage newly established GM alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody is happy about that move apart from Grove obviously,\u201d Burgess said on MotorRacing 360.<\/p>\n

ANALYSIS: What\u2019s next for Grove Racing after raid?<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Erebus Motorsport\u2019s Barry Ryan, Team 18\u2019s Adrian Burgess and PremiAir Racing\u2019s Roland Dane. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another clear indication that GM are invested in what we\u2019re doing and they\u2019re going to put the resources behind the program, not necessarily behind one team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all trying to work together, we have got a very collaborative approach as to how we\u2019re going about it and there\u2019s a lot of information sharing, but having the likes of \u2018Shippy\u2019 (McPherson) and \u2018JJ\u2019 (Jeromy Moore) sat there in the background supplementing the program is only going to be a good thing for us in the long run.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese things don\u2019t change overnight, there\u2019s no silver bullets, but having those guys and knowing they\u2019re in your corner is a great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

GM is also known to be in ongoing pursuit of star Grove driver Matt Payne<\/a>, supposedly to place at Team 18 initially before facilitating a career move abroad.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

David Reynolds<\/a> would be the one to make way if that were to occur, with Burgess firm in asserting the team\u2019s ambitions but equally clear that they need to deliver for the 2025 Bathurst 1000 runner-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proof will be in the pudding: if he\u2019s winning races for us, then why would we want to make a change?\u201d said Burgess.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if there\u2019s a better solution out there longer term, then we have to look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reynolds holds 12th in the standings, seven places behind teammate Anton De Pasquale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE boss of General Motors\u2019 Supercars homologation team, Adrian Burgess, has hailed the manufacturer\u2019s signing of Grant McPherson.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-565081","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\/565081","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=565081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}