{"id":567180,"date":"2026-03-27T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:47:15","slug":"team-18-supercars-wildcards-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567180\/","title":{"rendered":"Team 18 Supercars wildcard\u2019s wish"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NUMBER of firsts await an excited Bayley Hall<\/a> in 2026, starting with his first Supercars livery reveal tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Team 18 is unleashing its Supercheap Auto wildcard look ahead of Hall\u2019s main game debut in a solo capacity at Queensland Raceway in August, after which he\u2019ll partner Craig Lowndes<\/a> at The Bend 500 and Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a giant opportunity for the 22-year-old, yet one can\u2019t help but ponder the prospect of him racing a Supercar at his home track on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because of the extent to which Hall has been unstoppable on the streets of Surfers Paradise in Porsche Carrera Cup Australia.<\/p>\n

Hall in fact has won each of the past seven Carrera Cup races on the Gold Coast (2023-25). That accounts for all but one of his race wins in the category, the exception being in Adelaide 2024.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bayley Hall on his way to a Gold Coast win in 2023. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n

Asked if he\u2019d wish for a chance to race a Gen3 Camaro Supercar at the glitzy concrete canyon, Hall replied: \u201cOne million percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think these things over the kerbs would be unreal. I just love that track.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something about scraping the walls and being right up against the limit that I really love.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a different beast, obviously the Cup car I got really used to around that street circuit, so it wouldn\u2019t be as black-and-white and as easy to get straight to the front in main game as well, but one day hopefully I get to drive it in a Supercar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be something pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall has switched from Carrera Cup to Super2 this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NUMBER of firsts await an excited Bayley Hall in 2026, starting with his first Supercars livery reveal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-567180","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\/567180","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=567180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}