{"id":581513,"date":"2026-04-02T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:56:11","slug":"supercars-news-where-team-18-stands-on-david-reynolds-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581513\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Where Team 18 stands on David Reynolds’ future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Reynolds is already a key player in the Supercars silly season. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

For the second year running, Bathurst 1000 winner Reynolds is a central figure in the Supercars silly season.<\/p>\n

Having had an option on his contract taken up by Team 18 for the current campaign, Reynolds is back to potentially facing free agency at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Fuelling speculation over Reynolds\u2019 future is Team 18\u2019s homologation team status with General Motors and the ongoing rumblings that the carmaker is keen to lure a high-profile star from another manufacturer.<\/p>\n

It is an open secret that current Grove Racing driver Matt Payne is the latest target for GM with Team 18 a logical home for the Kiwi if a deal could be struck.<\/p>\n

Grove Racing, however, is adamant that it has Payne under contract for 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While that doesn\u2019t definitively preclude a move next season it does mean that a switch could be delayed until 2028, something that is potentially an external factor in Reynolds\u2019 future.<\/p>\n

While understandably unwilling to comment on the Payne speculation, Team 18 is clear on its position regarding Reynolds \u2013 it is fully backing the veteran for the current campaign and is pushing for him to make any decisions regarding other drivers as difficult as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave is still a very good driver and the last couple of years, we could probably say we didn\u2019t give him the best machinery,\u201d Burgess told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did a great job in Sydney and then, us as a team, I don\u2019t feel we delivered a very good product at the [Australian] Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want Dave to make everything hard for us. If he\u2019s winning races, on the podium, and in front of Anton [De Pasquale] or pushing Anton, then why does anyone need to make a change?<\/p>\n

\u201cBut conversely our job, as it is with every team, is to understand the market and make sure we know when people are available and when they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave will say it himself, he\u2019s closer to the end of his career than he is the start of his career. But there\u2019s no timeline yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to think about it. We\u2019re focussed on supporting Dave and Anton and doing the best job for the pair of them this year. And when the time comes, then we\u2019ll have those discussions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, our focus is on producing two quick cars and giving [Reynolds] the best opportunity to show everybody what he can do. We know he can still do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave has circuits he likes and circuits he doesn\u2019t like. Before this season started we sat down together and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to hear you saying you don\u2019t like Sydney Motorsport Park. If I hear you say that once, I\u2019m gonna stick my foot up your arse\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all weekend I didn\u2019t hear it. He went there with a good attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re doing with each other, we\u2019re working together, supporting each other, and those things will sort themselves out at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Reynolds is already a key player in the Supercars silly season. Image: Richard Gresham For the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,12357,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-581513","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-slot1","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581513","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=581513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}