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Supercars is currently assessing the introduction of its latest-spec car to the second tier as a replacement for the Gen2 hardware.<\/p>\n
A meeting was held with all current Super2 teams on at Queensland Raceway where two options were debated \u2013 2027 or 2028.<\/p>\n
Speedcafe understands that Triple Eight and Brad Jones Racing were the only two teams were in clear favour of a 2027 introduction.<\/p>\n
They are two of the teams that straddle both Supercars and Super2, with main game squads thought to be generally keen on an earlier introduction as it will create a second-hand Gen3 market.<\/p>\n
In both Triple Eight and BJR\u2019s cases there is the added incentive that they will change brands in 2026 and may be left with unnecessary Gen3 stock.<\/p>\n
Dedicated Super2 teams, meanwhile, are hesitant to undergo what is being billed as the biggest ever change in Super2 history \u2013 particularly as the Gen2 cars were only introduced two-and-a-half seasons ago.<\/p>\n
That has left little time to recoup the investment in the Gen2 hardware, an issue heightened by uncertainty over where the Gen2 cars will race once no longer eligible for Super2.<\/p>\n
While a revival of Super3 is an option, a joint field of Gen3 Super2 and Gen2 Super3 is complicated by the fact that Gen2 cars are ostensibly faster.<\/p>\n
Image Racing boss and long-time Super2 competitor Terry Wyhoon is one of the supporters of waiting until 2028, highlighting that a change to Gen3 involves buying new hardware such as wheels and wheel nuts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Super2\u2019s biggest ever change, for a start,\u201d Wyhoon told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just buy a car and then use the wheels and the wheel guns and the nuts and everything we\u2019ve had for however many years. We need to change everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if we go to Gen3 in 2027 it\u2019s only four years of this current car, which we paid a fair a bit of money for. So from a business point of view, it makes sense that we go another year.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, Supercars has admitted that there\u2019s still a lot of challenges with Gen3 that they could iron out, and that would probably give them extra time. We then end up with a better product if we hold it off for another year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe amount of team owners that were pushing for 2028, it just makes sense that that\u2019s where it ends up.\u201d<\/p>\n
As well as Triple Eight and BJR, other main game teams with a direct involvement in Super2 are Tickford Racing and Walkinshaw Andretti United.<\/p>\n
The latter is set to pull out of the second-tier next year, while Tickford is going against its main game contemporaries and leaning towards a 2028 introduction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think for our team we would say 2028,\u201d said Tickford CEO Simon Brookhouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not absolutely wedded to that decision; I think the most important thing is that the whole category, and Supercars itself, have a plan for that category. A long-term plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut for us, our view would be \u201928 at the moment. Let\u2019s get the Gen3 cars absolutely humming along in the main game category and then see what happens in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Triple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup, meanwhile, holds a firm view that 2027 is the right year, given the Gen3 era is in its third year, and also given Triple Eight leases its Gen2 hardware rather than owns it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just talking to Simon before and I said, \u2018I think we\u2019re going to be in disagreement with this one, but that\u2019s okay\u2019,\u201d said Whincup.<\/p>\n
\u201cTickford owns a few [Gen2] cars, we don\u2019t own any of the cars. They\u2019ll be pushing for \u201928, we\u2019re certainly pushing for 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuper2 is a category to grow new talent. It\u2019s also a tool for us to be able to cycle our cars and equipment through to the second series.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been running Gen3 now for a while, we\u2019ve got a stock of parts that are still nice. They\u2019re probably not good enough for us to run main game, but certainly only halfway through what their true life is that could be used for Super2.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us, the earlier Super2 becomes Gen3 the better. There is big savings there with engines and whatnot. And trying to get ZB panels for our Super2 cars at the moment is becoming quite a mission.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have a debate in the next two or three months. But I\u2019m with Simon, let\u2019s just make a decision, have a plan, and then we all know what we\u2019re doing. At the moment, not knowing what is going on, it\u2019s very, very difficult to plan the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The final decision is expected to sit with the Supercars Commission, which is made up of Supercars Championship teams.<\/p>\n
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