{"id":588199,"date":"2026-04-06T02:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:16:19","slug":"the-supercars-team-form-guide-for-taupo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588199\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supercars team form guide for Taup\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THERE is one team that has tended to up its game more than anyone in Supercars\u2019 early days at Taup\u014d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing has accumulated most points of all two-car squads (for this purpose only Brad Jones Racing\u2019s lead garage is counted) across the opening two editions of the Taup\u014d Super440.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s particularly noteworthy given DJR failed to trouble the top four in the teams\u2019 championship in either season.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s just something about Taup\u014d it has clicked with.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IR30246-Social-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220764\"  \/>Pic: Pace Images<\/p>\n<p>All three of its 2024 podiums came at Taup\u014d, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1264-Anton-De Pasquale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anton De Pasquale<\/a> taking home the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-88-Jason-Richards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Richards<\/a> Memorial Trophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1301-Brodie-Kostecki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Kostecki<\/a> then last year opened his pole and podium tallies for DJR at Taup\u014d, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a> took his final podium in Shell colours.<\/p>\n<p>Race wins have been divided relatively evenly, between Grove Racing (two), BJR (one), Triple Eight (one) and Walkinshaw TWG Racing (one).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-taupo-races-8-10-winner-19-ford-mustang-matt-payne-model?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ACD18F25M_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See below for the full points accumulated team-by-team across the five Taup\u014d Supercars races to date (two in 2024, three last year).<\/p>\n<p>TeamPoints accrued at Taup\u014d (2024-25)Dick Johnson Racing837Triple Eight Race Engineering770Grove Racing759Walkinshaw TWG Racing735Tickford Racing627Brad Jones Racing (#8 &amp; #14)561Erebus Motorsport518Matt Stone Racing472PremiAir Racing462Team 18427Blanchard Racing Team301<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE is one team that has tended to up its game more than anyone in Supercars\u2019 early days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-588199","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588199","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=588199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}