{"id":596924,"date":"2026-04-10T01:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/596924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:56:19","slug":"kiwi-addition-to-dick-johnson-racing-mustangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/596924\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi addition to Dick Johnson Racing Mustangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE application of orange numbers for championship leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1301-Brodie-Kostecki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Kostecki<\/a> isn\u2019t the only change to the appearance of the Shell V-Power Racing Mustangs this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing has refrained from a wholesale livery change like last year, when it ran in Jet Couriers colours at Taup\u014d, there is a small tweak that has popped up on the front corners of both Kostecki and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2773-Rylan-Gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rylan Gray<\/a>\u2019s Fords.<\/p>\n<p>Suck It Up.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not necessarily a message to rivals though; rather the sign of a Kiwi brand coming aboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-1984-bathurst-1000-71-ford-mustang-johnson-french-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\/03\/18861_046ccdb7-e300-4d7f-a11c-8cfdd08f8108_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hydro-excavation company is fittingly based near Christchurch, which will next week make its debut on the Supercars calendar via Ruapuna Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Kostecki leads the overall standings after his Albert Park heroics, marking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/kostecki-hands-djr-first-title-lead-since-mclaughlin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first time DJR has been in that position since Scott McLaughlin<\/a> sealed his third and final championship in 2020 \u2013 after which he headed abroad to IndyCar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/examined-the-supercars-team-form-guide-for-taupo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No two-car team has accrued more points from the first two Supercars events at Taup\u014d than DJR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Stapylton squad is due to celebrate its 1100th championship race this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RGP-2026-ITM-Taupo-Super440-_05A3848-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253487\"  \/>Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE application of orange numbers for championship leader Brodie Kostecki isn\u2019t the only change to the appearance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-596924","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\/596924","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=596924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}