Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cAt the end of the day \u2014 and I will be totally honest \u2014 we don\u2019t have any A-grade drivers,\u201d Ryan said on the latest episode of MR360. <\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the drivers weren\u2019t like hearing that, but they\u2019re not A-grade drivers. We haven\u2019t got multiple winners in our GM camp. We know we are not ready to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive us 12 months and if GM teams are winning and we are still 20th, we will know we are doing something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
The remarks are extraordinary coming from within the Chevrolet camp, with Ryan \u2014 one of the sport\u2019s most respected team operators \u2014 effectively conceding the manufacturer war before the parity debate has even been settled.<\/p>\n
The opening rounds of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship have painted a stark picture for the Camaro brigade, with Ford and Toyota leaving Cheverlot scrambling.<\/p>\n
Beaten from pillar to post through the first three rounds, the Chevrolet contingent now fields just eight cars against 11 Fords and five Toyota after a dramatic off-season reshuffle stripped the American manufacturer of powerhouse team Triple Eight.<\/p>\n
The Chevrolet parity gap has been enough to prompt Supercars officials to investigate performance differentials among the three manufacturers. But when pressed on whether the famous American brand deserved a parity handout to bring it back into contention, Ryan said: \u201cProbably not.\u201d<\/p>\n
The candid admission is compounded by Erebus\u2019s own complicated off-season. Ryan has elected to keep Erebus operating independently, refusing to join the broader GM alliance where Team 18 has assumed the role of homologation team despite winning just one race since 2016. <\/p>\n
While Erebus remains the strongest of the four GM teams on raw results \u2014 boasting 12 Gen3-era wins, including the 2024 Bathurst 1000 \u2014 Ryan has made clear he sees little value in aligning with a group he believes has delivered little in return. <\/p>\n
This season, Ryan has handed the wheel of one of his Camaros to highly-rated rookie Jobe Stewart. The team boss conceded the rookie factor was strangling their ability to find a workable setup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a couple of rookie drivers, and particularly Jobe. None of our setups work anymore,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cWe are trying to get a setup that we can work with, that he can deal with, as well as being a rookie. So, not making excuses, but we should never have changed the balance, and unfortunately, they did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re stuck with what we\u2019ve got for now. No one\u2019s asking for extra downforce \u2014 we\u2019re just asking for a shift back so we can balance the car again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday Supercars schedule live on Fox Sports 501 and Kayo<\/p>\n
7.35am: Repco Supercars Championship Practice<\/p>\n
12.15pm: Boost Mobile Qualifying (Race 10)<\/p>\n
2.35pm: Repco Championship Race 10 (37 laps) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supercars team boss Barry Ryan has made the stunning admission that Chevrolet is being flogged by Ford and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609921,"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-609920","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\/609920","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=609920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}