{"id":653133,"date":"2026-05-06T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:52:44","slug":"supercars-stars-sidelined-for-second-mustang-cup-australia-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653133\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars stars sidelined for second Mustang Cup Australia round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mustang-cup_race-1-PI.jpg\" alt=\"Stars on sidelines for second Mustang Cup Australia round\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCameron narrowly beat Golding to victory in the inaugural Mustang Cup Australia race. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n<p>The category\u2019s debut at Phillip Island last month attracted 15 of the Dark Horse Rs, highlighted by a three-car effort from Garry Rogers Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>GRM fielded Blanchard Racing Team Supercars teammates Aaron Cameron and James Golding, as well as James Moffat, who combined to sweep the podium in the first race.<\/p>\n<p>Those drives were flagged as one-round deals and GRM director Barry Rogers has confirmed to Speedcafe his team won\u2019t be on the grid this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan from the very start was just to run at Phillip Island, it was down the road from work and easy to go and do,\u201d explained Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoff\u2019s entry came together out of tribute to his dad and we had people support us to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo run both James Golding and Aaron Cameron, who both virtually started their careers at GRM and race Fords in Supercars, we were again able to get a budget to run them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the plan was just to do Phillip Island and, going forward, if the opportunity opens up to do it again, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1029769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mustang-cup_race-1-PI_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Golding, Cameron and Moffat on the PI podium. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The three Dark Horse Rs campaigned by GRM at Phillip Island are understood to be owned by Ford but currently remain at GRM\u2019s Melbourne workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Round 2 at The Bend is expected to feature 12 cars, with an official entry list soon to be revealed ahead of opening practice as part of the SpeedSeries event on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A category spokesperson told Speedcafe that two additional entries are likely to join the grid for the following round at Queensland Raceway in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/250635\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron narrowly beat Golding to victory in the inaugural Mustang Cup Australia race. Image: Supplied The category\u2019s debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,140662,806,805,803,804,167564,12357,85],"class_list":["post-653133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-garry-rogers-motorsport","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-mustang-cup-australia","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653133","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=653133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}