{"id":731543,"date":"2026-06-12T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:21:14","slug":"supercars-blanchard-racing-teams-fuel-saving-ploy-for-darwin-townsville-perth-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731543\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars: Blanchard Racing Team&#8217;s fuel-saving ploy for Darwin, Townsville, Perth rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Blanchard Racing Team will do things a little different to their counterparts when Supercars gets stuck into the winter series of long hauls.<\/p>\n<p>The next three rounds on the calendar are the Darwin Triple Crown (June 19-21), Townsville 500 (July 10-12) and Perth Super440 (July 31-August 2).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s destined to add up to tens of thousands of kilometres on the road for team trucks\/transporters \u2013 but a few less in BRT\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the Victorian squad will resist temptation to return to base between Darwin and Townsville.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, its Super2 truck won\u2019t come back either between Darwin and Round 3 of the Dunlop Series in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively, that should equate to almost 7000km less on the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/the-finish-line-garth-tander-autobiography-book?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tander-finish-line_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not to mention it will allow for crew members to spend extra days in the Darwin sun, preparing cars at Hidden Valley before flying home on the Friday after the round (i.e. June 26), as opposed to working in the bitterly cold Melbourne winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith how fuel prices were heading, it was way cheaper to do what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d BRT manager Kate Harrington told V8 Sleuth, with reference to the recent fuel crisis that had particularly affected diesel supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuel has obviously come down a little bit now but we get the same amount of days up there to prep the cars, if not more, than if we drove home, prepped them here and then drove back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if anyone else is doing it but we are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Super2 truck will just go straight to Perth and our main truck will go straight to Townsville.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several other Victorian teams have confirmed to V8 Sleuth they will return to their respective headquarters between Darwin and Townsville.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 The Chevy Situation<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back, breaking down the latest happenings in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Blanchard Racing Team will do things a little different to their counterparts when Supercars gets stuck into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-731543","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\/731543","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=731543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}