{"id":752118,"date":"2026-06-22T04:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:07:24","slug":"supercars-news-grove-racing-demotes-triple-eight-in-townsville-pit-lane-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752118\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Grove Racing demotes Triple Eight in Townsville pit lane order"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The team\u2019s form in the Top End, coupled with an uncharacteristic weekend for Triple Eight, meant it took the teams\u2019 championship lead on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Grove briefly held the teams\u2019 championship lead midway through the Albert Park weekend in March but has not previously ended a round atop the table.<\/p>\n

Triple Eight\u2019s demotion comes after the first multi-race round since Taupo 2025 in which neither of its drivers scored a podium finish.<\/p>\n

A team order blunder in the final race also meant Broc Feeney\u2019s drivers\u2019 championship lead over Matt Payne drop to just 15 points.<\/a><\/p>\n

In contrast, podium finishes on all three days, including Kai Allen\u2019s Saturday win, allowed Grove to leave Darwin with a 39-point lead in the teams\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n

Cam Waters\u2019 return to form gave Tickford Racing a helpful boost in the standings, moving them to third spot.<\/p>\n

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A DNF for each of Walkinshaw TWG Racing\u2019s drivers Ryan Wood and Chaz Mostert dropped the team to fourth in the points.<\/p>\n

GM homologation squad Team 18 hit back at recent criticism by earning its second win of the season with Anton De Pasquale<\/a>, however it remains fifth in the standings.<\/p>\n

It capitalised on a difficult end to the weekend for Dick Johnson Racing, which included star driver Brodie Kostecki withdrawing from the weekend.<\/p>\n

DJR held onto sixth in the standings, however the gap widened slightly in Team 18\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

Brad Jones Racing\u2019s primary entries (#8 and #14) moved up to seventh in the points, leapfrogging the Blanchard Racing Team.<\/p>\n

This has the added benefit of also moving Macauley Jones and Jackson Walls one further spot up the pit lane as the four cars are grouped together.<\/p>\n

Matt Stone Racing stays put in ninth, however the team is now just 50 points shy of BRT thanks to a solid showing from Jack Le Brocq.<\/p>\n

PremiAir Racing sits in 10th, with Erebus Motorsport left to rue a horror weekend, remaining in the last pit garage for Townsville.<\/p>\n

The Supercars Championship continues its northern adventure with the Townsville 500 on July 10-12.<\/p>\n

Supercars teams\u2019 championship standings after Round 6 (Darwin Triple Crown)<\/p>\n

Grove Racing \u2013 2486 (up one position)
\nTriple Eight \u2013 2447 (down one)
\nTickford Racing \u2013 1880 (up one)
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing \u2013 1835 (down one)
\nTeam 18 \u2013 1775
\nDick Johnson Racing \u2013 1718
\nBrad Jones Racing (#8 & #14) \u2013 1402 (up one)
\nBlanchard Racing Team \u2013 1366 (down one)
\nMatt Stone Racing \u2013 1316
\nPremiAir Racing \u2013 1180
\nErebus Motorsport \u2013 745
\nBrad Jones Racing (#96) \u2013 507
\nObjective Racing \u2013 369<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new pit lane order is set for the Townsville 500, with Grove Racing set to take the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,40367],"class_list":["post-752118","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","tag-supercars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752118","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=752118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}