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<\/a><\/p>\nBlackmore teamed with fellow businessman and enthusiast Earl Evans to jointly purchase a 30 percent stake in the team midway through 2024.<\/p>\n
They bought out Jess Dane to join Jamie Whincup (30 percent) and Tony Quinn (40 percent) as co-owners.<\/p>\n
Blackmore confirmed to Speedcafe he has resigned as a director for now but will retain his ownership stake.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got some significant business opportunities that I need to focus on that will tie me up for several months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where my attention needs to be and it wouldn\u2019t be fair to Triple Eight or myself to be stretched too thin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll remain a shareholder and look to return to a directorship once that has been taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blackmore\u2019s main business interest is ownership of the highly successful South Cross Truck Rentals.<\/p>\n
The change means Blackmore will no longer have a direct vote on Triple Eight business matters.<\/p>\n
Blackmore said there was no internal pressure to step back as a director, with the move his own decision.<\/p>\n
Whincup, Quinn and Evans remain directors of Triple Eight along with chairman Rex Devantier.<\/p>\n
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Earl Evans, Jamie Whincup and Steve Blackmore (l-r). Image: Supplied<\/p>\n
Blackmore bought into the business alongside Evans after both exited their previous sponsorship of Erebus Motorsport at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n
The former will be absent from the next two Supercars events but is expected to attend the upcoming Darwin SpeedSeries round.<\/p>\n
Triple Eight now runs cars in Mustang Cup following Blackmore\u2019s purchase of a Dark Horse R now driven by young gun Ollie Wickham.<\/p>\n
Whincup will also miss this weekend\u2019s NTI Townsville 500 as he represents the team at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Triple Eight’s Red Bull Ampol Mustangs. Image: InSyde Media Blackmore teamed with fellow businessman and enthusiast Earl Evans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,7499,85,370759,7500],"class_list":["post-784552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-slot4","tag-sports","tag-steve-blackmore","tag-triple-eight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784552","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=784552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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