{"id":792731,"date":"2026-07-11T03:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792731\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:44:21","slug":"supercars-news-double-overnight-engine-change-for-walkinshaw-toyotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792731\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Double overnight engine change for Walkinshaw Toyotas"},"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\/07\/Supercars-Townsville-Friday-264-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Double overnight engine change for Walkinshaw Toyotas\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWalkinshaw TWG Racnig driver Chaz Mostert leads teammate Ryan Wood during Race 1 of the Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/287093\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" onmousedown=\"this.rel=\" nofollow=\"\" sponsored=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/287093\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walkinshaw TWG Racing performed unscheduled changes on both cars following Friday\u2019s action.<\/p>\n<p>The team told Speedcafe the changes were made as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>Mostert finished fifth in the Friday race, three places ahead of teammate Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Engine reliability has proven a major bugbear during the first season for Toyota in the category.<\/p>\n<p>Walkinshaw is still working through a fix for a recurring valvetrain issue with the 5.2-litre engines, <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-toyota-v8-engine-failure-solution-chaz-mostert-diagnosis-explained-fix-bathurst-1000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">targeting a solution by the Bathurst 1000.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mostert had suffered a scare when his engine went off-song at the end of Friday qualifying, which turned out to be a malfunctioning cam position sensor.<\/p>\n<p>    Tickets for the 2026 NTI Townsville 500 are on sale now. Secure your spot today.<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketekau.pxf.io\/5kYxq9\" style=\"color:#de482e;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buy tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grove Racing Ford driver Matt Payne meanwhile complained of engine trouble during Friday\u2019s race, noting that he\u2019d felt a vibration.<\/p>\n<p>Speedcafe understands that turned out to be a tailshaft problem, rather than any issue with his Coyote engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walkinshaw TWG Racnig driver Chaz Mostert leads teammate Ryan Wood during Race 1 of the Townsville 500. Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,99543,806,805,803,804,40248,85,238451],"class_list":["post-792731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chaz-mostert","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-ryan-wood","tag-sports","tag-walkinshaw-twg-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792731","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=792731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}