{"id":794509,"date":"2026-07-12T00:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794509\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:48:24","slug":"supercars-news-walkinshaw-surprises-chaz-mostert-with-townsville-livery-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794509\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Walkinshaw surprises Chaz Mostert with Townsville livery change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChaz Mostert celebrates his 200th start with Walkinshaw. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n

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The team has surprised its 34-year-old star with an overnight livery change to the #1 Toyota, replacing sponsor Optus with a large 200 on the doors.<\/p>\n

Mostert joined the squad in 2020, winning the Bathurst 1000 together the following season and the Supercars drivers\u2019 title in 2025.<\/p>\n

The 200 race milestone comes just one round after Mostert chalked up his 400th Supercars Championship race start in Darwin.<\/p>\n

Mostert debuted with Dick Johnson Racing partway through the 2013 season before spending six years at what is now Tickford Racing.<\/p>\n

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The team surprised Mostert with the new graphics. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Teammate Ryan Wood flagged the upcoming 200-race milestone in a recent team video, ribbing Mostert about how he would react.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get weird when you have to celebrate these things,\u201d Wood said to Mostert. \u201cYou hate your birthday, you hate celebrating yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mostert responded: \u201cI feel bad for the team who\u2019ve had to put up with me for 200 races. That\u2019s not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaz Mostert celebrates his 200th start with Walkinshaw. Image: Supplied The team has surprised its 34-year-old star with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,99543,806,805,803,804,7499,85,238451],"class_list":["post-794509","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-slot4","tag-sports","tag-walkinshaw-twg-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794509","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=794509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}