{"id":800996,"date":"2026-07-15T03:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T03:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:02:12","slug":"erebus-supercars-drivers-jobe-stewart-cooper-murray-on-gm-alliances-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800996\/","title":{"rendered":"Erebus Supercars drivers Jobe Stewart, Cooper Murray on GM alliance&#8217;s impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOBE Stewart and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1701-Cooper-Murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Murray<\/a> have welcomed the benefits of General Motors\u2019 Supercars data-sharing initiative after an improved showing for Erebus Motorsport in north Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been an utterly brutal first half of 2026 for Erebus, but there were at least some glimmers of progress at the Townsville 500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murray ran consistently in the mid-teens, with rookie Stewart getting out of the 20s far more often \u2013 in what was the biggest field of the season to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday\u2019s race was just the second time all year that both Erebus Camaros started inside the top 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After initially opting out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/erebus-enters-team-chevy-supercars-alliance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erebus quietly joined the Team Chevy alliance ahead of Darwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the team\u2019s gradual gains shouldn\u2019t be attributed to just one factor, both drivers noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis whole weekend was definitely a positive compared to especially Darwin and pretty much the whole first half of the year,\u201d Stewart told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone is putting their best foot forward and doing a better job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMe and Cooper definitely have learnt a few little things from the GM stuff but also we have just improved within the team, and the engineers are starting to work a few things out which is good. As a whole group, I think we have just improved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis weekend it was pretty positive\u2026 we had something to fight with in that mid-teens area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RGP-2026-itm-Townsville-500-_05A2269-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259682\"  \/>The Erebus Camaros of Cooper Murray and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2756-Jobe-Stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jobe Stewart<\/a>. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murray highlighted the fact Erebus rolled out of the truck better in Townsville as having laid a foundation for the three races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the alliance component?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDefinitely having all of the Chev teams\u2019 data and everything to look through and analyse definitely helped a bit, but a lot of the teams are still very independent in what they do,\u201d said the #99 driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you only have got one practice session on a Friday, you haven\u2019t got time to rely on what other teams are doing; you have got to dig in and do it yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStill a lot comes down to that and doing what you think is best between yourself and your engineer, and then you look at it after the session and see what others are doing; what worked and what didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOBE Stewart and Cooper Murray have welcomed the benefits of General Motors\u2019 Supercars data-sharing initiative after an improved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-800996","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\/800996","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=800996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}