{"id":803819,"date":"2026-07-16T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803819\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:22:14","slug":"erebus-enlists-expertise-of-ex-supercars-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803819\/","title":{"rendered":"Erebus enlists expertise of ex-Supercars worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EREBUS Motorsport has turned to a former Supercars staffer to up the ante on its strength and conditioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dandenong South team has signed Stallion Strength Gym as its \u2018official strength partner\u2019, visiting the around-the-clock facility for their first training session yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stallion is owned by Ben Eckstein, whose background includes having been a Kelly Racing crew member once upon a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHaving worked in Supercars previously, I know how physically demanding race weekends are and how much preparation goes into every pitstop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/erebus-motorsport-from-challengers-to-champions-book?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/erebus-champions-book.jpg\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to working with the team throughout the season, helping the crew build strength, improve performance and recover well so they can consistently perform at a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erebus crew chief Kieron Woodger said: \u201cHaving a trainer like Ben, who is passionate about the sport and understands the physical demands of a pitstop, is a huge benefit for our crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe knows the specific areas we need to target to improve our performance during pitstops, while also helping the team recover properly between race weekends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve already been doing regular training sessions as the workshop, but now having access to a full equipped gym is going to be a massive benefit for the whole crew.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EREBUS Motorsport has turned to a former Supercars staffer to up the ante on its strength and conditioning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-803819","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\/803819","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=803819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}