{"id":817749,"date":"2026-07-23T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:42:13","slug":"triple-eight-thrilled-with-recruit-oli-wickham-as-next-mustang-cup-australia-races-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817749\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple Eight thrilled with recruit Oli Wickham as next Mustang Cup Australia races loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TRIPLE Eight\u2019s long-term prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Oli Wickham has made quite the impression on the Banyo organisation as his second race meeting with them looms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The teenager signed with Triple Eight last month on what is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/revealed-triple-eights-mega-10-year-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">understood to be a 10-year deal<\/a>, and responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/triple-eight-teens-statement-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking the round win on debut<\/a> in Mustang Cup Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man who also leads the national Formula Ford standings will be back in the Mustang Cup field this weekend in Darwin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s going really well,\u201d Triple Eight co-owner Earl Evans told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe has obviously got a lot of natural feel for the car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/holden-professional-sisal-dartboard-cabinet-set-pre-order?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\/holden-dartboard-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe probably doesn\u2019t fear much, like most young kids don\u2019t, and races with a bit of rawness. That\u2019s a really good thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re pretty thrilled with the outcome, to be frank. He has a lot of natural speed and is a real plus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/ex-golding-mustang-finds-new-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Golding Mustang finds new home<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Triple Eight has outlined a roadmap to the top for Wickham that includes a likely transition to Super2 in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mustang Cup grid will expand to 13 cars for Hidden Valley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/fullwood-lands-one-off-v8-mustang-seat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headlined by the addition of former Supercars full-timer Bryce Fullwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiAr8CHM3DtoWt6OTp_GBaG_GZkqo2ibz&amp;si=2EyUGGxzIpKBNLBv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/undercut1.png\" style=\"width: 100%; border:0px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIPLE Eight\u2019s long-term prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Oli Wickham has made quite the impression on the Banyo organisation as his second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-817749","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\/817749","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=817749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}