{"id":820066,"date":"2026-07-24T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820066\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T03:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:57:15","slug":"erebus-motorsport-supercars-rookie-jobe-stewart-circling-bathurst-1000-to-salvage-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820066\/","title":{"rendered":"Erebus Motorsport Supercars rookie Jobe Stewart circling Bathurst 1000 to salvage season"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAKE no mistake, Jobe Stewart<\/a> is very highly rated around the traps.<\/p>\n

So much so that it\u2019s known he was being pursued by at least one other race-winning team for 2026 when he committed to the Erebus Motorsport organisation that he\u2019s been aligned with since the age of 13.<\/p>\n

Stewart won the 2023 Super3 crown and then immediately shone on Super2 debut at Bathurst. He later won a race that season as a rookie and last year starred in his maiden main game enduro campaign.<\/p>\n

And yet, seven rounds into this year, he sits dead-last in the Repco Supercars Championship standings, without a single top 13 qualifying or race result.<\/p>\n

Brutal.<\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cIt has definitely been pretty difficult,\u201d Stewart, 22, told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year in Super2 was pretty average compared to the year me and Jarrod (Hughes) had before \u2013 we thought we could go for the championship, so that was a bit of a bummer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then we came out in the enduros and both me and Jarrod were pretty quick straightaway\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were pretty confident heading into this year but whatever it was, the small aero changes or whatever, there\u2019s probably a few small factors that we\u2019ve just struggled with overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be last and third-last (i.e. teammate Cooper Murray<\/a>) in the championship is not great as a team, but we\u2019re only halfway through the year and in my rookie season I\u2019m still learning a hell of a lot, which is good.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully come enduros we\u2019re there or thereabouts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where the light at the end of the tunnel factors in.<\/p>\n

Erebus had an improved showing a fortnight ago in Townsville, including Stewart running just outside the 10 through the early stages of the Sunday race.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s injected some much-needed confidence, and then there\u2019s the fact that Erebus are as close to Bathurst specialists as there is in Supercars.<\/p>\n

Stewart too has a strong record at the Mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven Tailem Bend, Jarrod has got one year of co-driving under his belt which is good, so does Lochie (Dalton) for Cooper,\u201d said Stewart.<\/p>\n

The Undercut \u2013 Who will make the cut?<\/p>\n

THE Undercut is back for another week, breaking down the latest news in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got a young line-up but I think at those two locations\u2026 we\u2019ll all just work together to improve each other when we get there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think The Bend will be a good introduction to that as we had good pace there last year, and Bathurst is a track I enjoy and a track I\u2019ve been fast at pretty much every time I\u2019ve been there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole Erebus crew, whatever it is, everyone just loves Bathurst and every time we go there we\u2019re quick, so just building up to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart is racing this weekend in GT4 Australia at Hidden Valley, sharing an Audi with Blake Purdie.<\/p>\n

Wanneroo Raceway in Western Australia will host Round 8 of the Supercars season next week, July 31-August 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAKE no mistake, Jobe Stewart is very highly rated around the traps. So much so that it\u2019s known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-820066","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\/820066","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=820066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}