{"id":822223,"date":"2026-07-25T04:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:05:13","slug":"third-generation-racer-sam-brabhams-unexpected-gt4-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822223\/","title":{"rendered":"Third generation racer Sam Brabham\u2019s unexpected GT4 call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GT4-Practice-2-SRO-R4-JM1_3422-e1784934452370.jpg\" alt=\"Third generation racer\u2019s unexpected GT4 call-up\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Brabham aboard the #58 Murphy Racing Mercedes-AMG in GT4 Practice 2 at Hidden Valley. Image: Jack Martin<\/p>\n<p>Brabham will be aboard the #58 Murphy Racing Mercedes-AMG partnering Jed Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>The substitution bumps the car up into the Silver Cup, with Jed and his father Gerry generally competing in Silver-Am competition.<\/p>\n<p>It was confirmed via social media that an incident in Practice 1 on Friday saw Murphy senior forced to withdraw, with race engineer and driver coach Brabham stepping in.<\/p>\n<p>Such was the last-minute nature of the driver swap, that Brabham contested Practice 2 on Friday evening wearing a spare suit from fellow GT4 racer Zac Soutar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad a very unexpected call-up today! After a crash this morning Gerry has pulled out of the weekend and I\u2019ll be a replacement!\u201d Brabham said via social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say always bring your kit but it\u2019s the one weekend I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtremely grateful to Murphy Racing for their trust in partnering up with Jed Murphy and to my good mate Zac Soutar for lending me his suit!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1038853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Sam-Brabham-Zac-Soutar-e1784934390234-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Brabham (left) sporting a spare race suit from Zac Soutar (right).\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Sam Brabham (left) sporting a spare race suit from Zac Soutar (right).<\/p>\n<p>Brabham is the son of 1997 Super Touring Bathurst 1000 winner David, and grandson of three-time F1 world champion Sir Jack.<\/p>\n<p>The third generation driver has dabbled in GT4 Australia previously, teaming up with Antonio Astuti at Love Racing in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Brabham also contested the GT4 class in the 2022 season of GT World Challenge Australia, finishing second in the class standings.<\/p>\n<p>Monochrome GT4 Australia will hit the track today for qualifying at 10:10am ACST ahead of the first one-hour race of the weekend 1:10pm, all aired live on Fox Sports and Kayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Brabham aboard the #58 Murphy Racing Mercedes-AMG in GT4 Practice 2 at Hidden Valley. Image: Jack Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,150567,806,805,803,804,396714,254712,85],"class_list":["post-822223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-monochrome-gt4-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sam-brabham","tag-speedseries","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822223","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=822223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}