{"id":832900,"date":"2026-07-30T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832900\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:43:14","slug":"supercars-perth-why-wanneroo-will-be-telling-for-erebus-motorsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832900\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Perth: Why Wanneroo will be telling for Erebus Motorsport"},"content":{"rendered":"

WANNEROO Raceway has been the scene of some stark highs and lows for Erebus Motorsport in the Gen3 Supercars era.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why this weekend\u2019s Perth Super440 should offer an interesting insight into the level of in-season progress made by Barry Ryan\u2019s 2026-spec team.<\/p>\n

Townsville provided some light at the end of the tunnel for Erebus after a forgettable opening six rounds, with both Cooper Murray<\/a> and Jobe Stewart<\/a> showing signs of competitiveness.<\/p>\n

Whether or not that was track-specific, we\u2019re about to find out given Erebus\u2019 recent history in Western Australia.<\/p>\n

In 2023, its Coca-Cola Camaros absolute shone.<\/p>\n

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A hat-trick of podiums powered Brodie Kostecki<\/a> to the round win, while Will Brown<\/a> took a race win en route to accumulating the second-most points from the round.<\/p>\n

Between them, they scored exactly 500 points across the weekend, while Kostecki also proved himself a rare adversary genuinely capable of going toe-to-toe in race craft with the wizardry of Shane van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n

The tale couldn\u2019t have been any more different for Erebus in its past two visits to Perth, however.<\/p>\n

It was one of the low points in a troubled first half of 2024, with drivers Kostecki and Jack Le Brocq<\/a> last and second-last on round points as speed and reliability vanished.<\/p>\n

\u2018JLB\u2019 was forced to start a race from the pitlane due to a battery issue, while Kostecki suffered an engine-related DNF \u2013 a fate which then befell his replacement Murray last year.<\/p>\n

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In 2025, Le Brocq was 16th on round points with Murray 25th and last.<\/p>\n

Across the past two trips west, Erebus has tallied a total of just 243 points \u2013 less than half of what it did in 2023 alone.<\/p>\n

It has not recorded a race result of better than 15th in that span, compared to five podiums in three races at the 2023 edition.<\/p>\n

If Erebus can be near the top 10 this weekend, consider it an indication that the rebuilding team really is gathering some steady momentum as its beloved Bathurst 1000 event draws closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WANNEROO Raceway has been the scene of some stark highs and lows for Erebus Motorsport in the Gen3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-832900","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\/832900","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=832900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}