{"id":835508,"date":"2026-07-31T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:29:19","slug":"the-bathurst-top-10-finisher-that-landed-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835508\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bathurst top 10 finisher that landed on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lightly raced V8 Supercar with notable history has emerged for sale in low key fashion.<\/p>\n

Ford Falcon BF Chassis WPS 018, the only car to have been built up in-house by WPS Racing, has recently surfaced in New Zealand on Facebook Marketplace.<\/p>\n

Currently priced for sale at NZD$100,000 (AUD$83,673 at time of writing), the car\u2019s Marketplace listing reveals little background beyond the fact it is \u2018ex-Max Wilson\u2026 from 2007.\u2019<\/p>\n

V8 Sleuth can confirm this car is indeed the chassis predominantly driven by Wilson, the Brazilian former Champ Car racer and Formula 1 test driver, as the #8 WOW Sight & Sound car in the latter part of the 2007 V8 Supercars Championship.<\/p>\n

\"\"Max Wilson and Jason Bargwanna brought the WOW Sight & Sound Falcon home seventh at Bathurst, 2007. Images: AN1 Images\/Juris Puisens<\/p>\n

Originally owned by 00 Motorsport, it was an unbuilt chassis purchased by WPS Racing following the closure of the Bob Forbes-owned team in 2003.<\/p>\n

It took more than four years for this chassis to be built into a complete car, before it was finally debuted in the 2007 Sandown 500 by Wilson and Michael Caruso<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A unique design feature of this chassis was its inward positioning of the driver\u2019s seat, which also allowed the in-car rollbar adjusters to be placed between the driver\u2019s seat and door rather than the customary position to the left of the driver.<\/p>\n

WPS 018 competed in only six race meetings at championship level \u2013 all in 2007 \u2013 with the highlight being a seventh-place finish in that year\u2019s Bathurst 1000 for Wilson and Jason Bargwanna.<\/p>\n

\"\"The unique driver\u2019s seat positioning of WPS 018 is visible in this shot at Sandown in 2007. Image: AN1 Images\/Justin Deeley<\/p>\n

WPS Racing shut its doors on the eve of the 2008 V8 Supercars Championship which saw this car, along with WPS\u2019 two other 00 Motorsport-built BA\/BF Falcons, transferred to Racer Industries in a shutdown sale.<\/p>\n

This chassis was run by Craig Baird in the Queensland Raceway round of the 2008 Fujitsu Series to prove its potential to possible buyers.<\/p>\n

It never raced again in V8 Supercar competition and was eventually sold to New Zealand where it was used as a ride car in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n

In that time, WPS 018 was driven by then-V8 Supercar endurance driver John McIntyre, while Mark Winterbottom<\/a> was also engaged to cross the Tasman and deliver passenger rides in this car.<\/p>\n

The Facebook Marketplace listing of WPS 018 can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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