{"id":846814,"date":"2026-08-07T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846814\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:22:11","slug":"photos-from-supercars-testing-at-the-bend-ahead-of-airtouch-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846814\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from Supercars testing at The Bend ahead of AirTouch 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_7880.jpg\" class=\"sc-hero-img\" alt=\"PHOTOS: Six Supercars teams test at The Bend\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Six teams used the opportunity to test on the venue\u2019s West Circuit that will be used for the AirTouch 500 on September 11-13.<\/p>\n<p>Rylan Gray (Dick Johnson Racing), Jackson Walls (Triple Eight), Zach Bates (Matt Stone Racing) and Jayden Ojeda (PremiAir Racing) all tackled rookie days.<\/p>\n<p>Team 18\u2019s Supercheap Auto Camaro was on track for Bayley Hall\u2019s wildcard test ahead of his debut at Ipswich later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Walkinshaw TWG Racing completed the line-up with a full day of running for its updated \u2018B-spec\u2019 Toyota V8 engine.<\/p>\n<p>Images courtesy of Motography Media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/supercars.thebend.com.au\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets are now on sale for the AirTouch 500 at The Bend<\/a>, which opens the Enduro Cup ahead of the Bathurst 1000 in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six teams used the opportunity to test on the venue\u2019s West Circuit that will be used for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,12357,85,42797],"class_list":["post-846814","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-slot1","tag-sports","tag-the-bend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846814","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=846814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}