{"id":869657,"date":"2026-08-27T00:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:58:17","slug":"greg-murphy-in-still-no-mark-skaife-for-supercars-tv-bathurst-1000-bend-500-enduro-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869657\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Murphy in, still no Mark Skaife for Supercars TV Bathurst 1000 Bend 500 Enduro Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SUPERCARS is poised to turn to Greg Murphy to bolster its television talent for the upcoming Ryco Enduro Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having freshened up its broadcast product by injecting Richard Craill and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-8-Garth-Tander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Tander<\/a> into the commentary box, a question has lingered as to how vacancies would be filled when regular contributors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2-Mark-Winterbottom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Winterbottom<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-6-Craig-Lowndes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Lowndes<\/a> switched back into co-driver mode for The Bend 500 and Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-203-Neil-Crompton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Crompton<\/a> is known to have been offered a two-round cameo, something which he rejected in favour of being in the pitlane with Toyota-aligned Brad Jones Racing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-90-Mark-Skaife\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Skaife<\/a> was thought to be in line for a return, but that is understood to now be off the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2026-repco-bathurst-1000-official-program?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-bathurst-program-2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter Murphy, the popular and well-spoken Kiwi with an ability to call it for what it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four-time Bathurst 1000 winner has made sporadic appearances on the Supercars broadcast over the years. He retired as a full-timer at the end of 2012, but competed in the Great Race as recently as 2022 in an Erebus Motorsport wildcard with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1189-Richie-Stanaway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richie Stanaway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accomplished caller Matt White will also be part of the Bathurst broadcast, in his capacity with the Seven Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 Enduro Cup will open at Tailem Bend on September 11-13 before Mount Panorama hosts the big one on October 8-11.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RGP-2026-Century-Batteries-Ipswish-S440-_05A5371-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263268\"  \/>Supercars TV boss Nathan Prendergast (right) with Jess Yates. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS is poised to turn to Greg Murphy to bolster its television talent for the upcoming Ryco Enduro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-869657","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\/869657","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=869657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}