{"id":885518,"date":"2026-09-09T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885518\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:50:23","slug":"supercars-motorsport-boss-tim-edwards-to-miss-bend-500-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885518\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars motorsport boss Tim Edwards to miss Bend 500 after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Supercars\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTim Edwards. Image: Richard Gresham <\/p>\n

Edwards underwent a hip replacement immediately after the Ipswich Super440 late last month.<\/p>\n

Supercars\u2019 motorsport operations manager James Delzoppo has been named as the stand-in general manager of motorsport for The Bend in Edwards\u2019 place.<\/p>\n

Edwards, however, has continued working while in recovery and is set to be connected to his trackside team with full vision and radio access at home on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a busy build-up to The Bend for Supercars\u2019 motorsport department.<\/p>\n

Supercars on Tuesday confirmed a parity change to the Chevrolet Camaro<\/a>, while a major effort has gone into sourcing replacement brake pads following issues at Ipswich.<\/p>\n

Track action kicks off on Friday with an untimed session dedicated to bedding in new brake pads<\/a> imported from UK-based control supplier Ferodo.<\/p>\n

A total of five timed practice sessions will follow across Friday and Saturday ahead of qualifying, a Top 10 Shootout, a warm-up and the 500km race.<\/p>\n

Supercars The Bend 500 \u2013 Schedule, how to watch, TV times, & more<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Edwards. Image: Richard Gresham Edwards underwent a hip replacement immediately after the Ipswich Super440 late last month.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,12357,85,329214],"class_list":["post-885518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-tim-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885518","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=885518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}