{"id":896180,"date":"2026-09-18T05:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T05:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:32:18","slug":"walkinshaw-twg-on-the-cusp-of-winning-double-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896180\/","title":{"rendered":"Walkinshaw TWG on the cusp of winning double ton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WALKINSHAW TWG Racing could notch up 200 Supercars Championship race wins at the Repco Bathurst 1000, with the squad\u2019s AirTouch 500 win at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park taking them to 199.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since breaking through with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-176-Peter-Brock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Brock<\/a> at Eastern Creek Raceway in 1994, the \u2018golden era\u2019 for the outfit saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-6-Craig-Lowndes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Lowndes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-90-Mark-Skaife\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Skaife<\/a> win six drivers\u2019 championships in seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All told, the only team ahead of the outfit in terms of wins is Triple Eight Race Engineering, with 285.<\/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\/09\/1789709535_908_2026-bathurst-program-2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5.-NC-1-Walkinshaw-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265359\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Championship race-winning drivers for the team include Brock, Lowndes, Greg Murphy, Skaife, Tony Longhurst, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-159-Jim-Richards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Richards<\/a>, Todd Kelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-8-Garth-Tander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Tander<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a>, Cameron McConville, <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-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-48-Jack-Perkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Perkins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-45-Scott-Pye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Pye<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Mostert<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-12-Lee-Holdsworth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Holdsworth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2748-Ryan-Wood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wood<\/a>, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-18-Fabian-Coulthard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabian Coulthard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skaife\u2019s 66 wins for the team lead Lowndes (49), Tander (24), Mostert (17), Kelly (15) and Brock (9).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team has previously campaigned as Holden Racing Team, HSV Racing, and Walkinshaw Andretti United, and has raced Holdens, Fords and Toyotas to victory lane.<\/p>\n<p>Clear As Mud! | The Undercut<\/p>\n<p>THE Undercut returns, breaking down the latest news in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/bathurst-form-parity-clear-as-mud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Undercut\u2019s Number Crunching, presented by My Supercars<\/a>, the V8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-24-James-Moffat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Moffat<\/a> to break down the team\u2019s success, plus the 200-win milestone they already achieved 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re very impressive numbers to think that they are one race away from 200; it\u2019s a serious achievement,\u201d said Noonan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt Bathurst in 2011, that was the 200th all-time race win for HRT, so that was counting all the non-championship races, remember, the Albert Park Grand Prix, Gold Coast Indy, Adelaide Grand Prix; Wayne Gardner had a win there for HRT as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, 200 championship wins is what\u2019s next on the line, so expect posters, expect collectibles, expect memorabilia \u2013 I\u2019m sure internally they are well aware that they\u2019re sitting on 199, and if they\u2019re not, they will be now if they watch The Undercut; that\u2019s definitely for sure!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALKINSHAW TWG Racing could notch up 200 Supercars Championship race wins at the Repco Bathurst 1000, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-896180","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\/896180","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=896180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}