{"id":911679,"date":"2026-10-01T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:50:15","slug":"rejuvenated-hdt-brand-backing-grm-bathurst-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911679\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejuvenated HDT brand backing GRM Bathurst wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GARRY Rogers Motorsport has unveiled the final version of its Repco Bathurst 1000 wildcard livery, with a major addition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legendary HDT brand, which has been purchased by Kenny Habul, is now backing the #34 Camaro to be shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-24-James-Moffat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Moffat<\/a> and Nathan Herne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGrowing up in the 1970\u2019s you either loved Brock or Moffat. In my case it was Brock and it was because of how cool the HDT logo was,\u201d said GRM director Barry Rogers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI remember drawing pictures of race cars at kindergarten, all adorned with the HDT logo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-8-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"td-modal-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"266339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-8-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266339\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"td-modal-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"266338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266338\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am tremendously proud, as I know that Dad would be to have HDT supporting GRM at Bathurst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A HDT spokesperson said: \u201cHDT and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-354-Garry-Rogers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garry Rogers<\/a> Motorsport are two great Australian motorsport names with enormous history at Mount Panorama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBringing the brands together for the Repco Bathurst 1000 feels incredibly fitting, and we\u2019re proud to be part of GRM\u2019s wildcard campaign at Australia\u2019s greatest race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also worth noting about the livery are the number of tributes to the late Garry Rogers, including the placement of his name alongside both drivers, and a special image\/message on the dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-24-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"td-modal-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"266343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-24-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266343\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-23-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"td-modal-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"266342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRM-Wildcard-Livery-23-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266342\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARRY Rogers Motorsport has unveiled the final version of its Repco Bathurst 1000 wildcard livery, with a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-911679","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\/911679","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=911679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}