{"id":912133,"date":"2026-10-01T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912133\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:40:15","slug":"supercars-news-triple-eight-advertising-will-brown-race-engineer-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912133\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Triple Eight advertising Will Brown race engineer role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Will-Brown-David-Cauchi-The-Bend.jpg\" class=\"sc-hero-img\" alt=\"Triple Eight advertising Will Brown race engineer role\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Cauchi and Will Brown. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n<p>The team swung a dramatic mid-season move in August when it shifted Andrew Edwards off Brown\u2019s car and into the previously vacant head of performance role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2026-ipswich-super440-will-brown-triple-eight-david-cauchi-andrew-edwards-engineer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Cauchi was recruited to take up race engineering duties<\/a> on Brown\u2019s car on a part-time basis, fitting the largely weekend-based work around his existing position with the DMH Group.<\/p>\n<p>The decision raised eyebrows in part because Triple Eight had not previously run a part-time race engineer model.<\/p>\n<p>Both the team and Cauchi made clear the <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrangement is in place for the remainder of 2026 only.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight has this week <a href=\"https:\/\/au.seek.com\/job\/94969667?ref=search-standalone&amp;type=promoted&amp;origin=showNewTab#sol=cace2369d4d00c9c4ea50957e0a159e096587bd5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed an advert on employment website Seek<\/a> looking for a full-time race engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Although happy with how the team is positioned ahead of the Bathurst 1000 and Finals Series, technical director Pete Ringwood confirmed the squad is in need of a full-timer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve obviously relocated pretty publicly some positions, including the head of performance, which we\u2019re all pretty rapt about,\u201d Ringwood told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCauchi has stepped in, which is great. He\u2019s always told us he\u2019s there on the weekends, he\u2019s not here in the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo one of the things we\u2019re looking at doing is having the capability of a full-time role, so we\u2019re advertising and looking wide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a million projects on, part of that is homologation, part of it is many other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn-person, full-time works better for how we structure our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cauchi was available mid-season after walking away from the sport at the end of 2025, having left his post as team principal at Grove Racing seeking a lifestyle change.<\/p>\n<p>He had only just started his position as chief operating officer for DMH, which operates 11 Bridgestone stores in Queensland, when Triple Eight came calling.<\/p>\n<p>Although the team has gone to market with the role, Ringwood isn\u2019t quite ready to rule out Cauchi staying on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t made that call yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCauchi very publicly has two jobs at the moment. He\u2019s got a race engineer role with us but he also has another job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be in a position where we want him full-time but he\u2019s also got something else full-time, that\u2019s no good for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely not the intention that we\u2019re trying to move Cauchi on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would take the guy, but we recognise he\u2019s helping out in the short term while we restructure our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ringwood said the team has no plans to break up the partnership between Broc Feeney and Martin Short, who were first paired together in Super2 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Cauchi and Will Brown. 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