{"id":917907,"date":"2026-10-06T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/917907\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:28:17","slug":"supercars-bathurst-1000-brodie-kostecki-engineer-george-commins-sidelined-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/917907\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Bathurst 1000: Brodie Kostecki engineer George Commins sidelined with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DICK Johnson<\/a> Racing has been dealt an unexpected curveball for the Repco Bathurst 1000, with injury forcing an engineer change on its lead #17 Shell V-Power Mustang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCar 17 race engineer George Commins will miss the Repco Bathurst 1000 after sustaining injuries in a mountain biking accident prior to the race weekend,\u201d read a team statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTeam manager Tom Moore will take over race engineer duties for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1301-Brodie-Kostecki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Kostecki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1174-Todd-Hazelwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Hazelwood<\/a> at Mount Panorama while George recuperates at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone at the Shell V-Power Racing Team wishes George a swift recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bathurst 1000 Preview | The Undercut<\/p>\n<p>IT\u2019S the biggest show of the season \u2013 The Undercut is back, previewing the 2026 Repco Bathurst 1000, with the V8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan joined in the studio by two of the stars of the big day \u2013 Jack Perkins and James Moffat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commins, an ex-Formula 1 guru, has been Kostecki\u2019s engineer for the entirety of the latter\u2019s full-time Supercars career dating back to 2021 at Erebus Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, they have nabbed pole position at each of the past three editions of the Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore is a readymade replacement at least, himself being a race-winning Supercars engineer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DJR also has strategy specialist Blake Smith in its corner for the enduros.<\/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\/10\/1791271697_607_2026-bathurst-program-2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICK Johnson Racing has been dealt an unexpected curveball for the Repco Bathurst 1000, with injury forcing an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-917907","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\/917907","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=917907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}