{"id":934475,"date":"2026-10-20T03:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934475\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:20:16","slug":"supercars-chevrolet-toyota-join-ford-in-ruling-out-nascar-adelaide-grand-final-wildcard-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934475\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars: Chevrolet, Toyota join Ford in ruling out NASCAR Adelaide Grand Final wildcard 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

THERE will not be a NASCAR presence in the Repco Supercars Championship field at this year\u2019s bp Adelaide Grand Final.<\/p>\n

The desire for Cup Series drivers to make cameo appearances at the South Australian street race has been a recurring theme in recent times.<\/p>\n

After false starts with the likes of Kyle Larson, the crossover initiative got off the ground last year with 2022 Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric<\/a> committing to a Tickford Racing wildcard.<\/p>\n

Cindric impressed in how he went about his business but struggled for outright pace, bringing home results of 23rd, 23rd and 21st.<\/p>\n

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While it was known that Ford would likely not double down on an American wildcard for 2026, Chevrolet had publicly expressed its interest<\/a> and Toyota too had seemed open to it.<\/p>\n

Chevrolet\u2019s bid was attached to Shane van Gisbergen\u2019s teammate Connor Zilisch, while Ty Gibbs was the driver linked to a potential Toyota\/Walkinshaw TWG effort.<\/p>\n

V8 Sleuth understands both sets of plans have now officially been shelved. That is perhaps unsurprising given the tightening timeline to Adelaide (November 26-29).<\/p>\n

Whether another attempt will be made for 2027 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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THE Bathurst 1000 once again turned out an all-time classic race, with all of the winners and losers put under the microscope in this episode of The Undercut!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE will not be a NASCAR presence in the Repco Supercars Championship field at this year\u2019s bp Adelaide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-934475","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\/934475","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=934475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}