{"id":937616,"date":"2026-10-23T02:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937616\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:46:18","slug":"supercars-gold-coast-george-commins-back-trackside-for-dick-johnson-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937616\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Gold Coast: George Commins back trackside for Dick Johnson Racing"},"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 welcomed back George Commins in a trackside capacity, even if he won\u2019t be operating in his normal role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Commins on the mend following a mountain biking stack that forced him to miss Bathurst, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/moore-to-engineer-kostecki-at-gold-coast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJR committed to continuity with team manager Tom Moore again engineering the #17 Shell V-Power Racing Mustang<\/a> this weekend on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore guided Kostecki and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1174-Todd-Hazelwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Hazelwood<\/a> to victory in the \u20181000 earlier this month, in what was the first race of Kostecki\u2019s full-time career without Commins as his right-hand-man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kostecki\/Commins have become a formidable combination across four seasons at Erebus Motorsport and now two at DJR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2026-bathurst-1000-winner-17-ford-mustang-kostecki-hazelwood-model-pre-order?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\/ACD18F26BW.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commins was spotted moving gingerly in the Supercars paddock earlier today at Surfers Paradise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">V8 Sleuth understands he is part of DJR\u2019s performance personnel list for the weekend, providing engineering support for both Kostecki and rookie teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2773-Rylan-Gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rylan Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday Supercars action today is headlined by Qualifying for Race 31 from 4:05pm local (5:05pm AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>Unpacking an Epic Bathurst 1000 | The Undercut<\/p>\n<p>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":"DICK Johnson Racing has welcomed back George Commins in a trackside capacity, even if he won\u2019t be operating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-937616","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\/937616","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=937616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}