\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to cop, it\u2019s a hard day to watch, but we got a car through to the next round of the finals and that\u2019s what matters,\u201d McNamara told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n
History shows it is just the fourth occasion in the entire history of the ATCC\/Supercars Championship where GM had no representation in the top 13 of a race.<\/p>\n
Supercars Finals & Team Orders | The Undercut<\/p>\n
THE Supercars Finals have landed for 2026, leaving plenty to unpack in this week\u2019s episode of The Undercut!<\/p>\n
The previous instances?<\/p>\n
Winton 1985 in which no Holdens started, Oran Park 1979 (under 2L race), and Mallala 1969.<\/p>\n
McNamara though remains adamant that things are trending in the right direction for GM\u2019s post-Triple Eight era.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s positive movement forward from our group. It may not have looked like it (on Sunday), but to me there is, and that\u2019s the best thing we can do as a group and we\u2019re working hard to make sure that continues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a difficult year but we have positive movement forward. We had a good Bathurst in terms of all the cars showed some speed, and it\u2019s a good thing to have Anton through, who has done a great job all year to be honest and deserves to be there.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is great for us and our teams and our brand to have a car in the finals, and the next track we think will be okay, so hopefully go to the last round of finals. But who knows, it\u2019s a tough game.\u201d<\/p>\n McNamara also reserved special praise for solo debutant Jarrod Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe did an unbelievable job\u2026 he\u2019d never been here before, and to drive against these blokes like that and be having a go down the inside of a guy that is seriously good and has the elbows out nicely in (Ryan Wood<\/a>), it was a good job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE were understandably mixed emotions for General Motors Supercars boss Simon McNamara following the Gold Coast 500 finale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-945645","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\/945645","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=945645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ACD43C22A_1.jpg\"\/)
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