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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTriple Eight versus Team 18 at QR. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n
The Charlie Schwerkolt-owned Team 18 has been on the rise in recent events, with spearhead Anton De Pasquale scoring top five finishes across Hidden Valley, Townsville and Ipswich.<\/p>\n
That has coincided with Team 18\u2019s transition to Chevrolet homologation squad and ex-Triple Eight technical director Moore\u2019s move to a new role at GM.<\/p>\n
While Moore has begun duties at GM, the tech guru\u2019s contract release from Triple Eight prevents him from attending Supercars events or visiting Supercars team workshops.<\/a><\/p>\n Burgess took umbrage at comments on the Ipswich TV broadcast that his team\u2019s improved form is the result of information from Triple Eight or Moore.<\/p>\n The Englishman joined Team 18 at the start of 2024 and has built a strong engineering team led by technical director Geoff Slater.<\/p>\n Team 18 had been set up as a Triple Eight customer squad in 2016 but opted to complete the build of its Gen3 cars in-house and is not among the Brisbane outfit\u2019s data customers.<\/p>\n Jeromy Moore during his time at T8. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n \u201cThe progression you\u2019re seeing is only from Team 18 and the work that my guys are putting in,\u201d Burgess told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n \u201cWe opted to be independent two years ago and really, this is how long it takes to develop the philosophies that you need to use and harness them with the drivers that you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve expanded our engineering group this year and we\u2019ve brought in a good talent, and he\u2019s developed a great relationship with Anton, and we\u2019re definitely making progress on that car.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cgood talent\u201d Burgess refers to is Andrew Donnelly, who joined Team 18 this year from Brad Jones Racing \u2013 a squad that is among Triple Eight\u2019s current list of customers.<\/p>\n While acknowledging Donnelly has provided a boost, Burgess doubled down on the fact Moore remains at arms-length.<\/p>\n \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any external influence yet,\u201d Burgess continued, speaking ahead of a recent trip to the United States with GM<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe haven\u2019t really had any input from JJ (Moore) yet, because he\u2019s working through his exit strategy from T8, and we have to respect that.<\/p>\n \u201cHe can\u2019t come to the tracks, he doesn\u2019t visit our factory, so we haven\u2019t really had too much [interaction].<\/p>\n \u201cWe haven\u2019t been given anything or nor would we ask for anything that the blokes down the road are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Speedcafe understands Moore was involved in Team 18\u2019s US trip post-Ipswich, albeit the engineer\u2019s primary purpose was a fact-finding mission for his own future in the country.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Supercars-Sydney500-Testing-096.jpg\")
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