{"id":100143,"date":"2025-10-25T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100143\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:43:10","slug":"supercars-news-jamie-whincups-eye-catching-tribute-to-garry-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100143\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Jamie Whincup\u2019s eye-catching tribute to Garry Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jamie
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJamie Whincup drove for GRM in 2003. Image: Ross Gibb <\/p>\n

Rogers passed away this week, aged 80,<\/a> sending the Supercars community into mourning on the eve of the Surfers Paradise event.<\/p>\n

The former driver and team boss is fondly remembered for his quirky humour and dress sense, which Whincup has leaned into with his own tribute.<\/p>\n

\u201cGazza was a huge contributor to motorsport for a long time, he actually gave me my start,\u201d said Whincup.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo as a bit of recognition, I don\u2019t normally wear pink shorts, it\u2019s not normally my thing\u2026 but I\u2019m trying to this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garry Rogers Motorsport competed in the Supercars championship from 1996-2019, giving numerous future stars their first shot in the category.<\/p>\n

Among those was Whincup \u2013 although his story is an outlier in that he was sacked by the team following his rookie 2003 season.<\/p>\n

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Whincup sat on the sidelines the following year before rebuilding his career and winning seven Supercars titles with Triple Eight.<\/p>\n

Rogers reflected on his decision to sack Whincup during an interview with Neil Crompton in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get on really well with Jamie these days, I talk to him and there is no angst there at all,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is he was just hopeless, not as a driver, but he just wouldn\u2019t listen. I, perhaps, should have been a little more patient, but that isn\u2019t one of my virtues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should have sat him down, patted him on the head and told him what a good boy he was \u2013 but that\u2019s not me. This is how you do it, and if you\u2019re not prepared to do that you\u2019re gone, next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not dirty on it. I could have kept him, I\u2019m the one who got rid of him. He could have easily stayed I could have been reaping those benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the fact is I mucked it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gold Coast 500 event paused for a minute\u2019s silence in honour of Rogers ahead of Saturday\u2019s opening 250km leg. All of the Supercars entries are carrying GRM stickers.<\/p>\n

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