{"id":104478,"date":"2025-10-28T03:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104478\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:05:21","slug":"supercars-news-toyota-supra-testing-at-wet-queensland-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104478\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Toyota Supra testing at wet Queensland Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Supra on track at QR. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

The car is being shared by Warren Luff and Fabian Coulthard for the Ipswich test as the team continues to put miles on the 2UR-GSE V8 engine package.<\/p>\n

WAU kicked off its test program in early September with running at Winton Motor Raceway in Victoria<\/a>, including some wet laps on its very first day.<\/p>\n

Public demonstrations of the car have subsequently taken place at the Bathurst 1000 and at last weekend\u2019s Gold Coast 500, which marked its first street circuit outing.<\/p>\n

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Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

WAU Academy coach Luff and Endurance Cup co-driver Coulthard have underpinned the test program to date, with Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood yet to drive the car.<\/p>\n

The driving force behind the Toyota Supercars project, the company\u2019s VP of marketing Sean Hanley, enthused over the test program at the Surfers Paradise event.<\/p>\n

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Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really important time right now, the testing is going well,\u201d he said on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really driving this car hard to try and break it and so far, it hasn\u2019t broken. That\u2019s a really good sign.<\/p>\n

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Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s meeting all the challenges, the speed is there, the sound is certainly there, the looks are certainly there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some aerodynamic testing, some parity testing we\u2019ve got to do, but we\u2019ll overcome whatever those challenges are and be ready to race in February.<\/p>\n

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Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling like we\u2019ll be very competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mostert stamped his championship credentials with back-to-back wins aboard the #25 WAU Mustang at the Gold Coast event, raising the possibility that Toyota could carry #1 next season.<\/p>\n

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Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

Five Supras will be on the Supercars grid in 2026 \u2013 two from WAU and three from Brad Jones Racing, which loses its SCT Motorsport entry to Triple Eight.<\/a><\/p>\n

WAU\u2019s second Supra is currently on its way to the United States for wind tunnel testing alongside a Triple Eight Ford Mustang and Team 18 Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Supra on track at QR. Image: Richard Gresham The car is being shared by Warren Luff and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69,1058,38624],"class_list":["post-104478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-walkinshaw-andretti-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}