{"id":117244,"date":"2025-11-04T10:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117244\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:38:14","slug":"supercars-news-the-unknown-amid-erebus-latest-rookie-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117244\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: The unknown amid Erebus\u2019 latest rookie gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ryan made an unplanned return to race engineering duties this year following the exit of George Commins and Tom Moore to Dick Johnson Racing.<\/p>\n

The team boss elected to work with the experienced Jack Le Brocq, with the team\u2019s formerly Super2 engineer Wayne Mackie deemed a better fit to guide rookie Cooper Murray.<\/p>\n

Stewart, 21, was recently confirmed to be stepping up from Super2 to the main game with Erebus next season<\/a> following an impressive debut in the Enduro Cup alongside Murray.<\/p>\n

As for whether Ryan will continue to engineer the car, the team boss said: \u201cWe\u2019re still working through that.<\/p>\n

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Barry Ryan. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I\u2019ve said all along, if we can find someone we think is ready or we can get our data guys to be ready to engineer and do a good job for Jobe, we\u2019ll do something else.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if I\u2019m still the best person to do it, I can do it. I actually enjoy it, but I\u2019ll do whatever\u2019s best for the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a really good engineering manager in Wayne. He\u2019ll help make a decision on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get someone from another team or from overseas, then great, but it\u2019s pretty difficult to just throw someone in the deep end, especially with a rookie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan and Stewart are already well familiar with each other, with the driver having joined Erebus\u2019 academy program at just 13 years old.<\/p>\n

Stewart was selected for the full-time seat over Super2 teammate Jarrod Hughes, who Ryan hopes will co-drive in the Enduro Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is very ready to go as well, he was probably just a season behind where Jobe was,\u201d said Ryan of Hughes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can put Hughesy in together with Jobe next year, they can go and win Bathurst. That\u2019s our aim, I told Hughesy that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably should talk him down so no one tries to get him, but he deserves everything that Jobe is getting now and hopefully in the next years he\u2019s with us or somebody that deserves him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jarrod Hughes and Jobe Stewart. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Murray, now 24, joined Erebus this season on a two-year deal, replacing DJR-bound champion Brodie Kostecki.<\/p>\n

Asked if Stewart is also on a two-year agreement, Ryan said: \u201cIt\u2019s probably a bit longer with Jobe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just want to make sure Jobe is here until he wins a few championships. I think the loyalty is there, we probably don\u2019t even need to sign a deal and he\u2019d stay with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the sport and the way it is. If Jobe gets to a point where he thinks he\u2019s too good for the team I\u2019d be very surprised, but it\u2019s happened before, and it\u2019ll happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jobe Stewart. Image: Richard Gresham Ryan made an unplanned return to race engineering duties this year following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29801,18756,24679,111,139,69,9335,213],"class_list":["post-117244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barry-ryan","tag-erebus-motorsport","tag-jobe-stewart","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117244","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=117244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}