{"id":176050,"date":"2025-12-09T21:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176050\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:20:14","slug":"supercars-issues-us-testing-update-as-second-toyota-breaks-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176050\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars issues US testing update as second Toyota breaks cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The category has returned to the high-tech facility in North Carolina to homologate the Toyota Supra, which is being tested alongside a refined Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n

Supercars is working with homologation teams Walkinshaw Andretti United (Toyota), Triple Eight (Ford) and Team 18 (Chevrolet) at the rolling road tunnel, testing at up to 300km\/h.<\/p>\n

Edwards reported \u201cpretty good progress so far\u201d with \u201cno surprises\u201d following extensive preparation work in CFD and information from the category\u2019s previous visits in late 2023 and early 2024.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we leave here we will have aero parity,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work between now and when we finish, it\u2019s a huge program, they\u2019re long days.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery minute in the tunnel is valuable time. Every change, it\u2019s all hands on deck.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe one car that\u2019s in the tunnel, mechanics from all three teams are in there working on it because there\u2019s only one car that\u2019s being focused on at that time. Every second matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will 100 percent have aerodynamic parity on all three cars in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Camaro was the first car in the tunnel late last week and has completed its duty as the baseline.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important, we haven\u2019t been here for two years, just to understand where it is and make sure that the tunnel hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d explained Edwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s here and it gives everybody good confidence that we have got the right datum that we\u2019re working to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be subtly different, no two cars are ever the same. If we got all eight, 10, 12 Camaros and put them in the tunnel, they\u2019d all give you a fractionally different reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mustang has undergone updates, including to its front undertray, at the request of Supercars in conjunction with new Blue Oval HT Triple Eight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a few changes we\u2019ve made to that at our direction because we want to try to commonise some areas that aren\u2019t really seen from the public under the car, just so there is never a question mark over them, so there\u2019s standardisation going on there,\u201d said Edwards.<\/p>\n

The Toyota, however, is where the bulk of the work is taking place in a bid to match it with the Camaro and Mustang.<\/p>\n

The Supra is likely to look significantly different in its final homologated specification, with changes including revisions to its distinctive front facia.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have done the best job we could have balancing that in CFD, which is basically a computer version of the wind tunnel, but the proof is in the pudding when you actually put it in a 300km\/h rolling road wind tunnel,\u201d said Edwards.<\/p>\n

Images from the wind tunnel released by Supercars have provided the first glimpse of WAU\u2019s second Supra, which has been finished in grey at the behest of the category.<\/a><\/p>\n

WAU\u2019s first car was on track at Winton on Tuesday for more engine testing, with race drivers Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood turning their maiden Toyota laps.<\/a><\/p>\n

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