{"id":184193,"date":"2025-12-15T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:59:10","slug":"female-racer-alice-buckley-turns-first-v8-supercar-laps-at-test-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184193\/","title":{"rendered":"Female racer Alice Buckley turns first V8 Supercar laps at test day"},"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\tAlice Buckley aboard the Triple Eight-built Commodore. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n

Buckley, 18, is testing at Queensland Raceway aboard one of the two Triple Eight-built ZB Commodores Matt Stone Racing will field in next year\u2019s Super2 Series.<\/p>\n

The two Jason Gomersall-owned cars were campaigned in the second-tier this season by Triple Eight, which has elected to pull out of the class.<\/p>\n

Under the guidance of Tim Slade, Buckley is driving the #35 Unit Racing entry that was driven this season by Ben Gomersall, who is moving to Tickford Racing.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alice Buckley in conversation with mentor Tim Slade. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Buckley is expected to progress to Super2 next year following a 2025 season in which she transitioned from Toyota 86s to TA2\/Trans Am.<\/p>\n

She won in her first two starts in the TA2 class across June and August, before a gearbox failure in a Trans Am round at The Bend resulted in an arm injury that sidelined her for two months.<\/p>\n

That involved missing a planned maiden Super2 test with Eggleston Motorsport at Winton, which had been arranged by Supercars as part of a push to bring a female driver into the category.<\/p>\n

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MSR also has one of its Gen3 Camaros on track. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Buckley is sharing the MSR-run Commodore at QR with fellow Super2 hopeful Tommy Smith, who has switched focus to tin-tops following stints in open-wheelers in Europe and the US.<\/p>\n

Ayrton Hodson, who is already confirmed to be joining MSR for Super2 next year<\/a>, is among others on hand and has cut laps aboard an MSR Gen3 Camaro this morning<\/p>\n

MSR\u2019s evaluation day with its Gen3 car follows similar outings for Grove Racing and Erebus Motorsport at Winton last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Buckley aboard the Triple Eight-built Commodore. Image: InSyde Media Buckley, 18, is testing at Queensland Raceway aboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20730,18308,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":["post-184193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alice-buckley","tag-matt-stone-racing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184193","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=184193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}