{"id":206470,"date":"2025-12-29T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/206470\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:46:14","slug":"supercars-news-liam-lawson-samples-ex-svg-gen3-camaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/206470\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Liam Lawson samples ex-SVG Gen3 Camaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/XPB_1383767_HiRes.jpg\" alt=\"Liam Lawson samples ex-SVG Gen3 Camaro\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRB driver Liam Lawson. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n<p>Lawson took to the Highlands Motorsport Park circuit in Cromwell in the Camaro which is owned by part T8 team owner Tony Quinn, and resides in NZ.<\/p>\n<p>The Racing Bulls driver has now sampled GM and Ford Gen3 hardware, following his laps in a Blanchard Racing Team Mustang at Albert Park in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a fun car to drive,\u201d said Lawson in a video posted to social media by Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved it. It\u2019s the most raw car to drive, with the big sequential shifter and you\u2019ve got three pedals. No assists. It\u2019s just very raw, very loud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sick around this track as well, lots of kerbs, camber, stuff like that. It would be amazing to see them race here one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quinn, who also owns Highlands, has pushed for the venue to host a Supercars race in the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>It was, however, overlooked as the second part of the new-for-2026 double-header in favour of Ruapuna.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RB driver Liam Lawson. Image: XPB Images Lawson took to the Highlands Motorsport Park circuit in Cromwell in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5704,111,139,69,1057,1058,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-206470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-liam-lawson","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-shane-van-gisbergen","13":"tag-slot1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206470","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=206470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}