{"id":21182,"date":"2025-09-14T03:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21182\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:27:12","slug":"supercars-news-wau-team-principal-subbing-for-race-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21182\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: WAU team principal subbing for race engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Supercars-TheBend500-Friday-128.jpg\" alt=\"WAU team principal subbing for race engineer\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarl Faux and Chaz Mostert at The Bend. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n<p>Scaffidi returned home to Melbourne on Saturday night for family reasons and his role at the track has been taken by WAU\u2019s team principal, Carl Faux.<\/p>\n<p>Faux has held the team principal position since late 2023 but is an engineer by trade and was recruited to the team in 2018 to head up its technical operations.<\/p>\n<p>Mostert\/Coulthard will start this afternoon\u2019s race from 10th on the grid after Mostert was slapped with a two-place grid penalty for impeding Richie Stanaway in qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The #25 Mustang will share the fifth row with the sister #2 Ryan Wood\/Jayden Ojeda entry after a mistake from Wood sent the #2 Ford off the road in the <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-the-bend-500-top-10-shootout-results-broc-feeney-pole-position-results-reaction-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Shootout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-the-bend-500-warm-up-results-ryan-wood-jayden-ojeda-fastest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAU enjoyed a positive start to Sunday\u2019s track action with the #2 and #25 cars first and fourth respectively at the end of a 20-minute warm-up session<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Faux and Chaz Mostert at The Bend. Image: InSyde Media Scaffidi returned home to Melbourne on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22208,22209,111,139,69,1732,213,22210],"class_list":{"0":"post-21182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chaz-mostert","9":"tag-fabian-coulthard","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-slot4","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-wau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182","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=21182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}