{"id":214264,"date":"2026-01-03T04:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:01:16","slug":"how-when-and-why-triple-eight-sealed-huge-ford-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214264\/","title":{"rendered":"How, when and why Triple Eight sealed &#8216;huge&#8217; Ford move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-inter font-normal normal antialiased text-md mb-6 gap-x-1 leading-6 md:text-base md:leading-7 text-dark-grey-2\">Triple Eight&#8217;s Ford move didn&#8217;t come without its exits, though. Long time Triple Eight figureheads, technical guru Jeromy Moore and veteran star Craig Lowndes, both aligned with GM, as did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.com\/news\/supercars-news-2025-kre-engine-supplier-chevrolet-teams-gen3-triple-eight-ford-move-2026\" class=\"InlineHyperLink text-red underline\" aria-label=\"Hyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GM engine supplier KRE Race Engines<\/a>. Former Triple Eight supremo Roland Dane has also reemerged as Team Principal of GM squad PremiAir Racing, with former Holden motorsport boss Simon McNamara rejoining GM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Triple Eight&#8217;s Ford move didn&#8217;t come without its exits, though. Long time Triple Eight figureheads, technical guru Jeromy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-214264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214264","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=214264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}