{"id":220726,"date":"2026-01-07T03:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/220726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:38:19","slug":"how-to-future-proof-supercars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/220726\/","title":{"rendered":"How to future-proof Supercars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WITH the changing of the guard in Supercars racing, is there a personality drain at the top end of the sport?<\/p>\n<p>As big names such as Shane van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin depart to race on the world stage, and established drivers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2-Mark-Winterbottom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Winterbottom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a>, and more move on, a wave of new talent has entered the sport.<\/p>\n<p>How does the sport grow these drivers into household names?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-1?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/V8Sleuth-Magazine-1_91f7f282-3ced-4ad8-9031-10de31dcd2de_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s responsible \u2013 the category, the teams or the drivers themselves? The team on The Undercut \u2013 Aaron Noonan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-48-Jack-Perkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Perkins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-24-James-Moffat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Moffat<\/a> \u2013 tackle this big issue for the sport \u2013 but what do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v8sleuth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Let us know via our Facebook page<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>WATCH<\/p>\n<p>How to Future-Proof Supercars: The Changing of the Guard<\/p>\n<p>With the changing of the guard in Supercars racing, is there a personality drain at the top end of the sport?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WITH the changing of the guard in Supercars racing, is there a personality drain at the top end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-220726","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\/220726","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=220726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}