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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeam 18’s Anton De Pasquale and Matt Stone Racing’s Zach Bates. Image: Richard Gresham <\/p>\n
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While GM is yet to confirm details, the high-profile recruit will take the technical reins at Chevrolet Racing, including managing the new for 2026 \u2018GM alliance\u2019.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a role former Triple Eight technical director Jeromy Moore is currently filling on a remote basis, with Cadillac\u2019s US-based LMDh sportscar program his primary focus.<\/p>\n
That will continue for now as GM has to wait for McPherson to see out a six-month notice period with Grove before he starts in his new position<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upon news it would lose Triple Eight to Ford in 2026, GM made clear its best option was a collaborative approach among its remaining teams.<\/p>\n Homologation squad Team 18, Matt Stone Racing and PremiAir Racing have all bought into the concept, while Erebus Motorsport continues to go it alone.<\/p>\n The essence of the alliance is each team sharing setup information via a GM-administered database throughout race weekends.<\/p>\n Grove Racing tech chief poached by General Motors<\/a><\/p>\n This is done via HH Data Management, a product from international motorsport software specialists HH Development into which each team inputs information.<\/p>\n HH is also known to be used by Triple Eight, although Moore says the GM version has its points of difference.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not the same as T8. There are a few improvements here and there that you learn over time,\u201d Moore told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a good system. It manages to bring the teams together and share their info and allow them to collaborate more on setups.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are no illusions that we\u2019re going to take it to T8 straight away, but we know there\u2019s strength in numbers.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll learn things as a group to bring the whole family up to be hopefully fighting for the championship at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n Team 18 has taken over GM HT duties from T8. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n The three GM teams are also undertaking engineering briefings together before and after each event.<\/p>\n Speaking at Albert Park, Moore flagged that the role now known to be McPherson\u2019s will be critical to making the alliance work.<\/p>\n Team 18, MSR and PremiAir fundamentally remain competitors, each fighting for the same goal of winning races.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to trust that they\u2019re putting in the right numbers and they\u2019re not hiding anything in the setup sheets,\u201d admitted Moore.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s where my role full-time, a replacement for me, is going to come and make sure that everyone\u2019s doing the right thing.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are no concerns that they\u2019re not doing it, they\u2019re all very open at the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re all collaborating, having meetings and chatting about what they think setup-wise, what their strengths and weaknesses are.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any secret squirrels.\u201d<\/p>\n The GM alliance is a very different dynamic to the Triple Eight customer model that MSR, PremiAir and Brad Jones Racing had been a part of in 2025.<\/p>\n In that instance, each of the customers paid Triple Eight in exchange for access to setup information and data from the Red Bull Ampol Racing Camaros.<\/p>\n Triple Eight would in turn get information from all its customers, as well as the financial return, in a system referred to by Brad Jones as \u201cmaster and slave\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n While Team 18 was given the HT duties and boasts a powerful engineering team of its own, GM wants to administer its program independently.<\/p>\n Moore believes the nature of the open-book GM alliance and the position of its teams brings less suspicion among participating teams than that seen with Triple Eight.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Team-18-Triple-Eight.jpg\")
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