{"id":347595,"date":"2026-03-25T20:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:03:23","slug":"news-dalberto-to-race-mustang-gt4-in-djr-inspired-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347595\/","title":{"rendered":"news: D\u2019Alberto to race Mustang GT4 in DJR-inspired livery"},"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\/2026\/03\/DAlberto_Keyte-GT4-2026.jpg\" alt=\"D\u2019Alberto to race Mustang GT4 in DJR-inspired livery\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTony D&#8217;Alberto will do double duties in GT3 and GT4 machinery this season, sharing an MPC-prepared Mustang GT4 with Jarrod Keyte. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Alberto will partner Jarrod Keyte in a Ford Mustang GT4 prepared by Melbourne Performance Centre, racing in the Silver Am Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/fan-favourite-lamborghini-returns-to-gt-world-challenge-australia-grid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The opportunity comes alongside a stint in GT World Challenge Australia in the Wall Racing-run Lamborghini Huracan he will share with Adrian Deitz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Car owner and driver Keyte raced the same Mustang to fifth in the Am Cup standings last year alongside Marcus LaDelle.<\/p>\n<p>The livery draws inspiration from the Dick Johnson Racing Mustang D\u2019Alberto drives in Supercars endurance events, with striking red and white colours and the familiar Shell pecten on the bonnet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to get into racing in the Mustang GT4 with Jarrod for the 2026 Monochrome GT4 Australia Series,\u201d said D\u2019Alberto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did the test day at Phillip Island last week and it was great to see Jarrod build up pace and confidence through the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe isn\u2019t here just to make up the numbers, and my job will be to fast-track his learning each weekend. To be honest, though, he\u2019s pretty good anyway\u2026he might be faster than me!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mustang is such a user-friendly car to drive. It does everything that you ask and has plenty of grunt. I can\u2019t wait to get into my first season of GT4 competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keyte and LaDelle were among the fastest Am Cup combinations in 2025, visiting the podium on several occasions in 10 races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season we\u2019ve gotten serious with the program by going to Melbourne Performance Centre and bringing in Tony,\u201d said Keyte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve made these changes to help with my development and hopefully we can get some results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always raced in categories where it\u2019s all about the driver rather than the car. GT4 has that parity through BoP and it doesn\u2019t matter what car a driver is in, it\u2019s pretty fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a co-driver such as Tony to build the confidence and benchmark myself against him is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were searching for a co-driver we wanted somebody, who was there to support my development and Tony fits that role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monochrome GT4 Australia commences this weekend, March 27-29, at Phillip Island at the Shannons SpeedSeries season opener.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/294243\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/294243.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony D&#8217;Alberto will do double duties in GT3 and GT4 machinery this season, sharing an MPC-prepared Mustang GT4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70641,37749,111,139,69,181583,213,46847],"class_list":["post-347595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-monochrome-gt4-australia","tag-mpc","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-speedseries","tag-sports","tag-tony-dalberto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347595","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=347595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}