{"id":357045,"date":"2026-03-31T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:13:20","slug":"clay-richards-livery-reveal-ahead-of-bathurst-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357045\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Richards livery reveal ahead of Bathurst Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLAY Richards has shown off a striking black-and-pink look which he\u2019ll carry into the 2026 Trans Am Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Richards will race a Mustang-bodied TA2 with major backing from Essential Caravans.<\/p>\n<p>It follows on from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/richards-to-step-up-into-trans-am\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making his Trans Am debut last July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/little-heroes-gentle-jim-book?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gentle-jim_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A grid of close to 30 cars is expected for the Trans Am season-opener this weekend at Mount Panorama, where the V8 category will be the lead support category at the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.<\/p>\n<p>Among the star-studded field will be the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1174-Todd-Hazelwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Hazelwood<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-24-James-Moffat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Moffat<\/a>, Nathan Herne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2803-Jarrod-Hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Hughes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1297-Jack-Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Smith<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bathurst6hour.com.au\/event-info\/ticketing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Bathurst 6 Hour tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Clay-Richards-019A0972-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252752\"  \/>Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLAY Richards has shown off a striking black-and-pink look which he\u2019ll carry into the 2026 Trans Am Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-357045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357045","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=357045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}