{"id":380427,"date":"2026-04-15T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:34:16","slug":"battle-scarred-supercars-arrive-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380427\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle-scarred Supercars arrive in Christchurch"},"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\/04\/669766663_1523140089821916_8053148399490342034_n.jpg\" alt=\"Battle-scarred Supercars arrive at Ruapuna\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSupercars lined up in pit lane at Ruapuna. <\/p>\n<p>Teams unloaded the 24 cars from their containers at the venue this afternoon ahead of the weekend\u2019s maiden championship event on the South Island.<\/p>\n<p>The containers were packed on Saturday night at Taupo following a decision to cancel Sunday\u2019s action due to Cyclone Vaianu.<\/p>\n<p>While all cars escaped the twin Taupo races without serious damage, the action-packed races left plenty of battle scars to attend to.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will have two more full days to undertake servicing and maintenance work before track action begins on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The rustic Ruapuna pit lane features car ports rather than full garages, with temporary marquees added at the back for the Supercars event.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight holds the prized position at pit exit having returned to the lead of the teams\u2019 championship at Taupo, with arch rivals Walkinshaw TWG now second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4cq9M8W\" style=\"color:#f06d25;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to see what it takes to build the Gold Coast street circuit <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/296619\" 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\/04\/296619.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supercars lined up in pit lane at Ruapuna. Teams unloaded the 24 cars from their containers at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-380427","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\/380427","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=380427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}