{"id":43366,"date":"2025-09-25T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43366\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:58:11","slug":"supercars-news-toyota-supra-faces-ford-gm-rivals-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43366\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Toyota Supra faces Ford, GM rivals for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toyota-Pressroom-5eaf4ef4-ccec-464b-abed-d8d78eb3f2e3.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota Supra faces Ford, GM Supercars rivals for first time\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Gen3 Supra during its initial shakedown run at Altona. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The milestone moment occurred in Melbourne on Thursday as Supercars prepares an example of each model for dispatch to the United States for wind tunnel testing.<\/p>\n<p>Homologation teams Walkinshaw Andretti United, Triple Eight and Team 18 have each provided a car built to specific requirements for use in the Windshear facility.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars is expected to finalise the precious cargo today before it is sea freighted to the US for the post-season parity runs.<\/p>\n<p>The category has used Kelly Racing\u2019s workshop as a temporary base to undertake the necessary work on the three cars.<\/p>\n<p>WAU and Triple Eight \u2013 which is defecting from GM to Ford \u2013 have built new cars for the testing while Team 18 refreshed its spare, <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-craig-lowndes-team-18-camaro-united-states-wind-tunnel-usa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which will also be used as its wildcard in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Toyota is the second Supra completed by WAU, allowing its first example to continue a track testing program in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>WAU followed its maiden two-day Winton test across September 2-3 with another hit-out at the Victorian venue on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-video-toyota-supra-test-winton-footage-walkinshaw-andretti-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Gen3 Toyota Supra on track at Winton test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The car was again shared by Warren Luff, Fabian Coulthard and Macauley Jones, who combined to put more crucial mileage on the 5.2-litre 2UR-GSE V8 engine.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed upcoming public track appearances include demonstration laps at the Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast 500 next month.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota will make its long-awaited entry into the Supercars Championship next season with two Supras to be fielded by WAU and four by Brad Jones Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Five Toyota drivers are now locked in, with Ryan Wood and Chaz Mostert at WAU and Andre Heimgartner, Macauley Jones and Cam Hill at BJR.<\/p>\n<p>BJR is yet to confirm whether Jaxon Evans will continue in its fourth car run for SCT Motorsport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gen3 Supra during its initial shakedown run at Altona. Image: Supplied The milestone moment occurred in Melbourne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,1732,213,38624],"class_list":["post-43366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot4","tag-sports","tag-walkinshaw-andretti-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43366","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=43366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}