{"id":490166,"date":"2026-06-22T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:05:27","slug":"supercars-news-erebus-motorsport-joins-team-chevy-alliance-in-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490166\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Erebus Motorsport joins Team Chevy alliance in Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EREBUS Motorsport has quietly joined the Team Chevy alliance, making for a complete set of General Motors squads in the manufacturer\u2019s Supercars data pooling program.<\/p>\n<p>V8 Sleuth learnt that the Darwin Triple Crown was Erebus\u2019 first event in the alliance, as was represented by Chevrolet windscreen banner stickers that had not previously been in place.<\/p>\n<p>Team 18, Matt Stone Racing and PremiAir Racing have all been part of the alliance from the start of this season, but Erebus initially opted to maintain complete independence.<\/p>\n<p>After a difficult opening five rounds, that approach was revised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-43-scale-2023-erebus-motorsport-10th-anniversary-celebration-chevrolet-camaro-model-1?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ACD18C23SE1-1_f2287dbe-167f-4c03-8710-135df3768d5f_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erebus CEO Barry Ryan confirmed to V8 Sleuth that a confidential agreement was in place but would not elaborate further, and GM Motorsports Supercars racing program manager Simon McNamara was similarly coy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarry is a very generous man,\u201d McNamara smiled, when prompted by V8 Sleuth about the team\u2019s new Chevrolet stickers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarry and Betty (Klimenko), they\u2019re very supportive of Chevrolet, so nice of them to put that on there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed further on the arrangement, McNamara simply responded: \u201cWe talk to Barry all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, V8 Sleuth sources have confirmed Erebus\u2019 addition to the alliance is legitimate.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RGP-2026-Tyrepower-Tasmania-S440-_25a0179-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258219\"  \/>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2756-Jobe-Stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jobe Stewart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1701-Cooper-Murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Murray<\/a>\u2018s Erebus cars ran without the Chevrolet windscreen stickers at Symmons Plains. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n<p>Talented Erebus youngsters Cooper Murray and Jobe Stewart find themselves way down the standings, holding 22nd and 24th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a positive weekend in some ways,\u201d Ryan said of Hidden Valley via a team video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t get the results we wanted of course, but Cooper showed some really good speed, we nearly made the Shootout yesterday\u2026 there were some positives. Today our pitstops were really sharp, like we were one of the quickest in pitlane with both cars, so really happy with that and really proud of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere GM had reason to celebrate in Darwin, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1264-Anton-De Pasquale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anton De Pasquale<\/a> producing his second race win of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/erebus-motorsport-from-challengers-to-champions-book?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/erebus-champions-book_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EREBUS Motorsport has quietly joined the Team Chevy alliance, making for a complete set of General Motors squads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-490166","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\/490166","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=490166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}