{"id":558859,"date":"2026-08-04T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558859\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:20:12","slug":"supercars-news-garry-rogers-motorsport-takes-possession-of-triple-eight-built-chevrolet-camaro-for-bathurst-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558859\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Garry Rogers Motorsport takes possession of Triple Eight-built Chevrolet Camaro for Bathurst 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Rogers\u2019\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGarry Rogers Motorsport has taken possession of a Triple Eight-built Chevrolet Camaro. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

The famous team will make its return to Supercars this year with a Great Race wildcard driven by James Moffat and Nathan Herne.<\/p>\n

The initial plan was to lease a car from Erebus Motorsport, which is headquartered close to GRM. However, Erebus was unable to facilitate a car due to a lack of resources.<\/a><\/p>\n

That pushed GRM into talks with Triple Eight, where the lease price of a car was high enough that the outright purchase of a car became the more attractive offer.<\/p>\n

The outcome was GRM buying the Camaro that was raced by Craig Lowndes and Zach Bates<\/a> at the Bathurst 1000 last year in Supercheap Auto colours.<\/p>\n

Long-time GRM employee Jeff Marshall went to Triple Eight\u2019s workshop in Brisbane last week for a handover of the new car, which has since arrived at GRM\u2019s Melbourne workshop.<\/p>\n

The car is presented in Red Bull Ampol Racing colours as it was last used during sponsor ride day commitments in November 2025.<\/p>\n

GRM buys Lowndes\u2019 last Triple Eight car for Bathurst 1000<\/a><\/p>\n

However, its five race event appearances all took place in Supercheap Auto colours, run as the team\u2019s Craig Lowndes-led wildcard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must say, a lot of credit to Jamie Whincup and the team at Triple Eight, the car is absolutely immaculate,\u201d said GRM boss Barry Rogers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019d swear it was a brand new car. So thank you.<\/p>\n

\u201cJamie would not get a job in my used car yard, because you never put new tyres on a car. But brand new tyres. I would have had re-treads on it if I was him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last comment is somewhat ironic, given Whincup was fired by GRM after his rookie season way back in 2003.<\/p>\n

He went on to win a record-setting seven Supercars titles with Triple Eight before stepping out of the drivers\u2019 seat and into the managing director role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garry Rogers Motorsport has taken possession of a Triple Eight-built Chevrolet Camaro. Image: Supplied The famous team will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[274886,215,84058,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":["post-558859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barry-rogers","tag-bathurst-1000","tag-garry-rogers-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558859","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=558859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}