{"id":644835,"date":"2026-10-29T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644835\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:54:14","slug":"supercars-matt-stone-racing-sponsor-bendix-downplays-entering-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644835\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Matt Stone Racing sponsor Bendix downplays entering administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MATT Stone Racing naming rights sponsor Bendix insists it\u2019s business as usual despite its parent company going into voluntary administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tianne Nagy-Jones and Philip Campbell-Wilson of Grant Thornton Australia Limited were on Monday (October 26) appointed as joint administrators of FMP Group (Australia) Pty Limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FMP \u2013 i.e. Friction Materials Pacific \u2013 is the Australian company behind Bendix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brake manufacturer\u2019s backing has underpinned MSR\u2019s #10 entry since the start of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That span has been headlined by a total of six podiums including two race wins for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-38-Nick-Percat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Percat<\/a> (2024-25), plus a Bathurst 1000 pole position for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2747-Zach-Bates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Bates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-albert-park-10-chevrolet-camaro-nick-percat-model?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\/10\/ACD18C25F_5f74ceb8-fc80-4b7f-95ba-907194dbeb2d.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if the administration news would have any impact on MSR, a team spokesperson pointed to the official line from Bendix:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s business as usual at Bendix. Our new owners will be announced soon. Stay tuned!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bates is yet to be officially confirmed for 2027, but MSR owner Matt Stone has repeatedly indicated there\u2019ll be no change in his driving ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The #10 Chevrolet is next due on track at Sandown, November 6-8, for the penultimate round of the Supercars season.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/RGP-2026-Repco-Bathurst-1000-_25A7329-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269312\"  \/>Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MATT Stone Racing naming rights sponsor Bendix insists it\u2019s business as usual despite its parent company going into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-644835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644835","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=644835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}