{"id":8064,"date":"2025-09-07T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:34:09","slug":"nascar-news-austin-cindric-reveals-supercars-career-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8064\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR news: Austin Cindric reveals Supercars career crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"NASCAR
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeam Penske’s Austin Cindric. Image: James Gilbert\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cindric<\/a>, who races for Team Penske in the NASCAR Cup Series, tested a Ford FG Falcon more than a decade ago at Queensland Raceway with Matt Stone Racing car usually driven by Todd Hazelwood.<\/p>\n

After the 2014 test, a second came in 2016 with the then-known DJR Team Penske in Fabian Coulthard\u2019s Ford FG X Falcon.<\/p>\n

It was hoped the DJR Team Penske relationship would spawn a Bathurst 1000 co-drive, but Cindric\u2019s evaluation and date clashes with GT3 commitments precluded him from that.<\/p>\n

By 2017, Cindric had committed himself to stock car racing and began racing in the NASCAR Truck Series that year.<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Gateway, Cindric revealed Supercars was a serious career consideration.<\/p>\n

He ultimately went down the stock car path, but soon he\u2019ll be a Supercars starter at the Adelaide Grand Final later this year in what he labelled a \u201cfull circle\u201d moment.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been about 10 years since I\u2019ve been down to Australia to go race,\u201d said Cindric.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a certain point in time in my career that it was a legitimate consideration to go race full-time, whether it be in Super2 or something else.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, they\u2019ve done a great job with that series in producing great drivers, so as a younger driver, [Supercars was] something I really looked at pretty heavily.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always kind of kept a pulse on it. I did some racing down there in the past for the Bathurst 12 Hour and had a lot of great relationships there. It\u2019s really cool to see it all come full circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be able to do it without the help and connection from Ford with all the guys at Tickford and just piecing things together to see if it is all possible and then kind of go through the paperwork of how do I get approved and this and that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cindric to \u2018test myself\u2019 in Adelaide Supercars wildcard<\/a><\/p>\n

At the moment, the wildcard is a one-off. However, Cindric is optimistic that there may be opportunities beyond Adelaide.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll in all, it\u2019s going to be a super fun adventure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that I look at as a great opportunity to hopefully do more races than just the one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to do well and represent myself as well as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tricky course and an incredibly competitive series, so looking to see, see what I learned about myself and how well I stack up against a pretty, pretty stout grid.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Cindric makes his debut on November 27-30, Cindric will become the first driver from the United States since Alexander Rossi in 2019 to race in Supercars.<\/p>\n

Get the latest NASCAR news, stats and betting insights at MotorRacing.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Penske’s Austin Cindric. Image: James Gilbert\/Getty Images Cindric, who races for Team Penske in the NASCAR Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10503,111,139,69,216,213,10504],"class_list":{"0":"post-8064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-austin-cindric","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-slot3","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tickford-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064","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=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}