Chassis shuffle for Penrite Racing in 2025
Chassis shuffle for Penrite Racing for 2025 Supercars season
Matt Payne steps into 2023 race-winning David Reynolds chassis
Team has fully rebuilt chassis damaged in Richie Stanaway crash
Penrite Racing has undertaken a chassis shuffle ahead of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship, as it aims to spread mileage across its Ford Mustangs.
Rookie Kai Allen, the 2023 Dunlop Super2 Series champion, arrives in place of Richie Stanaway, who has shifted to PremiAir Racing for the new season.
Teenager Allen joins third-year driver Matt Payne, who won in Townsville last July and finished sixth overall in the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship.
Allen's first season will come in chassis GR-03, which Stanaway raced in 2024. The chassis has been fully rebuilt following Stanaway's 52G accident in Adelaide.
Stanaway clouted the Turn 8 concrete in qualifying at the VAILO Adelaide 500 last November, with concussion symptoms ruling the Kiwi out of the weekend.
Penrite Racing confirmed to Supercars.com that Payne, meanwhile, will step into chassis GR-01, which David Reynolds raced in 2023, the first year of the Gen3 regulations.
Reynolds debuted GR-01 in Newcastle in March 2023, claiming pole position and a podium at Round 1. Reynolds later claimed victory at the Gold Coast 500, rounding out 2023 with four straight podiums in the car.
Payne has raced with chassis GR-02 since the beginning of his debut season, winning the 2023 Adelaide 500 and 2024 Townsville 500 finale in the car.
GR-02 will now become Penrite Racing's spare chassis, with GR-01 and GR-03 now the team's primary cars for the 2025 season.
The decision to shift Payne into GR-01, according to the team, is to spread kilometres across all three chassis. By the end of 2025, each chassis will have completed two seasons each.
It comes after Brad Jones Racing opted to shift Jaxon Evans into Andre Heimgartner's 2023/2024 chassis following his own Adelaide accident, with the Albury team undertaking repairs on the former's car.
A number of teams are set to debut new chassis in 2025, including but not limited to Dick Johnson Racing (both Brodie Kostecki and Will Davison), Walkinshaw Andretti United (Chaz Mostert), Matt Stone Racing (Cameron Hill) and Triple Eight Race Engineering (Will Brown, mid-season).
The 2025 Repco Supercars Championship will commence in Sydney on February 21-23, with pre-season testing taking place at Sydney Motorsport Park on February 19.
