GM teams send crew on US fact-finding missions
General Motors teams send crew on US fact-finding missions
Team 18 team principal, engineers taking in NASCAR, IMSA
Triple Eight mechanics visited Trackhouse Racing, set for Daytona
Triple Eight Race Engineering and Team 18 have both sent team representatives to the United States for fact-finding missions.
After Ipswich, teams have a five-week break before a big end to the season, with five major Supercars events in 11 weeks.
General Motors invited representatives from its four 2026 Supercars teams to the US to meet with GM chiefs and engineering staff.
New homologation team, Team 18, sent team principal Adrian Burgess, technical director Geoff Slater, performance engineer Som Sharma and race engineers Richard Hollway and Andrew Donnelly.
There, they visited the GM Tech Centre in North Carolina, but also went trackside at last weekend’s NASCAR event at Richmond, and will take in this weekend’s IMSA event at Virginia International.
It comes after GM plans to build closer alliances between its teams, under a ’Team Chevy’ banner. GM will be represented by Team 18, Matt Stone Racing, PremiAir Racing and Erebus Motorsport next season.
Ford-bound Triple Eight, meanwhile, has sent five of its mechanics to take in NASCAR. The Triple Eight crew members have visited the headquarters of Trackhouse Racing in North Carolina, before taking in this weekend’s Daytona race.
The trip is effectively a reward for winning last year’s PIRTEK Pit Stop Challenge, but members will also get a front row seat to NASCAR crews in action at Daytona.
Drivers are also taking the chance to travel Stateside, with Tickford Racing’s Thomas Randle and Penrite Racing’s Matt Payne in attendance at last weekend’s Richmond NASCAR race.
The 2025 Repco Supercars Championship resumes at the first Ryco Enduro Cup round, the AirTouch 500 at The Bend, on September 12-14.
