DJR wheels car out of museum in Bathurst chassis change
DJR wheels car out of museum in Bathurst chassis change
Will Davison sits 17th in championship heading to Bathurst 1000
Davison raced PACE-built chassis for first three rounds
Dick Johnson Racing will make a pre-Bathurst chassis change for Will Davison, with the team wheeling out the car recently placed in a museum.
Davison currently sits 17th in the drivers’ championship heading to the Repco Bathurst 1000, with his Finals hopes hanging by a thread.
The two-time Bathurst winner moved into the Erebus Motorsport-built chassis from Perth, having raced a PACE-built car for the opening three rounds.
Confirmed Tuesday, Davison will move back into the benched car, chassis DJRS-06, which recently touched down at Bathurst’s National Motor Racing Museum.
Davison raced DJRS-06 to a podium in New Zealand, his only podium of the season, with DJRS-06 recently sitting in The Bend Motorsport Park’s Welcome Centre at the recent AirTouch 500 at The Bend.
“Moving back to the chassis that Will drove earlier in the year allows the team the opportunity to assess out performance, leaving no stone unturned to maximise our #17 Shell V-Power Mustang’s output at Bathurst,” a team spokesperson confirmed to Supercars.com.
New recruit Brodie Kostecki has raced his Erebus-built chassis since the beginning of the season, and recently clinched his Finals berth with victory in the Ryco Enduro Cup opener alongside Todd Hazelwood.
It comes after Walkinshaw Andretti United and Matt Stone Racing enacted chassis changes for Chaz Mostert and Nick Percat respectively in recent rounds.
WAU said the decision was made so WR29 can rotate into the team's spare car for the remainder of the year. WR29 will then be part of the team's Toyota programme in 2026 onwards, most likely as a spare.
Percat left Sydney in 17th overall, courtesy of three finishes outside the top 10. MSR then moved Percat into MSR-004, which was raced by wildcard Cameron Crick in Sydney.
MSR-004 is the team's three-time race-winning chassis, with Jack Le Brocq (2023) and Percat (2024) previously racing the car.
Track action at the Repco Bathurst 1000 commences on Thursday October 9.
