Erebus puts cards on the table with revealing new doco

Erebus Motorsport will lay its story on the table for viewers from Friday, with the premiere of Dark Horse: Erebus Motorsport, Out of the Shadows.

The championship- and Bathurst-winning team is subject of the new three-part documentary series, which was produced independently by Apatchie Media.

Dark Horse premieres on Kayo, Binge and Foxtel on Friday, with episodes released each night until Sunday.

Erebus bought out Stone Brothers Racing and arrived in Supercars in 2013 with three Mercedes-AMG entries. Within a decade, the team had won Bathurst, and scaled the highest heights of the sport, with a double championship in 2023.

The docuseries also highlights the tumultuous time the team encountered along the way, from its tough early days with Mercedes, to the high-profile exits of star drivers. Notably, Dark Horse sheds light on the shock split with champion Brodie Kostecki at the beginning of 2024.

Part 1 will be available to watch from Friday, and shows the rise of the team following its Supercars debut in 2013, before it broke through to win in 2014. It delves into how the Mercedes program happened, and the hurdles the team encountered.

Part 2 and Part 3 launch on Saturday and Sunday respectively, highlighting two key periods of success and fallout for the team.

Part 2 reveals how the team abandoned its Mercedes project for Holden, how CEO Barry Ryan rose through the ranks, the 2017 Bathurst win, and the fallout of Reynolds’s exit.

Part 3 takes viewers behind the scenes of the team’s most successful period, culminating in a double championship win in 2023. However, the high-profile exits of Brown and Kostecki are explored, as well as the 2024 Bathurst win.

The Kostecki story was arguably the biggest of them all, with Dark Horse revealing the driver walked out on the team ahead of the 2024 season over a rift with Ryan.

In his interview, Ryan said: "To hear… that Brodie didn’t want to be with us anymore was one of the most random things I’ve heard."

Kostecki said: “I was having some difficulties with the team at the time… I was getting mixed information of what was going to happen with the team moving forward.

“Obviously there was some issues with myself and the way that Barry communicated with each other… I wasn’t really that excited about what was happening moving forward, and there was mixed things of Barry leaving the team, or getting moved to a different part of the team.

“It all went dead quiet for two to three months. It was a pretty awkward time for myself, and I just didn’t really feel like I got the chance to celebrate a championship that I was able to win with the team."