DJR to stick with winning Brodie Kostecki partnership
Tom Moore to continue as Kostecki's engineer for Adelaide
Moore has substituted for George Commins since Bathurst
The Shell V-Power Racing Team is set to retain the Brodie Kostecki/Tom Moore partnership into the title decider in Adelaide.
Dick Johnson Racing Team Manager Moore stepped in to engineer Kostecki at the Repco Bathurst 1000, after regular engineer George Commins was sidelined after sustaining injuries in a mountain biking accident.
Moore steered Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood to Bathurst glory, and returned as engineer for the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, where Kostecki qualified for the Sandown Semi Final.
Commins was trackside at both the Gold Coast and Sandown, but in a performance role overseeing both Kostecki and Rylan Gray’s Fords, supporting Moore and Gray's engineer Ed Williams.
DJR confirmed to Supercars.com that, following a team debrief, Moore will continue on as the #17 engineer for Adelaide.
Speaking on Supercars’ Equip Super Cool Down Lap podcast, Moore said: “It’s working really well at the moment, especially having George at the track and being able to sort of oversee the operation, bounce ideas off each other a bit more freely. George is helping out Ed on Rylan's car as well.
“It's been a really good little non-intentional positional switch, if you know what I mean.
“So I think it's a good thing about having a good and strong relationship between all of us, is that we can do that and the performance stays the same or sometimes improves.
“We’ve sort of got a good thing going at the moment, and yeah, unlikely to change for the last one.”
Speaking to media on Monday, Kostecki said: “I’ll see the year out through Tom, and George is staying in his role that he's in at the moment.
“It’s been working really well lately and yeah, feel like everything's been gelling well.”
Moore remains confident in the speed of the #17 Mustang, with Kostecki delivering more wins than any other driver in 2026 with nine, ahead of Broc Feeney (seven), Matt Payne (six) and Chaz Mostert (three).
“It’s good. It's been fun to sort of step in and do work with Brodie after a bunch of years sort of on the other side of the garage,” Moore said.
“We know each other pretty well, and it's a very natural sort of fit as well, the same as him and George are.
“Obviously, it's a good time of year to be hitting a lot of momentum. We're obviously feeling really good about the race car at the moment.
“Confident in the philosophy in a lot of different style of circuits. It's been good fun.”
Kostecki enters Adelaide 30 points behind Payne.
