2026 Repco Supercars ChampionshipTouring Cars

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Team	Car	Drivers
Red Bull Ampol Racing	Ford Mustang	#888 Will Brown	#88 Broc Feeney	#11 Jackson Walls
Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang	#17 Brodie Kostecki	#38 Rylan Gray
Tickford	Ford Mustang	#6 Cameron Waters	#55 Thomas Randle
Walkinshaw TWG Racing	Toyota Supra	#2 Ryan Wood	#1 Chaz Mostert
Erebus	Chev Camaro	#9 Cooper Murray	#99 Jobe Stewart
Brad Jones Racing	Toyota Supra	#8 Andre Heimgartner	#?? Cameron Hill	#96 Macualey Jones
Team 18	Chev Camaro	#18 Anton De Pasquale	#20 David Reynolds
Grove Racing	Ford Mustang	#19 Matthew Payne	#26 Kai Allen
Matt Stone Racing	Chev Camaro	#4 Jack Le Brocq	#10 Zach Bates
PremiAir Racing	Chev Camaro	#31 Jayden Ojeda	#777 Declan Fraser
Blanchard Racing Team	Ford Mustang	#?? James Golding	#3 Aaron Cameron

Calendar​

	Sprint Cup​
20-22 February	Sydney Motorsport Park	Sydney, NSW
5-8 March	Albert Park	Melbourne, Vic
10-12 April	Taupō Motorsport Park	Taupo, NZ
17-19 April	Ruapuna Raceway	Christchurch, NZ
22-24 May	Symmons Plains	Launceston, Tas
19-21 June	Hidden Valley	Darwin, NT
10-12 July	Reid Park	Townsville, Qld
31 July-2 August	Wanneroo Raceway	Perth, WA
21-23 August	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Qld
	Endurance Cup​
11-13 September	The Bend 500	Tailem Bend, SA
8-11 October	Bathurst 1000	Bathurst, NSW
	Finals Series​
23-25 October	Gold Coast	Gold Coast, QLD
13-15 November	Sandown Raceway	Melbourne, Vic
3-6 December	Adelaide 500	Adelaide, SA

 

[Spacegoat]

Starting off with WAU being renamed to Walkinshaw TWG Racing (which isn't a mouth full. Probably.)

WAU renamed as Zak Brown exits team ownership

The Supercars team currently known as WAU is set to be rebranded Walkinshaw TWG Racing from February 3 in reference

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Guessing Zak Brown decided to get out of Supercars, after realizing he isn't exactly Mr Popular down here currently.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Guessing Zak Brown decided to get out of Supercars, after realizing he isn't exactly Mr Popular down here currently.

It’s alright, not like he has to come to Australia within the the next few months.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

This isn’t going to be controversial at all - Nick Worth of Worth Research, responsible for the ZB Commodore’s aero package, claims to have used some design trickery to exploit Supercar’s VCAT test and significantly increased the car’s downforce as a result.

https://speedcafe.com/supercars-new...k-zb-holden-commodore-brake-ducts-nick-wirth/

“[Supercars] made one mistake, and the mistake was that they used their own brake ducts [for VCAT]. They were different to the brake ducts that we used on the real race bodywork.

“I said, ‘that’s an opportunity’.

“What we did was we did a CFD program where every single thing we did, we built models of the brake ducts and load cells that they used to measure the car [during VCAT], so we had a CFD model of that, and we had CFD models of the real bodywork with the real brake cooling system on.

“Basically we got the technology to look for anything that made a bigger difference between when you ran the standard load measuring brake ducts and the race system.

“We iterated towards a technology that when you put the load cells on, it swicthed our aerodynamics off. We essentially gave them a car that as soon as they put their load measuring equipment on, it stalled all of the downforce developing devices on the car.

“As soon as they took that stuff off, and we put our real stuff on, literally downforce was like two and a half times what had been measured.”

 

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RD to Supercars: "Why you bringing up old stuff? "

 

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‘Different beast’: Heimgartner’s take on Toyota after first test

Heimgartner turned approximately 30 laps of Winton Motor Raceway in Walkinshaw Andretti United’s development mule as engine testing continued on

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Crazy that Heimgartner has basically driven everything aside from the Volvo and Merc.

 

[Spacegoat]

Livery reveal season is almost upon us.

DJR: Feb 1st.
Grove: Feb 7th.
Walkinshaw TWG: Feb 8th.
Team 18: Feb 10th.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Surely this is the year DJR present something new and exciting, right?

 

[Spacegoat]

Full list of reveal dates (well, mostly) from the Supercars socials.

Still think Team 18 are missing a trick by not having theirs on the 18th but what do I know.

Surely this is the year DJR present something new and exciting, right?

 

[Spacegoat]

While it is probably overdue for a fresh change in the commentary booth. And assuming Tander is going to be one of them, he'd be an upgrade over Skaife but no Crompo? Sure he tends to miss things during the races but his knowledge and love of the sport is basically next to none. And I was looking forward to this year, seeing as he was a large part of getting Toyota onto the grid

Feels similar to when they tried to punt Larko a few years back. (Was James Warburton behind that move too? I probably shouldn't be surprised if he was)

Crompton breaks silence on Supercars commentary axing

As previously reported by Speedcafe, Crompton has been moved aside as part of a refresh of the broadcast product under

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While it is probably overdue for a fresh change in the commentary booth. And assuming Tander is going to be one of them, he'd be an upgrade over Skaife but no Crompo? Sure he tends to miss things during the races but his knowledge and love of the sport is basically next to none. And I was looking forward to this year, seeing as he was a large part of getting Toyota onto the grid

Feels similar to when they tried to punt Larko a few years back. (Was James Warburton behind that move too? I probably shouldn't be surprised if he was)

Crompton breaks silence on Supercars commentary axing

As previously reported by Speedcafe, Crompton has been moved aside as part of a refresh of the broadcast product under

speedcafe.com

Yes, it was Warburton.

I feel pretty much the same. The same guy that did the petition for Larko is doing one for Crompo.

Larko saviour launches Crompton petition

Mark Doust was a key figure in prompting a backflip from Supercars back in late 2020 after it announced that

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Volvo was the main reason I got into Supercars. Crompton was the main reason I stayed. Lose Skaife by all means (but of course that's not going to happen ) and have Neil and Garth please.

 

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At least if were Aaron Noonan and Garth Tander, it'd be informative and good called broadcast by a knowledgeable unbiased duo.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Surely this is the year DJR present something new and exciting, right?

Answer: No. I mean, at least invert the colors or something...

 

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Shame they didn’t run the number on the doors.

 

[Spacegoat]

Answer: No. I mean, at least invert the colors or something...

Am I crazy or is the number on the windscreen larger? With how large it is compared to Kostecki's name. I hate it.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Answer: No. I mean, at least invert the colors or something...

They inverted the colours last year, reverting back is not enough.


Is something like this too much to ask for?

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Am I crazy or is the number on the windscreen larger? With how large it is compared to Kostecki's name. I hate it.

Double post, but this explains it.

From Round 1 in Sydney, the size of the driver competition number on the windscreen of all Supercars has been increased, and moved.
The vinyl competition number will be increased in size for better visibility to fans and officials, and will be moved next to the LED display.
The number has been increased by 65mm in height, from 80mm in 2025 to 145mm in 2026.
The driver surname, meanwhile, will move next to the competition number and across the rear vision mirror section of the windscreen, to ensure driver visibility is not compromised.

 

[Spacegoat]

Dodged a bullet here. As an Rugby League fan, I can safely tell you that all the major commentators from Foxtel and Channel 9 are terrible. I'd much rather have someone who actually follows the sport call it, rather than someone from outside of it.

What you need to know about Supercars TV shake-up

There’s a lot to digest as Supercars makes big calls in a bid to refresh its television broadcasts under the

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While Supercars did chase NRL commentary talent as part of its refresh, it’s now clear the category will promote from its support ranks – and not have a single ‘voice of the sport’.

Chad Neylon, Matt Naulty and Richard Craill are all in line to share the mic across the 14-event season as part of a strategy to break the long-running formula.

Neylon, Naulty and Craill are all decent enough but not a patch on Crompo.

Double post, but this explains it.

The last sentence makes me feel a little more at ease. Because I feared that might be going down the DTM route of having gigantic numbers on the side of the windscreens.

Still think it looks terrible but it could be a lot worse.

 

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This is cool.

Alice Buckley making Supercars step with own team

Buckley, 18, shot to prominence with standout drives in the TA2 Muscle Car Series last season, triggering interest from Supercars

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Toyota V8 Supercars engine unmasked by UK firm

As revealed by Speedcafe last year, Swindon was appointed engine partner for the project by Toyota’s Supercars homologation team that

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[Spacegoat]

Honestly, a huge step down from the SCT liveries and even the Objective liveries we've seen in GT3 in the past. Very underwhelming, imo.

SCT Motorsport rebrands as Objective Racing

The change is part of the high-profile shift of the SCT-owned entry from Brad Jones Racing to Triple Eight. As

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[Cap'n Jack]

Yeah, I have to agree. I really liked the Objective 650S GT3 a few years back and even last year’s Super2 car didn’t look too bad. This just doesn’t do it for me.

 

[ScottPuss20]

Honestly, a huge step down from the SCT liveries and even the Objective liveries we've seen in GT3 in the past. Very underwhelming, imo.

SCT Motorsport rebrands as Objective Racing

The change is part of the high-profile shift of the SCT-owned entry from Brad Jones Racing to Triple Eight. As

speedcafe.com

I don't think it's a step down at all.

 

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I guess the word is doing its job.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I guess the word is doing its job.

Yeah, objectively bad.

 

[Spacegoat]

Grove livery. Its going to be hard to beat this one. Had stopped being overly excited by Penrite liveries but black and gold though...

And Triple 8. Make it glossy, like the RB F1 car and you might have something.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Grove’s looks really nice. The subtle ‘100’ pattern is a nice touch.

I’m not so much a fan of the Triple 8 livery, the matte look just doesn’t do it for me anymore. Maybe a bit of a long shot, but I was hoping the Red Bull/Ford connection would bring us some shared branding with the RBR F1 team.

Looks like T8 have picked up Adidas as a new sponsor too.

 

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Black or gold wheels would have a real nice touch.