It will be a very different looking Supercars grid that blasts off at the start of the 2021 season. The new team name also signifies that the Kelly family’s team has also undergone a major change for 2021 with the Grove Group becoming equal partners in the team.Įrebus has selected two rising stars to fill its two vacant seats.īrodie Kostecki will graduate from the Super2 Series to take up the seat in the #99 car, joining Will Brown who will take over driving the #9 Holden.Įrebus has also announced that it has recruited George Commins as a race engineer in 2021.Ī Supercars veteran who has also worked for Williams in Formula 1 and Arden in Formula Renault 3.5 – he race engineered future F1 race winner Pierre Gasly in 2014 – Commins had been with Kelly Racing since returning to Australia in 2015 where he served as Rick Kelly’s race engineer. The 2017 Bathurst winner will be joined at the team by both Penrite and his long-term race engineer Alistair McVean, who moved to the team in December. OPINION: Stats sheet doesn’t paint full picture of Rick Kelly’s career Reynolds has finally been formally announced at Kelly Grove Racing after months of rumours he’ll team with Andre Heimgartner following Rick Kelly‘s decision to step back from full-time driving. It’s all change at Erebus Motorsport with De Pasquale and David Reynolds both leaving the squad – the latter just one season into a 10-year-deal – and long-term primary sponsor Penrite also ending a relationship that dates back to the middle of the 2015 season. David Reynolds will race a Penrite Ford Mustang for Kelly Grove Racing in 2021. It’s a homecoming for Davison – he raced for DJR from 2006 to 2008, his first years as a full-time driver in the championship – after finding himself suddenly out of a full-time seat during 2020 when 23Red Racing closed its doors during Supercars’ COVID-induced mid season halt. The team will continue on but with the Dick Johnson Racing name returning – with Ben Croke appointed as Team Principal – and the rechristened squad heads into its 41 st season of racing with a completely new driver lineup in the form of Will Davison and Anton De Pasquale. The most significant change to the grid is the departure of reigning three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin to race in the Ind圜ar Series, and the exit of Team Penske after six years in the series. Dick Johnson Racing will field Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison in 2021. TIMELINE: Chevrolet Camaro’s history in Australian touring car racingĪn announcement that Garry Jacobson will join Fabian Coulthard in the two-car Team Sydney means the full grid has now been confirmed ahead of the season-opener at Bathurst in February. It will also be the final year the Holden Commodore appears on the grid although the Holden marque has been retired by General Motors, the Commodore will race on for a final season before being replaced by a Gen3-specification Chevrolet Camaro in 2022. The 2021 season will also mark the last for the Gen2 platform that was originally introduced as the Car of the Future in 2013. PRE-ORDER: Official 2021 Repco Supercars Championship Season Guide
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