IRacing Paint Schemes Thread. Ford Falcon V8 Supercar - By Blair Payton (supersonic88) Star Mazda - By Blair Payton (supersonic88). Just thought that I would point out the fact that the new template for the LMP1 and GT2 ARE NOW OUT!!!!! RACECAR Premium. Messages: 30,995 Location: Jul 23, 2011 #21. Round-Up – 2016 V8 Supercars Field March 8, 2016 March 9, 2016 Theo 2016, Ford, Holden, Nissan, Volvo Now that round one has come and gone, I think it’s a good time to give a roundup of the finalised liveries on the grid this season and perhaps a little rating for each.
This year marks the second time that the Sandown 500 will feature as the official Supercars Championship retro round.
With Red Bull Holden Racing Team having already confirmed it’s retro inspired look for the this years Pirtek Enduro Cup opener, several other teams are expected to follow suit over the next two weeks in the lead up this years Sandown 500.
So we thought we’d dig through the archives and pick out some of our favourite retro and retro inspired liveries from recent years. Here’s our top five retro liveries from the last five years.
5 – EREBUS PENRITE COMMODORE – SANDOWN 2016
Erebus Motorsport – Sandown 2016 – Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
Erebus Motorsport worked with sponsor Penrite to celebrate the companies 90th anniversary with a one-off retro inspired livery for David Reynolds and Craig Baird at last years Sandown 500. Some people will argue that DJR Team Penske’s Shell livery was the best livery from that event, we elected to give this one to Erebus Motorsport as DJR already featured heavily in this collection.
Erebus Motorsport – Sandown 2016 – Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
4 – NISSAN MOTORSPORT – BATHURST 2015
Nissan Motorsport – Bathurst 2015 – Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
Nissan Motorsport have produced several great retro liveries since it’s return, however this particular one from Michael Caruso and Dean Fiore’s Nissan Altima for the 2015 Bathurst 1000 to mark the 25th anniversary of the marque’s first Australian Touring Car Championship crown had the most history attached to it.
Nissan Motorsport – Bathurst 2015 – Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
3 – DJR – BATHURST 2014
Dick Johnson Racing’s history in Australian motorsport gives it some of the most iconic liveries to work with. For the 2014 Bathurst 1000 David Wall and Steven Johnson paid tribute to the 20th anniversary of Dick Johnson and John Bowe’s victory in the 1994 Great Race.
DJR – Bathurst 2014 – Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
2 – HOLDEN RACING TEAM – TOWNSVILLE 2015
Holden Racing Team – Townsville 2015 – Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
In 2015, the Holden Racing Team (now Walkinshaw/Mobil 1 HSV Racing), ran several retro liveries to pay tribute to the teams 25 year history in the sport. However, it was the throwback to the 1997 livery that marked Peter Brock’s final year in the Australian Touring Car Championship that the team ran in Townsville that stood out the most.
1 – DJR – BATHURST 2013
Who could forget when DJR revisted their famous Greens’ Tuf livery for Bathurst 2013 to mark the 30 years since Dick Johnson ran the Greens’ Tuf backed XE Falcon in the 1983 edition of the Great Race.
We’ll have the latest news out of the Supercars paddock in the lead up to the Sandown 500 in the next issue of Auto Action magazine, on sale next week In the mean time follow us on social media Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for all the latest updates between issues.
Date posted: August 30, 2017
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Garry Rogers Motorsport has revealed the look of its Virgin Australia Supercars Championship and Dunlop Super2 Series entries for 2018.
The team has released renders of its four cars while the finishing touches are being put on the new ZB Commodores for Garth Tander and James Golding.
Continuing with primary sponsorship from the Wilson Group for a fourth season, the new-look includes a move away from the blue run by GRM over recent years.
Tander and Golding will shake the cars down on Wednesday at Winton, where its Chris Pither and Mason Barbera-driven Dunlop entries will also test.
GRM director Barry Rogers says he is looking forward to seeing the cars on track after another busy off-season, just 12 months after the switch from Volvo to Holden.
Like the bulk of Holden teams, GRM has been sweating on the availability of parts from supplier Triple Eight to complete its ZBs ahead of this week’s track running.
“It’s not quite as big as last year, but it’s been another big push and it’s all come together at the right time,” Rogers told Supercars.com.
“I’m really proud of how the boys have gone about the job of building these cars and dealing with a few setbacks along the way.
“There have been parts dribbling through right until the death-knock, but we will have everything ready to go for the shakedowns.
“The cars will then go straight from Winton to Sydney [for Friday’s pre-season test], where the drivers will get a proper feel for them.”
The team has elected against turning the shakedown into a full rookie test for Golding, instead saving the 22-year-old’s extra days for later in the season.
Chris Pither's First Security branded VF
GRM has meanwhile moved its 2017 main game cars down to Super2, retaining the chassis it previously raced in the second-tier as spares.
Barbera's VF will run in the same colours as the Tander and Golding ZBs, while Pither will race with backing from Wilson's New Zealand sister brand, First Security.
Barbera's car will carry the main game colours
Full steam ahead on front-splitters
GRM cut a deal with Triple Eight last year to produce the front-splitters for each of the Victorian-based ZB Commodore entries.
The agreement was made to take the load off Triple Eight’s Queensland-based supplier, Lightning Composites, and keep GRM’s three full-time composites staff employed.
Delays with the mould, however, have made for tight production deadlines ahead of the Sydney test, where teams will share a common pool of spares.
“The initial plan was to get production underway prior to Christmas but it dragged on into January through some speed humps that weren’t foreseen,” said Rogers.
“The composite guys have been flat-out over the last three weeks, seven days a week, 5:30am until 7:30pm.
“We can make one per day and everybody now has one per car. We’ll go to the test with three spares that will be accessible to all teams.
“It’s not ideal because most teams like to paint their splitters, but they’ll just have to sticker them if they need them.
“By the time we get to Adelaide everyone will have at least two per car, plus a handful of spares which, again, will be shared between the teams.”
The shortage of ZB parts meant Erebus Motorsport shared a single rear-wing between its two cars at a test day on Monday.
Walkinshaw Andretti United and Brad Jones Racing are also scheduled to shakedown new cars ahead of the Sydney test.