T8 to holden next year

Rumour is (pretty well done and dusted) that triple eight are going to be racing Holden's next year. Sounds like a case of......if you can't beat them....buy them.

If that's the case there will be 10 Fords and 20 Holden's Racing

It's a shame but those odds are still in Fords favour!

Not with 888 on the darkside

Jim Beam Racing will still be there, obviously T8 dont want to win anymore championships

Heard about this a long time ago.T8 pointed out that they had to much tied up in the fg in the way of car builds for other teams, but then said u never know. HSV dealer team is coming up for tender at the end of this year and if they do go Holden have heard this is the team they will buy.
This is not a rumour this was printed in a mag I read.

HOT on the heels of the news that
Triple Eight Race Engineering has
locked in its drivers and key sponsor
for the next three year comes new
impetus to the speculation that the team will
race Holden Commodores in 2010 and beyond.
Trusted industry sources are telling eNews
that on top of the new deal, which will see
V8 Supercar Champion Jamie Whincup and
iconic driver Craig Lowndes stay in the colours
of mobile communications giant Vodafone for
the next three years, Triple Eight Engineering
is close, if not signed, to a new Holden
development program for the Queensland team.
It is suggested that the deal involves “some”
backing from the car company, which is looking
to tone down its over-all financial expenditure
in motorsport as part of its global restructure.
eNews believes that the move will see T8
not just continue its existing customer deals
but expand on them. Alongside its existing
arrangements, which see Dick Johnson Racing,
Paul Cruickshank Racing and Marcus Marshall’s
team run customer T8 Fords, and a number of
other teams (including Holden teams) use T8-
built or supplied components, there will be T8
customer Commodores next season.
We believe that the likely team is Super Cheap
Autos Racing (Paul Morris Motorsport), and that
there would a concurrent engine supply deal
with KRE engines, which builds Ford motors
for TeamVodafone and the Cruickshank and
Marshall teams.
eNews sought comment from both Holden
Motorsport Manager Simon McNamara and T8
principal Roland Dane on Monday, but neither
was forthcoming with a comment at the time
this edition went ‘live’.
Should the speculation be confirmed, it will
be an almighty setback for Ford. Regardless
of the relationship between the company
and T8, which was formally severed at the
end of last year when the company cut back
its motor racing expenditure, there have
been considerable kudos associated with the
race-winning performance of the red and
silver cars, which are still identifiable as Fords,
despite having no branding for the company
whatsoever.
Lowndes has an ongoing Ford deal until the
end of this season and his defection to Holden
would be seen as something of a return of a
prodigal son. Both Lowndes and Whincup
started their V8 Supercar careers as Holden
drivers, but both would be welcomed back to
the fold by the red faithful. It would also cut the
number of Falcons in the series to 10 – a third of
the grid.

Typical holden instead of getting off their asses and fighting Ford they buy the team thats giving trouble. Not much interest left for me this year. They could have waited.

As 888 already have a Supercar Licence then if they tender for HDT (and win) they will have two licences for four cars.

As per their press release, they still intend to supply chassis and engines to other Ford teams. Then it is quite probable that they will run both a Ford team and a Holden team. How come none of the motorsport media have picked up on this?

Iwounder how the aussie ford fans will take it this wkend. Pretty hard to take .Bunch of .Come on jim beam racing. hope they dont leave. Might have to go and buy a toyota.

gummys wrote:Iwounder how the aussie ford fans will take it this wkend. Pretty hard to take .Bunch of .Come on jim beam racing. hope they dont leave. Might have to go and buy a toyota.

Like you are really going to buy a Toyota Steve you wont get 700hp out of one of them!!

Even though we won't have too may fords on the grid next year the victory's will be a lot sweeter knowing we beat so many dunnydors

FORDACE wrote: Like you are really going to buy a Toyota Steve you wont get 700hp out of one of them!!

Tui ????

1. I'm pretty sure that the licenses are divied up fairly evenly between ford and holden cars to avoid a one-make series. Toyota is likely to join in 2011 I"d be picking.
2. One thing for sure is Dick Johnson will never leave Ford.
3. This series is in danger of out-doing itself, and the return to production racing (Aussie Built cars only) may re-emerge and bring us back the good old days of showroom cars racing at race tracks. Bring on "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday"

falcongt4me wrote:1. I'm pretty sure that the licenses are divied up fairly evenly between ford and holden cars to avoid a one-make series. Toyota is likely to join in 2011 I"d be picking.
2. One thing for sure is Dick Johnson will never leave Ford.
3. This series is in danger of out-doing itself, and the return to production racing (Aussie Built cars only) may re-emerge and bring us back the good old days of showroom cars racing at race tracks. Bring on "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday"

Not sure about license thing as to many teams have changed makes eg tkr,bjr etc and there is nothing stopping anyone going the other way either. I don't think V8 supercars will be to happy if it gets to much more lopsided will be interesting to see if they can do anything to stop this happening in the future.
I agree DJR will never go over to the dark side.

I'll drink to that

Any excuse.

Just out of curiosity. Anybody know when Tander's contract is up.?

Wotif wrote:Any excuse.

I'll drink to that

No doubt

Time for Giz and Fabian to start taking over

Time will tell. Now that the 888 cars are out of the way,might give them some room

Wotif wrote:Time will tell. Now that the 888 cars are out of the way,might give them some room

Yea cos the holdens wont be able to keep up

FORDACE wrote:I agree DJR will never go over to the dark side.

I would have bet an easy hundy that Lowndes would have never gone back to the dark side too!! Bloody glad I never wasted any money on the T8 merchandise. Im glad im with Telecom

Wotif wrote:Just out of curiosity. Anybody know when Tander's contract is up.?

both lowndes and whincup resigned till 2012 i heard ......... but dont forget that lowndes came from holden to begin ........