SETTING THE DIRECTION
By Bruce Williams
Date posted: 24 May 2020
Setting the direction
You might think the pandemic-driven pause in the motor racing season is a chance for a little enforced relaxation. Well, it has been for some, but not Triple Eight Race Engineering’s new Technical Director Jeromy Moore.
By BRUCE NEWTON
“I have been busier than I would be racing,” he told Auto Action. “We’ve been doing late nights and a couple of times worked right through the night into the next afternoon.”
What’s taken up Moore’s attention along with other members of Australia’s most consistently successful Supercars racing business, has been Project Conrod, the emergency ventilator developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
It’s been an impressive feat and one that’s been featured on high-profile mainstream media such as 60 Minutes.
But, to be honest, the thought of Moore – or ‘JJ’ as he is almost universally known – working harder than ever before is a bit hard to grasp.
A constant in his career has been a willingness to work really, really hard. At Bathurst in 2009 he engineered the lead T8 entry for the first time, as Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes went-for the record-breaking four-peat. You could have comfortably added up the hours he slept that week on your fingers and toes.
The other constant is his smarts.
Moore is just about as smart as anyone in the paddock. As T8 boss Ronald Dane insisted to AA last year, he’s even smarter than Ludo Lacroix, the Frenchman who was Dane’s long-time technical director before defecting to DJR Team Penske in 2017.
“He (Moore) is the single biggest engineering intellect I have ever worked with,” Dane declared.
While his view may be coloured by the fractious way his working relationship with Lacroix ended, Dane is undoubtedly in a very good position to judge Moore’s capabilities.
When Dane took over the Briggs Motorsport Ford team to form Triple Eight Australia in 2003, Moore was there working as a data and design engineer.
Moore continued as a designer engineer at T8, became Craig Lowndes race engineer in 2008 and then engineered Lowndes and Mark Skaife to victory in the Bathurst 1000 in 2010, the first year the team had swapped to Holden.
He race engineered Lowndes until the end of the 2014 season, the same year he also became the team’s chief designer.
Moore and Lowndes finished second or fourth in the driver’s championship all seven years they were together. In the same timeframe Whincup won six of his seven titles.
This is an excerpt from the News Extra Jeromy Moore feature found in Auto Action #1786, out now.
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