Gen3 Supercar technical guru Jeromy Moore has declared a full grid of Chevrolet Camaros and Ford Mustangs will be completed in time for the 2022 season opener in Newcastle.
Speaking exclusively to Auto Action just days after Supercars issued photos of the first complete Gen3 Camaro chassis, Moore was emphatic, despite widespread scepticism along pitlane about the new formula being ready for 2022.
“It is critical for everyone up and down pitlane to have something to race next year,” Moore said.
“It would be easy to say let’s just keep running the current cars next year, but I know the commercial impacts if we tried to do that.
“I don’t think we would be on the grid if we do that. That is how we are internally treating it – it just has to happen.”
Moore is the impeccably credentialled technical director of Gen3 homologation team Triple Eight Race Engineering and is not prone to hyperbole or exaggeration.
So when he says something will happen his authority adds significant credibility.
It is just what Gen3 needs right now as Supercars has held back information about the massive development program from most of its teams, drivers, media and the public since the initial announcement last October.
Into this information vacuum a whole heap of speculation has been poured, some of it focussing on critical big picture issues like car build costs and timing and the abandonment of current pushrod engines for lower-stressed larger capacity production-based V8s .
The debate over whether the cars should retain sequential shift gear levers or go to paddle shifters has also become a focus
Moore and the T8 technical team are primarily responsible for the development of the Camaro Gen3 Supercar, while Dick Johnson Racing is leading development of the Ford Mustang, with Perry Kapper taking primary responsibility there.
Also intrinsic to the process is Pace Innovations, which is building the Ford chassis that is expected to appear in the next week to 10 days, as well as Supercars motorsport chief Adrian Burgess and consultant John Russell. He has replaced WAU’s Carl Faux, who has stepped aside for personal reasons.
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