Mercedes Disappears From Australia's V8 Supercars Series

Wealthy Sydney-based team owner Betty Klimenko has confirmed that after three years of fielding Mercedes-Benz E 63s in the V8 Supercar Championship her Erebus Motorsport team is switching to Holden Commodore VFs this year. Related image with v8 supercars.

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Mercedes disappears from australia's v8 supercars series. All Supercars events take place in all Australian states and the Northern Territory with the Australian Capital Territory formerly holding the Canberra 400. The 2013 International V8 Supercars Championship often simplified to the 2013 V8 Supercars Championship was a Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile-sanctioned international motor racing series for V8 Supercars that was based in Australia. Well-funded race team in the Australian GT category Erebus Racing currently uses the SLS Mercedes-Benz and leads that 2012 championship with Peter Hackett driving.

Mercedes disappears from Australias V8 Supercars series Erebus Motorsport was the only team fielding the Mercedes E63 AMG in Australias V8 Supercars series but now its jumping ship to run the. The introduction of the Car of the Future regulations which puts carmaker body panels on top of. The Supercars Championship is a touring car racing category in Australia running as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile FIA regulations.

It is known that Erebus has examined getting involved in V8 Supercars. Erebus Motorsport was the only team fielding the Mercedes E63 AMG in Australias V8 Supercars series but now its jumping ship to run the Holden VF Commodore next season. Mercedes-Benz Is Out of Australias V8 Supercars Series.

The 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship often simplified to the 2015 V8 Supercars Championship was an FIA-sanctioned international auto racing series for V8 SupercarsIt was the nineteenth running of the V8 Supercar Championship Series and the nineteenth series in which V8 Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title. The E63s have not been seen in public since the end of the 2015 Supercars season after which Erebus abandoned the three-year AMG project and switched to Holdens. Mercedes-Benz is out of V8 Supercar racing not that it was ever really in it as a manufacturer.

The 38-year-old has 443 Supercars race starts 15th all-time and 202 round starts 18th all-time to his name along with 16 Bathurst 1000 appearances finishing 3rd in 2017 and 4th in 2020. The three Mercedes-Benz AMG E63s back in V8 Supercars filled three of the top four places on practice day. Peter Brock Mark Skaife and Craig Lowndes are as synonymous with the Lion brand as the Monaro Torana and Commodore nameplates which is why General Motors decision to kill the Holden brand has sent shockwaves through the Supercars racing community.

It was the seventeenth running of the V8 Supercar Championship Series and the seventeenth series in which V8 Supercars contested the premier. Related image with v8 supercars. An international round is held in New Zealand while events.

18 Jan 2016 1544 UTC by Alexandru Monenciu. MERCEDES-BENZ is poised to split the grid between Ford and Holden with plans to join the V8 Supercars series under serious consideration as the sport prepares to open itself up to other. Erebus Motorsport V8 9 - Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Full Results.

They were topped only by a Ford that of David Reynolds Bottle-O Falcon. The death-knell of the Mercedes program rang a few weeks later when Erebus announced it would race Walkinshaw Racing-sourced Holdens in the 2016 season. The much anticipated event saw over 280people pack the arena to witness history in the making.

Mercedes-Benz is killing it in Formula One and putting up a solid fight in DTM but it wont be represented any longer in Australias V8 Supercars series. Ford and Holden have just the two of them been holding down the V8 Supercars fort for years now. Erebus also shifted its Supercars operations from the former SBR facility in Queensland down to Melbourne where SBR22-EM00-2012 remains to this day.

The announcement doesnt come from the. This weekend the series is getting underway on the streets of Adelaide but what. Mercedes disappears from australias v8 supercars series erebus motorsport was the only team fielding the mercedes e63 amg in australias v8 supercars series but now its jumping ship to run the.

All four chassis used by the team during its Mercedes era sit in the squads workshop in Moorabbin Melbourne as well as nine of the M159 50 litre V8 engines. Erebus then moved to V8 Supercars in 2013 and brought Mercedes along with it. Erebus Motorsport has unveiled theworlds first Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG V8 Supercars at a purple carpet launch atAll Phones Arena in Sydney this evening.

Holden and motor racing go hand-in-hand in this country. Lee Holdsworth was second in his Irwin Racing AMG Tim Slade third in the Heavy Haulage Australia Supercar with the third teammate German Maro Engel fourth in the SP Tools entry. Mercedes disappears from Australias V8 Supercars series.

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