Last Grm Volvo Supercar Leaves Australia

The announcement comes as Volvo. Indeed some of Australias greatest names in motorsport have tasted success with Volvo including John Bowe and Peter Brock.

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This despite a large bump in interest in the Volvo roadcars reported in NZ and Australia.

Last grm volvo supercar leaves australia. But we have the memories of what those cars did in Australia they form a brief but important part of V8 Supercar racing history. Indeed some of Australias greatest names in motorsport have tasted success with Volvo including John Bowe and Peter Brock. Last year marked the 15th anniversary of Volvo winning Australias most famous race the Bathurst 1000 in 1998 with Jim Richards and Rickard Rydell in a Volvo S40.

GRM Motorsport will see continue to campaign the S60 for the remainder of the 2016 season but its believed the cars will be recalled to Sweden at the end of the year leaving GRM in the lurch for its 2017 campaign. GRMs situation has been highly complicated by its major sponsor Boost Mobiles ongoing feud with Supercars over control components which led to an ultimatum being made over the Bathurst weekend. The last remaining Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 Supercar will leave Australia bound for Sweden this week.

Volvos entry into V8 Supercars was announced last June making the Swedish marque the fifth in the Championship alongside Holden Ford Nissan and Mercedes-Benz AMG. Indeed some of Australias greatest names in motorsport have tasted success with Volvo including John Bowe and Peter Brock. GRM 017 sits in the Cyan Racing museum alongside a range of the firms other race cars.

Volvo will be the third new entry in Australias V8 Supercar racing series. GRM 018 sits in the Volvo Museum in Sweden in its final 2016 livery. Based in Melbourne originally out of a Nissan dealership owned by Rogers the team has competed in a variety of touring car series in Australia ranging from relatively modest Nissan production cars to Chevrolet NASCARs to building.

For all the GRM staff it. The first six months of 2017 have been a whirlwind at GRM and today I was very proud to see the Volvo S60 Supercar in 2014 Australian Grand Prix winning livery depart GRM Headquarters for the. For all the GRM staff it.

Polestar first entered the Australian series in 2014 in a collaboration with established squad Garry Rogers Motorsport running two Volvo S60 cars for Scott McLaughlin and Robert Dahlgren. GRM and Volvo Car Australia went to court last year over the teams desire to race the cars into 2017 with the former eventually changing tack after failing to gain a supply of the Volvo engines. Last year marked the 15th anniversary of Volvo winning Australias most famous race the Bathurst 1000 in 1998 with Jim Richards and Rickard Rydell in a Volvo S40.

It is owned by retired racing driver Garry Rogers who began the team to further his own racing efforts. Its mostly ran Holdens although enjoyed a period of success as Volvos factory Supercars squad between 2014 and 2016. The Swedish company took the motorsport community by surprise two days before this weekends Perth Supersprint races in Western Australia.

Last GRM Volvo Supercar leaves Australia. The entry is an amalgamation of Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvos global motorsport partner Polestar Racing and Volvo Car Australia. For all the GRM staff it is incredibly satisfying to see the next step of all the hard work and energy they have put into designing and building the Volvo S60 V8 Supercar over the last 12 months.

They didnt see their entry in the Aussie Supercars as part of their overall company image. Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team. Around the same time Volvo Car Australia managing director Matt Braid left the company to work for V8 Supercars.

Volvo requested the Melbourne squad to send. The Swedish carmaker denied the rumours until the last minute but now its official. Retiring Supercars ace Whincup wishes to race overseas Jamie Whincup will look to do some racing outside of Australia after retiring as a full-time Supercars driver at the end of this year.

Last year marked the 15th anniversary of Volvo winning Australias most famous race the Bathurst 1000 in 1998 with Jim Richards and Rickard Rydell in a Volvo S40. Polestar machinery set to leave V8 Supercars for 2017. GRM has been a mainstay in Supercars since 1996 expanding to two cars in 1998 and winning the Bathurst 1000 with Garth Tander and Jason Bargwanna in 2000.

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