Motorsport: D-day For Mercedes In V8 Supercars

Gen2 wont tempt Mercedes While Erebus brought Mercedes to the V8 Supercars grid when it began its takeover of Stone Brothers Racing in 2013 it has never been a manufacturer-backed deal. V8 Supercars already has rounds in New Zealand and the Middle East and will add a round in Texas next year - the US and the Middle East being big markets for Mercedes-Benz.

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Motorsport: d-day for mercedes in v8 supercars. This is a truly significant moment for Erebus and V8 Supercars after five years of hard work the Car of the Future era is now a reality. This Saturday at Sydney Motorsport Park Erebus will debut its three Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Supercars. Erebus Motorsports all-new Mercedes V8 Supercar was launched in Australia on Thursday.

DJRs fifth manufacturer will make its competition debut in the opening round of the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship at the Clipsal 500 in. It ran at a Winton test day in December 2018 with David Reynolds and Luke Youlden both turning laps still retaining the Penrite livery and stickers it had worn in its last race at Sydney Olympic Park three years earlier. Mercedes-Benz Australia never supported Klimenkos E 63s while she.

Starting life in 2014 WR 021 was the sixth chassis built by Walkinshaw then the factory-supported Holden Racing Team for Supercars Car of the Future regulations. 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. The 525kW one-off V8 Supercar wagon is for sale.

Erebus also shifted its Supercars operations from the former SBR facility in Queensland down to Melbourne where SBR22-EM00-2012 remains to this day. As for Supercars he has not yet revealed what engine will power its Camaro racer but he has stressed to Wheels magazine that DOHC tech is crucial to obtain needed increases in. 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.

The three E63 AMGs which are built to V8 Supercars new Car of The Future regulations were presented along. We cover V8 Supercars WEC F1 Rally MotoGP Endurance and all other racing series and driving categories. The motorsport maven has outlined his admiration for GT3 cars and the Mercedes-AMGs 62-litre V8 race engine with which his team has already notched up 20500km.

Erebus And Mercedes-Benz Break Through At Winton Erebus Motorsport driver Lee Holdsworth has delivered a historic first win for Mercedes-Benz fans in the modern era of Australian. Capable of reaching 100kmh in just 34 seconds this is the Mercedes Benz V8 Supercar that has been put on the grid by a tattooed female property magnate worth an estimated 960 million. Mercedes will not appear on the V8 Supercars grid this year with the Erebus team announcing a switch to Walkinshaw Racing-built Holden Commodores.

Mercedes-Benz is out of V8 Supercar racing not that it was ever really in it as a manufacturer. A Mercedes-Benz Australia-Pacific spokesman had no comment and the principals of Stone Brothers Racing could not be contacted. The car made its debut at the hands of Garth Tander at Sydney Motorsport Park that same year.

DJR will bring the fifth manufacturer to the V8 Supercar Championship - after Nissan and Mercedes-AMG through Erebus Motorsport debuted with Holden and Ford at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide last month. Holdens failure means the future is uncertain for the Supercars championship. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG V8 Supercar is a V8 supercar variant of the Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG featured in Forza Motorsport 6 and Forza Motorsport 7.

EREBUS Motorsport has confirmed that it will ditch its Mercedes-Benz V8 Supercars and race Holdens in 2016. Its now a ride car for Erebus retaining the Mercedes-AMG V8 engine. View the latest racing results.

Coulthard is a proven winner with 13 career race victories five with Brad Jones Racing between 2012-2015 and eight during his five-year campaign with Dick Johnson Racing. The 38-year-old has 443. As a result I am sure Erebus Motorsport will be well placed with this drive and commitment at play.

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. New drivers David Reynolds and Aaren Russell will pilot a pair of Holden Commodores. Getty Images Now the sport currently known as Supercar Racing faces the enormous challenge of reinventing.

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