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Super success for Chevrolet

General Motors takes out major honours across the Tasman in 2024.
Posted on 17 December, 2024
Super success for Chevrolet

General Motors Australia and New Zealand (GM ANZ) has enjoyed a successful motorsport season in 2024 with a raft of down-under victories for Chevrolet.

Despite fierce competition from its rivals at the back end of the Repco Supercars Championship, Chevrolet claimed the manufacturers’, drivers’ and teams’ championships.

Chris Payne, Chevrolet Racing’s general manager, has praised all its teams competing in this year’s championship with a special nod to Will Brown, pictured, and the Red Bull Ampol Racing team on their run to victory in the drivers’ and teams’ championship races.

“From everyone here at GM ANZ, we’d like to congratulate Will, Broc Feeney and the entire team at Red Bull Ampol Racing for a superb year behind the wheel of the Camaro,” says Payne.

“This year’s championship was hard fought. To see the title go down to the last round in Adelaide was fantastic to watch and a popular win for Will.

“For Chevrolet to win the manufacturers’ title for a second consecutive year, in the new Gen3 era, is something we’re proud of and would like to thank all the teams and our technical partners, in particular KRE Race Engines, for contributing to the success.”

General Motors’ homologation team for the Gen3 Camaro, Triple Eight Race Engineering, played an integral part in securing the manufacturers’ crown for Chevrolet in 2024.

Jamie Whincup, managing director of Triple Eight Race, says: “Congratulations to General Motors on yet another manufacturers’ title in the Supercars. 

“This is our second year running in the new Gen3 era and to claim the manufacturers’ title in both years is a testament to the partnership between Triple Eight and the General Motors team here in Australia and the US.

“Having secured the drivers’ and teams’ championship, Triple Eight and the Red Bull Ampol Racing Team are excited to continue this partnership into 2025, and look forward to further success.”

This year, seven drivers from four Chevrolet Racing teams won more than 66 per cent of the races with a healthy tally of 11 poles to complement the strong performance of the Camaro in the Supercars Championship.

“Each team in the pitlane put in some exceptional performances,” adds Payne. “We must acknowledge and say a huge congratulations to Brodie Kostecki, Todd Hazelwood and the Erebus Motorsport crew for their perfect performance to win the Great Race in Bathurst.

“To see Matt Stone Racing pick up two wins this season is a testament to the strength and direction of this smaller Queensland-based outfit.”

Brad Jones Racing also produced a memorable win with Kiwi Andre Heimgartner picking up his second career Supercars victory on home soil in Taupo.

Likewise, the Nulon Racing squad saw success throughout 2024 with young driver James Golding performing consistently well all year to be the next best-placed Camaro driver in Supercars, behind Will Brown and Broc Feeney, to claim seventh overall. This included a maiden pole for Golding and Nulon Racing in Darwin. 

Team 18 driver Mark Winterbottom’s stellar career as a full-time driver in Supercars came to an end in 2024. The 2015 champion will be remembered as one of the true fan favourites in the sport.

The year also saw some technical brilliance and exceptional mechanical teamwork across the Chevrolet stables.

More recently at the Adelaide 500, the overnight rebuilds of the Tradie Camaro by Team 18 and the SP Tools Camaro by Matt Stone Racing, after extensive crash damage, were testaments to the prowess of both squads.  

GM ANZ also threw its support behind several drivers in other disciplines through its ACDelco Parts and Servicing brand.

This saw some strong results from Aaron Borg in the V8 SuperUtes, Alice Buckley in the Toyota 86 TGR Cup and Jarrod Hughes, who was rookie of the year in the Dunlop Super2 Series – a feeder category to Supercars.

The ACDelco brand was again represented on the top stage of drag racing in Australia with Ronnie Palumbo and Fabietti Racing turning heads in the Top Doorslammer category, finishing third in the 2023/24 National Drag Racing Championship.

Palumbo and Fabietti will team up to tackle the 2024/25 season behind the wheel of the ACDelco Slammer, which will commemorate a 20-year partnership with GM and ACDelco in Australia.

The brand also enjoyed a return to off-road racing this year with Craig Lowndes showing his prowess on dirt with a sensational day-one class win with co-driver Dale Moscatt driving the Chevrolet Racing Silverado ZR2 at the iconic Finke Desert Race.

GM ANZ will continue to support teams and drivers across a raft of motorsport disciplines in 2025.