Tickford Racing is pursuing a wildcard entry on the ultimate spherical of the 2025 Supercars Championship in Adelaide in November, which may see it run a yet-to-be-named NASCAR Cup driver.
Crew CEO Simon Brookhouse stated at Queensland Raceway on Friday (8 August) that the crew, which runs two Ford Mustangs within the sequence with Cameron Waters and Thomas Randle, wish to run a 3rd entry within the race. Strategies are that 2022 Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric could also be in line for the drive, ought to it come to fruition.
“We’d definitely like to run a programme,” Brookhouse stated. “We tried to do it final 12 months, however the timing simply didn’t work. Clearly, the NASCAR season completed very near Adelaide – this 12 months there is a little bit of a spot.
“There’s somewhat little bit of water going within the bridge and nothing’s been confirmed, however we’re definitely working in the direction of the potential of that taking place.”
Tickford already has a automotive race-ready and is working it as a wildcard entry at this 12 months’s enduros, with Super2 regulars Rylan Grey and Lochie Dalton driving.
“We’re working with Ford Efficiency and so they’re definitely working via the drivers they suppose would work greatest,” Brookhouse continued.
Austin Cindric, Crew Penske Ford
Photograph by: Meg Oliphant / Getty Pictures
“Finally, we’re leaving it of their fingers. We’re not specific concerning the driver. We’re actually partnering with Ford Efficiency if it goes forward.
“I feel for the connection between NASCAR and Supercars, there’s an incredible alternative there to begin it.
“It’s simply my very own private ideas, that if subsequent 12 months you possibly can have a Toyota, a Chev and a Ford going round with NASCAR drivers, it’d be nice.
“If we will construct these relationships and have a pathway for our drivers to go there, and have them come again right here to showcase their abilities, I feel sooner or later, the game’s actually rising.”
Earlier efforts to carry a NASCAR driver right into a wildcard seat have thus far come to nought. NASCAR Cup champions Kyle Larson and Kyle Busch have been linked to wildcards in recent times and, whereas Larson is predicted to be in Adelaide this 12 months to race a sprintcar, efforts to put him in a 3rd entry for the PremiAir Racing Chevrolet crew have come up brief.
Cindric, 26, has raced down below earlier than, competing within the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour, wherein he completed seventh within the AA Class in an Erebus Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
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