Richie Stanaway will proceed in a full-time capability for the 2025 Supercars season however in PremiAir Nulon colors, the place he’ll accomplice James Golding.
The information follows Grove Racing’s determination to half firm with the 32-year-old after solely a single season, changing him with Super2 champion Kai Allen.
This will likely be solely the fourth full-time season for Stanaway, with a season being spent at Tickford Racing and Garry Rogers Motorsport – the place he partnered new team-mate Golding – earlier than being utilised solely in a co-driver capability for the endurance rounds in 2022 and 2023, one thing he had achieved beforehand in 2016 and 2017.
Stanaway’s Supercars future had gave the impression to be within the steadiness with restricted full-time alternatives remaining after Brodie Kostecki’s Dick Johnson Racing swap was confirmed, bringing to an finish his profitable however tumultuous interval with Erebus Motorsport.
However Tim Slade’s retirement from full-time competitors opened an sudden door at PremiAir Racing, a transfer that can see Stanaway drive in Triple Eight-prepared equipment – the group with which he and Shane van Gisbergen received the 2023 Bathurst 1000.
“I couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about this chance to hitch PremiAir Nulon Racing,” Stanaway mentioned.
“The fervour and enthusiasm held by Peter and Carmen Xiberras and your complete group is totally simple, and the dedication they’ve proven within the three brief years they’ve been part of the Supercars championship is spectacular.
“The outcomes of which can be actually beginning to present with their first podium coming at Sandown, and I look ahead to hopefully being part of many extra nice outcomes to come back from subsequent 12 months.”
Richie Stanaway, Grove Racing Ford Mustang GT
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
Stanaway’s profession is extra various than most within the Supercars paddock, having spent important time racing in Europe.
He competed for the manufacturing unit Aston Martin group within the World Endurance Championship alongside a single-seater profession that peaked with two GP2 victories in 2015, adopted by taking three wins from 22 GP3 begins.
Stanaway stormed to the German F3 title in 2011, the identical 12 months as his GP3 debut, earlier than dropping profession momentum to a again damage sustained at Spa when he stepped as much as Method Renault 3.5 in 2012.
“There isn’t any doubting Richie is exceptionally proficient – you don’t have a CV like his or win the Bathurst 1000 accidentally in spite of everything – and whereas he was pressured to endure an early exit at Sandown this 12 months, it was clear that he has what it takes, particularly when the climate gods are towards you,” mentioned group boss Peter Xiberras.
“We look ahead to having Richie be a part of our group alongside Jimmy Golding and seeing what we are able to obtain collectively.”
PremiAri Nulon’s affirmation of Stanaway implies that solely two seats stay open for the approaching 12 months, with these each at Brad Jones Racing with neither Jaxon Evans nor Macauley Jones locked in.
Nevertheless, group proprietor Brad Jones has prompt he expects to discipline an unchanged line-up.
That is dangerous information for former champion Mark Winterbottom, who seems set to overlook out after being changed at Workforce 18 by Anton de Pasquale.
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