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A year on from unveiling its 2010 livery, the Walkinshaw Racing and the Toll Holden Racing Team have unveiled this season's VE Commodore Series II V8 Supercar Championship livery.
Dropping Red Rooster from pride of place on the bonnet, Toll HRT will be powered by Rockstar Energy Drink - its branding now featured on the bonnet, roof and wing of the 2011 car.
Sitting alongside the new metallic version of the iconic driver and lion graphic and the new Toll identity, UD Trucks and ROH Wheels have also joined Toll HRT as major sponsors this year.
The unveiling of the new car follows the death of team owner Tom Walkinshaw, who lost his battle with cancer in December.
"Tom expressed to me during his illness, the need to ensure processes that kept his legacy intact and I am proud that we have successfully achieved that, from Board level to the factory floor. I will miss a great friend and colleague but I am determined that his life’s work will live on in HSV,” HSV boss Jeffrey Browne said at the time.
Driver James Courtney said he was excited about the opportunity to rejoin the team that kick started his V8 career, returning as the reigning V8 Supercar Champion.
“I am super excited about the opportunity to drive for the Toll Holden Racing Team, especially as defending Champion. My goal is to be the driver to deliver the team its next title,” Courtney said.
Courtney said working alongside 2007 Series Champion Garth Tander would be a motivating factor in his quest for back-to-back titles.
Tander said he was thrilled with the look of his new car and looking forward to the challenges of a new season and working with his new team-mate.
“Peter Hughes and John Leung have done a tremendous job with the new logo and livery, it gives us a refreshing start to the year,” Tander said.
“Last year did not deliver the results the Toll HRT had hoped for, but our car showed good speed at times. We now have a challenge of getting the team back to the top where we were in 2009,” he added.
The new-look Toll Holden Racing Team will hit the track for the first time in 2011 this Saturday (29 January) for the official V8 Supercar Pre-Season Test at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway.
The first race in the 2011 International V8 Supercar Championship is the Yas 400 at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on 11/12 February.
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Who cares anymore.
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And before you start whining about it being only Holden and Ford, have a look at the German equivalent, DTM - in a country with at least five manufacturers, they also only have two brands competing. Worse still, Audi is one of them and they don't even sell a RWD car, but that is exactly what they race in DTM. Both the British and World Touring Car series also feature only a very few manufacturers and most of the privateers drive older model cars that sometimes aren't even available new any more.
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If you look in a V8 Supercar Car park there are more cars than just Holdens and Fords.. there are a considerable number of Euros and Jap cars - which indicates the V8 fans want to see good clean fast racing whihc is what the V8s give them.
Then there are those who don't like Holdens or Fords but keep asking for a real production car series with more manufacturers. It already exists its called the GT-Production series which is a support category to the V8s.
Which means that not everybody at the track is necessarily a V8 fan or a bogan - if anything they are a badge snob which IMO is just as bad
2 years ago
ROFL
Mind you, I don't think these old clunkers could rev much more anyway.
As for close racing, yeh, it's on a par with nascar, I'll give you that.
And about as interesting.
Yawn.
2 years ago
I loved Group A, even if the local manufacturers didn't always win, they (Holden) built better road going models to match it with the Japs and Euro's.
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The Bathurst 12 Hour will be on in a few weeks, bringing together the big guns from Volkswagen, Nissan, and for you General Motors and Ford aficionados performance derivatives of both. There will be a vast variety of machines competing. All machines are derived from their various manufacturers. Get along and see an authentic test of performance of your icon.
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