GM’s Triple Eight is heading back to Ford next year

Supercar’s Triple Eight team is evidently ditching Chevrolet and heading to Ford as of next year. 

Triple Eight’s move back to Ford will be jointly announced by Jamie Whincup and Ford Motor Company chief, Jim Farley, in a livestream video. The media is invited to the announcement which will be beamed live to Ford’s technical campus at Broadmeadows in Melbourne.

It’s actually a return to Ford as Triple Eight was with the blue oval running Falcons from 2003-2008. It switched to Holden in 2010, and became the official Holden Racing Team in 2017. Triple Eight swapped to Chevrolet after Holden closed down.

Evidently this move has been in motion for weeks but kept under wraps until it was all signed off.

Triple Eight’s move coincides with that of Walkinshaw Andretti United which has dropped Ford and is bringing Toyota into the V8 series.

Triple Eight will take over from Dick Johnson Racing as Ford’s homologation team. 

The Ford and Toyota moves leave Chevrolet without a front-running team in the Supercars championship. It also brings into question whether Chevrolet, a niche brand in Australia, will continue competing in Supercars. By contrast, Ford will have three major teams vying for wins in 2026, and Toyota will be the new kid on the block. 

According to Supercar Xtra, all this is happening just as Supercars is about to float on the stock market. Moreover, a new broadcast deal is said to be on the cards so 2026 will be a reset of sorts for the race series.