Holden to make major announcement

Holden and Holden Motorsport will make a major announcement regarding its V8 Supercars racing programs today.

A special press conference will be held at 11.30am at Holden Vehicle Operations in Elizabeth, South Australia.

GM Holden Ltd Sponsorship Manager Simon McNamara and ‘special guests’ will be attending the press conference.

The statement from Holden says “with a history of over 40 years supporting the top level of Australian touring cars, Holden will today make a major announcement concerning its future in the V8 Supercar Championship.”

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haha, anticlimax... they are pulling the pin. can no longer afford to throw money they don't have at the sport. they've had an attack of the guilts!! haha, one can dream.

Any news yet ?

As expected

http://www.speedcafe.com/2012/02/28/...-triple-eight/

Holden has announced an extension of its deals with its leading V8 Supercars teams Walkinshaw Racing and Triple Eight Racing Engineering.

In what is being described as “multi-year” deals, the Toll Holden Racing Team, run by Walkinshaw Racing, and the multiple-championship winning TeamVodafone, will continue in Holden Commodores in the coming years.

Walkinshaw Racing enters three cars – two for the factory Toll Holden Racing Team, plus the Supercheap Auto Commodore VE of Russell Ingall.

Triple Eight runs two cars from its stable for TeamVodafone drivers Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes.

Combined, the HRT/Walkinshaw and TeamVodafone operations have won 11 of the past 16 Australian Touring Car/V8 Supercar Championships, and the last 11 straight Bathurst 1000s.

The news is significant, given that V8 Supercars has ‘open the shopfront’ to other manufactures under its new Car of the Future regulations that will be enforced from next year.

So effectively no change... slow news day...

The effect is that it stops either team being enticed by another manufacturer
Maybe Ford should do the same

Renewing their contract with HRT and the most successful team in the competition at the moment......Thats a massive announcement...

Yep, government can afford that.

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Originally Posted by Airmon

Renewing their contract with HRT and the most successful team in the competition at the moment......Thats a massive announcement...

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Yes, they've "bookended" the grid.... LOL

Yep once again they work the PR spin well also locking in 888 associated and displaying Olden.
I agree Andrew Ford should look to do the same.