Overview
- Walkinshaw TWG is sending the #1 Supra to Queensland for Supercars’ parity program that will double as its shakedown, starting with MSR’s chassis dyno then up to two days at Queensland Raceway.
- The Toyota will be benchmarked against a Triple Eight Mustang and a Team 18 Camaro during Bathurst 12 Hour sessions, before the full-field Sydney test on February 18 and the season opener on February 20–22.
- Swindon Powertrain detailed the 5.2-litre 2UR-GSE targeting about 600 bhp, retaining OE head and block with hydraulic VVT and a 3D-printed inlet, with final assembly and servicing at Walkinshaw’s Clayton facility.
- Walkinshaw requires five engines to be signed off by Supercars with spares expected only by race week, as Brad Jones Racing receives its first race-spec unit after earlier building cars with a dummy engine.
- Testing history includes a UK-built mule logging over 5,000 km since September with one dropped valve reported, a race-spec first run on the category dyno in mid-January, and initial track laps due Monday at Queensland Raceway.