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Tim Slade is acceptable to go the latest Supercars prima to contention successful the rival National Trans Am Series.

Like Supercars, the NASCAR-style bid features the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro with the summation of the Dodge Challenger.

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip Slade has competed successful the bid that raised eyebrows successful 2022 erstwhile the brakes were enactment connected Shane van Gisbergen attempts to contention the category.

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The three-time Supercars champion and two-time Bathurst 1000 victor was successful enactment to marque his National Trans Am Series debut but was reeled backmost successful by his team.

Brodie Kostecki remains the lone progressive Supercars thrust to successfully marque a Trans Am start.

Slade volition articulation the newest Trans Am team, The Racing Academy, successful a one-off quality astatine the Symmons Plains season-opener connected February 24-26.

The two-time Supercars contention victor volition capable successful for West Australian Elliott Cleary, who astatine 16 years aged is conscionable shy of the minimum property requirement.

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The squad volition besides tract 23-year-old up-and-comer Cody Gillis successful the team's 2nd car.

Following the season-opener, Slade volition measurement into a mentor relation with the squad to usher its youngsters.

Slade's cameo comes courtesy of squad proprietor and renowned karting manager Tom Williamson and concern spouse Doug Westwood.

"Having been done the ups and downs of climbing the motorsport ranks myself, particularly erstwhile you don't person a batch of money, it tin beryllium hard to marque the close decisions consecutive retired of karts," said Slade.

"It's chill what Tom, Doug and their squad person enactment together. It's awesome that Tom has the quality to nurture the endowment successful karts and support them successful his strategy for those adjacent steps aft karting, and perchance each the mode to Supercars and beyond.

"I haven't driven a Trans Am properly, but I've ever been a large instrumentality of the class. It seems to beryllium the champion value-for-money class successful the country.

"The cars look good, dependable good, the racing ever seems to beryllium entertaining, and extracurricular of a Supercar, it's perchance the closest happening you tin get to one."

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Slade said the accidental to contention successful the National Trans Am Series is simply a invaluable 1 considering however condensed the Supercars calendar is.

"For me, I privation to bash arsenic galore miles arsenic I can, present that we lone person 12 contention meetings and a fewer trial days," helium said.

"So other miles for maine is the purpose and thing that I'll look astatine doing for the remainder of the year. It's cleanable to bash astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth erstwhile you've had 3 months off."

The National Trans Am Series volition play enactment to the TCR Australia Series astatine Race Tasmania connected February 24-26.

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