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Supercars twist as iconic car axed - CtrlF.XYZ

Supercars twist as iconic car axed

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Supercars has been dealt different large stroke with confirmation from the US General Motors volition cease accumulation of the Chevrolet Camaro adjacent January.

The announcement - coming conscionable 1 contention into the caller Gen3 era, which is seeing the iconic exemplary vie against the Ford Mustang - volition mean Supercars volition erstwhile again beryllium racing models nary longer disposable for sale.

Shane van Gisbergen dominated successful his caller Camaro successful Supercars' season-opener successful Newcastle earlier this month, though was disqualified from the archetypal contention for having a operator cooling container successful the door.

The Holden marque was axed astatine the extremity of 2020, yet Supercars continued to vie with the Commodore until the extremity of past season.

In a statement, Chevrolet vice president Scott Bell said portion the announcement was "not the extremity of Camaro's story", they were besides "not announcing an contiguous successor".

In a abstracted connection released connected Thursday, Supercars confirmed it would "continue our beardown concern with GM into the future".

"While today's General Motors (GM) quality retired of the US volition person an interaction connected our racing product, we respect and admit that alteration is sometimes inevitable," the connection read.

"GM has been an integral portion of our practice and has played a important relation successful shaping Supercars to go what it is today, the top touring car class successful the world.

"GM has helped shaped the careers of immoderate of Australia's and New Zealand's top drivers, including Peter Brock, Mark Skaife, Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup and astir precocious Shane van Gisbergen."

The connection concluded by confirming the Camaro would proceed to contention successful the bid "until astatine slightest the extremity of 2025".

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