Grove Racing is coy on the prospect of prising Walkinshaw Andretti United engineer Grant McPherson away from the Clayton-based squad.
It is believed that McPherson will conclude the current season with WAU before moving to a technical role at the Groves’ Supercars team in 2023.
McPherson is currently race engineer for Nick Percat as well as WAU’s Head of Performance.
It would see him join team principal David Cauchi at Grove Racing, both being former colleagues at Triple Eight Race Engineering.
When approached on the situation, team owner Stephen Grove could not confirm the appointment.
“I couldn’t confirm that at this stage; he’s currently employed at another team, obviously,” Grove told Speedcafe.com.
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What Grove would confirm is that the team is seeking to “bolster our engineering” ahead of the introduction of Supercars’ Gen3 era.
Nevertheless, he is happy with the direction it is already heading under the leadership of Cauchi.
“Dave Cauchi coming onboard to Grove Racing is something that was a real asset for us,” added Grove.
“We’re coming from a long way back…we haven’t got years and years of experience with the Gen2 Mustang.
“We need to bolster our engineering to make sure that Gen3 is right.
“We have a clean sheet of paper, as everybody does, so we really need to make the most of those opportunities.”
Grove Racing currently has Alistair McVean and Will Davidson as its race engineers for David Reynolds and Lee Holdsworth respectively.
McPherson was confirmed at the end of the 2020 season to join WAU as the operation’s Head of Performance, though had to wait out a period of gardening leave.
He then took up the role of race engineer on the #2 when Geoffrey Slater was let go.
Prior to his tenure at WAU, McPherson was at Triple Eight for six years where he engineered Shane van Gisbergen to the 2016 Supercars title.
He also spent eight years at Ford Performance Racing before Triple Eight.
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