The VE Commodore was taken from a storage facility at the team’s Mount Waverley, Melbourne, headquarters on Australia Day.

Team 18 has now released video footage (included above) and images of the theft, alongside the following statement.

“Vision shows the thieves arriving in a truck at approximately 6:45am on Sunday morning, 26 January, before they break in through the side door of the team’s storage factory,” it read.

“The pit stop car is then seen being driven out of the warehouse, followed by the truck. The front gates of the complex were broken off the rails during the robbery.

“The team is appealing to anyone that has any further information to contact info@team18.com.au.

“Any information which leads to the recovery of this vehicle will result in a reward.”

Supercars teams typically use road cars fitted with relevant Supercars components to practice pit stops at their workshops between races.

The Team 18 car is fitted with Supercar tyres, a spike and fuel insert and is plastered with Team 18 stickers and large race numbers on the doors.

Team 18 recently relocated its race shop between units in the Mount Waverley business park in which it has been based since 2017.

The Charlie Schwerkolt-owned squad will take the covers off its 2025 race cars at a launch event at the facility on Wednesday, February 12.

It has built a new DeWalt Camaro for Mark Winterbottom’s replacement Anton De Pasquale, having purchased a chassis from Triple Eight that was originally slated for Will Brown.

Teammate David Reynolds is set to continue in the Tradie Camaro he debuted late last year.