Triple Eight reschedules shakedown

The shakedown will now take place tomorrow at Queensland Raceway, when Will Brown and Broc Feeney will each cut up to 19 laps of the 3.1km Ipswich circuit.

That activity had originally been slated to take place today, only to be postponed to Thursday due to forecasts of inclement weather.

However, it has been brought back forward by a day due to scheduling changes at Queensland Raceway.

Brown will drive Car #87 in his first season at Triple Eight Race Engineering, as announced by the team a day ago, with Feeney continuing with #88.

The shakedown, for which each car is permitted up to 60km of mileage, takes place ahead of Saturday’s ‘Livery Landing’ at Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport.

There, in Brown’s home town, Triple Eight will unveil its new livery for the season ahead, with free entry to the general public.

Erebus Motorsport and Grove Racing are also set to debut new cars at the very start of the season, with other squads to bring fresh hardware online later in the year, although their shakedown dates are yet to be confirmed.

They would, however, have to take place before Wednesday, February 7, when the southern-based teams are due to test at Winton.

The Sunshine State-based teams – the others being Dick Johnson Racing, Matt Stone Racing, and PremiAir Racing – are set to undertake their pre-season test at Queensland Raceway on Monday, February 5.