Holden make track debut with new V6 twin turbo engine

Triple Eight Race Engineering, the official Supercars Holden team, has completed their first test on track with the new V6 twin turbo engine in the Holden Commodore estate show car, named “the Sandman”.

“We’re very pleased with the initial running,” said team owner Roland Dane to supercars.com.

“A huge amount of work has been done already, both at GM Racing in Pontiac, Michigan and also here in Queensland. There’s still plenty more to do, but we’re now going to crack on with the development behind closed doors.”

Steven Richards was behind the wheel of the car during the two days of testing with the new engine, developed by GM Racing in the US.

“There aren’t any advantages or disadvantages to running the engine in the Sandman for what we’re doing at the moment,” said Dane.

“It’s about getting kilometres on the engine and understanding what it needs at this point to prepare it for racing in Supercars. It’s not far away from being competitive, but Supercars is a very competitive category, so we can’t leave anything on the table.”

The team has previously announced that they will run the new engine in selected race weekends next year as a wildcard entry ahead of a full season in 2019. The entry will be the first non-V8 entry in the championship since 1993.