FORD’s ultimately rejected plea for a parity change prior to the Repco Bathurst 1000 had the support of championship-leading Chevrolet team, Erebus Motorsport.
V8 Sleuth can reveal that Erebus and its CEO Barry Ryan had backed the proposed changes to the aerodynamic kit of the Mustangs.
Ford and its homologation team Dick Johnson Racing had worked with Supercars on the package, following the sharing of CFD data from Supercars’ technical partner D2H.
Designed to marginally reduce the drag on the Mustang and shift its downforce balance rearwards, Ford teams were ready to fit the parts at the track on Wednesday.
However, the fact the lap time-based parity review trigger hadn’t been hit in the required number of recent races meant that Supercars could not approve the changes on its own.
Instead, it needed the approval of all teams – including the six squads running Chevrolet…
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