Holden wins its last Supercars manufacturers’ championship title

Holden was won its closing Supercars manufacturers’ championship title with five situations to spare.

The manufacturers’ title is determined by race wins, and Shane van Gisbergen’s in Race 23 at The Bend was the Lion’s 18th of the time.

With Ford owning scored only five hence considerably, and 11 races to go in 2022, Holden’s margin has turn out to be unassailable.

It is the past manufacturers’ championship which the Australian marque will at any time acquire, having been retired from new motor vehicle showrooms in 2020.

The ZB Commodore has ongoing to race in the meantime, but will be changed on the Typical Motors facet of the brand name divide with the Chevrolet Camaro when the Gen3 era commences subsequent calendar year.

Holden has gained the title 16 moments out of a achievable 24 because its inception in 1999, which include a report seven in a row from 2010 to 2016, with Ford taking out the relaxation.

Van Gisbergen has contributed 14 of the 18 race wins this calendar year, with the equilibrium coming courtesy of Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert.

That a lot is arguably a fitting mail-off way too, contemplating WAU is the former manufacturing facility Holden Racing Team, nonetheless will swap to the Ford Mustang in 2023.

“It still usually means a whole lot to a lot of persons and the Holden lovers, so it’s truly awesome to stand for that,” said van Gisbergen of the triumph.

“We’ve obtained some huge races coming up obviously Bathurst, previous time at Pukekohe, which Holden’s had some very good achievement there, and then of class ‘Clipsal’ [Adelaide, Holden’s home town] at the conclude of the 12 months is likely to be mega.

“So, with any luck , we can deliver the Holden out in a fantastic way.”

It was van Gisbergen and lengthy-time Walkinshaw HRT guy Garth Tander who drove a Triple Eight Race Engineering-entered Crimson Bull Holden Racing Workforce ZB Commodore to victory in the 2020 Bathurst 1000, symbolizing its very last manufacturing unit crew triumph at Mount Panorama.

The New Zealander then experienced the unique honour of remaining equipped to complete his victory lap with a Holden flag handed above by a spectator, a scene which immediately turned iconic.

In addition to the Great Race victory, each of his drivers’ championships have appear in Holdens, in a VF Commodore in 2016 and ZB very last yr.

Van Gisbergen is in the box seat to go again-to-back again presented he now sales opportunities by 393 points immediately after a sweep of this weekend’s OTR SuperSprint.