Triple Eight Racing – aka Red Bull Ampol Racing – has auctioned off a Holden Commodore ahead of the team’s switch to the Ford Mustang.
A Holden ZB Commodore owned by Triple Eight Race Engineering – the Red Bull-backed V8 Supercars Championship outfit who announced a shock switch to Ford for 2026 – has been offloaded by the championship-winning team.
Sold for $18,888 at the final hammer – a nod to Triple Eight Race Engineering – the 2018 Holden Commodore RS with 55,544km on the odometer owned by the team since new was put up for auction on Collecting Cars.
It comes only days after Jamie Whincup – now team principal and Triple Eight Race Engineering co-owner after winning a record seven titles with the team – personally sold his beloved 2012 Bathurst-winning Holden VE Commodore race car.
The recently auctioned Queensland-registered road car was used by the team for promotional duties, wearing the same livery as the Red Bull ZB Commodores the team raced until the end of 2022 – which saw it win two V8 Supercars championships and three Bathurst 1000 wins.
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This means the ZB Commodore road car – sold with its racing stickers removed to reveal its factory Summit White paint – has some unique modifications for its duties following the race team around Australia and New Zealand.
It includes an elaborate V8 Supercars-like body kit, with chunky front and rear bumpers as well as custom side-skirts – something not offered through Holden dealers at the time – but sadly not the massive rear wing seen on the track versions.
The white Commodore also sits on lowered suspension and rides on custom 20-inch wheels designed to look like the race car’s yet – for practical reasons – it retained the standard five-bolt pattern instead of the race car’s single nut.
Beyond its iconic racing team first-owner and visual upgrades, beneath all the racing theatrics is an unmodified, regular front-wheel drive ZB Commodore RS liftback.
Power comes from a 191kW/350Nm 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine and nine-speed automatic – Triple Eight not ticking the box for the optional V6 – where the race cars used the same 5.0-litre V8 found under the bonnet of the previous VF Commodore V8 Supercars.
The white RS’s interior, too, remains factory-standard with black leather and charcoal finish with carbon-fibre and aluminium inlays, Holden floor mats and standard features including a reversing camera, cruise control and Bluetooth.
With a full service history, the price was also fair for a ZB Commodore without its V8 Supercars background and similar mileage, with several advertised on Drive for similar money.
The ZB Holden Commodore was the final version before Holden closed as a brand in 2020, with V8 Supercars replacing it on-track with the Chevrolet Camaro from the 2023 season onwards.
From 2026, Triple Eight will race the Ford Mustang, competing with the Toyota Supra, which enters the main V8 Supercars series for the first time led by Walkinshaw Andretti United.
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