BOOST Mobile founder Peter Adderton has frequently been the most vocal critic of Supercars, its owner RACE and the Gen3 project but he remains committed to backing this year’s Gold Coast round.
He has a warning for the championship, though: they better have parity sorted by the October 27-29 event on the streets of Surfers Paradise.
Despite having long been set to take ownership of a Triple Eight-built Camaro chassis – a situation which has only recently changed – Adderton has been outspoken about Ford not being on a level playing field thus far in 2023.
Supercars has committed to a parity review and almost certainly will make changes prior to the upcoming NTI Townsville 500. Tweaks are reportedly being trialled today at Winton.
Speaking with V8 Sleuth last week, Adderton was blunt.
“As a sponsor of the series and also the sponsor of the (Gold Coast) event, it’s critical that the entertainment on-track is as good as the entertainment off-track,” he said.
“So I’m hoping that by the time October rolls around when our event is on that they have sorted out the issue.
“They have got to sort the issues out and get those cars on parity.
“If they haven’t done that by October, then I think the championship has a bigger issue than worrying about my Gold Coast event.
“At the end of the day, they need to make sure that the entertainment on-track is what everyone is looking for and right now, to be honest with you, it’s not worth what people are paying because it’s not delivering on what was promised.”
Adderton has also addressed via social media his relinquishing of the fourth Triple Eight Gen3 chassis.
“We ordered and paid the deposit in Oct 2022 with a delivery date of end of Feb, that was then pushed to April, then June, and no certain date which now in (almost) July and not being told if we could actually run it as a wildcard we are out of time to make Bathurst,” he wrote.
“So there is no point owning a bunch of metal tubes if we can’t run the car.
“Supercars fans are the biggest losers here, should we ever be given the opportunity to race a car under the Boost Mobile racing umbrella we will commit to fronting a team and a car.”
Boost did have an on-track presence at the Supercars-promoted 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour, with Jamie Whincup, Richie Stanaway and Prince Jefri Ibrahim sharing a Triple Eight Mercedes-AMG GT3.
