DICK Johnson Racing’s roster for the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship enduros is set in stone, with the Ford squad yet again opting for stability.
V8 Sleuth can confirm DJR has locked in Tony D’Alberto and Alex Davison to continue alongside Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison respectively.
While an eighth successive campaign with the Stapylton organisation just about always seemed a formality for 2022 TCR champion D’Alberto, there had been off-season speculation surrounding the elder Davison brother’s future.
However, Alex will continue with the team and is at Queensland Raceway today for DJR’s final pre-season test.
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Melbourne-based D’Alberto is not present but enjoyed a solid weekend in TCR at Symmons Plains.
This year will be the Davison brothers’ seventh Bathurst 1000 start together.
DJR has not been on the Great Race podium since Scott McLaughlin and Alex Premat’s win in the 2019 edition.
This year, the endurance season will return to a multi-event format, with Sandown back to a two-driver, 500km race.
Triple Eight has also been giving its co-drivers laps with Richie Stanaway in action today and Jamie Whincup yesterday, while PremiAir Racing has Dylan O’Keeffe and Joey Mawson on deck once again.
O’Keeffe is a lock to partner James Golding again, while there are genuine hopes that Mawson will make his Supercars debut alongside Tim Slade.
Co-driver line-ups also are definitively sorted at Tickford Racing (James Moffat, Zak Best, Tyler Everingham, Garry Jacobson) and Walkinshaw Andretti United (Lee Holdsworth, Fabian Coulthard), and effectively Erebus Motorsport (Jack Perkins, David Russell).
