PODCAST: Bush speaks out!

The third round of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship heads offshore this week, with the ITM Taupo Super440 taking place on New Zealand’s South Island.

Race for the Championship podcast’s Mark Fogarty caught up with Ford aces, Cam Waters and Brodie ‘Bush’ Kostecki, ahead of the weekend’s event, and the latter talked about his move from the Bowtie to the Blue Oval.

Meanwhile, five kiwis will be on the grid trying to emulate the success of Andre Heimgartner who won the inaugural race at Taupo last year.

Shipping containers arrived via sea freight last week and have been trucked to Taupo with 240 tons of equipment worth $40 million ahead of this weekend.

After two rounds of incredible racing, defending Supercars’ Champion, Red Bull’s Will Brown, who was a race winner at Taupo in 2024, leads the points standings by seven points heading into this weekend, just ahead of Waters.

This weekend’s event will be highlighted by the first-ever Super 440, which is a new format for the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship.

Dual 120km races will headline the Super 440 on Saturday followed by a 200km race on Sunday.

A bumper support category line-up will also compete at the event, with NZ-based racers from Central Muscle Cars, Toyota 86 and Super V8s set to take to the track.

Supercars will be on track on all three days of the event, with two practice sessions set for Friday.

There will be two knockout qualifying sessions on Saturday to determine the grids for Races eight and nine, while qualifying will be followed by a Top 10 Shootout on Sunday.

Drivers will start arriving from tomorrow (Tuesday). There will be a Track to Town event like no other on Thursday where thousands of fans lined the streets in 2024 to greet Supercars to New Zealand, before practice gets underway on Friday.

Opening practice for Supercars is at 12:10pm local time on Friday.

The event will be live in New Zealand on Sky Sport, and live in Australia on Fox Sports and Kayo. Highlights on the Seven Network in Australia.