Greg Murphy Tests Brand New Castrol EDGE Commodore

Four-time Bathurst winner Greg Murphy today completed the first laps in his brand new
Castrol EDGE Commodore V8 Supercar at Queensland Raceway.

Murphy completed the 20 ‘shakedown’ laps allowed under V8 Supercar rules ahead of the
car’s debut at this weekend’s Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.

“After only a handful of laps I’m feeling very confident, the new Castrol EDGE Commodore
feels ‘complete’ and performs all parts of the processes very well,” Murphy said afterwards.
“The Triple Eight-designed cars provide a very strong base to start from and I am very much
looking forward to rolling the car out of the truck in Adelaide this week.”

The car is the second Triple Eight Race Engineering-designed chassis constructed by Paul
Morris Motorsports as part of its technical alliance with the championship-winning
TeamVodafone and identical to Murphy’s PMM team-mate Russell Ingall’s Supercheap Auto
Racing Commodore, and the TeamVodafone Commodores of Craig Lowndes and reigning
V8 Supercar Champion Jamie Whincup.

Murphy’s Castrol EDGE/PMM team worked around the clock to complete the new car,
finishing in the early hours of Monday morning before loading it into the team transporter for the trip, firstly to Queensland Raceway, then to Adelaide for the Clipsal 500.

“It has been a marathon effort by the Castrol EDGE/PMM team, an amazing effort since they
returned from the Middle East just last week,” Murphy said.

“They were still putting the finishing touches to the car in the early hours of this morning
before packing it in the truck for the test.

“They’d had only a few hours sleep, but the car ran smoothly and without fault, so I’m very
impressed.”