JJ IS THE NEW HT

Jeromy Moore is the new Homologation Team for Chevrolet in Supercars.

How's that?

Surely, the technical chief at Triple Eight Race Engineering is just one person?

And isn't PremiAir Racing now considered to be the odds-on favourite to take over from T8 on the Chevrolet front?

Both are true, but Moore's signing by General Motors in the USA points to a big new role for him in Supercars and beyond.

There is no official announcement yet from the 'states on Moore's signing and the man called 'JJ' in the pitlane is not saying anything.

"Sorry, no comment at this time," Moore told Race.news

So the only real detail, so far, came from Jamie Whincup when he announced Moore's move.

He said JJ would be working for GM USA on its Supercars and GT3 programs.

But there could be much more to the move, with GM heavily involved in Le Mans prototypes, GT3 sports cars with the Corvette, and its growing program with Cadillac for Formula One.

To put JJ's change into perspective it's important to look at his history.

He is a Supercars veteran who joined Roland Dane at the start of Triple Eight in 2003, working as a race engineer and advancing to Chief Designer.

But in 2015 he took a post at Porsche in Germany on its GT programs with the 911, only really returning to Australia – and T8 – to create an Aussie home for his wife and three young children.

Since his return he has continued as a contract engineer and strategist through Porsche at Le Mans and in the World Endurance Championship with one of its privateer teams, provided there has been no conflict with his Supercars commitments.

But it's his engineering work as head of various homologation programs which makes him the key player in the next move for Chevrolet in Australia.

It was JJ who laid out the basics for the Gen3 program in Supercars, including the basic chassis design and layout.

He was also responsible, at T8, for the homologation package for the Chevrolet Camaro.

But, wait, there is more . . .

Moore also led the program for Porsche when it needed an all-new 911 for the World Endurance Championship and Le Mans in 2019. Not just that, but 'his' RSR was the first mid-engined 911, with the powerplant installed in what was normally the back seat instead of hanging out in the tail.

All the detail on the JJ move is somewhere in the future but, for the moment, he and his family will stay in Brisbane. There is no relocation to the USA in the forseeable future, although he is likely to be a regular commuter to Mooresville in 2026.