Moore not leaving Supercars despite IMSA trip

By Andrew Clarke

Date posted: August 8, 2023

Shane van Gisbergen is not the only Triple Eight big name turning heads in America, with ace engineer Jeromy Moore helping Porsche in IMSA.

Moore was at Road America last weekend working with Porsche at the Road America race where Aussie Matt Campbell scored Porsche Penske its first win with the new 963.

However, unlike van Gisbergen who is eyeing a full-time crack at NASCAR, Triple Eight’s lead engineer on the development of the Gen3 car is here to stay.

According to both T8 boss Jamie Whincup and Moore, these are just one-off appearances and should be positive for the engineer and the team.

“They are just one-off events. It is the same with drivers, engineers and any crew, we encourage them to go and experience different things.

“He asked me a couple of months ago if he could do it, and I had no issues with it.”

Moore, better known as JJ, oversees all of the engineering at Triple Eight, including race weekends and looking after the Gen3 development project. He told Auto Action he has no plans to leave Triple Eight, but he is enjoying the expansion of his activities and renewing old acquaintances.

“Some of the old drivers I worked with reached out to me and asked if I could collaborate with them,” he said of the opportunity. “They are running the WC (World Endurance Championship) and IMSA with Proton Competition.

“I’m helping as much as I can. I am still full-time here, but I do work with them at night and on some of their race weekends. I’m just trying to help fastrack their knowledge base, it is not a full-time gig, and I have no plans to leave Triple Eight.

Jeromy Moore has been overseeing Triple Eight’s Gen3 program recently. Image: Peter Norton Epic Sports Photography

“The tech allows me to do a lot from here, I was doing one of the races overnight with the timing and video feed, and I did a sim session in Detroit recently from here by staying up late one night.”

Moore said he had previously worked with drivers Neil Jani and Gianmaria Bruni but had not worked with Harry Ticknell. Proton has recently started with a Porsche in the hypercar class and runs a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the GTE Pro class before switching to the new Mustang GT3 for 2024.

Back home, he said work was continuing work on the Gen3 cars to make them more reliable and cheaper to build and run. Three points of concern remain since the season’s start: wheel bearings, the steering rack and brakes.

On the wheel bearings and front uprights, which many teams fear will not last 1000km at Bathurst, he said different versions were being tested, including last year’s Triple Eight front upright set-up on the current Triple Eight cars.

He said the new ones were not $2500 each as rumoured but around $1400 a pair, and the new ones will be even cheaper.

“We’re always looking for what we can do better and cheaper.”

Moore shared other teams’ concerns about limited spare parts for the steering rack, but he believes Supercars is close to a solution for that.

“It is borderline on spare parts, but Supercars is trying to source more spares.”

He said Triple Eight was yet to have a steering rack failure, but he knew others have had issues, and some have been damaged in crashes.

The brakes, he said, were having some heat issues, but AP was onto that and he wasn’t concerned about them going forwards.

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