Erebus Motorsport is closing one chapter of its Camaro story and opening another. The Melbourne-based squad has confirmed that the 2024 Bathurst 1000-winning chassis is being retired alongside EM07, with a brand-new build — EM09 — set to make its track debut in Cooper Murray's hands at a Winton shakedown on Friday, May 15 ahead of the Tasmania Super440 the following week.
The retired car is a piece of modern Bathurst history. It debuted in 2024 with Todd Hazelwood standing in for Brodie Kostecki at the opening rounds, before Kostecki returned to win the Bathurst 1000 alongside Hazelwood and back it up with a Gold Coast Sunday victory. The chassis stayed in active service through the start of 2026 with rookie Jobe Stewart, before being sold to a private collector.
Erebus boss Barry Ryan walked through the practical reasons the new car only got finished now.
"The majority of it is together," Ryan said of the new car, tagged EM09.
"We had to wait for the container to come back to get the engine, trans and sub assembly components we needed to put in it."
The Bathurst-winning chassis is on its way out the door — but Ryan made clear it will not just be parked in a museum.
"It'll do a handover day to the guy who's bought it," Ryan said.
"We want him to see that it drives, it's a race car and not just a showpiece."
"We'll put the #1 back on it, look at it for five minutes and go 'how cool was that'," Ryan said.
EM09's first job is to give Cooper Murray a fresh, fast platform on a circuit notorious for chewing up under-prepared cars. Symmons Plains is short, abrasive and unforgiving on tyres, brakes and confidence. Murray is approaching the build with the kind of buzz any driver would have getting into a freshly-bolted-together race car.
"It's exciting when you get a fresh car, everything is shiny and new," Murray said.
He pointed to the planned Winton shakedown as the critical step before the truck loads up for Tasmania.
"The 60km shakedown will be good to debut it on track and make sure it's ready for Tassie the following week," Murray said.
Murray has been steadily improving in the #99 TotalEnergies Camaro, and Christchurch produced what he and the team have described as a more positive set of results. He sees EM09 as a chance to compound that.
"The team worked really hard putting this car together and hopefully we can build on our more positive Christchurch results heading into Tassie," Murray said.
Ryan, for his part, has long argued there is no engineering case for one Erebus chassis being intrinsically faster than another, but conceded that there is a psychological lift that comes from a fresh build.
"All of our cars are built to the same standard, but I know having a fresh chassis can help instil more confidence in a driver," Ryan said.
"The crew have done a fantastic job putting this new car together between New Zealand and Tasmania."
For Erebus, the move is part shop-floor logistics, part symbolic reset. The 2024 Bathurst winner heads off to private hands. EM09 rolls onto the trailer for Tasmania. And Cooper Murray, who has been quietly building momentum, gets the kind of brand-new race weapon that every Supercars driver wants to start a fresh campaign with.
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