BOOST PULL-OUT THREAT

Boost Mobile boss Peter Adderton says he will pull all Supercars sponsorship unless the category introduces a control upright.

By BRUCE NEWTON

The outspoken telecoms millionaire currently backs Garry Rogers Motorsport and the Kostecki Brothers enduro series wildcard and is in negotiations with up to five teams for naming rights sponsorship next year.

But Adderton says he has told Supercars CEO Sean Seamer that he won’t be investing in 2020 unless a control front upright is mandated.

Adderton says Seamer has told him that a move to a control upright is planned for 2021, but that isn’t good enough for him.

“I made it clear to all the teams that are talking to us and also to Sean (Seamer) that unless they get a control upright we are not here next year,” said Seamer.

“It’s not a lot of expense to do it. They want to do it 2021, we want it done in 2020 or we will sit out 2020.

“Any sponsor other than Red Bull or Shell up the end there (sponsoring Triple Eight and DJR Team Penske respectively) that stays in this sport without a control upright … is in my opinion stupid.”

The upright is one of the last great technical freedoms in Supercars, with the rear suspension and brake packages among key items already controlled and dampers set to join them in 2020.

Boost is the first year of its sponsorship deal with GRM but has a performance clause it can exercise to pull out of the deal.

It has been linked with Sydney-bound Tekno Autosports and Walkinshaw Racing, which it sponsored in 2018, and other teams for 2020.

“We’ve told all the teams we are talking to; control front upright we are in. No control upright we are out,” said Adderton.

Read more on this and other breaking news in our Bathurst review issue of Auto Action, on-sale from Thursday October 17.

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