V8 Supercar Champions Stone Brothers Racing is set to expand its engine supply business by estab🌱lishing an alliance with the Brisb🎃ane-based Triple Eight Race Engineering operation for four years from 2005.

Earlier this year SBR signed a two-year deal to supply engines to Larkham Motor Sport and the result has seen LMS's two-car Orrcon Racing team take t💜he next leap in performance and results.

The new deal means that Craig Lowndes will make his debut in a Betta Electrical Falcon with SBR-supplied power plants in next year's 13-round V8 Su𝓀percar Championship Series.

The program is designed to reduce the escalating♛ expense of V8 Supercar racing caused through the seriously increasing costs associated with enginꦦe and car development, according to SBR co-owner, Ross Stone.

"A lot of thought has to be put into arrangements like this, but I think an expansion of our engine ꦆdevelopment business with Triple Eight makes sense," he said. "The sport is becoming more and more expensive and partnershiꦰps like this are going to be crucial to the future success of everyone involved.

"This deal has come with the encouragement of ℱFord and will benefit, Triple Eight, SBR 🤪and Larkham Motor Sport's Orrcon Racing."

Triple 𒁃Ei🎃ght Race engineering's director/manager, Roland Dane, believes the new arrangement will be a win-win for everyone involved.

"There is no doubt that SBR has been the benchmark in this series for the past couple ofꦜ years and if we were ever going to come to an arrangement like this, then SBR were the obvious choice as partners," he said. "Like us, SBR is in the business of motor racing to win. Ross and Jimmy Stone have a tremendous reputation as fair and ethical competitors and that is also an obvious consideration when structuring such an arrangement.

"The sport of V8 Supercar racing is not getting any cheaper and it makes no sense for teams to be duplicating very expensive development programs across a whole range of areas. We have been working with SBR and Ford for sometime and I am glad we have come to, what I am sur📖e will be win-win situation 𝐆for everyone involved."

The new arrangement is subject to approval by TEGA (TouringCar Entrants Group Australia) through the normal process. Upon appro🐷val Team Betta Electrical will competeꦑ with SBR-prepared engines for the first time in the V8 Supercar support program at the Foster's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 4-6 March 2005.