The Ford Falcon in which three-time V8 Supercars champion, Bathurst 1000 winner and now NASCAR Cup Series race winner Shane van Gisbergen claimed his first Supercars victory is up for auction on race car trading site my105.com.
The auction for the #9 SP Tools-liveried Falcon, complete with its 5.0-litre V8 race engine, will end at 7:30pm AEST this Tuesday (June 2, 2026).
It’s expected to sell for several hundreds of thousands of dollars, in part due to van Gisbergen’s rising profile following his NASCAR success after leaving Supercars for the US in 2024.
The fast Ford, officially designated ‘SBR FG03’, was built by Stone Brothers Racing (SBR), the team with which van Gisbergen raced between the 2008 and 2012 seasons.
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It was the car van Gisbergen – known as ‘SVG’ – drove to his first V8 Supercars race win, fittingly at Hamilton, New Zealand, during round six of the 2011 championship.
Van Gisbergen claimed a second victory in the Falcon later that year at Hidden Valley in Darwin after starting 12th on the grid, and won again in it during the support races for the 2012 Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
It is the only Ford that van Gisbergen has won in, after leaving SBR at the end of 2012 and racing Holden or Chevrolet machinery in Supercars until 2024, when he moved to NASCAR, where he races a Chevrolet Camaro.
His former team, Triple Eight Race Engineering, switched from the Chevrolet Camaro to the Ford Mustang for the 2026 Supercars season, with a locally tuned ‘T8 Pack’ now offered for the road-going Ford Mustang Dark Horse.
As one of Supercars’ most recognisable modern-era drivers, van Gisbergen’s race cars are highly sought-after, with FG03 being one of only eight chassis he raced during his Supercars career.
Its price is also expected to be bolstered by a market for ex-race cars that has gained significant momentum over the past decade.
In 2021, a BA-series Ford Falcon in which Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won the 2006 Bathurst 1000 reportedly sold for more than $1 million, according to enthusiast website V8 Sleuth, which would have been the first seven-figure price for a Falcon.
While many such vehicles change hands for undisclosed amounts, the highest reported price paid for an ex-race car is said to be $2.1 million for the VH Holden Commodore that won the 1982 Bathurst 1000.
It was driven to victory by Peter Brock and Larry Perkins, with the pair taking the same car to victory again in the 1983 Bathurst 1000 alongside the late John Harvey, making it a rare two-time Bathurst-winning car.