Murphy will drive the #51 Castrol EDGE Holden Commodore in the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series entered by leading Paul Morris Motorsports. The car will be built by V8 Supercar Championship-winning Triple Eight Race Engineering, which recently entered a full technical alliance with PMM.

“I am very lucky to be in this position – to be driving a Castrol-backed, Triple Eight-built Holden Commodore for one of V8 Supercar’s leading teams, Paul Morris Motorsports, in 2010 is extremely exciting for me,” Murphy said.

The new arrangements see Murphy renew his association with Castrol, having driven Castrol-backed cars at Kmart Racing and Supercheap Auto Racing, claiming back-to-back Bathurst 1000 titles in 2003/04.

“I am thrilled to be joining up with Castrol again, I like the way the company goes about its business and how it leverages its motorsport involvement. We have had great success together in the past and I am looking forward to a lot more success with Castrol in the future.”

Castrol Lubricants Marketing Director, Andrew Johnson said he was excited about the new partnership with PMM and Murphy,and said there would be no mistaking the Castrol EDGE Commodore’s heritage and identity.

“This is the best total V8 package we've signed up for in many years – the look of the Castrol EDGE Commodore, the engineering arrangements, the first class team facilities here at the Holden Driving Centre, then you add in a top class driver like four-time Bathurst winner in Greg Murphy. We couldn't ask for more," Mr Johnson said.

The brilliant new Castrol EDGE livery is a balance of consistent Castrol branding mixed with a new approach and application, using the company’s traditional colours along with introducing dramatic white and gold ribbons that exude a fresh contemporary image.

He has twice finished second in the V8 Supercar Championship (2002, 03), won Australia’s Great Race, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, four times – 1996, 99, 2003, 04 – and four times won the annual V8 Supercar round in his native New Zealand, at Pukekohe, including three straight years (2001, 02, 03).

Murphy also continues to hold the record for the fastest ever lap around Mount Panorama – a 2min 06.8594sec time set in claiming pole for the 2003 race.

Testing for the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series will begin in early February with the first two rounds, a double-header in the Middle East – Abu Dhabi (18-20 February) and Bahrain (25-22 February) – scheduled for later that month.