Dean Canto will not drive full time in the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series after his contract with Garry Rogers Motorsport was terminated ahead of the se🅺ason-opening Clipsal 🅺500 Adelaide.

Canto, the 2000 and 2005 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Champion, was rumoured to be on the outer at GRM as early as Decembe൩r of last year, and has been axed from the team with one year remaining o🦩n his contract.

It is the second time that Canto's driving contract has been termina൲ted in V8 Supercar racing, although the first came after Triple Eight Race Engineering elected not to continue the contract established by Briggs Motorsport aft🎉er a mid-2003 buy-out.

Regarded as one of the most underrat♛ed drivers in the series, Canto's o꧅ptions for driving in 2008 appear to lie only in endurance races.

His official web🐼site published a statement from the driver:

"I am very🥀 disappointed with the decision Garry (Rogers) has made," said Canto.

"200ꦏ7 was a toug🌄h year but despite being caught up in a few incidents, I finished 16th in the Championship right behind my team mate Lee who finished 15th.

"As the decision has been made so close to the start of the new serie💧s I have no choice but to only participate in this year's endurance rounds."

Lee Holdsw😼orth will continue driving with GRM in 2008.