Brad Jones Racing has emerged as the most recent, and maybe most possible, Supercars crew to affix Toyota for the 2026 season.
Crew proprietor Brad Jones addressed the media in Taupo New Zealand, the scene of this weekend’s third spherical of the 2025 championship, and whereas he didn’t particularly affirm any plans to park his crew’s 4 Chevrolet Camaros, he didn’t say something to finish the continuing media hypothesis.
“I’m simply what’s obtainable after which sooner or later within the not-too-distant future I’ll decide,” he mentioned.
“However proper now I’m simply centered on what we’re doing each day and that [the team’s future] is one thing that’s occurring within the background.”
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Toyota will enter Supercars from the beginning of subsequent season, with the Walkinshaw Andretti United crew conducting the model’s homologation and improvement of the GR Supra. The corporate’s acknowledged intent was to run 4 automobiles, with a second, two-car crew, however transferring to the Jones crew would give Toyota the chance for six automobiles on the grid.
“I’ll be working 4 automobiles, it doesn’t matter what I’m doing,” Jones mentioned. “I’ve a mannequin that works rather well with 4 automobiles.
“If I in the reduction of to 2… I’ll should do away with half of my individuals, and I’m not going to try this. It’s not going to make me go any higher or any worse, it’s simply going to chop the enterprise in half.
“So, you undergo all that ache of constructing a crew and rising it with an additional automotive or an additional two… in the event you’ve bought sufficient sponsorship to run the automobiles correctly, it doesn’t matter in the event you run two or 4. You’re not going to run two automobiles any higher than you’re going to run 4 automobiles.”
Andre Heimgartner, Brad Jones Racing
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At current the crew, primarily based in regional Albury in New South Wales, runs in Chevrolets for New Zealand drivers Andre Heimgartner and Jaxon Evans, and Australians Bryce Fullwood and Macauley Jones – Brad’s son.
BJR can hint its historical past again 40 years to when Jones Sr and his brother Kim raced in Method Ford. Kim stepped again from driving to run the crew whereas Brad raced in quite a lot of classes, transferring as much as what was then V8 Supercars in 2000.
That was with Fords, earlier than the crew switched manufacturers to Holden in 2008. BJR has additionally had manufacturing unit hyperlinks with different manufacturers, notably with Mitsubishi in Manufacturing Vehicles and Group A within the Nineteen Eighties and with Audi in Tremendous Touring within the Nineties.
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