Brad Jones Racing is an Australian motor racing team owned by Brad Jones based in

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. The team competes in the

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and the

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. Recently they have also returned to Australian Formula Ford where Brad and Kim began their careers. The team is the only rurally based Supercars team. The team's current drivers are Andre Heimgartner, Macauley Jones, Bryce Fullwood, and Jaxon Evans.

History

Brad Jones Racing began as a

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team in which both Brad and Kim Jones raced. Kim stopped racing relatively early, partially in recognition of Brad's ability as a driver with Kim becoming team manager. The team's peak in open-wheel racing came when, running an Elwyn chassis, Brad finished sixth in the 1981 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series. The pair faded as the 1980s developed, though Brad Jones would continue driving Bryan Thompson's twin-turbo Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC -

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in Sports Sedan and GT racing. When Thompson came out of driving retirement in 1983, Brad Jones moved into driving a

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in Group E Series Production Touring Cars. Jones and the turbocharged Starion came to almost dominate Group E racing in Australia during 1983 and 1984 which led to the Jones brothers becoming involved in Kevin Bartlett's

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touring car team, known occasionally as Mitsubishi Ralliart. Racing with Mitsubishi gave Brad several opportunities to race overseas, racing the Starion turbos in Australia,

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and across

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. During this time, Brad Jones again linked with Bryan Thompson to drive both the Mercedes Chev and a

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to 2nd place (behind Thompson who also drove both cars) in the 1985 Australian GT Championship. Jones also drove the Monza in selected races throughout 1986, mostly at their "local" track, the Winton Motor Raceway. After Kevin Bartlett severed ties with Mitsubishi in late 1985, the Jones brothers formed their own team BJ Motorsport to further the Starion touring car operation, qualifying the Starion 10th at the 1986 James Hardie 1000 after being fastest on the 1.9 kilometre long Conrod Straight during qualifying at . By the end of 1986, the Starion, despite its straight-line speed, had faded as a truly competitive touring car and Brad Jones become a hired gun driver for other touring car teams. The Ralliart Australia team was revived in 1987, though Brad Jones was surprisingly overlooked for a seat at the 1987 James Hardie 1000. He was back with the team for the 1988 Tooheys 1000 which saw his best result to date in the

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when he and former Nissan driver Terry Shiel drove the aging Starion to 10th place. He was then hired to race the full 1989 Australian Touring Car season in a turbocharged

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for

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's Mobil 1 Racing. During the 1990s, Brad Jones was hired to drive in the late season endurance races at

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and Bathurst for the Holden Racing Team, Wayne Gardner Racing and Larkham Motor Sport.

Australian Stock Car Auto Racing

A way forward emerged with the creation of AUSCAR racing in Australia with the newly redeveloped Brad Jones Racing one of the first teams involved in the fledgling stock car series running

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s. BJR got their first start in AUSCAR in the 3rd annual Goodyear AUSCAR 200 at the

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in 1988 in a Holden VL Commodore dubbed the "Green Meanie". Brad Jones qualified 5th and a strong run inside the top 10 saw him established as one of the front-runners. Initially BJR raced only in AUSCAR, the second-tier series behind

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where they quickly grew to become the dominant team in the series, winning five consecutive titles from 1990 to 1994. Occasional forays into Australia's NASCAR series blossomed into a full NASCAR campaign in the 1994/95 season and the team were rewarded with a sixth consecutive title with Jones this time driving a

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Super Touring

After running a Super Production Car

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to another title victory in 1994, BJR moved away from the fading Superspeedway scene into circuit racing and in 1995 entered the Australian Super Touring series as the official

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team in the series, fielding a pair of Audi A4 Quattros for himself and Greg Murphy. The team then spent the next five years swapping titles with Paul Morris Motorsport, the official

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team, with Jones winning the championship in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. Murphy and later

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(who replaced Murphy in

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

) won many races during the six-year period when Super Touring was at its peak. During this time Brad Jones Racing twice finished on the podium in the two

races held for Super Touring cars. Jones himself finished second in

with Frank Biela, and third in

with McConville. In 2000 while still heading Audi's Super Touring team in Australia, Jones was drafted into the Audi Sport North America

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team for the Race of a Thousand Years, an

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race held on 31 December 2000 at the

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. Jones was brought in as a third driver in the

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/ Rinaldo Capello driven

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after Scotsman McNish had hurt his back 2 days before the race while stepping out of his Kilt after some publicity photos. Jones qualified the car (Capello won the pole), but McNish recovered to race and Jones remained a spectator for the 225 lap event which was won by McNish and Capello.

Supercars Championship

Debut in Supercars

The team entered the V8 series in 2000 after purchasing a

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and Racing Entitlement Contract from

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. Running as a one car team in

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

and

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

, the team achieved modest results, highlighted by second place at the 2001 Bathurst 1000 where Jones partnered

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. In

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

BJR expanded to two cars, with former ATCC champion John Bowe joining the team. Performance at Bathurst continued to be strong, Bowe qualifying 2nd in 2002 and 2003, and the Bowe-Jones combination finishing 3rd in 2004. In

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, BJR won their first race at the

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(Non-Championship) courtesy of Bowe in race 2, but success in the following championship rounds eluded them. A low for the year came at the

when Jones was caught up in a lap 1 accident with Garth Tander and Greg Ritter. In

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

used

Stone Brothers Racing Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) was an Australian motor racing team that competed in the International V8 Supercars Championship between 1998 and 2012. The team was formed in 1998 when Ross and Jim Stone bought Alan Jones (racing driver), Alan J ...

engines. The season was marred with bad luck, with the new spec SBR engines power not suiting the BJR engineered chassis and one of the co-drivers for the

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and

, Mark Porter, died while racing in the development series. In

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

, Brad's nephew and Kim's son Andrew Jones replaced John Bowe. Once again, the team struggled on in the early stage of this season and Brad Jones announced his retirement mid-season. Team BOC drafted 2001 Development Series champion Simon Wills to drive the now vacated No. 14 BF Falcon at round 4 at Winton. The season had another bad season, with less than pleasing results and at the biggest race of the year, Bathurst, both cars failed to finish with car No. 14 crashing heavily in qualifying and car No. 12 having an engine fire.

Move To Holden

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Brad Jones Racing decided it was time for a change after finishing the 2007 teams championship in last position, behind numerous single car operations. They made the decision to change their manufacturer from their long standing association Ford to the rival Holden. They bought two Holden VE Commodores previously campaigned by the Holden Racing Team.

returned to the team in 2008. In

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Jason Richards joined the team replacing Andrew Jones. In

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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replaced the retiring McConville. Bright brought his Britek Motorsport REC which was used to enter a third car for

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. The team's endurance drivers were Andrew Jones in No. 8, Matt Halliday in No. 14 and David Wall in No. 21. For the Phillip Island round, Bright debuted a brand new Chassis, also constructed by the BJR team. Fabrizio Giovanardi and Alain Menu were the international enduro drivers for October's Gold Coast 600, with Giovandari with Reindler in No. 21 and Menu with Bright in No. 14. After the Symmons Plains event in Tasmania, Jason Richards was diagnosed with stomach cancer and couldn't compete in the final two events of 2010. Enduro driver Andrew Jones replaced him for final two events of 2010. For the 2011 season, Jason Bargwanna joined the team. Jason Bright won the team's first V8 Supercar race, winning Race 8 in Perth, this was then backed up by another win at Winton. The Endurance drivers were Andrew Jones in No. 8, Shane Price in No. 14, and David Wall in No. 21. Fabrizio Giovanardi, Allan Simonsen and Stéphane Sarrazin were the international enduro drivers for October's Gold Coast 600, with Giovandari with Reindler in No. 21 and Simonsen with Bargwanna in No. 14 and Sarrazin with Bright in No. 8. The 2011 season ended on a sad note, with Jason Richards losing his battle with cancer. For

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replaced Bargwanna in the No.14 Entry with David Wall joining the team to drive the No.21 Car, Replacing Karl Reindler. All three drivers remained with the team for

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

. Dale Wood joined the team in

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replacing David Wall. For 2016, Fabian Coulthard left the team. He was replaced by

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in the team No. 14 Freightliner Entry. Tim Blanchard also replaced Dale Wood in the No. 21 Customer Britek Motorsport entry for 2016. For the 2017 Season, Jason Bright will leave the team after 7 Years. He will be replaced by

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in the Teams No. 8 Entry. BOC will also step down as naming rights sponsor of the No. 8 Entry after 12 Years with the team.

Results

Bathurst 1000 results

— Mark Porter practiced in the #12 Falcon but was badly injured after a serious crash in a Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series race on the Friday before the race. Michael Caruso was drafted into the team to replace him. Porter would die on the Sunday afternoon from the injuries in the crash.
— Ashley Walsh practiced in the #14 Commodore but was replaced by Andre Heimgartner due to his injuries.

Supercars results

Car No. 4 results

Car No. 8 results

Car No. 14 results

Car No. 96 results

Supercars Championship drivers

The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Supercars Championship, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who only drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics. * Brad Jones (2000–09) * ''

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'' (2000) * ''

'' (2001–05) * John Bowe (2002–06) * '' Tim Leahey'' (2002) * Andrew Jones (2003–04, 2007–16) * '' Dale Brede'' (2005–06) * '' Mark Porter'' (2006) * '' Michael Caruso'' (2006) * Simon Wills (2007) * '' Damien White'' (2007) * '' Christian Murchison'' (2007) *

(2008–09, 2011) * '' Max Wilson'' (2008) * Jason Richards (2009–10) *

(2010–16) * '' Matt Halliday'' (2010) * '' Alain Menu'' (2010) * Jason Bargwanna (2011) * '' Shane Price'' (2011) * ''

Stéphane Sarrazin Stéphane Jean-Marc Sarrazin (born 2 November 1975) is a French racing and rally driver. He has won races across a number of single-seater, sportscar and rallying disciplines and competitions, was French Formula Renault champion in 1994, and Le ...

'' (2011–12) * ''

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'' (2011) *

(2012–15) * '' David Besnard'' (2012) * ''

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'' (2012) * '' Luke Youlden'' (2013–15) *

(2016–19) * '' Ashley Walsh'' (2016–19) * Andre Heimgartner (2017, 2022–present) *

(2017–21) * Macauley Jones (2017–18, 2021–present) * Jack Smith (2019–2023) * '' Tim Blanchard'' (2019) *

Todd Hazelwood Todd Matthew Hazelwood (born 25 September 1995) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship, Repco Supercars Championship for Dick Johnson Racing as a co-driver in the Shell V-Power Racing Ford Mustang. ...

(2020–21) * '' Thomas Randle'' (2020) * '' Jack Perkins'' (2020) * '' Jordan Boys'' (2020, 2022) * '' Chris Pither'' (2021) * '' Dale Wood'' (2021–present) * '' Dean Fiore'' (2021–present) * '' David Wall'' (2021) * Bryce Fullwood (2022–present)

Super2 drivers

The following list of drivers have driven for the team in the Super2 Series. The drivers who drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics * Andrew Jones (2002-2004, 2011-2017) * '' Dale Brede'' (2005) * '' Luke Youlden'' (2013) * Chris Pither (2013-2014) * Macauley Jones (2014-2018) * Josh Kean (2015-2016) * Jack Smith (2017-2019) * Zane Goddard (2018) * '' Tim Blanchard'' (2019) * Josh Fife (2020) * ''Elly Morrow'' (2022) * Lachlan Dalton (2022 - 2023) * Cody Gillis (2024) * Elliott Cleary (2024) *

Super3 Drivers

* Josh Smith (2016) * Jack Smith (2017–2018) * ''Harry Hayek'' (2018) * Madeline Stewart (2019) * Josh Fife (2019) * ''Elly Morrow'' (2021)

References

External links

Team BOC websiteFreightliner Racing website
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