Brad Jones Racing has emerged as the latest, and perhaps most probable, Supercars team to join Toyota for the 2026 season.
Team owner Brad Jones addressed the media in Taupo New Zealand, the scene of this weekend’s third round of the 2025 championship, and while he did not specifically confirm any plans to park his team's four Chevrolet Camaros, he did not say anything to end the ongoing media speculation.
“I’m just looking at what’s available and then at some point in the not-too-distant future I’ll make a decision,” he said.
“But right now I’m just focused on what we’re doing day to day and that [the team's future] is something that’s going on in the background.”
Toyota will enter Supercars from the start of next season, with the Walkinshaw Andretti United team conducting the brand's homologation and development of the GR Supra. The company's stated intent was to run four cars, with a second, two-car team, but moving to the Jones team would give Toyota the opportunity for six cars on the grid.
“I’ll be running four cars, no matter what I’m doing,” Jones said. “I have a model that works really well with four cars.
“If I cut back to two... I’ll have to get rid of half of my people, and I’m not going to do that. It’s not going to make me go any better or any worse, it’s just going to cut the business in half.
“So, you go through all that pain of building a team and growing it with an extra car or an extra two… if you’ve got enough sponsorship to run the cars properly, it doesn’t matter if you run two or four. You’re not going to run two cars any better than you’re going to run four cars.”
At present the team, 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 trace its history back 40 years to when Jones Sr and his brother Kim raced in Formula Ford. Kim stepped back from driving to run the team while Brad raced in a variety of categories, moving up to what was then V8 Supercars in 2000.
That was with Fords, before the team switched brands to Holden in 2008. BJR has also had factory links with other brands, notably with Mitsubishi in Production Cars and Group A in the 1980s and with Audi in Super Touring in the 1990s.
