Supercars 2025: Toyota confirms Brad Jones Racing as its second team partner for its entry in 2026
Supercars newcomer Toyota has boosted its potential for their first season on the grid, taking the total number of cars to six, by teaming up with one of the sport’s most famous names.
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Supercars newcomer Toyota has boosted its potential to “hit the ground running” when it joins the grid next year with six cars after Brad Jones Racing was confirmed as its second team for its highly-anticipated debut in 2026.
Seven months after the Japanese car giant’s entry to the series was revealed in a major coup for the sport, BJR has signed on as Toyota’s second team partner alongside homologation team Walkinshaw Andretti United.
The multi-year deal with the Albury-based squad will now give Toyota six GR Supras on the grid for its entry to the category next year, two more than it had initially expected.
BJR has campaigned with four cars in Supercars since 2020 and team owner Brad Jones said he had no plans to abandon that model.
The four BJR cars will join the two WAU Supras to be driven by two-time Bathurst 1000 champion Chaz Mostert and Kiwi young gun Ryan Wood.
The BJR announcement came as Toyota figurehead Sean Hanley shared his vision to one day have a pathway for its Supercars drivers to its NASCAR teams.
BJR and WAU said they would work collaboratively to prepare the Supra Supercar with development continuing behind the scenes of this year’s championship.
Hanley, Toyota Australia’s vice-president of sales and marketing, said the BJR deal gave Toyota greater potential to maximise its debut in the sport.
“Working with the four cars, making six on the grid, gives us a bit of coverage,” Hanley said on Saturday.
“At the start, we thought we would only ever probably have four, but getting to six gives us just that little bit of extra coverage.
“For Toyota this is an incredibly big step and, make no mistake, we are not here to lose, we want to win the race.
“But we understand first that we have to earn that position and we have to earn that respect in the sport. We are a newcomer.
“I can tell the Supercars race fans this …. we will be competitive and we will have a red hot go every time we go out there and having the two teams coming together as the Toyota GR team, Walkinshaw Andretti United and Brad Jones Racing, for me seals the deal.
“I’m grateful that I’ve picked up these two teams for Toyota.”
Jones, whose eponymous team has long campaigned for General Motors, said the chance to work with a new manufacturer entering the sport was an opportunity too good to pass up.
“I have been with General Motors for a long time … so there was a lot of discussion and too-ing and fro-ing,” Jones said.
“I was very impressed with the people and the (Toyota) package. I felt from the very first day I went in there that this was a great opportunity.
“Bringing Toyota into Supercars is such a big deal and to have the opportunity to be part of that is hard to go past.”
But Jones gave little away about his Toyota driver line-up for next season, other than confirming Andre Heimgartner had another year to run on his deal.
WAU chief executive Bruce Stewart said development of the GR Supra was on target and expected to have a car on track early in the second-half of the year.
Stewart said the BJR deal would help strengthen Toyota’s entry to the category.
“Have no doubt, we are all stronger for this,” Stewart said.
“We will collaborate hard and earnestly, honestly and transparently with BJR because having six cars gives you the ability to be faster and up to speed.
“Remember we have got a Camaro and a Mustang out there that have had a couple of years in regard to developing the car.
“With great partners, more cars and transparency, you are more likely to hit the ground running early and that is strength so this is fantastic.”
Hanley said he had a vision to eventually provide a pathway from its Toyota 86 series, through to Supercars and then its NASCAR teams.
“We have the 86 series and we have the 86 graduate series and shortly we will have the Supercar series,” Hanley said.
“Not only do I think that Toyota will bring some excitement and energy into the Supercars product …. that’s six Toyota drivers. We hope that the opportunity will come in the future from the 86 series to be able to go into those teams.
“Our bigger dream – by no means an announcement today but it’s a dream that I have – is that one day those Supercars drivers …. could have a look at our NASCAR team.
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