TODAY marks the end of the road for a number of chapters in the Supercars industry, as V8 Sleuth explores below…
Triple Eight/Brad Jones Racing and General Motors
Sixteen seasons together for T8/GM have already netted seven Bathurst 1000 victories and nine Supercars drivers’ championships. A 10th could yet come this afternoon…
Triple Eight is rejoining Ford for 2026 to lead the Blue Oval charge as homologation team and engine supplier.
BJR’s relationship with the General stretches even further back, to the start of 2008. It will join Toyota next year.
Walkinshaw Andretti United and Ford
The former Holden Racing Team’s Ford relationship will last just three years before it transitions to being the flagship Toyota team.
James Courtney/Will Davison/Nick Percat and full-time Supercars racing
The trio have one championship and three Bathurst 1000 wins between them, and plenty of long-standing, wide-ranging success in the category.
Courtney has won races for three different teams, Davison five, and Percat four.
All three will bid farewell to their current teams, too.
‘JC’ remains responsible for the Blanchard Racing Team’s only podium, Davison is one of Dick Johnson Racing’s most-capped drivers (260 races so far, one to come), and Percat is the most successful driver in Matt Stone Racing history.
David Cauchi and Grove Racing
Having established himself as a championship-winning engineer, Cauchi has been team principal for the entirety of Grove Racing’s four seasons since completing its takeover of Kelly Racing.
He has overseen its rise to Bathurst 1000 winners and title contenders, but will set sail for a new adventure in 2026.
Ludo Lacroix/James Golding and PremiAir Racing
A changing of the guard is in effect as Roland Dane takes control.
Richie Stanaway has already departed and James Golding is next, bringing to an end what’s been a meaningful period for driver and team alike.
PremiAir plucked Golding from obscurity in mid-2022, and he has repaid them with their best qualifying, race and championship results. Golding will join BRT next season and will be replaced by Declan Fraser.
The esteemed Lacroix meanwhile is finishing up after two seasons as competition director.
David Noble and DJR
Three seasons as chief executive are coming to an end for the former AFL administrator and coach, during which time he has overseen DJR’s own changing of the guard.
Triple Eight and Kenny McNamara
The guru behind KRE Race Engines has been associated with the squad for so long, his relationship actually pre-dates Triple Eight’s involvement!
McNamara was with Briggs Motorsport when it was purchased by Triple Eight in mid-2003, and served as its liaison when the team used Stone Brothers Racing-supplied engines.
It switched to KRE-supplied engines in the late 2000s and has used them ever since.
However, with KRE sticking with Chevrolet while Triple Eight moves to Ford, the two parties will go their separate ways after Adelaide.
Bryce Fullwood/Jaxon Evans/SCT and BJR
Fullwood and Evans have spent four years apiece at BJR, albeit two for the latter came as an enduro co-driver.
Evans is off to WAU as a co-driver; Fullwood’s future is unclear.
SCT and the Smith family meanwhile are taking their charter to Triple Eight.
Jack Le Brocq and Erebus
Having initially spent time as a GT3 and Supercars co-driver for Erebus in the mid-2010s, the second stint for ‘JLB’ has involved two full-time seasons headlined by a Townsville pole position.
He is rejoining MSR.
Triple Eight/WAU/Kelly Racing and Super2
Triple Eight and WAU are collectively responsible for four second-tier titles, while the Kellys have been race winners in both 2024 and ’25 through Aaron Cameron and Cameron McLeod.