By Andrew Clarke
Date posted: 12 January 2026
Supercars competition boss Tim Edwards has moved to shut down weeks of pitlane speculation, confirming the SCT Mustang will not be housed alongside Triple Eight despite the close operational relationship between the two organisations.
While the SCT entry is prepared and run by Triple Eight personnel, Supercars has ruled that the car remains a standalone, single-car entry under the regulations and will therefore stay attached to Brad Jones Racing for pitlane purposes in 2026.
The clarification follows sustained paddock chatter after SCT named its maiden Triple Eight driver (https://autoaction.com.au/2025/10/22/sct-names-its-maiden-triple-eight-driver) and confirmed the car would be built, engineered and operated out of Triple Eight’s Banyo headquarters. That fuelled claims, including from Triple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup, that the SCT car would logically sit alongside the Red Bull squad in pitlane.
Edwards said the rules leave no room for interpretation.
“There’s no mystery to it,” Edwards said. “Pitlane allocation is determined by entry status, championship position and operational structure. The SCT car is a standalone entry, so it is allocated its own pit position.”
Under Supercars regulations, the SCT entry is classified as a single-car team regardless of its technical or operational support arrangements. That means it remains grouped with Brad Jones Racing’s three-car operation rather than triggering a pitlane reshuffle to accommodate Triple Eight’s desire for co-location of the ‘third car’.
That co-location would have also dragged BJR up the pitlane, which would have caused some angst among other teams.
Edwards said the team’s operational relationship with Triple Eight had no bearing on its physical pitlane location.
“Whether it’s run by Triple Eight or not is irrelevant,” he said.
Supercars permits technical and engineering support agreements between teams, but assesses pitlane co-location separately, with physical positioning governed by entry structure and championship order rather than commercial or personnel links.
Supercars confirmed the decision was communicated to the teams involved early in the process and was not influenced by politics, optics or Triple Eight’s high-profile manufacturer switch.
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