JUST two drivers in Triple Eight’s history have won for the team at both Super2 and Supercars Championship level.
Jackson Walls will hope to become the third.
The 22-year-old was last night revealed as the championship-winning outfit’s newest main game racer, starting 2026 in line with an expansion to accommodate the SCT Motorsport charter.
While the SCT/Triple Eight arrangement has been trumpeted as a two-year deal, no contract length was specified for Walls – typically an indication of a single-season agreement.
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Either way, he will be armed with a #12 SCT Mustang which Triple Eight has promised to be identical to the Red Bull Ampol Fords which Will Brown and Broc Feeney will race.
Walls has done his fair share of winning in junior categories, including finishing runner-up to Callum Hedge in 2023 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia.
He is now five rounds through his first and only Super2 season, during which he delivered Triple Eight victory at Queensland Raceway in August.
Of the 11 drivers to race for Triple Eight thus far in Super2, Walls was the fifth to record a race win, following Andrew Thompson, Scott Pye, Broc Feeney and Declan Fraser.
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All of those four have made at least one start for Triple Eight in the main game, but only Pye and Feeney have subsequently tasted victory for the senior team.
Walls will be given every opportunity to join the club, per this promise from Triple Eight boss Jamie Whincup.
“As far as Triple Eight are concerned, we’re running a three-car team and for me as MD, it doesn’t matter which car wins as long as it’s one of the three,” he said just last week.
Inexperience hasn’t prevented success for rookie drivers at top-half teams in recent years, with Feeney and Matt Payne winning in their respective first full seasons and Kai Allen collecting four podiums and a finals ticket this year.
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