WILL Brown isn’t the only Triple Eight driver looking at Queensland Raceway as a major chance to get back on the horse.

The most recent of Brown’s 12 Supercars Championship race wins came last August at the 2025 Ipswich Super440, where he capitalised on Broc Feeney’s five-second penalty for a false start to take the chocolates.

The following day, then Triple Eight Super2 driver Jackson Walls sprung to life to claim his maiden pole position in the feeder series and converted that into victory.

It was a performance which won over Objective Racing team principal Andrew Jones, convincing him that Walls was the go-to option from their five-driver shortlist for 2026.

“I had a Sonny Vaccaro moment at Ipswich to be honest… the guy that started on pole set his intentions pretty heavily on the run to Turn 1 and was able to win that race having not been in that position all year,” Jones explained upon signing Walls.

“That for me was the catalyst to go ‘this guy has just gone up the pecking order in our world’.”

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Andrew Jones during the press conference where he explained the Jackson Walls decision. Pic: Mark Walker

Now driving a customer Triple Eight Gen3 Mustang, it has hardly been a straightforward rookie campaign for Walls, who remains without a top 10 start or finish in the Repco Supercars Championship.

The return to QR for this weekend’s Ipswich Super440 shapes to be a golden opportunity to rectify that record.

“I’m not going to make bold predictions, but at the start of the year we flagged Queensland Raceway as one of the key events for Jackson’s rookie season,” said Jones.

“We’re expecting it should be one of our strongest races of the year.”

Making matters potentially more complicated is the fact the Ipswich Super440 will play host to the biggest Supercars grid of the season, with three wildcards (Bayley Hall/Team 18, Ben Gomersall/Tickford, Aaron Seton/Matt Stone Racing) making for a 27-car field.

Track action starts Friday, with the first of two Supercars practice sessions starting 2:40pm.

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