{"id":281463,"date":"2025-11-13T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281463\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:35:11","slug":"blanchard-racing-team-signs-aaron-cameron-for-2026-silly-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281463\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanchard Racing Team signs Aaron Cameron for 2026, silly season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1568-Aaron-Cameron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AARON Cameron<\/a> has sealed the final seat on the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship grid, re-signing with the Blanchard Racing Team.<\/p>\n<p>Following a flurry of silly season moves over recent weeks and months, it all came down to who\u2019ll partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/brt-signs-golding-to-replace-retiring-courtney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recruit James Golding<\/a> at BRT.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/how-the-2026-supercars-grid-now-looks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full 2026 Supercars field<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cameron, who was only thrust into a full-time drive after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/brt-love-part-ways-in-sudden-supercars-split\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BRT\u2019s early-year split with Aaron Love<\/a>, has progressed strongly as evidenced by recent top 10 results at Queensland Raceway, Bathurst and Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-subscription-issues-1-6?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sleuth-mag-subscription-1-6_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAaron has shown great growth across his first season with us, and it\u2019s been really rewarding to see his confidence and speed develop round by round,\u201d said team principal Tim Blanchard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re finishing the year on a strong note, and it\u2019s important we continue that trajectory into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetaining Aaron gives us stability and a solid foundation to keep building on the progress we\u2019ve made as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team manager Kate Harrington also heaped praise on the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 It\u2019s Finals Time!<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down the latest in the world of Supercars \u2013 Gold Coast, Sandown and more!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the start, Aaron\u2019s approach has really stood out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s put in the effort to learn, to improve, and to become a more complete driver as the season\u2019s gone on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe growth he\u2019s shown gives us confidence that he can play a big part in taking BRT forward. We\u2019re proud to continue that journey with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron\u2019s current stablemate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a> is retiring as a Supercars full-timer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/team-18-signs-supercars-champion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will join Team 18 next season as an enduro specialist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AARON Cameron has sealed the final seat on the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship grid, re-signing with the Blanchard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-281463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}