{"id":283284,"date":"2025-11-14T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283284\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:21:15","slug":"jaxon-evans-weighs-in-on-sct-split-supercars-full-time-chances-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283284\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxon Evans weighs in on SCT split, Supercars full-time chances in future"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAXON Evans<\/a> has not lost hope of reviving his full-time Supercars career one day and admits to taking some peace of mind from the bigger picture play behind SCT Motorsport\u2019s driver change.<\/p>\n

SCT\u2019s decision to drop Evans for 2026<\/a> caught many by surprise given how well he is rated internally, but it made more sense once it became clear the Smith family charter was on the move from Brad Jones Racing.<\/p>\n

Triple Eight Super2 rookie Jackson Walls<\/a> was soon enough confirmed to be taking over at the wheel of the #12<\/a>, which will next year be a Mustang built and run by Triple Eight.<\/p>\n

Evans, who started 2025 strongly before finding himself tangled in incident after incident, has since taken refuge in the co-driving circles with Walkinshaw Andretti United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would definitely say it was a surprise and it was very late in the piece to find out that news and that\u2019s what forced me into the situation of looking for a co-drive, because all the main game seats were pretty much accounted for even though they weren\u2019t announced,\u201d he told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\"\"SCT has two rounds remaining at Brad Jones Racing. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for me, I would have been a little bit upset if it had have just been a straight Driver A out, Driver B in.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that reassurance I got from the team saying they were more than happy to keep me onboard and things like that is a nice confidence boost and I think speaks volumes for the way it went down and why they\u2019ve gone the way they have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he felt it possible to get back in full-time down the track, Evans was upbeat: \u201cI think history has shown that guys can find themselves back in a seat full-time, as long as the enduro campaign goes well.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me at the moment, I just want to focus on doing a good job in the enduros and going back to my GT roots and doing some more of that.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an opportunity comes up, I certainly wouldn\u2019t say no. It\u2019s not like I made the decision to step back from full-time, I had that card forced upon me, but it\u2019s worked out for the better I would say at the moment and hopefully it continues that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recent examples of drivers finding a way back in after a stint on the sidelines include Tim Slade<\/a>, Lee Holdsworth<\/a>, James Golding<\/a>, Richie Stanaway<\/a> and now Declan Fraser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evans, 29, plans to continue with Arise Racing in GT World Challenge Australia next year and is also open to exploring where his ongoing Porsche connections could take him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously getting towards the end of the year and that\u2019s when all the planning starts, so I\u2019m sort of pushing to get some stuff on paper and lay it all out and see what\u2019s best for me \u2013 not only keeping me busy but ticking off some more bucket list stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAXON Evans has not lost hope of reviving his full-time Supercars career one day and admits to taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283285,"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-283284","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\/283284","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=283284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}