{"id":316154,"date":"2025-11-29T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316154\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:17:13","slug":"blanchard-racing-teams-target-for-aaron-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316154\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanchard Racing Team&#8217;s target for Aaron Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Blanchard Racing Team will this afternoon feature on the front row of a Supercars Championship grid for the first time since its debut race in the 2021 Mount Panorama 500.<\/p>\n<p>That race ended in tears \u2013 a mega crash for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-14-Tim-Slade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Slade<\/a> \u2013 so team boss Tim Blanchard has a simple objective in mind for their long-awaited second chance when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1568-Aaron-Cameron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Cameron<\/a> starts the Saturday Adelaide race alongside pole-sitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1545-Broc-Feeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broc Feeney<\/a> on the front row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery happy. It\u2019s been a tough year but I think the last four or five months we\u2019ve really been progressing quite well; that (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a>) podium in Perth really quite sparked a lot within the team,\u201d Blanchard reacted to V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m kind of happy that today wasn\u2019t a fluke or a one-off; like we had both cars in the Shootout at Gold Coast and quite a few top 10 results lately, so we\u2019re just progressing and Cammo is getting a lot stronger as the year goes on too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-1?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\/V8Sleuth-Magazine-1_91f7f282-3ced-4ad8-9031-10de31dcd2de_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the beginning of the year he was struggling to get out of the 20s, middle of the year he was in the teens, and he\u2019s been in the top 10 more than not in the last three or four events, so he has been progressing the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the goal for the 78-lap race?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealistically we need to convert it into a solid result,\u201d said Blanchard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he can get somewhere in the top five, that\u2019s unreal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make sure we turn a front-row start into minimum a top 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Redarc-Cameron-207A9225-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242616\"  \/>Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly in the bigger picture amid the grand final, BRT\u2019s current technical partner is Walkinshaw Andretti United and its next ally will be Triple Eight \u2013 noting those two teams account for each of the top three title contenders.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard insisted its every man for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just need to put our best foot forward and get a good result for our team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things happening behind the scenes developing into next year and we just need to get a good result for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Race start is scheduled for 3:15pm local (3:45pm AEDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Blanchard Racing Team will this afternoon feature on the front row of a Supercars Championship grid for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316155,"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-316154","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\/316154","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=316154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}