{"id":34396,"date":"2025-07-31T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34396\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:15:11","slug":"nash-morris-opens-up-on-chance-to-emulate-his-fathers-bathurst-1000-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34396\/","title":{"rendered":"Nash Morris opens up on chance to emulate his father’s Bathurst 1000 triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHEN Paul Morris won the 2014 Bathurst 1000, the odds seemed long that his son would one day follow in his footsteps to tackle the Mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hated racing, I just was there to kick a footy around the pits,\u201d Nash Morris<\/a> recalled to V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u2018Flash\u2019 was 11 years old at the time.<\/p>\n

When he eventually did take up racing, it was far from a conventional path to motorsport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never raced go-karts,\u201d said the late bloomer.<\/p>\n

\u201cDad made me pretty much forge my own path, made me do my mechanical apprenticeship before I even got to drive a race car.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now, after a diverse on-track apprenticeship, the dream is real.<\/p>\n

Morris Jr was last night announced to make his Supercars Championship debut co-driving with PremiAir Racing\u2019s Richie Stanaway<\/a> at The Bend 500. Four weeks later, they\u2019ll contest the famed Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be racing against a lot of guys that knew me at that point (in 2014). It\u2019s going to be pretty cool,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be weird to race against Chaz (Mostert). He was obviously quite young when Dad won the race, probably a similar age to me, so I\u2019ll probably make him feel a bit old!<\/p>\n

\"\"Paul Morris, Tim Edwards and Chaz Mostert<\/a> atop the 2014 Bathurst 1000 podium. Pic: an1images.com \/ Scott Wensley<\/p>\n

\u201cRichie too, he came up and did some stuff at Norwell I reckon in 2019 with my dad. Even then, I wasn\u2019t racing, we just talked about video games and playing Fortnite, and now I\u2019m racing with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a top level operator, you\u2019ve seen him win races at Bathurst and Sandown, so he can do it. We have just got to get the car right and get everything in the right situation and it will be a pretty good opportunity for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morris won the 2021 Super3 title before graduating to Super2.<\/p>\n

He stepped back after two rough seasons with the family team and crucially joined forces with Scott Taylor Motorsport \u2013 initially in Porsche Carrera Cup Australia, before together entering the Tickford Autosport stable this year for a Super2 return.<\/p>\n

After claiming his maiden race win in the primary Supercars feeder series at Symmons Plains in May, he explained the value in having branched out on his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love my dad but we butt heads \u2013 he\u2019ll agree with me. You get too emotional. It\u2019s good just to go to a race team and it\u2019s all logical,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to now and Morris doubled down on Taylor\u2019s influence.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably wouldn\u2019t be racing without Scotty. He has been a big backer, not only financial but on the mental side of the sport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously when I was running my own car, it\u2019s quite stressful, whereas he has put me in the right situations to show what I could really do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went from running top 15 at max in a Super2 race to now running at the front and compete for the championship this year. So it\u2019s pretty much all thanks to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing just to tick the first box off and be making my Supercars debut but I still want to strive for more.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does \u201cmore\u201d look like? A full-time Supercars seat, Morris elaborated without hesitation.<\/p>\n

But for now, an interesting juggling act awaits at Mount Panorama as he goes between racing with Tickford in Super2 to against them at main game level.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be strange,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I will be competing with one team with Tickford from a Super2 point of view, then I\u2019ll put on my PremiAir shirt and go down to that pits when I\u2019m doing my main game stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the cars aren\u2019t really that linked anymore, they\u2019re totally different, and as a Super2 team you don\u2019t really see what happens in the main game team so I don\u2019t think there will be any stress from that point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEN Paul Morris won the 2014 Bathurst 1000, the odds seemed long that his son would one day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34397,"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-34396","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\/34396","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=34396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}