{"id":366105,"date":"2025-12-23T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366105\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:22:12","slug":"v8-supercars-news-triple-eight-bound-jack-perkins-farewells-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366105\/","title":{"rendered":"V8 Supercars news: Triple Eight-bound Jack Perkins farewells team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-Bathurst-1000-2025-Bathurst-1000-Z81_0227.jpg\" alt=\"Triple Eight-bound Perkins farewells BRT\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Perkins. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n<p>Perkins contested his last Enduro Cup campaign with BRT alongside James Courtney in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran co-driver is expected to continue in 2026, piloting the third Triple Eight Race Engineering entry led by Jackson Walls.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins has strong links to Triple Eight by way of sponsor Shaw and Partners, whose chief Earl Evans owns part of the Supercars squad.<\/p>\n<p>After this year\u2019s Bathurst 1000 campaign, Perkins foreshadowed discussions with the Blanchard family before news broke of his impending move to Triple Eight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to everyone at Blanchard Racing Team for the last two years,\u201d Perkins wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all put in the effort and hard work and I wish Tim Blanchard, JB (John Blanchard) and the whole team success and some good luck in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe highlight was definitely last year\u2019s two-race Super2 campaign with an awesome Shaw and Partners retro livery and grabbing two race wins, a round win and two pole positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perkins said it was a bittersweet end to his short spell with the Blanchards, after the #7 Snowy River Caravans Ford Mustang broke down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBathurst this year still stings as we could\u2019ve been on for a great result until gearbox failure,\u201d Perkins continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it was awesome to partner my mate James Courtney in his last two full time seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Courtney, he will join Team 18 in 2026. It\u2019s something of a reunion for Courtney, having won the 2010 Supercars title with Charlie Schwerkolt and engineer Adrian Burgess.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/285249\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Perkins. Image: Richard Gresham Perkins contested his last Enduro Cup campaign with BRT alongside James Courtney in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,53034,806,805,803,804,6490,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-366105","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-jack-perkins","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-slot3","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366105","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=366105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}