{"id":401386,"date":"2026-01-09T06:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401386\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:15:19","slug":"blanchard-racing-team-poised-to-sign-tony-woodward-from-brad-jones-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401386\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanchard Racing Team poised to sign Tony Woodward from Brad Jones Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Blanchard Racing Team is set to add another win to its impressive Supercars off-season.<\/p>\n

Having already landed James Golding to replace the retiring James Courtney<\/a>, plus securing Bathurst 1000 winner Richie Stanaway as his co-driver<\/a>, V8 Sleuth sources have indicated race-winning engineer Tony Woodward is now likely bound for BRT.<\/p>\n

Woodward has spent the past 11 seasons at Brad Jones Racing, including the past four as Andr\u00e9 Heimgartner<\/a>\u2019s race engineer (in which time they\u2019ve achieved a race win and a further 11 podiums together).<\/p>\n

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Woodward had previously guided Tim Slade<\/a> and Todd Hazelwood<\/a> at BJR.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not entirely clear whether he would slot into BRT as a race engineer or in an overarching capacity.<\/p>\n

BRT has yet to officially confirm Woodward\u2019s appointment; the team has been contacted for comment by V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tony Woodward (right) embraces Andr\u00e9 Heimgartner. Pic: Supplied\/Pace Images<\/p>\n

The two-car squad is coming off a strong finish to the 2025 season behind a working unit involving team manager Kate Harrington, crew chief Dennis Huijser, race engineers Daniel Veronese and Chris Fitzgerald, and technical advisor Mike Henry.<\/p>\n

BRT is expected to establish a technical alliance with new-for-2026 Ford homologation team Triple Eight.<\/p>\n

BJR meanwhile is downscaling from four main game cars to three in the wake of SCT\u2019s defection to Triple Eight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Blanchard Racing Team is set to add another win to its impressive Supercars off-season. Having already landed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401387,"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-401386","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\/401386","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=401386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}