{"id":419558,"date":"2026-01-17T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419558\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:56:12","slug":"2026-co-driver-market-update-where-do-the-big-vacancies-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419558\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 co-driver market update: Where do the big vacancies lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-inter font-normal normal antialiased text-md mb-6 gap-x-1 leading-6 md:text-base md:leading-7 text-dark-grey-2\">Matt Stone Racing will also have at least one change, as Tim Slade joins Penrite Racing. Cameron McLeod was speedy in his co-driving stints last year, although made a costly error while running out front at The Bend. BRT are yet to lock down a co-driver for Aaron Cameron, though Zak Best starred alongside him at Bathurst last year, whilst Jack Perkins has been linked to the SCT Motorsport co-drive, a team he last drove for in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Stone Racing will also have at least one change, as Tim Slade joins Penrite Racing. Cameron McLeod&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419559,"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-419558","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\/419558","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=419558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}