{"id":452971,"date":"2026-02-02T05:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:03:16","slug":"cam-hill-drivers-v8-supercar-days-after-birth-of-baby-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452971\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Hill drivers V8 Supercar days after birth of baby boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cam-Hill.jpg\" alt=\"Cam Hill welcomes first child, drives BJR AU Falcon\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Christopher Hill, left, and Cam with the AU Falcon, right. Image: Instagram <\/p>\n<p>Hill, 29, posted the news to Instagram on Sunday, announcing the arrival of Miles Christopher Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArrived last week via an unexpected sunroof extraction,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMum and Bub both doing well, so grateful to be home safe and sound! Soaking up the cuddles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The birth did not stop the Supercars race winner from taking up his place at the weekend\u2019s Canberra Festival of Speed.<\/p>\n<p>There Hill drove the OzEmail Ford AU Falcon raced by Brad Jones in his eponymous team\u2019s first season of competition 26 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was billed as the Canberran\u2019s first drive of a BJR car as he awaits the completion of the Toyota Supra he will race this season.<\/p>\n<p>The AU Falcon was built by Longhurst Racing and purchased by BJR ahead of its entry into the Supercars Championship.<\/p>\n<p>BJR eventually switched to Holden in 2008 and, having migrated to Chevrolet in 2023, now starts a new era with Toyota.<\/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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miles Christopher Hill, left, and Cam with the AU Falcon, right. Image: Instagram Hill, 29, posted the news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,42144,42483,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-452971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brad-jones-racing","tag-cameron-hill","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452971","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=452971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}