{"id":798341,"date":"2026-07-13T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:24:21","slug":"erebus-motorsport-prodigy-jarrod-hughes-on-supercars-silly-season-quest-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798341\/","title":{"rendered":"Erebus Motorsport prodigy Jarrod Hughes on Supercars silly season quest for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFTER missing out on a 2026 Supercars seat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2803-Jarrod-Hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Hughes<\/a> is leaving no stone unturned in the quest to ensure he\u2019s not in the same position this time next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a big reason why he was on the ground at the NTI Townsville 500, dovetailing some TV opportunities with immersing himself in the Erebus Motorsport camp ahead of his enduro co-drive with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2756-Jobe-Stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jobe Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m just trying to stay relevant,\u201d Hughes told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard when you\u2019re not racing Super2 and you\u2019re not there every weekend. I\u2019ve got the luxury of doing Trans Am, so from now on I\u2019m pretty much at every single (Supercars) round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people in my position going for seats, so it\u2019s easy to get lost if you\u2019re not there all the time. So for me I\u2019m just trying to stay around as much as I can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-64-scale-trackstars-2022-bathurst-1000-51-holden-commodore-murphy-stanaway-model?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TS64-GR26S1-H22-51-ProductImage.jpg\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven the commentary work, you stay relevant but it\u2019s a really cool experience, to do something out of the comfort zone compared to what driving a car is like. I\u2019m trying to tick more of a commercial box as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what I want to do one day, is jump into one of these seats in Supercars, so probably a bigger part of it now is being commercially viable for a team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m just trying to do everything I can to tick every box so I\u2019m ready to go next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI knew I was ready this year, I just didn\u2019t get the opportunity, so I just want to tick every box so that we\u2019re ready to rumble if the opportunity arises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bathurst-1000thursday-33-of-180-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238699\"  \/>Jarrod Hughes with Jobe Stewart at the 2025 Bathurst 1000. Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s anticipated to be minimal movement in the upcoming silly season, with Erebus and PremiAir Racing among the few focal points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hughes stepped back from Super2 for this year, instead moving into Trans Am on the back of winning the 2025 TA2 title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a field of proven operators, Hughes is third in the standings: behind Nathan Herne and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-24-James-Moffat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Moffat<\/a>, and ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1174-Todd-Hazelwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Hazelwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hughes has also been a regular in GT4, but won\u2019t be on the grid at Darwin later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFTER missing out on a 2026 Supercars seat, Jarrod Hughes is leaving no stone unturned in the quest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-798341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798341","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=798341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}