{"id":805059,"date":"2026-07-17T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805059\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:48:14","slug":"jim-richards-grandson-jett-blumeris-making-racing-return-in-northern-territory-excel-enduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805059\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Richards&#8217; grandson Jett Blumeris making racing return in Northern Territory Excel enduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JETT Blumeris, the grandson of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-159-Jim-Richards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Richards<\/a>, will make his return to racing this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 10 months out of the saddle, Blumeris will team up with Matthew Totani to compete in the NT Excel Enduro at Hidden Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The duo will share the #20 entry, as part of an 18-car field featuring Brad Jones Racing rising star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2721-Brad-Vaughan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Vaughan<\/a> and fellow Super2 driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-3029-Rossi-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rossi Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vaughan holds third in the Super2 standings and is expected to make his third Bathurst 1000 start later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Excel event will involve six sprint races and a 100-minute enduro.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DustyMedia-21-of-23-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259851\"  \/>Jett Blumeris and Matthew Totani. Pic: Supplied\/Dusty Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JETT Blumeris, the grandson of Jim Richards, will make his return to racing this weekend. After 10 months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-805059","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\/805059","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=805059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}