{"id":8542,"date":"2025-07-20T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8542\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:51:13","slug":"how-jones-jr-crossed-enemy-lines-and-was-wowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8542\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jones Jr crossed enemy lines and was wowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERCARS regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1184-Macauley-Jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macauley Jones<\/a> gained a whole new level of appreciation for his father\u2019s racing vintage after dabbling in a BMW SuperTourer.<\/p>\n<p>The #96 Pizza Hut Camaro driver recently headed to Winton to turn laps in Trevor Sheumack\u2019s 1993-model BMW.<\/p>\n<p>There is a certain irony to that given how Brad Jones was an Audi stalwart, including using an A4 Quattro to win the Australian Super Touring Championship in 1996 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually it was a really interesting conversation, to tell you the truth,\u201d Brad said of his debrief with Macauley.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Brad-Macauley-Jones-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228799\"  \/>Macauley and Brad Jones. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a lot more respect for his father after having a squirt around in one of those.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a little bit before my time\u2026 but he couldn\u2019t believe how hot it was inside the cabin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really enjoyed it and it was interesting for me for him to get that opportunity as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones Jr is one of 20 drivers to have recorded a top five race result in this year\u2019s Repco Supercars Championship, and is expected to drive on next year when Brad Jones Racing switches from Chevrolet to Toyota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS regular Macauley Jones gained a whole new level of appreciation for his father\u2019s racing vintage after dabbling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-8542","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\/8542","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=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}