{"id":887636,"date":"2026-09-11T02:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887636\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:58:16","slug":"early-engine-gremlin-for-brad-jones-racing-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887636\/","title":{"rendered":"Early engine gremlin for Brad Jones Racing Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THERE has been an early scare for Toyota at the AirTouch 500 at The Bend, with the Brad Jones Racing Supra of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1703-Cameron-Hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Hill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2721-Brad-Vaughan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Vaughan<\/a> encountering immediate engine gremlins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supercars braved the icy conditions to head out on track for a dedicated session to bed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/supercars-confirms-course-of-action-on-brake-pad-concerns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an emergency batch of brake pads<\/a> following category-wide issues experienced last month at Queensland Raceway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, BJR\u2019s attention swiftly turned to the unhappy motor aboard the Farmers Union-backed #14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supercars engine specialist Craig Hasted and a number of personnel from Toyota homologation team Walkinshaw TWG Racing gathered in the garage, along with the likes of Brad Jones himself and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/bjrs-bearded-engineer-meet-jason-bonney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#14 engineer Jason Bonney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MW-Hill-207A8412-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264562\"  \/>Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hill briefly ventured back out on track before returning to subject to further inspections, while other cars pressed on with their brake bedding protocols on-track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engine reliability has been a question mark on the approach to the enduros, after notable failures at QR for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Mostert<\/a> (Toyota) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2716-Matt-Payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Payne<\/a> (Ford).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practice 1 for the Repco Supercars Championship is scheduled for 11:25am local (11:55am AEST) and will be open to all drivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MW-brake-207A8677-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264561\"  \/>Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE has been an early scare for Toyota at the AirTouch 500 at The Bend, with the Brad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-887636","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\/887636","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=887636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}