{"id":13054,"date":"2025-09-10T02:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:58:14","slug":"supercars-rookie-aaron-cameron-backs-himself-for-brt-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13054\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars rookie Aaron Cameron backs himself for BRT stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAaron Cameron’s #3 Blanchard Racing Team Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n

Cameron was thrust into BRT as a full-timer earlier this year to replace Aaron Love after the season-opening Sydney 500.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old has spent the lion\u2019s share of the season towards the back of the field in the 20s but scored a breakthrough top 10 at Queensland Raceway.<\/p>\n

While Cameron is 25th in the drivers\u2019 championship, teammate James Courtney is just up the ladder in 19th.<\/p>\n

The 2010 champion\u2019s score card is only marginally better, albeit with a shock podium at Wanneroo Raceway.<\/p>\n

This year is BRT\u2019s third as a three-car Supercars operation. Its struggles have been well-documented, but Cameron believes Courtney\u2019s impending retirement puts him in good stead to stay onboard into the new year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a big Tim Blanchard question,\u201d Cameron told Speedcafe when asked about his contract situation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously I\u2019d love to continue as we are because I feel like we\u2019re hitting some pretty good results.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can keep the car up and get a few more top 10s, top 15, make sure we\u2019re out of the 20s, it makes yourself a pretty hard guy to sack. We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve done enough over the last couple of rounds and shown enough promise that I\u2019ll get another year \u2013 you just never know in motorsport,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I didn\u2019t think I was coming in this year to be a full-time driver. You never know when, when it can be over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Blanchard<\/p>\n

Blanchard Racing Team drivers James Courtney (left) and Aaron Cameron. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Asked if there was a timeframe on BRT deciding whether they stick with Cameron, he said there was nothing set in stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope after Bathurst it\u2019s all sorted, especially from my point of view,\u201d Cameron explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen that determines where the second seat\u2019s at \u2013 whether it\u2019s gonna be a rookie or an experienced guy coming in. All them questions are well above my pay grade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron said he did not expect to be in Supercars this year and that his timeline was on a graduation in 2026.<\/p>\n

Initially, he was to make his first Supercars start of the year at the upcoming Ryco Endurance Cup race at The Bend Motorsport Park with Love.<\/p>\n

However, Love\u2019s sudden axing opened the door for Cameron to step up with only a Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 start to his name.<\/p>\n

Supercars silly season surprises looming<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really expect much of this year,\u201d said Cameron.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably tried to set myself up probably a year to two years ago now in terms of this situation, probably didn\u2019t think it\u2019d come as fast as it has.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was always that thing of JC\u2019s going to retire soon and other drivers are all trying to throw money around and steal other people\u2019s seats, but I just tried to position myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a seat that everyone was after type thing, so I just got myself in a nice spot over the last year which people didn\u2019t probably see coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s getting really good,\u201d he said of his season to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom where we started at the start of the year, there were no expectations coming in.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously you\u2019re just filling a seat and the car hasn\u2019t been that fast previously, so I sort of got in at the team\u2019s lowest point at Albert Park and then Taupo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s cool being part of something sort of starting from so low because every round you go into it and we find something.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou literally know you\u2019re going into every round with a constantly improving package where some of these other teams they get a bit more emotional because they should be running up the front all the time and something goes wrong and they go down the back.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it\u2019s just constantly improving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Cameron’s #3 Blanchard Racing Team Ford Mustang. Cameron was thrust into BRT as a full-timer earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15378,15379,111,139,69,213,15380],"class_list":{"0":"post-13054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron-cameron","9":"tag-blanchard-racing-team","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tim-blanchard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}