{"id":192096,"date":"2025-12-19T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:40:19","slug":"supercars-news-brad-jones-expects-wait-to-complete-first-toyota-supras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192096\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Brad Jones expects wait to complete first Toyota Supras"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team owner Jones has provided a progress report ahead of a two-week workshop shutdown, starting Monday.<\/p>\n

The team is building two new cars to be debuted as Supras, while Andre Heimgartner\u2019s new-for-2025 Chevrolet Camaro \u2013 dubbed Rhonda \u2013 is undergoing conversion.<\/p>\n

Detailing the progress in BJR\u2019s latest workshop video, Jones said the team will likely be waiting on panels to complete the cars in the New Year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to be waiting a little bit for some of the parts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing on the rear [of the furthest progressed car] or the front because they are areas they were working on at Windshear, along with the side skirts.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that they\u2019re locked into how that\u2019s going to look, the designs will be given to the guys who create the composite and then in January, hopefully early, we\u2019ll end up with those bits so we can end up with completed cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homologation team Walkinshaw Andretti United has already undertaken extensive testing with its first chassis, largely in the name of putting mileage on the 5.2-litre 2UR-GSE V8 engine.<\/p>\n

BJR had a presence at the Windshear wind tunnel testing via engineer Phil Keed, who was among the five people WAU was permitted to take.<\/p>\n

The Albury-based team is meanwhile also repairing the Gen2 Holden Commodore crashed by Andre Heimgartner at The Bend in 2022 for use in the Super2 Series.<\/p>\n


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