{"id":292597,"date":"2026-02-20T01:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292597\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:21:20","slug":"jackson-walls-bites-back-at-supercars-i-came-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292597\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Walls bites back at Supercars: \u2018I came to win\u2019"},"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\tJackson Walls will drive a Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Mustang under the Objective Racing banner.<\/p>\n

This weekend, Walls will make his Supercars debut at the Sydney 500 in a Triple Eight Race Engineering-run Ford Mustang under the SCT Motorsport Teams Racing Charter.<\/p>\n

There has been no hiding from the fact the Sydneysider has been the subject of criticism as he enters the series with its top team via backing through his family\u2019s Objective firm.<\/p>\n

Walls enters Supercars without a championship win to his name, and his best result remains finishing runner-up to Callum Hedge in Porsche Carrera Cup Australia in 2023.<\/p>\n

In his sole Super2 Series season with Triple Eight, he won a race at Ipswich en route to fifth in the championship as the highest finisher in a Holden ZB Commodore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really care for it,\u201d Walls said when asked about the online discourse.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just base my whole life off five race weekends of Super2.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people are naysayers and have something horrible to say about me, which is fine, but I\u2019m just doing my own thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Triple Eight crew support me. They\u2019ve got my back, and they\u2019re only here to help me learn.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because it\u2019s a Triple Eight car doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s that added pressure, but yeah, of course you want to do well when you\u2019re racing with Triple Eight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a great little community with me and half of my Super2 team came over to this operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s confident, everyone\u2019s gelling really well, we\u2019re all pretty happy together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about what I believe in, and I believe in myself and and the people around me in my circle in this team believe in me, so that\u2019s all that really matters for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to do a good job for myself, but I also want to make them proud as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re putting in a lot of hard work in \u2013 Triple Eight and and everyone at SCT \u2013 so it\u2019s making them happy and making them proud and also doing it for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The #11 Objective Racing Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n

Walls is one of five rookie drivers alongside Dick Johnson Racing\u2019s Rylan Gray, Erebus Motorsports\u2019s Jobe Stewart, PremiAir Racing\u2019s Jayden Ojeda, and Matt Stone Racing\u2019s Zach Bates.<\/p>\n

Beating his fellow first-year drivers is the top priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind, I just want to improve every single session, I want to beat the other rookies,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t come to this championship to smile and take photos, I came here to win. That\u2019s the goal eventually.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a successful year where we\u2019re not in any unnecessary crashes or anything silly, just learning all the time and just trying to do the best job I can possibly do with what I\u2019m given.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to put a number against the other rookies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of them pretty well, and I know equally, in the same machinery, it\u2019d be pretty close.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just focusing on myself the first round. I\u2019m not worried about what anyone else\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard, it\u2019s a competitive field. It\u2019s one of those things in life, no matter how good you go in the previous series, the next step\u2019s always a massive jump.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting used to that and getting up to Broc\u2019s level is going to be a bit of a challenge, but if I\u2019m patient enough and put the effort in, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walls will be engineered by Isaac Baldry, who was formerly a data engineer for Shane van Gisbergen and then Broc Feeney before working with Ben Gomersall in the Super2 Series in 2025.<\/p>\n


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