{"id":42228,"date":"2025-09-25T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42228\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:39:10","slug":"supercars-news-james-golding-announced-as-new-brt-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42228\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: James Golding announced as new BRT signing"},"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\tJames Golding. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Golding, who affirmed on Wednesday that he will depart PremiAir Racing at the conclusion of 2025<\/a>, will replace retiring champion James Courtney at BRT.<\/p>\n

BRT is set for a significant revamp next year which will include a customer relationship with Triple Eight<\/a> following the powerhouse squad\u2019s defection to Ford.<\/p>\n

Golding is familiar with Triple Eight machinery thanks to his time at PremiAir, which currently runs the customer car model.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could see the direction the team is heading and it\u2019s an exciting opportunity to be part of building that momentum,\u201d said Golding.<\/p>\n

\u201cBRT is a young team with big potential, and their ambitions align closely with my own. I had other options on the table, but this was the one that I can see success in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to contributing to that journey and working together to achieve strong results.\u201d<\/p>\n

BRT is yet to sign a teammate for Golding although incumbent Aaron Cameron is hopeful of staying on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome James to Blanchard Racing Team on a multi-year deal,\u201d said Tim Blanchard.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s proven he has the pace and consistency to compete at the top level, and we believe he\u2019s the right driver to take the team to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecuring James gives us stability and a strong platform to continue building, and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing him behind the wheel in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

BRT poised for Triple Eight customer deal<\/a><\/p>\n

BRT marks Golding\u2019s fourth Supercars squad having begun as a co-driver at Garry Rogers Motorsport before scoring a full-time call-up for the team in 2018.<\/p>\n

GRM\u2019s exit from Supercars at the end of 2019 left Golding to spend two years as a co-driver with Team 18 before being handed a career lifeline by PremiAir midway through 2022.<\/p>\n

Golding finished seventh in last year\u2019s championship having scored the team\u2019s maiden pole position and podium finish, the latter achieved alongside David Russell in the Sandown 500.<\/p>\n

However, a difficult 2025 to date has left him 15th in the standings with just the Bathurst 1000 remaining ahead of the Finals Series cut-off.<\/p>\n

PremiAir boss Peter Xiberras has declared he won\u2019t make a final decision on his 2026 drivers until after Bathurst.<\/p>\n

Jayden Ojeda has though been lined up to take one of the seats, while 2022 Super2 Series winner Declan Fraser is being strongly linked to the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Golding. Image: Supplied Golding, who affirmed on Wednesday that he will depart PremiAir Racing at the conclusion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15379,37803,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-42228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-blanchard-racing-team","9":"tag-james-golding","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-slot1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42228","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=42228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}