{"id":468712,"date":"2026-06-09T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/468712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:17:17","slug":"supercars-news-work-underway-on-build-of-new-brad-jones-racing-toyota-supra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/468712\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Work underway on build of new Brad Jones Racing Toyota Supra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BJR-Toyota-Supras.jpg\" alt=\"Work underway on build of new BJR Toyota Supra\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBJR Supras in action at Symmons Plains. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s transition from Chevrolet to Toyota for 2026 included the ground-up build of two cars and the conversion of a Camaro.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has now revealed the team started the build of a third new Supra in the last fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done the rear roll hoop and we\u2019re slowly piecing it together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a set time to have this finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just depends on how much time we get down here, how much stuff we need to manufacture for the cars as we go along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cars currently being campaigned by Andre Heimgartner and Cameron Hill marked BJR\u2019s first complete in-house builds.<\/p>\n<p>Buy tickets to the 2026 betr Darwin Triple Crown. <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketekau.pxf.io\/5kYxK3\" style=\"color:#de482e;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-bjr-build-own-gen3-chassis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BJR opted to become an accredited Gen3 chassis builder last year<\/a>, having previously received chassis from Pace Innovations.<\/p>\n<p>Macauley Jones\u2019 car meanwhile started life as a Camaro, raced throughout last season by Heimgartner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/287093\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/287093.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BJR Supras in action at Symmons Plains. Image: InSyde Media The team\u2019s transition from Chevrolet to Toyota for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17819,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-468712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brad-jones-racing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468712","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=468712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}