Bathurst 1000 winner decided he would call time on his career and cut his contract with Matt Stone Racing short<\/a>.<\/p>\nPercat, who has an eponymous karting team, said the reaction has been positive with a swathe of well wishes from the industry in the less than 24 hours since the announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot are surprised \u2013 from staff in pit lane, Supercars teams, other drivers, friends, and family,\u201d Percat told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it was the right time. I\u2019ve got a lot going on with the JND program and I want to expand that in quite a big way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the timing was good. I\u2019ve had a solid season this year with four rounds to go, really good rounds, and I\u2019m not going out as a driver who was mid-to-rear of the pack, battling.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had podiums this year, so it felt right. On the flip side, I\u2019m devo. I woke up this morning half-teary because you put your whole life into it, so it wasn\u2019t an easy decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked why he decided not to take up options at other teams to continue racing in Supercars full-time, Percat said he did not have any opportunities to effectively graduate.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, it\u2019s difficult. You want to put yourself in the best position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings have changed with what I\u2019m doing outside of Supercar, and I enjoy giving back to the sport with the karting stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stars kind of aligned, that\u2019s why it wasn\u2019t really on my radar to look at other teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
The question most have on their mind is, what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Percat told Speedcafe he made the decision to pull up stumps without a co-drive secured for 2026.<\/p>\n
In the wake of his decision, the South Australian driver said he has already received several messages from teams keen to have him onboard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a fair bit of interest since the announcement went out, which is really nice,\u201d said Percat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat obviously compliments the job I\u2019ve done for the past 10, 15 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite cool, but obviously I\u2019ll be co-driving. I\u2019m not out of the sport, I\u2019m just pulling back from full-time racing and I\u2019ll try do some GT stuff, Porsche stuff, alongside a co-drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Percat will be partnered by Tim Slade in the #10 Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet Camaro in the Repco Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Percat will depart Matt Stone Racing at the end of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship. Image: InSyde…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[215,111,139,51561,69,1732,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-65056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bathurst-1000","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nick-percat","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-slot4","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65056","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=65056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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