After impressing as a Matt Stone Racing co-driver, the vastly experienced Tim Slade forms an all-South Australian combination with Kai Allen at Penrite Racing.
Tim Slade hit the ground running in his first Ryco Enduro Cup as a co-driver, and moves up pit lane in 2026 to join Kai Allen at Penrite Racing.
Slade's last full-time seasons came with PremiAir Racing in 2023 and 2024, before he made himself available for future co-driver possibilities.
He promptly shone at Matt Stone Racing, finishing fifth at The Bend alongside Nick Percat, before an engine failure curtailed their run at Bathurst.
After limited campaigns in Formula Ford and Formula 3, Slade got a full season in the former in 2006 and made it count, finishing second in the Australian Formula Ford Championship.
He progressed to the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2007, and the following year ran his own car to claim the Privateers’ Cup and a race win at Wakefield Park.
Slade’s persistence captured the attention of Supercars team owner Paul Morris, and he was rewarded with a full-time drive in 2009, scoring top 10 results in the Phillip Island and Bathurst endurance races.
A shift to Stone Brothers Racing in 2010 yielded further improvements, Slade finishing 16th before taking his first podium finish in ’11 en-route to ninth.
What remains a career best of fifth followed in 2012, before the Ford squad transformed into Erebus Motorsport with the challenging Mercedes package.
Slade then spent the 2014 and ’15 seasons in Walkinshaw Racing Commodores, adding four podiums to his tally before joining BJR.
Slade's career highlight came in his first year with BJR, a 2016 clean sweep at Winton his only two Supercars wins to date, and propelling him to a career best eighth in points.
Slade remained at BJR until 2019, signing off with a podium at Newcastle, before landing a gig as Scott McLaughlin's co-driver in 2020, for what turned out to be the Kiwi's final career start before moving to IndyCar.
A fifth place finish saw him return to full-time action with Blanchard Racing Team in 2021, and though he narrowly missed out on the podium across the next two seasons, his pace in race trim was as good as any.
He then moved to PremiAir for his final two seasons as a full-time Supercars driver.
Slade now works alongside rising female star Alice Buckley, guiding her rookie Super2 campaign as well as winning the TA2 Tag Team Enduro alongside Buckley the last two years running.
