Bright Will be Right for Albert Park

They don’t know how yet, but Brad Jones Racing has declared it will definitely get Jason Bright on to the grid at the 2014 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix meeting.

Bright spectacularly rolled his Team BOC Holden Commodore VF at the Clipsal Adelaide 500 yesterday, and while he escaped injury the car was wrecked.

“There is no chance we won’t be on the grid,” team co-owner Brad Jones told v8supercars.com.au. “We are racers and that is what we are here to do. We have repaired cars and we have done the impossible before and we will do it again.

“We have just over a week to get it done.”

Jones explained the exact plan the team would adopt would only take shape after the car arrived back at its Albury base from Adelaide.

“We will get home to Albury at about 3pm Monday and we will pull it apart and figure out what we are going to do,” he said.

The team has a new bodyshell close to completion in its fabrication shop and Jones suspects that will be pressed into service and fitted out with a combination of new parts and componentry taken from the wreck.

Crash damage is expected to tally beyond $100,000.

“It’s written off,” said Jones. “It looks like there is more damage done to that than was done to James Courtney’s car at Phillip Island. There is one corner on that car that is alright.”

Bright was tipped into his roll by Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander at turn one after the first safety car re-start.

Bright criticised the new re-start procedure and Jones agreed it was something that needed to be investigated.

“I think when someone has a big accident like this we need to have a look at the cause and these re-starts are something that are new. The re-starts were pretty scrappy today and I think they should be looked at.”