Jones addresses Toyota link, four-car future

Brad Jones has addressed speculation his eponymous team could switch from Chevrolet to Toyota in 2026.

Toyota will enter the championship in the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship, with Walkinshaw Andretti United spearheading the program.

The Japanese brand is chasing a second team to join WAU, with Team 18 initially the hot favourite.

However, Team 18 has since emerged as the favourite to land the General Motors homologation team role, with Brad Jones Racing recently linked to Toyota.

BJR has run GM machinery since 2008, and has operated its own in-house four-car model since 2021.

Asked about Toyota in the team owners press conference, Jones said: “I haven’t got next year sorted out yet, but you’ll be the first one to know when I do.”

Jones added: “I’m just looking at what’s available and then at some point in the not-too-distant future I’ll make a decision.

“But right now I’m just focused on what we’re doing day-to-day and that’s something that’s going on in the background.”

Jones insisted he will continue to run a four-car model, with BJR fielding four Camaros in 2025 for drivers Andre Heimgartner, Bryce Fullwood, Jaxon Evans and Macauley Jones.

BJR is the only four-car squad in Supercars.

“I’ll be running four cars, no matter what I’m doing,” Jones said.

“I have a model that works really well with four cars. If I cut back to two... I’ll have to get rid of half of my people, and I’m not going to do that.

“It’s not going to make me go any better or any worse, it’s just going to cut the business in half.

“So, you go through all that pain of building a team and growing it with an extra car or an extra two… if you’ve got enough sponsorship to run the cars properly, it doesn’t matter if you run two or four.

“You’re not going to run two cars any better then you’re going to run four cars.”