MSR 2025 season review: A promising start turned complete overhaul
As 2025 winds down, Supercars.com is looking over all 11 teams and their performances in this year's Repco Supercars Championship, continuing with Matt Stone Racing.
Only two teams secured 1-2 finishes in the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship. As to be expected, one of them was the all-conquering Red Bull Ampol Racing, who secured five 1-2 finishes for the season.
The other team? Matt Stone Racing.
At the Melbourne SuperSprint, MSR backed up Nick Percat's shock 2024 win in just his second weekend with the team, but this time got both Percat and Hill's cars firing.
Sure enough, after Hill secured a maiden podium in the opening race win of the weekend, it was perfect team play off the start in the second race that laid the platform for a stunning result, Hill becoming a first-time winner.
Percat backed it up in the third race with another podium, power steering failure and all, before Hill proved it was no fluke the next time out in Taupō, with a superb Sunday performance securing another trophy.
Percat then went and got another podium in Tasmania, but that's where the trophies and for the most part performance dried up.
There were the odd glimpses in the back end of the year, Hill jagging a front row start at The Bend, and both cars claiming top five finishes at an enduro each, but by the end of the Ryco Enduro Cup, complete change had been confirmed.
Hill was announced to join Brad Jones Racing amid their shift to Toyota following The Bend, whilst on the eve of Bathurst Percat dropped a bombshell and announced his full-time retirement.
Matt Stone Racing: 2025 season results and head-to-heads
Drivers' finish: Cameron Hill 12th, Nick Percat 16th
Teams' finish: 8th
Best result: 1st (Cameron Hill, Melbourne)
Qualifying head-to-head: Cameron Hill 25, Nick Percat 9
Race head-to-head: Nick Percat 17, Cameron Hill 14
What's next in 2026?
It's back to the future for MSR in 2026, as the team welcome back a familiar face and blood fresh talent.
The first driver announced at MSR for 2026 was Jack Le Brocq, who returns to Yatala following a two-year stint with Erebus Motorsport.
It's a reunion of a successful partnership, which saw Le Brocq become MSR's first-ever Supercars race winner at Darwin in 2023.
The experienced Le Brocq will welcome a rookie teammate next year, with 2024 Dunlop Super2 Series champion Zach Bates making his full-time debut after a sterling performance in Triple Eight's wildcard Camaro.
Arriving from Triple Eight could prove a valuable commodity for MSR, as their technical alliance with the 2025 teams' champions will end.
Although the four Chevrolet squads are set to work together in a new alliance next season, just how that will impact on the teams remains to be seen, with Team 18 now taking up homologation duties.
One thing MSR will be eager to find is consistency, they've proven that they can absolutely be a race-winning force in the championship, but to replicate that form week in, week out has been a challenge.
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