Morris pushes co-driver case after maiden Super2 win

Nash Morris believes he has strongly pushed his case for a drive in the Supercars Enduro Cup later this season after claiming a dominant breakthrough victory in the Dunlop Super2 Series.

The 2021 Super3 champion had endured a difficult tenure in the development series in the two seasons that he ran across 2022 and 2023, struggling in his family-run Paul Morris Motorsport outfit.

His strongest showing was what at the time was his final showing in 2023 in Adelaide, where he qualified on the front row for the opening race of the weekend in a ZB Commodore.

Back after a year away, and with several years' of Trans Am experience at Symmons Plains under his belt, the 22-year-old led from start to finish on Sunday to claim a convincing race win and maiden round podium.

Morris, who is now second in the series standings 48 points behind Tickford teammate Rylan Gray, cut a relieved figure after breaking through for his maiden race victory in Super2.

"It's amazing, I've had some ups and downs in our own [Paul Morris Motorsport] car, we had one good qualifying session in my first two years of Super2," said Morris.

"To come here and be competitive with Tickford straight away is pretty amazing, and it's all pretty much thanks to Scott Taylor.

"It's amazing, when I ran my own car it was just me there by myself, so I struggled a lot.

"To come here, and you've got three fast dudes, you can all learn something off each other, which I think it shows with all of us being up the top in one point of this round, it's pretty cool."

Morris' breakthrough could potentially put him in the conversation for the handful of Enduro Cup drives that remain on the Repco Supercars Championship grid.

Although the Tickford Autosport wildcard program has been filled by Gray and Lochie Dalton, Morris has gained laps behind the wheel of a PremiAir Racing Camaro at a post-event ride day in Sydney back in February.

Whilst not believed to be in contention for the vacant drive alongside 2023 Bathurst 1000 winner Richie Stanaway, Morris believes that his Sunday win in Tasmania is the last piece of evidence he needs to prove he's ready for the enduros.

"I hope so, I think I've proven myself in all the other categories I've raced in," he said.

"In Trans Am, I've raced against the Supercar-level dudes, it's just this has been the monkey on my back, and it's good to get it off.

"Hopefully a few of the team owners down pit lane will have a look at that and it does something."

Morris parlayed his most recent Super2 campaign with a transition to a Porsche pathway, finishing sixth in the 2023 Porsche Sprint Challenge, before finishing eighth in Carrera Cup last year with Scott Taylor Motorsport.

However, the Queenslander has his sights set on a Supercars career, and when Taylor offered him a chance to return to Super2 in 2025, it was an offer Morris couldn't refuse.

"Basically Scott Taylor wanted to help a young bloke to achieve their dream and get into Supercars, obviously he had the Porsche there, so we raced that initially," he explained.

"And then he said, 'Do you want to try something different?' and I said that Super2 is the thing you've got to do if you want to get in main game obviously.

"We found a deal, and he's basically just been in my corner ever since. I pretty much wouldn't be here without him, so it's all thanks to him."

Morris' breakthrough victory came in just his fourth Super2 start away from the PMM banner, with the second generation driver admitting that the move to Tickford has been a welcome change in his young career, adding: "I love my Dad, but we butt heads you know what I mean?

"He will agree with me, you get too emotional, and it's good to just go to a race team and it's just all logical, so that's the good thing about it."

Morris' title challenge will continue at Round 3 of the 2025 Dunlop Super2 Series at the NTI Townsville 500 from July 11-13.