Percat reveals latest racing team venture
Nick Percat reveals latest racing team venture
Newly-retired Percat to expand into Toyota 86
Percat to end full-time Supercars career in Adelaide
The newly-retired Nick Percat will expand his racing operations into Toyota 86.
JND Racing, now co-owned by Percat, Deik Lack and Daniel Forkings, is a leader in karting in Australia. Announced on the eve of the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, Percat revealed JND has secured a multi-faceted expansion.
JND will step up into the Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia GR Cup at this weekend’s Gold Coast round.
It comes after JND struck a merger deal with both 6868 Motorsport and Parolin Australia, with a Toyota 86 program added. The team also becomes the official Australian importer for Parolin go-karts and managing the factory karting race team.
JND will initially step into the GR Cup to field Zane Rinaldi, who will race at the upcoming Gold Coast and Sandown events. In 2026, JND will run two cars GR Cup and at least two in the feeder Scholarship Series.JND will test Parolin karts for the first time at Ipswich next week, before holding a Toyota 86 evaluation day at Queensland Raceway.
JND has also signed the experienced Pete Crossingham as team manager, with Lack and Forkings coming on as co-owners.
“JND Racing now has a complete pathway from Karts to Cars, we feel like we offer everything a driver needs to succeed with a clear pathway,” said Percat, who will retire from full-time Supercars racing at the end of 2025.
“We’ll debut in GR Cup this weekend at the Gold Coast with Zane Rinaldi. He’s a good young steerer who runs at the front, so it works well for us to have someone like that in our car. And for him, it’s about getting him back on track at short notice with a tight turnaround from Bathurst to the Gold Coast.
“Then next year we’ll have two GR Cup cars running and two to three in Scholarship Series.
“We’ll try to lock in all our drivers in Scholarship and GR this side of Christmas and hopefully, the plan is one of them will be a driver that’s been running in karts with JND for the past 12 months or so.
“We’ll expand our factory karting team as well. The final number of karts we’ll field in 2026 is not confirmed but it will be somewhere around the 15 mark. With our JND karting team we look forward to helping all Parolin drivers across the country and make sure the Parolin kart is strong across the board.”
Track action at the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 commences Friday. Tickets on sale now.
