Brad Jones Racing confirms Toyota switch for 2026 Supercars season

Toyota has confirmed that its second Supercars team in 2026 will be Brad Jones Racing.

The Albury, New South Wales-based team, which currently runs four Chevrolet Camaros in the championship, will field four GR Supras from next season.

The confirmation means that six Toyotas will be on the grid next season, BJR joining Walkinshaw Andretti United, which will be the brand’s homologation team.

Since September, when the news broke that Japanese brand would join Chevrolet and Ford in the V8 series, speculation has been high as to which team would partner with WAU to run the Supras. Initially Team 18 was expected to be that team, but the recent news that it had agreed to be Chevrolet’s homologation team, replacing the Ford-bound Triple Eight, cements Charlie Schwerkolt’s team to GM for the foreseeable future.

PremiAir Racing, Erebus Motorsport and Matt Stone Racing are also expected to stay in the GM fold, meaning that there should be eight Camaros on the grid, with 10 Ford Mustangs.

“I’m a creature of habit so change it is not always easy,” said Jones, who previously raced with the Walkinshaw group when it was known as the Holden Racing Team.

“I have had a relationship with them in the past, I think it will be fine. I am excited by the fact that there are two teams. We need to earn our stripes and there is a lot of work to do.”

What remains to be seen is whether BJR will change its driver lineup prior to the 2026 season. Currently Andre Heimgartner is the only BJR driver to have won a Supercars race, while Bryce Fullwood, Jaxon Evans and Macauley Jones have yet to win a race.

Should Toyota wish to sign a high-profile driver, Jones – son of BJR’s team owner – may be the most vulnerable to a change. In six seasons, he has never finished higher than 19th in the championship, nor appeared on the podium in 170 race starts.

Ironically, Jones qualified his BJR Chevrolet a career-best fourth for Saturday’s Supercars Race 2 at Symmons Plains, and finished an equally unprecedented fifth.

WAU expects to have a GR Supra prototype ready for on-track testing in the second half of the year.

Supercars 2025 season continues at Symmons Plains, with two races on Saturday and a single longer race on Sunday.