Brad Jones (racing driver)
| Brad Jones | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Born |
2 April 1960 Albury, New South Wales |
| Retired | 2009 |
| Related to | Kim Jones (brother) Andrew Jones (nephew) Macauley Jones (son) |
| ATCC / V8 Supercar | |
| Years active | 1986, 1989, 1999–2009 |
| Teams |
Mobil 1 Racing Larkham Motor Sport Brad Jones Racing |
| Starts | 109 |
| Best finish | 10th in 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship |
| Previous series | |
| 1981 1985 1988–94 1994–95 1994 1995–99 |
Australian Formula Ford Australian GT Champ. Australian Super Production NASCAR Australia Australian Super Touring Champ. |
| Championship titles | |
| 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994 1994–95 1996 1998 |
Australian Super Production NASCAR Australia Australian Super Touring Australian Super Touring |
Bradley Jones also known as Brad (born 2 April 1960) is a retired Australian racing driver. Jones now acts as team co-principal with his brother Kim in the V8 Supercar racing team, Brad Jones Racing.
Although he is more known as a V8 team owner, Brad Jones was successful in nearly all forms of motorsport he competed in. He is one of only two people alongside Jim Richards to have won both the Australian and NASCAR championships.
Jones was born and grew up in the country town of Albury in New South Wales, where he still lives now. He has a range of experience in domestic and international racing that he puts to use in the V8 Supercar team he owns and runs with his brother Kim. Jones has driven with a number of manufacturers including Ford, Holden, Lotus, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Mitsubishi at domestic and international circuits in Japan, Macau and Belgium as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Jones started his racing career at the age of 14 doing motor cross racing from which he eventually progressed up to Formula Ford in 1980. He then spent a number of years occasionally driving a twin-turbo Chevrolet V8 powered Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC for Shepparton based racer Bryan Thompson. While driving for Thompson, Jones finished seventh in the 1985 Australian GT Championship driving the Mercedes and a Chevrolet Monza previously driven by Bob Jane, Peter Brock and Allan Grice (Thompson would win the championship also driving both cars, while Grice had won the championship in the Monza in 1984). Jones also proved himself as one of the stars of Series Production racing driving a Mitsubishi Starion Turbo during the early to mid-1980s, having many battles with production car "king" Peter Fitzgerald in another Starion, and former Bathurst winners Brian Sampson in yet another Starion, and Colin Bond in an Alfa Romeo GTV6.
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