Brad Jones (racing driver)

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.

Motorsport career

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. In 1985 the Mitsubishi Ralliart Team invited him to race in the two major Australian endurance races, the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 in a factory Group A Mitsubishi Starion. This relationship lasted a few years. In the late 1980s Jones was called upon to drive for the Factory Holden Racing Team in the endurance races. While he was with the factory team he was quite successful and gained many podiums at both Sandown and Bathurst.

At this time he was also having great success in the AUSCAR series in which he eventually won 5 consecutive times in his self run team, Coopertools Racing, with help from his brother Kim and also won the 94/95 Australian......
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