Brad Jones Racing

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**Team BOC**

Manufacturer	Holden
Team Principal	Brad Jones/Kim Jones
Team Manager	Kim Jones
Race Drivers	12. Andrew Jones 14. Cameron McConville
Chassis	WP03 & WP05
Debut	2000
Drivers' Championships	0
Round wins	1* (Non Championship)
Pole positions	0
2007 position	17th

Brad Jones Racing (BJR) is based in Albury NSW and is managed by Brad Jones' brother Kim Jones. They joined the V8 Supercar Series in the year 2000 after buying Tony Longhurst's franchise.

BJR had formerly run the works Audi team in Australia for the Australian Super Touring Championship, and were multiple champions in Super Touring, AUSCAR and Australian NASCAR based series. A feature of this team has been their tactical savvy through team manager Kim Jones, and vehicle set-up through veteran 1995 series champion John Bowe.

Running as a one car team in 2000 and 2001 with major sponsor OzEmail and driver Brad Jones, the team achieved modest results, highlighted by second place in the 2001 Bathurst 1000 where Jones partnered John Cleland.

From 2002 to 2004, with continued sponsorship from OzEmail, BJR expanded their operation to two cars, with former ATCC champion John Bowe joining the team from Briggs Motorsport. Performance at Bathurst continued to be strong, Bowe qualifying 2nd in 2002 and 2003, and the Bowe-Jones combination finishing 3rd in 2004. However, this pace could not be found at all rounds of the championship, and OzEmail left the team at the conclusion of the 2004 series.

In 2005, BJR was parented by gas giant, BOC and was re-named as Team BOC. They got their first win at the Australian Grand Prix (Non- Championship) courtesy of Bowe in race 2, but success in the following championship rounds eluded them. A low for the year came at the Bathurst 1000 when Jones was caught up in a lap 1 accident with Garth Tander and Greg Ritter. When the car was being repaired, Jones sat in the car, utterly shattered and visibly upset.

The team started 2006 rejuvenated, after a disappointing 2005 season with a bold, new livery and a partnership with championship winning team Stone Brothers Racing with BJR using SBR engines. The season was marred with bad luck, with the new spec SBR engines power not suiting the BJR engineered chassis and one of the co-drivers for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000, Mark Porter, died while racing in the development series.

In 2007, Brad's nephew and Kim's son Andrew Jones replaced John Bowe. Once again, the team struggled on in the early stage of this season and Brad Jones publicly announced his retirement on Seven breakfast show, Sunrise. Team BOC drafted 2001 Development Series champion Simon Wills to drive the now vacated #14 BF Falcon at round 4 at Winton. The season has been another bad season, with less than pleasing results and at the biggest race of the year, Bathurst, having both cars not finishing with car #14 crashing heavily in qualifying and car #12 having an engine fire.

It has been confirmed that BJR will 'jump the fence' and use Walkinshaw Performance produced Holden VE Commodores for the 2008 V8 Supercar season. Cameron McConville has also been confirmed as the driver of car 14 in 2008.^{[citation needed]} McConville returned to the team, having spent two seasons with BJR in the late nineties, driving an Audi in the Australian Super Touring Championship. He celebrated his return to the team with a third place at the 2008 Clipsal 500.

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Teams contesting the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series

Holden Racing Team	Tasman Motorsport	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford Performance Racing	Jack Daniel's Racing	Brad Jones Racing
1 Garth Tander 2 Mark Skaife	3 Jason Richards 51 Greg Murphy	4 James Courtney 9 Shane Van Gisbergen	5 Mark Winterbottom 6 Steven Richards	7 Todd Kelly 11 Shane Price	12 Andrew Jones 14 Cameron McConville
HSV Dealer Team	Dick Johnson Racing	Team Kiwi Racing	Britek Motorsport	Garry Rogers Motorsport	SuperCheap Auto Racing
15 Rick Kelly 16 Paul Dumbrell	17 Steven Johnson 18 Will Davison	021 Kayne Scott	25 Jason Bright 26 Marcus Marshall	33 Lee Holdsworth 34 Michael Caruso	39 Russell Ingall 67 Paul Morris
Paul Weel Racing	Rod Nash Racing	TeamVodafone	Paul Cruickshank Racing	Ford Rising Stars Racing
50 Andrew Thompson	55 Tony D'Alberto	88 Jamie Whincup 888 Craig Lowndes	111 Fabian Coulthard	777 Michael Patrizi