Brad Jones Racing began as a Formula Ford team run by Brad and Kim Jones. Kim transitioned to team management in recognition of Brad's driving ability. In 1981, running an Elwyn chassis, Brad Jones finished sixth in the TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series.
Through the early 1980s Jones drove Bryan Thompson's twin-turbo Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC-Chevrolet in Sports Sedan and GT racing. In 1983 Jones moved to a Mitsubishi Starion in Group E Series Production Touring Cars, coming to dominate Group E racing in 1983 and 1984. This led to the Jones brothers joining Kevin Bartlett's Mitsubishi touring car team, known as Mitsubishi Ralliart, which brought Jones opportunities to race in Japan and across Asia.
Jones and Thompson finished second in the 1985 Australian GT Championship driving both the Mercedes Chevrolet and a Chevrolet Monza, with Jones also racing the Monza at Winton Motor Raceway during 1986. After Bartlett severed ties with Mitsubishi in late 1985, the Jones brothers formed BJ Motorsport; the Starion qualified tenth at the 1986 James Hardie 1000, reaching 269 km/h on Conrod Straight in qualifying.
The revived Ralliart Australia team did not select Jones for the 1987 James Hardie 1000, but he drove the Starion to tenth place at the 1988 Tooheys 1000 with co-driver Terry Shiel. Jones then drove the full 1989 Australian Touring Car season in a turbocharged Ford Sierra RS500 for Peter Brock's Mobil 1 Racing. During the 1990s he was hired for late-season endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst for the Holden Racing Team, Wayne Gardner Racing, and Larkham Motor Sport.
BJR entered AUSCAR racing with Holden Commodores, competing at the 1988 Goodyear AUSCAR 200 at Calder Park Thunderdome. The team grew to dominate the series, winning five consecutive titles from 1990 to 1994. A full NASCAR campaign in the 1994–95 season added a sixth consecutive title, with Jones driving a Chevrolet Lumina.
After a Super Production Car title with a Lotus Esprit in 1994, BJR entered the Australian Super Touring series as the official Audi team in 1995, fielding a pair of Audi A4 Quattros for Brad Jones and Greg Murphy. The team contested championships with Paul Morris Motorsport's official BMW team; Jones won the Super Touring championship in 1996 and 1998, with Cameron McConville (who replaced Murphy in 1997) winning many races. BJR reached the podium at both Super Touring Bathurst 1000 races: Jones finished second in 1997 with Frank Biela, and third in 1998 with McConville.
In 2000, while leading Audi's Super Touring programme, Jones was drafted as a third driver in the Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello Audi R8 for the American Le Mans Series Race of a Thousand Years at the Adelaide Street Circuit on 31 December 2000; McNish recovered from injury to race, and Jones did not start.
The team entered V8 Supercars in 2000, purchasing a Ford AU Falcon and Racing Entitlement Contract from Longhurst Racing. Running as a one-car team in 2000 and 2001, the team's highlight was second place at the 2001 Bathurst 1000 with Jones and John Cleland. BJR expanded to two cars in 2002 when former ATCC champion John Bowe joined; Bowe qualified second at Bathurst in 2002 and 2003, and the Bowe–Jones pairing finished third there in 2004. BJR's first championship race win came at the 2005 Australian Grand Prix support event, courtesy of Bowe.
The 2006 season was difficult: Stone Brothers Racing engines did not suit the BJR chassis. Co-driver Mark Porter, after practicing the car at Bathurst, died from injuries sustained in a crash in the development series the same weekend. In 2007 Brad Jones announced his mid-season retirement from driving and was replaced by Simon Wills; both cars failed to finish at Bathurst.
After finishing last in the 2007 teams' championship, BJR switched from Ford to Holden for 2008, purchasing two Holden VE Commodores previously campaigned by the Holden Racing Team. Cameron McConville returned to the team in 2008; Jason Richards joined in 2009.
In 2010 Jason Bright replaced McConville, bringing his Britek Motorsport REC to enter a third car for Karl Reindler. International endurance drivers Fabrizio Giovanardi and Alain Menu competed at the 2010 Gold Coast 600. After the Symmons Plains round, Jason Richards was diagnosed with stomach cancer and could not compete in the final two events. Richards lost his battle with cancer at the end of 2011.
In 2011 Jason Bright won the team's first V8 Supercars race in Perth, then won again at Winton. For 2012 Fabian Coulthard replaced Jason Bargwanna; David Wall joined to replace Karl Reindler in the third car. Dale Wood joined in 2014 replacing Wall. In 2016 Coulthard left and was replaced by Tim Slade; Tim Blanchard replaced Wood. Nick Percat replaced Bright for the 2017 season.
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