Richards moves to team BOC

Jason Richards has been confirmed as the new Brad Jones Racing driver for the Team BOC car in 2009 replacing Andrew Jones.
Richards will replace Andrew Jones in the #12 BOC-backed Commodore VE in a deal that is believed to be for three years.

“We’ve all crossed paths before in the Super Touring car days in 1997,” Richards
told eNews.

“Kim actually approached me in 2002 to drive for them, so I guess its been a longtime coming but I’m finally there!” The Kiwi driver had his first seat fitting in the Walkinshaw Racing-built Commodore at BJR’s Albury shop and he was impressed with his first look.

“The team is re-energised for this year. Everyone there is very positive about getting into it,” he said.

“As you saw last year, they made some big inroads compared to the previous year. Obviously, Holden was a brilliant move for them to do that, as was its link with Walkinshaws.” Richards also expects further improvement at the team, citing that the changes up and down pit lane with offer a variety in results.

“I think that results will happen quite quickly because of all of the changes in the championship,” he said.

“A lot of the teams are going through change. The Ford teams will have new cars, we’ve all got E85 to deal with, we’ve got the soft tyre option, change of formats, so any driver, even if there are with the same team in the same car, they’d still be quite nervous about what their performance is going to be like this year.”

This will be the fourth team that Jason Richards has competed for in V8 Supercar racing. He started with Team Kiwi Racing at Bathurst in 2000, before switching to Team Dynamik in 2003 before heading to Tasman Motorsport in 2004.