Perkins returns to the top
Returning to the main game V8 Supercar Championship Series full-time at the Clipsal 500 this weekend will be second-generation racer Jack Perkins.
Son of six-time Bathurst winner Larry Perkins, the 22-year-old is entering his fourth year in V8 Supercar competition and will be aboard the #11 Dodo Racing Holden Commodore.
Perkins ran events in both the Fujitsu ‘Development’ V8 Supercar Series and top-level V8 Supercar competition last season, finishing fifth in the Fujitsu V8 Series points at the end of the season.
Perkins also competed in six main series events, scoring eighth place at the endurance events at Phillip Island and Bathurst.
After his rookie season in the main game ended prematurely in 2008 when he missed the final two events of the season for health reasons, Perkins is fit, determined and focused to make this season his breakout year in the category.
His chance will come in the #11 Dodo Racing Holden Commodore of Kelly Racing, part of the four-car attack from the newest team on the V8 Supercar landscape.
A second chance with a brand new ‘super-team’ has given Perkins plenty of inspiration heading into Adelaide.
“’Really excited’ is probably the best way to put it,” said Perkins.
“I’m very grateful for the opportunity that Kelly Racing has given me and I just want to get out there and go racing again in the Dodo Commodore.
“I can’t wait. It’s been a pretty big off-season setting up the team and the guys have done a superb job getting everything done and getting four cars ready for Adelaide in two months, as well as all the trucks, pit equipment and everything done.
“It has really been a great team effort.”
Perkins finished second in both Fujitsu V8 Supercar races held at the Clipsal 500 last year, and recorded a 19th place and a failure to finish in his two races in his only main game Clipsal 500 appearance back in 2007.
