Brad Jones was the undisputed King of AUSCAR with five consecutive AUSCAR titles between the 1989/90 and 1993/94 seasons (1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94).

His cars best known paint scheme was the red CooperTools sponsored #8 Holden Commodore, Brad’s car was also sponsored by Castrol with a black paint scheme and the car had other sponsors including Bob Jane T-Marts.

From the first AUSCAR season until its end in 1998-99, Brad’s five championships in AUSCAR made up a total of 41.66% of the total championships and these championships were all won whilst the sport was considered to be at its peak.

Brad’s first car was a green Holden Commodore, that paint scheme did not last very long.

Brad is recorded as having 18 AUSCAR wins between 1988 and 1994, while in AUSCAR, Brad raced in a couple of NASCAR races on the Gold Coast with the car named ‘Elroy’.

After dominating AUSCAR, Brad moved on to NASCAR and was such a success at it that he was a champion in that category too and it had taken just one season to do it.

Brad won one Australian NASCAR race at the Thunderdome and had ‘won’ a road course race but because it was not the major race of the round, it was not counted in the history books.

By the time he finished racing Stock Cars he had three race cars named Elroy, Bubba and Kevin and one ride car named George.

Brad moved his racing interests to Super Tourers after splitting time with that category and others, but he made a brief comeback to the sport when he filled in for Rodney Jane in the final round of the 1998/99 season at the Thunderdome.

He then moved on to Supercars and has been there ever since with his team using Ford, Holden/Chevrolet and now Toyota cars over the years.

In 2016, Brad Jones was interviewed at length by the Calder Park Thunderdome Facebook page with Brad giving fans great insight into his AUSCAR and NASCAR adventures all of which can be seen below.

In December 2018, his VL Commodore was given over a half dozen pages of attention by the Australian Muscle Car magazine, photos of which you can see on the Calder Park Thunderdome page.

Research was started to find the origins of his ride car named ‘George’, everybody remembers the car, but opinions are split on who Brad got the car from.

Brad was re-introduced to ‘George’ at Brad Jones Racing in 2025, the car was a lot different to the car he had taken passengers in though underneath the black paint is the dark blue paint of the #8 as well as the earlier white layer.

‘George’ was driven to two wins at Calder Park Raceway by Sam Gibson in the 2025 Australian Stock Car Championship season.

Research efforts ramped up in late 2025 to locate his three Stock Cars named Elroy, Bubba and Kevin, sadly it was discovered that ‘Bubba’ was destroyed after a car fire, the fates of the cars Elroy and Kevin are unknown.

AUSCAR Wins

30/10/88
18/12/88
28/1/89
15/10/89
27/1/90
13/10/90
2/12/90
2/3/91
16/3/91
19/4/91
1/12/91
11/10/92
14/2/93
24/4/93
10/10/93
21/11/93
5/12/93
23/4/94

14 x Thunderdome, 1 x Gold Coast, 1 x Eastern Creek and 2 x Adelaide International Raceway wins.

Superspeedway Wins
11/2/95 – Calder Park Thunderdome

AUSCAR Championships

1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94

NASCAR Championships
1994-95