Brad Jones Racing team owners Brad and Kim Jones will celebrate their 600th start in the nation's premier motor racing category in Saturday's Supercars race at Townsville.
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"It's not something my brother Kim and I set out to achieve, but a pretty big milestone to add to the record books," Brad said.
"Hopefully we can have the opposite weekend to what we had in Darwin, everyone works so hard towards the same goal, so it would be great to see that hard work and dedication pay off with a podium finish this weekend."
Tim Slade will be competing in his usual racer, but underneath the yellow and black livery sees a change in chassis for the BJR driver.
The chassis Slade will be driving is BJR-006, the team's sixth car of the future, which debuted as a VF Commodore in 2016 and was last driven full-time in the Supercar championship by Nick Percat in 2017.
However, the same chassis has made a number of appearances, most recently in this year's championship with Super 2 regular Jack Smith at Tasmania, Winton and Darwin, plus Tim Blanchard's wildcard appearance at Perth in May.
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"It's no secret that all of our cars sustained a lot of damage across the Darwin weekend," Brad said.
"The team do an incredible job under that immense pressure on race weekends to get the cars back out for the next race.
"When we get back to the workshop, the repair work is a lot more detailed and the #8 and #21 cars had to spend a bit of time on the jig and in the production shop to ensure they were all fixed.
"We basically turn the cars around to be like new again.
"As a team, we made the decision to use the BJR-006 chassis that we've used in the wildcard events (for Jack Smith and Tim Blanchard) for 'Sladey' in Townsville.
"We wanted to spend a bit more time working on the Freightliner Racing car, as we didn't feel we had enough time to check over it and make the repairs we really needed to.
"Whilst we're in Townsville, the team back home will spend the required time on it to ensure there are no niggling issues after Darwin."
The BJR fleet of transporters left the team's Albury headquarters this past weekend, bound for the sunshine state and arrived in Townsville on Tuesday.
The on-track action begins on Friday with practice, while both Saturday and Sunday's races are 70-lap events.
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