One-time Supercars champion James Courtney has introduced that subsequent 12 months shall be his swansong as a full-time driver within the tin-top collection.
He has been a fixture within the class for the previous 14 years, profitable the title in 2010, however Courtney, 44, instructed the Australian information service 9 Gold Coast Information that he would step away from racing after the 2025 marketing campaign to deal with his subsequent profession in actual property.
“I am going to end this 12 months and do subsequent 12 months and that’ll be it for me full-time,” stated Courtney, who’s at present 18th on this 12 months’s standings for the Blanchard Racing Workforce having achieved a greatest results of sixth to date.
“I’ve had a vastly profitable profession, had a good time and I need to finish it on my phrases.
“Actual property is definitely my first actual job now as a result of racing has been my complete life till now.
“I am coming in the direction of the tip of the racing aspect of my life and I noticed [real estate] as a pure development.
“I’ve all the time had an enormous curiosity in actual property, whether or not it is shopping for and promoting my very own homes.”
James Courtney, Blanchard Racing Workforce Ford Mustang GT
Picture by: Edge Photographics
Courtney was thought of a probable Formulation 1 driver after profitable the World Junior Karting title in 1995 and the Formulation A World Championship two years later.
He then achieved British Formulation Ford glory in 2000 and stepped as much as the British Formulation 3 Championship the next 12 months, profitable on his debut. He led the collection factors comfortably in 2002 earlier than he was sidelined after a wing failure on a Jaguar F1 automobile at Monza meant he missed a few races.
He then moved to the Japanese F3 collection, claiming the title in 2003, and raced within the All-Japan Grand Touring Automotive Collection, for Toyota, in 2004-5.
In 2006, he moved again to Australia to tackle what was then V8 Supercars and received the 2010 title for Dick Johnson Racing.
He has subsequently raced for the Holden Racing Workforce and Tickford Racing, earlier than becoming a member of BRT this season, having solely scored one podium in 2023.
He has by no means received the blue-riband Bathurst 1000 however has scored 4 podium finishes in Australia’s endurance basic.
