O’Keeffe and Percat team up for enduros

By Thomas Miles

Date posted: June 15, 2024

Dylan O’Keeffe will join Matt Stone Racing for the first time to race with Nick Percat in the 2024 Supercars enduros.

It marks a big career change for O’Keeffe, who has spent his last three seasons at PremiAir Nulon Racing.

He made his Bathurst debut in 2020 at Kelly Racing before moving to Team Sydney in 2021.

Across four Great Race campaigns O’Keeffe finally cracked the top 10 with James Golding last year.

But with David Russell joining PremiAir and Super2 young gun Cameron McLeod likely to join him, O’Keeffe was on the move and has turned to MSR.

To stay racing sharp, O’Keeffe is currently competing in both the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia and the TCR Australia Series.

After a successful start to 2024 thanks to Percat’s win at the Grand Prix, O’Keeffe is excited to join Matt Stone Racing.

“When the opportunity came to join the Matt Stone Racing squad for the enduros, I jumped at the chance – they’re definitely a team on the rise,” he said.

“They’ve won races the last couple of seasons, and Nick’s been in great form this year.

“They’re a well-drilled team, very organised and methodical and it’s an enjoyable environment to be part of.

“It will be my first time working with Nick, but we were already gelling really well during the test day.

“He’s obviously very experienced and has a great record at Bathurst – as well as his debut win in 2011, he’s finished on the podium a couple more times so I’m really looking forward to tapping into his knowledge base and learning as much as possible from him.”

O’Keeffe will be Percat’s 11th different co driver since his 2010 debut.

“We’ve locked in Dylan O’Keeffe as our co-driver for this season’s endurance campaign, which is really cool,” he said.

“He is the right height so that works for me, he’s doing plenty of racing with TCR and Cup cars as well and he’s a really good fit in the MSR team.

“Pumped to have him onboard the Car #10 crew; he’s always done a really solid job at Bathurst and Sandown so I’m looking forward to seeing how we go.”

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1: W. Brown 1:06.4153 2: J. Golding +0.0156 3: J. Le Brocq +0.0518

1: J. Golding 1:05.6912 2: N. Percat +0.0742 3: M. Winterbottom +0.1515

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O’Keeffe and Percat team up for enduros

To stay racing sharp, O’Keeffe is currently competing in both the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia and the TCR Australia Series.

“It will be my first time working with Nick, but we were already gelling really well during the test day.

“He is the right height so that works for me, he’s doing plenty of racing with TCR and Cup cars as well and he’s a really good fit in the MSR team.

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