Matt Stone Racing has employed veteran Tim Slade as Nick Percat’s co-driver for the 2025 Supercar Enduro’s at The Bend and Bathurst in the #10 Camaro.
Slade retired as a full-time Supercars driver in 2024 after two years spent within the PremiAir camp, ending a two-win 451 race career in the V8’s, but like many others before him, he’ll return as an old hat with valuable Enduro experience.
He joins a resurgent Percat who took two Sprint wins and a consistent spate of top-ten’s for MSR last season to claim an eighth place finish by season’s end.
Slade ended his full-time career at the 2024 Adelaide 500. Image: Peter Norton
The former BJR teammates and SA compatriots will get the chance of an Enduro in their home state prior to Bathurst, and Slade is eager to get involved in the environment with some familiar faces on hand.
“I’m looking forward to teaming up with Nick and the team at MSR for The Bend and Bathurst later this year,” Slade began.
“The team has achieved some great results since the inception of Gen3 and Nick obviously had a strong first year with the team, collecting a couple of wins.
“There’s lots of familiar faces having worked with not only Nick previously but also Matt, Jimmy and some of the key staff from SBR back in the day. Another familiar face is James Rosenberg who has had some involvement with the team for a while now, so racing aside, it’s a really nice fit.”
Nick Percat and Matt Stone enjoyed a few visits to victory lane in ’24. Image: Mark Horsburgh
For owner Team Owner Matt Stone – who has successfully managed to stickhis nose amongst the bigger garages re the win stakes over the last few season’s – he feels that the signing gives them its strongest position heading into a Bathurst 1000 than he’s ever known.
“Signing Tim as a co-driver alongside Nick puts MSR in the best position we have ever been as a team to win the Bathurst 1000,” he iterated.
“It’s great to be reunited with him for the first time since the Stone Brothers Racing days. Tim has been one of the most consistent and respected drivers in the Supercars paddock for almost two decades and we are thrilled to have him onboard.
We’re looking forward to working with him across all of our testing and race programs and getting him settled into our outfit.”
Slade will participate in all of the team’s test days and will be at the track at selected meetings to integrate himself with the team.
For Percat and MSR teammate Cameron Hill, the opening round of the 2025 Supercars Championship kicks off at SMP on February 21-23.
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