Harri Jones has lost his Supercars endurance seat, but the two-time Porsche Carrera Cup Australia champion says he has not given up on a return to the grid.
Jones drove alongside Anton De Pasquale at Team 18 in last year's endurance races. He was not retained for 2026 and, despite his efforts, could not find another seat.
He told Auto Action he would still like to land one of the few co-drives left, but believed they had all been filled.
"I'd love to get back into a co-drive seat, but I think they're all taken," Jones said.
"I am calling Supercars teams quite often. I will never give up.
"I would love to get back on the grid someday. But in the meantime, I will have to prove it myself."
Jones is doing exactly that in Carrera Cup, where he is chasing back the title. He opened the 2026 season by winning the round at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, and the manner of it pleased him most.
"This is why we go racing," he said.
"When you have a clean sweep it feels good, but it's almost a little bit simple in quotation marks. But when you are coming from behind, you really have to work for it."
Jones started the final race of the weekend from fourth.
"I started the final race in fourth place and I knew it was going to be a hard task to beat Amand, O'Keeffe and Osborne," he said.
"They all drove so well, but it just came together for me. To finish off round one with a round win, there is no better start to the season."
He credited himself and McElrea Racing for building the car up across the weekend so it peaked when it mattered. That was no small task: a red flag meant teams went into qualifying without completing a single flying lap in practice.
"We've had a good car all weekend, but it just wasn't quite perfect," he said.
"You get upset when there are cars around you and you can see they are doing things you cannot. But in the final race everything came on song and it just felt unreal."
Originally reported by Auto Action.
Sources: autoaction.com.au, harrijones.com.au, carreracup.com.au
