Nick Percat announces Supercars full-time retirement
Nick Percat will retire from Supercars full-time competition at the end of the 2025 season.
The 37-year-old’s decision will bring to an end a run of 12 straight seasons as a primary driver in the main game.
Having debuted in the 2010 Phillip Island 500, Percat has thus far appeared in 164 rounds and 366 races at Supercars Championship level.
Along the way, he has collected six wins, 19 podiums and two pole positions.
To have delivered victory for four different teams puts him in particularly rare company in the category’s 65-year history.
Percat won the Bathurst 1000 debut at his first attempt in 2011 alongside Garth Tander at the Holden Racing Team, before coming up trumps for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport (2016 Adelaide), Brad Jones Racing (2020 Sydney Motorsport Park x2) and Matt Stone Racing (2024 Albert Park + Symmons Plains).
He has finished in the championship’s top 10 in five different seasons – and could yet that make that six, given Percat is within striking distance of a finals berth after he and Tim Slade’s recent fifth place at The Bend.
This week’s Repco Bathurst 1000 will be Percat’s 15th start in the Great Race and his last as a primary driver.
He will bow out in his home state at the bp Adelaide Grand Final on November 27-30.
In addition to a bolstered commitment to mentoring rising stars through his JND Racing karting team, Percat will look to announce his Supercars enduro co-driving future in due course.
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“It was definitely not an easy decision because I’m still very competitive. I feel like I’m driving well and have got trophies this year,” said Percat.
“So it has been quite a lengthy decision, but on the flipside, when one door closes, another opens. There was probably opportunity to stay on the grid but it’s about making sure you put yourself in the right place at the right time, so for me, now was a good time. We have got a lot going on with the JND kart team which is keeping us quite busy.
“When there was a decision to be made, I was actually atIpswich Kart Club watching the kids drive around and I realised how much I do enjoy giving back to the sport and how much I enjoy watching the kids progress and learn and grow. So I was like, you know what, life after Supercars is still very cool, so that made it a lot easier.
“We’ll fire up the JND stuff a bit bigger and hopefully I’ll be able to get myself a nice co-drive and keep putting in good drives for whoever it is I might be driving alongside and try to get some big wins in the future.
“I look back at how fortunate I have been to be on the grid this long. Winning the Adelaide 500 is still one of the greatest achievements, with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport, in those conditions – just to not crash the thing because we couldn’t see, let alone to win the race at your home event was amazing. Bathurst 2011 with Garth (Tander) and HRT is something I’ll never forget and every time it comes on, I actually getgoosebumps.
“Even this year, being involved in a 1-2 for MSR, and my 1-2 with Chaz (Mostert) for the last Holden event in 2022, I have been fortunate that when I do stand on the podium they are very cool races and very meaningful.
“I have so many people to thank. Obviously I can’t look past Mum and Dad, because without them I never would have the opportunity to race a car. The support that I’ve had through the years from the HRT days, people like Garth and James Courtney, what they did for me as drivers when I was younger was extremely cool, and the support I’ve had from James Rosenberg over the years and people like Ben Auld who travelled around taking photos for us for free and the love of it to make sure we could document it. Also my manager GarethWhiteley and of course Baylee for everything they do – they listen to the venting more than anyone! It’s been a big collective group that has made it work, so it has been a very good time.
“And now to get to do my last Bathurst as a main driver alongside Tim Slade is really, really cool because he is a good friend.”
