By Matthew Agius

Brad Jones, the popular battler of V8 Supercar racing, is set to make his one hundredth championship start this weekend at Symmon🌺s Plains Raceway when he grids up for the eleventh round of the 2006 V8 Supercar S🐓eries.

After twenty years of Australian Touring Car Championship racing, Jones will finally ꧟clock a century in the same year that teammate John Bowe claimed his 200th start. Despite having never taken an ATCC or V8 Supercar win, Jones is still keen to take a victory, but with what many predict will be his last year in V8s for the former AUSCAR champion, Jones will be hoping to perform well this weekend in th♛e Ferodo Triple Challenge.

"It might have taken🅠 me 20 years, but I got there," said Jonesꦦ.

"I've gone on record and said that this category has been a lot tougher to break into than we thought. Every category that we have been involved in, as a team; we have do📖minated.

"Through the Auscar/Nascar program and though the Super Touring progra🐽m we were always at the pointy end. With the V8's, we haven't done anything different, it's just really, really competitive.

"Have I got a V8 win in me before I retire? ꦦ🔴I don't know, I hope so, time will tell."

"Symmons Plains is a circuit of extremes; it has one of the fastest straights, preceded by the slowest corner in the championship, so needless to say, it's quite a tough circuit on brakes. It is also one of the shortest circuits, takin🐷g less than a minute to complete, so quick pit stops during the race become critical to avoid going down a lap."

This weekend a🔯lso holds importance for teammat𝓡e John Bowe as it is his home round of the championship, and also his fifteenth start at the circuit.

"I always look f𒁏orward to heading home for this round. I head down a little early and catch up with friends and family, which is 𓆏good."

"It's only the third time we have been ba✱ck down there since it was reinstated back into the championship, so to be rac💜king up my 15th visit this weekend must mean that I have been around for a while."

Both Team BOC Falcons sit outside the top twenty of the championship after a dismal 2006 season. The team will look to end their season with consistent performances at Symmons Plains this weekend, and then Bahrain and Phillip Island to round 🌳out the year.