Jordan Boys and Blake Purdie to contest S5000 Tasman Series for expanded 88 Racing outfit
Super2 driver Jordan Boys will join the Tasman Series to make his S5000 debut for 88 Racing alongside F3 graduate Blake Purdie.
Jordan Boys drives the 88 Racing car during a test day at Winton. (S5000)
The two drivers will drive for an expanded 88 Racing squad helmed by Albert Callegher, with Cooper Webster securing a win for the team during the 2021 Australian Drivers' Championship.
Boys will drive the original chassis, with Callegher to secure an additional car for Purdie.
Twenty-three year-old Boys is in his fourth full year of Super2 for Image Racing, after moving up into the Supercars paddock from Formula Ford.
The Albury native featured as co-driver to Todd Hazelwood in last year's Bathurst 1000, an experience which will prove vital when S5000 heads to the mountain.
Meanwhile South Australian teenager Purdie brings sports car and Formula 3 experience to the team.
"I’ve wanted to race one of these cars for a long time and I’ve driven them a few times but it hasn’t quite worked out until now," said Boys after completing a test day in the S5000 car.
“It’s really cool."
“To be getting the chance to run one of these things around Bathurst is pretty crazy, I never thought that I’d get that chance."
"I can’t thank Albert enough for the chance."
"I had a steer of Albert’s car when he first came into the championship and then again at Sydney Motorsport Park earlier this year."
"At Sydney they felt like they belong there, it’s a track that the cars are built for."
"(Compared to the Supercar) the cars have a raw and a pure feeling, you feel a lot of connection to the track."
"There’s no power steering and the hear all the noise is a lot more."
"Racing for the Tasman Series and the Prize Money on offer is one of the things that Albert and I are trying to achieve and it will help us become more of a mainstay in the championship next year if we can get that."
"We’re pushing very hard and (to win) is the goal, for sure."
