Jarrod Hughes

Jarrod Michael Hughes is an Australian racing driver set to compete for Erebus Motorsport in Supercars Championship.

Career

Hughes made his car racing debut in 2020, racing in the EFS Excel Cup Series. The following year, Hughes moved to the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 Series, in which he contested the full season but wasn't classified as no points were given after not enough rounds took place. Returning to the series the following year, Hughes scored his only win of the season at Sandown en route to a seventh-place points finish and earning the Kaizen award, in a year in which he won the Series X3 Queensland title.
In 2023, Hughes mainly competed in the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 Series for his own team, scoring three podiums and finishing fifth in points, and also made his TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series debut late in the year, in which he finished second on debut behind Nash Morris. The following year, Hughes joined Image Racing to make his [2024 2024 Super2 Series|Super2 Series|Super2] debut, with whom he took pole with at Sandown, and scored a best race result of fourth three times to end the year fourth in points as the highest-placed rookie. During 2024, Hughes also competed in [2024 2024 GT4 Australia Series|GT4 Australia Series|GT4 Australia] and the TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series, in which he most notably took two wins in the latter series at Calder Park alongside Tyler Cheney.
Hughes returned to Super2 and Image Racing in 2025, only taking a best result of eighth at Townsville as he ended the year 18th in the standings. In parallel to his Super2 campaign, Hughes also returned to the TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series with IES Motorsport, and took eight wins en route to his maiden TA2 title, whilst also finishing runner-up in the TA2 Kings of the West sub-championship. Hughes also returned to GT4 Australia, joining Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Summer Rintoule, with whom he finished third in the Silver Cup standings after scoring eight podiums across the 12-race season. During 2025, Hughes made his [2025 2025 Supercars Championship|Supercars Championship|Supercars] debut as Jack Le Brocq's co-driver at Erebus Motorsport for the Enduro Cup.
Ahead of 2026, Hughes was retained by Erebus Motorsport as their co-driver for the endurance races of the following year's Supercars Championship season.