Jason Richards will drive a V8 Supercar at Winton Motor Raceway next week in the ‘co-driver’ sessions on Friday.

The popular Kiwi, battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer, will drive Jason Bright’s #8 Team BOC Holden Commodore VE around the 3.0km central Victorian circuit.

V8 Supercars regulations prohibit drivers in the top 50 percent in the championship to drive in Practice 1 and 2 on Fridays at race meetings.

In these sessions at Winton, Darwin, Townsville and Queensland Raceway, co-drivers are permitted to get miles in the cars – whether the driver is in the top or bottom 50 percent.

See below for a full list of co-drivers who have been entered for the practice sessions.

There are a couple of notable absent drivers from the list, including both of Dick Johnson Racing’s endurance men David Besnard and Matt Halliday.

The other missing drivers are David Brabham (#4 IRWIN Falcon), Allan Simonsen (#11 Pepsi Max Crew Commodore), Richard Lyons (#19 Mother Energy Racing) and David Wall (#21 Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing).

Wall has been omitted from the session as the team is waiting to hear if regular driver Karl Reindler will be fit to compete.

And only Michael Caruso will steer his #34 Fujitsu Racing Commodore as the team strives to get ‘Robbo’ back to the pointy end of the V8 field. CLICK HERE for this morning’s Speedcafe.com story regarding the team’s endurance drivers.

See below for Speedcafe.com’s exclusive video with V8 endurance drivers at Winton’s test day

See below for the full Winton entry list