By Matthew Agius

After seven years driving Fords in the V8 Supercar Championship Series, Team BOC today confirmed its switch to Holden at the official launch ꧃of its 2008 campaign.

After several seasons struggling with under performing Falcons, the team was expected to join Holden 🌊for 2008 - forming a technical alliance with Walkinshaw Performance.

Today's off༺icial launch confirmed the rumours, with the teamಌ set to use ex-Holden Racing Team Commodores - proven V8 Supercars - during this season.

Additionally, Cameron McConville was announced as the team's new drive⛎rs, re-joining incumbent Andrew Jones, a former team mate at Garry Rogers Motorsport.

Having finished well down the order during the 2007 V8 Supercar series, team owner, Brad Jones, anticipates a much stronger campaign this year, give🍨n the success of Walkinshaw Performance teams over the past two years.

"We🍸 have a pair of very good vehicles," said Jones.

"One of them, driven by Todd Kelly, won last year'💫s final round and the other was used by Mark Skaife in the second half of last year.

"Our first (test) runꦫ is on 12 February at Winton. It's an opportunityౠ to have a good run and start to understand the cars.

"It's exciting f𝔍rom the point of view that all Victorian competitors will be there and we can quickly measure ourselves up against the opposition."

Despite the move to Walkinshaw Perf𝄹ormance, Team BOC is likely to face tough competition from other championship teams. Current Walkinshaw beneficiaries include the Holden Racing Team - which will have a crack combination of current champion Garth Tander and five-time series winner Mark Skaife - and the Toll HSV Dealer Team, which has claimed the pa꧂st two V8 titles.

Furthermore, several other teams will gain assistance ✃from Walkinshaw Performance this 𝓀year, with the Valvoline Cummins Race Team, Paul Weel Racing and Tony D'Alberto Racing all gaining engine support.

Ford will also present its challenge through traditional fron𒀰trunners - Team Vodafone and Ford Performance Racing.

ꦏ"I expect it to be even tighter than it was over the last few years - If that's possible," said𒅌 Jones.

"Especially from eight to 25th the gap will shrink so just to qualify in the top 15 will be a huge🌺 t♕ask, but our boys are up to it, and we hope to have at least one car running in the top ten from the start."

Team BOC has also snared sev🧸eral other big names, with form𓄧er Tasman Motorsport lead engineer, Walley Storey, joining the Albury squad.

Importantly, the switch to Holden has th🃏e blessing from the mꦅanufacturer's racing powerbrokers - Simon McNamara and Tom Walkinshaw himself.

"It's always good to see more cars with red windscreen stickers than blue," said McNamara.

"The Jones boys have stro🐼ng Holden history at Holden Racing Team and with AUSCAR Commodores. It's good to have them back on board and we hope they go🙈 well."

"We are pleased to be involved with Team BOC and believe that they have the necessary ingredients in place to once again become a front-running team," added Wa🍃lkinshaw.

Team BOC's ꦅ2008 V8 Supercar campaign begins in three weeks at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide - to be held from Feb🍬ruary 21.