2018 Supercars Race Formats - Supercar Gallery

Adelaide Phillip Island and Newcastle continue with their 2x250km format with Townsville and Pukekohe remaining 2x200km. For 2016 V8 Supercars has refined these formats with the goal being to restore the excitement of the longer race and to bring pit strategy back into play.

New Qualifying Format To Debut In 2018 Supercars

The series was won by Chris Pither driving in a Garry Rogers.

2018 supercars race formats. SuperSprint In 2016 all SuperSprint events excluding International SuperSprint races the KL City Grand Prix and the ITM Auckland SuperSprint will comprise of one 120km race on. Toyota 86 Race 2. However its now been decided by the Supercars Commission that the 2x300km format which has been in play since 2010 will remain.

Dunlop Super2 Super3 Race 1. Find out more about the key changes to the Supercars race formats for 2018. SuperUtes used a three-race schedule throughout 2018 with the grid for Race 2 the reversed Race 1 results and the final based on aggregate points.

Porsche Carrera Cup Race 2. Monday 26th March 2018 - 507pm. The event became known as the Melbourne 400 which included some longer distance races in a revamped format.

Three sprint rounds the Clipsal 500 Adelaide the Sucrogen Townsville 400 and the Sydney 500 will retain their race formats and tyre compounds. Sundays format remains unchanged with a 20-minute qualifying before a Top 10 Shootout and the 250km second leg. Toyota 86 Race 3.

A move to Saturday qualifying sprints and a single 500km Sunday race had been planned amid a reshuffle of the PIRTEK Enduro Cup aligning the format with that of Sandown. In May 2017 it was announced that the 2018 event would be part of the 2018 Supercars Championship the first time the circuit has been included as part of the championship. The qualifying sessions at Symmons Plains and Barbagallo Wanneroo will be split into two groups made up of alternate pit lane order meaning one car per team or pit boom in the case of one-car squads qualifies in each group.

Other unique formats that vary from the established three or four-day duration of sprint or endurance race meetings will also be considered as part of Supercars Vision 2025 10-year plan. The season opening Clipsal 500 Adelaide returns to the two 250km format after the Saturday race was split into two 125km races last year. Having moved to a simpler format structure in 2014 the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship will again feature the four key race formats in 2018 SuperSprint International SuperSprint SuperStreet and Enduro Cup but new for this season is the inclusion of a SuperNight format and a newly named format for Phillip Islands two 250km races the Super500.

Supercars will contest four races at the 2018 Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix A mixture of sprint and pit stop races will feature at the inaugural Supercars championship round at next years. In 2018 the event format changed to feature a single 300 kilometre race at night the first event under lights in the championship since the 2011 Yas V8 400 and the first in Australia since the 1997 Calder Park round. Dunlop Super2 Super3 ARMOR ALL Qualifying.

These three events along with the Sandown 500 the Supercheap Bathurst 1000 and the Armor All Gold Coast 600 endurance races will also be the only ones to feature refuelling during races. The 2018 Supercars Championship known for commercial reasons as the 2018 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship was an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for SupercarsIt was the twenty-second running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-second series in which Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title. One of the major drawcards for the 2019 event is the debut of the Ford Mustang in the Supercars Championship replacing the Falcon.

Three rounds form the SuperStreet events. Supercars commitment to improving the racing continues and for 2018 sees the addition of yet more new excitement factors all of which should all add up to more challenging and entertaining racing for both the drivers and us the fans. The Newcastle 500 known for sponsorship reasons as the Coates Hire Newcastle 500 is an annual motor racing event for Supercars held at the Newcastle Street Circuit in Newcastle New South Wales since 2017The event was cancelled in 2020 Supercars Championship due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is not due to return to the calendar until the first round of the 2022 season.

Announced late last year the Albert Park Supercars round will be known as the Coates Hire Melbourne 400 with the weekends highest points scorer awarded the Larry Perkins Trophy. Broadcast and scheduling conflicts. The ECB SuperUtes Series will continue with the format that was used in the inaugural season after trialing a different structure for Adelaides 2019 season opener.

Supercars debuted a brand new race format for its inaugural championship round at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix which has received mixed reviews. REGULATIONS AND RACE FORMATS. Supercars ARMOR ALL Qualifying Race 12 1015-1045am.

Supercars ARMOR ALL Qualifying Race 11 950-10am. The 2018 Super2 Series known for commercial reasons as the 2018 Dunlop Super2 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars staged as a support series to the 2018 Supercars ChampionshipIt was the nineteenth running of the Supercars Development Series the second tier of competition in Supercars racing. Supercars has adopted a new qualifying format for the Tasmania SuperSprint and Perth SuperNight events.

The Townsville 400 remains at two 200km races.

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