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Commonly referred to as the 'Supercars Championship' or 'V8 Supercars' this thrilling series runs from March to November throughout Australia with a trip to New Zealand for some light international flavour.
The vehicles used in the series are loosely based on road going four door saloons. Initially the series was only for Ford Falcons and Holden Commodore's but new regulations introduced in the 2013 season opened it up to more manufacturers. This year in addition to Ford's and Holden's there are some Nissan Altima's racing as well.
Until now anyway. New for this year the Ford Falcon has been replaced with a new Ford Mustang!
(yeah ok it's a bit warped out of shape but it's a Mustang - shuddup! )The cars are front engine, rear wheel drive with an output of 620-650bhp currently using a 5.0 litre V8 although new regulations have also opened up the engine options although no teams have committed to this yet.
Round Event Circuit Location Dates
1 Adelaide 500
Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 2–3 March2 Melbourne 400
Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit Melbourne, Victoria 15–17 March3 Tasmania SuperSprint
Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania 6–7 April4 Phillip Island SuperSprint
Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 13–14 April5 Perth SuperNight
Barbagallo Wanneroo Raceway Neerabup, Western Australia 3–4 May6 Winton SuperSprint
Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria 25–26 May7 Darwin Triple Crown
Hidden Valley Raceway Darwin, Northern Territory 15–16 June8 Townsville 400
Townsville Street Circuit Townsville, Queensland 6–7 July9 Ipswich SuperSprint
Queensland Raceway Ipswich, Queensland 27–28 July10 The Bend SuperSprint
The Bend Motorsport Park Tailem Bend, South Australia 24–25 August11 Auckland SuperSprint
Pukekohe Park Raceway Pukekohe, Auckland Region 14–15 September12 Bathurst 1000
Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 13 October13 Gold Coast 600
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland 26–27 October14 Sandown 500
Sandown Raceway Springvale, Victoria 10 November15 Newcastle 500
Newcastle Street Circuit Newcastle, New South Wales 23–24 NovemberSome changes again for this year:
- No Sydney Motorsport Park!
The reward for putting on a fantastic night race is to be struck from the calendar 
- The Perth race is now a night race and the track has been resurfaced! No more crappy tyre wear!
- The grid size is down to 24 now due to 2 REC's being returned. Likely to back out to tender for the 2020 season.
- Triple Eight Racing are only fielding 2 cars (SVG/Whincup) after Craig Lowndes retirement.
- 23Red Racing formed a partnership with Tickford
- Sandown is now in November and the final Enduro switching places with Auckland
- Philip Island is now a SuperSpring again
Also some driver changes for this year:
- Michael Caruso has left Kelly Racing. Joined Tickford as an endurance driver.
- Tim Blanchard has retired from full time racing and his seat has been filled by Macauley Jones from Super2
- Mark Winterbottom has gone from Tickford to Charlie Schwerkolt Racing (Team 18) filling Lee Holdsworth's seat.
- Holdsworth has taken Winterbottom's seat at Tickford
- Richie Stanaway is out at Tickford and now at Garry Rogers Motorsport replacing Garth Tander who stepped down from full time racing and now with T888 as an endurance driver
Teams and Drivers (it's a mess when pasted in!)
How to watch:
Internationally the series can be live streamed and races played on demand via Supercars Superview which goes for a fairly reasonable $60 AUD for the season.
Can't see any TV channels for this sadly, looks like motorsport.tv is gone!
