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From 1996 to 2002, V8 Supercars Holden Racing Team, had a decisive competitive edge over most of the opposition. More recently, the sport has seen the return to prominence of Ford through Marcos Ambrose and Stone Brothers Racing , winning in 2003 and 2004, as well as team-mate Russell Ingall who kept the title at SBR, winning a tight series in 2005
The second-tier Dunlop Super2 Series has been contested since 2000 and the third-tier V8 Touring Car National Series, for cars no longer officially registered as V8 Supercars, began in 2008 and would officially end at the end of the 2024 season (As the Dunlop Super3 Series) due to being axed in 2025 from low car grid numbers.
The Supercars Championship, currently known as the Repco Supercars Championship under sponsorship, is a touring car racing category in Australia and New Zealand, running as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) regulations, governing the sport.
In 2015, Team Penske entered the Australian V8 Supercars Championship, having purchased a 51% stake in Dick Johnson Racing in September 2014. The team was known as DJR Team Penske. [ 35 ] The team raced a single Ford Falcon FG X in 2015, initially with Marcos Ambrose driving car No. 17 [ 36 ] and Scott Pye as a co-driver in the Endurance Cup.
The event won best event of the series every year from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 it was inducted into the Supercars Hall of Fame and it has also been inducted into the SA Tourism Hall of Fame. [39] [40] In 2011 the Clipsal 500 was named Best Event of the Year (of 14) at the V8 Supercars annual awards, after an hiatus, for the 8th time.
The 2025 Supercars Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship) is an upcoming motor racing series for Supercars.. It will be the twenty-seventh running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-ninth series in which Supercars have contested the Australian Touring Car Championship, the premier title in Australian motorsport.
V8 Supercars Hall of Fame Richard "Dick" Johnson (born 26 April 1945) is a part-owner of the V8 Supercar team Dick Johnson Racing and a former racing driver . As a driver, he was a five-time Australian Touring Car Champion and a three-time winner of the Bathurst 1000 .
The 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series was the tenth V8 Supercar Championship Series and the twelfth series in which V8 Supercars contested the premier Australian touring car title. The championship began on 21 February at the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide and concluded on 7 December at Oran Park Raceway .