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The Adelaide 500, since 2023 known as VAILO Adelaide 500 after its chief sponsor, is an annual motor racing event for Supercars held on the streets of the east end of Adelaide, South Australia between 1999 and 2020 and again from 2022. The event uses a shortened form of the Adelaide Street Circuit, the former Australian Grand Prix track.
2006 Clipsal 500 Adelaide; 2007 Clipsal 500; 2008 Clipsal 500; 2009 Clipsal 500; 2010 Clipsal 500; ... This page was last edited on 21 December 2024, at 03:01 (UTC).
The championship was contested over thirty-six races, [4] [5] [N 1] starting with the Clipsal 500 Adelaide on 2 March 2013, [6] and finishing with the Sydney Telstra 500 V8 Supercars on 8 December. [7] The series' calendar also expanded, travelling to the United States for the first time for a race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin ...
Date 1 Clipsal 500 Adelaide: Adelaide Street Circuit: Adelaide, South Australia: ST: 1–2 March 2 Tyrepower Tasmania 400 [59] Symmons Plains Raceway: Launceston, Tasmania: SP: 29–30 March 3 Winton 400: Winton Motor Raceway: Benalla, Victoria: SP: 5–6 April 4 ITM 500 Auckland [57] Pukekohe Park Raceway: Pukekohe, New Zealand: SP: 25–27 ...
From 1999 until 2020, the track hosted an annual Supercars race, the Adelaide 500, (in most years a 2 x 250 km race) on a shorter, 3.219 km (2.000 mi) variant of the track. The event became one of the most acclaimed on the Supercars calendar, and is the only event added to the Supercars Hall of Fame. [3] The event returned in 2022.
At the 2012 Adelaide 500, V8 Supercars chairman Tony Cochrane said that the vacant place was "unlikely" to be filled by an Australian venue. [6] On 22 April 2012, it was announced that an international location could not be secured for the November date, and the Winton event was moved to November to replace it.
It was conceived in 2000 by PROCAR chief and owner Ross Palmer, V8 Ute Patron Ian McAlister and Procar employee Craig Denyer and launched March 2001, as V8 Brute Utes, at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.
Series schedule Results summary Rnd. Race Event Circuit Location Date Winning driver Round winner 1 1 Clipsal 500 Adelaide: Adelaide Street Circuit: Adelaide, South Australia: 27 February Cam Waters: Paul Dumbrell: 2 28 February Paul Dumbrell: 2 1 Ubet Perth Super Sprint: Barbagallo Raceway: Perth, Western Australia: 2 May Cam Waters: Cam ...