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The 2024 Bathurst 500 (commercially titled the 2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship held from 23 to 25 February 2024. The event was held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales , Australia and consisted of two 250 km races.
The 2023 Newcastle 500 (commercially titled 2023 Thrifty Newcastle 500) was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 10 to 12 March 2023. The event was held on the Newcastle Street Circuit in Newcastle East , New South Wales and consisted of two races, 250 kilometres in length.
The Volvo S60 was a silhouette touring car built to compete in the V8 Supercars championship. Based on the second-generation Volvo S60 road car, the vehicle – designed and assembled by Garry Rogers Motorsport in conjunction with Volvo Cars and Polestar Racing – was constructed to the "Car of the Future" V8 Supercars regulations introduced in 2013, with the car used across the 2014, 2015 ...
The privateers were split from the main series in the year 2000. Their Level Two series is now officially known as the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series (although occasionally known as the V8 Supercar Development Series) and runs identical specification V8 Supercars, apart from differences with engine management systems and older chassis'.
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.
Waters was crowned winner of the 2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series at Sydney Olympic Park, beating reigning champion Paul Dumbrell. It was announced in early March 2016 that Waters would race full-time in the 2016 V8 Supercars Championship with Prodrive Racing Australia driving the No. 6 Ford FG X Falcon , with Mostert moving to the No. 55 Rod ...
The Newcastle 500 was an annual motor racing event for Supercars, held at the Newcastle Street Circuit in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023. The event was not held in 2020, 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
In 2005, Lowndes took the first Supercars race and round win for Triple Eight Race Engineering, before the event dropped off the calendar again in 2006. [6] In winning the event in 2007, Skaife broke Peter Brock's long-standing record of 37 round victories in the ATCC and Supercars Championship, taking his 38th win which was also his final solo ...