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The championship was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Melbourne 400 cancelled before the first race of the event. [70] [77] Supercars' management later announced that should an event be postponed, the calendar would have been altered to complete the 2020 fixture, [78] and that a January 2021 finish may have been required to do so. [79]
The 2021 Supercars Championship (commercially known as the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship) was a motor racing series for Supercars. It was the twenty-third running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-fifth series in which Supercars have contested the Australian Touring Car Championship , the premier title in Australian motorsport.
Supercars Championship 2017: Jamie Whincup: Triple Eight Race Engineering: Holden VF Commodore: Gen 2 Supercar; 2018: Scott McLaughlin: DJR Team Penske: Ford FG X Falcon: Supercars Championship 2019: Scott McLaughlin: DJR Team Penske: Ford Mustang GT: 2020: Scott McLaughlin: DJR Team Penske: Ford Mustang GT: 2021: Shane van Gisbergen: Triple ...
The first confirmed race of 2021 was the Darwin Triple Crown, which was announced in November 2020, in the trucks' first race there since 2017. [9] [8] In March 2021, Speedcafe spoke with series manager Nathan Cayzer, who confirmed a seven-round schedule supporting the Supercars Championship. [10]
The 2021 Super2 & Super3 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which is being staged as a support series to the 2021 Supercars Championship.It was the twenty-second running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing. 2021 saw Super3 entries competing alongside Super2 Series cars as a class for the first time within the ...
The 2021 Bathurst 1000 (known as the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 for commercial reasons) was a motor racing event for Supercars held on the week of 30 November to 5 December 2021. It was held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales , Australia and featured a single 1000 kilometre race.
The event was the final race of the 2020 Supercars Championship and the final time Supercheap Auto was the naming rights sponsor, having been so since 2005, as United States–based Genuine Parts Company has acquired naming rights for both the Supercars Championship and the Bathurst 1000 starting in 2021.
Since 2018, this is the only active Supercars event held in metropolitan Sydney. [1] In 2020, the event was held twice due to calendar changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] In 2021, it was held four times in four consecutive weekends again due to the pandemic. [4]