2025 SUPERCARS & Supports:

[Everso Biggyballies]

2024 V8SC is done and dusted so time to open a 2025 thread for all your SC and support news and comments.

A few changes in team lineups, I guess the biggest change being Brodie K moving across to DJR.... ironically driving a DJR car that will be based on a Gen 3 chassis to be built by his ex employer Erebus, through their South Australian chassis guru James White.Mount Gambier-based White is regarded highly, having built Bathurst-winning and championship-winning cars for Erebus since 2017.

Anyway I will just start the thread for 2025 off with a lineup of teams and drivers plus the 2025 Calendar for info.

There is a new format of the way it will run. We will have a NASCAR style format which I had conveniently forgotten about. It will change the way the title is decided and is to me the biggest crock of shite I have witnessed in the 40+ years I have lived in Aus and followed the ATCC>

I did do a big run down of it but it got lost somewhere. It explains the format. I will see if I can find it. Check back later.

2025 Driver Line up

Six teams will be unchange for 2025....
Triple Eight, Tickford Racing, Walkinshaw Andretti United, Matt Stone Racing, Brad Jones Racing and Blanchard Racing Team to field unchanged line-ups.

DJR,, Erebus ,, Team 18 and PremiAir Nulon Racing will all have one change each
As mentioned Brodie Kostecki makes a switch to Dick Johnson Racing from Erebus Motorsport. Anton De Pasquale will replace Mark Winterbottom at Team 18, reuniting with former teammate David Reynolds. James Golding will have a new teammate in Richie Stanaway at PremiAir Nulon Racing. Stanaway joins the team after

There will also be at least two new names on the grid,
Super2 champion Kai Allen signing with Grove Racing o and Eggleston Motorsport teammate Cooper Murray replacing Kostecki at Erebus.

There are a few enduro line ups confirmed, I guess the main news there is Todd Hazelwood will be back with Brodie maintaining their 2024 Bathurst winning partnerhip albeit, now both with DJR. Winterbottom will also rejoin Tickford for the enduros, tipped to partner Cam Waters.

Anyway the one driver 'Sprint' race lineups



Moving on to the 2025 Full Calendar

The 2025 calendar will run from February 21 to November 30, beginning in Sydney with a twilight racie at Sydney Motorsport Park.and ending on the streets of Adelaide

13 rounds confirmed for 2025.....

* Q.I.R. returns for the first time since 2019.
* We will have the first ever endurance event at The Bend.... No Sandown enduro for 2025 but Sandown remains on the Calendar as a sprint round.
* 2025 will likely see the last visit to Wanneroo with a Perth Street Circuit tipped for 2026.
* The AGP,, Taupo in NZ, Symmonds, Darwin, Townsville, and obviously Bathurst on the 2nd weekend of October fill the card.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Supercars shakes up 2025: New formats, Finals Series introduced

I never found the thing I did earlieron the new NASCAR style format playoff crap. I think I must have accidently closed the tab. Anyway here it is.... the biggest pile of crap I can recall in over 40 years living in Aus following the ATCC.

I hope I am wrong but I just think it sucks. They do promise less practice and more laps actually racing which I guess is good.

Supercars will refine its racing formats in 2025 and for the first time introduce a Finals Series to determine the Supercars Champion.

The season begins with a Sprint Cup, moves into the Enduro Cup, and concludes with a three-event Finals Series, where only the top contenders will fight for the title.

SPRINT CUP
Rounds 1-8, 25 races

The first phase of the season features eight rounds and 25 races,
At the end of these eight rounds, the Sprint Cup will be awarded to the top-performing driver, who will gain automatic entry into the Finals Series.



Then we move onto the Enduro Cup....

ENDURO CUP
Rounds 9-10, The Bend 500 and Repco Bathurst 1000



After Bathurst, the Enduro Cup champion will be crowned and as with the Sprint Cup champion, the winner gains automatic entry to the finals.

The Top 10 drivers in Championship Standings after this phase will advance to the newly introduced Finals series.


THE FINALS
Rounds 11-13, 7 races

This is. where the bullshit and confusion really starts. Im just going to copy and paste what is written on Supercars. I dont yet fully understand the resetting of points after each of the finals. TBH I havent really tried to understand it. I have a feeling I will just watch the racing and not really care a shit about who is winning. If the racing is good it wont matter to me who actually wins.


The Finals will determine the 2025 Repco Supercars Champion and feature a new elimination-style format.

The highest point-scorers from the first 27 races, along with the Sprint Cup and Enduro Cup winners, will automatically qualify.

Round 11: Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500

The Finals kick off with Round 11 at the Gold Coast, where the Championship points for all 10 finalists will reset to 3000, and additional bonus points will be awarded based on performance in the regular season.

Any driver from the 10 finalists who wins a race at the Gold Coast event, will be guaranteed a place at the Sandown event.

After the Gold Coast event, the bottom three drivers will be eliminated from title contention, leaving seven drivers to advance.

Round 12: Penrite Oil Sandown 500

In Round 12 at Sandown, the remaining seven drivers' points will reset to 4000.

Any driver from the seven remaining finalists who wins a race at the Sandown event, will be guaranteed a place at the Adelaide Grand Final event.

Bonus points will be applied following the Event, and once again, the bottom three drivers will be eliminated, leaving the top four to battle it out in the final round.

Round 13: VAILO Adelaide Grand Final

The season will culminate in the Grand Final at Adelaide, with the top four finalists’ points reset to 5000.

The champion will be determined across three races – one 100km on Friday, one 250km on Saturday and the final 250km race of the year on Sunday afternoon, with bonus points applied based on previous results.

The highest point scorer at the end of the weekend will be crowned the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship winner.

Throughout the Finals, points will reset between each round, ensuring that every race is critical for the title contenders.

The new format also guarantees that all non-finalists will continue racing throughout the Finals, competing for individual victories while the top drivers battle for the Repco Supercars Championship.

So it promises this:

2025 Championship will feature 13 rounds and 34 races

10 more races than in 2024,.... an additional 1200km of racing compared to 2024

34 races totalling 6695km of competition

Three different qualifying formats for 2025

Top Ten Shootouts will feature at every round, except Melbourne

Only two 30-minute practice sessions at all events outside Enduro Cup, except Sydney

[Vassago]

The playoff system sucks but I guess Supercars realized they lost all the glamour drivers on top of the new Gen racing being mediocre. Cars look good but the racing is suspect overall. Mostert might be popular but he's more of a local driver, I mean doing Fanatec GT is fine but a far cry from the previous days. I mean even Peter Brock did World Sportscar back in the day. Brown & Feeney just don't have that much appeal IMO alas I wonder how many people are really tired of the T8 dominance. But hey, maybe this system helps Mostert to finally win the Supercars title

[MonteCristo]

https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-ip ... rrera-cup/

The Australian Superbike Championship will join the Supercars support card at next year’s Ipswich Super440 on August 8-10.

Most excellent.

Bikes are incredible to see in person.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Interesting article on the Supercars website regarding current full time drivers winless streaks.

Its full of waffle but I have picked the bones out of it to leave the facts.

Courtney heads the way with 260 races since he last won a race...... winless since 2016 Adelaide 500,

Five drivers will commence the 2025 Championship with winless streaks of 100 or more races.
There are ten drivers yet to win a Supercars race, 5 of them what we would call fresh blood...... but the most races of those 'other 5' yet to win is Macca Jones, 198 races without a win. Bryce Fullwood (153) is still looking for his first win , as is PremiAir's James Golding (144) and Tickford's Thomas Randle (103).

The 24-driver grid will feature 14 race winners, led by Chaz Mostert (24 wins), Will Davison (22), Cam Waters and James Courtney (both 15).
Mostert, Waters and Davison have both won multiple races in the last three seasons,

In 2024 Waters, Mostert, Percat, Heimgartner, Will Brown, Broc Feeney, Matt Payne and Brodie Kostecki all won races..... Feeney and Brown on the shortest streaks of all after winning in Adelaide...

Nick Percat (118 races) and Andre Heimgartner (89) both snapped big winless streaks in 2024, Percat winning in Albert Park, before Heimgartner won the inaugural race in Taupō.

Davison's last win came at Pukekohe in 2022, 59 races ago, while Jack Le Brocq (35), Anton De Pasquale (34), David Reynolds (26) and Richie Stanaway (22) are all winless since 2023.


Who holds the outright all time winless streak record?

Paul Morris (13 years) and Colin Bond (11 years) are the two drivers with the longest waits between wins...... Morris's 2014 Bathurst win came 13 years after his sprint breakthrough at Calder Park, whilst Bond won at Lakeside in 1990, over a decade after his previous win at Adelaide International in 1978.

A summary list..... Who has won how many races and when they last won.... plus those yet to win and their total races started.

[MonteCristo]

A bit of groundskeeping going on at the paperclip ahead of its Supercars return this year.

https://www.supercars.com/news/queensla ... t-upgrades

[Everso Biggyballies]

Special meaning behind Stanaway’s new number

PremiAir Racing has revealed its newest recruit Richie Stanaway will carry #62 in the 2025 Supercars season.
They say its a special reason to change his number.... well its a predictable one. Its not so much making a clean start and hoping that a new number will change his fortunes after a very underwhelming 2024, but its a popular reason with others as well, and one you cant knock.

The number #62 is one that Richie used in his formative career, taking after his father who ran the number with great success in speedway racing.

Stanaway comes to PremiAir Racing off the back of one year at Grove Racing. He replaces Tim Slade, who is expected to land at Matt Stone Racing as a co-driver alongside Nick Percat.

Team mate James Golding will continue to use #31 so there is a little symmetry there.

The number #62 does have its own history in in Supercars / ATCC, having been raced with success by Jim Richards during his 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship title-winning run. The late Wayne Russell also used the number.

“I started out racing with the #62, following in the footsteps of my dad, who is a leading super stock competitor at home in New Zealand, so to have the chance now to race with it professionally for the first time does mean a lot to me. “I would like to thank Peter Xiberras for encouraging me to select a race number that meant something personally to me