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Shane van Gisbergen will start the season as the defending drivers' champion.
Triple Eight Race Engineering will start the season as the defending teams' champions.

The 2017 Supercars Championship (formally known as the 2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship)[1] will be an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for Supercars, which prior to July 2016 had been known as V8 Supercars. It will be the nineteenth running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-first series in which Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title. Shane van Gisbergen will start the season as the defending drivers' champion. His team, Triple Eight Race Engineering, will be the defending teams' champions.

The 2017 season will see the category undergo a substantial revision of its technical regulations, with the introduction of Gen2 Supercar rules which will open the championship up to a wider range of body shapes and engine configurations.

Teams and drivers

The following drivers are currently under contract for 2017. Unless known otherwise, numbers and car types are presumed to carry over from 2016.

Season entries Endurance entries
Team Vehicle No. Driver Co-driver
Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 2 Australia Scott Pye[2] Australia Warren Luff[3]
22 Australia James Courtney[2] Australia Jack Perkins[3]
Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport[4] Holden VF Commodore 62 Australia Alex Rullo[5] TBA
TBA TBA[6] TBA
Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 4 Australia Dale Wood[7] TBA
9 Australia David Reynolds[8] TBA
Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 5 Australia Mark Winterbottom[9] Australia Dean Canto[10]
6 Australia Cameron Waters[11] TBA
Rod Nash Racing (PRA) 55 Australia Chaz Mostert[9] Australia Steve Owen[10]
Britek Motorsport (PRA) 56 Australia Jason Bright[12] TBA
Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 7 Australia Todd Kelly[13] Australia Jack Le Brocq[14]
15 Australia Rick Kelly[13] TBA
23 Australia Michael Caruso[15] TBA
78 Switzerland Simona de Silvestro[13] TBA
Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 8 Australia Nick Percat[16] TBA
14 Australia Tim Slade[16] TBA
TBA Australia Macauley Jones[17] —
Tim Blanchard Racing (BJR) 21 Australia Tim Blanchard[18] TBA
DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 12 New Zealand Fabian Coulthard[19] Australia Tony D'Alberto[20]
17 New Zealand Scott McLaughlin[21] France Alexandre Prémat[20]
Charlie Schwerkolt Racing Holden VF Commodore 18 Australia Lee Holdsworth[22] TBA
Tekno Autosports Holden VF Commodore 19 Australia Will Davison[23] TBA
MW Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 28 Australia Jack Le Brocq[14] —
Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore[24] 33 Australia Garth Tander[25] TBA
34 Australia James Moffat[26] TBA
35 Australia James Golding[27] —
Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 88 Australia Jamie Whincup[28] TBA
97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen[29] Australia Matt Campbell[30]
888 Australia Craig Lowndes[29] TBA
Entries with a grey background are wildcard entries which will only compete in selected events.

Team changes

Simona de Silvestro will become the first female driver in nineteen years to compete in the series full-time.

Driver changes

Scheduled events

The following fourteen events are scheduled to take place in 2017:

Rnd. Event name Circuit Location Date
1 South Australia Clipsal 500 Adelaide Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 4–5 March
2 Tasmania Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania 8–9 April
3 Victoria (state) WD-40 Phillip Island 500 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 22–23 April
4 Western Australia Perth SuperSprint Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western Australia 6–7 May
5 Victoria (state) Winton SuperSprint Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria 20–21 May
6 Northern Territory CrownBet Darwin Triple Crown Hidden Valley Raceway Darwin, Northern Territory 17–18 June
7 Queensland Townsville 400 Townsville Street Circuit Townsville, Queensland 8–9 July
8 Queensland Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint Queensland Raceway Ipswich, Queensland 29–30 July
9 New South Wales Red Rooster Sydney SuperSprint Sydney Motorsport Park Eastern Creek, New South Wales 19–20 August
10 Victoria (state) Wilson Security Sandown 500 Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 17 September
11 New South Wales Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 8 October
12 Queensland Gold Coast 600 Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland 21–22 October
13 New Zealand ITM Auckland SuperSprint Pukekohe Park Raceway Pukekohe, New Zealand 4–5 November
14 New South Wales Coates Hire Newcastle 500 Newcastle Street Circuit Newcastle, New South Wales 25–26 November
Source:[34][35]

Calendar changes

Format changes

  • The Adelaide 500 will return to its original format of two races of 250 kilometres, which was last used in 2013. Event organisers cited the unpopularity of the format used between 2014 and 2016—two races of 125 km followed by one 250 km race—as the reason for the change.[41] The top ten shootout will also be re-introduced for qualifying for the Saturday race.[42]
  • The Phillip Island 500 will consist of two races of 250 km.[42]
  • The Auckland SuperSprint will adopt a new format, with its four 100 km races being replaced with two races of 200 km, and will include mandatory pit stops.[42]

Rule changes

Technical regulations

The 2017 season will see the introduction of Gen2 Supercar regulations. Two-door coupé body styles will be permitted alongside four-door sedans, while the engine regulations will be opened up to include turbocharged four or six-cylinder engines. However, cars will still be required to be based on front-engined, rear wheel drive, four-seater production cars that are sold in Australia. The chassis and control components will be carried over from the New Generation V8 Supercar regulations used since 2013.[43]

Sporting regulations

  • Starting in 2017, drivers must earn a racing licence sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motorsport (CAMS) in order to be eligible to compete in the category. The licence system will be structured similarly to the Superlicence used in Formula One, with drivers earning points towards their licence by placing in feeder series accredited by CAMS.[44]
  • Teams from Supercar's support category, the Dunlop Super2 Series will be allowed to compete as wildcards in the main series in 5 rounds of the 2017 season, at Barbagallo, Winton, Hidden Valley, Ipswich and Bathurst. The 250km race held specifically for the Super2 Series at Bathurst will also become a non-championship round, to encourage more applicants.[45][46]


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