Learn how and when to remove this template message, Ford gunning for manufacturer's title in Tassie, November 2005, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V8_Supercar_Championships&oldid=774718621, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 April 2017, at 07:36. In 2006, Kelly won the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series after being one of the most consistent performers throughout the season. 6. JAMIE Whincup, the most successful driver in the history of the Supercars Championship, will retire from full-time Supercars driving at the completion of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship. V8 Supercars race in the USA for the first time, with Jamie Whincup winning the Austin 400, comprised of four 100km sprints at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas. The #1 has won 188 of the category's 1055 races since its 1960 inception; however, the 2018 Sandown 500 was the last win for the number. [citation needed]. The Level One Australian Touring Car Championship now known as the V8 Supercar Championship Series caters for the 31 fully professional cars run by the 14 two-car and 3 one-car well-sponsored V8 Supercar teams. The privateers were split from the main series in the year 2000. V8 Supercars is Australia's third largest sport behind AFL Football and Horse racing. A bit of a surprise on the list but this car did its winning in the red … Join the discussion below in … Z. The event was cancelled from the 2020 Supercars Championship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however is contracted to … THE spoils of becoming the first V8 Supercar driver to taste victory on US soil could extend well beyond this weekend. Volvo has officially announced it will join the V8 Supercars grid in 2014. The racing is very close and aggressive between all the V8 Championship Series teams, with usually less than a second separating the top 25 cars. Dick Johnson's five titles all came with the #17 on the door, with McLaughlin taking the tally to eight with his hat-trick of crowns. Craig Lowndes beats Mark Skaife’s record of most V8 Supercar Championship race wins, notching up 91 at Barbagallo Raceway in his #888 Red Bull Racing Commodore. Aussies enjoy active lifestyles and practically live and breathe sport, with supercar racing being one of the most popular. 51 since 2001) and has won four rounds at his home circuit at Pukekohe, near Auckland (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005). Mark Skaife, Current V8 team owner, 5 x Series Champion, 5 x Bathurstwinner and most round wins. Won Control Damper Supply Program for the V8 Ute … Developed Suspension for the Virgin Formula E Racing Team. Stone Brothers Racing won the inaugural title in 2005 with Russell Ingall (1st in Series) and Marcos Ambrose (3rd) combining for a winning 3778 point haul. The lar… A driver's title has been awarded since 1960 and titles for teams and manufacturers are also currently awarded. Its win count of 22 races is topped only by Whincup’s VEII Commodore in which he took out 28 races, and the Stone Brothers Falcon driven by Marcos Ambrose to 25 wins. Each year (since 2004), supremacy between Ford and Holden has been decided by the Manufacturers Championship. Jim Richards, 4 x Series Champion, 7 x Bathurst Winner. The first Australian Touring Car Championship under the V8 Supercar rules was won by Glenn Seton with his team-mate former Formula One world champion Alan Jones taking second in the championship. It is the most popular motorsport in Australia,Template:Fact has a considerable following in New Zealand, and is steadily growing in popularity across the world, where television coverage allows. V8 Supercars Australia awards five championships Level One and Level Two for Drivers, Manufacturers Championship and Level One Teams Championship and Level Two Privateers Team Championship. 8 Holden ZB Commodore. 3. Contents Although as of 2009 numbers have dipped to less than half that number. Shane van Gisbergen’s red-hot start continued with another dominant display at … Drivers competing full-time in the current season are highlighted in bold text. Returned to V8 Supercars last season in what proved a short-lived comeback, pulling the pin after just one championship event. SBR, 888, BJR and PCR use SBR developed Ford V8's, while HRT, HSVDT and Perkins Engineering use HMS developed Holden V8's while the rest of the Holden teams use their own developed Holden V8's) leading to minor/major (depending on teams) engineering differences among teams despite the cars being the same make. Z. In 1999 and 2000, he finished 6th in points driving for Gibson Motorsport. At the Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst, Murphy has the second best record for a Kiwi with four wins, compared to Jim Richards ' seven. The Development series has been such a success that it itself has also fielded full grids up to 34 cars on many occasions. 5. Teams design and construct their own cars and engines (Some teams opt to buy engines from stronger teams, e.g. The 37-year-old today confirmed the news as part of a multi-tiered announcement relating to a change of ownership of Triple Eight Race Engineering. The first was held on the Gnoo Blas circuit in Orange, New South Wales, and the winning driver was David McKay, who went on to become a racing journalist for the Australian Daily Telegraph. Rick Kelly has won the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series at the Caterpillar Grand Finale today, after a chaotic end to the final championship … The V8 Supercars championship has been a tough road for the Japanese car maker. Plenty of time and potential to win more. The 2006 Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series finished today with Rick Kelly taking victory over Craig Lowndes after the former took out the latter in the early stages of the race. Texas win worth more than V8 Supercar championship points. Statistically, the all-time greatest with a record six V8 Supercars titles in the past eight years, plus four Bathurst 1000 triumphs. Nick Percat (born 14 September 1988) is an Australian racing driver who currently races in the Repco Supercars Championship, driving for Brad Jones Racing in the No. Team BOC driver Andrew Jones has won the 2004 Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series Championship in a tight fought battle with Luke Youlden in the final event of the year at Mallala Motorsport Park in South Australia today. He can make history as the first driver to win the first seven races of the season if he can triumph in one of the two sprint races on Sunday. Australia's most famous motor race, the Bathurst 1000, has contributed to the … He paired with Steven Richards to win the Bathurst 1000. The victory, however, was not without its share of controversy. Template:Infobox motorsport championship. English: V8 Supercar is a touring car racing category, the most popular category of domestic motorsport in Australia. Z. V8 SUPERCARS confirmed it will hold a championship race in Malaysia amid a more fan-friendly calendar for 2016. A third-tier competition, not directly associated with V8 Supercar, the V8 Touring Car National Series sprang up in 2008 for deregistered cars from both v8 Supercar series. Due to Craig Lowndes' return from overseas, Murphy only drove for the team in the endurance races in 1998. He is one of the best known V8 Supercar drivers (car No. 4. Both young up-and-coming drivers hoping to break into a Level One drive, and privateer hobby racers, race in the Level Two category. Shane van Gisbergen has equalled the most successful start to a Supercars season after continuing his unbeaten run with another dominant display at Symmons Plains. In 2005, the "Team's Championship" was created by simply adding together the points of the team's drivers. With history-making back-to-back V8 Supercars championships at Ford and now Holden, it’s easy to understand why Jamie Whincup has a target painted squarely on his rear spoiler. 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'. Partnership with Erebus Motorsport for the Penrite V8 Supercar Team. V8 Supercars is a touring car racing category. He drove for the HRT full-time in 1997 and almost won the championship. Marcos Ambrose in the 2003 Pirtek Havoline BA Falcon – Photo Credit V8 Supercars Media Stone Brothers Racing Run by Kiwi brother Ross and Jim Stone, Stone Brothers racing joined the V8 Supercars in 1998 and wasted no time in achieving success. Pole position and Win on Debut. Dick Johnson Racing is Australia’s longest-established motor racing team and has won a record seven Australian Touring Car/V8 Supercar Championships. The Ford Motor Company has cleaned up at the annual V8 Supercars Supercar awards night - taking eleven honours in their most successful year in recent times. From 1996 to 2002, V8 Supercars Holden Racing Team, had a decisive competitive edge over most of the opposition. V8 Supercars: Malaysian event confirmed on compacted, ‘fan-friendly’ 2016 calendar. Lowndes - who debuted in the category full-time in 1996 - has been on the verge of cracking triple figures since Tasmania in March, and today achieved the amazing feat that further cements him as a great of the sport. Kelly then won the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship for the HSV Dealer Team, with co-driver Garth Tander winning in 2007. Andrew Jones wins 2004 Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series Championship . Which Supercar from history has won the most championship races? V8 Supercars touring car racing category. Since the formation of his eponymous racing team in 1980, Dick Johnson has become a national hero and is still a … The series is commercially successful and highly competitive, with races all over Australia, one in New Zealand, and in 2006, the first race in Bahrain. 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V8 Ford flyer’s stunning comeback at The Bend Craig Lowndes, 3 x Series Champion, 3 x B… The event has been a regular part of the Supercars Championship—and its previous iteration, the V8 Supercars Championship—since 2010. Tracks range from street circuits (such as the Adelaide circuit) to more permanent road courses (such as the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit). 1 — V8 Supercars will smash more than 30 land speed records during the Bathurst 1000 this weekend. 2. Craig Lowndes has earned his 100th V8 Supercars race win in spectacular fashion at the SKYCITY Triple Crown Darwin 2015. Drivers competing full-time in the current season are highlighted in bold text. In 2006, the Toll HSV Dealer Team won, with Rick Kelly winning the championship, and Garth Tander in fourth place. HRT 041 – 16 champ race wins. Of course, during that time the outfit was running a very different race car, and a different naming rights sponsor in Vodafone. Until 1968, it was a single race, not a series. [citation needed] The first Australian Touring Car Championship under the V8 Supercar rules was won by Glenn Seton with his team-mate former Formula One world champion Alan Jones taking second in the championship. Mark Winterbottom clinched his first V8 Supercars championship in the penultimate race of the season at Sydney's Olympic Park Notable figures involved in the category include: 1. A third V8 Supercar-based series, the Kumho Tyres V8 Touring Car Series, has been run since 2008 but has no involvement with the International V8 Supercars Championship or the Dunlop V8 Supercar Series, instead running on the programme of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships. And that’s how it will most likely end up, as this car has not only won two consecutive Supercars championships, but is also the third-most winning V8 Supercar in history. Template:Refimprove. Following speculation last week Volvo Car Australia has today confirmed a partnership has been struck with Garry Rogers Motorsport and Polestar, the Volvo Car Group’s global performance and motorsport partner to form Volvo Polestar Racing, making the Victorian-based outfit a fully-backed factory team. By Matthew Agius. V8 Supercars: Shane van Gisbergen equals most successful start to a season with sixth-straight win. STORY: Aaron Noonan IMAGES: AN1 Images (Graeme Neander/Justin Deeley) WINNING V8 Supercars from history are a popular topic around the V8 Sleuth office and this week we pondered just what have been the top five winning Supercars of all-time. Peter Brock 3 x Series Champion, 9 x Bathurst 9 x Sandown 500 winner. V8 Supercars will be back on track at the end of next month, with a two-day TV-only event at Sydney Motorsport Park. The Level One Australian Touring Car Championship now known as the V8 Supercar Championship Series caters for the 31 fully professional cars run by the 14 two-car and 3 one-car well-sponsored V8 Supercar teams. Upload media Wikipedia: Instance of: automobile racing series: Location: Australia: Inception: 1997; Different from: V8; official website: Authority control Q647527. It is, however, one of the most successful V8 Supercars teams of recent times having won four driver’s championships with driver Jamie Whincup during the last five years, including 2012. Anonymous (not verified) 30 Nov 2005 The Ford Motor Company has cleaned up at the annual V8 Supercar awards night - taking eleven honours in their most successful year in recent times. 2006 Supercar Championship. The Australian Touring Car Championship, presently known as the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, is a motor racing competition open to Australia's premier touring car category. This is a list of driver records in the Australian Touring Car Championship and V8 Supercars. He won the Bathurst 1000 at his first attempt, co-driving for Garth Tander for the Holden Racing Team.Percat attended Sacred Heart College in South Australia. The history of V8 Supercars goes back to 1960, when it was known as the Australian Touring Car Championship. See also Peter Brock Trophy. The 2016 Supercars champion joined Allan Moffat (1977) and Mark Skaife (1994) as the only drivers to have won the opening six races of the Supercars season. Dick Johnson, Current V8 team owner, 5 x Series Champion, 3 x Bathurst winner. More recently, the sport has seen the return to prominence of Ford through Marcos Ambrose and Stone Brothers Racing, winning in 2003 and 2004, as well as team-mate Russell Ingall who kept the title at SBR, winning a tight series in 2005, V8 Supercars is Australia's third largest sport behind AFL Football and Horse racing. The series is commercially successful and highly competitive, with races all over Australia, one in New Zealand, and in 2006, the first race in Bahrain. [1] Out of thirteen rounds, seven wins from drivers of one manufacturer are required to win. Both Ford and Holden provide significant, though varying, levels of sponsorship to the majority of teams that run their cars. This is a list of driver records in the Australian Touring Car Championship and V8 Supercars. The largest single event is the Bathurst 1000. Tracks range from street circuits (such as the Adelaide circuit) to more permanent road courses (such as the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit). Garth Tander, Reigning Series Champion, 2000 Bathurst Winner. 04/17/2021 V8 Supercars. FPR Win V8 Supercars Championship 2015, Driven By Mark Winterbottom & Steven Richards. Scott McLaughlin has joined a rare group to claim three straight Supercars championship, but has teased he may not be back to chase a fourth. Z. 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