2008 V8 Supercar season

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The 2008 V8 Supercar season was the twelfth season in which V8 Supercars contested the premier Australian touring car racing series. It was the 49th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first running of the Australian Touring Car Championship, known today as the V8 Supercar Championship Series, and of the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.

The season began on 21 February at the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide and finished on 7 December at Oran Park Raceway. 2008 featured the twelfth V8 Supercars Championship Series, consisting of 14 rounds covering all states and the Northern Territory of Australia as well as rounds in New Zealand and Bahrain. It also featured a non-championship event supporting the 2008 Australian Grand Prix. It included the ninth second tier Development Series, this year referred to as the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. All bar one of the seven rounds were held as a support category for the V8 Supercar Championship Series. For the first time a third tier series was run, known as the Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series. Its four rounds were held as part of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships.

Race calendar

Race titleCircuitCity / stateDateSeriesWinnerTeamReport
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Victorian Official Test Day Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria 12 FebTest Garth Tander * Holden Racing Team [1]
Flag of Queensland.svg Queensland Official Test Day Queensland Raceway Ipswich, Queensland 14 FebTest James Courtney * Stone Brothers Racing [2]
Flag of South Australia.svg Clipsal 500 Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 21–24 FebVSC 1 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering report
FVS 1 Steve Owen Loadsman Racing Team
Flag of New South Wales.svg Eastern Creek Eastern Creek Raceway Sydney, New South Wales 7–9 MarVSC 2 Will Davison Jim Beam Racing report
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Sprint Gas V8 Supercars Manufacturers Challenge Albert Park Melbourne, Victoria 13–16 MarNC Garth Tander Holden Racing Team report
Flag of New South Wales.svg Goulburn Wakefield Park Goulburn, New South Wales 4–6 AprFVS 2Tim SladeSlade Speed
Flag of New Zealand.svg Hamilton 400 Hamilton Street Circuit Hamilton, New Zealand 18–20 AprVSC 3 Garth Tander Holden Racing Team report
Flag of Western Australia.svg BigPond 400 Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western Australia 9–11 MayVSC 4 Mark Winterbottom Ford Performance Racing report
Flag of South Australia.svg Mallala Mallala Motor Sport Park Adelaide, South Australia 17–18 MaySTCS 1Adam WallisWarrin Mining
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Midas 400 Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 7–9 JunVSC 5 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering report
FVS 3 Steve Owen Loadsman Racing Team
Flag of the Northern Territory.svg Skycity Triple Crown Hidden Valley Raceway Darwin, Northern Territory 4–6 JulVSC 6 Steven Richards Ford Performance Racing report
Flag of New South Wales.svg Eastern Creek Eastern Creek Raceway Sydney, New South Wales 12–13 JulSTCS 2Chris SmerdonChallenge Motorsport
Flag of Queensland.svg City of Ipswich 400 Queensland Raceway Ipswich, Queensland 18–20 JulVSC 7 Mark Winterbottom Ford Performance Racing report
FVS 4 Dean Canto Howard Racing
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Winton Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria 1–3 AugVSC 8 Garth Tander Holden Racing Team report
FVS 5 Steve Owen Loadsman Racing Team
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Phillip Island Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 9–10 AugSTCS 3Chris SmerdonChallenge Motorsport
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg L&H 500 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 12–14 SepVSC 9 Garth Tander
Mark Skaife 		Holden Racing Team report
Flag of New South Wales.svg Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 9–12 OctVSC 10 Jamie Whincup
Craig Lowndes 		Triple Eight Race Engineering report
FVS 6 Dean Canto Howard Racing
Flag of Queensland.svg The Coffee Club V8 Supercar Challenge Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland 23–26 OctVSC 11 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering report
Flag of Bahrain.svg Gulf Air Desert 400 Bahrain International Circuit Manama, Bahrain 6–8 NovVSC 12 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineeringe report
Flag of Tasmania.svg Falken Tasmania Challenge Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania 21–23 NovVSC 13 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering report
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Sandown Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 29–30 NovSTCS 4Chris SmerdonChallenge Motorsport
Flag of New South Wales.svg NRMA Motoring & Services Grand Finale Oran Park Raceway Sydney, New South Wales 4–7 DecVSC 14 Garth Tander Holden Racing Team report
FVS 7 Jack Perkins Independent Race Cars Australia

* – fastest lap of official pre-season test days

V8 Supercar Championship Series

Sprint Gas V8 Supercars Manufacturers Challenge

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series

References

  1. ↑ V8 Supercar Official Test Day Winton Motor Raceway V8 Supercars National Software retrieved on 13 February 2008
  2. ↑ V8 Supercar Test Day Queensland Raceway Ipswich V8 Supercars Practice National Software retrieved on 15 February 2008

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