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Round 10 of 14 in the 2017 International V8 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
Date | 15–17 September 2017 | |||||||||||||
Location | Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||
Venue | Sandown Raceway | |||||||||||||
Weather | Friday: Showers Saturday: Clearing Sunday: Fine | |||||||||||||
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The 2017 Wilson Security Sandown 500 was a motor racing event for Supercars, held from 15 to 17 September 2017 at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria. It consisted of one race, scheduled for 499.744 kilometres in length (161 laps), it was shortened to 388 kilometres in length because of a time limit (4:48 p.m. local time) imposed by Supercars. It was the tenth event of fourteen in the 2017 Supercars Championship and hosted Race 19 of the season. It was also the first event of the 2017 Enduro Cup.
The event was the 47th running of the Sandown 500, which was first held in 1964 as a six-hour race for series production touring cars. It was the thirteenth time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the fifth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Garth Tander and Warren Luff.
The event was promoted as a "retro round", with teams encouraged to use adaptations of Australian touring car liveries from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although some teams extended beyond these parameters when devising a livery, using sponsors and manufacturer heritage.
The following cars carried a retro livery during the event:
Vehicle | Notes | |
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Walkinshaw Racing | 02 | Holden Racing Team livery used by Peter Brock and the team in the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship. [1] |
22 | HSV Dealer Team livery used by Garth Tander to win the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series. [2] | |
Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | 3 | 1990s-era retro livery featuring the original logo of primary sponsor, Plus Fitness, when the business was launched in 1996. [3] |
62 | 1970s-era retro livery featuring the original logo of primary sponsor, Phil Munday's Panel Works, when the business was launched in 1977. [4] | |
Tim Blanchard Racing | 4 | Neptune Racing Team livery used by Norm Beechey to win the 1965 Australian Touring Car Championship. [5] |
Nissan Motorsport | 7 | Brock Racing Enterprises livery used by John Morton (No. 15) and Bobby Allison (No. 7) in winning the 1970 and 1971 SCCA C Production National Championship and the 1971 and 1972 Under 2.5 Litres Trans-Am Championship. [6] |
15 | ||
23 | Calsonic Team Impul livery used by Kazuyoshi Hoshino and his team to win the 1990 and 1993 Japanese Touring Car Championship. [7] | |
78 | Nissan test livery used by Tatsu Yokoyama to set seven new international speed records at Yatabe Test Track in 1967. [8] | |
Brad Jones Racing | 8 | Tridents Racing Team livery used by Norm Beechey in the 1967 Australian Touring Car Championship. [5] |
75 | Shell Racing Team livery used by Norm Beechey to win the 1970 Australian Touring Car Championship. [5] | |
Erebus Motorsport | 9 | Team Brock livery used by Peter Brock to win the 1976 Sandown 400. [9] |
99 | GB Galvanizing livery used by Jimmy Ellis in the 1998-99 Australian NASCAR Championship. [10] | |
DJR Team Penske | 12 | Regular 2017 livery with retro Shell logos to commemorate their 50 year association with Dick Johnson which began in 1967. [11] |
17 | ||
Team 18 | 18 | Split livery featuring their regular 2017 livery on one side and a retro livery featuring retro logos of their sponsors on the other which include their primary sponsor, Preston Hire, which was known as Preston Erection from 1969 to 2001. [12] |
Garry Rogers Motorsport | 33 | Valvoline livery used by Garth Tander and the team in the 1998 Australian Touring Car Championship. [13] |
34 | Rothmans livery used by Allan Moffat and John Harvey in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. [13] | |
Tickford Racing | 55 | Supercheap Auto livery used by John Briggs in the 1999 Shell Championship Series. [14] |
Triple Eight Race Engineering | 88 | Holden livery used by the Holden Dealer Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [15] |
97 | ||
888 | Caltex Colin Bond Racing livery used by Colin Bond and his team in the 1989 and 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship. [16] | |
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