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| Round 1 of 15 in the 2019 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
 Layout of the Adelaide Street Circuit | ||||||||||||||
| Date | 1–3 March 2019 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Adelaide Street Circuit | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Fine | |||||||||||||
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The 2019 Adelaide 500 (known for commercial reasons as the 2019 Superloop Adelaide 500) is a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship held on Thursday 28 February through to Sunday 3 March 2019. The event was held at the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide, South Australia, and marked the twenty-first running of the Adelaide 500. It wasl the first event of fifteen in the 2019 Supercars Championship and consisted of two races of 250 kilometres. [1] The race was supported by the opening round of the 2019 Super2 Series, a championship for older models of Supercars. [2]
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The race saw the competitive début of the Ford Mustang GT, which replaced the FG X Falcon. [3] [4] The Adelaide 500 was the first time that a Mustang had competed in a round of the Australian Touring Car Championship since 1990. [5]
McLaughlin's win in Race One was the first time that the Ford Mustang had won a race in the Australian Touring Car Championship since Allan Moffat won the final round of the 1972 season at Oran Park Raceway 46 years earlier - in that instance won in a Boss 302 Mk.1 edition.
