The 2020 Super2 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which was staged as a support series to the 2020 Supercars Championship. It was the twenty-first running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2020 championship:
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The calendar for the 2020 championship was expected to consist of five rounds, but only three were run as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the running of the championship.
Round | Event name | Circuit | Location | Date |
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1 | Adelaide 500 | Adelaide Street Circuit | Adelaide, South Australia | 21–23 February |
2 | Sydney SuperSprint | Sydney Motorsport Park | Eastern Creek, New South Wales | 18–19 July |
3 | Bathurst 1000 | Mount Panorama Circuit | Bathurst, New South Wales | 16–17 October |
Source: [16] |
The series was to have seen an increase in the prize money awarded, with the champion to be given $400,000 as a way to secure funding into the Supercars Championship. A "Rookie" class aimed at drivers under the age of 25 was planned, with the winner to be awarded $100,000 to secure a second year in the series. This was done to help young drivers into the Supercars Championship as part of the Junior Development Program. [17] As a result the COVID-19 pandemic, both were shelved. [26]
Points were awarded in each race as follows.
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | ||||||||||||||||||
Three races | 100 | 92 | 86 | 80 | 74 | 68 | 64 | 60 | 56 | 52 | 48 | 46 | 44 | |||||||||||||||||
Two races | 150 | 138 | 129 | 120 | 111 | 102 | 96 | 90 | 84 | 78 | 72 | 69 | 66 | |||||||||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | No. | ADE | SYD | BAT | Pen. | Points | ||||
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1 | Thomas Randle | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 860 |
2 | Will Brown | 999 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 813 |
3 | Jordan Boys | 49 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 645 |
4 | Jayden Ojeda | 31 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Ret | 2 | 0 | 615 |
5 | Matt Chahda | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 566 |
6 | Zak Best | 78 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 549 |
7 | Broc Feeney | 5 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 4 | DNS | 0 | 510 |
8 | Brodie Kostecki | 38 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 499 | ||
9 | Angelo Mouzouris | 10 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 7 | DNS | 0 | 463 |
10 | Josh Fife | 14 | 11 | 9 | Ret | 10 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 434 |
11 | Zane Morse | 11 | 13 | Ret | 10 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 405 |
12 | Jack Perkins | 54 | 6 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 6 | 30 | 236 | ||
13 | Kurt Kostecki | 55 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 188 | ||||
14 | Tyler Everingham | 7 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 183 | |||||
15 | Matt McLean | 17 | 10 | Ret | 0 | 78 | |||||
Pos. | Driver | No. | ADE | SYD | BAT | Pen. | Points |
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