The 2021 Super2 & Super3 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which is being staged as a support series to the 2021 Supercars Championship. It was the twenty-second running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing. 2021 saw Super3 entries competing alongside Super2 Series cars as a class for the first time within the series which also marked at the same time as the fourteenth running of the Super3 Series itself (Formerly the Kumho Tyre V8 Touring Car Series before officially becoming a third-tier Supercars Series in 2019 as the Kumho Tyre Super3 Series).
Broc Feeney won the Super2 Series championship. [1]
Matt McLean won the Rookie of Year and the Mike Kable Young Gun Award.
Nash Morris won the Super3 Series championship with a race to spare. [2]
Name | Regulation | Example Vehicles |
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Super2 | 2013 to 2017 V8 Supercars | Holden VF Commodore Nissan Altima L33 Ford Falcon FG X Mercedes-Benz E63 W212 |
Super3 | post 1993 V8 Supercars | Ford BA Falcon Holden Commodore VE Ford FG Falcon |
The following teams and drivers were competing in the 2021 series.
Manufacturer | Model | Team | No. | Driver name | Rounds | Ref. |
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Ford | FG X Falcon | Matt Chahda Motorsport | 18 | Matt Chahda | All | [3] |
Tickford Racing | 78 | Zak Best | All | [4] | ||
Holden | Commodore VF | Triple Eight Race Engineering | 10/6 | Angelo Mouzouris | All | [5] |
888 | Broc Feeney | All | [5] | |||
Brema Group Racing | 11 | Zane Morse | All | [6] | ||
Eggleston Motorsport | 22 | Bradley Neill | 1 | [7] | ||
38 | Jack Sipp | 1–3 | [8] | |||
Tony D'Alberto | 4 | [9] | ||||
Josh Fife | 5 | [10] | ||||
54 | Matt McLean | All | [11] | |||
88 | Tim Blanchard | 2, 4–5 | [12] | |||
Jack Perkins | 3 | [13] | ||||
Matt Stone Racing | 30 | Aaron Seton | All | [14] | ||
Image Racing | 49 | Jordan Boys | All | [15] | ||
999 | Jaylyn Robotham | All | [16] | |||
Mac Motorsport | 69 | Jon McCorkindale | 2–5 | [17] | ||
Nissan | Altima L33 | Grove Racing | 10 | Matthew Payne | 4–5 | [9] |
MW Motorsport | 27 | Tyler Everingham | All | [18] | ||
28 | Josh Fife | 1–4 | [19] | |||
31 | Jayden Ojeda | All | [18] | |||
777 | Declan Fraser | All | [20] | |||
The category was open to post 1993 V8 Supercars allowing Ford Falcon EF to FG and Holden Commodore VP to VE2.
Manufacturer | Model | Team | No. | Driver name | Rounds | Ref. |
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Ford | BA Falcon | Ray Hislop | 23 | Ray Hislop | 1 | [21] |
BF Falcon | Tony Auddino | 4 | Tony Auddino | 1 | [21] | |
Jason Foley | 17 | Jason Foley | 1, 4–5 | [21] | ||
FG Falcon | Anderson Motorsport | 5 | Michael Anderson | All | [21] | |
North West Recycling | 24 | David Murphy | 2, 4 | [22] | ||
Matt Stone Racing | 35 | Jason Gommersall | 1–4 | [23] | ||
39 | Chris Smerdon | 2–4 | [22] | |||
Image Racing | 61 | Reef McCarthy | All | [24] | ||
Nemo Racing [a] | 67 | Nash Morris | All | [21] | ||
Mac Motorsport | 69 | Jon McCorkindale | 1 | [21] | ||
Holden | Commodore VE | Eggleston Motorsport | 2 | Steven Page | 1–2, 4–5 | [21] |
Pollicina Motorsports | 7 | Jim Pollicina | 1, 4–5 | [21] | ||
Brad Jones Racing | 8 | Elly Morrow | 4–5 | [9] | ||
Strong Motorsport | 75 | Brendan Strong | 1–3 | [21] | ||
Blake Fardell Racing | 77 | Blake Fardell | 1–4 | [21] | ||
Gary Collins | 96 | Gary Collins | 2–4 | [21] |
The calendar for the 2021 championship consisted of five rounds:
Round | Event | Circuit | Location | Dates |
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1 | Mount Panorama 500 | Mount Panorama Circuit | Bathurst, New South Wales | 27–28 February |
2 | Townsville 500 | Reid Park Street Circuit | Townsville, Queensland | 10–11 July |
3 | Townsville SuperSprint | 17–18 July | ||
4 | Sydney SuperNight | Sydney Motorsport Park | Eastern Creek, New South Wales | 20–21 November |
5 | Bathurst 1000 | Mount Panorama Circuit | Bathurst, New South Wales | 3–4 December |
Source: [25] |
Points were awarded for each race at an event, to the driver of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race. At least 50% of the planned race distance must be completed for the result to be valid and championship points awarded. The following points scales apply to both the Super2 and Super3 Series.
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | |||||||||
150 | 138 | 129 | 120 | 111 | 102 | 96 | 90 | 84 | 78 | 72 | 69 | 66 | 63 | 60 | 57 | 54 |
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