2025 Supercars Championship

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The 2025 Supercars Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship) is an upcoming motor racing series for Supercars.

It will be the twenty-seventh running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-ninth series in which Supercars have contested the Australian Touring Car Championship, the premier title in Australian motorsport. It is the sixty-sixth season of touring car racing in Australia.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are expected to compete in the 2025 championship. All cars and numbers from 2024 are carried over unless stated otherwise.

Championship entries
ManufacturerModelTeamNo.Driver nameRounds
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6 Matt Stone Racing 4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cameron Hill TBA
10 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Nick Percat TBA
Erebus Motorsport 9 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Le Brocq TBA
99 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cooper Murray TBA
Brad Jones Racing 8 Flag of New Zealand.svg Andre Heimgartner TBA
12 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jaxon Evans TBA
14 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bryce Fullwood TBA
96 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Macauley Jones TBA
Team 18 18 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anton de Pasquale TBA
20 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds TBA
PremiAir Racing 31 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Golding TBA
TBAFlag of None.svg TBATBA
Triple Eight Race Engineering 87 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Brown TBA
88 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Broc Feeney TBA
Ford Mustang S650 Walkinshaw Andretti United 2 Flag of New Zealand.svg Ryan Wood TBA
25 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chaz Mostert TBA
Blanchard Racing Team 3 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Aaron Love TBA
7 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Courtney TBA
Tickford Racing 6 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cameron Waters TBA
55 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Thomas Randle TBA
Dick Johnson Racing 11 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brodie Kostecki TBA
17 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Davison TBA
Grove Racing 19 Flag of New Zealand.svg Matthew Payne TBA
26 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kai Allen TBA
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Driver changes

Richie Stanaway will depart Grove Racing and will be replaced by 2023 Super2 Series winner Kai Allen. [1] [2]

Mark Winterbottom will depart Team 18 and will be replaced by Anton de Pasquale, who will depart Dick Johnson Racing. Brodie Kostecki will leave Erebus Motorsport, to replace De Pasquale at Dick Johnson Racing, and will be replaced by Super2 Series graduate Cooper Murray. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Calendar

The following circuits are due to host a round of the 2025 championship.

EventCircuitLocationDates
Melbourne SuperSprint Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Albert Park Circuit Albert Park, Victoria 13–16 March
Taupō Super400 Flag of New Zealand.svg Taupō International Motorsport Park Taupō, Waikato Region 12–13 April
Sources: [7]

The following circuits are expected to host a round of the 2025 championship

EventCircuitLocation
Bathurst 1000 Flag of New South Wales.svg Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales
Sydney SuperNight Flag of New South Wales.svg Sydney Motorsport Park Eastern Creek, New South Wales
The Bend 500 Flag of South Australia.svg The Bend Motorsport Park Tailem Bend, South Australia
Sandown 500 Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Sandown Raceway Springvale, Victoria
Gold Coast 500 Flag of Queensland.svg Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Adelaide 500 Flag of South Australia.svg Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia
Townsville 500 Flag of Queensland.svg Reid Park Street Circuit Townsville, Queensland
Sources: [8] [9]

Calendar changes

The Bend Motorsport Park is expected to return to the calendar, after missing out on the 2024 championship, as an endurance event. [8]

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