Control tyres are introduced to V8 Supercars for the first time in order to level the playing field. Peter Brock wins his first Bathurst classic. Mark Skaife and Russell Ingall have their now-infamous ‘Shriek At The Creek’. – driver to win the crown driving a Volvo. Nissan announces it will join the V8 Supercars Championship in 2013 in partnership with Kelly Racing. Factory Holden backing moves from Walkinshaw Racing to Triple Eight’s rebranded Red Bull Holden Racing Team, which takes Jamie Whincup to a record-extending seventh championship. Winged, five-litre, V8-powered Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons emerge as the replacement to the international Group A category. A twilight event at Calder Park in Melbourne on Saturday March 15, it is won by former World Motorcycle Champion Wayne Gardner in his Coke Commodore. V8 Supercars announces plans are underway for the Gen II Supercar to compete in the Championship from 2017, as the ‘white paper’ detailing the sport’s future is signed off by team owners. Kiwi Robbie Francevic becomes the oldest man to win the Australian Touring Car Championship aged 44. And the Commodore was a success, notching 509 wins since the late Peter Brock drove a VB to victory in Tasmania in 1980. What happens after that? The Seven Network signs a multi-million dollar television broadcast rights deal for V8 Supercars to cover the 2007-2012 seasons and return to telecasting the series for the first time since 1996. Ian Geoghegan wins the first of five Australian Touring Car Championship crowns on July 26 at Lakeside in Queensland. Australian touring car racing adopts the framework of rules that later lead to the V8 Supercar category. Supercars CEO Sean Seamer was confident GM would remain involved in the sport. The cars morphed and changed, but the basic premise of an under-tyred, overpowered, rear-drive V8 monster remains to this day. Peter Brock and Larry Perkins become the first drivers to win the Bathurst 1000 while carrying an in-car camera. These cars are lighter, more economical, have increased agility and are more competitive than their predecessors, and create better racing. The series bids farewell to Nissan after seven seasons as Kelly Racing announce a switch to Ford for 2020, while Garry Rogers Motorsport also depart. Fellow Jaguar pilots Bill Pitt and Bill Burns round out the podium. as the news sinks in that Holden is gone forever, killing the locally built version of its Commodore, Opel Insignia-based Commodore Supercar ZB, Supercars a big loser with Holden's departure, Rules need to change for Camaro Supercars. Mini Coopers dominate Bathurst, taking the first nine positions outright in the Armstrong 500. He wins his first Australian Touring Car Championship and teams with John French to win a crash-shortened James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst. Aboard his Shell V-Power Racing #17, Scott McLaughlin defends his title in a record-breaking campaign headlined by 18 race wins. It is one of a record 16 ARMOR ALL Pole Awards the Kiwi takes during the year. It’s an interesting question. Now, as the news sinks in that Holden is gone forever, that racing rivalry will truly be no more. Select cars to compare from your search results or vehicle pages, When the Commodore bows out of Supercars at the end of 2021, it ends a parochial rivalry that crossed generations. The Clipsal 500 in Adelaide is held for the first time on the old Formula 1 circuit. The Holden Racing Team wins its first Australian Touring Car Championship round. Out of respect to the nine-time winner of the Bathurst endurance classic, the Peter Brock Trophy is inaugurated for the winners of the race. They lead home a clean sweep of the podium for Commodore drivers with Allan Grice/Alan Browne second and John Harvey/Gary Scott third. Sports marketer IMG link up with the team’s organisation TEGA and create AVESCO (Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company). With more than 10 years in a Holden Commodore and crowned 2005 V8 Supercar Championship in a Stone Brothers Ford Falcon, Ingall said he was well acquainted with both. Jim Richards becomes the oldest driver to win the Bathurst 1000. Virgin Australia enters into a major partnership with V8 Supercars and the championship is renamed to the ‘Virgin Australia Supercars Championship’. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The V8 Supercars have dominated Australian motorsport for much of the last two decades, drawing from the popularity of two made-in-Australia V8 rivals in Holden and Ford. The game changed, however, when Ford announced in 2015 it would end production of the Falcon. Craig Lowndes becomes the first driver in history to earn 100 V8 Supercars race wins, in Darwin. Sign up to the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship Newsletter, ‘Virgin Australia Supercars Championship’ with 2016’s naming-rights partnership with, SEL divests its stake in V8 Supercars and the team owners sell down their holding with Australian Motor Racing Partners Pty Ltd (AMRP). The first Australian Touring Car Championship is held over a single race at Gnoo-Blas in Orange on February 1, won by David McKay in a Jaguar. Night racing also returns to Australia for the first time in more than two decades, at Sydney Motorsport Park. Scott McLaughlin wins a maiden title after a year-long fight with Shane van Gisbergen, in the perfect farewell for Ford’s Falcon. A six-hour international touring car race, it’s won by the Alfa Romeo Super Ti of Ralph Sach and Italian Roberto Bussinello. Mark Skaife breaks Peter Brock’s long-held record of most victories in the history of the Australian Touring Car Championship/V8 Supercar Championship. “I think that from what we’re able to see from the manufacturer road maps, two-door sportscars – obviously, the Mustang is the first of which – will be a core part.”, Read more: Rules need to change for Camaro Supercars. Details later emerge that Ambrose will debut in the new generation V8 Supercar as a wildcard at the grand finale in Sydney in December, with testing prior to the event. Victory is taken by Bob Holden and Finn Rauno Aaltonen. The Ford pilot swerves at an irate Skaife on the next lap, though is excluded from the event for his involvement in the incident. One-car teams are eliminated from the series – by choice – as Team 18, Matt Stone Racing and Tekno Autosports each elect to double in size, the latter rebranded as Team Sydney. For 2020, the series returns to the classic Blue Oval against Red Lion rivalry; more manufacturers are expected to join when the newest wave of regulations come into play as part of the upcoming Gen3 era. It is now known as the Dunlop Super2 Series. As racing series go, Supercars – formerly V8 Supercars – is a unique formula. Making his fourth start in the Hardie Ferodo 500, Brock drives his Holden Torana XU-1 solo to take victory in wet conditions. Craig Lowndes wins his first Australian Touring Car Championship in his first season driving for the Holden Racing Team. While season 2019 - dominated by the Mustang - will be remembered for all the wrong reasons, 2020 will mark the last year we see a factory-backed Commodore in action. The first Armstrong 500 is won by Bob Jane and Harry Firth in a Cortina GT on October 6. While Holden still maintains it will support the Commodore in local competition until the end of 2021 despite it going out of business as a carmaker, the Commodore's final year started in Adelaide in March (and won't get going again until June at this rate).

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