2019 Super2 Series

2019 Super2 Series
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Parent series: Supercars Championship

The 2019 Super2 Series is an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which is planned to be staged as a support series to the 2019 Supercars Championship. It will the twentieth running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.

Entries

Manufacturer	Model	Team	Driver
Ford	Ford FG X Falcon	23Red Racing^[1]	TBA
Holden	Holden VF Commodore	Matt Stone Racing^[2]	TBA

Supercars team 23Red Racing will enter the category, competing with a Ford FG X Falcon built by Tickford Racing.^[1] The expansion will be limited to a single entry as the FG X Falcon driven by Will Davison in 2018 will be converted to a Mustang S550.^[3] The Super2 entry is part of a long-term plan to establish a driver development programme for their Supercars team.^[4]

The calendar for the 2018 championship will consist of seven rounds:

Round	Event name	Circuit	Location	Date
1	Adelaide 500	Adelaide Street Circuit	Adelaide, South Australia	13–14 February
2	Perth SuperSprint	Barbagallo Raceway	Pinjar, Western Australia	2–4 May
3	Townsville 400	Townsville Street Circuit	Townsville, Queensland	5–7 July
4	Ipswich SuperSprint	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	26–28 July
5	Bathurst 1000	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	13 October
6	Sandown 500	Sandown Raceway	Springvale, Victoria	10 November
7	Newcastle 500	Newcastle Street Circuit	Newcastle, New South Wales	22–24 November
Source:^[5]

The category will return to Queensland Raceway for the first time since 2015.^[5] The Symmons Plains round was removed from the schedule.

1 2 Coch, Mat (18 April 2018). "23Red Racing planning Super2 program in 2019". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
↑ Coch, Mat (6 September 2018). "Hazelwood Holden to be raced by competition winner". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe.
↑ Coch, Mat (18 April 2018). "All Ford teams set to switch to Mustang for 2019". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
↑ Coch, Mat (16 January 2018). "23Red planning driver development program". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
1 2 https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/10/11/slight-changes-for-2019-super2-calendar/

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